Tuesday, August 30, 2011

AFS v. 326 ~ Vaz & Pygmy Shrews live on KDVS!


This week on AFS...

* Vaz recorded live on KDVS!
* Pygmy Shrews recorded live on KDVS!
* Preparing for Aussie Invasion 2011!
* Knuckle-dragging scuzzpunk girl-group recruitment


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FLIPPER | Ha Ha Ha | Ha Ha Ha b/w Love Canal 7" | Subterranean 1980
HERE COMES THE HERE COMES | Ha Ha Ha | Group Flex 5x7" | Castle Face *new
ANONYMOUS | Snake Attack | Corporate Food 7" | Flat 1980
COUNT VERTIGO | I'm a Mutant | X Patriots 7" | Mississippi *new (orig 1979)
THE CHOSEN FEW | Terminal Rock | The Joke's on Us 12" EP | Going Underground *new (orig 1979)
TOTAL CONTROL | Shame Thugs/No Bibs | Henge Beat | Iron Lung *new
HANK IV | Bellyfull of Slugs [K. Salmon] | Slugs 7" | SS Records *new
MORDECAI | King of Infinite Space | v/a: Wings Over Gabba | Negative Guest List *new
KIM SALMON & THE SURREALISTS | Intense | split 2x7" w/ Chrome Cranks | Echostatic/Space Baby 1995
VAZ | Chartreuse Blues | live in Studio A, 08/26/2011
VAZ | Blockade
VAZ | The 2nd
VAZ | Z Train
VAZ | Black Paste
VAZ | Sickle
PYGMY SHREWS | Proper Happiness | live in Studio A, 08/26/2011
PYGMY SHREWS | The Pull
PYGMY SHREWS | Shame Canal
PYGMY SHREWS | Stains
PYGMY SHREWS | AM Breakout
PYGMY SHREWS | Your Party Sucks
PYGMY SHREWS | Snake Eyes
CASBAH | Lock the Express | v/a: Devil Must Be Driven Out With Devil | Hold Up 1986
ZNÖ WHITE | Rock City Destination | All Hail to Thee | Enigma 1984
FASTWAY | All Fired Up | All Fired Up | Columbia 1984
TY SEGALL | Goodbye Bread | Goodbye Bread | Drag City *new
SIC ALPS | Breadhead | Breadhead 7" | Drag City *new
ANITA FIX & BAM BAM | Run for Joy | Run for Joy 7" | Ride the Snake *new
GERLING | Mother Mary | split 7" w/ Gapeseed | Stillwater Trading Co. 1997
PAVEMENT | Greenlander | Slanted and Enchanted (expanded) | Matador 2002 (orig 1992)
YUPPIES | Black and White | split LP w/ Bitches | Palmist *new
STRAIGHT ARROWS | Something Happens | It's Happening | Juvenile 2010


Wednesday, August 24, 2011

AFS v. 325 ~ Know Your Quotient!


This week in AFS...

* the latest batch from SS Records!
* ...and Ride the Snake!
* another traipse through City Rock!
* preparing for the Aussie invasion of Sept. '11!


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NATIVE CATS | Dani Dani | Process Praise | Ride the Snake *new
HORRID RED | Silent Party | Silent Party 7" | Soft Abuse *new
MUSCLE DRUM | Sashay | Fog Hag | Break Up *new
INXS | Don't Change | Shabooh Shoobah | Atco 1982 *sorta-by-request
BLASTED CANYONS | Ice Cream Man | self-titled | Castleface *new
THEE OH SEES | The Whipping Continues | Castlemania | In The Red *new
NOTHING PEOPLE | Wrongy Wrong | Late Night (expanded CD) | SS Records *new
LENZ | Feeling | Leaving (the 21st Century) 7" | SS Records *new
FIRE HYDRANT MEN | Baseball Bat | v/a: Good Morning, Mr. Presley | Grunt Grunt A Go Go 1986
THE ORDINAIRES | Virgo Intactica | v/a: Good Morning, Mr. Presley
MILK MUSIC | No Life | Beyond Living | no label 2010
TIMMY'S ORGANISM | Mind Over Matter | split 7" w/ John Wesley Coleman III | Goner *new
HANK IV | Cold Equation | Slugs 7" | SS Records *new
THE CREAMERS | Can and Will | Modern Day 7" | Jolly Dream *new
DIVORCED | Furniture Removing Machine | Separation Anxiety | Untapped Resources *new
DIVORCED | I Want You [Troggs]
THE BOMB PARTY | Our Love is Pushing up Daisies | Drugs | Abstract 1986
THE THREE JOHNS | King Car | The World By Storm | Abstract 1986
HOODOO GURUS | Like Wow-Wipeout | Mars Needs Guitars! | Bigtime 1985
ROYAL HEADACHE | Girls | Eloise 7" | R.I.P. Society 2010
ROYAL HEADACHE | Down the Lane | mp3 from http://cdn.alteredzones.com/
ARTFUL DODGER | Long Time Away | self-titled | Pilot/CBS 1975
DONNIE IRIS | She's So Wild | Back on the Streets | Midwest National 1980
FOOLS FACE | Doubt It | Here to Observe | Bar-Co 1979
LIFE PARTNERS | Lyrics | Music Is Hard | Ride the Snake *new
NIG-HEIST | Life in General | self-titled | Thermidor 1984
MENTORS | Get Up and Die | Trash Bag 12" | Mystic 1987
SCREATURE | EVP | live on KDVS, July 11, 2011
GRASS WIDOW | Fried Egg | Past Time | Kill Rock Stars 2010
NEO BOYS | Time Keeps Time | Crumbling Myths | no label 1982
MD | Manisch Depressiv | v/a: Killed by Death #7 | Redrum 1993 (orig 1983)
FAT | La Père du Scrap | Hit | These 1989
YPANTS | Beat It Down | Beat It Down | Neutral 1982
THE BASICS | Sexual Object | Bad Guru 7" | Basic Music 1980
CHE BLAMMO | Vicious M.G. | Rock Moderne 7" | Permanent 1982
ANEMIC BOYFRIENDS | Bad Girls in Love | Guys Are Not Proud 7" | Red Sweater 1980

