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Song We Like: Dysphoria by Elliott Kage Jones (Schoolboy Cubemaster)

Song We Like: Dysphoria by Elliott Kage Jones (Schoolboy Cubemaster)

Beautiful, loosely-knit sounds will lull you into maybe not noticing that this is a song about existential crisis, and the pain of shedding an old identity in a quest for redefinition. (Featured on our #39 podcast, Long Neck.)

Song We Like: Hoochie Coochie by Your Idiot Brother

Song We Like: Hoochie Coochie by Your Idiot Brother

The Black Keys meet a theater kid who knows how to play a ton of instruments. That is our speculation, but we really have no idea who or what he’s about. Your Idiot Brother is an intriguing mystery, like something from a Nancy Drew book. (Featured on our #39 podcast, Long Neck.)

 

Songs We Like: Daydrinking/Beerpressure by Scum Shots

Songs We Like: Daydrinking/Beerpressure by Scum Shots

If you’re skateboardin’, gun-totin’, and beer swillin’, then you can pretend like you don’t have real talent, but we see through you. Scum Shots is one to watch. (Featured on our #39 podcast, Long Neck.)

Songs We Like: Intro/The Drifter by the 1865

Songs We Like: Intro/The Drifter by the 1865

If you think maybe you’ve heard everything, the 1865 is here to assure you that you definitely have not. Their exploration of slavery is tense, loud and fraught, but their 21st century perspective can’t help but bring in a little humor and funkiness too. Definitely listen. (Featured on our #39 podcast, Long Neck.)

 

Song We Like: Dream Reader by Frankiie

Song We Like: Dream Reader by Frankiie

An all-female band from Canada who sound beautiful and look beautiful (that last part is not their fault). On our podcast I forgot to talk about their totally interesting high-concept video. Here it is:

(Featured on our #39 podcast, Long Neck.)

Podcast 38 – Dating Advice

Podcast 38 – Dating Advice

What John will do to you if you try to stage-dive on him. Cinnamon identifies a juul in real life. Dating advice, both bad and worse. And of course our music is excellent:

Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song. (Please take a second to like Holy Crap Records on Facebook and friend us or whatever on Twitter.)

Song We Like: Under the Microscope by Matthew Santos

Song We Like: Under the Microscope by Matthew Santos

The male Adele. We didn’t say that first, but if someone has said that about you once, you really need no further descriptors. And since a good tide raises all the boats, we welcome this grammy-nominated singer to our cast of misfits. Just listen to him sing. (Featured on our #38 podcast, Dating Advice)

Song We Like: Kill No More by Lo Wolf

Song We Like: Kill No More by Lo Wolf

Humongous talents are everywhere, evidently, hiding in plain sight, working in the coffee shop in your town. We’re proud to have sort-of found an amazing voice that everyone in Asheville aside from us was already aware of. She can fucking write (and fucking sing) a country pop song. (Featured on our #38 podcast, Dating Advice)

Song We Like: Artificial Things by Eerie Point

Song We Like: Artificial Things by Eerie Point

Indie music and blues rock crash together in a way that is both poetic and powerful. This guy has some big lungs and the band really knows what they’re doing. We love having this kind of company on the road to ruin. (Featured on our #38 podcast, Dating Advice)