AFS v. 281 ~ You Call That HC?/That's Not HC!/I'll Show You HC!

This week on AFS...

* Hari Kari and Hooded live KDVS Studio A sessions
* Catch Hari Kari/Hooded on tour
* The latest in vinyl-worthy cassettes: Waste Rig and The Memories

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HYGIENE | Fixed Odds Betting Terminal | Things That Dreams Are Made Of 7" | La Vida es un Mus *new
THE UV RACE | Society Made Me Selfish | self-titled | Aarght! 2009
BANQUE ALLEMANDE | Keine Regierung | Eins, Zwei | S.S. Records *new
BIG BLACK CLOUD | Allergic to Love | Dark Age | Stankhouse *new
ART THIEVES | I've Had It | v/a: HoZac Hookup Klub Round One | HoZac *new
WHITE BOSS | Darkness/Lightness | self-titled | Perennial *new
SONSKULL | Housing | Birth Scene/Rewind EP 12" | Perennial *new
HARI KARI | True Wealth | self-titled CDR | no label *new
H.P.P. | Suicide/Homicide | self-titled | Perennial | *new
========================== Live in Studio A ==========================
HOODED | Int'l Hooded Anthem Pt. 1
HOODED | When Dads Drink
HOODED | God's Dick
HOODED | My Life's Hard, I Promise
HOODED | Megaman/Baseball
HOODED | 2 Hunters
HOODED | Boyfriend
HOODED | Int'l Hooded Anthem Pt. 2
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TOPLESS MONGOS | Torture Chamber | self-titled CS | no label *new
TOPLESS MONGOS | Theme from Human Centipede
BOOM! | Tidal Wave | Old Standard Sessions #1 split 7" w/ White Fang | Hovercraft *new
THE MEMORIES | Softly/Blow My Mind | forthcoming CS | Gnar Tapes *new
PROCEDURE CLUB | Slut Fossil | Doomed Forever | Slumberland *new
EXILES FROM CLOWNTOWN | Around the Corner | Around the Corner 7" | Greatdividing *new
DRUID PERFUME | Pointed Hat | Tin Boat to Tuna Town | Bumbo *new
WASTE RIG | Follow Yr Dreams | Ritual Cleansing: Phase 2010 CS | Pollen Season *new
WASTE RIG | Spirit Storm/Live Like a Laser
========================== Live in Studio A ==========================
HARI KARI | Brakes
HARI KARI | Bubb's Unborn
HARI KARI | Waves
HARI KARI | Fried Eggs
HARI KARI | Horse Void
HARI KARI | Skin My Teeth
HARI KARI | Heady Cops
HARI KARI | Pesterizer
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THE INTELLIGENCE | White Corvette | Males | In The Red *new
TOTAL CONTROL | Paranoid Video | Paranoid Video 7" | SmartGuy *new
LIL B | My Windowsill | Rain in England 2xLP | Weird Forest *new

The first rumblings of weirdo hardcore punk during the 80s heyday came from the likes of Flipper, the Butthole Surfers, The Minutemen, Killdozer, G.I.S.M., and the one or two (perhaps token) oddities on HC comps (e.g., Zurich 1916's "The Children's Song" from the Life Is Ugly, So Why Not Kill Yourself? LP, or "Children Die in Pain" by End Result, as heard on The Master Tape vol 2). The far-out left-fielders of hardcore were so diversely influenced, and therefore became diversely influential, connecting so many stylistic dots on the map of musical genres, and turning over and fertilizing soil from which sprung new scenes and styles, including the likes of The Melvins, No Trend, Nomeansno, I Refuse It!, KTMK, Venom P. Stinger, and so many more. Emo kinda screwed up the continuity of this story--particularly when that whole "screamo" schism happened--and so the HC/thrash revival of the late 90s--professing so much stylistic purity--shaded too far to the right. Not so much politically to the right. But certainly so much that the left field was a seldom-traveled mystery zone. In the post-powerviolence world, most people's concept of a weird hardcore experience was a funny sample between songs or whatever oratory Sam McPheeters was doing dressed like Uncle Sam. As Melt Banana flirted with more electronics and breakbeat elements, the punks lost their boner for them just as Mike Patton's turned into full-on raging. When I saw Soddamn Inssein play, it seemed that only fans of experimental noise and Load Records had enough patience to enjoy it. The few HC kids that were there just wished they had played fast the whole time. Go fast or go home was the HC-kid mantra. So, it would take a while before someone could gather up enough weird hardcore-flavored bands to half-jokingly paint them with the "Mysterious Guy Hardcore" brush. I suppose Fucked Up are still leaders in this category??? They may be providing something of a template for a certain stereotyped sound, but with the definition of "psychedelic" still expanding as it relates to today's underground music, there are certainly many flavors of outer-zoning hardcore that defy such easy categorization, and enough estrogen, too (see Sonskull in particular!).

