Ep 62 – The Power, Ings, Sam Pryze, Pie Face Girls, The Anti-Social Club

Best of the underground, week of July 9, 2019! OUR FIRST SPACE EPISODE!! BROADCAST FROM SPACE! (In honor of the Apollo 11 anniversary.) Also: Summer, Liv, and Saul! Parabolas! Mtv explained to the younger generation!  (All podcasts and reviews are on our website, www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.) We love you artists, stay strong

Song We Like: Personal Privacy by Playboy Manbaby

The lead singer’s energy is like a million exploding suns, but it wouldn’t work without the steady and creative guitar work, excellent drums (this song feat: clicking!) and some men who are not afraid to be really good backup singers. One of John’s top 10 picks for 2019 (really this song is from 2018 though).

Song We Like: Exploding Car by Hong Kong Wigs

A song that offers a lot to love: an enormous, organized, melodic sound, PLUS tons of Vin-Diesel-style imagery. We listen to this song constantly. This band is new and we anticipate that very soon they will be too big to talk to us anymore. Featured on our #61 podcast

https://music.apple.com/us/album/exploding-car/1450402479?i=1450402504

Song We Like: I Can See Your Bones by Apricot Blush

All of the youth of Greenville, SC (or, to be realistic, maybe 90% of the youth of Greenville), love singing along with this band. You can hear nine of them singing along here, and the videos feature many, many more singers, as well as solidly-written emotional songs, and a humongous array of well-placed instruments. Featured on our #61 podcast

Song We Like: Grief by The Harry Harrison

Everybody wonders who John Lennon has reincarnated into. Most likely he has become someone in deepest China, and is making electronic dance music or something. However, if he decided to come back and sound and look quite a bit like his former self, he’d be The Harry Harrison. Enjoy this song about grief. Featured on our #61 podcast

Song We Like: R.N.R.G.F. by No Men

All the anger of your favorite hardcore music,  with lots more rhythm, and, maybe on purpose or maybe by accident, they’re fun. Make sure to see them live if you can. Featured on our #61 podcast

Ep 61 – No Men, The Harry Harrison, Apricot Blush, Hong Kong Wigs, Playboy Manbaby


Best of the underground, week of July 9, 2019! All of this great music! Also important thoughts about A & R Men, Dynasties, and Classing up. (All podcasts and reviews are on our website, www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.) We love you artists, stay strong

Song We Like: Seven Eight by Ghost Funk Orchestra

https://ghostfunkorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/a-song-for-paul-2

If intelligent, restrained complexity is your thing, or if you’re like ‘god! Stop playing G chords in 4/4 time!’ then Ghost Funk Orchestra is the band you’ve been waiting for. As with all descendants-of-jazz, their project is to do Next without doing Too Much. We think they nailed it

Song We Like: Hair Brown by Lainey Harrison

https://soundcloud.com/elliottkage/lainey-harrison-hair-brown-cellphone-lunchbox-demo

It would be ok with us if this song was played on perpetual loop, mysteriously, in the air, grocery-store style, everywhere. We would love to see an eventual big production for this song, so that grocery stores will really play it; that said, the lo-fi cell phone is a nice piece of the thing too