Toll Wars

Track 5 from our new album “Leave a Light On”

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This week's edition spotlights Planet Sunday Studios owner Joel Ferguson and artists who've recorded at his studio recently, plus Local Spins debuts new tracks by several Michigan artists.

Rat Rod Zombies From Outer Space

Local Spins on WYCE wsg Joel Ferguson of Planet Sunday Studies (3/22/24)

cover of hazel would by Starflyer 59 off of their debut album silver.

Hazel Would (Starflyer '59)

He talked shit for two weeks and the day of reckoning has finally come for Mr. Kevin Barnett. Tune in to see if he holds to his claim that he can drink as much Coors Original as he wants, cuz Banquets are for pussies.

Episode 4: Barnett Gets Fucked Up

Cover of "Innocent Heathen" off of Snowden's "Anti-Anti" released in 2006.

Recorded at the White Lodge in Wayland, MI.
Mixed and mastered by Joshua St. Moblo at the Bakery Studio in Nashville, TN.

Innocent Heathen (Snowden)

Amusement Parks On Fire came to prominence in 2004 with the release of the eponymous debut album, conceived and consummated by the then-adolescent founder Michael Feerick and phonically actualised on a shoestring with Nottingham cohabitant Daniel Knowles. Issued on Geoff Barrow (of Portishead)’s Invada label, it was described by the New Musical Express as 'hedonistic teenage genius'.
A live line-up was essentially preformed and extensively performed with the likes of Dinosaur Jr, M83 and dEUS among innumerable other acts of the era. The unit then retreated to Sigur Rós’ private swimming-pool sanctuary Sundlaugin in Álafoss, Iceland to complete the venturesome sophomore release ‘Out Of The Angeles’, during which time they experimented with sleep, food and sunlight deprivation at the insistence of V2 Records.
The collective distributed a series of medium-form 'concept singles'; 'Blackout' in 2005, 'In Flight' in 2006 and 'A Star Is Born' in 2007, which according to Rough Trade's review showcased 'other dimensions to APOF's otherworldly sound, Feerick's classical influences... hinting at a more bullish Amusement Parks direction to come', with Drowned In Sound dubbing it 'a dizzying mini-epic... a chilly metaphysical beauty'.
After several years of international incidence the band crash-landed in Los Angeles in 2009 to make ‘Road Eyes’ with producers Michael Patterson (Beck, NIN) and Nicolas Jodoin (Arcade Fire, BRMC). Again inspired by the locale, the collection was intended as 'a skewed Californian contemporary-classical', with Alternative Press characterising it as ‘sun-drenched, challenging and gratifying… a near-perfect album’.
Initially envisaged as a much longer, expansive volume, the record is now newly available to purchase and stream online as a 'deluxe' edition, appended with a second 'disc' of nine unreleased cuts and curios but, due to the inferior and essentially theoretical nature of the digital release model, no intrinsic or tangible vessel to verify that the work explicitly exists.
The group will reoccupy earthly operations on 17/11/17 with a performance tour of their principality-apparent and the universal release of a new 7” vinyl single ‘Our Goal To Realise’ via Saint Marie Records, with the promise of a further extended-play 12" disc 'An Archaea’ and supporting appearances in 2018, 'as and when the company is inclined, primed and deems it commercially appropriate'.

Innocent Heathen (Snowden)

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