WEDNESDAY MAR 01, 2017
Motherfucker
"The only introduction Motherfucker (Athens, GA) and their album Confetti need is the kind that includes access to your stereo and roughly half an hour of your time. Forget the headphones. Don't bother to roll the windows down. Leave the doors wide open. They formed initially as a scheme to play a local festival with the concept of an unknown and outrageously confident band that would only play once. So, claiming the wildly abrasive name, Erika Rickson (drums), Erica Strout (guitar), and Mandy Branch (bass) quickly assembled a set of what they called “punch-in-the-air” rock. Then, after that initial audience was fully whelmed and subsequent bookings came at a ridiculously frenzied pace, they went whole hog into owning it fully. And good thing for us they did because it's a damn rare thing these days for a band to have a name on the outside of a record that equals the shock and awe of what's inside. Although Confetti certainly has that new record smell to it, it's still a slippery thing. Try to pin it to a hardcore tradition and you'll fail instantly. Neither is it nailed to the surly Chicago school of 1990s rock to which the band has been compared so many times. What's ultimately distilled here is the work of three individuals who have sweated through multiple bands over the last 15 years until they finally got fed up to the point of blast time."
"The only introduction Motherfucker (Athens, GA) and their album Confetti need is the kind that includes access to your stereo and roughly half an hour of your time. Forget the headphones. Don't bother to roll the windows down. Leave the doors wide open. They formed initially as a scheme to play a local festival with the concept of an unknown and outrageously confident band that would only play once. So, claiming the wildly abrasive name, Erika Rickson (drums), Erica Strout (guitar), and Mandy Branch (bass) quickly assembled a set of what they called “punch-in-the-air” rock. Then, after that initial audience was fully whelmed and subsequent bookings came at a ridiculously frenzied pace, they went whole hog into owning it fully. And good thing for us they did because it's a damn rare thing these days for a band to have a name on the outside of a record that equals the shock and awe of what's inside. Although Confetti certainly has that new record smell to it, it's still a slippery thing. Try to pin it to a hardcore tradition and you'll fail instantly. Neither is it nailed to the surly Chicago school of 1990s rock to which the band has been compared so many times. What's ultimately distilled here is the work of three individuals who have sweated through multiple bands over the last 15 years until they finally got fed up to the point of blast time."
GRIZZLOR
"Noise rock riffage riding a mastodon through a swamp." - Revolver Magazine
"No room. This noise-punk record (Cycloptic) packs a couple hours of inventive, oddball ideas into about 10 minutes, and they have a song called 'Sundays Are Stupid', so it's really goddamn great." - Decibel Magazine
"As a long time fan of metal and grunge, I'm always excited by something new. Grizzlor come from New Haven, Connecticut and their music is full of pure aggression and youthful energy. This is a band I'd go out of my way to see - the energy here needs to be heard." - NME Magazine, UK
"Noise rock riffage riding a mastodon through a swamp." - Revolver Magazine
"No room. This noise-punk record (Cycloptic) packs a couple hours of inventive, oddball ideas into about 10 minutes, and they have a song called 'Sundays Are Stupid', so it's really goddamn great." - Decibel Magazine
"As a long time fan of metal and grunge, I'm always excited by something new. Grizzlor come from New Haven, Connecticut and their music is full of pure aggression and youthful energy. This is a band I'd go out of my way to see - the energy here needs to be heard." - NME Magazine, UK
Bardus
If the Melvins, Eyehategod, Unsane, and Queens of the Stone AGE all somehow co-fathered some ungodly offspring, that ungodly offspring would, no doubt, sound an awful lot like Bardus. -metalsucks
Full length "SOLUS" available through bandcamp. http://www.bardus.bandcamp.com/
If the Melvins, Eyehategod, Unsane, and Queens of the Stone AGE all somehow co-fathered some ungodly offspring, that ungodly offspring would, no doubt, sound an awful lot like Bardus. -metalsucks
Full length "SOLUS" available through bandcamp. http://www.bardus.bandcamp.com/
Vincas
Athens, Georgia is rich with an ever-evolving and burgeoning undeground music scene and the self released "Blood Bleeds" LP by Vincas is further proof of the stellar things happening in the American South. Vincas deal in scuzzed out psychedelic punk fireballs in the broad shouldered tradition of The Scientists, The Gun Club and the art damaged frenzied space rock of The Telescopes and High Rise. They've upped the feedback squalor, infused a hefty rhythmic pulse with a muscular dexterity and topped it off with an Alan Vega snarl. "Blood Bleeds" rams full speed ahead with a surly debauched swamp-groove psych-raunch that is always welcome to our ears." - Permanent Records
Athens, Georgia is rich with an ever-evolving and burgeoning undeground music scene and the self released "Blood Bleeds" LP by Vincas is further proof of the stellar things happening in the American South. Vincas deal in scuzzed out psychedelic punk fireballs in the broad shouldered tradition of The Scientists, The Gun Club and the art damaged frenzied space rock of The Telescopes and High Rise. They've upped the feedback squalor, infused a hefty rhythmic pulse with a muscular dexterity and topped it off with an Alan Vega snarl. "Blood Bleeds" rams full speed ahead with a surly debauched swamp-groove psych-raunch that is always welcome to our ears." - Permanent Records