Art for Spastics v. 121

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LOS BLANKITOS // C.H.U.D. // You Make Me Drool 7" // Discos Chango *new
THE DULL // I Hate the Motorcyclist // v/a: Barricaded Suspects // Toxic Shock 1983
BRUCE HAACK & ESTHER NELSON // Motorcycle Ride // Listen Compute Rock Home // Dimension 5 1968
FACTUMS // Gold Is the Best Color // 1st demo // self-released 2004

FACTUMS // Split Screen // 2nd demo // self-released 2005
DER TEENAGE PANZER KORPS // Thy Depth! // Harmful Emotions // Siltbreeze *new
ARTHROSE AUJOURD'HUI // Slept in Again // MySpace mp3 *new
BAD TRIPS // Miracle of Marsh Chapel // self-titled LP // Rocketship *new
GUN // Dreams and Screams // Gun Sight // Epic 1969
WHO'S YOUR FAVORITE SON, GOD? // Celestial Titanic // Out of Body Diva // KDVS Recordings 2006
DANAVA // Quiet Babies Astray in a Manger // self-titled // Kemado *new
HELLA // Let Your Heavies Out // There's No 666 in Outer Space // Ipecac *new
MOUTHUS // The Final Tribes // For The Great Slave Lakes // Three Lobed *new

ETTRICK // live @ the Hatch Gallery, Pasadena, CA 10/20/06 // Sudden Arrhythmic Death vol. 2 3" CDR // Not Not Fun *new
XOME vs. TRALPHAZ // Escaping the 984,849,503 Claws of Space Chum // Manifesting in Matter (w/ Eco Morti) // Resipiscent *new
TARANTISM // The Cowl Apparatus // Stuck to the Bottom // Resipiscent *new
XELA // The Gate/Linseed // The Dead Sea // Type *new
CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS // Tahiti // self-titled // Conspiracy *new
QUILTS // Pink Hotel // split cassette w/ Quintana Roo // DNT *new
POCAHAUNTED // Native Seduction // Native Seduction 3" CDR // Arbor *new
CHARALAMBIDES // Namasté // Market Square 2xLP // Siltbreeze 1995

Does your local suburban stucco-laden conglomo-movie-rental-mart only stock DVDs of major releases, and you can only wish that you could browse through ridiculous movies of the 80's on VHS? When you need a break from CGI effects in Sacramento, the place to find cheesy movies with monsters made of Play-Doh and refried beans with fake fangs drippin' KY Jelly and melted Red Vines is Awesome Video on Freeport Blvd. They have almost all of the Puppet Master and Trancers series. (I just love the Full Moon classics!) And it's the only place in the Sacto area I know where you can rent a copy of both C.H.U.D. movies! So, that's why we start with Brooklyn's Los Blankitos this week. I just bought this record on my lunchbreak today, and I'll hafta remember it when Halloween 2007 rolls around. It's a rabblerousin' garagestomper about being a cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller! Let's have a song about "Bud" from C.H.U.D. II on the 2nd 7".

This song by The Dull was so hellbent on dulling your senses that it dared to drive its one and only guitar riff into the ground from start to finish. Sounds like the bassline rides the same note all the way, too. And how many ways can you hate motorcyclists? Their needless revving at stoplights, the noisiness, their disregard for the basic speed rule...The Dull even protest "driving around without spark arresters and causing forest fires." Quite moralistic, these guys, and nary a hint of attention deficit!

I've always been curious to know more about Bruce Haack, and tonight before the show, I watched an excellent film about him on the Documentary Channel, way up high on my DishNet. I knew he built his own synthesizers, and I'd heard Electric Lucifer and that he did children's music before that, but I did not know how wide his appeal was and that it reached into early-80's electro and hip hop. There was so much great footage of his early television appearances on I've Got a Secret and especially Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, where Bruce demonstrated his photosensitive "music computer" for the boys and girls. It sounded just like the music of the recent zeitgeist of bent Casio SK-1's. So, here's a little pro-motorcycling song by the man Kurtis Blow and Russell Simmons called Bruce Haack the "Anti-Wack."

The Factums from Seattle are a cousin branch on the A Frames family tree with membership directly descending from The Intelligence and Popular Shapes. Their sound is not too unlike a cross between the droll DIY transistor artpunk of Boredom & Terror by the Intelligence and early Bruce Haack proto-electronica, perhaps also spiked with the more experimental edge of the British DIY music of the late 70's and early 80's featured on Hyped2Death's Messthetics series. Their first demo from 2004 had 20 tracks on it, and more than enough of them were good enough to make an excellent debut album, excising a few others that were false starts. The 2005 demo has their best potential A-side in "Split Screen," leading with its dominant yet gliding and seductive synth, insistent beat, and phone-tapped vocals. But aside from these demo CDR's, the Factums have no records or official releases, which is a shame because I know that plenty of people would become Factums fans if they could only hear the band.

Perhaps that will change now that the Factums are embarking on a tour with Climax Golden Twins...

Wednesday, Feb 14 9:00 p.m. @ Towne Lounge in Portland, OR
Thursday, Feb 15 10:00 p.m. @ Fools Foundation in Sacramento, CA
Friday, Feb 16 9:30 p.m. @ Hemlock Tavern in San Francisco, CA
Saturday, Feb 17 8:00 p.m. @ a loft party at 705 Peralta St. in Oakland, CA

And then next on Friday, March 23 @ the Rendezvous/Jewelbox Theatre in Seattle.

There's three new things out now on Siltbreeze, a name you should always trust for scooping up the best psych scuzz detritus and discerning artpunk. And with its sharpied and pasted-up sleeve, this LP by Der Teenage Panzer Korps (or more conveniently Der TPK) looks every bit as DIY as it sounds! Harmful Emotions also harkens to the weirder moments captured on Messthetics, especially the Homosexuals. At the expense of sounding like a lazy band x + band y = lovechild z record reviewer, I dare say that "Thy Depth!" sounds like The Fall and Savage Republic got it on. There's a lot of diversity to behold throughout this album, so I'm sure you'll keep hearing more TPK in upcoming weeks.

My newest Vancouver (BC) fascination is Arthrose Aujourd'hui, a trio with with two parts Ladies Night, one of whom is also in No Feeling. Unlike Ladies Night or No Feeling--both awesome bands who brashly bash away trashed-out garagescuzz anthems--Arthrose Aujourd'hui are a subtle attack of psychedelic sleaze. "Slept in Again" is slow, dark brooder that is a total tug o'war of remorse, regret, creeping anxiety, and helplessness? Haven't you been outta work for an extended period of time? Did it feel like you had nothing to wake up for? For me, even worse than the shame of being unemployed was the guilt I had about the bum lifestyle, and that I couldn't remember the last time I'd woke up before noon. This song recalls a time in my life when I was surfing couches across Davis, caught between feeling sorry for myself for being victimized and acting decisively to change the bad pattern.

In my pantheon of guitar gods, there is a throne reserved for Grady Runyan, best known for his scorching work in Monoshock and Liquorball. The Bad Trips are his new band, and this 180g slab of vinyl is their first LP. I saw a show last year at the Hemlock Tavern in San Francisco which was billed as a Liquorball reunion gig. Grady was in a zone in such an awesomely ridiculous, relentless way. A crowd fulla balding beardstrokers were completely glazed, ready to collapse in submission. The Bad Trips are more composed and have more restraint than that, but this LP's still a masterpriece of heavy psych.

I hope to finish up the notes and anecdotes for the rest of this playlist tomorrow...check back!

