News :: Grave Babies :: Gothdammit

In keeping with the goth theme, it is with dejected and somnambulant pleasure for me tell you that Grave Babies will release a new EP, Gothdammit, on April 17th via Hardly Art. Five songs, five reasons to line your apartment with roadkill, five reasons to purchase speakers large enough to burrow inside.

Listen below to the first single, "Nightmare." At a time when most emerging bands feel a need to change their sound for more polished results, Grave Babies are smart enough to know that no one sounds like them in the first place. Here, as before, guitars sound like rotting teeth grinding lightbulbs, and drums still sound like the snapping of fresh celery stalks, and the mix is dusted with dried up worm guts. And then it just stops.

Grave Babies :: Nightmare

Video :: X-Ray Eyeballs :: Deja Vu

Well, The Walking Dead is finally back on television, but already I can safely say I much prefer these girl(and guy)s' version of the zombpocalypse. What I really want in my zombie dramas are the banal details of a zombie's quieter moments - gnawing on deer carcases, tripping over tombstones, hanging out with other zombies, moaning out of sheer boredom. Something I can really relate to.

Xray Eyeballs - Deja Vu

This track is the b-side from their recent 7" on Hardly Art. Brains.

Video :: Remote Viewing :: Hunx and His Punx

Hunx and His Punx

"You Don't Like Rock and Roll"
Singles

Here's the song that first got me into Hunx (Seth Bogart). This cut came out of his early collaborations with Nobunny. The video's got more costume changes than a Freddie Mercury concert and more camp than a John Waters film. If you're brave, hold out for the thong and the S&M sequence, 'cause round here we like the whips and chains. This scuzz just seals my impression that the best garage rock should hurt and heal in the same motion.

Too Young to Be in Love should be coming out at the end of March from Hardly Art, but who the fuck knows, right?