Fat Dog

New Fat Dog alert!  New Fat Dog alert!  The UK band, a favorite of mine from SXSW '24 and henceforth, just dropped new song "Go Fuck Urself" yesterday, a synth-heavy and sneering dance track to get the body hopping.  Check it out below and download it here from Domino.

HEALTH

Good morning.  Here's a cool and gothy new track from LA's electro-noise rock band HEALTH.  Listen to "Don't Kill Yourself" below and download it, along with the rest of the "R-Type I" EP here from Loma Vista.

Automatic

LA's quirky electro-synth-punk trio Automatic are back with new album "Is It Now?" that just dropped a few days ago.  Check out the very cool and weird "Mercury" below and snag the LP here from Stones Throw.

Daily Jam - Destination Unknown

For those not in the know, Replicants was a one-and-done covers project from members of Failure, Lusk, and Tool, a veritable super group of sorts. The band’s self-titled 1995 release featured spacey, alt-rock takes on songs by The Cars, T. Rex, Neil Young, David Bowie, a couple of Beatles, and a whole lot more. Tool’s Maynard James Keenan even pops in, providing vocals on a cover of “Silly Love Songs” of all things. As the record was my initial exposure to Ken Andrews and Failure (one of my all-time favorites), it’s pretty near and dear to my heart, a collection of classic rock jams and a couple of synth wonders spun into '90s jelly. It’s one of those albums I adore from start to finish, but for me, the real raison dêtre is the record’s centerpiece, the propulsive and intoxicating electro-crawl version of Missing Persons’ “Destination Unknown.”

I can’t even begin to recall how many 11th grade events and evenings “Destination Unknown” soundtracked. It feels like it was everywhere, an undercurrent of murky sound that followed me everywhere I went. The song’s mid-'90s, this-is-what-the-future-will-sound-like, pre-millennial aesthetic was like a harbinger of the digital age to come…or at the very least a cool tune to listen to outside while I washed my car in my parents’ driveway, anxiously wondering where the beer was coming from later that night. And while it may sound a little dated now (or just in time for a modern revival), I just can’t help but let it take me back.

Listen below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Don't Be Scared

During the Thanksgiving break, i purged about 150 LPs from my record collection to both clear out some space for albums i had not shelved yet and to make a little scratch for Christmas present shopping.  I do this kinda annually, and it doesn't mean that i don't like the music anymore, just that it rarely or never gets listened to and i need some space.  And this time around, it made me wonder how much physical media (vinyl, CD's, DVD's, etc.) i've procured and then resold over the years.  It's a lot.  Anyway, here's a track from a CD i once had 20 years ago that eventually succumbed to one of these purges.  Listen to "Don't Be Scared" by New York band A.R.E. Weapons below, our Daily Jam.