The Perennial Records label has revealed its homebase of Olympia, Washington, to be a burgeoning source of this kinda finely fucked HC-tangential noise with recent releases from Sonskull, White Boss, and H.P.P. And currently, the H.P.P.-related Hari Kari has hit the road with fellow Olympians Hooded, who I'm hearing now for the first time along with you. They take us on a fantastic journey tonight with uncanny humor, wild theatricality, situational mindgames, blazing guitar sound, and roller-coaster of rhythm changes that succeeds in avoiding frivolity. If you like "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry" by Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers as much as I do (or perhaps you would if CCM's Into the Void wasn't "over-produced" (those would be your words (not mine)), then you will love Hooded! Hari Kari could've spawned from the time between 80s HC and the rise of college rock, when conveying some emotion wasn't tantamount to "emo" quite yet, and when riffs and rhythms could still churn your guts. One clever self-analysis that the band posited during our concluding interview was "...like Sebadoh on K." Just as I began to wonder which Sebadoh record was released on K Records, the punchline was just around the corner: "K as in ketamine". These bands are on their way to the Bay Area, SoCal, and Arizona next before returning to these parts for a show at The Hub in Sacramento with Mattress and Zig Zags on Tuesday, September 14. Don't miss them if you have the chance to see them. Let 'em crash at your house, too....these guys are a hoot!

HARI KARI from OLYMPIA, 2010 on Vimeo.

HARI KARI II from OLYMPIA, 2010 on Vimeo.

HARI KARI III from OLYMPIA, 2010 on Vimeo.

White Boss is also coming down the West Coast next weekend with Milk Music (ex-Catatonic Youth), so be ready for that, too!

MILK MUSIC from OLYMPIA, 2010 on Vimeo.

MILK MUSIC II from OLYMPIA, 2010 on Vimeo.

And you better be ready if/when Sonskull comes down here...

AFS v. 280 ~ Ihren Nächsten Favoriten

This week in AFS...

* SS Records tilts the year-end-best playing field
* ...but the new Druid Perfume LP is still a competitor!
* priming the Aussie-bands-on-tour-in-USA pump
* the old guys still got it!
* and Liz Allbee's stunning new joint

