Do Not Fear the Wounded Lion

March 31, 2010 at 9:43 pm | Posted in mp3, Music | Leave a comment
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Wounded Lion by Dawn Chenette

After seeing Wounded Lion at Trailer Space Records at SxSW, I went up to see what they had for sale.  I was hoping they would have copies of their new album that is due soon on In The Red.  No luck, but singer Brad Eberhard pulled out some t-shirts saying that they were a variation on something something something.  His words kind of went in one ear and out the other, my attention span was for naught on this fourth day of music overload.  Whatever he was saying about the artwork on the shirt, he sounded like he I should know what he was talking about.  Probably how I sound when I’m telling someone about some new 7″ single.  I nodded, forked over my $10 bucks and told him they should come up and play Seattle.

Later, I come to find out that Brad Eberhard is not only the singer of one of the best new bands around, he’s also quite an accomplished painter. His  paintings are vibrant creations using lots of color, shapes and collage style, kinda like Wounded Lion songs. The paintings may be a bit more refined, compared to the his band’s self confessed love of the primitive.  They claim the Cramps and the Monks as influences as well as such UK legends as the Move, the Creation and Kinks, and I would throw in early Echo & the Bunnymen.  These are all bands everyone in their right mind looks up to, but Wounded Lion seem to be able to take their influences and turn them into these odd, eccentric, big sounding, catchy, songs.  Some might call it geek-rock, but Wounded Lion sound a little bit menacing, something  true geeks might never consider.

After three singles, the band are finally letting loose an album of their crazy Los Angeles version of cave rock.  I don’t think there’s a bad apple in the bunch.  The record starts off with three quick shots.  Hungry? leaves you wondering what kind of strange pets these guys live with, then Creatures In the Cave invites you into their cave to get down, with Eberhard belting out I’m in the Cave over top of a manic scratchy guitar riff.  Song number three takes us to Yoda’s home, the Degoba System, it’s another cave stomper, except this time on another planet.  The cave stomping doesn’t end there, both Cloud Carol and Pony People from their out of print debut single shows up in re-recorded versions.  The band only slow down for the closing country and western tinged 12 Crunchy Stars, giving themselves a chance to show off the more sensitive of  their cave-man selves.

mp3: Wounded Lion – Creatures In the Cave

The Wounded Lion album is out on In the Red on 27 April

SxSW: Day Four

March 27, 2010 at 9:36 pm | Posted in Music, SxSW | 1 Comment
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Saturday, the final day of SxSW, brought about a big surprise: the weather. What had been perfect sunny skies and 70 degree weather turned gray, windy and cold.  Frigid in fact, people were walking around in winter jackets and avoiding outside shows like the plague. Starting to feel the fatigue, we got a late start, opting to check out the record and poster fair at the convention center before seeing any music.  The record fair was pretty much a bust, but it was cool to see the myriad of posters and it was warm in the convention center.

We made our way over to Trailer Space Records for Wounded Lion, arriving a little early to a packed store for Zola Jesus.  With no stage in the shop, it was hard to see tiny singer Nika Danilova.  She rectified the situation by climbing the walls as she sang.  The mood at Trailer Space was loose with free Colt 45′s flowing, I think someone could have walked out with an arm full of 45′s and no one would have been the wiser.  Wounded Lion wasted little time setting up after Zola Jesus and were off and running, blasting into Belt of Orion.  I mentioned earlier how the Blue Aeroplanes were missing their dancer Wojtek, they could have borrowed the guy from Wounded Lion who played a bit of bass, but mostly just danced.  More bands need to revive the Bez/Wojtek dancer guy, it’s instant karma and energy.  As for sound, the band are a combination of Modern Lovers, Velvet Underground and Echo & the Bunnymen, but obviously don’t take themselves too seriously.   Their upcoming record on In The Red is the best thing I’ve heard this year and this performance only made me like them more.

Next stop, Beerland, possibly the darkest bar in the world.  It took my eyes about 10 minutes to adjust, so I bumped my way to the front of the stage to await Memphis, Tennessee’s Magic Kids.  To date they’ve got one single that’s pretty great.  Live they’re a bit goofy, reminding me of a garage version of Roman Holiday minus the sailor caps.  The singer, who is about 6′ 5″ liked to get out into the crowd  as well as get on top of equipment to sing, this took some coordination with his lanky frame and limited space inside the packed Beerland.

