Like hearing Fugazi for the first time; in attitude. Love it.

Founded in October 2011 by Dan Goldin and Dave Spak while still in college, Brooklyn's Exploding In Sound records are now one of the labels that form the backbone of NYC's punk and DIY communities.  An altogether humble operation run on true grit and a commitment to releasing artists they believe in, EIS now hosts one of the most diverse and exciting rosters around. For this month's Selects Mix,  we asked Dan Goldin to put together a mix comprised of current and upcoming EIS releases as well as other personal favorites. It's the Monday morning kick in the ass you need.  

Tracklisting:
1. Two Inch Astronaut-Any's Progress Report
2. Gun Outfit-Expansion Pact
3. Lost Boy?-Hemorrhage
4.Kal Marks-Coffee
5.Horse Jumper Of Love-Spaceman
6.Big Ups-Hope For Someone
7.Disco Doom-Rock Yeah
8.AUTOLUX-Transit Transit
9.Ex-Breathers-Open Source
10. Superteen-Oh Baby
11.Operator-Delia
12. Fat History Month-Sad History Month
13. Future of The Left-If at&t drank tea what would bp do?
14. Washer-Got Drunk and Ate the Sun

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Selects Mix 16 X Exploding In Sound

Destruction Unit "Feed The Dogs"

The third single off of Lost Boy ?'s new LP "Canned" available 3/31. 

Order "Canned" on vinyl from the PaperCup Store bit.ly/1I4aHHS
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Lost Boy ? - Hemorrhage

Death and the Internet is out 4/28 on Fire Talk

LP - http://firetalkrecs.com/shop/advaeta-death-and-the-internet
ITunes - Coming Soon!
Bandcamp - https://firetalk.bandcamp.com/album/death-and-the-internet

Advaeta is the collaborative project of Brooklyn based musicians Lani Combier-Kapel, Amanda Salane and Sara Fantry. With a complex sound that is heavily melodic, loud and textural, they grind velvet harmonies and lush noise into a landscape that is both evocative and wholly enveloping.



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ADVAETA - Angelfish

Used to know you

This track was born from two chords and distortion. My original idea was to have all the lyrics be in my own gibberish language, but as soon as the words "Sod-a-lacious crone, you're a mind bone lover" escaped my lips, a character and some themes started to emerge. 
Sometimes I think about the enormity of it all, the universe, life, creation etc., and then I see the things we do to each other on this fucking rock. 
Media is manipulation and can no longer be trusted IMHO. I saw what watching the news did to my father, it changed him and half of the country along with it. Brainwashed is the more appropriate word. 
It's time to go back to trusting our guts, using common sense and some critical thinking skills. Rock on friends.

Lyrics:
Sod-a-lacious crone
You're a mind bone lover
Cod-a-lacious scrone 
You got the business in your candy cone.

I like to run
I like to run far
sometimes I see
If I can beat a car.
sometimes I riff
sometimes I fall
but either way I'm having a ball
Godalation
Godalation Bible road

Salivation station,
manipulation across the nation

Dementalated crover 
You got lips?
I'll bend over.
When my love turns fire
you'll know because the sky
will be littered with liars.

And when my run
my run is done
I'm gonna give you a
whole box of fun
Godalation
Godalation survive alone
oh yeah

Salivation station, 
manipulation across the nation.
Now go for a ride
deep inside.
Radiation from the stations 
operate the separation 
the population exploitation.

Sod-a-lacious crone
You're a mind bone lover
Cod-a-lacious scrone 
You got the business in your candy cone.

I like to run
I like to run far
sometimes I see
If I can beat a car.
sometimes I riff
sometimes I fall
but either way I'm having a ball
Godalation
Godalation Bible road.

Sod-a-lacious crone
You're a mind bone lover.

Godalation

Two Inch Astronaut's third full length "Personal Life". Produced by J. Robbins at Magpie Cage Studios. Out February 5th, 2016 via Exploding In Sound Records. Pre-order at www.explodinginsoundrecords.bandcamp.com/album/personal-life

Two Inch Astronaut - Andy's Progress Report

7" available now on Corner Shop Pop: https://cornershoppop.bandcamp.com/releases

Artwork by Jordan Gray: www.jordangray.co.uk

Recorded by Eric Tormey at Barnroom Studios.

