Art for Spastics v. 91

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CAPAIN AHAB – Old Like You – After the Rain My Heart Still Dreams – Deathbomb Arc *new

MAGAS – Chicagocide – May I Meet My Accuser – Imaginary Conflict *new
THE LOWDOWN – Cyclops Acknowledgement (Exercise?) – Fuck You, Revolver CDR – self-released 2001 *request
N.213 – Revenger – SX - 79 CDR – Isolated Now Waves 2004
SHEARING PINX – Pumpknot – Poison Hands dbl. 3” – Not Not Fun *new
MUTATORS – Normal Eyes – v/a: Stay Punk Forever 7” lathe-cut – Deer + Bird *new
DEATH TO PIGS – Six Sick Show – new 7”— 213/Gaffer *new
SIDS – Motra Mathematics – Kandy Kane 7” – Army of Bad Luck/Stickfigure *new
CHEVEU – Superhéro – Clara Vénus 7” – SDZ/Royal *new
THE EPSILONS – The Epsilon – self-titled CD – Retard Disco *new
THE EPSILONS – A Night Out with Jack – split 7” w/ Hips – Self-Released *new
HIPS – Take Me Off Your Playlist – split 7” w/ Neon Nazis – Self-Released *new
THE HUNCHES – Leper Parade – Leper Parade 7” – Dusty Medical *new
COACHWHIPS – Ringing the Chowbell – Double Death CD+DVD – Narnack *new
HOSPITALS – Don´t Panic – self-titled LP/CD – In The Red 2004
HOSPITALS – Sick Again [Harry Pussy] – Rich People 12” EP – Yakisakana 2005
THE FELLS – It´s Not Alright – What I Got 7” – Estrus 1996
MOTARDS – Nothing Ever Changes – split 7” w/ Cryin´ Out Louds – Little Deputy 1995
THE FEELERS – Parts and Pieces – Parts and Pieces 7” – P.Trash *new
PANIC DISORDER – Checks in the Mail – Breakneck Trainwreck 7” – Dry Rot *new
HENRY FIAT’S OPEN SORE – Britpop Sucks – Headshots 7” – Repo 1999

MOUNTAIN HIGH – Catholic Cookie Cutters – Co-Op Schmo-Op 7” – Hot Dog City *new
THE SWORD – Celestial Crown/Barael’s Blade – Age of Winters – Kemado *new
FEARLESS IRANIANS FROM HELL – Burn the Books – Holy War – Boner 1988
PISSED JEANS – Don´t Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear – new 7” – Sub Pop *new
PINK REASON – Throw It Away – Throw It Away 7” – Savage Quality *new
PLANTS – Evil Spirit – The Mind Is a Bird in the Hand – Audio Dregs *new
CARLA BOZULICH – Evangelista II – Evangelista – Constellation *new
WESTERN CULTURE – The Woods – split lathe-cut 10” w/ Katsuya Nonaka – Deer + Bird *new
WOODS – Leaves Leave Your World With a Smile – Pre-American Lands split LP w/ Raccoo-oo-oon – Not Not Fun *new
TENT CITY – Comes Full Circle – split cassette w/ Wigwam – Not Not Fun *new
BROMP TREB – Daughters & Sons of Perpetual Limp – v/a: Zum Audio vol. III CD – Zum *new
CRACK UND ULTRA ECZEMA – You´re Really Under the Sea – mp3 from website
KANIA TIEFFER AGAINST THE MACHINE – Die Glazy Kartoffeln – MySpace mp3 *new

KANIA TIEFFER – Get Flunky – The Eastern World EP – Selva Elettrica *new
GAY AGAINST YOU – Gay Unicorn – self-titled CDR – Self-Released *new
DINO FELIPE – Horseshoes – I´m Not Your Sister Suture split w/ System Hardware Abnormal – Selva Elettrica *new
JELGA – Amoeba Talks – Varios – Selva Elettrica *new
PREUSSISK GRÄVLING KLUBB – Dead Finger Talk – MySpace mp3
YELLOW SWANS – Velocity of the Yolk – Psychic Secession – Load *new
QUINTANA ROO – Cave Throne – Vol. 2 demo CDR – No Label *new

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LES CLUB DES CHATS – Pump Up The Seed! – Pump Up the Seed! 7” – Le Vilain Chien *new
S.Y.P.H. – Bekenntnisse Eines Knüppelträgers – Harbeitslose – Fuenfundvierzig 1982

CHEVEU – Clara Vénus – Clara Vénus b/w Superhéro 7” – SDZ/Royal *new
CHEVEU – La Truite – v/a: Tête de Bébé – S-S *new
ANGRY ANGLES – Apparent-Transparent – Apparent-Transparent 7” – Plastic Idol *new
SIDS – Kandy Kane – Kandy Kane 7” – Army of Bad Luck/Stickfigure *new
MONITORS – Rotten Body Cleanup Crew – Rotten Body Cleanup Crew 7” – Goodbye Boozy 2005
MONITORS – Seizure Fever
SKULLENING – The New AIDS – 2005 Tour CDR – Self-Released 2005
ALGEBRA MOTHERS – Modern Noise – Strawberry Cheesecake 7” – Aftertaste 1979
BILLY & THE BUTTONS – Want Want – Whole Fam Damly 7” – Button 1983

SWIMMERS – The Greatest Discovery – We Swam as for Our Behavior Our Behavior – Louisiana Purchase 2005
KK RAMPAGE – Ice Pick and Candles, Set the Mood – split CDR w/ Josh Lay – Rampage *new
NTELOS – 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5 – v/a: Rampage Recordings Comp 1 – Rampage *new arrival
HEALTH – title unknown – 2006 Tour CDR – Self-Released *new
KREAMY ’LECTRIC SANTA – Me So Horny 2 – v/a: Why Is Anything Forbidden? vol. 2 – Deathbomb Arc *new
FAXED HEAD – Coalinga Love – Chiropractic – Web of Mimicry 2001
PINK REASON – New Violence – self-titled 7” – Savage Quality *new
O-X – Gertrude and Cassius – Fantasy 7” – Self-Released *new
MAGICK MARKERS – Creaking Jesus – Feel the Crayon LP – Not Not Fun *new
SCREAM BABY, SCREAM! – untitled – split cassette w/ Gang Wizard – Pink Triforce Tapes *new
…WORMS – title unknown – self-titled LP – Marriage *new

…WORMS – title unknown
HERR K – Corked with Super Glue/Written in Tongue – self-titled CDR – Not Not Fun 2005/1998
POPE SMASHERS – Man, You´ll Lose – This Is a Test 7” – Sunney Sindicut 1995 (2 copies @ once) *request
COUGHS – Spartacus – Bent Babies 2006 Tour Edition CDR – Self-Released *new *request
BURMESE – JFKKK JR Must be Killed Again – Bored Fortress Singles Club split 7” w/ 16 Bitch Pileup – Not Not Fun *new
CROWN ROAST – Grubworm – A Nose Has Many Jobs – Unclean 1994
PISSED JEANS – Love Clown – Don't Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear 7” – Sub Pop *new
PARTY FOWL – Night of the Living Numbnuts – self-titled cassette -- Dementoid *new
PARTY FOWL – Droppin´ Bros Like They´re Hot
FLASH GORDON – Smell Like Rec – v/a: Ziko-Syucyou vol. 2 – MCR 1999
EXCLAIM – No Skate No Thrash – Out of Suit 7” – Sound Pollution 1999
IDOL PUNCH – Dried Nasal Mucus – Culture Market 7” – MCR 2000
HYPER HINDU SQUATTERS – Nike – v/a: A Reason for Living...1999 3xLP – Dan Doh 1999
DEAD UPS – Knock One´s Head Against a Wall – v/a: A Reason for Living...1999 3xLP
MELT BANANA – Faint Heart [Birthday Party] – v/a: Release the Bats – Three.One.G *new
UNDER MOUNTAINS – Biege Warrior – split LP w/ Rabbits – Eolian *new
MINMAE – Everyone Knows Jesus Wore a Chain – Le Grand Essor de la Maison du Monstere – Greyday *new
ANTIFAMILY – Rome Is Not a City – v/a: Zum Audio vol. III – Zum *new

NO NECK BLUES BAND & EMBRYO – Die Farbe aus dem All – Embryonnck – Staubgold *new
LOOPOOL – title unknown – v/a: So Moated: a Bored Fortress Compilation 3” CDR – Not Not Fun *new
AUDIOEMETIC – Butlerian Jihad – The Failure – Self-Released *new

Art for Spastics v. 89

Tonight’s show featured a bonus hour…
You must download two files for hear the whole thing.

I subbed for Janie Venom from 11-midnight. DJ’s Ed & Remy filled in from 10-11 p.m.
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My segment begins an hour into this two-hour program.

