Lovely local DIY music put together by a DIY project :D these are  our favorite songs by bands that are absolutely amazing and may not get enough love for that. Like what you hear? Catch a show, these bands are closer than you think - Pictured - The Carou

All Our Favorite Songs

Fond Han's official full length debut "Sham Cloud," due out September 23rd via Exploding In Sound Records.

Fond Han - "Sham Cloud"

WithGuitars.com SoundCloud mix August 2016

August 2016

MoonRockPills#117

randomindie

Philadelphia

No Joy - Everything New

OSKU TIL OSKU - BABA NAGA

Pill - "Hot Glue" b /w "A.I.Y.M?" is out now: http://bit.ly/pillhotglue

Pill - Hot Glue

Second track off of Joseph EP, released August 13, 2015

Lyrics:
Take it from me, I’m the one who would know 
What to do in times like this 
Take it from me, I’m the one who was told 
I’d be used in times like this 

Take this time to think about who you are 
Take this time to thank the stars 
Take this time to think about what you are 

It takes time to count the stars 
And I know how hard it is to sleep at night 
And I know how bad you want to dream at times 
And I know how hard… 

Waiting for someone to come back 
Something like the giving tree 
Waiting for someone to come back 
Something like the giving tree 

Take it from me, I’m the one who would know 
What to do in times like this 
Take it from me, I’m the one who was told 
I’d be used in times like this 

And I know how hard it is to sleep at night 
And I know how bad you want to dream at times 
And I know how hard it is to close your eyes 

Waiting for someone to come back 
Something like the giving tree 
Waiting for someone to come back 
Something like the giving tree 

Is it selfish to say, at the end of the day when I put my head down 
And I rest it on the cloud that’s in front of me 
I feel just like Silverstein

Credits:
Additional guitars - Dan Sakumoto

Shel Silverstein

"Neathriver Chain" is from the Shadoof LP out now!  Order LP or CD here - http://wharfcatrecords.com/store/pre-order-bichkraft-shadoof-1

Order Shadoof on Apple Music here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shadoof/id1109816661

On the cusp of their first U.S. tour, Kiev-based four-piece Bichkraft deliver their shimmering second album, Shadoof. To write and record their sophomore effort, the group built a studio in a debris-strewn lot in the hilly Roshinskiy neighborhood of Kiev, Ukraine. Using the piles of broken classical LPs, discarded winter coats and Soviet-era refrigerators they found there, they constructed a studio to serve as their de facto headquarters. The trash-filled yard outside, in all its chaotic beauty, became its own source of inspiration for the recording. Once the songs were complete, the band refined them on the road, performing around Kiev, throughout Ukraine and for the first time in Russia.
    
Finding inspiration in the wasteland, Shadoof refuses to end the party even while chaos and disintegration build around the edges. From anthemic industro-punk (“Big Red Robe”) and jagged, hook-filled noise pop (“Sleeves at Farewell”) to pulsing techno noise (“Stain of Rest”), Shadoof hits hard out of the gates and takes listeners on a journey through Kiev’s winding streets, out past the Ukrainian border and into regions unknown.  This is a record of dangerous beauty made by and for the adventurous.

* Playing live at 2016 Pitchfork Northside Festival Showcase with Marshstepper, Priests, and David Vassalotti *

PITCHFORK
“The electronic beat recalls Big Black's unsettling metronome—or more recently, the dystopian hypnosis of Total Control”
NOISEY
“Fans of early Jesus & Mary Chain, The Ukiah Drag, and psych that doesn’t stray into shitty jam band territory, pay close attention”


Bichkraft - Neathriver Chain

A Grave With No Name - "Wedding Dress"
The first single off the new album 'Wooden Mask'
Out 8/12/2016 on Forged Artifacts [FA035]

A Grave With No Name - Wedding Dress

Cymbals Eat Guitars fourth album, Pretty Years, will be released on September 16th, 2016 on Sinderlyn Records.

Pre-Order Digital here: smarturl.it/prettyyears
Pre-Order Physical here: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/pretty-years

Pretty Years

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Wish

Sat. Nite Duets 'Air Guitar' out September 16th on Father/Daughter Records.

