Each week a ton of new music comes out, and between our weekly singles column that gets posted every Friday, and the full album reviews throughout the week, plus live show reviews and news announcements, we get to a lot! Here’s a quick fire list of even more great albums and EPs that came out this week(ish) that we dug and think you should get on your radar too.
Atlas Engine– When the Compass Resets, There Can Be No Regrets. As Atlas Engine singer and guitarist Nick LaFalce dealt with chronic illness (a topic he touches on in his songwriting), the band chose to release When the Compass Resets, There Can Be No Regrets as two EPs, which we covered here and here. Now the full length LP is out, with a new track at the beginning to kick things off and two new songs at the end, including the outstanding “I Never Get As Far As I Run.” These tracks are just as gorgeous and cinematic as the songs previously introduced on the EPs, and bring the halves together in a lushly produced whole. [CW]
Fake Names– Expendables. This punk rock super group is a who’s who of 80s and 90s punk and hardcore bands, featuring members of Minor Threat, Refused, Fugazi, Dag Nasty, Bad Religion, Embrace and Soulside—and that’s just scratching the surface of their impressive resume. Today, they’ve released their second album, Expendables, on Epitaph and it’s a punk power pop banger through and through. When “Delete Myself” was released as a single, guitarist Brian Baker shared “In general, Dennis [Lyxzén] writes about revolution, and Michael [Hampton] and I write pop songs. I’m amazed at how it works, but somehow it strikes the right balance of salty and sweet.” Indeed, this album has plenty of salty and sweet to go around. Catch the band in NYC on 4/14 at TV Eye. [KH]
Fixtures– Hollywood Dog. After years of homemade tapes and EPs, Brooklyn mainstays Fixtures have finally dropped a full length album.Read our full review here. [BD]
Horrible Timing– Late To The Party. the debut EP from the “anxious pop punk” band from Brooklyn. Read our full review here. [CW]
Muck– Demo (2023). Scuzzy lo-fi hardcore from Richmond. This demo is a ripper and it’s over in a spartan 9 minutes and 15 seconds. You know, exactly like a hardcore demo is supposed to be! [KH]
O. Wake– Head In The Cloud. This EP collects three previous released singles “Odysseus,” “Let’s All Get Pessimistic,” and “Riper Than Ripe” and now adds the brand new song “Head In The Cloud,” a song that addresses the plague of being addicted to our devices, something we can all relate to. The band will be performing at the upcoming New Colossus Festival. [KH]
SSOLD– Passionate Horse. The sludgy Portland noise rock trio released this brand new four song EP on Valentine’s Day and it was my first intro to the band. It’s not every day the first song you get from a punk band is a song about Destiny’s Child (yes, you read that right), but I liked it so much I immediately dove head first into their previous full length, Ssolid Ggold, too. I’m a big fan of the busy drumming here, courtesy of Max, who goes hard and serves as an anchor for the heavy fuckin riffage.
This will give you some Big Business vibes and also reminds me a bit of Dead Arms, the fantastic (and now defunct) UK band that featured future Los Bitchos drummer, Nic Crawshaw. My only complaint is this is just four songs, I definitely would get way down with another full length from this crew, but this can hold me over for now while I wait. Passionate Horse will rattle your teeth and shake your bones, and I say, let’s get this band out to NYC ASAP so I can hear these songs live! [KH]
Whenwolves– Recon For The Weirdos. The debut EP from the Brooklyn art rockers. Read our full review. [MB]
Zulu– A New Tomorrow. The anticipated debut album from the esteemed LA powerviolence band has arrived and it packs a massive amount of heavy, hammering riffs alongside brutal basslines and blistering drums throughout. Crushers like “Where I’m From,” which features guest spots from Pierce Jordan (Soul Glo) and Obioma Ugonna (Playtime), “Fakin’ Tha Funk (You Get Did)” and “52 Fatal Strikes” will rattle you all the way down your spine.
