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These Arms are Snakes – Woolen Heirs (Live Music Sunday)

Posted by Feige on August 2, 2015
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Though These Arms are Snakes broke up quite a few years ago, now, I’ll always remember them as 1.) owning one of my favorite guitar tones of all time, and 2.) being the band I saw at just the right time in my life when a raucous, nihilistic live show seemed like the perfect form of therapy for my young adult angst. I still remember driving to Cleveland with my friend Nina to go see them and watching a crowd member get clocked in the head by a ladder that vocalist Steve Snere dug out of who-knows-where backstage. Keep reading after the jump for a look at how rowdy they could get when playing in front of a sizable crowd.

***An additional note for those of you that may have found your way to the blog over the weekend: Our weekly radio show is on tonight from 9PM – 12AM EST. Tune in to hear what Jim and I sound like when we’re sober/slightly more rational. 88.3FM if you’re in Pittsburgh, and streaming at www.wrct.org everywhere else in the world.***

Mescaline Eyes
Drinking From the Necks of the Ones You Love

Acid Dad – Brain Body

Posted by Feige on August 1, 2015
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I was working in north Jersey this week, and my friend Sam was nice enough to take me out to a show at Brooklyn’s Union Pool. I’d originally intended to write up a review for the blog but, truth be told, not many of the bands really caught my ear (though the crowd was WAY into both Savants and The Yin Yangs, so maybe I just don’t know what I’m talking about). The one exception was locals Acid Dad, who did a good job mixing the Black Lips’ southern charm and White Fence’s hazy psychedelia. “Brain Body” slows things down a bit, but the payoff about halfway through hits hard.

 ***EDIT*** – Listening to Savants’ bandcamp page, I think I gave them a raw deal in my original post. So here’s one of their songs, too:

Beat Connection – So Good

Posted by Feige on July 31, 2015
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It’s Friday night. It’s summer. Human life is a miracle in and of itself. There exists infinite parallel universes where maybe you don’t possess the ability to listen to every song ever made effortlessly through the speaker on your phone. Yadda yadda yadda. Howsabout you put this one on go get weird with it tonight?

Ty Segall – Buick Mackane / Fuzz – Rat Race

Posted by Feige on July 30, 2015
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We seem about due for a timely “What’s Ty Segall and his 14 different project up to lately?” kind of post. That wonderful T Rex cover above is off the upcoming Goner reissue of his multiple Ty Rex releases, all packaged together and accompanied by a few previously unreleased bonus tracks, including “20th Century Boy”.

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T Rex not rockin’ enough for you? First, you can fuck right off with that business. Second, you may be more interested in the newly announced and appropriately titled II from Fuzz, which features Segall on drums and frequent Ty collaborators Charlie Moothart and Chad Ubovich riffing right alongside. This stuff falls far closer to the Blue Cheer side of the rock spectrum. Have at it, below.

The Butterscotch Cathedral – Flood of Mendoza

Posted by Feige on July 28, 2015
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Sometimes I can pretend I’m verbose enough to describe the stuff I put up on the blog, and sometimes I’m better off just copying and pasting the press release. The Butterscotch Cathedral gets the latter:

The Butterscotch Cathedral is the new studio project from Matt Rendon (Resonars, Lenguas Largas) with Chris Ayers & Jim Waters. Featuring three tracks total (Side one is one 18min sidelong track, & side two contains “Loud Heavy Sun” & the 17-minutes suite “Lisa’s Dream”) the project is Rendon’s homage to the great Sixties & Seventies concept records from bands like The Who & The Beach Boys, both of whom Rendon cite as an influence. Won’t you come inside?

“Flood of Mendoza” finds itself tucked into the albums A-side. The S/T album is out 10/2 on Trouble in Mind. 

Minor Victories – Film One

Posted by Feige on July 27, 2015
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Always leave ’em wanting more, right? Minor Victories’ “Film One” does just that, featuring two all-too-brief excerpts from the band’s upcoming debut. Let’s pretend for a second that a project featuring members of Slowdive, Mogwai, and Editors had any chance of being anything less than stellar… These three minutes should set your mind at ease if you had any reservations about the quality of work emerging from the supergroup.

Dum Dum Girls – Coming Down (Live Music Sunday)

Posted by Feige on July 26, 2015
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Dum Dum Girls’ re-imagining of Lee Hazlewood’s “Think I’m Coming Down” was always the moody, epic outlier on Only in Dreams, an album of otherwise shambolic 60’s girl-group pop. That moodiness lends itself quite well to a live setting, as you’ll see when the band knocks it out of the park in the video above.

Childbirth – Nasty Grrls

Posted by Feige on July 25, 2015
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Fun fact: This is actually the sound of Childbirth (mems. of Chastity Belt and Tacocat) dialing things back a bit, considering their last song was a quite literal one titled “I Only Fucked You As A Joke”.