Now on Tour: PUFFY AREOLAS!

Puffy Areolas from Toledo, Ohio, are touring the Midwest, West Coast, Southwest, and Mid-South in support of their killer new LP In the Army 1981 on Siltbreeze.

These knuckle-dragging scuzz-punk devastators have been killer on 7" and 12" and reportedly slay live. They are the band I most wish I could've started myself. I am so stoked to have them coming west for the first time. For bands I like, I'll book you a show in Sacto or Davis. But for bands I especially like, I'll book you a whole tour. One band per year. I hereby declare Puffy Areolas the band of 2010.

This tour's already shoved off from their hometown of Toledo, Ohio, so if they get near you, go see 'em!

If you haven't heard 'em yet (then you obviously haven't been listening to these podcasts, huh?), Puffy Areolas are an epic scuzzed-out psych/proto-punk time-capsule sorta band with a peerless face-melting guitar harkening back to the original Psychedelic Speed Freaks, High Rise...or like Chrome's Alien Soundtracks, but wilder, gnarlier, and more combustible. That guitarist is Damon formerly of Tyvek (he was the wah-stompin' x-factor of the first few Tyvek tours!). Putting "ex-Tyvek" and "Siltbreeze" on a flier always counts for something on the West Coast, right?

Here's Mr. Siltbreeze's own words to describe 'em...
Finally, from the land of noxious hotdogs comes the debut long player by Puffy Areolas, entitled 'In The Army 1981'. Complete & utter blackout rock, like a showdown in Tony Packo's between Monoshock & Tales Of Terror. There's no losers here folks, only weiners. Get it? Seriously, this lp ribs the scab off the end of 'Raw Power' & envisions a world of Bosch-like carnality where 'Death Trip' doesn't finish, it gets a second wind. Then a third. Is it me or are these guys just too good?!

Th 7/29 Detroit, MI @ Jumbo's Bar (3736 Third St) w/ Photo Martyr and Morph & Mindy
Fri 7/30 Chicago, IL @ Crown Liquors (2821 N Milwaukee Ave) w/ Eric & the Happy Thoughts, Sleepovers, Outer Minds
Sat 7/31 Chicago, IL @ Ruben's Place (1620 N Fairfield) w/ Bitchin Bajas, Running, Lechuguillas
Sun 8/1 Milwaukee, WI @ Circle A (932 E Chambers St) w/ Aluminum Knot Eye
Mon 8/2 Iowa City, IA @ House Party (411 E Davenport) w/ Vomit Fuck
Tue 8/3 Mankato, MN @ Sugar Room (200 E Walnut St) w/ Gender Slave & Dagger Tongue
Wed 8/4 DRIVE
Thu 8/5 DRIVE
Fri 8/6 Seattle @ TBA
Sat 8/7 Olympia @ Le Voyeur (404 E 4th Ave) w/ Total Abuse, Streetwalkers, HPP
Sun 8/8 Portland @ East End (203 SE Grand) w/ Eternal Tapestry & Meercaz
Mon 8/9 Sacramento @ The Hub (1819 23rd St) w/ Art Lessing & Flower Vato, Vol 4
Tue 8/10 San Francisco @ The Hemlock (1131 Polk St) w/ CCR Headcleaner, Arms & Legs
Wed 8/11 Oakland @ 21 Grand (416 25th St) w/ CCR Headcleaner, Deep Teens, Butcher Cover
Thu 8/12 live on KDVS (studio audience welcome)
Fri 8/13 L.A. @ Vlad the Retailer (4314 Melrose Ave) all ages w/ Robedoor
Sat 8/14 L.A. @ Spaceland (1717 Silver Lake Blvd) 21+ w/ Zig Zags
Sun 8/15 Phoenix @ Sound Kontrol (25th & Chambers) http://soundkontrol.co.nr/
Mon 8/16 Las Cruces, NM @ the Trainyard (102 W Conway #3W) w/ Far Corners, Shang-a-Lang, Sundowners
Tue 8/17 day off
Wed 8/18 Austin @ The Mohawk (912 Red River St) w/ The Young
Thu 8/19 Denton @ Rubber Gloves (411 E Sycamore) w/ White Drugs
Fri 8/20 Memphis @ Murphy's (1589 Madison Ave) w/ Fergus & Geronimo and True Sounds of Thunder
Sat 8/21 Lexington
Sun 8/22 drive home

AFS v. 277 ~ Death to the Softest of Soft Cops!

This week in AFS...

* featured artist: Ceramic Hobs!
* much listening for lonely late nights!

This week in AFS Can-Con...

