AFS v. 290 ~ Now We Are Having Fun!

This week in AFS...

* Farewell to a great Canadian, Leslie Nielsen
* Catching up w/ guest co-host Andrew (of G. Green)
* I'll take The Roots of Eat Skull for $1000, Alex
* You can totally play the new Tyvek and Hank IV between bristling HC

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TYVEK | Underwater | Nothing Fits | In The Red *new
DEEP WOUND | Time to Stand | v/a: Bands That Could Be God | Conflict/Radiobeat 1984
GAUZE | Crash the Pose/Thrash, Thrash, Thrash | Equalizing Distort | Selfish 1985
TALES OF TERROR | Deathryder | self-titled | C.D. Presents 1984
POISON IDEA | Just to Get Away | Feel the Darkness | American Leather 1989
TURBONEGRO | Bad Mongo | Ass Cobra | Boomba 1996
HANK IV | Garbage Star | III | Siltbreeze *new
BAD POSTURE | Time for Smack | self-titled 12" | Irresponsible 1983
NO TREND | For the Fun of It All | Too Many Humans... | No Trend 1984
RUNNING | Fun | self-titled | Permanent *new
CREEPY CRAWLY CLAW | SOS (Message in the Tupperware) | I Know It's Reprehensible 7" | no label 2002
WHORL | Stupid Shit | Mind Revolution 7" | Slumberland 1990
CIRCLE PIT | Strange Blue | Bruise Constellation | Siltbreeze 2010
INDIAN BINGO | The Ulcer Prophecy | Scatological | Independent Project 1989
DUSTDEVILS | Hip Priest [The Fall] | Struggling Electric + Chemical | Teenbeat/Matador 1990
THE PHEROMOANS | Midnite Watchdog | Midnight Watchdog 7" | Sweet Rot *new
THE GO-BETWEENS | People Say | People Say 7" | Able 1979
TEENAGE MOODS | Flower Hunting | Sugar Band 7" | Salvaged Prod. *new
THE WRONG WORDS | What Went Wrong? | What Went Wrong? 7" | Trouble in Mind *new
FRESH & ONLYS | Tell Me What You Want to Know | Hookup Klub 7" | HoZac *new
WET ILLUSTRATED | Born Stoked | Born Stoked b/w Flying 7" | Corvette City 2010
THE BANANAS | American Eyes | Nautical Rock and Roll | Plan-it-X 2003
HEAD | I'm Not Like Everybody Else [The Kinks] | Street Level Assault | Evil Clown 1994
THE INJECTIONS | Lies | Prison Walls 7" | Last Laugh *new (orig 1980)
THE NORMALS | Hardcore | Almost Ready 7" | Last Laugh *new (orig 1978)
THE LO-FI JERKHEADS | Lets Drink Some Wine | In Your Stereo 7" | Black Gladiator/Slovenly *new
JAMES ARTHUR'S MANHUNT | The Cougar | self-titled | Aarght! *new
REAL LOSERS | (Let's Go) Totally Nutzoid | Totally Nutzoid 7" | Wrench 2004

AFS v. 289 ~ the New Pipeline

This week in AFS...

* too much best-of-2010 nominee clutter!
* catching onto to Tyvek's Nothing Fits, finally!
* finally joining the Vex Ruffin & the Lo-Fi Jerkheads bandwagon!

