Hear the entirety of a dusted-off Pygmy Lush album the band hadn’t previously released, read about their theories on the JFK assassination, and learn why every “UFO sighting” isn’t to be believed in my FLOOD interview with the recently reunited experimental hardcore punk posse.
Try finding another band that alternates between enormous riffs that grab hold like the Sarlacc Pit in Return of the Jedi and refuse to let go. Read my Treble review of Agriculture’s new song, “Bodhidharma.”
Hailing from Galicia, Spain, Sangre de Muérdago is the best Galician Folk band you’ve never heard of. Now, Sangre de Muérdago is the only Galician Folk band you have heard of.
The group uses Galician lyrics and a litany of instruments used in the Galician tradition to reflect on nature, mysticism and other themes.
“O Abismo” is the first single from Sangre de Muérdago’s upcoming full-length, O Xardín, due September 12. Keep an eye out for the release of the album’s second single on August 8, and a third one a week before the album release. The Bad Penny is proud to exclusively premiere “O Abismo” and its accompanying video today.
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Chat Pile plant yet another feather in their cap with the re-release of their first two EPs—2019’s This Dungeon Earth and Remove Your Skin Please—via a single-vinyl compendium welding together the two statements that preceded their formal introduction to the unwitting masses, 2022’s God’s Country. Read my FLOOD review.
“This myth of the ‘suffering artists,’ the myth of Van Gogh and ideas like this—perpetuated by Hollywood—have become abstracted. It guilt-trips us all into thinking that if our art is our job, it lacks purity, and purity is the highest art form. But really, all we’re doing is trying to manifest joy, or insight, or translate the human experience.” Read more of my interview with Mark Mallman on New Noise.
The nine tracks featured on The Live Quest provides arbiters who dare distinguish “good metal” from “bad metal” with an ample amount of evidence that Crystal Viper firmly belong in the former bracket. Read my New Noise interview with the band’s leader.
Touch and Go Records went to the trouble of assembling a Scratch Acid vinyl box set to the tune of $160—as well as individual reissues of their EPs for those in search of a more affordable option. Read my thoughts on Box Set/Scratch Acid/Berserker via Treble.
Available as a 4xLP and 5xCD box, Ida’s limited-edition Will You Find Me sets have so many cover songs, demos, outtakes and alternative mixes that it’s practically too heavy to carry up a flight of stairs. Read my review of the mammoth reissues for Treble.
Now in their 30th year, the Faint is an anomalous Saddle Creek band that never broke up. The gang is now finally putting its two best albums on wax for the first time ever. Read my review of the Blank Wave Arcade/Wet From Birth (Deluxe Editions) for Treble.
Jesika von Rabbit recently reached out to New Noise say she enjoys our Pet Sounds series and wanted to pay homage to her recently deceased pet, Buzz (who, for the record, was a cat and not a rabbit).
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