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UV Race | I'm So Tired | v/a: The World's Lousy With Ideas vol 7 7" | Almost Ready 2009
TOTAL CONTROL | Total Control | self-titled 7-inch | Aarght! 2008
TOTAL CONTROL | Full Moon [Swell Maps]
BANQUE ALLEMANDE | The Baumarkt Nation | Eins, Zwei | S.S. Records *new
COLIN NEWMAN | I've Waited Ages | A-Z | Beggars Banquet 1980
THE DULL | I Hate the Motorcyclist | v/a: Barricaded Suspects | Toxic Shock 1983
THE CHINESE RESTAURANTS | Summer Romance | Summer Romance 7" | S.S. Records *new
G. GREEN | The Garden | I Will Not Withdraw This Statement 7" | Malt Duck *new
SCRAPS | A Salty Sea | A Salty Sea 7" | Dirty Knobby *new
NIGHT BEATS | H-Bomb | H-Bomb 7" | Trouble in Mind *new
DISTRACTION BOYS | Pay Off the Cops | Live on Ave. B 7-inch | Cryptovision 1985
BRIAN WILSON SHOCK TREATMENT | I Hear Voices | Druid Time Lords | Poe/Slutfish *new
CRAWLSPACE | Blame it on the Universe | Ignorance is Bliss | Gulcher *new
ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS | I Sell Soul | I Sell Soul 7" | Hearpen 2010
RALPH CARNEY & DAVID THOMAS | Sunset in Hibernia | v/a: Bowling Balls from Hell | Clone 1980
DENIS DEFRANGE & MARK FRAZIER | The Manikin Shuffle | v/a: Bowling Balls from Hell
FRANZ KULTUR ET LES KRAMES | Ultime Atome | self-titled | Memoire Neuve *new (orig 1983)
CRASH NORMAL | Like a Horse | v/a: Stuffs vol. 1 | Compost Modern Art *new
THE DICTAPHONE | Temporary Muse | self-titled | Kill Shaman *new
DRUID PERFUME | Blue Light | Tin Boat to Tuna Town | Bumbo *new
LIZ ALLBEE | The Undersides | Theseus vs. | Resipiscent *new
FABULOUS DIAMONDS | 11 mins, 21 sec | Fabulous Diamonds II | Siltbreeze *new
PSYCHIC BAGGAGE | Dreams, Sir | self-titled | Endless Melt *new
THE NORTH SEA | Missed Court Dates | Bloodlines | Type *new
SIGHTINGS | We All Amplify | City of Straw | Brah 2010

I hope I won't be too self-conscious about putting too many S.S. Records titles in my best-of-2010 list in December or January. Mr. Soriano's making it pretty difficult to exclude anything his label has issued, and with the new LP of Germany's Banque Allemande and the latest 7" of the wonderfully whacked The Chinese Restaurants, there's two more S.S. titles rocketing to the top of the list. I can't really add anything that Scott doesn't already cover in his own description of the band other than to say that everything he said is absolutely true, and therefore, this might just be your (and my) next favorite band:

"While Berlin, Germany isn’t exactly 'nowhere', the amount of attention garnered by Banque Allemande since their inception in 2005 they might as well be from Quedlinberg. When I stumbled on them and was blown away by their songs, I started to wonder 'What the fuck is wrong with you people?' Actually nothing: Banque Allemande (also known as dbZwoVier) have spent the last 5 years avoiding Berlin’s rock scene, choosing to play subway cars (watch for the visual, not the sounds!), a hamburger grill, and the like. They recorded a couple albums worth of fantastic songs, but never spread them around. What was posted on myspace got lost in the flood of bands there. They lurk in the shadows no longer.

"Banque Allemande has a relentlessness that reminds me of The Gordons and Rema Rema, the thuggish charm of Feedtime, and some 1-2-3-4 yucks of 'i dunno, name some late 70s euro punk outfit' - but that’s me hearing them. Their background is in the bands Discounter, Trumpf As, and Moser Indian. Their ears are attuned to the hammering beats of Boys Noize. Or as they describe their sound: minimalistic, cut-down songstructures - yes please. rough sounds, straight beats - yes please.. if what comes out is called “punk” - whatthefuck.

"So once again you are asked to take the S.S. challenge, the leap of faith you took when S.S. released records by the A Frames, Intelligence, Cheveu, Nothing People, Los Llamarada, XYX, Krysmopompas, and Billy Bao before no more than a handful of people knew they existed. I am pretty confident you will dig this one, too."

You can pick up these new utmost-recommended titles here...
http://207.228.243.82/ss/cat.html
...and if you've forgotten to cop that A Frames triple-LP or Ozzie double-LP, then you should get caught before it's too late.

Further solidifying their place as the best saxophone-rock band since No Doctors' Hunting Season (and Funhouse before that!), the new Druid Perfume LP is even better than their stupendous debut. That and the new Liz Allbee CD get my other highest recommendations this week. Alas, Theseus vs. is only on CD, but it comes in a brilliantly screened carboard box with a puffy shim to protect the CD from flopping around in the box. It's limited to 350, and once it runs out, I challenge any label of supreme taste in exquisite experimental creep-you-out-late-at-night-all-alone music to make a vinyl issue of this. If you enjoyed Carla Bozulich's Evangelista, this should suit you quite well. Its subtlety unfolds slowly over repeated listens, so it'll surely keep you enthralled for a long time to come. Format fetishists shouldn't be kept from knowing the brilliance of this woman, co-conspirator in Neung Phak and formerly the most sublime-sounding member of Le Flange du Mal, who were my favorite mayhem-bringers of the Bay Area's mid-2000s heyday. Theseus vs. has a peerless production value which strikes me in much the same way that Through the Panama by Sightings did in 2007. This is the perfect antidote to the lofi zeitgeist right now.

AFS v. 279 ~ the Puffies live @ KDVS + Vacation Recount

ACHTUNG, scuzz-fiends! Puffy Areolas played/slayed a live performance at KDVS in Studio A last Thurssday with the honorable Fenris Wulf presiding over the controls and Sacto sax assassins and Repressive Proteins members Davy Bui (of Antennas Erupt) and Chad Stockdale (of Klondike & York and D.M.P.H.) guesting with the band. To hear the entire hour-long performance, right-click and save the link below this playlist. I just drove 2200 miles following G. Green and Mayyors around the Pacific Northwest, and I barely made it back from Portland in time for this week's program, so therefore, this week in AFS...

* A gang of new HoZac, Sacred Bones, and Siltbreeze titles
* A very special Puffy Areolas block including and excerpt of their live-@-KDVS performance
* San Francisco Water Cooler on a properly functioning turntable
* Warm Climate unleash another stunner!
* Taste-testing the upcoming week in Sacto shows
* Vacation highlights

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SONSKULL | Control Control | Birth Scene/Rewind EP 12" | Perennial *new
SONSKULL | Cement Mixer
WHITE BOSS | Meld | self-titled | Perennial *new
WHITE BOSS | Darkness/Lightness
PUFFY AREOLAS | title unknown/1981/Deathcraze | Live in Studio A @ KDVS, 8/12/10
PUFFY AREOLAS | title unknown | 2010 Tour Tape | no label *new
PUFFY AREOLAS | Rock n Roll Express | Rock n Roll Express 7" | Die Stasi *new
MEERCAZ | Lovesick | self-titled | Tic Tac Totally 2010
PROCEDURE CLUB | Nautical Song | Doomed Forever | Slumberland *new
PROCEDURE CLUB | Rather
SUPER WILD HORSES | Mess Around | Fifteen | HoZac/Aarght! *new
SUPER WILD HORSES | World's Gone Bad | Enigma (You Say Go) 7" | HoZac *new
GRASS WIDOW | 11 of Diamonds | Past Time | Kill Rock Stars *new
THE BITTERS | Master of Sleep | Have a Nap Hotel EP 12" | Sacred Bones *new
FABULOUS DIAMONDS | 3 Minutes 40 Seconds | Fabulous Diamonds II | Siltbreeze *new
THIS HEART ELECTRIC | Nowhere to Run... | Polar 7" | Die Stasi *new
MAC BLACKOUT | Sometimes | Don't Let Your Love Die 7" | Sacred Bones *new
ELECTRIC BUNNIES | Pretty Joanna | Pretty Joanna 7" | Sacred Bones *new
SEX CHURCH | Paralyze | 209 7" | HoZac *new
SAN FRANCISCO WATER COOLER | Your Life is a River | II | Sun Sneeze *new
SAN FRANCISCO WATER COOLER | August Receipt
WARM CLIMATE | Voice Over Headlights | Camouflage on the River Wretched CS | Stunned *new
WARM CLIMATE | Two Stones
ALASTAIR GALBRAITH | Bridge of Burning Bubblegum | Mass | Siltbreeze *new
ALASTAIR GALBRAITH | Tin Town
AMEN DUNES | Murder Dull Mind | Murder Dull Mind EP 12" | Sacred Bones *new
G. GREEN | The Garden | I Will Not Withdraw This Statement 7" | Malt Duck *new
WHITE FANG | Eat My Shred | Whatever | Marriage 2009
HOT FACE | The Patch | 5-song demo CDR | no label *new
ESPECIALLY LIKELY SLOTH | Hammer Smashed Face [Cannibal Corpse] | v/a: Roots II (The Return) | Root of All Evil 1998
RATTLE DICK | some songs | demo CS | no label *new
J GUY LAUGHLIN | untitled | Solo Percussion vol. I CS | Wagon *new

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Vacation highlights...