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SPURM | Making Love | split 7" w/ Partman Parthorse | GGNZLA *new
FRED FRITH | Some Clouds Don't | Cheap at Half the Price | Ralph 1983
BLOODY MANNEQUIN ORCHESTRA | Meal at McDonald's | Roadmap to Revolution | WGNS/EPU 1984
HYGIENE | Recruitment | Recruitment EP 7" | Going Underground *new
PROTOMARTYR | Baseball Bat | Colpi Proibiti CDR | no label *new
TYVEK | Underwater to/Outer Limits | Nothing Fits | In The Red *new
THE HYPNOTICS | Giants Town | Indoor Fiends | Enigma 1982
BEATERS | They Don't Really Care About Us | v/a: 6 x 2 x 12" | Volar *new
EL VICIO | Death Trip 2024 | Longanisse 7" | Rococo *new
J.C. SATAN | Lick My Feet | Sick of Love | Slovenly *new
VEX RUFFIN & THE LO-FI JERKHEADS | New Wipeout | 7" | Black Gladiator/Slovenly *new
THE LO-FI JERKHEADS | I'm Cool | In Your Stereo 7" | Black Gladiator/Slovenly *new
THE NEON BOYS | That's All I Know (Right Now) | Don't Die 12" | OVerground 1991 (orig 1973)
HANK IV | Down in the Dumps | III | Siltbreeze *new
VOMIT SQUAD | Rapture Gun | Amon Ra Bless America | Psychic Handshake *new
RED MASS | Blood | Split Brain Experiment 10" | Rococo *new
BLANK REALM | My Nativity | Deja What? | Bedroom Suck *new
V-3 | Inside Outpost | Psychic Dance Hall | Ropeburn 1991
GRAHAM REPULSKI | Mind Bog | Electric Worrier | Shorter Recordings *new
FIRE IN THE KITCHEN | Hen Fist | Theory of Everything | Behemoth 1991
POP. 1280 | Data Dump | The Grid EP 12" | Sacred Bones *new
TIMMY'S ORGANISM | Ugly Dream | Rise of the Green Gorilla | Sacred Bones *new
PURLING HISS | Passenger Queen | Hissteria | Richie *new
HIGH RISE | Turn You Cry | II | PSF 1993
RUNNING | Little Fucker/Foodless | self-titled | Permanent *new
MAYYORS | Ghost Punch | Deads 12" | Hurling Man 2009
ZACH HILL | Total Recall | Face Tat | Sargent House *new
KIT | Ambrosia | Invocation | Upset the Rhythm *new
SLEETMUTE NIGHTMUTE | Interference...VNV Girls | Night of the Long Knives | Fast Weapons *new (orig 2004)
LOST GOAT | Golem | October 7" | Alternative Tentacles 1997
MILK MUSIC | A1 | Beyond Living | no label 2010
THE DESERT SESSIONS | Punk Rock Caveman Living in a Prehistoric Age | Volumes V & VI | Man's Ruin 1999
DAUGHTER | Erased | Skin | Aum Fidelity 2003

AFS v 288 ~ Roundball Rock 'n Roll

This week in AFS...

* Honoring the new NBA season w/ Popular Shapes' 4-part BBall Music suite
* Most vinyl-worthy punk tape of 2010: Cruddy
* Fabulous Diamonds and Pigeons on the West Coast!
* Let's start a petition for Potato Chips not to bite it!

