AFS v. 250 ~ Spite One & Embitter the Other...

Sorry...I was too busy to post the blog/podcast last week due to so many 12-hour shifts. The craziness at the office continues this week, but I'm sacrificing for you and will pay dearly tomorrow. So, here's two hours dominated by bitterness and spite....(followed by links to last week's show is also fairly bitter and spiteful, but there's a few fun rays of sunshine in there for you).

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MIRRORS | Cheap and Vulgar | Something That Would Never Do | Violet Times/Hovercraft 2009 (orig 1974)
HOME BLITZ | Two Steps | Out of Phase | Richie/Testostertunes *new
JACK STANDS | Huffin' Stuff | Box of Feelings CDR | no label 2009
EGO SUMMIT | Black Hole | The Room Isn't Big Enough | OldAge/No Age 1997
BASSHOLES | The Way I Came | ...and Without a Name | Columbus Discount *new
BASSHOLES | Swannanoa River
V-3 | Inside Outpost | Psychic Dance Hall | Ropeburn 1991
V-3 | Whip That Thing | Negotiate Nothing | Ropeburn 1993
DIM STARS | Christian Rat Attack [Stickmen w/ Ray Guns] | 3x7" | Ecstatic Peace 1991 *request
U.S. MAPLE | More Horror | Talker | Drag City 1999
CIRCUIT RIDER | Forever Angels Proud | self-titled | The Bookworm 2009 (orig 197?)
LE SANG SONG | I Can't Wait | self-titled | Dragnet *new
NATIVE CATS | Catspaw | Catspaw 7" | White Denim *new
NOTHING PEOPLE | Enemy With an Invitation | You're Invited 7" | Permanent *new
MEDICATION | TPM in Hard Times | This Town | Hozac *new
PIGEONS | Oubli | Lunettes 7" | Soft Abuse *new
JEX THOTH | Equinox Suite | self-titled | I Hate 2008
JEX THOTH | Stone Evil
BURNING WITCH | Sacred Predictions | Crippled Lucifer | Southern Lord 2009 (orig 1998)
GOSLINGS | Maui | Sister and Son/Death Garage 2xCS | Rolling Chapel *new
GOSLINGS + WARMTH | Impath | The Heaven of Animals | Archive *new
GOSLINGS | Everlasting Aum | Sister and Son/Death Garage
SLICING GRANDPA | Screaming Wives | Diaper Down | Scatalogical Liberation Front *new
MAGIK MARKERS | Tighten One and Loosen the Other | split 12" EP w/ Sic Alps | Yik Yak *new