Digital: http://smarturl.it/airguitardigital
LP/CD: http://fatherdaughterrecords.limitedrun.com/products/573481

Emanating from the heartland, Sat. Nite Duets make rock music that evokes the spirit and candor of the Midwest’s greatest outsiders. Imagine the heroism of GBV thrown against the self-reproach of the Violent Femmes and you're halfway there. Pepper on some of the depravity of Jimmy and Dennis Flemion and you’re basically in the homestretch. But there’s something else going on here too, something that has to do with how most of the members have played music together since middle school, how collectively they’ve probably listened to The Basement Tapes and Blue Album like 3 million times.

The new record is called Air Guitar, the latest full-length since Electric Manland did the worm across college radio in 2013. Composed in true and perfect form (erratically in a basement in Milwaukee), Air Guitar continues the democratic tradition established by One Nite Only in 2009 and Summer of Punishment in 2012. A labor of love and leisure, Air Guitar’s tracklist features songs by all six of the band’s regular members, not to mention contributions from a laundry of special guests (e.g. a cognitive musicologist, the bass player's dad, a mime).

Pre-order

Sat. Nite Duets - St. Yuppie

ITHNKTooMuch

Out on Orchid Tapes September 9th.

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

Yohuna - Apart

Tiger Mountain is an electronic collective that creates music with beats, soundscapes, digital, analog and found sounds. Their sound encompasses cinematic and abstract backgrounds to structured rhythmic oscillations. Their debut single "My Heart Is A War" was released in June 2016. Vocals by Kesang Marstrand.  Mastered at Sterling Sound in New York City by Ryan Smith.

My Heart Is A War

This piece is part of "Provisations" album, containing short impromptus or "provisations" if you will - pieces based on improvisation, yet not being simple recording of "the spur of the moment". Whole project seem to tell a story, perhaps your?

You can pre-order it at Bandcamp here - mattiasphillips.bandcamp.com/

“improvisation (n.) “act of improvising musically,” (...) ablative of improvisus “not foreseen, unexpected,” from assimilated form of in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + provisus “foreseen,” also “provided,” past participle of providere “foresee, provide” (see provide). From music the sense expanded to a general meaning “do or perform on the spur of the moment.”” (Online Etymology Dictionary)

Provisations

Emptiness

A Grave With No Name - "House"
The second single off the new album 'Wooden Mask'
Out 8/12/2016 on Forged Artifacts [FA035]

A Grave With No Name - House

Air Guitar

PREORDER

Sat. Nite Duets - TAFKA Salieri

From the album "Zone" available on August 12 from Dine Alone Records.

Physical pre-order: https://www.dinealonestore.com/collections/jeff-the-brotherhood
www.dinealonerecords.com

JEFF The Brotherhood - Idiot

i tried to make it right
and i failed so many times
i prevailed
in a different light
but one will always side
do i abide 
to the decency
of life that's ruled by love?
or do i cry
in secrecy
when i have to give it up?

i'm running out of time

different lives
the mystery
of a want to be reborn
and my mind
in history
forever seeks to mourn

pleasure unremembered
in my periphery
and in front of me
everywhere
in a dark blue and purple shade

and me
an ecstatic being 
went up to an apex 
riding a blanket 
of energy
the city shined light sporadically

i rode the sky and all the while
the earth remained down
perched
in the dark 
for homecoming


Running Out Of Time (Julia Holter Remix)

Taken from their self-titled debut album 'Exploded View', Out Now!
 New band from Berlin & Mexico City fronted by Anika.

