Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
DEAF CLUB "El Camino Car Crash" available here: threeoneg.com/archive/digital-only/el-camino-car-crash-single
Swing Kids was one of Justin Pearson’s first bands, formed in the mid 90’s out of a mix of obscure punk, hardcore, and geography-specific social politics. The young band drew inspiration from jazz and swing era ethics, creating a strand of music with DNA unlike those surrounding it at that time. Swing Kids was short lived, documenting their entire existence in just a handful of songs over a couple years. After a few short tours, the band called it quits due to drummer Jose Palafox relocating, but they did manage to track one last song before that: “El Camino Car Crash.” Decades later, this band has remained influential to many.
Impressively, Swing Kids’s music maintains something special and unique. Perhaps depressingly, many of the ethics and frustrations of the time it was created seem to be just as relevant and frustrating today.
Which is where Deaf Club comes in. All these years, Pearson has continued the pursuit of genre-defying music with something to say. It makes sense, then, that Deaf Club, which is rooted in the same sort of attitude, now records their own version of “El Camino Car Crash.”
Recorded by Alex Estrada, mixed by Daniel Schlett, mastered by Nathan Joyner and set to be released digitally as a single via Three One G, this cover serves as an homage to the past as well as a herald to the fucked up future.
Video by Stephen Inman.
DEAF CLUB "El Camino Car Crash" available here: threeoneg.com/archive/digital-only/el-camino-car-crash-single
Swing Kids was one of Justin Pearson’s first bands, formed in the mid 90’s out of a mix of obscure punk, hardcore, and geography-specific social politics. The young band drew inspiration from jazz and swing era ethics, creating a strand of music with DNA unlike those surrounding it at that time. Swing Kids was short lived, documenting their entire existence in just a handful of songs over a couple years. After a few short tours, the band called it quits due to drummer Jose Palafox relocating, but they did manage to track one last song before that: “El Camino Car Crash.” Decades later, this band has remained influential to many.
Impressively, Swing Kids’s music maintains something special and unique. Perhaps depressingly, many of the ethics and frustrations of the time it was created seem to be just as relevant and frustrating today.
Which is where Deaf Club comes in. All these years, Pearson has continued the pursuit of genre-defying music with something to say. It makes sense, then, that Deaf Club, which is rooted in the same sort of attitude, now records their own version of “El Camino Car Crash.”
Recorded by Alex Estrada, mixed by Daniel Schlett, mastered by Nathan Joyner and set to be released digitally as a single via Three One G, this cover serves as an homage to the past as well as a herald to the fucked up future.
Video by Stephen Inman.
![Under Attack Die Already [Official video]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s_rhKfdhfJ8/mqdefault.jpg "Under Attack Die Already [Official video]
Under Attack Die Already from the Preservations Crash EP available here: https://threeoneg.com/archive/vinyl/preservations-crash
Video by Displaced/ Replaced
UNDER ATTACK is a band focused on “vicious precision hardcore” made up of vocalist Alex Copeland, guitarist Mark Telfian, bassist/vocalist Jason Hodges (Suppression, Oozing Meat), and drummer Dave Witte (Municipal Waste). Collectively, the band has an extensive “ex members of” list including Limp Wrist, Discordance Axis, Human Remains, Hail Mary, Eucharist, and many, many more. The band began a few years back, when Dave Witte and Mark Telfian connected at a party in Richmond, VA. After many meetings at Daves food truck, Go Go Vegan Go, they talked about forming a brutal hardcore band with no gimmicks, in the spirit of predecessors like Negative Approach, Straight Ahead, and, in general, old school 80s punk and hardcore. After figuring out two other old friends to bring into the mix, the band started practicing nonstop in February of 2019. By March, they recorded a 5 song demo released in the US on Vinyl Conflict and in Europe on AutoReverse. In August of 2019, their first 7” came out on Iron Lung Records called “Through the Blade.” In February of 2021, they had a split 7” with the Dutch hardcore legends Seein Red on Autoreverse and Way Back When Records, as well as another split 7” in the works with Loose Nukes on Mutant Sound Records and a split 12” with Fright on Gloom records. Needless to say, the band is relentless in both musical approach and work ethic.
“Preservation’s Crash” continues with the band’s dark and aggressive driving force of 80s punk and hardcore influence with this release, really commiting to leaning into Dave’s impossibly fast, hard-hitting, manic, but uncompromising drum skills to complement Alex’s scummy vocals. This sonic assault is a mere extension of the lyrical message: in short, anger and frustration with life and society. The hostility of religious institutions that ferment self loathing. Coping with depression through life’s hardships.")
![Planet B Dick On The Dance Floor [Official music video]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uCYgzaKqMoY/mqdefault.jpg "Planet B Dick On The Dance Floor [Official music video]
Planet B Dick On The Dance Floor from the album Fiction Prediction available here:
https://threeoneg.com/archive/vinyl/fiction-prediction
Planet B’s second LP has been a long time in the making. Obviously, over this span of time, there has been an almost unimaginable amount of surreality and insanity to pull from when creating the band’s unique hip-hop-punk-meets-sci-fi-horror-movie sonic aesthetic. As always, the sound is as confrontational as it is catchy, the lyrics scathing and the beats bizarre. Earworms abound. As with the band’s first release, there are a host of guest collaborations on the various tracks, from Josie Cotton to David Scott Stone (ex-LCD Soundsystem, Melvins), D-Styles (Invisibl Skratch Piklz), and more. Perhaps most personally meaningful are the instrumental contributions from Gabe Serbian (The Locust) and Eric Livingston (Mamaleek), both family to the band, who have each passed on from this dimension and back to whatever radical planet they came from since the creation of the album.
Video featuring Valeria Catalina, filmed by Becky DiGiglio, and edited by Displaced/ Replaced.")
