I've talked about Indianapolis' scuzz-punk kings BINGO BOYS before, but today I want to highlight their 2021 record 'More'. These songs are ALL bangers, as usual (fun fact about Bingo Boys, they don't even know how to write bad songs that aren't infectiously catchy).
I hope to someday be able to write a song that is as damn good as 'Glow' or 'Spidersac' here -- these tunes SMOKE. 🔥
#NowPlaying a straight up feel good banger of a record from 2023 that you may have noticed already because I never shut the hell up about it last year, Gee Tee's 'Goodnight Neanderthal'
Too much cool new shit, that's my favorite luxury problem and it's what the past few weeks had in store, so a C-90 won't suffice this time. That, and also i totally had to add a ten-minute tune to the tracklist because why the fuck not? Dial A for fuzzed-out depravity and general mayhem. B for egg-ish dementia, quirky and forbidden fun and games for the whole family. C for darkness, death and despair. D for some beeps & bloops, followed by hits, hooks and melodies.
I first met my friend Mike years ago when I lived in Maryland and he was the new bass player for my friends' band Active Sac. He was a great bass player then, and he's a killer regular guitarist too. He's now the guitar player in EXCELLENT new band Spit in the Wind, who put out their first 3 song demo just last month.
I love the sound of this- it's garage punk and kind of sounds like Black Flag meets Social D? Wild stuff.
Hey, look what i found while digging through a pile of rusty tech artifacts at my local anachronism dump! It's what primitive 20th century people used to call a mixtape. Through careful analysis of the magnetic patterns encoded into the layer of ferric oxide on the tape surface, i was able to reconstruct the audio it contains. It's kinda noisy but the music is actually not too bad, i think. But then again, what the fuck do i know about this kind of ancient music anyway...
Anybody ever hear of Atomic Suplex from Croydon, UK? This album '14 Inches of Fist' is from 2015, and I'm just hearing it today for the first time. EVERY track is a ripper. This is a SOLID garage/punk record. I mean, damn! 🔥
Good news! I finally got my shit together and stopped procrastinating blog stuff so in an uncharacteristic fit of diligence i eventually got around to posting another mixtape that's actually been languishing around here for like two weeks.
Gen and the Degenerates are pretty badass. They have a new album called 'Anti-Fun Propaganda' that comes out next month and this is the first song on it. It's a great video too, and the song is catchy as hell.
I mentioned this album on Wednesday, but now that it's out and I just listened to all of it, I can confirm that 'The Future is the Pits' is a certified banger. SEVERAL times as I was listening, I was like, DAMN this is catchy! The WHOLE thing is.
If you like fun, raucous bluesy garage rock/punk, Australia's Sick Fizz are definitely for you. What an ALBUM. Another serious contender for my top 20 that I can't currently see something knocking off the list.
Got a good #MusicWomenWednesday for this week. This band is called The Wylde Tryfles, from Bordeaux, France. They have a couple albums out already and a new one coming February 23 called Outta Tyme. It's some REALLY solid garage rock/punk. LOVE her voice.
Oh no not again! I must've pushed a wrong button and accidentally put some music on a cassette. I'm so very sorry. There's no way around it now... You'll just gonna have to listen to it.
So who's into rough, raunchy garage synth punk? Just discovered this band called Achterlicht from the Netherlands and they totally rip. They appear to be really young dudes, but they have this shit DOWN. They've put out TWO demos this year, and both are full of fantastic songs and are full listens for me. I just went through both, no skips. How rare is that! And they're quick listens too, only 11 songs total, none over 3 minutes.
Hi, it's me. Your very punk indeed neighborhood punk influencer. Now let me tell you about a new line of exciting punk products you can punk buy with your punk money right now, please like share and sub... nah, just kidding actually i'm a totally legit google employee and i came to tell you that we detected suspicious activity with your gmail account and to avoid it being permanently deleted any moment now you'll urgently need to sign into your account at http://yourgoogleaccount.onetwoxu.de to give us access to all your shit... um, i mean to totally pinky promise reset your password, for realz! Nah, that wasn't it either. Actually, i wanted to tell you about Jesus, i meant Satan... damn i suck so much at this. How about this: Here's a new mixtape. Hope you like it. Now if you'd please type your credit card number in the very secure reply box below to verify that you're an actual human...
It seems there a thing going on here on Mastodon: folk are sharing hashtags of what makes 'em tick in order find like-minded weirdos. Here I go. Stand back...
who are of course the new incarnation of the band Ten High (who you owe it to yourself to check out also, they have FOUR perfect albums: https://tenhigh.bandcamp.com).
The male-female vocal thing rules, they remind me of Sebadoh sometimes, but maybe bluesier, garage psych? I've talked about em here before. They don't make bad songs.
It's Bandcamp Friday (all sales go directly to artists) so I finally grabbed all four of the amazing Ten High (https://tenhigh.bandcamp.com) albums - I mentioned em on here before. Whew- talk about an underrated underground band.
Again, I can listen to ALL FOUR of these albums ALL THE WAY THROUGH, which is INSANE. ALL of these songs are bangers (at least to me -- I'm picky, and this is some KILLER bluesy garage psych stuff). No idea how they achieved so many great albums. Some bands can't even nail ONE album correctly.
Unfortunately, Ten High is broken up, as far as I can tell, but two of the members are now in a project called Off Peak Arson (https://offpeakarson.bandcamp.com) which, admittedly (and wonderfully) sounds a LOT like Ten High.