To celebrate one whole month in which I haven't totally messed this blog up, I just opened up an e-mail address for the site. If you're going to send me your demo, please take a look at what I write about before sending me dubstep remixes (which I'm sure you worked hard on, but c'mon):
newnoisenow@yahoo.com
Now, on to the rundown:
PICK OF THE WEEK:
Ghetto Ghouls - "Peepshow"
WHERE: Austin, TX
FROM: Ghetto Ghouls on Monofonus Press
AVAILABLE: 4/8/14
Before it vanished entirely from their bandcamp, I was fortunate enough to download 6666 from the garage-punk quartet Ghetto Ghouls back in November. While the production on that release was coarse around the edges, "Peepshow" suggests that the group is moving to even grittier, heavier pastures. No energy is wasted here on introductions or legible vocals. Instead, the group immediately starts burning down the barn with a cloud of distortion over catchy, quicktime drumbeats. Amid all the guitar thrashing and snare rolls, Ghetto Ghouls somehow find time in this two-minute window to break things down at around the 60-second mark, stretching out their legs for a moment before swelling the song up to an abbreviated climax. "Peepshow" is a promising first taste for what will probably be a fantastic album of blown-out, taut rock'n'roll, played with an economy so refined that The Minutemen would surely nod their heads in approval.
LISTEN:
Sewn Leather - "Unclear War"
WHERE: Los Angeles, CA
FROM: Freak On Hashish/Longboarding is a Crime on Hundebiss
AVAILABLE: Sometime in April
"I am not a graffiti artist, I am a graffiti bomber," proclaims Cap in the documentary Style Wars and in the intro to Sewn Leather (a/k/a Griffin Pyn, a/k/a Skull Katalog)'s new single. That line alone should give you a pretty good sense of what you're about to reckon with here - destructive punk shit, no filter. A distorted, industrial dance beat that repeatedly slams itself into a wall meets relentless sub-bass throb meets swaths of static, all cutting through Pyn's weird, cancerous snarl. "What's nuclear's worth fighting for / Unclear war," he chants and chants in a sewer-drenched vision of the apocalypse. The whole deal combines into something that could drive you to break windows and/or bust a move, pick your poison.
LISTEN:
Vulture Shit - "Sweat Lodge"
WHERE: Brooklyn, NY
FROM: The Joys of Employment on Money Fire
AVAILABLE: 2/20/14
Last year, Vulture Shit jumped onto my radar with their lurching noise-rock jam "Dinnertime," the B-side to their Adult Hits 7". What a bizarre track - while the bass and drums are imposing beasts, the first thing that Randy Vandal spews out of his mouth is, "Put your fork in the mashed potatoes / Put your spoon in the beans, UH-huh." That brand of absurd humor permeates Vulture Shit's aggressive bass-and-drum assault and puts this group in (more or less) a league of their own.
On this lead-off single from their new 7" due out in a few days, the group sticks to those guns that made "Dinnertime" such a strange and memorable listen, but here they kick the speed up a few notches and plow through three verses and refrains in 76 seconds. Here, the filthy, breakneck playing is as uncomfortably hot and claustrophobic as what Randy Vandal's howling about: "I can't stand it it's too hot in here! / It's like a sweat lodge, baby!" he shouts with all the unhingedness of a young David Yow. These guys are confirmed to be as good as Warthog in figuring out exactly what my anxiety problems sound like.
LISTEN:
Thee Oh Sees - "Penetrating Eye"
WHERE: San Francisco, CA
FROM: Drop on Castle Face
AVAILABLE: 4/19/2014
Once you're strapped in for the ride, trying to keep tabs on Thee Oh Sees is a head-spinning trip. The garage-rock collective first grabbed my attention with their 2011 opus Carrion Crawler/The Dream, left me a little bit cold with the lighter and fluffier Putrifiers II in 2012, renewed my faith with last year's heavy-as-fuck Floating Coffin, and may or may not have broken my heart when they hinted at an indefinite hiatus at the turn of 2014. Phew. Well, like clockwork, they're back again with a new ripper in advance of yet another new record. The cacophonous layers of synth all over "Penetrating Eye" hint at a new direction (perhaps informed by John Dwyer's new homemade-electronic side project Damaged Bug), although the mountainous riffage, pounding rhythms, and androgynous Dwyer/Dawson duet at the center of the proceedings signify that this is indeed the same Oh Sees I've come to know and love. Get your fix of pure electricity below.
LISTEN:
Downtown Boys - "Callate"
WHERE: Providence, RI
FROM: Downtown Boys 7" on Sister Polygon
AVAILABLE: Now
Last week, I wrote about a track from the newish EP by Malportado Kids, a blaring tropical-punk side-project from two members of Downtown Boys. The folks in this outfit must not sleep, because they've got a brand new 7" out on Sister Polygon (run by the excellent punk group Priests). Opener "Callate" is a fiery minute of hardcore ska-punk fit with a wailing horn section that buzzes in and out on a whim, battering drums, and Victoria Ruiz's trademark tantrum at the fore. This is just one of several great minutes on this 7" - do not hesitate to listen to the rest (and catch them live too, because it's a total dance party with plenty of political rants and cop-hate).
