punk this week: silo kids, added dimensions, genre + 13 more
Plus Lothario, Josie, Heather the Jerk, and more. Happy Gonerfest. R.I.P. Trouble in Mind.
Hey, it’s Punk This Week, see/saw’s weekly punk and rock’n’roll recommendations round-up column. It’s a weird day to be doing this, partly because I’m trying to beat the clock to get down to Gonerfest in time for more rock’n’roll fun but partly because the great Trouble in Mind Records has been laid to rest.
In the first days of the label, I was a fellow Chicagoan scooping up all the large-hole 45s Bill and Lisa were putting out. In the past several years, they’ve been on a hot streak of releasing some of the best and most adventurous guitar music on the planet. The Tubs? FACS? Dummy? The Serfs? That’s just in the past 12 months alone. It’s a loss, for sure. Do as they say and support independent music.
This week there’s so much great stuff, including new records by Silo Kids, Added Dimensions, Genre, Josie, Heather the Jerk, Lothario, Jacket Burner, Ameratat, and more. Subscribe to see/saw for $4/month or $40/year to read about all the records this week. (There’s a two-week free trial, too.) That gets you this weekly column delivered to your inbox, plus bonus podcast episodes and the see/saw radio archive. Have a nice punk rock holiday weekend.
Silo Kids: II [Earth Girl Tapes]
Hattiesburg’s mighty Earth Girl Tapes has returned with the second tape from Silo Kids this year, and it’s a complete fucking barn burner. From the moment we sonically saunter into a saloon and a cartoonish bullet ricochet sound effect launches us headlong into II, we’re in for a blistering hardcore record ostensibly set in the American frontier. The drumming deserves a particular shout-out, but honestly picking apart individual aspects of this tightly wound and deeply explosive music is like attempting to dismantle a bomb. There is not a bad song on this tape, which is somehow even better than their last one. God damn!!!
