Vinyl Update 4-22-24

[@noheroes8626]

Been watching DEHH and you solo for over a decade. I’ll keep watching both. Love you guys. Gun Club rules!

[@MIKELiscrazy]

Love seeing new videos here! Thanks for getting back on so shortly after DEHH stuff, can’t wait to see more!

[@mykectown]

Really hoping to be a bit more regular on here from now on!

[@southportrocker]

Zoey adding her admiration to the Gun Club.

[@MostlyLoveOfMusic]

happy retirement Myke, you're looking good for 70

[@docsportello5833]

Thank you for your recommendations 😊 Saw Spanish Love Songs a while ago and really enjoyed that show. Probably never would have heard about them without your recommendation. Listening to Oblivion Theater now, loving it!

[@maulskull]

All the love, my friend! Appreciate everything you do. 🙏 🤘🤘🤘🤜💎🤛

[@mykectown]

Word up! Glad more people are getting to hear how dope your work is, bro!

[@sjoerddondersteen1337]

A pleasant surprise to hear you once again, sure as hell will stick along for the ride with your solo takes. Damn DEHH, the end of an era. Still remember the 'good ol' days' of flaming Lil Wayne, Big Sean, Lil B, Drake & Yeezus already a decade ago (times flies). A damn shame I couldn't catch the sendoff live, to show the gratitude in the moment. Mad funny to see your former band Dawn of Orion catch a stray completely out of the blue. All the gratitude, love & mad respect for Myke 'The Kid' C-Town. Thank you for being you, Myke. Best of luck for your future ventures from the Netherlands, ya absolute madman.

[@OGNICKMARSH]

Looking forward to more content

[@mykectown]

Thanks, homie.

[@Johnny8109]

I'm gonna see Lamp of Murmur, Blackbraid and Dödsrit this fall, hopefully this summer will pass quickly

[@cajflod]

Glad to know you will do more videos. Your channel is a great source to discover new music for me. I recently find this 2023 album CYRM by ØXN, check it out. There are some members of Lankun involved, and even if not a metal album, is one of the darkest stuff I ever listened lately, but at the same time so emotional.

[@mykectown]

Holy shit! This is great! Thank you! Definitely gonna dive into this band some more!

[@cajflod]

@@mykectown Glad you find it interesting😉

[@technopriest8686]

Bro I can't believe I was in high school when I found DEHH 12 years ago...coming home and watching your stuff was the perfect solace for a Black kid that felt so out of place back then...which was pretty frequent since I was typically the only Black kid in a class or a friend circle. This might sound weird, but back then, I always related to you the most out of the DEHH crew. Don't get me wrong the other guys are dope but your eclectic music tastes and your unrelenting nature to call out disingenuous bs in the industry made me feel less alone and more like I could be myself. Not to mention growing up being into metal and punk in the environment I was in ....well let's just say you were one of the first adults to give me confidence and conformation that being fully myself was okay. I didn't have a ton of adults to look to for that back then, so if it wasn't for people like you and DEHH I wouldn't have the media and cultural literacy I pride myself of today. Hell, It's safe to argue the cultural currency I gained from DEHH probably helped me in a few jobs and relationships one way or another...anyways this is getting long now. I just want to say thanks for being there for 16 year old to 19 year old me before I went off to college and got preoccupied with the college thing. Safe to say, I'll be tuning in for the new journey. One!

[@brightmooninthenight2111]

Checked out ebony pendant, fucking awesome stuff. Sounds like a lost record from the second wave. There's not many music tubers that talk about good obscure metal and also other genres. Good shit

[@harrysmith5340]

For a 2024 black metal release that absolutely COOKS look up the new Nimbifer record - awesome stuff

[@mykectown]

I love Nimbifer but I didn't even know about that new album. Looks like it just came out a week or so ago. What I've heard so far is great! So thanks for the heads up!

[@Blinkboy94]

Hard agree that Material world is the best record store in nyc! If you bought that Pas vesh en record used from there it may have been my old copy that I sold to them not too long ago!

[@disgorgeofconsciousness2250]

Super excited to see another upload! Thanks Myke, hope you're well. I've seen a few of your black metal videos and was wondering if you checked out Abruptum, really gnarly shit from the early 90's, thought you'd fuck with it ✌️

[@mykectown]

Been listening to Abruptum since the mid 90s. I had no idea what to make of them when I first heard them but I loved it. And yeah, I still listen to them. Even though It and All are kinda sketchy.

[@PesterFester1966]

Ohhh "The Gun Club" 😮

[@ExplosiveAction]

Jealous you saw Ebony and Lamp! That Ebony EP was solid but I'm finding their latest, self titled 2LP album the best so far.

[@mykectown]

The ST LP is their best hands down. It's some incredible playing!

[@hunterdelaghetto]

ayyyyeeee Atoms Fam.

[@alexisserious]

I want to hear your review of North American Adonis or any of the other new Buck 65 projects.

[@benng4376]

It took me forever and a day to get a copy of the One Of Nine album just on CD.

[@mykectown]

I think they recently re-released it on LP.

[@benng4376]

@@mykectown You check out Solar Cross yet?

[@mykectown]

@@benng4376 Yeah I snatched that shit up right when it dropped. I just haven't gotten around to showing it yet. It's so good. I wanted to go to NY when they played last year but couldn't swing it.

