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Lightning Bolt-Earthly Delights

Some more weird spazzy angular noise rock from Providence RI’s favorite sons Lightning Bolt. All of their albums are the same and all of them are different.

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broke an arrow- late night beers 

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Late Night Beers - Waking (2013)

Back three months ago I went through a stint period where all I listened to was Bedroom Eyes and Late Night Beers interchangeably while frequenting the skeezier side of dive bars in the city. It was really odd, most was spent in stumbling through the streets back home wading through red and yellow ambient light, dodging taxi's, and pushing through the bullshit off the streets caked in vomit like paint stains. Whatever, it was 90 degrees during a cold day with swamp ass all over the weather radar. Regardless, that pretty much sums up my associations with Late Night Beers sound, reminding me of quietly wading through the veins of a hollowed out city that can only be available during the early hours of the morning, where the sun begins to crawl across the pavement, the cool air begins to melt into air, and eyes are worn by the mornings entrance. 

Late Night Beers is a band from Morris County, Nj, with an articulate sound that leaves the listener feeling as if the guitars both materialize and leave just as quickly as the melodies are formulated. Incorporating a unique sound of late 90's Emo influenced by the likes of Sunny Day Real Estate, and cry wanking legends American Football, it brings together a second portion of every emo kids favored listening material, the Smiths. With the vocalists harkening back to melodic tones a kin of frontman like Morrissey, Kinsella, or Curtis, it's a rare gem to find amongst the DIY scene. Part of a fostering scene of bands beginning to explore outside the box within the alt/rock/emo/shoegaze/punk/diy circle jerk we all have grown to know and love on sometimes too personal off a level, it's always enjoyable to see bands produce EP's where one is begging for material and full length recordings. For fans of Bedroom Eyes, Treatment, and Ovlov, as well as the "classic" emo albums. 

Bandcamp/ Free Download: http://latenightbeers.bandcamp.com/album/waking

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Fade - Fade (2013)

Alright, so to start things off I'm just going to have to say I know absolutely nothing about this band and do not for the life of me remember how I found 'em. According to their page their Brits from Bradford, UK playing some post - hardcore jamz. Think ash covered flannels while tripping to My Vitriol or Smashing Pumpkins. I dunno, maybe I just listened to too much D.C. 101 in middle school, but I've been playing this EP on repeat the entire weekend. Solid four allt/post hardcore throwbacks. 

Bandcamp/ Download: http://fadeband.bandcamp.com/

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Nayru- Recollections (2013)

So if you're like most kids in the scene, it appears everyones mood default is often just melancholy. Being beaten down by the drudgery of a lack of future amongst your apathetic peers, trying not to lay your head on a good set of train tracks, and getting torn apart by coercive authorities, it gives most growing up under neoliberalism feeling that internal rage that can make you nauseas. This is what I feel that internal rage would sound like. Hailing from San Diego, these screaming homies have produced one of the best scramz (lawl) albums I've heard this year, combining both frantically articulate instrumentation, quite beautiful twinkly parts, and just pure un-adulterated driving rage, this album asks for you to sit the fuck down and follow the caravan of driving anthems. In vain of much of Jerome's Dream, as we are seeing a revival of in the scene, these guys execute a style that both pays homage to the cult classic band, as well as distinguishing themselves in their own. With cutting lyrics (if you sit down and read 'em...) and an album that seems orchestrated with conscious movements and insights, it gives on the feeling of what I would feel one would catagorize as Americana scramz. This album, to me, reflects the generation of kids that grew up in a post-9/11 world surrounded by anime, drugs, anxiety, disappointment, suburban decay, and rage. Honestly though this may just be to in-depth and they could just be writing about video-game characters and drug addictions. What the fuck ever. For fans definitely of late 90's emo and screamo, definitely grab the free download when you can. 

Bandcamp/Free Download: http://nayru.bandcamp.com/

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Treatment - Treatment EP

Maybe I've been smoking too much, maybe it's the incoming of fall, but listening to this album really touches on both for me. Treatment hailing from I think is Watchung, New Jersey (according to their bandcamp, like fuck I know their lives...) playing what I would imagine would be the sound of a hazy fall afternoon if it could make noise. Or it sounds like a band. Playing nostalgic and quant tunes, they nail the twinky yet fuzzy 80's haze pop sound that is being harkened back to. Definetely for fans of Whirr, Anne, and Letting Up Despite Great Heights or just homies that would love to see a combo of The Hated and The Cure. Enjoy. 

