AFS v. 345 ~ feat. the "Wool(l)en Bros"

This week in AFS...

* Woolen Men of Portland, live on KDVS!
* Woollen Kits of Australia, live on KDVS!
* "Wool(l)en Bros" interview
* Portland history artifacts

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LOOSE GRIP | Maccy D's | Cereal 7" | Bedroom Suck *new
BED WETTIN' BAD BOYS | Don't Wanna Know | Best/Worst Band in Sydney 7" | R.I.P. Society 2010 *request
SOPORS | No Solution | self-titled 7" | Margin Mouth *new
WOOLLEN KITS | University Narcolepsy | self-titled | R.I.P. Society *new
WOOLEN MEN | Drunkard's Dream | live in Studio A
WOOLEN MEN | Mayonnaise
WOOLEN MEN | Love Song
WOOLEN MEN | Walking Out
WOOLEN MEN | In Disguise [Neo Boys]
WOOLEN MEN | Chinese Rug
WOOLEN MEN | Land of Laughs
WOOLEN MEN | Kym
WOOLEN MEN | Feet in the Clouds
THE REACTIONS | Rebel Rousers | Saturday's Gone Wild | Cheap Rewards *new (orig 1981)
THE OUTCASTS | Just Another Teenage Rebel | Just Another Teenage Rebel 7" | Good Vibrations 1978
JOHNNY ILL BAND | Matt Larson | In the Wintertime 7" | X! Records *new
WOUNDED LION | Black Ops | IVXLCDM | In The Red 2011
LOST SOUNDS | What'd I Say? | Plastic Skin 7" | Goner *new (orig 1999)
ICHI NI SAN SHI | Insurmountable | Here Sometime Today 7" | Super Secret *new
JUNGLE NAUSEA | Eat | untitled 12" EP | Inner Mystique 1982
NEO BOYS | Time Keeps Time | Crumbling Myths | Joe 1982
WOOLLEN KITS | I Love You | self-titled
WOOLLEN KITS | Sloan | live in Studio A
WOOLLEN KITS | Susannah
WOOLLEN KITS | For You
WOOLLEN KITS | Out of Whack
WOOLLEN KITS | Back to You
WOOLLEN KITS | Shelley
DEAD MOON | Up in the Altitudes | Over the Edge 7" | Tombstone 1991
DRIVETRAIN | Time is of the Essence | Time is of the Essence 7" | Tombstone 1988
WICKED ONES | Friends Like You | Friends Like You 7" | Moxie 1991
interview w/ Wool(l)en Bros!
WICKED ONES | The Devil's in My Pants | The Devil's in My Pants 7" | Get Hip 1989

See? They were really here!

The Woollen Kits





& Woolen Men

AFS v. 344 ~ Better Late Than Never!

This week in AFS...

* early entries for best of 2012!
* raising the remains of Battleship!
* get psyched for the Woollen Kits tour of the USA!

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WOOLLEN KITS | Sloan | self-titled | R.I.P. Society *new
WOOLLEN KITS | Out of Town | Maths 7" | R.I.P. Society 2011
TWIN STEPS | Pitch Black Forest | Serial Parade 10" | Cola Bruin *new
REPORTS | The Valley/Kittenface | Dinamo Cambridge | Ride the Snake *new
EL JESUS DE MAGICO | Good UFO/Bad UFO Experience | Just Deserts | Columbus Discount *new
FRUSTRATIONS | These Woods | Negative Reflections | X! Records 2011
TRUE RADICAL MIRACLE | ...And at 9AM I am Invincible | Cockroaches | Iron Lung *new (orig 2004)
HAIL MARY | Nine Tenths | Glorious Morning 7" | Prank 1997
WORST CASE SCENARIO | Twenty Degrees Cooler | Checkin Out 7" | TMU 1997
FNU RONNIES | Saddle Up | Saddle Up | Load *new
TUMOR WARLORD | Tumor Warlord | Bio-Machine EP 7" | Jeth-Row *new
TRANS UPPER EGYPT | New Vega | Akawa b/w New Vega 7" | Wort *new
THE PHEROMOANS | The Birdwatcher | Bar-Rock EP 12" | Monofonus Press *new
WIRE | 5/10 | Document & Eyewitness | Rough Trade 1980
WIRE | 12XU (Fragment) | Document & Eyewitness
LOOSE GRIP | Wipe the Slate | Cereal 7" | Bedroom Suck *new
SICK THINGS | I Like Pills | The Sounds of Silence | Shock 1989 (orig 1981)
BATTLESHIP | Contempt | self-titled 12" | Thee Raw Deluxe 2004
LITTLE QUEENIE | Blackout | Blackout 7" | Sweet Rot *new
ZULUS | Demons | Surgery b/w Demons 7" | Lemon Session 2011
ARCHIPELAGO BREWING CO. | My New Hat | v/a: To Sell Kerosene Door to Door | Insight 1988
PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH | Landing Gear | One-Way Conversation | Homestead 1987
PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH | Barracuda [Heart] | Power Toy | Homestead 1988
FORMICA MAN | Lobster Tail for Sick Guy | demo CDR | no label 2011
SCISSOR GIRLS | Atomic Boys/love-Sick | To: The Imaginary Layer on Skeletons | Quinnah 1994
ARU (feat. BOB BUCKO JR) | The Cobra Stirred | Dub Plate Vol. 3 | Nitco/Dubuque Strange Music Society *new
THE LOWDOWN | Cyclops Acknowledgement (Exercise?) | demo CDR | no label 2001
ARU (feat. BOB BUCKO JR) | Dual Axis Access | Dub Dub Plate Vol. 3
RASHIED ALI / FRANK LOWE | Exchange - Part 2 | Duo Exchange | Survival 1973
16-17 | Flamethrower | Gyatso | Pathological 1994
GOD | Meat Head | Breach Birth 12" EP | Situation Two 1990

