Ep 90 – `Great Patter’ FEAT: Oh, Rose, Killer Kin, Stovepipe, Never Understand, The Medium

Ep 90 – `Great Patter’ FEAT: Oh, Rose, Killer Kin, Stovepipe, Never Understand, The Medium


Best of the underground, week of Jan 28, 2020: John, who is sick, tells a story about the Cranbries. Funkiness, defined. New Haven, again. Also, great, great music.

This week:

*25, Alive by Oh, Rose

*Here Comes the Killers/Snake Oil by Killer Kin

*I Wanna Be Your Favorite Pair of Pajamas by Stovepipe

*Sunshine by Never Understand

*Have a Happy Day by The Medium

(All podcasts and reviews are on our website, www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.) Artists! We like you, good work. 2020. We’re all hanging on ok so far more or less, right

Ep 89 – `Songwriting Secrets’ FEAT: Weeping Icon, The Kindest People, Three Star Hotel, The Beauticians, The Side-Bets

Ep 89 – `Songwriting Secrets’ FEAT: Weeping Icon, The Kindest People, Three Star Hotel, The Beauticians, The Side-Bets

 
Featured songs:

Donna by the Beauticians

Ripe for Consumption by Weeping Icon

Feel’n Bad by The Side-Bets

Your Disaster by The Kindest People

Purr With Me by Three Star Hotel

Best of the underground, week of Jan 21, 2020: Precise instructions on how to play a J-chord, John improvises a song about a pickle, dick picks, and Hedwig. Plus all this MUSIC, and Happy birthday JP! (All podcasts and reviews are on our website, www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.) Artists! We like you, good work. 2020. We’re all hanging on ok so far more or less, right

Song We Like: Science Rat by Gabriel Bernini

Song We Like: Science Rat by Gabriel Bernini

Someone’s been listening to The Kinks and all the universe that followed – that sharp ragged riff and those beautiful pop melodies riding over the top. This is dance-y, catchy, ride in your car or drop this in a bar – this is pure garage bliss. Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #87 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

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Song We Like: Hopeless Man by Don Babylon

Song We Like: Hopeless Man by Don Babylon

This is gospel. This is Biblical. An epic soul bearing of a hopeless man. These garage rockers and truth-tellers take on the Americana genre and produce a work of immense depth and beauty. Also – this is one of the best vocalists in the underground scene today. Everything he sings is the truth and vibrates with the cells of my soul.Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #87 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Walking Wreck by Gak

Song We Like: Walking Wreck by Gak

Gak is every bit as intense as Suicidal Tendencies, Black Flag, and Fear. And “fuck you you fucking prick” – gets the Cinnamon Kennedy lyrics award. They’re dipping their testicles into the metal genre – but the rest of the body and soul of Gak is a wonderful roll back to the pinnacle of 80s west coast hardcore.Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #87 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Ro Sham Bo by Her Pilots

Song We Like: Ro Sham Bo by Her Pilots

Song We Like: Roshambo by Her Pilots

These suave mother-f*ckers have dropped some catchy rock all about love – you’re throwing your best game at her and maybe she’s playing the game, maybe? Or maybe you just threw a rock and she enveloped it with her paper. Enveloped your hard rock. The dynamics in this song are perfect – with the guitar dropping in and out and the vocals snapping and snarling. Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #87 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Looking For A Date by Stevie and the Sleaze

Song We Like: Looking For A Date by Stevie and the Sleaze

I absolutely adore this mid-tempo garage rocker. There’s nothing fancy or over-elaborate and everything is perfect. The vocalist is all sneer and attitude like Johnny Thunder and the Heartbreakers. And also like Johnny Thunder and the Heartbreakers we’re not sure if they’re interested in the girl or interested in the score. This is wonderful rock-n-roll.Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #87 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Christmas Time by Melting Alpha Coat

Song We Like: Christmas Time by Melting Alpha Coat

A more expressive and experimental Christmas carol. Very fascinating and interesting and dissonant at the same time – and then this collection of excellent ideas culminates into a chant “Christmas Time!” and an “oh for the birth of the baby king!” They are swinging for the fences – going for a commercial hit!Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #86 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: The Devil Is Real by Supervillain

Song We Like: The Devil Is Real by Supervillain

These boys are unapologetic rock. This is in your face. This age old story of going too far and having to pay the consequences, of a life that spirals out of control. When you sell your soul – well – the devil comes to take your soul. Supervillain was kind enough to be the first band to share a song for the Musicians for Overdose Prevention collection. The devil is real.Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #86 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.