Art for Spastics

Sunday, March 23, 2014

AFS v. 363 ~ It's Not Like There's Anything on TV Anyway

I found this at Coaldale Junction, Nevada.

Thanks to DJ Milson Tisdale for calling on me to stand in for him on KDVS tonight!

Monday, February 10, 2014

AFS v. 362 ~ Fingers are for Turning Off the Radio

On this rare episode of AFS...

* CCR Headcleaner for band of 2014!
* Woolen Men now touring California!
* Revisiting the Shatter/Mercury 4°F/Designer band continuum
* & catching up with new music

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JOHNNY PALERMO | Saturday Night | v/a: Je Suis Punk | 2013 (orig. 1978)
DOUCE VIOLENCE | Flash | v/a: Je Suis Punk
VIDEO | Captivity | (Join The) Hate Wave 7" | Total Punk *new
PYPY | Pagan Day | Pagan Day | Black Gladiator/Slovenly *new
CRASH NORMAL | On My Knees | v/a: Stuffs Vol. 2 | Compost Modern Art 2012
MERX | Distress | 20000 sq ft Under the Sea | Permanent *new
CERAMIC HOBS | Blackpool Transport | Shaolin Master 7" | Idwalfisher/Harbinger Sound 2002
TERRIBLE TWOS | You Can't Have My Chips (Crusties) | Horror Vacui | Urinal Cake *new
TERRIBLE TWOS | A Word & a World
THE HYPNOTICS | S&M | Indoor Fiends | Enigma 1982
HENRY FIAT'S OPEN SORE | Gimme the Loot | split 7" w/ Spider Babies | PTBI 2000
THE PACK | Nobody Can Tell Us | Com' On 7" | Vinyl 1979
GOOCH PALMS | False Identity | Novo's | Anti Fade *new
NOTS | Animal | Dust Red 7" | Goner *new
LIFE STINKS | Sharp When You're Bummed | Life Stinks | SS Records 2013
WELFARE | Turn the Heat On | On a Mission 12" EP | RocknRoll Blitzkrieg 1999
RANCID VAT | Destroy Nature | Justice This Is What We Do To Traitors | Horton/Reflex 1988
CCR HEADCLEANER | Steal the Light | Lace The Earth 2013 With Arms Wide Open | Pizza Burglar *new
CCR HEADCLEANER | Fixx The Fan
BLUE | In the Cold River/Waistband | Moe Ho Speed 7" | ERL 1992
DESIGNER | My Favorite Toy | split 7" w/ Bunny Brains | LHG 1996
JOHNNY ILL BAND | Mark is in the Car with my Dad | Post Office 7" | Dusty Medical *new
WOOLEN MEN | West Coast | Dog Years | Dog's Table *new
MORDECAI | Scuzz | College Rock | Richie 2013
SHATTER | Each Moment | 7" | Fuck-Far-Out-Political 1990
MERCURY 4°F | The Slow Process of Self-Decay | Tinnitus 7" | Death by Blowjob 1995
TRAIL OF TEARS MALT LIQUOR ICE | Surfing Mural | 7" | Enoch Organization 1996?
CHURCH POLICE | Robots | 7" | Stomach Ache 1996
FNU RONNIES | Meat | 1st 7" | Richie 2008
KANSANTURVAMUSIIKKIKOMISSIO | Albania | v/a: Yalta Hi-Life | Barabbas 1984
FESTERING RINYANYONS | Swimmin' Hole | Swimmin' Hole 7" | Train Wreck Entertainment 1993
TOXIC ATTITUDE | War Crimes | Stupid Teenage Music 7" | Depression 1984

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

AFS v. 361 ~ ...Listen to Our Finds!

On this edition of AFS...
* the best worst record of all time
* cloistered fetishistic industrial kinkwave
* new record-shopping scores from a Portland roadtrip

Big Black Cloud live in Davis, July 15, 2013

Friday, June 21, 2013

AFS v. 360 ~ Chard Attack!

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

AFS v. 359 ~ Hiding in my Career

We took a break from our normal lives to play some records for you. Enjoy!

