Anthemic rock is alive and well in Louisville Kentucky. Wax Fang serves up the listener a dish or huge guitar driven epic indie. A blend of almost classic rock with a touch of folk and almost tongue in cheek lyrics with a commanding and powerful vocal delivery. Lead singer Scott Carney barks sweetly, a blend of your parents golden retriever, a drill Sergent and every 70’s English punk band. Beyond this the music is hard to describe, one moment Carney is singing a light melody over a sparkling guitar line, the next we’re assaulted with what feels like one hundred floor toms bashing away at your ear drums. Guitars are looped and relooped, the repetition so so sweet. You can check them out here and two awesome handed picked songs below.

Wax Fang – World War II (Pt. 2)

Wax Fang – The Doctor Will See You Now

Wax Fang – Can You See The Light

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“To every glassy-eyed teenage runaway; to every pot-smoking trust fund baby in search of ‘the authentic’; to every sweaty, dreadlocked, patchouli-wearing, unemployed bassist with an underfed pit-bull and vicious body odor-we want to say to you: come home.”

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Flight – Flowers

Jay Retard – Blood Visions

The Ramones – Cretin Hop

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Youves – Big Arexic

Stupid Party – 1234

Holy Molar – That Old Rugged Cross Dresser

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Bad Brains – Riot Squad

The Buzzcocks – Whatever Happened To?

A Certain Ratio – faceless (graveyard & ballroom)

Daniel Zott’s covers of Low, Low, Low By Flo Rida & Crank Dat Soulja Boy by Soulja Boy, have been on my “love making playlist” for a while now…Listening to Zott’s music and seeing Dan’s “doo”… I instantly wanted to know more about this man and where he came from. I mean exactly which American burb birthed this multi-color mohawk sporting, smooth singing, rap covering artiste?

Royal Oak is a suburb of Detroit in the grand state of Michigan. According to the City of Royal Oak.com it is “sometimes called the city of trees”. B-Movie God’s Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead Trilogy) and Sam Raimi (Director & Producer) were both born in Royal Oak, but have since moved on. Eminem was charged for gun possesion in 2000 and Sergei Fedorov failed a breathalyzer in 2001. Since 2000 only 2 known murders have been committed… (*Thank you Wiki)

Young Daniel Zott had posted this on his Myspace page regarding his rap covers…

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Daniel Zott – Low Low Low

Daniel Zott – Crank That Soulja Boy

To see some awesome live footage of our boy Daniel Zott wandering through Detriot check it out here, here and here.

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Novels has finally given up the ghost and allowed their fans to download their whole album for free! There is a catch however. You must follow these insturctions carefully:

Step 1:
Click here to download the whole Novels album.

DOWNLOAD NOVELS

Step 2:

Listen to all the songs

Step 3:

Give this link to your friends

Step 4:

Burn the Novels songs to some CDs

Step 5:

Share those CDs with strangers. Hide them at the supermarket! Leave them at your doctor’s office! Have fun with it!

Step 6:

Send us an email with a photo and the city of where you hid the CDs. Send us a photo of the random person you shared a disc with! We will put it up on the blog!

I for one am so so happy about this, so lets all do the right thing and burn Cd’s for our friends and brighten up their week, if there is any Cd that could do that, it would be this one!

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My deepest apologies for the 3 people who read this on a weekly basis! We’ve slackened a bit, but that does not mean we’ve forgotten. I think instead of one off daily posts,  we will bring you more interesting and nice posts a couple times a week. Quality not quantity. So as a special treat, here are three songs that have really grabbed me recently. First off, Bear Hands channels Isaac Brock, followed by a brand new New Pornographers song off their up and coming album and to finish it all off, Pattern Is Movement with an awesome math rock drum track set to sparse and dainty keyboards and powerful vocals.

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I also apologize for the lack of posts as of late, but hopefully some solid tunes will be the peace offering that you need. Starting us off is one of By the End of Tonight’s more melodic tracks, followed by jj, a Swedish band that showed up on a ton of “Best of 2009″ lists but I failed to even know they existed. Finishing us off is my biggest singer/songwriter crush, Mariee Sioux, who is probably my absolute favourite female vocalist.

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enjoy!

