February 2012
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Review: Royal Baths - Better Luck Next Life
By Jonathan Markley
Royal Baths are back with a new album after switching labels and hometowns. Better Luck Next Life was released earlier in the month via Kanine Records, and it’s one of my favorite records of the year so far. The Royal Baths play murky psych-influenced garage rock that you gotta check out, and although many bands are channeling many of the same influences, these guys...
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Review: Xray Eyeballs - Splendor Squalor
By Christian Church
It can sometimes be hard to sift through the contemporary resurgence of punk and garage rock outfits. When does something cross the line between fun-loving and inane? Xray Eyeballs have always made a case for the subtler side of those genres, and aren’t afraid to explore new sonic territory in pursuit of their sound. You can still move to their tunes, even when it’s a slow...
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Interview: Thee Cormans vs. The World
By Mariana Timony
Here is a list of things SoCal surf trash monster band Thee Cormans hate: surf music, surf bands, Portland scenesters, the Black Lips, current rock and roll, DJs, modern rockabilly, and your band. No need to feel special about, either: Thee Cormans hate almost every band in the world, which was why they started theirs.
“Horrible bands made us start because every band is...
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Tour Tuesday: Mark Sultan, Acid Baby Jesus, The...
By Joseph Rodriguez
So many great bands are leaving their hometowns to head to yours. Whether they’re headed towards Texas for SXSW, touring in support of a new LP or just because they fucking feel like it, we’re here to keep track of it all so that you don’t have to. Tour Tuesday will be an ongoing series of tour date info covering the bands that matter, so you can be up to...
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Track: The Zoltars - The Perfect Girl
By Joseph Rodriguez
Melancholic and full of despair aren’t how I would normally describe a band from Austin, but The Zoltars are just that. Should I Try Once More? is the name of this trio’s upcoming debut LP, and “The Perfect Girl” is the first heart-wrenching single from it. The song is a ramshackle of sounds. It falls apart, but tries to keep it’s head held...
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Review: Frankie Rose - Interstellar
By Zach Braun
If anything, 2012 just might be the year that the real players in this genre we like to call “garage rock” grow up and out of their dingy, reverb-soaked haze and start making more grown-up records. Sure, there will always be a healthy crop of kids making blown-out noise for the faithful, but what about the rest of us pop music nerds who latched onto the excitement and...
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Review: Los Vigilantes - Los Vigilantes
By Paul Blawat
We here at GET BENT would like to issue an apology to you, our dear readers. Actually, not an apology, but more of a retraction of an oversight on our part. The following is a review of Los Vigilantes’ self-titled LP released in May of the year 2011. How this went unreviewed is a mystery (my guess is some malfunction in our Dewey Decimal Classification System). We can only...
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Video: Pangea (featuring Audacity) - Killer Dreams
By Joseph Rodriguez
So much guitar. Sooooo much guitar. I just stumbled across this live video of Pangea and Audacity ripping it up to “Killer Dreams”, from Pangea’s new EP of the same name, and thought it was too good not to post. The video is brought to you by Tony and Gabe, two dudes who film high quality live videos of LA based bands, using HD video, and live multitrack...
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FLIGHT!
And so we’re finally at the last record of our Hozac Records giveaway. Today, it’s Flight’s Feels So Good. Stream this mellow slice of fuzzy goodness from Mississippi below, and enter to win by commenting on this post.
The winner of yesterday’s giveaway is Adam Reilly. E-mail your address to sonam@getbent.fm so we can send you Art vs. Life.
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Review: Thee Marvin Gays - Thee Marvin Gays
By Steffan Hofland
I must be honest, it took me a little while to get over the stupid band name as well, but I can assure all you fine readers of GET BENT: this band is no joke. Thee Marvin Gays are from Belgium and even though your reviewer is from the Netherlands, a country with a long tradition of making fun of the Belgians, I won’t do that today. What I will do is tell you why this album is...
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The Hussy Announce New LP
By Joseph Rodriguez
The Hussy and GET BENT! go together like beer and cigarettes. We love these guys. So when Bobby Hussy hit me up with details on The Hussy’s sophomore LP Weird Seizure, I got what I like to call a “music boner”. You can watch the spastic, 19 second promo video for the new LP above, and expect it to drop this March through Tic Tac Totally. If this...
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Recap: Bruise Cruise 2
Long time punk enthusiast Drew Wilson is the lucky mother fucker who went on Bruise Cruise when none of the GB staff could cough up the cash. Read a recap of his sun-soaked adventures at this one-of-a-kind voyage into madness, listen to his Loud Love podcast, and check out his column on the Nashville music blog Sinizine. Wish you had been on the boat? Well, start saving those pennies now....
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ART VS LIFE
Seattle’s answer to crash normal and The Dictaphone is Le Sang Song, once Craig Chambers’ solo project. In 2010, He collected a few bandmates and they released an eponymous LP (listen to “Ring Ring” below). They followed it up with the Art vs. Life through Hozac Records‘ Hookup Klub. If you wanna add one of the last copies of the 7” to your record collection,...
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Review: Pop. 1280 - The Horror
By Paul Blawat
Pop. 1280’s The Horror is a masterpiece of grimy, noise-addled punk. Like Jim Thompson’s novel that is the bands’ namesake, The Horror blisters with an arid desert heat, evil psychedelic reverb, and an unmistakable surrealistic bleakness felt throughout the LP.
The opening track, “Burn the Worm”, sets a torrid pace. Pop. 1280 offer up some the...
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Column: Pouring the Red Whine
Part two of Eric Davidson’s Bruise Cruise edition of Pouring the Red Whine is a pre-cruise chat with comedian Neil Hamburger wherein they discuss comedy, malady, and traveling on the Greyhound. If you missed it, check out Eric’s hilarious interview with none other than King Khan right here. And if you wanna know what really happened on the boat, look for our Bruise Cruise recap next...
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FREE TITS
Rayon Beach are psychedelic punks that are capable of culling the best parts of the Swell Maps, Spacemen 3 and The Misunderstood. If you haven’t yet, you should get your hands on their 12” (buy it here). If you want their exclusive Hookup Klub 7”, though, you won’t be able to find it anywhere else but here, thanks to Hozac Records! To win, comment on this post. Listen...
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Review: Mind Spiders - Meltdown
By Joey Genovese
I’m pretty sure I now know why Mark Ryan decided to call his newest band Mind Spiders. Their music is a furry insect that burrows into your brain and spins a death web. Said insect will reside in the corners of your mind as it feasts on all other inferior bugs and thoughts that land in its web. Meltdown, the newest hotness on Dirtnap Records, does exactly just that, and...
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Guest Mix: Plateaus
Plateaus serve up some sloppy pop jams by way of San Diego. They made us a guest mix, which they describe in (very) few words. They have two 7-inches coming out soon, one on Art Fag Recordings! Check out our other guest mixes here.
This mix is brought to you by Plateaus. These are songs that we have been listening to lately. We picked these songs because they rule. We are not really ones for...
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A Tribute to the Kinks
By Ruby Perez
The Kinks are kind of an essential to every music lover’s library. I’m sure we can all recall listening to the Kinks for the first time and realizing, Wow, what have I been doing with my life until now?
Neotomic Webzine has created a label, Neotomic Records, and in doing so is providing an opportunity for us to fall in love with the Kinks all over again. Being the first ever...
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Video: Jeffrey Novak - Here Comes Snakeman
By Joseph Rodriguez
Jeffrey Novak is probably better known as the lead man of Tennesee trio, Cheap Time, but some might not know that he has an extensive solo discography. Baron In The Trees is the title of his 6th solo LP and it’ll be making it’s way to you soon courtesy of In The Red Records. Watch the heavily 60’s Brit-psych pop inspired home video on drugs for “Here...
