pampers - s/t lp

HOLY SHIT, it's time to blow up yer stereo with the self titled debut lp from brooklyn's PAMPERS!!!!!!!!!  seriously you're gonna thank IN THE RED for putting this one out many times over........

PAMPERS have been slinking around the dark alleys on gotham city for a while now, releasing a couple of rowdy singles via their JKSHK label and playing with like minded and demented soulmates FOSTER CARE, CALL OF THE WILD and HANK WOOD AND THE HAMMERHEADS.... yet no one was willing to bring their destruction to a nationwide audience until IN THE RED stepped in.....  their s/t lp is chock full of bruising riffs, pummeling drums, broken synths knife fighting walls of feedback and gnarly vocals...... art bent, noisy and mutant as punk can be, PAMPERS' new album shows that punk rock is alive and well, and feral as fuck !!!!!!!!

put them in the same camp of misanthropic noise punks as RUNNING, BUCK BILOXI AND THE FUCKS, LAMPS, OBNOX, TRUE SONS OF THUNDER, MANATEEES, SOUPCANS, LIVEFASTDIE and/or GARY WRONG, yeah pretty much all the bands keeping RnR LOUD NASTY INTERESTING AND RIOTOUS AS CAN BE!!!!!!!!!   junkies for those bands as well as labels like CRYPT, HOZAC, TOTAL PUNK and GONER need some fucking PAMPERS NOW!!!!!!!!

this lp is gonna shake something lose in yer head and you'll never be the same!!!!!!  feedback weirdo punk hasn't been this fun since the electric eels or the urinals..... a for sure top ten album of the year!!!!!!

stream a few tracks off the new lp below - 
  and grab one from IN THE RED now !!!!!
fuckin' do it !!!!!!!

jeffrey novak - lemon kid

hot on the heels of his BARON IN THE TREES lp and CHEAP TIME'S killer third album WALLPAPER MUSIC (both on in the red records) comes the newest collection of killer jams from tennessee's hardest working garage rocker.  YES!!!!  TROUBLE IN MIND is proud to announce JEFFREY NOVAK's third (and best) solo lp LEMON KID !!!!!!!!!!  and it's out now !!!!!!!

if you know his previous solo albums or his stellar glam-meets-art-rock garage punk work in CHEAP TIME, you're gonna need to run out to yer local record shop and grab LEMON KID asap......  but for those who need an introduction, read on...........

JEFFREY NOVAK's work outside of CHEAP TIME runs through the more adventurous / weirdo twists and turns of glam, power pop and UK psych....flipping garage rock upside down and mutating punk into something strange and mind bending once again......(somebody had to, cuz there's way too many cookie cutter "garage punk" bands out there right now).....

on LEMON KID you hear what a lost jam session with KEVIN AYERS fronting the NEW YORK DOLLS would've sounded like or what it might've been if SYD BARRETT had joined T REX...... or would happen if all the garage punks stopped listening to the CRAMPS / RAMONES and put ENO's "Taking Tiger Mountain" or the KINKS "Arthur" on repeat....yes LEMON KID takes you somewhere else completely....a kaleidoscopic mix of psychedelic earworming art bent melodies that'll stick to you like nothing else you've heard all year long....!!!!!!!

certainly a unique spin that leaves you with something new every time, JEFFREY NOVAK has knocked it outta the park with LEMON KID.   so yeah this one's way recommended!

PREVIEW LEMON KID BELOW -
   and go buy one from TROUBLE IN MIND now !!!!!!!!!

sweet talk - flash of light ep

CLEAR OFF YER TURNTABLE AND MAKE SOME ROOM ON YER IPOD CUZ SWEET TALK HAS SIX NEW INFECTIOUS/HIGHLY ADDICTING SONGS THAT'LL KEEP YOU ROCKING ALL NIGHT LONG ON THEIR JUST RELEASED FLASH OF LIGHT EP ON 12XU RECORDS!!!!!!!!

comprising of members you might know from the MIND SPIDERS, OBN IIIs, WICCANS, VIDEO and a whole laundry list of other killer austin bands, SWEET TALK up the ante with their dual guitar, super melodic RnR on this new ep....combining the best parts of explosive garage, concise power pop and ragged around the edges 80s college rock, FLASH OF LIGHT is six anthemic songs that'll earworm their way deep in yer skull and never leave.....  

there's just something about the way they take guitar rock overdrive the catchy pop riffs and filter it through garage punk that's quite unlike anything you've heard this year.........  if their album PICKUP LINES didn't hook you, this ep surely will......good times and multiple spins await you with FLASH OF LIGHT !!!!!!!!!  

(RIYL bad sports, cheap time, dinosaur jr, flesh lights, marked men, obn iiis, games, king tuff )

get a taste and,
LISTEN TO A FEW TRACKS OFF FLASH OF LIGHT BELOW 
   and grab one from 12XU now !!!!!!

night beats - sonic bloom

DIM THE LIGHTS, CALL YER GUY, GRAB A DRINK AND GET READY FOR A HEADY NIGHT OF LYSERGIC ROCK N ROLL THAT'S GONNA EXPAND YER MIND CUZ THE NIGHT BEATS JUST UNLEASHED A BRAND NEW LP ON REVERBERATION APPRECIATION SOCIETY ENTITLED SONIC BLOOM!!!!!!!!!

we've had to wait a while for the follow up to their killer 2011 s/t lp on TROUBLE IN MIND, but you know it was well fucking worth the wait....... THE NIGHT BEATS are back with their signature acid/reverb drenched combination of dirty garage and cosmic psych and let's just say SONIC BLOOM ain't gonna stray to far from yer turntable..........  this new lp proves they weren't just some over hyped new band that can't sustain the RnR for more than ten songs and it certainly cements their place at the top of the list of GO TO PSYCH BANDS !!!!!!