AFS v. 343 ~ It's So Obvious!

This week in AFS...

* Best latecomers to my best-of-2011 considerations!
* Spray Paint sets bar for 2012!
* Sacto's greatest export of 2012!

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FRUSTRATIONS | Confusion Kills/No Repair | Negative Reflections | X! Records 2011
FONTANA | Gotta Split | self-titled | X! Records 2011
WATERY LOVE | A Condom | Two Thrills 7" | Negative Guest List 2011
JACKKNIFE | Man of Noise | She's Groovy | Imp 1992
MAGNETIX | I Drink (But My Guitar Doesn't) | Drogue Electrique | Slovenly 2011
REPORTS | Turnaround | Dinamo Cambridge | Ride the Snake 2011
EXPANDO BRAIN | Don't Know | Mother of God! It's... | Vacant Lot 1986
BLOODHOUSE | Cool Intentions | Please Don't Meet Me 7" | Caesar Cuts 2011
THE UNHOLY TRINITY | No Respect | Rise to the Occasion | Communique 1985
JOHNNY ILL BAND | In the Wintertime | In The Wintertime 7" | X! Records 2011
THE EMBARRASSMENT | Sex Drive | Sex Drive b/w Patio Set 7" | Last Laugh 2011 (orig 1979)
VELVEETA HEARTBREAK | I Shot the Invisible Man | I Shot The Invisible Man 7" | Semper Lo-Fi 2006
PREFAB MESSIAHS | Desperately Happy | Peace Love & Alienation | Fixed Identity 2011 (orig 1982)
LURES | Falling Out (of Gerald's Car) | New Boy 7" | Salvaged Productions 2011
SPIZZOIL | Fibre | v/a: Messthetics #103 | Hyped 2 Death 2007 (orig 1979)
GUIDED BY VOICES | Melted Pat | v/a: Tard & Further'd | Siltbreeze 1997 (orig 1994)
GREENHORN | The Progress | The Progress 7-inch | Datapanik 1992
MONKEY 101 | The Method of My Machinery | Transistor 7-inch | Papa Popov 1992
BRAIN F≠ | No More/More | Sleep Rough | Grave Mistake 2011
UNDERGROUND SOLDIER | Headaches | Fun Before Profit! | Speed of Sound 1986
THE TRAGICS | Laughing Lover | Mommi I'm a Misfit 7-inch | Black & White 1981
FLESH LIGHTS | Bummer Bitch [Freestone] | Bummer Bitch split 7" w/ Naw Dude | 12XU 2011
THE FONDLED | Daddy's a Whore | split 7-inch w/ Tito o' Tito Band | Toast 1995
KILL THE HIPPIES | Empty Vessel | Erectospective | Rock 'n' Roll Purgatory 2005 (orig 1993)
SPRAY PAINT | Pro Knife | Pro Knife 7" | SS Records *2012*
CROWN ROAST | Jerk the Nail | A Nose Has Many Jobs | Unclean 1994
KIM PHUC | Black Triangle | Copsucker | Iron Lung 2011
DEAD LANGUAGE | A New Dark Age | self-titled | Iron Lung 2011
23 SKIDOO | Banishing/Invocation | The Culling is Coming | Operation Twilight 1983
CLOCK DVA | Relentless | White Souls in Black Suits | Industrial 1980
SCREATURE | It's Obvious [Absolute Body Control] | live in Studio A, July 11, 2011
ENDE SCHNEAFLIET | Voices of the Dead/Macho Japanese | Synthimental Love Songs | Trumpett 2011 (orig 1982)
FRANK ALPINE | Heart is Grey | self-titled | Wierd 2011
DAVE HOWARD SINGERS | Plastic Horse | Rock On 12-inch EP | Hallelujah! 1986
BILLY JACKIT & THE STRAIGHTJACKETS | Animal Erection | self-titled 12-inch EP | no label 1985

