2012 – Sleeping Village

Anchors – High And Low

The Village — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 03:34:00 +0000

I’m going to do a bunch of posts of bands playing Fest13 this year that I knew nothing about 20 minutes ago…

A “more punk” Banner Pilot?

Mountain Man – And live in the past.

The Village — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:48:55 +0000

Mountain Man – And Live In The Past.

I’ve always had an unexplainable love of bands with two drummers.

No Anchor – Loose Gravel

The Village — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 02:42:12 +0000

The Golden Bridge, as a whole is pretty uneven. The slow tracks almost sound like another band entirely. The the rockers, are balls out.

P.O.S – Fuck Your Stuff

The Village — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:09:56 +0000

We Don’t Even Live Here was one of the most punk records I heard in 2012.

Horseback – Golden Horn

The Village — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:26:56 +0000

Impale Golden Horn, is way more “petty post-rock” than a lot of the band’s other releases.

Pigs – Scrum

The Village — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:21:00 +0000

Pigs – Scrum

One of you guys is is Unsane? No Shit. I’d never have guessed.

Sore Saints – Timewaster

The Village — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 23:57:48 +0000

Noise rock with some gloom. So good.

Blacklisters – Swords

The Village — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 03:35:16 +0000

I get the distinct feeling that I should not like this band. I can’t really put my finger on why, though. Maybe is the WWE sweatshirt I saw several times while looking for a photo to post or that it looks like they only play giant festivals or empty rooms.

Never the less I keep listening the the album. They crib the Jesus Lizard pretty hard, but there are definitely worse things to steal from.

Incredibly mixed review aside, I really do like the album a fair bit and definitely think its worth checking out.

Burning Love – Pig City I

The Village — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:47:23 +0000

I wasn’t as into the album this song is from (Rotten Thing To Say) when it came out as I was the band’s previous releases. It just didn’t sound the same, so I forgot about. Listening to it again, I think what probably turned me off was that the production (by Kurt Ballou) didn’t sound like shit.

Listening to the two albums back to back, Songs For Burning Lovers sounds like it was recorded on a boombox. Its still a great album, there is no question about that, but the production can’t touch Rotten Thing To Say.

Go buy things and see them live every chance you get, you will not be disappointed.

Torche – Harmonslaught

The Village — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 15:48:00 +0000

Torche turns the dial from pop back to sludge. Crusher.

Photo by elawgrrl