Tag Archive for: underground music

Song We Like: Whistle Blower by FOOLS.

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. These guys have a full-on art gang, so if they actually play this and start marching in the same direction they will start the revolution.

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Song We Like: Altars To Myself by Blanky

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. Halfway through the song a sax rides into this creation with this wave of emotion and anguish. This is heartbreak at its most bitter sweet.

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Song We Like: Blood Baby by Shaken Nature

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. Shaken Nature has created a fully 3-dimensional outlaw mythology around their band – and this is the fulfillment of their first releases. They are bad-asses. It’s a harder psychedelic sound, spaced-out distorted vocals, heading toward a meaner Cream influenced sound.

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Band Management: Blog 49: Label Mates

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.
Since I started this blog I have discovered so many great underground music labels and underground music publications. So many great underground bands. I love the DIY ethos – no one is stopping me – so why not do it?
We’re helping the revolution in the smallest most innocuous way possible. Holy Crap Records has released one single by The Styrofoam Turtles and one single by “Band A” – you can find them at bandcamp: https://holycraprecords.bandcamp.com/
– or you can find them on the www.hlycrp.com website.
I’ve sent out these bands’ releases to 30 indie/underground/local radio stations and to 11 underground music publications. “Band A” got played on 98.1 The River this week.
And on this Sunday evening these two bands will be playing at Static Age-Records.
The Styrofoam Turtles are the best, kindest, most talented, most passionate rockers around the Asheville scene. At Holy Crap Records we celebrate “song” – the art form of song – and these kids can write songs. They’ve produced two albums that are busting with hits. We’re lucky to be able to share their single. Their live shows are also insane. Tristen Colby has a family background in the semi-professional rural wrestling circuit – and he brings all that drama and madness to the stage. Josh Davis is very well behaved…
And “Band A” is the worst kept secret in the local underground music scene…
See you all on Sunday night…

Ep 79 – The Horrible Challenge of All Art. Feat: Shaken Nature, The Flesh Panthers, Blanky, Domino and the Derelicts, FOOLS.

Ep 79 – The Horrible Challenge of All Art. Feat: Shaken Nature, The Flesh Panthers, Blanky, Domino and the Derelicts, FOOLS.

Best of the underground, week of Nov 12, 2019: John does the splits. The edge of genius. And introducing: F*ck You (the album). (All podcasts are on itunes and spotify, and reviews plus podcasts are on our website, www.hlycrp.com. And you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and, reluctantly and occasionally, Twitter.) We love you artists 💚

Song We Like: Yer Nature’s Kind by The Cannonball Jars

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…) Benjamin Hatch can just write the hell out of a great hooky, indie, pop song – with heavy influences by The Beatles and The Kinks. This is Ben’s latest creation – which is all sweetness and prettiness. Ben is like a one-man Brill building on the indie underground scene.

Song We Like: Calling by the Booji Boys

Song We Like: Calling by the Booji Boys

They are called the best punk rock band – and here things get a little fuzzy – The best punk rock band ever? The best punk rock band now? The best punk rock band of Nova Scotia? Doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter that I can’t understand the lyrics at all. This is super fast drum rolls – and then whatever chords they’re playing, whatever notes they’re picking, whatever melody line this guy is singing – this is the best punk rock ever!

Song We Like: Fetish by Peachy

Song We Like: Fetish by Peachy

These guys combine wonderful post-punk with straight up rebel grrrl – riot grrrl. Man you had me with that repetitive guitar riff and tight-as-hell drumming, and then, and then – she doesn’t care about your texts. She doesn’t care about your texts at all. However, she’s open to a little bondage and stuff…

Song We Like: She’s On My Mind by The Oh Balters

Song We Like: She’s On My Mind by The Oh Balters

First and foremost – these guys are fun. This is a little tongue-in-cheek, a little lounge singer indie rocker, with a beautiful fuzzed out groovy guitar and a swing in the bass and drums. Then these guys can sing a chorus. It rolls up like a wave and takes you on this great ride. Sweet sing-along catchiness. Totally the coolest.

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