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BAD ACHES | Hypochondriac | Hypochondriac 7" | Every Night is a Saturday Night 2012
GOOCH PALMS | Watch This Space | R U 4 Sirius? 7" | AntiFade 2012
MODERN CONVENIENCE | It's Evil | Split 7" w/ Corrosive Kids | Paranormal View, Cassettes, & Hair Extensions 2013
SECTOR ZERO | Hiding in My Car | Guitar Attack 7"| Goner 2013
THE DRAGS | I Want to be a Carnie | Tedster 7" | One By One 1994
CCR HEADCLEANER | 53rd and 420/Life of the Party | self-titled 7" | Caesar Cuts 2013
GHASTLY SPATS | Flesh Thing/Sordid | We're Breaking Through The Hymen! 7" | Heinous Anus 2012
SPRAY PAINT | Canadian Trash | self-titled | SS Records 2013
BANQUE ALLEMANDE | Warmes Wasser | Willst Du Chinese Sein Musst Du Die Ekligen Sachen Essen | SS Records 2013
THE EX | Happy Thoughts | Tumult | F.A.I. 1983
PSY ANTS | Spike | Bit Tongue Prik 12" EP | Vacant Valley 2012
BLANK REALM | Acting Strange | Go Easy | Siltbreeze 2012
MUSTA PARAATI | Ennustus | Peilitalossa | Svart 2012 (orig 1983)
SAD LOVERS & GIANTS | Clint | v/a: The Thing From The Crypt | Dark Entries 2013 (orig 1981)
EAT SKULL | Stupid Moon | III | Woodsist 2013
THIS KIND OF PUNISHMENT | From the Diary of Hermann Doubt | A Beard of Bees | Ajax 1993 (orig 1984)

Maybe we won't wait forever to do this again! We had fun.

Some things haven't changed since I gave up the regular gig. The pipeline of Aussie jams has remained continually primed, and this podcast contain five prime cuts of vinyl from Oz. SS remains an infallible hitmachine. Memphis is still the best rockin' landlocked place in the USA.

CCR Headcleaner delivers the most premium knuckledragging scuzzpunk devastation of the night, gnarling up gutpunch riffs and perfectly encapsulating the paradoxical plight of being the life of the party.

And the dreamiest swoony croon you'll hear here is not from the swansong by Peter Jefferies, but by Rob from Eat Skull who is charmingly emoting his ass off with real beauty. Eat Skull has joined the rare pantheon of bands who've made three great first albums that have gotten better and better with each release.

Ghastly Spats takes the cake as tonight's band I most wish I'd started. I could totally play drums at least as good. Maybe even guitar, too. Probably not as clever as these guys and gals, though. They work the crude angles brilliantly, and this may be the most thoroughly satisfying low-brow/no-brow 7" with > 4 songs since Kill the Hippies dropped Will Not Overstimulate.

Sorry to keep you waiting on a pulse-check of our record collection. We've been keeping up quite well still, but also finding time to spend exciting weekends in places like Redding, Fresno, and Bakersfield to take pictures of old roadside weirdness, peeling paint, neon signs, graffiti, and trash.

Friday, July 13, 2012

AFS v. 357-358 ~ feat. Spray Paint live on KDVS!

A. Spray Paint played a killer thriller of a live set on Freeform KDVS 90.3 FM last night, and here's a one-hour podcast including the entire performance, capped off by a jammed-out version of the churning, slow-burning B-side of their brand-new 2nd 7" single on SS Records, featuring guest saxophone by Mr. SS himself, Scott Soriano. We filled almost a half hour at the end of the program with a rambling interview which discussed the band's other musical activities, how they play their instruments so good, funny stories behind some of their songs, pro wrestling, etc.

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SPRAY PAINT Live in Studio A setlist:
         Pro Knife
         Dripping the Rails
         Psychic Doug
         Nose Whisky
         Jimi Hendrix's Apartment
         Yawn Factory
         Squaw
         Spock Fingers
         Canadian Trash
         Pink Pus      w/ special guest saxophone by Scott Soriano

B. Also, earlier this week on KDVS, Fuzzbox Flynn and I subbed for Phil and Trotsky again, and you can have a listen to what we played...

