Art for Spastics v. 127

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MEERCAZ // Lovesick // Unlust 7” // Point Wrex *new
DOGBITE 65 // You Better Run, Steve Rodgers // Motorbike Poop CDR // self-released 2005
BLACK TIME // Ambulance // Blackout // In the Red 2006
TRACTOR SEX FATALITY // A.M. Morning Love // The Early Year 2xCD // Scatalogical Liberation Front *new

TRACTOR SEX FATALITY // Simple Man [Lynyrd Skynyrd]
KOUNT FISTULA // Barky´s Machine // Dudeical Visions // Scatalogical Liberation Front *new
BIPOLAR BEAR // Mantut // split 7” w/Watusi Zombie // Kill Shaman *new
GERMAN // Acht // self-titled CDR // DNT *new
PINK REASON // Storming Heaven // Cleaning the Mirror // Siltbreeze *new
LOS LLAMARADA // Je Sois // The Exploding Now // Ss recordS *new
MICROPHONES // Antlers, or Come With Me, I Love You // Antlers b/w Lanterns 7” // K Records 2003 *request
GOWNS // Mercy Springs // Red State // Cardboard *new

APPLE SNAILS // Wind Presses Against the Stubborn Hands // split cassette w/The Mighty Acts of God // DNT *new
PLANTS // The Sky Above You Seeks the Below // Double Infinity // Paradigms *new
MONGST // trk 6 // One Trk Mnd CDR // Isolated Now Waves *new
JAZZFINGER // The Arrangement // Wixxon Flag Bearer CDR // DNT *new
IN FLUX // Non Palace // Non Guns CS // Isolated Now Waves *new

MATTRESS // Trying // Who Do You Lust? CDR // Tiny Wolf *new
MARISSA MAGIC // trk 7 // Abeyance CDR // self-released *new
SOCIAL JUNK // Mind/Got a Right // DBA Tape Club split CS w/Robedoor // Deathbomb Arc *new
MINDFLAYER // Let´s Play Holy War Fuckers // Expedition to the Hairier Peaks // Corleone *new
SOFT SHOULDER // song 3 // split CS w/Shearing Pinx // Isolated Now Waves *new
SHEARING PINX // Axes // Poison Hands // Gilgongo *new
WINNING // Legendary Savings // This Is an Ad for Cigarettes // Ache *new
LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS // Chunky Dog-Like Face // Glamorous Piles & Puffy Saddlebags // Apop *new

Art for Spastics v. 126

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LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS // Lady Shoes Remain Attached // Glamorous Piles & Puffy Saddlebags // Apop *new
BUSINESS LADY // Number Nine // self-titled CDR // self-released 2004
SHEARING PINX // South Dakota // Damaged DNA & Sheer Obliviousness CDR // Isolated Now Waves *new
ANIMAL WRITES // trk 1 // Make Them Suffer CDR // Below PDX *new
ARGUMENTIX // Snapped Today // Nightmarcher CS // Below PDX *new

ARGUMENTIX // Bastard Trail
STAB AT GOD // trk 10 // split CDR w/Rainbow Jayne: Well, Actually It´s Not Good to Be Home, Well // Below PDX *new arrival

RAINBOW JAYNE // trks 11-12
UNICORN BASEMENT // Yoga Fire // Greater Than Sexy // Unnecessary Friction *new
A TROIS DANS LES WC // Contagion // v/a: BIPPP: French Synth-Wave 1979/85 // Born Bad *new (orig 1978)
HUMAN EYE // Spiders & Their Kin // Spiders & Their Kin 7” // Cass *new *request
HUMAN EYE // Hologram // Dinosaur Bones 7” // Ypsilanti 2006 *request
BLACK TIME // ESP Medium Discord // split 7” w/The Husbands // Show & Tell *new

