My favourite of the lockdown era livestreams. The Lev Sessions and Red Rocks ones are great too, but Big Sur made "Mutilator Defeated At Last" click for me after I'd struggled with it for a while - those versions of 'Rogue Planet', 'Poor Queen' and 'Withered Hand' are so good, as is 'Gholü' and 'Gelatinous Cube'. The encore of Black Flag covers bang hard as shit too.
Also worth a mention are the bonus non-album Panther Rotate experiments at the start of the livestream; an interesting warm-up. Xtra Happy
Combining crooned murder ballads with raw, angsty hard rock hooks, Melbourne's The Ugly Kings are a wrecking crew well worth watching. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 15, 2021
The hard rock band recorded this session live at KXLU 88.9FM in Los Angeles and it's now exclusively available on Bandcamp. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 27, 2020
It's funny how this collection of demos almost acts as a stepping stone in the folk sound between 2007's "Sucks Blood" and 2017's "MOACOH"; though the general focus changed, the firm roots of OCS never quite left
The "Dog Poison"/"Castlemania" jingle-jangle guitars are here in force ('Wait Let's Go'/'Say You Love Another') along with more traditional folk like 'Cat Food' and 'I Am Smoke'
Other curios here include the odd groovy synth on 'The Finger' and the gloomy and trudging 'Regular Meat'
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