Archive for Truculent

10 Best Free Bandcamp Downloads #2: Rose of the World, Bimbo, Depravity, Weeping Death

Posted in Album Reviews, Interviews, Lists, Reviews with tags , , , , , , , , , on 11/20/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

Strapped for cash but hungry for great music? You won’t have much luck camping out at the grocery store these days; Bandcamp is a way better destination. Here’s a rundown of 10 rad releases, about half of them newly released, that The Bad Penny recently came across on Bandcamp.

(Note: If you do have some green to spare, please show your thanks to these deserving artists and labels.)

1. Rose of the World‘s Heaven Is a Broken Heart (Sad Cactus)

It’s audacious for an NYC hipper-than-thou band to craft its first LP in the style of Sunny Day Real Estate. Those old codgers have not only come and gone but come and gone again, and then a third time. Hell, even most of their protégés have melted away at this point too. To their enormous credit, Rose of the World has pulled off a maneuver worthy of the Olympic Games with this catchy keepsake of a record. Just released on November 12, snag Heaven Is a Broken Heart before those who can make money off realize that palm-against-forehead revelation and start charging 18 bucks for it.

HEAVEN IS A BROKEN HEART by Rose of the World

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Pet Sounds #71: Truculent Frontman/ Strange Mono Label Owner’s Dog Fears His Food Bowl

Posted in Features, Interviews, Pet Sounds with tags , , on 11/20/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

Bad Penny readers met Dan Timlin, the folk-punk connoisseur who performs as the artist Truculent and also owns and operates record label Strange Mono, when he participated in a stand-out installment of our On Tyranny series almost exactly a month ago. We had a heavy discussion about the current state of affairs in the U.S. – and, at least from our own part, learned a hell of a lot from it.

Much to our delight, Timlin was up for talking with us again, this time about a much lighter (and softer … and more loving) subject: his three cats and one dog. Just as Timlin didn’t disappoint with his insightful remarks about Authoritarian America, he also exceeded our expectations in wanting to know about his animals and the critical role they play in his life.

So, without further ado, here is Dan Timlin’s installment of Pet Sounds. Enjoy!

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On Tyranny: Truculent Frontman Warns MAGA Might Ban Concerts Altogether

Posted in Features, Interviews, On Tyranny, On Tyranny with tags , on 10/19/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

“You have to be really cognizant when a band says, ‘We’re not political.’ We don’t have that privilege anymore.”
-Truculent’s Dan Timlin

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As The Bad Penny nears the 50th installment of our On Tyranny series, we began to worry that our conversations with musicians, enriching as each and every one of them has been, might begin to become redundant. But then we connected with Dan Timlin, a musical and intellectual genius who opened entire new doors of thinking about the destruction of democracy in America in a hyper-informative interview he so graciously granted us last month.

We’ll even go so far as to say that, if you read only one installment in the On Tyranny franchise, this is it. Timlin spoke with us shortly before the release of Born for the Gallows or the Wheel, the latest album by his avant-garde project issued via Strange Mono Records. Interspersed in the below conversation are clips from the record to provide you with a soundtrack of sorts and to assuage you through something of a master’s-course-level class in music, psychology and politics that Timlin presented to us.

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