GUZZARD – Supersonic Enemy of Evil – Quick, Fast, in a Hurry – Amphetamine Reptile 1995
MARKED MEN – A Little Lesson – Fix My Brain – Swami *new
ANGRY ANGLES – You Fell In – Apparent-Transparent 7” – Plastic Idol *new
THE ANXIETIES – Nowhere Zone – The De-Evolution Will Be Televised 7” – Plastic Idol *new
HEARTATTACKS – Your Lies – Your Lies 7” – Plastic Idol *new
CARBONAS – Count Me Out – s/t LP – Raw Deluxe *new
NERVOUS HABITS – Get Shocked – split 7” w/ Cheap Thrills – Terminal City *new
PARTY FOWL – Hold on to Your Butts – self-titled cassette – Dementoid Tapes *new
A FRAMES – Honkeys – unreleased tracks CDR – no label 2000
CRASH NORMAL – Bad Way to Get Fun – v/a: Tête de Bébé – S-S *new
FACTUMS – Split Screen – Second Demo CDR – no label 2005
COUNTRY TEASERS – White Patches – The Empire Strikes Back – In The Red *new
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 – Big Hands – Lovelyville – Matador 1991
IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT – Passion of a Cop – To Be Treated – Load *new
COUGHS – Malibu – v/a: Zum Audio vol. III – Zum *new
CHILD ABUSE – Blessed from the Bowels – v/a: Zum Audio vol. III
PINK MOUNTAIN – Circling the 7th Planet – self-titled – Frenetic *new
…WORMS – title unknown – self-titled LP – Marriage *new

PISSED JEANS – Don´t Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear – new 7” – Sub Pop *new
PISSED JEANS – Closet Marine – Shallow – Parts Unknown 2005

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This is the full regular 2-hour program.

RABBITS – Lungs – split LP w/ Under Mountains – Eolian *new
YELLOW SWANS – Psychic Secession – Psychic Secession – Load *new
DEAD/BIRD – Deny Impuse or Let It Ride – 2006 Tour 3x3” CDRs split/collab w/ Argumentix – self-released *new

BRIAN MILLER/KITES/KEVIN SHIELDS/REN SCHOFIELD – Rings – Rings collab 3-inch CDR – Deathbomb Arc *new
DYNASTY – TFF – Animal Disregard 7” – Dynasty *new
OVO – Miastenia – Miastenia – Load *new
COUGHS – Never Work – Bent Babies 2006 Tour Edition – self-released *new
SILVER DAGGERS – Keep Away – v/a: Zum Audio vol. III

LAKES – Song of Investment Capital Overseas [Art Bears] – v/a: Zum Audio vol. III
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY – Fuck the Reverb pt. 2 – split 7” w/ Pleasey Please – Silencio *new
WERMUT – Media in Vita in Morte Sumus – v/a: Electronic Renaissance – Enfant Terrible *new
ESPLENDOR GEOMÉTRICO – Blanco de Fuerza IV – 1983-1987 – Geometrik
TRISOMIE 21 – Joh´Burg – Joh´Burg 12” EP – Play It Again Sam 1986
NIGHTBLOOMS – Starcatcher – self-titled – Seed 1993

THE GOSLINGS – Statuette – Space Heater/Perfect Interior – Crucial Blast *new
INCA ORE & LEMON BEAR’S ORCHESTRA – Queen Anne´s Lace Tape – Queen Anne's Lace Tape CDR – no label *new
AMPS FOR CHRIST – Proof Man – Every Eleven Seconds – 5RC *new
AUTO DA FE – Just Now – The Spectre – Secret Eye *new
HANS GRUSEL’S KRANKENKABINET – Five Sides Folded – Happy as Pitch – C.I.P. *new

POD BLOTZ – Underneath the Sturminus Bell – The Swamp Command – Fish Pies *new
SWORD HEAVEN – Town Hag – Bored Fortress Singles Club split 7” w/ Raccoo-oo-oon – Not Not Fun *new
OCRILIM – untitled – Anoint – I and Ear *new
OCTIS – untitled – split 7” w/ Child Abuse – Forge *new
CIRCLE – Coda – Earthworm – No Quarter *new
CREATE(!) – Durindana – A Prospect of Freedom – Sounds Are Active *new

When I get to sub a show for another DJ, I often enjoy taking that as an opportunity to play music that reflects the regular DJ's shared interests with mine, and often this means I get to play something that you normally wouldn't hear on "Art for Spastics." It's rare that I can fit in punk rock of the melodic, foot-tap'n and finger-snap'n variety with some of the freakier noisy weirdo shit. And such is the case with the new Marked Men album, which threatens to take the band across the pop-punk barrier and into pop-rock territory. Many a fan of the pre-Marked Men band, the Reds, have complained that the Marked Men are a pissweak disgrace of snot-garage masters gone emo rock, and this third Marked Men album would upset them even more, no doubt! But it's a fine album. Not as many speedy cuts with deep grooves like the last one, "On the Inside," but perhaps it's a grower. In any event, here's my early fave track!

Did I skip Guzzard? Hey, whenever I get the itch for snappy and melodic and yet impactful, I dig out the second of the three Guzzard albums. "Quick, Fast in a Hurry" has my favorite ultra-tight pistol shot of a snare sound, and their drummer Pete Beeman was as nifty as he was powerful. Todd "Hometown Atrocities" Urick and I saw them live in 1995 at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. They were touring with Unsane, who I had been ambivalent about since their great early singles. A buncha baldheads in Biohazard shirts showed up for Unsane, and as Guzzard played, they laid back smirking in disapproval over what must've sounded to them like the band All meets Nirvana. I'm not sure why this band was considered such a trifle, but they seem like perhaps the least remembered AmRep band these days. But I remember them very often and feel the need to drum along to the album on my car steering wheel.

How I miss the leather-wrapped steering wheel in my 1992 Toyota Cressida...it had the best simulated snare sound...like a thwap with a sorta springy-ness to it. And I could do rolls and fills across the middle of the steering wheel which sounded almost like real toms. Pre-airbag days! Why did that 3.0-liter inline 6 cyl. (7MGE) engine hafta blow???

Doesn't the riff of this Angry Angles song sound familiar? I can't place the band exactly...maybe I need to listen to everything by the Adverts again because that's my first hunch. I can only place it as the UK in the year 1978. This song is beautiful! We get two more from brand-new singles on the Plastic Idol label run by KDVS colleague Mario "the Analyst." He was on the air again as a guest sub recently, and I could tell he was catching the radio disease again. Klinger and I are thinking about launching a petition drive to demand him to return to the airwaves.

Since the last time we heard the Carbonas, I found about something about their prehistory which really surprised me. Members of this band were in the sorta emo-tinged hardcore band Quadiliacha in the mid- to late-90's. Considering how authentic late-70's the Carbonas are...this seems even more miraculous! I mean, seriously, I thought Quadiliacha were pretty iffy.

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Art for Spastics v.88

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ABE VIGODA – Power Place – split cassette w/ Hot Girls Cool Guys – Not Not Fun *new

SHEARING PINX – Cursed Heart Matter – Poison Hands dbl. 3” CDR – Not Not Fun *new
BATZ – Backpack Up – self-titled 3” EP – Self Released *new
GROWING HABITS – Social Tactics – Myspace mp3 demos *new
SHOPLIFTING – Male Gynecology – Body Stories – Kill Rock Stars *new
NIGHT WOUNDS – Nineteen – Advance Tracks CDR – Self-Released *new
ERASE ERRATA – Cruising – Nightlife – Kill Rock Stars *forthcoming
HANK IV – (Ci è a) Hole in the Face – il Silenzio è Morte CDR – Self-Released *new
THE REBEL – Demonstration Tape – The Rocket Breaks Down – Pecan Crazy *new
COMET GAIN – Mainlining Mystery (Finchley Road) – Beautiful Despair 12” EP – What's Your Rupture? *new
INSTANT AUTOMATONS – Scared to Be Alone – v/a: Messthetics Greatest Hits: The Sounds of D.I.Y. 1977-80 – Hyped2Death *new
CABARET VOLTAIRE – Capsules – Mix Up – Rough Trade 1979 *request
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY – R´n´R D.J. – Leave a Message cassette – Barf *new
THE PASSAGE – Taboodub – Taboos 12” EP – Cherry Red 1982
DIGITAL LEATHER – I Tell My Sorrows to the Stones – Monologue – Shattered *new
ENSTRUCTION – Keep Out of My Body Bag – Keep Out of My Body Bag 7” – Deus ex Machina 1982

LA COMTESSE MORTE – No No Never – v/a: Electronic Renaissance – Enfant Terrible *new
ICH BIN – Danger – Obéis! – Poutré Apparente *new
VOLT – Kein Mensch – v/a: Tête de Bébé – S-S Records *new
METAL URBAIN – Futurama – Anarchy in Paris – Acute/Seventeen 2004/1978
JEFFREY NOVAK – I Hate Music [the Mad] – v/a: Killed by Trash – P.Trash *new
THE TRASHIES – Steal Yr Bike – Let It Be Trashed 7” – Out of Order *new
DOOMED ON PLANET EARTH – Mercenaries – Mercenaries 7” – BTCP 1982

