12 Songs: Pre-Surf: La Niña Edition
Well, here we are again.
We thought about running Cruise Control back for a third time, or nerding out again with Radio Obscura for a second time, or maybe even delving back into the sweaty cesspool of sweat and Foster’s Premium that is the Aussie underground.
But then we looked outside our windows and realized something; it’s fucking cold right now. Everywhere. People are dusting sleet off their windshields on both coasts. Rivers are freezing over. La Niña is taking her last gasp, and she’s giving it everything she’s got.
Point being: We realize now that the pre-surf playlist is needed now more than ever. Here are 12 more songs to get you out of bed and into the water each morning (CFM’s “Sequence” makes for an effectively startling alarm tone).
Featuring:
Shame. We included their album Food for Worms on our list of the best new music released in February. Check that out here.
Cosmonauts. A former socal classic gone radio-silent. Their debut album is quite possibly the most successful merger of shoegaze and punk to date. Come back soon, okay?
The Saints, a 12 Songs staple.
Andre Nickatina’s “Killa Whale”, a crooked, X-rated classic from the king of Bay Area hip-hop.
Institute*. Econo-punk from Texas fronted by Avak Aravian of Glue.
Kool Keith’s Pulitzer-prize winning “I Don’t Believe You”.
— Jackson Todd
*important
Chris Bailey of the Saints catches a breath as a young and impressionable Nick Cave, 19, looks on. Photo: unknown
[above artwork: The Icebergs, Frederick Edwin Church]
