2008 Rolling "Punk" (or non-indie underground) Rock Thread

All of these bands are good. That is all I know.

Horrible Fest is this weekend. From the myspace:

"Heres the schedule....this is going to run as close to on-time as possible - too many bands to start late, etc.

Also there will be no advance tickets...when the shows sell out, they're sold out. Friday and Saturday night will sell out, so get there on time.

Thursday Night - Now Thats Class - $6 - 9PM Sharp

9pm Burger Boys
9:40 Dots
10:25 Plates
11:10 The Howlies
11:55 Cheap Time
12:45 Thomas Function

In The Basement: Mr. California & WNCX

Friday Afternoon - Spitfire Saloon - FREE - 21+ Only - Bands at 6PM

-Blondsai
-Wolfdowners

Friday Night - Now That's Class - $8 - open around 3, Bands at 9:30 SHARP
9:30 TV Ghost
10:10 Homostupids
10:40 Daily Void
11:30 Clockcleaner
12:35 Cheater Slicks

In the Basement: Pink Reason (acoustic set of HC covers) and Mr. California

Saturday Matinee - Tower 2012 - BYOB $5 Donation - Doors at 2, Bands at 3

-The Ladies
-Vegetative State
-White Load
-Vile Gash
-Pigsticker
-Nothing is Over
-maybe one more TBA

Saturday Main show - Now Thats Class - $10 - open around 3 show at 9PM SHARP

9:00 McShitz
9:45 Cheap Tragedies
10:30 Brutal Knights
11:15 The Ruiners
11:55 Human Eye
1:00 Boulder

In The Basement - Mr. California and Ol Dirty Bastard Jr."
-myspace.com/horriblefest

ALSO:

The new Blank Dogs is awesomely awesome. Kinda Minimal Man(SF)-ish paranoid synthpunk stuff.

All of these bands are good. That is all I know.

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Haven't heard new Blank Dogs. Only old Blank Dogs - couple eepees, couple singles. All great, though the more recent stuff is best. Album soon?

New Sex Vid 7" is just incredibly great. Heavy, gnarly PUNK shit that doesn't owe too much to any specific bygone scene/sound. Nice antidote to bands who want to be the Jesus Lizard or something.

Is Clipd Beaks punk? Probably not, but great anyway. Got the LP the other day - when'd it come out? Why was I not notified?

The World Is Lousy With Ideas = 7" comp series, up to volume V now. Worth tracking down. Stuff by Factums, Coconut Coolouts, Home Blitz, Nothing People, Catatonic Youth, Dan Melchior, etc.

Blank Dogs have tracks (and a donate feature) up on their blog. It says March 2008, but someone on the termbo forums mentioned something about getting a promo only a week or two ago.

I still haven't heard Clipd Beaks. Someone somewhere compared them to Gravitar. Any truth to that? I looove Gravitar.

Looove Gravitar meself. Can see some similarity, in that echo-chamber-noise-over-tribal-pounding is a big part of the overall sound, but they're less heavy, even kinda no-wave funky at times. Combine No New York w/ Gravitar (and maybe throw in some of the hated Excepter). Better than that sounds, though. What I said about Sex Vid applies doubly here: nice to hear some genuinely fucked-up ROCK noise that seems aware that it's no longer 1986 (or 1976, or 1996, or whatever). Really nice silk-screened packaging, too.

Speaking of packaging, um, that Brutal Knights LP. Cool band and all, but damn, I wanna frame that shit and have my mom over for dinner so she can bask in the glory.

Also, Columbus Discount continues unimpeachably in 08. New Necropolis 7" is excellent, helping make up ground from the (slightly) uneven 1st LP. Not as punk/noisy as the Stumpf single, but close, with extended psychedelic swirl and big messy hooks. Guinea Worms single is fun, and the Tommy Jay LP is, well ... shit, it's the Tommy Jay LP. All LFW, which is nice.

Jay Reatard 45 on Matador? WTF? A-side's okay, B-side rules.

can't stop LOLing over the fact that peeps are diggin the blank dogs.
i work with that dude, and he started the "band" as a joke/dare.

some of the cuts are great, but when it comes to that kind of stuff i always want to yell "GET YER SYNTHS OUTTA MY PUNK!!!"

contenderizer mentioning the world is lousy comps, is OTM. i don't like everything on every volume, but each has something to recommend it. of the current crop of "weird punk" bands, i think nothing people may be my fave. the twinkie problem EP was one of my favorite 7's of last year, and the second one on SS is dope as well; when do we get an LP!? new Factums LP coming this week also, vinyl just arrived at Sacred Bones headquarters today.

Joke, dare, whatever: the tunes are grate!, and I love the overall sound. I can see where yr. coming from WRT to the totally un-punk ness, but I just figure it ain't punk, and that solves the problem. It's Tascam goth or something.

Is new Factums the same as this CD I picked up the other day? On Kill Shaman, 17 songs. Haven't listened to it yet. Dunno why.

Also got the new Oh Sees CD - I'm told that vinyl is "delayed". Not as good as the live show (which wasn't as good this time around as it was last year), but still a hell of a lot of fun. Kinda splits the dif between Coachwhips-style tear 'em up rock and the wispy psyche of previous albums. Suspect will be huge.

nope, new factums is totally different. an LP with bonus 7" on the same label as the 2nd Blank Dogs 12", Sacred Bones. I think there's a Pink Noise LP coming out around the same time, and a Dead Luke 45.

Feel like I should be getting into the Oh Sees thing more than I do but it's not quite making it yet.

Spent about an hour yesterday trying to find somewhere to buy the new Brutal Knights single (on a label I've never heard of before, Spin The Bottle) in the UK without spending silly money on postage, will prob just bite the bullet.

Fave UK band who fit into this thread at the minute - SHITTY LIMITS from somewhere near London. They switch up crazy fast sub-60-second garage hardcore tunes with a Wire influence and slower, more 'traditionally' garagey/early Britpunk stuff. They have a pretty busy release schedule.

New Pink Reason 7", anyone?

I like the Oh Sees record quite a bit actually -- they were great (though short) at sxsw last month too.

I haven't heard the new Pink Reason yet.

Those Eat Skull records have been keeping my ears busy. I wish they weren't recorded so shitty, but good tunes nonetheless. I keep playing the a-side of the new one on skulltones over and over. It's like a bootleg of some long lost NZ band from 25 years ago. Also picked up (maybe this came out last year) that Meth Teeth 7", which is very nice. Mostly acoustic (though loud and distorted), one of the songs has a great Who-like guitar thing that I can't place.

yeah. Meth Teeth rules. I know the singer a bit.

i enjoy meth teeth.
still waiting on the new pink reason single.

i hear jay reatard last night was like huey lewis trying to play punk rock circa 1982.

oh good someone started this thread!

also, not sure if this is this right thread, but the Thomas Function album is great!

meth teeth rocks it.

and, in a curious way, so does the Pink Reason. Is "Borrowed Time" a cover? It's wonderful.

This is totally the place to talk about Thomas Function!

So no one knows about the Rusted Shut? Judging from "Rehab", these guys seem like they could show up and blow Pissed Jeans (I like them!) and even the mighty Clockcleaner completely out of the water. That last album is like Brainbombs- good, like Flipper IN acid.

and I guess this is a little off topic, but Naked on the Vague played a pretty good set at a minneapolis house show last Saturday. They took me by surprise, sorta sounding like a freezing cold, messy Indian Jewelry w/ a big goth fetish.

Rusted Shut are brutal, but apart from Rehab, I've never heard or seen anything else by 'em, except the odd spot in some old magazine adverts. I think they're been going since 1986!

I think they're been going since 1986!

ARRRrrrr, me mateys.

This thread makes me feel way out of the loop, I hardly know any of these bands! Time for some soulseeking...

Never heard no Rusted Shut, but I do wanna 2nd that Meth Teeth EP, as it's one of my favorite records of Spring 08 (or whenever it came out). Reminiscent of recent Sic Alps stuff, with even a bit of Stereopathic Soul Manure-era Beck on the b-side. In a good way.

Lurks compares Naked ot Vague to Indian Jewelry. Which reminds me: anyone see Indian Jewelry lately? They played here (Seattle) last night, but I was too burnt to make a Sunday show. Fucking love that Invasive Exotics LP from a while back, but I've yet to see 'em. (For whatever it's worth, they're another good reference point for Clipd Beaks.)

Last up, Bad Parents. Long Beach band w/ a cool self-released 12" (one-sided, seven songs). Throwback early 80s Southern California punk/HC with some surf guitar thrown in. Skeletal but tough. Ties to bands I've never heard of. Info?

i saw rusted shut at a noise fest a couple of years ago.

basically they are like gnarly dudes. they went to another bar and got shitfaced and didn't watch any of the other bands.

kind of like ultra chug bully-ish hardcore/bar metal gone totally incomprehensible and random with wild-out dub echo....

my friend called them the "the crazy horse of noise" which about hits it.

my friend called them the "the crazy horse of noise" which about hits it.

to be honest i've only heard a couple of MP3s which seemed pretty good, although the live show was definitely a crazy loud swamp of sound...basically reminded me if like some biker dude version of an 81 hardcore band played with a bunch of delay pedals that the just left on and they kept looping into themselves over and over

SOLED

Rehab is a kickass album. It has some of the nastiest guitars I've ever heard. It's like getting high by sucking on batteries, and it's becoming one of my favorite albums ever. Maybe dl the songs "Jesus Christ Inca" and "Dead in the Water" for a taste. They sort of use the Brainbombs theory of "one riff=one song". And early Celtic Frost might be their secret weapon influence. A friend of mine gave me some CD-Rs of earlier stuff that was pretty cool, but underwhelming.

Oh, and I upthread, I meant Eat Skull, not Meth Teeth. I haven't heard Meth Teeth.

haha M@tt's second description otm.

They sort of use the Brainbombs theory of "one riff=one song".
-- Blurks

If I don't have to work, I'll probably go see Indian Jewelry on Friday.

i work with that dude, and he started the "band" as a joke/dare.

i'm just sad that he abandonned the back story of the mystery performer.

oh, and tickets for the totally wired fest are going on sale:

Friday May 23rd - Abbey Pub @ Grace and Elston - Doors 7.30pm - 18+ - $10
Mentally Ill
Human Eye
Aluminumknoteye
Teeners
TV Ghost
Daily Void

Saturday May 24th - AAbbey Pub @ Grace and Elston - Doors 7.30pm - 18+ - $15
Zero Boys
Holy Shit!
Clockcleaner
Canadian Rifle
Vapid
FNU Ronnies
Catburglars

Sunday May 25th - Lucky gator Loft 1278 N Milwaukee - All Ages - 7pm $8
Kill the Hippies
Test Patterns
Krunchies
Mhz
Vegetative State,
Rot Shit

NO ADVANCE TICKETS (Unless you are from out of town) - NO TICKETMASTER FEES

Out of towners contact criminaliq @ hotmail . com - weekend passes are $30

oooooh fucking hell I can't go to that.

i've already seen most of them so i think i'll pass. i might go to the sunday show because that one's within walking distance.

Lurks--look at those dates...in May... and who is playing them. Then think about who is not.

Also, I think Rusted Shut have actually gone a step farther in one instance and employed the "one riff=TWO SONGS" technique. Very impressive.

Kill the Hippies! I didn't know they were still going.

I had the same reaction to seeing the Zero Boys on there. Freaking awesome.

Damn, this is far too fucking far away. Looks great, though, and the prices are gentlemanly, respectable. Speaking of the Criminal I.Q., recent Yolks EP is grate! Garage punk reminiscent of King Khan & BBQ in the R&B/soul influence, meloding hollering, but a bit more laid back. Not lacking in energy, just somehow kinda relaxed about it. Organ featured on a couple tracks is very nice, goes well w/ sunny afternoons & beers.

Folks on this thread will probably hate, but The Cute Lepers (ex Briefs) have a new LP out on 1-2-3-4 GO! Records. Shamelessly derivative, relentlessly upbeat, melodic as hell - very Briefs-like, but even more poppy. Seems consciously indebted to the late great Exploding Hearts, as well as the Lookout sound in general. I understand that they're signed to (and the CD comes via) Joan Jett's Blackheart label? Shamelessly knuckleheaded la-la-la punk-pop that I'm sure will get old FAST, but for the moment, I'm liking it.

Oh, and this should probably go on the Vinyl thread, but some Chicago label has reissued Naked Raygun's Throb Throb on wax. So fucking nice to have this on vinyl again (dunno where my old copy went). One of the best rock 'n' roll records of the 80s, bar none. Plus a bonus track that I've heard somewhere before...

Where I come from, "meloding" is word not dissimilar to your "melodic".

going to see The Cops tonight, anyone seen them?

How's recent Dirtbombs stuff? I'm going to see them tomorrow night.

going to see The Cops tonight, anyone seen them?

-- M@tt He1ges0n

How's recent Dirtbombs stuff? I'm going to see them tomorrow night.

-- BigLurks

<i>Seattle band The Cops? I've seen them a bunch of times. Used to be more raw/rock, lately more nervous & post-punky. GREAT tunes either way, and a fantastic live band.</i>

yep. that sounds about right from the myspace stuff i heard.

they are playing with the blind shake from here in mpls a band i couldn't possibly recommend more highly to anyone whose musical taste leads them to this thread.

Has anyone heard the new Hospitals record that came out last month? The few write-ups (@ fusetron, apples and heroin, art for spastics...) are hyperbolic in their praise, but my record budget's clamped down pretty tight due to impending fatherhood, among other things. Tell me a bit if you've heard it please?

Also -- thanks to this thread -- been listening to the Indian Jewelry Free Gold album. Had never heard of them previously and I Like alot!

Bummed about the Sic Alps tour cancellation -- broken wrist -- but maybe they'll actually come to Austin when they reschedule everything later in the summer. I wonder if the new single on Important will just sit around until the tour or come out sooner. I hope for the latter.

I know I keep harping on about Sioux City Pete & the Beggars (haha FULL DISCLOSURE they're buds of mine), but you should check 'em out some time contenderizer. They're living in Seattle now. It's like a scuzzed out Gun Club+Venom+Darkthrone blues punk thing from Iowa. Pete is an awesome, awesome dude.

Chuck Eddy wrote a thing on them here: http://blog.rhapsody.com/2008/03/the-blues-and-p.html#more

The Blind Shake played that Jay Reatard show at the 7th Street this fall, right? If they're the ones I'm thinking of, I only caught a song or two of theirs, but it was badass.

I keep hearing about Vampire Hands, and I think I met one of them once. Are they great?

i'm pretty sure that was blind shake...two shaven headed brothers with glasses and gas station jackets, super minimal pounding am reppy garage type stuff? they also did an album w/michael yonkers the old school psych garage legend from here that's great.

vampire hands are indeed awesome....sort of like flowers of romance era PIL meets T-Rex if that makes any sense (PIL in the sound and instrumentation, T-Rex and Bowiesh in songwriting)...i guess, they actually sound pretty unique to me. their new album "Me and You Cherry Red" is by far their best yet. worth getting you can order it from modern-radio.com...the vinyl comes with the CD (and CD booklet) and has cool hand screenprinted artwork

Haven't heard new Hospitals, but I didn't much like that Island of Jocks and Jazz LP from a couple years back. Words posted on Fusetron do have me curious...

Lurks - I've never heard of SCP & the Beggars. "Scuzzed out Gun Club+Venom+Darkthrone blues punk thing" sounds awful damn cool. Weirdly enuf they are playing tonight on the street where I live (85th), about 15 blocks from my house. I'll try to check 'em out.

And while I don't know about no Vampire Hands, they too are playing tonight, at the Vera Project with the Pleasureboaters, who rule (like a fun-to-listen-to, 16-year-old version of the Blood Brothers).

recent Yolks EP is grate! Garage punk reminiscent of King Khan & BBQ

no.

going to see tyvek tonight, lover!/black & whites tomorrow, day light robbery/canadian rifle sunday, bananas/krunchies monday, bold ones/plexi 3/midwest beat on tuesday. my paycheck is already gone.

Kevin, re: Yolks

You don't like the Yolks, or don't think it sounds like them? I'm listening to the EP as we speak, and the chorus vocal melody/approach on "I Do What I Do" sounds like it comes right out of the King Khan playbook. I dunno, maybe the Yolks aren't fans, but the resemblance is there, if slight.

God, I am so glad this thread exists. This is stuff that I always wanted to hear more of when I lived in Ann Arbor, and aside from some usual suspects, it was hard to find.

Has there been a spazz punk resurgence lately, or is it just that I've finally opted out of the indie-jangle bullshit?

i think there might be. it's always hard to tell if things seem bad because yr not paying attention or if things are actually pad.

there's tons more rock bands i like now as compared to around 99 or 00 though.

Has there been a spazz punk resurgence lately, or is it just that I've finally opted out of the indie-jangle bullshit?

-- cannibales afrobeat orchestra

I eat cannibals, check out terminal-boredom.com for a pretty massive resource for this stuff.

TERMBO

there's tons more rock bands i like now as compared to around 99 or 00 though.

-- Matt H.

Terminal Boredom thirded. Without peer or equal.

Plus, just around the corner in 2001, you get the A Frames "Plastica" and "Neutron Bomb" singles, as well as Plastic Soul with the White Apes from Beehive and the Barracudas.

Yeah, around 99/00, since I was in the Detroit area there were an assload of bands like the Dirtbombs, along with the garage explosion, and there were the Bulb bands and the Stop/Eject bands and the American Tapes bands… And then it just kind of seemed to drop off and everyone suddenly wanted to be in twee ten-pieces with cellos and glockenspiels. The only fun that seemed to be coming out then was the resurgence in post-punk bass tones.

I don't know how much of that was just my missing a lot of sweet shit (mostly because I was on local beat and had to care about crap bands).

But now, for the first time in a while, it feels like there's more music getting hype that I actually find myself enjoying rather than feeling like, man, fuck you for telling me to listen to your boring-ass Wilco knock-off.

But yeah, I'll check out terminal-boredom.com.

xpost: what happened to the A Frames??

Now that's a good question. They did seem to get worse/less good with each album though.

Black Forest is a GREAT album though

But I & II are even GREATER. IMO obv. By some freak of nature Black Forest is the only album I have by them. I have a few of their singles as well. I really need to get the 1st album.

twee ten-pieces with cellos and glockenspiels.

-- cannibals

Dunno why the A Frames imploded, exactly. The more energy Finberg put into the Intelligence, the less seemed left for AF. Saw the Finberg-free version of the band a couple times about a year and half ago, when word was they were recording stuff they hoped to shop to Sub Pop (who, I imagine, took a freaking BATH on Black Forest). Shows were disappointing.

Agree that their releases declined (slightly) in quality as they went along, but Black Forest is at least nearly as good as AF2. And yeah, Poo, you really do.

I forget whether Factums is member(s) of A Frames or The Intelligence, but their new record on Sacred Bones is great.

and there's that A-Frames/Climax Golden Twins stuff. That was ridiculously limited though, right? Is that still available anywhere? Are they going to do more?

The last Intelligence album was good.

and for current Detroit stuff, you have GOTTA hear Human Eye.

I'm currently listening to the Country Teasers and this song really reminds me of the A Frames. Probably because of this thread.

Human Eye seconded, but I didn't like the debut LP. Live show and subsequent singles are much better. Search: "Dinosaur Bones" (a kinda-sorta rewrite of the LP's "Sly Glass Foam") and "Spiders and Their Kin".

Dunno what the future holds for AFCGT. The CDR was super-limited (50 copies, I think). Dunno about current availability. I assume they're gonna carry on, as they're playing a gig in support of Caroliner (!) here in Seattle in a month.

P.S. Thanks, Lurks, for starting this thread. I'd meant to do it for months, 'cuz I had a good time with Matt H's 2007 version, but never got around to it. Cheers, all!

Cheap Time is some good bratty punk rock.

LP version of their album not out yet, sadly.

You don't like the Yolks, or don't think it sounds like them?

i like the yolks, don't like their band and don't think they sound like kk/bbq at all.

Fair enough. I've only got the EP to go on, and it sounds like you're more familiar with the band.

i've seen them at least 5 times, i know i saw their first show, it's just not my thing. they're playing wednesday night around the corner from my place but i saw them two weeks ago and i'll be seeing them again in june with the okmoniks so i think i'll pass.

that "don't blame me" song is catchy as fuck though.

xxxxxpost- Thanks, Contenderizer, even though I think the Human Eye LP fucking kills!

sic alps was supposed to be on the bill tonight but obviously aren't playing but i will get to see mother of tears, new band consisting of ross from the brides/dirges/the germans and nathan from the ponys. should be interesting.

so what's good in this thread??? need a new record to listen to

the cops were good!

black & whites/lover! show was the best i've seen both of them. it was crazy. man that was fun.

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1586842&vid=230691

Oh, and that new Amebix collection: Yes? No? Decent place to start?

I thought Human Eye had officially moved to Chicago. That's the one with the guy who looks like Clint Howard and's from the Clone Defects, right?

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/amy13-/timmyspace5.jpg

haha, I meant to do this one

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/amy13-/timmyspace4.jpg

YES

timmy still lives in detroit or hamtramck. wes lives in chicago.

haha woah that band looks pretty awesome

they kinda sound like Chrome, at least the couple tracks I've heard

whoever was talking about Indian Jewelry's "Free Gold" up above, you definitely gotta hear "Invasive Exotics"

x-post They are! Imagine Chrome if they were forcibly fused with alien maniac versions of the Dead Boys!

Indian Jewelry playing cake shop in nyc this thursday .... might try to go

actually he kinda looks like will oldham a bit in that pic as well.

i will def. check them out.

whoever was talking about Indian Jewelry's "Free Gold" up above, you definitely gotta hear "Invasive Exotics"

I'll have to find that/give it a listen. I'm listening to their We Are The Wild Beast album right now and parts of it are great, though a few of the tracks border on annoying. But the great stuff is worth it.

I heard that Hospitals record I mentioned earlier and I'm honestly glad I didn't scramble to order it. Outside of maybe two or three tracks, it's as formless and scattered as I remember the other stuff being. I don't care if it's noisy or recorded on dog turds, I just like some actual tunes underpinning things somewhere along the way.

Haven't heard the Human Eye album, but the singles from last year were great, especially "Rare Little Creature." The vocals are so over-the-top dramatic and it works.

ooh indian jewelry in dc next wed, ill hit that

human eye in chicago three years ago, prompting the empty bottle to institute the "no octopus (alive or dead) will be allowed in the venue".

http://www.hatsofmeat.com/timocto05jpg.jpg

Now THAT is a fucking picture. Wish I coulda seen (maybe not smelled) the "octopus show".

lemme find canderson's spits photo that i know i've posted elsewhere, it's my favorite image of anything ever i think.

here it is:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/172019975_4a463ed654_o.jpg

Damen. Why do they have Tyrades' drum?

if i remember correctly that was either just before xmas or maybe the week between xmas and new years and sean and erin were on their way back to michigan to see their family. it wasn't part of a tour, they just played a show in chicago and one in kazoo to pay for the trip home. since they were flying in they didn't take the drums and borrowed frank's set (tyrades and i think the krunchies or maybe vee dee were the openers in chicago).

