/|\(;,;)/|\ There's an ocean of music, and I'm swimming as hard as I can. I use this blog to post music & commentary; I hope you find something here that does it for you. Peace!
Listening to Woody Guthrie in 2012
Albums you have been sucked into in recent years even if they aren’t recent (read incessant repeat for days/weeks on end)…
That would be a long fucking list, dude; you don’t write a Music Blog unless you’re the sort of geek who routinely gets sucked into records, y’know? Lately, though, I’ve been lost in my Woody Guthrie records. Everything he sang about seems so much more relevant these days. Maybe it’s because of the elections, the recession, the storms pounding the east coast, riots and protests, an economy looted by greedy bankers and their lawyers, the drought that punished my native Midwest this summer. Funny thing is, I can’t think of any contemporary songwriter who’s engaging our times the way Woody engaged his.
Oh, and I’ve been crazy about Weird Party, my favorite new band. Not for any intelligent-sounding reasons I’d care to discuss, it’s just they’ve made a pretty badass debut album called Hussy and I can’t believe more people aren’t talking about this record because I can’t stop listening to it.
“Hussy” by Weird Party
Q: What am I hearing under the guitars on “Itinerant Romeo”? There’s this alarmlike thing I swear I’m hearing. Is there a hidden keyboard on that one?
Miller: In our practice space where we recorded it, our amps are usually blaring a Mexican radio signal, so maybe there’s some accordion playing along.
Here’s a slow burner by my favorite new band. Click “play” to hear a different kind of Blues—and to hear singer Shawn Adolph losing his goddamn mind.
This is my favorite new band, and I’m knocking my brains out trying to describe their sound in a way that does these records justice. They’re Punk, they’re Garage Rock, they’re Rockabilly on steroids. They owe as much to Iggy Pop as they do to Link Wray. Their lead singer sounds like Robert Johnson sold his soul to Glenn Danzig. They’ve got a southern-fried doom-laden attitude that makes me want to dance in a burning building. Enough talk, just fucking listen.
“Cockroach Heart” by Weird Party
Here’s a platter that matters. Remember a few months back when I was all brokenhearted because my favorite new band Weird Party broke up? Well, they got back together, and they’ve released their first LP, Hussy, which fulfills all the promise of their debut “Honey Slides” 7-inch—and then some. I’m too busy listening to this record over and fucking over again to properly describe their sound. Jesus fucking Christ, you’ve got to listen to this band.
“I Don’t Want You To Know” by Weird Party
My favorite new band, Weird Party, got back together, and all is right with the universe. If you want to know why I haven’t posted much lately, it’s because I’ve been too busy frightening my neighbors and alienating my girlfriend with this fucking record.
So, yeah—you know that new Garage Punk band from Houston I’ve been so crazy about? The bad news is, they broke up. The good news is, they did record that LP like they promised and you can download it right now for free.
If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go play their Honey Slides 7” over and over again.
Dear Weird Party—I am thoroughly in love with your Honey Slides 7”—I’ve posted both songs on my Tumblr and I’ve been playing this record all the damn time for three months now—so I’ve got to ask, do you have any plans to release another record anytime soon? Please and thanks.Sincerely,Doc Shoe
And oh hells yeah, when I got home from work I found they’d written me back:
doc shoe,
awesome, very glad you like it and thanks for posting about us. we recorded a 4 song EP and an LP not long ago. the EP will be out pretty soon on twistworthy records and we’ll probably put the LP out ourselves shortly after. we hope to keep your boner stabilized and possibly increase it’s magnitude upon our releaseskissesweird party
The anticipation is killing me.
Yes, I’m still playing that Weird Party 7” about a zillion times a day, and yes, it’s reached the point that my girlfriend is telling me either that record goes or she does. It’s too bad. I’ll really miss her.
Weird Party is a new Garage Rock band from Texas, and ever since their Honey Slides/Sarah Palin 7” arrived in my mailbox a few weeks ago, I’ve been irritating the piss out of my girlfriend by playing it roughly eleventy-billion times a day, every fucking day. I dearly hope this band puts out an LP sometime soon, even if it means I’ll be single shortly thereafter.
