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SPB exclusive: Crushing - Slug
Scene Point Blank's featured July stream is the new Slug by Crushing. Crushing is a solo-ish project by Jay Cavalier of Brighton, also known for drumming with Personal Best.
Give it a listen and keep reading, as Cavalier explains the method behind the madness.
In his own words, the inspiration to Slug, Cavalier explains, is:
I started toying with the idea of a concept EP in the summer of 2017. The idea of writing and developing a character through song appealed to me because I've always found it hard to write lyrics about anything and having that focus really helped. Once the EP was written I still had a lot of ideas and fleshed it out into a full album. By February 2018 the story had grown into an unwieldy 16-odd tracks, a mix of interpretive instrumentals, character speeches and pop songs (including a fake live karaoke Daniel Johnston cover). Over the following year I tweaked and boiled down the story and music incessantly until it became the 9 songs it is now. The hardest thing about self-producing is the lack of deadline. I had a seemingly infinite amount of time to tweak and write new ideas, and soon the project started to take its toll.
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Cro-Mags are back
Posted July 7, 2019, 5:21 p.m.
Cro-Mags, fronted by bassist Harley Flanagan, have a new single coming via Victory Records -- it's the first new music in 20 years from the hardcore pioneers. Titled Don't Give In, the 3-song EP will be available on limited press vinyl on August 2.
"I had a lot of inspiration writing these songs; I experienced a lot of loss-- the loss of friends, by suicide, cancer, depression, mortality and ultimately the beauty of life; and the need to fight for it, for every breathe,” Harley Flanagan said in a recent interview with Revolver. “We all fight our battles, and they are different, but none of us are unique in the fact that we have to fight, and often alone. In that way we all have something in common.
“I feel like I crashed and burned enough times and managed to rise back up. But that is life; you have to fight for what you want, and you also have to know how temporary it all is. This is a lot of what inspired these songs."
Besides Flanagan, the new materia features Gabby Abularach (Gil Evans Orchestra and also played on Cro-Mags’ Alpha Omega and Near Death Experience, Rocky George (formerly of Suicidal Tendencies and Fishbone and on Revenge, and Gary "GMan" Sullivan (the B-52's, Berny Worrel of Parliament Funkadelic, TM Stevens.
The band plays three dates with the Misfits in September and will head to Europe this fall.
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Records New UV-TV
Posted July 7, 2019, 3:01 p.m.
UV-TV - Happy
Deranged Records will release a new LP on July 19, HAPPY. The band just revealed a track with the same title here. Formed in 2015 in Gainesville, FL, HAPPY, is the group's second album.
Records New Frank Turner in August
Posted July 7, 2019, 2:47 p.m.
Frank Turner - No Man's Land
Frank Turner, who performs tonight at King Tuts in Glasgow, has a new album on the way. On August 16, Turner will release his eighth solo album, titled No Man's Land. More than an ...
Records Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back
Posted July 7, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
photo by Loren Green
The Body and Uniform have announced a new collaborative record between the two bands. Titled Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back, it will release on August 16 on Sacred Bones. The album title comes from ...
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Bands Redd Kross share another new song
Posted July 7, 2019, 1:57 p.m. in Bands by Loren
photo by Julian Fort
With the new album Beyond the Door set to release on August 23 (Merge Records), Redd Kross have premiered a second track from the upcoming ...
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Records New action from Subhumans UK
Posted July 7, 2019, 1:25 p.m. in Records by Loren
Subhumans - Crisis Point
The long-running Subhumans (UK) are back with a new LP, Crisis Point, on September 13 on Pirates Press Records. Active from 1980-1985 and then reunited ...
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Bands Deaf Club announced EP, debuts video
Posted July 7, 2019, 12:58 p.m. in Bands by Loren
Featuring members of The Locust, Run With The Hunted, Fissue, Weak Flesh, and ACxDC, Deaf Club has unleashed a video tor the song "Bright Side ...
Records Multicult's Simultaneity Now announced
Posted July 1, 2019, 9:42 p.m. in Records by Loren
photo by Ben Price
Baltimore, MD's angular Multicult will release its fifth album, Simultaneity Now, on August 2 on Learning Curve Records. Check out the song "Grieflex" below ...
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Records New Mean Jeans, "Party Line"
Posted July 1, 2019, 9:02 p.m. in Records by Loren
photo by Jose Corona Jr
Mean Jeans have unleased a new single called "Party Line" as a teaser of their upcoming new album titled Gigantic Sike. Gigantic Sike features 11 ...
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Records Meatwound to release third LP
Posted July 1, 2019, 8:54 p.m. in Records by Loren
Meatwound - Culero
Meatwound are back with a pummeling new record, Culero, which releases August 2 through Financial Ruin. The record is the band's third and will ...
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Records Who is on the Good Vibes & High Fives tour?
Posted July 1, 2019, 8:01 p.m. in Records by Loren
photo by Will Bolton
Bowling For Soup recently announced a co-headlining tour with Less Than Jake, part of Bowling For Soup's larger 25th anniversary celebration throughout the year ...
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