Chit Chat

Chit Chat 

What's next: Highly anticipating PRTYNGG!'s late July release of a four song Chit Chat 7" - which will be followed by a split LP with BAD INDIANS. PRTYNGG! was kind enough to share some rough mixes of the upcoming tracks, and this will be a must-have!

What they said:

"Pop songs are pummeled out by this Ypsi/Arbor trio; their charm lying somewhere between those clattered rhythms, the dreamy/dissonance of that reverb-dashed guitar (and, yes, inevitably we have to use the slogany label of “surf…” at least sporadically, here ) or in the wonderful wail of those fiery lead vocals.

On their debut (available on cassette), they’re already showing a fine sense of balancing a raw, snarling shred (call it punk, call it shambling lo-fi, call it what you will) with these warmer elements, guitar tones as vibrant as a blood-orange-setting sun dazzlingly setting the sky ablaze and the simple hooks and strutting rhythms of seminal early 60s pop/rock that redolently facilitates a song like “Cruising,” musically and nostalgically." - Jeff Milo, Metro Times Blogs

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Burnt Ones

BURNT ONES
Think Jesus & The Mary Chain, The Beach Boys, & T-Rex thrown together in a smoke filled
bar & sprinkled in glam. Their debut full length (Black Teeth & Golden Tongues) and 7"
were among my favorite purchases of 2010, so the bands return to wax with their latest 7"
was more than welcome. 300 pressed to gold vinyl, get one via Burger Records! Preview the B-side "LUV" above or the anthemic "Gonna Listen to T. Rex (All Night Long)" from the LP, below.



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Bare Wires Break Up

Bare Wires call it quits.


self-induced health-related concerns---> meltdowns ---> breakup.


SF Weekly has the story.

Habibi

[Can't get this out of my head] If you haven't already been introduced, welcome to one of Brooklyn's finest, Habibi. Brought together by Rahill Jamalifard and Lenny Lynch, and featuring Erin Campbell (from Girls at Dawn!) on bass and Karen Isabel on drums. A 7" featuring the above track has been released on Born Bad Records, and a full-length LP is in the works. SWEET!


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Big Surr

Photo: Lance Conzett

Big Surr

Beautifully smashed up & melodic female fronted punk. It's the sugar on your bowl of shredded wheat. It's the gravel in your soup. It still warms the belly, but it leaves its mark. Their energy can be intense ("Gone" & "Alright"), or brought to a simmer ("Co Sine Tan Gent" & "You Got Somethin'"), but whatever they're doing at any given moment, it will suck you in. ...Hooks, energy, and sticky & sweet balls of distortion!!...I love this!!!---> Visit the band's blogspot page below and download their highly recommended debut EP Miss You Most & keep an eye out for their upcoming 7" on Infinity Cat.


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2012 - Upcoming Releases (February edition)

 Just some of what's on our radar for 2012. What did we miss or get wrong?

2/1 Habibi - S/T [Born Bad Records]
2/7 Radar Eyes - S/T [Hozac]
2/7 Davila 666 - Pa Que Vives 7" [Oops Baby Records]
2/7 Netherfriends - Middle America [Kilo Records]
2/10 Mikal Cronin / King Khan & The Shrines - split 7" [Bruise Cruise Records]
2/11 Pamela - 7" EP [Southpaw]
2/13 Allo Darlin’ - Capricornia 7" [Fortuna Pop!\Slumberland]
2/14 Tennis - Young and Old [Fat Possum]
2/14 Detective Agency - Daggers EP [self released]
2/21 Terry Malts - Killing Time [Slumberland]
2/21 John Wesley Coleman - Last Donkey Show [Goner]
2/21 Colleen Green - Milo Goes To Compton [Art Fag]
2/21 Sex Cults - Plain Jane [Nashville’s Dead Records]
2/21 Roommates - TBA 7" [Slumberland]
2/21 Frankie Rose - Interstellar [Slumberland/Memphis Industries]
2/21 Mind Spiders - Meltdown [Dirtnap]
2/21 No Age: Collage Culture - Examining the 21st Century's Identity Crisis [Post Present Medium]
2/28 Grass Widow / Nature - split 7" [M’lady’s Records]
2/28 Hunx (of Hunx and His Punk) - Too Young to Be in Love [Hardly Art]

