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Wararrrrraaa-arrgghgghghghghggh! Johnny Foreigner are here and they're really fucking excited again. We posted "Feels Like Summer" a little while back and "Camp Kelly Calm" picks up where that track left off, with raucous hollering and guitars that sound like they're short-circuiting in vast pools of fresh sweat. You can pick up both of these tracks plus another - "Wow. Just Wow" - at the band's website. Meanwhile, a video for "Feels Like Summer" can be found after the jump. In it, the band are really fucking excited. Again. Warragghhh! Guhar! WarraaaghghgaaaaaHAH!
Sounds Like: Hundred Reasons, Los Campesinos!, At The Drive-In
Johnny Foreigner - Camp Kelly Calm
Previously:
Johnny Foreigner - Feels Like Summer
Johnny Foreigner's RCRD LBL Page
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The brilliantly-named Bipolar Bear deal in the kind of musical mood swings their moniker would suggest, mincing along with a gleeful swamp-rock swing one minute before turning on you with prickly guitars and crash cymbal blare. They're so up-and-down that the songs seem to outlast their two-minute time-tags, structures packed with ingenious detours and vocal yelps struggling to be heard over the din. Counting among their ranks former members of The Manifolds and the late Rose For Bohdan, as well as the two guys who run Kill Shaman records, Bipolar Bear are a band who clearly know their history but aren't afraid to fuck with it, bringing muddy rock roots to bear on the type of oddball indie-rock their LA hometown's best known for at the moment. A pair of thoroughbred examples await your ears below, "Manbase" and "Cherokee Fan Club" both delighting in their bad attitudes and out soon on different 7" pressings.
Sounds Like: At The Drive-In, Talbot Tagora, Abe Vigoda
Bipolar Bear - Manbase
Bipolar Bear - Cherokee Fan Club
Bipolar Bear's RCRD LBL Page