BLACK TIME // Charm Offensive
THE REMENBERS // Roadrunner // It´s 7” // Plastic Idol *new
BOSTON CHINKS // Sleepyhead // Coltrane 7” // Goner *new
THE OSCARS // Limited Offer // Jump for Joy 7” // Goner *new
SWEET ROT // Drug Fiend // Drug Fiend 7” // Square Wave *new
THE VULCANEERS // Ankle Breaker // Ankle Breaker 7” // Radio X 1994
HARPOON GUNS // Brain Freeze // 2nd 7” // Square Wave/Eliminator *new
WAX MUSEUMS // Mosquito // Introducing the... 7” // Rehab 2006
WAX MUSEUMS // Stop...Don´t Stop // Claw You Like a Cat 7” // HoZac *new
LEPER PRINT // So Useless // Doppleganger 7” // Eat *new
SPIDER // Spiderlili // Charlie 7” // HoZac 2006 *request
VOLT // Man on the Ground // Man of the Ground 7” // HoZac 2006
CHEVEU // Superhéro // Clara Vénus 7” // SDZ/Royal 2006 *request
ICK // Je Cours // La Parade Des Sans Illusions 7” // Enfant Terrible *new
LE FLANGE DU MAL // You´ll Learn to Like It // What Does Not Kill Me I Hate // Kimosciotic 2004
LE FLANGE DU MAL // Weather War // Carrion, My Wayward Son // Kimosciotic *forthcoming
THE POPE // Uma Faca (Tutsi Frutti) // split 10-inch w/Bipolar Bear // Rococo *new
THE POPE // Outerspace Olmecs (Free Tibet)

AIDS WOLF vs. ATHLETIC AUTOMATON // Ending of an Old Regime // Clash of the Life-Force Warriors // Skin Graft *new
MAINLINER // Black Sky // Mellow Out // Charnel Music 1996
LAND OF BURIED TREASURE // trk 3 // East 36th and Celebrity Weather Report // Tower Control *new

Art for Spastics v. 125

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UPDATE (03/15/07)!
Sorry about the confusion, dudes....Thanks to the time change coming early this year, the archive is catching shows an hour early, so the link above only contains the second hour of AFS v. 125.

If you want the first hour of AFS v. 125, CLICK THIS LINK HERE.

That's a two-hour mp3 file, too, but the first hour is the last half of Calamity Janie's program (which rocks, so you might as well enjoy it, too), and the second hour is the first half of AFS v. 125.

Our archive adminstrator has addressed the problem now, so next week will be okay.

The second half of the show begins at this link...
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COUNTERFEIT MONSTERS // Took My Feet Off // self-titled CDR // self-released 2002
MR. & MRS. TRIBUTE TO UGLINESS // Dislocation Nation // The Beauty Pageant of Cereal CDR // self-released 2005
LEPER PRINT // Shower Curtain // Doppleganger 7” // Eat *new
HUMAN EYE // Desperate Hands // Spiders & Their Kin 7” // Cass *new
ICK // Avoir 20 Ans // La Parade Des Sans Illusions 7” // Enfant Terrible *new
LE FLANGE DU MAL .// Indigenous Evaporator // Carrion, My Wayward Son // Kimosciotic *forthcoming
SWIMSUIT RIGHTS // Sad Walk // split 7” w/ Lord Galvar // self-released *new
EX-COCAINE // The Weather // Bored Fortress 7” Club split w/ GHQ // Not Not Fun *new
THE GOSLINGS // Saw-Horse // Bored Fortress 7” Club split w/ Yellow Swans // Not Not Fun *new

ROSEMARY KRUST // Orphans [Teenage Jesus & the Jerks] // The First Two Weeks CDR // self-released *new
LOS LLAMARADA // The Discovery // The Exploding Now // Ss recordS *new
DER TEENAGE PANZER KORPS // Creepy Books // Harmful Emotions // Siltbreeze *new
JUNKPILE JIMMY // Sweet Suicide // Alberhill 2xLP // Cartel Ilustre 2006
SUPERSTITIONS // Zombie Trot // No One Gets Out Alive cassette // Red Handed *new
SUPERSTITIONS // On a Sinkin´ Ship
A FRAMES // Radiation Generation // Neutron Bomb 7” // Dragnet 2001
THE REMENBERS // It´s // It´s 7” // Plastic Idol *new
HIROSHIMA ROCKS AROUND // Stocks // HRA666 // No-Fi *new

HIROSHIMA ROCKS AROUND // Fuck Yr Girl
BIPOLAR BEAR // The Entertainer // split 10” w/ The Pope // Rococo *new
A FRAMES .// Weissensee [Neu] // Crutches 7” // Royal 2003
BLUE SCREAMING // Gunpoint // v/a: Messthetics #101 // Hyped2Death *new
RESTRICTED HOURS // Getting Things Done // v/a: Messthetics #102 // Hyped2Death *new
COMET GAIN // Never Die // v/a: Imagine the Shapes // What's Your Rupture? *new
SKI INSTRUCTORS // Horoscope // Kids on the Street 7” // Dulcitone *new
HOME BLITZ // Apocalyptic Grades 2005 AD // Apocalyptic Grades 2005 AD 7” // self-released 2005
CAR COMMERCIALS // Holland // Jar 7” // Leaf Leaf *new
LITTLE CLAW // Movies for You // forthcoming LP // not released *new
CREEPING NOBODIES // title unknown // v/a: Spoox 1 CDR // Spoox Magazine *new

USA IS A MONSTER // Dimensions Dementia // Geronimo 7” picdisc // Lovepump United *new
MYTHICAL BEAST // title unknown // v/a: Spire Ground - A Bored Fortress Compilation 3” CDR // Not Not Fun *new
GHOST // Hemicyclic Anthelion // In Stormy Nights // Drag City *new

Art for Spastics v. 124

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THE TRASHIES // I Want I Need // Let It Be Trashed 7” // Out of Order 2006
HIBACHI STRANGLERS // Parking Lot // Our City Doesn´t Stink All the Time 7” // Florida´s Dying 2006
THE TIME FLYS // Romance + Violence // Rebels of Babylon // Birdman *new
WAX MUSEUMS // Jakoff Rat // Claw You Like a Cat 7” // HoZac *new
TRADITIONAL FOOLS // Standing in Front of Poseur // Live at Wizard Mountain cassette // Wizard Mountain Tapes *new
DER SUBMARINE RACERS // Space Burrito // MySpace mp3 *new
TYVEK // Give It Up // 2nd 7” // What´s Your Rupture? *forthcoming
TIMES NEW VIKING // Little Amps // Present The Paisley Reich // Siltbreeze *new
TIMES NEW VIKING // New Times, New Hope
SHOWMAN & THE THUNDEROUS STACCATOS // Speed Crazy // Speed Crazy + 3 7” // Repent 1995
CHARLIE & THE MOONHEARTS // ...of Robbing Banks (pts. I & II) // self-titled cassette // Red Handed *new
OBLIVIANS // Jim Cole // Call the Shots 7” // Goner 1994 *request
APE CITY R&B // Oh Lil´ Girl // She's Candy Coated 7” // Jenasol 2005
SUPERSTITIONS // Hell on My Heels // No One Gets Out Alive cassette // Red Handed *new

SUPERSTITIONS // Dance the Hempen Jig
COUNTRY TEASERS // Little Black Clouds // Satan Is Real Again // Crypt 1996
THE FALL // Wings // Palace of Swords Reversed // Rough Trade 1987 (orig 1980)