STEVE MIRO & THE EYES – Shadow Screen – Rude Intrusions – Object Music 1980
HIPS – Hips – self-titled 7” – Animal Mandible *new
KK RAMPAGE – Lowlife Lousy Little Puke – Sides E & F 7” – Rococo *new
TEMP SOUND SOLUTION – Shit´s Ridipulous – Pain Based Lifeform – Terra Firma *new
MIKAELA’S FIEND – track 5 – March 2006 Tour CD – Self-Released *new
K.K. NULL & Z’EV – untitled – Artificial Life – CIP *new
TWIG HARPER – untitled – Intuitive American Esoteric vol 2 – Heresee *new
ARGUMENTIX & DEAD/BIRD – Destruction of the Depression Device (Morale Was So Low) – 2006 Tour triple 3” – Self-Released *new
ARGUMENTIX & DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH WATER – Outrage Is Secondary to Sexy Glances – A Prairie Elephant Remembers CDR – Self-Released *new
SMEGMA – Ha-Ha Remco – Live 1991-1993 – Resipiscent *new
SUNSHINE & HER LITTLE FRIENDS – Tell It As It Is – Wiggles and Giggles – Educators in Motion 197?
RACCOO-OO-OON – Painted Desert – split LP w/ Woods – Not Not Fun *new
LAS VEGAS CLUB – Casa de Muerte – Whiskey Flats – Not Not Fun *new
VIRGIN INSANITY – River Town – Illusions of the Maintenance Man – P-Vine *new/1970

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Art for Spastics v. 87

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COUNTRY TEASERS – Please Ban Music/Gegen Alles – The Empire Strikes Back – In The Red *new

HOT GIRLS COOL GUYS – Ponytale – split cassette w/ Abe Vigoda – Not Not Fun *new
COACHWHIPS – I Don´t Need You – Double Death CD+DVD – Narnack *new
SIC ALPS – Making Plans – The Soft Tour in Rough Form – Mt. St. Mtn *new
THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS – Petty Thief – split 7” w/ Fat Day – Ratfish 1997
SEXAPHONE – M.E.A.N. – Double U 7” – Yakisakana *new

RAT TRAPS – Vampire – split 7” w/ The Lamps – Yakisakana *new
THE FEELERS – School Jerks [the Vains] – Parts and Pieces 7” – P.Trash *new
FUNCTIONAL BLACKOUTS – Raw Dawg, Raw Deal – Raw Dawg, Raw Deal 7” – Wrench 2005
FUNCTIONAL BLACKOUTS – In My Vacuum
DRUGSTOP – M.I.C. [Hüsker Dü] – v/a: Killed By Trash – P.Trash *new

DIGGER & THE PUSSYCATS – Better Off Dead [Wipers] – v/a: Killed By Trash
OPÉRATION S – Pogo in Togo [United Balls] – v/a: Killed By Trash
BELASTUNGSPROBE – Viel-Ø-SOPHY – Æ.T.V. 7” – Play Loud 1980
BELASTUNGSPROBE – Berliner Lust – Platzdruck 90 Atü 7” – Play Loud 1981
RED ASPHALT – Humungulous – Live at Le Disque 2xLP – Jump 1981
GROUNDHOGS – Joker´s Grave – Solid – Akarma 1974/*new
ENSTRUCTION – Signal to Noise – Keep Out of My Body Bag 7” – Deus ex Machina 1982
ENSTRUCTION – Is There a Dog?
DALI’S DAUGHTER – Cold War – v/a: Amuck – Placebo 1981
HAUNTED CASTLE – Dump the Zombies Off Your Back – DBA Tape Club split cassette w/ Megaweapon – Deathbomb Arc *new
PRURIENT/JOHN WIESE – Cloven Spike – Cloven Spike 7” – Hospital *new
EIKENSKADEN – Presto Agitato Cupido – The Last Dance – Weird Forest *new
ZACH HILL & MICK BARR – Lakes in Space – Shred Earthship – 5RC *new
FLYING LUTTENBACHERS – Improvisation Two – Spectral Warrior Mythos Vol. 1 – ugExplode *new
HANS GRUSEL’S KRANKENKABINET – Teapot Steamsystem – Happy as Pitch – C.I.P. *new
HANS GRUSEL’S KRANKENKABINET – Tea für Two

THE RITUALISTIC SCHOOL OF ERRORS – The Pit of Absolute Zero – s/t CD+DVD – Resipiscent *new
T CELLS – Deep in the Woods [Birthday Party] – v/a: Release the Bats – Three One G *new
OBSERVERS OBSERVING OBSERVABLES – Remodel Yourself – Watch Out for the Other Guy 7” – Hardly Music 1980
OBSERVERS OBSERVING OBSERVABLES – The Shah Song
DIE RADIERER – Madagaskar – v/a: Lieber Zuviel Als Zuwenig – Zick Zack 1981
BELASTUNGSPROBE – Isolationshaft – Æ.T.V. 7”
BELASTUNGSPROBE – Jugend Heute – Platzdruck 90 Atü 7”
NEU! – E-Musik – 75 – Groenland/Astralwerks 1975/2001
DEATH SENTENCE: PANDA! – Here Come the Ghosts! – Festival of Ghosts – Self Released *new
DEATH SENTENCE: PANDA! – Public Forest
LOOPOOL – Title Unknown – v/a: So Moated: a Bored Fortress Compilation 3”CDR – Not Not Fun *new

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Art for Spastics v.86

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TUXEDO KILLERS – Track 9 – Barf City tour CDR – Furniture *new
NERVOUS EXITS – It´s a Flash – Get Out – Super Secret *new
CARBONAS – Typical Jerkoff – s/t LP – Thee Raw Deluxe *new

CARBONAS – Alone at Last
HEADACHE CITY – Headache City -- s/t CD – Shit Sandwich *new
KICKING GIANT – Wire – Alien I.D. – K Records 1994 *request
THE FORMLESS – Shaking Ships – v/a: Keep Portland Weird – Sincere Brutality 2004
SHOPLIFTING – M. Sally – Body Stories – Kill Rock Stars *new
DEERHOOF – The Great Car Tomb – Holdypaws – Kill Rock Stars 1999 *request
DRAGIBUS – A Crocodile in an Aquarium – v/a: Tête de Bébé – S-S *new
PLEASEY PLEASE – Loss Control – split 7” w/ Child Pornography – Silencio *new
AWESOME COOL DUDES – Coral and Devonian – Maxin and Relaxin – Furniture *new
ANAVAN – Your So Called Notoriety – v/a: Why Is Anything Forbidden? vol. 2 – Deathbomb Arc *new

ROSE FOR BOHDAN – Friends Forever – Then Everybody Hugged “Racism Is God” – Deathbomb Arc *new
GOLIATH BIRDEATER – Title Unknown – v/a: So Moated: a Bored Fortress Compilation 3” CDR – Not Not Fun *new
NIGHT WOUNDS – Hex Appeal – Bored Fortress split 7” w/ Coughs – Not Not Fun 2006
DEATH SENTENCE: PANDA! – Friend of Friend of Friend of Friend – Bored Fortress split 7” w/ Silver Daggers – Not Not Fun *new
AFRIRAMPO – Sore Ga...Guruguru Guru – Bored Fortress split 7” w/ Hospitals – Not Not Fun *new
FOOT FOOT – Pilgrim Hat on an Indian Summer – Bored Fortress split 7” w/ My Little Red Toe – Not Not Fun 2006

RACCOO-OO-OON – Visage of the Fox – Bored Fortress split 7” w/ Sword Heaven – Not Not Fun *new
MY LITTLE RED TOE – Firemen – Bored Fortress split 7” w/ Foot Foot
16 BITCH PILE UP – Acapulcopokalipstick – Bored Fortress split 7” w/ Burmese – Not Not Fun *new
HOSPITALS – Sick Bird – v/a: Bored Fortress split 7” w/ Afrirampo
SILVER DAGGERS – Faithful Unlawful – Bored Fortress split 7” w/ Death Sentence: Panda!
COUGHS – Sexual Hijinks – Bored Fortress split 7” w/ Night Wounds
BURMESE – Bodies – Bored Fortress split 7” w/ 16 Bitch Pile Up
BURMESE – Roots & Rights
SWORD HEAVEN – Town Hag – Bored Fortress split 7” w/ Raccoo-oo-oon

SMEGMA – Giant Robot – Live 1991-1993 CD – Resipiscent *new
FAT WORM OF ERROR – Special Bonus Thing – Pregnant Babies Pregnant with Pregnant Babies – Load *new
ELECTRIC MELANOMA – Raging Hormones – MySpace mp3 demo
MEATSWEATS – Falcon Man – MySpace mp3 demo
CRACK HOUSE – We Are Many – Crack Baby b/w We Are Many 7” – Gutterbox 1991
REPTILIAN CIVILIAN – Mummy Earthquake – MySpace mp3 demo
PARTY FOWL – Surfin´ Bird Flu – s/t cassette – Self-Released *new

KNIT WITCH – Bell Book Candle – Myspace mp3 demo
DUCHESSES – The Lazer Poney – MySpace mp3 demo

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GO-BETWEENS – I Need Two Heads – I Need Two Heads b/w Stop Before You Say It – Postcard 1980
DESPERATE BICYCLES – Trendy Feelings – Remorse Code – Refill 1979
MUDHUTTERS – Water Torture – v/a: Killed by Death vol. 1: Swingalongamuck – Redrum 1979
PICTURE CHORDS – A Cause des Voisins – v/a: Waiting Room – Object Music 1980

