#Pissed Jeans Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt

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New Video: Pissed Jeans Share a Bruising and Ripping Meditation on Harsh Truths

New Video: Pissed Jeans Share a Bruising and Ripping Meditation on Harsh Truths @ThePissedJeans @subpop @subpoplicity

Allentown-based punks Pissed Jeans’ highly-anticipated sixth album Half Divorced further cements their longtime reputation for crating feral punk with their acerbic sense of humor. Thematically, the material mercilessly skewers the tension between youthful optimism and the sobering realities of adulthood but while still managing to be — perhaps inadvertently — fun. “Half Divorced has an…

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Pissed Jeans - Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt

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This One Song… Pissed Jeans on Junktime

Tell you what – we love hearing from artists when things go right. We equally love hearing from artists when things go dreadfully wrong. A song that was a piece of piss, written in 20 minutes? Or years in the making and a bastard to write? Whether it’s a song that came together through great duress or one that was smashed out in a short amount of time, we’re getting the lowdown from some of our…

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Pissed Jeans - Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt

New single Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt from US punk band Pissed Jeans, which is taken from the forthcoming album Half Divorced, that will be released on Sub Pop Records on 1st March 2024.

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Pissed Jeans — Half Divorced (Sub Pop)

Photo by Ebru Yildiz

“Too bad/we’re screwed,” Pissed Jeans vocalist Matt Korvette triumphantly spewed on “No Convenient Apocalypse,” the eponymous side A of last year’s standalone single. Come this year and the sentiment hasn’t changed much. But, for this band, has it ever? Gleeful, supercharged pessimism is what they do. If anything, in Half Divorced, the Allentown, PA, quartet’s sixth full-length Jeans get even more explicitly bummed; the stakes yet higher, the scraping on the way to rock bottom increasingly frantic. Titles like “Cling to a Poisoned Dream” and “Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt” make past complaints like “Ashamed Of My Cum” (Shallow, 2005) or “Caught Licking Leather” (Hope For Men, 2007) seem trivial in the face of an interminable mid-life crisis, 21st century-style.

“Cling to a Poisoned Dream” and “Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt” are back to back and act like a pair. Both are fast and raucous and delivered with a truckload of bravado. Of course, this being a Pissed Jeans record, the bravado never lapses but the words strip it naked. The former’s title is a refrain, each hopeful qualifier immediately undercut by a reminder that the pursuit will, at best, make you sick, even if you manage to “keep [your] head down [and] swallow what’s left of your pride.” The latter gets more specific. While you’re clinging, make sure you’re paying things down – sure, you’ll inevitably “pass it on to [your] child,” but you can look forward to “someday [being only] sixty one thousand dollars in debt.” Maybe you’ll even smile once in a while!

Pissed Jeans are one of the few bands who can be described (with little fear of provoking a contemptuous eye roll) as “skewering” things. This applies to their treatment of personal near-ruin, as in “Sixty-Two Thousand…” and “...Poison Dream,” and, just as sharply, to the odious other — the people they’ve been unlucky enough to interact with. The apex of the form is, appropriately, “People Person” from Hope For Men, but Half Divorced’s “Helicopter Parent” is a worthy addition to their canon of oblivious and unpleasant characters. From the first line (“Oh you started getting bored, so you went and had a kid”), Korvette excoriates the psyche, the past, the present and future of his titular target over an ominous, feedback-riddled stomp laid down in unison by the rest of the band. By the last lines (“It's time to reflect and maybe contemplate respect instead of/micromanagement because it's just a generational dead-end”), he’s moved past annoyance to hit on something more fundamentally disturbing. It’s not only financial debt that one generation passes down to another, but their vapidities and hang-ups. It’s a dead-end; it’s a vicious cycle.

Like their Sub Pop label-mates in Mudhoney, Pissed Jeans back up their humor and disgust with hurtling, curdling sonic assaults – you can practically feel yourself shoved into a cloud of sweat and moshing bodies when the chorus hits on “Junktime.” But there’s often more than initially batters the ear. For all the sturm und drang on Half Divorced, the component parts of each song are well-differentiated and clean. You get a clear sense of both the individual performances and their interaction. For instance, on “Everywhere Is Bad,” we’re greeted by the thick slashes of Bradley Fry’s guitar, but never lose track of the tight, manic beat of Randall Huth’s bass as it scales the writhing jungle gym of sound, courtesy of Fry and drummer Sean McGuinness — delightfully, the latter takes a break from blasting elephant-caliber birdshot to bust a round, infectious solo. The call-and-response litany of dismissals, in four words or less, of everywhere from Mars (“could use some air”) to hell (“too many dudes”), are the highlight of the song, but the groove carved out by the band’s heavy agility makes the punchlines stick.

