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DOWNLOAD: Mr. Dream - Knick Knack + Knuckle Sandwich
The great thing about a band like Mr. Dream is that they took an impetus (a Jay Reatard show in Brooklyn) and an agreed set of influences (SST, early Touch & Go, 70s power-pop) and just went for it. Such deliberateness should be revered. "Knick Knack" and "Knuckle Sandwich" are two riffstorms from a forthcoming 7-inch EP they've titled No Girls Allowed. Kind of says it all, doesn't it?
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Eternal Summers - Able To
There’s an intellectual way to describe Eternal Summers, one rife with pop-punk-surf-psych witticisms, but we awoke this morning with a massive cold and therefore we can’t think straight. It’s better this way, because the Virginian duo’s “Able To” went in and out like a warm and stinging saline solution, quickly clearing the gunk from our brains with a bright wash of guitars, properly primitive drums and straightforward melodies. Eternal Summers’ eponymous debut EP drops on Chimney Sweep Records March 13th and we’re dousing early below.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Pack A.D. - Crazy
Vancouver's hosting that whole Olympics jam at the moment, but we'd wager hometown girls The Pack A.D. are having none of it. The irreverent stomp-blues duo have other things on the brain, mainly a new LP called We Kill Computers that they tracked live–to tape, obviously–and is due April 27 via Mint. "Crazy" is its first warning shot, a wailing, four-chord attitude bulldozer that's as catchy as it is elemental (such things are usually related). Also, bridge cowbell!
DOWNLOAD: Hunters - Do It
(Photo: Aliya Naumoff)
Hardcore rightfully gets a lot of flak for being one big sausage vortex, but Brooklyn's Hunters are our new preferred counter-argument. They're not really a hardcore band, but that guttural guitar chug you hear pacing throughout "Do It" (from a recent self-titled EP) sounds a lot like Sick Of It All (or Anthrax, for that matter) and singer Isabel Ibsen is murderously killing the wild womanimal banshee vibes. Also, how can you not love a band that enters "steely dan pouring champagne into the liberty bell" into the "Sounds like" category of their MySpace, even though that is the most misleading description ever? So bilious; so rad.
DOWNLOAD: Rifoki - Sperm Donor
Like a few RCRD LBL staffers, Steve Aoki and Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo of The Bloody Beetroots spent their youths sweating to hardcore. (Now's the time to mention that one of Aoki's old bands, This Machine Kills, totally, uh, killed.) So, that the banger-hawking, stage-dive-prone DJs convened in an Italian studio to revisit their past, as it were, shouldn't baffle anyone, though it probably will. "Sperm Donor"–the thrashy, ear bleedingly rad preamble to their forthcoming EP–will weed those skeptics out.
DOWNLOAD: Title Tracks - Every Little Bit Hurts
Drummers often have what I like to call "the frontman complex." I know this because I am one and used to suffer from it. It can lead to ill-advised dalliances with things like songwriting and singing and playing guitar, which can lead to awful things like this. Sometimes it works, though, like when Q And Not U (sadly) disbanded and drummer John Smith started writing songs in a band called Georgie James. He's since moved on to a solo project called Title Tracks, which will release an album, It Was Easy, on February 23 through Ernest Jenning. "Every Little Bit Hurts" is its sharp, verbose, insanely catchy opener, fitted with accelerating tambourine runs and manimal drum fills.
We're calling it a week right...now.
Title Tracks - Every Little Bit Hurts
DOWNLOAD: Mi Ami - Cut Men
(Photo: Marcella Gries)
Wiry, dub-infatuated San Francisco trio Mi Ami have found a new home at Thrill Jockey, with whom they'll release a new album, Steal Your Face, on April 6. "Cut Men" isn't on there–it's pulled instead from a sold out 12-inch that came out a few months ago–but evidently it foreshadows the new LP, all crammed riff damage and champing-at-the-bit tempos. Nothing overtly new for these guys, but considering the last one was killer, who's complaining? A brief US jaunt is lined up around the release, dates after the links.
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DOWNLOAD: Let's Wrestle - We Are The Men You'll Grow To Love Soon
(Photo: Pat Graham)
As their names imply, Let's Wrestle are super cheeky and "We Are The Men You'll Grow To Love You Soon" is every bit the hubristic anthem you think it is–three scrappy dudes playing an immediately lovable punk song that is both brash and seducing in subject matter. They just signed to Merge, who on March 23 will release their new album In The Court Of Wrestling Let's. Oh, the unfailing wit of the British.
Let's Wrestle - We Are The Men You'll Grow To Love Soon
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Let's Wrestle - I'm OK You're OK
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