To download "Lost Illusions", "Orlando" & "No More Parties in the Attic" instantly: https://explodedview.bandcamp.com/
Order the LP/CD: hyperurl.co/EVAMZ

Facebook: www.facebook.com/explodedviewband/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/explodedviewband/
Twitter: twitter.com/ExplodedViewBnd
Tumblr: explodedviewband.tumblr.com/

TOUR DATES: bit.ly/1R1m34M


Exploded View - Lost Illusions

Fond Han - Shammed

Fond Han - Carrier

Fond Han - New Alright

Fond Han - ID/DV

Fond Han - Rink Brat

from the album 'the benoit pioulard listening matter' available 10/14

the benoit pioulard listening matter

benoit pioulard 'layette'

GB 126 - KOOL 100's - Blood Skulls Pussy & Violence Axes Daggers Upside-Down Crosses-7" ep

Taking their name from the official cigarette butt of Kansas City, 
Missouri, Kool 100s can be found lying on the sidewalks of its seedier neighborhoods, 
exposed to the elements like a drunk mooning a lightning storm and/or god. 
The guitar is a noxious, carcinogenic fog of blaring 12-string d'jangle, 
tainting lungs and clothing and sweated out in salty chemical rivulets that pool in bodily crevices.
Somewhere in the thick smog of trebly melody, the smooth amphetamine pound of bass and drums 
try to work as many notes and beats into a minute and a half song as possible 
with the jittery insistence of a nic fit. Blood pressures rise, temples throb. 
Vocal melodies diverge from guitar lines, but both are ascerbic and addictive, 
causing blood vessels to dialate and mixed-company to cough uncomfortably. 
Smartly-written lyrics reek of tales of shitheads and ex-girlfriends ("no baby, this one's not about you"), 
bad decisions made with no regrets ("I shouldn't have taken the whole thing"), 
and compulsions you can't swear off ("I can always stop tomorrow").  
Mark Twain suggested you should "write what you know," and so the Kool 100s wrote 
BLOOD SKULLS PUSSY AND VIOLENCE, AXES DAGGERS UPSIDE-DOWN-CROSSES.  
To date, they've also released a 6-song seven inch "We Buy Gold" on Springfield, Illinois' Garbage Shop 
and a cassette "Diet Black" on Omaha's Rainy Road records.

!!!!GARAGE/ LO-FI-PUNK/ R'n'R!!!!

(limited to 300) The 7" will be issued with 2  different covers

1 cover art 150 copies   Black and White
2 cover art 150  copies   Black and Green





KOOL 100's - Queer for him -

FAT WHITE FAMILY - CONNAN MOCKASIN

GB 123 -  BEATNIKS - Beatniks - 7" ep.

BEATNIKS is a punk band in Oakland, featuring members of Violent Change, Life Stinks, 
The World and Andy Human & The Reps. BEATNIKS are serious: they don't watch TV.

Here's what people have to say about the BEATNIKS demo tape:

"...Great downer rock n' roll / proto-punk for fans of Charles Manson (the cult leader, not the musician) 
and hand-rolled cigarettes...disgusted crooner vocals and a desperate urban feel."
-Alex from France (MRR)

"Heavy KBD/protopunk influence (think Penetrators, early Gizmos etc.) combined with occasional 
synth weirdness, and more or less devoid of the novelty aspects of those sounds. 
With great sarcastic lyrics and simple riffs, BEATNIKS are full of snot and stomp and will fuck you up if 
you were to challenge them to a throw down. Whether they'd stick you with a switchblade or zap you 
with a raygun is unclear, but either way, BEATNIKS WIN, YOU LOSE!"
-Vinnie Barrett

!!!!PUNK /KBD/R'n'R !!!!

(limited to 250) The 7" will be issued with three different covers

1 cover art 83 copies   Black and White
2 cover art 83 copies   Green
3 cover art 83 copies   Yellow






BEATNIKS - Friends = Enemies

Total Hell

Impossibility for Me

i can't quite figure out your reasons 
bent over backwards for her again 
is she the one? is she forever? 
or just the best that you can get? 

call her up on the phone daily 
she's got you under her spell again 
lost whatever backbone you had 
took the support she had to lend 

when the innocence fades, 
you'll see the fire she creates 
i hope you know 
i'm gonna tell you i told you so 

she's the devil man, you gotta understand 
she's the devil man, you gotta understand 
she's the devil man 
if i were you i'd run while you still can 

it's right beneath your feet 
rolling flames, gnashing teeth 
you'll recall, the chance ignored 
to be saved, restored 
don't sink into that pit 
stop falling, stop falling for her

Fond Han - ID/DV

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