Ep 103 – `Quarantine 7: Come Back, Stupid Ideas’ With music by: Tin Roof Echo, Rosie & the Rats, Crooked Ghost, The Snake of June, PEEL, Day & Dream, Mary Ellen Bush

Ep 103 – `Quarantine 7: Come Back, Stupid Ideas’ With music by: Tin Roof Echo, Rosie & the Rats, Crooked Ghost, The Snake of June, PEEL, Day & Dream, Mary Ellen Bush

Best of the underground, week of April 28, 2020: Trying our best to get dumb again. John makes a song from high heels. Cinnamon corrects John’s faulty, faulty existential thinking and raps over a train. (All podcasts and reviews are on www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.)

This week we played:

“There’s a Town” by Tin Roof Echo

 

“Greenwich Meantime” by Rosie & the Rats (prerelease)

“He’s Gone” by Crooked Ghost (Ray Larkin)

“Fuck You Corona” by The Snake of June

“Ballad of Dougie Ramone” by PEEL

“Nocturnal Creatures” by Day & Dream

“I Know What it’s Like” by Mary Ellen Bush (hlycrp exclusive)

Ep 102:`Quarantine 6: The Healing Power of Music’ With music by: Tine Nymann, Cold Choir, Bungalow Bums, Sang Sarah, Teen Girl Scientist Monthly, Grace Joyner

Ep 102:`Quarantine 6: The Healing Power of Music’ With music by: Tine Nymann, Cold Choir, Bungalow Bums, Sang Sarah, Teen Girl Scientist Monthly, Grace Joyner

Best of the underground, week of April 21, 2020: Get ye healed! We’re bringing the stuff that can do it. This podcast also includes our first band from Russia and our first artist from Denmark YESSSSSS. (April Madness finals are tuesday 4/21: Check the Holy Crap Records facebook page 7-8 pm 👍) (All podcasts and reviews are on www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.) 

This week we played:

Into the Light by Tine Nymann

Neon Kiss by Sang Sarah

Eternal Slumber Party by Teen Girl Scientist Monthly

Hung the Moon by Grace Joyner

Time is Gonna Kill You by Bungalow Bums

Neon Kiss by Cold Choir

Ep 101 – `Quarantine 5: Stuff We Learned from B.Y.’ With music by: Schoolboy Cubemaster, Limp Wrist, Lumps, Botwins Are Dead, Fantomex, Butthole

Ep 101 – `Quarantine 5: Stuff We Learned from B.Y.’ With music by: Schoolboy Cubemaster, Limp Wrist, Lumps, Botwins Are Dead, Fantomex, Butthole

Best of the underground, week of April 14, 2020: Probably the hardest podcast we’ve ever made. Many, many apologies for the violin. But enjoy the music! It is fantastic. (April Madness is ongoing: Check the Holy Crap Records facebook page 7-8 pm nightly 👍) (All podcasts and reviews are on www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.)

This week we played:

THEFREAKYGHOSTOFVIRGINIABEACH by Schoolboy Cubemaster (prerelease)

When Will You Come by Butthole

Defeat by Rich Seibert

Facades by Limp Wrist

Bad Brakes by Fantomex

Covid 19 by Botwins are Dead

New Moves by Lumps (prerelease)

The MIssing Stares, “Isolation”

The MIssing Stares, “Isolation”

Bow down to the kings and queens of garage rock-n-roll. Classic 1950s rock-n-roll blues guitar, sped up and doused with liquid attitude. The vocals are distorted to the level that you can’t understand anything – but it doesn’t matter. This is a shot of adrenalin straight to the heart. AND THEN… half the way through this burning garage anthem it slows and snakes around and rearranges its molecules into an extended psychedelic rocker. One way or another this song will fry your mind.

Want to hear us talk about this song? Check out episode #97 of our podcast at hlycrp.com.

Symptoms, “Diagnosed”

Symptoms, “Diagnosed”

This is what happens when you roll into Cafe Nine in New Haven on a Monday night – and a band of barely alive road punks crawl up on stage and blast one of the most tight, blistering sets you’ve ever witnessed. One of the high points, the apotheosis of their sound is “Diagnosed,” which they shared with Musicians for Overdose Prevention. This song is so fast and so tight and also careening off the rails, barely holding on for this ride. The voice is raw and real and spits the absolute truth. The drums are nothing but attack after attack, smashes and rolls, a pure street fighter. And finally the guitar takes a blowtorch to your ears. This is as good as it gets.

Want to hear us talk about this song? Check out episode #97 of our podcast at hlycrp.com.

Victima Del Vaciamiento, “I Know The Neighbors Hate Me”

Victima Del Vaciamiento, “I Know The Neighbors Hate Me”

The nature of this song is completely foreign to my experience – I know the neighbors love me! I’m super well behaved, except when we were having band practice once and we live next to an event space and our music was ruining a wedding and we were asked to keep it down… F*ck those guys! But not the wonderful Victima Del Vaciamiento and this blast of snotty pop bliss. This is classic early 60s pop, super catchy, through the filter of badly behaved Argentinian punks.

Want to hear us talk about this song? Check out episode #97 of our podcast at hlycrp.com.

GRACE JOYNER, “FAKE GIRLFRIEND”

GRACE JOYNER, “FAKE GIRLFRIEND”

How do you love a ghost? Easy to imagine and hard to answer, it’s a question that sits at the center of Grace Joyner’s upbeat anthem to modern romance, “Fake Girlfriend.” After a quick introduction of shimmering synths and funky bass riffs, Joyner opines in her emotive indie pop voice about wanting the world and falling in love with an evaporating relationship. Swaggering and slyly cathartic, Joyner breaks down the murky boundaries of contemporary dating with spacey guitar and crisp drums, and turns an anxious situationship into a darkly funny bop.

Want to hear us talk about this song? Check out episode #97 of our podcast at hlycrp.com.

SLOW POISON, “WILDER THINGS”

SLOW POISON, “WILDER THINGS”

Early on in Slow Poison’s rockabilly ballad “Wilder Things,” Drew Burgess croons, “And right now this very moment/Don’t you feel like you could fall apart?” It’s apt: the song’s waltzy tempo and raspy vocals feel ready to bubble over into full sonic breakdown, but the trembling guitars and cavernous drums never tip into chaos. Instead, the band pushes the upper boundaries of balladry to see how much sinister snarl they can sneak into the song’s howling heart, and by the time the swirling organ carries you home it’ll feel like you’ve been through the relationship ringer with them. Like their name implies, Slow Poison’s “Wilder Things” works its way through your system with stealth and precision before going for the kill.

Want to hear us talk about this song? Check out episode #97 of our podcast at hlycrp.com.

FAKE INDIANS, “LIDL FUCKS”

FAKE INDIANS, “LIDL FUCKS”

Belgium’s Fake Indians waste little time setting the tone of “Lidl Fucks,” a heavy, hypnotic headbanger off their debut album. The track’s urgent rhythm is shepherded in by the harsh squeals of speaker feedback and craggy guitar, with fat bass and megaphone vocals not far behind to fill out the jagged soundscape. This sonic barrage—part industrial, part psychedelic, all decidedly lo-fi—is a key factor in the success of the track. Staying true to their anarchic ethos, Fake Indians offer little in the way of entry points to their audience, instead opting to layer sounds and screeches into an overwhelming noise rock opus.

Hear the song here: https://fakeindians.bandcamp.com/track/lidl-fuks

Want to hear us talk about this song? Check out episode #97 of our podcast at hlycrp.com.