Heathen Disco Music Reviews #0161 (January 16, 2026)

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I’m chuffed — Heathen D has finally surpassed 500 followers and over 200 paid subscribers. Pretty great odds. Below you’ll find some coverage of bands that consider the odds; some play to them, others seek safety, and still more plow on as if none of it matters. All of them are worth discussion.

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Keep sending in the new music: PO Box 25717 Chicago IL 60625 USA / [email protected] — show me whatcha got.

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CELEBRITY TELETHON s/t LP (self-released)

PDX party band that cleverly sidesteps any pop-punk branding and actually practices what they preach – frontman Jack Habegger grew this project out of a local radio show and voracious cultural consumption, and it shows up in the right ways, someone who’s really enthusiastic about their own shit and everything that inspired it and wants to harness it as a magnet for people who feel the same way, making Celeb T kinda like Heathen D in that sorta blanket activity for one person’s opinion. The zine that comes with this LP kinda lays it all on the line, part history, part liner notes, part press release, with some record reviews in it as well. Might as well make a meal out of it, right? It makes room for some of the cheese corn in the palate, a bit of beige Tex & The Horseheads western rope glued around the edges of an American rock sensibility heavily influenced by the UK and the past. First couple tracks reminded me of Cockney Rebel in a way that I didn’t expect, a glam finish on overtly ‘80s college radio fun dips that leavens the humorous elements here and aren’t hacky or out of place. You might think of about 20 different bands upon hearing this, from SST/New Alliance “let’s put this out” era to long sets that place the past in a series of increasingly entertaining-to-witness leaps. I remember getting really mad watching the Young Fresh Fellows/Minus 5 crew open for The Soft Boys like 25 years ago, being in the midst of all these old drunks start fighting and being led out sobbing by security for not having any limits, getting big timed by comedy/blogger types who are more successful now than then, but what if an actually fun band quantum-leaped into that situation and enjoyed it with me? Am I making a friend? 

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