New Releases from Rick Barry, Dentist. SIMGE Starting GoodEye Records.

Busy Day

While I was busy dealing with morning meetings, late morning orthodontist appointments, early dismissals, and 3-hour conference calls today, lots was happening in the world of Asbury Park-based music.

First, Asbury's Rick Barry -- whose work I've really been enjoying since reviewing This Postdiluvian World earlier this year and catching his full-band set, opening for Wesley Stace -- released a single from his forthcoming LP, Curses, Maledictions, and Harsh Reiterations. Barry picked an appropriate day to release "Removing The Stitches," which opens with the line, "Snow is falling calmly from the heavens to the earth" and goes on to describe a cold that's settled over a relationship. Beautiful harmonies come from Allie Moss.

Later in the day, former Rick Barry collaborators in No Wine for Kittens and current CoolDad Music favorite, Dentist, released a track from their own as-yet-untitled debut LP coming this spring. "No

Matter" makes me think of warmer weather as Emily Whitt's airy vocals float over some surf-y guitar riffs, but the two-minute kiss-off is anything but warm and fuzzy.



The band premiered the track via our friends and co-conspirators over at Speak Into My Good Eye who then went ahead and announced that Dentist's debut would also be the debut release for the site's own GoodEye Records.

That's a lot of cool stuff from a lot of cool people on a pretty cold day.