rolling punk/non-indie underground 2014

so no chaos in tejas this year https://www.facebook.com/chaosintejas/posts/635596446475898?stream_ref=10

ok so i know everyone keeps asking but we are very sad to say that 2014 there will be no giant fest like normal. maybe a smaller scaled down thing but even that is up in the air at this point. i always said if i couldn't top the year before then i shouldn't bother and i'm not sure i can top last year at this point. it's been an amazing 9 years and thank you all for everything to make so many dreams come true year after year. we will still be doing shows and like i said maybe a smaller fest or something? lots of records coming out on the label and always stuff our sleeves so we aren't going anywhere but chaos in tejas as you know it won't be it's normal weekend in 2014.

im callin it la misma best 7" of 2014

should i just post punk stuff to the other thread now? this is a cool tape from a uk band called endless rope. vocals are hilariously over the top and would be badly paired with the post punk instrumentals except they pull it off http://endlessrope.bandcamp.com/album/negi-surf-demo

No! (I mean to other thread question!) Glad to see this!

fuck you, punx

was absent from this threda lst yr, but will ride shotgun in the 14. work won't let me check out the la misma stuff, but will listen in the am. that is all.

cool

i didn't really keep up with punk stuff that much either but listened to a bunch of stuff off the termbo list http://www.terminal-boredom.com/2013/rk13.html some gems in there

the termbo aesthetic as expressed through their msgboard is consistently gross and offputting but I have no problem with broadly trusting their judgement when it comes to recommendations for contemporary p/n-iu shit

finally listened to Lumpy & The Dumpers like a fortnight ago and am kicking myself for being prissy about their name for the previous 12 months. what a band!

look fwd to checking them out in feb 2015

yeah lumpy & the dumpers are the best, i posted about them here iirc. i don't really read the termbo forums but i have always loved Rich's writing. there's just something about it, like a punk scott seward or something. basically the only current underground rock critic voice that doesn't make me cringe. like compared to doug mosurock (barf) or namedropping MRR dweebs who come off as insecure 16 year olds, he just comes off as a normal dude. as far as the aesthetic goes, i guess intentionally dumbed down garage punk will always be behind the curve politically kind of comes with the territory

all that is otm I think. I do enjoy their reviews section of like 150 screeds one after the other. Mosurock is... not as self-aware as he could be perhaps

what's the other thread? time travel or w/e? i never got what that was about?

maybe we can make some sort of omnibus "ILX ALL KINDS OF ROCK MUSIC THREAD EXCEPT NO LAME-ASS INDIE SHIT LIKE THE NATIONAL OR THOSE GARBAGE PARAMORE BANDS THAT ILM POPIST LIKE FOR SOME REASON"

it's pretty cool that's basically waht it is

iirc lj started it but fortunately he doesn't seem to post much stuff on it, mostly edward iii and sarahell posting weird us post-noise underground stuff

oh ok i like that! but i never meant for that stuff to nec be excluded from this thread.

yeah, i didnt really get the point of the thread in the first place either but it's blossomed into something pretty cool

eh time travel's just a catch all for stuff that falls between genre cracks or cool bands that don't deserve their own thread or w/e, so much shit I never posted to ILX cuz there wasn't a bucket to put it in, and I've discovered so much cool shit there, like that holly herndon is blowing my mind but I prolly never would've heard it cuz the dance/techno threads always overwhelm me

I'm just gonna use the punk thread for cool meathead stuff like this
http://ratstab.bandcamp.com/album/noise-war-demo

in other news white load is playing their final show on 3/29 in PVD

Love-love-loving this album, by Maryland lady punks BIG MOUTH (recommended for any 90s Dischord fanatics; Don Zientara even engineered it at Inner Ear!):

http://bigmouthsound.bandcamp.com/

Friend of mine turned me on to RVIVR recently, super energetic stuff, love it

http://rvivr.bandcamp.com/album/the-beauty-between

So garagey band Obnox have gotten a bunch of mentions from folks for their SxSw gigs.

Obnox is pretty great!

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/16859-dasher-time-flies/

My friends Dasher are really awesome and they just got a feature on P4K! Kylee is a great drummer and a great singer and a really cool person! Don't know if this is considered non-indie or what (Die Slaughterhaus is just one guy basically) but I really like it!

One of my coworkers is in a band and he was complaining about the lack of new good, uh, basically non-indie punk/rock bands and I realized that I hadn't been listening to any new bands for a while (I've been in the crate-digging hole for the last six months or so).