Yeah, my experience with Human Eye has been that I love 'em for the duration of a 7", but get sick of 'em before the end of an LP.

Though live they're spastic enough that I'm never bored.

Maybe my thinking they'd moved to Chicago was confirmation bias—they seemed to be playing Chicago every time I was there, but seemed to almost never play Detroit anymore.

ian does your store carry all this shit? do people mail order these records? I've been having bad luck finding stuff on vinyl lately, I always assume things will turn up at OM or Kim's but ... sometimes they don't. like, I have never seen a Sic Alps record in the wild. and I've only found the Tyvek 2x7", not the other one ...

i mail order mostly (fusetron or straight from the band/label) as i don't think much of it (especially the singles) make their way to the stores around Austin, though I'd love to find out that they do. I did find psychedelic horseshit's single at End of an Ear about a year ago though, so maybe they stock some of it.

we get a lot of this stuff, dave. we currently don't have the first tyvek single (oop rare) but have some other related stuff. we've had sic alps LPs and singles before, not sure if we do now.

that rusted shut on Emperor Jones was fucking rad, excited to hear another one

HATCHET!

I never see any of this shit in the store, but then I live in the UK. Check Bistrodistro.com

When for the next FNU Ronnies single, ha? That Meat song from the s/t rules.

THEY LIT A BORROWED DRUM SET ON FIRE?!? LIKE REALLY REALLY ON FIRE

it looks like just the cymbals, if you put lighter fluid on them it just burns off quickly off the metal and doesn't really damage stuff...this metal band Slave Raider from MN used to do that back in the day all the time

Whoa ok, I figured they would be completely ruined symbols.

xxxxp, yeah that Rusted Shut certainly rules. TRIBES OF THE MOOOOON

CYMBALS, jesus.

what matt said. but this was on the heels of the station night club and the e2 disaster so the club personnel were kind of O_O when they saw what was going on. it didn't help that the club (subterranean) has a low ceiling over the stage.

we've had sic alps LPs and singles before, not sure if we do now.

would I like em? they always seem to get mentioned around other bands I like a lot. I've still never heard em.

I guess I need to go to 4c4demy more + Fusetron to fill in the gaps. I think part of the problem is that places don't carry as many singles as they used to plus I had not been looking for 7"s for a few years .... but now there seems to be some good stuff that is single-only again ....

Seattle's a decent place to find this kind of stuff. Sonic Boom on 15th is good bet, as Ruben from the Coconut Coolouts works there, and he does a damn good job of corralling the good/weird shit. I almost never go out of the way to special order, cuz there's always more cool stuff floating around the shops than I could ever afford.

dmr, for reference we tend to carry stuff by labels like:
woodsist, hozac, sweet rot, florida's dying, norton, what's yer rupture, trick knee, die stasi, goner, siltbreeze (of course lol), almost ready, columbus discount, s-s, sacred bon es, going underground etc.

Which is a damn good (if partial) list of labels to keep an eye on.

Man, downloaded a Rusted Shut album (s/t?) and expected it to be a lot more wild dub echo and a lot less just fuzzy riff-rock. I still like it, I just wanted it to be more like Gravitar, I guess.

I thought I posted that the recordings I've heard are a lot different from Matt's description of them live, but I scrolled up and it turns out I did not. Huh.
If it opens with the song Jesus Christ Inca the album you have is Rehab.

jah dudes sorry abt rusted shut. maybe i made em sound too good. but i have not really heard an album. live they were amazing though. i could totally see it not translating though.

That Rusted Shut (Rehab) was really an awesome find for me. I love shit like this.

Think much heavier and much nastier sounding version of the Brainbombs with better lyrics and from Texas and also they do crack.

Their drummer was in Chrome, incidentally.

Wow. Didn't know that.

The crack part, or the was in Chrome part?

The bits about crack and Chrome I heard second hand and I am drunk, so please excuse me if I am horrendously wrong.

woah youre right these guys are nasty

In my sleepy midwestern college town there are droves of phoney-baloney EXTREME metal bands who I tend to respond "oooo your guitars are reaaaaaly distorted, I'm reeeeaaally impressed", whereas Rusted Shut elicited the response "oooo your guitars are reaaaaaly distorted, I'm reeeeaaally impressed", except I'm dead serious.

Rusted Shut are as good as M@tt described them, but they don't sound anything like Gravitar. Any band that can sell me on lyrics like "I WISH I WILL/ I WISH I COULD/ I WISH I WOULD FUCKING DIE" and "SHUT THE FUCK UP! THE DEVIL IS TALKING!" is cuhlassic.

^^^Second one is my favorite line on the album.

"That Rusted Shut (Rehab) was really an awesome find for me. I love shit like this."

Maybe I'll try that one. I dunno, like I said, I enjoyed it, I just didn't get the brain-melting awesome that I had imagined them sounding like.

Does that ever happen for you guys, where (based on a description) you imagine the band as way more out there than they actually are?

Constantly. A lot of music writing does that in my experience.

In this case though it was merely a contrast between one live performance vs. recorded output.

Heh. For me, most music writing goes the other way, especially when people are trying to be hyperbolic. I was pleasantly surprised by a lot of the Pitchfork pop bands because their descriptions had made them sound so much worse than they actually were, with these almost Mannerist tendencies of foppish auteurs. But I guess "middling guitar pop" doesn't drive page views.

Anyway, I'll track down the other Rusted Shut albums, since they seemed to be all over slsk.

But I just ordered the Vampire Hands LP based on the strength of their MySpace songs, so that's good.

i'm digging this bad sports song. i may need to put in an order with boom chick.

Yeah, sorry for getting all spastic regarding RS, but do you remember that old Last Plane to Jakarta piece about wanting to drive around yelling "Lifter Puller, you assholes!" at people out your window? That's sort of how I feel about them.

new Rusted Shut album on Load Records
"Shot in the Head" LP/CD
out October 2008

YES

A virile display of oneupsmanship! How ya like that Drunks With Guns' "Punched In The Head"!

nobunny in la times.

triclops, new band from dude from the fleshies

pretty nice spazz stuff

http://www.myspace.com/triclopsband

I really, really like the first song on the Triclops, "March of the Half Babies" The treated vocals have this great hi-tech-of-the-analog-era feel to them, like the best parts of the Black Mountain record. "Hocus Pocus" as the original spazz rock song. The rest of the disc hasn't hooked me yet.

A virile display of oneupsmanship! How ya like that Drunks With Guns' "Punched In The Head"!

Found a Blank Dogs EP on a blog, I dig this. Ian, what's the story behind this being a joke band? Doesn't really affect my opinion of it either way, just wondering.

Go to the Blank Dogs blog and you can d/l their whole catalogue free!

Awesome. Thanks!

Wait what that song is my favourite song ever (today) what does it have to do with anything?

-- Colonel Poo, Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:42 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

Should be explained by...

new Rusted Shut album on Load Records
"Shot in the Head" LP/CD
out October 2008

-- lacipetersonskid, Friday, May 9, 2008 6:29 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

Ah yes.

You're right though, awesome fucking song.

A friend of mine who lost (or stolen, sold, left in MN?) most of his music downloaded that song, and that song only, and later that day got punched in the head. Actually changed his voice!

Found a Blank Dogs EP on a blog, I dig this. Ian, what's the story behind this being a joke band? Doesn't really affect my opinion of it either way, just wondering.

-- Colonel Poo, Friday, May 16, 2008 9:11 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I guess maybe not a joke, so much.. I dunno. Another dude we used to work with was like "If you record a record in two weeks, I'll put it out." ta da, that's how it all began. Then he became wildly popular thanks to underground punk messageboard terminal boredom.

I came to this thread to post about the GIRLS OF THE GRAVITRON 7". It's nice lo-fi punk with some hiss-buried jangle. Gives off some vintage Xpressway vibes.

Then he became wildly popular thanks to underground punk messageboard terminal boredom.

i first heard him from todd, but he didn't say who it was. he was giving the "mysterious stranger" backstory.

Rabies... your bud should download Excreted Alive by Carcass.

LOL

the mysterious stranger backstory... he tried to keep up pretty strenuously for the first few records.

cpc gangbangs tonight! yow!

I hate that I think of Rusted Root every time I see the name Rusted Shut, and I hate that I inexplicably always type "Rusted Shit" every time I try to type their name

Rusted Shit = lolz

Anyways, picked up the new Factums (x-A Frames) LP. On Sacred Bones, comes w/ a bonus single. It's sounding ... not good. Boring and unfocused. Like if you took all the rock-type stuff off the debut Siltbreeze LP. May appeal more to the regular denizens of the psych/freak thread. Me, I'm pissed that I passed up new Blank Dogs and A.H. Kraken in favor of this weak, watery wobble. I dunno. With any luck it'll grow on me...

Playing Catch-UP:

Killer stuff on S-S. New singles by XYX (Mexican Band) and Hiroshima Rocks Around (from Italy?). HRA = thick, furious fuzzed-out PUNK with tons of harsh future noise piled on top. Notes credits one "Trapjaw" with electronics, and he/she/it totally ices the cake here. Sleeve art is super-gorgeous, too, reminiscent of Henriette Valium's work. XYX = a girl named "Senorita Anhelo" yelling and someone named Mou handling drums and production. Sound is a lot more complex than that might suggest. Noisy psychedelic punk disco with tons of energy. Said to be friends of Los Llamaradas, and IMO, even better than that band. Expect they'd be super-fun live.

I mentioned it before, but "Stuck Inside the World", the b-side to the recent Blank Dogs 45 on Daggerman, might be the best song they've done yet.

In general, b-sides seem to rule. On Jay Reatard's second Matador single, the flip ("An Ugly Death") is way better than the ostensible a-side hit. Same was true of "Screaming Hand" on the first one.

Pink Reason have a newish (?) single on some mystery label. Nothing on the sleeve or disc but band name, song titles and the etching "FIR 015". Really good stuff, much more loud & aggressive than the Cleaning the Mirror LP & that cockswastika single, though just as bloody raw. Again, the b-side "Scared Shitless" is the keeper.

Lars Finberg and his Intelligence gots a new 45 on Plastic Idol. Good, but maybe not quite great? Harsh sproingy poundings in the established style, but not quite as catchy as some of their best stuff.

Fifth volume of the World's Lousy with Ideas 7" comp series is out. Every bit as good as previous installments, with some new-wave devolution from Catatonic Youth, retarted party noize from Christmas Island, and some not-unexpected greatness from Dan Melchior.

Finally, though I was never a big Starvations fan, this Jail Weddings 45 is sounding pretty damn good (new outfit from that band's ex-frontman). Soulful, R&B-styled garage, maybe a bit too tame 'n' traditional for most folks here, but, you know, the b-side is excellent.

In the interest of not looking like a total idiot, should clarify that while "R&B-styled garage" figures somewhere into what Jail Weddings are doing, it isn't an accurate description of their sound. They aren't terribly soulful, and don't sound ANYTHING like the Gories or the BellRays. Also incorporate rockabilly, swing, girl-group pop, indie rock and even 70s schmaltz. Maybe like a 50s retro, pop-friendly version of the Deadly Snakes? Maybe...

Got down to the Pissed Jeans gig early last night and managed to get in, they had a few tickets left on the door. Glad I did cos it was fun. Opening band Tropics were kinda post-hardcore/90s Dischord type of thing, not bad.

Pissed Jeans singer's poses were all straight out of pigfuck but it was a great gig, they rocked it, despite the drummer bleeding all over the place and demanding the audience give him weed! Bonus points for bassist's Void t-shirt and bleeding drummer's multiple stage-dives. And they finished with Boring Girls.

good finish

Nothing by that band has floored me as much as the love clown / don't need smoke to disappear 7", but damn they're good.

I saw them in Bristol on Saturday, they were definitely good and loud as hell but I felt like the only person in the crowd having fun. I guess you could pull out the old 'well it's the band's job to make the crowd excited' thing but I dunno, when people want to stand still they generally do

Crowd seemed pretty into it last night. Although I heard someone complaining afterwards that no-one started moving until the band started jumping into the crowd, which I guess fits with your "it's the band's job to make the crowd excited" thing.

I have not heard the following bands playing at Rebellion Festival:

1000Hz
3CR
4ft Fingers
Accelerators
Agitators
Argy Bargy
Bad Co Project
Blood Or Whiskey
Burn Subvert Destroy
Choking Susan
Crashed Out
Dangers' Close
Dead Class
Dead Heroes
Duel
Failsafe
Fandangle
Front Kick
FUK
Fulibulus
Grown At Home
Guilty Pleasures
Hateful
Head Clinic
Hierderoojes
Introspect
JB Conspiracy
King Blues
Kirkz
Knife Edge
Los Fastidios
Machines
Mangled
MDM
Middle Finger Salute
Mike TV
Molotov Cocktail
Monkish
Mouthguard
Outl4w
Paranoid Visions
Pink Hearse
Plague
Play Daisy
Rabble
Radio Dead Ones
Random Hand
Razordog
Reazione
Runnin Riot
Short Bus Window Lickers
Suicide Bid
Systematics
Verbal Warning

Any good?

Is Rebellion Festival Holidays In The Sun under a different name?

Yes

Well the names I recognise there are Fandangle and 4 Ft Fingers and I daresay some of the other bands are also puerile skatepunk from small county towns played by men who despite now being in their 30s can't shake the lifestyle of playing 180 times a year to undiscerning pissed up teenagers and hanging round for the rock club afterwards trying to bang them

I found a few on myspace -

Argy Bargy = crappy Oi band
Crashed Out = crappy Oi band
Accelerators = crappy Epifat/skatepunk
Blood Or Whiskey = crappy Pogues wannabes

Seems to be a common theme

There must be some bands to watch in the afternoon... my search continues...

golden boys tonight! whoot whoot!!

Triclops— I've seen them a couple times now, most recently last Friday, where they were one of the opening bands for Big Business (along with Qui— David Yow's band, 400 Blows, and Crystal Antlers).

They honestly bored me. Aside from the out-of-phase vocals, there just didn't seem to be very much there. They were tight, but the stop-start arpeggio shit just didn't do much for me. I liked 'em more at the beginning of their set, when the singer was wearing a mask and kind of flipping out. That reminded me of old Pterodactyls shows, but then they kind of settled into this grooveless plink-plunk that I just couldn't get behind.

Especially coming after the Crystal Antlers, who are this big-washes stoner/desert rock band… I dunno. I didn't like 400 Blows or Qui much either, though Qui was good when Yow was playing bass and not just singing. Otherwise, as a two-piece, they were kinda thin and sounded like a half-strength Jesus Lizard.

Big Business was fucking sweet though—meaty, rumbling heirs apparent to Tad (though not that fat). It was kinda funny, the lead singer from Crystal Antlers looking (and sounding) like Kurt Cobain to open the show, and Big Business sounding like Tad at the end.

Wow, Rusted Shut fucking RULE, huh??? (just bought Rehab)

Got the Vampire Hand album, along with a handful of stuff I didn't order (sweet! extra albums!). It's pretty good. I'm gonna wade through the rest tonight—seriously, like four more albums that all look pretty good.

what albums? all from modern-radio?

Yeah.

Lesse, he sent the Vampire Hand "Me and You Cherry Red," which is what I ordered, The Misfires "Dead End Expressway," two samplers, and one other CD which I can't seem to find to tell you what it is. The Misfires are fun pop punk, and yeah, it was pretty neat to get all that stuff.

white savage show in less than 5 hours. can't wait.

I have heard this White Savage on the Myspace. Didn't really grab me, what am I missin?

Cave Deaths "Glacier on Fire" was the other album, which is pretty good. Throaty emoish stuff plus weirder El Guapo/Possum Dixon sounds.

I have heard this White Savage on the Myspace. Didn't really grab me, what am I missin?

maybe nothing. live shows are WAY more dynamic than the practice space recordings however.

glacier on fire is super great...jessica hopper wrote some big thing on that album....

misfire is great...it's sort of a running joke cuz they have a zillion of that...most of the band later became the (vastly superior) signal to trust who are well worth checking out esp. their last album "golden armour" which is one of my favs.

Hey everybody, just wanted to say that I'm totally fucking chuffed about this thread, seeing as this type of music isn't discussed nearly as much as it should be, and seeing that so much of it I haven't heard, want to, and consider what I do hear to be of generally high quality.

Anyways, Doug Mosurock with two awesome articles today at Dusted. One is the singles column and the other is this review of the new Eat Skull album on Siltbreeze. Has anyone heard it? (The description is enticing).

hey, negative approach is going to be on brian turner's show on wfmu starting... NOW.

i eat cannibals:

one of the dudes that used to be in the misfires posted their unreleased 2nd EP...was never actually put out but was finished before they broke up...anyway it's pretty great...still pop punk but starting to verge in weirder directions, i think i like it better than the first full length actually...

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=ACAC26A47201A9AD

Speaking of Signal to Trust, Total Fucking Blood probably deserve a mention here. Are they still going? I saw them a couple years ago and it was great, like speedsludge or something. How many bands is that bass player in? He was great with Damo Suzuki that time, too.

that's p3te b1asi.

he's in superhopper, signal to trust (who are not very active), total fucking blood (who are kinda active), and maybe a new band w.some guys from misfires.

he is an amazing bassist, mpls's own mike watt.

TFB doesn't play that often but they are mega awesome....yeah sort of like if some punk dudes with a melvins jones decided to play speed metal

Hey, thanks for that YSI. I'm gonna listen to it now. Thanks for hipping me to a new label to watch! This is (for me) one of those awesome ILX moments.

pre-orders available for the next three hozac singles (lover!, catatonic youth, smith and westerns).

hey, look who's playing

Saturday Aug 9th
at Beat Kitchen

Perkins' Pickles Release Party! Ages 17+
• Clone Defects
• White Mystery
• tba

So have there been any good albums released this year? I trust this thread more than just about any other on the board. I've only heard like two albums that I'll even remember this time next year so far.

the pets "misdirection" lp is the best pop record i've heard so far this year.

Are the Electric Bunnies much cop? I keep meaning to check 'em out.

what are some good albums that are coming out in the next few months form these bands???? any out in late summer/eaarly fall??

I know Human Eye's album is coming out soon (no specific date)....

late summer/eaarly fall??

New full-lengths from Tyvek and Sic Alps, both on Siltbreeze I believe. Looking forward to those.

bout time for that Tyvek LP.

I heard thy had to change their name to TVK...

Didn't know about the album will have to look into it

So have there been any good albums released this year?

fuck, i can't believe i forgot to mention the cheap time record. A+++

thomas function record was a good one too.

what about The Intelligence? they sound pretty awesome

they are pretty awesome. deutoronomy came out in '07.

there's a recent 7" out though.

i'm gonna have to check that out...

re: electric bunnies upthread...they are great, kinda different than a lot of the suff in this thread, more garage maybe? and I heard they are coming out with an lp along with jacuzzi boys who may be even better..

also, this description of Fabulous Diamonds from the siltbreeze blog sonds incredible,is the album good?

Imagine a hayride w/Suicide, Young Marble Giants & Augustus Pablo

^wow that sounds too awesome to be true

jacuzzi boys are super fun.

That Thomas Function album is fucking awesome. It has hardly any of the scuzzy punk gnarl of the rest of this thread's stuff, and just loads and loads of powerpop greatness. It kind of gives me an 80's alt rock vibe, like the Violent Femmes or early REM or some other band like that.

when that single came out on dusty medical i seriously played it about 15 times in a row. i kept getting up and dropping the needle and turning up the volume just a little bit each time. record was pretty good too but didn't hit me the way that single did.

x-post

also, this description of Fabulous Diamonds from the siltbreeze blog sonds incredible,is the album good?

Imagine a hayride w/Suicide, Young Marble Giants & Augustus Pablo

I read this same description yesterday. Guy I know who's heard it says it kicks ass, and I believe him. Looking forward to those Siltbreeze albums when they drop.

So have there been any good albums released this year?

oh, and if you don't have it, the cococoma album that came out in december 07 should be your first pick up.

ok so I picked up the Fabulous Diamonds LP....doesn't really have anything to do with the music in this thread but it is definitely worthy of a little discussion somewhere. has more in common with psych/drone stuff than most other bands on siltbreeze. it's really great though. the first track sounds like Liars with a sax looped into it, reminds me of Panda Bear in that it is similar to dance music structurally. the next couple are based on chanting vocals by the two singers (male/female) and rhythmic organs and stuff and then give way to really pleasant almost transcendent loops of white noise and drones....a lot of reverb and sax and echoey sounds drifting in and out and odd plucked things that all loop until they all just melt into each other like one big white drone noise

tracks on their myspace sound pretty cool

playing NYC july 4 and 5 with psychedelic horseshit, pink reason, and blues control

in conclusion,
suicide - a little
ymg - not really
augustus pablo - maybe? seems like a random name to throw out there when all they really meant was dub and really actually only means that they use a lot of delay and tape effects

Just heard the new Sic Alps Siltbreeze record, U.S. EZ. It's short and great, and a little more low key than some of the last few releases. I was hoping for some of the other live stuff they've been doing on there ("Trip Train", "Country Medicine", etc.) but hopefully they'll be on future ones.

They've also got a one-sided single out soon where they cover Throbbing Gristle's "United" -- can't wait to hear this.

heroine shieks (shannon selberg from the cows new band) released an album this saturday...i didn't make the cd release show but i heard it was good...it's called "jounrney to the end of the knife"

when's that sic alps album coming out?

when's that sic alps album coming out?

August, according to this recent interview: http://terminal-boredom.com/larsvssicalps.html

when that single came out on dusty medical i seriously played it about 15 times in a row. i kept getting up and dropping the needle and turning up the volume just a little bit each time. record was pretty good too but didn't hit me the way that single did.

-- chicago kevin, Friday, 13 June 2008 20:19 (3 days ago) Link

Which single?

relentless machine. they re-recorded it for the album. still my favorite song on the album.

todd dropped off my smith and westerns/lover!/catatonic youth 7"s last night but i was on my way out the door so i never got a chance to listen to them. can't wait though. new music, yay!, 'cause i'm broke.

chicago kevin, I owe you one buddy - that single is amazing!!!

Man, I am SO back into singles...

i had to go back and see wtf you were talking about, then i realized you weren't the guy who owned the album. but yeah, that single is fucking infectious.

I love the Indian Jewelry album!

yeah, i do too! i was surprised i liked it so much!

Need to hear that. Would like to see them live again too altho if most of their shows had crappy turnouts like when I put them on I doubt they'll bother w/ the UK again.