TAKE IT – How It Is – v/a: Messthetics Greatest Hits: The Sounds of D.I.Y. 1977-80 – Hyped2Death *new/1979
BLACK TIME – Safe in Heaven Dead – Blackout – In the Red *new
HOSPITALS – Sick Bird – “Bored Fortress” singles club split 7” w/ Afrirampo – Not Not Fun *new
YUMA NORA – You Can´t Get Nothing for Gold Fronts – v/a: Why Is Anything Forbidden? vol. 2 – Deathbomb Arc *new
DEWEY DECIMATOR R.I.P. – Flying Duo – v/a: Why Is Anything Forbidden? vol. 2
COCK E.S.P. w/ DJ ENORMOUS GENITALS – (Never Gonna) Bounce – v/a: Why Is Anything Forbidden? vol. 1 – Deathbomb Arc 2004
CREAMSICLE ON WHEELS – Soldier One – v/a: Why Is Anything Forbidden? vol. 1
RAH BRAHS – Mr. Clarinet – v/a: Release the Bats – Three One G *new
CLIPD BEAKS – We Will Bomb You (We Will) – Preyers – Deleted Art/Tigerbeat6 *new
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY – Fuck the Reverb pts. 1 + 2 – split 7” w/ Pleasey Please – Silencio *new
ICH BIN – Méthanol – Obéis! – Poutre Apparente *new
ICH BIN – Trafic d´Organes
LAWRENCE WASSER – Piggy on a Rooftop – v/a: Tête de Bébé – S-S *new

KANIA TIEFFER – Treat Me Like a Dog – v/a: Tête de Bébé
DEEKAY JONES – New York, New York – v/a: The Pulse of New York – Glass 1983
THE SECONDS – Dogsicle – Kratitude – 5RC *new
NIGHT WOUNDS – Caving In – Advance Tracks CDR – self-released *new
SLUMS – Waiting Rooms/Chained to the Wall – Demo CDR – self-released *new
MERZBOW – Xa-Bungle – v/a: Three Minute Symphony – Xtract 1984
CRASS – Shaved Women – Best Before – Crass 1979
CRASS – Bloody Revolutions – Best Before 1980
CRISIS – Holocaust – Holocaust Hymns – Apop *new

CRISIS – Frustration
KARMA SUTRA – How the Other Half Die – v/a: We Don´t Want Your Fucking Law! – Fight Back 1985
TOXIC WASTE – Good Morning – v/a: We Don´t Want Your Fucking War! – Fight Back 1984
PART 1 – Black Mass – Pictures of Pain – Pusmort 1985
SEPTIC DEATH – Hardware – Need So Much Attention – Pusmort 1984
GIFT OF GOATS – Death to the Outsider – v/a: 4-Band Split LP – Omnibus 2003
DANIEL FRANCIS DOYLE – Wrapped Up – Who Are Your Customers? – Furniture *new

We begin this week with the venerable classic Aussie pop band the Go-Betweens, who tragically lost singer/guitarist Grant McLennan this weekend at the all-too-early age of 48. People are always surprised to learn that I can enjoy a band as sweet and melodic as this, but I always counter that by proclaiming that among the "formalist pop" bands of the post-punk era, the Go-Betweens are among the very best because they were so damn clever, both musically and lyrically. If you never tried listening too closely to them, I recommend you try it.

The Desperate Bicycles are often hailed as the U.K.'s first DIY band; their first single came out on their own Refill label in 1977, and their slogan--"It was easy, It was cheap, GO AND DO IT!!!"--became emblematic for a stylistically varied movement including bands as sweet as the proto-twee pop-punkers Thin Yoghurts to the aggressive peacenik polemics of Crass and their many affiliated bands. For this reason, I'd rate them as at least as important as the Damned or The Clash.

Another superb U.K. DIY band that followed in the tradition established by the Desperate Bicycles were the Mudhutters. The brash Jagger-like swagger and emphatic drawl-out of end-line vowel sounds, the aggressive barre chord stroking, and the heavy plodding rhythms made them one of U.K. DIY's ballsiest bands. "Water Torture" is an absolute classic!



Object Music is obscure to most Americans, but in the late 70's and early 80's, they released a slew of interesting music that stylistically descends from the inspiration of these earliest of U.K. DIY bands. This "Waiting Room" compilation comprises three outstandingly clever bands, the Slight Seconds, the Mediators, and the Picture Chords. We hear these Picture Chords here with their only song from the LP, a very unusual 13-minute opus which follows chirpy powerpop with an esoteric mindtrip of an outro which rather reminds me of "Concorde Square" by Crispy Ambulance.

If you really wanna experience the enormous effect that the Desperate Bicycles' music and approach had on their countrymen, there is no better or more convenient collection than the latest in Hyped2Death's "Messthetics" series, "Messthetics Greatest Hits: The Sounds of DIY 1977-80." I chose the track by the band Take It which is chopped-up angular artpunk that lurches and skids, stops and starts, or is it just an elliptical sorta rhythm that clunks along? Does it infuriate you? Sounds like a personal problem to me. I love it!

Black Time have this fantastic new album on In the Red, and the come from Scotland. I was excited to play this wonderfully fuzzy song for you and announce their plans to tour the USA this summer, but alas, those plans have been scrapped. Reportedly this band slays live, and this record does not thing to make me question that. Stripped-down garage-punk rawness with a few weird touches that might really appeal to fans of the Hospitals, such as the ridiculous reverb drenches that creep in now and again. Naturally, that's why I had to drop that Hospital request in immediately afterward.

Here's another double-shot from Deathbomb Arc's awesome new tribute to Cash Money Records, "Why Is Anything Forbidden? vol. 2," and it's a juxtaposition that looks awful on paper, but it plays out perfectly thanks to Yuma Nora ditching their free improv rhythmic staple of Rashied Ali-style accelerando and ritardando for the strutting double-triplets of hip hop. Amy is such a versatile vocalist, so is it really a surprise to hear her pull of the most lilting rap flow ever? Dewey Decimator R.I.P. are a complete mystery to me, so I can't tell you anything about them, or even whether they are being ironic or not. But both bands here are showing us free twee's hip hop edge. Yes, guys...I'm still trying to make that "free twee" genre stick.

Y'know, there was a volume one of "Why Is Anything Forbidden?" The first CD came out a couple years back, and it was a tribute to No Limit Records. Cock ESP with DJ Enormous Genitals give us a disjointed cut'n'paste hip hop track, and Creamsicle on Wheels play it out with a very naturally segued soothing, laid back indie pop instro that still lends itself to the hip hop headbob. Volume two is better on the basis of the incredible variety, but both discs sound like really great freeform radio with the free-flowing mastering, close-together edits, and generally exceptional track sequencing. If you are a label and wanna make a compilation, please PLEASE PLEASE place a premium value on track sequencing!

It's been a few years since Three.One.G released "Dynamite With a Laserbeam," a tribute to Queen. I don't like much Queen, but I really loved this compilation, especially for Weasel Walter's outrageous take on "Bohemian Rhapsody" which makes my shortlist of best cover versions ever. So, when I learned that Three.One.G was planning a tribute compilation for the Birthday Party, I pencilled it in as possibly the album of the year. Well, maybe that was a little overzealous. Too many of the bands on this disc take all the writhing and seething outta the originals and fail to re-inject them with anything interesting. Melt Banana pleases as usual, and this Rah Bras take is another highlight, but much of this disc just sorta bores me. And you should know by now that it's hard for me to write anything negative or ho-hum even about any record. So, caveat emptor.

A lot of people in Davis and Sacto are really looking forward to seeing Clipd Beaks perform live at the all-day/all-night outdoor music festival, Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom III. Their new "Preyers" CD is a sexy, slinky, soaring, psychedelic album of postpunk disco anesthesia. I imagine it would go great with a laser light show. We do have lasers and fog machines galore at the DAM House, so maybe we will bring it on June 3 to Plainfield Station. If you are within a 100-miles radius, I strongly suggest you come to ORMF III. Party like you're in a Coors Light commercial filmed on location at a Texas backyard BBQ...'cos that's what the first two ORMF's have been like.

I enjoyed myself immensely at the Child Pornography show at the Delta of Venus in Davis (which far too many people slept on!), and I wiped out their merch table. This 7" is the best thing I scored there, and it reveals a darker side of the band, driven by a richer, fuller keyboard tone which sounds a lot more like a vintage synth than the band's usual consumer-grade Yamaha. I think this is CP at their best!

Here's a couple more by the best synthpunk band ever from the island of Corsica, Ich Bin! This is a player for reissue LP of the year. Of course, the album was only previously released in a very limited CDR edition.

Another early nominee for album of the year is the fantastic "Tête de Bébé" LP. Here's two more songs from it which cull from the Tubeway Army and Der Plan.

I know nothing of Deekay Jones, but as far as dance music goes, this is nice, even mind-stimulating rather than mind-numbing despite a heavy beat and no words other than "New York, New York." I mistakenly thought it was gonna be a new version of the song by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

This new CD by the Seconds sounds a lot better to me than the first one. Less uniformly robotic, more unpredictable, and no less than what you expect from a band whose members are also in Ex Models, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, etc.

Night Wounds are also coming to Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom III on June 3, and guitarist/singer Toby promises to jump off the roof and get a totally awesome sunburn. These guys have the bleak tone of the original no wave of New York, but they're insistent, oppressive dance beat and singalong group chant choruses also bring a palpable party vibe that cannot be denied. I've seen 'em twice in the last six months, and they've been great both times. This is one of the most exciting bands on the west coast today. This song is from a forthcoming debut album...watch for it!

