this is awesome, blogged at http://bit.ly/1kn7Iwd

The vocal reminds me a little of The Shins, which I like.

Frontman Jeremy Underwood took some time to chat with us about those shows, Dalliance’s recording process, and the disadvantage of being permanent driver on tour. Check it out here: http://bit.ly/1szhovf

catchy, energy booster..feel good yet a reminder of some crazy tough times. songs like this got me thru it all. 
I like it a lot. mm

Classic kick-ass punk, been around since the late '70s...why? Because it's so GOOD!

I made a jazz cover of this song: https://soundcloud.com/stearnsyboy/for-you-gold-bears-cover

Something very Buzzcocks about this... Awesome

Can't get enough of this song...been whistling it for over a month :)

Released on March 18, 2014. 

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Pre-order from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/dalliance-itunes

Gold-Bears' second full-length, "Dalliance," is a record about regret. It reminds you of that time you lied to your friend when you said you were too busy to hang out, but instead went to the bar alone. Or when you sent that really shitty email to your brother about something that really has no bearing anymore, because you were too caught up in the moment to think clearly. It also reminds you of the time you got divorced... from whatever or whomever.

In the past two years since Gold-Bears released their debut album "Are You Falling in Love?," main Bear Jeremy Underwood gathered a new crop of friends to carry out his fuzz-filled visions. "Dalliance" is more focused and abrasive than that 2011 debut, combining their noise-pop influences from forebears like Boyracer and The Wedding Present with shades of the post-hardcore, emo and post-punk on which the band all cut their musical teeth. This is not to say that Gold-Bears gave up impossibly catchy song-writing, just that their signature indie punk anthems are now even sharper, the guitars even more slashing, and the songs even more harrowing and heartfelt than ever.

"Dalliance" opens with the anthemic "Yeah, Tonight," a proper pop song featuring a duet between Underwood and Emma Kupa (of the defunct London indiepop band Standard Fare) that sets the agenda right away — sharp melodies and even sharper guitars, all whizzing by in less than three minutes. “Chest” rushes in almost immediately after, barely two and a half minutes of punk energy and fizzing feedback.

The stomping "From Gainesville to Tallahassee" features a gnarly feedback guitar solo and backing vocals from Black Tambourine's Pam Berry. “Punk Song No. 15” is as described, a blazing flash that condenses the history of UK noisy pop into just over one minute. “I Hope They’re Right” and the lovely, jangling “Hey, Sophie” show how much the band have expand their range, slowing the pace, turning up the jangle and taking on the big subjects.

Gold-Bears cover a lot of territory, musical and lyrical, in "Dalliance"’s 32 minutes and by the time that we reach the miniature epic of closer “Fathers And Daughters” we realize that we’re watching a band and a song-writer hit their stride, turning in an album that’s exciting, thoughtful and infectious.


Gold-Bears - For You

A track off of KW-042, the Sheer Mag - S/T 7"

Sheer Mag - Button Up

OUT NOW, ON LOLIPOP RECORDS!!!
Broncho - "Can't Get Past The Lips" (CASS)
tape-a-day-a-thon, tape #22!!! the debut 2011' album of infectious oklahoma power-pop hits from lolipop faves, broncho!!! gettum quick!!!
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BRONCHO - "I Don't Really Want to Be Social"

Washer's exceptionally catchy full length debut "Here Comes Washer" is due out January 22nd, 2016 on Exploding In Sound Records.

Washer - Figure Me Out

'She's A Cult' is taken from Ulrika Spacek's debut album, The Album Paranoia, released 5th February 2016. 

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Rough Trade -  http://smarturl.it/UlrikaSpacek.RT 
iTunes -  http://smarturl.it/UlrikaSpacek.iTunes 

Press Release:
Formed in Berlin in one night, longstanding friends Rhys Edwards and Rhys Williams conceptualised ‘Ulrika Spacek’ and came up with The Album Paranoia as their debut album title. Moving back to their shared house ‘KEN’ last summer, an ex art gallery in Homerton, they began work on the project which was to become 10 track experimental alt-rock masterpiece The Album Paranoia. Today Ulrika Spacek premiere their first gripping single, ‘She’s a Cult’, on the Quietus.  

