Aliment is a garage punk trio from Spain that caught my ear with their brand new album, Holy Slap . The album has a frantic yet melodic vibe that sounds like Wavves and Circle Jerks colliding together in a pool of sweat. Oakland's Slop Bop Records , the label that put out the limited edition cassette, dub it party punk, and it definitely incites that feeling inside of you from start to finish. It's a quick listen but every track is driving, anthemic, and begs for repeat spins. It's already one of my favorite [...]
The prolific Fullerton, California based label Burger Records are readying the solo album of one of their most touted artists in Wyatt Blair , member of Feeding People, Peach Kelli Pop, Cosmonauts, Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel , and more. Wyatt's debut solo album entitled Banana Cream Dream will be available digitally and on cassette tomorrow (May 22nd) and features the addicting power pop hits Sweet Operator (Talkin' on the Telephone) and Ba Ba Ba (Life's A Bitch) available as a [...]
It's a big year for Exploding in Sound Records as they ready yet another stellar debut album, this time from Colesville, Maryland post-punk trio Two Inch Astronaut. Fueled by an angular post-punk ethos reminiscent of DC based Jawbox , Two Inch Astronaut stitch colorful guitar-driven noise with oblique melodies and a swinging rhythm section. It's easy to get caught up in the nostalgic undertones of their music, but when their original ideas and arrangements come into focus, they become something much more than a 90s [...]
The Hoagies are a Long Beach based punk foursome with a penchant for pastrami on rye and other meat on bread masterpieces. Led by King Hoagie's cheesy vocals, the band also gets their taste from the tangy dijon licks of guitarist Tony “No” Balogna, the delirious dough kneading clamor of drummer Sloppy Joe, and pepperings of throbbing bass from Rye Bread. Some call their debut album Cold Cuts joke-punk, but under the guise of corny sandwich humor is infectious and well executed three-cord pop-punk that never gets soggy. In [...]
Mumblr is a Philadelphia quartet that dub their brand of noisy alternative rock "fuzz punk," a made up genre that will make sense after you hear their raucous songs full of heavily distorted guitars, clamoring drums, and impassioned shouts. Nutter is the follow up their debut White Jesus EP and continues to build on their brand of frenetically paced rock and roll. Nutter by Mumblr [...]
Born in beer-soaked Boston basements, Fat History Month is a rock duo on the rise thanks to their rabid cult following and progressive output. Led by Jeff Meff on guitar/vocals and Bob Hobby on drums, Fat History Month use oscillating guitars and odd rhythms to propel their tongue-in-cheek odes to the human condition and the despair it brings us all. Bad History Month (Exploding in Sound/Sophomore Lounge) is their second full length album, but my first go around with the band. There were immediate flashbacks to early-Modest [...]
Dead Confederate 's latest LP, In the Marrow , has slowly become one of favorite releases of the year. Carried by T. Hardy Morris' pained Georgian twang, DC's third album features both sides of their haunted southern grunge sound: brooding dirges as heard in 2008's Wrecking Ball and smoother, punchier tracks as heard in 2010's Sugar . The lead single, Vacations, is one of their brightest and most catchiest pop songs yet and, to match the [...]
Austin, Texas based psychedelic outfit Sungod will melt your face with their fusion of metal, prog, psychedelic rock, and kraut-rock that they relentlessly entangle within walls of ambient noise and elastic synth-laced textures. Their latest release, Contackt , released on cassette with Holodeck Records , features both guitar/synth player Braden Balentine and drummer/guitarist Mike Sharp going into a trance-like state on their respective instruments, as lucid guitar solos and cosmic clouds of synths collide with inspired drums and explode into one grand galaxy. [...]
The London pair of Still Corners heads the first new music Tuesday of May. We're also pining to get our hands on more of She & HIm's new album as well as some inspirational, electronic from Holy Ghost!. Oh, Fitz ... Read More
Faced with the yuppie invasion in their hometown, London's Fat White Family strive to wreak more havoc and deliver something real to their surroundings. Their highly anticipated debut album Champagne Holocaust , released April 1st on Trashmouth Records , does just that as the gap-toothed hoodlums shock and scintillate over eleven psych-trashed gems. Compared to "early Liars, smacky Butthole Surfers, and The Cramps" and called a "debauched, modern day Velvet Underground," Fat White Family delves out tunes perfect for society's discards to parade around [...]