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LENZ | Hourglass | Under Neon 12-inch EP | Tic Tac Totally 2012
THE CUFFS | You Can Come True | Private View 7" | Ride the Snake *new
DEEP TIME | Gold Rush | self-titled | Hardly Art *new
PSYCHIC FELINE | Vampires | Blood Dolphin 7-inch | self released 2012
SAD HORSE | You Are Idiots | Purple On Purple Makes Purple | Water Wing *new
CONSTANT MONGREL | B. Crystal | Everything Goes Wrong | R.I.P. Society / 80/81 *new
SPRAY PAINT | Spock Fingers | Spock Fingers 7" | SS Records *new
MORDECAI | Drag Down | Drag Down 7-inch | Wantage USA *new
REPULSE | Sweeties | Habershon Ways 7-inch | Cameleon *new (orig. 1982)
TRONICS | Love Backed By Force | Love Backed By Force | What's Your Rupture? *new (orig. 1982)
BRIAN CROOK | Living Death | Bathysphere | Meds *new
FLIPPER | End the Game | v/a: Live at Target | Subterranean 1982
FACTRIX | Ballad of the Grim Rider | Scheintot | Superior Viaduct *new (orig. 1981)
GHEDALIA TAZARTES | Rien Qu'au Soleil | Diasporas | Dais 2012 (orig. 1979)
FRONT 242 | U-Men | Geography | New Dance 1982
MONOSHOCK | Striking a Match in the Year 4007 | Runnin' Ape-Like from the Backwards Superman: 1989-1995 | SS Records 2004 (orig 1994)

Anybody a player for a sealed copy of Dynamite by Kiss on 8-track?

Friday, June 22, 2012

AFS v. 356 ~ Blinded Me w/ Psy Ants

Thursday, May 31, 2012

AFS v. 355 ~ Officer Friendly!

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

AFS v. 354 ~ Pinch Hitting

Thursday, March 29, 2012

AFS v. 353 ~ Godspeed 209 live on KDVS!

This week in AFS...

* the final regularly scheduled Art for Spastics show!
* live knuckle-dragging scuzzpunk devastation by Godspeed 209!
* exploring the several ways that Stockton is magnificent!

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INDIAN BINGO | Vomit on Your Coffee Table | split 7" w/ Ambulance | Independent Project 1989
THE FEELING OF LOVE | I Could Be Better Than You But I Don't Wanna Change | split 7" w/ Ty Segall | Permanent *new
EL JESUS DE MAGICO | Bone Knife/Whole World is Gone | Just Deserts | Columbus Discount *new
G. GREEN | Sounds Famous | Funny Insurance 7" | 12XU *new
THEE SPIVS | Men Don't Cry | v/a: The World's Lousy With Ideas Vol. 9 7" | Almost Ready *new
GODSPEED 209 | Glob of Spit | live in Studio A
GODSPEED 209 | La La La
GODSPEED 209 | Animal English
GODSPEED 209 | Moses
GODSPEED 209 | White Boys
GODSPEED 209 | Stockton is Magnificent
GODSPEED 209 | Government
PERE UBU | Final Solution | Final Solution b/w Cloud 149 7" | Hearthan 1976
TRIPOD JIMMIE | Autumn Leaves | Long Walk Off a Short Pier | Do Speak 1982
NORTHERN BUSHMEN | Fucking Wildly in the Wheat Fields | self-titled 12" EP | Peas Kor 1991
FEEDTIME | Fastbuck | Today is Friday | SS Records *new (orig 1985)
S.P.U.D. | Jesus Extreme | Sour | Flying Nun 1990
SILVERFISH | One Silver Dollar | One Silver Dollar 7" | Pathological 1989
THE DICTAPHONE | Controlled Meetings | Controlled Meetings 7" | Sweet Rot *new
STRETCHHEADS | Trippy Dead Zone | Pish in Your Sleazebag | Blast First 1991
ANAL BABES | 24 | Cocaine Swastika 10" | Incognito/Pit's Bull 1998
BILLY BAO | Borders of Mass Deception | Fuck Separation 10" | SS Records 2007
SPLOTCH | History of Garbage | Have Another Tantrum | Menlo Park 1994
SHIT & SHINE | Woodpecker | Jream Baby Jream | Riot Season *forthcoming
PAIN TEENS | Bannoy | Case Histories | Anomie 1989
BUNKUM | Chainsaw Overture | Easy to Take Hard to Swallow | Meaningless 1989
IN THE NURSERY | Remain | When Cherished Dreams Come True | Paragon 1983
NO TREND | Cancer | Teen Love 7" | No Trend 1983
THE COLONELS | Dig Her Up | Guitarmageddon 7" | Sacramento 2001 *request!
WOUNDED LION | I'm Sad | IVXLCDM | In The Red 2011

