New Punk from Ontario, Indie from New Jersey, Alt-Pop from Melbourne and Denton, TX, Hip-Hop from Brooklyn, Experimental from Buenos Aires, and Folk from Portland.

Gearing up for an April podcast, I thought instead of just browsing the punk new arrivals on bandcamp, I'd branch out and look at other genres -- at least the first page of each genre's new arrivals.

But let's start with this wild stuff from Hamilton, Ontario. 6 songs, the band's first and only release on bandcamp near as I can tell, so noisey and off-the-wall. I wish I were making a racket like this. My wife listened to the first song and called it "unpleasant" and "impenetrable" and that may be the high praise this team is going for. Also she's a Drew Thomson freak and notes that Thomson is also from Hamilton.

I didn't find anything I liked on the electronic new arrivals first page.

On the first page of the rock genre new arrivals, I found this melodic 10 song album from a 5 piece operating out of a basement in suburban New Jersey. Highly enjoyable. I assume they're influenced by post-Pavement Malkmus and late 90s/early oughts emo and indie. If I'm correct that these guys were just been being born around that time, I guess it's like somebody being born in 1976 doing an album that sounds like Silk Degrees in 1994 (If that band/album actually exists, please let me know -- would listen). Anyway, this is good stuff, my wife heard a few songs and was into it as well. You can get it for pay what thou wilt:

Nothing on the first page of the metal new arrivals particularly grabbed me.

From the first page of the alternative new arrivals, I found this truly hip alt-pop from a two-to-three piece Melbourne band. 10 songs, with 2 currently available for listening. You can pre-order the dl for $9 and the album will be on vinyl as well. Check out that sax on "Mirror Freak."

From the first page of the hip-hop new arrivals, here's a great single from Jason Minnis, AKA ClassicBeatz, a Brooklyn producer, pianist, and songwriter. An anti-gentrification song, my reference points for this are Black Star, and Madlib, but I'm not as versed in hip-hop as I should be. It's a cool track and currently the only song available on the album, Spaces In Noir. It's a 10 song album that you can pre-order for $9, and ClassicBeatz' entire discography is available for just $20:

From the first page of the experimental new arrivals, this is a weird, interesting track from Buenos Aries, the first song off of a 7 song pay what thou wilt digital album:

From the first page of the folk new arrivals comes this champion 13 song folk album from Portland's Waldo Przekop, AKA Cigarettes and Milk. Some personal stuff, I'm into it. Pay what thou wilt:

On the first page of the pop new arrivals, I found this weird shit, from Denton, Texas. Recorded and mixed by Rick Eye, based on that I think maybe this two-piece is part Ashley from Thin Skin, but I could be wrong. Anyway, 11 awesome weirdo tracks, absolutely and entirely not pop, and because they tagged it only as "pop" and "Denton," I never woulda found if I hadn't decided to branch out tonight.

Which proves what I've always said about limiting yourself to one type of music: doing so makes you an asshole.

There's other genres that I didn't get to but it's 10:30PM and I gotta eat and go to bed.

New Punk from Bandcamp -- Texas Arizona, and Canada.

I gotta get, but here's some cool stuff you might want to check out in the meantime:

From Texas, a one man project -- I'm assuming this is ironic material, but if it's not, still raw tunes -- Motorhead-esque:

10 songs from Tuscon:

Gorenoise from Canada:

Debt Sounds by The Bordellos

Debt Sounds by The Bordellos is finally out, and it lives up to the expectations I had for it -- an excellent 17 song album. Over the past few years for me, the prolific Bordellos have grown from "oh that's interesting, outsidery stuff" to "this is really important," to "this is the most important underground band I'm listening to." This album seals the deal in that regard.

These songs were recorded several years ago, and never released until now, I believe, except for a few put out on the Internet on a Debt Sounds sampler a few months back. They were laid down with some interesting rules in play. This is from their Bandcamp page:

1. All recorded on old tape 4 track, using microphones and recording equipment bought from pound shops and cash convertors for under £5.

2. All tracks recorded on 4 tracks only no overdubs

3. All vocal tracks would be first take only even if disaster struck whilst recording ,so a lot of these songs have only ever been sang once.

4. All songs recorded would have been written that week . so the rest of the band would never have heard them before recording.

5. every song started would be completed that night so no going back.

The cheap analog recording equipment, the "one and done" and immediate ethos of the writing and recording process, and the natural talent of the musicians involved makes Debt Sounds burn with a lo-fi energy. It's dark, weird, and cynical, but still fun, weird, and honest -- and pop, too -- an outsider version of pop, but that's the best kind, right?

Recorded every Friday night over a ten week period during a turbulent time for the Bordellos, the result was an album that has an energy and sound that is timeless in regard to post-punk - it could've been recorded in 1983, or 1993, or 2003, or yesterday.

I've been learning about stock market lingo and the stock market wonks would say, 'I'm long on this album,' meaning I'm investing in it long-term. I'm long on the Bordellos too, which sounds sorta kinky but hey, it's the '90s and I'm down to party. O wait, it's 2018. Am I timeless or just stuck in the past?

You can download Debt Sounds for free and/or pay what thou wilt on Bandcamp, or order the CD, which is what I did. It comes with artwork by Marie Reynolds of Small Bear Records, the label what put out the CD, and with an essay by Brian Bordello detailing the creation of the album.

Boss.

New from Bandcamp: Assorted Rock'n'Roll from Copenhagen, Austin, Melbourne, Salem, Milwaukee, Los Angeles...and Some Place or Places in Florida.

