Lil Daggers - Dada Brown

Lil Daggers-Dada Brown [Official Video] from Michael J. Ruiz-Unger on Vimeo.

Local Miami psych garage rockers just churned out their much anticipated LP this year, and after a little drama here and there, Lil Daggers have risen with a release date on their own newly established record label. Slated for a June release, the LP builds upon the organ heavy psychedelic garage rock of past releases and slows things down a bit to put more of an emphasis on the psychedelic aspect.

The self titled record starts off with a classic sounding Lil Daggers tune: Wasting - A dissonant punk tale about wasting time. So far, so good. The next few songs, Slave Exchange (which came out as a limited edition 7" on RSD), Pignose, and Ghost Herd, all explore greater sonic elements of slow blues and mind-melting psychedelic which, in my opinion, fits Lil Daggers perfectly as far as musically evolving is concerned.

I remember hearing a comparison between Lil Daggers and Jacuzzi Boys that fits both band's styles pretty well, especially now that Lil Daggers have embraced this new direction; "Lil Daggers play shows while smoking joints and Jacuzzi Boys play while brandishing knives". It was something to that effect....

The album is definitely a Miami great. Be sure to catch Lil Daggers playing with The Spits on June 10th at Churchills. The LP will drop June 29th and the music video for Dada Brown will be released that same week.

Head on over to their bandcamp to listen to the whole album and purchase it, or wait for the well worth it physical release!

Carol - So Low

Duplodeck - CS

Amazing 90's indie rock inspired band from Brazil. Echoes of Pavement, The Pixies, Deerhoof and some early Gerbils could be heard in all this fuzzy goodness. Pug Records is offering the digital version for free or you could buy the very well worth it cassette version which has amazing art work.

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Thousands - S/T

Thanks goes to Omar K. for this one. It's not often I see a band email me such a sincere message....

Thousands is an intensely epic post-rock band out of Boston. They give me Godspeed You! Black Emperor vibes and at times even Orchid vibes (before the build up to all the screaming of course, see "...And the Cat Turned To Smoke" for an example of what I mean). Nothing but amazing music is what I sense from these guys. I would love a little more experimentation in the form of Godspeed's field recordings but that might be too derivative.... either way well worth downloading.

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Rabble Rabble

Rabble Rabble recorded with producer Stephen George at Gimme That Sound Studios during the band's east coast summer tour of 2010. The recordings will be available on vinyl and digitally Monday, May 23rd. In celebration, the band headlines @ Empty Bottle, Chicago that night with We Are Hex and Distractions supporting; FREE show!


The first single, "Why Not", is a raunchy garage stomper that's perfect for any dingy punk pub. Mix in a little psychedelic rock guitar solo and you've got a pretty good mix.

"Long Hook" sets it off with manically spuddering guitars that evolve into another mind melting psychedelic guitar solo. Looking forward to what else these guys have to offer with their new record out this month.

The Soap Scums - AUX 5 Experimental Arts Festival - 5/7/2011

Unicorns in the Snow

Honeycomb Bones - Evil Age

Fun garage rock sent over by Craig. It's pretty straight forward garage rock - ruff around the edges and lots of fuzz. What more could you ask for? Hope to see more from these fellows.

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Spectre Alone - Demo

Awesome grindcore/hardcore punk. Similar in style to Jerome's Dream - in fact, it seems like the vocalist for Spectre Alone is also screaming sans mic? At any rate it's worth a listen if you miss Jerome's Dream and want more awesome grindcore/screamo/hardcore punk in your life.

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http://spectrealone.bandcamp.com/

Lil Daggers - King Corpse

Lil Daggers - 'King Corpse' from Matthew Prickett on Vimeo.

The Tradional Fools (Ty Segall) - 7" + rare demos!

