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Outer Spaces released a 7" on Matador, planning LP & tour, playing DbA tonight w/ Field Mouse & others (dates/streams)

Athens/Baltimore indie rockers Outer Spaces (not to be confused with Outer Space) are planning a tour for this spring (most of which is TBA), and that tour expects them in NYC this April, but you can see them here much sooner at TONIGHT’s (2/5) Death by Audio show with poppy shoegazers Field Mouse, folk pop singer/songwriter Gregory and the Hawk and lo-fi duo Laughing Fingers…

Swearin' releasing 'Surfing Strange,' playing Township on fall North American tour

Swearin’ have announced that they’ll be releasing their new album, titled Surfing Strange, on November 5 via Salinas Records. That’s its cover art above, and you can take a listen to its grunge-y lead single “Watered Down” at the bottom of this post…

P.S. Eliot reunited at the Salinas Records anniversary at Silent Barn w/ Swearin', The Measure [sa] and more (audio)

“Being smushed up front while PS Eliot played = top 10 moment of 2013 And swearin is a top 10 band of the earth” – @heyheywellok Swearin’ at Silent Barn – 8/17/13 (photo via Marc Viloria) Salinas Records celebrated their tenth anniversary at Silent Barn on Saturday (8/17)…

Swearin' preparing second LP, playing a bunch of shows

We were just talking about The Julie Ruin‘s tour, which includes a sold-out NYC show with Brooklyn/Philly lo-fi pop punks Swearin’ on September 3 at Bowery Ballr…

Salinas Records celebrating 10th anniversary w/ Swearin', PS Eliot, The Measure [sa], The Ambulars, All Dogs and more

This Saturday (8/17) at Silent Barn, Salinas Records will throw a tenth anniversary party, which is being dubbed “Punk Is Important.” Brooklyn/Philly lo-fi pop punks Swearin’ and related band Radiator Hospital (fronted by Waxahatchee collaborator Sam Cook-Parrott) are playing, as are Ginger Alford (of Good Luck), Little Lungs (whose Angie Boylan is now in Aye Nako), the now-defunct PS Eliot (whose lineup includes Swearin’s Alison Crutchfield on drums and her twin sister, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, on vocals), the now-defunct (but don’t call it a reunion) The Measure (whose members are now in Pity Party, Worriers, and other bands), the now-defunct North Lincoln (who currently have a member in Wormburner), North Lincoln’s also broken-up pals The Gibbons, The Ambulars, The State Lottery, Delay, and All D……