I made this. 

Every few months/years, I dig it back out. I’m still pretty happy with the noise I’ve made.

Download three Terra Billa Ta releases at my Bandcamp page, or the extended version of the album that this song is on here. 

A song from the excellent soundtrack to an excellent game, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. 

Buy the album here (MP3, 180-gram vinyl, or cassette) and the game for iOS or Steam. 

I highly recommend both the game and the soundtrack.

A “super group” made up of dudes I (for the most part) didn’t know existed. 

The album is great, though, and the Replacements cover is amazing.

Drone with less noise.

I’m pretty sure posting this band two days in a row is breaking my own rules for this site. Even if yesterday was a collaboration. 

Go listen to and then buy everything this band has. 

*Between the time I wrote this and when I published it, several records in the linked store sold out. Move fast.

I can not stop listening to this album.

Mamiffer is Aaron Turner of Isis, House of Low Culture, and a million other bands, and Faith Coloccia, formerly of Everlovely Lightningheart. Their releases in the past have been pretty hit or miss for me, with more being “eh, I don’t care” than “this is amazing.”

I know absolutely nothing about Locrian, but I’m probably going to fix that issue.

Go buy it, it's stupid expensive, but amazing. 

As a 16-year-old, I always wrote this band off. I blame punk. 

A lot of the band’s catalog is still pretty hit or miss for me, but I love this song right now.

Holy shit. 

I’m pissed that these guys are a local band, and I had no idea they existed. I’ve been missing out, hard. 

The band just put out a 4-way split 7" with ChildBite, Hellmouth, and the Golden Torso of Black Flag covers. And it looks like the plan is to do a series of 7’s with the same bands each time covering a different hardcore band (Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Misfits, and Minor Threat). 

Go get this from the band’s Bandcamp page now. 

I love this band and the album this song is on (Brush Your Teeth, Again), but for some reason I can’t quite put my finger on, I'm embarrassed of that. 

I’m dumb.

Go download the album from the band’s Bandcamp page, its name your own price. 

Posting an acoustic song by a not-acoustic band is sort of cheating. And falling in love with said acoustic song kind of jinxes the band’s “real” songs. 

Nevertheless, I love the hell out of this song. My wife actually cried the first time she heard it. 

Being 3/5 of Iron Chic doesn’t hurt either. Go buy everything these guys have.

I’ve never been a big fan of the Misfits. I’m sure to some this is heresy, but it's the truth. Somehow they managed to sound to cartoony, even next to the Ramones. 

Nevertheless David Pajo’s (Slint, Tortoise, Royal Trux, Zwan, etc) 9-song Misfits cover album, “Scream With Me” is killing me.  

Basement - Yoke 

Its weird for me to think of bands as having been influenced by Small Brown Bike. Why not just be influenced by Hot Water Music and skip the middleman?

Honestly, though, it feels weird. SBB was one of my favorite bands for nearly 15 years (the new album is not good), and being from Michigan, I got to see them pretty often, and rarely in full venues. So I forgot they had a following outside the people I knew.

Basement are/were clearly part of that following. Canada Square could be a “River Bed” era SBB cover. Hell, even his voice sounds Mike Bike-ish.  

Yes, their influences are close to the skin but, but “I Wish I Could Stay Here” is Basement’s first album and I’m sure with time they’ll go into themselves. When Small Brown Bike started, everyone said they were just Hot Water Music clones. 

All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing. 

Saturday, 12:30 am at the Florida Theater of Gainesville

I got into Against Me! late in the game, sometime post “Searching…” but pre “New Wave.” And because of this, I’ve never actually seen the band live. Fest seems like my best opportunity to maybe hear some of the songs I actually like. 

Just like Friday, unless you’re cooler than me and know about some secret warehouse, hotel set, or house party show by some band, this is probably the musical end of your night. Gather your friends and go eat some Five-Star.