Numb.er’s new track “Numerical Depression” takes everything that you love about post-punk and distills it into an infectious 100mph drive through it’s staccato vocal delivery, relentless drumming, rubbery bass and early Cure style guitar playing. The song is the musical…
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CO SUNN “why”
The frentic energy that comes off of CO SUNN’s “Why” in waves is nearly enough to make you fall in love with the band. Hailing from Vänersborg, Sweden. With fuzzed out vocals and a tightness to their playing you don’t…
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Moonfuzz
LA’s Moon Fuzz has dropped quite a few great songs on their SoundCloud the last several years, including “Stupid Cupid” and “Can’t Complain”. While it’s hard to pigeonhole Moponfuzz’s sound into something short and pithy, it’s equal parts aggressive and…
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Slut Magic “No Loyalty”
Hard driving and ferocious Slut Magic’s “No Loyalty” is the type of song that makes me want to headbang for the first time in years. It’s got the right tone, swagger and bite to really get under your skin. Their…
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Pono AM “Creator”
St. Louis’ Pono AM delivers on the buzzy poppy hollowed out garage rock that we all love and desire. The video for their latest single “Creator” is a psychedelic whip-lash inducing dash in a claustrophobic space. From the few other…
SKRRT “Live”
Live by Skrrt “Live” by SKRRT brings back all the grit and grime of 70’s New York No Wave all the way from the sunny shores of California. These 6 tracks, coming in just over 12 minutes show a band…
Rebecca Lou “Bitch U Look Good”
Rebecca Lou’s track “Bitch U Look Good” is a raw and powerful song about female empowerment in an age where songs like this are really needed. With powerful vocals and a massive guitar chug it’s definitely hard to ignore in…
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The Bobby Lees “Ragged Way”
Anyone who regularlly follows this blog would know that I would be hard-pressed to find something about this song that I don’t completely love, and that’s not hyperbole. This well charged burner is off of their album “Beauty Pageant”. It’s…
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The Strips “Black Cats”
The undeniable patchouli smell of 70’s stoner metal permeates the air around “Black Cats”, with humongous Sabbath-esq riffs the song is both catchy as well as heavy. It’s really good to hear metal music that isn’t just “grunting over music”…
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Lost Talk “Chrome Alone”
Off-kilter to the point of nearly being arrhythmic, Lost Talk’s “Chrome Alone” has a really unique and skittering drum sound that might not come across with the sheer brilliance that it portrays the first time you listen to it, but…
Tongues of Fire “Sunburn”
The first word that comes to mind hearing “Sunburn” by Tongues of Fire, is tough. This hard hitting, rough and tumbled sound really stands out in a scene that is becoming increasingly coy and vague. Clocking in just over 2…
Animal Hands “Mirror and the Blade”
Animal Hands’ “Mirror and the Blade” is the kind of dark and straight forward goth rock that made Souixee and the Banshees famous. I really can’t say enough about it’s naked unabashed desire to make a great rock song. From…
Abdomen “Lies”
Netherlands punk act Abdomen play the kind of fuzzy / brash and in your face that can’t be ignored. Their single “Lies” is the first song from their upcoming LP “Emetophobia” is a lo-fi buzz saw that cuts through all…
Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? “Corazone”
Anybody who’s been following the blog as of late, has to have noticed me reviewing this band before. I don’t know what much new I can say about them except for… They’re better than 99.999% bands out there? This song…
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fauxcanada “Projector”
From the the rubbery bass, to the coo-ing vocals – “Projector” screams 90–early 2000’s indie pop in all the best ways. To say that fuxcanada is just a nostolgia act would bring the band a great disservice however, from their…
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Young Elk “Murderer”
If you are unfamiliar with Portland’s Young Elk or Minnesota’s Low, I hope that this is a good introduction to both of them. Straying (not too far) away from their late 90’s emo-folk aesthetic Young Elk brings us their interpretation…
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The Golden Web “The Emperor”
As I told The Golden Web when they sent me this track, if I were to turn down this video, I’d have to change the name to something other than Pop Occulture. “The Emperor” is big hooky phased T-Rex rock…
Banzai Cliff “Too Young To Die”
When people ask me what kind of music I like, my canned response is “Big Dumb Rock”, while this might sound like I’m being dismissive of the very thing that I love, but The Ramones are big dumb rock, Suicide…
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Slow Roar
So the second I say that something is a “first” on Pop Occulture, I then run over it by doing it again. Here are two tracks by Slow Roar, “Be The Bleed” & “Honey” with one foot in The Jesus…
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Vowws “Esseff”
It’s hard to think of a song that’s this dark that also swings, bringing together divergent sounds from 80’s new wave to early 2000’s industrial the track has a really good over all feel that also has the unique perspective…
The Muffin Heads “Bang Says the Gun”
Walking into this song, the thing that I wasn’t expecting was the industrial level of aggression in front-woman Bex’s vocals. If they hadn’t self-identified as punk I would have been more than tempted to slot them in with the Al…
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Lauren Ruth Ward “Sideways”
I have to admit it, this is the first time I actually sat down to see what other people were saying about the artist that I’m writing about. It’s not because I’m a lazy hack writer who needs other people’s…
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The Rotten Mango “In Love With the Afternoon”
As far as garage-pop psychedelia goes, there’s not much out there that is touching the Syd Barrett levels of lysergic insanity the way The Rotten Mangos are. This tight little two-piece from Texas, infuse their paisley lollipop with a raw…
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Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? “Bambi Act”
One of the fastest re-appearances in the history of Pop Occulture, Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS?’s new single “Bambi Act” is the shining example of Organ Pop that doesn’t fall apart into a mess of nostalgia…
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Sunstinger “Polarized”
The song comes in with a stiff Factory Records beat that really sets the tone of how the song is going to be going from there on out. From the blurry vocals to the driving bass line, the song just…
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Cooler “Buried”
Assertive sounding without shedding itself of the romantic emotionalism of the 3 minute pop song, Cooler’s “Buried” has the cinematic quality of a coming of age movie – all tears then good feelings. Not to say that the song is…
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The Pistol Mystics “Deep Water”
Cincinnati’s The Pistol Mystics come hot out of the gate with massive riffs that hover between nostalgic and fresh at the same time. Reminding me of a “hot-rod rock” version of how The Ramones took the classic girl-group sound and…
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The Pantheon “Arizona Sky”
Stuck somewhere between The Misfits and the soundtrack to a John Hugues movie, The Pantheon’s “Arizona Sky” is a dark pop track with delayed and reverbed guitar, and very precise thudding drums. Like the Arizona sky The Pantheon paints a…
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Swamp Child “Honeybee”
With sharp playing, and vocals that boarder on PJ Harvey territory, Swamp Child’s “Sweet Honeybee” focuses on the type of blues rock that bands like the Black Keys used to pull off so well. Definitely a slow burner, but well…
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The Prefab Messiahs “Everything U No”
One of my favorite songs that I’ve heard off of Burger/Lollipop in a while… The Prefab Messiahs “Everything U No” come in with all the pop smarts and guitar riffs that both labels have been known for. However, there is…
