Now Spinning 3/1/24 at Third Eye Music & Video
February 28th, 2024
THE NEW MANNEQUIN PUSSY DROPS THIS WEEK WITH I GOT HEAVEN!!!
Mannequin Pussy’s music feels like a resilient and galvanizing shout that demands to be heard. Across four albums, the Philadelphia rock band that consists of Colins “Bear” Regisford (bass, vocals), Kaleen Reading (drums, percussion), Maxine Steen (guitar, synths), and Marisa Dabice (guitar, vocals) has made cathartic tunes about despairing times.
“There’s just so much constantly going on that feels intentionally evil that trying to make something beautiful feels like a radical act,” says Dabice. “The ethos of this band has always been to bring people together.”
Their new album, I Got Heaven, which is out March 1 via Epitaph Records, is the band’s most fully realized recording yet. Over ten ambitious tracks which abruptly turn from searing punk to inviting alternative pop, the album is deeply concerned with desire, the power in being alone, and how to live in an unfeeling and unkind world. It’s a document of a band doubling down on their unshakable bond to make something furious, thrilling, and wholly alive.
Following the 2019 release of their critically acclaimed third album Patience, Mannequin Pussy returned in 2021 for their EP Perfect. They toured that release relentlessly and added guitarist Maxine Steen to the band’s official lineup. The band changed their entire creative formula, choosing to write together in the studio in Los Angeles with producer John Congleton, over slowly crafting tracks at home. “Everyone felt empowered to speak up about their own ideas to make this thing the best it could possibly be,” says Regisford.
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THIRD EYE FAVS SHEER MAG DELIVER THEIR NEXT RELEASE WITH PLAYING FAVORITES THIS WEEK!!!
Sheer Mag have labored to carve out a discernibly singular position within the canon of contemporary rock: toggling with ease between the refined flourishes of a “connoisseur’s band” and the ecstatic colloquialism of populist songwriting-yet displaying no strict loyalty to either camp-their sound, while oft-referenced, is unmistakably and immediately recognizable as theirs alone.
On Playing Favorites, Sheer Mag’s third full-length and first with Third Man Records, the band capitalize on a decade’s worth of devotion to their own collective spirit-a spirit refined in both the sweaty trenches of punk warehouses and the larger-than-life glamour of concert halls-emerging with a dense work of gripping emotions, massive hooks, and masterfully constructed power-pop anthems.
This is the record the Philadelphia rock and roll four-piece has always been destined to make.
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THE LEGENDARY MINISTRY RETURN WITH THEIR ALL NEW HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES!
Regimes rise and fall. Stars shine and fade. Trends come and go. Ministry lives on. The six-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated multiplatinum juggernaut founded and fronted by Al Jourgensen has seeped through the darkest corners of popular culture and infected the mainstream for over four decades, gleefully spewing sonic bile between the cracks of the system’s facade.
Born in the eighties, they survived the nineties, weathered the turn-of-the-century, and even held on through a Goddamn pandemic.
However, Ministry shows no signs of stopping or slowing down-even for a breath. Instead, the band cranks out another blast of anthemic industrial metal on it’s 2024 opus and sixteenth full-length LP, HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES. Green & Yellow Splatter LP
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SKA LEGENDS THE SELECTER’S ICONIC TOO MUCH PRESSURE GETS A SPECIAL 40TH ANNIVERSARY REISSUE!!!
THE SELECTER were one of the key bands of the ska revival in the late 70’s. They were one of the few racially and sexually integrated bands on the scene. Vocalist Pauline Black wrote about sexism, racism, and social issues.
Their debut release was the AA side of the Specials single ‘Gangsters’ in the summer of 1979, which just consisted of Neol Davies and John Bradbury (of The Specials) before quickly forming a full band by the end of the year.
Releasing their follow up single ‘On My Radio’ which reached No. 6 in the UK charts. Their debut album ‘Too Much Pressure’ was released in February 1980 getting to No. 5 in the UK charts, which also included two further hit singles ‘Three Minute Hero’ and ‘Missing Words’.
This new half-speed cut/remaster of the ‘Too Much Pressure’. The vinyl sleeve is a 3mm spined sleeve, printed inner.
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