strum: Niño Brown Last week we released a new single named ‘Dizzy’. Longtime listeners of the Cortez Garza-born artist will quickly notice that this is the first instance of his acoustic his guitar reappearance since adopting the Brown moniker. The song serves as a strong undercurrent for a melodic pop-R&B track that, once heard, isn’t as incongruent with his other singles as it sounds on paper. First of all, it’s time for Brown to release a full-length album. A single is dandy, but it’s time for a collection of songs arranged in a particular order. So please consider my order. Find it on all major streaming services and find its video premiere at flagpole.com.
genre jam: We dab right in the middle of Aubrey Entertainment. Southern Brewing’s RPM SeriesHosting only rock, punk and metal (RPM, get it?), these shows conveniently take place on Friday nights. Upcoming dates for him are February 3rd with Swear Jar, Grawks and Commune. February 10th with Bleach Garden, Beat Up and Deaf Condors. February 17th, with Busterdan, Klept, and Palacion. And he’ll be on February 24 with Rosie & the Ratdogs, Wyld Staleyz, and Sleezy Cheetah. Each of these doors opens at 7pm and the music starts at 8pm. For all other questions please call ahead or bug the adult booking this via social media. For your convenience, the information you need is sobrewco.com and facebook.com/AubreyEntertainmentAthensGA.
sweat loaf: I must say, I’m really delving into the slow slides into the semi-anonymous music happening in certain corners of the music scene. rubber adder, itself courtesy of “SuL E. HoLmSs”. It’s been years since this kind of heavy, acid and crispy, freak scene, heavy metal punk thrash spread in Athens, and I welcome it.the name of the new album mechanically separated chicken, Since 2021, it’s actually the third collection of songs from Rubber Udder. I’m not going to go into individual tracks here, but suffice it to say that if you dig Butthole Surfers, Bar-BQ Killers, and/or Melvins, you should. You can snuggle up next to something. Find it at rubberudder.bandcamp.com.
SING IT TO ME NOW: It’s been a while Patrick Brick release some new songs under him Futo umbrella. And he just did it with his five-song EP. behind the callHis last release was for 2021 stand out in his fieldIt’s probably the least obvious electronically oriented release from Futo, understandable given his habitual collaboration with Four Eyes. That said, while this doesn’t mimic that project’s lighthearted sonic height, it approaches a similar level of emotional depth. can be enjoyed up front rather than behind the production brilliance. Even so, this is a sharply produced release, not something that was recorded on a paper cup. The highlights here are the opening song “Little Life” and his track with a surprisingly rocking title. Find out for yourself at futo.bandcamp.com.
kazoo and beating drums: What do you get when you combine a sweater, an acoustic guitar, and a Dunkin’ Donuts? Neutral Milk Hotel, what else?And just in case your attention is somehow diverted from this particularly idiosyncratic LA legend, Athens-via-Ruston, the kind folks at Merge Records are here to help you out for the endless and foreseeable future. On Friday 24th February, the artist’s longtime label A whopping 54-track vinyl release Works of Neutral Milk HotelThe set includes a proper NMH album (1996’s on avery island and in 1998 in an airplane over the sea), 2001 Live at Jittery Joe’sEP everything is (1995) and fire ferris wheel (2011), select more bibs and bobs. All in all, this is a great collection of great songwriters and formidable performers, and deserves all the care and attention I’m sure Merge has delivered. Find it at your local record shop. If they don’t have it, keep bugging until they do. If that’s how you deal with this sort of thing, visit mergerecords.com/product/the_collected_works_of_neutral_milk_hotel.
they can be heroes: sets the dials to Saturday, February 4th. cine’s labbecause this is straight bill out of the Valley of Impossible Dreams, the three bands defied all commonly accepted rock music odds and culminated. Pylon Reproduction Association, managed to defy all preconceived notions of what a tribute band could be.Then we have Deathlocker dying tearsthey’ve been struggling with it for over 20 years, still keeping their heads up and honing their sights, and now have groundbreaking status. Publish, this is the band’s exhilarating thrill thanks to the guys who have been in so many bands. Basically, these three acts have done things that no one has actually done. Vision and purpose he maintains for 20 years, fighting reactions of shrugging and blatant indifference. And decades after each of them started playing music, they formed the best bands of their individual members’ lives. This might be an overly romantic way of looking at all this, but hell, that’s where I come from. Doors open at 9:00 p.m. and cost $10.
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