But the album isn’t all heavy, and features a wide breadth of material from soul and jazz samples interspersed as the ending of many songs, the instrumental funk interlude “Shine Eternally,” and the spoken word/piano pieces “Must I Only Share My Pain?” and “Crème de Cassis by Aleisia Miller and Precious Tucker” which asks the question “why do Black artists only have to make art about their pain?” a theme that occurs throughout the record. “We’re More Than This,” is a hip-hop song which features guitarist Dez Yusuf rhyming over relaxed, nimble jazz instrumentation. Yusef shares:
“When we first started writing for the record Anaiah and I had bounced the idea of maybe doing some jazz or R&B songs and putting some raps on the record,” Yusuf commented. “I know Satchel and Anaiah had jammed out some different ideas that I hadn’t really been present for. We were actually ending our tour with Sasami when I first heard the music for ‘We’re More Than This’. We were in the van at a rest stop and Anaiah played it off a video of him and Satchel jamming. It just hit me all in an instant.
“I didn’t think much beyond the lyrics of ‘must I only share my pain,’ which is a running theme throughout the album. But it’s ironic because I go forward with sharing glimpses of pain and trauma, but that’s really the setup to show the things I’ve (we’ve) become in spite of that pain. This is really a song of resilience and encouragement. Saying that we can still be more than the tropes that are Put on us. That we are more than commodified versions of our trauma.”
A New Tomorrow is a remarkable record with exceptional depth and nuance. At the end of 2023, you can be sure that this album will be on many Best of the year lists. [KH]
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Hi! Hello! Here we are with some bite sized goodies and a taste of a some new things that we dug that came out in the last week (ish), quick fire responses to some great new music we think you should check out. This week Chantal, Kate and Mike weighed in on some killer songs— give ’em a listen!
boygenius– Not Strong Enough. The latest single from The Record, the highly anticipated debut album from the indie rock dream super group, this one features each member taking lead vocals on a verse and some Sheryl Crow references in the lyrics. It also has a lot of rich nuance in the lush layers and production throughout. It comes paired with an adorable music video that was shot by the band members themselves and sees them horsing around and having fun at an amusement park, a museum, batting cages and more. Julien Baker also sports a Lockwood 51 shirt through much of the video and being a big fan of their radical queer work, I was stoked to see that. The Recordwill arrive in full on 3/31 and the band will tour behind it as part of the Re:SET concert series throughout June. [KH]
Crocodiles– Love Beyond the Grave. A fun reverb drenched garage pop ode to finding love among the undead. The latest single from the upcoming album, Upside Down In Heaven, due out 4/7 on Lolipop Records. [KH]
Extra Special– Sober Karaoke. Gotta love a good bop about self-reflection, and this is a damn good one. Soaked in hook fueled synthesizer and poured over some cool electronic beat pads, Amelia Bushell has written a catchy tune perfect as we crawl our way out of these dark colder months. Also equally soaked in the booze of years past, NYC nightlife pitfalls and late night misadventures, Bushell finds maybe there’s a different life to be lived outside the substances…at least for the moment. Sometimes desperately running away from expectations leaves you chasing something far more nefarious within yourself. And sometimes you just remember how much simpler it was to be a kid.
Bushell has definitely more than proven she knows how to craft a pop song and twist a slant rhyme like no one else. But this is just her beginning to understand that there is another way to exist when you become open to the limitlessness of self-love. Gotta say, it’s a little hard to argue against clear-headed thinking and balanced living. One thing is for sure, as a recovering alcoholic myself, I fucking hate sober karaoke!! [MB]
LaPeche– Mermaid Blues V1. The Brooklyn indie rockers have released an expanded version of their single “Mermaid Blues,” and the song still explores the same themes and “expands and contracts around the experience of heavy seasonal depression,” with more lushness in the backing vocals and bridge and with a different chorus. The band says they “enjoy sharing different iterations of songs when they feel it is warranted,” and I for one like to see the different ways a song can live and breathe. The band’s founding drummer, Jeff Gensterblum, has since departed the band but performs on both versions. Read my thoughts on the original here. [KH]
Los Bitchos– Tequila (The Champs cover)/Trapdoor (King Gizzard cover). The tequila loving London based foursome has finally made it super official and laid down their punky, amped up version of the 1950s party classic “Tequila” by fellow instrumental band, The Champs, which has become a staple of their live set. The band shares “‘Tequila’ has been the joyfully unhinged ending to our set for the past year. It always feels like it could fall apart at any moment and we wanted to capture that energy on the recording.” There is also a fun video of the band indulging in their favorite beverage around London (which also comes with a warning to have fun but be safe) and features footage they shot themselves which was edited by their touring rhythm guitarist Charles Prest.