Bandcamp/  *Free* Download: http://treatmentforu.bandcamp.com/album/treatment-ep

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The Decomposing State: Day 13/ Government Breakdown - Fuck Your Health

So if you live in the States you know damn well now that we are living in a something akin to every libertarian's dream. The state is refusing to function even remotely when trying to incorporate social security nets, we have a far right fraction espousing a concocted wordvomit containing gibberish of Ayn Rand and Doomsday Christianity motifs, private property and capital are still secured, and the entire populace is being driven to the breaking point of insanity. But sometimes during these fuzzy limbo periods of C-SPAN blurbs and cataclysmic economic crisis, their are some pretty solid albums that come out in the thick of it. Enter Government Breakdown, a thrashy punk band flying out of Gainesville, Florida. According to their bio it includes:

Members of Dikembe, Young Hookers, and Battle! got all pissed off about the government closing and recorded this record about it. Get one before the government gets it shit together and these arent relevant anymore.

So to the actual music. The album fucking rips. Done in true DIY fashion, I imagine this album was written, recorded, and mastered within a matter of days. The recording of this is fucking sharp, though. Not as sharp, in my opinion, as the lyrics. It has been a solid year or two since I've seen a sharp punk album criticizing current events as it's focus.

Maybe I have kept my head under the sand, maybe I've played on Ruined Families and Baader Brains for to long. Regardless, these furiously witty lyrics are just the sing-a-long, protest like chants punk and emo dweebz need to get down with. Unfortunately with everyone under the age of 30 now finding it difficult to imaging a world where neoliberalism doesn't terrorize everyone or a world where the Youth talk critically about politics on a daily basis, this is an album I see finally giving into the wave of a politically aware punk culture in the U.S. I have seen fuck ton's of kids in the DIY scene these days unfortunately fetishizing the merch, the appearance, and just the aesthetics of the "scene" rather than the subversive politics that underlie playing in a dirty as fuck basement. The lyrics on this album, including the names of politicians holding the government hostage to drawing the line of neither political parties are worth shit, is just the wave of records that would be fucking rad to see become a thing. A good swingback against the reactionary merchxdudebrozx that could center in a political base. Regardless, besides my fantasies of a world where the U.S. punk scene could become an actual political force, like the Anti-Fascist crews in Europe. Anyways, the style is a seriously driving southern florida thrash than anyone could enjoy, and are perfect for stalely hitting res hits while furiously watching the news. You know, normal people stuff. 

Bandcamp/Download: http://governmentbreakdown.bandcamp.com/album/fuck-your-health

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David Rovics - Vanguard

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First as a tragedy, than as a farce./ Wild Honey

Sorry kids' for the indefinite hiatus of this blogs content. I have been mad busy with organizing and university, but do not fret, for those who stuck it through the long hall are about to get a good dose of tunez before you know it. To keep ya'll amused though here's a band from the weekend I saw that I was super stoked on. It's a pretty solid active shoegaze band from Baltimore that was on tour with Slow Warm Death and dreamdecay. They play a very punk influenced and driving shoegaze. If you don't dig 'em I don't know what's up your shorts. Check em out and stuff. 

Bandcamp/Free Download: http://wildhoneysound.bandcamp.com/

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for fans of emo/punk/hardcore

exciting news coming on Halloween! oooh, mysterious

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Local-ish record label started up by rad people. Check it.

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this is a sampler of close to 30 bands from dc, maryland and virginia that are doing really sweet things within the scene. there’s punk, hardcore, screamo, powerviolence, emo, folk, drone and pop punk, so it’s safe to say there’s a little something for everybody.

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hit it up and spread it around! the dmv is an awesome place to be making music these days and this is my way of sharing my excitement.