Speaking of bleak tones of no wave, Slums are a band from Portland, Oregon, who probably have the most authentically bleak guitar tone, immediately recalling Glenn Branca's quasi-eastern chime from the Static and Theoretical Girls. But what makes them exciting and all-new is the militant grind-informed drumwork and the male/female zombie-like choruses. Formerly known as the Hyacinth, Slums shares members with Die Monitr Batss, all or most of the band were previously in Sleetmute Nightmute, who were amazing live and had a tremendous album which remains unreleased. It seems that Slums hardly ever plays live even in their hometown, but they are scheduled to perform at the End Times 2 festival in St. Paul, Minnesota, from June 23-25.

Dating back to 1984, this is the earliest Merzbow material that I can find, and when you hear, I'm sure you'll agree that this sounds a lot different than the noise he's become synonymous with. This is rhymthic proto-powernoise industrial music, not unlike what Esplendor Geometrico were doing at the time.

I haven't played Crass in years and years, but ever since I saw Le Flange du Mal perform a cover of "Shaved Women" live at Undisclosed Location in San Francisco a couple months ago, I've been thinking about what an outstanding band they were, and how much they really helped progress my own definition of punk rock with songs like this and "Bloody Revolutions" which intersperse the raucous punk with interludes of musique concrète-inspired found-sound collages. I think that hearing this at age 13 or 14 made me ready to hear not only The Ex, but also Merzbow.

Another British DIY band that was political and righteous have just been saluted with an excellent anthology CD--"Holocaust Hymns"--which features all the essential studio recordings of the band Crisis. I've been confused about this band for years. Misinformed amateur punk historians told me that Crisis was a white power band, which was sorta reinforced by my learning that the band was pre-Death in June, and I know Death in June has flirted with fascist lyrical references and iconography. Without ever hearing the song "White Youth," I figured it was a supremacist rallying cry. I'm sad that I ever bought into that because this band made some great music, and anti-racism was the primary plank in their platform. For people who think the Warsaw demo is better than any Joy Division album, (a) you are wrong about Warsaw being better, and (b) you really oughta hear Crisis. Straddling the blurry boundary between punk and post-punk, Crisis have that bass-propelled urgency that you love. Members of Crisis also landed in Sol Invictus.

Next up we have some more peacepunkers by Karma Sutra from England and Toxic Waste from Northern Ireland. Karma Sutra certainly have that bass-driven doom 'n' gloom postpunk sound, too. I'd like to hear more of them, but I'm not sure where else to look besides Crass' "Bullshit Detector" compilations. Toxic Waste are like early Disorder if they were led by a teenage girl singer. Each of these are off related compilations from Fight Back Records.

Part One made this one LP on Pusmort, and this song also appears on the amazing "Cleanse the Bacteria" compilation. The Part One LP has cover art intricately hand-drawn by Nick Blinko of Rudimentary Peni, and the voice on the record sounds oddly like Nick Blinko, too. But precious little personnel info is available on the record, so your guess is as good as mine. "Black Mass" is the best song, and the rest of the album also sounds like a cross between U.K. peacepunk and Banshees-style proto-goth.

Pusmort was the original label in the 80's run by Pushead of Septic Death, Idaho's greatest musical export (the band would later center their activities in San Francisco, and in the 90's, Pushead's label activity would be renamed Bacteria Sour). Septic Death were one of the fastest and most savage thrash bands when they barreled ahead at full bore, but they were also known to flirt with a bit o' goth flair...swirling chorus-pedal effects during slow intros and breakdowns. Here's an old fave of mine by the band which shows both sides.

Like many other HC/punk fans, my favorite record cover artist then was Pushead, but if I had a favorite illustrator now, I'd say it's Sacramento's own Troy Mighty who makes grotesque yet sympathetic characters with a scant and minimal technique, but often in front of a background that's intensely complex squiggles that also recall the maniacal work of Nick Blinko. The characters repulse you, but the backgrounds engross you. A Troy Might original enfolds the only 7" by the Davis/Sacto legends of bombastic thrash'n'roll, Gift of Goats. With band members scattered throughout four different cities, I think this band's pretty much done now. Bummer deal, but I've got great memories of the dozen or show Goats shows I saw. Musically, I'd say they were somewhere between mid-period Poison Idea and Skull Kontroll. Totally explosive energy! They didn't play too many dates outta town, but whenever they did, they never really showed themselves at their best. Too pooped from partying all night in KOA campgrounds, too wasted to set up quickly or play tightly, the band made many a Portlander frown. And what a shame...I drove nine hours mainly to see how my PDX friends would react to them. Mainly it was just a lot of quizzical looks...like, "What's with the dirty dreadie?" That's Mick Mucus, simply one of the greatest individual human beings I've known, and perhaps best known for his band Anal Mucus.

Daniel Francis Doyle is a one-man loopbuilt noise-rock band from Austin, Texas, and he's also the drummer of the Tuxedo Killers who will rule the basement of the Turtle House in Davis on Thursday night. Don't miss out!

Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom III festival

Freeform KDVS in Davis presents...


Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom III!


Saturday, June 3, 2006
12 noon to 12 midnight
@ Plainfield Station
23944 County Road 98
Woodland, CA (MAP)

ALL AGES!



The Advantage


Erase Errata


Clipd Beaks


...Worms


Night Wounds


Micose & the Mau Maus


Ettrick


Oaxacan


Eddie the Rat


Art Lessing


Sholi


Betsy & the Teen Takeover


The Megacools




COME PARTY HERE!!!

Freedom is not without sacrifice, however...


$7 for students/advance general
$12 gen. admission @ door


Buy Advance Tickets HERE!!!

Tickets also On-Sale NOW at...

Flatspot Skate Shop
1115 21st Street
Sacramento, CA
http://www.flatspotskateboards.com/

&

Armadillo Music
205 F Street
Davis, CA
http://www.armadillomusic.com/



Tell all your friends...THANKS!

Art for Spastics v.84

"MAY DAY!"


Download AFS v.84

...or stream it

THE REBELS – Mayday – v/a: Pogo Punks: Early Original Swiss Punk Rock ´77-´82 – no label 1979
YODLER KILLERS – Soussolrock – v/a: Springtime in Belsen – Sadist Rekords 1979
ICH BIN – A.I.N.Z. – Obéis! – Poutre Apparente *new

ICH BIN – Bodybuilding
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY – TV Got Me – 2006 Tour Demo!! CDR – Self-Released *new
CAPTAIN AHAB – Where My Dogs At? – After the Rain My Heart Still Dreams – Deathbomb Arc *new
FRIENDS FOREVER – C$ Fresh – v/a: Why Is Anything Forbidden? vol. 2 – Deathbomb Arc *new
ROSE FOR BOHDAN – Covered in Monkeys – Then Everybody Hugged “Racism Is God” – Deathbomb Arc *new
THE MALL – Advantage In – First, Before and Never Again 12” EP – Mt. St. Mtn *new
BIPOLAR BEAR – Cuzco – Cuzco/Bogota CDR – Self-Released 2005
EREBUS NYX & STYX – Izzie Fatal – self-titled – Silencio *new
WHO’S YOUR FAVORITE SON, GOD? – Beelzebubble – 4-song EP CDR – Scenery Audio Archive *new
GAPESEED – Dusty Trophy – Project 64 – Silver Girl 1997
…WORMS – Crows in My Mouth – self-titled 7” EP – Marriage *new
DEATH SENTENCE: PANDA! – Friends of Friends of Friends of Friends – Bored Fortress Singles Club split 7” w/ Silver Daggers – Not Not Fun *new

BUSINESS LADY – Slow Motion – v/a: Why Is Anything Forbidden? vol. 2
GET HUSTLE – Don Quixote & I – Rollin in the Ruins – Three One G 2005 *request
I WILL KILL YOU FUCKER – titles unknown – Educated Guidance 7” EP – Tank Crimes *new
HIPS – Get Movin’ – self-titled 7” EP – Animal Mandible *new
SIC ALPS – Microcastles – The Soft Tour in Rough Form 12” EP – Mt. St. Mtn *new
STANDARD TRIBESMEN – Picture Take – self-titled 7” EP – Borox *new

THE INTELLIGENCE – Grease 3 – Let´s Toil – Polly Magoo *new
FACTUMS – Split Screen – Second Demo CDR – Self-Released 2005
CRASH NORMAL – Bad Way to Get Fun – v/a: Tête de Bébé – S-S Records *new
LILI Z. – Blut – v/a: Tête de Bébé
FRUSTRATION – Faster – self-titled 7” EP – S-S Records *new
THE WEEGS – Two and Three Eighths – The Million Sounds of Black – Hungry Eye *new
COUGHS – Track 12 – Bent Babies CDR – Self-Released 2005
SNOWSUIT* – Helio Mix1 (Master2) – Don't Kill the Contractor CDR – No Format *new
BORIS – Blackout – Pink – Southern Lord *new
NOEL von HARMONSON – Track 5 – Born on the 4th of July – Resipiscent *new
EARWICKER – Throne of Blood – All Seeing Ear – Resipiscent *new
AT JENNIE RICHIE – Dreams That Money Can Buy – The Bicycle Considered 3” – Resipiscent *new
ARGUMENTIX – Lend Me Your Blanket I Want to Dream – Tarantula Downpour 7”+DVD-R – Trash Skull *new
ARGUMENTIX & DEAD/BIRD – The Salad Can´t Talk to Me – 2006 Tour triple 3” CDR set – Self-Released *new

This Rebels 7" provides our timely lead-off song for the evening...well, almost timely now that it's officially May 2...but this is reputed to be one of the rarest of Swiss punk records from the late-70's. And it's one of the best, too! Switzerland had a lot of bands during this heyday who were manic and rollickin' melodic punk, such as Jack + the Rippers, Nasal Boys, Fresh Colour, etc. This one was comped onto a "Killed By Death"-style Swiss-only LP called "Pogo Punks" which features a blow-up of the Rebels 7" picture sleeve on the front cover. It came out years ago, but I still see sealed copies at better stores in the Bay Area. Pick it up!