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newnoisenow@yahoo.com
Now, on to the rundown:
PICK OF THE WEEK:
Ghetto Ghouls - "Peepshow"
WHERE: Austin, TX
FROM: Ghetto Ghouls on Monofonus Press
AVAILABLE: 4/8/14
Before it vanished entirely from their bandcamp, I was fortunate enough to download 6666 from the garage-punk quartet Ghetto Ghouls back in November. While the production on that release was coarse around the edges, "Peepshow" suggests that the group is moving to even grittier, heavier pastures. No energy is wasted here on introductions or legible vocals. Instead, the group immediately starts burning down the barn with a cloud of distortion over catchy, quicktime drumbeats. Amid all the guitar thrashing and snare rolls, Ghetto Ghouls somehow find time in this two-minute window to break things down at around the 60-second mark, stretching out their legs for a moment before swelling the song up to an abbreviated climax. "Peepshow" is a promising first taste for what will probably be a fantastic album of blown-out, taut rock'n'roll, played with an economy so refined that The Minutemen would surely nod their heads in approval.
LISTEN:
Sewn Leather - "Unclear War"
WHERE: Los Angeles, CA
FROM: Freak On Hashish/Longboarding is a Crime on Hundebiss
AVAILABLE: Sometime in April
"I am not a graffiti artist, I am a graffiti bomber," proclaims Cap in the documentary Style Wars and in the intro to Sewn Leather (a/k/a Griffin Pyn, a/k/a Skull Katalog)'s new single. That line alone should give you a pretty good sense of what you're about to reckon with here - destructive punk shit, no filter. A distorted, industrial dance beat that repeatedly slams itself into a wall meets relentless sub-bass throb meets swaths of static, all cutting through Pyn's weird, cancerous snarl. "What's nuclear's worth fighting for / Unclear war," he chants and chants in a sewer-drenched vision of the apocalypse. The whole deal combines into something that could drive you to break windows and/or bust a move, pick your poison.
LISTEN:
Vulture Shit - "Sweat Lodge"
WHERE: Brooklyn, NY
FROM: The Joys of Employment on Money Fire
AVAILABLE: 2/20/14
Last year, Vulture Shit jumped onto my radar with their lurching noise-rock jam "Dinnertime," the B-side to their Adult Hits 7". What a bizarre track - while the bass and drums are imposing beasts, the first thing that Randy Vandal spews out of his mouth is, "Put your fork in the mashed potatoes / Put your spoon in the beans, UH-huh." That brand of absurd humor permeates Vulture Shit's aggressive bass-and-drum assault and puts this group in (more or less) a league of their own.
On this lead-off single from their new 7" due out in a few days, the group sticks to those guns that made "Dinnertime" such a strange and memorable listen, but here they kick the speed up a few notches and plow through three verses and refrains in 76 seconds. Here, the filthy, breakneck playing is as uncomfortably hot and claustrophobic as what Randy Vandal's howling about: "I can't stand it it's too hot in here! / It's like a sweat lodge, baby!" he shouts with all the unhingedness of a young David Yow. These guys are confirmed to be as good as Warthog in figuring out exactly what my anxiety problems sound like.
LISTEN:
Thee Oh Sees - "Penetrating Eye"
WHERE: San Francisco, CA
FROM: Drop on Castle Face
AVAILABLE: 4/19/2014
Once you're strapped in for the ride, trying to keep tabs on Thee Oh Sees is a head-spinning trip. The garage-rock collective first grabbed my attention with their 2011 opus Carrion Crawler/The Dream, left me a little bit cold with the lighter and fluffier Putrifiers II in 2012, renewed my faith with last year's heavy-as-fuck Floating Coffin, and may or may not have broken my heart when they hinted at an indefinite hiatus at the turn of 2014. Phew. Well, like clockwork, they're back again with a new ripper in advance of yet another new record. The cacophonous layers of synth all over "Penetrating Eye" hint at a new direction (perhaps informed by John Dwyer's new homemade-electronic side project Damaged Bug), although the mountainous riffage, pounding rhythms, and androgynous Dwyer/Dawson duet at the center of the proceedings signify that this is indeed the same Oh Sees I've come to know and love. Get your fix of pure electricity below.
LISTEN:
Downtown Boys - "Callate"
WHERE: Providence, RI
FROM: Downtown Boys 7" on Sister Polygon
AVAILABLE: Now
Last week, I wrote about a track from the newish EP by Malportado Kids, a blaring tropical-punk side-project from two members of Downtown Boys. The folks in this outfit must not sleep, because they've got a brand new 7" out on Sister Polygon (run by the excellent punk group Priests). Opener "Callate" is a fiery minute of hardcore ska-punk fit with a wailing horn section that buzzes in and out on a whim, battering drums, and Victoria Ruiz's trademark tantrum at the fore. This is just one of several great minutes on this 7" - do not hesitate to listen to the rest (and catch them live too, because it's a total dance party with plenty of political rants and cop-hate).
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END
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