Boy HOWDY! Just when I was going to give up on finding new music I came across the hard to find Traditional Fools 7" along with...... (are you ready? is your body ready?) unreleased Traditional Fools demos/alt recordings! Holy fuck! The 7" is awesome, more surfy than their s/t 12", but they really shine on their "straight foolishness" demo tape with songs like Street Surfing. Ty Segall recently reunited The Traditional Fools for a Burger Records show, hopefully they'll stay together and release something new. Next up I'll post Ty Segall's Live at Aisle 5 (in flac)

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Blog Scene Is Dead

I think it's time to hammer the final nail on the blog scene's coffin..... all the good blogs are dead or are posting nonsense now.... everything is so different. Nothing gets leaked anymore.

Take my advice kids, download Soul Seek and find music on there, music sharing blogs are pretty much dead. I'll keep going as long as I can...

Speaking of which, I have a huge and RARE Traditional Fools/Ty Segall post coming your way!

Secret Attackers

Interesting mix of eletronics/8-bit sounds and pop-punk. Worth checking out (http://www.ebandagogo.com/Secret_Attackers/)

Eric August

Minimal electronics.... kinda video game soundtrack-ish. I'm not very well versed in the whole electronic scene, so you'll have to forgive my lack of eloquence.

Eric used to release music under various monikers (Psychic Attack of The Psyduck, Kels Backyard).

Download his album for free on his bandcamp (http://ericaugust.bandcamp.com/)

Hear Hums - Psyche Cycles

Pretty cool Psychedelic band from Gainesville, Florida....

From what I hear Gainesville actually has a pretty good music scene up there..... kinda weird, but I believe it. Anyway, check out Hear Hums playing live and buy their new album which is being released soon!

Hear Hums - Toward Above from Digital Protein on Vimeo.

tour dates are listed below:

5/6 - Charleston, South Carolina w/ Coma Cinema (House Show)

5/7 - Wilmington, North Carolina w/ Libraries, Gross Ghost (Gravity Records)
Presented by Get Off The Coast

5/8 - Greensboro, North Carolina w/ Andrew Weathers, Three Brained Robot (House Show)

5/9 - Charlottesville, Virginia w/ Teen Dreams, Funland Superquest (Magnolia)

5/10 - Richmond, Virginia w/ Tungs, Floating Colors, Seamonster, Everybody Yay (Sprout)

5/11 - Baltimore, Maryland (Metro Gallery)
Presented by Friends Records

5/12 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania w/ Arches

5/13 - Boston

5/14 - Boston w/ Dark Sea of Awareness

5/15 - New York w/ Yvette (Death By Audio)

5/16 - Brooklyn, New York w/ Psychic Reality, and Tooth Ache (Cameo)

5/17 - New York (Cake Shop)

5/18 - Queens, New York w/ Dustin Wong, Emily Reo, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Dark Sea of Awareness (Silent Barn)

5/20 - Montreal, Quebec
w/ Miracle Fortress at Torn Curtain Presented by Arbutus Records

5/21 - Toronto, Quebec
Presented by Snakes + Ladders

5/23 - Nashville, Tennessee w/ Conestyle

5/24 - Knoxville, Tennessee w/ Coolrunnings

5/25 - Asheville, North Carolina w/ Aswara, Eleven And The Falcons, and Doc Aquatic (BoBo Gallery)

5/27 - Athens, Georgia w/ Blithe Field, Brothertiger, and Whale Zombie

5/28 - Atlanta, Georgia

Neighbor - In Our Times

Neighbor is a lo-fi garage punk band from Austin that features strong sing-a-long hooks and scuzzy melodies. Definitely the band to go see with a bunch of your buddies and go wild at. I can imagine their live shows are pretty ridiculous. This is their 6 song demo tape, which is a pretty clear picture of what direction they might go in with their more fleshed out release. Heavy pop-punk influence. Check them out!

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Teepee - Morals DELUXE EDITION

The amazing psych-rock/drone shoegazer from Miami just launched his new site and is offering a deluxe edition of his amazing LP for FREE! It includes 4 bonus tracks on top of the already mind melting gems he's engraved on vinyl. Check it out!

