Rolling punk / non-indie underground thread 2010

I thought about buying a jumper today but didn't see one I liked enough so I reckon I'm going to buy the White Wards demo tape and Airfix Kits single instead.

What about YOU?

WOOHOO

the white wards songs on that link sound rad. i think you might like slobs (www.myspace.com/slobsmtl) mr. dj mencap.

Any of you dudes heard HOT GUTS outta Philly? Their 7" is pretty good, thick guitar murk rock.

Screaming Females singles compilation is coming out this year and they're playing a show with JEFF the Brotherhood in Feb at Bowery Ballroom I think? So pumped.

the new myelin sheaths 7" is great. reminds me a bit of the poppier songs off the first no age album, but a lot less gloomy.

i recently listened to 'king of jeans' for the first time and i'm really glad i did. i passed on the band after hearing 'hope for men,' which i didn't like because it was just so fucking aimless. anyways it's cool to hear they're finally rocking out and embracing sweet sweet release.

King of Jeans is my fave Pissed, easily. It roools.
Curious about Myelin Sheaths, mostly cuz of the name.

anyone going to the DNA TEST FEST III April 3rd in Baltimore?

current line-up:

* Pissed Jeans
* Psychedelic Horseshit
* Home Blitz
* Lamps
* Sightings
* Religious Knives
* Homostupids
* Pygmy Shrews
* Birds of Maya
* The Chickens (mem. of FNU Ronnies)
* Slave Scene (mem. of Cult Ritual)
* Neon Blud
* Twin Stumps
* Leather
* Broken Neck
* Useless Children

Wow @ Chaos In Tejas 2010:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_muU_91Ry6q0/S1b_4JO0j_I/AAAAAAAABhw/VcDNayshPwU/s1600-h/flier2010.jpg

erm

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/chaos2010.jpg

holy shit

Cripes that looks pretty awesome.

anybody ever seen ty segall play? i'm curious

Chaos In Tejas looks bonkers

When the hell are Bone Awl gonna come to the UK btw

Is that a reunion gig for A Frames? I thought they were broken up and one of them was in the Intelligence now or something.

This is a question that needs answering IMO

(xpost)

also, POISON IDEA?! the aussie X? madness!!

A Frames: there's this new Sub Pop record coming out AfCGT, which is A Frames and Climax Golden Twins do noise stuff together. Don't know the status of the band as a separate unit. Poison Idea without Pig Champion? Also, didn't one of them go to jail or something?

I've got the AFCGT 10" and it is cool. Been a while since I've spun it.

also, POISON IDEA?! the aussie X? madness!!

can't see Madness on that poster

Poison Idea without Pig Champion - wouldn't be the first time, they'd played without him prior to his death.

Wish I'd seen them at CBGB's in 2002 with the Nihilistics & SFA - I happened to be on holiday in NYC at the time. Even went to CBGB's a night or 2 after they played.

I read that it's the A-Frames without Lars (busy with the Intelligence).

I thought the guy from Rorschach had cancer. He got better?

Granted I heard that many years ago, who knows if it was even true.

Hey I was right but the timeline was off, it was when the band was still active: http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n10/htdocs/charles-maggio-157.php

(sorry for triple posting)

anybody ever seen ty segall play? i'm curious

― Brio, Friday, January 22, 2010 3:39 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

he plays the bay area all the time -- definitely catch him, he's v v good live.

The Raspberry Bulbs tape, which I think you can still buy (and it's ~~out there~~ if not), is pretty great and relevant to this thread. It's one the two guys from Bone Awl, and bears a certain resemblance to Bone Awl, but runs with their mongoloid garage/oi/d-beat side - can only hear black metal influence in the vokills (as I believe the kids call them). Had me thinking of some really fucked take on Coachwhips or Doo Rag more than anything. Anyway yeah, worth hearing

still don't hear oi! in bone awl. i'd like some seriously oi!-influenced black metal.

"really fucked take on ... doo rag" (or anyone remembering doo rag at all) = chequebook time imo

(though cassette recorder is bust, have failed to steal my parents' which they never use, suspicious of second-hand ones but apparently supposed obsolescence means not cheap leftovers but specialist market prices for new stock - ah well)

technically late 2009 but this neon blud tape is some v good early sonic youth punk songs. coming out on 7" some time this year apparently.

everyone love doo rag!!

some friends of mine had this band a couple years ago, finally getting some recorded stuff sorted out..called Group Icky Rats...this is pretty dope IMO, nice wierd short blast of atonal keyboards:

http://coattailrecords.com/groupickyrats/dailies/08%20At%20The%20Munitions%20Plant.mp3

Punk/underground stuff going on this week in London:

Zounds/Astronauts - anarcho-punks playing at Proud Camden on Tuesday
The Ex & Brass Unbound - Tufnell Park Dome on Wednesday

I'm going to both of these but the Zounds gig seems to be quite under-promoted, I only found out about it this weekend.

The Ex were a total blast two days ago, 100% endorsed by this reporter

so I guess this is the thread where I talk about how I came in late to those Billy Bao albums and really dig them even though they're old news now. same lo-fi raw hate vibe that I get from Harry Pussy, but more dull and bludgeoning which works for me.

The Ex live make a lot of bands seem like they are just bullshitting.

xp re: billy bao

yeaaaaaaaah!

my favorite is the "fuck separation" 10-inch

the ex live make EVERYONE seem like they are bullshitting

haha tru

hi strongo! :)

tho i prefer them when they are just the ex rather than the ex plus whatever friends happened to come along on this tour (which is admittedly part of their thing, so i can't hate)

hello!

would also cut off something precious to go to that chaos in tejas thing

i really wanna see the ex + brass unbound, cuz i love the vandermark 5 and his other "rock" thing powerhouse sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvVrLVeepUc

The last two DNA Test Fests have been broadcasted live on 88.1 FM / wmucradio.com worldwide, and this year will be no different.

x-post to Jan. 22 posting above

http://207.228.243.82/ss/chinese-river.jpg

^^ what are this lot like?

had a 7" label sticker for one of their singles tossed in with a recent SS mail order, and the artist/title combo made me laugh.
anyway, there's a myspace, but the sound on my laptop is fucked.

Anyone lent an ear to John Sharkey of Clockcleaner's new band Puerto Rico Flowers yet?

anyone heard the dutchess and the duke? not punk - but running in garage circles. whole album sounds like sitting on a fence-style stones. I like it.

excited about the new Clipd Beaks, supposed to be a heavy Drums Not Dead vibe

I'm seeing Clipd Beaks next week, will report back, if folks want?

yeah definitely.

i saw them a bunch early on when they still lived in mpls and frankly they were kinda dumb dicks live, all cutoff sleeves and not much musicwise to me

but later stuff i've heard sound great, and a friend i trust says the new albums is the jam

Played with them once, I think they had just moved to Cali. They were pretty good, but sorta style over substance. I'm glad to see them making a name for themselves, though.

They were pretty good, but sorta style over substance.

I've seen them a few times since they moved to the Bay Area, and thought this as well.

Anyone lent an ear to John Sharkey of Clockcleaner's new band Puerto Rico Flowers yet?

i did and i don't think i get it yet. it sounds like killdozer playing depeche mode songs.

http://www.myspace.com/kitchensfloor

^^these guys are good. poppy lo-fi junk with kind of non-plussed but yelly vocals. Can ysi their album if anyone's interested.

Kitchen's Floor rec is great. Listened to it in the car a ton while in AU last month. Killer.

that's right you played in brisbane ( i live in the desert basically and am barely ever home, would've totally come if i was around). I met D@n L3w!s the other night, didn't he organise that or something? Nice guy.

Yeah, Dan was great if it's the same dude I'm thinkin of. Brisbane was amazing. Really fun night. K Floor dude was out too. Really, really like that record.

There are two new Halo of Flies EPs... and an LP. and they're digital-only. Har Mar Superstar does backing vocals on one of them. Uh.

And so far they're sounding kinda like the St. Anger of Halo of Flies.

Anyone lent an ear to John Sharkey of Clockcleaner's new band Puerto Rico Flowers yet?

i did and i don't think i get it yet. it sounds like killdozer playing depeche mode songs.

― international slackness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:12 PM (1 week ago)

This is correct, but I would have to add "...and it sounds FUCKING AWESOME." Spent a lot of time listening to that, over the course of the last few weeks. The line I keep hearing and reading is "it sounds like a Skinhead crying." Sounds good, to me!

just checked out a myspace of a band called Pyrite from Chicago? Pretty cool Go4, Shellacky stuff...anyone know them?

We played with them a couple of years ago, they seemed pretty cool. I probably still have their demo CD around here somewhere.

Hey Wilter, I'll take you up on that ysi.

okay finally got the new Clipd Beaks...this is kinda fucking amazing actually. they done grown up!

rolling punk thread dudes should love the purling hiss lp from last year. endless ascending guitar solos with tonnes of chrome-ey phaser and some vocals really low in the mix. just a really good really thick guitar album. apparently it's one of the dudes from moon duo who did it all himself.

Man, he's got ANOTHER side project?

2010 so far i've liked (to varying to degrees) diarrhea planet, nothing people, butcher cover, myelin sheaths, young governor, balaclavas, lamps, useless eaters. a couple will-be-huge 7"s coming out of montreal early march on psychic handshake, will post about them once they're out.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/02/stupid_party_ar.php

good write-up & interview by our very own whiney g. stupid party are my faves.

What have Young Governor put out this year? Loved the first 7" and 12", definitely a guy I'm excited about.

rolling punk thread dudes should love the purling hiss lp from last year.

I downloaded it and I'm loving it (thx 4 tip), though it sounds more like High Speed & The Afflicted Man or something, not so punk to me. But then I guess The Afflicted Man was kinda punk, kinda psych, so whatever. Anyway, yeah, it's good as hell. Is Birds of Maya (the guy's other other band?) worth checking out?

ya it's not punk, but i've never really checked out the psych thread and it is like, lo-fi wild shit, which encapsulates a lot of what gets posted here. love birds of maya, highly recommended esp if you like garage rock.

i do! and i feel stupid for not checking out what is apparently a local band. i'll just blame it on there being like 80 "birds of" bands.

<3 whiney's brooklyn column for sightings and now stupid party! does whiney like drunkdriver? pygmy shrews?

ok just did some research and i think my young governor is in fact a 2009 release. i bought it off him at a fucked up show and he told me it was 'ya ya it's new' but who knows what that means anyway. but he's already released a 7" this year according to his myspace.

The Purling Hiss LP was one of my three or four favorite records, last year. Snarling, totally annihilated, wailing tunes. Brilliant. Even better than the Birds of Maya LP, for sure.

The Young Governor thing I have is on Static Shock from the UK, it came out like the middle of last year

Oh oh and I knew there was something I had to tell the class: new Eddy Current Suppression Ring! It is a top drawer banger imo

Can't wait for that^

I really think 2010 is going to be the year for JEFF the Brotherhood. Has anyone else heard them? Fucking incredible.

ya, heavy days is great. do they have something coming out?

oh man the bay area has been providing me with lots of stuff:

No Babies: kind of post-punk but really frenetic and hc as fuck when they want to be. distorted sax! amazing live show: http://www.myspace.com/nobabies

Tiny Knives: from Portland, totally kill it live. Play "Lights in the Sky." http://www.myspace.com/tinyknives

Grass Widow: sort of reminds me of something that HeartattaCk would have put out, but more weird and surfy and less blatantly political. also you should know them, they are blowing up. http://www.myspace.com/grasswidowmusic

there are more, of course, but i am tired. one that is unsearchable is this band WORK, whom i saw play in a bus a few weeks back, and who just fucking killlllled it.

xp no, but I keep going to their shows, and I usually don't love music like this but the more I see them the more I'm like "Oh shit, these guys are fucking incredible"

I thunk JEFF the Brotherhood have just signed an English label deal (can't remember who with) which suggests something coming out.

think

i eat cannibals - webmaild 2 u

okay, WORK: http://www.myspace.com/workishard (their first show was in a cave. i saw them in the legendary converted bus that's usually parked outside apgar)

and on thursday, STRIPMALL SEIZURES: http://www.myspace.com/stripmallseizures (who are just like WOAH live, so good)

i'm really loving no babies, works and tiny knives. thx mr. table.

awesome! the punk scene out here continues to thrive, so happy i'm here.

Eddy Current Suppression Ring "rush to relax"

so fucking good. The world sleeps as this band rules.

I also enjoy that Fucked Up singles double LP. Its old stuff but came out in the oh-ten.

I was going to post a link to my friend's band but to be frank they are shit. They play ska punk dub with immature anarcho politics and are quite popular on the manchester punk scene. (lol I could literally be describing any number of bands from that scene and that description would always be accurate).
I like this thread though I've been needing to hear some new music and this has some great selections esp JEFF the brotherhood.

it's 2009 thread material but MAYYORS is my favorite shit right now. Found the 12" reissue of the Deads e.p. (What else have they put out? I know it's all OOP R4R3 anyway.)

Jeff the Brotherhood sound kind of by-the-numbers to me, I don't really get it. Plenty of people seem to love em though. (Not just this thread, some of my IRL friends have recommended em too ...)

there's a 7" too, though i only have it on mp3. i can send it to you if you want, it took me months to find on soulseek.

would definitely want! thx

dmr3345 at gmail

got it. you rock

I think there's one other 7" besides that one ("Megan's Lolz")

no problem, glad it worked! i`ll keep an eye out for that 7". this band is way too good to have only released 8 songs.