Gang - Animalia

'Expansion Pact' is the first single from Gun Outfit's Two Way Player EP out on 2/12/2016.  Order Two Way Player here - http://wharfcatrecords.com/store/pre-order-gun-outfit-two-way-player

Order from Apple Music here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/two-way-player-ep/id1074175667

After nearly a decade and a steady flow of full lengths, EPs, and tapes, Gun Outfit can be safely identified as underground stalwarts and an institution of sorts, embodying the promise of lives lived for art. Outlasting simplistic “sounds like” comparisons, Gun Outfit have arrived at a sound that is awash in western light and as deep and expansive as their beloved Pacific Ocean.

On the heels of their justly lauded LP Dream All Over, Gun Outfit deliver Two Way Player, an EP of enigmatic and spacious guitar music that stands alongside the bandʼs boldest and strongest work thus far. Abstracted legends of the American West, fortunes gained and lost, tragic songs of life rendered in deep focus – all portrayed through mysterious and dense compositions that recall the lonely expanses and warm intimacies of the films of Bruce Baillie and Gunvor Nelson. Compulsory listening for any fan of American Music, Two Way Player is a brief, beautiful dispatch from the countryʼs most consistent band, a record equally suited for stoned sunny mornings and lonely full moon nights. Two Way Player was recorded in New York in June 2015 and features an alternate lineup including David Harris (Milk Music) on bass, Joe Denardo (Growing/Ornament) on guitar and Will Lawrence on electric piano in addition to the core group of Daniel Swire, Carrie Keith and Dylan Sharp. Recorded at Kutch 1 Studios, Brooklyn. 

Pitchfork review of Dream All Over - http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20980-dream-all-over/

Gun Outfit - Expansion Pact

Kal Marks' third single from their upcoming album "Life Is Alright, Everybody Dies". Due out on February 19th via Midnight Werewolf and Exploding In Sound. Pre-order at www.kalmarks.bandcamp.com

Kal Marks - Coffee

From the upcoming LP 'Before A Million Universes', out March 4th, 2016 on Exploding in Sound Records (North America) and Tough Love Records/Brace Yourself Records (EU)

Vinyl and CD Pre-orders: http://smarturl.it/BigUps.LP.CD
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/BigUps.iTunes

Tour Dates:
1/14 - Brooklyn. NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg #
3/9 - Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong ^
3/11 - Savannah, GA - Savannah Stopover
3/12 - Nashville, TN - Freakin Weekend @ Exit/In
3/13 - Denton, TX - 35 Denton
3/15-3/20 - Austin, TX - SXSW
3/28 - Glasgow, UK - Broadcast
3/29 - Manchester, UK - Gullivers
3/30 - London, UK - Lexington
3/31 - Leeds, UK - Headrow House
4/01 - Bristol, UK - Louisiana
4/02 - Birmingham, UK - Sunflower Lounge
4/04 - Lille, FR - La Peniche
4/05 - Paris, FR - Mecanique Ondulatoire
4/06 - Brussels, BE - VK
4/08 - Groningen, NL - Vera
4/09 - Eindhoven, NL - Area 51 Skatepark
4/10 - Cologne, DE - MTC
4/11 - Vienna, AT - B72
4/12 - Bologna, IT - Freakout Club ~
4/13 - Milan, IT - Ligera
4/14 - Munich, DE - Kranhalle
4/16 - Hamburg, DE - Molotow
4/18 - Berlin, DE - Cassiopeia
4/19 - Copenhagen, DK - Loppen  	  	 
4/21 - Amsterdam, NL - OT301

# w/ Metz, Bully
^ w/ Washer
~ w/ La Quiete

Questions?
US: dave@canvasmediapr.com
EU: thom@braceyourselfpr.com

National Parks

From the upcoming LP 'Before A Million Universes', out March 4th, 2016 on Exploding in Sound Records (North America) and Tough Love Records/Brace Yourself Records (EU)

Vinyl and CD Pre-orders: smarturl.it/BigUps.LP.CD
iTunes: smarturl.it/BigUps.iTunes

