The Black Halos’ Rich Jones Gets Into The Black Friday Spirit With The Band’s New LP & This Excusive Playlist

It’s Black Friday, and if you’re braving the malls for the deals of the play (or hitting up your section grounds store for RSD Black Friday exclusives), you’re going to request a soundtrack to get you done the day. Enter The Black Halos. The long-running punk set has blessed contiguous with How The Darkness Doubled, their marque caller LP connected Stomp Records. Not lone that, but guitarist Rich Jones has shared an EXCLUSIVE playlist to springiness you that other jolt – similar achromatic java to the encephalon – for today.

From the opener – “A History of Violence,” which seems apt for however there’s ever a viral Black Friday combat video – to the surging “Even Hell Is Looking Down” – to the electrical “A Positive Note” that closes retired the album, How The Darkness Doubled is a twelve-pack of adrenaline. It’s besides a instrumentality to signifier for the band. “Reuniting with Billy [Hopeless] and Jay [Millette] for this caller medium brought my absorption backmost to penning with a mindset that was pure, uncompromising Halos – arsenic acold arsenic I’m concerned, we’ve truly achieved it,” says Rich. “Having our friends John [Kern]  and Danni [Action] connected committee marque this consciousness similar the strongest lineup that we’ve ever had, and you tin truly perceive it connected this record.”

(Chad Cornies)

Friends, family, and fierceness volition assistance everyone get done today. The word “Black Friday” was archetypal coined successful 1869, per Insider, erstwhile 2 investors caused a marketplace clang by driving up the terms of gold. In the 1950s and 1960s, the word was resurrected successful Philadelphia to notation to the clip betwixt Thanksgiving and the Army-Navy game, erstwhile suburban shoppers would flood the city, flooding streets, and marketplaces.

In the 1980s, the word became synonymous with shopping. Marketers tried to crook “Black Friday” into a affirmative connotation, with stores going from “in the red” to “in the black” — aka however accountants utilized antithetic colour ink to differentiate debts and earnings.

After you blast How The Darkness Doubled, enactment connected the pursuing playlist courtesy of Rich Jones of The Black Halos.

The Exploding Hearts, “You’re Black & Blue”

The Exploding Hearts was a lo-fi powerfulness popular set from Portland, OR, who made 1 fantastic stone & rotation grounds (Guitar Romantic) earlier 3 of the set were sadly killed successful a van mishap astatine the extremity of a circuit successful 2003. These days the medium is simply a cult classic, and this is simply a large illustration of conscionable wherefore that is.

Manic Street Preachers, “Black Square”

A item from their 2014 Krautrock-inspired Futurology album, this opus references Russian avant-garde creator Kazimir Malevich’s iconic Black Square painting. Recorded astatine Berlin’s celebrated Hansa studios, Futurology is infused with the aforesaid cool, retro-future vibes that flowed done [David] Bowie’s Berlin trilogy.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Black Tongue”

A existent raw-power standout from the YYY’s debut, ‘Black Tongue’ swings with sleazy NYC guitars and a wired, distorted vocal howl that would marque Lux Interior proud.

Sloan, “Blackout”

From Canada’s unsung kings of guitar pop, this is simply a hook-filled store jam from their sprawling 2006 treble album, Never Hear The End Of It.

The Damned, “Wait For The Blackout”

Still going beardown aft much than 4 decades, The Damned were already showing their consciousness of philharmonic escapade connected 1980’s Black Album, which besides featured a Hans Zimmer collaboration (“History Of The World”) and a 17-minute prog-punk epic (“Curtain Call”)