Johnwood, fartwall, and blood popsicle: three gross ideas that you will only hear explained here. Also, a rock history lesson from John, and an inconclusive speech about Patreon. Plus lots of great music! (Follow us on Facebook! Instagram! Twitter! And lots of stuff about these and other bands, including artist interviews, is at www.hlycrp.com.)
Sweet Beast (EP) by Illiterate Light The new marriage of rock and pop is not just about synths and squeaky girls (we like those too). It’s about rock musicians who are tuning their music to a new level of catchiness without sacrificing integrity. Let’s all go see Illiterate Light at Lalapalooza in August.
Gabriel Bernini just released his favorite record yet called “Record For Bailey,” for which he made all of the songs on his own in his basement on Lovefield St. in Easthampton MA. He has another record in the works at the moment called “Sweeties” that should be out later this year. We featured his song […]
The maximum-integrity HLYCRP editors broke our own rules about covers for this one (it was written by Jeffrey Lee Pierce & The Gun Club). All covers should be like this: Quinn Powers took a song by someone else and made it totally about himself. It’s lighter and prettier than the original, and totally, completely, 100% […]
4383 by The Mongrels A deceptively-complex song, in which the mongrels’ satan/not-satan singer digs into some big poetry about religion and commerce, while pretending to be just some Irish fucker at a bar (they’re not Irish, they *claim*). Nice work.
If you’ve been paying attention to the HLYCRP facebook page, you notice that our likes have taken a sharp upturn. You were probably like, “Have they gotten cooler? Or has Cinnamon Kennedy finally hacked the system of Mark Zuckerberg?” The answer is the latter. I figured out how to buy likes, and here’s how you […]
Ep by Mega X The beauty is in the details! It takes musicians who’ve been doing this a while to come up with something so perfectly balanced. This is a great song for the soundtrack of your high-drama life. (His teeth were perfect! He was wearing a jacket made of spun glass!)
“Dysphoria” by Elliott Kage Jones, winner of the coveted Cinnamon Kennedy Lyrics Award
With Every Breath You Die by Day & Dream This is shoegaze: it goes on and on, and the colors all fade into each other, and we’re dreaming. The whole album is like that. Very nice. It’s so hard to believe that this many layers of sound were created by two people that I’m going […]