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Column: Pouring the Red Whine
Eric Davidson’s back with a nifty two-part, Bruise Cruise-themed edition of Pouring the Red Whine. Today it’s an interview with King Khan and the Shrines. Look for Eric’s interview with comedian Neil Hamburger tomorrow!
By Eric Davidson
So thanks to such obtrusive, apparently “more important news” as the Grammys, the death of a famous singer, and...
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Review: Summer Twins - Summer Twins
By Zach Braun
It’s been done approximately six hundred times by now, but there’s always something instantly exciting about a band that kicks off an album with a sweet little guitar line, the iconic “Be My Baby” drum beat, and a swell of harmony vocals. Nearly sixty years after Hal Blaine laid them down the first time, those simple four beats are still a punch in the gut,...
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DRINK MY BLOOD
Next up in the slew of vinyl Hozac Records is letting us give away: the last copy of a Red Mass 7”. This one’s cool because the cover is drawn by Timmy Vulgar, whose record we gave away yesterday. Listen to the A-side of the record, “Drink My Blood” below (B-side is “Freak Show”). Comment below to win. The winner of yesterday’s giveaway is Amber Cecil....
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Review: Tronics - Love Backed by Force / Shark...
By Daniel Clodfelter
Few albums or bands have done as much to influence me in the past few years as the Tronics and their 1981 LP, Love Backed by Force. I first discovered the Tronics in 2007, through an impulse buy in the used CD bin at Rhino Records in Claremont, California, by way of a still-sealed CD compilation of twenty-two bands I had then never heard of, with off-kilter names like...
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Review: The People's Temple - Still (the Same) 7''
By Ruby Perez
Making music with family always ends up being a recipe for something great. The creative collaborations between siblings makes for something special, a kind of musical monster that could only be created by people as close as family. Records that sound like it’s 1964 when it’s 2012 are just an added plus when these types of musical babies are born. Now, if you take two sets of...
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Track: Colleen Green - Goldmine
By Ruby Perez
Colleen Green has released a new LP entitled, Milo Goes To Compton. The groovy gal released her album on Art Fag and is available for digital download as well as limited edition green vinyl, respectively.
Colleen Green - Goldmine
If you buy the vinyl you also get a rad original comic by Ms. Green herself and the always helpful download card. Pick it up now from Art Fag.
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TIMMY'S SCUM REVOLUTION
The next record we’re giving away during our ridiculous Hozac Records Hook Up Klub Giveaway is from Timmy’s Organism. Released in April 2011, it features “Scum Revolution” b/w “When The Bottles Break.” If you want this one, post a comment below with a link to your favorite live video from ‘em. The winner of yesterday’s giveaway is Nightmariel...
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Column: Sofa King Bent
Get ready for early-naughts nostalgia, as GET BENT columnist Tiffany Minton takes us back to her first day of high school and the conversation—and the song—that changed her life. Plus a little hint for what’s to come in the next edition of Sofa King Bent!
By Tiffany Minton
August 1999: the month I started high school, downloaded my first .mp3, and turned fourteen, which at...
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Track: Black Tambourine - What's Your Game...
By Joseph Rodriguez
One of the shortest lived, yet still widely talked about bands, Black Tambourine are re-uniting after breaking up over 20 years ago. The bands upcoming record will be an EP of Ramones covers titled after Dee Dee’s shout before every song, OneTwoThreeFour. Listen to the cover of “What’s Your Game”, from The Ramones 1977 Leave Home, featuring...
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SUPER WILD RAINBOWS
Since the release of Hozac Records’ Super Wild Horses/Reading Rainbow split, the former have released Fifteen, and the latter changed their name to Bleeding Rainbow. Stream the Bleeding Rainbow side below, and snag the 7” from round 2 of Hookup Klub by commenting on this post! The winner of the Dalai Lama giveaway is Andrew Schubert. Send your mailing info to sonam@getbent.fm.
