
I’ve been waiting forever to find the right time to post this. Once someone asked me, “Are there any CURRENT bands that I could go see now that are awesome and rock like Violent Femmes?” I had a really hard time coming up with an answer, and finally settled on Tapes n’ Tapes, but still didn’t feel like it was the right answer. A few months later I heard this fucking fantastic song on the radio, and if someone asked me who was like the femmes that they could go see now, I’d tell ‘em Continue reading Ezra Furman & the Harpoons = Violent Femmes v.2…

Track List: 1. Aztec Camera – Oblivious 2. Violent Femmes – Girl Trouble (demo) 3. Au Pairs – Love Song 4. Concrete Blonde – Joey 5. Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls – Animal Crazy 6. Elastica – Stutter 7. Slant 6 – Time Expired 8. Romeo Void – Never Say Never 9. Brian Eno & David Byrne – America Is Waiting 10. Pere Ubu – Final Solution 11. Suicide – Cheree

The Veils are a New Zealand band based in London, fronted by lead singer/songwriter Finn Andrews. They’re like this Pleasure Forever style country-death-rock band that reminds me a lot of the first Tapes ‘n Tapes record at times–which is pretty reminiscent of ‘Country Death Song’ by the Violent Femmes. But that’s not a satisfactory description because there’s something not so easily definable about these guys. I could make endless comparisons
Continue reading The Veils – Nux Vomica – Jesus for the Jugular…
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