Whiney were you at the Stupid Party/JEFF/Screaming Females show last week?

yeah mayyors discog is

marines dot com 7"
megan's lolz 7"
deads 12"

I had fun impersonating them for a couple of weeks on facebook

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I know that the Ty Segall And Mikal Cronin "Reverse Shark Attack" LP came out late 2009, but I just heard it and keep playing it over and over. It's soo good to the ears.

Loving Young Governor's Cat Dies 7"
Looks busy this year..

young governor - call me when the cat dies 7" (criminal iq)
young governor - beat of my heart 7" (tic tac totally)
young governor - bedtime stories 7" (southpaw records)
young governor - pizza face 7" (april77 records)
young governor - big village/the married man 7" (TBA)
young governor & the under 5's - 10" (TBA)

the nerve city LP (2007-08 recordings, so you mightve heard em already) is so so so so good just like everything else dude has done. up there with guinea worms 2LP for my favorite P/N-IU release of the year so far!

Where'd you get that list, van smack? Is there a good resource that lists upcoming stuff?

It came from his myspace page, which has a HUGE list of future releases. Not all by Young Governor, but other projects as well.

http://www.myspace.com/younggovernor

Wilter—Got it! Cheers!

I gotta get back out to seeing new bands in LA, but I'm on the west side and it's such a fucking trek… Any recs? Underground Railroad To Candyland is still my favorite find in the last couple years, but I don't even know if they're still around, and the last time I saw Indian Jewelry, I had to go out to fucking Irvine anyway. (I ask here, because I'm fucking sick of how every music discussion is really a proxy discussion on how fucking cool you are here, and it makes me want to stab.)

(By "I ask here, because I'm fucking sick of how every music discussion is really a proxy discussion on how fucking cool you are here, and it makes me want to stab," I meant "…on how fucking cool you are in LA…")

that's ok, it applies to ILM too

the nerve city LP (2007-08 recordings, so you mightve heard em already) is so so so so good just like everything else dude has done. up there with guinea worms 2LP for my favorite P/N-IU release of the year so far!

― 69, Tuesday, March 2, 2010 4:31 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

The Nerve City LP is all kinds of up my alley, but that Guinea Worms shit was exhausting for me. And I don't mean that in a good way. Hugely disappointing.

from what i heard i'm not totally groovin with guinea worms' vocals, like a more earnest nomeansno kinda jokey-style.

i feel like i've heard too much of a Nerve City style thing as of recent, and find it kinda eh....

but Young Governor! love the Cat Dies 7", too.

Hoping the new Harlem is as good as Free Drugs - wasn't really that into their tune on Cosloy's Austin comp

i've got it it's not as good

maybe it'll, uh... grow on me? kind of a weird thing to say about a silly garage rock band.

they still kick ass, i just really love the first album and though "hippies" has got some real jams, there are like five or six songs that are just boring and no good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SeRyU4H2CQ&feature=youtube_gdata

That's too bad. I'll buy it anyway, though. This band brings out the cheerleader in me for some reason. Like to see them be the Girls of 2010...but I doubt they'll ever write a song as good as "Lust For Life" or "Hellhole Ratrace" or "Summertime" or...

I went to a pretty decent gig a couple of days ago and now have new bands (at least to me) to recommend. The two I liked best were described on the flyer like so:

PICORE
"jagged discordant rock from Zaragoza, harsh yet danceable. Pretty damn good if you ask me. Fans of Jesus Lizard, King Crimson and Shellac should buzz of these guys. Funky"
http://www.myspace.com/picorelaposturaperfecta

OX SCAPULA
"Noisy angular rock from stoke-on-trent (lol), Loud as fuck and stupidly good. Think Slint, Polvo, Early Sonic Youth and Unwound with a side portion of Oatcakes"
www.myspace.com/oxscapula

I doubt they'll ever write a song as good as "Lust For Life" or "Hellhole Ratrace" or "Summertime" or...

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 8:59 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

"south of france" is way better than all of those songs imo

I agree about that new Harlem, sadly. Not too good. The new Strange Boys is a let down in a similar way.

I've heard some good things about Ox Scapula as well xxp

http://vimeo.com/9500901

Ty Segall/Mikal Cronin video

woah that harlem song is great! never paid attention to em before, had them mixed up with that band bronx, who kinda sucked as I remember it

tonight saw some good shit...and myspace isn't helping me.

but AMERICAN SPLITS are the jam, there's a 20-second long video on youtube that is okay, not really representative tho.

also: SISTERFUCKER. 3rin (who also plays in WORK mentioned above) as well as High Castle and Child Pornography does drums (per usual amazing) and van3ssa is on insane guitar drone/feedback (but smart and weirdly tuneful). blew me away last week...

finally, this band called OPT OUT. really jagged hc, loved their opening set.

also, did people know that FANG got back together? for some reason i slept on it.... i am kind of thinking of going to see them live next weekend, but can it ever get better than this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNmx1r0Cx8M

god the guitarist for fang just shreds so hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otV-qSh7aVY

posted this previously elsewhere, but i <3 these guys.

Young Governor "Hidden Love" thing from last year is a jam or five, thanks to this thread for alerting me to its existence

also digging the Myelin Sheaths too, this is the best thread for recommendations

that fang clip is so hott

the new album by the bitters has left me a little underwhelmed. it's faster and a little... punkier? it's good, but i like the ep more. but i'll probably totally reverse this in a week.

Haha. Was just coming here to post about the Bitters. I just heard their two songs from his myspace. I want to hear the whole thing
I think "Wild Beast" is awesome.
http://www.myspace.com/bittersband

"wooden glove" was one of my favourite releases from last year, what's the deal with this album? is it out already or just leaked?

I think it comes out in April -- mexican summer label

It's leaked, too. At the "All, Everyone, United" blog.

Which is leak central.

oh YEAH! Thanks

ok these new songs are fucking incredible. not necessarily an improvement per se since the debut was pretty untouchable, but faster and punkier is a good move imo. the blown out punk bit at the end of 'travellin band' and the guitar solo in 'wild beast'! this is a really nice pick-up after relatively dissapointing followups from harlem & strange boys.

holy fuck this place is leak central

just here to say that TATERBUG blew me away tonight. tape-loop insanity and nasty nasty lo-fi cover songs. http://www.myspace.com/stayfarout

the new-ish LAMPS 7" that's up on All Everyone is dope, and that bitters album is making my week.

going to see HIGH CASTLE (http://www.myspace.com/highcastleyayyay) with Daniel Higgs (of Lungfish fame) and some other peeps on thursday...

Taterbug is gonna be in my neck of the woods pretty soon, I'm stoked.
Not sure if the new Nothing People fits in this thread or psych/drone/freak, but I have been enjoying it.

Do you guys like Tacocat? All my friends do, and I thought it was just coz they played in N3w Brunsw1ck last year (which is always how it goes re: my friends liking bands), but I've seen other people with their shirts and a friend in Seattle recommended them to me, etc. Can't remember if I saw them or not. I'm pretty sure that I did but that it wasn't all that memorable.

gonna see taterbug march 25 in columbus oh

I'm working the white mice/tinsel teeth tour down to SXSW and back, y'all should come check it out if the circus is coming to yr town

white mice/tinsel teeth/liturgy:
March 14 - Cleveland
March 15 - Chicago
March 16 - St. Louis
March 17 - Oklahoma City
March 18 - Denton, TX
March 20 - Austin
March 21 - Dallas

tinsel teeth only:
March 22 - Little Rock
March 23 - Murfreesboro, TN
March 24 - Cincinnati
March 25 - Columbus OH
March 26 - Pittsburgh
March 27 - Philadelphia

huh, i heard white mice were coming to oakland soon-ish?

yeah, after brofest in dallas the white mice are heading west

rest of white mice tour dates:

# March 22 Wichita, KS. -tba
# March 23 Denver, CO. @Rhinoceropolis
# March 25 Boise, ID. @ V.A.C. w/Uzula/Micro Babies/For Fuck’s Sake
# March 26 Seattle WA. @ The Josephine
# March 27 WA???
# March 28 Portland, OR. @ The Know w/LESBIAN/++
# March 29 Portland, OR. @The Tube w/The Ramjac/Lesbian
# March 30 Sacramento, CA. @ The Hub w/MOM/NUCLEAR DEATH WISH
# March 31 Oakland, CA. @ 21 Grand w/Lesbian/Nuclear Death Wish
# April 1 San Francisco, CA. @Hemlock Tavern w/Lesbian/Nuclear Death Wish/CCR Headcleaner
# April 2 Los Angeles, CA. @ Women of Crenshaw
# April 3 Los Angeles, CA. @Mountain Bar w/Lesbian+++
# April 4 Phoenix, AZ. @ The Tribe w/Pigeon Religion/Melted Cassettes
# April 6 Austin, TX. @ Mohawk
# April 7 Houston TX. @ Super Happy Funland w/Useless Children/Golden Axe/+
# April 8 Little Rock AR. @ Schiller St.
# April 9 Nashville TN. @ Little Hamilton Collective w/MLU/SUFFERING BASTARD/No Compassion/Dawn/Laser Slut
# April 10 Greensboro, NC @ w/Suffering Bastard/Mutant League/Three Brained Robot
# April 11 Wilmington, NC @ The Juggling Gypsy w/Suffering Bastard/Food World/Caucasians/Khnum
# April 12 Chapel Hill, NC @ The Nightlight w/Suffering Bastard/Cheezface/Ex-monkeys/Nuss
# April 13 Richmond, VA. @The Triple w/Suffering Bastard/+
# April 14 Philadelphia, PA @ tba w/Suffering Bastard
# April 15 Baltimore, MD @ Sidebar w/Suffering Bastard/ Fourth Horseman/+
# April 16 Brooklyn, NY. @ Shea Stadium w/Liturgy/Suffering Bastard/++
# April 19 Boston, MA. @ Charlie’s Kitchen w/MLU/Rotten Apples/Crazy Dreams
# April 20 Providence, RI. @ 17 Mules w/Useless Children/MLU/Holy Sheet

was sposed to see Bitters on Friday in nyc but they dropped off the bill for Woods/Real Estate

oooh, glad i'm around for that shittt...

i really want LAMPS to come up here now. feel like i missed them a couple months ago.

EdIII wish you guys threw NB, NJ in!

Not sure if the new Nothing People fits in this thread or psych/drone/freak, but I have been enjoying it.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, March 9, 2010 2:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

i'm not sure how i feel about this album yet, i listened to it on the way home from school the other day and it was pleasant, but idk never exciting. vocals weirdly and probably inexplicably remind me of 'toody pop punk on a lot of the songs, which is weird for a slow burn post-punk record, but not bad or anything. also there are some great guitar solos but they're buried so low in the mix.

Mix on the Nothing People LP is definitely weird. Not really the kind of vocals I want smashed into the foreground, I agree. But I really, really dig the tunes, so I can't complain. "Marilyn's Grave" is a stunner, and even the less obvious tracks, or whatever, do a lot for me.

excited to see them w liquor ball on friday in SF

xxxp bummer you guys dont love nerve city and guinea worms as much as i do!

I will go to bat for that Nerve City record. As derivative as it seems or sounds, at first glance, the songs are just great. One after another, that record keeps 'em coming.

stevie if you have an NB venue in mind let me know

wouldn't be on this tour but it's a quick drive from PVD so

there are tons. Meat Towne USA is the big punky one, and there are a few others that do more thrashy hardcore stuff.

Fuck, does anyone carry Divorce label stuff in the US? I really want the Grand Trine 12" (Simply Saucer type jams from Montreal) but $10 for an LP + $10 shipping seems pretty inexcusable. I mean, yeah, it's the post office's fault but that doesn't really do me any good.

not rolling punk but there's a noveller/aidan baker split on divorce from last year-the aidan baker side is very boring but pleasant drones, but the noveller is some of the most gorgeous music i've ever heard. A+ tape-loops and guitar deconstruction if you're into that sort of thing. that grand trine ep is great, it's a huge step above their earlier tapes in songwriting and sound quality. they're local dudes so i've seen my fair share of them, but they don't charm as well live, those recordings are literally the best they've ever sounded.

"Heavy Krishna" by Jeff the Brotherhood is THE jam!

http://www.candydinner.com/album/paul-cary-ghost-of-a-man/

^free download of paul cary album solo joint by dude from the in the red records horrors (not buzz band horrors)

candy dinner is a cool site/label...doing free downloads + vinyl...some really good albums on there for free mp3 dl

(also really recommend torn avalanche's get rich or cry tryin', kinda post fugazi 2 drummer rave up stuff)

cool, thanks for the tip. the world of ultra-limited garage punk releases would be a cruel and really small one if it weren't for so much of it being on the internet, it's nice to see that labels get this.

ok so this new mark sultan is blowing my mind. always loved his solo stuff but i honestly never thought he had this in him.

no wai! 'cause the last one blew my mind. Best rockabillyish songwriting in a decade.

that bitters album is pretty great imo. been listening to it a ton

I'm coming around to it. Apparently it's already sold out. Whoop gotta catch em all.

Wait, is it even out yet? Is it sold out before it comes out?

And why is the Viva L'American Death Ray Music ep $20? WHY, MEXICAN SUMMER? WHY?!?

I had no idea that came out already too! Mexican Summer can kiss my ass.

For reals. Their website crashes my browser every time I look at it, too. Gonna fart in an envelope and send it to them.