1. You Can’t Go Home Again - The Usual (MD) 2 …Must Come to an End - Perfect Future (MD) 3. Ambience - Bath Salts (MD) 4. Book Burner - Caust (VA) 5. Feign Respect - Thick Skin (DC) 6. Departure - Kilgore Trout (VA) 7. Long Live Old Age - Curse (MD) 8. Relief - The Pessimist Hangs the Optimist (MD) 9. I Had Three Or a Lot of Beers - Sinatra (VA) 10. Alec Baldwin Orgy - Cheyenne (VA) 11. Hollow Hands - [This is not for you] (MD) 12. Nervose - Voyage in Coma (MD) 13. Cracks - Highfives! (MD) 14. You Could Be a Room I Don’t Go In - Cape Farewell (VA) 15. Misled Youth - Misled Youth (DC) 16. Give Me Back to the Sky - Teen Suicide (MD) 17. Facebank - Carved Our Names in Snow (VA) 18. Goodbye, I Guess - Studying (VA) 19. Bitter At Best - Trust Fall (VA) 20. Home - Passengers (MD) 21. It Only Gets Worse - Unsacred (VA) 22. Winterman - The Noodle$ (VA) 23. Liar - Halcyon (VA) 24. Born Blind - Refiner (VA) 25. I Know It’s Hard But… - Oklahoma Car Crash (VA) 26. XII - Loud? (VA) 27. Dead Weight - Whenskiesaregray (MD) 28. The Chemical Makeup of Your Eyes - Dementia and Hope Trails (MD)

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hey, I just wanted to do a quick post. I’m Rhys and I did shit for Violent- Days way back. I’ll be posting mostly hardcore and noise/shoegaze shit on here, and I’d thought I’d start with an album that is completely unrelated to those genres.

Down Colorful Hill is probably the best...

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I can fade it.

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Everyone Everywhere- Everyone Everywhere (2012)

So for those of you who don't know, Everyone Everywhere is a Philly based band that plays everyone's favorite college jamz/ dad rock emo as far as the eye can see. This bands releases over the past three years have meant a lot to me both lyrically and sentimentally where the music really brings up a large array of feelings. These guys literally rip in all sense of the word. Both musically talented and laid back this band releases it's second full length which somehow surpassed it's first. Everything this band has released has been done with both DIY ascetic and precision in my opinion. This latest album for them is both lyrically terrific and musically astounding with a great combination delivering a 90's indie rock vibe with the jangly emo that everyone loves. Delivering both beer chugging and contemplative nostalgically driven tracks this band really brings a seminal college jam for myself and has been the album I have been going back to everyday.

  Everyone Everywhere (2012)

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The Mosaic- The Mosaic (s/t)

Alright so I ended up stumbling upon these guise from We Last Longer (Follow this dood) where they put it as much as I know about these guys, "Three tracks ep from this five piece band from New York, their fine mixture of post-rock/post-hardcore and shoegaze is supported by the use of different instruments like cello and trumpets, giving some variation to a great song writing." Basically hitting the nail on the head, these guys present a pretty "Mature" sound to them. I have been really digging the structure of this release alot. Check it.

Bandcamp download: The Mosaic

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Bdrmeyes (Bedroom Eyes)- What Are You Wrong With

Bdrmeyes is a New Hampshire band that has been one of the best releases of 2012 for me. The band comprising of members of L'antiem and other east coast skramz rockers, bring about a sound that is both refreshing and innovative for me. It may be the background I have with "indie rock" or my new grind on Shoegaze (which seems to be everyone in the "Emo/Screamo scene") but the feeling of this album is a breath of fresh air. Coinciding with the change of seasons, this album can make you feel that fuzzy melancholy feeling when walking down cobble stone roads staring at a glistening sun. Or, you could just really dig fuzzed out guitars. This album from start to finish provides a fantastic mix of shoegaze, 90's emo, and a type of charm the likes 90's indie legends Dinosaur Jr. could deliver. It wavers about the album with energetic and calm tracks making it a very entertaining album to mess around with. Don't miss out 'em.

Download: What Are Wrong With You

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Dawn Treader - Post Mortem

Missing in action is usually a good way to put most of my hiatus' from the internet, which is usually between bickering with people on the left on the internet, bong rips, and downloading more music than I could listen to. So due to this drop off, I'm going to come in strong from the hiatus with some new reviews of classics and such throughout today. Starting with a very under appreciated band from my area, Dawn Treader. Dawn Treader during high school for me was the screamo super group that ripped through the shows they would play with velocity of most grimy punk bands in a basement, but with the musical structure I was not used to. Comprising of members of Monument, The Summer We Went West, Pansori, and others, this group packed an immense punch in the Maryland scene since 2001. This band combines the fast waves of noise blasting over you to the serene quite moments of articulated piano parts and quite noodly bits. Unfortunately this band is mainly inactive these days, where even I thought they where pretty much done with up until the snowstorm of 2010 where I saw this album pop up around the internets. Album rips, messy recording though. Definitely check out if you are from the DMV area to get a good history listen of some of the skramz sound before 2009.

Download: Post Mortem