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

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

Horrible Fest is this weekend. From the myspace:

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

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

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

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

In The Basement: Mr. California & WNCX

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

-Blondsai
-Wolfdowners

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ALSO:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New Pink Reason 7", anyone?

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

I haven't heard the new Pink Reason yet.

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

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

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

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

oh good someone started this thread!

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

meth teeth rocks it.

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

This is totally the place to talk about Thomas Function!

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

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

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

I think they're been going since 1986!

ARRRrrrr, me mateys.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SOLED

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

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

haha M@tt's second description otm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

oooooh fucking hell I can't go to that.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

going to see The Cops tonight, anyone seen them?

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

going to see The Cops tonight, anyone seen them?

-- M@tt He1ges0n

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

-- BigLurks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

no.

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

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

they appear to be hammering out details on a European tour

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whatever happened to Contenderizer? I liked that guy.

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

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

oh nice i need those a-frames records

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

Link?

http://207.228.243.82/ss/cat.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

but the new Fucked Up is really great!

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

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

Also xpost yeah I like the Wavves album.

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

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

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

DRUNKDRIVER

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

http://www.myspace.com/headofskullssounds

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

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i really like those nodzzz records!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wanna be in NYC :(

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.myspace.com/themarkedmen

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

HAD so many great songs, I guess!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Plus also Love Tan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.myspace.com/totalabuse

Yeah this basically rules.