Any love for Racebannon in here? New album feels like it's up to standards so far

Guess that answers that then. Let's try another one. APACHE from San Francisco? This is ridic New York Dolls meets early LA punk dumbassery which I could have put in the hard rock thread just as easily; I dunno much about them but their album 'Boomtown Gems' is on Birdman and they did a single on Douchemaster who also did the Cheap Time single that chicago kevin mentioned back there I think? I like it anyway. It'll probably sell about 12 copies.

that apache single on douchemaster is pure fucking gold. the b-side KILLS.

those three beats on the floor tom are fucking gold.

saw psychedelic horseshit and fabulous diamonds the other night. PH were predictably a mess, though still a good time. I had read something about a cardboard box for a kick drum and just assumed it was imaginative writing but the dude really did have an empty 12 pack box of i think Sol as a kick drum. Fabulous Diamonds on the other hand were completely mesmerizing. I showed up to the show fairly sleep deprived and felt bad for nodding off during portions of their set but they kicked ass. they got an amazing sound out of just two keyboards, a drum set, a mic, and a delay pedal.

after meaning to for like a year i finally bought something by the Intelligence...Deuteronomy (on vinyl so i haven't listened to it yet)...i hope i picked a good 'un.

fucking loved the a-frames, prolly my fav band of the 00s so far, so i've got high expectations.

The Heroine Sheiks cd is a lot of fun.

Any love for Racebannon in here? New album feels like it's up to standards so far

I was just thinking the other day how much I regret selling that singles compilation. Kinda lost interest after Satan's Kickin Yr Dick In but might give this new one a shot. Didn't know they were still around, 2002 seems so long ago.

Looks like they ditched/lost that guy on the turntables? :(

i'm to o gbulligble for emo

While in San Diego this winter I checked out Taang! Records bricks and mortar store to see how they were fairing - got to talking with the manager and ended up hearing him do a great punk dj set and getting introduced to bands like Rat City Riot and good bars like The Tower Bar - it's nice to be able to visit a city, say you love punk music and have fun meeting new people.

The latest Eddy Current Suppression Ring is blowing my mind right now.
"primary colours", check that shit out.

I'm looking forward to the new Human Eye LP.

The latest Eddy Current Suppression Ring is blowing my mind right now.

LOVE THEM.

and blacki.p. my favorite record store in san diego is thirsty moon. small but everything in there is fucking gold. fuck, i need to get back there.

new lover! track available for dl.

indian jewelry is gonna be on wfmu today. sometime between the top of the next hour and ???

whoa really diggin both Eddy Current Supression Ring and that Lover! track.

<3 this thread etc

rich crook of lover! is one of those guys that i love everything he puts out. great in black sunday, great in knaughty knights, he's just amazing.

if you like this thread you should bookmark victim of time, if only for vot radio (left corner, under "go someplace"). one stop resource for shows across the country.

Oh I'm already on top of VOT, one of my bands was even in top of the slop once (see if I ever let any of you hear my band though).

But thanks! Anyone else not familiar w VOT should definitely check it out.

if anyone is jonesing for some big burly midwest linebacker Dillinger 4 type punk that's pretty dope, the new Off With Their Heads album is streaming here:

http://www.punknews.org/bands/offwiththeirheads

Had a single by them, liked it, will try and find time to listen

Wow!!! -- if this wasn't on the same day my first child is due I'd consider making the trek to Memphis.

Goner Fest 5

w/
Sic Alps
Eat Skull
Thee Oh Sees
Dutchess and the Duke
Psychedelic Horseshit
Jay Reatard
Dan Melchior
Box Elders
Vivian Girls
Wizzard Sleeve
Blank Dogs
The Intelligence
Cheap Time
...and more!

damn i wanna see the intelligence and jay reatard so bad.

my friends are playing, i'm gonna try to get a ride down with them as when i priced airline tickets they were over $500. i've never paid more than $220 to get to memphis before.

http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Fucked%20Up%20-%20No%20Epiphany.mp3

^^^song off the new Fucked Up album on Matador. Are they worth their own thread? Almost no-one on ILM seems to care. Just read someone's comment "this sounds like Primal Scream" and it's not a thousand miles off

^damn that is awesome! jeez not primal scream though...um...i dunno...killdozer goes psych?

im going to gonerfest on my way moving with all my stuff from DC to SF! we gotta have a 2k8R"P"(oni)RT meetup!

awesome! i gotta find out if someone's gonna have room for me in a vehicle.

couldnt u take a cheapo bus?

i don't think 12 hours on a bus would be worth the savings. i might have enough miles on american to get a free ticket. i don't think i've cashed any in since my birthday two years ago when i got myself a ticket to memphis for the busy sigs/c0c0c0ma/jack oblivian show.

if you're talking the megabus thing...i'd be careful. my wife and her friends just took it from mpls to chicago and the whole thing was kind of a nightmare, including actually not being able to get a bus home cuz the busdriver was sick and they didn't have a replacement, had to rent a minivan.

actually, amtrak used to be a little more expensive than flying but i never did it because the city of new orleans took to long to get from chicago to memphis. but maybe i'll check that out, i've always wanted to do that. some friends of mine took it down there after the blackout three years ago and had a blast.

hey! only $91 each way on amtrak!! i'm taking the motherfucking train!!!

Blank Dogs get (an unheard of) two songs in the 'what we're listening to' bit of the NME this week which is pretty bizarre.

Thing is at least half the bands that are being talked about in this thread are ripe for being dickridden by NME, it's just a question of whether they get round to hearing them and decide it's worth their while caring.

Fave UK band who fit into this thread at the minute - SHITTY LIMITS from somewhere near London. They switch up crazy fast sub-60-second garage hardcore tunes with a Wire influence and slower, more 'traditionally' garagey/early Britpunk stuff. They have a pretty busy release schedule.

-- DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 08:48 (2 months ago) Link

^^^these guys had a whole page a couple of weeks ago despite turning down an interview

Yeah that was weird.

Shitty Limits sound intrsting.

The Adolescents are playing Camden Underworld in a couple of weeks! I've seen listings saying White Flag supporting but the current one says Moral Dilemma instead.

Yeah they're near me a week Monday, might well go

Ooh Fucked Up are playing London on Monday with Shitty Limits as support - might well go to that...

band from mpls, private dancer have 2 tracks up from their new album up...good 60s garagey stuff..."I See Trouble" is a rager:

http://www.myspace.com/privatedancerparty

^^ the part where they start screaming lyrics to "Rag Mama Rag" by the Band = : )

Where ARE fUCKED uP/sHITTY lIMITS PLAYING? (oops)

Water Rats

(Colonel P I ILX-mailed you).

Hmm I didn't get it. Nothing in my junk folder either... :(

I've tried again.

That was quite good. Kinda disappointed with Shitty Limits - they were OK, had some catchy riffs, but there wasn't much energy there. It's a bit tough being 3rd on the bill at a hardcore gig though. Fucked Up were pretty great though and did Nervous Breakdown in their encore which is always good. Would not want to be in the pit when the singer crowd surfed!

And I met Raw Patrick who is a good dude! And I think I saw someone from Hard Skin in the audience. And I'm working from home tomorrow, thank fuck.

Shitty Limits were OK but not crazed enough. Props to one of them for having the worst posture I've ever seen however. Fucked Up were OK but too much like a proper pro rock band and the guys stage patter was pretty bad. The encore was the best bit.

It was good to see the Colonel!

And I think I saw someone from Hard Skin in the audience

If it was the singer (dude from Wat Tyler/Rough Trade shop), when I saw FU in London a couple of NYEs back he guested on a song with them.

Shame the Limits didn't do it for you guys, I still want to get them to my manor tho

What were Lovvers like by the way?

Errrr, better than Fukshovel were but other than that I seem to have forgotten everything about 'em. (I only saw a couple of songs).

The debut UK single by Psychedelic Horseshit comes out on Monday (28th). I sent Matt from the band 50 copies the other day, to which I got this email in reply:

"to: half machine records
subject: new wave hippies ep
dude, got the ep's today, what the fuck is with the spaces in between the tracks. they were strung together with care. THERE ARE GUITAR AND DRUM PARTS CHOPPED IN HALF. i am beyond pissed off. this is why bands are supposed to get test pressings. this thing is a piece of junk now, completely worthless, and all copies must be burned or otherwise destroyed. i am deadly serious about this. if this gets out i will personally make it my job to see to it that every copy is retreived and destroyed. starting at yr offices.
-matt horseshit"
So, as requested we'll be setting all copies we can get our hands on alight. We'll film it and post it on youtube to prove to Matt (and you) that we really have thrown just over a grand down the drain. We're kind of like a poor mans KLF...
There will be copies in shops (we have a distributor who has already sent copies out, but not many), so if you want one get it now! Or buy from us at www.halfmachinerecords.com
They won't be around for long...

^^^email from the label that's doing the first P. Horseshit label in the UK

lol that label put out a Neils Children 7".

Adolescents tonight. Saw a good review of the Newport gig although apparently turnout was low.

Yeah I gather - would have probly gone but had shitloads to do that evening

The Adolescents were great - they've all got really fat (apart from the new guitarist who I think is one of them's son) but they rocked and the crowd was into it, I was a bit worried it would suck after hearing no-one turned up to the Newport gig. They did an Eddie & the Subtitles cover and finished with I Hate Children after the crowd chanted for it.

What Eddie and the Subtitles song?

American Society

Such a great song.

anyone know anything about Witch Hats from australia? i guess they have a record coming out on In The Red. played last nite in St Paul i guess they tore shit up...myspace shit sounds dope as fuck.

http://www.myspace.com/witchhats

they're playing here on sunday with my best friends.

Thought the Witch Hats album I heard this year was hookless and unrocking, actually (esp. compared to deadlier Aussie albums I heard this year from 6Ft Hick, Jacknives, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, and that Harem Scarem reissue), but hey that's just me.

yeah i haven't heard them but my friends that saw them last nite said they were great live....

ECSR is bananas. i'm not sure what to make of witch hats, there's one guy in town who has suspect musical taste in my mind and he's been pimping them hard so i'm kind of dubious.

still it won't cost me anything to go so i might as well check them out.

yeah like i said i haven't actually seen them. but you know...you get friend points too if you go might as well.

Mayyors 7" rocks very hard.. don't know much about them. the guitar solos, though, fuck yeah.

my friend eric is leaving chicago and selling his stuff, his loss is your gain, first batch up on ebay.

Gah. Keep forgetting about tracking down some Eddy Current Suppression Ring. I read that Goner were supposed to be reissuing the first LP, but haven't seen it listed in the usual sources.

check the bomp store, expensive as hell but they had some about a month or so ago.

Also, I'm just reading Mike Hudson's Diary of a Punk: Life and Death in the Pagans, which came out earlier this year, I think. It's pretty skimpy, and you could blaze through it in a day, but it's an inspiring read. Sex, drugs and violence, yes, but it's great for an insider perspective on the Cleveland punk scene.

It's pretty skimpy, and you could blaze through it in a day,

makes perfect sense, when they played the blackout in 2005 they got a huge guarantee (comparatively) and played SIX songs. they were on and off the stage in under a half hour. brevity seems to be key with them.

Absolutely! I just read a passage where they run into trouble with a gangster owner for being on stage for only 17 minutes, after having given their show passes to wheelchair-bound tramps who came in and rolled about on the dancefloor.

I would like to read this but $20 (let alone what shipping would cost me) for a 160-page softback book is a little excessive

BTW how come I keep posting to this and not mentioning BILLY BAO?

