A quick catch up of yesterday’s news – we were all out at A Day To Remember last night and our internet sucked
Banner Pilot will release a new album through Fat on April 14. It’s called ‘Souvenir. Check out the artwork at the top of this article and find a statement from the band below and get FUCKING EXCITED.
Looking back over the process of making this album, one thing that jumps out at me is how bad the first songs we wrote for it were. They sounded like us, I guess, but more like a half-hearted cover version of us. The same chords and melodies you’d expect, but missing…. something. I remember listening to them one evening in the dead of winter while I was outside shoveling snow, bitter winds whipping into my face, slick ice tripping up my feet, and thinking, “I hope every single thing I’m experiencing at this moment is better by the spring.”
We could have just shrugged and rolled with them, I guess, but I’m glad we were a little stubborn and kept plugging away, looking for something better. We scrapped what we had, hunkered down over the rest of the winter, spending many hours at our practice space, or in front of our respective computers, tinkering around with new ideas. We didn’t overthink anything; we just tried idea after idea after idea until something would stick. And the tunes did start to get better. Not only was it rewarding to start to develop songs that didn’t sound like complete horse crap, it was also fun. They started to feel like the songs you get excited to play live, and it reminded me of what’s so great about being in a band in the first place.
I’m really happy with how it turned out. I think that in the end we stuck to the things we do well, but varied them a little without messing them up. And I think the attitude of “Let’s keep trying to make this better” paid off.
Brody Dalle (Distillers) is streaming new music from her eponymous solo work. Check out ‘Meet The Foetus / Oh The Joy’ using the player below. Sounds a bit like QOTSA. Maybe not that surprising.
Brutal Youth have posted a new song online. It’s fast and loud and fun. We like. Check it out using the player below.
Champ have released a new song for free download. Check it out below. ‘Nothing’ is the second single from the San Diego foursome’s self-titled album, due out February 18th on Fleeting Youth Records.
There’s a new song out from of Dads. The guise he’s writing under is called Cardinal Cardinal, and you can check out his first song over here.