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.
Music
It’s Sunday. The radio show is tonight. Here is some live music from magik markers.
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”.
swoon…
Zig Zags play a type of thrashy rock that borders on metal at times, but this one stays firmly planted on the punk side of the fence.
Infinity Girl. I wonder how much they adore velocity girl? They’ve got the sound and the name for it. It’s really good dreamy pop/shoegaze.
Last week we started our 7″ highlight series. Today we launch our LP highlights series. Matt and I spend a large amount of time scanning the internet or otherwise searching for new music. We just love music and love discovering new to us stuff. So here in we’ll highlight the best of what we’ve found. It might be something from a band we already love, or a new discovery, but the odds are it’s worth listening to.
I recently picked up the New Sense lp from the Ethical Debating Society in London. The lp was released on June 22nd by Odd Box Records. I posted a song from them on June 29th, but this whole album is excellent and worthy of being highlighted.
From the opening track childs play this album hits you hard and fast. This is a high energy album with a riot grrrl edge on most songs. It’s all carried by some strong pop stylings too. So it is loud and rockin’ and catchy.
The song I posted before, future imperfect, encapsulates the style well. Catchy chorus inter-weaved with a hysterics kind of loudness. But the album isn’t just loud riot grrrl. Mission creep is delightful lo-fi indie rock for example. Cover up is basically indie pop with a Bratmobile edge. OK, so that’s a bit riot grrrl right there. riderrr is an interesting song. It’s got a trumpet or some such and a strong 70s (think joan jett) rock’n roll influence. For what it’s worth, my favorite song is probably creosote ideas. Both the song and the song title are just great.
For years, I’ve preached that Yo La Tengo will usher in the apocalypse and bring our time on Earth to a violent, fiery end, and you’ve all (repeatedly) laughed at me. Well who’s laughing now, jerks?
Self-proclaimed emo rock is a weird genre to me. Most of it I don’t like, though i’m quite an emo old man. And my favorite bands from the 90s are quite emo-esque in their way. Anyhow, here is a band I seem to like, or at least these two songs. This one particularly reminds me of built to spill.
For you in Pittsburgh, they are playing The Mr. Roboto Project on July 27th.
Detroit’s Protomartyr are returning on 10/9 with The Agent Intellect. Judging by this song, it seems like they’re amenable to stretching out their scrappy post-punk into longer, bleaker dirges.