For most of the last 17½ years, I've hosted a regular weekly program at Freeform KDVS 90.3 FM in Davis, and it's been a great time!

I never did tire of finding and playing all kindsa new and underheard music for you to hear, nor did I get tired of meticulously planning musical segueways or diagramming excursions through styles and genres of music. Having discovered KDVS at an early age, it was very natural of me to enjoy a wide variety of music, and I hope that openness rubbed off on some people.

Even as Australia continues to rise, I do feel like the punk/noise/DIY/underground might've peaked a few years ago, but I still do find plenty to enjoy every week among the records, tapes, demos, and streams that continue to cram the mailbox at KDVS and my P.O. box through perhaps too many purchases. 'Til I'm down to my last dollar, that's when I'll buy my last record.

I won't say "I quit" KDVS or this blog because I know I'll be subbing for DJs who are out sick or outta town or pulling all-nighters for study or term papers, but I can't forecast the frequency of these radio appearances. I do promise that I'll continue to post 'em up right here so you can have a listen. I might also be using this blog for more writing. I used to do a lot more of that before my weekly schedule began to get too crowded.

There are several reasons why I'm stepping back now--let's call it an indefinite hiatus--and chief among them are that I'm trying to explore more interests for which I've not made enough time over the last few years. I used to hike to the top of a mountain every week or two, but I haven't done that in a few years now. I used to travel a lot more, and I always wished that I could chronicle those travels better than just writing Yelp reviews of the places where we ate. I just happened to find a perfectly functional Polaroid SX-70 at an estate sale, so now I'm excited to get started on doing that. ALSO...I'd like to have a band that lasts longer than 1-2 shows or 7-8 practices...maybe record something! Make a record? Perhaps start a label? Not sure about that last part, but we'll see where this life-after-KDVS goes. There's also the friends and family who I didn't get to see often enough because I spent two nights per week at KDVS (one to do the show, another to train the next generation of new DJs). I definitely wanna spend more time with them, too.

KDVS will continue to be among the handful of very best radio stations in the world, so I hope you will continue to listen and support this station which I think does the best job of playing the newest of the new music that few if any others find. We've instilled in many new DJs the desire and the courage to knock over unturned stones to see what's there, and share it with you the listener, even if there's still lotsa mud on it. Bands, labels, etc., please keep sending your music there. If it deserves to be heard, I'm sure it will!

Check back here maybe every couple of weeks. See ya around! Thanks for listening!

Thursday, March 22, 2012

AFS v. 350-352 ~ Mama, I Want to Sing!

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

AFS v. 348-349 ~ Bring Back That Loving Feeling!

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

AFS v. 347 ~ Darlingchemicalia live in Studio A!

Thursday, February 09, 2012

AFS v. 346 ~ Crazy About Love

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

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

& Woolen Men

Monday, January 30, 2012

AFS v. 344 ~ Better Late Than Never!

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

AFS v. 343 ~ It's So Obvious!

Monday, January 09, 2012

AFS v. 342 ~ Best of 2011

This week in AFS...

* My top 25 LPs of 2011

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, January 03, 2012

AFS v. 341 ~ Tempe, AZ, Scene Report

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

AFS v. 340 ~ Free-Form Rock & Roll