Ep 81 – `Cup o Pee’ FEAT: Bad Bangs, The Bahareebas, The Audiots, The Dimarcos, Skuks


Best of the underground, week of Nov 26, 2019! Enjoy our concert stories from the 90s, and learn some stuff about nothing. PLUS great music. (All podcasts and reviews are on our website, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.) We love you artists, stay strong through the holidays

Ep 80 – `The It.’ Feat: Venus as a Boy, Reverend Bro Diddley & the Hips, Sang Sarah, Toeheads, The Swells.


Best of the underground, week of Nov 19, 2019: Intimidating mustaches, unnecessary glasses, and all forms of ugliness-as-power. Plus great music. (All podcasts are on itunes and spotify, and reviews plus podcasts are on our website, www.hlycrp.com. And you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and, reluctantly and occasionally, Twitter.) We love you artists 💚

Song We Like: Whistle Blower by FOOLS.

Straight out of the Bad Religion and Dead Kennedy’s school of maximal punk. This is a call to arms, a march, the song you want to hear when you charge the barricades. These guys have a full-on art gang, so if they actually play this and start marching in the same direction they will start the revolution.

Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #78 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Fuck You by the Domino and the Derelicts

Boil down all of punk rock and this is what you’ll hear – “I hear that you’re back for me, but all I have to say is bye – stop wasting my time.” Fuck you! This is great great classic punk!!! The feeling is raw. The lyrics are on point. The song is both funny and totally true.

Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Go listen to our #78 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Altars To Myself by Blanky

One of the most true and wonderful vocalists – just bleeding melody in a massive cave, dripping with reverb. Halfway through the song a sax rides into this creation with this wave of emotion and anguish. This is heartbreak at its most bitter sweet.

Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Go listen to our #798 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Creation Bound by The Flesh Panthers

The most groovy laid-back singer in the underground music scene. This is such a pretty piece of county – maybe even jam-band influenced. Goddamn. This is a sunny day love song with a whole band sing-along-chorus. Totally the coolest.

Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Go listen to it on our #79 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Blood Baby by Shaken Nature

This song is wrapped around a wonderful driving beat, like a train-robbing gang hurtling through a wild pass during a lightning storm. Shaken Nature has created a fully 3-dimensional outlaw mythology around their band – and this is the fulfillment of their first releases. They are bad-asses. It’s a harder psychedelic sound, spaced-out distorted vocals, heading toward a meaner Cream influenced sound.

Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Go listen to it on our #79 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Band Management: Blog 49: Label Mates

This year I am managing “Band A” and the single “Pipe” by The Styrofoam Turtles.
While the mainstream doesn’t even know we exist and the corporate music universe pays us no attention – here in the darkness and cold damp the mold and fungus is growing, the first one-celled organisms are crawling out of the primordial swamp.
Since I started this blog I have discovered so many great underground music labels and underground music publications. So many great underground bands. I love the DIY ethos – no one is stopping me – so why not do it?
We’re helping the revolution in the smallest most innocuous way possible. Holy Crap Records has released one single by The Styrofoam Turtles and one single by “Band A” – you can find them at bandcamp: https://holycraprecords.bandcamp.com/
– or you can find them on the www.hlycrp.com website.
I’ve sent out these bands’ releases to 30 indie/underground/local radio stations and to 11 underground music publications. “Band A” got played on 98.1 The River this week.
And on this Sunday evening these two bands will be playing at Static Age-Records.
The Styrofoam Turtles are the best, kindest, most talented, most passionate rockers around the Asheville scene. At Holy Crap Records we celebrate “song” – the art form of song – and these kids can write songs. They’ve produced two albums that are busting with hits. We’re lucky to be able to share their single. Their live shows are also insane. Tristen Colby has a family background in the semi-professional rural wrestling circuit – and he brings all that drama and madness to the stage. Josh Davis is very well behaved…
And “Band A” is the worst kept secret in the local underground music scene…
See you all on Sunday night…

Ep 79 – The Horrible Challenge of All Art. Feat: Shaken Nature, The Flesh Panthers, Blanky, Domino and the Derelicts, FOOLS.

Best of the underground, week of Nov 12, 2019: John does the splits. The edge of genius. And introducing: F*ck You (the album). (All podcasts are on itunes and spotify, and reviews plus podcasts are on our website, www.hlycrp.com. And you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and, reluctantly and occasionally, Twitter.) We love you artists 💚