Leaving Beerland with dilated pupils we headed over to Max’s Wine Dive where you can eat hamburgers, fried chicken and hot dogs paired with you favorite wine.  We headed into the basement for the Black Iris show.  Abe Vigoda was playing as we descended the stairs.  I’m a fan of their more ambient songs like last year’s Reviver, and less a fan of their more cacophonous stuff.  Their set was a mix of the two, and kept me in a love-hate relationship with them.

The basement noticeably filled up as the time neared for Best Coast to play.  The Vivian Girls were in the house, this may have been the second or third time we had been at the same show, though I’m sure they weren’t wondering who the geeky looking guy with the camera was since that was just about everyone at every show.  After having Seen both Dum Dum Girls and Frankie and the Outs this week it was a pleasure and a surprise to hear singer Beth Constantino belt out her songs without any noticeable reverb on her vocals. I hope they record the album with her voice front and center.

The plan from here was to head over to Red 7 for the Wooodsist show, but Bill got us to detour to check out the Uninhabitable Mansions at Latitude 30 aka the British Music Embassy.  That’s term fits loosely since Uninhabitable Mansions are from Brooklyn and contain members of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Au Revoir Simone.  Their set of bright shiny pop was a nice surprise and I ended up buying their CD.

I rushed out of Latitude 30 to make it in time to see Fergus & Geronimo.  I’m a fan of this Denton, Texas band’s handfull of singles and was looking forward to seeing them live.  They were kind of a let down though.  The more soulful songs sounded great like Powerful Lovin’ and Blind Muslim Girl, but songs like those were few and far between with the rest of them sounding like generic garage rock.  I’m hoping it was just an off night.

We stuck around for Moon Duo, who are indeed a duo. Erik Johnson of Wooden Shijps on guitar and Sanae Yamada twiddling knobs, they’re like mountain man and woman doing Loop/Spacemen 3 without the hooks.  I have no doubt they would have been really good in altered state, but my mostly sober self got a little bored.

Like with Abe Vigoda, I’m a half fan of Woods.  I like their pop songs, while I don’t really get their jam songs.  I also don’t really get what the guy who was hunched over on his knees on the stage did to contribute to their sound.  He seemed to be singing into a pair of headphones and at one point was blowing a trumpet into them to no audible difference.

At this point our group collectively had our fill of jams, so we decided to forgo Real Estate and the Fresh & Only’s and head back to the British Music Embassy to take in some Wave Pictures.  You could argue that Wave Pictures have the potential to jam, but they reigned in the temptation tonight and blew their Thursday afternoon selves out of the water.  It’s no fluke what an enthusiastic crowd can do for a band, and Latitude 30 was certainly on their side, whooping, hollering and singing along to most every song.  Everyone got a good laugh too, when drummer Jonny Helm came out from behind his kit sporting cowboy boots with pant-legs tucked inside to sing God Bless The Reverand Gary Davies.  He looked kinda funny, but sounded sincere.

We stuck around for about half of Slow Club’s set, but the band seemed fatigued and just going through the motions.  So was I by this point, so we headed home for bed and an early 8 am flight back to Seattle.

SxSW: Day Three

March 26, 2010 at 9:59 pm | Posted in Music, SxSW | Leave a comment
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Friday started at Club DeVille at another Brooklyn Vegan event.  Greenpoint, Brooklyn band Twin Sister were playing an early set at noon.  A Lunch time gig, or breakfast rather, for the late risers in Austin is a toughone .  The band sounded ok, maybe a little sleepy.  I really like their freely downloadable ep Vampires with Dreaming Kids, but they didn’t play my favoirte song from it, the Cocteau Twins-like Ginger.

Up to this point corporate America had been hidden from SxSW experience.  Arriving at the Fader Fort that was no longer the case.  Walking through a clothing store to get into the the free booze fest was like the walk of shame.  Once through with no purchases, we headed for the stage to catch local band Harlem. Their short set was fun, but the huge festival like stage was a little too big for this garage band.  They hopped around, switched instruments and seemed to have a good time anyway.

Vancouver’s Japandroids were next and what was a mostly empty space for Harlem quickly became a packed one for this guitar and drums duo.  One thing I will say about Japandroids, they have some really big amps.

