Entries by Johnny P

`Quarantine 8: Defining the New Reality’ With music by: The Venomous Pinks, The Rizzos, Extradition Order, Derek Frye, Stevie and the Sleaze, Mary Ellen Bush, Toolbelt Sextoy

Best of the underground, week of May 5, 2020: The REAL reason why John can’t do guitar solos. Anarchists vs. New-Agey people. Who Dolly Parton should and should not be friends with. (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.)  […]

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With You by Lavender Blue

So much haunting beauty and intensity in this open reverb drenched guitar and spare vocals. I don’t want to be lonely with anyone else but you. This is the intimate diary of isolation and disconnection and withdrawing – mirrored in both the beauty, the sluggish and languid reflection, and moments when the guitar and song […]

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Holocaust of Giants by Rasputina

I’m a sucker for cello. Aggressive rock, punked out cello.  And I’m a total sucker for the story of magical creatures, these giants, that used to roam our Ohio valley. This idea that there is a magic that we’ve lost, that has become extinct, is a fantastic metaphor for creativity. There is a magic that […]

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OUTLAW VILLAGE by Toga!

This song is very close to my heart – evoking these post punk musical ideas of New Model Army, The Alarm, U2 (Sunday Bloody Sunday era) and even Bad Religion. It is music that should ring in the air as you march into battle (even if the battle anthem is Sunday Bloody Sunday and a […]

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DIET CIG “Harvard”

This was and will always be a massive track for me. This is distorted garage guitar and smashed drums and vocals that lean heavily on narrative and attitude. Alex Luciano sings the story of a boy from her hometown choosing the other girl, the girl who has her act together, who is going off to […]

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Telemarket “That’s What Friends Are For”

This is the perfect shaggy low-fi song. Following on from the movement led by The Moldy Peaches back in the 2000s, this is folk, anti-folk, easy and comfortable and fun. The production is shambolic with an acoustic guitar and some background whistling, perfect for street or porch performances. But the tune is wonderful and the […]

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Fixed Faces “Get Tough”

It’s wonderful to have friends across the underground music scene – and when you’re having a blue day Joey from Fixed Faces sends you their latest unreleased song “Get Tough.” Hell – these guys can write a pop song. Somehow the British Invasion is alive and well in Greenville. This is The Kinks at their […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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