I'm seriously a buyer for that early Fools Face LP if you're selling!

"Doubt It" is rather City Rock, isn't it?

The band went decidedly new-wavey into the 80s.
Plenty of good YouTube footage of these fellas from Springfield, MO...







Tuesday, August 16, 2011

AFS v. 324 ~ I've Never Heard This Nostalgia Before!


This week in AFS...

* Who can sound most like The Fall?
* Monogamy seeks label 4 LTR or NSA!
* Milk Music return w/ The Men next week!

* Lotsa eighties excavations!

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LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE | This Plain City | On Welfare | Captcha *new
THE MEN | Shittin' With the Shah | Leave Home | Sacred Bones *new
THE MEMBRANES | Gift of Life | The Gift of Life | Creation 1985
THE MEMBRANES | Corn Dolly Fear | Kiss Ass...Godhead! | Glass 1988
KILGORE TROUT | Right Boys | Stick it in the Bank Man 12" EP | Hits $ Corruption 1986
JOE DASH | Truth About Surgery | v/a: Messthetics #108 | Hyped2Death *new (orig 1982)
PER PURPOSE | Right to Green | Heil Progress 7" | Bedroom Suck 2011
THE FACTUMS | Up to the Sky/Neon | Gilding The Lilies | Assophon *new
THE REBEL | Prove It | The Five Year Plan E.P. 12" | Monofonus Press *new
THE DREAMS | Power of Signs | Morbido | Kill Shaman *new
MONOGAMY | She's Weirded Out/Crush | Posture Smiles Upon You CDR | no label *new
U.S. GIRLS | Pamela + GG | split 12" w/ Slim Twig | Palmist *new
MARIE & THE WILDWOOD FLOWERS | Mutability | Salty Hounds 12" EP | Radium 226.05/Ediesta 1986
A.C. MARIAS | Time Was [Canned Heat] | Time Was 12" | Mute 1988
VENUS IN FURS | In My Velvet Cage | Strip | Backs 1985
YUSSUF JERUSALEM | The Path of Paladin | Blast From The Past | Florida's Dying *new
PINK REASON | Cranes Are Flying | Shit in the Garden | Siltbreeze *new
CONTRAPUNCTUS | Burning | Burning 7" | Sympathy 1990
AMERCIAN GORILLA | Forsaking All Others | Forsaking All Others 7" | U.S.A. Records & Tapes 1982
MILK MUSIC | Violence Now | Nuts! fanzine flexi 7" | Nuts!/Perennial 2011
MILK MUSIC | Out of My World | Beyond Living 12" | self-released 2010
HIGH CASTLE | Super Gu | Spirit of the West | Zum *forthcoming
ICEAGE | Collapse/Eyes | New Brigade | What's Your Rupture? *new (orig 2010)
KILLER DREAMER | Survival Guns | Survival Guns 7" | Kapow! 2003
FATAL ERECTION | Castrated by Love | Castrated by Love 7" | Fatal Erection 1994
GAUNT | Now I Know Why | Sob Story | Thrill Jockey 1994
THE ATOLLS | Older Nazi Boyfriends | from their Soundcloud
OBN IIIs | Do My Thing | Runnin on Fumes 7" | Tic Tac Totally 2011

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

AFS v. 323 ~ Feel the Vibrations!


This week in AFS...

* This incredible year of reissues continues rolling!
* Muscle Drum make the most individualistic LP in the field of synth/wave!
* Here begins a petition for the reissue of the 2nd & 3rd Fungus Brains LPs!
* Wounded Lion's magnum opus so far!