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POPULAR SHAPES | BBall Music 1 | split 7" w/ Kurt | On/On Switch 2004
POPULAR SHAPES | BBall Music 2 | BBall Music 2 & 4 7" | White Denim/Hate the Eighties 2005
POPULAR SHAPES | BBall Music 3 | split 7" w/ Kurt
POPULAR SHAPES | BBall Music 4
COLA FREAKS | Mig Mig Mig | Mig Mig Mig 7" | Rob's House *new
LAS NURSES | Midnight Lamb | Just So Pretty | Rococo *new
PISSED JEANS | L Word | Your Life is Worth 7" | Sub Pop *new
RUNNING | Back and Forth/#1 Dad | self-titled | Permanent *new
HEIST | Sonic Flames Meat Department | 18 Gears of Hell | Big Fred 1998?
HEIST | It's Just a Brain
FEŚ PARKER | TMTV | Side Room | Pressupable 2008
THE CHINESE RESTAURANTS | River of Shit | River of Shit 7" | SS Records 2010
POTATO CHIPS | Can't Weight/I'm Led Zeppelin Tonight/Nervous 4 Life (Hoarse Mix) | Looks Like We're About To Bite It, Maybe You Should Bite It Too? 3" CDR | Savoury Days *new
RED MASS | The End of the World | Split Brain Experiment 10" | Rococo *new
PRIMITIVE TRIBES | Trapped | Some Bouncy Anthems 7" | no label 1994
PRIMITIVE TRIBES | 30 Billion Served | While No One Was Looking 7" | 201 Records 1993
TEMPER TANTRUM | Know-it-All | split 7" w/ Haskel | Wooden Blue 1995
CRUDDY | Slow News Day/Negative World | Negative World CS | no label *new
KILL THE HIPPIES | Neon Toilet | Erectospective | Rock 'n' Roll Purgatory 1998
DEFEKTORS | Not the One | v/a: 6 x 2 x 12" | Volar *new
CHRISTMAS | Pies | Pies b/w El Colorado 7" | Highfives and Handshakes *new
LAURENCE WASSER | Mummy Gelly | Hoochie Cooky Bunny 7" | Plastic Spoons *new
BLACK ORPHAN | Metal Leg | Metal Leg 7" | Volar *new
FLIGHT | Goodbye Horses [Q. Lazzarus] | The Lead Riders 12" | Zoo Music *new
SUBTLE TURNHIPS | Wah Wah Wah | Terd Album | HoZac *new
IDLE TIMES | There You Go | self-titled | HoZac *new
TEENAGE MOODS | Sugar Band | Sugar Band 7" | Salvaged Productions *new
MYELIN SHEATHS | Mutations | Get on Your Nerves | Southpaw *new
ETERNAL TAPESTRY | trk 6 | The Net: The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet CDR | no label *new
FABULOUS DIAMONDS | 3 mins, 40 secs | Fabulous Diamonds II | Siltbreeze 2010
PIGEONS | Sand | Virgin Spectacle | Black Dirt 2008
RUTH WHITE | Spleen | Flowers of Evil | Limelight 1969
WAXY TOMB | Grey Ice Box Gardens | self-titled CDR | no label 2009
THROBBING GRISTLE | Hamburger Lady | D.o.A. The Third and Final Report of | Industrial 1979

Please join the petition to convince the Potato Chips not to bite it. Their 3" CDR would make a great vinyl, too. Tonight's featured song by Potato Chips--"Can't Weight/I'm Led Zeppelin Tonight/Nervous 4 Life (Hoarse Mix)"--lives up to its name. Their relentlessness and humor is delightfully similar to The Chinese Restaurants.

Death to John Tesh's "Roundball Roulette"! How long must we hear the same opening theme and bumper music for every NBA telecast. Popular Shapes made at least four songs that are more appropos. MJ don't wanna hear that song no more...look at him!

Corrections Dept.: (1) Teenage Moods are not British. The record label is. But they are from Minnesota. (2) Ruth White's Flowers of Evil came out in 1969, not 1967. I can't keep all these facts under my skull. Nobody pays me to do this, y'know. Next week, maybe I'll be more write-ative. 'Til then, enjoy...and let me know what you like. THANKS!

AFS v. 287 ~ Ritual Cleansing: Cin-Cin!

This week in AFS...

* Get ready for Warm Climate Cali mini-tour!
* Get ready for Grave Babies Cal/Nev mini-tour!
* Most vinyl-worthy cassette-only release of 2010: Waste Rig
* A different flavor from the forthcoming Sic Alps 2xLP, Napa Asylum