* Twin Falls, Idaho! When I first learned that G. Green had scheduled a show at a place called the Meth House in Twin Falls--with a band called Meth House Party Band, no less!--I was very concerned that they'd made a huge mistake, and that the show would be either totally deserted except for some methy wastoids, or the show'd be packed with sXe Christian jocks and/or juggalos (well, I guess all the juggalos woulda been predisposed at the Gathering to fling feces at Tila Tequila (endless kudos 'n faygo's to ya, boys!)), and I was extra-concerned that if they stayed the night there, they'd never stand a chance of making it to their Seattle show the following night. But, to my surprise and relief, Twin Falls turned out to be tremendously fun. I've sampled some scenes like Lakeport, Yuba City, Redding, Anderson, Klamath Falls, Medford, etc., and although there's always potential for the fun-starved to freak out when they finally get the chance to enjoy good music in their town, it usually turns out to be depressing or scary. Twin Falls was a complete 180° turn from what I expected: the Meth House was actually pretty nice and not methy, the fans were friendly, super-appreciative, and open-minded, and even the local bands were really good, especially that Meth House Party Band. With a name like that, I thought they'd be some sorta one-off/ad-hoc band that would do some Misfits covers and jam some other things out. But no...they had some damn catchy songs in the fast melodic garage-punk vein, sometimes verging on Queer Pills-era Samoans. The only thing I expected to happen that did indeed happen was that the crowd was very moshy. They moshed to the slowest and most romantic of G. Green songs. The boys even ripped their shirts off. G. Green got 'em pumped! If your band is ever traveling between the Salt Lake Valley or Missoula and either of the Pacific Northwest metropolises, you can do a lot worse than Twin Falls, but for the sake of having fun and making new friends, you might not do better than Meth House for your entire tour. I wholeheartedly recommend the Meth House and the Meth House Party Band. Also...see Shoshone Falls when you're there. It's worth it even when the falls are at half-flow.

* Best bites....Can a $17.48 burger combo be worth it? Even without a soft drink? Only if that burger is the bison, bacon, and cheeseburger at Boise Fry Company, and only if those fries are the Fry Co's "bourgeois fries" fresh from a bath in duck fat and dunked in such incredible condiments as blueberry ketchup and curried fry sauce. Best meal of the trip for sure! I found my new best chicken fried steak (fried lightly in flour and seasoning) at a top-drawer old-fashioned diner called The Griddle in Winnemucca, Nevada. Also, the honey, walnut, coriander, and cardamom milkshake at Pereira Crepes in the magnetic late-night foodcart mecca at SE Hawthorne @ 12th Ave in Portland impressed once again. I'd been dreaming about it since last year, and it didn't disappoint.

* Mayyors ruled on both nights. G. Green ruled especially hard in Twin Falls, but also at the Portland house show. Wounded Lion and The Lamps ruled as usual. Last ever Meth Teeth show was a heart-string tugger. Geeking out with Canadian friends is always a treat. Our hosts were great each night...thanks to all of you. Also, on Saturday at the Mayyors/G. Green/Big Black Cloud house show in Portland, I experienced two surprise bands I'd never heard before, and they were both fantastic....the Velvetsy Psychic Feline and the now-wavey Hot Face, a new band featuring Daniel, formerly of Sucks and The Freebasers before he left Sacramento for Portland. Hot Face have the twin cyclonic guitar scribble/scrabble and the speeding-away-from-police-despite-a-blown-out-tire rhtyhmic lurch of AIDS Wolf. You could say they're biters, but you'd hafta be impressed by how strident they were. Dan-Dan has become a beastly basher, and this lady vokillist is a riot. The demo shows promise, but I'd love to have them come get recorded here with Fenris so he could bring out more low-end punishment. Videos exist of their first show on a weird river beach...

Hot Face live at Industrial Beach (part 1) from BLACK SUMMER on Vimeo.

Hot Face live at Industrial Beach (part 2) from BLACK SUMMER on Vimeo.