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FUNGUS BRAINS | Pulsetrain | self-titled | Crash 1986
FUNGUS BRAINS | Goin' Down | Ron Pistos Real World | Load *new (orig 1983)
FUNGUS BRAINS | They've Gotta Move | I'm So Glad | Magnetic 1990
BLOODLOSS | Chocolate Cake Factory Blues | Lost My Head for a Drink | Dirty Knobby *new (rec'd 1997)
KING SNAKE ROOST | D.T.'s | Things That Play Themselves | Aberrant 1988
KITCHEN'S FLOOR | Needs | v/a: Wings Over Gabba | Negative Guest List *new
UNHOLY TWO | bonus track | $$kum of the Earth | Negative Guest List *new
PYGMY SHREWS | Proper Happiness | You People Can All Go Straight to Hell | Jack Shack *new
GUZZARD | Steeples | Quick, Fast, in a Hurry | Amphetamine Reptile 1995
WEIRD PARTY | Sarah Palin | Honey Slides 7" | Sex & Death *new
LA CORDE | Virus | Unmarked Doors 7" | Pyrrhic Victory *forthcoming
MUSCLE DRUM | The Rumble | Fog Hag | Break Up *new
BRONZE | The Rouge Became | The Rouge Became 7" picdisc | World Famous in SF *new
ERASE ERRATA | A Passion for Acting | live on WFMU, 09/10/2000
ERASE ERRATA | Ca. Viewing | At Crystal Palace | Troubleman Unlimited 2003
POISON GIRLS | Cat's Eye | v/a: Messthetics #108 | Hyped2Death *new (orig 1979)
CHRISTMAS ISLAND | Drawing Skulls | split 2x7" w/ Meth Teeth | Sacred Bones 2011
WOUNDED LION | Raincheck Vibrations | IVXLCDM *forthcoming
OBN IIIs | Heavy Heart | Mark On You 7" | Tic Tac Totally *new
KOREAN GUT | If You Want | Your Misery, Our Benefit 7" | Mammoth Cave *new
THE GOOEYS | Suspicious Hunch Amongst the Bloody Mary for Lunch Bunch | Scary Black Cherry Nap 7" | Mammoth Cave *new
KING TUFF | So Desperate | Was Dead | Colonel 2007
ALEX CHILTON | Rock Hard | Like Flies on Sherbert | Aura 1980
THEE OH SEES | Stinking Cloud | Castlemania | In The Red *new
BOBB TRIMBLE | Armour of the Shroud | The Crippled Dog Band | Yoga *new (orig 1984)
BOBB TRIMBLE | Fight or Fall/Screw It
CHARLES ALBRIGHT | I Am the Counter Culture (Drop Out) | Weight 7" | Permanent *new
THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS | Burning Trash | Burning Trash 7" | Negative Guest List *new (rec'd 1995)
ED SCHRADER'S MUSIC BEAT | Rats | Rats 7" | Load *new
FROSTY | Drive-Thru Lover | Drive-Thru Lover 7" | Menlo Park 1996
STRIP KINGS | Hustler Bullets | Hustler Bullets 7" | Redline 1996
THE SPIVS | It's True | It's True b/w Taped Up 7" | Almost Ready *new
PUNCTURE | Mucky Pup | Mucky Pup 7" | Last Laugh *new (orig 1977)
THE SKINNIES | I'm a Dullard | Kill The Beat 7" | Last Laugh *new (orig 1978)


Wednesday, August 03, 2011

AFS v. 322 ~ Most Likely to Exceed (Your Expectations!)



This week in AFS...

* Deeper than normal vinyl archive excavation!
* Dead Moon relevance peaking again w/ reissue series!
* Well wishes to G. Green on their Does It Slap? tour!
* Lemme try to be objective about my friends' band G. Green!
* They rule!