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MEERCAZ | Never Too Late to Learn | Never Too Late to Learn 7" | Sweet Rot *new
CHROME | SS Cygni | Alien Soundtracks | Siren 1977
TIMMY ZORGANISM | Left My Heart in Germany | Can and Bottle Return 7" | Bat Shit *new
GLEN MEADMORE | Hen Party | Chicken & Biscuits | Amoeba 1987
FACTUMS | Roman Soldier (Remix) | Roman Soldier 12" | Captcha *new
GRAVE BABIES | Eating Babies | Death Face CS | Skrot Up 2009
SLEETMUTE NIGHTMUTE | In Adulthood...Black Steel Sick | Night of the Long Knives | Fast Weapons *new
CACAW | Die Don't Doh | self-titled | Permanent *new
PLUTON | Forgiven not Forgotten | self-titled 12" | Plastic Spoons *new
FLIGHT | Ghosts | Ghosts 7" | Plastic Spoons *new
JOHN'S CHILDREN | Smashed! Blocked! | Orgasm | Get Back! 1998 (orig 1970)
WARM CLIMATE | Blue Metro | Camouflage on the River Wretched CS | Stunned *new
WARM CLIMATE | Devine Souffle and the Southern Approach | Edible Homes CS | Stunned 2009
COMUS | Drip Drip | First Utterance | Dawn 1971
T2 | In Circles | It'll All Work Out in Boomland | Decca 1970
BLOODROCK | American Burn | Bloodrock U.S.A. | Capitol 1972
PUFFY AREOLAS | $200 Jeans | Rock n Roll Express 7" | Die Stasi *new
PUFFY AREOLAS | Teen Scene Cream
WASTE RIG | Stuck in This Shit | Ritual Cleansing: Phase 2010 CS | Pollen Season *new
WASTE RIG | Dream Damage/Pass the Keys
JANDEK | You Painted Your Teeth | Telegraph Melts | Corwood 1986
SMEGMA | Mutant Baby | v/a: Portland Punk Live at Earth 10-29-79 | Trap 1980
SIC ALPS | Ranger/Rat Happy | Napa Asylum 2xLP | Drag City *forthcoming
STRAPPING FIELDHANDS | Woman of Distinction | v/a: Gonerfest 7 Golden Ticket Record 7" | Goner 2010

It's finally dawned on me that this Waste Rig tape is the most vinyl-worthy album-length cassette-only release of 2010 so far. C'mon, somebody...make it happen! Hear three more songs in this earlier AFS podcast. Ex-Long Legged Woman dudes, members of the last Hospitals live unit, and related to CCR Headcleaner, these guys dish some heavily damaged pop that runs the gamut from sweet and catchy to nihilistic, but it all sounds like phases of the same acid trip.

If Sleetmute Nightmute's Night of the Long Knives can finally be issued on vinyl after six years of waiting, I don't think it's too much to ask that such fine examples of the cassette frenzy come out on vinyl, too.

Warm Climate made the most vinyl-worthy (still waiting!) album-length cassette-only release of 2009 in the dazzling Edible Homes. Like Comus meets T. Rex with startling results! See their first shows outside of their rare L.A. performances...

Thu 11/4 in Oakland @ East Nile
w/ Dreamcolour, Eternal Tapestry, The Grey, Magic Whistle
Fri 11/5 in Sacramento @ The Hub
w/ Grave Babies, Build Target
Sat 11/6 in Santa Barbara @ Jitters Coffee
w/ Watercolor Paintings

And sure...there's plenty for cynics to hate among today's wav(v)es of nü-psych and nü-goth, but the way Grave Babies blends the psych and goth elements totally transcends and unjades. And the reason why is 'cos their hooks and melodies are catchy and their riffs and rhythms really wallop...especially live, when the drums bash louder than the drum machine you hear at the fore on the track featured on this podcast. Fans of Bauhaus, Faith thru Japanese Whispers by The Cure, and early Savage Republic will most likely love Grave Babies, but this band never sounds like mere mimicry. See 'em on their tour...

Fri 11/5 in Sacramento @ The Hub
w/ Warm Climate, Build Target
Sat 11/6 in Reno, NV @ Holland Project
w/ TBA
Mon 11/8 in San Diego @ Tin Can
w/ TBA
Tue 11/9 in San Francisco @ The Independent
w/ Weekend, Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Wed 11/10 in San Francisco @ The Depot
w/ Werr

Hey, any Sacto/Yolo friends....If you show up to that Hub show on Friday, November 5 wearing black lipstick and/or nail polish, I'll pour you a free shot of a special festive liqueur I've been saving for just this kinda occasion. I'm making a special trip to the party store for the little shooter cups. The ritual toast happens before Warm Climate plays...Cin-cin!

Love,
your straight-edge enabler, DJ Rick