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.

i heard a noisy rock album today. won't be out for a few months, but a certain ilxor used to play drums for this band. it's really good!

i just became a "liker" of Child Abuse on facebook

are child pr0nography still around? talk about a band you would hesitate liking on fb

or, y'know, googling

^^ it's actually just one dude, who is also a friend of table's ... i think he's mainly been focusing on a couple of other bands he's in, at least one of which has been mentioned on this thread.

Child P is actually two people. Er1n & Br1zzah http://www.myspace.com/yhpargonropdlihc.

I think that everyone sees the mistake being made here.
Child Abuse is NOT Child Pornography.

I think I like herpes

i think so, too

catchy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YFNfIS25Zg

posting before they're on pitchfork

this isn't noisy or punk at all but i don't feel like posting on the indie thread...

but pigeons - liasons on soft abuse is really beautiful, i'm bewitched by it...

kinda sounds like some american lo-fi underground version of francois hardy

soft abuse is a cool label too, got another thing by olympus, damaged swell maps type stuff

thread of indie shame

haha i actually listened to yo la tengo today, with pride

Sewn Leather is really rad. my fave of Griff's tats is the FALAFEL across his knuckles.

also, he is kind of dreammmyyy.

whatever i've been listening to Eleven Pond all morning, so.

Last night I went to see Hard Skin and the support band were doing morris dancing cover versions of the Exploited and Cockney Rejects.

Dead Cities! Dead Cities! Hey Nonny Nonny!

It was... something

There used to be a Wurzels covers band here comprised of people from the Crust and Harcore scenes.

ha that was Chaos UK ppl iirc

Man I heard Masshysteri at a record store tonight... nice. Kinda reminds me of Gorilla Angreb. Except maybe could use more female vocals, but still.

okay, so i got, by surprise, a small batch of vinyl from columbus discount records in the mail this morning. "by surprise" i say cuz i'd sent them a fistful of $$$ to participate in their singles club like a year ago, a thirty dollar installment payment with the idea that i'd kick down some more later on, when i could afford it. to get a short story over, i never did, and they never sent me anything other than reminders of what i'd yet to pay, and i felt bad about it and wrote my thirty bucks off figuring that would be the end of things. a charitable contribution to a worthy enterprise.

guess they finally gave up hoping for full payment and just sent me some swag. two little 7-inch records and nice big 12, the main reason i'm writing here. it's a four-song EP by the don howland's BASSHOLES, and it's fucking amazing. leads off with a riveting cover of legend's "i feel like sleeping", instantly one of the coolest things i've heard all year. nailed to the ground, bleeding tension, snapping at the bars. weird part is that it's the only bassholes song i know of not sung by howland. drummer lamont thomas takes the lead, and turns out he's got a damn fine voice. strongly reminiscent of the black keys, an alternate universe black keys that i might actually like. throaty, soulful & swinging like the keys, but also raw, raging and wounded in a way they never quite manage, or don't care to. an affirmation of live through the acknowledgment of mortality, and no dry quotation. they do something with the song, stripping it down like feedtime to a smoldering chassis on which they strap a howl and let it loose in the night. after that you get another cover (electric eels' "cyclotron": swell, but drowning in reverb) and two ace originals, all sung by howland in his trademark hillbilly yelp. rough and raw, of course, but nowhere near as noise saturated as last year's eardrum-testing ...and without a name LP. all great, but i'm bummed that only a few hundred people are ever gonna hear "i feel like sleeping," cuz it really deserves a wider audience.

the singles are solid, if not quite in the same league. the electric bunnies deliver two tracks of sugar-dusted crush pop, shorn of the feedback fuzz in which they've recently tended to drape the world. a-side "heal me with your kiss" = dreamy/drifty girl-group swoon (minus girls), flipside "all the pretty girls have gone to the beach" = a melting, zoned-out zombie crawl through similar territory, the beach by oozing druglight. shades of gary wilson. not my favorite bunnies (for that, see their previous "pretty joanna" 45 on sacred bones), but recommended to fans.

finally, deathly fighter come in most mysterious of all, and farthest out from this thread's stated purview. instrumental beats and electronic drones, with ping-ponging video game noises and driving finger & string basslines. it's dub-fogged club music for doomy, low-budget basement parties, suggesting shots of prescription cough syrup washed down with 4loko from a paper bag. groovy, single-minded and effectively hypnotic, if a bit undercooked - surprising mostly in context, as it's far removed from the devolved guitar bashing CDR tends to specialize in.

