Some Crazy Garbage

  Happy Halloween, y'all! Here's my go-to spooky Halloween festivities soundtrack, chock full of eerie synths and suspenseful beats. As Aquarius Records says, "this definitely sounds like it could be an actual soundtrack, in fact, someone should MAKE a film just to use this as a soundtrack." Perfect for a costume party, greeting trick-or-treaters, or just sitting alone in the dark (which is what I plan on doing tonight). From the Grave... by Umberto Spotify Apple Music File Under:

  As the story goes, three teenagers with little to no experience playing music met at CBGBs in the late '70s and decided to start a band so they could get into gigs for free. (Why didn't I think of that?) A few friends rounded out the lineup and in their short lifespan, played with the likes of The Ramones, Iggy Pop, The Cramps, Suicide, and Richard Hell! Pretty dang cool. This release is a compilation of all of their clean, catchy, new wave-y/power-poppy punk songs. This band coulda woulda shoulda been big. Invitation To... by The Student Teachers Spotify Apple Music File Under:

Being the masochists that they were, Big Black's solution to boredom was to set themselves on fire. Radical Kitten, a 3-piece post-punk band from a city in southern France, would seemingly just rather skip town. On this track, taken from their debut album, Marin shouts her frustrations over screechy, scratchy guitar and a simple, clean drum beat. That bassline tho! Silence is Violence by RADICAL KITTEN File Under:

Here's a noisy, fuzzy, lo-fi, (almost) all-instrumental psych funk album from a mysterious band hailing from Estonia (sheesh, that was a mouthful). Wailing guitar and electronic blips and bleeps over rhythmic drumming, some tracks sound like CAVE to these old ears. Between them and Holy Motors, who knew Estonia was such a hotbed of cool jams! Beware of Penza Penza by Penza Penza Spotify Apple Music File Under: