Tuesday, March 29, 2011

AFS v. 307 ~ Where My Blog's At


This week in AFS...

* A new Tyvek joint!
* Is that romantic mellow indie-rock w/ horns?
* Last 40 minutes is abject alienation...beware!
* Killer scene buds from Humboldt in the 80's via Psyclones

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TYVEK | A Hole in My Mind | Euro Tour 7" | Les Disques Steak *new
ZIG ZAGS | Randy | 2nd demo | no label *new
SPIDER FEVER | Whatcha Gonna Do? | Whatcha Gonna Do? 7" | HoZac *new
THE LINDSEYS | Kiss a Brick | Trauma Queen | GGNZLA *new
CHARLES LEO GEBHARDT IV | You | Begin Again | GGNZLA *new
GUN OUTFIT | Adam is a Dream | High Places 12" EP | Make a Mess *new
LOS BUDDIES | Moon Bars | Moon Bars + RKO 7" | no label *new
THE CURBFEELERS | Grapes from a Bowl | Grapes from a Bowl 7" | Lather 1994
THE CURBFEELERS | Sketchfoot Re-Entry | Drink's on Me 7" | Lather 1993
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 | 2 x 4's | 2 x 4's b/w Horrible Hour 7" | Nuf Sed 1990
DUNCAN MALASHOCK | Let's Make Sure Everything is a Thing | 7" | Monofonus Press *new
DEO TOY | Thanks Alot | Love Me or Leave Me 7" | no label 1983
PSYCLONES | Electric Tone | Electric Tone 7" | Clone Tone 1981 *request
PSYCLONES | Weak as a Sheep | Different Thinking People | Permanent *new (orig 1980-1985)
PRIMITIVE MOTION | A Straight Line | Certain Materials 7" | Soft Abuse *new
OS OVNI | In the Night | Something in the Sky 7" | Answering Machine *new
FALUN GONG | Wife | Milligram Retreat | Enfant Terrible *new
CAPTAIN AHAB | DBA Digital Singles Sped Up by 800%
CAPTAIN AHAB | Where My Dogs At? | After the Rain My Heart Still Dreams | Deathbomb Arc 2006
BLACKHOUSE | What Do You Know About Me? | Hope Like a Candle | Ladd-Frith 1985
EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE | Machine Love | All Rights Reserved | Seeland *new
DESTRUCTION | Time | v/a: Amuck | Placebo 1982
THE CURE | Pornography | Pornography | Fiction/A&M 1982 *request
SLICING GRANDPA | The Abstracticator | The Abstracticator CDR | Phase *new
JOHN LAUX | Last Homicide | Maniacal Warfare CDR | no label *new

Gotta lotta phonecalls during tonight's broadcast from people surprised that I would play the Captain Ahab, but I do really get a kick outta the Captain recorded and especially live, where it is never less than a true spectacle and thoroughly ecstatic hands-in-the-air dance party. For my dollar, nobody flirts with clichéd mainstream pop maneuvres like this guy. For every quick-cut breakcore'd-out championship cheerleading squad happy HC helium hit, Mr. Snipes also writes an honestly crafty song. Whatever you might think of Girl Talk these days, Captain Ahab is a band that people can agree whether they have good taste OR bad taste in music and/or comedy.



(Did I just embed a Pitchfork TV video on my blog? Yes, I did. Give this next vid 3:30 and you'll see what the live experience is really like.)

CAPTAIN AHAB "The End Of Irony" from Deathbomb Arc on Vimeo.



(Really? Yes, actually!)

If you haven't copped the Different Thinking People LP featuring songs recorded by the Psyclones from 1980 to 1985, hit up Permanent Records for your copy of this killer retrospective release from the first punk/new-wave scene stalwarts of Humboldt County. It's the best possible introduction to the band for newcomers, and the rabbit hole goes deeper when you check out the output of their enduring experimental/electronic/industrial tape and record label, Ladd-Frith.





Don't miss this upcoming rager also!



Tuesday, March 22, 2011

AFS v. 306 ~ Catching Up w/ My Record Collection (Again)


This week in AFS...