Art for Spastics v. 120

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I REFUSE IT! // Choch Numret // v/a: We Can Do Whatever We Want / BCT 1986
HIROSHIMA ROCKS AROUND // oJechtCh*cc*P*C*chem // HRA 666 // No-Fi *new
DER TEENAGE PANZER KORPS // Government Christians // Harmful Emotions // Siltbreeze *new
SLICING GRANDPA // A2-A3 // 4 Trak Album 7" // Strain Theory 2006
KOUNT FISTULA // Doom // Fistmist // Scatalogical Liberation Front *new

KOUNT FISTULA // Sleeper in D
ARACHNID ARCADE // Vow in the Graveyard // Caligula in My Pants cassette // self-released 2006
DEATHGLEANER // Life With Lice // v/a: PDX Artix Mixtape CDR // Below PDX *request 2006
PRURIENT // Earthworks/Buried in Secret // Pleasure Ground // Load *new
BRAINBOMBS // Insects // Stinking Memory 7" // Anthem *new
LONDON PX // Mayhem // v/a: Messthetics #102 // Hyped2Death *new
THE DOOR & THE WINDOW // Part Time Punks // v/a: Messthetics #101 // Hyped2Death *new
R. STEVIE MOORE // Just Like Me // Disorganized Overactivity or Tabitha Soren // Forty-Seven *new
THE INTELLIGENCE // Weekends in Jail // Boredom and Terror // Omnibus 2004

DONNY HUE & THE COLORS // Real Long Time // Neighbor CDR // Sauce *new
LITTLE CLAW // Shoplifting Cart Pt. II // forthcoming LP // no label *new
CHURCHBURNERS // Organ // Keytarded 3" CDR // Greentape *new
NAPOLEON BLOWNAPARTE // Part 1 // Draft Day 3" CDR // Greentape *new
HAND ME DOWN SATELLITES // Bleach Dye for Forward Looking Hippies // 2xEP!!! CDR // Greentape *new
VALLEY OF ASHES // A Clock of Spoons // Cavehill Hunters´ Attrition 3xLP // Black Velvet Fuckere/Consanguineous *new
WEASEL WALTER QUARTET // Right Now We Are Revolting // Revolt Music // ugExplode *new
CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS // Duel // self-titled // Conspiracy *new
CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS // Correct Interpretation
EVOLUTIONARY JASS BAND // Aunt Dot // Megamix CDR // no label *new

Art for Spastics v. 119½

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I subbed Scott Soriano’s “Rebel Kind” radio show, so here’s a bonus hour of some of my favorite new things…
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BRAINBOMBS // Stinking Memory // Stinking Memory 7” // Anthem *new
SIC ALPS // Brill Building // Semi Streets 7” // Skulltones *new
LITTLE CLAW // Baby, Hobo, or Zeus // forthcoming LP // no label *new
HIROSHIMA ROCKS AROUND // Nicksee // HRA 666 // No-Fi *new
DER TEENAGE PANZER KORPS // Catholic Radio // Harmful Emotions // Siltbreeze *new
LE FLANGE DU MAL // Indigenous Evaporator // Advance Tracks from Carrion, My Wayward Son // Kimosciotic *new
FUCKWOLF // Mardi Gras // self-titled // Kimosciotic 2006
VALLEY OF ASHES // Yellow Smoke // Cavehill Hunters’ Attrition 3xLP // Black Velvet Fuckere/Consanguineous *new
LONG HAIR // Progress // The Rise, Progress, and Termination of Long Hair // Forty-Seven *new

Art for Spastics v. 119

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NNB // Slack // v/a: Bloodstains Across the Midwest // Bloodstains 1996 (orig 1978)
SIC ALPS // Making Plans // The Soft Tour in Rough Form 12” EP // Mt. St. Mtn 2006
SIC ALPS // E.R.Q. // Pleasures & Treasures // Animal Disguise 2006
GREG ASHLEY // Amnesia // Tainted Garden // Birdman *new
PINK REASON // Watching You Fall // forthcoming release *new
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FACTUMS // Factum Tan // first demo // no label 2004 *request
FACTUMS // Pass the Innocence // second demo // no label 2005 *request
LITTLE CLAW // Brack Stratum // forthcoming LP // ??? *new
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT // Let´s Run Away // split 7” w/ Times New Viking // no label *new
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT // No Soul 2
ALAS, ALAK, ALASKA! // Why Do We Always Have to Do Things Over Again? // Sampler 001 // Absolution and Burial *new
DEERHOOF // Look Away // Friend Opportunity // Kill Rock Stars/5RC *new
DEERHUNTER // Intro/Cryptograms // Cryptograms // Kranky *new
TALBOT TAGORA // Bent Boy Out // Volcano Girls // self-released *new
MODERN CREATURES // The Movement // split cassette w/ Shearing Pinx // Isolated Now Waves *new
SHEARING PINX // Whitemud // Poison Hands dbl 3-inch // Not Not Fun 2006
KNIGHT RIDER // Voltex/Robosilex // Lightning Gun Zoltar cassette // Barf *new
KNIGHT RIDER // Tape Recorder Assault Booty Mix

REALICIDE // I Wanna Hurt! [the Screamers] // split cassette w/ Tik///Tik // Deathbomb Arc Tape Club *new
BOOKS ON TAPE // I´m Dirty // v/a: Exercise for Exorcisms vol. 1 // Unnecessary Friction *new
COMIX // Touche Pas Mon Sexe // v/a: Bippp - French Synth Wave 1979-85 // Born Bad *new
POPTRONIX // TV Programmed TV Set // TV Programmed TV Set 7” // Klang! 1981
THE VACANTS // Television Viewer // v/a: Messthetics #102 // Hyped2Death *new *request
GRINDER // Other People // v /a: Messthetics #101 // Hyped2Death *new arrival
PICTURE CHORDS // A Cause des Voisins // v/a: Waiting Room // Object Music 1980
ART LESSING // Those Who Do // Hook Echo // Electric Eggplant *new

Art for Spastics v. 118

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(High-bit archive works this week!!! (sorry for the last two weeks!))
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LE FLANGE DU MAL // Caravan to Montauk // Carrion, My Wayward Son // Kimosciotic? *forthcoming
INNERPROPRIATES // Never // v/a: Messthetics #102 // Hyped2Death *new
REJECTS // Stir Crazy // v/a: Messthetics #101 // Hyped2Death *new
ANGRY ANGLES // Things Are Moving // Things Are Moving 7” // Shattered 2006
JAY REATARD // It´s So Useless // Hammer I Miss You 7” // Goner 2006
TOKYO ELECTRON // Everything I Hate // She Keeps Me Shut 7” // Big Black Hole 2006
HUMAN EYE // Hologram // Dinosaur Bones 7” // Ypsilanti *new
SPIDER // Witch Cookie // Charlie 7” // HoZac *new
V/VM // Snooker Loopy // Snooker Loopy 7” // Self-Released 2001

V/VM // BBC Snooker
LE FLANGE DU MAL // Weather War // Carrion, My Wayward Son
RED ASPHALT // Red Asphalt // 4-Song 7” EP // Egg & Anvil Records 1981
SIC ALPS // The Wanderings of Our Drummer Through Hell // Pleasures & Treasures // Animal Disguise 2006
SIC ALPS // Stories // Pleasures & Treasures
THE BAD TRIPS // First Priority // self-titled LP // Rocketship *new
TIMES NEW VIKING // Common Cold // split 7” w/ Psychedelic Horseshit // Self-Released *new

TIMES NEW VIKING // Bad Looks // split 7” w/ Psychedelic Horseshit
MIKE REP & THE QUOTAS // Rocket Music On // Quit Talking & Start Chalking 7” // Siltbreeze 1992
MIKE REP & THE QUOTAS // Aliens in Our Midst [Twinkeyz] // Twinkeyz Tribute split 7” w/ Screamin´ Mee-Mees // New World of Sound 1996 *request
LITTLE CLAW // Wayward Chief // MySpace mp3 *new
NOTHING PEOPLE // Systems Failure // Problems 7” // S-S Records *new
HOLE CLASS // True Temper // A Glimpse of Hole Class cassette // Everyday Recording *new
HOLE CLASS // Dizzy County // A Glimpse of Hole Class cassette
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO // Happy Trails // Happy Trails 7” // Greentape *new
LIQUORBALL // A1 // Hauls Ass // Blackjack 1994
MONOSHOCK // Crypto-Zoological Disaster // Walk to the Fire // Blackjack 1996
SAVAGE REPUBLIC // Spice Fields // Jamahiriya // Fundamental 1987
GROUP DOUEH // Sabah Lala // Guitar Music from the Western Sahara // Sublime Frequencies *new
Z’EV // Live in Köln // unreleased CDR // no label *new
SIKHARA // Al-Medina // Bardos States // URCKarm/Radon/Soopa *new

Art for Spastics v. 117½ (bonus hour)

Tonight I subbed for Scott Soriano's "Rebel Kind" radio show from 11:00 p.m. to midnight while he was away, presumably checking out the Black Lips show in Sacramento at the Blue Lamp. I was sorta bummed to miss such a great band playing live in this area, but I had some fun playing these records anyway.

The FCC rule against plugola makes it impossible for Scott to play records from his own label, but while he was away, I figured I'd treat his regular listeners to the sounds that their fearless leader purveys. Plus, there was no better time for me to pay respects to Alice Coltrane, an incredibly underrated artist who passed away at age 69 on Friday.

