Dispatches from the Underground // Weekend Grab Bag #3 – Dec. 2022

New Music

Castle If – The Verdant Realm / get out of the cold and into this moogy warmth(h/t Alan Ranta)

VA – DeadMusicClub (DeadMusicClub) / We are track 4 on this if you want a listen – Omnibadger

Listening Recommendations

The Gateless Gate – Cold Front / Every winter, when a big storm envelops North America, I say… must be a Cold Front – allister t

LIT. MAJOR – S/T / Spend your holidays with my new album it’s so good and sad and honest and specific and universal and pretty and totally 100% independent

Pas Musique – Voodoo Zombie Business

Reading

Lower Than Underground Vol. 1 (via Records I Like)

The forgotten story of Pure Hell, America’s first black punk band / As I’ve noted several times recently, I’ve been up to my neck in music docs, and one glaring omission is that not a single person’s mentioned Pure Hell. It’s a GD travesty that they’re not front and center when discussing the seeds of American punk rock – Stevil Kinevil

MMXXII: Berlin (via Lucidbeaming)

Misc

Today & Tomorrow Only – ‘Clockwatching’ & ‘Live: September 2022’ by Seawind of Battery are “Pay What You Want”  on Bandcamp