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UZI RASH | B1 | Palmwine Rumpus vol. 2 | 24/7 Industries *new
B.P.A. | Dining Room | Moving and Storage | Hospital 1985
B.P.A. | Forensic Dentist | By-Products of America 12" EP | Hospital 1983
DEMENTIA PRECOX | Mines | Dead on 2 Legs Luncheonette 7" | Hospital 1981
FACTUMS | Standing in the Corner/Walking Void | Gilding the Lilies | Assophon *new
YEK KOO | Oh Woman | Alone Together #3 7" | Emerald Cocoon *new
BLIND DESCENT | Can't Touch Me | Stone Cold & You | Probe Plus 1989
KILLING JOKE | Slipstream | Extemities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions | Noise Int'l 1990
THE BUTCHER SHOP | Wasteland | Hard for You 12" EP | Black Eye 1988
TOWEL | Nunu/Shun Shun Action | self-titled 7" | Vermiform 1996
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 | 2x4s | Lovelyville | Matador 1991 *request
NOD | Nutmeg | Chicago 7" | Baby Music 1993
NOD | Summer Sausage | I'm Around | Baby Music 1995
SAN FRANCISCO WATER COOLER | Bankshot | Kool Shoes 7" | Sun Sneeze *new
HENRY'S DRESS | Hey Allison | Bust 'em Green | Slumberland 1996
G. GREEN | Gay 90's | right offa their Facebook
KING TUFF | Just Strut | Was Dead | Colonel 2007
MICKEY | Bright Lights | Rock 'n Roll Dreamer | HoZac *new
USELESS EATERS | Neon Light | Daily Commute | Tic Tac Totally *new
DRUGS DRAGONS | Burning Hell [Brainbombs] | The Milorganight 12" EP | Dusty Medical *new
THE TRASHIES | Penultimate Betrayal Blazer | Space Jam | Minor Bird / 24/7 Industries *new
KNIFEY SPOONY | Retro Poser Enema | 3-song 7" | Orifice Dorm *new
THE BLACK CLOUDS | Trouble's Visit | Pathetic 7" | Ride the Snake *new
BEASTS OF BOURBON | Good Times | The Axeman's Jazz | Hybrid 1985
DEAD MOON | Walking on My Grave | Defiance | Mississippi *new (orig 1990)
DEAD MOON | Parchment Farm [Mose Allison] | In the Graveyard | Mississippi *new (orig 1988)
DEAD MOON | Dead Moon Night | Unknown Passage | Mississippi *new (orig 1989)
FORMICA MAN | Lobster Tail for Sick Guy | right off their Bandcamp

If you live on the Does It Slap? tour route, you should go see G. Green. Yes, they are my good friends and favorite partymates here in Sacramento, but ruminating on them as objectively as possible, I still recommend them highly because they pretty much spearhead the current "Sound of Young Sacramento", and they are one of the best bands going in Sacto or anywhere if you crave janglepunk poptunes, crazy energy, bold and original singing style, and rad girlpower rhythms. They mix up the sweet garagey noisepop charmers with some surprising and effective swipes at kick-in-the-teeth punk which covers a lotta bases. The band started as Andrew Henderson's solo bedroom recording project as a teenager in Provo, Utah, and although the songs are more linear and songlike and plenty pop-sensible now, his unique personality as a frontman, songwriter, and vocalist still keep this band from sounding too much like any other. Liz is consistently electrifying on drums and maintains the power and intensity level of even the most shambolic G. Green songs. Brutal bashing power like the first time I saw Mika Miko with Kate Hall on drums...but Liz has developed an excellent sense of when and how to roll and fill with purposeful pizzazz, and I've still not seen another drummer who appears to have so much fun while playing. Dyl-Dog's back in the band to complete the cutest couple on guitar and bass with Brittney. This lineup played on the best shows I saw all of 2010 in a basement of a small house in Twin Falls, Idaho, and if more fans of fun and frenzy had seen that magic, I do believe that you'd all be seeing and hearing a lot more from them. 'Til then, they've got a great
attitude...still serious about playing real songs and making friends with strangers. A new 7" will not out in time, but an album's worth of songs is in the can and sounds great.

Follow 'em here:
https://www.facebook.com/ggreenband
or
http://www.myspace.com/ggreenz

Thu 8/4 in Oakland @ Sugar Mountain
w/ Uzi Rash, Grass Widow, Broken Water

Fri 8/5 in San Francisco @ Hemlock Tavern
w/ La Corde, Waldo Astoria

Sat 8/6 in L.A. (daytime BBQ show) @ DDR Kompound
w/ Shark Toys, Double Negatives (ex-Red Kross)

Sat 8/6 in Pomona (later show) @ DBA 256 Wine Bar Lounge
w/ Orca Team, Shark Toys

Sun 8/7 in Phoenix, AZ @ Yellow Canary Dance Hall
w/ Orca Team

Mon 8/8 in Las Cruces, NM @ the Trainyard
w/ Far Corners, Orca Team

Tue 8/9 drive

Wed 8/10 Austin, TX @ Beerland
w/ Air Traffic Controllers, The Stuffies, The Restrooms

Thu 8/11 Denton, TX @ House Show
w/ TBA

Fri 8/12 Lawrence, KS @ Replay Lounge
w/ Irkutsk, The Dactyls

Sat 8/13 Omaha, NE @ OH-K Print Shop
w/ Public Access

Sun 8/14 Boulder, CO @ Astroland
w/ Sauna, Knife Fight

Mon 8/15 Provo, UT @ The Compound
w/ Glowing Heads, 90's Television

Tue 8/16 Reno, NV @ Holland Project House
w/ the Dawner Party, Missed Connections

I know I've shared this one before, but it's time again...