Morgan Hug, stage name Organ Mug, was featured on our # 29 podcast for his beautiful and strange and bewitching song A Somewhere Place. (In that podcast Cinnamon briefly taught herself how to pronounce the word “Lausanne” – don’t worry she has already forgotten). Organ Mug’s new EP Here & There came out in February, whereupon […]
Expanding the range of post-hardcore with some truly interesting drums that have almost a steel-drum kind of note (John calls them ‘tinny-tommy’ drums).
At the moment, DM works. If you want to reach a bar or a promoter or a music magazine, and — importantly — you can figure out the actual right person to talk to, DM them. Here’s why they’ll probably respond: chances are that that person (who is in the business of promotion) is working […]
Winnie Richards by Winnie Richards Top notch lyrics plus a little-girl-singing-from-the-bottom-of-a-hole sound gets real good when they add some swingin beats and thick strings and stuff halfway through. Really nice choices.
Hey, guess what? Music behemoths are forming an army of giants in order to fight you and your band. That is something that you should probably take as a compliment, but it is also, obviously, nuts. Spotify, Pandora, Amazon and Google are literally crying to the DC Court of Appeals that they will go under […]
I think I grew up with so much New Wave in my brain that I can’t distinguish New Wave from the sounds of birds singing. To me it just sounds good. John says New Wave means ‘catchy’, so clearly he has no idea either. Good job to Tongues of Fire. Find it here.
Pretty, thoughtful production that is complex and spare, like a big empty church. This song is creepy and interesting and it stays in your mind.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Holy Crap Records may be changing our name! Find out why! And to what!!! Also, how to hear dead people, how to be attractive, Cinnamon’s #1 and #2 local drummers, and many thoughts about implied profanity. (Lots of stuff about these and other bands, including artist interviews, is at www.hlycrp.com.)
So Bigtime: The Southby Band Migration. The cantaloop-calf biking men of Austin. Ugly-head Kennedy’s poncho fetish. Also, importantly, why Mark Zuckerberg has you by the balls, and what to do about that. (Please take a second to like Holy Crap Records on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram)