O-D-EX “Breaker” and The Sleeveens “s/t” both out now!
Personality Cult Joins Dirtnap Records
What started as a solo project for North Carolina’s Ben Carr has evolved into a full-band supergroup of sorts, featuring past and present members of Paint Fumes, Last Year’s Men, Natural Causes, Bass Drum Of Death, Missing Pages, Mind Spiders, Sweet Talk, Sweet Knives, and probably a bunch more that we’re forgetting about!
Dirtnap Records was tipped off to this monster of an album by Jeff Burke (Radioactivity/Marked Men) as he was recording it a few months back in NYC. Soon after the sessions, Carr and Burke began trading the earliest mixes of the album with Carr recording all of the overdubs during and after his shifts at Wilmington, North Carolina’s flagship record shop, Gravity Records. After a single listen to the finished product, we were tripping over ourselves to immediately get ahold of the band and offer to put the record out. Seriously, it’s THAT good!
Fast propulsive punk with hooks for days, and dark undercurrents swirling underneath. While sonically this doesn’t fall too far from what you’d associate with many beloved Dirtnap bands of the past, these guys really nail the delicate balance of taking a familiar sound and putting their own unique spin on it, in the end sounding like nothing but themselves.
Following a s/t LP on Drunken Sailor Records, Personality Cult will release their Dirtnap debut (and debut as a full band) “New Arrows” on February 15th, 2020. This is the best new band we’ve heard in awhile, so do take note.
The Hussy “Looming” Out Now!
Well folks, the long wait is over, and we are proud to announce that The Hussy are BACK, (and stole the show at Gonerfest last night, BTW, with possibly the best set we’ve ever seen ’em play!) and their Dirtnap debut “Looming” is OUT!
Stream the album in full here:
Like what you hear? Order the LP/CD HERE
FIRST 200 COPIES OF THE LP COME ON YELLOW VINYL, AND ARE AVAILABLE MAILORDER-ONLY! Black vinyl and CD also available. All LP’s come with 320kps download coupon.
The Hussy formed as a duo in Madison, WI during in June 2008. Fronted by both Bobby Hussy (Guitar/Vocals) and Heather Hussy (Drums/Vocals), the band carved a trash-punk path through the 2000s into the 2010s playing shows alongside contemporary peers and timeless classics such as Mudhoney, Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Twin Peaks, Reigning Sound, Spectrum (Ex-Spacemen 3), Black Bananas (ex-Royal Trux),The Black Lips, King Khan & BBQ, White Fence, The Faint, Tenement….and way too many more to all mention here. Known for their intensely chaotic live shows, The Hussy quickly gained a cult following in the Midwestern underground. Touring on a constant stream of new releases, the band scoured the US and Europe between 2009 and 2015. After the release of the band’s classic and long sold out sophomore LP, Weed Seizure (2012 – Tic Tac Totally), they played pinnacle garage rock festival Gonerfest in Memphis. The band is slated to play Gonerfest 16 later this year. In 2014 The Hussy pulled double duty as both the opening and backing band for punk rocker NOBUNNY through tours of the US and Australia/New Zealand. Bobby Hussy has since moonlighted with Nobunny on-and-off as bass player extraordinaire during a 2018 European Tour and some US tour dates.
The Hussy’s hyper-prolific output has spanned 20+ different record labels and every format imaginable. Both Bobby and Heather write songs and contribute equally to the project. Nearly all releases have been tracked by Bobby Hussy himself. In 2015 The Hussy added Tyler Fassnacht (Fire Heads, Proud Parents, T.S. Foss) as an official full-time third member to help fill out the sound at live shows. Now bolder and noisier than ever, The Hussy is exciting old and new fans alike with scuzz-pop gems chock full of hooks that rot and stick.
At the end of 2018 The Hussy started tracking their new LP, Looming, the follow-up to their fifth studio album, Galore (2015 – Southpaw Records). Galore saw the band move into a more focused direction with earnest mid-fi production and added arrangements, while still keeping true to Bobby and Heather’s knack for writing consistently catchy pop morsels. Looming takes the band in a decidedly dismal and defiantly dark direction. It tackles topics such as death, sudden loss, divorce, addiction and these politically depressing times we live in. The record is 16 tracks of trash-pop that run the entire gamut of punk-rock-n-roll. There are spacey leads, heavy sonics, slicing rhythms and generally gnarly sounds all tucked beneath The Hussy’s patented blanket of hook. This is the “new” heavier three-piece version of The Hussy, but the band hasn’t lost any of it’s knack for a sugar sweet melodies. Looming will be released by Dirtnap Records in Fall of 2019 and the band will be embarking on US and European Tours.