Download Art for Spastics v. 117½ (within next 10 weeks)

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AMON DÜÜL II // Eye-Shaking King // Yeti // Repertoire 1970
ART LESSING // Ceiling Fan // Hook Echo // Electric Eggplant *new
SKAREKRAU RADIO // The One Eyed Rod Is Love // The One Eyed Swine Is Queen // Apop *new
NOTHING PEOPLE // 4 Miles High // Problems 7” // S-S Records *new
THE GEEKS // Visiting Day at San Quentin // Too Fat Pig 7” // S-S Records *new
GROUP DOUEH // Fagu // Guitar Music from the Western Sahara // Sublime Frequencies *new
ALICE COLTRANE // Battle at Armageddon // Universal Consciousness // Impulse 1971 (w/ Rashied Ali)
ALICE COLTRANE // Journey in Satchidananda // Journey in Satchidananda // Impulse 1971 (w/ Pharoah Sanders, Tulsi, Vishnu Wood, Cecil McBee, Charlie Haden, Rashied Ali, & Majid Shabazz)
SLEETMUTE NIGHTMUTE // In Adulthood. . . Black Steel Sick // unreleased album 2004

Art for Spastics v. 117

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CRACK UND ULTRA ECZEMA // Ebola Day // 4-way split 2x7" w/ AIDS Wolf, PRE, & Dmonstrations // Lovepump United *new
SELF-DESTRUCT BUTTON // Universal Adapter // Natural Selection of Accidents // Tower Control 2006
THE COOLIES // Throwaway // Patu CD by Pumice // Stabbies, etc./Soft Abuse 2006

TALBOT TAGORA // Beautilicious // Volcano Girls // Self-Released *new
THE GORDONS // Future Shock // Future Shock 12" EP // Flying Nun 1980
TOKYO STORM WARNING // Curate My Love // Ruff Cutz // Self-Released 2005
THE STAPLER // The Cavalry Lasers // Metaphysical Haircut // Columbus Discount 2006
CRAWLSPACE // Take Your War on Vacation // The Spirit of '76 // Gulcher *new
FEARLESS LEADER // Move a Little // v/a: Gimme the Keys!! // Trigon 1988
THE BLACK AND WHITES // Misled // 3-song 7" // Douche Master *new
STANDING NUDES // Fight Song // When I Arrive 7" // True Panther Sounds *new
JAY REATARD // Waiting for Something // Blood Visions // In The Red *new

BLACK SUNDAY // Cut Out! // Cut Out! 7" // Tick Tack Totally *new
MIKA MIKO // Challenge the Throne // v/a: Siked Psych // Not Not Fun *new
USCH // Hatalen // v/a: Bloodstaiins Across Sweden // Bloodstains 1980
WORLD OF POOH // Scissors // The Land of Thirst // Nuf Sed 1989
THE PATCHY SKIES // They´re Just Girls // Markings 7" // Extra Small *new
HOME BLITZ // Feeling Cold // Live Outside 7" // Self-Released 2006 *request
HOME BLITZ // Hey! // Apocalyptic Grades 2005 A.D. 7" // Self-Released 2005 *request
JOSEF K // Variation of Scene // Entomology // Domino *new (orig 1980)
COLIN NEWMAN // Image // A-Z // Beggar´s Banquet 1980
TOM CARTER & INCA ORE // Chiseling the Hidden Diamond // Rainbow Trout CDR // Self-Released *new
HOTOTOGISU & BURNING STAR CORE // trk 1 // II CDR // Heavy Blossom *new

KITTY MIDWIFE // Chinese Mermaid // v/a: PDX Artix Mixtape CDR // Below PDX *new
OUBLIETTE // Seasons Hang // Stringed Hate // Obsolete Units *new
OUBLIETTE // Morning Song
VIKI // You Think You´re Cool (A Reminder) // Self-Titled // Animal Disguise *new
VIKI // Dirty Teacher
KOUNT FISTULA // Plastic Bag Boy // Fistmist // Scatalogical Liberation Front *new

Art for Spastics v. 116

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HUE BLANC'S JOYLESS ONES // Slanted Virgin Conversations // Fait Accompli // P.Trash 2006
JOHNNY LUNCHBREAK // Tinsel Days // Acetate 1974/1975 // Zero Street *new
THOMAS FUNCTION // This Ain´t No Hustle // Vanity Lights 7" // DNH *new
SABOTEURS // Straighten Up // DIY +3 7" // Going Underground/Animal Mandible *new
SABOTEURS // Cell Phone // Cement Feet 7" // Commodity Fetish *new
HIDE AND SEEK // Rock the Synagogue // Tales from the 14th Dimension 2xCDR // DNT *new

HIDE AND SEEK // Washington Monument
HUMAN EYE // Dinosaur Bones // Dinosaur Bones 7" // Ypsilanti *new
N.213 // Stay Safe // FuckSexYou cassette // Isolated Now Waves *new
N.213 // Construction
S.I.D.S. // Wind Up Doll // My Other Vehicle Is a Stretcher 7"+CD+DVD // Goodnight *new
VOLT // Not You // Man on the Ground 7" // HoZac *new
SPIDER // Spiderlili // Charlie 7" // HoZac *new
MINNY POPS // Son // Sparks in a Dark Room // LTM 2002/1984
DEPECHE MODE // Big Muff // Speak & Spell // Mute/Sire 1981

CHILD PORNOGRAPHY // We´re the Fake // v/a: Siked Psych // Not Not Fun *new
TWIN CRYSTALS // D. Klose // 4trk CDR // Deer and Bird *new
THE FEELING OF LOVE // Deluxe Archive // s/t 7" // Yakisakana 2006
SEXY PRISON // Anthem for the Unyouth // Italians Who Just Saw Rocky // NASCAR 2004
GOILS GOILS AND FRIPPED // title unknown // s/t CDR // Being Weird Isn't Enough *new
XOME // title in Japanese // v/a: Deluxe Incinerator 3x3" // CIP *new

BRIAN MILLER & KEVIN SHIELDS // Virgin Mafia // Virgin Passwords split LP w/ Pump Kinn & Don // Weird Forest *new
SIXES // Smack // v/a: Deluxe Incinerator 3x3"
GOSLINGS // Overnight // Grandeur of Hair // Archive 2006
TUNNELS // title unknown // split 3" CDR w/ Bird Costumes // DNT *new
BADGERLORE // Green Canoe // Stories for Owls // Yik Yak 2005
PAINT AND COPTER // The Wizard, Part 2 // The Passage // Hexasion *new
ARGUMENTIX & BIRD COSTUMES // Brain Bubbles // Armageddon . . . Maybe Later CDR // Below PDX *new
ARGUMENTIX & BIRD COSTUMES // Beast Imprint/Forced March
WOLF EYES // Rationed Rot // Human Animal // Sub Pop 2006 *request (2 copies @ once, outta phase)

Art for Spastics v. 115

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THE WORST // Sucked in Backwards // s/t 7" // Big Neck 2005
NO FEELING // Holes // split 7" w/ Ladies Night // Seeing Eye 2006
THE WAX MUSEUMS // Worm // Introducing... 7" // Rehab *new
THE REACTORS // L.A. Sleaze // v/a: Killed by Death # 8½ LP // Redrum 1979
THE DICTATORS // Faster & Louder // Blood Brothers // Asylum 1978
NERVOUS EATERS // Get Stuffed // v/a: Feel Lucky, Punk? // No Label 1979
STRIKE UNDER // Anarchy Song // v/a: Busted at Oz // Autumn 1981
HARPOON GUNS // Le Fever // s/t LP // Square Wave 2006
LIVE FAST DIE // Sonic Thread // Pissing on the Mainframe 7" // Douche Master *new
X_X // You´re Full of Shit // v/a: Killed By Death #9 // Redrum 1979
THE TURNBUCKLES // Rearranged // Super Destroyer Mark II 7" // Break´er 1979
JUNKPILE JIMMY // Scorpion Whip // Alberhill // Cártel Ilustré 2006 *request
JUNKPILE JIMMY // Massacra [Hellhammer] *request

GORMET DOGS // title unknown/Snakes Bite? // v/a: Flies Like Holidays // Pigface 1982
HOT LOINS // Reminiscent of the Admiration of a Graceful Lady // Buzzkill 7" // The Broadway to Boundary *new
ASTRONAUTS // All Night Party // v/a: Messthetics #102 // Hyped2Death *new/1979
BLUE SCREAMING // Gunpoint // v/a: Messthetics #101 // Hyped2Death *new/1978
ANGRY ANGLES // You Fell In // Apparent-Transparent 7" // Plastic Idol 2006
JAY REATARD // I See You Standing There // Blood Visions // In The Red *new
JAY REATARD // We Who Wait
SPIZZENERGI // Amnesia // Where´s Captain Kirk? 7" // Rough Trade 1979
SPIZZENERGI // Soldier Soldier // Soldier Soldier 7" // Rough Trade 1979

SECOND LAYER // Fixation // World of Rubber // Cherry Red 1981
SEX GANG CHILDREN // Children´s Prayer // Mauritia Mayer 12" EP // Clay 1983 *request
SEX GANG CHILDREN // Kill Machine // Song and Legend // Illuminated 1983 *request
DUCHESSES // The Virgin Monkey // Demo CDR // Self-Released 2006
SEXUAL TOURIST // Dr. Whittaker PHD // Womb Broom 7" // Black Lakes 2006
SILVER DAGGERS // Faithful Unlawful // split 7" w/ Death Sentence: Panda! // Not Not Fun 2006
BILLY BAO // Bilbo´s Incinerator // Bilbo´s Incinerator 7" // W.Mo 2005
OVO // Canaglia // split 7" w/ Smut // SubFort/Friends & Relatives/Carbon/MT6/et al. *new
SLOTH // Anaconda // split 7" w/ Noothgrush // No Label 1997 *request
BOULDER // Anchored Down // split 7" w/ Dimbulb // Alley Sweeper 1995
PANDEMONIUM DIABOLICO // Funeral House of the Dead // split 7" w/ Hangnail // Hibachi 1998
SCHNAUZER // Face the Devil // split 10" w/ Sloth // No Label 1999?
GASP // Silk Orbita // Drome Triler of the Puzzle Zoo People // Slap a Ham 1998 *request
GASP // Eyes the Tentacle & Arachnid Knew
SMEGMA // Dust Bowling Ballads // v/a: Portland 3xLP // RRRecords *new

Art for Spastics v. 114

Now listen in for part II of my favorite vinyl, discs, and tapes that were released in 2006...