SPITPOPE // Wasting Away // Sing a Song of Satan 7” // Go Ahead 1990
BIPOLAR BEAR // Zionista! // split 10” w/ The Pope // Rococo *new
TALBOT TAGORA // Future Flannel(s) // Volcano Girls // self-released *new
SHEARING PINX // Pumpknot // Poison Hands // Gilgongo *new
AIDS WOLF // Letter to Al Johnson // Clash of the Life-Force Warriors // Skin Graft *new
KK RAMPAGE // A Dark Desire // split 3” CDR w/ Monitors // DNT *new
ELOE OMOE // Illidrium // Marauders // Animal Disguise *new

GANG WIZARD // Cattle Car Tippage // Atlas of Cancer // Deathbomb Arc/Accidie/Gilgongo *new
TORTURING NURSE // Noiselady // split DBA Tape Club cassette w/ David Kendall // Deathbomb Arc *new
SWORD HEAVEN // Cults of New Jersey // v/a: Friends & Relatives Records Presents: Volume Two 2Xcd // Friends & Relatives *new
LOS LLAMARADA // They Walk in the Air // The Exploding Now // Ss records *new
SHATTER // Each Moment // Little Man 7” // Fuck Farout Political 1990
RUSTED SHUT // Come to the Well // Rehab // Emperor Jones 2005
BRAINBOMBS // Insects // Stinking Memory 7” // Anthem *new
SHOCKHEADED PETERS // Thumbs of a Murderer // v/a: Fight! // Cathexis 1987

BENE GESSERIT // Mickey, Please... // v/a The Lost Tapes // Minimal Wave *new arrival (orig 1985)
OPPENHEIMER ANALYSIS // Men in White Coats // self-titled 12” // Minimal Wave 2005 (orig 1982)
TGV // Partie 1 // v/a: BIPPP: French Synth-Wave 1979/85 // Born Bad *new (orig 1981)
BERNARD SZAJNER // Welcome (To Deathrow) // v/a: So Young But So Cold: Underground French Music 1977-1983 // Tigersushi 2004 (orig 1980)
YIP YIP // Familyman Conundrum // Pro-Twelve Thinker // Strictly Amateur Films 2005

Art for Spastics v. 123

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THE TERMINALS // Ride // Forget About Never // Dead Beat *new
BLUE // In the Cold River/Waistband // Moe Ho Speed 7" // ERL 1992
TIMES NEW VIKING // Ladders // ...Present the Paisley Reich // Siltbreeze *new
LITTLE CLAW // Domestication of Manchild // forthcoming LP // no label *new
AIDS WOLF vs ATHLETIC AUTOMATON // Ending of an Old Regime // Clash of the Life-Force Warriors // Skin Graft *new

SHEARING PINX // Blood Corridor // Poison Hands // Gilgongo *new
LORD GALVAR // Dissemble and Throb // split 7" w/ Swimsuit Rights // Self-Released *new
NO AGE // Get Hurt // DVD // self-released 2006
SIGHTINGS // Castle Moat // Castle Moat 7" // Fusetron 2005
STORM BUGS // Blackheath Episode // Up the Middle, Down the Sides // Fusetron *new (orig 1978)

ENSTRUCTION // Keep Out of My Body Bag // Keep Out of My Body Bag 7" // Deus ex Machina 1982
BLISS BLAST // Baby Is a Breather // demo cassette // self-released 1982
UNOVIDUAL // Like I Am, Comme Je Suis // v/a: The Lost Tapes, a Compilation of Minimal Wave from Europe ´81-´86 // Minimal Wave *new (orig 1986)
SLUIK // You´ve Got to Listen to Me // Back to Burnsley 7" // Minimal Wave *new (orig 1983)