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GUINEA WORMS | Drunk in Yr Uggz | Sorcerer of Madness 2xLP | Columbus Discount *forthcoming
VAPID | MRSA | Practically Dead | Nominal/Deranged *new
BAD SPORTS | She'll Never Get Out | self-titled | Douche Master *new
VIDEO | Bookstore | v/a: Denton Denton USA! | Play Pinball | *new
FUNGI GIRLS | Thanks for Following | v/a: Denton Denton USA!
BRILLIANT COLORS | Over There | Introducing | Slumberland *new
UZI RASH | C'mon [Chuck Berry] | Fatal Rash CDR | The Church & the Commune 2008
THE PHEROMOANS | I'm Through with Wedgie Cubist | Open for Business 7" | Yakisakana *new
SCISSOR GIRLS | By Process E-Lmnatn | Here Is the "Is Not" | Atavistic 1997
SEWN LEATHER | Pritty Daze/Scum Anthem | self-titled CS | Night People 2009
SAUCERMAN | Motor Drag | split 7" w/ Kray Cherubs | Snakeskin 1989
ALE MANIA | Lustfulfistful | Lustfulfistful 7" | Volar *new
RATAS DEL VATICANO | No Busco Problemas con la Autoridad | Chido E.P. 7" | Volar *new
RIB CAGES | Blame It On | Right on or Wrong 7" | Lemon Session *forthcoming
THE DRAGS | Anxiety | Anxiety 7" | Empty 1995
THE FELLS | Let's Go | The Fells LP | Estrus 1997
THE NIGHT KINGS | We're the Ones | Increasing Our High | Super Electro/Sub Pop 1993
SIC ALPS | The Greatest | split 12" EP w/ Magik Markers | Yik Yak *new
LIZ BERG | Popsicle | v/a: Running In Place: Locked Grooves From WFMU | WFMU Music *new
ISLAJA | Junipero Mash | v/a: My Estrogeneration | Not Not Fun *new
EXPLODE INTO COLORS | Heat | Paper 7" | Just for the Hell of It *new
ZOLA JESUS | No Time | v/a: From Sacred Bones Records, Winter 2009 12" EP | Sacred Bones *new
P. CHILDREN | Deadbeat | P. Ch. 3 | Vacant Lot/RRRecords 1989
TOM KARLSSON | Fylld Med Skit o Dynamit | Pojknacke | Lystring 2009
NEITHER/NEITHER WORLD | Night of Hell | Sociopathic Pleasures | Majestic Chaos 1992
PINK REASON | Bloodstains [Agent Orange] | Bloodstains 7" | Fifth Column/Stained Circles 2009
MEDICATION | Farewell Letter | This Town | Hozac *new
MESS FOLK | If I Don't Get Out | Something I Remember 7" | Hozac *new
FLIGHT | In the Morning Light | Feels So Good 7" | Hozac *new
CITY CENTER | Cops Don't Care | Cops Don't Care 7" | M'Lady's *new
VERMILLION SANDS | Where Was He From | Miss My Gun 12" EP | Sacred Bones *new
BLESSURE GRAVE | Human Fly [The Cramps] | In the First Place 7" | Holidays *new

If you think the words glacial gloom-metal sound tasty, or the idea of guitar-riffs built on a system akin to cubic crystals, then hurry and become one of the 150 lucky people to score this momentous double-cassette release by the Goslings! This band is at the top of the outer-zoning metal game. The rest of you can have your SunnO)))). Hey, I like them, too, but if SunnO)))'s riffs creep in like eerie shrouds of fog, the Goslings' riffs enmeshing with Leslie Soren's vocals are like a freezing fog that falls from the sky to reveal Northern lights...chilling to the bone and haunting with beauty. With the very recent proper CD release of Heaven of Animals (a 2005 collaboration with Warmth, then known as Roxanne Jean Polise, the Goslings also have three (arguably four with Crucial Blast's issue of the Space Heater and Perfect Interior CDRs on one proper CD in 2006) full-length albums which are all worth the effort of hunting down. Really, this strikes me as a truly momentous and awesome band. Highest recommendation!

Speaking of momentous and awesome.....I've yet to compile my 2000-2009 decade-best lists, but I'm sure that my choice for the best metal album is self-titled by Jex Thoth. The album was released initially on CD only, but I Hate Records from Sweden has recently unleashed it on vinyl LP with a stupendous gatefold rendering of the cover art. I've included the entire sprawling "Equinox Suite" and the mind-scrambling finalé of the LP to convince you of its absolute rulingness.

If I find time to write down more thoughts about any of this music, I'll try n' update this post. But for now.....just havva listen, and trust that the new Nothing People 7" sounds and looks tremendous enough to be worth the high price, and the new Home Blitz is a grand slam, and be ready for the Guinea Worms to rule you for the entire length of a double LP in a few months. Next week, hear another sneak peak of the forthcoming Wounded Lion debut LP!

Also, SoCal...brace yourself for the Mayyors at the end of the week. They're tour is coming your way...

Thu, 1/14 @ Eagle Tavern///San Francisco, ca - 9pm, $5, 21+
w/Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Ganglians
Fri, 1/15 @ Five Stars Bar///Los Angeles, CA - 9pm, $8, 18+
w/the Lamps, Audacity, Bipolar Bear
Sat, 1/16 @ house party///Los Angeles, CA - 8pm
w/Le Face, Wounded Lion
(this show's location is a secret...sorry...I hope you know somebody!)
((I'm not even sure I'll be any help!))
1/17 @ dudes' house (637 W, Woodcrest Ln.)///Fullerton, CA - 7pm
w/Francis Harold & the Holograms, Audacity, Pterodacdudes