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ERIK NERVOUS (Indiana - Feel It Records)
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Erik Nervous has produced at least an E.P. a year since 2015, releasing his music on a long list of great labels, such as Warm Ratio, Total Punk, Neck Chop, Lumpy, and Digital Regress. There was a short break during the pandemic, but even then, Erik hooked up with two friends, as the Beta Blockers. Erik also happens to be one of the top punk recording engineers in the Midwest and has been playing synth in The Spits since 2021.
As a kid, at the turn of the millennium, Erik was immersed in 1970s and 80s pop culture - sugary cartoon fair, from Scooby-Do to Yogi Bear, musically from Prince to Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta’s turn in Grease. It was an obsession with the Harmonix Guitar Hero II video game that got Erik into making his own music. He learnt how to play drums via their subsequent Rock Band series. After buying a cheap acoustic guitar from Target, while in 5th or 6th grade, he received an electric one for Christmas a few years later. He insists that he still uses this instrument for 90% of his recording.
Starting out teaching himself how to multi-track, etc. with an iPad and Garageband, Erik then went retro and bought a Tascam 4-track recorder. His output to date takes inspiration from an eclectic range of sources, from the classic UK post-punk of Swell Maps, Wire, The Fall, and Gang Of Four, and their US counterparts, Devo and Talking Heads, plus R Stevie Moore, to the groovy kosmische of Can, and Steve Reich’s classical minimalism… plus some Moondog.
https://eriknervous.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/eriknervous/?hl=en
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CITRIC DUMMIES (Minneapolis - Erste Theke Tontrager)
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Bursting out of a burning trash heap like some mutated, blitzed skeleton in a leatheriacket. Citric Dummies thrash their listeners with a heavy dose of pulverizing punk madness on their latest LP Zen and The Arcade of Beating Your Ass.
The Minneapolis based trio have previously released a handful of endlessly infectious records on US and Euro labels like Erste Theke Tonträger, Fashionable Idiots, and Another Label – luring in unsuspecting punks with their aberrant, tuneful noise.
Citric Dummies rip turbocharged, catchy songs riddled with big hooks that are inhaled like paint fumes by fans of niche KBD gems and classics like The Ramones and The Misfits. The band has signed with Feel It Records to release their most dialed and corrosive record to date- a pièce de résistance for LSD enthusiasts and jabronis alike.
https://citricdummies.bandcamp.com/album/zen-and-the-arcade-of-beating-your-ass-2
https://www.instagram.com/citricdummies/?hl=en
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DELIVERY (Melbourne - Anti Fade Records)
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Delivery are a quintessential Melbourne DIY project, the five-piece being gathered from some of the other city’s bands, including Future Suck and Blonde Revolver. They play with a bustling immediacy, always on the front foot, switching vocal duties effortlessly, and trading guitar lines for fun.
Mixing punk energy with garage whimsy, Delivery have landed on a
buoyant sonic formula that works wonderfully for them.
https://deliveryband.bandcamp.com/album/forever-giving-handshakes
https://www.instagram.com/delivery_lyf/?hl=en
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Antwerp Music City, Handelstraat 29,Antwerp, Belgium
