TURN THE PAGE: Few rock bands, all things considered, are as reliably consistent as Little Gold. Even when we don’t hear from these stalwarts, the very second they raise their head back above water we know we’re in for a treat. Such is the case with the two brand spankin’ new songs featured on the band’s upcoming 7” Strange Vacation. These were engineered by Jesse Mangum at The Glow Recording Studio, where he is also recording the group’s upcoming full-length Born To Loose (sic) which is due out next year. The tracks are available individually as digital items as we speak, though. The title track features the band along with T. Hardy Morris and Hunter Pinkston (The Pink Stones). It’s a slow, minor-key country tune that should resonate readily with anyone who has endured the boredom and spirit-killing aspects of being a band on the road. The B-side, “Pissin’,” brings the band right back to its indie rock high style, and its lyrics of relationship frustrations recall some of the best lines The Replacements ever wrote. The band celebrates the release of the 7” Wednesday, Sept. 25 on the Georgia Theatre rooftop. Find these digitally anywhere you do that sort of thing or head to littlegold.bandcamp.com.
TREAT YOURSELF: The next instance of The Secret Record Swap will happen Saturday, Sept. 21 at Athentic Brewing Co. (108 Park Ave.). It’s free to attend from 12–5 p.m., but early birds who want priority access to all vendors and, thus, records can pay five bucks for early admission from 11 a.m. to noon. Sellers of all sorts will be there with records, CDs, tapes, videos, DVDs, memorabilia, etc. That’s literally all the information, so just show up!
HEADING OUT TO THE HIGHWAY: The folks over at Spaceball Bazaar (130 N. Church St. in Bogart) are betting you’ll want to spend all day over there for the 14-band mammoth event they’ve got planned for Saturday, Sept. 21 called Last Call For The Balls. It’s slated to begin at 1 p.m., is all ages, BYOB for those 21 and over, and $12 at the door. Vendors will sell food, art, records, etc. Featured acts are John Lester’s Dis-taste-r, Grim Gardenerz, The Unus Mundus, Smaxxon, Original Hamster, Burly Ivy, Ramona Quimbys, Smoggo, Penny Loafer, pondgorl, Iconostasis, Mr. Blank and Bryant Perez with Something Haunted. You can try to extract more information from spaceball.com, and if you’re lucky you just might find some.
SMILE A LITTLE LONGER: The world breathes a little lighter and carries a new spring in its step courtesy of the new single by Terminally Phil (aka Phillip Brantley, aka Instagram meme lord @philthrottle). His newest single, “Crawl,” came out last week. It is released courtesy of Super Canoe. It’s a strummy, nearly Americana-style tune with more than a passing glance at Gram Parsons but not a terribly long one. As always, it’s nice and steady and the type of thing anyone would be proud to introduce to his or her parents. This was tracked over at Tweed Recordings, mixed by Hank Sullivant (Kuroma, MGMT, The Whigs; also plays piano on it), engineered and and mastered by Charlie Chastain, and features Will Hefner on drums. Find this on all major streaming services, and for more information, please see instagram.com/terminallyphilmusic and supercanoe.co.
PUT THE NEEDLE ON THE RECORD: The artist known as Other Voices, Other Rooms is back on the scene with a brand new mix named Stereo Returns. This mix contains 10 distinct compositions with very smooth, nearly imperceptible transitions. Each thing was recorded live directly to cassette tape. The various sounds employed here are noisy drones, heavy rhythms, sprightly new wave keyboard tracks, select vocal samples, various industrial tones (both musical and real life), and in the end folds itself back up into the noisy envelope from which it came before ending quite abruptly. This isn’t for everybody, but it is for me and might be for you as well. Find it at soundcloud.com/other-voices-other-rooms/stereo-returns. Other Voices, Other Rooms will release this mix on cassette tape on Friday, Sept. 20 at Flicker and have tapes available for purchase. Doom Ribbons also appears on the bill that night.
SMOOTH AS BUTTER: Currently in the running for least repressible band ever, KIT will release its second new single within a month on Friday, Sept. 20. While probably certainly enduring the weight of an utterly unsearchable band name, the band is really shining like superstars in the songwriting department. This new song, “Feel Love,” was, like the one before it, mixed by Patrick Doherty and mastered by Jesse Mangum. It’s a lighthearted breezy thing of the sort that reimagines what ‘70s soft rock might have sounded like but is reimagined through the lens of history and the sands of time. All told, not bad at all. I can’t understand any of the lyrics, though, as they’re kind of low in the mix for me, but maybe you can make them out. You’ll be able to find this on all major streaming services.
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