Nothing is cooler than Jævndøgn, from Copenhagen. Their 2016 release Punkkoncert is one of my fave things ever. This is their new killer 4 song EP:

Indie-prog from Austin. This is from a 17 song digital album released last year:

From Melbourne, released late in February, 8 tracks of bitchin' lo-fi disco-punk:

Hardcore from Salem, Massachusetts. 4 song EP:

When I first started the blog, I was just learning about powerviolence and the more modern version of hardcore punk that careens into extreme metal. I got deep into those genres for a while, then moved on to other stuff as I do, but I still appreciate the sound. This band from Milwaukee has tagged themselves as hardcore punk on their Bandcamp page, but it's more metal than hardcore punk, which to me is more like what Similar Items in the previous embed sounds like. Anyway, this is solid. 8 short, heavy songs, a little sludge, a little powerviolence:

Check out this wild four song no-wave freak-punk, put out on cassette by Florida's Invisible Audio, who also put out Jackal's excellent 2017 Demo tape -- I ordered the last one of those they had, and have never looked back.

Here's that Jackal I was telling you about:

Psych-punk from LA. 5 song digital effort. Beefheartian, I dig it:

CNQ41

40 minutes worth of new tunes from bands featured previously on the show. Listen above, or on iTunes, or any podcast app. Go support the bands and labels. 

x=: “(In)Dignity of Work” (Symbols, 2018)

Special Interest: “Service” (Spiraling, 2018)

Marrah: “Pingpong Punerssss” (Singkat, Padat, Gak Ada Isinya!, 2018)

TV Slime: “Marbled” (Slime Demon, 2018)

Filthy: “Cure It” (Cure it EP, 2016)

Scrambled Limbs: “Ticture” (Portmanteau, 2018)

The Creachies: “No It Couldn’t Be” (The Creachies, 2017)

Violence Creeps: “Backhand” (Ease The Seed Bag, 2017)

Math Patrol feat. The Spiders of Mirkwood: “Always Crush Me” (The PRF Monthly Tribute Series: June 2017: Guided By Voices, 2017)

Mommy Long Legs: “Diva Night” ( (Rock Product, Youth Riot Records, 2017)

USA Nails: “Shite At The Palladium” ( (N/A 14-17, 2017)

Dead Arms: “Stage Towels” (4 Track Masters EP, 2017)

The Bordellos: “Billy Fury” ((Life, Love, and Billy Fury, Recordiau Prin, 2017)

Pussy Galore: “Walk”u (Pussy Galore 5000, Buy Or Records/Shove Records, 1987)

CNQ40

About an hour's worth of new tunes from Bandcamp and vinyl rarities.

Filthy: “Fault in Tolerance” (Fault In Tolerance, 2018)

Special Interest: “Young, Gifted, Black, In Leather” (Spiraling, 2018)

Phil Gordon: “Get A Load of That Crazy Walk” (Strip Polka/Get A Load of That Crazy Walk 7”, 1950s)

Agustin Lara y su Orquesta: “Aquel Amor” (Vuelve El Maestro..., RCA Victor, 1963)

Teenage Cool Kids: “Denton After Sunset” (Denton After Sunset, Dull Tools, 2015 re-issue, originally released in 2011)

Scrambled Limbs: “The Witch on Hyde Park Ridge” (Portmanteau, 2018)

The Creachies: “Not Never And” (The Creachies, 2017)

Brightside: “Is This Real Life?” (Two Songs, 2018)

Phil Reynolds and the Big Day Out: “When It Hits” (When It Hits, Small Bear Records 2018)

Electric Sheep: “Headscrew” (Headscrew/For Lilith, Custom Made Music, 2016)

TV Slime: “No One” (Slime Demon, 2018)

Marrah: “I Love Satan!” (Singkat, Padat, Gak Ada Isinya!, 2018)

Doctor Nod: “My TV Set” (DYWTBIMF? b/w My TV Set, 2018)

Twilight Fields: “When I Saw You” (Our Time Is Now, 2018)

J.T. Money: “Superbitch Remix (Dirty Version)” (Superbitch Remix 12”, Priority Records, 2001)

Birchwood Pops Orchestra: “Theme From Police Woman” (TV Hits Vol. II, Pickwick International, 1977)

Cabbage Patch Kids: “Cabbage Patch Dreams” (Cabbage Patch Dreams, Parker Brothers Music, 1984)

New Rock'n'Roll from Bandcamp

Got a March podcast coming up with some new tunes and vinyl oldies and oddities, so stay tuned for that. In the meantime, let's take a look at some new stuff from Bandcamp, a lot of which will be on said podcast, because it's cool.

From Baltimore, this is off a solid full-length released last year, highly enjoyable freak-pop:

New post-punk from somewhere in Texas. 4 song EP releases in March, on lathe cut plexidisc made by Precarian Cuts (and digital on bandcamp). I'm into this track, weird maybe I haven't heard of them yet, but maybe not -doesn't look like they have played the D before. Or maybe I just missed 'em when they did:

Here's Filthy's first 3 song EP, from 2016, for pay what thou wilt:

Four song EP available on vinyl for $6 + S&H, from Chicago. This is my bag:

Best song from a noisy 4 song effort from Lima, Peru, $1 for four songs:

Seven badass tracks from Indonesia. Can relate:

From New Orleans, holy geeze I'm into this -- 8 song digital release -- no-wave, noise, futureglam!?