Swedish duo Death and Vanilla make haunting psychedelic-kraut lullabies full of lush atmospheres and ethereal melodies. Their addicting single From Above has received its second vinyl pressing on limited edition red vinyl (of 300) released by The Great Pop Supplement. Grab the vinyl here
Midnight Bruisers ' new self titled cassette released by EveryDayIsAMixtape is a short, spastic blast of pure garage punk energy. Members of Clippers, Lube, Sneeze, and No Fun form like Voltron to bang out six skronky tunes in nine minutes . Things really begin to get good at As I Fade Out and beyond as they crank up the catchy pop vibes even more. As I Fade Out As I Fade Out by Midnight Bruisers The album is available [...]
Lo-fi bedroom artist Rollin Hunt has earned a cult following in England and Canada due to his brand of cosmic pop or "unearthly shoo-be-doo" he has recorded on tape for years; however, The Phoney , Hunt's first "real album" set to release on April 30th via Moniker Records, veers in a different direction. Instead of recording music into an answering machine, Hunt hooks up with whiz-kid producer and multi-instrumentalist Doni Schroader in a hi-fi setting and cooks up a stirring synthesis of organic and electric sounds that are both warm and futuristic. [...]
Singer/Guitarist John Galm has freed himself from his emo roots and has gravitated towards the dark and sleazy side of garage rock with his new band Slow Warm Death . Galm, the former front man of Snowings and Street Smart Cyclist, has always favored sounds from the 50s and 60s but was inspired by recent recordings from Jay Reatard, The Oh Sees, and Ty Segall which led him to discovering older material from The Oblivians and The Mummies. This long string of lo-fi, fuzz-laced garage rock influences has been spun into a web [...]
War Baby 's throaty wails, pummeling drums, and fuzzed-out fury will instantly conjure up Nirvana comparisons, and it seems the Vancouver trio is ok with that. The group's new album, Jesus Horse , was funded by selling a pair of vintage Levi's and recorded with engineer/producer Jordan Koop (Peace, Nu Sensae, The Mohawk Lodge) in the 100 year old heritage building that houses Vancouver Island's The Noise Floor recording studio. The album features War Baby rekindling the noise rock flames they left behind on their last EP in 2009 and fueling it with [...]
I'm digging this new EP from Bournemouth, UK based garage punk quintet KLLR. Fusing fast-paced punk vibes with crunchy garage riffs and sleazy vocals, KLLR's debut EP sounds like a synthesis of Ty Segall and Mudhoney's best moments. It's a gnarly unveiling that never stops giving, whether it be explosive punk-fueled energy ( High Times, White Shoes ), greasy yet infectious grunge noise (Shake Them Bones, 40ft Monster, Flesh ), or slime-ball stoner stomps ( Sleeping With the Dogs ), KLLR [...]
Weekender is a Philadelphia based quartet birthed from the remains of Derek and Nic Sheehan's last project, The Tweeds. Reforming with new members and a spruced up sound, Weekender released their brand new Spanish Peaks EP last month featuring their calling card blend of fuzzy, psych-laced shoegaze but with a more refined pop sheen. The band's polished sound can be attributed to working with Kyle "Slick" Johnson, an emerging producer that has built a solid reputation around his work with Fischerspooner, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Modest Mouse, Wavves, [...]
"I like to mess with everything," says upcoming 21-year-old NYC producer Chester Raj Anand, aka Lord RAJA. And it shows. Anand's debut EP Rubies is the work of a producer who clearly delights in exploring the possibilities of sound through meticulous production and a sureness of touch that'd befit someone of far more advanced years — a legacy, perhaps, of his upbringing: "I think I liked the idea of communicating with sounds rather than lyrics since a young age," he says, "because when I would hear Indian music in the car I couldn't understand the words. I just focused on [...]
I'm still loving this track from Toronto post-punk trio Odonis Odonis . Better is a single from the band's EP of the same name available today on Buzz Records . After a funky yet sinister bass line slithers through, Odonis Odonis erupts in random sprays of reverb soaked vocal harmonies, manic overdubs, grinding guitar noise, and electric shivers. It's like dancing with death. The video reflects the [...]
In 2012, Alex Hall and Emil Amos of Portland post-rock/psychedelic band Grails exchanged their instruments for an Akai MPC, crates of obscure private presses, and a collection of altered sound effects to create new strange and uncanny hip hop-based soundscapes as Lilacs & Champagne . Channeling Madlib's mind on their debut self-titled album, the duo pieced "Polish private press hippie records, indistinguishable radio noise and the chopped and reversed sounds of Jayne Mansfield’s head being decapitated" with other perverse textures to create their own bizarre beat world. As a [...]
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