Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk feature at the Pitch

“Given Lawrence’s college-town status, it makes sense that so many bands decamp for bigger burgs in order to reach larger audiences. Sometimes, as is the case of former local act Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk, it just kind of happens.

‘We would just stay here in New York from time to time on tour, and then somehow we just realized we all lived here,’ says guitarist and singer Oscar Allen Guinn by phone. ‘I’m not entirely sure exactly how that happened. At some point, I realized I knew every single bartender at the Replay Lounge, and that was when I had to go.'”

Read “Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk returns to the nest” at the Pitch. Published 6/21/16

Sit back and unwind with free summer comps

cover-summertimeHoly hell. DJ Jazzy Jeff and Mick Boogie dropped their Summertime mixtape earlier this week, and I’ve listened to it every day since I downloaded it. It’s both on my iPod and burned off to CD for easy playing in the boombox, stereo, and car. This is officially a billion times better than any of the comps I’ve made myself and thrown in the car over the past few weeks.

Seriously – while segueing from James Brown’s “The Payback” into “Never Gonna Get It” by En Vogue is obvious as all get out, it still sounds fucking awesome. There’s also Ice Cube’s “It Was A Good Day,” the Pharcyde’s “Passin’ Me By,” 2PAC, and Seals & Croft. It’s an hour of chilled-out, sippin’ on vodka and lemonade, stone-solid fucking jams. Go over to UNDRCRWN and download that sucker.

cover-solid-meltsLawrence label Solid Melts put up their summer comp this week, too. It’s also a giant, featuring quite a few bands that you ought to know (Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk, Expo 70), and a ton of acts that are totally unknown. It’s called Empire of Fun, and you can get it direct from Solid Melts.

If you’re a little leery of downloading a 125 meg file, the Rathaus is streaming six of their favorite tracks, and you can get a pretty good idea of what to expect. That Cloud Nothing track is very much worth your time.