House of Broken Promises - Demo & Splits

If we were to compile a list of all that’s useless in modern rock music, we’d be here for days. In fact, it’d probably be easier - and quicker - to rattle off the few undeniably great things roaring up from the underground. Take Indio, California’s HOUSE OF BROKEN PROMISES. With their Small Stone debut “Using the Useless” this trio is leading the charge against mediocrity and watered down tepidness.

Formed from the ashes of the late, great, and woefully underappreciated Unida (which also featured John Garcia of Kyuss fame), HOUSE OF BROKEN PROMISES is a no-holds-barred double shot of classic hard rock. You can’t write riffs like the ones found on “Blister” and “Highway Grit” without them being part of your DNA. You can’t lay down grooves like those on “Walk on By” and “Obey the Snake” by accident. You have to feel ‘em in your bones. And that’s exactly what you get with HOUSE OF BROKEN PROMISES. Guitarist Arthur Seay, bassist/vocalist Eddie Plascencia, and drummer Mike Cancino are so in tune with what makes a rock song rock harder and better, it’d be scary if it wasn’t so awesome. When these three get together and play, they lay waste to the has beens, wanna bes, and hipsters, and they say in no uncertain terms, “This is how it’s gonna be.”

(Taken from Last.fm)

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House of Broken Promises & Duster 69 - Split

Tracklist

1. House of Broken Promises - The Hurt (Paid my Dues)

2. Duster 69 - Going into Red

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House of Broken Promises - Death in Pretty Wrapping (Demo)

Tracklist

1. She's got it

2. This one

3. Boundaries

4. Silver Spoon

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House of Broken Promises - Using the Useless

If we were to compile a list of all that’s useless in modern rock music, we’d be here for days. In fact, it’d probably be easier - and quicker - to rattle off the few undeniably great things roaring up from the underground. Take Indio, California’s HOUSE OF BROKEN PROMISES. With their Small Stone debut “Using the Useless” this trio is leading the charge against mediocrity and watered down tepidness.

Formed from the ashes of the late, great, and woefully underappreciated Unida (which also featured John Garcia of Kyuss fame), HOUSE OF BROKEN PROMISES is a no-holds-barred double shot of classic hard rock. You can’t write riffs like the ones found on “Blister” and “Highway Grit” without them being part of your DNA. You can’t lay down grooves like those on “Walk on By” and “Obey the Snake” by accident. You have to feel ‘em in your bones. And that’s exactly what you get with HOUSE OF BROKEN PROMISES. Guitarist Arthur Seay, bassist/vocalist Eddie Plascencia, and drummer Mike Cancino are so in tune with what makes a rock song rock harder and better, it’d be scary if it wasn’t so awesome. When these three get together and play, they lay waste to the has beens, wanna bes, and hipsters, and they say in no uncertain terms, “This is how it’s gonna be.”

(Taken from Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. Blister

2. Obey the Snake

3. Physco Plex

4. Highway Grit

5. Justify

6. Torn

7. Buried Away

8. Broken Life

9. Walk on by

10. Ladron (Spanish Version)

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Yawning Sons - Ceremony to the Sunset

Yawning Sons came about via a collaboration between two instrumental bands from different sides of the Atlantic. Last year, Gary Arce from legendary US desert/psych veterans YAWNING MAN (and Fatso Jetson/Ten East/Dark Tooth Encounter) was invited over to the UK to produce a new album by the instrumental progressive electro stoner riff-rock outfit, SONS OF ALPHA CENTAURI. Upon arrival, they started jamming it out in the studio and by day’s end they realised they’d tapped into something special. The idea of Arce simply “producing” was scrapped. With both acts heading the musical direction, over the course of a week they wrote and recorded an entire album’s worth of material together and came to the conclusion that a whole new entity had been born. It is called YAWNING SONS.

With sound files subsequently flying back and forth across the ocean there’s now been the additional contributions of lap steel from Gary, as well as vocals from YAWNING MAN veteran Mario Lalli, Scott Reeder and Wendy Rae Fowler. This is truly where the Californian desert heat has met the chilled Kent coast. How to describe Yawning Sons? It’s not simply “Yawning Man-meets-Sons Of Alpha Centauri”. One listen to the album evokes the sounds and textures of a dozen different outfits.

(Read more at Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. Ghostship - Deadwater

2. Tomahawk Watercress

3. Wetlands

4. Whales in Tar

5. Meadows

6. Garden Sessions III

7. Japanese Gardens

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