The long wait is finally over! Multiple years in the making, this wild idea has finally come to fruition. Hattiesburg, Mississippi; one of if not THEE best punk scene in the country currently. We all know the mighty JUDY AND THE JERKS (who are featured prominently on this record), but what about other bands the members are in? MSPAINT has been on everyones lips the last year or so, heres a peek at multiple other bands the singer DeeDee has been doing. An attempt to document as much of a scene as possible in a single day while on tour. Absolutely incredible compilation LP with something for everyone. Long live Hattiesburg!

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Our take: Sorry State has been repping the unlikely punk oasis of Hattiesburg, Mississippi for years now, whether that’s their well-known flagship band Judy & the Jerks or lesser-known projects like Fumes, Bad Anxiety, and Eye Jammy. Now Hattiesburg gets the regional compilation LP they have long deserved, and it’s great. Big Big Wave was born out of a project to record every active Hattiesburg punk band in a single day, and they pulled it off, yielding these 17 tracks by 11 bands. Like the American Idylls project Sorry State released a few years ago, the music runs the gamut of the punk underground, from Judy & the Jerks’ peppy hardcore to Control Room’s synth punk to Daphne’s Dinosaur Jr-inspired fuzz-n-wah indie rock and even some nu-metal-ish hardcore from Year of the Vulture. The back cover features liner notes by Biff from Feral Kid Records—who was key to executing the project—and there’s also a big booklet where every band gets to share a little of their personality in a visual medium. I love compilations like this that immortalize a particular time and place in vinyl, and Big, Big Wave nails everything it was going for.