A jar works. Literally

I dunno. All the sold-out stuff is still listed on their website but crossed-out and I don't see that one. (I got it off that blog upthread fwiw, I haven't seen a real copy)

You have to go to the artists page (click "artists").

oh yeah u right. didn't see them on the artists list because I was lookin for em under "B" like any sane person

Seeing as fools are hotly debating the validity of the fonts on the Slices album cover ~right now~ it feels like it's a good time to note that the music is top drawer unruly sludge punk

i'm not huge on bedroom punk but this nice face lp is going over really well for some reason. i find a lot of likeminded stuff like wavves or medication get caught up chasing some deformed idea of pop music that's closer to blink 182 than their dear beach boys and blogs will slap on anything with a melody and sixties drums, while mr. nice face forgoes all that bullshit and just writes some catchy punk tunes.

Here is a list of 2010 releases from the Bitters from their ms page:

'East General' FULL LENGTH LP on Mexican Summer

'East General' FULL LENGTH Cassette Tape on Release The Bats

'Hav-A-Nap Hotel' 12" EP ft. Trust on Sacred Bones

'Half Monster' 7" Single on April 77 Records

7" Single on True Panther Sounds

7" Single on WILD WORLD

"BITTER GIRLS" - SPLIT CASSETTE w/ Little Girls on Drone Errant Cassettes

CASSETTE on Hi Shadow

It's really hard to keep up with all of Cook's releases along with the Yung Guv stuff

It says the East General is supposed to be released April 13th. hmm

Has Mexican Summer always released their albums before the announced due date? I mean if they are going to sell out before it's actually released (especially if it's such a limited release), what's the point? I wonder if the strike through the price is just temporary until the 13th. Because I have not seen it on ebay yet. Fuck this EXPENSIVE as shit label.

FUCK them!

Mexican summer usually has puts the mp3s up for sale before the usual release date, and have the physical version crossed out, making it look like its sold out, but really they're just saying its not out yet...Thats what happened with the Pearl Harbor 12" at least. So there is hope!

That said, they're way overpriced.

DNA Test Fest festival in Baltimore Saturday. The Washington Post's David Malitz likes, among others:

Home Blitz could be called slapdash, but it's more just overexcited, pop-savant stuff cloaked in an appropriate level of distortion. Some might say Neon Blud uses an inappropriate level of distortion, but the trio cooks up a wildly appealing garage-pop/sludge-rock combo. Lamps has a similarly overdriven take on pop, but you can hear the hooks buried in there if you listen hard enough. That's really just the beginning -- avant-noise trio Sightings, noise-rock monsters P. Jeans, indie brats Psychedelic Horse __, garage-rock rippers Birds of Maya

home blitz's SXSW show didn't do much for me. saw neon blud in pittsburgh, but a local band on the bill, free clinic, made more of an impression.

pretty much going to that for Pissed Jeans. hopefully i can find some other cool stuff while there though.

xp

this seems like as good a place for this as anywhere:

INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONFERENCE - USA TOUR 2010

Tuesday, April 13
9pm, $5.00, 21+
Turf Club, 1601 University Ave W, St. Paul

27 artists in four hours on two stages: Noise, punk, experimental and unconventional bands, solo artists and collaboratory sets including Miami's Laundryroom Squelchers (featuring Rat Bastard), Emeticide (Chicago), Diesel on the Rocks, Arctic Universe, John Vance (WRONG), Noise Quean Ant, Rape Door, Annalisa, Sunset Machete, Dead Grandma, Jesse Petersen, Seth Ryan, Scaphe, Fun Music, Disthroned Agony, Cock Skar, Gus Lynch, Wince, Jean Bardot, Big Jesus and the Homeless Bastards, Senator Butthole Johnson, Jaime Carrera, Cock E.S.P. and more!

INC Main Page:
http://squelchers.net/inc.htm

INC Rules:
All performances are 15 minutes or less.
NO DRONING.
NO LAPTOPS.
NO MIXER BOARDS.

rules are not noise

so got back from that DNA TEST FEST. Pissed Jeans easily the highlight. those guys fucking destroyed. wish they played longer. and they were fucking FUNNY too. the singer was killing it. made me hate myself for not seeing them the couple of times they've been in town.

most of everyone else was cool. not enough to make me want to track their shit down though. i did really dig Pink Reason. might investigate. also the singer from Pink Reason (who reminds me of fucking Spicolli) jumped onstage with another band (didn't catch their name) to sing Agent Orange's Bloodstains. after a few hours of hearing a bunch of noisy shit from unfamiliar bands it was kinda awesome to hear someone kick out something like that. the crowd definitely appreciated it.

also got to see two dudes on a four wheeler ripping down the street doing a wheelie. it was a good night. and i'm drunk.

pissed jeans live >>>> pissed jeans records

pink reason album is good, like some amerigun hybrid of joy division and syd barrett

Anyone as stoked for the new Oh Sees as I am? Track 1 takes up the entire side A of the LP apparently, if you've seen them live lately it's the song they've been ending their set with. And the other new songs are great, as well. I liked the songs on Help but the recording was a little off, and from what I've heard of it this record resolves that a bit.

Comes out May 11th, btw, and is called Warm Slime.

Ooooh nice a new Oh Sees album! Looking forward to it

Well it's about time there was a new Oh Sees album. Those guys just don't have enough material out imo ;)

I am stoked for seeing them in June!

has anyone heard The Knockout Pills??

damn this is exactly what i'm in the mood for...like a slightly more revved up punk version of the exploding hearts, or really close to the marked men actually

the album is called "1+1=Ate"

good stuff

okay, so some things:

SISTER FUCKER: http://sisterfucker.bandcamp.com

also, Claw Toe's "Girl from the Gas Station." i also picked up the new-ish Young Gov 45 the other day, but haven't had a chance to listen to it yet...

Fucking love the Broken Water record "Whet" on Night People records.

broken water... for some reason I think I saw them recently?

They have been touring, just went through the midwest. I didn't see them but my friend did.
Two chicks and a dude from Olympia.

oh yeah, I was at their SXSW show

they were somewhere between kinda blah and kinda interesting but I can see how what they're doing would work a lot better on record than live

amped for the new oh sees, I hated help but still love em

The Broken Water lp is definitely one of my favorite albums this year. Everyone needs to hear this record.

so slow-burn sonic youth, basically? i'm not super-thrilled by their myspace trax but i'll take your word for it and download the album

You should grab it asap

Does anyone have Young Governor "Cindy's Gonna Save Me" 7" yet? I want to hear it. Seriously, this guy needs his own thread just to keep up with all of his releases.

And at the end of the year a singles compilation would be just about perfect

a ha! the "Cindy's Gonna Save Me" 45 is the one i got the other day! i lost my little 45 adapter thinger, tho, so i haven't listened to it..

according to my friend who apparently did this for a while, you can use the bottle cap of a 40 oz if you just poke a hole through the middle

birds of maya douple lp btw

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4491854474_b715b475bd.jpg

oh, last night i saw a double jam set from these two groups:

Here Comes a Big Black Cloud: http://www.myspace.com/herecomesabigblackcloud
CCR Headcleaner: http://www.myspace.com/ccrheadcleaner

it was intense-as-fuck noise, but neither sound like that otherwise......

It's cool to see my friends being mentioned on here. Sister Fucker, CCR Headcleaner and Here Comes Black Cloud.

hey, who are you? we probably know each other...my name's t3d, i'm bleach-blonde, kinda short, and a big fag....uh, yeah, all those kids are my friends toooooo

pissed jeans live >>>> pissed jeans records

totally! i really like their records, and their newest is probably the best thing they've done imo, but the stuff seems a little pale after seeing them. singer's some kind of hero. fucking great stage presence. iggy + yow + goofy vaudevillian physical comedy. i fell in love with the guy. dig how most of their songs are about being pathetic. macho punk shit about going bald and eating ice cream when you're depressed.

great live band all around. will see again.

currently shitting my pants in anticipation of their show tonight

i'm curious about what yalls thoughts on wounded lion are? what i've heard so far oscillates between endearing, charmingly sung crooner-punk and awkward/silly stupid-punk. i could fall pretty hard for them if they lean more towards the former but i'm less interested in the latter.

I've only heard a couple mp3s, "friendly" is pretty catchy. kinda falls into both camps: charming silly/stupid punk croon

love the ITR & s-s singles (awkward/silly stupid) and not so much the croonery gilongo one

2nd nice face LP and crazy great claw toe 45 and of course pissed jeans live now and forever - don't even like the records but will take any chance to see them play

BLACK BREATH

welcome back contenderizer btw!

pissed jeans kicked unprecedented amounts of ass last night. despite having always imagined him as being a fat dude while listening to the records he's totally one of the funniest and coolest frontmen.

^ seriously, he's by far my favorite punk frontman these days

also very happy w recent funerot LP which is like 90% flag and maybe 10% minutemen (which is to say straight 0% thrashmetal) and I was bummed about that at first, but the more i play it the better it gets

The Broken Water lp is definitely one of my favorite albums this year. Everyone needs to hear this record.

― van smack, Friday, April 9, 2010

Fucking love the Broken Water record "Whet" on Night People records.

― Trip Maker, Thursday, April 8, 2010

Thanks for bringing this one to my attention! I love this thread.

The LP is available here, for those of you in Europe: http://bit.ly/9BDZ8N

picked up the White Fence record thanks to seeing Tripmaker enthuse about it somewhere or other

cool lo-fi pop-sike, kinda sounds like Sic Alps, feelin it

Dum Dum Girls
Bare Wires
Bassholes
Woven Bones

how is dum dum girls?

i'm curious but get nervous about "buzz bands"

the harlem record is pretty good

I feel your nervousness, man. I refused to listen to it for a good while, but the Dum Dum Girls LP is for real. Like, really for real.

how's the bassholes? last year's bare wires lp was pretty disappointing, but their singles are wonderful.

I didn't think that much of the Dum Dum Girls LP - preferred the singles tbh.

That seems to be the way with a lot of these bands though.

I missed the dum dum girls at brofest in dallas, think I was watching liturgy or na'am

didn't know bassholes were still around! crazy

If anyone is interested in Free Clinic tapes, we just pressed a bunch. If you want a tape/information email me.

picked up this omon ra ii/dirty beaches cassette last night, very good release especially for the omon ra side. sort of poppy guitar rock but with really loud and occasionally searing guitar, lo-fi but mixed really well.

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm177/campaignforinfinity/OMDBtapesbig.jpg

wasn't that show back in march supposed to be yr cassette release show? lol

I want a tape and information so I will email you

xp

if that birds of maya 2LP is as good as the album cover, i gotta get it!

Dum Dum Girls album doesn't really slay me. It's ok. Partly put off by the fact that they sound really similar to Vivian Girls (who I like) and have "Girls" in their damn name

(this is probably where someone jumps in to say DDG have been around way longer or something)

I dunno, they're like a more cleaned-up-sounding Vivian Girls to me but def. have some good tunes. I like the title track ("I Will Be") and "Bhang Bhang I'm a Burnout."

It was suppose to be the release, but we ended up not getting them in time. So yeah, it was a real bummer.

jacuzzi boys from florida sound pretty good, even if these are like 8 zillion bands that sound exactly like this right now...

http://www.myspace.com/jacuzziboys

also i know that's how these things work nowadays but it seems to me dum dum girls are the purest distillation of blog hype test-tube baby yet born of this earth and it makes me sort of uncomfortable. like of course there have been a bajillion blog bands before, but i always imagined there was some groundswell of public or at least local love predating their hype, selling out a local club or a really packed loft party or something. but apparently ms dum dum girls recorded some songs and put them up on myspace and only played her first show after she had a record deal? i know that's not a great reason or anything but has punk really gotten that uncool and shut-in?

lotsa precedent for punk rock freaks recording shit in a bedroom and turning it into a band later

not defending the dum dum girls btw, for all I know they're crap

If the songs are good, who cares?

I find the Dum Dum Girls album enjoyable when I'm listening to it but then forget about it when it's over.

She was in a band or bands before, they toured with... um, one of the Saddle Creek bands. I think she moved to NY and started doing Dum Dum Girls after that broke up. (also what E3 said)

if that birds of maya 2LP is as good as the album cover, i gotta get it!

Maybe not quite that good, but still damned solid. I, for one, am very pleased with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ole_Party

(sorry, LA not NY also)

if the songs are good who cares is definitely the bottom line. the songs i've heard were pretty "einh, yeah ok" so it's not like i would've been in love with this band but this is holding me back. more just like, an annoying association with an increasingly omnipresent trend i'm kinda unsure about.

as much as i like alot of the new, rickety garage fuzz pop stuff...

man...shit like that is kinda making me wish for some dudes with a monster drummer, laying down monster hard-hitting shit like 90s bands

if that birds of maya 2LP is as good as the album cover, i gotta get it!

Maybe not quite that good, but still damned solid. I, for one, am very pleased with it.

― winnebago taco, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:06 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

is it true it's the soundtrack to a film?

Yeah honestly I've had trouble listening to rickety lofi garage fuzz pop stuff in 2010, I think I overdid it a little in 2009, that's why I haven't been posting much on this thread.

But I got the Broken Water album based on the above recommendations, only listened to it briefly but it sounds good, kinda Unwound-y.

if that birds of maya 2LP is as good as the album cover, i gotta get it!

Maybe not quite that good, but still damned solid. I, for one, am very pleased with it.

― winnebago taco, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:06 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

is it true it's the soundtrack to a film?

― imma sb (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:10 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

That's what the label claims, but I dunno if it's for real or just a send-up, etc..

kinda Unwound-y.
Yeah, no doubt, they are practically an Unwound tribute.
Glad people are enjoying that record (Broken Water, that is).
There are some rickety fuzz pop punk bands that have good drummers, too.