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Track: The Men - Ex-Dreams
By Joseph Rodriguez
My pants were more than a little moist after hearing The Men’s title track from their forthcoming LP, Open Your Heart. Well, after listening to the 2nd cut from the LP, “Ex-Dreams”, which also happens to be the albums closer, I’m for sure going to need a new pair of pants.
Open Your Heart drops March 6th via Sacred Bones.
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Track: The Harlequins - Backwards Forwards
By Zach Braun
You’ve probably never heard of Cincinnati psychedelic garage trio The Harlequins before, but that’s about to change with the release of their self-titled, self-released second album. After playing several hundred shows in the midwest over the past four years, they’ve honed their sound to a razor-sharp mix of Thee Oh Sees’ sonic experimentation and the ...
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Review: Nightmare Boyzzz/Younger Siblings - Split...
By Lisa Parisi
Listening to the Nightmare Boyzzz/Younger Siblings split isn’t complete without a big piece of sugary Bubble Yum to smack around in your mouth. This is a breezy, carefree, don those shades, blow some bubbles, play with a dandelion, and lay on a blanket in the springtime sun kind of album—well in sound at least… content, well that’s another story.
About the Nightmare Boyzzz,...
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Video: Xray Eyeballs - X
By Joseph Rodriguez
A few weeks ago we mentioned that Brooklyn’s Xray Eyeballs would be dropping their sophomore LP, Splendor Squalor, this Month. Check out “X”, the first video taken from the album, featuring all the usual suspects: Gandhi, John Lydon and John F. Kennedy.
Splendor Squalor will be out through Kanine Records February 28th. Pre-order it on Insound.
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MEET THE DALAI LAMA?
Dalai Lama manages to remain unknown in an era of unknown bands - the only information I could find out about him was through Todd Novak himself in an A/V Club Interview. In terms of involving the band for the second round of Hookup Klub, he said, “…[The Dalai Lamas is] the only entry in the second Hookup Klub that nobody knows. It’s just this guy out in California who makes this...
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Review: Guilty Pleasures - Summer Strange
By Jonathan Markley
I won’t speculate on why Guilty Pleasures never released their awesome catchy garage punk tour de force back when it was recorded by the legendary Jim Diamond (of Dirtbombs and White Stripes producing fame) in Detroit during the summer of 2000. The important fact is that Dusty Medical Records came to the rescue and finally released what may be the scene’s lost...
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MORE FREE RECORDS!!
A lot of you said Box Elders are your favorite Hozac band in a previous post — and for good reason. Check out “Tiny Sioux” from their exclusive Hookup Klub 7” below. If you want this piece of wax, comment on this post with your favorite song by ‘em. Easy enough, right? If you’re feeling extra motivated, you can also enter to win our giveaway for a free...
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Review: Ramma Lamma - Little Runaway 7''
By Joey Genovese
POP! Out of a town mostly known for making beer and fat people, Milwaukee has a gem of a band hiding in its city limits. Ramma Lamma is in fact that band, and if you haven’t heard ‘em yet, get ready to go out and buy another 7”! Fronted by husband and wife team Ryan King and Wendy Norton, these guys put out a good little slice of wax here. These jams are part...
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Video: Teenanger - Bank Account
By Zach Braun
It’s been too goddamn long since snot-nosed Toronto punks Teenanger have dropped a full-length release. How long? Nearly two years by my estimation. That’s about to change with the release of Frights, which is coming on February 28th via the band’s own Telephone Explosion label. Here’s a video for album-closer “Bank Account,” which mixes ...
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Burger Boogaloo 2012
By Lisa Parisi
Ahhh Spring is just around the corner. The time when nature comes in full swing, flower buds spurt, bird’s eggs hatch, and rock and roll impropriety moves to the great outdoors—isn’t the cycle of life grand? For our west coast compatriots, or anyone with access to space travel machines (airplanes, Transporters, and the like), the 2012 lineup for the annual Burger Boogaloo has...
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Review: The Consumers - All My Friends Are Dead...
