Podcast #130, “Jeff Rosenstock”

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Jeff Rosenstock‘s new album for SideOne Dummy, We Cool?, debuted on the Billbroard Heatseeker Charts at #7. Not a bad accomplishment for a guy I once saw play a basement three blocks from my house. We interviewed the former Bomb the Music Industry frontman for The Pitch and took the opportunity to get Rosenstock to chat with us about songs he likes for this latest installment of the podcast.

Podcast #130, “Jeff Rosenstock”
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PUP’s self-titled LP out today from SideOne Dummy; BUY IT

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Toronto’s PUP have the stateside release of their self-titled debut out today via SideOne Dummy. I’ve been listening to it pretty regularly since I was turned onto them by Wade from Black on Black, because it’s a monster stereo record — it’s the sort of thing you put on, and just steadily crank the volume until things are rattling on shelves and your ears are ringing. It’s exuberant and raucous and holyfuckingshit have you heard “Reservoir”?
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You shouldn’t download Big D & the Kids Table’s newest – buy a physical copy, instead

bigd_dsides_digital_coverAnd here we have the precise moment where digital downloads reveal their fatal flaw to me. Big D and the Kids Table release Built Up From Nothing: The D-Sides and its attendant Strictly Dub disc on October 2, but SideOne Dummy sent me an advance download for review.

While I can review the music easily, putting the details into perspective is a little difficult, as there’s no actual information beyond track titles.
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Anti-Flag, “Complete Control Sessions” 10-inch

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Complete Control Sessions
(SideOne Dummy)

It’s official – Anti-Flag has used up whatever goodwill they once might’ve had. My 18 year-old self thought they were the bee’s knees, circa Die For Your Government and A New Kind of Army. I still have a hoodie in my closet with not one, but two A-F patches on them, including the ever-so-slightly shame-inducing “FUCK YOUR POLITICS” scrawled on it with black Sharpie.
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Big D & the Kids Table, “For the Damned the Dumb and the Delirious” LP

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For the Damned the Dumb and the Delirious
(SideOne Dummy)

On Big D & the Kids Table‘s new album, For the Damned the Dumb and the Delirious, they return to the ska-punk sound that first got them attention. This album sounds like the best of every other “regular” album they’ve done, which can be seen as a positive for anyone who was put off by the experimentation of Fluent In Stroll. Right off the bat, the band kicks out a song that is vintage ’90s third wave. “Walls” blends the toasting elements of the Pilfers and the Agents with the “punk rock with horns” of Link 80, and the Slackers’ organ work. It’s a pastiche of every song I ever heard in 1997, and it works wonderfully.
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Brothers of Brazil, “Brothers of Brazil” LP – sunbrella umbrella tunes

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Brothers of Brazil
(SideOne Dummy)

Combining elements of samba, dub, and rockabilly into a potent package, Brothers of Brazil do a wonderful job of filling the void left at SideOne Dummy after Gogol Bordello moved to Rick Rubin’s American Recordings a year ago. It’s slightly unfair to compare the Brazilian duo to the grandiose antics of Eugene Hutz and company, but the pan-global sounds of Brothers of Brazil are inevitably going to draw parallels, especially given their new choice of label.
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