Christmas Advent #14 - Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket

The window opens today to reveal some brilliant snowman action from the American Shakin' Stevens Jonathan Richman.

Christmas Advent #13 – Don’t Forget The First One

As Dai Disco spent the weekend inside a barrel of Crumpton Oaks, emerging only to enter the wrong door and proceed anyway to empty the fridge of its cans like Phantom Phil on his way home from a bender, there was no number 12.

To more than make up for it, number 13 is a shit-kicking punk treat from San Francisco’s Joyride! Fuzzy guitars laced with razor sharp edges whip up a storm that stays with you like the cloud over Daffy Duck, spitting hail that cuts, scars, and has you endlessly coming back for more like morphine day in the surgery.

Christmas Advent #11 – London Bound

Today’s journey takes through Liverpool and London via Seattle’s Bleeding Gold Records. People//Talk’s version of Just Handshakes’ ‘London Bound’ burns like a long lost Joy Division nugget where light flickers and seeps though dark basement beats. Just Handshakes’ beautiful original has you simultaneously twisting and turning in melancholy dreams whilst losing your shit as if possessed under the disco ball.

Christmas Advent #10 – The Coming Rain

As Des Death wrote on the toilet door of the discotheque; The Drink are a dreamy, magical mystery tour of a Pop band, whipping up a dancing storm one part Blondie’s Heart of Glass, another The Breeders’ Cannonball, with distant strains of medieval folk. Their second LP ‘Capital’ glows with melodies that ache and twitch into magical Pop songs you don’t want to put down.

Christmas Advent #9 – Little Uneasy

We travel to New Zealand for the next slice of shimmering Pop music. It comes in the form of Fazerdaze’s dream-pop beauty ‘Little Uneasy’, which flickers like memories in the faded photographs of distant summers.

Christmas Advent #8 – Fear of Missing Out

Today’s gift comes from California’s bone-shaking Punk Poppers Great Hart. The shit-kicking ‘Dropping Out’ sounds like Bouncing Souls taps-aff sucking Crumpton Oaks through a beer helmet in Jack the Rat and Lesher’s new student digs, or even better if that’s possible. Send them all your money. Punk rock ist nicht tot!!
 

Christmas Advent #7 – You Don’t Need To Be Them

In June The Sun Days ‘Album’ screeched into my shack like Makthaverskan and Marceline's Scream Queens joyriding The Electric Pop Group’s melodies. ‘Don’t need to be them’ is just one plucked from a mine of jangling Pop nuggets, that still burns now in the cold of winter as it first did in the distant summer.