Bear Hands – What A Drag

New Pornographers – Your Hands (Together)

Pattern Is Movement – Light of the World

By the End of Tonight – Drop it Like it’s Hot

jj – From Africa to Málaga

Mariee Sioux – Wizard Flurry Home

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Hey ya’ll. It’s like 14 degrees outside my office right now, and I’m taking as many smoke breaks as possible to enjoy a sit in the sunshine. To perfectly compliment this day, here is a brand new Ruby Suns track called Cranberries. Ruby Suns are a Bluegrassish fav, particularly attributed to Slobby who may or may not have heard this dance masterpiece, so ENJOY!

Ruby Suns – Cranberries

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Few bands stir up feelings of drunken teenage nights and subtle rebellion like Japanther. I am literally in love with these Brooklyn fuzz-punkers. So much so I can barley think of words to describe how excited I was to hear they had a new album coming out March 2nd entitled Rock n’ Roll Ice Cream. Japanther flew out to L.A to produce their new album with former Madonna and Pink Floyd producer Micheal Blum, does this make any sense to anyone? Acordding to the Village Voice Japanther rejected Blums 10,000 dollar microphones only to sing into their own home made telephone mics…rad. Also a new member has joined the name, Annita Sparrow who adds some great female vocal harmonies to what was once such a minimal band. I’ve heard one song, and it rules. So here it is.

Japanther – Spread So Thin

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OXES are an instrumental band, coming from Baltimore, Maryland who play loud, frantic, tasty riffs.  Some people call them Post Punk but I think this description falls a bit flat.  Imagine The Melvins decided to take themselves a little less seriously, showed up to your party, got a 26 of whiskey in, hit on your sister, and then jumped on the kitchen table and woo-ed all the ladies by busting out sweet metal riffs, you could describe their sound like that, but thats only one half of the puzzle. OXES are renowned for their silly and usually insane live show, from having their guitarists tower over the audience by standing on large, black boxes to incorporating a one-act play into their live set, OXES are probably a band you wanna check out.

OXES – Boss Kitty

OXES – Kaz Hayashi ‘oi

Getting a few words in with  ”J.J” Dunk and Galloping Caity from the lover’s rock band Slam Dunk on a brisk Victoria night seconds before they disappear into the U.S. on tour:

Slam…?: dunk dunk slippy slam dunk slippy slam dunk in yo trunk
Where is your band going? hopefully to sleep in a tour van
true you have a record? 7 inches of it! its not much but it works with a vinyl machine!
party trick? devil sticks on rollerblades at burning man parties
worst tip: bring your best friends on tour
the sweet caress of…: relish and mayonnaise on burgers, and if your body smells like that then you probably have the best smelling self of all time
five times a year: 5 years
80s hit: The Magnificent SEVEEEEN! RING RING!
hot lunch being: TV dinner tattooed to your thighs
the oft overlooked art of…: just regular art!
the body of…: water is too large and i cant afford to take this thing on a ferry and i dont wanna catch the bus so lets stay home?
life after death? would be very disappointing
who plays what? Caity: bass and singy! Dunky:guitar and shouty Jordan:guitar and shouty Luke:toms, snares, kick and cymbals
who really holds the gun? Slam Dunk has 7 chickens between all of us. We also just made 150 beers and about 60 tshirts with our name on em. We dont have a CDR but we have an idea for our next CDR.
what is happening to you? shut up
your ‘first time’: jewish
the dawn of a new…: interview format

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Feb 13 – Bike Co-op Garage – Isla Vista, CA
Feb 14 – 215 Storey St with Green Flash and Christmas – Santa Cruz, CA
Feb 15 – Boo Boo Records – San Luis Obispo, CA
Feb 16 – Kimos with Sexworker, Murkins, Summer Blonde – San Fran, CA
Feb 17 – The Stork Club with Hobocop and Uzirash – Oakland, CA
Feb 18 – Polohaus with Lasco Stroud – Portland, OR
Feb 19 – The Know with White Fang and Leather Tom – Portland, OR
Feb 20 – New Brandizzz with Listening Party and Eek! – Vancouver, BC
Feb 26 – Banana Stand with friends – Victoria, BC

http://www.myspace.com/slamdunkband
http://www.fanclubmusicclub.com/SLAM_DUNK.html