Ep 125 – ‘The Kennedys Fix Halloween’ With music by: Deaf Preachers, Garett Hatch, Ghost Funk Orchestra, KARKARA, The In-Fuzzed, Violent Mae


Best of the underground, week of Sept 29, 2020: Gookie apple (the game), John’s weird spirituality, and we really do solve the Halloween problem. Also, great great music. (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:

    • Cut Loose Baby by Deaf Preachers

    • Sagamore Drifter by Garett Hatch

    • Fuzzy Logic by Ghost Funk Orchestra

    • Proxima Centaury by KARKARA

    • Lost Time Rock & Roll by the In-Fuzzed

    • In The Sun by Violent Mae

    • We Want More by Gak

Ep 124 – ‘Depressed Bob: A Hip-Hop Musical’ With music by: The Death Valley Girls, Hallelujah the Hills, The Urojets, Butthole, Wild Rocket, Los Oxford, Call the Next Witness

Best of the underground, week of Sept 22, 2020: Famous daughter/guest Cathy Kennedy gets some hard news about her inheritance and becomes a hip hop star. Also, great great music. (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:

    • Under the Spell of Joy by the Death Valley Girls

    • Popular Anti-Depressants of the 21st Century by Hallelujah the Hills

    • The Suburban Housewives of America by The Urojets

    • She Boop Sheboo Thang by Butthole

    • Her by Wild Rocket

    • El Tunel by Los Oxford

    • Chalky Pale by Call the Next Witness

 

Ep 123 – ‘To Band or Not to Band’ With music by: Stephen Britt, Los Chousettes, Three Minute Riot, Shred Flintstone, John Kirby & the New Seniors, Impossible Colors, Nicholas Mallis

Best of the underground, week of Sept 15, 2020: Drummers, nunchucks, aliens, male politicians, and John’s secret revenge fantasies. Also, great great music. (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:

    • Left the Party by Steven Britt (prerelease)
    • Ha Ha Happiness by Les Chousettes

    • Atreyu by Three Minute Riot

    • Shitlist by Shred Flintstone

    • Puppers & Uppers by John Kirby and the New Seniors

    • Different Frames by Impossible Colors

    • Impregnating Male Politicians by Nicholas Mallis

GARETT HATCH, “Moment Undone”

I couldn’t be a bigger fan. This feels like a song that has been around forever, in these mountains, along these rivers, and through this land. This is today and a decade ago and fifty years ago and muttered at hearths, around campfires, someone’s back room. in the back of a dive bar and up on stage of a speakeasy. Life unravels and you can only stand in your own space and tell your own truth. Unhurried blues groove and a world weary voice that murmurs the ultimate truth. 

Want to hear us talk about this song? Check out episode #110 of our podcast at hlycrp.com.

TOP NACHOS, “Frens”

Sure they have a fun name and fun live shows and their band photos are splattered in nacho sauce – but I’m gonna make a pitch here that Top Nachos are some of the best songwriters in the underground music scene. “Frens” is on “Best of BTR Vol 1” by King Pizza Records. The start is ragged grunge influence, then it’s garage style fun and adrenalin, momentum, moving into into classic rock and punk sounds. The chorus is just so phenomenal – the primary reason that Holy Crap Records Podcast exists – because this couldn’t be catchier: “Your friends are watching, your friends are watching what you do! Your friends are watching, your friends are watching what you say!” So gold. Just the most massive sing-along chorus.

Want to hear us talk about this song? Check out episode #110 of our podcast at hlycrp.com.

FLESH PANTHERS, “I Wish I Woulda Known”

Traveling through the heartache of “it ain’t you, it’s me” to the relief of “no more lonesome road” in under four minutes, Flesh Panthers’ “I Wish I Woulda Known” feels like time flattening on itself. The Chicago band’s fuzzed-out sound is direct and unfussy, with a bubbly bassline under hard-stomping drums and psych-tinged guitar lines echoing The Yardbirds’ brand of shambling rock and roll. The band describes its sound as “flower punk,” and it’s an apt way to summarize the track: as the confused rage of teenage heartbreak evolves into a chorus of sunny “na na na”s, it’s a thrill to listen to Flesh Panthers bridge the gaps between peace, love, and raging.

Want to hear us talk about this song? Check out episode #110 of our podcast at hlycrp.com.

HALLELUJAH THE HILLS, “People Keep Dying (And No One Can Stop It)”

From the rolling guitars carrying us through suburban houses and hospices to Ryan H. Walsh’s growling vocals that eventually erupt into throat-shredding yells, every part of this song feels ready to burst. It makes sense, because Hallelujah The Hills’ “People Keep Dying (And No One Can Stop It)” is grappling with a sad existential fact: with life, comes death. Everywhere they turn, from “the pages of a book nobody read” to “the corners of a song nobody needs,” the chanted chorus returns with the only honest answer: people keep dying and no one can stop it. Still, the Boston band exports us to another dimension in this track and releases that bubbling tension with never-ending guitar licks and expertly layered theremin throughout.

Want to hear us talk about this song? Check out episode #110 of our podcast at hlycrp.com.

Ep 122 – ‘Plight of the Worker’ With music by: Harriers of Discord, Astronotun Bir Gunu, Annabell Chairlegs, Benito Plaza, The Pack A.D., The Humms, Sweet Pill 

Best of the underground, week of Sept 8, 2020: Jobs we have known and disliked. First shot at a song about Middlemarch. Also, great great music. (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:

    • Cheers to Future Good Days by Astronotun Bir Gunu

    • Outside by Annabelle Chairlegs

    • Feel So Right by Benito Plaza (Prerelease)
    • Cobra Matte (live) by The Pack A.D.

    • Forward Cue by The Humms

    • Jenny by Sweet Pill

    • Velvet Tongue by Harriers of Discord

Ep 121 – ‘Follow Yourself Around’ With music by: Rich Girls, Derek Frye, Public Eye, A Place to Bury Strangers, Satanic Togas, Bodega, Tenement

Best of the underground, week of Sept 1, 2020: Victory laps. The Kennedys talk themselves into making a documentary and then talk themselves out of it. Also, great great music. (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:

    • The Fighter by Rich Girls

    • Stuck by Derek Frye

(prerelease)

    • Descending by Public Eye

    • I Walk Away by A Place to Bury Strangers

    • Underworld Cassingle Club 08.08.20 by Satanic Togas

    • Truth by Bodega

    • Your Sway (Keeps the Rot Away) by Tenement