Converse’s Rubber Tracks series spent a good part of last month housing Massachusetts bands at its temporary studios at Q Division in Somerville, all while we anxiously await the company’s new headquarters expected to open at Lovejoy Wharf in the North End by 2015. But as bands like the Deep North, Color Channel, and Young Adults recorded new material up here, the original Rubber Tracks down in Brooklyn was still showing love to our state’s exploding music scene.
Around that time, Northampton’s Potty Mouth were the latest in the Fader magazine’s Brooklyn Bound series, and video of the garage punk band performing “Sleep Talk,” off last year’s breakout LP Hell Bent, has finally started making the rounds. You can watch that performance up top, as well as score a free download of Potty Mouth performing Hell Bent’s slow-burn closing track, “The Better End,” via the Fader’s Soundcloud below, in addition to the publication’s words on the gig after the jump.
Here’s word from the gig according to the Fader:
Later, when Potty Mouth hopped on stage, it was with an energy and attitude that you’d expect from a band that’s played a ton of shows in the last 12 months. Catchy-as-hell album standouts “Rusted Shut” and “Sleep Talk” sounded sharper than ever, and the four-piece looked as comfortable here as they would in a sweaty New England basement packed with undergrads. Today I woke up and the second thing out of my mouth was a sigh, frontgirl Abby Weems sang on a new track that sounded dry, melodic and more aligned with the slacker indie rock that their western Mass community is known for than anything on Hell Bent. “Is my lipstick smeared all over my face?” Weems wondered aloud at one point, before deciding she didn’t really care. “Maybe it will look cooler that way.”