#soulside

[paintingsandrecords]

sloth bear; ink and watercolor

last eight day’s listening:

sparks - the girl is crying in her latte

steve earle - jerry jeff

the new lost city ramblers with cousin emmy - the new lost city ramblers with cousin emmy

sparks - exotic creatures of the deep

sparks - in outer space

minor threat - out of step outtakes

paint it black - famine

steven wright - i have a pony

soulside - a brief moment in the sun

mary timony - mountains

soulside - this ship

dead prez - let’s get free

[hate5sixofficial]

Soulside 2023-12-10 Johnny Brenda's Philadelphia, PA

[alfredge]

[dustedmagazine]

Soulside — A Brief Moment in the Sun (Dischord)

A Brief Moment in the Sun by Soulside

From the jump, Soulside positions A Brief Moment in the Sun, their first full-length release since 1989’s Hot Bodi-Gram, as a product of the moment. “Never seen times like these before,” claims the first line of the opening track, and that is saying something because these punk lifers have seen a lot.

Formed when the members were teens in Washington D.C. in 1985, Soulside spent the rest of the decade releasing records with the help of Ian MacKaye and Eli Janney. They toured extensively and were one of (if not the) first Western band to play in East Berlin leading up to collapse of the wall. The band broke up in 1989, then reformed in 2014, and again in 2020.

Early on, Soulside found inspiration from funk and reggae as well as punk, and were often -- inaccurately and to their chagrin -- described as Fugazi-derivative. But the two bands did share influences and a willingness to expand from hardcore formality into the broader, more experimental, more atmospheric sound that would come to be associated with post-hardcore.

Soulside doesn’t sound a whole lot like they did in, say, 1989, and why should they? The sharper edges of frontman Bobby Sullivan’s hardcore holler, once very similar to MacKaye’s, have been smoothed over. His vocals, now stronger but more subtle, are bolstered by Scott McCloud’s expansive, varied guitar, Johnny Temple’s rattling bass and Alexis Fleisig’s spacious drum sound. There’s a straight-ahead punk song or two, but this is mostly an anthemic, big-sounding record which often approaches arena-rock.

A Brief Moment, written from the member’s four separate locales in the midst of lockdown, never feels like an attempt to recapture the past, and it is full of the grief and the joy that are inherent in both looking back and looking forward. The songs are catchy if sometimes a bit corny – a pitfall nearly impossible for any band with this trajectory to avoid. But the occasional clichéd rhyme is overshadowed by a throughline of sincere joy and hope. We’ve never seen times like these, but Soulside is here to remind us that love is the constant.        

Margaret Welsh

[bestfuckinmusic]

Soulside - Trigger - 1988

What a year that was. Soulside rage through 30 minutes of awesome, melodic, funky hardcore.

[greensparty]

Concert Review: Scream

Sat. December 9, 2023 @ Deep Cuts (Medford, MA)

venue "marquee"

It's not too often that I get to do an album review, an interview and a concert review, but every once in a while it does happen. Such is the case with D.C. punk legends Scream, who released their first new album in over 30 years last month with DC Special. Then I got to interview singer Pete Stahl. And then I got to cover their Boston area show last weekend. In my friend Scott Crawford’s 2014 documentary Salad Days about the DC punk scene in the 80s, he interviewed multiple members of Scream. Singer Pete Stahl and his brother / guitarist Franz Stahl, bassist Skeeter Thompson were a tight knit unit with original drummer Kent Stax. After Stax left the band in 1986, his replacement was teenage drummer Dave Grohl, who truly brought it. I was a big fan of the band’s albums No More Censorship and Fumble and I have them in my record collection. After the band broke up (as we all know), Grohl joined Nirvana and brought that punk energy he honed in Scream to the masses. Franz was even the guitarist in Grohl's post-Nirvana band Foo Fighters from 1997-1999. But back to Scream: The Fumble album had been recorded in 1989 but was finally released in 1993. The recently released DC Special featured the original lineup. In September Stax died at age 61, making it his final album with Scream. Now the band has carried on with a tour of the East Coast.

Scream onstage

Deep Cuts is a fairly new music venue in Medford Square that opened earlier this year. I hadn't been here yet, but it's super cool: a brewery, food, pinball machines, and even a record store to the side. But it's a 240-person capacity, which set it apart from some of the bigger music venues around Boston. This type of venue lends itself to punk shows, which have a long tradition of being in small venues like VFWs and dive bars. But it also had that new car smell to the venue. Before Scream, co-headliners from DC Soulside did their set. They were good and all, but I was really excited about Scream.

Scream took the stage and really brought that 80s hardcore punk energy. The band was tight. As I mentioned in my album review, they incorporate a lot more styles than just punk and even some melodic tendencies. In terms of the set, they did a ton of stuff off DC Special and also a lot off of their 1983 debut Still Screaming. Selfishly I wanted them to do something off No More Censorship or Fumble, but I understand without Dave Grohl drumming, it's a different vibe. I've always had nothing but respect for this band and they really swung it out of the park with this show 40 years since their debut album. After the show both Pete and Franz even signed by vinyl No More Censorship album too!

For info on Scream

[chasedbybuildings]

Today's tunes...

[lyrpic]

And we can roll in it to Chicago. Yeah, we can roll in it to Chicago just like it should be. It’s all a party to me.

April 25, 2023

[tonguesofdestruction]

Fake Names legen mit neuer Single “Expendables” nach

Das Post-Punk-Dreamteam Fake Names legte heute mit einer neuen Single namens “Expendables” nach. Das Studioalbum gleichen Namens erscheint am 3. März 2023 über Epitaph Records. Der Song überzeugt durch eine moderne Produktion gepaart mit Bad Religion-artigen Backing Vocals. Brian Baker sagt dazu: “Dieser Song hat so viel von einem klassischen Michael Hampton, dass ich jedes Mal lache, wenn ich…

[tomorrowhittoday]

I 20 Migliori Dischi PUNK Del 2022

I 20 Migliori Dischi PUNK Del 2022

A cura di Diego Curcio Le regole d’ingaggio sono sempre le stesse: stilare un classifica con i 20 migliori dischi punk, hardcore, powerp-pop (e declinazioni varie) usciti nel corso del 2022. Niente singoli ed ep, ma solo 33 giri, o quasi. Il tutto nella speranza di non aver dimenticato troppa gente. Anche se è inevitabile, vista la mole di uscite che ormai si susseguono ogni anno. Rileggendo…

[hate5sixofficial]

Soulside 2022-09-22 The First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, PA

[sirenrecords]

OUT TODAY! New album by classic DC Hardcore/Post Hardcore band SOULSIDE #soulside #abriefmomentinthesun #dischordrecords #hardcorepunk #posthardcore (at Siren Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClHpCizJgjC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[milkypiggybeans]

my piece for @hermitzine!! very proud of this one i think it is very cool :] go check out the whole zine as well, everyone in it did such an amazing job!!

[unnamed-atlas]

Okay. Why are we as a collective not talking more about Xisuma's music? I've listened to a total of two songs and I'm absolutely enamored

[12u3ie]

I can’t wait for the Lovejoy effect to happen to Soulside Eclipse

[sweetest-honeybee]

Anyways since I did that album cover art, it fought it would be fun to take that theme and do a lil sumn else 😌💛