rolling punk / non-indie underground 2013

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g2KNxYVPd54

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2KNxYVPd54&feature=youtu.be

that's so cuet :) the church of punk!

have we talked about the new Cheap Time...it's fucking great!

I see the guy who does Church of Punk at gigs all the time. Crusty dude with face tattoos. Don't know him tho.

I skipped Cheap Time gig last week to see the Cockney Rejects/Spizz Energi/Chron Gen/Vice Squad instead. Keeping it old school. Going to Conflict/Subhumans all-dayer tomorrow, not sure if system will be comprehensively smashed but I'm sure they'll have a good crack at it.

I haven't listened to the Cheap Time album yet but the Jeffrey Novak solo album (Lemon Kid) is pretty good.

I googled this band so you wouldn't have to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i07jeinliKE

brainbombs have a lot to answer for

(awesome track tho!)

got the Hoax LP in the post today. the packaging is awesome, with six hueg doublesided foldout posters with artwork and lyrics for each song. the only thing is their lyrics are basically terrible so it kind of comes off as absurdly hubristic

can u post some lyrics

band from Mpls:
MRS.

they have a new album:
https://mrsband.bandcamp.com/album/cave

it's pretty 90s non indie underground, but i'm really into it. it's got this hyper percussive white funk goes Am Rep/Pigbag meets DEVO...the vocals could be a love it or hate it deal...i dunno...the hyper fussiness of the arrangments is doing something for me

I've been loving the Weed and Ovlov albums people mentioned in this thread - what other bands are doing that 90s-aping Dino jr. Worship stuff?

Whoa I hadn't listened to Ovlov yet and it's fantastic and I'm not even really that big of a Dino Jr fan.

xp

California X is very much a bubblegum-y take on Dino jr. worship and very good

Milk Music too, not bubblegum, just Dino

This rules: http://cleangirls.bandcamp.com/

noisy/goth-y/punk stuff. First song reminds me a bit of Pissed Jeans; third track is probably the most hypnotic

whoops; specifically meant this e.p.: http://cleangirls.bandcamp.com/album/last-house-ep

thx, that's some good shit

(to give credit - I was hipped to it via Mosurock's tumblr: http://still-single.tumblr.com/)

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/01/216461958/first-listen-potty-mouth-hell-bent

Since the album was from 2013 and is still streaming and they're on tour in the US now (DC tomorrow night) I posted that here. Does NPR streaming status make them no longer non-indie?