The album on Parts Unknown is one of my v v favourite things of 08 and the two EPs I bought at the same time don't slouch either.

If the Pagans came onstage and played What's This Shit Called Love, Eyes Of Satan, Street Where Nobody Lives, Give Til It Hurts, Six And Change & Not Now No Way then fucked off again I think I'd be more than happy I'd got my money's worth...

Rebellion festival is next weekend! The Bleach Boys have been added to the bill for Friday! Woo.

really nice sounding in studio jay reatard in-studio session at my local college station:

http://radiok.cce.umn.edu/multimedia/audio/jayreatard/

BTW how come I keep posting to this and not mentioning BILLY BAO?

The album on Parts Unknown is one of my v v favourite things of 08 and the two EPs I bought at the same time don't slouch either.

-- DJ Mencap, Friday, 1 August 2008 08:42 (9 hours ago) Link

white 10" is fucking awesome - let my buddy zack buy the LP when we were academy last week. glad to hear it's good - ill order it now!

Billy Bao gives me a headache.

23 goin on 35

i heard you sold all your noise records and bought a victrola.

Love the Billy Bao LP and kinda dig the recent "Accumulation" single. But I understand Ian's "headache" comment, too. Giving you a headache seems like a big part of BB's point. Music has more in common with conceptual art-noise than with the old-fashioned punk rock it half resembles. Reminds me of DHR's Shizuo more than anything else. The lead-off track on the LP ("Billy Bao, Right Here Right Now!") = a straighforward, if dirgey punk tune that gets swallowed by static about halfway through. A good chunk of its running time is pure, LOUD white noise. 1st song on side B ("You Get Me, You Get the Kicks!")is exactly the same song, except that it starts "skipping" at the point that the earlier version surrendered to Merzbow. Repeats a lock-groove-style stutter for something like two minutes. "Accumulation" single repeats a one-minute chunk of minimal pounding/screaming TEN TIMES, each iteration adding another layer of instrumentation to the last, until it finally becomes an indecipherable wash (first five mono, the rest in stereo). Listening pleasure in all cases takes a back seat to the the conceptual agenda.

it starts "skipping" at the point that the earlier version surrendered to Merzbow. Repeats a lock-groove-style stutter for something like two minutes

Haha yeah this is gonna fuck w/ some heads if/when it gets released on CD.

The idea of having all the songs on a (loose def'n) 'punk rock' record the exact same length is kind of fascinating as a concept! To me. Like they were going for a photoneg version of the three-minute-pop-song trope

billy bao sounds cool

eat skull lp is so good
so is sex vid 7"s

that is all

23 goin on 35

-- 69, Friday, 1 August 2008 18:57 (Yesterday) Link

GO TO HELL.

eddy current supression ring is living the life.

tomorrow: vivian girls day show followed by clone defects at night. should be funzone.

Billy Bao seems sold out.

Private Dancer Party sounds like the Dirtbombs.

God, Eddy Current reminds me of some '80s brit band I can't place.

23 goin on 35

-- 69, Friday, 1 August 2008 18:57 (Yesterday) Link

GO TO HELL.

-- chicago kevin, Saturday, August 2, 2008 10:45 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

low blow sorry - IOU some bbq at gonerfest dogg

I saw Career Suicide last night and they rocked the place up.

And now I'm putting the new Fucked Up album on the stereo.

lol track three is KOSMISCHE

Closing title track sounds a bit like 'Triumph Of Life' and certainly could've fitted into 'Hidden World' nicely. I think this is a good album, maybe not up with 'Hidden World' IMO. Based on one listen mind you. Would really appreciate a lyric sheet

oh damn, I got the internet back.

Any thoughts on A.H. Kraken? Their press release thing and myspace clips sound pretty badass. I've been waiting on my order for a month now.

and I got my first Crossed Out album this weekend!

Picked up the Adolph Hitler K. record when it came out on ITR. Spun it a couple times, but wasn't too impressed. Heaps of dins, but nothing jumped out to hook my attention. Nowhere near as immediately distinctive as the names that get dropped in their direction (Brainbombs, Drunks With Guns, Arab on Radar, Flipper). Riffs, rhythms, racket sculpting = suitably hair-raising, but also a bit bland. On the first pass, anyway. Been meaning to try again. Sometimes it helps to let the dust settle a bit.

low blow sorry - IOU some bbq at gonerfest dogg

-- 69, Saturday, August 9, 2008 12:16 AM (Saturday, August 9, 2008 12:16 AM) Bookmark Link

don't think i'm going. getting laid off soon so i'm cutting out extraneous expenditures (i.e. trips out of town for shows, drugs, food, etc.)

if i find a new job soon i might be there, my friends are playing and they said there's room in the van if i want to go but.... dunno.

Eddy Current reminds me of some '80s brit band I can't place

Screaming Blue Messiahs?

I hear feedtime in there too (though feedtime were Aussies, obv)

Not so into the A.H. Kraken LP. I thought it sounded like a more conventional take on Arab on Radar/U.S. Maple style weirdo rock.

"Screaming Blue Messiahs?"

Ooh, good call.

What's coming up? I know that Reatard's having his singles reissued, and that Crystal Antlers EP is gonna be reissued by Touch and Go… What else is worth looking forward to?

new Dead Luke and Zola Jesus singles out sometime soon...

Albums I've liked this year that sorta fit on this thread (in more or less order of preference):

Teacher’s Pet – Teacher’s Pet (Smog Veil)
Ross Johnson – Make It Stop! The Most Of Ross Johnson (Goner)
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Primary Colours (Goner)
Final Solutions – Songs By Solutions (Goner EP ’07)
Jay Reatard – Singles 06-07 (In The Red)
Black Diamond Heavies – A Touch Of Someone Else’s Class (Alive)
Mike & The Ravens – Noisy Boys!: The Saxony Sessions (Zoho Roots)
Lazy Magnet – Is Music Even Good? (Corleone)
Other Fools – 12 More Lies (Of)
Boss Martians – Pressure In The Sodo (MuSick)
Home Blitz – Home Blitz (Gulcher ’07)
Killola – I Am The Messer (Killola/Our)
The Backsliders – You’re Welcome (backsliders.com)
Left Lane Cruiser – Bring Yo’ Ass To The Table (Alive)
Frozen Bears – Hey, That’s a Good Looking Sportcoat! (myspace.com/frozenbears EP ’07)
The Jacknives – Cobra Combat Boots (myspace.com/thejacknives ‘07)
The Architects – Vice (Anodyne)
Horror Pops – Kiss Kiss Kill Kill (Hellcat)

reissues (besides Teachers Pet and Ross Johnson)

The A’s – The Best Of The A’s (Young Philadelphians Music)
Skafish – What’s This?: 1976-1979 (289)
Silver Apples – Silver Apples (Phoenix)
The Individuals – Fields/Aquamarine (Bar None)
Amebix – No Sanctuary (Alternative Tentacles)
Finn and the Sharks – Breakfast Special (UpSouth )
Harem Scarem – Pilgrim’s Progress (Aztec Music)

There's another Silver Apples reissue? Haven't their, what, two albums come out about a thousand times now?

Probably! But I didn't have a copy of them anymore. This is some super limited edition vinyl thing, and I promise to not get rid of it this time.

Also been liking the new Prisonshake twofer (especially the guitars), but it is looong.

Y'know what I love? That Geisha album on Crucial Blast that someone mentioned on the nu-pigfuck thread. Such a mean, muscular ROCKING take on shoegazey stuff; they seem to have the same brutal view on MBV that Paik did live, though this is a lot different than Paik. And burying the vocal so deeply= VERY good idea. Keeps out that annoying tendency for hardcore influenced bands be all "THESE ARE MY FEELINGS! FEEL MY FEELINGS!" when they get all emotional.

If I could switch my login name like old ILX, I'd change it to THESE ARE MY FEELINGS! FEEL MY FEELINGS!

hahaha

anyone going to THIS:

"Forward Music Fest presents

Killdozer

Heroine Sheiks

Bongzilla

Droids Attack

Helliphant

Dick the Bruiser

7:30 PM / cover TBD / 21 and up/ Tickets available through www.forwardmusicfest.com"

That's a six hour drive for me, but I dunno, it's Killdozer!

oh, that's at the High Noon Saloon in Madison, btw

what date?

Sept. 20

Hello Rolling Punk Thread - we are having a discussion of The Radio 1 Punk Show over here, in case you'd not noticed, and your input would be very welcome indeed.

I'm not going to listen to it, but the new Lagwagon CD has a great title: "I Think My Older Brother Used to Listen to Lagwagon."

Anyone going to Fuck Reading Festival tonight? Pisschrist are playing, awesome Aussie noise/discore!

Maybe it belongs on syke/drön/freek, but the new Shit and Shine on Load, Küss mich, meine Liebe, is awesome. Triumphantly listenable. Thing X (Rembrandt Pussyhorse) by way of Thing Y (Brainbombs). Toilet door tits forever.

So going to Killdozer.

BONGZILLA???

I have not heard of Helliphant or Dick the Bruiser... any good?

Had the same response to that lineup. Killdozer? Cool! And Heroine Sheiks, makes sense. Bongzilla?!? And who the fuckr droids attack helliphant dick the bruizer? Were I of Wisconsin, tho, I'd go.

Speaking of fully indie underground, The World's Lousy With Ideas #6 is out. Don't Call It a Shitgaze fun pak. Little Claw track, though kinda catchy, demonstrates that I still don't like them. Eat Skull track demonstrates that they will eventually be songwriters with production concepts. Psychedelic Horseshit deliver. God bless Psychedelic Horseshit.

How do I get that damn World Is Lousy series? Every time I look for any of them, all of their listings are sold out.

Dunno. Pre-order from label? Local store stocks 'em and a friend there lets me know what's coming up.

Wow Pisschrist were super-awesome tonight, it was a squat gig (I kinda should of guessed since it was in the middle of an industrial estate) I got a load of Active Minds records for ludicrously cheap cos they were playing as well.

The Traditional Fools

no, but really

Aw man Killdozer - made a point of seeing them every time they came through
England. Bill(?) Hobson's unique approach to guitar battering was a sight to behold.
And the little man up front, with the voice of 1000 pissed up tramps, barking hilarious verse.

Thanks so much to all of you who have contributed to this thread.

I've got loads and more to track down

Heh. I remember making this pilgrimage to Chicago to see Killdozer, who were opening for Babes In Toyland, at the Metro. We got stuck in traffic and missed 'em and I was mopey for, like, weeks after that. Babes were pretty cool, but (for some reason) I believed that Babes in Toyland and L7 had a feud and I was firmly in the L7 camp.

I was maybe a weird kid.

Just heard that Witch Hats album (Cellulite Soul), and liked it fine on first pass. Odd sometimes how much the lead singer (who I believe is a dude) sounds like Courtney Love.

They're playing at the Fuck Yeah fest, which I've volunteered to write up a show guide for even though I'm gonna be out of town for the goddamned thing. But that means that I'm listening to every band on the bill, and some of it is pretty fun. I like the new Fucked Up album a lot more than I thought I would.

witch hats dude is definitely a dude. i thought they sounded like late 80s college rock, my friend bill said he thought they sounded very "chicago, 1994" which i could hear too. they weren't bad but if i saw they were playing in town it's not like i'd stop looking for something to do.

Jay Reatard Singles 06-07 vinyl has the shortest album sides I own. Just over 8 minutes on sides 1 and 4. What a waste, this could easily have been a single LP. It's not like the sound quality needs to be that improved.