I know nothing of the Yodler Killers except they were also from Switzerland in the late 70's, and they had a 7" which was comped--both sides even!--onto the mysterious "Springtime in Belsen" LP, a late-90's collection of rare 70's Euro trashpunk in a spraypainted sleeve. These guys had a bouyant jangly sound which was 100% distortion-free.

Ich Bin is my favorite new find this week, thanks to fellow DJ Scott Soriano who brought back a limited quantity of their new LP from his trip to Paris, France. What we have here is a bizarro band from the Mediterranean island of Corsica who made aggressive and weird synthpunk in the late-80's and early-90's. This new French label smartly reissued it in its first true LP edition which is a stunner! While they essentially employed the same gear as EBM/industrial bands such as Front 242 and Frontline Assembly, Ich Bin were fascinated with the budding noiserock genre, perhaps finding their way to Jesus Lizard and Killdozer from Big Black. Some of the songs sprawl obtusely like those bands, but otherwise, there's no resemblance to any other band working at the time in the realm of "punk" or "industrial." And hence, this LP sounds as fresh as if it were teleported back from the future.

Child Pornography will have a new album soon, but this "tour demo" will tide you over 'til then. It shows them to be a more versatile band...kinda somewhere between the ultra-uplifting posi- dance party Casio(er, Yamaha)-core sound they've become known for, and the skeletal geometric forms of the A Frames.

Captain Ahab is an exciting electro/"ravesploitation" performer, and outta anyone still milking the "irony as fashion" schtick for what it's worth, Captain Ahab is getting all the best last drops on this incredible new album. Much of the music is rooted in ghetto-tech, booty-bass, and daringly mainstream techno cliché, but it's all remixed and remixed and over-remixed until it's made right again, coated in digital stardust, and oh...THE LYRICS!!! I was grinning while listening to the whole thing, even while repeating certain tracks over and over. How giddy you'll get when you hear the refrain of "Girls Gone Wild" sung through that same vocal processing that reinvigorated Cher's singing career with that terrible song about believing in life after love. This is sheeny and technology-rich, yet undeniably great like only Andrew W.K. and Girl Talk can achieve.

Deathbomb Arc's new "Why Is Anything Forbidden? vol. 2" CD is a tribute to Cash Money Records, and it just might be the raddest swipe anyone's taken at anyone's favorite rapstars, yet with a lot of care and respect, too. While most of the artists on this disc are from California's DIY experimental rock scene, there's an outstanding variety here from college-radio-friendly indie rock all the way to completely cracked noise, and some of the songs are essentially straight covers while others are merely Cash Money-inspired originals, and still some are outrageous deconstructions. You can't let this slip by you.

Rose for Bohdan's releases are all neat and great, yet they're wildly unpredictable, but guitarist/vocalist Brian Miller tells me that for this latest album, the band has succeeded in recording the best possible representation of the live R4B experience, and from having seen the band a few times, I totally agree. The bass-riffs are chunkier than Oprah's ass shitting a Payday bar (sorry!), but a hell of a lot more propulsive. Okay...don't take this the wrong way...but remember when Superchunk and Archers of Loaf were much-hyped? Sure, other than that one "Powerwalker" song by the Archers, I was also kinda bored by those bands, but you know how the most interesting thing about those bands was the bass guitar, right? Well, right now, Rose for Bohdan is showing us the direction those Tarheel bands of yore coulda taken had they not elected to become Docker khaki-wearin' bores in button-down plaid shirts. This is ecstatic, elated, and at times really explosive!

Mt. St. Mtn. is the new record label of Mark Kaiser, who ran Omnibus throughout the 90's until last year, and longtime friend and bandmate (both in Shove and more recently Gift of Goats) Jay Howell. With Jay being quite the visual artiste, Mt. St. Mtn. releases are gonna be beautiful works of art above all, and it's immediately evident when you first behold the inaugural 12-inch EP by San Francisco's The Mall. The sleeve is a stunning screenprinted textural masterpiece, and the music within is upbeat, insistent artpunk with some math-rock accessibility. Strictly algebra-level, though, so if you're a hater of ostentatiously complex math-wank Einsteins, this is probably your speed.

Bipolar Bear is an L.A. band that's related to The Pope, and they just released a new album, which I'm hot on the path for now. This song is from a nondescript two-song demo CDR, and I believe both of these songs ended up on limited-run compilations, and based on just these two songs, they specialize in noiserock with a melodicism that sweeps and soars.

I'll hafta finish this later...

Thanks for listening!
Rick

Art for Spastics v. 83

Home sweet home...



Download AFS v.83

...or stream it

No playlist or cool links this week 'cos fundraiser shows usually mean "play all the hits" (e.g. Flipper, Really Red, Lightning Bolt (yes, at KDVS, Really Red is and always will be a hit!)).

I put a lot of painstaking effort into making a special CDR compilation to send you as a thank-you gift for your donation, and it's been combined with Fuzzbox Flynn's equally--perhaps more--amazing CDR collection of obscuro sleaze and artshit, but apparently a lot of people forgot to listen live and call in their pledges, so count this as your reminder.

You can still get that added bonus 2xCDR collection tonight if you pledge during Fuzzbox Flynn's "Coexistance of Disparate Elements" program from 12 midnight to 2:00 a.m. Pacific. Any donation of $25 or more gets you a premium package, and we throw our comp in on top of that. This is no $65 commuter mug or tote-bag.

Otherwise, the only way to get the 2xCDR comp is to pledge $100 to receive all 23 custom-made DJ comp CDRs, which is available anytime between now and Sunday night (as long as supplies last!). Of course, that would be a great collection of rare lesser- and almost-never-heard music of incredible variety, so I highly recommend all certified obscurity freaks to get this package.

HOW TO MAKE A PLEDGE (online or by phone)

This freeform community radio station is a rare treasure, and I know for many readers of this and various other blogging activities I do, KDVS ranks as an important online destination for discovery of new music. And not just new bands, but completely new forms of musical expression. I can't name another radio station with as many DJ's whose radars are set so sensitively to detect new expressions. We're like an aggressive aggregator of all the DIY music which is otherwise only available through very unorganized means. And can you imagine how much work we do to mine for these nuggets? I'm asking you to appreciate and validate that effort. Pretty please!

Thanks!

KDVS: We're Coming for Your Money!

The annual KDVS On-Air Fundraiser runs Monday, April 24 through Sunday, April 30, and our goal is $65,000.

We are Davis and the Sacramento area's only freeform community radio station, and we only ask for your support one week every year. Approximately two thirds of our annual budget depends on the support of the community, so if KDVS is important to you, please be generous to us so that we may continue to maintain unparalleled programming variety and continue improving the various services we provide, such as presenting six nights per week of entertainment in Davis.

Appealing specifically to our listeners' self-interest, KDVS is the only community organization I know of which gives its supporters dollar-for-dollar value thank-you gifts in return for their donation. Unlike the tote-bags and commuter mugs other publicly supported media outlets give for $65 to $100, KDVS has often given premiums that exceed the value of the donation.

If you donate at or above the $25 student pledge level during "Art for Spastics" this week, you will receive a regular premium package (such as a t-shirt or CDs or records by artists such as No Doctors, Deerhoof, or the Fall, to name a few), PLUS you will get a special double-CDR compilation of outstanding obscurities of synthpunk, primal scuzz-rock, great punk 7-inches that "Killed by Death" and "Bloodstains" somehow missed, and industrial music of the pre-EBM-homogenization era. All songs have been hand-selected by myself and Fuzzbox Flynn, and extensive liner notes are included.

This 2xCDR will be available exclusively during "Art for Spastics" or Fuzzbox Flynn's "Coexistance of Disparate Elements" program. Art for Spastics is Monday night at midnight 'til 2:00 a.m., and Flynn is on at Tuesday night from midnight to 2:00.

Well, there is one other way to get it...

For donors of $100, you can select to receive our 2xCDR collection plus all other special CDR compilations custom-made by our DJ's...which totals well over 20 CDRs made by such top-drawer DJ's as Todd "Hometown Atrocities" Urick, Janie Venom, Tim Matranga and DJ Megan, Brendan of "The Raw Mess-Around," DJ Klinger, Scott Soriano, and many more. This is like having a portable capsule of KDVS' outstanding variety in music. I highly recommend this package and guarantee that it will increase your vocabulary of rarely heard bands or artists by 100 or more.

Here's where to "shop" for premium packages and pledge online...
http://kdvs.ucdavis.edu/

Credit card pledges are possible, but due to new laws prohibiting storage of credit card info in computer databases, this will be a lot easier by phone.

These are the phone numbers...

(530) 754-KDVS
or TOLL-FREE (866) 399-KDVS

Thanks!
Rick

Art for Spastics v.82

Stream the latest show at this link right here! (by tomorrow or too late)!

