Neighbour Club: Snail Mail

photo: Anthony Bean

At first it may seem that English slacker rockers Neighbour Club are sloppy by design on their debut EP Snail Mail and that some of the material is on the brink of falling apart, with all four members running around to save themselves and their mates from serious injury. Somehow they always manage to land on their feet.

On further inspection it becomes clear that all of this is part of their quest to create lively indie anthems that are all over the place, but also share a vision: to write quirky songs about deers popping up in the headlights, awkward one-night stands and popping pills without giving a fuck about possible nasty side-effects.

Phish: Live Bait Vol. 25

Another episode has been added to the Phish Live Bait series. All tracks on Vol. 25 are from the 1.0 era, including fan favourite You Enjoy Mysel (9/28/99 Oak Mountain Amphitheatre – Pelham, AL).

Tracks:

1. Reba
   (6/23/95 Waterloo Village – Stanhope, NJ) 15:00
2. Run Like An Antelope
   (6/30/94 Classic Amphitheatre – Richmond, VA) 12:55
3. The Curtain > Tweezer > Keyboard Army
   (11/12/95 O’Connell Center, University of Florida – Gainesville, FL) 29:21
4. You Enjoy Myself
   (9/28/99 Oak Mountain Amphitheatre – Pelham, AL) 22:38

Live Bait Vol. 25 is a free download compiled by the band's archivist Kevin Shapiro.

» phish.com

Age of Life: Carbon Bloom

German musician Chris Burda, half of post-rock duo Collapse Under The Empire, has shared a video for Carbon Bloom, the closing piece of the first part of ambitious cinematic post-rock double album Emergence / Transformation by his Age of Life project.

With this composition he has created a widescreen vision of life on Earth in its early stages, combining progressive and post-rock on top of synth driven percussive flow.

Doggy Daycare: new album (sort of) "Posthumous Release"

photo: Mary Riley

Fuzzy shoegaze band Doggy Daycare was a house hold name in the North Carolina underground, but never got around to come up with a full-length before they called it quits in 2024. The forthcoming Posthumous Release rectifies that ommission. Fans of Dinosaur Jr, Teenage Fanclub and Mudhoney will love this navel gazing collection of lo-fi bedroom guitar rock.

Jimi Hendrix: "Ezy Rider" from new album "Magic Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live At Berkeley (First Show)"

Ezy Rider, another track from the forthcoming Magic Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live At Berkeley (First Show) album is on the usual streaming services. Sadly the release of this performance by The Jimi Hendrix Experience is not complete. Foxy Lady is missing, a fact that is passed over by Experience Hendrix by naming it "presented in its original chronological order".