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More Glitterer in 2021

Posted in Records on December 9, 2020

Glitterer, also known as Ned Russin, will return with his second full-length in early 2021. Titled Life Is Not A Lesson, the new record will be released on Feb. 25, 2021 on ANTI-, also released Looking Through The Shades in 2019.

A lead single/video debuted this week, "Are You Sure," which you can watch below.

While long an active musician, Glitterer is a new direction for Russin, formerly of Title Fight -- as we discussed in an interview last year.

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Life Is Not A Lesson Track Listing:

1. Bodies
2. Are You Sure
3. Try Harder Still
4. Little Backwards Glance
5. How A Song Should Go
6. The End
7. Didn’t Want It
8. Indeed
9. Birdsong
10. I Made The Call
11. Fire
12. Life Is Not A Lesson

Two new AJJ tunes

Posted in MP3s on December 9, 2020

AJJ, who released Good Luck Everybody to kick off 2020 -- which is quite the title, in retrospect -- has shared two more new songs this week online. The two singles (both posted below) fit the band's discography neatly. "Horsehair Vase" is about returning home after a life-changing journey, while … Read more

Album Stream: Pig Sphinx by Psychic Baos

Posted in Records on December 8, 2020

Rooted in psychedelic garage rock sorts of sounds, three-piece Psychic Baos has blazed their own trail in the years since their foundation, last releasing 16 Booooty Shaking Classics in 2016. 2020 has been a weird year, and it seems to me that some more “booooty shaking classics” might do us … Read more

A digital Save The Senate Festival

Posted in Shows on December 7, 2020

Taking place at 6 EST on Dec. 18, a digital fundraiser festival called Save The Senate is taking place, highlighted by performances from Ani DiFranco, Death Valley Girls, Kimya Dawson, Mountain Man, Tom Morello, Okkervil River, and more. The purpose of the event is to raise funds for Fair Fight, … Read more

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Merge Records: a Georgia set of covers

Posted in Records on December 6, 2020

Merge Records has released a new covers album called Going to Georgia, featuring covers of songs originally written by Georgia artists. Artists such as Superchunk, Will Butler, Titus Andronicus anad TORRESS cover the likes of R.E.M., Yo La Tengo, The B-52s, and Otis Redding. Available exculsively through bandcamp and Merge … Read more

Skydog 8-disc Iggy and the Stooges set

Posted in Records on December 6, 2020

On December 18, a new collection of Iggy & the Stooges' Skydog material will be released in a single box set collection. Totaling 7 CDs, 1 DVD, and a 48-page booklet, the box set remasters the original material and includes live footage source tapes, acoustive Iggy and live footage of … Read more

G.I.S.M. presents: Extream Guerrilla Live Streaming

Posted in Shows on December 6, 2020

If you are remotely into G.I.S.M. and harbour a vague appreciation for the attention to detail, inventive interplays of recorded and live materials and the overall artistic directions Sakevi and Beast Arts channels its alchemy in, you would not want to miss when Japanese underground punk legends G.I.S.M. incarnate again … Read more

Folterkammer out next week

Posted in Records on December 5, 2020

Folterkammer has announced a new full-length, coming next Friday Dec. 11. The group, whose name translates from German to English as "Torture Chamber," formed in 2018 and features Andromeda Anarchia and Zachary Ezrin (Imperial Triumphant), plus Darren Hanson, and Brendan McGowan. The project uses a foundation of second-wave black metal … Read more

Boris with Merzbow covers the Melvins

Posted in Videos on December 5, 2020

Boris with Merzbow, who collaborated for the upcoming 2R0I2P0 record, out next Friday, Dec. 11, have shared a cover of the song "Boris," originally by The Melvins. The new album title is pronounced "Twenty Twenty R.I.P." and will be released by Relapse Records. Check the "Boris" video after the jump. … Read more

46 Chicago-area artists contribute to charitable comp

Posted in Videos on December 5, 2020

Fans of charitable causes, Chicago area music and new music in general may want to check out Warm Violet, a new 46-track compilation that released yesterday, Dec. 4. With new music from Ratboys, Ariel Zetina, Angel Bat Dawid, and more, the compilation is intended to raise awareness for Chicago Community … Read more

A new video, a new EP from The Great Hurricane Escape

Posted in Records on December 5, 2020

Dutch punk band The Great Hurricane Escape released a new EP If Not Now, When? on Dec. 3 on White Russian Records. A video for single, "Slow Burn" is included below to give readers an idea of what the band is about. The new EP follows a previous EP released … Read more

Fox Face release date

Posted in Records on December 5, 2020

January 22, 2021 will bring the End Of Man, the latest full-length by Milwaukee, WI-based Fox Face. SPB premiered "Not Your Home" in video form just last month, for those who are attentive readers. End Of Man is the band's second full-length and will be released on Dirtnap Records, who … Read more

Bad Religion looks good at 40

Posted in Shows on December 5, 2020

Believe it or not, Bad Religion is turning 40 years-old as a band. To celebrate the milestone the group has a four-part streaming series coming up, broken down with material by the decade. Part one debuts tomorrow, December 13. The series includes live footage, interviews, and a look at rehearsals … Read more

New Petrol Girls single

Posted in MP3s on December 5, 2020

Petrol Girls shared a new single and video yesterday, titled “I Believe Them (Solidarity Not Silence)." Watch a video below and head to Bandcamp where it's being exclusively sold. The song is released to raise awareness (and funds) of an ongoing defamation case concerning several women who spoke up about … Read more

Terminal Bliss through Relapse

Posted in Labels on December 4, 2020

Terminal Bliss from Richmond, VA has signed with Relapse Records. The band, featuring brothers Chris (vocals) and Mike Taylor (guitar), plus drummer Ryan Parrish and bassist Adam Juresko, formed last year and quickly recorded a debut record. If the names are familiar, the musicians have played with Pg. 99, Pygmy … Read more

It's "Christmas in Hell," says Crocodiles

Posted in MP3s on December 4, 2020

In a year of pandemics, mass hospitalizations and illness, and political and social turmoil, indie band Crocodiles have dialed up a Christmas song for the times in "Christmas In Hell." "The world needed a Christmas song reflective of the total shittiness of 2020 so last week we decided to write … Read more

J. Wang's Come Closer

Posted in MP3s on December 4, 2020

Come Closer, a new J. Wang project (Dan Padilla, Shallow Cuts, Tiltwheel), has shared its debut single "Get It Wrong." The new song is a teaser for a full-length record, recorded in Wang's home, coming in early 2021 via Pirates Press Records. “I’m super excited about it and it is … Read more

Debt Neglector has a new EP

Posted in Records on December 4, 2020

Debt Neglector from Florida released a new EP today on bandcamp, called Bad Faith, donating all proceeds to Fair Fight, an organization registering voters, fighting voter suppression, and informing the public about progressive issues. The band used songs left from their upcoming LP (due next year), releasing the songs now … Read more

The Mountain Goats Jordan Lake Sessions

Posted in Records on December 4, 2020

It's another bandcamp Friday, which means more goodies in a year that's had lots of unpleasantness as well. This time it's news of the third new Mountain Goats release of 2020. The John Darnielle-fronted group performed a livestream event earlier this year and now those 36 songs are be released … Read more

After long wait, a new full-length from Black Sheep Wall

Posted in Records on December 4, 2020

Over five years after releasing I'm Going To Kill Myself, SoCal sludge band Black Sheep Wall is back with a brand new album called Songs for the Enamel Queen on Feb. 26 on Silent Pendulum Records. The band first formed in the mid-'00s and has had several lineup changes between … Read more