But I got the Broken Water album based on the above recommendations, only listened to it briefly but it sounds good, kinda Unwound-y.

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

unwound is a good starting point for me!!!

are you a "leaves turn you inside out" fan?

if so, you might dig Whitesand/Badlands:

http://whitesandbadlands.blogspot.com/

they have a new single out you can buy here, double LP coming soon...was recorded at the church in duluth where low has recorded.

http://www.rileybushman.com/index.php?page=catalog

There are some rickety fuzz pop punk bands that have good drummers, too.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:15 PM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i know...it's just i was listening to the Harlem new record cuz I'm reviewing it, and sometimes I was just like "damn maybe you guys should practice more"

people definitely do seem to get heated up about the solo bedroom tracks on myspace --> blog hype --> record deal --> okay NOW we'll form a touring band career trajectory. but the hate doesn't truly pick up steam unless your live show then turns out to be especially shitty (see: Wavves)

dum dum girls from what I've heard are supposed to be pretty good live ...

many xposts

not really feeling Harlem tbh

yeah I like a couple of the Harlem songs but a lot of them (and a lot of these bands (like Dum Dum Girls, but it's part of their schtick)) overdepend on recycling '60s song structures without really adding anything to them.

which is fun sometimes but I feel like the best of these bands, like Sic Alps, are a lot more adventurous in their songwriting

the first harlem record is way way way good and has pretty big drums for ramshackle garage pop, new one is ok but yes sometimes unnecessarily sloppy/under-written.

xp dmr - i suppose if they were good live it would be fine? i'm not being very reasonable, but i'm stubborn about liking tangible things and human physical existence when it comes to rock and roll.

anyway I think their record is just ok and I'm a little surprised by the hype. *shrug*

change of subject WHITE FENCE is dope

love that song in the middle of side 1 that sounds like United States of America

also liking Zola Jesus EP on Sacred Bones

maybe doesn't fit this thread's aesthetic

altho it kinda sound like Siouxsie to me which is tres punk

man...shit like that is kinda making me wish for some dudes with a monster drummer, laying down monster hard-hitting shit like 90s bands

dude, tinsel teeth

ah yeah i meant to check them out per your tour blog thread :)

their load album is on some uzeda level of heavy

nice!

btw..edward, did you get the last bellini record? soooo good.

no, I'll have to track that down

yeah its the two from uzeda but damon che quit and now its the drummer from girl vs boys, really love the new one (perfect prize of gravity), best one yet IMO

agostino is like albini with super chops

saw uzeda on the different section wires tour, so loud and precise, they were a real thing of beauty

I'll 2nd the thumbs-up for White Fence. Its a peculiar & woozy cross between 13th Floor Elevators & a tub of corn whiskey. Just about everything on Woodsist is killin it in some form or fashion. Smith Westerns are good too. Just plain ol' slammin' punk and gasoline fumes. Brings to mind Swingin' Neckbreakers or some such, destined for a Back From the Grave comp. circa 2020.

Yeah, White Fence LP is good. I def like it, but have a sneaking suspicion that it's one of those records I'm just never going to listen to, in six months or a year.

not feeling white fence tbh

Not sure if this belongs here, but:

Y'all are coming to the Amphetamine Reptile 25th Anniversary bash in Minneapolis on August 28, right?

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs371.snc3/23854_420464212039_338611232039_5716740_3162964_n.jpg

i hope to, really want to see today is the day and esp. hammerhead

compared to the T&G 25th show that lineup is kind of meh.

most of those bands were just ok back in the day, I can't get too excited about boss hogg, the god bullies, and the thrown ups. hell, I never even dug the melvins much except for lysol.

now if the bill was halo of flies, cows, lubricated goat, janitor joe, and helios creed... holy gin shakes batman

tbh I would not travel for this bill either, but it just so happens that I live three blocks from the venue, and I do like me some Melvins. :)

no Tar, too bad (but too good for me since i can't go)

(actually i have not dug out my tar records in some time, suspect i do not love them even 1% as much as i used to, and if i do then i robbed them on the 90s poll, so, eh)

still, well worth going 3 blocks for, so have a good time

some of my favourite local punk or non indie underground bands are releasing stuff this month. i've loved all the local stuff table is the table has posted itt, hope some of ya'll will like and maybe even buy some of this stuff.

dead wife (www.myspace.com/deadwifemtl) have a 7" out on psychic handshake/no vacation and it's quickly becoming a pretty big deal, with recent write ups in vice and ever-growing masses showing up to their gigs. they play quite possibly the brattiest music i've ever heard in my life and the songwriting is high quality, but also very punk; each song has some really neat, fun little composition or intro.

grand trine (www.myspace.com/grandtrinemtl) are riding proto-punk's recent wave of popularity to yield ultimate results, and have recorded a bad ass 12" out on divorce.

futensil (www.myspace.com/futensil) play oddball surfy garage rock, with bendy guitar melodies and fun male/female vocals. they've been one of my favourite bands for the past year and they've finally released a cassette on campaign for infinity.

rape faction (www.myspace.com/rapefaction) are friends of mine and have recently been target of much interweb controversy and real-life love in the montreal punk scene. they play fried noisy punk on a bit of a bauhaus tip, with drum machine beats and guitar amps on the verge of exploding. plus their vocalist is actually a good singer, with like melodies and stuff. they have a cassette out soon on skrot up/fla.

Ed III

janitor joe isn't happening, but i know the drummer and he plays in the latest lineup of Thunderbolt Pagoda, a super amazing heavy psych/hawkwind type band here in Mpls:

http://www.myspace.com/thunderboltpagoda

^^they have a new album coming out with matt e. (from janitor joe) on drums that will slay the stuff up on myspace currently...will keep you posted.

i did one of the four capsule reviews of the new Harlem on the site Reviler if you wanna read it:

http://www.reviler.org/2010/04/24/harlem-hippies-review-4-takes/

Like this Golden Triangle album better than their EP from last year, and better than Vivian/Dum Dums for the echo-chamber-girsl sound. Has a B-52s momentum to the melodies, rather than doing the Phil Spector thing.

And loving the Dissapears record. Shoegaze without the trying too hard feel of PTBS and BRMC. A bit like the last Hunches, like the Ponys in other places, but tighter songwriting than either. Really great blasts of guitar tone.

great review matt

aw thx...i didn't know how i felt about it...

it's always hardest to write about stuff that you totally like...just fine...but don't feel super strong about one way or the other...

i wanted to buy a record off harlem when i saw them at sxsw a couple years ago but they were all busy talking to some really pretty girls.

haha they broke the bros before hoes code of non-indie underground rock >:(

haha nah it's cool that kinda fit with how i was imagining them, if anything i'm happy they're the kind of dudes that talk to really pretty girls

oh shit i just realized they're playing here tonight, aaagh work tomorrow though

janitor joe isn't happening

yeah, would be kinda lame to do it w/o kristen but you knew that right

obv

i would recommend trying to find "33rd degree burns" by gnomes of zurich, which was the two surviving members plus scott hull from superball 63...good album and kinda got lost in the declining daze of am rep

haha they broke the bros before hoes code of non-indie underground rock >:(

― Shakey Ja Mocha (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

black lips rendered this shit null and void

yeah they won't be bros with "faggots"

Guys thanks for this thread helping me discover that, yes, Free Drugs;-) is indeed even better than Hippies.

glad to hear that, cuz i like (don't love) free drugs, but i've been holding off on hippies due to psychic intimations of relative suckiness

kinda hating birds of maya for recording their album like this :(. i'm going to buy it to get back whatever fidelity was lost in the vinyl rip but some moments i'm sure will still be a headache. saddest part is the parts where you can actually hear what's going on are awesome.

In The Red says that the new Oh Sees album "Warm Slime" is out now. Anyone hear it yet?

arab in radar are back together btw

arab on radar, even

new Oh Sees is May 11th. I wish it actually was out now (no leak, either).

I just heard "I was Denied" and gotta say I'm sorta unimpressed with it. Not sure why the whole album hasn't leaked yet. hmm

dwyer's "one two three fah's" always sound super "i saw her standing there" to me

but yeah on first listen this song is not half as good as the worst song on "the master's bedroom"

huh arab on radar! i would totes go see them

i saw chinese stars once in brooklyn on vacation and it was pretty good

Sightings show was dope tonight as usual

Oh Sees leaked. Great record ("I Was Denied" probably the worst song on there), but these guys can do no wrong for me.

really like the Woven Bones sound. their new album is a little monotonous by the time it's over but that might be by design.

also the Soft Pack album is really growing on me. a lot poppier than most of the stuff mentioned on here but the singer has that blase style for which I'm a sucker.

love the new 108 album, a lot a lot

Agreed w/ bear, bear, bear regarding Sightings... was lucky enough to skip out on Japanther in time to catch their set last Thursday.

Really excited about Awesomes tonight, check them out: http://www.myspace.com/awesomessssss . The last show of theirs i went to, my glasses were trampled upon during a crowd-surfing session in the Bus, and friend M4rissa (the singer) gave me an Awesomes sweatshirt as a consolation prize. not too into the other bands that are playing, but whatever.

108 are pretty good for krishna-core, I didn't they were back playing again though (xpost obv)

love big kids. playing in the basement of my store. if they come near you go see them. sound is kinda gnarly on here, but that's punk rock for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36hv6r0TYHk

Puffy Areolas are satisfying, anyone else digging?

Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane has my butt well kicked.

I also wanna throw my support behind Sightings, Woven Bones, Thee Oh Sees, etc. mentioned above.

Search: Hanoi Janes, Smith Westerns, El Jesus de Nagico, Carlton Melton

Not feelin' garage neo-new-wave like Pink Reason & Blank Dogs. Blippy mechanical synthfashion was a nail in the original punk/new wave coffin & it still ain't kewl, IMHO.

Puffy Areolas are the good stuff, but the "Lutzko Lives!" single kind of trounces everything else they've done. LP is solid, though.

What Pink Reason stuff is blippy mechanical synthfashionable? I musta missed a couple of records.

Also not a big Blank Dogs fan, though, but Mayfair Set with him and Dum Dum Girls is pretty cool. Except he uses that same dumb vocal effect on his parts.

"What Pink Reason stuff is blippy mechanical synthfashionable?"
Some of the B-sides are kind of like that, but yeah, I wouldn't describe the overall PR aesthetic that way.

Its a 7" I have on my 'puter at home, the name of which escapes me. It struck me as very lo-fi Soft Cell-ish synth disco. However, I accept that it may not be representative of their overall sound. Dum Dum Girls are delightfully unblippy unmechanical & unsynthfasionable, rating two thumbs way up in these quarters.

you mean PINK NOISE dude

i hope my siltbreeze order comes today!

pink reason is like some joy division/syd barrett hybrid filtered thru an NZ type lo-fi sensibility. don't love 'em but I think they're fine.

I missed puffy areolas showcase at SXSW but heard really good things. this was also when I missed what was one of the last, if not the last, drunkdriver show.

I did catch pigeon religion tho, they were pretty good. bludgeoning head of david type shit.

i fucking love the puffy a's double-tape from last year with danny glover's head on it, and i like the CDR 7" a lot, too. so stoked for the LP.

on a further columbus discount tip, they have really pulled away from the termbo pack in the past year -- the two years of singles club, the guinea worms 2LP, the new ron house and tommy jay/mike rep LPs -- it's just getting ridiculous.

guyz, CULTURE KIDS fucking destroyed last saturday night. i still have bruises. http://www.myspace.com/culturekidss

they actually might be my favorite band in the bay area.

Someone I know is putting a record out by this LA band called Max and The Marginalized, I think it is pretty solid esp if you like the last two Ted Leo albums and that sort of Against Me! crypto-Springstonian thing that seems to have a bit of a groundswell of appreciation on ILX. The main dude in the band is Ke$ha's guitarist which may or may not answer some questions ion that retarded thread Alex in NYC started ¯\(°_°)/¯

am presently listening to non-germane eric b. & rakim 12" (jackin diane), but wanted to mention some things. first is ]black breath, who are seattle local and on soutern lord, thus maybe best reserved for endlessly rolling metal thread, but HOLY FUCK is the punkest shit since some asshole's discharge backpatch. seen them a few times over the last few months, and they're easily the best live band this town has produced in the last half decade. he said as though he actually gets out much, but still. discharge, motorhead, entombed, death & roll, etc, fucking awesome ass shit.

plus rot shit single on columbus discount. midtempo punk noise floor wax with rubber room vocals in the bowel. heavy, shitty-sounding, aggro bullshit with crazy saxophon for extra nice. shades of monoshock on the a-side, hc on the flip. FUCK

amazing home blitz 7" on almost ready. lo-fi feelies + hartbroke loser vocals + godlike solo, shades of MOTO. searchers cover on the b-side adds nothing, but there's no reason to turn it over anyway. way cleaner & more approachable than the lp.

el vicio ep on rococo records (?). frenchy french drug drone from a band i only know through one mostly forgettable tune on one of those world's lousy comps. apparently affiliated with liminanas, but more suicide, less ye ye. a-side = bored french boy/girl vocals, sympathy for the devil "woo woos", spacemen 3 gtr wank, synth noise curlicues. absolutely fucking killer. custom made for passing out on the couch with sunglasses in place. b-side adds ungodly stooge power wah wah meltdown, matches (but doesn't quite top) the hit. plus a black lips sounding throwaway thing. honest to god, one of the best singles i've heard in ages, recommended to anyone who likes to get fucked up and hear things.

finally, more hypno drone wooze punk on rococo, courtesy thee lumerians. i mean, i blew my superlative load on el vicio, but this deserves it at least as much. throbbing, black light glo punk that shades the black angels' tedious spacemen 3 worship, but comes off WAY less hollow & reverent. the sound of all the billion little switches in your brain shutting off and on in perfect harmony, like wooden shjips live on a fistful of good mushrooms. synth punk so stripped down and slacked out it turns into hawkwind space disco. um, b-side is a faithful, glue huffing crazy horses cover. amazing as few things are.

no, really CRAZY HORSES. am mostly absent from this thread, due to not going out and not having money to blow on weird 45s, but the above 4 (plus black breath live) = maybe the best $20 i've ever spent on rock & roll music. it comes in waves.

