Song We Like: Mission on Uranus by The Bahareebas
Probably this Swiss band, The Bahareebas, don’t live anywhere near the beach, let alone get much time for surfing. But surf rock is in their blood – it is their blood.
Entries by Johnny P
Song We Like: Too Much by Bad Bangs
Must be something about the Melbourne scene. They just send me so many great shaggy garage rockers. This is unhurried fun. The singer is the epitome of cool and the bass keeps this train bumping down the track.
Song We Like: Whistle Blower by FOOLS.
Straight out of the Bad Religion and Dead Kennedy’s school of maximal punk. This is a call to arms, a march, the song you want to hear when you charge the barricades.
Song We Like: Fuck You by the Domino and the Derelicts
Boil down all of punk rock and this is what you’ll hear – “I hear that you’re back for me, but all I have to say is bye – stop wasting my time.”
Song We Like: Altars To Myself by Blanky
One of the most true and wonderful vocalists – just bleeding melody in a massive cave, dripping with reverb.
Song We Like: Creation Bound by The Flesh Panthers
The most groovy laid-back singer in the underground music scene. This is such a pretty piece of county – maybe even jam-band influenced. Goddamn.
Song We Like: Blood Baby by Shaken Nature
This song is wrapped around a wonderful driving beat, like a train-robbing gang hurtling through a wild pass during a lightning storm.
Band Management: Blog 49: Label Mates
This year I am managing “Band A” and the single “Pipe” by The Styrofoam Turtles.
While the mainstream doesn’t even know we exist and the corporate music universe pays us no attention – here in the darkness and cold damp the mold and fungus is growing, the first one-celled organisms are crawling out of the primordial swamp.
Song We Like: Yer Nature’s Kind by The Cannonball Jars
The Cannonball Jars were part of a wave of bands that changed the Asheville underground music sound forever (ahem Kitty Tsunami, Thee Sidewalk Surfers…)