By Kristen Berry
What was going on in Phoenix, Arizona in the mid-70s? Musically speaking, you had your typical cover band fare of the day. I mean, the people wanna hear the hits at a bar on Friday night! Presumably, like the countless other young men and women that formed punk bands at the time, the Consumers were fed up with the ho-hum rock music and disco that adorned corporate radio,...
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Track: Dunes - Vertical Walk
By Joseph Rodriguez
Members of 3 defunct bands: Talbot Tagora, Mika Miko and Finally Punk make up the California trio known as Dunes. They’ve already released some EP’s through Mexican Summer and Art Fag, but are readying their debut LP, Noctiluca, which will be put out through Dean Spunt’s (No Age) label Post Present Medium. Listen to the first shimmery cut, “Vertical...
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Track: TacocaT - Spring Break-Up
By Zach Braun
They’ve already got the sweetest palindrome band name in existence, now Seattle fun-punks TacocaT has a sweet record deal with Hardly Art to match. The Sub Pop offshoot is set to release the Take Me To Your Dealer 7” EP on March 13th, and “Spring Break-Up” is an addictive track that shows the band is still mining the same bratty attitude and amiable K ...
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SHOW ME YOUR TEETH
We’re in the process of trying to give away a subscription to round 3 of Hozac Records’ Hookup Klub (you can still enter to win here). From today onward, we’re also trying to give away every 7” from round 2 of Hookup Klub. We’re starting with the Teeth 7”. If you want it, comment below. The winner of yesterday’s giveaway is Eric. Send your address to...
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Video: Coasting - Same Old Same Old
By Zach Braun
In December, Brooklyn duo Coasting released one monster of a debut LP called You’re Never Going Back, and it quickly became one of the most played records in my household, thanks to the ferocious drumming of Fiona Campbell and the super-charged vocal duets between her and guitarist Madison Farmer. Now here’s a video for album highlight “Same Old Same...
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Track: La Sera - Break My Heart
By Zach Braun
We featured the video for “Please Be My Third Eye” a few weeks back, and now here’s another advance track from Sees The Light, the second LP by Katy Goodman’s Vivian Girls side project La Sera. “Break My Heart” is another punky pop banger, coming off like an outtake from an unreleased 2012 gritty reboot of the Clueless soundtrack. The album...
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Review: Bad Sports - Red Overlay 7''
By Lisa Parisi
It’s time to learn about the birds and the bees, about rock and roll storks. It’s time you learn how record labels are born? [cue foggy fadeout]
The specifics: 2010, on a long drive across America’s panhandle, returning from Atlanta’s Mess Around Fest (you know that tame, wholesome rock and roll gathering…), Ryan Brush (Bad Touch) and Ryan Sweeny (Cheap Time) had an idea. A damn...
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Track: The Young - Livin' Free
By Joseph Rodriguez
Austin’s The Young are set to follow up on their Mexican Summer released 2010 LP Voyagers of Legend with a new LP of shoegaze meets head bustin’ stoner rock jams entitled Dub Egg. Livin’ free might be easy, but The Young make it sound so hard.
The Young - Livin’ Free
Dub Egg will be available through Matador Records May 8th.
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HOOKUP KLUB ROUND 1
Next up in our round of Hozac Records giveaways: the Hookup Klub Round One comp! The 12” features tracks by Woven Bones, Dum Dum Girls, Teepee, Teeth, Box Elders, Mother of Tears, Flight, Art Thieves, Idle Times and White Mystery (who just made us a super cute punk love mixtape)!
If you want it, alls you gotta do is comment with your favorite band of the ones mentioned above. Winner to...
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Track: Dry Feet - Big Brown Shark
By Zach Braun
March is shaping up to be a busy month for Philly surf-punk trio Dry Feet. They are set to embark on a two week tour with synth-damaged new wavers Bad Doctors, and are releasing a cassette on Burger Records called 10 Songs By The Band…, which they will be selling on the tour. Peep the tour dates after the cut, and check out the raging instrumental “Big Brown Shark” from the tape,...