* Marvelous metal wizardry
* Scorchin' psych-punk sorcery
* Wire side projects of Gilbert/Lewis
* Davila 666 declared best live band on the planet today

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KRANG | Speed of Tent | Speed of Tent 7" | Mammoth Cave Recording Co. *new
ZIG ZAGS | Wastin' My Time | 2nd demo CDR | no label *new
SOLID ATTITUDE | Constant Garbage/Totally Droll | Prison Water 7" | Rotted Tooth *new
SHAVED WOMEN | Circles | self-titled | Rotted Tooth *new
STRANGULATED BEATOFFS | Lick My Butthole | Lick My Butthole 7" | Glitterhouse 1990
WANTON LOVEBOY | Wiggle | Monger 7" | Cubist Productions 1992
WINGTIP SLOAT | Blessed Nimbus, Churning | Add this to Rhetoric | VHF 2007 (orig 1994)
UNREST | The Gas Chair | Malcolm X Park | Caroline 1988
THE PHEROMOANS | Trusthouse Blues | It Still Rankles | Convulsive *new
DAVILA 666 | Robacuna | Tan Bajo | In The Red *new
HEAVY TIMES | Poison Ivy | Dead | Rotted Tooth *new
BROKEN WATER | Memory | Whet | Perennial *new
BROKEN WATER | Heartstrings | Peripheral Star 12" EP | Perennial *new
DAVILA 666 | Los Cruces | Tan Bajo
MEERCAZ | Moving Up at the Speed of Sound | Space Hate 12" EP | Tic Tac Totally 2011
SOFT ENCOUNTERS | Professional Seamen | One-Sider 10" | Monofonus *new
B.C. GILBERT - G. LEWIS | Ends With the Sea | Ends With the Sea 7" | 4AD 1981
CUPOL | Like This For Ages | Like This For Ages 12" EP | 4AD 1980
JOHN BENDER | 27B4 | I Don't Remember Now | Record Sluts 1980
ÉL-G | Vrouwen Min Mannen | Tout Ploie | SS Records 2009
GRAVITAR & NICODEMUS | It's an Idiot's Life | It's an Idiot's Life | Insignificant 1997
MICHAEL YONKERS & PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND | (I am) Lonely Fog | Bleed Out | Spiral Staircase 2009
TAILGUNNER | Spice is Nice | self-titled | Rapid 1983
OVERTHRUSTER | Next Horizon | 2010 demo | no label 2010
ICON GALLERY | Babes in the Wood | self-titled | Dear Skull *new
BOULDER | Fall from Graves | Ravage & Savage | Tee Pee 2000
SIR LORD BALTIMORE | Helium Head | Kingdom Come | Mercury/Universal 2010 (orig 1970)
GUN OUTFIT | Ring a Bell? | High Places 12" EP | Make a Mess *new
WEIRD TV | Sufrir | Sufrir 7" | Perennial *new

If you are in Sacto or Davis, don't miss this...

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

AFS v. 305 ~ feat. Blank Realm live on KDVS


This week in AFS...

* Blank Realm from Brisbane, Australia, perform live in our studio!
* Blank Realm choose some of their favorite records
* Blank Realm join me four a couple chat sessions
* Preparing Sacto for another weekend of ragers

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CHARLES ALBRIGHT | I'm Just a Fine Young Man... | I'm on Drugs 7" | SS Records 2009
CHARLES ALBRIGHT | Headphones | I'm Happy, I'm a Genius 7" | Permanent 2010
SOLID ATTITUDE | TV Life | Prison Water 7" | Rotted Tooth *new
BROKEN WATER | Stop Means Stop | Peripheral Star 12" EP | Perennial *new
BROKEN WATER | Hear | Whet | Perennial *new
DAN MELCHIOR | Moving the Furniture Around | Assemblage Blues | Siltbreeze *new
# BLANK REALM | Acting Strange
# BLANK REALM | Cleaning Up My Mess
# BLANK REALM | Pendulum Swing
# BLANK REALM | Growing Inside
PARTS & LABOR | Constant Future | Constant Future | Jagjaguwar *new
LUMERIANS | Hashshashin' | Transmalinnia | Knitting Factory *new
TOTAL CONTROL | Mind Shaft | Pyre Island 7" | Hustle Muscle *new
BLOODYGRAVE | Chlorleichen | split 7" w/ Die Lust | Hertzschrittmacher *new
SOFT KILL | An Open Door | An Open Door | Fast Weapons *new
DANGEROUS BOYS CLUB | Real Eyes | VRIL | Fast Weapons *new
ZAC NELSON | Adult Contemporary | Wicked Work It Out | Porter Records *new
CIRCUIT DES YEUX | Self Suffocation | Ode to Fidelity 7" | De Stijl *new
DAN MELCHIOR | Atomizer | Assemblage Blues
FEEDTIME | I Wanna Ride | self-titled | Megadisc 1985
KITCHEN'S FLOOR | Pissing on the Grave | Too Dead to Notice CS | Negative Guest List *new
CIRCLE PIT | Sewercide | Sewercide 7" | Sweet Rot/R.I.P. Society *new
SLUG GUTS | Howlin' | Howlin' Gang | Sacred Bones *new
HOLY BALM | Hand Over Fire | Hand Over Fire 7" | Hustle Muscle *new
THE TWINKEYZ | Aliens in Our Midst | Aliens in Our Midst 7" | Grok 1978
LABIAL FRICATIVE | Auto/Erotica | Chumps 7" | Esoteric 1980
FM KNIVES | Down the Street | Useless and Modern | Moo La La 2002

