The second full length from Pat The Bunny's laters project, Ramshackle Glory. A collection of songs and personal stories about desparation, sexual assault, suicide and addiction.
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The former front man of Johnny Hobo & the Freight Trains and Wingnut Dishwasher’s Union spent about a year in the desert & emerged with a new hope & a bunch of new friends who were holding instruments like a banjo, a violin, a saw & an accordion. This album is a story about the first year of sobriety, from the perspective of a punk and an anarchist, and the events that led to getting sober in the first place. A must for anyone who has followed Pat’s music over the years but also a good place to start if his work is new to you. Official Website Preview
When some fool gets soysauce on the chop scissors... Phat Meegz, hardcore / reggae / punk rock kinda shit from Hobart, Tasmania. 6 brand spanking new songs. Don't pretend you saw this coming. Official Website Preview
This Is A Robbery is the latest project from singer-songwriter Chris Burrows, the man behind Asking For It and The Anorexic Olsen Twin. Cantankerous acoustic punk rock from the barren wastelands of Hobart, Tasmania. Official Website Preview
Adventure Adventure are a folk punk band from North Carolina featuring the heart pouring vocals of Anthony LaPalomento. This Is A Robbery is a band from the other side of the world. Chrs Burrows, known for being the front man of such projects as (Asking For It & The Anorexic Olsen Twin) is back with his raw powerful talent reminding us why we all love folk punk.
This full length delivers the impossible with eleven catchy pop songs that somehow manage to articulate the profound sadness of being in High School with remarkable and clever insight...without coming off as pretentious. An album that will help you drop out or at least realize how stupid everything around you really is. Imagine if the weakerthans, built to spill and bright eyes all dropped out of high-school, went to a southern Vermont wingnut party and woke up with a hangover and an 11 track recording the next day and you’d have a good idea of what to expect from MJTDP. This album seriously kicks ass. Official Website Preview
After many years of misery, addiction, and nihilism Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains finally burned to the ground. Now out of the ashes rises Wingnut Dishwasher’s Union. While Johnny Hobo songs made people want to shoot dope, WDU songs just might make you want to shoot a capitalist. On this album WDU performs most of the songs as a full on, electric punk band (including members of Endless Mike & The Beagle Club). There are still many moments of raw acoustic feeling to be found, while the new electric sound enhances instead of replacing what is already there, by co-existing side by side with singer Pat The Bunny and his bloody guitar strumming. Overall the lyrics offer hope and a desire for social change with Diy Anarchist politics woven into the entire album. Pat The Bunny uses words like “Anarchy” and “Freedom” and actually knows what he’s talking about. This is gutter rock at its finest!
If hip-hop is party music, then Ceschi Ramos’s third solo outing, The One Man Band Broke Up, is music for the saddest party in recorded human history. Revolving around the suicide of a musician and titular one-man band named Julius, the record forgoes any kind of linear narrative. Instead, Ramos pours most of his energy into isolating the emotional realities that pushed the protagonist toward his end — loneliness, frustration, and ultimately disillusionment with not only the music industry but the act of creation itself — and he hammers these with an unremitting intensity. Official Website Preview
Sole’s second foray into “rap as journalism” is a diary of madness. This mixtape is folk rap in its truest sense…applying the Situationist “detournment” concept of “turning expressions of the capitalist system against itself” to hip hop by repurposing mainstream rap songs for anarchistic ends. His rap delivery flows as a stream-of-consciousness to the point of eschewing rhyming altogether at times (a style that has brought Sole much recognition in the underground/DIY hop hop community.) Add this style to his aggressive political commentary and a list of amazing guest (such as Ceschi, Kool A.D. from Das Racist, Time, K-The-I??? and Bluebird) and you have a rather bold hip hop album to make your mind question the capitalist system and your speakers bounce. Official Website Preview
MC Homeless is an emcee from Ohio. He grew up going to DIY punk shows and singing in grindcore bands before forming a relationship with hip hop. Homeless dishes out 13 tracks of social, political and personal rhymes backed by tripped out hip hop with a trace of crunk beats. Forget that shit on the radio- here you’ll get a talented and boldly unique underground hip hop album from an up and coming DIY anarchist emcee. What more can you ask for? With guests appearances by emcees and producers such as Ceschi, Enigmick, Optiks, DJ Shortrock, Mic Ra and more. Official Website Preview
Ten years in the making, David Ramos' sequel to the first Fake Four, Inc. release, This Up Here, aptly named That Down There is now available at the Fake Four/Circle Into Square market! The album focuses more on the hip hop side of David (pronounced Dah-veed) as an artist, while still exploring the synth pop that This Up Here focused on. The album features appearances by fellow Anonymous, Inc. members Max Health and brother Ceschi, along with former Toca bandmate Tommy V! Official Website
The second album by Pretend You’re Happy, The Great Joyful Rebellion is a roaring tale of an epic battle. It swells with an unfolding story, encompassing harsh guitar grindings and at times soft melodic voices. This album rises and falls like a slumbering beast caught in the wake of dreams and nightmares alike. Whether this is the story of life, creation, or the psychic future – one or many will find themselves caught in the midst of dinosaurs and the sonnets of horns. Official Website Preview
With 13 people participating on this recording Pretend You’re Happy is a DIY orchestra of sorts-offering a bold and unique sound. When listening to this album the term “alternative” (in its rawest and truest form)comes to mind, meaning this album is a true alternative to what is out there today. Influences range from folk & sludge-metal to jazz & hardcore to rock & classical and beyond. The music itself maintains a steady stream of making sense with itself, while shifting between thickly layered to sparse, melodic to cacauphonic while combining strong & lullaby-esque vocals and harmonies. At times this album is a subtle soundtrack to this world and at others it is a crazy shattering of sounds blasting you into the next world-DON’T BE LEFT BEHIND, get your own copy now! Official Website
On Feel This, Paulie Think mixes his conscious lyrical style with his sense of humor over feel good, crunk and trip hop beats. His respect for the old school comes through often even while he pushes his hip hop style forword. Songs about china town, escaping da pigs, taken out suckas’, black holes, pinball and more! Features guest rappers PT Burnem, Sleep of old dominion, Chi-Ill and more. Keep your eyes open for the video of Pocket Full of Quaters out late september. Official Website Preview
this is Burnem’s first “Official” record. Regarded warmly by fans and critics alike, Paper Cranes 14 Tracks are full of big drums, chopped samples and live guitar, as well as thoughtful, down to earth rhymes that paint a picture of life through the eyes of a simple man trying to maintain his sanity in an increasingly complex world. Official Website Preview
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