Interestingly, their version includes vocals with lyrics, provided by keyboardist Agustina Ruiz, a change from the traditional song and a first for them as a group too (other than the cheers/laughs/chants that are sometimes heard on their tracks, they have been purely instrumental). Released as a 7inch double single called Pah! (which sold out on Bandcamp on the day of release), the flipside is their cover of King Gizzard’s “Trapdoor,” another usual suspect in their live set and perfectly timed as they are kicking off a tour support King Gizz in Europe before they head to the US for a string of dates including a stop at Brooklyn Made on 5/2. Check out pics from their NYC show last June here, and pics from Ritual Union in Bristol, England, here. [KH]
Mandy, Indiana–Pinking Shears.The second single from the upcoming debut album, i’ve seen a way, is led by the beat, both electronic and acoustic drums, while Valentine Caulfield chants in French above the occasional punctuations of fuzz and shrieking guitar. The record is out 5/19 on Fire Talk Records. The band will soon make their US debut at SXSW. [CW]
Noble Rot– Casting No Light. Alex Edkins of METZ has been busy lately with a lot of things outside of his main project, his other band Weird Nightmare put out their debut album last year and now he is making music with Graham Walsh of Holy Fuck in their project Noble Rot. This will sound a lot closer to Holy Fuck and METZ, a cool electro groover that will keep your head bobbing. The duo announced their debut album, Heavenly Bodies, Repetition, Control which will be out on March 24 via Joyful Noise Recordings. [KH]
Omat– Rail Reload/The Fool. After recently releasing their debut single, “Daisy” (read our thoughts), the brand new band is back with a pair of singles—”Rail Reload” released last week and “The Fool” released this week. Much like I said about the previous song, “Rail Reload” too meets right at the intersection of post-punk, indie and gritty shoegaze, perfectly melding the styles. “The Fool” isn’t far off either, though this one brings out a sugar coated grunge feel. This band started out with a bang, quickly opening for alt grunge luminaries L7 last fall (see coverage) and I can see more big things in their future. Make it out to a show to catch them live as soon as you can. [KH]
Scowl– Shot Down. The second single from Scowl’s upcoming EP, Psychic Dance Routine, their firmly back in hardcore waters after exploring a more alt rock direction on the previous single “Opening Night,” but actually…not so fast. While the verses are solidly hardcore, the choruses dip back into the seas of alternative and I love the push and pull and how seamlessly they blend them together. The EP will release in full on 4/7 via Flatspot Records and the band is currently on tour with Show Me The Body, Jesus Piece, Zulu, and TRiPP Jones; the tour hits Brooklyn Steel on 3/24. [KH]
Shybaby–For Rent. Settling down? In this economy? This fast-paced punk tune is scuzzy and catchy and accompanied by a Craigslist-themed video, seemingly drawing a comparison between fleeting hookups and short term rentals. Too bad they took out the personals, right? [CW]
Slow Pulp– Cramps. After releasing their debut album in 2020, Slow Pulp have signed to Anti, and their latest single is definitely a bop, a noisy buzzy pop tune with clattering percussion and vocals mixed into the fuzz, quiet at times and clippingly loud at others. They’ll be touring with The Pixies and Death Cab For Cutie over the next few months. [CW]
Tami Hart– Sorry For Your Heart. I’m a long time fan of Hart’s work and am delighted she’s back to releasing solo music for the first time in many years. Read my full review here. [KH]
TEKE::TEKE– Garakuta. The lead single from the upcoming Hagata is a thrashing sort of psychedelic march, led by Maya Kuroki’s intense vocals and a driving flute lead. It’s a fantastical, striking song, only made better by the trippy music video. The album is out June 9th on Kill Rock Stars, and you can catch them soon at Irving Plaza on March 12th opening for Unwound. [CW]
Tetchy–Smaller/Better. The newest single by Tetchy dropped earlier this week and once again proves the band makes no bones about taking risks and leaving themselves completely exposed. Packed with emotional betrayal and a raw vulnerability, the tracks creeps and crawls thru ethereal vocal layers and dissonance like the broken rusty springs of a haunted music box. There’s a quiet anger and overwhelming sadness that permeates the crevasses and fills the cracks like old glue that hardens and holds like an old dried heart stuck pinned to your rib cage. [MB]
Hello and welcome to FTA’s list of what we are excited for this Bandcamp Friday, aka every music nerds favorite day! A bunch of us weighed in on what we’ve been into lately and we’ve got plenty of goodies old and new for you to dig into over a wide range of genres. But don’t take our word for it, dive into these tracks/albums and judge for yourself. Feel free to let us know what you think and tell us your suggestions.
