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Featured Album: NightFreak - S/T

Back in 2022, just as the fog of the pandemic was clearing we did an interview with Chicago’s NightFreak when their EP Speed Trials was released. The EP was only 4 tracks but it certainly left us salivating for more and well, the boys are back with their self-titled debut LP on Big Neck Records. It was worth the wait. Here we have nine tracks of raw garage hardcore punk blasted out at 100 miles…

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Dangerous On The Dancefloor - a Hip House Primer

This is a follow up to my piece on Latin Freestyle, which has not had a proper comeback or resurgence & I think that it’s a genre whose influence is ripe for the picking. Growing up in the Chicago radio market there was another style of music that was popular on commercial FM radio right next to Michael Jackson, and that was Chicago House Music, and more specifically (for this piece), Hip House.

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Girlsville Single Of The Year - Doechii feat Kodak Black- "What It Is (Block Boy)" (2023)

Doechii is a 25 year old rapper and singer from Tampa. She’s released a couple of EP’s and notched Top 40 hit with “What It Is (Block Boy)” in 2023. Her first EP, Oh The Places You’ll Go (2020) was self funded and self released, at which point she was scooped up by Capitol Records where thus far she’s released the EP She / Her / Black Bitch (2022) while fans await her debut LP. I know generally…

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Girlsville Album Of The Year - Slayyyter "Starfucker (Deluxe)" (2023)

Los Angeles-based pop artist Catherine Grace Garner, better known to music fans as Slayyyter, is a 27 year old singer and songwriter originally from Kirkwood, MO. Her album Starfucker (Deluxe) is my pick for 2023’s Album of the Year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5YsGGJQ-z4%5B/embedyt%5D Starfucker is Slayyyter’s second LP, her first being the more uneven Troubled Paradise. Troubled Paradise…

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New Music Blast - January 2024

LADRONES It’s been a while (2019) since Puerto Rican/Atlanta punks Ladrones dropped their debut album, but that doesn’t mean they’ve been quiet. In fact, the band had a stellar 2023, releasing a couple of new singles and relentlessly touring including shows with Amyl and the Sniffers, and The Courettes. Now they blast us into 2024 with the release of a new single ‘Energia‘ a raw explosive and…

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Featured Album: TEEN MORTGAGE - S/T

DC duo Teen Mortgage has been kicking ass and taking names since the release of their 2019 EP Life/Death. After a string of singles and EPs they just dropped their debut self-titled full-length on King Pizza Records. For almost three quarters of an hour the duo blast relentless, high-energy garage punk with metallic heavy guitar riffs, pounding drums, and hooks to spare. It all feels like a live…

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Video Premiere - VIRVON VARVON - Google It

Hanne Highway photo by: Karolina Sekula This is a video for Virvon Varvon “Google It” that takes live footage shot at Get Lost Fest by Martin and Aaron Siddi’s footage from the Night Owl in London supporting for Mark Sultan. The footage is then synced up with the recorded version of “Google It” from Four Bars Of Hate and the end result is a video that is destined to be in heavy across all major…

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When Latin Freestyle Ruled the Charts Next to Michael Jackson

Freestyle, or Latin Freestyle is a style of electronic dance music that arose from New York City, New Jersey, and Miami in the 80’s and 90’s. The origins of freestyle come from two foundational records. Africa Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force “Planet Rock” (1982), and Shannon’s “Let The Music Play” (1983). One of the cool things about Freestyle was that it was a working class genre of music that…

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A Party with Becky & The Politicians Jacyn Nickle

In 2018 me and my best friend moved from Chicago to Portland, Oregon on kind of a whim. My bestie wanted to ditch the 9-5 and be her own boss, and she was also dating a woman from Portland and wanted to be near her. I was in love with the all the bands I was hearing coming out of the Pacific NW, plus I’ve always been adventurous with geographic change. I’ve lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, Orange…

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Virvon Varvon are a punk band from London