Okay, Bay Areans...Get ready for the best Sacto band that debuted live in 2011!
Screature is taking their show outta the Central Valley for the first time this Saturday, January 21, at Amnesia in San Francisco!
Their awesome brand of postpunk is propelled by a cool, moody rhythm section of bass-organ and drums, but any semblance of The Doors ends right there. The killer psych-punk guitar recalls Helios Creed's best work in Chrome, and singer Liz lends amazing mystique and power with that dusky voice and stage command. What tinge of gothy-ness exists flows freely and naturally--without irony and with judicious restraint--and the band is surely riveting enough to rock you. Fuzzbox Flynn and I are planning to make the drive down.
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You can still download their entire live set from July 2011 when they played live on AFS...
http://artforspastics.blogspot.com/2011/07/afs-v-319-screature-feature.html

AFS v. 342 ~ Best of 2011

This week in AFS...

* My top 25 LPs of 2011

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TUMOR WARLORD | End of Time | Bio-Machine 7" | Jeth-Row *new
SPRAY PAINT | Psychic Doug | Pro Knife 7" | SS Records *new
MORDECAI | Horse | self-titled | Killertree 2011
UV RACE | Homo | Homo | In The Red 2011
ROYAL HEADACHE | Psychotic Episode | self-titled | R.I.P. Society 2011
DEAF WISH | Make It Hurt | self-titled | Radio Records Melbourne 2011
PER PURPOSE | Pregnant Again | Implicating More Than One | Bedroom Suck 2011 (orig 2007)
BURNING SENSATION | Terminal Decay | self-titled | Vertex 2011
TOTAL CONTROL | Carpet Rash | Henge Beat | Iron Lung 2011
WOUNDED LION | Raincheck Vibrations | IVXLCDM | In The Red 2011
DAN MELCHIOR | Atomizer | Assemblage Blues | Siltbreeze 2011
LOS LLAMARADA | Death Will Die | Gone Gone Cold | SS Records 2011
BBJr | Radio Detective (Detective) | Tearjerker | Captcha 2011
SEX CHURCH | Colour Out of Space/Treading Water | Growing Over | Load 2011
HUMAN EYE | Impregnate the Martian Queen Pt. 2 | They Came from the Sky | Sacred Bones 2011
NOTHING PEOPLE | Cathode Ray Tube/Gut Wind | Smells Like Metal | Captcha 2011
PSANDWICH | Like a Metaphor | Northren Psych | Columbus Discount 2011
PYGMY SHREWS | No Supplies | You People Can All Go Straight to Hell | Jack Shack 2011
VIDEO | Any Worse? | Leather Leather | Play Pinball 2011
B-LINES | Psychedelic High School | self-titled | Deranged/Nominal 2011
JOHNNY ILL BAND | Good Posture | Ask All the Doctors | Urinal Cake 2011
CHEVEU | Charlie Sheen | 1000 | Kill Shaman 2011
SOFT KILL | Surrender | An Open Door | Fast Weapons 2011
MILLIGRAM RETREAT | Wife/Petticoat Affair | Falun Gong | Enfant Terrible 2011
COLOUR BÜK | I'm Approaching You With Romantic Intent | Licht Dinger | Wir Wollen Wulle 2011
WEYES BLOOD & THE DARK JUICES | His Song | The Outside Room | Not Not Fun 2011
DAN MELCHIOR UND DAS MENACE | Gnomes on the Runway | Catbirds & Cardinals | Northern Spy 2011

Sorry...It took awhile to get around to making my "best of" list of 2011 albums. Even on the downside of the last few halcyon years of music, some excellent albums missed the cut, so it was hard to whittle down. Also, I was still waiting to hearing those albums by Condominium and True Sounds of Thunder. Those came out when I was in a bit of a cash bind, so I missed my chance to get 'em while they were fresh. Then again, the last several years, I make my list in mid-December, and then January rolls around and there's 2-3 December releases that I wanna add to the list.

Please have a listen to my top 25 playlist above, and if you feel like it, tell me what you liked in 2011. It's in no particular order except to make for sensible radio segueways...and, well...I did segregate the Aussies from the rest. Oz's roll keeps going, as it remains the center of the rock & roll world.

But here they are in order of awesomeness, in my opinion...