Double Dagger– Sophisticated Urban Living (Contemporary Conveniences Edition). I love the versions of the songs on this collection, captured as demos and raw works in progress in 2008, many of them going on to appear in more polished form on the album MORE and the Masks EP. I’ve always been a fan of gritty lo-fi recordings, as they seem to capture bands in a more primal way that a formal studio recording can, so it was a real treat to listen to these songs as they existed in a more primitive state. The BC description goes into more details so I recommend giving that a read.
Fashion Tips– Fucking Hell. Billing themselves as “dance music for anxious people” this London crew makes grimey, noisy post punk no wave and vocalist Esmé Louise Newman is a dead ringer for Tobi Vail’s vocal delivery, particularly on the opening track “Lunched Out.” This is the band’s debut EP and I’m already jonesing for a full length.
Mathew Hattie Hein– In Search of Lost Hein. Many years ago, I acquired a split 7inch with Mathew Hattie Hein and Sarah Dougher, and I had no idea who he was at the time since I bought it for the SD tracks. I loved his songs and as it turns out, he was the lead singer of Portland indie band, New Bad Things who I’d heard of in passing at that point. This 18 song collection compiles tracks “from 7” records, cassette tapes, compilations, and the proverbial vault: twenty years of bedroom, basement, public park, and studio compositions… eighteen songs from Old Portland, including the entire cult-status Last Chance EP” and was a nice blast from the past.
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Fixtures– Hollywood Dog. I loved this one from BK mainstays Fixtures. Read my full review here.
On Valentine’s Day there was plenty of love in the air for those in attendance at the 10th annual Valentine’s Village of Love presented by NY Night Train and After The Fall. The love themed variety showed featured a star-studded cast of performers from the Brooklyn music community in a “live review” style showcase singing lovey dovey covers with Alana Amram’s Love Boat Band backing them up, hitting classics like W.A.S.P.’s “Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)” (sung by MG Stillwaggon of Spite FuXXX), The Go-Go’s “Our Lips Are Sealed” (sung by Zohra Atash of Azar Swan) and Loretta Lynn’s “Don’t Come Home a-Drinkin” (sung by Hollye Bynum of Razor Braids) among many others.
Aside from the live review, there were lots of other fun performances, big highlights being sets from drag terrorist/nightmare fashionista, Christeene, and Thick doing a set of Ramones rippers.
Jonathan Toubin and a mix of several other DJs kept the romantic mood going long after the live music was done and the party continued well into the wee morning hours. And even better than all the fun and love fueled revelry, the event also served as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood. Over $4000 was raised over the course of the evening for this vital organization that is more under attack now than ever before, showing the true meaning of love and what a community can do when it comes together!
Each week a ton of new music comes out, and between our weekly singles column that gets posted every Friday, and the full album reviews throughout the week, plus live show reviews and news announcements, we get to a lot! Here’s a quick fire list of even more great albums and EPs that came out this week(ish) that we dug and think you should get on your radar too.