I still intend to grab that Rot Shit single but the only place that seems to be carrying it in the UK is Volcanic Tongue and am I fuck gonna pay that gouging bastard £8 plus postage for like four minutes of music or whatever

which may or may not answer some questions ion that retarded thread Alex in NYC started ¯\(°_°)/¯

Up yours.

That Lumerians 7" is killer, but too fucking expensive. I keep finding it for like $6 + either tax or shipping, which is outrageous.

xp wasn't really referring to your premise so much as most of what followed

yeah, the lumerians 45 was expensive, but wat the hell. lousy, noisy pressing though, so maybe yr better off downloading. not sure what the a-side is called - sleeve lists it as "burning mirrors", vinyl as "deathray bradbury". plus i called it synth punk, which is retarded. organ psych. redact.

any other stuff on rococo that might be worth checking out? given the excellence of lumerians and el vicio, i mean.

lovin el vicio, thanks for the tip

i'm really feeling hot guts, too, i wonder if any of their releases are still around

on rococo, crash normal alb is tits

life wisdom via home blitz: "hot wheels, record deals, it's not a game"

checking rococo's release history it looks like they're mostly a noise label. with a few les savvy fav singles thrown in for balance? stuff from prurient, dead machines, panicsville, my cat is an alien, bruce russel, olson & yeh, etc. not my kinda thing, generally speaking. crash normal, though, is sounding killer - thanks for the rec, SS. and it looks like they've got a red mass 10" out or coming soon...

red mass are releasing so much god damn music

Does this go here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USMd2Jl8wTc

I fucking love this song!

That's a really good song!

the interview in MRR with them was so convincing that i visited their myspace page, and i REALLY LOVE THIS FUCKING BAND

http://www.myspace.com/nusensae

thought about mentioning the liminanas, but they seemed too far outside thread purview. i mean, if they weren't releasing records on TIM & hozac, no one would make the connection. LOVE those two singles though, especially "i'm dead". vocalist on that track doesn't seem to be an official band member, sadly, and she also shows up (along with lionel, liminanas guitar player) on the el vicio 45. strange connections.

nu sensae are pretty cool, table. liking the myspace tracks a lot.

once again, with the new sacred bones 12", nerve city kills it.

i know thats a stupid expression, but like, seriously, everything nerve city has released is A++. i dont have the CATHOLIC SCHOOL demo tape, but i think all that material has been made available elsewhere...

have checked out nerve city on a couple occasions (recent 45s), but what I've heard has seemed like forgettable garage punk buried in piles of recorder grot. non-production kills the attack & dynamics, no tunes to speak of. anyway, that's what gathered from some inattentive needledropping, so maybe i'm missing something great.

okay scratch that. useless fucking opinioms = what you get from a few seconds of half-ass needledropping, apparently. i say this cuz the "red tops" 45 is one of the things i've listened to, and i'm relistening to it now on their myspace, and they seem to be GODDAM KILLING IT. and it's hardly "rudimentary garage punk", sounds like early fall gone pop. and they seem to have tunes for days. "the armory" (off the recent sacred bones 12 that 69 mentions) is gorgeous, godlike, killing me.

apologies to anyone who read my previous comment.

"...so maybe i'm missing something great."

uh yeah

that liminanas song is great!

it is! my favorite of the four tracks on their US 45s. other stuff is great, but more relaxed & 60s groovy.

currently listening to their myspace tracks. "funeral baby" = another winner. hope it gets a proper release soon. plus a nice instrumental version of "i'm dead", as "sans visage".

Their Trouble in Mind 7" was pretty bad-ass, too.

went out this evening, and as an act of pennance (unrequired) bought all the nerve city i could lay hand on. hozac 45 and the lp. fully converted.

that nu sensae stuff is the kill

Liminanas rock my little world! Looking forward to more.

the ty segall record is pretty solid so far. glad there's a thread like this for good recommendations!

Masshysteri

from sweden...kinda like...60sish garage + X + chimey post punk guitars

http://www.myspace.com/masshysteri

like it a lot!

Ty Segall is fantastic, he's done some great splits with Thee Oh Sees & others. I'm really excited about Woven Bones, El Jesus de Magico, Haunted George, and Lamps recently.

okay, so Nominal, the label that put out the most recent NU SENSAE record, also puts out shit by Defektors: http://www.myspace.com/defektors . who kind of sound like a less Redd Cross version of Harlem or something, i dig it. it's too bad they're a canadian label-- that nu sensae record ran me $20 including shipping!!!

went out this evening, and as an act of pennance (unrequired) bought all the nerve city i could lay hand on. hozac 45 and the lp. fully converted.

― contenderizer, Friday, May 21, 2010 5:36 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark

a little tougher/$$$-er to find but well worth it ($15, tops id say) is that "bars" b/w "over it" 7". "over it" is one of the best punk/non-indie underground songs of the past five years, i think.

defektors are cool, would recommend to someone who liked the new eddy current suppression ring. more song-based, singing and guitar chords punk than rocking out punk.

Massively wailing album from a group that combines the wretched violence of the most desperate escapees from the Killed By Death series with overloaded levels of wah-wah and furious lead guitar somewhere between Crime, Raven and early Redd Kross. If the energy of the early Motorhead sides ever ‘spoke to you’ but you’re more into wastoid psych than metal-qua-metal and Silt-fi is your kind of fi, then this is the perfect dose.

^Volcanic Tongue blurb for the Puffy Areolas album - has anyone heard it and is it actually like this/as badass as this sounds? I mean dude is a hypemonster so I'm inclined to be cautious

It's not THAT good, no. But it is definitely worth hearing and more or less sounds like that...just not as furiously awesome as that blurb sounds. I dig it, but maintain that the band's peak remains the "Lutzko Lives!" 7".

Kind of a quintessential Termbo band/LP, circa 2010.

it is really good doe

review ain't rong, but emphasizes some potentially misleading reference points. pa definitely have a scuzzy kbd influence, but don't sound much like crime, redd kross or motorhead. mostly come down somewhere between monoshock-style rocker punk and jammy noise blues like heavy winged or helios creed. or hawkwind. worth checking "sweat" and "diamond" on their myspace pg.

new Frog Eyes songs sound good (tho i might be violating the non-indie alignment pact)

http://www.deadoceans.com/onesheet.php?cat=DOC019

also the Group Icky Rats album (limited ed of 100) is out!!!! if you want some SUPER hectic no wave craziness meltdown, do it!!!

(ended up getting mark shippy of u.s. maple on a track)

http://www.myspace.com/groupickyrats

SLICES- cruising LP... thick Black Flag/Killdozer-ish heavy rock with cool 80s serial-killer movie soundtrack type interludes.
Good shit.
Better than Frog Eyes :)

Looking forward to receiving the new Daily Void 12" in the mail. If you haven't heard them, get on it.

Just saw a really great Psychedelic Horseshit set with Beth and Adam from TNV playing backup to Matt.
I would've revived a horseshit thread but there isn't.

some recent things:

the native cats 7" ep on white denim -- cool, throbby, bass-driven electro drone minimalism from orstralia, more new wave than punk, but wtf. corroded drum machines, sarcastic lyrics, unflappable mien. good for nodding while sitting.

the chinese restaurants 7" ep on s-s -- repetitive & grimy knuckle-dragger punk noize with a big debt to flipper. a side seems to rip on obama's "river of shit", b side directs its lethargic ire at work and skanks. awesome.

the shitty limits 7" on la vida en mus -- best for last. brutal, basically all drums, just a hammering beat and an angry dude ranting over the top, rocks HARD on the chorus. killer shit, best they've done yet. reminds me a little bit of ted leo's "ballad of a sin eater", but more raw, less tearjerk literary. i am happy every time i hear this, and i hear it a lot.

plus not exactly 2010, but i'm currently listening to metal urbain, and holy smokes

i'm liking the nerve city, harlem and thee oh sees records. woven bones isn't sitting as well with me. they do have that JAMC but at the risk of sounding too much like them. a place to bury strangers grew on me, so maybe this will too.

Glad folks from outside the UK are feeling the Shitty Limits - that label also just put out a single by a London band called Hygiene who are good if you like the whole scratchy Messthetics thing

Just saw Naked Raygun are playing in London in August! Woo.

I saw lots of Shitty Limits records in shops while I was in LA a couple of weeks ago.

Does anyone know if Mob Rules are any good? They are supporting Magrudergrind tomorrow night. I'll likely be in the pub the gig is at anyway, just wondering if it's worth a fiver to get into the music room.

Yeah I like em - if you like say Infest and yer earliest (like late 80s) powerviolence type bands they are worth an ear

shitty limits' "hard wired" is one of my favourite punk songs. the album last year was good but kind of eclipsed by that song, for me

Yeah I like Infest and lots of power violence stuff. I listened to the Magrudergrind album the other day but thought it was a bit generic, so wasn't sure if I'd bother to go into the gig, especially cos I was sort of planning to get home at a reasonable hour tomorrow night.

woven bones isn't sitting as well with me. they do have that JAMC but at the risk of sounding too much like them.

― borntohula

Does Mob Rules have a myspace or website or somewhere I could check them out? Sounds good.

http://youbreedlikerats.blogspot.com/2008/07/mob-rules-new-uk-band-mp3-links.html (haven't checked if the DL links still work)

listening to sleepwalker, the new nerve city 12" mentioned by 69 above. killing it. not punk in the least, just lazy, midrangey bedroom pop. vocals still occasionally/oddly reminiscent of wallers (country teasers dude), backed up with memorable tunes and a unique sound. combines nuggets-style psyche, dreamy surf rock, c86 indie and early 90s siltbreeze squeak to nice effect. remains mired in 2D shitgaze sonics, which probably limits the potential appeal, but i'm digging this a lot.

i don't think WB are writing tunes that rise above the sound. not yet, anyway.

― the other is a black gay gentleman from Los Angeles (contenderizer), Thursday, June 3, 2010 4:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah, they have the sound down, for sure, but tunes are definitely not there yet. not to warrant a full-length, anyways.

got the slices LP based on whiney's glowing twitter review. the pissed jeans comparisons are apt, though they're a bit more formless than i would've expected. that's ok though. i'm on my second listen and i think i like it.

i feel like these days, like the last couple of years, are a mini golden age of noisy sludge punk. like with this twin stumps record, and pissed jeans and drunkdriver and stupid party and a billion others--but i feel like slices are second tier to the others, and sort of undeservedly riding the wave of glory

based on my love for the shitty limits record i mentioned a few posts back, i went back to punk rock store today and bought two hygiene 45s. (tenuous connection = one of em's on la vida es en mus, the label that put out the shitty limits single.) cool stuff, though less immediate and more arty than shitty limits. i'm not well schooled in late 70s anglo art punk, so there are probably better reference points, but i wanna compare em to the homosexuals, with maybe a trace or two of the fall and swell maps. not as pop smart or brilliant as those guys, but of similar stock. plus some muslims/tyvek/eddy current style clang clang rock n roll. the la vida 45 feats a nice human league cover, with no trace of synth punk coldwave minimal whatever.

hmmm, will look into drunkdriver & stupid party

Glad folks from outside the UK are feeling the Shitty Limits - that label also just put out a single by a London band called Hygiene who are good if you like the whole scratchy Messthetics thing

― taqsim for Gaffney (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 June 2010 12:38 (2 days ago)

but yeah again, glad ppl in general are on board with this stuff!

the Slices album is maybe one that needs to 'click' to an extent? What with the noise parts and such. Maybe not. It actually sort of reminded me of Oxbow when they were a pretty new band and just horrible as opposed to jazzy and dramatic

I did end up going to see Mob Rules & Magrudergrind last night but tbh wasn't really into either of them, kind of a weird night though cos some dickhead smashed up the toilets in the pub and they had to hire bouncers, they never usually have security at this place.

― taqsim for Gaffney (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 June 2010 12:38 (2 days ago)

― taqsim for Gaffney (DJ Mencap), Saturday, June 5, 2010 1:02 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

plus this is more 08/09 rolling punk/non-indie, but just picked up gay beast discrobics lp at "punk rock flea market" sale in my neighborhood, and holee shit totes pwn day late language etc. awesome spazzy post-GSL dance noise whatever. reminds me of like brainiac, kill me tomorrow, etc. - ie, WAY better than almost anybody what's trod such ground.

plus a 1st gen AD&D player's handbook super clean for like $4! i am the only person who would attach an exclamation point to such a statement.

yeah gay beast are awesome. they're the one band i like of that whole lot, too

Gay Beast is touring the west coast the first week of July. God there are so many great bands on Skin Graft.

that Slices record is pretty good...only on my second listen tho...

and yeah, know i've said it before, but the Nu Sensae record really does kill.

seen a bunch of bands recently, but the most impressive were Brotman & Short, who are two friends from Stress Ape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZtCh9bJ_jY

the other is my friends' band Primary Colors...

oh also, i am seeing FILTH tonight.