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ABE VIGODA // Yes 1, Yes 2 // split 7" w/ Child Pornogrpahy // Oms-B
THE INTELLIGENCE // Empty Piñata // internet-only 12" EP // In the Red
EAR & DARK // Don´t Mess Me Up + 2 // There´s No Such Thing as Dragons 10" // Black Light
ERASE ERRATA // Cruising // Nightlife // Kill Rock Stars
THE WOLF TRACKS // How I Feel About Going On Stage // v/a: Siked Psych // Not Not Fun
HUE BLANC'S JOYLESS ONES // Time Machine // Fait Accompli // P.Trash

HUE BLANC'S JOYLESS ONES // The Lecherous One
NOTHING PEOPLE // I Can´t Find My Monkey // Problems 7" // S-S Records
CHEVEU // La Truite // v/a: Tête de Bébé // S-S
CHEVEU // Superhéro // Clara Vénus 7" // Royal/SDZ
HOMOSTUPIDS // Brutal Birthday // Brutal Birthday 7" // Richie
UNMONO // 13h Bender Kranky ShangriLaLa // split cassette w/ Kate Hall & Elijah Forrest // Deathbomb Arc Tape Club
FRUSTRATION // Your Body // Full of Sorrow 12" EP // Born Bad
ICH BIN // Danger // Obeis! // Poutré Apparente
THIS SONG IS A MESS BUT SO AM I // Faces // Marble Mouth EP // Acuarela
SNOWSUIT* // Build // Consolation Prize // No Format
JONNYX & THE GROADIES // Unmortål // self-titled // self-released
GLACIIAL // Removing the Mask of Shadows (False Light II) // Glaciial CDR // EEE/Gud er Sannhet

MONARCH // We Are the Music Makers // Speak of the Sea // Throne
DRUDKH // The Cranes Will Never Return Here // Songs of Grief and Solitude // Supernal
DEAD WESTERN // The Beautiful Light in the Day // 3-song 7" // Weird Forest
ZELIENOPLE // Life Is Simple // Ink // Loose Thread
DEAF CENTER // Loft // Pale Ravine // Type
PLANTS // The Sky Above You Seeks the Below // Double Infinity // Paradigms

Art for Spastics v. 113

The following show features some of my favorite new things released in 2006! I'll be playing selections from my best of '06 lists for the next few weeks...

Download AFS v. 113 (w/in next 10 weeks)

...or stream it (by Dec. 25).

JAY REATARD // Oh It´s Such a Shame // Blood Visions // In The Red
RICH AND FAMOUS // Machine Gun // v/a: Messthetics #101 // Hyped2Death (orig 1981)

NIGEL SIMPKINS // Oblique Encounters // v/a: Messthetics #102 // Hyped2Death (orig 1978)
REJECTS // Vision Smashed // v/a: Messthetics Greatest Hits (#100) // Hyped2Death (orig 1977)
TYVEK // Mary Ellen Claims // first 7" // X! Records
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT // Phony Detectives // Who Let the Dogs Out? 7" // Columbus Discount
SO SO MANY WHITE WHITE TIGERS // Bell // The Greatest Hits of Acid CDR // no label
COUGHS // Dark Powers // Secret Passage // Load
YELLOW SWANS // Psychic Secession // Psychic Secession // Load/Weird Forest
BUG SIZED MIND // Daisy Cutter // v/a: Sarcophagus 1-4 CDR // Radius Waste
BERNARD BONNIER // Véro-la-Toto // Casse-Tête CDR // Creel Pone (orig 1979)
FAT WORM OF ERROR // Red Melting Plastic Box // Pregnant Babies Pregnant with Pregnant Babies // Load
IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT // Furrowed Frow // To Be Treated // Load
WOODEN SHJIPS // Shrinking Moon for You // Shrinking Moon for You 10" // self-released

SAPAT // Krackhouseblooze // Tongue-Tied & Staid 7" // Black Velvet Fuckere
JACKWACKER // Messin´ with the P-Hole // ...Things from Inside Your Body // Black Velvet Fuckere (orig 199?)
LAKE OF DRACULA // Cherries and Socks // Skeletal Remains // Savage Land (orig 1997)
BATTLESHIP // Two Horses Too Many // To Give not a Gift 7" // Double Negative
PISSED JEANS // Dont Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear // 2ND 7" // Sub Pop
THE NEW FLESH // Steel & Stone // Vessel // Heart Break Beat *new
PRE // Big Dique // 4-way split 2x7" w/ AIDS Wolf, Crack und Ultra Eczema, & Dmonstrations // Lovepump United
COUNTRY TEASERS // White Patches // The Empire Strikes Back // In The Red
BUSINESS LADY // Slow Motion // v/a: Why Is Anything Forbidden? vol. 2 // Deathbomb Arc
CARLA BOZULICH // Evangelista II // Evangelista // Constellation
PLANTS // 1000 Swarms // Totem CDR // self-released
MY LITTLE RED TOE // Fireman // v/a: Siked Psych // Not Not Fun

ÉL-G & CHARLENE DARLING // Du Bearre // Au Grand Dam du Jour CDR // self-released
PINK REASON // Slate Train // Throw It Away 7" // Savage Quality
ENTRANCE // Never Be Afraid! // Prayer of Death // self-released
JUNKPILE JIMMY // The Stupid Fickle Whims of Women // Alberhill 2xLP // Cártel Ilustré
SIC ALPS // Surgeon and the Slave // Pleasures & Treasures // Animal Disguise

Art for Spastics v. 112

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...or stream it (by Dec. 18).

THE INTELLIGENCE // If I Had a Hammer // I´m Your Taxi 7” // The Holy Cobra Society *new
IMAGINARY ICONS // Fade // Eye-Cons 7” // Daggerman *new
SWIMMERS // I Got Problems // Scubacide CDR // No Label *new
HIBACHI STRANGLERS // Parking Lot // Our City Doesn´t Stink All the Time 7” // Florida´s Dying *new

THE WAX MUSEUMS // I Eat Vomit // Introducing... 7” // Rehab *new
SHIRLEY MACLAINES // Television Sucks! // Hey Girls 7” // Heads Up *new
CAPT. 9's & THE KNICKERBOCKER TRIO // Burner´s Barrel // Sophie´s Tiki Lounge 7” // Heartpunch/Burnt Toast 1991
CAPT. 9's & THE KNICKERBOCKER TRIO // Rock n Roll Paper Route // Scum of the Earth LP // Ripoff 1996
HEAD // No Hugging No Learning // No Hugging No Learning LP // Evil Clown *new
HEAD // Teacher´s Pet // No Hugging No Learning LP
JUNKPILE JIMMY // Drunk and Disorderly [the Shirkers] // Alberhill 2xLP // Cártel Ilustré *new
THE FEELING OF LOVE // Julie C. // s/t 7” // Yakisakana *new
SUPPRESSORS // Woods of My Heart // Woods of My Heart 7” // Goodbye Boozy *new
HANK IV // Oyster // Third Person Shooter LP // Hook or Crook *new
CHILDREN IN ADULT JAILS // Fishing for Compliments // Man Overcome by Waffle Iron // Buy Our 1985 *request