Algiers– Shook. The thing I love most about Algiers is you never quite know what you’re going to get from one song to the next. And I mean this as a supreme compliment as it is a direct reflection of their strength and skill as musicians and songwriters. Rare is the band that can do so much without getting lost along the way and be so impactful in the process. SHOOK is out today via Matador and is a document of a band that was already at a high level, reaching even further. The album features guest appearance from Zach de la Rocha, Mark Cisneros, LaToya Kent, billy woods and more, with many highlights across 17 songs including “I Can’t Stand It!,” “Bite Back,” “Out of Style Tragedy” and “Cold World.” They will next play NYC at Racket on 4/6. [KH]
Death Valley Girls– Islands In The Sky. The latest from the LA garage rock greats and we had a lot of thoughts on it! Read them here. [KB]
En Attendant Ana– Principia. The Parisian dream pop outfit has just released their latest album, Principia, which follows up 2020’s Juillet. It’s got plenty of jangle to spare and big standouts for me are “Black Morning,” and “The Cutoff,” a bouncy post punky jam, as well as the title track which kicks off the album. I’d love to see them soon so I’m sure hoping a US tour is in their 2023 plans. [KH]
Fat Heaven– Trash Life. The latest from the Brooklyn pop punk stalwarts,Trash Life, collects the previously released tracks from their 2018 Crybaby EP as well as two songs from their 2021 split with fellow BK pop punkers, Trashy, and adds in four brand new songs. This is a short and sweet blast, like any good pop punk record should be and to quote our earlier review of one of the new tracks, these songs are “hanging on the corner of Rancid and Social Distortion.” You can catch their energetic live show next on 3/2 at The Kingsland. [MB]
Fat Trout Trailer Park– Live At The Creamery. The Brooklyn based band has a knack for catchy, fuzzy indie pop grooves and self describe as “a post-punk response to modern life, where beyond the noise lies an incisive critique of contemporary society.” They just released a four song EP which includes live versions of the series of singles they released over the course of 2022 and it’s a fun, punchy addition to their existing catalog. [KH]
Gruff Rhys– The Almond and The Seahorse soundtrack– Super Furry Animals lead singer Gruff Rhys has released a double album today and it serves as the soundtrack to the film The Almond and The Seahorse which stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rebel Wilson and Celyn Jones. The album contains 22 songs, featuring both original songs with instrumental score interspersed throughout, and it was recorded in 2021 and 2022 with members of the National Orchestra of Wales and other guests. As per Rhys’ Bandcamp: “the film tells the story of archaeologist (Rebel Wilson) and an architect (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and their fight to re-imagine a future after a traumatic brain injury leaves them adrift from the people they love. The title of the film itself refers to the nicknames given to the parts of our brains that lay down new memories and hold on to the old ones.”
He also notes that the album was “recorded largely in pandemic conditions so it was a matter of recording in bursts of possible activity in various friends’ studios, homes and even scout halls as chance permitted. It’s a varied quilt work as a result.” An ambitious project for sure, but no match for the prolific Welsh singer/songwriter. Gwaith arbennig, Gruff! [KH]
Gina Birch– I Play My Bass Loud. The legendary founder of The Raincoats has just released her very first solo album, I Play My Bass Loud, proving that old punks never die. Read our full review here. [CW]
Gorillaz– Cracker Island. The long running cartoon fronted band (aka Damon Albarn from Blur and Jamie Hewlett of Tank Girl fame) has just released their eighth album. I’ve been a fan since day one and they were really one of the first electronic bands I really took a shine to, after coming off of years of grunge, punk and ska devotion in the 90s. I still love their very early catalog and the first three albums in particular, so it’s exciting to see them still at it (albeit it with some bumps in the road along the way).
22 years down the line from their self titled debut, and they’ve made a fun record that is packed with special guests like Stevie Nicks, Bad Bunny, Adeleye Omotayo, Beck and more; it has plenty to keep your feet tapping and your head bobbing. Is this one a revelation now like their debut was in 2001? No that it is not, but it still has teeth and at this stage of their career, it doesn’t need to be anything more than a solid electro pop record which it certainly is. With the one two punch of the title track opening the album with a guest spot from Thundercat, followed by “Oil” featuring vocals from Nicks, that pairing alone proves they’ve still got it. [KH]
Human Potential– Hoosi, No! I admit I may have perked up a bit when I saw the title of this album (my computer immediately autocorrected it to Hoos) but what really got me to check it out (since I had been unfamiliar with this project previously) was that it is from the creative mind of Andrew Becker, who once upon a time played drums for The Medications. They were an absolutely stellar mathy, post hardcore band that put out some of my favorite releases of the first decade of this century, the 2004 EP, Medications, and the 2005 LP, Your Favorite People All In One Place. (If I dig through my archives, I have pics of them from 2005 at NorthSix which was the precursor to Music Hall of Williamsburg.)
Human Potential is very, very different from the work that I had been previously familiar with though and that surprised me. The genre descriptors on Bandcamp are listed as “pop” “ambient” “experimental” and “weird pop” among others. But that’s of no mind to me because I rather like weird and experimental stuff so it was pretty cool to re-discover an artist who I had loved in the past in a totally new and unexpected context. There’s a lot going on across these nine songs and I really enjoyed the trio of songs “I Have to Leave Because There Are No Rivers Here,” which might be the most straight forward on the album before it gives way to the dark and forbidding instrumental “Zwunck” which then shifts to “Some Small Anti-Christ at the Art Show,” a deeply experimental track that goes from gentle and abstract with individual percussion elements to heavier post punk with a full drum kit just before the three minute mark to build to a shattering crescendo.
