Northwest Indiana\u2019s punk scene would be a lot less thrilling without Mat Williams\u2014he\u2019s been the engine behind many of the local bands whose names have filled homemade gig flyers around the Region. If you consider yourself a connoisseur of midwestern punk, you\u2019ve likely collected a cache of his music, whether by Pukeoid, Dagger, Guinea Kid, or the ne plus ultra of 2010s mutant punk, the Coneheads. For the past five years, Williams has been pouring his energy into Liquids, whose scummy-sounding recordings carry so much magnetism, momentum, and joy that you\u2019ll remember all over again why rock briefly became the lingua franca of postwar American youth. The raw rippers on last year\u2019s self-released Life Is Pain Idiot keep you on the edge of your seat by compressing an album side\u2019s worth of songwriting into every 90-second tune\u2014Williams has figured out how to make punk rock feel like it\u2019s being invented right in front of your ears. Recorded by fellow midwestern DIY lifer Erik Nervous, Life Is Pain Idiot dials back Liquids\u2019 scuzziness and leans into power pop, which complements the band\u2019s brutally sharp musicianship and off-the-leash nastiness. Williams plays like a lead-footed Formula One driver who hits the starting line already going 80 miles per hour, which lends extra oomph to every drum fill and guitar lick on the chipmunk-voiced boogie-woogie scorcher \u201cLemon Rice (Doomed to Live).\u201d Onstage Liquids play with the same need for speed, They’ll be crossing the pond for first time to present their latest album, “Tennessee Rose” in Europe, released on the Barcelona-based label Prison Records.
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Northwest Indiana\u2019s punk scene would be a lot less thrilling without Mat Williams\u2014he\u2019s been the engine behind many of the local bands whose names have filled homemade gig flyers around the Region. If you consider yourself a connoisseur of midwestern punk, you\u2019ve likely collected a cache of his music, whether by Pukeoid, Dagger, Guinea Kid, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-10694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bands","tag-vertical-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n