86'd Records has announced the release of a new 7" from Chicago's Boilerman, Doing Great. The EP is streaming at AV Club and follows their self-titled 10" released earlier this year by the label.
86'd Records has announced the release of a new 7" from Chicago's Boilerman, Doing Great. The EP is streaming at AV Club and follows their self-titled 10" released earlier this year by the label.
It took me 8 minutes to listen, so it should 8 minutes to write it too. Or, something. Really that’s just a bad Futurama reference so I can “cleverly” say that this is a short EP with 5 songs total. The song names are on this EP are “I,” “II,” “Weak Week,” “III,” and “IV.” Speaking of clever.Boilerman are punk … Read more
Jim (Boilerman - guitar) SPB: What's the most overrated guitar feature? eg. whammy bars, D-Tuna? Jim: I don't know about overrated, but my most hated guitar feature is the floating bridge. The Dan Electro guitar I use for Boilerman doesn't have one, but the guitar I learned on did and … Read more
Kris (Boilerman – bass) SPB: What’s your favorite format of release (7”, LP, etc)? Kris: I think the 7" is a great format, physically speaking. Its layout space is pretty easy to fill nicely, but storing 7-inches isn't as nice. They're so hard to rifle through and they get lost … Read more
Jim (Boilerman) SPB: What’s with the numerical song titles on the EP? Jim: The deal with the numerical song titles for the 10" is two-fold. First, all the songs on the record deal with really similar subject matter -- they're all more or less about different facets of existential anxiety. … Read more
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