Licking our lips...

Licking our lips...

The Honey Dos - "we have spent the past six months day dreaming but are starting to work on new songs and hopefully some new recordings about being gay and other songs about jesus." (Jan. 21st)

Mean Jeans in 2012 - "4 upcoming releases for the spring - new LP, a split 7, and 2 compilations" (Jan. 16th)

Allah-Las - "We may, I don’t want to say probably, have another single or EP come out before the record." (Jan. 11th) - via the hundreds

Unnatural Helpers - "New recordings are coming along nicely" (Jan. 6th)

Bleeding Rainbow (formerly Reading Rainbow) - "Recorded 9 brand new songs the past 2 weeks. We're mixing them now, then playing with Cloud Nothings next week, then going to record at least 4 new different songs in February!" (Jan. 15th)

Eternal Summers - "Yessss!!!! Our album just got mastered!!!! Can I tell you- jocks can totally work out to this album!!!" (Jan. 11th) ..."coming out in April" (Jan. 25th)

Feel Alright - "coming up in 2012: 7" on mammoth cave records, tape on FORCHRISTSAKE (silver dapple)" ...expect “less trashy lo-fi.” (Jan. 24th)

Poor Sons - "Getting started on Recording an LP with Matt Melton of Bare Wires THIS WEEK!" (Dec. 28th)

Terry Malts gets Nauseous

New Terry Malts single "Nauseous"  --------> Featuring the back-up vocal debut of Nacie Sweatt & more of the band's self-described brand of "chainsaw pop".

Debut LP Killing Time coming Feb. 21st via Slumberland!!!

2011

Before moving forward, here's looking back at some of our favorites of 2011...

LPs

Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler / The Dream (didn't bother ranking, but easily my #1)
Mikal Cronin - S/T ("...i'm getting so much older, and i can't control the things i need to be alright.")
Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams (stunning record, and an absolute gut check)
The You Are Minez - Having Your Heart Broken Means Once Having Had Someone To Love
Davila 666 - Tan Bajo
Ganglians - Still Living
Feel Alright - hahahahahahaha
Those Darlins - Screws Get Loose
Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread
Bad Sports - Kings of the Weekend (Ramones influenced Garage/Pop)
Night Beats - S/T
Family Portrait - S/T
Shannon and the Clams - Sleep Talk
Waylon Thornton - Rat Brew (Waylon's best release yet!)
TEENS - S/T (killer melodic garage rock from Boise, ID...Boise, seriously) 
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania
Different Skeletons - Secret Jeers
Pow Wows - Nightmare Soda
Acid Baby Jesus - LP
Apache Dropout - S/T
Household - Items (minimal ...and totally engaging)
Bass Drum of Death - GB City
Chemical Peel - S/T (grrrl fronted punk band meets spaghetti western)
Cowabunga Babes - Going Nowhere
Pangea - Living Dummy
Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
Useless Eaters - Daily Commute

EPs, 7"'s, etc...

Allah-Las - Catamaran 7" (few mine the past so well - nailed it! Produced by Nick Waterhouse)
Tashaki Miyaki - Tashaki Miyaki 12" EP (Check out "Somethin Is Better Than Nothin" on their Bandcamp page!...Wow!)
Bäddat För Trubbel - ISO 9004 7"
Nick Waterhouse - Is That Clear 7" (garage rock slicked up in classic soul and R&B; LP coming April 2012)
Bleached - Carter 7" (sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin, formerly of Mika Miko)
Bleached - Searching Through The Past 7"
Mrs. Magician - The Spells 7" ("i'm 27 now \ so what the hell \ i can't be this pathetic forever.")
Chrome Pony - Illegal Smiles EP
Fidlar - DIYDUI EP ("I don't have a job \ and i don't have a phone \ i don't have a life and i'm always stoned.")
Golden Grrrls - New Pop 7"
Nightmare Boyzzz - Nuclear Summer EP 7”
Terry Malts - Something About You 7"
Terry Malts - Distracted 7"
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Willoughby's Beach EP 10" (this 7-piece is from Down Under, but they're all over the garage map - get into this!)
The Growlers - Gay Thoughts 7" (Classic!)
Dum Dum Girls - He Gets Me High EP
Swearin'- What A Dump EP (Allison Crutchfield of Bad Banana and PS Eliot fronts Swearin' & i'd take this above any previous output)
Thee Oh Sees / Total Control - split 12"
Oregon Bikes Trails - High School Lover 7"
Mikal Cronin - Tide 7" (look for the upcoming split 7" with King Khan & The Shrines -due Feb. 10th)
White Wires - Pogo Till I Puke 7"
Reina Republicana / Las Robertas - split 7"
Mrs. Magician - Prescription Vision 7"
Ty Segall - Spiders 7"

Stunts

Stunts - By The Way


Stunts - If A Girl Can Tell


FREE download of Stunts debut EP on Bandcamp!!

The Stunts, as demonstrated on opening track "By The Way", understand the potential heartbreak if it all goes wrong, but have already felt that clear-eyed "hell-yes!" feeling you get when you realize you're going to do it anyhow -- and the chance of heartbreak be damned. The band promises to “make your bub-bubs bounce”, and who could pass that up? Nobody. Sadly though, this is all a tease, as the band has called it quits (moving on to other projects). Still think you should know about them.

What they said: “Stunts play with the sound of The Crystals and 60’s power-pop. Most importantly, they sound like they’ve had a good time recording, filling their songs with dirty, speedy chatter of noise. If you can imagine The Pains of being Pure at Heart raised on My Bloody Valentine instead of bands from C86, you’re not far wrong.” - Neu Magazine