Man, I was dying to get my hands on the new Prisonshake today, but my local record store was already out. The distro dude misunderestimated it's demand in Cleveland. So, instead I'm rocking the back catalog of Della Street and The Roaring Third.

This is an interview with Fucked Up and it is my favourite thing of today: http://lookingforgold.blogspot.com/2008/07/eskorbuto.html

Is feist a real person or it's just Chan Marshall singing in canadian?

new Sic Alps sounds pretty good ... maybe not as good as Description of the Harbor though

Reely? Been meaning to pick it up, but mostly 'cuz the Strawberry Guillotine 45 and the Description LP r so great. Older stuff Much less so.

strawberry guillotine and the united 7" are the best stuff, i think. sometimes, their stuff gets really really samey, in a not-great way.

I've only listened to US EZ once but it sounded great to me.
Anybody like the Hospitals? I need some of their stuff.

Reely?

well I've only listened to it twice so far and I've listened to Description like 20 times so it's not exactly a fair fight. not saying it's bad at all. Description is really super catchy, new one less so.

strawberry guillotine and the united 7" are the best stuff, i think

haven't heard this stuff, I should hunt down that singles comp (are these on there?)

don't really know the Hospitals but that Eat Skull record is so great, I think it's the same guys

Yeah, my buddy was telling me that Hospitals, Eat Skull, and Sic Alps are all related/share members.

Psst, DMR, check Leonardo.

Hospitals = Adam Stonehouse and other people. Eat Skull's Rob Enbom and Rod Meyer have both played in the Hospitals, but aren't current members. Bands don't sound a great deal alike. Stonehouse played in Sic Alps at one time, but again, no longer.

Definitely track down the Strawberry and United singles, though United is a one-sided cover song deal, so seems less essential.

Mencap: Yeah, when I was looking them up, I found that interview and laughed pretty hard. I called my girlfriend over for this part, "Have grey hair and/or are balding and make everyone else feel depressed at shows and worried that they are looking at their own future," and made her validate me (I'm only a little gray!).

Sic Alps remind me of the Latent Chaos tapes that were circulating a couple years ago.

Weird Fucked Up ad for Matador that looks like old Creem profile

aww this dutchess and duke album is so cute!

This might be the best place to point it out, the Nightmare Before Christmas lineup has just had Teenage Jesus & The Jerks added.

I just saw that! London warm up gig pls. Don't think I can afford ATP this year. Definitely can't afford to buy a 4 bed chalet and hope I can fill it like I did 2 years ago (despite that working out perfectly in the end)

This has sold really quickly compared to spring ATPs, certainly. I expect when the long-rumoured Slayer announcement gets made that might be when the last chalets go, although the line-up is already awesome.

getting psyched for this

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/arab-dvd.jpg

Is the AOR performance just a one-off?

no AOR performance just a DVD release party. I srsly doubt those guys would ever get back together.

jazzed about the daughters / white mice / tinsel teeth lineup tho.

I should maybe read the whole flyer before posting in future. It is pretty unlikely now I think about it... can't steer far wrong w/ White Mice tho

in other pvd news, the new landed cd on load is awesome. a comp of all their vinyl-only stuff.

take it to the psych/freak/drone thread

While ILX was down I went to see Messthetics/DIY post punk band Animals & Men, that was pretty good. And the one-off X-Ray Spex gig, at which I timed my arrival well enough to completely miss Goldblade (ugh) supporting. And I'm going to see the Adicts tomorrow. It's all old school round here this week.

I'm not totally living in the past though! I'm going to see Black Lips/King Khan & BBQ Show next Tuesday and the Lords Of Altamont on Thursday.

forgot to mention, vincebus eruptum reunion show is tomorrow

also, motherfuck a psych/freak/drone thread

Tell me about Monotonix. ATP announced, Israeli punk trio.

blah records, beserko live show is the standard line on those guys, no?

More or less - I mean I quite like the Drag City EP but I'm not gonna go see them on the basis of its musical qualities

Is the AOR Vincebus performance just a one-off?

Meal break, then.

think you read us wrong on monotonix - don't miss 'em live but skip the merch table.

I do think the vincebus reunion is a one-off.

Ah, bargain.

Vincebus Eruptum were so goddamn good.
It was a sad day they broke up. It was funny to see their evolution from skanky saxophone rock a la Funhouse to the world's best minimalist heavy metal band. God so good. Their album on Load is incredibly underappreciated.

Went to see the Carcass / Suffocation / Pig Destroyer / 1349 / Aborted / Rotten Sound / Misery Index show yesterday in Baltimore, tons of fun was had. My personal highpoint was shouting out a request for "Infecting the Crypts" and Suffocation immediately played it. Sweeeeet!

How was Carcass? I'm going to their only UK show up in Leeds in November. That should be a good show anyway - it's an all-dayer with Napalm Death, Benediction, Onslaught etc. Although this should probably go on the Rolling Metal thread :P Hey Onslaught & Napalm Death started out as punk bands!

Glad you've cross-polinated the punk and metal threads. I wasn't sure where to mention Funerot. Retro sci-fi/horror thrash. Their Invasion from the Death Dimension album is a good time, and I think the one dude from the band compiled the awesome 'NWOBHM for Freaks' cassette comp.

Billy Bao is SO good.

I got that AH Kraken finally. I hear what ya'll are saying about "Hey, it's no Brainbombs, no Flipper" and "What's all this late 90's weird rock shit?", but it has some totally kick ass songs, too. Driving, simple, mid tempo rock drumming is what lots of that late 90's stuff could have used, and the songs that work (like "Black Borny")really work. Plus, French has got to be the best furious rant language around.

Julian Cope is right about the Gunslingers.

xpost Carcass started really strong, first third of the set was blinding, but their guitarist's solos were kinda tired in the slower tunes (i.e. I never liked the "heartwork" album) and their onstage banter made em sound a teensy bit bitter about the way that "Reek of Putrefaction" upstages the rest of their output. But it's fucking Carcass and the mosh pit gets crazy when they are chugging at full speed, so I would say go see em.

Oh I'm definitely going to see them, that's not in question :) I'm probably more psyched about finally seeing Napalm Death since they already cancelled one show I was going to see them at this year.

Man have I have been missing this thread.

Opinions on the new Human Eye LP? I've only had time for about a listen and a half, but it hasn't been rocking me quite as expected.

the first song on the new human eye is great, but the rest of it sort of faded into same-y territory. ill jam it this weekend some more, though, probably...

their song on that weird detroit comp is rul rul good though!

this is reaaaallly old punk:

but damn i found this CD and i forgot how much it makes me love life!

http://www.epitonic.com/art/artists/thememphisgoons/teenagebbq_cover250.jpg

xp to 69: Yeah that's a bit how I felt. I was pretty into the first one and then the rec just faded into the background of whatever else I was doin'...sort of felt like they weren't trying.

Will listen more, though.

Also I have never hard these Memphis GOONS

Speaking of old punk, I just bought this on a whim having heard nothing about it:

http://i21.ebayimg.com/01/c/04/6f/d0/ce_8.JPG

Liking it more and more and more on every listen.

i mean well the name seems promising right?

Satan's Rats were from Evesham! That's down the road from where I'm from. You Make Me Sick is a banger.

Yeah, my eyes popped when I saw the cover, and the $5.00 price tag was a clincher.

Er, THE clincher...or something...

hey so ive read a few things about siltbreeze's slate of releases for the next six months - tyvek and der TPK coming this year, and psychedelic horseshit and pink reason in early '09. anyone have any more details on those or other releases? i think tom lax talked a bit about it on brian turner's show the other week, but i dont wanna scan the whole show looking for it because im laaaaaaazy

You Make Me Sick is a perfect punk song.

And actually, only yesterday I picked up "I'm so Attractive" by the Photos, which is Satan's Rats gone new wave with some chick called Wendy Wu on vocals. It's obviously not You Make Me Sick, but it's fun.

Perhaps a Titmachine LP on Siltbreeze?

i havent heard that 7"; the description left me a lil cold. is it good?

My sister's ex-boyfriend used to work with the ex-singer of Satan's Rats. It's a true story.

whoa youre basically in the band LOL

I know, right?

I listened to the Goons on a road trip last weekend. Love em.
The Eddy Current Suppression Ring PRIMARY COLOURS lp is one of the best things I've heard all year, can't get enough.

I have been rocking so hard to Primary Colours.

I've only heard the first Titmachine 7". There's a neat Stooges cover, but the A side is the keeper. It isn't too far from Billy Bao's Accumulation mercifully squished into a minute. Except with scary barking Teutonic chicks.

Woah I have never heard of the Memphis Goons! I have to check this out...

The Eddy Current Suppression Ring PRIMARY COLOURS lp is one of the best things I've heard all year, can't get enough.

― Trip Maker, Friday, September 12, 2008 3:31 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

really?? i was totally underwhelmed on first listen. its one of the few termbo-y things ive gotten this year and immediately thought of ebaying.

I'm way behind the times here, but recently bought one of the Career Suicide anthologies, thanks to this thread I think - or maybe not. Certainly from this site.

It sounds like Jerry's Kids/The Freeze ie. a corker from 1982

What sets it apart for me ,apart from the singer's brutally sore throat snotty attack, is the non artificially sustained guitars. Just plugged in and turned to 11 sans box trickery.

Any more in this vein?

xpost:
That Titmachine 7" is probably one of the worst things I've heard from Siltbreeze. One of the things about Siltbreeze I love is that so much of it feels so natural, and the production doesn't feel pretentious at all (I know a lot disagree with me), but this just felt so fucking forced. They were trying so hard to be part of the club when they recorded that thing.

Yeah Career Suicide are pretty great, and I managed to miss them TWICE this summer for various reasons, meh.

new Zola Jesus single is great.

pete, you got a golden ticket right? that lp is gonna be killer.

yeah i got a golden ticket to gonerfest - is that what you mean? what LP?

are you going?

no, not going, i finally found out the exact date i'm getting laid off so.... anyway, this from eric o:

Um, oh yes. Jah willing, Golden Pass buyers will not only receive entry to all events, but also an lp with tracks from

Static Static
Intelligence
Barbaras
Dan Melchior
Earthmen & Strangers
Eric & The Happy Thoughts
TVK
No Comply
Turpentine Brothers
Black Time
Touch-Me-Nots
Sector Zero
Twinkle VanWinkle
Wizzards Sleeve
AV Murder
Mouserocket
Eric & The Happy Thoughts

bring it.

aww man, sorry i wont see you. ill tape that LP though, dogg. looks promising!

memphis goons

Note to "punk" or non-indie underground rock promoters - do not organise gigs at Heaven, it fucking sucks.

Saw Black Lips & King Khan & BBQ Show there last night - maybe 3 people stagedived during Black Lips and they cut the PA, house lights up. Security were total cunts, the band just carried on playing through the stage monitors/amps. Of course after that loads of people were getting up and stage diving and getting dragged off by bouncers, even the band were getting manhandled.

And £4.40 for a can of warm lager? Fuck off.

The Muslims have a new single coming out, with their Spacemen 3 cover as the b-side. You can listen to it here http://www.ihaterocknroll.com/discography.html

anybody catch lightning bolt in brooklyn last weekend?