and not through CDR, but sweet rot records, i on a whim shelled out five or six bucks for a 45 by CIRCLE PIT. holy shit. hideously mangled bar-girl glam a la mid-90s royal trux, chick even sounds a bit like jennifer on the a-side. regrettably smeared, dripping sex and acne and thrift store handbags. who the fuck are they? aussie scuzzballs apparently, awesome shit, i have never felt so far outside the loop.

yeah, cosign on circle pit, those guys are awesome

found them via a naked on the vague connection iirc

got a year-end garage clean-out deal from Deathbomb Arc -- a bunch of LPs and CDs for $14 -- will post more when i get around to listening to all of it

i don't like the no pitchfork rule, like what's the big deal & this thread has cool ppl so obviously whatever happens coolness will prevail

edward what video was that

no pitchfork rule is kinda funny imo

I think video was "das kommt vom kussen" by herpes or some such shit

circle pit LP on siltbreeze is fuckin rad, too. havent received my new bunch of columbus discount stuff yet, but i cant wait for the electric bunnies -- i love the 4.5 singles and LP i have of theirs...

yeah, listening to that now. had to pick it up after hearing the sweat rat single, my first post-holiday indulgence. loving it, but it's a very different sound. soft, blurry, woozed-out, somewhere between 80s aussie rock hero worship like the new christs and contemporary lo-fi sonics. single is way cleaned up, amped up, high on 80s glam. all cracking drums and supercompressed, nasty-sounding guitar drills. like accelerator to this LP's cats & dogs. not sure which i prefer, tbh, cuz i love the single's scuzzball energy, but "dead meat" is sitting me up right atm.

what's with australians and their wah-wah pedals btw?

"speed limit" needs bongos

holy shit @ "infinity": baldface J&MC rip + shangri-las bump ba-bump psh = godhead man

"hurricane" is the only song so far that even suggests what they're shooting for on the single, so dope, mooting the wah-wah question. is it me or does it sound exactly like a lee renaldo tune (thread connections '10), like decerebrated "mote"? esp on the awesome "nobody gets out of here alive" line...

best siltbreeze LP since?

okay, and maybe i'm just a sucker for the easiest moves, cuz everything on here reminds me of something else, but in a good way. like "another trick" = the vaselines' "lovecraft" (plus just their style in general) via the velvets. i see as how i'm being manipulated, sold a moldy bag of familiar tricks, but damn if i don't love these tricks.

one of the c!rcle p1t ppl is djing at this nye gig I am going to tonight. She is (I think ex-)girlfriend of a buddy of mine

how does g00glepr00f1ng circle pit help at this point?

true

hmm, weird, my friend interviewed them in MRR a while back, and from that, i thought the Bruise Constellation record would sound completely different.

Nu Sensae record still the most played of the year for me.

this guys seem pretty rad too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TOcdK5EMP8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7rOEeo_zhU

they're from Adelaide iirc

from that, i thought the Bruise Constellation record would sound completely different

little poppier than I expected but I'm liking it a lot. especially Another Trick. hits a similar spot for me as Blood on the Wall's "Awesomer" which was one of my favorite LPs that year. (similar spot as in, blatant '90s-worship done well)

finally heard the Off! record at a friend's house...wow, kinda ubelievebly great

best siltbreeze LP since?

fabulous diamonds II imo, and before that, eat skull's WILD AND INSIDE. basically, ill jock for a lot more of the new siltbreeze releases than most people around here. im still super hyped for TNV and psychedelic horseshit, and although i like more stylistic breadth in my life than "shitgaze" allows, it is an important part of a balanced meal or something.

I don't have a record player, but I'm loving the "Infinity" stream on someone's blog - I don't guess the album is available any other way but vinyl?

who doesn't have a record player? sorry, i just can't imagine living like that. you poor thing.

guys, the Primary Colors tape out on Hardscrabble Amateurs sounds like an industrial punk apocalypse. it is fucking amazing.

is that k3vins thing?

Rolling punk / non-indie underground / pitchfork GTFO thread 2011

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"

― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Sunday, September 26, 2010 9:04 PM (2 years ago)

contenderizer pretty much nailed it two years ago. Possession Sound by Gun Outfit is a mesmerizing album.