so for all you ty segall, oh sees, black angels and/or brian jonestown massacre fans that haven't got hip to the NIGHT BEATS yet, SONIC BLOOM is nothing short of a revelation !!!!!!!!    yeah don't miss out on what's probably gonna be one of my fave albums of the year !

see for yourself and
LISTEN TO SONIC BLOOM BELOW - 
   and grab yer copy from reverberation appreciation society here !!!!!

cave - threace

GET READY FOR SOME MIND ALTERING MOTORIK PSYCH GROOVES CUZ CAVE HAS A NEW ALBUM OUT ON DRAG CITY CALLED THREACE !!!!!!!! and it's a mother fucking mesmerizing spin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

chicagoans have long known how absolutely KILLER cave is both live and on record, and now with their third release for DRAG CITY the rest of the world needs to TURN ON, TUNE IN AND DROP OUT!!!!!!!!!  on THREACE, CAVE's repetitive psych groove sucks you further in and take you way farther out!!!!!  indebted to the krautrock explosion of the 70s and all sorts of heady RnR experiments that flipped music inside out since then, CAVE's twist on experimental psychedelic rock n roll is unlike anything else you can put in yer ears!!!!!!!   moments of zen await!!!!   (there's a reason they call this COSMIC music!!!!!)

fans of the classics from CAN, NEU, CLUSTER and AMON DUUL as well as current bands like WOODEN SHJIPS, LUMERIANS, MOON DUO, CATACOMBZ and FOLLAKZOID need this new lp ASAP.........

THREACE IS AS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AS THEY COME !!!!!!!!!

listen to a couple tracks off THREACE below - 
  and grab yer copy now from DRAG CITY !!!!!!

adam widener - vesuvio nights

get ready for SPEAKERTREE RECORDS' latest smash hit, the debut album from ADAM WIDENER, "VESUVIO NIGHTS"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  maybe you've seen adam play in one of his former bands, PLEXI 3, ZYGOTEENS and/or BARE WIRES, or maybe not...but his solo RnR is something YOU DEFINITELY NEED TO CHECK OUT NOW!!!!!!!

part 70s punk / part hazy garage pop with a little bit of a art bent new wave gloss and a nice sprinkling of glam sparkle, ADAM WIDENER's new lp VESUVIO NIGHTS might need a new genre classification... perhaps it ought to be called MOD PUNK or JANGLE WAVE.... but this lp is for sure one that needs yer attention.   it's love / debt to PAUL COLLINS BEAT, RICHARD HELL, THE UNDERTONES, THE JAM and 20/20 can't be overlooked and in fact just adds to its analogue charm and infectious melodic charge.....leaving you wanting more and more.......

fans of WARM SODA, GLITZ, ANDY HUMAN, NEEDLES // PINS, SAM COFFEY, COZY, GENTLEMAN JESSE and SLUSHY (aka all those kids taking punk, glam and bubblegum and making music LOUD, FUN AND STICKY SWEET AGAIN) will definitely get way HOOKED on VESUVIO NIGHTS.......

so yeah stop complaining you got nothing new to listen to cuz ADAM WIDENER is here with 14 new power popped punk jams to brighten yer day!!!!!!!

LISTEN TO A FEW TRACKS OF VESUVIO NIGHT BELOW - 
   and grab a copy from SPEAKERTREE here !!!!!!!




and watch ADAM WIDENER live -

blind shake - a key to a false door

HOLY HELL you better just stop reading, go out right now and grab the new BLIND SHAKE album A KEY TO A FALSE DOOR on CASTLE FACE RECORDS cuz it's nothing short of a mind-blowing, in-yer-face, volatile psych RnR joyride!!!!!!!!!!

seriously if you still haven't heard of the BLIND SHAKE, now is the FUCKING TIME TO INTRODUCE YERSELF......  this lp (their first for castle face and the newest since 2011's killer lp SERIOUSNESS on LEARNING CURVE) is an ALL OUT SURF BENT, AMREP INDEBTED, NOISY PSYCH ROCK MASTERPIECE......  A KEY TO A FALSE DOOR is filled with massive hooks, pummeling riffs, cavestompin' reckless abandon, walls of droning feedback and a mutant otherworldly RnR groove you won't find just anywhere these days.........  BLIND SHAKE's concise/dailed-the-fuck-in power trio format comprised of guitar, baritone guitar and drums is unlike anything you'll hear this year.....and no other band is expanding on the garage punk formula with such mesmerizing psych and brutal art rock precision like they are.......

but don't just take my word for it -- john dwyer of thee oh sees signed them to his label, castle face.... psych legend michael yonkers has enlisted the blind shake for his backing band, recording three albums with them......and john reis of drive like jehu/hot snakes/rocket from the crypt/night marchers fame is releasing an album with them later this year!!!!!!  and on top of that they've just melted faces across the states on tour with thee oh sees and the obn iiis........ and anyone who witnessed them live on this tour can tell you that YOU NEED SOME BLIND SHAKE IN YER LIFE!!!!!!!

SO YEAH A KEY TO A FALSE DOOR IS RECOMMENDED TIMES INFINITY!!!!!!!
a sure bet as one of the best albums of the year.  

don't waste yer time on multitude of boring psych bands kicking around these days,
LISTEN TO KEY TO A FALSE DOOR -
  and grab a copy from CASTLE FACE RECORDS now!!!!



watch BLIND SHAKE play PERMANENT RECORDS below -