I am watching the Arab On Radar DVD mentioned upthread. It is pretty funny and the snippets of performance are cool. One of them describes himself and his bandmates as "white trash". They hide it quite well if that's the case.

http://akamai-static.nme.com/images/thums/08923_104134_nmecoverfuckedupL230908.jpg

There was no orgy of destruction the one time I saw them. Not even a stubbed toe.

http://akamai-static.nme.com/images/thums/08923_104134_nmecoverfuckedupL230908.jpg

God I really hate most people posing for music mag covers

Or wait maybe I love them...hhmmm...

this bears repeating... tonight!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/arab-dvd.jpg

heard the blank dogs record at a friends...wow...so good....

very joy division to me, but in a really cool way not in that way that bands that are supposed to sound like joy division just sound like new wave bands with digital delay pedals, some echo and the bunnymen records, and a poncy goth singer dude

bought the blank dogs today...i am in love! nice yellow vinyl too.

You found the vinyl?!?!! That is out of print as hell. Sacred Bones just released a CD version, which I bought. It really is one of the best things from this year. He's dating the guitarist from Vivian Girls too!

TMU repressed the LP just this week I believe. Or last week, or something.

available for mailorder @ academymailorder.blogspot.com </self promotion>

daaaammnnnnnnn. Oh well, I guess the CD is good enough. That reminds me, I should go to Academy this weekend...

well damn they finally got that damn dillinger four record done : )

http://www.myspace.com/dillingerfour

So how about this Gories/Oblivians reunion I'm hearing rumors of? Any details yet? Full tour, or just some shows?

one show in Memphis, one in Detroit!!! Then they appear to be hammering out details on a European tour, per Greg O on the Goner Board.

i am so rocking 2nite

FRIDAY OCTOBER 3RD @ TURF CLUB

THE INTELLIGENCE
BLIND SHAKE
MUTE ERA
ZOMBIE SEASON

Speaking of the Oblivions, Jack O and the Tennesse Tearjerkers are playing tonight in my town. And there's a band called Snake Eyes with them that Jim Dickinson is in, I guess?! I gotta check it out.

sounds like BOX ELDERS are putting together a south/east US tour. check them out - they are CRUCIAL.

they appear to be hammering out details on a European tour

Can I just take this opportunity to teach half the thread posters' grandmothers to suck eggs by saying how FUCKING exhilarating it is to listen to Landed at nasty ass volume. Thanks!

I hope you're listening to the "Everything's Happening" LP. That's the real shit.

Nah, the new Load comp (specifically the 3" CD of new shit that comes with it)

intelligece were so great...they were really happy cuz michael yonkers came to see them and they shouted him out from the stage as "one of america's greatest songwriters"....then the blind shake tore the fucking house down

Has anyone else heard this Davila 666 album on In the Red? Young garage rockers in the vein of Black Lips (but singing in Spanish), from San Juan, Puerto Rico... I am loving this.

I've looked at it a bunch, but haven't picked it up yet. Looks cool.

New Rusted Shut single is out. Haven't grabbed that up yet, either.

Whatever happened to Contenderizer? I liked that guy.

(btw S-S Records has the Karate Party LP for 7 bucks, and the two first A Frames albums for 5 dollars each! Get that shit!)

Blimey. I guess they repressed those A Frames albums cos they used to be quite expensive on Ebay.

oh nice i need those a-frames records

wait did you get them direct from s-s???

Link?

http://207.228.243.82/ss/cat.html

It says "as of 10.12.08", so I'm assuming he's got them in stock. I've only ordered from him once before (the Monoshock comp, which is also CRUCIAL and cheap as hell, and the first Z-Gun(also awesome)), but it was super quick and awesome. I haven't actually ordered these yet since I'm waiting on a new debit card.

Damn, I want that Hugh Blanc's Joyless Ones, too. And I still haven't ordered Z-Gun 2.

Can I just take this opportunity to teach half the thread posters' grandmothers to suck eggs by saying how FUCKING exhilarating it is to listen to Landed at nasty ass volume. Thanks!

― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 4 October 2008 19:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

yeah, the landed comp is getting slept on big time, which is a shame cuz it's awesome. it's not just a vinyl reissue comp, there are a bunch of old unreleased tracks on it. I'm obsessed with that opening track, "bahdi odor".

I recently heard some newer unreleased stuff from landed - they're getting weirder, 70s sci-fi soundtrack and italo disco influences creeping in.

Anyone else listening to Wavves? I love this stuff. Plus dude's got a cool rap blog

i feel like kind of a bitch because it's a big pitchfork hype record...

but the new Fucked Up is really great!

it's nice to hear some burly shouty punk shit with an arty edge to it

Just pretend Pitchfork doesn't exist. I've never read it but people who would say you're lame for liking a band that Pitchfork hypes are kinda lame themselves no?

Also xpost yeah I like the Wavves album.

yeah i know i'm just being a dork about it. but album is great!

i knew i would like it when some friends of mine that are super hardcore stalwarts were like "man fucked up sucks now, they are so over" haha

Does Nodzzz count as non-indie underground? I have dug the songs of theirs I have been hearing.

DRUNKDRIVER

heard the band Head of Skulls at a friend's house...good stuff

http://www.myspace.com/headofskullssounds

Does Nodzzz count as non-indie underground? I have dug the songs of theirs I have been hearing.

― Savannah Smiles, Sunday, November 9, 2008 11:59 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i really like those nodzzz records!

upcoming 2K8R"P"(on-iu)RT releases im very excited about:

christmas island/meth teeth split on sacred bones
christmas island LP on in the red
new blank dogs 12" on woodsist
world's lousy with ideas vol 3 7" repress
nobunny hozac 7"
meth teeth tour cassette (sold out but coming back out on ick ick)
nerve city cassette and 7" (on their way to me, supposedly!)
pink reason splits with hue blanc and electric bunnies
also id love more from girls of the gravitron

Hi, all! Been gone cuz of, well ... gone. And haven't been buying many records due to my great wealth of no money. But anyway, am half tempted to agree with 69 on the slight underwhelmingness of Primary Colors. Loved that Iron Lung 45 with Demon's Demand's & I'm Guilty - my first exposure to ECSR. Was expecting a bit more of that locked-in, dead-eyed thuggery from the LP. It's a good record, don't get me wrong, but I'm having a hard time calling it a great one.

The Muslims "Parasite" single really IS great, and better than the LP in the same way as that ECSR 45: tougher, tighter, sharper. B-side Spacemen 3 cover is fantastic, too, one of the best I've ever heard. Hope they keep getting better at this rate.

Good stuff recently from Hozac, esp "Scorpio" on that D&D 45s & the Jacuzzi Boys EP. Nice that neither sounds at all like "synth-punk". "Jumping Jack Flash Drive" kind of killed by buzz on the r2d2 stuff.

Harlem Free Drugs LP is nice, though it slots in maybe a little too easily with the likes of Black Lips, Jacuzzi Boys, etc (with maybe some Blood On the Wall flavor, who I don't even like). Still, energetic, dumb, distinctive songs, pyschedelic tits.

Re: 69's post immediately above: WANT! Want Lousy #3, want more Nobunny, Blank Dogs, Pink Reason and Electric Bunnies. And, yeah, curious about Girls of the Grav, who intrigue me to no end. Don't love the "Malthusian Love Song" single overall, but "When I'm Dead" gets stuck in my head for days.

Finally, not sure what to make of Christmas Island. Haven't seen 'em live, but dug their World's Lousy tune - less so the stuff on that Jonathan Reilly split. JR took that one easily, just like they did that LP split with Black Sunday a while back. Wanna hear more of them/him.

Oh yeah, about Landed. What am I missing here? Bought the Parts Unknown split with Snake Apartment, but thought they came up short, and I only half like (half tolerate) Snake Apartment. I guess the sound is kinda cool, but I don't see how they're doing anything interesting with it.

Are Abe Vigoda any good? I have ticket for Mika Miko tomorrow and they're supporting, but I have shitty horrible cold at the mo and might just turn up late.

I wanna be in NYC :(

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oiqX5n8r3SY/STRMCW9PNPI/AAAAAAAAHIQ/UuIuE1qsVcs/s1600-h/A-7_flyer_rev_11x17-1(1).jpg

OK that flyer didn't show for some reason, maybe this one will:

http://a472.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/11/l_a8865087b877abf7d6891ba7d446813f.jpg

oh man i'd love to see mika miko live.

i got a harlan t. bobo record cuz i saw cartwright was on it..good stuff!

Bought the new (recent?) Sex/Vid 12" the other day. (Are they Sex/Vid now? Were they always? I thought they were just Sex Vid.) Anyway, it's pretty damn good, though a little shy of great. Best thing they've done is still probably "Exorcism" of the 2nd 7", and the best songs here (about half) are in that vein. Like 'em a hell of a lot better when they mix the fast up with slow & heavy breakdowns, sorta like "No One" off the Necros Conquest for Death. Worth it for "Cleansing", "Authority of Scripture" and "Communal Living".

when I see the guys from landed and snake apt tonight I'll tell them they need to step up their game, ha.

actually I don't have the time right now to get into why landed is righteous but I will soon, with accompanying audio, video, and pie chart examples.

in other pvd news, new (old) six finger satellite release is imminent and I hear made in mexico's latest is reet.

NEW MARKED MEN SONGS UP ON MYSPACE, LET'S CELEBRATE! : ) : ) : )

http://www.myspace.com/themarkedmen

This is for 2009 if we're the hair-splittin' kind but Secretly Canadian are putting the currently totally OOP Zero Boys back catalogue out early next year. They'd been stuck on my 'get round to listening to' list for a while but holy moly they have so many great songs, especially when in quasi-powerpop mode

HAD so many great songs, I guess!

Sex/Vid 12" should be with me by Christmas too, sweet.

Has anyone heard the Failures LP on Clean Plate, while I'm here? Das Oath, Orchid, Charles Bronson dudes. Trying to find a way of getting it while paying less than £1 per minute of music

the sex vid 12" is so so so good. sounds much more focused than anything else i have of theirs (i have three 7"s, but not the first 7" or the cassette). it sounds like dark hardcore, but juuuuuuuuust shy of where dark hardcore fades into noize.

the three newest hozac singles are all good-to-very good. i think i like grave blankets best, then medication, then subtle turnhips, but it changes every day. very excited for the forthcoming nobunny 7".

Be great if those Zero Boys reissues include the Livin' in the 80'S ep. It's on KBD #4 anyway, but I'd love to have it on 7"!

Yeah, more I listen to the Sex Vid, more I like it. First couple spins I thought it was cool, but less immediate than I wanted. I dunno, it always takes me a while to get right with things. Now that I've given it a chance to sink in, I'd say it's by far teh best thing they've done. Still love Exorcism though.

Plus also Love Tan

http://www.secretlycanadian.com/onesheet.php?cat=SC189 <--- Livin' In the 80s is on here in full amirite?

Ah - yes it is. But I'd still love it as a 7". Just for added 7"ness.

And I just caught the latter half of a Municipal Waste show at Camden Underworld. Soooooo much fun.

"This one is about ripping your own face off!" [cue Headbanger Face Rip]

I should've made more effort to try and see them in Bristol last night but have so little inclination to interact with live sweatiness after ATP. I assume you didn't see any of Iron Lung, who were supporting, then? Pretty killer powerviolencegrind they kick out

I didn't catch them, no. With only two bands on the bill, I figured I'd catch a bit of Iron Lung if I turned up around 9:30, but for whatever reason, Municipal Waste were already on and well into their set! It was all over by about quarter past ten. Retarded.

uh, total abuse. fucking hell. first of the new "SOUNDS LIKE BLACK FLAG" bands i've heard that kicks my ass. they don't sound like black flag, really, but they do kick my ass.

http://www.myspace.com/totalabuse

Yeah this basically rules.