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'Monk' is from the Love is Hard LP out on 5/6.  Pre-order your LP here - http://wharfcatrecords.com/store/wgvvpson3q3y0ui51vqaygwzy2hsgy

Pre-order on Apple Music here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/love-is-hard/id1076919555

Although this Brooklyn trio is probably too goddamn youthful to care what the hell I'm talking about, there's a consistent vibe to their debut album that puts me in mind of great Cleveland bands of the last century -- from The Mirrors to Friction to Death of Samantha and onward. Something about the way Dan Wise's guitar mixes with both his singing, and that of Cory Feierman's, reminds me of naught but a Lake Erie fish fry. And the rhythm section, with Cory on bass and Will Schmiechen on drums, bears down on these twinned howls in a way that makes it possible to catch whiffs of the Dead Boys at their sharpest.

Perhaps this geographical anomaly results from the fact that Honey's line-up contains two veterans of the Wisconsin Dells water park scene and a native New Yorker, creating a mutant hybrid Ohioan in the process. But that is just theory.
The reality is that these guys are punching a lot straighter and harder than they did with previous units they've been in, and the results are a loud and royal blast. You still get a soupçon of sophisto texture deep in the interior of some of the tunes' architecture, but the main trajectory of the material has a brutalist immediacy. There are even parts where Coryʼs voice conjures up a bellow recalling the long- gone Wolf King of Lodi. But all the tunes hit your head like a fox terrier shot from a bazooka.

This is a great, hard-edged slice of rock noise that blazes with a light far more forthright than I'd dared expect. How very fucking cool is that? --Byron Coley

Honey - Monk

"Buried on the Moon" is about being in limbo while doing something you love. Things aren't as simple as they used to be and that's exciting, but also comes with doubts. It's also about getting older and feeling some regret, while still reaching for something you have drive and passion for. It's kind of a reflection on the last year or so being in this kind of creative teenagedom.

Buried On The Moon

Out on Orchid Tapes September 9th.

Pre-order here : http://shop.orchidtapes.com/product/yohuna-patientness-12

Yohuna - Apart

Four great bands, two great labels and two continents meet on this stellar mini-LP. Frequent collaborators Slumberland Records and Fortuna Pop! team up to bring you "Continental Drift," a smashing sampler of some of the finest pop out there in 2016.

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Continental Drift

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The Spook School - Gone Home

Four great bands, two great labels and two continents meet on this stellar mini-LP. Frequent collaborators Slumberland Records and Fortuna POP! team up to bring you "Continental Drift," a smashing eight song sampler of some of the finest pop out there in 2016.

Order LP/CD/tape: http://smarturl.it/cdriftlp
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Baltimore’s Wildhoney have been making music together since 2011, forging a fresh sound from raw materials of shoegaze, punk and good old indiepop. 2015 saw the release of their debut LP and follow-up EP, and now we’ve snagged two top-quality exclusive tunes for this compilation.

The band explains: "'Horror Movie' weaves dark lyrical content with an upbeat tempo and cheerful pop melody, reflecting the experience of trying to process trauma without the luxury of time and space to fall apart. The song also evokes a sense of triumph upon arriving at a point of clarity, resisting the ongoing, relentless urge to blame oneself for an abusive relationship, and coming out on the other side stronger and wiser than before."


Wildhoney - Horror Movie

Head Spell

Previously unreleased early recorded version of The Chills' 'Oncoming Day'. Features soon the upcoming expanded re-issue of 'Kaleidoscope World'. Out August 19, 2016

The Chills - Oncoming Day (Early Version)

'Don't Bother Me' is taken from Scott & Charlene's new album 'Mid Thirties Single Scene' due out 9th September on Fire Records

Scott & Charlene's Wedding - Don't Bother Me

Weightlessly

Ramones - Havana Affair [40th Anniversary Mono Mix]

"No One" is the title track from a new digital EP from Jenn Champion (formerly S), due out August 5th, 2016 from Hardly Art, and featuring remixes by Glitterbang, Crater, USF, SassyBlack, Breakmaster Cylinder, and Malidont. 

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Jenn Champion - "No One"

"Pain" track from the 9/23/16 LVL UP album Return to Love 
https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/lvl_up/return_to_love

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LVL UP - Pain

- Music & Lyrics by The Derevolutions
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the derevolutions - Death by Misery

Pre-order EP/32 page book (ltd to 100): 
http://artishardrecords.limitedrun.com/products/574863-ski-saigon-brings-the-storm-cloud-ep

After a few months of sitting on this EP we’re incredibly excited to be sharing it with you. ‘Brings the Storm Cloud’ was recorded at Holy Mountain studios in London and is inspired by Khmer pop and the fictional historical events from which it takes its name.

In doing so Ski Saigon have perfectly captured the humidity and closeness of a jungle and channeled it into bedroom pop wooziness. Imagine Public Service Broadcasting and Bradford Cox popping a couple of Valium and jamming it out and you’d probably end up with something similar to this.

With the extensive backstory surrounding the EP we felt the only way to release it would be as a book. 32 pages long and limited to just 100 copies the book details in beautiful photos and words the complete history of Ski Saigon (the historic events not the band). It’s due for release August 26th and is available to pre-order now.

Ski Saigon - Wintergarden / Sweet Dreams In The Botanics

First single from their forthcoming third album "Dusk", out September 30th, 2016 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Ultimate Painting "Bills" (Trouble In Mind Records)

A high quality (fidelity) recording of Departures And Landfalls era Boys Life (recorded in the afternoon following an in store performance at No Life records).

01 Boys Life:Live On KCRW 1996

"Punks In A Disco Bar" appears on Beach Slang's upcoming album, A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings, out September 23, 2016.

Order LP/CD/Tape/Digital:
Polyvinyl: http://plyvnyl.co/teenagefeelings
Europe: http://www.bsmrocks.com/products/574983-beach-slang-a-loud-bash-of-teenage-feelings-lp-cd-tape-pre-order

Beach Slang - Punks In A Disco Bar

“Degraded” from ‘Preoccupations’ out September 16, 2016 on Jagjaguwar

Pre-order ‘Preoccupations':
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Preoccupations - Degraded

A track from the album Terelan Canyon out 08/05/16 on Constellation Tatsu.

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