Virvon Varvon Photo By: Karolina Sekula Virvon Varvon are a punk band from London. Well that’s not entirely true. Why does this band insist on making it so difficult to write about them? They assure me they are very sorry about this. They feel sufficiently sorry about all of it. There’s one yank in the band (Andrew Low), but he’s lived in London for a long enough stretch that he qualifies as…

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Video Premiere: AWEFUL - Just Like Me

Chicago based Aweful is singer-bassist Traci Trouble, guitarist Lucy Dekay, and drummer Izzy Price. They recently released their self-titled debut full-length on What’s For Breakfast? Records and we have the video premiere for the opening track ‘Just Like Me’. The trippy Alice In Wonderland-themed music video was shot, directed, and edited by Dave Rentauskas (Speed Babes, Djunah, Bleach Party,…

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Featured Album: AUTOGRAMM: Music That Humans Can Play

Synth-driven power-poppers Autogramm just released their latest LP Music That Humans Can Play. Their first album in over two years was released on vinyl and digital formats worldwide on November 17th on Stomp Records (and Beluga Records EU). With Music That Humans Can Play you get the sense that Autogramm is confidently locked into a groove. Not that their two earlier releases were flawed, far…

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Premiere: POSION BOYS - Headed for Disaster

Windy City rockers Poison Boys are back at it with a new/old single and gearing up for the release of their upcoming compilation LP. It will consist of the band’s first three 7-inches, some unreleased tracks, and the first demo from 2014, all on a new label called Tropically Hot Records (an homage to Berlin Brats maybe?) “Headed for Disaster was initially the title track of our first 7-inch,…

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Featured Album: Salamirecorder & the Hi Fi Phonos - Goods For Conversation

Vienna, Austria’s Salamirecorder & the Hi-Fi Phonos check in with a basket of jams perfect for your backyard summer bash. Surfy psychedelic garage, heavy on the fuzz, that barely contains various ’60s sounds. The 9 tracks roll along with sunshine-y vibes, swampy reverb-soaked guitars, and shimmering vocals with a lo-fi grassroots-DIY sound. For fans of The Gruesomes or Dead Ghosts. Even better if…

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#Bachelor Records #Garage #Salamirecorder & the Hi Fi Phonos #surf punk

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PREMIERE: POISON BOYS - Steamroller

Hot on the heels of their sophomore record ‘Don’t You Turn on Me‘ Chicago rock and roll rowdies Poison Boys are keeping the fuse lit with the release of some killer stand-alone singles that started with ‘Rubber Band‘ last October and ‘Set You Free‘ in February. ‘Steamroller‘ is the latest to drop and it’s a sneering, in-your-face rocker that mixes the protopunk punk bands of the ’70s and the…

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#Poison Boys #Punk #Rock and Roll #Steamroller

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Featured Album: THE WHIFFS - 'Scratch 'N' Sniff

The summer of 2023 is around the corner and Kansas City power poppers The Whiffs have just released the soundtrack. The band’s second full-length ‘Scratch ‘N’ Sniff‘ offers the perfect vibe for all of your warm-weather pursuits. Over 13 tracks, The Whiffs sip from a sweet cocktail of classic power pop like the Raspberries, Big Star, and Shoes, and spit it all out with a Tim-era Replacements…

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#power pop #The Whiffs

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NEW MUSIC BLAST - SIX TO FEAST ON

BUTCHERS DOG There is not much info out there about Butchers Dog from Cincinnati, Ohio but their new EP ‘Age Of Inversion‘ is a raw and hostile outing. Five tracks of snarling metallic guttural d-beat with hints of Bl’ast! and GBH, but it can also ride shotgun with contemporaries like GEL and Scowl. Out on Chicago’s Violent Pest Records. BUTCHERS DOG – Bandcamp. Age Of Inversion by Butchers…

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#Brat Farrar #Butchers Dog #DAZY #Frenzee #Heavy Cat #New Music Blast #Plastic Station #Toilet Rats