We stayed put for Drums, who were a bit over the top. I think that’s the point though.  They looked like they could have been on Factory records circa 1985 with they eye make up and styled hair.  The band appeared to be barely playing, leading me to believe that most of the music was pre-recorded.  Drums seem to be a vehicle for front man Jonathan Pierce, who pranced and posed around the stage and at times sounded more than a little like Martin Fry of ABC.

On our way over to catch the last part of the Trouble In Mind show at the Longbranch, we hit up a taco wagon for some grub and got to the Longbranch just as Ottawa’s White Wires were launching into the a-side of their Trouble In Mind single, Pretty Girl.  Their set was easily the best of the day, a rollicking good time filled with gigantic hook after gigantic hook, powerpop in the vein of such classics as the Nerves and the Breakaways.  I’m really looking forward to album number two from these guys due out on Dirtnap later this year.

Austin’s Hex Dispensers were next, and they let us have it with their hi-octane, slightly sinister punk rock.  Bill mentioned they sounded more like the Damned than the Fall for which they seem to be named.

Women’s restroom signage.  The Longbranch restrooms, won the Trainspotting award for worst restrooms of the week. Wish I would taken a photo, but I was trying to get out as fast as I could.

As we left the Longbranch, across the street on a patch of grass in front of car wash, the zany Woo-man and the Banana launched into a set of catchy garage rock.  At first it seemed like a joke, the drummer in a banana suit and the singer in a chartreuse wig and dress, but the Chicago band seemed to have their shit together.  They said they’d be there all night or at least until someone made them leave.

We didn’t stay to see if they were gonna get booted, instead we headed over to Cheer-up Charlies to see the Mantles, but that turned out to be a boondogle, as they were running behind and we were forced to endure Sun Arwas.  Not wanting to miss Standard Fare at the Slumberland/Cake Shop show we bailed before the Mantles made their appearance.  On our way, we ran into Mark Manone, former bassist of the Lucksmiths, he was here playing with Still Flyin’ and gave us an update on what the rest of the Lucksmiths are up to (not much musically).

Arriving at the Mohawk we saw a line down the block, but splurging for a wristband does have some advantages.  We walked right past everyone in line straight into the Mohawk.  Standard Fare did not disappoint with their sweet, smart pop.  The Sheffield band’s album is getting a release here in the states on Bar None so hopefully they’ll be back.

I missed Reading Rainbow to run over to Beerland to see what time Wounded Lion were going to be playing at the In The Red show.  Found out it wasn’t in cards tonight if I wanted to see Frankie Rose and the Outs, so I headed back over to the Mohawk in time for Australia’s Summer Cats.  They played all the hits including Let’s Go, Lonely Planet,In June and threw in a Left Bank cover for good measure.  I am a Summer Cats fan, and even with the hits, the set seemed a bit lackluster.  They seemed to be having fun though, mentioning how their set was sponsored by some kind of spray-on pancake product.  Must be an Australian thing.

By this time the Mohawk was filling up.  Frankie & the Outs were up next, and the rest of her other band Dum Dum Girls were in the house to see her. Frankie was sporting a hat with a wide brim, a flowing large sleeved shirt and a ton of reverb.  Too much reverb.   A lot of the songs had a surf, Link Ray feel to them but you couldn’t make out a single lyric, nor could you make out a single word she uttered between songs. The 7 inch on Slumberland and the new songs up on her myspace are all quality, but she needs to dial the reverb down for gigs.

Next up were San Francisco’s Grass Widow who currently have a two ep’s to their name, one on Make a Mess and the other on Captured Tracks, and an album due sometime soon on Kill Rock Stars.  The trio were charming, noisy and a little bit twangy.  I thought they were a neat combination of Tiger Trap and Freakwater, something you certainly don’t hear every day. Pains of Being Pure at Heart were the headliners, but  I decided to take a rain check and head home in hopes of making it through one more day shows.  On our way back we stopped for a late night bite at Taco Cabana.  There were surprisingly no bands playing there, but Ty Segall was in line behind us with same idea.

SxSW: Day Two

March 26, 2010 at 9:10 pm | Posted in Music, SxSW | Leave a comment
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Thursday started with the  Austin Town Hall show at the Ghost Room.  This turned out to be a brilliant decision, they had free breakfast tacos, coffee and beer.  I consumed in that order.  As for music, Australia’s Crayon Fields were the first on the menu.  I love both their records on Chapter Music and they were a great start to the day with their Zombies-esque songs.

Let’s Wrestle who played next, upped the energy a little bit with their geeky-punk rock.  They seemed to be a bit groggy, but their set didn’t really suffer from it.