So: Recommend me some more new music in the vein of what this thread usually does.

that newish obnox album on 12xu is really fuckin good, fuzzed out rhythmic clatter with really solid songs, like an analog mellow gold at times. except better than that

Seconding the Obnox, definitely. So good.

yeah it's good, crunchy

Oh, that Obnox is good. Fuzzzzzzzzz. Gonna get this.

ILX wins again.

just want to shout out this benefit compilation thingy that someone I know has organised: http://peterkemptheworldisyours.bandcamp.com/releases

didn't know about the dude who inspired it beforehand but his reviews blog is great and the thing it's seeking to benefit seems to be self-evidently good. for the specific purposes of this thread it's also useful in that it's basically a sample of nearly every good p/n-iu band in the UK at the moment (plus some from Europe/Japan/US/Aus)

seconding everybody, cuz that obnox LP is great. everything he's done has been pretty great, tho. just not quite as great.

saw Solid Attitude/STNNNG/Animal Lover last night!

Solid Attitude was great...felt chaotic but was actually super tight...bleating sax all over everything. great energy

STNNNG great as usual

Animal Love...holy living fuck this was the loudest band I've seen since that one 2 man noise thing that dressed up like evil bunnies i can't remember the name

total Am Rep throwback...Guzzard + Hammerhead's volume...really good...

Aw, was asked to be on that comp Mencap posted but we don't have any songs recorded properly.

Do Hysterics count for this thread? Hardcore/punx0r, played here recently and it was FANTASTIC. Mostly female pit, too, which is still a rarity.

http://mladysrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mlr-044-cant-i-live-7-ep

I'm not entirely sure how welcome I am on this thread, tbh, as the line between punk and indie is pretty blurry at the moment, and I wouldn't want to mess up yr purity, you know.

that hysterics record is rad, and their show in brighton last saturday even radder.

Solid Attitude was really great, it kind of reminded me of Teenage Panzerkorps a little bit.

Animal Lover was great, insanely loud. Great cover of "1970" at the end.

Even this morning as I was making my coffee my ears were still blaring.

Hysterics own. wish they'd played somewhere near me

Doobydoo, do we know each other irl?

Last line in my last post prob. came off a bit snarkier than intended, it's more that I actually wouldn't want to start posting stuff that people consider "too indie" or whatever. No point, really.

i am never posting, but on behalf of people i am not, all are welcome, embly. it's not that well-traveled a thread, after all. plus hi!

^ poser

I'm not too cool to admit that the "Shake Appeal" column on Pitchfork's blog has been really useful in finding new punky/garagey stuff I wouldn't know about otherwise. Right now I'm into Watery Love, who have a great song where the singer yells "unlike you dickheads, I welcome death" over and over.

remember scene reports? here's mine:

saw nasa space universe last week, good blistering blustery hardcore stuff w/ a singer who sounds like his nuts are caught in a perpetual vise

they played w/ gymshorts, local surf punkers who are prolly gonna be huge cuz they're cute + melodic + energetic + rockin
http://gymshorts.bandcamp.com/track/scumdog-3

seeing institute tonight, austin dudes who are like a chromosomally challenged version of iceage? or maybe they're just drunk idk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFEckqYQWoM

tomorrow night is amanda x from philly, who are on some 90s olympia tweecore trip
http://amandax.bandcamp.com/

bummed I'll be missing animal lover on thursday

playing w/ nervous from oakland next week, digging the T&G/amph rep cut of their hardcore jib
http://music.tgrex.com/album/nervous

wouldn't want to start posting stuff that people consider "too indie" or whatever

This thread is way more laid back than most other genre-specific ones, as far as I can tell.... post away!!!

yes v much so bring it on imho

I wanted to check out Hysterics but I was away the weekend they played in London.

My punk report:

Seems like a lot of decent newish London bands around at the moment - saw a great gig with mix of HC and post-punk bands a few weeks back - I think Die might've been mentioned on the 2013 thread maybe, there was also No which has ex-Shitty Limits guy on drums. The post-punks were Shopping and Ravioli Me Away both were pretty good. Couple of weeks ago saw Los Crudos with Shopping again plus Frau, Dregs and Lowest Form supporting. Bought the Shopping and Lowest Form LPs at that gig. Also the usual old bands coming round again - Chaos UK reformed again, saw them last month with some other oldies supporting - Lunatic Fringe, Coitus, Fleas & Lice (missed them cos I turned up late).

This weekend is ScumFest which is 3 days of hardcore, punk & crust bands and I have a weekend ticket. And then Melt-Banana on Wednesday.

