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Thursday, January 18, 2024

Products Band share "Count To Ten" video from Some Sudden Weather album out now on Solid Brass Records

“The kind of jangly guitar music they called 'college rock' in the ’80s and 'indie rock' in the ’90s.” – Brooklyn Vegan

“Honestly, I couldn’t stop jamming out. There’s tons of nods to all the eras of punk and punk-adjacent indie rock.” — Austin Town Hall

"This could be the melodic post punks’ big break. 'Shell Text' sounds like an extremely confident band that’s honed their sound, expertly walking the line between disaffected art pop and exuberant groove." -- Reviler

Minneapolis quartet Products Band share the official video for "Count To Ten" from their Solid Brass Records debut album Some Sudden Weather today. Watch/share video HERE. The full album is available to hear and share on all DSPs HERE.

Brooklyn Vegan recently featured the official lyric video for lead single "Shell Text" HERE. (Direct YouTube.)

Some Sudden Weather finds Products Band sharpening their focus on presence of mind in a culture of noise. Sure, what else is new, another rock record detailing this late-capitalist hellhole, blah blah blah — but then it hits you. This record refuses to default to post-punk tropes of obliqueness, intellectual box-checking, or emotional alienation. Instead, they strike a balance between critique and sincerity with stunning grace on their sophomore effort.

For each pummeling wave of distorted guitars, a tender, melodic vocal floats over its crest. With every winking, deadpan lyric comes a genuine admission of desire, shame, or hope. Products Band embraces the literary traditions of their influences while telling their stories on their terms. We may spend our days scrolling through conjecture about impending doom, but they angle their songwriting toward capturing conscious experiences: maintaining intimacy under the chokehold of professional life, trying to heal with humility, and confronting Carl Jung know-it-alls who misread their big-britching as sullen sex appeal.

These songs in sequence create a striking mosaic, and faithfully represent the diversity of Products Band’s musical influences. From high-energy, airtight punk’n’roll to intricate, groove-driven pop, Some Sudden Weather refreshes rock vocabularies by sculpting them within the band’s unique perspective. Whether you crave dancefloor-ready bass hooks, spiderwebbed guitar skronk, interwoven vocal duets, hell, even melodies sung by a busted toy Casio, Products Band delivers. An essential listen for all fans of contemporary post-punk, guitar pop, and thoughtful Midwestern charm.

Some Sudden Weather is available on limited edition Coke-Bottle-clear vinyl and download, released on October 20th, 2023 via Solid Brass Records. Orders are available HERE.

PRODUCTS BAND LIVE 2024:

01/20 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry

Artist: Products Band

Album: Some Sudden Weather

Label: Solid Brass Records

Release Date: October 20, 2023

01. Shell Text

02. Dead (But Not Like Me)

03. The Matter

04. I Can’t Praise Your Head Trip

05. Proverbial Con

06. Canary Dream

07. Reclined Derealized 2022

08. Warped Page

09. Count To Ten

10. Lab Rack

11. On A Curve

12. Sun Turned Over

On The Web:

linktr.ee/products.band

solidbrassrecords.com/artists/products-band

instagram.com/solidbrassrecs

instagram.com/products.band

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Early Day Miners share "Along The Ramparts" video/single from forthcoming Solid Brass album

"Doesn't sound like the latest endpoint in a gradual evolution as much as a new beginning." -- Pitchfork

“A sharp and honest work of indie rock that breezes along with simple, airy guitar strumming and Daniel Burton's poignant lyrics and quietly smoky vocals.” — Glide Magazine

Long running indie rock band Early Day Miners share the first single and video today from their forthcoming album via Glide Magazine. Watch/share the video HERE (YouTube) and hear/share "Along the Ramparts" on all DSPs HERE.

After 7 studio albums with both Secretly Canadian and Western Vinyl Records over the last 20+ years, Early Day Miners have returned with their latest offering, and their first with Solid Brass Records, titled Outside Lies Magic.