From the Ghost Room we headed over to the east side, first for tacos, of the lunch type,  and then to Club Pimo’s for a trip down memory lane and the Blue Aeroplanes.  The band pulled out a few classics like Jacket Hangs, Bury Your Love Like Treasure, and Yr Own World which sounded especially good.  They still have a three guitar attack but there was no Wojtek, the dancer they use to have on stage with them.  Fun set anyway, as the sun beat down on the back yard of Primo’s

Next up was Wave Pictures and Slow Club at the Red House Pizzaria.  We would later encounter both of these bands for a second time.  To empasize how random the entire SxSW thing is, Wave Pictures were merely ok this time and Slow Club were a blast.  That would be the opposite the next we saw them on Saturday.

We make our way back to downtown Austin with SxSW in full swing reminds me of the part in Back to the Future II where Biff has stolen the gambling book from the future and turned idyllic Hill Valley into a paradise of debauchery.  At this point I made an attempt to see Lawrence Arabia at some sports bar, which turned out to be a mistake since unbeknown to me Mr. Arabia was stuck back in the UK sans visa.  A quick adjustment and it was off to the Galaxy Room to the Sub Pop-Hardly Art showcase.  Maybe part of laziness or part because of the mostly quality line-up, here is where I would remain for the rest of the night.  I got there as Happy Birthday was conjuring the early 90′s indie-rock ghost back from the dead.  Jay Mascis was there to witness it, or maybe he got conjured too.  HB come off much, erm…grungier than they are on record, but good nonetheless.  There were two stages set up, one indoor and the other larger one outdoor.   The remainder of the night would be spent ping-ponging between the two.  Male Bonding from the UK were joined on stage by their former tour-mates the Vivian Girls for a song.  LA’s Avi Buffalo started out as evoking fairies &butterflies  and ended in barbaric yawp of guitar freak-out.

I caught a few songs from the Moondoggies, Le Loup and Dutchesse & the Duke at the indoor Hardly Art stage, but the next band I was looking forward to was Dum Dum Girls.  Everything about them breathes style which may or may not be your thing.  To me it was ok, but maybe a little bit too contrived.  No matter, they looked good all dressed up like dark goth goddesses.  If I were a 14 year old boy I definitely would have been turned on.  Who am I kidding, I was turned on too.  They sounded good.  I appreciated the real drums provided by Frankie Rose as opposed to the Jesus & Mary Chain Automatic era ones that pervade the album, and their Sears Silvertone guitars stayed pretty much in tune.

Final band of the night was Golden Triangle who were fun, if your idea of fun is the Fall, or the B-52′s without the services of Fred Schnieder.  That’s my idea of fun, and their finale which had both singers writhing on the floor as the rest of the band freaked out on their instruments was impressively insane.

SxSW: Day One

March 26, 2010 at 8:38 pm | Posted in Music, SxSW | Leave a comment
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I was going to cover my trip down to Austin, Texas for this years SxSW in a single post, but quickly realized it would be way too long.  This is easily the most live music I had ever packed into three and half days.  While I got to see everything that I put on my short list, there were literally four to five bands playing at any one time I would have liked to have seen.

This was my first ever time at SxSW.  I had some rules I wanted to follow: keep the number of garage bands I saw to a minimum, avoid chill wave, and try to see bands  that don’t normally make their way up to Seattle.  Here’s what went down, the abridged version, or as abridged as I can make it.  I arrived Wednesday afternoon with my friend Andrew picking me up from the Austin airport.  We dropped my bag off at his place and then headed out to grab some dinner.  SxSW being what it is, you can’t go anywhere without a band playing, and so we had pizza and beer and watched the Republic of Ireland’s So Cow do their thing while we ate.  They finished with a great cover of Tall Dwarf’s Meet the Beatle.

After checking out the Hozac thing at Trailer Space Records and leaving because there was no one who knew who had played or who was going to play, and then trying and failing to catch Austin shoegazers Ringo Deathstarr we headed over Cheer Up Charlies to meet up with my friend Bill.  When we arrived as Fluffy Lumbers were setting up.  Cheer Up Charlies was called Mrs. Bea’s last year, and is essentially a vacant lot with two small wooden stages and a couple taco wagons.  The place was full of rustic charm, a common trait among the numerous Austin music venues.  While I’m a fan of a couple Fluffy Lumbers songs, their entire set sounded like a tape getting eaten as it played through a boom box.

