May 22
Another Man's Treasure - Vaguess (2025)
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Another Man's Treasure - Vaguess (2025)
Contra2025-12
13092025 (-All New-)
The 12th playlist of the year!!
TRACKLIST:
Spoon - Guess I'm Falling In Love Bright Eyes - Dyslexic Palindrome (feat. Hurray For The Riff Raff) Acapulco Lips - Fuzzy Sunshine Vaguess - Look Away Tebby & The Heavy - Happenstance Sharp Pins - (I Wanna) Be Your Girl Laundry Bats - Nightmare Wreckless Eric - Lifeline Reverend Beat-Man & Milan Slick - I Found Out Thurston Moore - Temptation Inside Your Heart (Velvet Underground) Cool Whip - Flame In My Heart Gut Health - Beat To Beat The Hives - Roll Out The Red Carpet Dragnet - Claires Whip Dick Move - Nurses Loose Lips - Last Laugh Curtis Harding - The Power Electric Prawns 2 - Wasted
LISTEN: https://www.mixcloud.com/Contraflow/contra2025-12-13092025-all-new-/
I was tagged by @the-foolll ☺️ (thank you)
RULES: Shuffle your on repeat, favorites, or liked songs and list the first 10 songs that come up
Consider yourself tagged if you wanna— haven’t done one of these in awhile 🥹
3/19/26.
Under The Gun Records (East Los Angeles, California) has come across my radar again less than a month after posting about Welt Star and reminding us about Sims Hardin's excellent SOCIETY.
I've been listening to 2M80's "S/T" even though they have recently released "Popcorn Ceilings". The reason is simple; there is only one song available on "Popcorn Ceilings" while you can stream "S/T" in its entirety.
My first impression when listening to 2M80 was a great combination of Australian pop and Beat Happening. I kept thinking of Terry or Primo!. But as I listened a second or third time it was clearly Butterglory.
2M80 are made of of Staz Lindes (The Paranoyds) and Vinny Earley (Vaguess). Both are based in Los Angeles. Vaguess has been mentioned on the blog 3 times in the past. The Paranoyds have been mentioned once.
5/7/24.
Vaguess (Los Angeles, California) is the vehicle for the work of Vinny Earley. To be honest, I fully expected this band to be Australian rather than from Los Angeles. And this is really entirely my fault. I've come to associate Los Angeles with Uni Boys and Billy Tibbals - power pop/punk. Not that either band wouldn't like Vaguess, but this release sounds more post-punk than power pop. And as much as I've come to associate Los Angeles with power pop, this brand of angular post-punk makes me think of Australia (Ausmuteants).
Erste Theke Tontraeger (ETT) is releasing this LP - and this makes me think of a cross between Germ House and Wounded Lion (neither of which, oddly, are Australian).
The Bandcamp write-up brings to attention the title of the last song "Profit or Punk?". Great title, great song, and great attitude. The write up ends, "In summation: Save Vinny Earley, may his reign last a thousand years."
6/10/23.
Not sure how I missed out on hearing Lip Readers before today. The band is made up of members from Ovens, Tony Molina and New Faultlines. They were part of the vibrant (and still vibrant) Oakland scene.
The music on "Clean Kitchens EP" is an excellent representation of the aforementioned bands.
This was released in 2020 on Los Angeles based label Refry Records. Be sure to check out Vaguess - great garage rock in the vein of Gentleman Jesse or The Black Lips.