Ulrika Spacek’s soundscape is a cross pollination of hypnotic fuzz, with Tom Verlaine (Television) and Stephen Malkmus (Pavement) guitar idiosyncrasies and intertwining feelings of both angst and melancholia. Drawing influences from Krautrock to Sonic Youth and the above, the two Rhys’ brought in three expert musicians to complete the live formula, which unified The Album Paranoia and ‘Oysterland’, a series of club nights curated by the band, showcasing their first live performances with art installations.

Live shows
05.12.15 - Unit 6, Hackney Wick, London.
17.12.15 - Oysterland at The Victoria, London.

iTunes

Ulrika Spacek - She's A Cult

Off the forthcoming album, Goodbye Terrible Youth, out November 4th via Fat Possum Records

Pre-order: http://smarturl.it/AWGTY.CDLP

'Goodbye Terrible Youth' Tracklist:
01 “Vote Thatcher”
02 “Give Up”
03 “So Long”
04 “Hello, Dear”
05 “Amazing Grace”
06 “Terrible Youth”
07 “Blind Kids”
08 “Someone Far Away”
09 “Real People”

American Wrestlers - Give Up

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Our 2017 singles club will be taking the form of a monthly postcard from some of your favourite bands, and we're kicking that off right now with Penelope Isles.

Following their Comfortably Swell EP which we reissued to coincide with Cassette Store Day 2016, the Brighton via Cornwall foursome jump right into the new year with a fresh audible bowl cut in the form of Cut Your Hair.

25th Jan – Tooting Tram & Social, London
26th Jan – Cookie Jar, Leicester
28th Jan – Wharf Chambers, Leeds
30th Jan – Maguires Pizza Bar, Liverpool
31st Jan – Mothers Ruin, Bristol
2nd Feb – Woodlane Social Club, Falmouth
3rd Feb – Unit 23, Totnes
4th Feb – Green Door Store, Brighton
7th Feb – Old Blue Last, London

Penelope Isles - Cut Your Hair

RIP Records Introduces Volume 1:7

Released September 15th as part of the RIP Records Introduces Series
Pre-order the 12" Vinyl compilation here:
http://riprecords.bigcartel.com/product/rip-introduces-volume-one-12-vinyl-compilation

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Sweaty Palms - Queer Fatwa

Health is the first single from everybody’s new favourite band Parsnip. The track is lifted from their debut self-titled 7”, which will be out November 10th on Anti Fade, just in time for a national tour of Australia as part of Gizzfest. Parsnip are four girls from Melbourne whom have only been around for a year, but have certainly kept themselves busy during that time, playing plenty of great shows in Melbourne, as well as the rest of Australia on many stellar lineups. Listen to “Health” today! 

ANT - 040

Cover image by Jamie Wdziekonski

PARSNIP - Health

From the album 'Ride Your Heart.' Out now.
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Ride Your Heart

Dead in Your Head

Bleached - "Dead In Your Head" (Official Audio)

Slumberland began operations in 1989, inspired by such musical happenings as C-86, early Creation, Sarah, Postcard, and the UK post-punk indie label scene. Since then we've covered a lot of territory, from punk to lofi noise to shoegaze and of course pop, releasing records from bands like The Aislers Set, Boyracer, Stereolab, Rocketship, Lorelei, The Ropers, The Saturday People and Black Tambourine.

By the mid 2000s we were starting to see a resurgence of interest in guitar pop and the start of the ongoing vinyl revival: the perfect environment for Slumberland! We launched into our latest phase of activity with as string of classic releases from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Crystal Stilts, Frankie Rose, Veronica Falls, Allo Darlin', Joanna Gruesome and so many more.

2018 is our twenty-ninth year we are still going strong, ploughing our own furrow and bringing you unique, genre-defining (and genre-defying!) releases from bands like Smokescreens, Tony Molina, Papercuts, Business of Dreams, Peel Dream Magazine, D.A. Stern, The Spook School, Frankie Rose, Young Guv, Terry Malts and many, many more. As always, we operate entirely outside of the echo chamber of trends, fashion and phoney hipness. Slumberland bands are independent in the best way possible -- making music devoid of bullshit and true to their own voices, regardless of current popular taste.

Gold-Bears - For You

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