...but I'd say their 2nd show ever was even more a winner! This third vid involves the same lady and maybe some of the same co-conspirators and ably traipses through other contemporary genre ghettoes with a literal puke-fest in-between. I'd say Hot Face knows how to party.

06//28//10 from BLACK SUMMER on Vimeo.

AFS v. 278 ~ Bust 'em, G. Green!

This week in AFS...

* World-exclusive debut of G. Green debut 7"!
* G. Green departs on their first real tour today!
* Again, don't miss Puffy Areolas on tour!

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WHITE BOY & THE AVERAGE RAT BAND | Neon Warriors | self-titled | Roach *new (orig 1979)
PUFFY AREOLAS | Lutzko Lives | Lutzko Lives 7" | Columbus Discount 2009
PUFFY AREOLAS | El Jita | v/a: Skulls Without Borders | Siltbreeze 2009
PUFFY AREOLAS | Heart Attack | In the Army 1981 | Siltbreeze *new
CERAMIC HOBS | Psychic Vampires | Straight Outta Rampton | Pumf 2001
CERAMIC HOBS | Scotch Mist | 72 Hour Drink Binge Alcopop Madness 7" | Pumf 1997
SEVERED HEADS | Sam Loves You | Come Visit the Big Bigot | Nettwerk 1986
THE ENCHANTMENTS | Rockin' at the Lost & Found | The Heavenly Sounds of... | no label *new
VIRGIN PRUNES | The King of Junk | Over the Rainbow | Baby 1985
REMA REMA | Instrumental/Fond Affections | Wheel in the Roses 12" EP | 4AD 1980
JOSEF K | Sense of Guilt | The Only Fun in Town | LTM 1990 (orig 1980)
TWIN CRYSTALS | Bones | split 7" w/ Shearing Pinx | Reluctant *new
SEX CHURCH | Mistaken | 6 Songs 12" EP | Convulsive *new *request
THE BEEZ | Easy | Easy 7" | Edible 1979
MICKEY | Wild Kind | Highway Bound 7" | Florida's Dying *new
SLIPPERY SLOPES | Shake That Bear | v/a: Party Platter | Florida's Dying *new
PERSONAL & THE PIZZAS | I Ain't Taking You Out | Raw Pie | 1-2-3-4 GO! *new
LIVELY ONES | Bustin' Surfboards | Surf Drums | Del-Fi 1963
G. GREEN | I Will Not Withdraw This Statement | brand-new 7" | Malt Duck *available now on tour!
THE YUPPIES | Bones | I've Been Touched 7" | Grotto *new
BLACK TIME | Harley Davidson [S. Gainsbourg] | More Songs About Motorcycles & Death | Wrench *new
SAN FRANCISCO WATER COOLER | Reverie/Pond Leak | II | Sun Sneeze *new
EZEE TIGER | Crush Medley (a stupid rock opera kinda) | split LP w/ Country Teasers | Holy Mountain 2009
EZEE TIGER | The Tiger Bounce | self-titled | Kimosciotic 2004
WHITE DRUGS | Unmaker | Gold Magic | Kunstwaffe/Amphetamine Reptile *new
SHORTY | Kaput | Kaput! 7" | Skin Graft 1993
DEATH OF SAMANTHA | Harlequin Tragedy | Where the Women Wear the Glory and the Men Wear the Pants | Homestead 1988
THE YOUNG | Smiling God | Voyagers of Legend | Mexican Summer *new

First, from the Corrections Department....Did I actually announce the Virgin Prunes as the March Violets? Whoops! And don't go thinking that new San Francisco Water Cooler LP is a letdown! Our 3rd turntable in the studio was playing at erratic speeds, but it wasn't too perceptible until it was too late. Sorry, everybody. Just trust me...this new LP is outstanding. I'll be giving it its due in the very next AFS (in two weeks!).