CCR Headcleaner are playing here this summer and I'm stoked.
Stress Ape / Brotman and Short...all so good.

gay beast are awesome ppl, they have a newer record that disrobics that is even better IMO

actually if peep want i'll try to find their original CD-R ep that they self released and upload it

but yeah saw them last weekend and it's definitely changing...a little more melodic and spacious...like maybe splitting the dif. between what they do in the past and like...um...90 day men or something

also hey, if you want full Brotman & Short releases, check out this shit from HSA: http://www.hardscrabbleamateurs.com/?p=213

Sweet, thanks. I have a cassette of theirs that I picked up after at a basement show.

Table, how was Filth? I put on the Shit Split a few days ago for the first time in like, a decade

ugh, i got kind of wasted and realized that there was no way i could make it and keep my sanity AND get to work in time this morning... heard it was good, though. actually more sorry to miss Needles than FILTH...

this black bug record is really good

http://blog.limewire.com/posts/40745-eric-davidson-examines-the-gunk-punk-undergut-in-new-book/ <<<anyone picked this up yet? (Eric Davidson = New Bomb Turks singer)

Hadn't seen it before but I will doubtless be getting that, thanks!

I got an email just after posting that which appears to be offering to send me a review copy, this being not only most welcome but also ~cosmic~ given that five minutes before that I was unaware of its existence

got the 45 of the reissue of the 80s hawaii noise punk terrorz The Flyin' Fuckin' A-Heads

http://www.pinglewood.com/2010/June/Holy_Moly.html

available on destijl, bless em

awesome band name + awesome record

speaking of books by relevant musicians - has anyone here read the Oran Canfield book that came out recently (though maybe it was last year)?

btw fuckin flyin a-heads single is through its first re-press. second one coming in a couple weeks, the de stijl dude assures me!

a-heads record rules, i will add my voice to the choir. great guitar.

Does anyone know anything about this novel (based in punk era San Francisco):

Jennifer Egan's novel A Visit From the Goon Squad is out.

The latest novel from the acclaimed author of The Keep unfolds in the music worlds of punk-era San Francisco and contemporary New York. As the characters grow out of their early rebelliousness, their attention turns from performance to money-making. Egan charts the fluctuations of fortunes and friendships, exploring various notions of change and stability

She is gonna be doing a reading at Poltics & Prose in DC on Monday June 28th

huh-uh. read the keep last year. was okay.

Thanks. Was just curious whether she was once involved in the San Francisco punk scene. Did not see anything about it in the bio I looked at.

New Gun Outfit is interesting, a lot mellower than their last album but I think it works?

really dig these nice face songs: http://ravensingstheblues.blogspot.com/2010/03/nice-face.html
anyone heard the album?

yeah, i've posted about it upthread. it's awesome, way better than likeminded nerdy loner bedroom synth-punk

New Gun Outfit is interesting, a lot mellower than their last album but I think it works?

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, June 21, 2010 2:25 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

annie likes these guys a lot -- i like it okay, but there's something flat about it. good dinosaur-y band sound, and like the dude's bored voice is kind of wiperseque, but it like is less than the sum of its parts somehow for me so far...

nice face is pretty cool...sounds like intelligence goes devo, kinda

good interview with clint from destijl records, great guy and one of the best underground labels in the whole wide world IMO

http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2010/06/clint_simonson.php

Big fan, seems like a great dude.
The King Darves record is awesome, but doesn't fit into this thread's aesthetic.
One of my favorite things about De Stijl is the refusal to be pigeonholed, actually.

yeah really diverse...also the mother of fire record he's talking about is a local band here in mpls (used to be called lambs) but anyway i have high hopes for it based on the last album

also,

i really like that he doesn't buy into the stupid ass super limited edition stuff, that's probably the most fucking annoying thing of the last few years in underground...it's like jesus could i just buy the fucking record please?

amen brother. i still don't know if that bitters album ever existed at all or was available for sale, for instance.

if you scroll down to the bottom of the badmaster home page there's a pretty great local philly comp up for download, some hot guts and birds of maya and others

Does anyone know anything about this novel (based in punk era San Francisco):

Jennifer Egan's novel A Visit From the Goon Squad is out.

The latest novel from the acclaimed author of The Keep unfolds in the music worlds of punk-era San Francisco and contemporary New York. As the characters grow out of their early rebelliousness, their attention turns from performance to money-making. Egan charts the fluctuations of fortunes and friendships, exploring various notions of change and stability

She is gonna be doing a reading at Poltics & Prose in DC on Monday June 28th

― curmudgeon, Sunday, June 20, 2010 9:22 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I just read this. It's one of those novels that jumps around from character to character and from time period to time period, so the punk stuff is mostly limited to one chapter, bleeding into a couple of other chapters a little, and doesn't really connect to the real SF punk scene in any real way, so I wouldn't read it just because of that. That being said, it was a really good novel so you should read if you just want to read a good novel.

http://www.mediafire.com/?53nb1mzgol2

Free Clinic tape.

For fans of Flipper/Brainbombs/early Swans.

So the Touch & Go zine collection is now available. But the postage outside of North America is more expensive than the book itself. Fuck sake.

Or you could try http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780979616389/Touch-and-Go like I'mma do in the next few days I think

Amazon UK is even cheaper.

Cool. My Amazon wishlist is getting quite big...

That's perfect, I didn't see it on Amazon when I searched before, thanks!

ok, so my internet has been turned back on after two torturous weeks. only a few things here, one of them being that the Nu Sensae/Shearing Pinx show at 21 Grand last week was fucking killer. also had no idea that the nu sensae drummer (d4niel) was such a fucking babe in person. oh, and Marissa from AWESOMES cut her head open at the end of their set, FINISHED THE SONG, then proceeded to bleed everywhere. got five staples in her head later in the evening. punk rock.

oh and get ready for the SISTER FUCKER full-length, yall. it is absolutely ripping.

the nu sensae drummer (d4niel) was such a fucking babe in person.

Seriously ... *sigh*

okay, some things:
- d4niel friended me on fbook. which made me swoon even further.

- STRIP MALL SEIZURES 2nd to last show was so fucking amazing. every single band, except maybe the angular antics of TFFWz, just fucking killed it....Gay Beast and Strip Mall especially, but Sister Fucker, too.

That show was awesome - it was definitely one of those live music peak experiences for me!

for realz!!!

really excited that the A-Frames are touring!!!!!

has anyone heard that new triple lp thing???

Might maybe be jumping in the car of a friend who's driving down for that last Strip Mall Seizures show this weekend.

http://www.myspace.com/pigtruro

so this band is DA BEST. the shpiel is that they're seventeen year old dudes from some tiny town in nova scotia which apparently has a huge thriving punk scene. really really good band people

xp - it's apparently New Thrill Parade's last show as well - I've wanted to see them for years, but never have.

NTP were okay, SMS were amazing in a completely different way than on Monday. Primary Colors destroyed the world a bit, tho....

uhm, yes! going to see Sewn Leather, DJ Dog Dick and some other peeps in a few minutes...around the corner from my house. how convenient.

Marissa from Screaming Females' solo album is out and it's streaming at http://www.punknews.org/bands/noun and it's really good!

really excited that the A-Frames are touring!!!!!

has anyone heard that new triple lp thing???

― the reverend dr. william wiggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, July 7, 2010 8:21 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

just reviewed it for KU5F and it is fucking awesome. i know it's sacrilege in RP/N-IU circles to say this, but i never quite understood all the love for a frames (or the intelligence FWIW), but this comp really brought it home for me. totally awesome release.

WAHNT

It is good. Exhausting and good.

Pls A Frames come to the UK thx.

A Frames have never made it east the Mississippi, as far as I can tell. Frown.

satisfied broke-ass WAHNT by trading in a few lps and a bunch of singles for credit, bought the whole damn 30-dollar thing. as reported elsewhere, listening now. might be my new favorite a-frames-related thing, though i haven't got through LP3 yet. so happy this exists.

the Sister Fucker tape on HSA is out now, and sounds fucking awesome. two mp3s available here: http://www.hardscrabbleamateurs.com/?p=265

tonight, American Splits, Rawwar, and Brotman & Short in the TL...!!

any heads on here like RESIDUAL ECHOES? they had a really sweet meat puppets-cum-hüsker dü sound last night opening up for (and sharing a non-king tuff member with) happy birthday. uh they also played sweet emotion->finest worksong->sweet emotion which was kind of incredibly successful?

Dude, that sounds great. I haven't listened to them since like their first two releases, when they were living in Comets on Fire's shadow. I've been thinking about them lately and wanting to check back in. That cover medley sounds pretty rad to me. You got any of their latest records?

omg 69 i had not heard of them but RESIDUAL ECHOES!!!!!! wooooowowowowow this is exactly what i want....listening to three songs on their myspace....damn...this is great...you pretty much nailed the description too...tho i even hear a bit of silkworm in the song "one after eyes" i'm listening to during the verses..

fuck me, is this something that has distro or hard to get/limited?

haven't heard 'em recently, but redid echoes used to be more on a spacey psych tip. their older records were pretty easy to come by...

just wanna pop in and express appreciation for many of the suggestions here. particularly liking broken water, cheveu, gun outfit, the marked men (had listened to but since forgot about the one on swami, didn't know they had a new one that was this good) and the residual echoes, so thanks!

saw BLACK WINE in a basement last weekend, nice lil trio on tour from the jersey shore somewhere, perfect classic-sounding songs, they seemed pretty superchunky to me (could just be the chick drummer) but i will defer to their myspace influences list: dinosaur jr, mudhoney, screaming trees, tad, screaming females. anyway, they were totes enjoyable.

(not that superchunk had a chick drummer, but that there was a chick in the band, but mostly its cause they sounded like superchunk so forget i even mentioned it)

Man Table, so many of the shows you're getting either just came through my house or come through just after. How was the bunch of Bmore dudes last week?

not bad! it was a showed-out weekend, but a fun night nonethless. Brotman & Short are playing this Thursday at East Nile in West Oakland, and I'm DJing, which should be fun.

also i cannot stop listening to White Lung. and also, weirdly enough, Godflesh?

everything that's going on up in Vancouver is just making me want to travel sooooo bad. think i'm gonna head up there sometime in the fall.

cool article on dan luedke from gay beast who is also a cool visual artist

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/art/95032404.html

i met isaac from gay beast last month - super awesome guy!

hey table have you heard sex church? i've got their lp and 7" both super good bc ponk fun

also i think i am going to marry this mi ami album

i love the way they jam out all the the noisy bits

did not like sex church 7" on sweet rot, so have avoided the expensive-ish EP. or is it an LP? great live band tho.

did somebody on here talk up heavy times LP? thought someone did, but can't find it now. anyway, am listening and it is okay. maybe a kinda swampy version of harlem, not a long stone's throw from jacuzzi boys. but not as good as JBs either.

did screaming females singles comp mentioned above ever come out? been playing their 1st two LPs a lot lately.

u.x. vileheads EP on sorry state is GR8. throwback hc done right. kill for peace.

has anyone else heard the audacity LP power drowning? surprised how little talk i've heard about it. easily the best rock album of the last couple years. you know, from where i sit (and drink).

Ya, singles comp has been out since March or something I think? Their third album ("Power Move") is by and far their best, and they have a new one coming out soon that they finished. Marissa's solo thing as Noun though is like way way good.

gotta do a better job keeping my ear to the ground. thought i saw a new screaming females something a few months back, but then promptly forgot about it. "by far their best" = good sales technique.

yeah that audacity is awesome

i love the sex church 7" but the lp is very different. much less droney, more rawkin, cool long songs. one of my favourite punk records of the year so far

also i paypal'd for this landlords tape and i'm still waiting on it but amazing band if anyone's wondering

The new Bitters ep on Sacred Bones is out there now. Just grabbed it and will listen a bit later.

glad to hear i'm not alone on the audacity (then again everyone i've played it for has loved it). will check out sex church LP & nouns whatever.

after playing the heavy times LP a few times now, i retract my earlier indifference. is excellent. does sound a tiny bit like harlem or the jacuzzi boys at times, but they shouldn't be ref points A. much tougher and throatier, traces of the misfits at times in the chord progressions & metallic attack - marked men or lazy cowgirls in the propulsion dep't. thin, reverby production does 'em no favors, tunes should hit a LOT harder, but awesome nonetheless. recommended.

this is kinda overground but

2nd song off the new black mountain is up on a website...

kinda :|

reminds me of like free or bad company

i like Sex Church a lot! sometimes a little too droney, but still pretty awesome.

cacaw coming to town next week, psyched

sounds like maybe they have something new out?

am listening to the third LP by the bomb, speed is everything, what it came out on no idea late last year. not for the 1st time, but i've only had it a couple weeks. the bomb = jeff pezzati and co. and jeff i know from naked raygun way back when. this thread was built EXACTLY for shit like this. bummed that it hasn't come up already, but happy to do the honors. goddam this is great! aching, soaring, tuff as nails anthemic hc/punk with HUGE pop hooks. basic sound is very much in line with classic NR - performances and tunes easily live up to (and sometimes surpass) that legacy. anyone who's got any affection for naked raygun, mission of burma, parts & labor, ted leo and/or wailing heart on sleeve punk in general NEEDS to hear this. umm, and it sometimes taps into the vast longing of 80s john hughes soundtrack pop, a la psychedelic furs, the church, M83, etc. not a bad song on here, starts great and just keeps getting better and better as it goes. record that really deserves to be heard by all people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHeA6Lq-AaI

not my favorite tune, but solid & representative, plus first youtube i found. also this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM63BmfjLnU&feature=related

bonus sound quality

apologize, by the way, for the intense shittiness of the album cover image on that youbube above. i mean, it gets the emotional vibe of the music across, but is so so awful and terrible. wish it were not so. LP version is WAY better, hi contrast monochrome on brown paper, no idea style. pretend it looks like that.

a few local notes:
- Frozen Embryos are probably one of the more exciting new bands around right now. Saw them yesterday, and they have a grungey punk sound that reminds me of early Nirvana and other PNW, raw-edged stuff from the late 80s. demo here: http://thethinnertheair.blogspot.com/2010/07/frozen-embryos-demo.html

- Tesseract have no contact info or anything like that, but they fucking rule. Crust-core with raging female vox, totally going with a more anthemic take on stuff from the late 90s like Anti-Product, etc.