CHILDREN IN ADULT JAILS // Man Overcome By Waffle Iron/Justice
CYANAMID // I Support // v/a: New Jersey´s Got It LP // Buy Our 1985 *request
CYANAMID // In the Hole // Stop the World 7” // Mutha 1984 *request
ASSDROIDS // Daft Crunk // Fuck Bob Dylan CDR // Valis *new
ASSDROIDS // Snakes and Ladders // Fuck Bob Dylan CDR
MR. LUGGS // Dafty Duck // Neeby Deep lathe-cut 7” // Topplers *new
MR. LUGGS // Ukrainian Girls // Neeby Deep lathe-cut 7”
SKAREKRAU RADIO // Hair Claw Hair Hole // The One Eyed Swine Is Queen CD // Apop *new
SKAREKRAU RADIO // Corporate Dragons // The One Eyed Swine Is Queen
SKAREKRAU RADIO // Experimental Clone // The One Eyed Swine Is Queen
BOOGIE BOARDER // Teleporter // What Riding Waves Is All About CDR + comic book // Famous Class *new
TALBOT TAGORA // You Look Like a Human // MySpace mp3 *new
ABE VIGODA // Eat Your Crown // Kid City CD // olFactory *new
BATTLESHIP // The Blind Eating the Blind // Hearts Addendum CD // On/On Switch *new

BATTLESHIP // Kissing Cobras // Hearts Addendum
YUKON // Legsick // Mortar CD // Terra Firma *new
HALLELUJAH! // Shizzow! // Dirty Revival CD // CNP *new
GOLIATH BIRD EATHER // Mongol Hammer // v/a: Siked Psych CD // Not Not Fun *new
THE USA IS A MONSTER // Too Many Moves // Sunset at the End of the Industrial Age LP/CD // Load 2006
THE USA IS A MONSTER // Wine Country Cracker Blues // Sunset at the End of the Industrial Age
DANAVA // Eyes in Disguise // self-titled CD // Kemado *new
RESIDUAL ECHOES // California Creek Suite // California LP // Holy Mountain *new

RESIDUAL ECHOES // California // California
HANADENSHA // Headspinningdizzyblues // v/a: Young Person's Guide to West Psychedelia LP // Alchemy 1988 *request

Art for Spastics v. 111

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...or stream it (by Dec. 11).

EAR & DARK // Never Cared // There´s No Such Thing as Dragons 10" // Black Light *new
JUNKPILE JIMMY // Death Total Death // Alberhill 2xLP // Cártel Ilustré *new

SLICING GRANDPA // Dirty Baby // Electric Shitstorm // Strain Theory 2003
KOUNT FISTULA // Nerd on Nerd // Fistmist // Scatalogical Liberation Front *new
KATHERINE HALL & ELIJAH FORREST // My Hands On // split cassette w/ Unmono // Deathbomb Arc Tape Club *new
TURMOILED FUNCTIONS // Mature Creature // v/a: Population Problems 7-inch // Cephia´s Treat *new
LEPRECHAUN CATERING // For Now, Opaque Means "Opaque" // Male Plumage // White Denim *new
KLONDIKE & YORK // Atone (the Beginning) // The Holy Book // Weird Forest 2002
JACKWACKER // Wickclipper // ...Things from Inside Your Body // Black Velvet Fuckere *new
WHO'S YOUR FAVORITE SON, GOD? // Tapestry Mouth // Out of Body Diva // KDVS Recordings *new

BEHALF // untitled // Black Noise & a Collaboration with Josh Hydeman cassette // Self-Released *new
DEEP JEW // Pass By/Let Me Bleed // War 7" // Troniks *new
CRACK UND ULTRA ECZEMA // Arbeit Rastafareich/Ebola Day // split 2x7" w/ AIDS Wolf, PRE, & Dmonstrations // Lovepump United *new
RADIO SHOCK // White Noise Ain´t Got No Soul // split 7" w/ Radio Shack // Roger/Breathmint/Carbon/Ignovimious/Sunship *new
YATAGARASU // Brief Lives // split CDR w/ Carpet Violence // Self-Released *new
RUTHLESS DUKES // untitled // self-titled CDR // Self-Released *new

GREY DATURAS // It Was // split cassette w/ Shearing Pinx // Isolated Now Waves *new
BRIAN MILLER vs. NICHOLAS GITOMER // Dark Monytaur // Slavelords // Deathbomb Arc *new
BIRD COSTUMES // Natural Disasters // split cassette w/ Aerosol Constellations // Isolated Now Waves/Thankless *new
ARGUMENTIX & BIRD COSTUMES // Sticks & Stones/Bored With My Body // Armageddon...Maybe Later // Below PDX *new
ARGUMENTIX & ADAM GNADE // We´re Never Gonna Die // Wilderness and the Holy Gold // Below PDX *new
KITES // Riding the Glass Geyser // v/a: Rare Youth 2xCD // Rare Youth *new
BLACK PUS // Huckdoll Finn // Black Pus 3: Metamorpus // DiareahRama *new
THE HOSPITALS // Jocks and Jazz // I've Visited the Island of Jocks and Jazz // Load 2005
SO SO MANY WHITE WHITE TIGERS // Menswear // The Greatest Hits of Acid // No Label *new
SIC ALPS // Reconnection Land // Pleasures & Treasures // Animal Disguise *new
DANAVA // Quiet Babies Astray in a Manger // self-titled // Kemado *new




We begin this week with the most fractured ramble from Ear & Dark, a band that first got my attention when Crudblog editor Scott Soriano raved about this artpunk band that sounded “like Karate Party meets The Ex,” or words to that effect. On this, their herky-jerkiest of songs, I am reminded of the band Stump if only they had hyperventilated in a rubber cement factory. Sharp angles are in attack mode throughout the other songs on this 10” even as gleeful whimsy keeps things upbeat, and thus Scott’s comparison is well warranted. This is a really outstanding discovery from Denmark, and Scott even snapped up 30 copies (of a total pressing of only 300) for his Ss Records distro. If you don’t know who Karate Party is…well, that is a story for a later blog, but if you are a fan of the A Frames family tree of bands, please just trust me when I say that Ear & Dark will delight you, and this 10” will be worth every penny to you.

I suppose I’ll be playing a cut off the new Junkpile Jimmy double album every week for the next few weeks. There are so many flavors in his music, from the bluespunk to the old-timey folk-blues, to the “Killed by Death” punk, psych, sludgy experimental, and even black metal. On paper, it seems too wide a gamut to make a cohesive sounding album, but Jimmy pulls it off incredibly well, and “Alberhill” is a masterpiece! This week’s selection sounds like 12-bar noise.

With this “Electric Shitstorm” LP, I think I’m finally all caught up on the incredible discography of Slicing Grandpa, Seattle’s supreme slingers of evil lofi dungeon drone. Now, don’t think boring ‘cos I said drone. Writhing, scrawly, and creepy, their scuzzy noise reveals a great sense of humor. Not everyone will appreciate the joke, because of course it’s very twisted and misanthropic. But if you have the heart for black comedy, and especially if you reach again and again for Shadow Ring records when you wanna let the laffs rip, then you oughta get to know Slicing Grandpa…and while you’re getting familiar, also check out Kount Fistula. The Kount includes SG members doing downcast psychedelic gothsludge. Early Swans meets Gang Wizard?!? I saw Kount Fistula at the Funhouse in Seattle on Tuesday, November 21, and they were a really fun show…not at all like 95% of equipment-swapping improv sludge bands. I think it was the unexpected goofball element they had. These were four people that didn’t look like they’d ever be friends, let alone bandmates.



Pictured above is Kate Hall, the drummer of Mika Miko and my appointed role model for any future daughter I might have. As I screw around with sticks and skins myself, Kate’s on my shortlist of drumgods that I try to emulate. She’s in a great band but maintains a singular voice, making Mika Miko’s upbeat pop perks explode into a powerful juggernaut. And she is so much fun to watch because she is having such a good time even as she’s drumming for dear life. There’s nothing subtle about her approach in Mika Miko, and that’s why I’m so amazed at the results of her collaboration with Elijah Forrest for this new Deathbomb Arc Tape Club cassette. It’s like I hear the Dead C deconstructing a sweet little indie-pop tune set as a theme, but with many variations ranging from sweet and gentle to dense, scary, and cloying, and the movements even vary from gradual phasing to quick editing. It’s very pleasurable for deep listening. I sense that she has a knack for the “free twee” thing, so I hope she continues to do more work like this.

I hope to continue with more reviews later this week…stay tuned!

Art for Spastics v. 110

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Download AFS v. 110 (w/in next 10 weeks)

...or stream it (by Dec. 4).

