Here’s a good juxtaposition with yesterday’s Gun Outfit post: FIDLAR seem to know exactly what type of band they want to be, and so take the express route to writing some loud, distorted pop punk tunes.
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An old friend of mine put this video up this week. This was part of a show bidding farewell to Diva Haus in Columbia, MO. I know nothing except that Rough Blush is pretty great. When you are done with the video, check out their stuff on bandcamp too.
If you don’t like that then you’re no rock n roll fun. Seriously. Sometimes though, you need a classic. And I had this scheduled to post today before discovering the awesomeness that is Rough Blush. So why not leave it up?
This is fun. I have posted from these folks before and highlighted their lp a couple of weeks back. Here is a video. A new LP highlight coming tonight btw.
Digging this indie rock from Sarah Persephona in St Petersburg. Here is a video from a couple months back. And below that a link to her EP. Also worth noting as Russia is a possible contender for our next session of the drunk radio shower.
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.
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.
I like this track. They have a new lp coming out or it just came out. Seems like it’s worth a listen.
And in this new video, they get seriously trippy.
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.
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Mescaline Eyes
Drinking From the Necks of the Ones You Love
your nightmare…
ps. tonight we are live blogging music from Chile. Come listen in with us at 8pm(ish).
New ripper from everybody’s favorite Jacoobi Boys.