Review: Adventure 'World of Hurt' LP

Adventure has been a mainstay in Louisville for 2 decades, released 6 full length albums, appeared on countless Louisville Is For Lovers compilations and singles, and has collaborated with local artists including The Cut Family Foundation.



Adventure has put more time in the Louisville scene than most, but has long since been seen as a group with the precarious, yet somewhat coveted, label of a Band's Band; highly regarded by other artists, yet not well known to wider audiences.

I was introduced to Adventure in the mid 2000s by a woman I had a crush on, but she had a crush on someone in Adventure. By the rules of love I had every right to dismiss the band for selfish reasons, but I instead became an instant fan. My jilted heart was no match for their brand of infectious ramble and jangle alt-country roots pop. They sounded as if The Jayhawks and The Replacements got married and moved from Minneapolis to a city equally as fucked up, and I was instantly smitten.



The new album, World of Hurt, still carries the Jayhawk/Replacements jingle jangle, with slightly more worldliness; Kidz In Cagez tackles our current political minefield wrapped in a Sweet/Brian Eno glitter coat. The classic Adventure take on love is still present too; Breaking Up Is Loud! and Better Him Than Me are just as likely to cheer you up after a break up as they are to sadly remind you of those tender times now gone for good.



The album opener, Shoulda Drank, is the perfect late summer jammer we have been missing this year and shows the full tallent Adventure has to offer: musical skills, emotional insight, humor, wit, and ass shaking beats & hooks. Fang and Just Another Place I Can't Go are prime garage rock specimens with just the right amount of southern twang. If previous Adventure releases could gain the affections of Louisville's musicians, World of Hurt could easily be the album to woo everyone else.

World of Hurt is available on Spotify now here and CDs at Guestroom, Better Days, & Underground Sounds on Aug 17th.

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The Cut Family Foundation

4/19: FAT LAVA EP Release show at Odeon

Psycho-Garage rockers FAT LAVA will be playing at Odeon this Friday with the Cut Family Foundation and Crooked Beat Refuge for their EP release. $8 gets you in the door and a download code. Event info here.

4/15 WCHQ Grand Opening with Cut Family Foundation, Yons, & Joann + The Dakota

From 3pm to 8pm on April 15th Louisville's all local radio station, WCHQ, will be hosting a “Meet The New WCHQ 100.9 FM” Grand Opening Celebration of WCHQ’s New Broadcast Studio, located at 1641 Mellwood Ave, Louisville, KY. with Live music across the street at Apocalypse Brew Works (1612 Mellwood Ave) with music by Cut Family Foundation, Joann + The Dakota, Yons, and others.

Yons

Joann Jene and her band Joann + The Dakota will be the special guest DJs at Vinyl Nite at Galaxie bar on Tuesday 4/3 from 8pm-12am. Details Here.

Yons and Dr. Dundiff will be the Special Guest DJs at Vinyl Nite at Galaxie bar on Tuesday 4/10 from 8pm-12am.

8/26: Cut Family Foundation CD release show at Outerspace

The Cut Family Foundation is releasing a new full-length CD, Funky Public, on Gubbey Records. The release show is on August 26th, 8 pm, at Galaxie/Outerspace. It's only $8 and includes a free copy of Funky Public.

7/2 IamIs LP release show at Kaiju with Cut Family Foundation

Local rock duo IamIs will be releasing their 3rd LP, Go Supernovae!, on July 2nd at their album release show with Cut Family Foundation at Kaiju.

3/5 3.5 Sense Fest

On 3/5 between 2pm-2am the 3.5 Sense fest will take place at New Vintage and Zanzabar. this is a 'Half-Way' to 7 Seven Sense fest this summer. 7 Sense is one our most favorite music fests in Louisville and this 3.5 edition will raise money for the larger 7 edition this summer, as well as raise funds for the Boys and Girls Haven. $10
 bands include:
Frederick The Younger
The Cut Family Foundation
Allen Poe (of Basement Up)

Brother Wolves

Louisville Is For Lovers Valentine's Weekend @ Zanzabar

Just announced is the Louisville Is For Lovers Valentine's Weekend celebrating the 15th anniversary of the series, as well as the release of the new compilation (featuring over 30 unreleased tracks by Louisville bands including White Reaper, Twin Limb, Quiet Hollers, Lydia Burrell, The Deloreans, and more).
On Friday Feb.12th is the Album release show featuring The Hot Wires, The Gallery Singers, The Fervor, and The Cut Family Foundation followed by a 80s/90s Dance Prom at midnight with prizes for Best Dress and Best Dressed Couple. tickets $10. 21+ 8pm.
On Sunday Feb.14th is the Louisville Is For Lovers Valentine's Brunch also at Zanzabar from 11am-2pm with an Endless Brunch, Bloody Mary Bar, Cereal Bar, and music by Daphne Luster and The Winger Brothers. tickets are $15 or 2 for $25. Tickets to both events are available here.