1. TOTAL CONTROL Henge Beat (Iron Lung)
2. WOUNDED LION IVXLCDM (In The Red)
3. UV RACE Homo (In The Red)
4. DAN MELCHIOR Assemblage Blues (Siltbreeze)
5. LOS LLAMARADA Gone Gone Cold (SS Records)
6. HUMAN EYE They Came from the Sky (Sacred Bones)
7. DEAF WISH self-titled (Radio Records Melbourne)
8. PSANDWICH Northren Psych (Columbus Discount)
9. SEX CHURCH Growing Over (Load)
10. CHEVEU 1000 (Kill Shaman)
11. SOFT KILL An Open Door (Fast Weapons)
12. BBJr Tearjerker (Captcha)
13. VIDEO Leather Leather (Play Pinball)
14. ROYAL HEADACHE self-titled (R.I.P. Society)
15. MILLIGRAM RETREAT Falun Gong (Enfant Terrible)
16. JOHNNY ILL BAND Ask All the Doctors (Urinal Cake)
17. PYGMY SHREWS You People Can All Go Straight to Hell (Jack Shack)
18. BURNING SENSATION self-titled (Vertex)
19. NOTHING PEOPLE Smells Like Metal (Captcha)
20. DAN MELCHIOR UND DAS MENACE Catbirds & Cardinals (Northern Spy)
21. B-LINES self-titled (Deranged/Nominal)
22. PER PURPOSE Implicating More Than One (Bedroom Suck)
23. WEYES BLOOD & THE DARK JUICES The Outside Room (Not Not Fun)
24. MORDECAI self-titled (Killertree)
25. COLOUR BÜK Licht Dinger (Wir Wollen Wulle)

AFS v. 341 ~ Tempe, AZ, Scene Report

This week in AFS...

* Acid Dawgz live on KDVS!
* Otro Mundo live on KDVS!
* More bands of the Pigeon Religion family tree!
* Newest grip o' Negative Guest List releases & more!

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BLANK REALM | Falling Down the Stairs | Falling Down The Stairs 7" | Negative Guest List *new
AXEMEN | Nutsack | Nutsack 7" | Negative Guest List/Sleek Bott *new
BRIGHT IDEAS | Casanova's Memoirs | Saturdays and the Turning Tide | Squirmy *new (orig 2005)
SO COW | The Other Tiger | GMT EP 7" | Ride the Snake *new
JOHNNY ILL BAND | Baja California | Ask All the Doctors | Urinal Cake *new
TRANS UPPER EGYPT | Akawa | Akawa 7" | Wort *new
ACID DAWGZ | title unknown | Live in Studio A, 12/31/2011
ACID DAWGZ | title unknown
ACID DAWGZ | title unknown
ACID DAWGZ | title unknown
ACID DAWGZ | title unknown
ACID DAWGZ | title unknown
ACID DAWGZ | title unknown
NAÏVE | My Fantasized Bedroom Suicide | Puberty Kisses EP CS | ??? 2010
THE FEEDERZ | Destruction Unit | Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss? | Flaming Banker 1984
DESTRUCTION UNIT | Race/Time | self-titled | Empty 2004
AVON LADIES | Power Failure | Guns & Gold 7" | Katorga Works 2011
ELDERS | Suicide Punk | Blind Rage | King of the Monsters 2011
OTRO MUNDO | title unknown | Live in Studio A, 12/31/2011
OTRO MUNDO | title unknown
OTRO MUNDO | title unknown
OTRO MUNDO | title unknown
OTRO MUNDO | title unknown
NIHILISM | Do Drugs | Live From Inside Your Mind's Eye CS | Greased 2011
MICHAEL YONKERS w/ the BLIND SHAKE | A Little Crazy | Period | SS Records *new
THREE TOED SLOTH | Non-Alignment Pact [Pere Ubu] | I Didn't Know I Loved You 7" | Negative Guest List *new (orig 1993)
TACO LEG | The Money Will Roll Right In [Fang] | Printed Gold 7" | Richie/Testostertunes *new
WATERY LOVE | New Kind of Kick [The Cramps] | Two Thrills 7" | Negative Guest List *new
HAMMERING THE CRAMPS | Wormwood | self-titled | Wormwood Grasshopper *new (orig 2007)
THE LOST DOMAIN | Pool | Drunken Sailor 7" | Negative Guest List *new (orig 1999)
SUNGSANG | Burmese Milkshake | Anak Tanpa Bangsa | Le Horror/Ascetic House 2011
NEW ORDER | We All Stand | The Peel Sessions 12" EP | Strange Fruit 1986 (orig 1982)
FOOL'S DANCE | Sa'Ha | self-titled 12" EP | Lambs to the Slaughter 1985
AND ALSO THE TREES | Wallpaper Dying | Shantell 7" | Future 1983
NICK NAPPA | title unknown | self-titled CS | no label 2011