Pissed Jeans have always been able to make a personal grievance or mild hassle sound existential — see putting on a tight black shirt versus not bothering on “False Jesii Part 2” (King Of Jeans, 2009) — but with Half Divorced the desperation gets dialed up. When, on “(Stolen) Catalytic Converter,” Korvette says “I feel sick/but I can’t puke,” it seems right to extrapolate the almost absurd helplessness widely. The crass, humiliating and, worst of all, mundane depths of lives that aren’t quite falling apart are well-plumbed in the back catalog and that chronicle continues here, with vigor and feeling. Like the figure on its cover, Half Divorced stares down a smoking hole in the ground, the band hollering for everyone (someone, anyone!) to come look. “Too bad/we’re screwed.” At least we know it now.

Alex Johnson

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Episode 027 - The Detroit Cobras

Fun Things - Savage

Henrietta Collins & The Wifebeating Childhaters - Drive By Shooting Henrietta Collins & The Wifebeating Childhaters - Ex Lion Tamer (Wire) Rollins Band - Low Self Opinion

Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots Godflesh - Like Rats Entombed - March Of The S.O.D. / Sargeant D And The S.O.D. (S.O.D.)

Pissed Jeans - Sixty Two Thousand Dollars In Debt Pissed Jeans - The Bar Is Low Unsane - My Right

Anti Nowhere League - Streets Of London Anti Nowhere League - I Hate People The Nubs - Job

Budd - Chopsumfuckinwood Stepmother - Waiting For The Axe

Detroit Cobras - Village Of Love (Nathaniel Meyer) Detroit Cobras - Cha Cha Twist (Brice Coefiled) Detroit Cobras - I'll Keep Holding On (Marvelettes) Detroit Cobras - Putty (In Your Hands) (The Shirelles)

Detroit Cobras - Ain't It A Shame (? And The Mysterians) Detroit Cobras - Can't Do Without You (Dusty Wilson) Detroit Cobras - Hittin' On Nothing (Irma Thomas)

Detroit Cobras - Hey Say La Nay (Mickey Lee Lane) Detroit Cobras - He Did It (Jackie Deshanon) Detroit Cobras - It's Raining (Irma Thomas) Detroit Cobras - Boss Lady (Davis Jones & The Fenders)

Detroit Cobras - My Baby Loves The Secret Agent (Olympics) Detroit Cobras - 99 And Half Just Won't Do (Sister Rosetta Tharpe)

Detroit Cobras - Slippin' Around (Clarence Carter) Detroit Cobras - I Wanna Hooler (But The Towns Too Small) (Gary US Bonds) Detroit Cobras - Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand (Hoagy Lands) Detroit Cobras - Hot Dog (Watch Me Eat)

Detroit Cobras - As Long As I Have You (Garnett Mimms) Detroit Cobras - Nothing But Heartache (Billy Martin & The Soul Jets) Detroit Cobras - If You Don't Think (James Brown) Detroit Cobras - Leave My Kitten Alone (Little Willie John) Detroit Cobras - (I Wanna Know) What's Going On (Dr John)

Detroit Cobras - Feel Good

https://omny.fm/shows/savage/savage-podcast-29-2-2024

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IN_A_MINUTE: // AN INDIE EXPRESS…

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@mountkimbie are here w/ “FISHBRAIN,” the official lead single from their forthcoming LP titled ‘The Sunset Violent’ (4/5 @warprecords) & it finds the London-based quartet of Dominic Maker, Kai Campos, Andrea Balency-Béarn & Marc Pell mulling “all the hours we’ve wasted, sitting on the sofa mindlessly scrolling through the phone, whilst the days are rolling by us” across 4 ½ mins of hazily minimal IndieRock.

“SIXTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS IN DEBT” is the second single from @realpissedjeans’ forthcoming LP titled ‘Half Divorced’ (3/1 @subpop) & it finds the Allentown, PA-based quartet of Mat Korvette (vocals), Brad Fry (guitar), Randy Huth (bass) & Sean McGuinness (drums) ripping thru a sub-2 min slice of six-string riffing & gruffly blunt ArtCore.

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New Audio: Pissed Jeans Share a Bruising Ripper

New Audio: Pissed Jeans Share a Bruising Ripper @ThePissedJeans @subpop @subpoplicity

Throughout the course of their 20-year history together, Allentown, PA-based punks Pissed Jeans — Matt Korvette (vocals), Brad Fry (guitar), Randy Huth (bass) and Sean McGuinness (drums) — have never been known to go halfway: They’ve long been known for material that pairs feral vocals and acerbic, biting lyrics with buzzsaw guitars — and for their unhinged live show.  The Allentown-based punks’…