MUDBOY // Side B (excerpt) // Beats cassette // Self-Released *new
MUDBOY // Beast Beat // Let It Be A Nightingale Then/Whose Words Are My Words // Bread and Animals *new
SMEGMA // The Breathing Method // v/a: Three Minute Symphony // Xtract 1984
KILL UGLY POP // Let´s Get Real Gone // v/a: Three Minute Symphony
LOS LLAMARADA // It Speaks When I´m Silent // The Exploding Now // Ss recordS *forthcoming
PINK REASON // Thrush // Cleaning the Mirror // Siltbreeze *new
ANTLERS // Existential Energy // Live // Electric Eggplant 2006
SAN KAZAKGASCAR // Exhale, Furnace // Live in Studio A // Lather *new
...WORMS // Impossible // self-titled 7" EP // Marriage 2005
MODERNSTATE // Intro/Of Sheli // Highwater Moonboot // Lucky Madison/Woodson Lateral 2004
PLANTS // Gnostic Flame // Double Infinity // Paradigms *new
PRURIENT // Apple Tree Victim // Pleasure Ground // Load *new
HIGH MOUNTAIN TEMPEL // drugsmeditationhypnosis // Pacific Sky Burial (Axaxaxas Mlö) // Lotushouse *new

Art for Spastics v. 122

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ATOMS // Beetlejacket // v/a: Killed By Death vol. 1: Swingalongamuck // Redrum 1979
THE DOOR & THE WINDOW // I Hate Sound // v/a: I Hate the Pop Group // no label 1980?
CAR COMMERCIALS // Water // Jar 7" // Leaf Leaf *new
CAR COMMERCIALS // Growing Up [Bruce Springsteen] // A Young Victoriaville cassette // Leaf Leaf *new
CAR COMMERCIALS // On the Road // A Young Victoriaville
OCS // Crime on My Mind // 3 & 4 dbl CD // Narnack 2005

PINK REASON // Up the Sleeve // Cleaning the Mirror // Siltbreeze *new
EVOLUTIONARY JASS BAND // Welcome Aboard // Mega Mix CDR // no label *new
ANTENNAS ERUPT // French Albert // Magical Energy // Ss recordS 2004
PINK CANOES untitled // self-titled CDR // Guerilla *new
LAND OF BURIED TREASURE // tracks 2 & 3 (untitled) // East 36th and Celebrity Weather Report // Tower Control *new
CIRCLE feat. VERDE // untitled // Tower // Last Visible Dog *new
QUILTS // Pink Hotel // split cassette w/ Quintana Roo // DNT *new
TOM CARTER & INCA ORE // Chiseling the Hidden Diamond // Rainbow Trout // Self-Released *new
BARRABARRACUDA // Give Me a Shelter // Abasement Tapes // Not Not Fun *new
MANTUT // Pope of Japan // ...the Adventures of Tony Danger // DNT *new

MANTUT // Pope of Long Beach
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY // The Feel of It // Advance Tracks CDR // no label *new
S.I.D.S. // Wind Up Doll // My Other Vehicle Is a Stretcher 7"+DVD/CDR // Goodnight *new
DESTRUCTION UNIT // Warm Leatherette [the Nomal] // Death to the Old Flesh // Empty 2004
HEIST // Asio Slut // 18 Gears of Hell // Big Fred 1998
HEIST // Total Mental Pain Inflictor
HEIST // The Dung´s Been Flung
GG ALLIN & THE SCUMFUCS // Convulsions // Eat My Fuc // Black & Blue 1984
THE FINKS // The Nomad // Fill´er Up and Go! // Dionysus 1994
HEAD // Girl-Girl Action // No Hugging No Learning // Evil Clown *new
HEAD // Alien Autobiography

Art for Spastics v. 121

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art for Spastics v. 120

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

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

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

Art for Spastics v. 119½

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

Art for Spastics v. 119

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

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

Art for Spastics v. 118

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

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

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

Art for Spastics v. 117½ (bonus hour)

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

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

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

Art for Spastics v. 117

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

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

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

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

Art for Spastics v. 116

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

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

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

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

Art for Spastics v. 115

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

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

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

Art for Spastics v. 114

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

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

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

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

Art for Spastics v. 113

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

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

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

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

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

Art for Spastics v. 112

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

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

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

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

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

Art for Spastics v. 111

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

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

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

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




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

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

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



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

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