Hlycrp.com 2020 holiday song contest Submission 5: Oh Santa by Tin Roof Echo
Holiday Songs 2020, Songs We LikeAh yeah man! This song is funny. Also funny is the reality of being in a house, doing a call and response about santa by yourself. We’ve all been there, right? Oh! Santa! Oh! 2020
Hlycrp.com 2020 holiday song contest Submission 4: The Old Man, by Tin Roof Echo
Holiday Songs 2020, Songs We LikeMetal! But not the satan kind, the hair kind. With cool kinds of talking and incomprehensibly inspiring holiday references. Rock on, Tin Roof Echo!
Hlycrp.com 2020 holiday song contest Submission 3: The Sleigh by Tin Roof Echo
Holiday Songs 2020, Songs We LikeA pensive, wnc-sounding song that asks the eternal question, What DO you do when you see a big man fly across the sky?
Hlycrp.com 2020 holiday song contest Submission 2: “Out in the Snow” by Tin Roof Echo
Holiday Songs 2020, Songs We LikeThis song is so for real it sounds like it’s from JC Penny Presents the Greatest Stars of Christmas, and that is the ultimate compliment from this reviewer
Holiday Submission 1: Hly Crp its Xmas by Solo Side Project
Holiday Songs 2020, Songs We LikeThe irrational enthusiasm of the intro is paired with Rasmussen’s dark beats, aching melody and many F-bombs to make a strange ode to an extremely strange holiday season. This song was made on a nintendo switch.
Blog 55: Band Management, Social Media Mismanagement, and Booking Shows…
Songs We Like, The Music EconomySo here’s the story, I think. I was filming and traveling all last week – and I got kicked off FB. I made a FB page called PAnon which was a parody of the QAnon movement – please please FB don’t take down this page too – I’m just trying to explain what I think happened here. It was funny for a minute – and then not so funny. All my FB content has been taken down permanently. Oh man, do I have to be a wise-ass all the time?
It’s a pain because Egg Eaters have a show this Saturday night at Seven Sisters Tap Room Black Mountain, NC at 7pm – with the amazing Amber Grace Joyner – and FB really is a good way to post an event and get the word out. Please wear a mask and socially distance – we love music venues and we want them to stay open.
I will now try to fix my karma: people ask me about booking and so this is my guarded insight into booking a show. Be very real. Be very real in creating new and interesting music, that really reflects your inner light or your inner darkness. Take your heart out and show it. Be very real when you play a show – and be grateful to the booker and the sound guy. Be very real with the other bands – scream and shout and dance and really get into their shows. Be more than words. However you spend your time shows exactly what you value. Go out to other shows. Be real. Fall in love with other bands. Adore another band’s music. Tell them. Fall in love with the music venues. Make your favorite experience a night at a small music venue watching loud bands. Bring your friends. The people who run the underground music venues do this because they are real. They really love music. They have dedicated their life to this music. They curate an authentic sound of this underground art. If you are doing the same then you will be in the same revolution. Your relationships with other bands and with music venues will be real – and then it will be easy to book shows.
I want to take a step back for a moment. I work in video/film. I have watched very successful reporters and directors charm an interviewee and then when they get the answer or soundbite – then they are done. I try to love everyone I film. I think every story is the coolest. Every life is an amazing narrative. I try to really connect and raise them up as heroes. We, Holy Crap Records Podcast and our crew and friends, we really try to be authentic with every piece of music we play. We fall in love with your songs every week. It is October and the nights are getting darker. Pandemic levels are rising again. It is hard to be real and vulnerable now. But now is the time to be smart and go out to those live shows and wear masks and socially distance and tip your music venue. Now is the time to be real with your friends. To tell the other bands and musicians in the scene how much you adore them – and not fake but real. Now is the time to be real with the music we create. What we do know will be remembered. Give and give and give until it bleeds.
GARETT HATCH, “Moment Undone”
Songs We LikeI 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”
Songs We LikeSure 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”
Songs We LikeTraveling 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.