Stepmother - Planet Brutalicon - VINYL LP

When Irish-born Count Vaseline / The Mighty Stef songwriter Stef Murphy met Stiff Little Fingers guitar tech Jamie Mechan in Nashville, Tennessee, it began a musical partnership of the highest order. After cranking out a few tunes at Mechan's fledgling studio, 302 Sound, the duo started recruiting other musicians. The band was rounded out by drummer Ryan Sweeney (Cheap Time) and Eli Steele (Sweet Knives.) Dubbing themselves The Sleeveens, an Irish term for a trixter, the band got to work. After recording and releasing their highly-touted InchGive My Regards To The Dancing GirlsInch 45rpm single on Sweeney's Sweet Time Records, they finished off their eleven track debut album. The quartet were soon approached by longrunning punk tag Dirtnap Records for the album's 2024 .The resulting album is an homage to the kind of classic punk Chiswick, New Rose and Stiff Records were releasing forty-five years before The Sleeveens existed. With earworm melodies and screaming guitars, the foursome have crafted one of the best albums of the year. Murphy's penchant for charmingly brilliant, matter-of-fact lyricism has a similar poetic quality as Mark E. Smith or Jonathan Richman. With expert mastering by Jim Diamond (The White Stripes, The Dirtbombs) to put the finishing touches on the sound, The Sleeveens is a record that is simultaneously uncompromisingly raw and thoughtfully crafted.InchAs far as I'm concerned, all and sundry can pencil in Stef as the Impending Punk Rock Van Morrison.Inch - Rev. Norb, Razorcake InchFav new band Stef & The Sleeveens... love this mysterious band!Inch -Quintron InchMurphy sings with tremendous passion and conviction while The Sleeveens rock out like there's no tomorrow... you can't ask for a better debut record than this.Inch -Faster and Louder

Gunmetal Gray Vinyl. Channelling raw rock 'n' roll urgency into feral anthems for society's poor, depraved, and proudly miscreant, Absurdus Manifestus heralds the long overdue return of legendary Oz-outliers, Stepmother. Fusing high velocity Motor City proto punk with fuzz, feedback and electric psych, the band draw once more upon the spirit of Blue Cheer, The Pink Fairies, Nervous Eaters, and The Damned, to wield hardened punk and nefarious nihilism, to confront the absurdity, violence, and dark comedy of modern existence. The first single from their latest call to arms is 'New World' (released on 23rd January). Capturing the band at their most relentless and confrontational as Clise points out, InchIf this disappointing, hazardous sci-fi reality we live in wasn't enough of a bludgeoning, here's yet another boot up the arse with our take on a psychpunk dystopian anthem...Inch Additional tracks will further showcase the band's unhinged range. 'Slice of Life' blurs the fine line between total focus and all-out chaos, an unpolished stomper equally suited to shaking your ass or kicking holes in the wall, depending on your preference. Whereas 'What's New?' is a pub-rock rager packed with unrelenting rudeness and rapid-fire, razor-slashing riffs, delivering hyperactive proto-punk that laughs at the absurdity and pointlessness everything. In support of the album, Stepmother also tour Europe throughout June (see dates below) and while there's no doubt that the band will carve a mark in the annals of rock history with Absurdus Manifestus, the big question is, will you be joining them along for the ride?

W.a. Mozart - Violin Concertos No 1 & No 2 [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/01/2000