Aged young rebels. Class war, resistance and other romantic things.
„Skinheads Home For Christmas” / Yesterday’s Hero (Bay City Rollers’ cover)
single in the classic pop tradition by Californian hard mod/punk band Hard Left, oi!

Future Perfect Records (US)

The covered Yesterday’s Hero cover by Scottish pop band Bay City Rollers (1976). The original from 1975 by Scottish born Aussie John Paul Young.

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Those were certainly very comic acts when the two founders looked for mates, because the condition was: can play any kind of instrument is absolutely needless. – Do you feel like joining us? – But I can’t play any instruments. – Oh it’s great! We need such an incompetent man exactly like you to make good noisy punk rock music:

Pop.1280 Euro tour single by Sacred Bones Records (US)

Euro tour Jan-Feb

„The mechanisms of protection are all around us, but do you feel safer?”

’77 is eternal & indestructible, because punks not dead (just all the Ramones)

Hard Left – 7″ lathe cut and digital on Future Perfect Records (US)

Hard Left is a hard mod band from members of #1 Smash Hits, Boyracer and Manatee in Oakland. Class war, Marxism and all that jazz, but I swear that listen to it so good, but I can’t do it without laughing.

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It’s not easy pop music, rather pretty brutal, miraculous haunted gospel folk trip-hop soul by 26 years old Canadian singer songwriter Al Spx, who is working with her 6-piece band under the name of Cold Specks. Many of her songs are based on junk- shopped old photos and postcards. „It’s insane how many people throw away their old photos. Some of them are absolutely stunning and I just wonder what made these people throw them out – What is their story? Why is this woman doing that? Why is there a creepy man standing in the background?”

Neuroplasticity – LP/CD/digital – order here. Michael Gira (Swans) appears on a track. The collaboration started with Spx singing on Swans’ last album.

She dropped out of school, but hadn’t told her parents and secretly began worked at a call center. Around that time, she handed a collection of songs to a friend of hers, who passed it on to his brother, who happened to be a record producer in London.

„Call centers… I always say it’s the worst job in the world. It’s just hell.”