Song We Like: A Chinese Restaurant on Christmas by Jeremy and the Harlequins

Ohhhh I do like some doo-woop Christmas car wrecks. Yeah this singer is having a lonely Christmas at the Chinese restaurant – but he sings this song with so much fun and verve. Ohhh man the band backs him up with some classic “shoop-shoops” – Christmas may suck but this song is GREAT!Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #86 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: The Score by Gold Light

This voice is pure gold – and the story is wonderful. This love is traveling, across the landscape, down into Central America – and the beautiful thing here is that there is faith in this love, that the love will bring this couple back together again. She will walk into his bar in El Salvador. That’s a deep love – the idea that the future will connect. This is poetry. Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #86 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Another New York Christmas by Wyldlife

Every band should have a Christmas song – and every band should have a New York City Christmas song. There’s something so wonderful about the loneliness and heartbreak and bad behavior in New York City around the holidays. Plus this vocalist can deliver – so wonderful and trashy. Makes another Christmas all alone sound like a party! Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #86 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

https://wyldlife.bandcamp.com/album/another-ny-christmas-piss-the-season

Song We Like: Burnout by Goldenhorseshoe

These boys start with some cowbell and then the song rolls forward with a massive wave of sixties psychedelic guitar. This song is all about the dynamics, loud-quiet, dropping back to voice and drums (is that a wooden block? – so many ideas), and then that guitar crashes around you in a thunderstorm. Burnout! Burnout! Burnout!Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #85 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Thunderstorms and Wildfire by Lo Wray

Lo Wray of BROTHRS writes, sings, harmonizes, plays all the instruments, engineers and mixes this pretty pretty song. Lo knows how to write songs. This is gorgeous in its simplicity. A single guitar and a Beatles-like melody floats over the top. The chorus is such a hook – I don’t want to lose you, I don’t want to lose you now.Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #85 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Rotten Mind by Suicide Generation

Beautiful 1977 punk. The song is an out of control race car that is shaking and billowing smoke and will probably blow apart. This thing is perfect garage punk – the drumming is amazing and the singer kills it. They hate everything – but we love them so much.Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #85 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Wooden Heart by Mink’s Miracle Medicine

The song rolls out slow, soft and mysterious, like a winter fog rolling into a valley at dusk. This a poet searching for a vocabulary that captures all the emotional truths of falling in love with someone and then cutting them open to build them a new wooden heart. This is a poet walking into a land that has never been explored before.Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #85 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: I Don’t Think She Cares by White Reaper

Hard rocking and snarling punk – plus an 80s video game inspired synth. You’ve stolen my heart. This is the perfect example of the global underground. This straight hit could have emerged from the Melbourne underground or from the outer-boroughs of London. This is clearly the most excellent pop-song plus amazing bass and drums and attitude.

Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #84 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Ep 88 – `Best Vomits’ FEAT: The Styrofoam Turtles, Extradition Order, Radkey, Ugly Runner, Robojom


Best of the underground, week of Jan 14, 2020: Gettin’ engaged, J. Robert Oppenhimer, the stock market, and of course, barfing. Plus all this MUSIC. Wow! (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. It’s here at last