DOWNLOAD: White Shit - Jim Morrisson
So much to love about White Shit–the above cover art; the fact that they have collectively played in Big Business, Karp, Monorchild, Wrangler Brutes, and the Murder City Devils; that their excellently scroungy new album, Sculpted Beef, is less than twenty minutes long; and that they call themselves White Shit, obviously. The LP's out now as a vinyl only release through Dean Spunt (of No Age)'s Post Present Medium, but you can take home its lengthiest cut in MP3 form below. Also, we totally dare you to Google them.
DOWNLOAD: Toecutter - Best Party Ever (Toecutter's Bang Gang 12" Mix)
This one from self-dubbed "squat party" duo Toecutter has been floating around for over a year, though our pals at Bang Gang 12 Inches finally secured a proper release for it last month. And what a limb they're going out on–ADD-afflicted club smack spliced in between rewinds, lazer cannon synths, a great Kool & The Gang sample and some inserted scraps from Daft Punk and Justice–it's basically the sound of electro cannibalizing itself. Go in via MP3 below and buy the full release (hardcore gabba gabba flips included) right here.
DOWNLOAD: Pennywise - We're Gonna Fight
Punk music and fashion shot across the sky pretty quickly in the ’70s, but when hardcore emerged in the ’80s, it really set up shop and became a code of living. So it’s not insincere for the SoCal-based BYO (Better Youth Organization) label, which was formed by members of the band Youth Brigade, to give its 25th-anniversary box set the gospel-ish title Let Them Know. You wanna know the extent to which these guys do things their own way? The label was started in 1982—twenty-seven years ago. Punks don’t need your calendar fascism! Youth Brigade is hitting the road, as is a 90-minute documentary (find the trailer here and behold the tornado churn of a real pit), so check out the dates after the chasm and dig this cut from the box—big-timers Pennywise covering “We’re Gonna Fight” by hardcore first-wavers 7 Seconds.
DOWNLOAD: Cloak/Dagger - Don't Need A
Richmond, Virginia's Cloak/Dagger are hardcore classicists–SST-reared, John Reis-copping, get-in-the-van classicists. Their second LP for Jade Tree, Lost Art, is due November 3, headspinning (and groovy!) songs like "Don't Need A" spread over its presumably brief running time. Tonight they begin a tour of Central and Eastern Europe, playing a few cities we know and a ton we can't pronounce. Those dates after the jump.
DOWNLOAD: Del The Funky Homosapien & Tame One - Special
(Photo: Alexander Richter)
The game’s been neon for a bit and while we love that sort of thing, we’ve been in need of a hardcore hip-hop refresher. Something our little sisters can’t sing along to. Something that can be pumped from the apartment of the dude who has no lights but does have a huge stereo and shouts for us to have a lovely day when we pass. Lucky us, Del & Tame One bring back the basics on Parallel Uni-Verses with street flow, funky sampling and straight lyricism. "Special” feels like brushing our teeth clean of the manufactured pulp we’ve been gargling. We’ll be rolling it around until Gold Dust drops the album on October 13th.
DOWNLOAD: Pissed Jeans - Dream Smotherer
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(Photo: Shawn Brackbill)
You're probably tired of hearing about how New York has morphed into a city-sized version of the Quiznos toaster oven this week, but I think I can convey just how hot it is here by giving you Pissed Jeans' "Dream Smotherer" as a parting shot for the weekend. Put simply, it rages, as do all the other songs on the band's excellent new LP, King Of Jeans, which came out on Tuesday through Sub Pop. This kind of supreme catharsis will do you good, regardless of climate.
Pissed Jeans - Dream Smotherer
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Chrissy Murderbot - Whine U (Bok Bok Remix) + The Limelight (feat. MC Zulu)
On floors across town lines, a new brand of Diplo-approved ghettotech’s been dropping on the regular. Chrissy Murderbot’s LP swings from happy hardcore to bubbling juke, dupstep to dancehall. Sounds impossible, but dude’s come off stellar Professor Murder and Ssion remixes to invoke Major Lazer on the first track and synth-grime B-sides on the second. Rinse and repeat.
Chrissy Murderbot - The Limelight (feat. MC Zulu)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Little Boots - Remedy (A1 Bassline Get Hype Remix)
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A1 Bassline takes no prisoner. The Londoner's remix of Little Boots' "Remedy" finds the femme actuelle whirring and beleaguered within a maelstrom of Hardcore, Speed Garage, Bassline and Acid House. It sounds like someone in London tuned infinite hi-fis to pirate radio in about 1985 and then wrapped them around the moon, so that when the bow returned you could hear the birth of every UK bass sound of the last 20 years all at the same time. Vicious, twisted, time-compressing club music. Get Friday hype!
Sounds Like: Hot City, T2, Delinquent
Little Boots - Remedy (A1 Bassline Get Hype Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Pissed Jeans - False Jesii Part 2
I've put Dischord greats VOID in the 'Sounds Like' section down there, but in truth Pissed Jeans' hardcore is far more rigid than that band's berserker flail, guitars chopping out a tight, thick sludge while Matt Korvette's hollers and screams lead the quartet in every direction at the same time. "False Jesii Part 2" is the first track from the band's latest Sub Pop release and it's standardly hacked off for an act whose past song titles include "Caught Licking Leather" and "Ashamed Of My Cum". Perfectly irate audio that doesn't so much blast away the cobwebs of the working week as swallow them whole, bemused spiders included.
Sounds Like: Fucked Up, F-Minus, VOID
DOWNLOAD: Flipper - Be Good, Child!
By my count, San Francisco slow-punk titans Flipper have reformed twice, once in 1993 at the behest of uber-fan Rick Rubin and again in 2005 to support the dying CBGB. Unlike CBs, the new Flipper flourished, and the quartet–joined in 2006 by Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic–just released a new studio album, Love, along with an accompanying live disc, Fight. Both are available from the band's website. "Be Good, Child!," recorded with Novoselic before he left in 2008, has all the classic Flipper sonics–sludgy bass, guitars that sound like their being played with butter knives–but weirdly sees singer Bruce Loose offering behavioral advice for youngsters. This from the guy who, in his most classic moment, warbled "She's a sex bomb, baby...yeah," over and over again. See guys, punks do get old.
Sounds like: Mudhoney, early Nirvana, Black Flag
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