The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies‘ 11th long player! Style wise its a bit of ska, punk, a couple swing songs and a dash of funkiness. I think of it as a mural painted for 2017-2018- addressing that zeitgeist. But done in a way that’s actually universal and timeless. It’s a tough-minded, rockin’ and muscular satire “ripped from the headlines.” Bigger Life is like a throwback to our Ferociously Stoned days, mixed with our skacore influence of the Kids on the Street era.
To celebrate release #40, Soul Step Records has put together this compilation – grab it before it’s gone!
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Recorded over three days in August 2018, and released March 15, 2019, Beowulf Umbrella’s She’s Studying Evil is the work of Tommy Keene band alumni Brad Quinn and John Richardson, along with session musicians on call at Richardson’s Drum Farm Studios in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Although a studio project in essence, Quinn performs under the Beowulf Umbrella name in Japan, where he lives, in both solo and in group configurations. The Dadaesque name of the group comes from an unpublished short story by Richard Brautigan. The EP includes performances by bassist and keyboardist Kevin Dailey, guitarist Adam Ollendorff, plus guest appearances by Mike Schlenker (lead guitar on “She’s Studying Evil”) and Paul Chastain (“Just Say the Word”).
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Latecomer has been playing way too damn loud in basements and dive bars for almost a decade. “Crash Forward” is the creation of four easily distracted friends drinking an irresponsible amount of beer in Pittsburgh; the result is a ten song collection of 90’s Lookout! Records style pop punk stuffed with vocal harmonies, unabashed Motorhead worship, a dash of Social D, and Elvis dying on the toilet. It took them over two years to have their picture taken together.
Their new full length “Crash Forward” is due out 3/1/2019 on A-F Records.