OR better yet…
Link to mp3 show archive (find "DJ Rick - Art for Spastics, Tue Apr 18") high & low bitrates available

Next week is the KDVS Fundraiser! If you call in and pledge at the student level of $25 or $40 for community members, you can pick up a 2xCDR compilation of rare whacked weirdness and DIY punk sleaze of thee lowest order, and these were hand-picked by me and Fuzzbox Flynn. Includes liner notes. PLUS, you get this in addition to the regular premium package which KDVS sends as thank-you gifts. But you must phone in during my show Monday night at midnight PST or Flynn’s show Tuesday night at midnight PST. We’re aiming to raise $65,000 in just one week. I also strongly suggest picking up ALL DJ’s CDR comps for a $100 pledge…it’s like your own portable capsule of rarities representing all the variety which this miraculous freeform radio station offers.

CHEB SAMIR & THE BLACK SOULS OF LEVIATHAN -- New Motorcycle -- v/a: ”Tête de Bébé” -- S-S Records *new
OLD TIME RELIJUN -- Your Mama Used to Dance -- 2012 -- K Records 2005
OLD TIME RELIJUN -- Lions and Lambs

SILVER DAGGERS -- Faithful Unlawful – “Bored Fortress” Singles Club split 7" w/ Death Sentence: Panda! -- Not Not Fun *new
MIKA MIKO -- With My Ducks -- v/a: Under 21: Los Angeles! -- olfactory *new
BATTLESHIP -- Lucy Stone -- Presents Princess -- On/On Switch *new
DANIEL FRANCIS DOYLE -- She Breathes -- Who Are Your Customers? -- Furniture *new
DANIEL FRANCIS DOYLE -- Move Up
THE DAKOTA BUILDING -- title unknown -- Anthology CDR – Furniture *new
MOTO PHOTOS -- Funny -- Brain Breakfast CDR – Subfort *mew
HELLO ASTRONAUT, GOODBY TELEVISION -- Bauhaus in the Middle of the Street -- Pixellated Math Costumes -- olFactory/Not Not Fun *new
KNIGHTMARES -- Charles' Song -- Off the Record -- self-released *new
ABE VIGODA -- Wheelers -- self-titled 7" EP -- Silencio 2005
SHE-RAT -- KRAQ -- demo CDR -- self-released *new
BUSINESS LADY -- Zebra South -- split LP w/Rose for Bohdan -- Half Adder Press 2005
CRACK UND ULTRA ECZEMA -- Testicle -- v/a: “Tête de Bébé”

LE CLUB DES CHATS -- Tututut – v/a: “Tête de Bébé”
ZEEK SHECK -- Milk (& Pumpkins) -- Zemag Deah -- ToYo 2000
ARGUMENTIX -- Defy Nature: Take Laser Surgery for Granted -- April 2006 Releases Sampler CDR -- self-released *new
MACAW -- Fucking Freedom -- A Fool Is Kill CDR – Subfort *new
MOTHER TONGUE -- Chapter and Verse -- v/a: A Bead to a Small Mouth -- Barooni 1989
IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT -- Passion of a Cop -- To Be Treated -- Load *new
BLIND IDIOT GOD -- Thunderhead -- Cyclotron -- Avant 1992
NOOTHGRUSH -- Hatred for the Species -- split LP w/ Corrupted -- Reservoir 1998
DESOLATION -- Black Birds -- s/t CD – Prank 2005
DESOLATION -- Awake
UNCURBED -- Framtids Visioner -- Ackord för Frihet / Chords for Freedom -- Sound Pollution 2002

RIPCORD -- Get Away -- Poetic Justice -- Rage 1989
INFEST -- Screwed -- Slave -- Off the Disk 1988
COCK ROACHS -- Hardcore Isn't a Fashion -- v/a: Rapsodie -- Jungle Hop Int'l 1986
BLIGHT -- Tomorrow -- Chapter II cassette -- self-released 1984
MOMS WHO CHOP -- untitled -- Too Mega CDR -- self-released 2005
JOSHUA TAYLOR'S FRIENDS FOREVER -- untitled -- split CDR w/ Barrabarracuda – Not Not Fun *new

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We start with some primo garage scuzz from Cheb Samir & the Black Souls of Leviathan, one of 12 French bands from the outstanding brand-new compilation LP from the infallible S-S Records, "Tête de Bébé." Maybe I'm just a little over-excited, but this record could be one of the landmark punk compilations of this era, deserving to be rated among such all-time greats as "Not So Quiet on the Western Front" and "Cleveland Confidential." These bands generally mine the territory between garage and arty new-wave, and they all do it superbly. And while there's a great variety on this album, Cheb Samir is in several of the bands that appear on this LP, including Crash Normal and the Normals, and he's in even more bands than that, such as the Cheeraks. Each band kicks ass, so it doesn't appear that Cheb's spread himself too thin yet.

Next is Old Time Relijun, the fantastic band from Olympia which is led by the multi-talented Arrington de Dionysio, whom I've also seen perform as a solo artist in a range of unusual styles from throat-singing and free improv with found junk. All this high-brow arty stuff he's into doesn't detract from his abilities as a supreme shaman of ecstatic party spirit, which is what Old Time Relijun will bring to Fools Foundation Friday night in Sacramento. So, of course, I recommend all superfans local to this area to see this show!

The newest installment of the "Bored Fortress" Singles Club split 7-inch series has been delivered to its subscribers, and this time it features two of my favorite bands, the Silver Daggers and Death Sentence: Panda!, who both appear at top form. The Daggers tune opens with a beautiful dual saxophone intro that's somewhat somber until dissonant guitar-scree serves warning of the onslaught of the ominous bass and drums attack. This band's sound has become so complete and so impactful with the reintegration of the original guitarist that comparisons to Dogfaced Hermans and Dawson are beginning to sell them short; they've become even more special than that. A live performance is still the best way to enjoy the Silver Daggers experience, but I'm also pleased to report that the fidelity of this recording is an improvement over the 4-song 7" from last fall on Not Not Fun.

Jenna is primarily the saxist in Silver Daggers, but she's talented and flexible enough to handle other tasks, like she does in Mika Miko, an all-female band which is so infectious and undeniably rockin' that no one--and I mean no one--can rightfully write them off as a "novelty act" for singing into microphones adapted from hair-driers, but perhaps that can add to the fun. Their 7" on Post Present Media from last year was good, but not quite representative because of muffled fidelity (unfortunately, this plagues a lot of records by the great young bands of L.A.'s scene which is supported by venues such as The Smell, Il Corral, etc.), but this compilation track is their most recent, and it's approaching the right kinda fidelity, so I can't wait for an album. Indeed, I love this band so much that I asked them about making a record. Yes, Mika Miko is the kinda band that makes me wanna start my own DIY label. But, alas, I got beat to the punch by a label that can afford to do them justice...Kill Rock Stars. I was so happy and proud for them. Here's a band that can recapture the importance of a strong female presence in punk rock, like so many KRS bands did a decade ago, but not often since then.

Battleship's mini-album from last year was only available on a 12-inch from Thee Raw Deluxe, but now it's finally available on CD from On/On Switch. Mitch, the proprietor of Raw Deluxe, told me that he heard Battleship's new album, and he swears that compared to "Presents Princess," it's so off-the-charts awesome that it's gonna surprise everyone, and perhaps even the band's biggest fans. I've seen this band about eight times beginning at their very earliest stages when I didn't think they were so hot, but they became an outstanding live act a couple years ago, and they've become even better more recently, so I'm inclined to trust Mitch's opinion. They're about embark on a tour which will pass through my living room on July 14th, and maybe I'll post more about that later.

Daniel Francis Doyle is a virtual unknown outside of his hometown of Austin, but fans of hallowed Texas legends such as Scratch Acid and the Surfers need to take notice of this guy. His new EP’s out on Furniture, who also released an EP last year by the Tuxedo Killers, who are touring together with Daniel out here to the west coast. They’ll be playing on Thursday, May 11th, in the basement of the historic “Turtle House” with a special appearance by the “Sore Maps” (which is basically Sacto’s ruling blues-damaged garage-scuzzers The Sores doing a live set of Swell Maps covers).

I know very little about the Dakota Building. I got this mysterious CDR in the mail from the Furniture Records folks called “Anthology,” and it lacked a true tracklisting or any other info about the bands except to say the first seven songs were from an EP called “I Screamed at the Workers” (surely this is a “Wonder Showzen” reference, which says something about their perverse sense of humor). The band name most likely relates to the place where John Lennon lived with Yoko Ono, and the scene of his murder. Yoko still keeps her apartment there, and another interesting piece of trivia about the place is that Roman Polanski filmed much of “Rosemary’s Baby” there. Now the place has a rad band named after it.

Moto Photos is from Boise, Idaho, and they’re the most hard-rockin’ band by Jeremy dad and kid Venec who are best known as the nucleus of Monster Dudes. Venec is just six years old, but quite precocious as a hard-hitting power-drummer for decades to come. He plays on a full-size kit with a bass drum that’s about half as high as he is. Their show hits the road in June and travels down the west coast. We’re aiming to do something in Davis or Sacto for them on Friday, June 2.

