Mondays are for existential angst David's Lyre – English Roses (via soundcloud) Admiral Fallow - Delivered (alternative version) (via bandcamp) Tough Troubles – Dogging (via bandcamp – plus free download of the Romances LP) Coasts – Stay with me (via soundcloud) Leland Sundries – Apparition (via soundcloud) The Forty Nineteens – Turn It Around
Tough Troubles is a group slathered in Do It Yourself ethic.
Try to visualize yourself getting the piss beaten out of you as you stumble home from a night of getting plastered at the bar. The sudden shivers that leave you paralyzed as the fear of that first punch making its way to your face seeps into your bloodstream. One punch turns to five and you want to wail in desperation hoping someone comes to your rescue. No one comes. Resigned to your fate, you take the beatdown like a man in hopes that the assailants take pity on you and leave you be with your wallet and the money inside, [...]
I have a problem with Tough Troubles . I don't know if I like em or hate em (maybe hate is too strong a word, actually). Generally speaking, I'm careful of bands who sing about, cite and push the "DIY" agenda too much. When I say too much, I mean, using those exact words in a song with those words in the song title, in the band's description and again cited in their influences. There is seriously nothing wrong with being DIY, I mean, this blog started out as a DIY zine anyway. But it's when DIY is used [...]
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue. [...]
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