Becker has an extended discography as Human Potential, Hoosi, No! is his fifth album overall. I’m very much looking forward to finding out what mysteries lie in store on the other four albums. [KH]
Jenny O– Spectra. Part electro, part psychy garage rock and a whole lot more, Spectra is out today via Mama Bird Recording Co. It is the follow up to 2020’s New Truth and Jenny O’s fourth album overall. There’s a lot to sink your teeth into on this record, O is “a classically trained composer and double bassist who studied jazz and experimented with trip hop in the early 2000’s before making her way to California and back to rock n’ roll” and it shows in the nuance and layers contained throughout. She performed the guitar, bass, synth and organ parts on the album and had production help from Kevin Ratterman. Via a press release O says Spectra is a “contemplation on what it means to be a weirdo, to communicate, and ultimately, to be useful.”
I’m a big fan of the tracks the warbly acoustic fueled “The Big Cheese,” bouncy rocker “Solitary Girl,” the smooth and subdued “Prism,” and the positive anthem “You Are Loved Eternally.” She is soon to embark on a Midwestern tour. Here’s hoping we see her in NYC soon, too. [KH]
Miss Grit– Follow The Cyborg. The Brooklyn based artist has released their debut full length, read all about it here. [CW]
Mui Zyu– Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century.Eva Liu (who also fronts Dama Scout) has released her debut solo album as Mui Zyu today via Father/Daughter and it resides in an ambitious dream pop landscape, a kaleidoscope of electronics, subtle guitars and piano; it is a sweeping diary of identity, folklore and self exploration.
Per her Bandcamp “As mui zyu, Hong Kong British artist Eva Liu navigates the tricky territory of ever-changing identity, merging fantasy and folklore to create a stage for self-acceptance and deliverance. On her debut full-length Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century, Liu utilizes chopped-up soundscapes, delicate industrial ambience and sweet pop melodies to introduce a character––a guide––who can be stretched across worlds to offer the catharsis of patience, perseverance and understanding. This isn’t a character formed from a desire to escape or flee the real world, but rather a way to submerge even deeper into ourselves. Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century is a reflection of everyone, and everything, that made us who we are.” [KH]
Model/Actriz– Dogsbody. The Brooklyn based experimental industrial art noise band released their debut full length, Dogsbody, today via True Panther after several singles over the last seven years and it’s a ten song diary that is the culmination of many years in the Brooklyn underground scene. Chock full of a range of feels from rapid fire beats and jittery, gasoline doused guitars to walls of fuzzy electro noise like in “Sleepless,” which starts out on the subtle end (for this band anyway) before it consumes you. The big highlights for me are “Mosquito” and “Amaranth” both of which are on the more chaotic end of the spectrum. The band will play new NYC venue, Racket, on 4/20. [KH]
Plëzher– Stick It In. Raw AF crusty dbeat from Amiskwaciwâskahikan, Treaty 6 territory (Edmonton, “Canada”), this band “crack[s] the whip at colonialism with their hard and fast songs and their poignant feminist/anti-fascist lyrics.” Interestingly—and awesomely—the band features a dual bass, no guitar, buzz saw attack and boldly declare “an evening with Plëzher will bring you to your knees.” Their lyrics mince absolutely not one shred of a word and these four songs will get you fired the fuck UP. My favorite is the closing track “Traitor Bitch,” the pro choice anthem we need everywhere and particularly south of the US/Canadian border right now. [KH]
shame– Food For Worms. The third album from the London based band is here today on Dead Oceans and sees the band really hitting their stride. In his review of their previous single, “Fingers of Steel,” Mike said “It’s obvious shame makes music for them, and everyone else just happens to be on board.” I’m inclined to agree AND be fully on board because that’s the best possible ethos a band can have, if you’re doing it for any other reason than for yourselves, then it’s the wrong reasons (once a punk, always a punk!). “Six Pack” is a wah drenched number with frenzied drumming I love, and it’s my favorite song on the album, other standouts include the postgazey “Yankees,” “The Fall of Paul” and the building “Different Person.” They’re on a run of UK/European dates now and will next hit NYC on 5/14 at Warsaw when on the North American leg of their tour. [KH]
Uncle Pizza– Frog Era. Uncle Pizza is a “silly queer emo punk band based in Brooklyn” and today they have a brand new album. Read all about it here. [CW]
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