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Track: Birthday Ass – ‘Plubbage Bubbage’: flicking the Vs at punk and jazz and making them dance with abandon
PRIYA CARLBERG, singer and wayward guiding light behind the fun as hell and wonderfully weird punk-funk concoction of Birthday Ass, won’t be drawn on the meaning of the title of their latest single drop, “Plubbage Bubbage” which, if you “think it’s fun to say, roll it around your mouth now – best collocation of words …
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Track: Birthday Ass – ‘Sunlit Toes’: a second angular punk-funk drop teases for the April album
BIRTHDAY ASS have it fully goin’ on at 45 degrees to the rest of our heads, that’s a fact. They take their inspiration from new wave, no-wave, jazz, punk-funk, get it whisked up into a refreshing sonic smoothie. Delish and weird, refreshing the parts other music can’t reach. Only three weeks or so back we …
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See: Birthday Ass – ‘Blah’: zero-fucks no-wave punk-funk fun!
PRIYA CARLBERG, vocalist with no-wave post-punk melange-stirrers Birthday Ass, has a vision deliciously at right angles with the world; jump in, but jump in sideways, with their new single “Blah”. Blah. You heard right. Blah. Blah blah. Blah blah blah blah. Priya rounded up some of her fellow cohort from the jazz conservatory at which …
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Track: Black Nash – Alligator
Fresh out of the military Jody Smith who goes under the name Black Nash has been adjusting to life out of the army and finding himself out of work and stuck at home, Smith decided to record a self titled album. He has shared the first single – ‘Alligator’ via Ramp Local “I was totally …