Hello folks!
Out today is the brand new 7" single by The Manges feat. Giuda!
And there's the new studio album from Cowbell too! It's all go!
The Manges feat. Giuda - Tootsie Rolls (Parts I & II) - Ltd. red 7" (500 copies)
BRAND NEW LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL 7” single!
Available for pre-order now! We have the brand new 7" single from Italian punks The Manges (feat.Giuda)!
'Tootsie Rolls (Parts I & II)' is out today!
There will be 500 copies only, on red vinyl! Click on the artwork below to reserve your copy!
**STRICTLY ONE COPY PER CUSTOMER**
THE MANGES
Making punk rock noises since 1993
Current line-up:
ANDREA - vocals, guitar
MASS - bass
MANUEL - drums
MAYO - guitar
Formed in La Spezia, a small seaside town located in
northern Italy, the Manges started to play Ramones-style punk rock in 1993 and
they are so dumb that they never stopped.
Old school punk rockers, matching striped t-shirts, speed, melodies, fun. The
lyrics are inspired by movies and novels; irony, crime, war, rock references.
They've recorded 5 albums and their discography includes many other releases
(anthologies, eps, live, splits with Queers, Apers, McRackins, Hard-Ons). In
their 27-year career they have toured Europe, North America and Japan, sharing
the stage with bands as Bad Religion, Anti-Flag, Descendents, Marky Ramone,
Screeching Weasel, Queers, Riverdales, and Mr T Experience. They own the
record label Striped Records and manage the Italian
festival Punk Rock Raduno.
MASSIMO FROM THE MANGES TALKS ABOUT WORKING WITH GIUDA...
“We like Giuda. A lot. Over the years we've met at shows, played together a bunch of times, and we believe the respect and admiration is mutual. We didn’t want our latest album to sound like all contemporary punk rock of our scene. We are a so-called “Ramonescore” band but we started more than 25 years ago so we think that definition is not enough to describe what we've done and what we’re still doing.
We love what Giuda did with '70s glam rock… they took a kind of music that was more than 40 years old and made it fresh, catchy, relevant today, while still following a specific canon. They produce their own records so we thought they could totally improve a Manges one. They know punk rock pretty well too and that’s a fact. Just think about their astonishing previous band Taxi! We wanted to see what could happen by having Lorenzo and Danilo’s approach on our band’s music.
The studio sessions in Rome were great, we have been very productive although the environment was pretty laid-back.
One of our favorite songs for our new album is called 'Tootsie Rolls', and it kinda stands aside from the rest of the album, being a more pure rock tune. On this one, our producers could totally work on their favorite arrangements and structure, to the point that we ended up having two versions: one, the album song, and two, a remixed version featuring members of Giuda, called 'Tootsie Rolls - Part II'. What a treat!”
Cowbell - Waiting For Yesterday
(+ very limited LP available via the band's own label Cool Jerk Records)
CHECK OUT THE VIDEO FOR GARAGE
FLOWERS! - https://youtu.be/5ByzDCBIqFU
Brand new studio album from Cowbell!
Waiting For Yesterday is the fourth Cowbell LP. This time we are joined by some old friends to add a coat of sonic luxury to our usual stripped-back garage sound. Recorded fast and loose over sessions in the old world back in 2018 and 2019, it’s a record crammed with nostalgia, memories and fleeting hints of regret. The title track makes even more sense to me now than it did back then.
We’d journeyed into the more psych/soul realm with our last record Haunted Heart but these new songs really hit their stride with the expanded band, particularly on our very own lost Northern Soul ballad “Throw It All Away” and “Got Me You Where You Want Me” where a Curtis Mayfield inspired guitar leans on a loose Bill Withers style groove. There’s something of a West Coast sleazy & breezy feel and a cinematic aura to tracks like “Be My Man” and “Garage Flowers” where Wednesday takes the lead vocals.
Waiting For Yesterday was recorded at the The Cube studio in Stoke Newington, London with Laurie Sherman. We’d rehearse and record four new songs each day, and despite having never played together before, we hit the ground running, taking just three days to track the entire album. Finding our sound so quickly was useful in a small hot studio, not least as Wednesday, behind the drums, was heavily pregnant at the time. Sometimes energy and passion can be inspired by the most practical necessities.
Tom Wright plays Bass, and Fabio D’agostini is on Lead Guitar. The artwork is by Jaime Zuverza - an Austin based artist and musician who stitched together all the themes from the record and brought them to life in one incredible cover.
The music is available digitally through Damaged Goods Records and a very Limited Edition of 200 LPs on our own imprint Cool Jerk Records.
Jack Sandham, May 2021