Led by Daniel Burton — the band's founder, and engineer of albums by Songs: Ohia, Papa M, Okkervil River, and Windsor For The Derby — the band has enlisted various friends to round out their studio and live performances since their formation in Bloomington, IN over 20 years ago.

Early Day Miners' surroundings have always been reflected in their sound.

Their early compositions, while in Bloomington, IN, mirrored the slowly unfurling, seemingly inescapable expanse of the Midwest. Now based in New Orleans their sound has yielded a subtle but correlative shift in the band. The Crescent City; its name is not only a reminder of its shape carved out by the river cradling it, but also a perfect allegory of a city forever in flux between the most contrasting aspects of the human condition, from light to dark.

Within those darker quarters of experience lies the gold that Early Day Miners have labored to unearth with cautious vulnerability over the course of their eight albums. The internalized rumination that has characterized the band up until now has been exchanged for an open embrace of loss and sorrow and, perhaps even more courageously — joy.

Outside Lies Magic offers an audible lightness. Most notably Dan Burton’s voice, once hushed and at times hesitant, is now full-bodied and sure; his heart, once tenuously carried on his sleeve, is now firmly in his throat. And though this might be the leanest the lineup has been, they are focused and warm, exuding the maximalism of their new home with nuance and a laissez-faire approach. Early Day Miners sound as unhurried as ever, but never aimless; Early Day Miners have finally arrived.

Outside Lies Magic will be available on limited edition Desert Sand colored or Ultra Clear vinyl LP and digital on March 22nd, 2024 via Solid Brass Records. Pre-orders are available HERE.

Artist: Early Day Miners

Album: Outside Lies Magic

Label: Solid Brass Records

Release Date: March 22, 2024

A1: The Arson Garden

A2: Amends

A3: Along The Ramparts

A4: Blank Stare Nowhere

A5: Solace

B1: Petrochemical

B2: Outside Lies Magic

B3: Soot, Smoke And The Working Coast

B4: Night Suit

B4: Solace (Reprise)

Friday, January 12, 2024

NORMANS (ex-FEELS, Prissy Whip) album out today via Solid Brass Records

“Ironically uplifting… This song is fast garage punk with a classic rock punch, and it’s addictively upbeat and danceably dire at the same time.” — CvltNation

“At turns dark, menacing, ear-splitting and chaotic, or all of that at once, and fully lives up to its claim to be a dissection of ‘the terrified animal caged within us all.’ It should just come with an all-purpose DANGER sign.” — Buzzbands.LA

Southern California noise-punk band NORMANS release their debut self-titled album today, January 12th, 2024 on Solid Brass Records. Hear/share NORMANS on all DSPs HERE.

CvltNation recently launched the official video for "Murder Rich" HERE & on YouTube.

In 2021, in the lingering haze of the global pandemic and several nautical miles off the coast of Los Angeles in a broken down boat, Southern California natives and stalwarts of the local DIY music scene Matthew Reid (Blonde Summer) and Michael Perry Rudes (FEELS) decided it was time to embark on a new musical odyssey together; one that championed fearlessness, rawness, and above all, freedom.

NORMANS was born on the dirty streets of L.A. and baptized in the punk rich waters of Hermosa Beach; the city that gave us Black Flag, Redd Kross, Minutemen and more. Years of exposure and participation in the myriad of genres and sounds that make up the vibrant music scene resulted in a multi-genre-bending, bass and synth fueled cacophony that pays homage to the ghosts of Killing Joke, The Jesus Lizard, GVSB and The Birthday Party.

NORMANS have managed to stitch together elements of surf, post punk, noise rock and Wax Trax era electro-industrial music for a sound that is urgent, angry, and simultaneously danceable. Oozing with satire and shrouded in bizarre visual art and imagery, bassist and vocalist Matthew Reid explores issues of violence, drug use, and the terrified animal caged within us all. Where their musical journey takes them will keep us wondering. What is certain is the band’s willingness to propel themselves into uncharted waters, unlike the boat they started on just a few short years ago.

NORMANS will be available on LP and digital on January 12th, 2024 via Solid Brass Records.