From Cheer Up Charlies on the east side, be made our way over to downtown Austin to check out Norway’s Megaphonic Thrift (who share a drummer with the Casio Kids) in the basement of Habana Calle 6. The band excel in creating quite a maelstrom of noise part influenced by the heavier side of shoegaze and more than a little bit of Sonic Youth.  It was all right, but they could have added some actual songs to their juggernaut sound.

After Megaphonic Thrift, we moved across the street to the Galaxy Room to catch the sole performance of ex-Pippette Rose Elinor Dougall.  The place was full of boys, not surprisingly since Ms. Dougall has a bag of catchy pop songs and she’s easy on the eyes.  She didn’t disappoint,  looking and sounding great in her black leather jacket.  Her songs took on a more Cocteaus/Siouxsie sound to them than their recorded version. No complaints from me.

Not content with staying in the same place for too long we headed over to the Brooklyn Vegan show at Club Deville to see Serena Maneesh. We got their and Califone had just started who I didn’t really pay attention to, opting instead to grab a beer and converse.  Serena Maneesh didn’t come on until about 1:30 and I’m trying to pace myself, so I stayed for a couple songs and then headed for bed.

Sniffling, Sneezing, & Stuffy-head: Basementcast #10

March 16, 2010 at 8:47 pm | Posted in Basementcast, Podcasts | 5 Comments


Photo from Preshaa

Spring, the time for allergies and procreating.  The clocks have been changed and the days are getting longer, at least for those of us in the northern hemisphere, and everything is in bloom.  For those of us with inferior genes, that means sneezing, itchy eyes and runny nose.  The only thing to do is hermetically seal yourself somewhere and wait for it to pass.  While you’re in your bubble, have a listen to the new basement cast why don’t you?

download: basementcast #10 (~178Mb)


Pretend We Never Met – Moose from High Ball Me
I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am – Merle Haggard from Capitol Collector’s Series
Going To Bed – Craig Ramsey from Parting Gift For A Party Girl

Pull Out – The Soft Pack from The Soft Pack
Friendly Ghost- Harlem from Hippies

Me And Jane Doe – Charlotte Gainsbourg from IRM
Cold Game – Myron and E with The Soul Investigators from Cold Game 7″

I Just Want To See Your Face – Serena-Maneesh from S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor
Cake – Race Horses from Goodbye Falkenberg
My White Bicycle – Tomorrow from Tomorrow

Summer Holiday – Wild Nothing from Gemini 7″
Oh Suzanne – French Kissing from Oh Suzanne 7″

LA Bicyclette – Yves Montand from La Bicyclette
Ex-Boyfriend Beat from Skinned Teen from Bazooka Smooth
Parties – Puberty from a demo

Cigarettes – Butts from Butts
Dagoba System – Wounded Lion from Wounded Lion
Bamboo Floor – John Cale from The Island Years

Neon Noose – Golden Triangle from Double Jointer
By His Word – Holmes Sisters from Fire In My Bones
Famous Gunshots – The Lights from Failed Graves

Those Days, Those Nights – The Notes – Holiday single
Christine – Siouxsie & The Banshees from Kaleidoscope
Ginger – Twin Sister from Vampires with Dreaming Kids

s.h.o.p.p.i.n.g. – Art Museums from Woodsist 7″ single
Almost Prayed – The Weather Prophets from Creation Soup Volume Three

Vuitton (Twisted Wires Mix) – Balaclavas from Roman Holiday

A Record Store That Knows My Name

March 10, 2010 at 10:03 pm | Posted in Record Stores, Seattle | Leave a comment
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Seattleites have been blessed with quite a lot of good record stores, and most of them thankfully are still in business. Our luck in having so many outlets in the city to spend money on records may be tenuous at best, but as they say carpe diem.  That is exactly what Chris Mac has done by starting up a new record store / mail order.  The store is called  Jigsaw Records, and is due to open it’s doors here in Seattle this Saturday.  As I said, Seattle has more than its fair share of record stores, but up to now it did not have one that focuses on indiepop.  Jigsaw promises to do just that.  The store will sell records from small to tiny labels from around the globe, and it promises to be all things  “indiepop, power pop, indie rock, lo-fi pop, twee, and pretty much any other kind of fun pop music that we fancy”.  So, if you’re looking for a pop record from Europa, Peru, the Philippines, or Swaziland, Jigsaw is the new place to stop on your treasure hunt .  Not sure if there are any indiepop bands in Swaziland, but if there are I bet you’ll be able to pick up their 7″ single at Jigsaw.