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Liquid Skulls - Dead In Yr Eyes

Sounds nothing like the cover image implies....

It's really relaxing, dreamy music for skeletons and their families release by White Moon Recordings

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Maria Minerva - Tallinn At Dawn

Like some obscure, foggy 80's cassette found at a random garage sale, this release by Maria Minerva is sure to surprise a few of you out there. With an other-worldly voice that you can get lost in, Maria Minerva makes ethereal dream pop that weaves droning soundscapes and a slow 80's pop aesthetic together and it's amazing! At times resembling Witch House sans the bull shit behind said genre, Maria takes everything Witch House established a step further by actually making good music. I recommend you guys to check this out even if you're not into the whole hazy, lo-fi, electronic-drone thing.

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Solace Media Corporation - Rare Rarities Comp.

What I hold here in my hands (pictured above and at the end of this post) is the Solace Media Corporation's Rare Rarities Cassette compilation which I purchased for a reasonable price considering the amount of work put into the packaging - but I'll discuss that later.... first, lets focus on the music.

It's two cassette's long of, for the most part, harsh noise/drone and sound clips. Endless soundscapes of ritualistic occult gibberish and dark brooding atmospheres. I'm not actually very knowledgeable on the whole experimental noise scene (nor am I that big of a fan) but I always find myself coming back to SMC's releases and listening to them - the more mantra-like songs are pretty trance inducing and catchy. Somewhere buried deep within this release (it's so long that I'm not even sure it's on these cassettes) are a few (or just one) hip-hop song(s).

The packaging, which completely adds to the overall experience and aura of all SMC releases is amazingly creepy. Riddled with a bunch of spanish Jehovah Witness pamphlets and miscellaneous comic book shreds the mildew smelling packaging makes it feel like you're holding some sort of Illuminati grimoire. The packaging alone is worth buying SMC's products - but it does help that the music is really interesting.

SMC is constantly putting out web-only releases for free and even expanded the spectrum of SMC products to include a comedy series and a how-to series....

Check them out below and buy yourself a one of a kind release.



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Jjemmeiii - FreePee

Weirdo free-form organ instrumentals for those of you into that whole broken jazz kind of thing. Pretty somber stuff and not what I expected when I heard free-form....I suppose I'm more used to the noise-drone/broken jazz that NotNotFun and Night People release on their labels. All and all it's a nice listen.

Check out his bandcamp to download the release; http://jjemmeiii.bandcamp.com/

Strange Hand - Dead Frozen Deer 7"

Amazingly fun psyche garage rock band from France. The band resonates with Jacuzzi Boy vibes but they aren't a mere mimic. This is their first 7" and it's definitely a peak into whats in store for them in the future. Keep an eye peeled.

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Snakehole Interview

It's crazy how big a band can get in such a short amount of time, but in this bands case it's obvious to see why; heavy surf (at times) inspired garage punk with aesthetic elements of riot grrrl is an instant win in my book! The live show with Tyvek this past weekend was dirty, sonically abrasive, and filled with sexual innuendo! Perfect for the Churchills' crowd. Minute long jam sessions/song intros followed by wailing on the mic and spastic drums was the perfect complement to Tyveks set afterwards.

- How'd you ladies get started as a band?

We met one night at a monster truck rally, when we noticed we all had on the same metallica t-shirt (ride the lightning), at the beer stand, and we were all head-banging 'nsync and thought we could be onto something here... and then we just started hanging out a lot and figured out how to play instruments.

- Being an all-girl band, I'm sure the assumption has been made that you're a "riot grrrl" band. Do you identify this way? Or prefer to have the gender factor ignored?

Anyone that refers to us as a "rrriot girl" band needs to do a few wikipedia searches. That label is attached to a specific period in time and makes no sense to be applied to us just because we are girls. It would be like saying the sound like the stooges sound like The jonas brothers just because they are all dudes. Theres no avoiding what mother nature gave us though, we are also all really bad drivers because we're girls, so look out for us on the road.***

- Since you've started playing, I've noticed as a band you've been quite prolific: Zit Fest, Florida's Dying show, various opening sets for big local and out of state names. What do you attribute the instantaneous success to?

