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New Releases 8.21.26: Black Marble, Street Tombs, Weezer, Untitled With Drums, Fen, Lambchop, My Pet Fossil, Wild Pink

Posted in Lists, New Releases, News with tags , , , , , , , , , on 08/21/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

2BYG – WYW remix feat. Tahjaee single (Def Jam)
Accursed Womb – Hymns of Blasphemous Fornication (Nespithe)
Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker – Songs for Sad Poets Vol. III (American Dreams)
Argul – Soledad & Orgullo (Personal)
Azatoth – Carnal Lust of Blasphemy (Extremely Rotten)
Black Marble – Life in Small Spaces (Sacred Bones)
Mark Ciani – Utopia (self-release)
Destin Conrad – Roadrunner (Above Ground/ Empire)
The Cramps – Greatest Gravy (unreleased 1977 album produced by Alex Chilton) (Vengeance)
Cutthroat – Purge EP (M-Theory)
Dark Funeral – Beast to Praise (Century Media/ InsideOut)
Deathgrave – Hell Is Evil (Tankcrimes)

Dream Phases – Little Blue Magnolia single (self-release)
Enhypen – Sin: Bliss EP
Famous Strangers – s/t (self-release)
Feeders – Dark Days
Fen – Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth (Prophecy)

Brandon Flowers – Thrasher (Island)
Foglights – Nous Deux EP (Skep Wax/ Slumberland)
French Film – Yours + Five (Solid Brass)
From Ashes to New – Die for You (feat. Neoni) single (Better Noise)
Riviera Gaz (feat. Steve Shelley) – Catacroma (Vampire Blues)
GB – Herzsprung (Posh Isolation)
Ghost Hounds – Justified
Giraffe – Towering Inferno With Bongo Drums (Org Music/ Aquarium Drunkard)
Hey, Nothing – Hound (Music Soup/ Interscope)
Sawyer Hill – Everybody’s Home, Nobody’s Happy (AWAL)
Paris Jackson – Happiest Day of My Life (Republic)
Jamie James – Steppin’ Back 2009 (Oglio)
Lexi Jayde – Lover Girl (Columbia)
Coco Jones – Love Me Through single (High Standardz/ Def Jam)
Korpse – Forbid EP (Unique Leader)
Lambchop – Punching the Clown (Merge)

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Bad Penny Post #1,000: Your Top 10 Favorite Reads Thus Far

Posted in Lists, News, Polls with tags , , , , , , , , , on 11/13/2025 by Kurt Orzeck
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The proverbial “they” said it couldn’t be done, but with these words, The Bad Penny has reached its thousandth post since launching way back in 1862 (the same year rock ‘n’ roll was invented!). In celebration of what is still a smaller number than the grand total of songs released by Guided by Voices (no, we didn’t do the math, but are you gonna challenge that assumption?), here are the top 10 most popular posts in the modest history of this website:

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Pete Yorn On Musicforthemorningafter: ‘It’s Too Clean’

Posted in Interviews with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 10/07/2010 by Kurt Orzeck

Night owls can expect to see Pete Yorn performing on Jimmy Fallon’s show tonight in support of the self-titled album he squeezed out last week. Seems like an opportune time to roll out this vintage, never-before-online interview I conducted with him on March 9, 2003. Continue reading

Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo In 2002: ‘I Think I Had A Falling Out With The Fans’

Posted in Interviews with tags , , on 09/17/2010 by Kurt Orzeck

“I still get the feeling that everyone’s pissed off and frustrated with us because we don’t sound like we did in 1993,” Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo told me on April 13, 2002. Going through one of the most tumultuous periods of its career, the bandmembers – who had recently fired their manager, and were bucking their PR and A&R reps at Geffen – had just “reclaimed control of ours lives,” in the words of Cuomo. Continue reading

Weezer’s Brian Bell Was ‘Overwhelmed’ By Maladroit Material

Posted in Interviews with tags , , , on 09/17/2010 by Kurt Orzeck

In light of Weezer’s new album, Hurley, plopping earlier this week, here’s a look back at a Maladroit-era interview with guitarist Brian Bell and bassist Scott Shriner. Previously unavailable online, it was conducted in February 2002. Continue reading