THE NEW FLESH // Whitewash // Vessel // Heart Break Beat *new
THE NEW FLESH & ROBERT INHUMAN // Punched in the Head [Drunks with Guns] // Punch Drunk in This Shit World 7" // Human Conduct/Realicide Youth/MT6/Cephia´s Treat *new
JUNKPILE JIMMY // Life [Flipper] // Alberhill 2xLP // Cártel Ilustré *new

JUNKPILE JIMMY // Puta Suerte
AIDS WOLF // Put Your Head on a Plate // 4-way split 2x7" w/ Crack und Ultra Eczema, PRE, and Dmonstrations // Lovepump United *new
PRE // Dude Fuk // 4-way split 2x7"
HOT LOINS // Buzzkill // Buzzkill 7" // The Broadway to Boundary *new
TWIN CRYSTALS // Trinity // 4trk CDR // Deer and Bird *new
N.213 // Francine´s Bad Dream [Mutators] // Fucksexyou cassette // Isolated Now Waves *new
N.213 // Scars
SHEARING PINX // Cursed Heart Matter // Poison Hands dbl 3" // Not Not Fun 2005 *request
MODERN CREATURES // House on Fire // split cassette w/ Shearing Pinx // Isolated Now Waves *new
THE YES SIRS // Anthem Too // Dos Locos // CNP *new
HALLELUJAH! // Pink Antenna // Dirty Revival // CNP *new
JAY REATARD // Not a Substitute // Blood Visions // In The Red *new
ABE VIGODA // The Walk // Kid City // olFactory *new
EAR & DARK // Be Your Mama // There´s No Such Thing as Dragons 10" // Black Light *new
NO FEELING // Don´t Tell Me What to Do // split 7" w/ Ladies Night // Seeing Eye *new
BRIAN WILSON SHOCK TREATMENT // Hey Sister // The Lords of the Infinite Cosmos 7" // Slutfish *new
NOTHING PEOPLE // Systems Failure // Problems 7" // S-S Records *new
FARCES WANNA MO // Lady Preacher // Farces Wanna Mo Covers Slept on It! // Self-Released *new
SKAREKRAU RADIO // The One Eyed Rod Is Love // The One Eyed Swine Is Queen // Apop *new
WHITE TIGER PREPADE // Unicorn Asteroid // v/a: Exercise for Exorcisms vol. 1 // Unnecessary Friction *new

COCA COLA // Show Me Whatcha Got on the Dancefloor // v/a: Exercise for Exorcisms vol. 1
UNICORN BASEMENT // Cannibal // Self-Titled // Unnecessary Friction *new
UNMONO // 13th Bender Kranky ShangriLaLa // split cassette w/ Kate Hall & Elijah Forrest // Deathbomb Arc Tape Club *new
ARGUMENTIX & ADAM GNADE // We´ll Help You Out, Neighbor // Wilderness and the Holy Gold // Below PDX *new
ARGUMENTIX & BIRD COSTUMES // Tranquil Devastation // Armageddon . . . Maybe Later // Below PDX *new
BIRD COSTUMES // Natural Disasters // split cassette w/ Aerosol Constellations // Isolated Now Waves/Thankless *new
SUSAN SCHROEDER, JESSE WILEY, & BEN PHILLIPS // side A // Of Sex, Your Body lathe-cut 7" // Deer and Bird *new
REFRIGERATOR MOTHERS // Black Moth Scrap Serum // Arab National Anthem 7" // URCKarm *new
DEATHGLEANER // Life With Lice // v/a: PDX Artix Mixtape CDR // Below PDX *new


While I was gone, I managed to see Baltimore’s burliest brawlers The New Flesh five times, including a full set recorded in Studio A at KDVS which I plan to air in its entirety once I’ve edited out the between-song silence. So yeah, I saw them five times in six nights, and it never got old for me. This is one of the most tremendously assaultive and agonizing bands ever.

Like last year’s message board darlings Pissed Jeans (and curiously this year’s goats since they came out with a record on Sub Pop), the New Flesh seem to have every song ever by Fang and Drunks with Guns committed to memory, but unlike the Jeans boys, the New Flesh dispense with all humor and punch up the negativity two or three rungs higher with militaristic drumwork featuring machinelike repetition of tom rolls and fills, more complex rhythms, and alien guitar chords. It sounds like all of Pissed Jeans’ influences have gone into the New Flesh’s funnel, too, but additionally, you hear some early Swans, Missing Foundation, Brainbombs, and Whitehouse.


the New Flesh @ Jeff the Pigeon

The New Flesh seems to have made more inroads in the noise scene than with punks, rockers, etc. I’ve heard from Brian Miller (D.I.Y.C.E.O. of Deathbomb Arc) that the band Dynasty, the Providence band comprised of Kites and God Willing—and the band which caused such a stir on their tour with Coughs this summer—focused on the New Flesh as their primary influence. And perhaps this was emblematic of the most noteworthy trend in the noise scene in 2006…noise dudes picking up guitars, basses, and drums and letting all hell break loose. Deep Jew—with a cast of artists from the Troniks/Pac Rec stable—was another to do this in 2006. Another band active for a while within this idiom is Byron House, and their show I caught at the ATA in San Francisco this summer was impressive. Certainly Sightings and Burmese seem to be relevant to all of these bands, too, and Sightings in particular have made blogwaves on both sides of the noise and rock divide. If this continues further, I see a great opportunity for this neo-pigfuck revival making friends outta more punks and noisefreaks.

The “Vessel” album is the strongest New Flesh release to date, but the nastiest has gotta be their one-sided collaboration 7” with Robert Inhuman of Realicide and Hentai Lacerator. Have a listen to this outstandingly authentic cover of DWG’s “Punched in the Head” made even more evil by Robert’s incredibly harsh demon vokills.

Next up is a late entry into the “Best Album of 2006” sweepstakes, the limited-to-226 double-LP of Junkpile Jimmy who deploys swampy bluespunk and junkyard metals to take us on an adventure through a diverse array of musical styles from old-timey folk-blues to outsider psych to covers of Flipper and an old “Killed by Death” classic to even a Mötörhead rip and excursions into even more experimental territory. But the whole thing rocks and is totally cogent, and even when Jimmy plays the bluespunk fairly straight, it never sounds too much like the Oblivians (which is not such a bad thing for bands that do, if they do it well). This is an absolutely incredible album that is truly unique!



Another startling double vinyl is this new glossy gatefold with stupendous Seripop graphics containing a 4-way split of some of the most exciting high-energy no-wave-informed dayglonoise bands from France, England, Canada, and the States, and they are all in top form here. Dmonstrations and Crack und Ultra Eczema will hafta wait ‘til vol. 111, but for now, but Montreal’s AIDS Wolf will get you dizzy with corkscrewing guitars, panic shrieks, and odd oval-shaped rhythm. If anyone’s still foolish enough to sell AIDS Wolf short with an overly broad brushstroke of the Arab on Radar ripoff brush, this might be the final deathblow to all the needless hatergames. This band is daring and exciting and deserves your attention. Next up is the most refreshingly un-British-sounding band in Britain since…I dunno…ever? (At least since Superhelicopter, Ltd., I think!) PRE is ignited artpunk with a propulsive yet limber rhythmic bass/drum synergy a’la Erase Errata and the right kinda splintery, spidery guitarwork to please the angles ‘n’ artpunk set. With the helium yelp of the female singer, this almost sounds like an A Frames record at 78 rpm. While I was in Vancouver, a friend played me PRE’s new 7” on Blood of the Drash, and it was even more impressive. A growing number of Americans are courting PRE to come tour the U.S.A., and I will be joining them.

I hope to pick up with more reviews later…
(Check back tomorrow perhaps!)

AFS v. 110 Postponed for Pink Reason Tour!

(I'll post v. 110 on 11/28!)

Hello Friends!

This band came outta nowhere (actually, Green Bay, Wisconsin) to make one of the very best records of 2006.

The band is called Pink Reason.

Here's the MySpace presence...
http://www.myspace.com/secondculture

Pink Reason's music is so diverse, it's probably able to appeal to the majority of people targeted to read this scattershot cross-post email. It takes at least a good long paragraph to explain, but in a nutshell, I call it "ultra-drugged sleazy freakblues-psych-artpunk of thee highest order!" (But with hints of folk, electro, and even a hint of gothiness (in the best possible way, mind you!)).

Remember the guy who loved the Remington electric shaver company so much that he bought the company? Well, I love this band so much, I'm ready to drive them up and down the West Coast and roadie them myself. I'm burning up all my remaining paid vacation days for this, so I know it'll be worth it for you to walk, bike, bus, drive, take a cab...


P.S. Here's the entire tour itinerary...

Fri 11/17 @ the Bakery, 3407 Harlan St., Oakland (w/ New Flesh, Sexual Tourist, Universal Baltimore)
Sat 11/18 @ Delta of Venus in Davis, CA (w/ Nothing People/Art Lessing & the Flower Vato)
Sun 11/19 @ Hemlock Tavern in SF, CA (w/ Nothing People)
Mon 11/20 @ Food Hole in Portland, OR (w/ Blow Up Nihilist/New Flesh/Argumentix)
Tue 11/21 @ Funhouse in Seattle, WA (w/ Kount Fistula/Nice Smile/Hopscotch Boys)
Wed 11/22 @ Other Space, Cambie @ Georgia, Vancouver, BC (w/ Hot Loins/Fun 100/International Falls)
Thu 11/23 @ Pub 340 in Vancouver, BC (w/ Shearing Pinx & No Feeling)
Fri 11/24 @ Rotturé, 315 SE Third, Portland, OR (w/ Haiku Ambulance + ????)