Well, our drummer Sandra, gives really good hand jobs..."the truth is the truth"

- What has the feedback been like at shows?

The guitar amps usually feedback something like..eeeerrrrrhhhhhhhrrrreeegggggghhhhhh eeeeerrrrggghhhhrreeeeeeegggg!!!!!

- Probably a secret for now, but I have to ask.... any talk between the band and labels? Any future releases planned?

We are in the works of doing a cassette release in L.A. with kill/hurt recordings. But currently we're just trying to get some tracks mastered and recorded. So, maybe soooon!

- What are some of your favorite local acts? Have any of them directly influenced you?

Mostly our friends, like Jacuzzi Boys, Electric Bunnies, Dracula, the heartstrings, the ticks and some West Palm Beach bands like, Partial People, Love Handles,Cop City and Orlando's own Slippery Slopes, Erik G. is the best front man in all of Florida.

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Well, that's it! I hope you guys enjoyed the interview. Hopefully most of you made it out to support all the local music and Tyvek. Be sure to catch Snakehole performing at Churchills on March 1st with Davila 666!

***I did indeed research this, as suggested (not that I didn't before....), and it seems Riot Grrrl is still active. Genres aren't exclusive to chronology; psychedelic influenced music is still around despite it's origins decades ago. Of course The Stooges sound nothing like The Jonas Brothers however the influence Riot Grrrl has had on Snakehole's music (whether they're aware of it or not) is painfully obvious (Bikini Kill live show).

Beware of the Knight - Various

Dirty, scuzzy, drunk garage rock from Sacramento! Check out their bandcamp where they have multiple albums worth of music plus links for free downloads!

MC Jumanji: Dub Stepping Around

Local Dub-Step MC and enthusiast, MC Jumanji, has been making huge waves all along Florida's electronic music scene and even further across the eastern U.S. But now he's going to make an even bigger splash over in the U.K. where he's set to perform at Fabric in London on January 28th! Of course that doesn't mean he's going to forget about his local fans, on February 19th he's booked to perform at local hipster hotspot, The Electric Pickle, for Goldie!

Be sure to catch his new demo while you're waiting for his next big event.

Jeff Mangum - Live in Brooklyn

Following suit with live shows, here's half of the surprise show Jeff Mangum (from Neutral Milk Hotel, of course) played in Brooklyn about a week ago. From what I've read it was a pretty secretive show at a bizarre loft venue in some sort of business building....? Sounds like a hipsters wet dream.

Well, the recordings themselves are really good quality and you can really feel that it was a close and personal show. Sadly no new songs, but he does play all the favorites!

Perhaps all the shows he's been playing lately is a sign of things to come in Jeff's musical career? A new LP? New band? Probably just means a few shows on the upcoming Holiday Surprise Tour....

I'll keep dreaming...

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Jacuzzi Boys - Live at The Cavern

You guys probably thought this blog died...... I'm so ashamed! But we all know The Royal Jelly doesn't die THAT easily (read for yourself).

On to more pressing matters; JACUZZI BOYS LIVE BOOTLEG!!!! I found this while lurking the usual spots for more music and I knew it would be perfect for my graceful and magnificent comeback post. The show was recorded at The Cavern in Texas on 5-13-10. Pretty good sound quality too - the first few songs had the vocals drowned in sound but that quickly changed to a more balanced sound.

My favorite part about this is that it perfectly captures the wild energy and nuances that only happens at a live Jacuzzi Boy's show and not on their recordings. The extra yelps and reverberated coyote howls on Fruits (among other songs) is pure madness and I love it!

This little bootleg is sure to get you pumped for their live record which just came out and for their 12" EP coming out on Social Music Record Club.

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