* Eastern Provinces scene report

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MOONHEARTS | I Can Go On | self-titled | Tic Tac Totally *new
TY SEGALL | Imaginary Person | Melted | Goner *new
BRILLIANT COLORS | Never Mine | Never Mine 7" | Slumberland *new
THE OUTCASTS | Love is for Sops | Self Conscious Over You | Bagsnatcher 2005 (orig 1979)
FM KNIVES | Down the Street | Useless and Modern | Moo-La-La 2002
GANGLIANS | Jungle | July 2010 demo *super new
FUNGI GIRLS | Doldrums | Turquoise Hotel | HoZac *new
THE DEADBEATS | Your Cottage is Nice | I Can See it from the Rocks 7" | Vacant Lot 1989
HEATER | Black and Gold | God and Hair | Permanent *new
HOT GUTS | Da'rat Hessla | split 7" w/ Pop. 1280 | Badmaster *new
THE CYSTS | Quality Control/What's Wrong | The Cyst 7" | Seizure Palace *new
INDUCED LABOUR | Reality Breakdown [No Trend] | self-titled CS | no label *new
CERAMIC HOBS | Irreversible Liver Damage | Psychiatric Underground | PUMF/Mental Guru 1998
CERAMIC HOBS | Used Goods/Damaged Goods
COLOR RABBIT | Sanza | split CS w/ Tretetam | Ikuisuus *new
THE ETHER | I Need You | Folly CDR | Patente *new
RED MASS | You've Heard These Chords Before [Nervous Eaters] | split 10" w/ Strange Attractor | P. Trash *new
MESS FOLK | Two Timer | Modern Man 7" | Plastic Spoon *new
MEAT CURTAINS | Dream Pig/Starfish Fuck | split CS w/ Pompoir | Isolated Now Waves *new
MEAT CURTAINS | Get Rebel | v/a: East Infection 7" | Foul & Fair *new
DEAD WIFE | Gentleman Rapist | D.W.S.Y.H.F. 7" | Psychic Handshake *new
TONSSTARTSBANDHT | I'm a Welsh Souper | Midnite Cobras 7" | Psychic Handshake *new
SPECTRAL FORUM | title unknown | split CS w/ Doom Tickler | no label *new
CERAMIC HOBS | Islam Uber Alles/untitled #2 | Straight Outta Rampton | PUMF 2001
SAMUEL LOCKE WARD + DARREN BROWN | Fail Away | From the Privilege of the Grave | Grotto *new
BO KNOWS | I've Never Heard of You | split 12" w/ The Rebel | no label *new
LESLIE Q | Shake Your Left Leg | Into Handicapped | Menlo Park 1998
SHADOW RING | Disrupt the Band's Breathing/Oyster Shell | Lighthouse | Swill Radio 1999
CERAMIC HOBS | Blackpool Transport | Shaolin Master 7" | Idwal Fisher/Harbinger Sound 2001
A FRAMES | Weissensee [Neu]/Ice Cave | 3 3 3 | SS Records *new
CERAMIC HOBS | This Sore and Broken Blackpool Legacy | Psychiatric Underground
CERAMIC HOBS | These Dead Things
WINGTIP SLOAT | Blessed Nimbus, Churning | M31 7" | Sweet Portable Junket 1991
FIREWOOD | Rococo | It Must Be a 12" to Be Named 7" | Robber Baron 1997

If you are within earshot of Freeform KDVS 90.3 FM, get yourselves to these fantastic rock & roll shows. (The date for this one on the right is Wednesday, July 28.) No Stimulus on Sunday....Brandon can't get outta work. So, I'll be invoking Outer Zoning Committee, a krauty party band with dual basses surrounding me with G. Greeners and a Ganglian and a Stimulus dude. OZC big band!

So, I'm late to the Ceramic Hobs, but thanks to SS Records head honcho Scott Soriano, I was tipped off to a supply of unplayed Hobs material including their first two full-length CDs, two 7"es, a flexi, and a cassette. You can tap the source, too, by eBay-searching the band name. For fans of early Fall, Melchior and Wallers at their most experimental, Gods Gift, The Pheromoans, and whacked tape collage, the Ceramic Hobs are a must! Especially if you enjoy giant blocks of small-point text like I do!

I'd heard of this band before, but never heard 'em until Scott spun me the B-side of the Shaolin Master 7" a few weeks ago. I knew I must have anything available, and you livelong fans and noobs will hafta fight me for the rest of their sizable discography.

Here's a couple interviews with the band...
http://www.blastitude.com/17/CERAMICHOBS.htm
http://www.giag.lv/simmons/int-CERAMIC_HOBS-But_Shergar_Is_Fuckin_Dead_Ya_Cunts.htm

New best one-note bassline (sorry, Chosen Few!)...