I've included some words by some folks who are influential in the blogosphere to get you more interested in Pink Reason...

Doug Mosurak's "Still Single" review column at Dusted
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/511
Pink Reason might be new, but totally reaches back to that period of musical isolation, with a truly frozen, loner vibe that is all but lost on those who are playing outside of sex/drugs/rock/roll motivations. No, demons are being let loose here, the kind that smell like mildew and haunt basements. It's one mysterious guy named Kevin and he's channeling the solitude in a way that hasn't felt this complete since Luxurious Bags hung it up. Claustrophobic mope done right; a 5 A.M. comedown vibe that shivers where it would otherwise warm, with ten-dollar organ floating in and around the premises, even-keeled and truly on its own amidst a sea of garage-punk types. "New Violence" gets close to Kate Bush territory regardless of the speed it's played at, and is my favorite here, though the other tunes are definitely no slouch, and "Throw It Away" comes as close to a conventional psychedelic figurine sound as anything I've heard recently. Challenging, inspired, and not easy to shake. Intense Myspace presence to boot.

Tom "Siltbreeze" Lax's "Siltblog"
http://siltblog .blogspot.com/2006/06/malice-in-dairylandpink-reasons-st-7.html
They seem to have a pretty good take on the woeful ennui that make Saxon hearts (& veins) flutter & I wouldn't be suprised to meet this band & find'em wrapped in scarves that had once been owned by JG & Ch 39 or other, lesser known phlegmatic Deutsch masters that worship at the Reed, Chilton, Richards alter. From a more jovial, Quixotic perspective (mine or theirs, no matter) this could also pass for liquid take, pre Ohio Demo's from the Cramps; the wet, nascent beat of gravel 'n blues has a loose & rickety DIY presence that would make any right-headed Anglo murk-shuffler light up like a radial bonfire. The best record of it's ilk to ooze outta Wisconsin since Hollywood Autopsy slithered into exile.

Hear Pink Reason's live session in WFMU...
http://www.wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=20231&archive=29766&starttime=2:02:39
Brian Turner's pre-show comments:
Green Bay, Wisconsin is the smallest locale in the USA to own a major league football team, has some hellish winters, and also is the home base of a guy named Kevin who has sent forth one of the stranger 7" singles to pass through WFMU in recent memory. Capturing the stumbling blues of early Royal Trux, the creeping synth and echoed percussion of the Legendary Pink Dots, and the android alienation of Gary Numan (if he was recording some 70's DIY demo with a cheap organ in a dank basement), there's about four other unpeggable things floating around in each one of these songs that I just have to shrug my shoulders and stop trying to be so analytical all the damn time. Check out what's sure to be an interesting live session today.

From Larry Dolman at http://www.blastitude.com/
2006: THE RETURN OF THE WEIRD DIY 7-INCH! YOU HEARD IT HERE LAST!"
"First of all, what a gem of a 7-inch by Pink Reason, two sides of gloriously weird underground pop/rock/something from Green Bay, Wisconsin -- how often does that happen? First song "Throw It Away" is the one that slays me the most -- acoustic guitar pounding out a three-chord mantra, with droning electric guitar melodies winding over it, and really strange multi-tracked venusian/manphibian vocals singing great hooks. The two shorter songs on Side B take the same basic elements and actually dress 'em up a little weirder by slowing down the pulse and adding
even more helium to the vocals, along with other odd overdubs like flutes and music-box keyboards. 300 pressed here, probably long gone, West Coast tour coming up in November, and word is that Siltbreeze is putting out a full-length soon, which I honestly can't wait to hear."

From Phil Honolulu's http://lettershavenoarms.blogspot.com/
It's good stuff. The one that comes up first on my browser "Throw It Away", has a the same ramshackle, um, 'vibe' that early Royal Trux has, like you were lucky enough to walk into the best part of a two hour drone when everyone was hitting everything just right. The drum fills are subtle and great, the ominous guitar lines fit in snug. An evil howl of dark feedback vocals almost overpowers the song, before it lilts off into a meandering acoustic fade. I dig the relax crawl of the tempo; it's like the song instinctively knows it's good and doesn't have to go fast to impress anyone. 'New Violence' has some great echoed drums and nicely bizarre synth. It has a seat of the pants, semi improvised feel to it, and the deceptively simple little synth riffs are perfect in context, plodding organic blurps over the chime. 'Slate Train' lazily drifts on subtle synths and echoed percussion, like a far more calm track on the first Intelligence LP. Here's hoping someone will make a Pink Reason LP. I would certainly purchase it.

Art for Spastics v. 109

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HUE BLANC’S JOYLESS ONES // That Vile Regret // Fait Accompli // P.Trash *new
MAYPOLE // Glance at the Past // The Real // Anopheles *new
MAYPOLE // Show Me The Way
MAYPOLE // Henry Stared

NEW DAWN // Dark Thoughts // There´s a New Dawn // Akarma 1970/2001
THE HUNCHES // Turkey Timer Pinnochio // Hobo Sunrise // In the Red 2004
DEAD MOON // Diamonds in the Rough // Echoes Of The Past // Sub Pop *new
DRIVETRAIN // Time Is of the Essence // Time Is of the Essence b/w Trains // Tombstone 1988
BRIAN WILSON SHOCK TREATMENT // Can U Feel It? // The Lords of the Infinite Cosmos 7” // Slutfish *new
NOTHING PEOPLE // I Can´t Find My Monkey // Problems 7” // S-S Records *new

THE INTELLIGENCE // No Nurses // I´m Your Taxi 7” // The Holy Cobra Society *new
SKAREKRAU RADIO // We Will Kill // The One Eyed Swine Is Queen // Apop *new
KK RAMPAGE // Part 2 // split 7” w/ Hot Girls Cool Guys & Prettty Thigh // HIV Tarnations *new
LAKE OF DRACULA // Four Teachers // Skeletal Remains // Savage Land *new
BEAR PROOF SUIT // Prosecutors Will Be Violated // Science is Dead 7” // Criminal IQ *new
STRATE COATS // Teenage Suicide // s/t 7” // Hook or Crook *new

STRATE COATS // Swingin´ Strate Coat
STRIP MALL SEIZURES // True Story // s/t LP // True Panther Sounds *new
LEPRECHAUN CATERING // The Roar of Pizza Boxes // Male Plumage // White Denim *new
THE GEEKS // Visiting Day at San Quentin // Too Fat Pig 7” // S-S *new
SLICING GRANDPA // title unknown // 4 Trak Album 7” // Strain Theory *new
SLICING GRANDPA // Urination Crane // Urination Crane 7” // Strain Theory 2005
RUBBER O CEMENT // Excised Muscle Cells... // split 7” w/ Slicing Grandpa // no label 2006
PENETRATION CAMP // Argento // split 7” w/ Slicing Grandpa // no label *new

SUNNO))) & BORIS // Etna // Altar // Southern Lord *new
GROUND-ZERO // Consume Red // Consume Red // ReR 1997 *request

Art for Spastics v. 108

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BATTLESHIP // This Town Wants You Skinny // Hearts Addendum // On/On Switch *new
ABE VIGODA // Tom Tom Sun // Kid City // olFactory *new
LAKE OF DRACULA // Biographers of the Flaming Druglords // Skeletal Remains // Savage Land *new
SILVER CREME // untitled // Perfumed Metal // Self-Released *new
MUTATORS // Stevie Wonder Can See // Nerves 7" // Grotesque Modern *new
SMUT // Big Business Can Suck It // split 7" w/ Ovo // Friends & Relatives/Carbon/MT6/et al. *new
NEW FLESH // Scapegoat // Parasite // Maelstrom 2005
PUKE ATTACK // Elizabeth´s Bed // Love Cum´s 1st split LP w/ New Flesh // No Label *new
UNMONO // Two Dirty Flies // As Long as an Album // 12 Pylons *new
UNMONO // Prodpot

UNMONO // Schoolgirl Stalker
THE BLOW // Bonjour Jeune Fille // Paper Television // K Records *new
KANIA TIEFFER // Coq à l´Ail // Kania Tieffer Against It // Self-Released *new
LAWRENCE WASSER // Piggy on a Rooftop // v/a: Tête de Bébé // S-S Records 2006
PRETTY THIGH // Testicaligraphy // Split 7" w/ Hot Girls Cool Guys & KK Rampage // HIV Tarnations *new
SLIVERS // Questions // Restraint for Style 7" // New Alliance 1981

