VICE Exclusive: Listen to Philly's Best Communist Rock Band, the Guests

In the fall of 2014, 30 of my Facebook friends suddenly changed their names to Mike Kaminsky and their profile pictures to a bunch of clones that kind of look like Robert Pattinson. It was close to impossible to tell any of them apart. They worked at a unified pack, constantly spamming one another's Facebook pages, begging others to "please, do join us," and generally trolling Zuckerberg, unbeknownst to the man himself. People did join them. The Kaminsky horde grew and grew until they were in the hundreds. There were Kaminskys in Brazil and even Dubai, but the origins of Kaminsky traced back to two bands in Philly who share some members—Noisey darlings Sheer Mag and the Guests.

We probably wouldn't have known about the Guests or their Kaminsky anthem "Third Coming" if it wasn't for the Facebook Kaminsky invasion, so thanks, Mike. The Guests pull influence from 80s darkwave and gothic pop, and they're all a bunch of commies. Although "Third Coming" cribs its chorus from the Kaminsky "join us" mantra, the band told Impose last year that the song's about a revolution and that their "vision is workers' liberation." Well, the Guests have decided to give us an exclusive stream today of their whole new album according to their ability, for us to post, according to our need.

The EP was produced by the venerable Ronnie Stone, who we recently interviewed. The Kaminsky thing is pretty much dead these days, but the Guests live on. Please, do join them.

Listen to more of the Guests on Bandcamp.

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