2/? Sourpatch - Stagger and Fade [HHBTM] (Mid-February)
2/? Literature - Arab Spring (vinyl release) [Square of Opposition/Austin Town Hall]
2/? or 3/? Pow Wows 7" (Late February/early March!)
2/? or 3/? Strawberry Whiplash - Hits In The Car [Matinee] (late February or early March)

3/6 The Men - Open Your Heart [Sacred Bones]
3/7 Silver Fox - Waves On In 7" [M’lady’s Records]
3/13 TacocaT - Take Me To Your Dealer 7” EP [Hardly Art]
3/13 FIDLAR - No Waves/No Ass 7” [Mom + Pop]
3/13 Paint Fumes - Egyptian Rats EP [Slovenly Records]
3/20 Gentleman Jesse - Leaving Atlanta [Douchemaster]
3/20 OBN III's - Matador singles series 7" [Matador]
3/27 La Sera - Sees The Light [Hardly Art]
3/27 Oberhofer - Time Capsules II [Glassnote]

3/? Natural Child - Bodyswitchers (reissue) [Burger Records]
3/? Alpaca Sports - Just For Fun EP 7" [LuxuryDufflecoat Records]
3/? or 4/? Mrs. Magician - Strange Heaven [Swami Records] 

4/3 Allo Darlin' - Europe [Slumberland]
4/3 Screaming Females - Ugly [Don Giovanni]
4/3 White Fence - Family Perfume [Woodsist]
4/8 Ramases - Space Hymns [Mexican Summer]
4/10 Hollows - Vulture [Trouble In Mind Records]
4/17 G.Green - Funny Insurance 7" [12xu]
4/21 Mikal Cronin\Apache Dropout\The Paperhead\The Liminanas - split covers 7"

4/? Total Babe - Troubled Youth (1st week of April)
4/? Ty Segall / Tim Presley - Hair [Drag City]
4/? Eternal Summers - The Dawn of Eternal Summers 

5/1 Nick Waterhouse - Time’s All Gone [Innovative Leisure]
5/1 Brian Jonestown Massacre - Aufheben [a Records]
5/8 Wax Idols - 7" [Suicide Squeeze Records]
5/22 Guantanamo Baywatch - Chest Crawl [Dirtnap]

5/? Natural Child - For The Love Of The Game [Burger Records]
5/? The Felines - 7" EP [Hey Girl! Records]

Wait...there's more!

Burnt Ones 7" (early 2012)
Burnt Ones 7" #2 (early 2012)
Mean Jeans LP (spring)
Mean Jeans and ? - split 7" (spring)
Terrible Feelings (spring)
Paint Fumes - Uck Life LP (spring)
The You Are Minez - The Sign Is Nigh LP [Planet of the Tapes] (spring)
Burnt Ones LP (summer)
Allah-Las LP (Summer/Fall)

and...

Natural Child - Hard In Heaven LP (before the end of the year)
The Mallard - Yes On Blood [Castle Face Records]
Ty Segall - mini lp [In the Red]
Royal Baths / Ty Segall EP 7" [Hozac]
The Oblivians LP [In the Red]
Midnite Snaxxx 7" [Goner Records]
Midnite Snaxxx LP [Red Lounge Records]
The Marble Vanity LP [Slow Fizz Records]
Aggi Doom 7” [Soft Power]
Christmas Island 7" [Hozac]
Allah-Las 7"
The Throwaways EP
Bleeding Rainbow (formerly Reading Rainbow) LP
Las Robertas EP
Peach Kelli Pop LP
Poor Sons LP
Heavy Cream LP
Bare Wires LP
Dry Feet LP
Unnatural Helpers LP
Sex Church LP
Blasted Canyons EP
Fungi Girls
The Honey Dos
Feel Alright 7" [Mammoth Cave Records]
Feel Alright tape [FORCHRISTSAKE]
Eternal Summers - The Dawn of Eternal Summers
Allo Darlin’ / The Fresh & Onlys - TBA [Mexican Summer]
Sweater Girls - [HHBTM]
Miss Chain & The Broken Heels - Boys & Girls (reissue)
Half Rats
Magic Bullets - [Mon Amie]
The Pastels
Best Coast
Davila 666 - Que Viva El Veneno [In the Red] (later this year)
Davila 666 12" EP [Hozac]

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