DEAR RAINDROP // Theme to the Pharoah´s Secret part VIII // v/a: Sarcophagus 1-4 // Radius Waste *new
BLACK PUS // Kind Companion // Black Pus 3: Metamorpus // DiareahRama *new
BLACK PUS // The Mad Scatter
WHAT CHEEK? BRIGADE // Disco Bhangra // v/a: Rare Youth 2xCD // Rare Youth *new
MERCY LIGHT // Fuck Deke (Live at Club In-Zane) // v/a: Rare Youth
DYNASTY // Milk of Human Kindness // Gate 2x7" // Dynasty *new
TORTURING NURSE // -0- // Hate Human cassette // Hate State *new
TIK///TIK // Out of Respect for His Family, Let´s Say We Ate the Cabin Boy // Sea Door split 2x3" CDR w/ Stomach Aches // Deathbomb Arc *new
CAPTAIN AHAB // I Was the Only One There to Suck // Snakes on the Brain // Deathbomb Arc *new
OKAY TEMIZ TRIO // Trabzon Karsilamasi // Turkish Folk Jazz // Sonet 1975

EAT THE PEOPLE // Disappear // Soundtrack to the Unicorn Movie // Baby Arm 2005
M.A.L. // Seven Minutes to Midnight // Compendium Maleficarum // Physiocrat 1981
RUTH WHITE // The Irremediable // Flowers of Evil // Creel Pone *new/1969
DEAD SCIENCE // White Stain // Crepuscule // Slender Means Society *new
TUNNELS // Partitions // Vexations / Reflections / Partitions // Yarnlazer *new
SHADOW RING // I Am the Black Piper // Lighthouse 2xLP // Swill Radio 1999
SHADOW RING // I Am Lloyd Lyson
SHADOW RING // Mindart
SHADOW RING // If It Is a Boy

Art for Spastics v. 107

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BATTLESHIP // Buster Keaton // Hearts Addendum // On/On Switch *new
BATTLESHIP // Bringing Home Jerusalem
HIPS // Monkey in a Cage // v/a: Happy Birthday DNT! // DNT *new
MUTATORS // My War [Black Flag] // Nerves 7" // Grotesque Modern *new
BOB BURNS & THE BREAKUPS // Losing My Head // Hydrostatic Heart 7" // Plastic Idol *new
NO FEELING // Holes // split 7" w/ Ladies Night // Seeing Eye *new
APE CITY R&B // She´s Candy Coated // She's Candy Coated 7" // Jenasol 2005
HONEYMOON KILLERS // Vanna White (Goddess of Love) // Hung Far Low // Fistpuppet 1991
HONEYMOON KILLERS // You Can´t Do That
NO DOCTORS // Sharkskin Blues // Hunting Season // Cock of the Rock 2004
CHEB SAMIR & THE BLACK SOULS OF LEVIATHAN // I Know What to Do // Don´t Like Girls 7" // Yakisakana *new
THE CHEERAKS // Honey // The Cheeraks are N°1 7" // Yakisakana *new
THE NORMALS & JEFF CLARK // The Street of Your Heart // The Street of Your Heart 7" // Yakisakana *new

HOLE CLASS // What Doesn´t Kill You // A Glimpse of Hole Class cassette // No Label *new
ETERNAL TAPESTRY // Puff Cloud Temple // Demo CDR // Self-Released *new
POCAHAUNTED // Water Moccasins // Moccasinging cassette // Not Not Fun *new
PLANTS // Animal Spirit Gestalt // Totem CDR // Self-Released *new
TUNNELS // Reflections // Vexations / Reflections / Partitions // Yarnlazer *new
YELLOW SWANS // Live at Grandma´s House 12/05 // Psychic Secession 2Xlp // Weird Forest *new

NON-HORSE // excerpt // Rigor Lore cassette // Not Not Fun *new
BREATHER // Radiation // Loves and Disloves // Sonic Incision 1984
NEITHER/NEITHER WORLD // Our Devil´s Cave // Sociopathic Pleasures // Majestic Chaos 1992
CAROLINE K // Tracking with Close-Ups // Now Wait for Last Year 12" EP // Earthly Delights 1987
FACTRIX // Phantom Pain // Scheintot // Adolescent 1981
AKSAK MABOUL // Three Epileptic Folk Dances // Aksak Maboul: Onze Danses Pour Combattre la Migraine // Kamikaze 1977
IVA BITTOVÁ // Ouvertura // Dunaj // Panton 1988
IVA BITTOVÁ // Kaše
FLYING LUTTENBACHERS // From Oblivion // Cataclysm // ugExplode *new
VÁGTÁZÓ HALLOTKÉMEK // Másfélé Táj (Another Kind of Landscape) // Jumping Out the World Instinct // Sonic Boom 1990
SAPAT // Halcyon Daze // Tongue-Tied & Staid 7" // Black Velvet Fuckere *new
DANIEL JENKINS // Gridlock // Taking a Drive... // No Label 1987
DEAD MOON // Fire in the Western World // Echoes Of The Past // Sub Pop *new

What Are You Gonna Wear???

Friday, October 27
@ the DAM House
503 E Street in Davis

7:00 SHARP! to 10:00 p.m. SHARP!

RAD SHOW!

GANG WIZARD
http//www.gangwizard.tk/

w/ special guests...

WAY BAD
&
WOMAN'S WORTH
http//www.myspace.com/105893724

Bring $3-$6 to donate to bands. Wear a costume??? Dance! Eat our food (come hungry!!!) & drink (WOO!).

Gang Wizard's new album--Byzantine Headache--is out on Load Records. Says Load CEO himself

Los Angeles-based GANG WIZARD play an unholy gumbo of out-fried rock that draws from fluff between such couch cushions as the more stumblin' side of the ROYAL TRUX and the jazzercize neck of sonic explorers like the NO NECK BLUES BAND klan. Its truly a groups effort as 13 members appear on this release utilizing every weapon in the war chest ... from guitars, snyths and vocal pipes onwards. Truly the sound of levitation.

The band has three previous records on Ecstatic Peace, and its members have been in too many bands to mention THE HOSPITALS, KEVIN SHIELDS, BOXLEITNER... the list goes on. Labels as diverse as DEATHBOMB ARC, WEIRD FOREST, IN THE RED have all played home to these members projects.

In short, if you crave the out sound, this record will burrow its way into your routine. Its the sound of life... in all its shitty glory. Blowing loud, proud and straight through. Get it while you still are alive. Waiting could be your biggest mistake.

This album is also my debut, as I drum on part of it. But this particular Gang Wizard incarnation is a reunion of the classic early band that hasn't played publicly since this decade began. But I might grab a stick and beat on something (your adam's apple) at some point during the show.

Call this the Byzantine Headache release party!

WAY BAD is a special performance by a merged band of The Hospitals and The Skaters. So we get the pinnacle band of gnarly garage-scuzz/artpunk's moan-wave arm together with the band that is arguably the pinnacle of moan-wave altogether, the kings of burly and brilliant waves of mouthsound modulation. This should be historic, especially when you consider that The Skaters are supposed to be moving to Berlin in a few weeks. Catch 'em while you can! I imagine this might be the only time you'll see the Skaters and feel the urge to rock out at the same time.

Please also be aware that this will most likely be thee exclusive Way Bad performance. Like, don't expect the band to ever happen again after this. Already, if minor celebrities will book flights from NYC to Sacto to see this, you can drive to the DAM House or ride your bike here, right?

Woman's Worth is a special and sweet sorta damaged take on chamber music with a heaping dose of free-jazz influence, but these are rigorously rehearsed and composed spasms of trombone of Wilson and sax of Matt (from Vholtz), cascades of drum rolls by Paul from Business Lady, and the zany operatic yelps of fellow S.D.-expat Jessalyn. This band kinda loopy, wild and weird, but most of all EXTREMELY FUN! I saw them play at The Bakery in Emeryville with Deep Jew and Gator Surprise and some other bands, and they were by far the best act of the night. Paul built his snare drum by hand, he is one of the very best drummers I've ever seen, but he will not glaze your eyes with Berklee/Juilliard-level wizardness.

FOOD WILL BE SERVED AT 700 SHARP! Eat it all up!

When the donation jar comes around, please put some of the money we saved you on food and drink in the jar so that the bands will make it to their next stop and feel appreciated.

Please also bring extra cash if you wanna buy the new Gang Wizard CD before its actual release date...PLUS there will be the typical Brian "Deathbomb Arc" Miller merch table including all the latest and greatest of the worldwide scene of exquisitely packaged DIY noise and arty fun weirdness, etc., etc. I always blow $50 on 10-15 pieces of merch that I have only the faintest clue about because his merchbox is my favorite merchbox, and I've only ever fished out one dud outta dozens and dozens of "adventure picks" I've purchased.

This will tbe greatest show in Davis at least until the following night when Flying Luttenbachers, No Doctors, and (((Microwaves))) rock the Delta of Venus for another costumes-encouraged band show/party.

Davis will be really happening on this weekend!