The first time I heard the band name Hello Astronaut, Goodby Television, root beer almost came out my nose. Later, when I read their list of influences on their Myspace page and saw that it included Modest Mouse and Einstürzende Neubauten, I smirked and thought, “Jeez…that sounds like a nightmare.” I really didn’t expect much potential, but when I saw them last year open for Rose for Bohdan at 21 Grand in Oakland, I was blown away. How could a band actually envision blending lush, twinkly, sparkly indie pop with violent outbursts of junk percussion bashing, and then actually pull it off effectively? They had their “Pixellated Math Costumes” official CDR last year, covered in candle wax dripping and packaged with broken Crayolas in true Not Not Fun style, and it was certainly very promising. But perhaps something didn’t sit right with the band about this very adequate recording because they completely re-recorded all the songs for the official CD—not CDR—release of the album. My favorite song from the album is this “Bauhaus in the Middle of the Street” one, which gets all-new adlibs for extra spontaneity.

Sacramento’s Knightmares confusingly spell their name with a “Kn” half the time, and sometimes, just an “N.” Beyond that quibble, this is one of Sacto’s finest bands today. They’re a powerpop band comprised of members of just about every Sacto band of the last ten years—e.g. the Four Eyes, Rock the Light, Sunshine Smile, etc.—who run the gamut from breezy folk pop to burly rock, with the main unifying elements always being a sorta buoyant melodicism and extremely clever and funny lyrics. NBA fans will love their ode to Stockton and Malone, which even namedrops coach Jerry Sloan, the Gomer-like Greg Ostertag, and Sacto’s most hated ex-King, Olden Polynice, all within a context that is perfectly sensible and grounded in actual facts about these people’s lives. “Charles’ Song” is the most aggressively rockin’, and of course, I love the ridiculously repetitive ending which drives the same riff into the ground so far that it busts out somewhere in China.

Abe Vigoda are four young dudes from Chino and another rad suburban L.A. band that’s part of that DIY community supported by The Smell venue. This song is from the band’s most recent 7-inch which has five songs of tweener art/garage that is sorta frantic and geometric, kinda like Karate Party, the A Frames’ first album and 7” singles, or The Intelligence as a full band. The two guitarist almost seem to chase each others riffs around each other, darting in and outta the rhythms led by Reggie’s strong drumming. They’ve also got a new split cassette with local rad dudes Hot Girls Cool Guys which I’m dying to hear.

She-Rat are a San Diego outfit comprised of ex-members of Year Future and the Fucking Angels, but I know little else about them. Their 5-song demo reveals a brand-new band already well on the right path, exploring a sound centered on frosty, almost emotionally detached female vocals and splattery psych guitar.

It’s hard to know what’s really going on in the Business Lady camp. First, they were my favorite new discovery of 2004, delivered a legendary live performance in Davis at the Student Co-Op garden and then again in my living room last year, dropped a couple ruling 7-inches and then a split LP with Rose for Bohdan, and then I heard they broke up. Then someone close to the band said their breakup announcement on their website was a lie, and that they were still planning on making an album and playing more shows. Next, I discovered that drummer Paul moved to San Francisco, and bassist Tara joined a new band called Duchesses. So, I figured that friend of the band was just trying to cling to a dream. Later, someone on a message board who’s generally well-informed on such matters said Load Records was gonna put out an album. Will someone please tell me the truth in this matter? New copies of their excellent split LP are back in stock at Neon Hates You distro if you hurry! I recommend the LP without reservation.

Next, we hear a couple more great French artpunk from “Tête de Bébé.” Tell me you’ve just ordered your copy now that you’ve heard these awesome sounds!

I've neglected to play Zeek Sheck for far too long, and certainly I should play them again soon without talking over the damn song. Rose is a visionary artist, and her website linked above under the band name is surely an engrossing time-suck for a rainy day. Zeek Sheck played at the DAM House many years ago, and they got into a fight with Nautical Almanac, and I'm not sure that score has been settled even now, eight years later.

Argumentix is coming to Davis with Dead/Bird Thursday night to play live on the radio. Check back here Friday for a link to download and listen to that session. And then they'll be back again next Friday the 28th to play with Saccharine Trust and Pump Kinn & D.O.N. at Kleiber Hall on the UC Davis campus.

Macaw is a new band from Boise, Idaho, which features some sweet and saucy moanwavin' by Amy of Yuma Nora. This 19-track CDR clocks in at just 20 minutes, which makes it unlike anything of the "moan-wave" ilk. You know I'm still trying to make that genre descriptive term stick, right? At any rate, Amy sounds a lot sweeter than her rather bluesy howl which she delivers in Yuma Nora, and the musical accompaniment seems to be entirely electronic. The CDR comes packaged in a homemade baggie that appears to be made from a folded section of a patterned shower curtain handsewn with silky ribbon.

This Mother Tongue track comes from a compilation comprised of four bands. The others are Nurse With Wound, Graeme Revell and friend, and Zoviet France...all rather legendary names, so why is Mother Tongue such a mystery. I suspect some ex-members-of affiliations merited the lofty company Mother Tongue shared for this CD. In any event, this wonderfully bizarre excursion is probably the best of the four long tracks on the album. The name is ungoogle-able, so if you know the Mother Tongue story, please share it with us!

I've already gotten so mushy about how much I'm loving this Impractical Cockpit CD.

Next up is Blind Idiot God, a sorta cyber-edged technical prog-metal band who started out on SST in the mid- to late-80's. Unless you were Sonic Youth, that was a bad time to be on SST. Every record of the post-"My War" era at SST had that terrible production, and every drummer sounded like a machine. You'd think that would be a good thing for a technical prog-metal band, but it's not. The band never fully realized their awesomeness until this "Cyclotron" album, which sounds like the unholy union of Voivod, Heldon, and Scorn. One of the dudes is in Khanate now.

During the powerviolence era of the 90's, the South Bay Area boasted a number of bands who came to prominence and came to be revered as seminal (e.g., Plutocracy, No Less, Agents of Satan, 976, Gory Melanoma), and Noothgrush was the creeping doom metal branch of that scene. Drummer Chiyo had some very clever fills, and she did a great radio program for years at KFJC. Guitarist Neil also did one of the last KPFA music DJ's to actually play strange and wonderful music there. Although they seemed underappreciated during their heyday, they seem to have a crucial legacy now. I'm still flabbergasted when I meet teenagers who claim they've got "powerviolence nostalgia." Jeez...I remember being a fan of that music then, and we all wanted the faddishness of the word "powerviolence" to pass.

Desolation is a current band from San Francisco who play the apocalyptic D-beat punk, yet vary the pace quite a bit and add outstanding guitarwork that incorporates clever and subtle non-power-riffs, a'la Piggy of Voivod. This album absolutely blazes, like everything Prank does.

Uncurbed are Swedish hippie crustpunks who play the Mötörhead gallop at the fastest possible speed, and their dueling guitars really wail. In the late 90's when Scandinavia was known for all these sideburn-cultivatin' cock-rock revisionists (Hellacopters, Gluecifer, etc.), these guys still peeled off the best guitar solos in rock history since the Scott Gorham/Brian Robertson era of Thin Lizzy (well, specifically the song "Emerald").

Ripcord rates as my favorite British hardcore band for their impressive tightness and speed which rivalled grindcore bands but retained the punk character of traditional fastcore forefathers such as D.R.I., the Neos, Siege, and Deep Wound. Fistpumping posi-consciousness thrash without all the egregiously macho bullshit! Members later reformed in Dumbstruck, but that was about six years ago, just as I started to take my hardcore radar off the ultra-sensitive setting. Maybe that had something to do with the band Life's Halt breaking up...I dunno!

I still gotta drop an Infest tune every now and then just so I can sing along in that sandwich-in-throat growl which took the influence of Negative Approach to the next level, which was then pushed another notch forward during the late-90's version of Lack of Interest, who were often jokingly called Lack of Infest.

Cock Roachs (sic) were a young French band that played thrash/HC not at the edge of no control, but really beyond it. The drummer is hardpressed to keep pace with all the tremelo picking, but dig that silly bass solo! Sounds like the dude from Crimpshrine trying to shred. I mean, really...Is that a bass guitar or a rubber band? Of course, it's ridiculous, and that's why I'm a sucker for it. You also gotta love a band who's so convinced of the devotional power of hardcore that they sing "Hardcore's not a fashion...It's a life! It's a life!" Lifestyle? In any case, props to a French punk band singing in English for a change! (j/k)

Before Tesco Vee was in the Meatmen, he was in a band called Blight, and their only 7-inch was a Flipper-like salvo of dirgepunk and the tenth release of Touch and Go Records. After Tesco left to the Meatmen, the band carried on and made this demo tape with four songs which explore reverb, feedback, bleakness, and absurdity...and it would've made a great 12-inch 45 RPM EP.

Moms Who Chop is a Portland noise outfit led by the prolific and ultra-creative Glamorous Pat, who also records under his own name and with such bands as Sisprum Vish, Space Hawk, and others. Moms Who Chop is his purest project of power-electronics while many other projects have strands of psychedelia or the early values of late-70's/early-80's industrial.

As for why there's a Friends Forever and a Joshua Taylor's Friends Forever, I dunno, but I've only seen the more recently active JTFF, and they lived up to the reputation that the original Friends Forever made playing guerilla shows under bridges and freeway overpasses and in places like abandoned quarries, with all members stuffed into a VW van shooting sparks and fireworks outta the windows.

Don't forget about the fundraiser now!