rolling punk / non-indie underground 2013

Wage Theft (great band name & like this crazy spazz punk)

http://wagetheft.bandcamp.com/

I missed D.O.A.'s gig in D.C. But they were always fun live when I saw 'em way back when

Yeah it was just Joey Shithead + 2 randoms but it was a fun gig. Mostly the old classic stuff and a couple of new ones. Good crowd too, which made me happy cos a lot of the oldsters don't draw much of a crowd in London these days, especially at that venue for some reason. E.g. saw the Lyres there a few weeks ago, "classic" line-up, first time in London in 27 years etc, half empty.

That was a great couple of nights of gigs all round, the Rival Mob/Mind Eraser gig was awesome, one of the best hardcore shows I've been to in a while. Crowd was mental.

this Impalers album is pretty banging Motorhead punk so far. think I shall pay someone money for a waxy legal version in fact

Wage Theft (great band name & like this crazy spazz punk)

From the man who brought you Lard Mountain.

hahahaha hey JRN! :)

anyone else listened to Body/Head (the new Kim Gordon deal)...it's pretty awesome! really free form noise guitar but yet kinda mellow and meditative

hi, i'm a fuckhead for dodging this thread so far this year. i been listening to metal pretty much, plus other stuff. not much punk. but that impaler album is fucking rad. also love power trip and mastodon grinder, two other chris ulsh bands.

hoax!

and thanks a billion for radkey, first i've heard, loving the dogshit out of this

tried to listen to that body/head thing and couldn't get through it. then a song came up on shuffle a couple weeks later and I dug it so maybe best in small doses? lotsa ppl seem to dig it, then again lotsa ppl like late era sonic youth so idk

Oh Sees/Blink Shake/OBNIIIs was awesome last night. I admire Blind Shake's stylistic consistency.

yeah they've been so good for so long, some of the best live shows i've ever seen

I don't like any of the post-Sonic Youth spinoff albums :( Body/Head seemed like the best bet but I just don't have the patience for that kind of thing anymore.

I saw Body/Head live earlier this year -- it was kinda meandering I just didn't have the patience for that long a set of that kind of thing. Maybe if I liked guitars more?

Really liking Wage Theft and the Curved Dog links posted upthread

Dude from Truman's Water/Soul-Junk has a new garage-rock band called Octagrape that is pretty awesome despite the shitty name: http://octagrape.bandcamp.com/ nice and fuzzy and hooky

yeah this is really good!

dang, "real light" got me on board in like 15 seconds

(punk / indie underground 2013)

is there a word for BLANG BLANG chicka-chicka?

also, kelpo creeps (they play for keeps)

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/soundposts/2013/09/10/weed/

weeeeed

http://weed.bandcamp.com/

new audacity is so fucken great. ambitious, crafty, memorable: everything good. riyl exploding hearts, redd kross, supergrass, early xtc, squeeze, power pop and/or music. fuck devin maloney with a flaming pitchfork.

this weed album is fantastic, thanks j

yeah, 'sgood. not sure about fantastic, but i'm definitely enjoying the 1st listen. shoegrunge!

if anything, picks up momentum as it goes - loving the trippy swirl of "silent partner" and "hollowed out"

so yeah, thanks j

(and "fantastic" is starting to sound conservative)

hah that escalated quickly.gif

shoegrunge is really a growth industry this year between this and the Ovlov record (which I love)

can always count on contenderizer to be overcome by enthusiasm when a record is playing

at the moment weed sound to me kind of like hum if hum were a lot dumber and weeded out and had never listened to rush

like hum if hum were a lot dumber and weeded out and had never listened to rush

all to the good. and guilty as charged, but i'm liking it just as much today, in retrospective afterglow. just ordered vinyl from couple skate!

my hum comparison wore off after i left my office and put my headphones back on, but there is still a bit of it in the vocals and the general haze of the guitars.

ah, 90s harmonies.

this Weed is pretty dank stuff

like hum if hum were a lot dumber and weeded out and had never listened to rush

feelin this description, otm

every once in awhile a riff will remind me of gish-era pumpkins

yeah just think if they had a jimmy chamberlain

yeah don't mind this drummer tho, gives it a more pounding thuggy vibe than pumpkins or hum

been cleaning out the basement, ran across this CD, what a classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYuWBPtLu4k

yeah, great song. production's a little slick though.

lol

new audacity is so fucken great. ambitious, crafty, memorable: everything good. riyl exploding hearts, redd kross, supergrass, early xtc, squeeze, power pop and/or music.

the audacity record rules - they get so much mileage out of those big tempo/key changes. sounds great as a slightly mellower west coast counterpart to that so so glos record, almost (aka the other recent thing i love that openly apes exploding hearts, which is a reference point i'm REALLY okay with more bands having in 2013)

I liked the exploding hearts but is that comparison a bit overused? I mean they were just a Boys homage with a tragic story. You could just say "they sound like The Boys".

or you could say, they sound like The Exploding Farts

to me, the exploding hearts make a tighter comparison where audacity are concerned simply because i hear the same "squeeze-like" sense of melody & harmony in both. not saying that either owes anything directly to squeeze, just that i can't help hearing a commonality. and sure, the boys, yeah.

guitar romantic is a perfect thing

and i thought that before they died so it's not that

this audacity is good....but basically there are 3 albums in that sorta vein that are so good i almost never listen to anything else in that vein: Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic, Marked Men - Fix My Brain, and Jay Reatard - Blood Visions

yeah, those are all-time, can't deny it. dunno that audacity is quite at that level, hook-wise, but i like the (relative) complexity of their song construction, the tension between flailing chaos and ambitious pop craftsmanship. each of their albums has half-impressed me at first, but only really opened up over a substantial number of listens.

("flailing chaos" dialed back on the new one)

yeah i like how they throw in a lot of tempo and feel changes in their songs a lot of those bands don't do that

new Fake Limbs album: http://fakelimbs.bandcamp.com/

What's the name of the Audacity LP? I'm only seeing a 2012 one on their Bandcamp (I am bad at Google)

new one's called butter knife and features an incandescent chest wound. i owe know why their bandcamp is still pushing last years's model.

i like the audacity. seems a bit monochromatic. but i can give it time.

prefer gaytheist at the moment as far as bratty/snotty guitar records go