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Song We Like: Abstract Art by Milk Dick

Abstact sax, Violent Femmes, Modern Lovers, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns: So dumb! So beautiful! So strange! We adore this band. (Listen to it on podcast #59, which you can find at www.hlycrp.com)

Ep 59: Milk Dick, Lumps, Ports of Spain, Max and the Martians, Spidey Spidey


Weekly-Mixtape-Podcast By and For Underground Musicians.This week: World cup! Music review-writing! Accidents! Rap! (Follow us on Facebook! Instagram! Twitter! And lots of stuff about these and other bands, including John’s extremely interesting weekly interviews, is at www.hlycrp.com.) 

Album Review: Romantic Superstore by Milk Dick

The scuz-folk genre, as represented here, features low-end production and very good, very simple songwriting with expressive vocals. It’s hard to capture exactly what’s going on here in words. Our favorite song: Renaissance Faire. (Reviewed on our #23 podcast, the Race to Sell Out.)

Podcast 23: The Race to Sell Out

In this episode John becomes a songwriter for the stars, gets peeping-tom’ed, uses the word ‘fuck’ a record-breaking nine times in one sentence, and is the most-fifth-excited he’s ever been in his life. Cinnamon makes a rock & roll mad-lib. Ed Madill of Wyla reveals that he chooses his band members based on how they smell. We also have excellent music: