Song We Like: Tangerine by The Swells

Song We Like: Tangerine by The Swells

I’m pretty sure they just created the best psyche rock song since the Brian Jonestown Massacre. It sounds so nasty and dirty and full of madness. I love the waves of music. I love the soundscape. Beneath all the fuzz and strangeness this is so catchy and poppy. It couldn’t be a better pop song – be my tangerine! Be my tangerine!
Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #80 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Kudis by SKUX

Song We Like: Kudis by SKUX

The perfect pop punk song. Razor-sharp drumming and gorgeous hypnotic fuzzed out guitars. The chorus is a shouted ode to kudis. Plus, I love all these elements, and then the band adds another whole catchy segment as the end piece.Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #81 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Will Save by The DiMarcos

Song We Like: Will Save by The DiMarcos

The DiMarcos are local legends on the Asheville scene. This is some hard punk with just a pinch of melody. The interesting thing is that these pieces of pop in the punk, the winding upward guitar riff and the barked out the vocals, are so catchy and wonderful. I saw them live recently – and everything was perfect and they were so in their element. Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #81 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: When You by The Audiots

Song We Like: When You by The Audiots

“When You” by The Audiots is a funkier, dancier version of The Strokes – which is a very very good thing. Instead of four-on-the-floor drumming we have these groovier and funkier rhythms. It is melodically excellent and a radio ready hit. Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #81 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Mission on Uranus by The Bahareebas

Song We Like: Mission on Uranus by The Bahareebas

Probably this Swiss band, The Bahareebas, don’t live anywhere near the beach, let alone get much time for surfing. But surf rock is in their blood – it is their blood. This is super tight and precise and also fun and funky. This song breaks the “no instrumental” rule – because it is soooo good. Mission on Yur Anus. From the premier surf band of Zurich.Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #81 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Too Much by Bad Bangs

Song We Like: Too Much by Bad Bangs

Must be something about the Melbourne scene. They just send me so many great shaggy garage rockers. This is unhurried fun. The singer is the epitome of cool and the bass keeps this train bumping down the track. I want to steal the main melody line. Plus they have this super catchy synth/keyboard piece hooking into the second half of the song. The cherry on the cake!

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Ep 82 – `Rock & Roll Dairy Farm’ FEAT: Federale, The Drain Outs, Wussy, Hotdoggrrrl & the Sesame Buns, Hit Dogs

Ep 82 – `Rock & Roll Dairy Farm’ FEAT: Federale, The Drain Outs, Wussy, Hotdoggrrrl & the Sesame Buns, Hit Dogs


Best of the underground, week of Dec 3, 2019! We visit the middle of nowhere so that cowboy and aspiring electronic drummer Doyle ‘Cheese Andy’ Perkins can tell us stories about cows, and about Richard Thompson cleaning his windshield. PLUS we all listen to great music. (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, we’re with you