Happy Thursday! We’re here at the noon hour (eastern USA time, that is) to premiere for you the new single and video from Columbus, OH’s Smug Brothers. The song is titled “Javelina Nowhere,” and it is the lead track to their upcoming EP Another Bar Behind the Night. That’s the latest in a nearly two-decade series of releases from the band, and is due out 12 Jul 2024 via the one-two punch Anyway Records and Just Because Records.
For me, “Javelina Nowhere” has such a sense of driving purpose and jubilation—a great way to kick off this new EP! The jangle of the guitars and propulsive rhythm section should get you up and marching into the future. The video our guitarist Ryan Shaffer created with Don Thrasher’s character of Pablo rounds out our “Pablo Trilogy” with an unexpected conclusion.
Kyle Melton
“Javelina Nowhere” officially drops tomorrow as a digital single which will include the streaming-exclusive B-side track “Overheard the Dome”
You can preorder Another Bar Behind the Night on digital downloads here, and find more streaming and purchase links for Smug Brothers at the bottom of this post.
The band also has some dates lined up in and around their neck of the wood over the coming month:
5/24-Blind Bob’s Dayton, OH w/Houseghost & The 1984 Draft
5/26-Ace of Cups [EARLY SHOW] Columbus, OH w/ The Unholy Two & The Sewerheads
6/7-Columbus Arts Fest [FREE] Scioto Mile, Columbus, OH
6/20-Levitt Pavilion [FREE] Dayton, OH opening for Wildermiss
Smug Brothers links
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the white drew carey (aka – Jeff Sorley) is the founder and head editor of TGEFM. He’s lived (outside of) Chicago, Madison WI, (ugh) Penn State, Lyon FR, Oxford UK, central New Jersey, and now within earshot of SFO in the Bay Area. When not scouring the web for more great bands and labels to post about, he also spends time drawing (mostly) silly sci-fi and anime stuff under the name Asplenia Studios.
