Hard Drugs: “Bad Ideas”

Well, for your Tuesday quickie I give you “Bad Ideas (Don’t Give Up)” by Hard Drugs, which is this self-described “indie rock opera” project of Jeffry Lee, making the rounds today. The cast includes: Jeffry Lee himself, with Jenni Lee Nelson, Shira Blustein, Kevin Grant, Colin McKill, Pete Dionne, and Jason Dana (which include members of members of Blood Meridian, Black Mountain, Lightning Dust, Pink Mountaintops, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Limb Lifter, Bughouse 5, Bend Sinister, Fan Death, The Mohawk Lodge and Bison) and like much of what’s going on in the indie blog scene, it’s psychedelic, folk rock. It evokes the same sort of feelings as acts like Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes did, remember them? This one, however, has a whole story to tell, it’s an actual opera of sorts. You can stream the entire thing over on Muxtape today, its release day. It’s being released as a double LP from Stay Gold Records, with 13 tracks and as far as I can ascertain, they’re performing it on Thursday September 24th @ Bowery Electric (NYC) with The Waldos (Walter Lure from Heartbreakers), you lucky New Yorkers!

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