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THE SLEEVEENS (USA)When Irish-born Count Vaseline/The Mighty Stef songwriter Stef Murphy met Stiff Little Fingers guitar tech
Jamie Mechan in Nashville, Tennessee, it began a musical partnership of the highest order. After cranking out
a few tunes at Mechan’s fledgling studio, 302 Sound, the duo started recruiting other musicians. The band
was rounded out by drummer Ryan Sweeney (Cheap Time) and Eli Steele (Sweet Knives.) Dubbing themselves
The Sleeveens, an Irish term for a trickster, the band got to work. After recording and releasing their
highly-touted “Give My Regards To The Dancing Girls” 45rpm single on Sweeney’s Sweet Time Records, they
finished off their 11 track debut LP. The quartet were soon approached by longrunning punk label Dirtnap
Records (Marked Men, Exploding Hearts) for the album’s 2024 release.
The resulting LP is an homage to the kind of classic punk Chiswick, New Rose and Stiff Records were releasing
45 years before The Sleeveens existed. With earworm melodies and screaming guitars, the foursome have
crafted one of the best albums of the year. Murphy’s penchant for charmingly brilliant, matter-of-fact lyricism
has a similar poetic quality as Mark E. Smith or Jonathan Richman. With expert mastering by Jim Diamond
(The White Stripes, The Dirtbombs) to put the finishing touches on the sound, The Sleeveens is a record that is
simultaneously uncompromisingly raw and thoughtfully crafted.
https://thesleeveens.bandcamp.com/
https://thesleeveens.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@thesleeveens
Wasted Youth Club
Explosive, energetic and fueled with sweat and fuzz is what creates the Party Garage sound of
the Dutch band Wasted Youth Club. Wasted Youth Club finds inspiration in surviving in the 21st
century as four idiots in their quarter-life crisis and from bands such as Fidlar, Thee Oh Sees
and Wine Lips. Take a listen and let your neighbors enjoy it too
https://wastedyouthclub.bandcamp.com/
https://linktr.ee/wastedyouthclub
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Trixxxter / Oberbaumstr/X-Berg, Berlin, Germany