The store opens this Saturday morning at 11am, with the grand opening festivities starting 7pm that night with Math & Physics Club making their return (has it really been two years since they last played) and D. Crane from BOAT playing.  The store is located in Ballard in the upstairs part of Resolution Audio and Video at 5459 Leary Ave NW, probably right next to Dissonant Plane another record store in the same space that specializes in drone, noise and death metal.   So while you’re filling up on sugar coated pop, you can also get your  allowance of death metal all in the same stop.  Talk about convenience.

mp3: Close Lobsters – In Spite of These Times (from Foxheads Stalk This Land)


If you’re interested to read more about the state of Seattle record stores, the Stranger interviews a handful of the city’s proprietors for an article in this week’s issue.  One of the questions they ask the group is would you open a record store now?  The article doesn’t talk about Jigsaw, but it would have been interesting to get the perspective someone doing just that.

Getting Lucky With the Art Museums

March 3, 2010 at 9:30 pm | Posted in 80's, mp3, Music | 3 Comments
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When I bought the Art Museums‘ Rough Frame that came out on Woodsist a few weeks ago, the record store clerk asked me what it sounded like.  I gave her a blank stare, a shrug and told her I had no idea.  The record had caught my attention with it’s cover art.  I plucked it from the bin and  then saw that their name was the Art Museums and that it was on Woodsist.  The stars had seemingly aligned for a purchase of something I had never heard before.

I brought it home, plopped it on the turntable and was aghast at my good luck.  A band that seemed immersed in the Flying Nun and Creation catalogs from the early 80′s, some Television Personalities and the psych rock jems Tobin Sprout use to pepper Guided by Voices albums.  This album was evidently designed specifically to make a nostalgia obsessed old guy like myself happy and content to know that they still can make records like they use to.

After doing a little research I found out that this record just didn’t appear out of nowhere.  The duo Josh Alper (Whysp) and Glenn Donaldson (Skygreen Leopards, Blithe Sons, Teenage Panzerkorps) got together last year in San Francisco and recorded it using vintage 80′s analog equipment to keep the vibe totally authentic.  The album is a short nine songs, but there are another two songs to come in the form of a 7″ single due on Woodsist later this year. Here’s to my good luck, I’m off to buy a lottery ticket.

mp3: Art Museums – Sculpture Gardens


Order up your copy of Rough Frame over at Woodsist, and get a preview of the upcoming single in the form of this video.

Totally Butts

March 1, 2010 at 12:48 pm | Posted in Grrrls, mp3, Music, Seattle | 6 Comments
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If I didn’t know any better I would say that Seattle’s Butts are a couple of snot-nosed 15 year old girls with a penchant for pissing off their parents and any other form of authority they can think of.  The seem to revel in being obnoxious, equating riding public transportation to having unwanted sex, and championing the pleasures of Alcohol, Cigarettes, and Marijuana to the horror of responsible adults everywhere.  They even have a theme song that I bet could be a number one hit among boys ages 5-8.  I mean,  what boy in that age group could deny a song with lyrics like,  We’re Butts, Shut Up! and We’re Butts, Butts, Butts, Butts, Butts…We’re totally Butts? The Butts get the youngsters hooked with the cool potty humor and then hit ‘em with the hard stuff.  Obviously this record is aimed at corrupting our youth, and it’s so damn catchy and cool sounding that if it gets out to the greater public, we could have a problem on our  hands not seen since kids were playing records backwards to get satanic messages.

Of course, the Butts are not 15 year old girls, they are Rachel Ratner of Partman Parthorse and Shannon Perry of Katharine Hepburn’s Voice, and they’ve just released a seven song EP on Seattle’s GGNZLA records. The time it takes you to read this little itty bitty post about them is about the same amount of time it will take you to listen to their EP.  The longest song is a minute and a half, and the shortest is half a minute. It’s economic punk informed by Riot Grrrl, the Minutemen, Cars Can Be Blue and Mojo Nixon.  The Lyrics are juvenile and off the cuff and the music bare-bones drums and guitar, but that’s the point, short, sharp shocks that make you laugh.

mp3: Butts – We’re Butts

Order up a Butts EP at GGNZLA.

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