# denotes live in Studio A as this very program aired terrestrially from Freeform KDVS at the University of California in Davis.

Thanks to Fenris and Anthony for their studio handiwork and Anne Halo for the photos!





Don't miss this hot show in Sacto later in March!


Wednesday, March 09, 2011

AFS v. 303 ~ feat. Topless Mongos & Shrapnelles


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FERGUS & GERONIMO | Wanna Know What I Would Do if I Was You? | Unlearn | Hardly Art *new
IDLE TIMES | There You Go | self-titled | HoZac *new
CRYSTAL SWELLS | Waco, Wasilla, Waikiki! | Goethe Head Soup CS | no label *new
SHARP ENDS | Live Action | self-titled | Kill Shaman 2010
SOFT KILL | trk 9 | An Open Door | Fast Weapons *forthcoming

@ TOPLESS MONGOS | Bohemian Grave
@ TOPLESS MONGOS | Uptight
@ TOPLESS MONGOS | Roweena
@ TOPLESS MONGOS | What Kind of Girl
@ TOPLESS MONGOS | Theme from Human Centipede
@ TOPLESS MONGOS | Burning Up
@ TOPLESS MONGOS | Dum Dum Dum
@ TOPLESS MONGOS | Hey My My
THE DRAGS | Teenage Invasion | Dragsploitation...Now! | Estrus 1995
CRUDDY | Incendiary | v/a: Casual Victim Pile II | 12XU *new
WOMEN IN PRISON | Births of Rot | Strange Waves | HoZac *new
WOMEN IN PRISON | Kill Kommie Kops | v/a: Casual Victim Pile II *new
SQUIDZ | Niño | Bad Dad Demo CS | 40 Proof *new
DAY CREEPER | Problem at Hand | Problem at Hand 7" | Tic Tac Totally *new
DAY CREEPER | Nervous Energy
MYELIN SHEATHS | Fun with Science | Stackticon 7" | Bachelor *new

@ THE SHRAPNELLES | My Mom is Hot
@ THE SHRAPNELLES | Decapitate Bop
@ THE SHRAPNELLES | English Gardens
@ THE SHRAPNELLES | Baby Baby Baby
@ THE SHRAPNELLES | Parasite
@ THE SHRAPNELLES | HIV
@ THE SHRAPNELLES | Desert Furs
@ THE SHRAPNELLES | Birthday Party
@ THE SHRAPNELLES | S+M
@ THE SHRAPNELLES | The Mug
@ THE SHRAPNELLES | That Thing You Do
NEO BOYS | Time Keeps Time | Crumbling Myths | no label 1982
LO-TEK | World Gone Mad | v/a: Portland Punk Live at Earth, 10-29-79 | Trap 1980
USA BABY | side B | In Jest, is Rest 7" | War On Records *new
THE PHEROMOANS | Nutter's in Sansbury pt. 2 | It Still Rankles | Convulsive *new
BLANK REALM | Soul's Illusion | Deja What? | Bedroom Suck 2010
DAN MELCHIOR | Riding Like Rommel | Assemblage Blues | Siltbreeze *new
SOFT HEALER | Civilization's Dying [Zero Boys] | One-Sider 10" | Monofonus Press *new
GRAVE BABIES | Eating Babies | Death Face | Skrot Up *new

@ denotes recorded live at KDVS in Studio A. Thanks to Fenris and Anthony for presiding and to Anne Halo for the pictures!

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