[@Solarisxx]

hey, wanted to ask if you will still be doing an end of the year best of for hip hop? and i would have wished you would have stayed for the what i listened to each year of hip hop (50th anniversary vids) 1993 was the last one.......also i am not sure if it was the same one you went to but did you hear about the death metal record store in norway that burned down. i dont know if thats the same one you visited in your european trip, but thought i would comment

[@mykectown]

So, as far as the Year End lists, I haven't talked them about that, but I'd be down to keep doing those. Yeah, the what I listened to by year videos were fun, but they just weren't moving the needle. People weren't watching them. And yeah, I heard about Neseblod burning down. Big bummer but super glad I got to go! The reason I went last year was exactly because I was afraid this would happen and I'd never get to see it.

[@Solarisxx]

@@mykectown thanks for taking the time to reply, i appreciate it.....have a nice week

[@Galenfen]

I fell in love with Ebony Pendant because of your recommendations! Do you think you'll be talking a bit more about hip-hop on here? I always liked checking out your year-end lists on here and on DEHH, so I hope you'll still give us your opinions on hip-hop new releases.

[@mykectown]

I'll def keep covering the random more underrepresented hip hop stuff here. And, who knows. Maybe I'll still do the Year End lists with the guys. Those are always fun. But yeah, I'm just not gonna be covering stuff that I have no interest in listening to. So you won't see me talking about Drake or Rick Ross or some shit on here.

[@Crashking416]

Myke, do you listen to any bands on the 20 Buck Spin label? If not, I think you'd really dig them. Tons of old school death metal bands with tinges of black metal as well.

[@SanskarWagley]

he definitely does

[@mykectown]

I don't really. I wanna support that label because they've been kind to me in the past and I've heard on good authority that they're really good people. But I'm just not super interested in their brand of death metal. Outside of Hulder I don't really keep up with many of their bands. When it comes to death metal I mostly like the really gross underproduced stuff (Incantation, Fossilized, Phrenelith, Father Befouled, etc.). The more old school stuff that just sounds like Death or Autopsy doesn't really interest me. But maybe I'm missing the right band.

[@XYZPaintWithMe]

Bout time C-Town!!

[@brandonvaglio5413]

I’m sure you’ve had it in NYC before, but if not check out Veggie Castle next time you’re there (and if you’re willing to go out to Long Island, Toma-Tis makes vegan Oxtail stew and wings that are dope)

[@mykectown]

I have not been to either one of those places. So I'll add them to the list. Thanks!

[@brandonvaglio5413]

@@mykectown Prioritize veggie castle, more options and more convenient to get to in a NYC visit, but both are dope. As an FYI, both don’t really have seating so don’t expect to eat there. Glad you enjoyed the latest trip tho

[@Carlo.WTF416]

Yo Ebony Pendant is fiiire

[@seanjjpaul]

Myke the goat

[@jkjmmjjdjdkfkjcncjdd]

GUN CLUB!!!!!

[@MrLando0]

How was Lamp live? I heard someone on KZbin say they were underwhelmed by live set. Did they play any submission and slavery? I really dug that album.

[@mykectown]

I thought they were great. Really tight. And yeah, they played a song or two from S&S. I thoroughly enjoyed their set.

[@jesuswalksforyou]

"My Man!"

[@Starlord652]

Hey myke, i have a question for you. Have you heard of Intestine Baalism? If you do, do you like em?

[@mykectown]

I see why you would ask this, but, nah, this isn't my thing. It's not bad or anything...just not something I'd listen to. But thanks for the recommendation.

[@Starlord652]

@@mykectown well thats shocking cause that sounds like something you would be into. The band is great cause its a melodic death metal band thats the closest to sounding like actual death metal. I prefer them over carcass and at the gates all day. It's interesting cause the band was influenced by them including thrash metal and maybe black metal too.

[@Chris-Huntley]

Hoping you bought the self titled from fellow Washingtonian Ebony.

[@mykectown]

I forget who I bought it from. But I definitely didn't buy it from the shithead label it was released on. Glad to have it on good authority that there won't be any more releases on that label. Anyway, great band and Simon seems like a great guy.

[@goob8945]

Thx for your muslimgauze recommendation 🙏

[@mykectown]

You're welcome! I wish people would stop misconstruing his messaging. But his output, while intimidating, is fantastic.

[@maazwaseem8313]

Heyo Myke. Hope you're doing good 🙏 I just wanted to ask if you've ever heard of an artist of the name of Ichiko Aoba? Shes a Japanese artist that makes extremely serene and fairy-like folk music and shes maybe my favorite artist of the last 10 years besides Kendrick Lamar. Her latest album, "Windswept Adan" (2020), is her foray into chamber folk, and it's probably the most gorgeous album to have come out of this decade so far. It'd mean the world to me if you at least checked it out. Much love ❤

[@mykectown]

I fucking love her! Thank you for that! I hate that the record is so expensive to get now though. But yeah, her stuff is beautiful!

[@maazwaseem8313]

@@mykectown Im so happy to hear you already know and love her :D Been going thru her discography lately so been kinda obsessed lately lol 😅 As for her vinyl for Windswept, its like $35 on her US website, which...I guess is pretty high considering newer pressings, but its still worth it IMO.