Watch the Tinned Meats video for Caught In The Wild, a track from their Kilter album: "Spontaneity sits next to carefully composed parts, making it an album that requires some time to fully appreciate. Chopped guitar notes a la Televion and Devo are softened a bit by the three-part harmonies. This is a band that sounds no other, or a bunch of your favourite artists from various genres at the same time. A long overdue breath of fresh air in the overcrowded post-punk scene."
HCTF review of Kilter
Bristol based quartet Hot Lobby rounded up their singles, added two more songs, and released them as a double EP. Desert/Oasis shows their darker and lighter side, although people will probably dance to all of it, because their wide array of dance floor fillers is irresistible. They can pull off Living Colour and progressive metal (Vampire), hiphop and soul (Snake Charmer), bossa nova ( Clarissa’s Theme) and jazz-tinged funk (Super Human).
Playing super tight but loose sounding grooves their update of 70s dance music by inserting so many other genres that listeners will lose count, is pretty damn impressive. Skirting the mainstream is cool, because it will appeal to both the general public as well as the music geeks.
During the first Trump administration avant-garde collective The League of Assholes released two long-form sound collages - IM PEACH and IM PEACH The Sequel - about the idiots that were governing the asylum back then. It took them awhile, but in the midst of the major clusterfuck a third installment was in order, now that the Donald is even more unhinged and fucking dangerous. Marcelo Radulovich once again assembled the bits at his Titicacaman Studio in Cardiff, CA.
IM PEACH 3 goes through hills and valleys, switching between country (seriously), ambient, noise, free jazz, and post-rock. It is a 40 minutes plus rollercoaster ride, that will be frowned upon by health and safety. The main course will probably be way too much for most listeners, but they did not stop there. To hammer home the message they also included a backwards mix (which will have the Chistian right up in arms) and the muzzy 1930s mono mix (which sounds like scratched 78rpm).
Phish
2026/04/18
Sphere, Las Vegas, NV
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
Kim Gordon
