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BUFFET is headed to Spokane this weekend! Tickets now available at Resurrection Records.
The Rich Hands Take Care of Business
The Rich Hands Take Care of Business
If one can tell what a band sounds like by the song titles then the brand new The Rich Hands record “Take Care” lays it all out: “Fast and Loose“; “I Gotta Move”; “Weekend Blues”; “Rollin’“; “Let It Ride…” You just know the Texas rock and rollers are channeling the late 60s, early 70s jangly rock and roll/R&B of the Faces and the Stones with the punky southern twang of the Drive-by Truckers.…
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SHADOWHOUSE - HAND IN HAND (Mass Media/Resurrection Records)
Music is like millions of small revolutions happening every hour of every day of every month of every year, in your head and in the heads of all the musicians in the world creating new music, each scrambling to find ways to say things that barely seem expressible before it appears, leaping from the imagination into the teeming, messy, viral world. Accepted or rejected or neglected, each revolution is claimed and compared by the faithful to every other revolution that’s ever been tested. Each revolution reveals universal yearnings, whether conscious or unconscious.
Music is evolution extending itself. Music is at once familiar and dangerous, built on top of countless layers of destruction. Genres like punk, hardcore, goth, and post-punk popularly return, on average, about every 8 to 10 years, to renew the franchise and upset the taste makers. Punk isn’t about being clever, nor is it just about aggression or spectacle. It’s necessary speech clawing its way toward whatever needs to be said.
Originally released by Mass Media Records on a very limited-edition vinyl pressing in 2014 and now reissued as a cassette by Resurrection Records, “Hand In Hand” by the Portland-based band Shadowhouse seems to spring forth fully formed as a polished post-punk throwback to the dark moods of Joy Division, Echo & the Bunnymen, and The Sisters of Mercy. It’s so close in kinship with these bands that you’d swear you’re back in the 1980s. But not so.
Even in today’s age, fractured by genres and sub genres, we get the music we need for the times we’re living in. Driven by the post-apocalyptic guitar lines and extraordinary voice of Shane McCauley, Shadowhouse renews the post-punk franchise by providing a time machine back to a sound and a feeling that at first listen feels more nostalgic than pioneering. But as the lyrics sink in, as the music swirls around you (you must play this record loud), songs like “Lonely Psalm,” “Toys,” and “Warning” demonstrate a stretching, searching quality that mark this record as something more than an imitation or homage to past times. “Hand In Hand” makes this a band to bookmark.
As a debut, the quality of this production, recorded in Portland and mixed in London by the punk tech masters at North London Bomb Factory, the energy of “Hand In Hand” invokes a raw, live performance in studio or in a small club. I have no idea how “Hand In Hand” was recorded, but engineers like to tame post-punk rockers into softer, more commercially mixed packages. If you’re unfamiliar with this impulse, compare the studio “Unknown Pleasures” by Joy Division with “Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979.” (Shane, call me! I want to write about how “Hand In Hand” was really made.)
The real test will be the next record from McCauley, Ashley Geiger (synthesizers), and Josh Hathaway (drums), to see how they will claim this space as their own.
The close ties of this band’s sound to Joy Division remind me of something the master revolutionary and immortal troublemaker Gandhi wrote, about being forced to work outside the oppressive boring mainstream of ideas and prejudices. He said first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
So it is for all those who venture into banal loyalties and sacred spaces. That’s the place that gave the world punk to begin with. The message from Shadowhouse seems to be it’s time to start again.
All text copyright John Ellison, 2016.
Record of the Day - "Last Chance" by The Primitive Hearts
Record of the Day – “Last Chance” by The Primitive Hearts
I love power pop / bubblegum music and anyone who can get me singing along on the 1st time around is doing it right. I spent hours yesterday listening to the bands on Resurrection Records label and I can pretty much guarantee you there are at least 10 bands that I will do features on from Resurrection Records in the upcoming…
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This March Resurrection Records will be releasing a 4-way split 7" featuring us, Cat Party, Terminal A, and Etilo Mañtalini! We are very excited for our previously unreleased version of 'Stay Away' (from our Haunted 7" sessions) is getting released alongside songs by some of our favorite West Coast bands happening right now! Stay Away is now available for stream/download on our BandCamp page. As for the vinyl, you will have to patiently wait. ;)
Guest Best Of 2014 List ~ Matt from LUNCH and Mike from Resurrection Records
Matt
The Estranged - The Estranged (Dirtnap)
The New Flesh - The Absurd (Deranged)
Vex - Sanctuary (Sacred Bones)
Moth - First Second (Mass Media)
Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems (Columbia)
Total Control - Typical System (Iron Lung)
Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (Hardly Art)
Various Artists - Killed By Deathrock Vol. 1 (Sacred Bones)
Blank Pages - Blank Pages (Dirt Cult)
No Problem - Already Dead (Deranged)
Mike
Sleep - The Clarity (Southern Lord)
The Blank Tapes- 1000 Leather Tassels / Mr. Mister (Volcom Entertainment)
OFF! - Wasted Years (Vice Records)
Shannon and The Clams / Guantanamo Baywatch - Split (Suicide Squeeze)
Audacity- Counting The Days (Suicide Squeeze)
Fugazi – First Demo (Dischord)
Night Birds - Monster Surf (Wallride)
Teledrome - Teledrome (F.D.H. Records)
Ty Segall - Manipulator (Drag City)
Digital Leather / The Hussy - Split (Southpaw)
Matt plays drums in the band LUNCH from Portland. Mike runs Resurrection Records, also based out of Portland, a label that releases music by LUNCH and many other fine bands.
TRMRS To Release Split 7'' With Night Beats, Announce Spring Tour Dates
By Joseph Rodriguez
Cali punkers TRMRS, who've been on a fucking warpath as of late, have a new split 7'' in the works with Night Beats. The split, which will be a co-released by Volcom Entertainment and Resurrection Records (released TRMRS' Sea Things LP) will be out this March. You can hear both of TRMRS' slowed down, psyched out offerings below, and check out the tour poster (made by Dusty Dirtweed) after the cut.
<a href="http://trmrs.bandcamp.com/album/goodtime-blues-7" _mce_href="http://trmrs.bandcamp.com/album/goodtime-blues-7">Goodtime Blues 7" by TRMRS</a>
2/25 Los Angeles, CA @ KXSC Fest
3/02 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room %
3/13 Ausint, TX @ Spiderhouse/29th St Ballroom #
3/16 Austin, TX @ Trailer Space (GET BENT! Showcase) %
3/17 Austin, TX @ Official SXSW @ Headhunters Patio
3/20 Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room #%
3/21 Des Moines, IO @ House of Bricks #%
3/22 Chicago @ Empty Bottle
3/23 Bloomington @ The Bishop #
3/24 St Louis @ The Gramophone #
3/25 Kansas City, KS @ Riot Room #
3/29 Albuqurque, NM @ Low Spirits #
3/30 Tucson @ Plush #
# w/ The Growlers
% w/ Night Beats