Tour Dates:
3/9 - Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong ^
3/10 - Charlotte, NC - The Station  ^
3/11 - Savannah, GA - Savannah Stopover
3/12 - Nashville, TN - Freakin Weekend @ Exit/In #
3/13 - Denton, TX - 35 Denton
3/14 - Houston, TX - Super Happy Fun Land ^
3/15-3/19 - Austin, TX - SXSW
3/20 - Cats Purring Dude Ranch - Oxford, MS ^
3/28 - Glasgow, UK - Broadcast
3/29 - Manchester, UK - Gullivers
3/30 - London, UK - Lexington
3/31 - Leeds, UK - Headrow House
4/01 - Bristol, UK - Louisiana
4/02 - Birmingham, UK - Sunflower Lounge
4/04 - Lille, FR - La Peniche
4/05 - Paris, FR - Mecanique Ondulatoire
4/06 - Brussels, BE - VK
4/08 - Groningen, NL - Vera
4/09 - Eindhoven, NL - Area 51 Skatepark
4/10 - Cologne, DE - MTC
4/11 - Vienna, AT - B72
4/12 - Bologna, IT - Freakout Club ~
4/13 - Milan, IT - Ligera
4/14 - Munich, DE - Kranhalle
4/16 - Hamburg, DE - Molotow
4/18 - Berlin, DE - Cassiopeia
4/19 - Copenhagen, DK - Loppen
4/21 - Amsterdam, NL - OT301

^ w/ Washer
# w/ Diarrhea Planet, NOTS

Questions?
US: dave@canvasmediapr.com
EU: thom@braceyourselfpr.com


Hope For Someone

Caterpillar is from Honey Radar's second LP Blank Cartoon available 5/20.  

Honey Radar - Caterpillar

From 'Hyper Super Mega,' out now: http://hyperurl.co/HyperSuperMega

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The Holydrug Couple - I'll Only Say This

'Good Sense' is taken from Hash Redactor's debut album entitled 'Drecksound', out April 26th through Upset The Rhythm and Goner Records.

A quick glance at the résumés of Hash Redactor’s members might seed certain expectations.  The band is fronted by guitarist Alec McIntyre of Ex-Cult, with NOTS rhythm warriors Meredith Lones on bass and Charlotte Watson on drums, and rounded off by George Williford on second guitar.  But their debut full-length dives into territory that feels distinctly untethered from their lineage and era.  Drecksound is a clattering, shambolic oasis in the sleek digital desert of the late twenty-teens.  
 
Perhaps both because and in spite of the alienation that typifies the glut of rock music at the end of this god-damned decade, these twelve songs deliver a pointed social criticism, more cathartic than suffocating, while championing a nihilism that greets the abyss by laughing mockingly in its face. The chorus to the incendiary Step 2: Success is sneered, not sung, “It’s a long con job and you just got it wrong / banned from the world.” Or take Open Invite’s opening missive, “I won’t settle for anything less than a four-star refugee camp.” McIntyre’s lyrics present a puckish fascination with humankind’s rake-stepping self destruction.  He’s a merry prankster, but more in the mold of a jackbooted Monty Python character than a Ken Kesey acid casualty. Case in point: A-side epic In The Tank, where a vindictive custodian boils alive the wealthy patrons at the sensory-deprivation tank facility where he works.
 
McIntyre and Williford’s guitar interplay on Drecksound draws from some weird rundown of usual and unusual suspects in the tight corner of avant-punk guitar work, recalling some free-association that includes: Marquee Moon, John Fahey gone electric, the playing on Ornette Coleman’s mid-70s Body Meta and Dancing In Your Head, prime-era Flesheaters, and (why not) the first two Meat Puppets albums. Without anything resembling traditional leads, guitars snake in, out and around Lones’s bass lines, which alternate between slinky earworm hooks and steel cable raw power.  All of this is locked in by Watson’s characteristically visceral swing.  It doesn’t feel controversial to claim that the duo of Watson and Lones constitutes one of the best rhythm sections to be heard anywhere in contemporary punk music.
 
Having played out heavy in 2018 with a refined live show, a four-song demo, and several Gonerfest appearances under their belt, HR cut the record at home on a borrowed 8-track cassette machine. The deranged raw tracks were mixed into final form by Matt Qualls at Young Avenue Sound, and mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering. Hash Redactor will be touring the States in summer and with plans for Europe later in 2019. Drecksound is out April 26 on Upset the Rhythm in UK/EU and the rest of the world on Goner.

Available to pre-order here: upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Drecksound

Hash Redactor - 'Good Sense'

VICE Music has brought you amazing music throughout 2012, here is a sampling of some of it from OFF!, Vybz Kartel, Raveonettes, Black Lips, Action Bronson, WIN WIN and Team Spirit. 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM US TO YOU! 

Black Lips - Dance With You

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NEW ALBUM "Before A Million Universes" OUT 3/4
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