Bobby and Heather have spent the last few years performing and touring in a few other Midwestern projects. Heather’s jangle pop outfit Proud Parents released an LP via Dirtnap Records in 2018. Bobby’s synthwave post-punk band, Cave Curse, released an LP via FDH Records and P. Trash in late 2017. Bobby also performs in Fire Heads with Tyler Fassnacht and they are currently releasing records via Big Neck Records.
The Hussy On Tour
The Hussy have released the initial batch of tour dates for their new album, out 9/27 on Dirtnap! September is a big month for Dirtnap bands on the road (Hussy, Fox Face, Radioactivity, and Bad Sports!), hope you can make it out to a show!
September 13th – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry – Porcupine LP Release
Show w/ Season To Risk
September 14th – Madison, WI @ Mickey’s Tavern w/ Werewolf Jones, Tart,
Daughters of St. Crispin
September 19th – Chicago, IL @ Reed’s w/ Strychnine
September 20th – Springfield, IL @ Dumb Records w/ Epsom, Snuff, Black Box
September 21st – Fayetteville, AR @ Backspace w/ The Wirms
September 22nd – Dalls, TX @ Ruins in Deep Ellum
September 23rd – Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas w/ Xetas
September 24th – New Orleans, LA @ Circle Bar w/ Thelma and the Sleaze
September 25th – Hattiesburg, MS @ The Looney Bin
September 26th – Memphis, TN @ Hi-Tone – Gonerfest 16!
October 11th – Madison, WI @ Crystal Corner Bar – Turkeyfest 10 w/ SERVICE,
Vacation, Ruin Dweller
October 12th – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall w/ Thee Oh Sees, Prettiest Eyes
October 13th – Detroit, MI @ Outer Limits w/ Science Man
October 14th – Cleveland, OH @ Little Rose Tavern
October 15th – Pittsburgh, PA @ Rock Room
October 16th – Washington, D.C. @ Slash/Run w/ Natural Velvet
October 17th – Philadelphia, PA @ Century
October 18th – New York City @ TBA
October 19th – Stamford, CT @ Boy’s Club w/ Jacques Le Coque
October 20th – New Haven, CT @ Three Sheets w/ Jacques Le Coque
October 21st – Boston, MA @ The Greek w/ G Gordon Gritty
October 22nd – Providence, NJ @ News Cafe
October 23rd – Salem, MA @ Front Street Coffee House
October 24th – Montreal, Quebec – Canada @ Quai des brumes
October 25th – Buffalo, NY @ TBA
October 26th – Cincinnati, OH @ MOTR w/ The Harlequins, Psychotic Reaction
Radioactivity/Bad Sports In Europe
Radioactivity and Bad Sports make their triumphant return to Europe in just one week!
Wed. 28th – Occi, Amsterdam NL
Thu. 29th – Vera, Groningen NL
Fri.. 30th – Veb, Siegen DE
Sat. 31st – Get Lost Fest, Hamburg DE
Sun. 1st – Cortina Bob, Berlin DE
Tue. 3rd – Kunst Keller, Furth DE
Wed. 4th – Venster 99, Wien AT
Thu. 5th – Klub Mocvara, Zagreb HR
Fri. 6th – Groove, Lugo IT
Sat. 7th – Edoné, Bergamo IT
Sun. 8th – Dynamo Werk 21, Zurich CH
Tue. 10th – Mister Mojo, Tarragona SP
Wed. 11th – Stereo, Alicante SP
Thu. 12th – 16 Toneladas, Valencia SP
Fri. 13th – Get Mad Festival, Madrid SP
Sat. 14th – Gambeat Festival, Barcelona SP
Sun. 15th – Local PCP, Pau FR
Mon. 16th – Void, Bordeaux FR
Tue. 17th – Lune Froide, Nantes FR
Wed. 18th – Mondo Bizzarro, Rennes FR
Thu. 19th – Canadian Café, Tours FR
Fri. 20th – Altstadt, Eindhoven NL
Sat. 21th – Les 4 Ecluses, Dunkerque FR
Sun. 22th – Willemeen, Arnhem NL
