The Fresh & Only's on Dirty Knobby + Dinowalrus pt2 podcast

Picked this up at Academy the other day after hearing a couple of people literally staring into the 7" case and talking about how good it was...that was enough for me. Nicely done raw 60's sounding grungy pop rock. Harmony and feedback, a beautiful combination.

They jammed two tracks onto the A-Side...the first one 'I'll tell you everything'...they get that nice fuzz from huge bass under everything, layers of distortion, but keeping everything separated and clean...it just sounds classic. Get a milkshake on rollerskates...but how it still sounds today, I'm not sure...it could be the feedback, or just the overall edge vocally.

I'm really loving 'I saw you seeing me'...this has a great background ahaaaha vocal melody with fast picked chorus reverb guitar...almost surf-like. I can feel the tiki torch heat. If I didn't know better this could really be on one of those wood door hot rod surfing compilation LP's, It wouldn't be at all out of place at all. Just a little tropical punk.
The straightforward unassuming vocals are a nice change for this style, not too affected and snarly or snotty, but not typical or too crooney.

500 snakes, the B-Side, gets a tiny bit more contemporary, bring it into 70's territory, something about the recorded quality of the guitar melody takes it there for me, like rocking Ariel Pink. I know, I'm obsessed.

Sold out at the source, Dirty Knobby Industries but the bands myspace still has a paypal button so get it from them or aquarius records who says:

FRESH & ONLYS, THE "I'll Tell You Everything & I Saw You Seeing Me" (Dirty Knobby) 7" 5.98 It's easy to forget that The Fresh & Only's are a new band as the songs they've been cranking out have the self-assuredness of a band who's been around for decades. Two new cuts of their garage pop sprinkled with enough punk spirit and weirdo undertones to make their songs always piques our interest. We hear a really cool Joe Meek influence in the sound of "I Saw You Seeing Me" proving that just because these folks are zoning in on some pure garage pop delight they haven't forgotten how to infuse nice touches of their wide range of musical influences into the mix. Can't seem to keep Fresh & Only's vinyl in stock too long, they're already flying out the door, so better grab one of these while you can.

As promised, the second part of the interview Dinowalrus. Episode 53 (22mb, 24min).
Pete talks about the difficulty with pressing your own singles, trying to tour outside NY, playing SXSW, booking your own shows, having a day job, and new tracks from a full length album.

T7IF.

Thank 7inches it's Friday.

I had nothing to do with it.

austerity program 7" on Hydrahead

Where the hell have I been? Austerity Program kicks ass.
I made a note of this being available at Aquarius and I just got around to giving this band a good listen.
First off...I feel like there are a few different camps of instrumental rock:
The Epic, drawn out emotional distortion instrumental of Explosions in the sky, This will destroy you, Red Sparrowes.
The mathy, jazz freakout technical fest of Tortoise, Don Cab, the Foals and finally a combination of the two....the minimal math distortion, uber metal of The Fucking Champs, Shellac and maybe, A Minor Forest. This fits into that final category...it's technical metal and then this vocal comes in that's Albini-esque yelling...and with a sense of humor.
But I'm listening to song 17b (all the 'songs' are titled this way - they say to take it up with Don Cab...no one gives them shit about their names) and I love the way it changes into more and more stuttered punches of bass....real primitive and hypnotic....this can't be a drum machine. They mention a drum machine every other sentence in their bio. The guitar follows the kick, then it's off the kick, then a high hat alternates...it's so ordered and these lyrics are really ridiculous, I mean people will look at you funny..and little kids hide this from your parents, they will start to ask all kinds of questions and make you go to Sunday School and see councilors.

Austerity Program: Limited new Hydra Head 7" from this way cool metallic drum machine noise rock duo.

Available from aquarius...all gone from Hydrahead.

The podcast is on it's way...you can be sure it's me and Matt, drunker then last week.

starving weirdos

Just found out this Starving Weirdos 7" back in stock/re-released and available through aquarius and always heard about these guys in the experimental/sound vein of things.
OuterSpaceGamelan reviewed a double CD a while back and I put two and two together finally.
I think it's like one of those things that you need some serious patience for and maybe even more leeway. I've read great things about them, and then just ok, but you know a couple bucks for a single from aquarius might just be the way to find out if it's something you'll be into.

I don't know No Neck blues band either that they keep being compared to, but a lot of the things from their Eastern Light double CD sounded like a long random jam with instruments thrown in here and there. I think a single is the perfect entry point to this ensemble psyche soundwork.

Starving Weirdos: First 7" from these awesome noisemakers, old 4-track stuff available for the first time, looped and trippy and awesome!