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Muuy Biien at Used Car Parts Online

Muuy Biien is a scrappy punk-rock band from Athens, Georgia, but there is nothing slight about their scrappiness. D.Y.I., the band’s new album, may run under a half-hour, but it’s a set brimming with ideas and tensed-up ambition. The lean riffs of “Human Error” hone themselves into impossible sharp edges and angles, while the chorus… Continue reading Muuy Biien at Used Car Parts Online

Eureka California at The Skinny

Jake Ward is a clever so-and-so. Over-educated, over-stimulated and over it all – the classic American slacker tale, and one that can feel overdone when everyone’s searching for missing buttons from plaid shirts. But unlike most of his generation, he’s got tunes to amplify his smarts, and alongside turbo-charged drummer Marie A. Uhler, he’s found… Continue reading Eureka California at The Skinny

Joe Jack Talcum at WithGuitars

It’s never going to be a hit. No one’s looking for this. It’s too subtle, too heartfelt, too understated. But everyone who hears it is going to fall in love, and isn’t that enough—after all there are better ways to measure success than stardom. [Link]

Muuy Biien at agoodthingeachday

In-yer-face punk rock from Muuy Biien is the order of the day today. Today’s #onegoodthing is their album D.Y.I., which came out earlier this year and is a blistering collection of raw, hard-edged songs that are broken up by a trio of tracks –Cyclothymia I, II and III – that hint at something more prosaic behind the rip-roaring likes of Melters and Virus Evolves.… Continue reading Muuy Biien at agoodthingeachday

Joe Jack Talcum at dublab

For most people the idea of an intimate evening with Joe Jack Talcum playing songs in their living room sounds terrifying given the reputation of his better-known band The Dead Milkmen, but this collection of home recordings show a more intimate side to a songwriter better known for his sense of humor. “Talk” and the rest of the… Continue reading Joe Jack Talcum at dublab