Dez Dare - Uncanny Velocity
Critical Mind Dump releases May 5th via Six Tonnes De Chair Records
Critical Mind Dump releases May 5th via Six Tonnes De Chair Records
Slogan Machine releases May 19th via Convulse Records.
Wrestlemania releases April 28th via Vibe/Anti-Vibe and Geertrudia.
Electric Prawns 2 Penitentiary
Power Pants Hotdog Hell
Snitsh Pitsh Motion Feast
TTT-Turbo Chain$
Dadgad Nosleep
Itchy & The Nits Crabs
C.A.T.C.H. Out Of Breath
Gurk Saliva Waterfall
Cosas Ilegales Ventanas Rotas
AdamR Weirdo
Cymatics Mission Mind Control
Parking Lot Späti
3D & The Holograms Combat Boots
Antibotox Antibotox
Snarling Dogs Enemy
Poser Control Shrek 3
Electric Chair Obsessed
Top Secret Satan Brandishing
Cutup Power Steering
Pig Earth Reprobate
Deletions Data Stream
N.E.0.N. Inc The Times Change The Problems Don't
Telegenic Pleasure Shallow Human Characteristics
Mononegatives Cro-Magnon
Spitting Image Turn Person
Romance XYZ
Borzoi Rawhide Down (Shoot The Freak Pt. 2)
Die TV Execution
Enemic Interior Les Ombres
Balloon Thief Sodium City
Greg Wheeler and the Poly Mall Cops Manic Fever
Chris Pal Rivers
Why Bother? Hawking Radiation
Metal Guru Manca L'aria
Air Vent Dweller Scrambled
Gonk In My Head
Teenage Tom Petties Posters
Coming off a series of neat EPs last year, Marmora, New Jersey garage group or, probably, solo artist Die TV returns with a new album presenting their tunes in an even more stripped-down, low-key manner at first glance, yet underneath the unassuming surface unfolds a spectacular fireworks of DIY creativity. While at some points you may still find the occasional speck of Spits or Stalins of Sound in there, Die TV's strummy, jangly blend of garage- and post punk with sprinkles of psychedelia comes into even sharper focus here, the minimalist production providing plenty of breathing room for the melancholy, sparkling guitar arrangements with more than a little hint of Desperate Bicycles in some places, Power Plant or Freak Genes in others, even a touch of Digital Leather in the muted pop vibes of Goner. Don't let first impressions fool you, this is quite potent and awesome shit from start to finish!
Album-Stream →A sonic experience wonderfully out of touch with the zeitgeist, crafted by some Bellingham, Washington group. Prime influence here seems to be a whole battery of early-to-mid eighties, loosely SST and Touch & Go-connected stuff - on the more strummy, folk-infused side of things admittedly, but never afraid of spontaneously morphing into short bursts of hardcore punk either. Most obvious amoung those influences would probably be shit among the lines of Angst and Meat Puppets, early Dinosaur Jr. and, secondarily, U-Men, Mudhoney and 80s Scientists, some very slight hints of Dicks and Wipers. Or alternately, you might think of more recent Acts like early Milk Music, Dharma Dogs, Chronophage and Damak.
Album-Stream →A surprisingly versatile batch of garage punk miniatures on this sweet little debut cassette by a group from… well, probably not way too far from Charlotte, North Carolina i guess. Mostly this shit can be located somewhere among the quirky DIY garage punk spectrum with similarities to stuff like Set-Top Box, Alien Nosejob, Satanic Togas, R.M.F.C, early Vaguess or Erik Nervous, a more lo-fi Split System… speaking of which, there's also quite a bit of melancholy aussie style garage energy á la Jackson Reid Briggs, Pist Idiots going on in Chik'n Dinner. Songs like Sweet 'n Stout and Free Meat dabble in hardcore to varying degrees and the closing track Gallop!! has early Minutemen goin' full cowpunk!
Album-Stream →A healthy burst of pulsating, albeit fairly conventional garage punk, this newest EP by Carlisle, England dude AdamR. What it lacks in originality, it makes up for with sheer force and its super solid, adept song construction though. Add to this a slight Lo-Fi bent and the result is another fine treat for fans of shit similar to, say, Sauna Youth, Clamm, Ex-Cult, Gluer, Mitraille, Shitty Life or Dadar.
Album-Stream →Killed Alive releases May 12th.