AFS v. 276 ~ No Time to Waste

This week in AFS...

* Big Black Cloud's Dark Ages LP is finally officially out...get it!
* One of the top two preeminent pop geniuses of this earth--King Tuff--is on the West Coast now!
* White Boss and Sonskull new on Perennial...yet more utmost recommendables!
* The most criminally under-the-radar great record of 2010 so far...Samuel Locke Ward + Darren Brown!
* Uncovering a 19-year-old NZ time capsule!

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KING TUFF | Ruthie Ruthie | Was Dead | Colonel 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY | Cracked/Zit | self-titled | Sub Pop 2010
MOONHEARTS | Deathstar Pt. II | self-titled | Tic Tac Totally *new
BIG BLACK CLOUD | Time to Waste | Dark Age | Stank House *new
LUBRICATED GOAT | Promised Land | Paddock of Love | Red Eye/AmRep 1989
WHITE BOSS | Time Streams | self-titled | Perennial *new
SONSKULL | Perennial Death/Housing | Birth Scene/Rewind EP 12" | Perennial *new
WHITE LUNG | Shoot | It's the Evil | Deranged *new
STAR VEHICLE | Next Best Thing | High Roller 7" | no label 1996
CAROLEE | Exit Replacer | Exit Replacer CDR | no label *new
POP. 1280 | Neon Lights | split 7" w/ Hot Guts | Badmaster *new
SAMUEL LOCKE WARD + DARREN BROWN | The Blood Barrel Polka | From the Privilege of the Grave | Grotto *new
THE SPECTROMETERS | Dawn Lunch | 1/2 Mechanism 1/2 Organism 10" | The Cosmic Dept. *new
DAVID MITCHELL | Dead Dog in Port Chalmers | Dead Dog in Port Chalmers 7" | Xpressway 1991
CYCLOPS | Simpleton | Eh Simpleton 7" | Feel Good All Over 1991
DEAD C | Hell is Now Love | Hell is Now Love 7" | Siltbreeze 1991
CAR COMMERCIALS | S's Pawn | Prisoner of Type 7" | Soft Abuse *new
DEEP BRAIN THROMBOSIS | Glam Fail | v/a: A Range of Greatdividing | Unwucht *new (orig 2008)
SHOPTOPROCKERS | Cash in Fly Out | v/a: A Range of Greatdividing (orig 1991)
PRADADA | Wasted Indians | Phantasy Visions CDR | Hobo Cult *new
THE ETHER | Hustling Myself | Folly CDR | Patente *new
MONGST | The Glass Factory | Decolonisation | Isolated Now Waves *new
GOD | Meathead | Breach Birth 12" EP | Beggars Banquet 1990
TREES | Ashes | Freed of This Flesh | Crucial Blast *new
BLEAK | The Weather Vane | Vane | Projekt 1995
NEITHER/NEITHER WORLD | Seven Kinds of Sin | Maddening Montagery and Other Fantastic Stories | Dark Vinyl 1995



The other preeminent genius is Daniel DiMaggio of Home Blitz. If Daniel reads this, come out to the West Coast, please. I'll set the whole thing up, man! 'Til then, I'll be stoked to see King Tuff here even if he only plays Happy Birthday songs.

I know I've already said all I can say about the new Big Black Cloud LP except...It's arrived! Now buy it for $10 + postage here...
http://www.stankhouserecords.com/buy.html
...and never miss 'em if you have the chance to see 'em live!

AFS v. 275 ~ Should Not Go Unnoticed!

This week in AFS...

* Hear White Lung live in the KDVS studio!
* Hear Pigeon Religion live in the KDVS studio!
* Introducing Hell-Kite (right), live in the KDVS studio!
* R.I.P., Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs

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NEONATES | Place in Space | self-titled CS | Effeminate *new
INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS | Skeletons | Skeletons 2x7" | Subterranean 1981
NOVAK | Attention/Six Pack | Tention Hello 7" | Dumb 1979
HONEYMOON KILLERS | Ariane | Subtitled Remix 12" EP | Crammed Discs 1983
MILLIGRAM RETREAT | Allegement | v/a: Kamp Holland 2xLP | Enfant Terrible *new
MYTHS | The Wedding March | self-titled 3" CD | self-released *new
NÜ SENSAE | New Lies | TV. Death and the Devil | Nominal *new
VAPID | Septic | Practically Dead | Nominal/Deranged 2010
WHITE LUNG | Tale | It's the Evil | Deranged *new

~~~~~~~~~~~~ Recorded Live in Studio A @ KDVS, 7/9/10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
WHITE LUNG | Rat
WHITE LUNG | Loose Heels
WHITE LUNG | Elf / 546 Kids
WHITE LUNG | Wild Failure
WHITE LUNG | Magazines
WHITE LUNG | Two Seen
WHITE LUNG | D.O.I.
WHITE LUNG | Atlanta
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~ Recorded Live in Studio A @ KDVS, 7/8/10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
HELL-KITE | Hunter
HELL-KITE | Cabin
HELL-KITE | Wild Thing
HELL-KITE | Veins
HELL-KITE | Loose Strands
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~ Recorded Live in Studio A @ KDVS, 7/8/10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
PIGEON RELIGION | Warm Insides
PIGEON RELIGION | There Are No Boundaries
PIGEON RELIGION | Scorpion Milk
PIGEON RELIGION | Dust
PIGEON RELIGION | Henderson
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
REPRESSIVE PROTEINS | Bowel Romp | self-titled CDR | no label *new
CLEAR LEADER | Sewer/Nothing to Wear | Sewerwell CS | no label *new
SOCKEYE | Need Not Go Unnoticed | v/a: Eerie Bazaar | Eerie Materials 1997
THE FUGS | Kill for Peace | self-titled | ESP-Disk 1966
FOOT OX | Charlie Brown | O O O | Stank House *new
EAT SKULL | What's So Magnetic? | Crawl for Freedom CS | Palto Flats *new

AFS v. 274 ~ Solar Death

This week in AFS...

* A sneak-peak of the forthcoming Moonhearts debut LP
* White Lung's back on the West Coast
* Pigeon Religion, too!
* tons more sunburnt crispy Arizona punk-of-today
* Zond, the down-under sound beyond Boris

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MOONHEARTS | Can't Find My Way/Eat My Shorts | self-titled | Tic Tac Totally *forthcoming
UNWED TEENAGE MOTHERS | (I'm Gonna) Blackout Tonight | If That's Love 7" | Tic Tac Totally 2009
THE SHANKS | Backstabber | Backstabber 7" | Tic Tac Totally 2009
MATT K. SHRUGG | C.I.A. | Gone Ashtray | Tic Tac Totally *new
RED MASS | You've Heard These Chords Before [Nervous Eaters] | split 10" w/ Strange Attractor | P. Trash *new
THE NORMALS | Hardcore | Almost Ready 7" | Lectric Eye 1978
CINECYDE | Radiation Sickness | Positive Action 7" | Tremor 1979
PAINTBOX | Thaw/Daichikyuu = Save the Ground | Trip, Trance & Travelling | Prank 2009
WHITE LUNG | 80,000 X | Atlanta 7" | Deranged 2010
WHITE LUNG | Backhouse | Magazines 7" | Deranged 2008
EXPANDO BRAIN | I Blame You | Prouder Than Chowder 7" | Vacant Lot 1989
EXPANDO BRAIN | Flogging a Dead Relationship | Mother of God! It's... | Vacant Lot 1986
SORRY | Imaginary Friend | Imaginary Friend | Radiobeat 1984
FOOT OX | Colorado Springs | split 7" w/ Splinter Cake | Folktale *new
JJCNV | Brand New | Two Hits and a Miss | Flab Fjord *new
SOFT SHOULDER | Rules | People Problems 7" | Gilgongo *new
PIGEON RELIGION | Huge Bummer | Dead Boss 7" | Gilgongo 2009
PIGEON RELIGION | Shootist | Scorpion Milk 7" | Parts Unknown 2009
GANGWISH | Sea of Love | Space Case vol. I 7" | Dear Skull *new
ADULT THEMES | Young Bodies | Four Fires 7" | Cardboard *new
AND ALSO THE TREES | Wallpaper Dying | Shantell 7" | Future 1983
BLESSURE GRAVE | Changes in the Darkness | Judged by 12, Carried by 6 | Alien8 *new
ZOND | Choam | self-titled | R.I.P. Society *new
LOOP | Collision | Collision 12" EP | Chapter 22 1988
LOOP | Spinning | The World in Your Eyes | Reactor 1987
BILLY SYNDROME | Crazy Bongos/More | Vicious Burger | 109 Records 1990
UZI RASH | I'm a Trash Bag | We Live on Trash: Lite | Freedom School *new
RON HOUSE | Street Was a Soundtrack | Blind Boy in the Backseat | Columbus Discount *new (orig 1986)
THE REBEL | Maureen [Sade] | v/a: Flottante Tension d' Eclipse | SDZ *new
U.S. GIRLS | Lunar Life | Lunar Life 7" | Atelier Ciseaux *new
BIRDS OF MAYA | Sunday | Ready to Howl | Richie/Tesostertunes *new