Valentine's Weekend 

FB Event information here.

Out This Week: Andy Matter and IamIs

This week Andy Matter (of Opposable Thumbs, Furlong, and Mimi Von Schnitzl) released his debut solo album Pacific Midwest with Gubbey Records. These ten songs, recorded over the past three years, achieve a sound described as "power(ful) pop" reminiscent of Bob Mould and are available at Modern Cult Records.
 The Department of Homeland Recording also released IamIs' new digital single Lead Hands on Tuesday to promote their forthcoming album Go Supernovae! Accompanying the digital release is their first music video, a cult-like homage to the crooners of old. Lead hands can be purchased here, and be sure to keep an ear to the ground for their upcoming full-length release.

This Weekend: Gubbey Records- Head Cleaner Vol. 1&2

         This Friday (Nov. 29) Gubbey Records is releasing what they call a love letter from the Louisville music scene, a compilation called Head Cleaner Vol. 1&2. Due, I'm sure, to the album's length it is only available in cassette format which comes with a digital download. Though you'd be hard pressed to find a functioning cassette player outside of an Oldsmobile these days, this release stands alone as Louisville's longest analog-format compilation, documenting forty six Louisville acts.
         We at 37flood have been anxiously awaiting this release for quite some time now (the promo poster's been hanging up at HQ for the past couple months). Boasting genres from bluegrass, power pop, avant garde, noise, experimental hip-hop, and punk, Gubbey lives up to their reputation of promoting obscure, isolated, and eclectic Louisville music made in Louisville, by Louisville, and for Louisville.
         Here's our top 20 (ordered as they appear on the album):

• Rude Weirdo- Rodney the King
• The Cut Family Foundation- Wrecked
• Asm A Tik- Temporalis
• Furlong- Hoarder Fire
• Humongous- Russian Space Things 
• Adventure- Pollen in my Beard
• The Decline Effect- Serpent to Slay
• D'arkestra- Tonight
• Bush League- Doublethink
• Bus Hus- The Freedom you Were, The Fascist you Are
• Sick City Four- Kamui Song
• Whistlin' Rufus- The Kentucky One-step
• The Sandpaper Dolls- Across the wire
• Mr. Samples- Stimulate This
• Empira Vultura- Grace
• Hitchhike- June Bug
• Blackbirds of Paradise- I Love You (But I don't know why)
• Plastic Bubble- Respectable Establishment
• Vice Tricks- Holiday
• The Mack- New Way to Begin

        For ten dollars, this tape is a steal. You couldn't even get this much music on itunes for less than fifty bucks, so why not hop in the Oldsmobile and cruise for a couple hours, match the sights of the city to the sounds?

         To go with Head Cleaner Vol. 1&2, Gubbey Records is having an equally massive release show this weekend with three separate events at Modern Cult and The New Vintage.

Review: IamIs & Tamara Dearing Split 7"

Gubbey Records released Vol. 3 of its Split Series on Saturday. The single features IamIs' song "Paperface" and Tamara Dearing's "Break Your Heart" on a vinyl only release with a download card including five bonus tracks. Not to mention the fact that it's on bubblegum pink vinyl as a tribute to the single's "sugary sweet sound."

The first track of this release that Gubbey Records calls a "little honeycomb", is a psychedelic pop ballad brought to you to by two prominent contributors of the Slow Break and the Cut Family Foundation: Shawna Dellecave and Jason Cox. The duo wastes no time leaping headlong into this organ and humbucker fueled drive down a summer country road, lyrically climaxing with the lines: "you gotta' shake hands naturally/ sell yourself, that's the key/ you're a brand, that's all."

Tamara Dearing knows how to use a Wurlitzer, and for proof of this, look no further than the B side of this hot pink piece of wax in your hands. You must have an awesome record collection. On "Break Your Heart," Dearing's keyboards and lyrics sing like a doo-wop outfit while her drums groove like feel-good gangster rap, proclaiming "these are the records I play when I can't stand up straight."

This release is limited to 300 hand numbered copies, so be sure to pick it up whileyou still can!