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!