The expression “bold debut” gets thrown around an awful lot, but debut records don’t come much boldererer than Cocaine Culture’s self-titled LP. Due Friday on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, the tempestuous record is all wrath and fury, leaving nothing standing in its wake. The Bad Penny has the unique privilege of bringing you the record in full today, in streaming form.
In celebration of the stream, we touched base with the band to discuss their filthy foray into full-length-dom.
Supergloom and The Bad Penny are getting super wicked excited about the upcoming release of their debut album, due this fall, and today we have the good fortune to unveil a new song, “Kingfisher,” from what is shaping up to be a dizzyingly delicious record.
Today ain’t just another Thursday for fans of primo psychedelic rock. It’s extra-special because L.A.’s eminently gifted quintet Dream Phases are gifting fans of equally heady and interstellar music with a special new 7-inch. The Nomad Eel Records release enshrines two of the increasingly prominent and talented band’s best tracks, “Velvet Knife” and “Mrs. Songbyrd.”
Dream Phases is one of the most versatile, rousing and downright fun acts amid a litany of new and newish California bands currently infusing new life and popularity into psych-rock. (They’re also extremely affable and have an endearing sense of humor.) The band consists of Brandon Graham (vocals, guitar), Shane Graham (drums), Keveen Baudouin (guitar, vocals), Jeanna Fournier (bass, vocals) and Phil Cobb (synth, keys).
Thank you, New Noise, for publishing a video I’ve wanted to create for a while: “The Newlywed Game,” as played by rock-music spouses or significant others. Watch the husband and wife duo of 37 Houses take part in our inaugural edition of what we hope will be an ongoing series. Artist interviews are sorely in need of more levity these days, amirite?
Catch 37 Houses perform at Prototype on Mar. 15 in Paterson, NJ; and at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn, NY, on the following day.
Read my exclusive news report forNew Noise, featuring segments and exclusive information, from my conversation with 3 Inches of Blood frontman Cam Pipes, here:
Badass label Three One G gave New Noise the honors of streaming the new EP by Paper Mice, Neurotic City, before any other outlet. Chiggity-chiggity-check-it-out here:
Excitement is building for the full-length debut by Trauma Kit, an experimental-hardcore-rock band from Boise that we introduced you to last year. Train Wrecks Take Time will come courtesy of bassist Shadrach Tuck’s Mishap Records label on February 23 — but in the meantime, we bring you the exclusive premiere of album track “Better” today.
Cloak, Atlanta’s hottest black-metal band and the quartet responsible of one of the year’s highest quality rock records, Black Flame Eternal, has parted ways with Season of Mist, Cloak confirmed to The Bad Penny on Monday.
The midnight marauders told disclosed in a conversation Monday morning that their deal with Season of Mist recently ended but that they are already ready to ink a new deal. The furious — and, surprisingly, hoodless — quartet said it expects to announce its new label home by year’s end.
Season of Mist signed Cloak in October 2016, and the label released the fiery foursome’s debut, To Venomous Depths, the following year. Season of Mist also released 2019’s The Burning Dawn and, last May, the teeth-gnashing Black Flame Eternal.
[Go here to read Cloak frontmanScott Taysom’s breakdown of Black Flame Eternal with the Bad Penny.]
Cloak continues to tour heavily behind the well-received record, having started the band’s current trek in late August.
Perhaps as a farewell gift, Season of Mist just released Cloak’s covering of “Black Dream” by Samhain on Halloween Day.
At the end of a rainbow lies a pot of gold. So legend goes, at least. What we can say with certainty is that “Rainbow Road,” a rousing new song by siren rock project of persephone, sounds downright golden.
With chanteuse Sarah Rae’s high-octave vocals leading the charge, the song is a galloping adventure into fuzzy, upbeat indie pop. It’s a dreamy excursion that, at less than two and a half minutes, leaves you wishing the track wouldn’t end. The Bad Penny is honored to exclusively premiere it today.
Twenty years after their formation, Tampa, Florida’s Four Star Riot are rising up again with the infectious new song and hypnotic video for “Adding It Up.” Even more exciting, it’s the harbinger of things to come, with Four Star Riot announcing that they’ll deliver a new album in the spring.
“Adding It Up” swirls together the strongest aspects of the alt-rock band: its catchy rhythms, jangly melody and laid-back style. The song is the best anthem for indie-rock sleepyheads so far this year. The melancholic, narcotic song is particular well-suited for fans of Ride and Brian Jonestown Massacre.
“It’s a culmination of our influences over the years,” frontman Steve Alex told the Bad Penny of the new track.
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