Your guy Decoy Deloy is back with WASTOIDS Music News! As always, we’re brought to you by Hello Merch and this week we’re saying, “Hey, how are you” to Limbeck. Founded 25 years ago in California, the band crossed pop punk sensibilities with rootsy alt-country. In 2003, they released their sophomore album Hi, Everything’s Great. It’s a classic—tuneful, sweet, and rough around the edges. Limbeck recently dropped a brand new set of songs, “Kooks (Is What We Are)” b/w “Here Me For Free.” Don’t go looking for the songs on your streaming apps—you can only hear these via a limited edition hand numbered, orange flexi disc—limited to only 250 copies. WASTOIDS’ own Sam Means even plays Mellotron on it! So go grab one before they’re gone.
In other news: In 1995, Berkeley punks Rancid released …And Out Come the Wolves, a punk rock milestone. The songs are packed with mysterious characters—Maxwell Murder, Ruby Soho, the unnamed “Junkie Man.” If you’ve ever thought, wow, this album should be a TV show, you’re in luck. A new show based on the album is in the works. Produced by Danny Peykoff (known for work like Horizon: An American Saga) the show presents, to quote Peykoff, “a world of violence and desperation.” Filming hasn’t begun, but we’ll be keeping an eye out. What classic punk records would you like to see turned into a show? Ring us up at 1-877-WASTOIDS and let us know!
In other news, Ty Segall never sleeps. That must be the case, considering how much music he makes. In addition to his great trio Fuzz, he released a new solo album this year, Three Bells, and an all-drum album called Love Rudiments. But get this: he’s got a whole new duo now too, called Freckle. Freckle is Segall along with Corey Madden of Color Green. Their new single is called “Taraval,” which will be featured on their forthcoming self-titled album out January 31st on Segall’s label God? Don’t miss Corey on a recent episode of Salvador Cresta’s Midnight Music Review in the Attic.
Moving on: folk punk songwriter Sunny War has announced a new album, Armageddon in a Summer Dress, out in February on New West Records. The follow up to her 2023 album Anarchist Gospel, it finds Sunny joined by a cast of characters including John Doe of X, Valerie June, Tre Burt, Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs, and, on the new jam “Walking Contradiction,” Steve Ignorant of Crass. Pre-orders for Armageddon in a Summer Dress are now live at Hello Merch.
And to close, according to a new deep dive from the online site Music Radar, more music is released in a single day in 2024 than the entire year of 1989.
That jaw dropping figure comes from Will Page, former Chief Economist of Spotify, relaying the information to writer Adam Douglas. “More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989,” Page said.
It’s crazy to think of how high the barrier for releasing music used to be and how much lower it is now. With more and more artists self releasing music directly online, the field has never been more crowded—and it’s only getting more crowded. Music Radar cites a MiDia report that states there are something like 75.9 million creators releasing work online– a 12 percent increase over the previous year, which they project will reach 198.2 million people by 2030, driven by what MiDiA calls “Consumer-Creators.” To quote: “Consumer-creators transformed photography (Instagram) and videography (TikTok); music will be next.”
So what does that mean for you—the humble artist looking to create good work? How do YOU get noticed? Is there simply too much music out there? Give us a call and weigh in—dial 1-877-WASTOIDS and let us know how you break through the online static.