OK.

Have I enthused about Death Sentence: Panda! on here? They will soon have a new album out.

BUDGET ROCK 9 > GONERFEST VII!

Saw Puffy Areolas the other night and they were damn good. (A good bud of mine is a touring member or something and said something a few months ago about how they'd played a few shows w/ Raven and were planning on recording with him and I forgot to ask him the other night. Did this happen/is it awesome?)

Puffy Areolas are playing my town on the 11th - looking forward.

im hittin the show in SF on the 10th, and maybe hit the oakland one if that night is excellent!

new Gun Outfit is really ace.

also, WHITE BOSS.

lol

http://www.myspace.com/whitebossandgod

Old schoolers Channel 3 are in town tonight. They were supposed to be supported by the Freeze, which would have been awesome must-go line-up but the Freeze have cancelled their UK tour for some reason. Still thinking of going anyway but I'm a bit hungover at the moment.

There's a bunch of old US punkers around at the mo cos of Rebellion festival, I'm going to see Agnostic Front & 7 Seconds on Thursday.

SUPER WILD HORSES LP is very very good, new fabulous diamonds and bitters records, too.

cacaw's new album on permanent records is great

noize rock freaks need to be checking these guys out

sex church is okay imo. im not completely sold cause they sound a little bit like the black rebel motocross gang, but at their less-polished moments, theyve got some pretty good dark songs!

Cacaw fucking rock so hard. Unrelenting (two basses!) rhythm section.
Really fun to watch live. I love gender-balanced noise rock groups.

yeah, got to play with them when they came through last week, they are a real fucking joy

came out late last year, but i wanted to re-mention wizzard sleeve - make the world go away LP on hozac, mostly cuz the turnover for niche stuff is absurdly fast these days and the record vanished with little notice in the 1st place. point being it is great. i keep coming back to it several months down the line, and it always does me right. hits some basic BOC sweet spot involving straightforward hard rock gunked up with the devil creeps & rusty drug vibes. noisier and more devolved than BOC ever were, of course, but still catchy & dank, in a scooped-out caveman style. chrome figure large in the blueprint, too, but NP are way more basic than that. they got like one song, but it's a good song. for modern refs, maybe a tougher, younger nothing people. needs better production but maybe that goes w/out. more people should listen, etc.

^ say that with no idea how old nothing people actually are. but there's something in their approach that suggests familiarity with error, encroaching decrepitude, irretrievable loss. so i think of their POV as "old", regardless of chronology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbmG3zPqmEc&p=C33445A3BB35BA04&playnext=1&index=40

only decent wizzard sleeve youtube i could quickly find - the rest seem to be shitty live videos. unfortunately for a different version of the song than appears on the LP. prefer this single version, tbh. album take ups the sci-fi spookshow vibe, but doesn't rock nearly as hard.

this gif goes really good with that wizzard sleeve tune

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l51nsfJN331qzxf8vo1_400.gif

members of nothing ppl are in their 30s iirc

Guys, I'm in Philly for a sec, and what happens when I'm in town? fucking INK & DAGGER are playing a reunion show!!! so stoked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-KG41oK6XY

Just came back from Agnostic Front/7 Seconds show, I know this thread is kinda not really about this kind of "punk" as such but there's no other all purpose thread for hardcore so fuck it.

For some reason the gig was an early one so I got there at 8:10pm and already missed the first quarter of 7 Seconds and came in while they were playing Young Til I Die which was pretty fitting since Kevin Seconds is about 50 now but fuck it they rocked anyway. And I swear Roger Miret hasn't aged in the last 15 years. Vinnie Stigma hasn't aged as well tho.

Have to say that was probably the most mental pit I've ever seen at the Underworld. Some dude saw that I was wearing a Negative Approach t-shirt and said to his g/f "oh yeah I remember them they were really fast but not very tuneful" lol

Woo.

Guys, I'm in Philly for a sec, and what happens when I'm in town? fucking INK & DAGGER are playing a reunion show!!! so stoked.

Sean McCabe was that band, and he is dead. That is going to be an awful show.

totally hypnotized by funky raphael. ace plus. goes yes well w/ pterodactyl meltdown, which i should mention is basically a rip a love & rockets' kundalini express, rolling fill and everything. this message brought to by large glasses of kendrick's gin.

Jouster, I'm not a fucking idiot. I know Sean is dead.

It's actually just an excuse to go out and see old friends. Maybe see a good show, maybe not. Either way, it's a benefit.

As someone who hasn't been around the Philly scene for almost 10 years, it'll be nice. That's all.

OK OK, that's totally legit. It's just that I can't imagine that the actual show will be anything but icky (not helping is the fact that apparently the singer from Thursday is taking Sean's place).

i feel kind of the same way— i mean, the board on the event wall on fbook is kind of full of people saying either, "JEALOUS" or "this should never happen." i'm more inclined to agree with the latter, but i also just want to see m1ke mck33 and some other folks from the scene of the late 90s that i knew.

woah I&D reunion.. my curiousity wld def'ly trump disgust. so, jealous i guess

i am listening to some 45s. mabye a little drunk, but not nachtmystium drunk. so relax.

first up, the electric bunnies, who belong not here but on rolling not-punk-but-not-quite-"indie" drugdrone 2010, but since that doesn't exist, they go itt. comes courtesy of yr sacred bones records, hot on the heals of their well-received debut LP. pretty damn great! this band has tended in the past to be a glass-half-full proposition for me. like i like their spirit and they choose some interesting building blocks, but i've rarely been entirely satisfied w/ the end product. it always feels like there's some crucial part gone missing. then again, the glass IS half full, and who's gonna sneer at half a glass? anyway, that's not a problem here. they seem to have decided to be the jesus & mary chain, which isn't typically an encouraging indicator, but damn, the noise contrails on the a-side meet or exceed psychocandy tolerances. simple, simple songwriting and musicianship elevated by superhuman drug focus on the psychedelic guitar shimmer. i.e. really goddam nice. recommended to fans of the telescopes, spacemen 3, brian jonestown massacre, and the aforementioned. maybe even to the MBV crowd, though they're hard to please, so fuck em anyway.

next rot shit, "have you scene" EP on fashionable idiots. came out in 2008, but i just picked it up. repress? i guess... umm, it sounds like the name says. shit that is rot. 6 chunks of super lo-fi but hard-hitting garage/hc hybrid insta-punk on the main side, plus a longer, draggier take on the flip. i mean, i know i'm late to the plate w this, but i loved their recent/superior columbus discount 45, so i'm super happy to have a matching set. and mid side A = "power pop", fucking filthy ass shit. otoh, there's something a bit too in-the-park safe about a termbo dream-date band tearing the expected holes and singing songs called "pre-order sellout" and "what the fuck is weird punk?" i like it, but feel somewhat pandered to, which is maybe the point.

crawling momentarily outta the filth hole is a 4 song EP by black cloud, from the boston they got over there. it's a weird, kinda out-of-time record by a band i've never heard of on a similarly obscure label (ride the snake?). and it's pretty goddam great. picked it out for listening mostly due to the recording fingers of one mr. wayne rogers, but it sounds nothing like his major stars. straight up nasty-ass AC/DC type blooze worship, maybe comparable to early white stripes in pared-down simplicity and apeman beats, vocals in the vein of the oblivians & country teasers. aimed at riverboat gamblers fans? tight bros? fed x? anyone? i dunno, but sounds good from here. does a weird ascending quality thing, where the 1st track is bullshit, the second hits a stride, and the fucking crazy manic blitzspeed third finally drives it home. crocodile rock. metal like xhuxk would have it. hot and sweaty, loud and greasy (dire straits ref = trademark of quality).

okay, i'm gonna wrap it up with the i dunno what to make of it goddam brilliant sarin mchugh & the everymen and their "rotocoma pollution!" EP on fucking suah sounds records (???). basically the deal here is that you need to ignore all the other shit i'm talking about, and most everything else in this sad bastard thread and fucking find this thing now. serious AMAZING basement inculcated & noize swollen soul garage heartbreak of the highest, highest caliber. vocals strongly remiscent of mick collins, and the songs live up to that high standard, though caked in early dirtbombs grot -- aching pop nuggets set on fire and dragged across the desert at steve austin breakup speeds, pieced back together better stronger faster from the wreckage. reminded of the finest recent fergus & geronimo and photobooth 45s, but way better, goddam it. like hearing the best damn band in the world pretending to be nothing special at all.

last week i saw residual echoes, woven bones & wild america with happy birthday headlining. wild america basically played to me & an empty room and they still tore it the fuck up. woven bones & residual echoes really impressed, and i was too drunk to remember anything about happy birthday other than that the girl that danced with me smelled really good.

That Rot Shit 7" is the one I have - I am a fan. Was a fan? They are wrapped up now I guess. If I was an even worse person than I already am I would say they were an Angry Samoans for the 4chan generation, or something like that

Saw Fat Worm of Error two nights in a row - it was a record release show for a record that had not arrived yet. I'm not sure if they played the exact same set both nights, but tonight I noticed a passing similarity to US Maple, who I adore.

Oh contenderizer thanks for that The Bomb rec, I am really digging that record.

I know it's nothing more than entitlement, but I get bummed how little of this stuff is out there digitally (since I'm turntable-less for the forseeable future).

crawling momentarily outta the filth hole is a 4 song EP by black cloud, from the boston they got over there.

actually that's black clouds, and yeah they were awesome, especially live. the last time I saw them they played with turbo fruits and surfer blood, who they effortlessly blew off the stage. of course all the hipster scum left after those two played, leaving black clouds to take their rock n roll fury out on the remaining few in the audience.

they were underappreciated even in these local parts and have since hung it up. matt, their drummer/vocalist, has a new project called party pigs which he assures me he will be unveiling in october. can't wait!

all the hipster scum left after those two played, leaving black clouds to take their rock n roll fury out on the remaining few in the audience.

this is what always happens. and bummed to hear that black cloudS are no more, cuz the 7" is spectacular and i was looking forward to seeing them. assumed that they were a current band and it a current release. :((((((((

i really am an asshole for not going to chaos in tejas when it was like, down the fucking street

the sex church lp is kind of boring but there is goodness in it i think

recently kicking my ass: dead farmers lp, landlords cs, drunkdriver (!!!), tyvek skyin lp

has anyone heard the new(est) ty segall lp? on goner i think? i love the mikal cronin and black time ones from last year & missed a chance to see this guy locally but he is obviously one of the best things going these days and i feel obliged to keep up

tyvek skyin lp

^^^ !!! mine's on marvin gaye. love the false starts. also the blunt instrumental EP. between these two, more solid square inches than the siltbreeze LP. some west coast tour dates coming up w the oh sees. gotta wonder how many versions of "frustration rock" and "future junk" i'm gonna own before the ride's over, though.

have not yet heard the new ty segal, but yeah, love the reverse shark attack LP, more than lemons, even. and definitely see the guy live if/when you can. seen him a bunch of times recently, both on his own and with sic alps, and he kills it unfailingly. great singer, drummer, gtr player, etc.

awww <3 sic alps

gotta wonder how many versions of "frustration rock" and "future junk" i'm gonna own before the ride's over, though.

lol totally the new tyvek lp is due out real soon iirc. a friend of mine sold some mushrooms to lianna and heath and we all went dancing after their set. they are big sweeties

new STNNNG album is coming! if y'all like real knotty post SST brute rock, these guys have basically been my one of my fav bands for a while:

new album "The Smoke of My Will" on modern radio coming this fall, new song here "New Black Hole"

http://www.modern-radio.com/release.php?id=136

Have you guys heard about this rock n roll cruise to the Bahamas featuring Tyvek, Quintron, more?

the Bruise Cruise thing? yeah.

My buddy told me about it last night, sounds fun.

so lately i am feelin a dearth of super great lps this year. i've bought some pretty good stuff but only maybe one record close to some of my favourite records of last year (pissed jeans, hunches, factums, ty segall/mikal cronin, home blitz, mayyors, shitty limits). although i only found out about a lot of those retroactively so maybe i will have to wait till 2011 for things to surface. anyways any releases you guys really love this year so far? i picked up the new naked on the vague thing today on the strength of a recent single of theirs my roommate bought

well, i haven't been paying attention, but i think my favorites have been funerot, the bomb LP i talked up a little while ago, and the audacity LP that probably actually came out last year. plus stuff that probably technically belongs in rolling metal, like black breath (who nonetheless sound pretty fucking punk to me, in a motorhead sense). i'm sure there's other shit slipping my mind or that i've missed. haven't even tried to keep up with whatever the goner/termbo people are into this year.

