Redness & Swelling at the Injection Site is out today via @lameorecords 😈 Thank you all for letting me try some new-for-me things with this one. I’m super proud of how it turned out and the little corner of the universe represented in it.
We have tapes available! It was recorded and mixed entirely to tape, and tape is naturally the best way to hear it. Grab one at links in bio from Lame-O or Bandcamp or at a show.
Thank you Heeyoon Won @heart.peach and Buzz Lombardi @lombardi.buzz for the spoken word tomfoolery on “Deep Blue”, photography, and the beautiful “Taylor & Burton” video
Thank you Lucas Knapp @senstive_plant for helping to engineer and mix. Another Stevie Studios production in the books
Thank you Ian Farmer @ianfarmerdoe for the thoughtful mastering
Thank you Brian Wilson for everything, this album simply wouldn’t exist without your music in my life
Thank you to all my interns for fetching my coffees and photocopying things for me
I’ll have tapes with me tonight at the Carmen Perry release show at Johnny Brenda’s with @carmen.pee and @shannenmoser , and also on the upcoming 2nd Grade tour with Friendship @friendship_tm
“It’s a curious thing to find the frazzled pop star and his ad copywriting sidekick using track three of their boundary-pushing masterpiece to pump the brakes on the accelerating Sixties. Apart from all the songwriting lessons I’ve picked up by studying the inner mechanics of this song, it’s perhaps this incongruous zeitgeist refusal that I find so appealing after all these years.”
“That’s Not Me” hangs suspended between the idea of the thing and the thing itself. It’s a song about displacement, and once you start inspecting under the hood, you find thematic reinforcement of this displacement around every corner.
Link in bio to read Peter Gill on “That’s Not Me,” the newest entry in our ongoing Pet Sounds Project.
📝: @2ndgradephilly
📸: Capitol/UMG
#TheBeachBoys #ThatsNotMe #PetSounds
Flowery and destructive, Philadelphia-based indie pop band @2ndgradephilly produces sweet power-pop songs that take a left turn into out-of-control loudness and lo-fi production. Playing songs from across their discography, 2nd Grade balances saccharine songcraft and happy-go-lucky hooks with paranoiac panache.
2nd Grade’s sound is a reflection of the generations of rock’ n’roll that came before them. Building upon Cold War-era aesthetics like 60s power-pop and the Southern college rock of the Reagan administration, 2nd Grade finds their own voice by pairing honey drenched pop rock with an ever-present feeling of existential dread.
New York show next week! Celebrating the @grumpyismyleastfavoriteband EP release along with @d.a.crimson . I’m told there will be clowns there, so I hope you’re not afraid of clowns. I hope I’m not afraid of clowns…
Playing a free Philly show at Spruce Street Harbor Park on Thursday 9/11 with @remembersportsband and @fairgameband ! Starts at 6pm, forecast looks beautiful, gonna be lotsa fun hope to see you there.
Photo by @alecpugliese
Grumpy were one of Stereogum’s 40 Best New Bands Of 2024 and on 11/6 we’ll present Heaven Schmitt’s exciting indie project at NYC’s TV Eye. The concert/clown ball will celebrate Grumpy’s new EP ‘Piebald’ and feature openers 2nd Grade and D.A. Crimson.
Schmitt may be the only musician on the planet who has collaborated with both claire rousay and Zach Bryan and their 2024 release ‘Wolfed’ was one of last year’s best EPs. The followup ‘Piebald’ drops 9/26 via Bayonet and its woozy new single “Rice” is out today.
Grab tickets for the gig (costumes encouraged!) at tveyenyc.com or via the link in Stereogum’s Instagram Story highlights.
#Grumpy #2ndGrade #DACrimsom
What an amazing tour with @friendship_tm !! Thankful for so many great shows and beautiful memories. I didn’t get around to taking many photos, thank you @joo.lee.yette for taking this one at our hometown show.
