The Blood Brothers - Ambulance vs. Ambulance

The Blood Brothers were an American post-hardcore band from 1997–2007, formed in Eastside Seattle, United States. The quintet has released five albums to date, as well as numerous side projects on behalf of the members. They reunited for a series of shows surrounding and including FYF Fest in 2014

Taken from their 2003 album ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn, Ambulance vs. Ambulance  was released as a single and had a music video produced for it.

Turnstile - Mystery

Turnstile is an American hardcore punk band from Baltimore, Maryland and dropped a new single a few days back. It's a great catchy little number.

Chelsea Wolfe & Emma Ruth Rundle - Anhedonia

Chelsea Wolfe has returned with a new song called ‘Anhedonia’, which features guest vocals and guitar by her Sargent House labelmate Emma Ruth Rundle.

Wolfe said in a statement about the track:

I wrote “Anhedonia” after I experienced it during summer of 2019, then tucked the song away and moved forward with my acoustic album and subsequent North American tour. 

When COVID-19 hit and stay-at-home orders began in 2020, my European tour was canceled and I had to fly home. Restless, I started listening through my archives of unfinished songs and little unused ideas. 

When I heard “Anhedonia” again, it hit me how strangely relevant the lyrics felt to current times. I’d been wanting to work on a song with Emma for a long time, so I recorded it and sent it her way. 

She graciously added her gorgeous vocals and lead guitar, and then Ben mixed it, adding his signature sound landscape as a fortress around the song. As I listened back to the final version, I was finally able to set free those emotions which I couldn’t feel back in 2019. 

I had worries around releasing the song, not wanting to romanticize the condition of anhedonia (the inability to feel pleasure), but I also understood that it could possibly be cathartic for others who are struggling, as it was for me, to sing and dance my way out of a depression.

Emma added;

“I was moved to tears when she sent me ‘Anhedonia,’ which made getting 

through the tracking very emotional and slow on my end,” Rundle added. “I love the way the guitars I tracked morphed in Ben’s mix. The whole song swirls in a poignant eddy of sorrowful sound and still takes a hard swing at my heart hearing it now.” 

Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights

Catch 22 is an American ska punk band from East Brunswick Township, New Jersey. The band was formed in 1996 by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Tomas Kalnoky, who left the band in 1998 and later formed Streetlight Manifesto.

Founding members still in the band are vocalist/saxophonist Ryan Eldred, trumpeter Kevin Gunther and drummer Chris Greer. While largely inactive since 2012, the band announced a spate of shows in 2015.

Keasbey Nights was one of the most recognized third wave ska albums of the time and it is the title track that I am sharing today.

Save Ferris - Come on Eileen

 Save Ferris is an American ska punk band formed circa 1995 in Orange County, California, United States. Their name is a reference to the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In 1995, the band began to perform underground venues in Southern California. In 1996, the band won a Grammy showcase award for best unsigned band and a contract with Epic Records. Their album It Means Everything from 1997 was their first full-length album. By 1999, the band moved from ska-pop into pop-punk. After a hiatus, in 2017, Save Ferris released the Checkered Past EP.

Their debut album It Means Everything was released in 1997 and included their popular version of the Dexys Midnight Runners song Come on Eileen. This is the track I am sharing today.

Hot Water Music - Jack Of All Trades

Turnover - Dizzy On The Comedown

Turnover is an American rock band from Virginia Beach, Virginia. Formed in 2009, the band is signed with the Run for Cover Records label. Turnover has released four albums, two EPs and a handful of singles.

Peripheral Vision is their second studio album. Produced by Will Yip, the album was released on May 4, 2015. It finds the band shifting from their pop punk origins to a more atmospheric, dream pop-type sound. Peripheral Vision peaked on at number four on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart, and critical reviews were largely positive, focusing on its stylistic progression.

Today I am sharing Dizzy On The Comedown.