Some recent stuff I've gotten into that could fit into this category:
Fey Gods 7" on Hozac (kinda slow and sparse on the a side.), Heater LP on Permanent (some really catchy songs on this, fuzzed out), Big Troubles LP on Olde English Spelling Bee (maybe a bit more shoegaze...but very gbv, early lilys, but with an edge), and the A-Frames compilation is so so good too.

oh yeah, A frames comp definitely, but that hardly feels "new" you know? plus tons of singles & EPs, but i get where samosa is coming from wr2 the seeming dearth of great punk/garage LPs this year.

sum good lp's i have (re)discovered since my apocalyptic post of 5 days yore

- moonhearts lp - i'm sure you guys (will) love this, vocals are a bit low in the mix but you get used to it and the tunes are A+
- puffy areolas - contenderizer i know you don't like this but man u so wrong i put it on the other day for the first time in a while and i have listened to it like six times since

still haven't really dug into notv yet but i did give a listen to that nerve city lp 69 has been raving about and i think i might pick up a copy. also soon i am going to have to buy a copy of the nu sensae lp. i was waiting on them to tour montreal but don't know how much longer i'll have to wait

yeah, good call on the nerve city LP & EPs. didn't mention them cuz they're kinda tangential to what i think of as punk, but no less great for that.

heard this on the college station today....band from new jersey....with cute fake english accents :)

kinda sound like "boys don't cry" cure but a little more u.s. 90s indie with a girl singer....

http://www.myspace.com/screamingfemales

they rock, their singer Marissa is a bad ass guitarist. also has a solo record under the name Noun, that also rocks.

they are not very non-indie maybe but I like em a lot. "Arm Over Arm" off the last record was an anthem.

in the summer they were on a long tour opening for Ted Leo

yeah i guess they are pretty indie but now i guess i think of this thread as "new bands that don't suck" more than anything

their singer Marissa is a bad ass guitarist

agree with this fully but didn't really wow to their actual songs tbh

haha matt otm

New Double Negative album was waiting for me when I went home on lunch earlier - awesome embossed mirrored sleeve, you need the awesome power of 3D to appreciate it - this is the best photo I could find

http://nopatience.org/store/images/doubleneg.jpg

oh and if you didn't notice it's called DAYDREAMNATION

old cranky punx are the best

i was considering ordering that, i love what i've heard from them so far

is it good

agree with this fully but didn't really wow to their actual songs tbh

I like their songs but they do rock a lot harder live than they come across on album. their records are a little more muted down. I don't think anyone would see them live and mention early Cure imo.

http://thedecibeltolls.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/croppedout11.jpg

i've missed most every chance i've ever had to see pissed jeans just cause their name annoyed me. should i regret this?

/lex

More importantly--do yall awesome bros know where a zorn could start w/r/t [band I have never heard of] "Los Brackets"

yes

xp

they are grebt live + worth yr time

I'm with you on the name tho

saw the bellrays last night, who were great. seattle what the fuck is wrong with you? your failure has been noted.

oh sees & tyvek tonight

i love w people who actually go out to support some shit

pissed jeans are pretty excellent live

zorn you should listen to king of jeans it's my favourite rock/punk album of the past a lot of years

oh fuck you KY-goers are so lucky to see SAPAT

tbh that show is kinda meh besides sapat and magik markers (with honorable mentions to pissed jeans and moon duo i guess)

i suppose "much more to be announced" could mean that some rad-ass bands are comin but i dont know

is everyone on this thread a Magik Markers fan except me?

yes

tbh that show is kinda meh besides sapat and magik markers (with honorable mentions to pissed jeans and moon duo i guess)

child abuse is one of the most innovative aggressive bands in nyc right now

cacaw is f'kn incredible as noted upthread

tinsel teeth have been added to day 3

and given the general goodness of the bands on that list that I've heard of, I'm willing to bet some that I haven't heard of are prolly pretty good too

Child Abuse is awesome - they also have great t-shirts

I will say that I'm kind of baffled by the popularity of cave

xpost - saw them a year ago at NY Eye and Ear at the Tribeca KF and they ruuuuuled. then went upstairs and saw - Magik Markers

BOSS is a great record but MM didn't really bring it the last time I saw them play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWlyADtwows

i haven't heard any of Magik Markers' records - and they could be great records - i've only seen them live and was pretty underwhelmed, hence, no desire to get the records

MM seem like they went from great live shows and eh records to eh live shows and great records

oh yeah i do hear that cacaw is good

Spectre Folk on that bill (Pete from MM) can be awesome live. Recs too. More rolling psych/drone/freak thread than this one tho.

woah, been absent here for a while.

anyway, Samosa: i've said it before and i'll say it again, but there are SO SO many good records that have come out this year. a few of my faves are:
- Slices- Cruisin'
- Nu Sensae- TV Death and the Devil
- White Lung- It's the Evil
- Sister Fucker- God's Work Cassette
- Gun Outfit- Possession Sound

also, hey, i'm putting out the new Brotman & Short LP later in the fall!! it is fucking sick, grab some tracks here:

http://brotmanandshort.blogspot.com/2010/08/tracks.html

^^ they were awesome live!

saw Stag Bitten twice this past week, they fucking tear it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUwO6YGdAO8

they're on tour with Terraform right now...

jealous of you oaklanders and your child abuse/no babies shows and what not

dude - you got to see Arab on Radar before they broke up again, jealous of you E3

yeah, and I can see olneyville sound system next week, we're way past even

heard mayyors is breaking up ;_;

commence to gnashing of teeth, rending of garments, etc

apparently the new band is already among us, though, or soon will be

chilling

- Slices- Cruisin'
- Nu Sensae- TV Death and the Devil
- White Lung- It's the Evil
- Sister Fucker- God's Work Cassette

been curious about a lot of this stuff, but have grown leery of nu-noiserock absent laffs, grooves, hooks. like i want shit to be more pissed jeans, less twin stumps. advice?

discernible vocals saying hilarious shit = a huge plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD16gJPLZiE&feature=player_embedded

listening to cacaw LP, which i picked up based on recs ITT. it's pretty good, but weird me out that the cover sticker name drops "brutal ... amphetamine reptile" bands as a reference point. sounds nothing like that scene/sound. i'm hearing like unwound and maybe traces of scissor sisters & antioch arrow? decent record, but not sure they've really got their own distinct thing worked out yet. great packaging though.

also a cheap used copy of FNU Ronnies one-sided three song thing from last year. more my speed: hilarious, depraved.

okay, and that nu sensae video is awesome. wanna hear more.

scissor sisters or scissor girls?

lol! scissor girls, duh. kind of a wide gap between scissor sisters and antioch arrow...

lol - i've actually never heard scissor sisters, but i am familiar with scissor girls

scissor sister are okay, esp the new album. nowhere near as ear threatening as the girls though.

FNU ronnies blowing my mind. like shit & shine w/skeksis.

This thread is such a goldmine. Thanks guys.

Only seen Cacaw live and loud, never heard a record.

hell ya fnu ronnies one of the best bands of our time imo, so stoked for their lp. also they are all real live true freaks & put on an amazing show

i found a bunch of their releases in mp3 and one of them is the loudest mixed thing on my entire i-pod

keep hearing things about Hygiene - supporting Shitty Limits tomorrow - probably not going cos I'm a bastard

contenderizer, if you don't think Nu Sensae or Slices have hooks, then you are cloth-eared. sorry to be so frank, but that's truth.

also, that clip above made me love D4niel even more than i already do. what a babe, what a sense of humor.

Death Sentence: Panda! are awesome, and everyone should hear them play and/or buy their record

if you don't think Nu Sensae or Slices have hooks, then you are cloth-eared. sorry to be so frank, but that's truth.

haven't heard either. remain studiously ignorant. was saying that i've steered clear due to concerns-having. no excuse.

if i am cloth-eared, it is in regard to the not really liking of puffy areolas.

you're an old-school guy, c, have you ever had a chance to see Caroliner?

Bump^
Thanks to this thread I am now in love with Eddy Current Suppression Ring's 'Which Way to Go'. It's almost as good as the Big Boys song of the same name. Reminds me of the Cosmic Psychos for obvious reasons

I just know there are so many other rich pickings in this thread.

Cheers

you're an old-school guy, c, have you ever had a chance to see Caroliner?

i never did see caroliner, though at the time, one heard tales.

remember considering buying a caroliner record once. it was wrapped in what looked like old barf and had a dreadlock glued to it. i guess you had to be there.

uh, i think a lot of their records still look like that

ha! didn't know they were still around. worth going out to see if i get a chance?

never had molasses bread on my penis, tbpf

yeah - i saw caroliner a couple weeks ago at the SF electronic music festival, and they've kinda got a new sound that's pretty great, though membership changes on semi-regular basis.

less screechy cacaphony, or different screechy cacaphony?

as i am delicate

less screechy, less "bug vocals" - kinda death-metallish in parts iirc

sounds awesome. curious. unfortunately they are not playing as part of decibel, the currently ongoing seattle electronic music festival. in celebration of which i'm gonna go see a thrash metal show tomorrow.

I saw Caroliner a few years back and they were great, really rocked out which kinda surprised me. Definitely almost metally at times.

oh, sorry to insult, contnderizer. didn't realize you hadnt heard them.

here's a free mp3 Nu Sensae gave away from their album: http://www.chippedhip.com/music/05%20Cat's%20Cradle%201.mp3

(ps- i only sort of like puffy areolas, tbh)

69 wrote this on thread Rolling punk / non-indie underground thread 2010 on board I Love Music on Jun 24, 2010:

New Gun Outfit is interesting, a lot mellower than their last album but I think it works?

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, June 21, 2010 2:25 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

annie likes these guys a lot -- i like it okay, but there's something flat about it. good dinosaur-y band sound, and like the dude's bored voice is kind of wiperseque, but it like is less than the sum of its parts somehow for me so far...

man, i'm loving this to death. yet another awesome oly band with rueben storey drumming, too (along with funerot and christian mistress, who i'm gonna see tonight)! and the flatness is definitely there. reminds me of thurston m's affectless delivery, the sound of spot & bisi produced mid-late 80s indie. it could be an off-putting or a boring/unambitious sound, but i like they way they use the dazed, stoney vibe it generates. it is lazy, but in a good way, in a soft, saturday afternoon sunshine kinda way. plus, in spite of the overall flatness, they keep the sound moving. there's a unifying tone, but lots of quiet little hooks, moments of beauty (the guitars in "new love thunders"!). casually brings together a bunch of interesting threads & styles: wipers, sonic youth, c-86 UK indie, gun club (oops), minutemen/meat puppets-style hippie slackness, astringent voidoids jangle. even unicorn rock? leonard cohen? to me, a whole lot more than the sum of.

"i must have some expensive shit cuz you know i paid my dues"

...well and late pavement/silver jews (maybe #1 ref point), dino jr, ad naus

point is it's a good record for listening to

tinsel teeth minitour, they put on #1 goodtime funshow

9/27 Baltimore @ Sidebar
9/28 Richmond @ Strange Matter
9/29 Chapel Hill @ Nightlight
9/30 Hickory, NC @ Thee Killing Floor
10/1 Athens @ GoBar
10/2 Nashville @ Little Hamilton Collective
10/3 Louisville @ Cropped Out Fest 2010
10/4 Cleveland @ Now That's Class

saw CHRISTIAN MISTRESS & BLACK BREATH tonight at vegan crustymetalpunk joint where i saw YOB last week. awesome awesome awesome how from all concerned. bought gear and shit, felt like such an alien. hard to go out and see bands w/out a crew. but all powers to all who came and slew. forever

there's a new band here in mpls called Double Bird...real nice garage pop/punk stuff they have a new 7 inch

http://www.myspace.com/dblbird

yknow, it may actually be the gun club ref point for gun outfit that leaves me cold? it aint the late-silver jews thing, because if they sounded that WARM and complete, id be a much bigger fan.

i really dig the Gun Outfit record, but yeah, i do need to be in the late Silver Jews sort of mode.

are they lo-fi-ish?

i'm kinda getting so fed up with lo fi anything...i wish every band would go back in time and record at a fancy studio circa 72

they aren't particularly lo fi

my favorite track off the new one is called "the lack," unfortunately I can't find anywhere online where people could listen to it

Any of you dudes heard HOT GUTS outta Philly? Their 7" is pretty good, thick guitar murk rock.

― KORGÜLL THE EXCHEQUER (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, January 17, 2010 7:00 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark

this is so great! i had been listening to some mp3s i found but it showed up in my mail box today & i've listened to it like six times already. have you heard the split with pop 1280? listened to the samples somewhere and it didn't sound very good but i am tempted to check it out

also: new purling hiss stuff sounds like the best shit in the world. i've ordered hisstastic or whatever the one on richie is called but i should probably order the woodsist one too. a song from each on his myspace. so excited for this, that birds of maya 2xlp bummed me out good

new favourite band

http://www.myspace.com/thehomopolice

ist rad

somewhat troubled by the fact that assfucker is only 14 minutes long. could use another 126.

Homopolice is dude or dudes from No Talk who I repped for on the equivalent thread last year. Their family tree seems to be pretty sprawling - I put on / put up Insect Warfare about a year ago and didn't realise until a few weeks after that some of them were in No Talk as well

bought their single off this austin pv band chest pains who were playing next door & he told me they shared members with insect warfare. didnt know about no talk though, that's really cool

really loving the Circle Pit LP on siltbreeze. very trux.