I am a firm believer that good music doesn’t have a shelf life, that your favourite tracks should be put on repeat, regularly and you should tell your friends, your neighbours and strangers about the music you’ve discovered and loving.
If you say that the best music was made in your high school years, then you just aren’t looking hard enough.
We live in a world where we have an easier time discovering music from around the world. We should step out of our comfort zones and find new music.
Here are this months No Pants Record Store Shopping Picks
Russian Tim and Pavel Bures
Canadian/Russian Punk at it’s best!
Bat Fangs from North Carolina
Fantastic psych fuzz rock
Pit Pony from the UK
Gritty Guitars and Heavy Bass
Everyone should buy this black/death metal hardcore punk compilation
All procceeds go to National Network of Abortion Funds NNAH and the Yellowhammer Fund
The Mystery Lights from Brooklyn New York
Psychedelic Garage Rock with some serious badass soul
Reminiscent of epic 70’s punk band CRASS (not as in your face, but still very awesome imo)
BB AND THE BLIPS from Australia
Altin Gun from Amsterdam
World beat with a funk/garage psych fusion
DefCon Sound System from Toronto, Canada
A fantastic fusion of rock, dub, soul, with serious brass sounds woven into a soundtrack vibe
Garage punk band Shaking Heads from Sweden
If you like Sleater Kinney then you might like this collection of impressive guitar riffing tracks
The Beths from New Zealand
Change how your ears hear rock music with this album from Kel Assouf from Niger
“Tenere” is a very impressive track
Wordbeat/Rock
Brutal Resonance from Sweden
Industrial/Darkwave/Electronic
Yes I’m Leaving band from Australia
Some of their albums sound like a less angry Jesus Lizard. This one has a very different vibe but equally as good
OHMelectronic from Vancouver
Seriously great industrial/goth from long time musicians in the scene.
Weyes Blood from New York
Haunting experimental electronic folk celtic fusion
Eli Paperboy Reed from New York
Underrated seriously soul music
Sólveig Matthildur from Iceland
Dreaming Electro/Gothy/Darkwave
Remember to follow the hashtag #NoPantsRecordStoreShopping the first Friday of the month to help support bands on Bandcamp Friday.