Oh I also went to an Oi! gig a couple of months ago, with the Templars and Last Resort. That was a bit dodgy tbh. I thought with the Templars having 2 black members they might not attract the bonehead types but they have been accused of associating with racists before and sure enough it was full of skins with "greyzone" band t-shirts, and there were people from bands like Close Shave and Pressure 28 in the audience. On the other hand there wasn't any trouble and no-one was sieg-heiling or anything like that.

Talking of which was nice to see this video of the Cockney Rejects playing recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvN3FdZoDDA

Just to turn into a massive shill for a moment, if you like Shopping, Ravioli Me Away and Frau (as I do, very much), then you may be interested in this: http://riotsnotdiets.bandcamp.com/album/i-know-why-the-caged-grrrl-sings-compilation-v-a

Really looking forward to Melt-Banana, too.

Shill? Are you involved with that comp/label?

I bought the Frau demo tape at the Los Crudos show as well. I hate tapes so I will probably never play it again now I've ripped it. Doesn't help that my tape deck is fucked and likes to just stop playing randomly.

I'm a well-wisher, in that I don't wish them any specific harm. Ha. They are friends, and I guess technically my current label? Seeing as they put out my band's demo tape (sorry, yes, an actual tape: http://riotsnotdiets.bandcamp.com/album/slum-of-legs-demo ), a track of mine was on the last comp and they're putting out our debut 7" this summer, I think that would be a reasonable statement to make.

thanks for that Nervous link, Edward III, I'm a sucker for AmRep style

xp Cool, didn't know you were in a new band, and with ex-Blue Minkies too!

I'm pretty into NONES on HoZac, three women + a dude singing and playing skronky sax
https://soundcloud.com/hozac-records/nones-wife-meat

Couple more songs here https://soundcloud.com/nones

New Octagrape single http://octagrape.bandcamp.com/album/vertical-evasion

first song off the new Spray Paint 7" is fully hitting the spot https://soundcloud.com/upset-the-rhythm/01-a-cussin

had some dimly lit perception of them being a 'buzzband' atm, which could result in, oh, 50 extra singles being sold if they got lucky

http://weekendnachos.bandcamp.com/album/still

Chicago-area grind/hxc, this release is from late 2013 but I only learned about them recently from a friend.

Nervy, paranoid post-punk from ex-Antelope people - really loving this:

Puff Pieces - 7"
http://lovitt.bandcamp.com/album/4-song-7

Just to turn into a massive shill for a moment, if you like Shopping, Ravioli Me Away and Frau (as I do, very much), then you may be interested in this: http://riotsnotdiets.bandcamp.com/album/i-know-why-the-caged-grrrl-sings-compilation-v-a

Just bought that at Joanna Gruesome/Perfect Pussy/etc gig!

Yeahhhh!

Wish I could've made that show. A lot of it way more indie than stuff discussed here but a large proportion of those bands have been killing it lately.

woah this band sounds serious as fuck, coming to mpls soon gonna see em

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccv-rCCKpP4

hey, this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl6Vf_LFYAw

also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukHyYSHh5hM

You guys heard Pypy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ta3LLQgdrM

Kinda all over the place, really, but more punk/non-indie than anything else I can think of.

mmmmm i like that

New proggy-mathy-punk two-track single from The Effects - new band from Devin Ocampo of Faraquet/Medications:
http://theeffects.bandcamp.com/releases

Looking forward to the Leather Towel full length coming out on Hozac later this year. Members of Nun/Exhaustion/Ausmuteants doing some gnarly sounding hardcore.

Speaking of which, looking forward to the new Ausmuteants record on Goner. They're playing here in early October with King Khan; should be a riot.

http://leathertowel.bandcamp.com/

kinda sick of pypy, mostly just because a certain promoter here in TO keeps trying to make them happen. they're OK live, didn't strike me as anything special tho.

this new tune from the upcoming Obliterations record blitzed my brain the other day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38aT4BbvDs

Southern Lord's really getting into the thrash/crossover/punk/whatever thing with this, Power Trip, etc. i'm into it.

someone let me know if it's too indie and/or too anything for this thread...took me this long to notice, click and bookmark

http://obliterationssl.bandcamp.com/album/poison-everything-2

lol what about this could possibly be indie (in the relevant sense)

real vocal-cord shredder too

^^ one of my fave heavy records of 2014. that thing fucking SLAAAAAYS, for real

oh wait, just noticed that i posted the video above and you were sorta responding to me lol

i was

but as with most things, it was cuz of a pitchfork review that i checked for it

keep it forky

rolling forky/non-forky forkyground

Am really looking forward to Static Shock Weekend which starts tomorrow night and finishes Sunday evening:
https://www.facebook.com/events/698531903516030/

Loads of great bands: ARMS RACE, BAD MANIFEST, CRIMINAL CODE (USA), DAWN OF HUMANS (USA), DIAT (GERMANY / AUSTRALIA), DIE, DISGUISE (IRELAND), DRY HEAVES, FRAU, GIVE (USA), GOOD THROB, HANK WOOD AND THE HAMMERHEADS (USA), HARD SKIN, MANKIND, NO, NO FORM, OBSTRUCT, ORDEN MUNDIAL (SPAIN), OUTSIDER (CANADA), PERSONNEL, PERSPEX FLESH, PRIMETIME, RAKTA (BRAZIL), S.H.I.T. (CANADA), S.L.A.R.V. (SWEDEN), SNOB, STREET BEEF, STRONG BOYS (IRELAND), THE FLEX, THE LOVE TRIANGLE, THE NUMBER ONES (IRELAND), THE REPOSSESSED, THE SPLITS (FINLAND), VIOLENT REACTION

report on this itt would be appreciated. lineup is killer. going to Belgium and seeing Neubauten instead so can't complain, like

Awesome. Shout-outs to Frau, Good Throb and Primetime. Rakta are coming here soon, they sound pretty great.

Have yet to hear Primetime, but I've seen Frau & Good Throb a couple of times and I've got Frau's demo and Good Throb's Fuck Off LP.

Oh meant to say really enjoyed Slum Of Legs on Friday night btw, wanted to buy the single but got distracted talking to Fizzles.

Primetime single is cool, also one of them bought an Ut record off me on Discogs

Thanks, CP! Sorry for shilling on the thread, but there are still some singles available from the Tuff Enuff website if you are still wanting one: https://riotsnotdiets.bandcamp.com/album/begin-to-dissolve

Primetime single is cool, also one of them bought an Ut record off me on Discogs

Haha, perfect.

holy shit that obliterations record, thanks for the link

Thanks Emily, ordered.

First night of Static Shock was cool, started off with 3 HC bands - Snob, Strong Boys, Arms Race all pretty good, then Diät and Rakta which were more post-punk. I got confused because they changed the running order, and thought Diät were called Rakta, and bought the Rakta album after Diät's set, so I was really hoping Rakta would be good after spending money on them! I didn't like them as much as Diät tbh but they were pretty good. I just made the last tube home but I'm working from home today so I didn't have to get up too early.

I've been really digging this for the last week or so: https://peoplestemple.bandcamp.com/album/more-for-the-masses

Not bad!

New video from The Yips (that I directed, but it's a genuinely great band) for a tune off their EP: http://bruisedtongue.bandcamp.com/album/air-loom

Self-described ouija rock, dark surf-y garage music.

http://youtu.be/02WVDlH7_Fw

never got round to checking these guys out until now but this new Pop. 1280 track is really good https://soundcloud.com/sacredbones/pop-1280-krank/s-bsOZd?mc_cid=a93011f1a2&mc_eid=2a28e84fe0

sounds like the kind of industrial/punk that would get smuggled into Kerrang circa 1993 hidden amongst Pantera and Terrorvision coverage

anyone mentioned the Coneheads?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSBSYNPRxvo

obnox!!!!!

shit yeah good call. gonna x-post to the 2015 version tho...

Royal Headache, the soul-inflected Australian garage group who are one of the greatest bands in the world, have announced a new album and U.S. tour dates and put a new track up on Soundcloud.

^broken link, but this works too https://royalheadache.bandcamp.com/track/high

Ah rats, thank you

good track imo!

Definitely! This live video from 2013 has performances of a few other tracks from the new record ("Carolina", "Garbage", and "Electric Shock") plus I guess some other stuff that didn't make it. (Someone in the comments has helpfully added links to the individual songs.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMjP-3Xh6DM

^that is fantastic

Downtown Boys are pretty cool! Love sax in punk

https://ursulamtl.bandcamp.com/releases

this is amazing

A belated discovery--their most recent release is from 2104--but I'm really digging Vancouver's Needles//Pins:

http://needlesxpins.bandcamp.com

(Shamebirds, that 2014 record, is prob a good place to start, but for a great bite-size chunk, check out the "Outta This Place"/"Date Night (You Bring the Napalm)" single.

*2014, that is--no need to wait 89 years for their latest.

Their First World Problems EP from 2010 (which isn't on discogs, I think it was a cassette?) was p good but I never followed up on it.

http://urbankill.tumblr.com/post/125341800988/youre-not-invited-new-zealands-underground

Amazeballs colln of nzld undies there.