Hyperdog - House On The Hill
Frog Mountain releases April 25th.
Goblin Daycare - Boss Man
Agitprop Hotline is gonna release whenever via Dedstrange.
Facs - North America Endless
North America Endless 7" releases April 12th via Sub Pop Records.
Shrudd - Skin
Verspannungskassette #71 (C-90)
Die TV Blow
Phil & The Tiles Not Today
No Healer New York
Uranium Club 2-600-LULLABY
Conspire The Sparrow
Gob Psychic Content Moderator
Jacket Burner Last Nite
Bart And The Brats Can't Think Straight
Elvis 2 On The Motorway
Jean Mignon Unsending An Apology
Total Sham The Night
Innuendo Never Going Back
Que Lindo Mynt I Lomma
Leaking Head Leaking Head
The Goofies Disorder
Industry Lessons In Impermanence
Spewed Brain Baby is a Hater
Act Step On A Crack
The Gobs The Gobs Commit An Armed Robbery
Goblin Daycare Business Is Business
Glutamate Dance
Power Pants I'm Craving You
Slags We're All Dogs
iPad Baby Girl Dinner
Factoids No Time
Darius Denominator Psychological 1975
Chalk Claw
Cuir Gast
Nervous Tick and the Zipper Lips Ready For Hell
Normans Dead Snakes
Cartoon Steam Room
Arse Shame Bomb
Pork Belly Lucky Start
Snooper On Line
Jug When
Sex Mex Nerds Who Play Guitar
Shop Talk The Will
Dollhouse I Hate You Dont Leave Me
Sweet Teeth Move On
Statues Mercury
Antenna Don't Cry
Dauber No Use For a Pig
María En Drogas Cereza
Canal Irreal Whispers
Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger! In Between
Antenna - Antenna
Awesome to hear this dude's angel voice again! Just a couple weeks ago, Shogun, best known as the powerhouse front man of Royal Headache, made his triumphant return (let's not forget the neat 2018 Shogun and the Sheets 7" though) with the debut EP of Finnoguns Wake, the duo comprising of him and Finn Berzin and now, pretty much out of nowhere, there's also the debut EP by another band of his, Antenna, popping up which, of his projects so far, aligns closest to the oldschool Royal Headache vibe in terms of its song material while moving on from the rough garage sound towards a somewhat slicker aesthetic inbetween the parameters of straight-up melodic punk rock, noise- and power pop with a kinda unexpected Leatherface edge to it. Sweet!
Album-Stream →Cartoon - Nyuck Nyuck Boing!
Now here's some brilliant shit i've been totally unprepared for, certainly having a mind of its own and being delightfully out of touch with the zeitgeist! Sure, the whole thing feels kinda old. I'm kinda old too, so i like that. Imagine the likes of Saccharine Trust, Minutemen, Swell Maps and The Pop Group partaking in an occult ritual to conjure up an ancient '60s acid rock demon, an unholy crossbreed of psych- and math rock. This is quite terribly self-indulgent of course, but that aspect kinda comes with both of those genres, i guess. At this point i'm pretty sure you've already made up your mind about it and know if you're gonna love or hate it. In my humble opinion, what the Philadelphia group hallucinates up here is pretty fucking swell and totally should be legalized!
Album-Stream →Jug - Or Not / Innuendo - Peace & Love
Excellent shit straddling the fine line between hard- and postcore with a smidge of garage thrown in is what we get on the debut EP of Winnipeg group Jug, reaching our shores courtesy of the always reliable Vancouver noise forge Neon Taste Records. Their sound encapsulates exactly the rough and unruly qualities i seek out most from these genres, at the same time sounding reasonably elaborate and well-constructed. At points, you might draw comparisons to stuff like Acrylics, Mystic Inane, Arse, Daydream, Video, Crisis Man, early Bad Breeding… plus a surprise hint of '77 New York in My Body's Doomed!
Similar things, albeit in a somwhat dumber, equally fun and delightfully primitive fashion, are then brought forth on the debut LP of Milwaukee's Innuendo which has just dropped via Unlawful Assambly and Roach Leg Records and on which they hit a sweet spot between simple and stupid oldschool hardcore energy and KBD-drenched garage insanity, ingredients that have stood the test of time being presented in a way here that still feels fresh and alive.
Album-Stream →Nervous Tick and the Zipper Lips - The Monochromatic Mind Of… / More Monochromatic
After a somewhat mixed bag of a cassette four years ago and a string of collaboration EPs with the likes of Eyes And Flies, Science Man and Ricky Hell, the newest album and accompanying extended play cassette of Buffalo, NY group Nervous Tick and the Zipper Lips sees them returning at their most focused to date, their mix of post-, garage- and synth punk with just a slight hint of industrial coming across like a decent middle ground between, say, Droids Blood, Beef and The Spits - far from reinventing the wheel here but always energetic, catchy and effective.
Album-Stream →iPad Baby - TradCath Terrorists
iPad Baby of Glassboro, New Jersey first came to my attention with a fun little debut EP last fall but their newest EP/mini-LP thingy is just a so much stronger, more consistent effort in which they dial the weird energy and creativity up to eleven, coalescing into a new lump of completely off-the-rails insanity sure to please discerning fans of all kinds of other unmedicated, beautiful trainwrecks in the realm of Egg-, Synth- and Garage Punk as done by the likes of Zoids, The Gobs, Mateo Manic, Prison Affair, Metdog, Nuts or Nubot555, to name a few.
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