Music

7″ HIGHLIGHT: Melkbelly’s BATB

Posted by jayne k on August 4, 2015
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Melkbelly’s BATB (aka Bathroom at the Beach) is awesome. The 7″ was released on vinyl on July 31 by Chicago outfit Automatic Recordings. This straight up single, available on a limited edition run of vinyl, really rocks.

This is sharp edged noisy pop reminds me a lot of Speedy Ortiz which I coincidentally posted this morning. The short A-side Bathroom at the Beach is quick, catchy and loud. The B-side is a long track with the braggable title Piss Wizard. This song fluctuates from driving and noisy to slow and catchy.

This band does recall Th’ Faith Healers some. I think this music speaks for itself.

A Place to Bury Strangers – Love High

Posted by Feige on August 4, 2015
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I was a bit surprised at how quietly APTBS’s Transfixiation was received upon release earlier this year. Some of that may have had to do with the band’s “Our-practice-space-closed-up-woe-is-us” marketing strategy, but the album itself is exactly the kind of in-the-red noise dirges (bordering on industrial at times) one would expect from them.

Speedy Ortiz – Raising the Skate

Posted by jayne k on August 4, 2015
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I don’t think we’ve played this. But I also want to call attention to how awesome Speedy Ortiz frontwoman Sadie Depuis is. So read this article before you watch the video. Maybe even go buy yourself a Gender is Over t-shirt. Ok, now you’re good.

Andrew Kenny – Long Time to Lose It

Posted by Feige on August 3, 2015
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Anybody who listens to the show with any regularity has probably caught on to my predilection for The American Analog Set. And while singer Andrew Kenny has kept somewhat busy since that band’s dissolution with The Wooden Birds, news of his artistic output tends to leak out quite slowly. That’s why I’m so excited to hear that Kenny is providing an original score for Alex R. Johnson’s upcoming film Two Step. Part of that score includes a solo take on The Wooden Birds’ “Long Time to Lose It”, posted above.

More info on the movie can be found here. 

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:

Air Waves – Horse Race

Posted by jayne k on August 1, 2015
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New air waves? This makes me very excited. It’s got her trademark guitar style. That’s all you need really. This single is from her upcoming release Parting Glances due out September 18th via Western Vinyl. And it’s a nice tune to relax to while recovering from last night’s drunk radio blogging…

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?