Now...the main order of business is at hand...Getting your ass off the couch and in front of two of the raddest bands on the planet today. As I already mentioned, don't miss the Puffy Areolas as they make it out west. (Seattle, tell me something about Friday, huh?) ALSO...Don't miss Sacramento's best new band of the last year and a half...G. Green! Their new debut 7" from Malt Duck is in their hands. It won't be available publicly from Malt Duck for another couple of weeks, but if you are in the band's tour path, you can get it from them. Yes, they are my friends from my hometown, but trust me....looking at this as objectively as I can, I still give G. Green my highest recommendation. See 'em in these cities... (photo credit: me my damn self! --->)

AUGUST 2010
3rd Sacramento - The Hub (1819 23rd St.) w/ Slippery Slopes, Personal and the Pizzas
4th San Francisco - Fivepoints Art House (72 Tehama st.) w/ TBA
5th Ventura - TBA w/ Sea Lions, Catwalk
6th Los Angeles - Vlad the Retailer (4313 Melrose Ave.) w/ TBA
7th Los Angeles - daytime BBQ show (6411 Ruby St.) 2PM w/ Shark Toys, Shocka Khans
8th Tempe - Yobs House (509 W. 19th) w/ Peaking Lights
9th Las Vegas - TBA
10th Provo - Thee Compound (166S 100W) w/ Clear Coats, Broken Spells
11th Twin Falls - 8th Street House (1337 8th Ave East) w/ Meth House Party Band
12th Seattle - Funhouse (206 5th Avenue North) w/ Grave Babies, Young Prisms, Uzi Rash
13th Portland - Smmr Bmmr @ Plan B (1305 SE 8th) w/ Mayyors, Wounded Lion, Lamps, Burning Yellows, + more
14th Portland - Failing St. Rock (110 N. Failing) w/ Mayyors, Big Black Cloud
15th Olympia - TBA
16th Eugene - Badger Den (320 E. 13th Ave.) w/ White Fang, Hanging Coffins
17th Stockton - Plea For Peace (630 E Weber Ave) w/ White Fang, English Singles, Satan Wriders
18th Oakland - 21 Grand (416 25th Street) w/ White Fang, Uzi Rash

The new 7" is three songs of brilliant damaged pop with awesome and unique personality. Three songs is the best number of songs for a 7", especially when they blend into a perfect cocktail. Tonight's featured song is the titular song; its flavor is decidedly defiant. The next on the A-side is chirpy and chipper. The B-side is pensive until its tumultuous breakdown. The first and third songs unfold in layers. The second song is for dance parties. A perfectly round 7" in more ways than just the obvious. Those layered songs are particularly enchanting with their tastefully applied top-of-their-lungs harmony vocals and interweaving of rhythm-guitar-jangles and lead-shimmers yinning to the steady yang of brutish drum onslaught. A couple-three years ago, G. Green was a solo project of the singer/rhythm-guitarist, and while he was still a teenager, he hit the Sacto scene straight outta Utah with one of the most courageous and unique singing voices and unusual songwriting approach which confounded many people. I was dropping Jandek comparisons. Even with the band version of G. Green snapping his songs into more of a pop shape--and his nervous energy giving way to an air of confidence--he's still one of the most unique voices. Quite simply, this band fucking rules, and if you are a fan of this blog/podcast, I think you should catch this band on tour and buy the 7".

And from here, there's no looking back. They already laid down some tracks for a new LP a couple weeks ago, and here's an awesome new video offering a sneak peek of one of the new songs (and like I said before, you can see they have personality)...


G. Green's drummer also stars in this stunning video for Zach Hill's "Sacto Smile" video (which sounds something like a breakcore-damaged Mayyors)...


I'll be posting about the G. Green 7" again when it is officially available from Malt Duck. Give it a couple weeks.

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

AFS v. 273 ~ The Thicker Riffer Upper

This week in AFS...

* That Big Black Cloud vinyl is almost officially out!
* I'll pitch a tent if I hafta for Eddy Current Suppression Ring!
* A new release on AmRep?!?!
* Bad Sports currently on the West Coast!

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EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING | Burn | Rush To Relax | Goner 2010
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING | Through the Trees | Wet Cement 7" | Mexican Summer 2010
LAMPS | Salvation Road [The Kinks] | The Role of the Dogcatcher... 7" | Fan Death 2010
LONELY MOANS | Rockinerd | Rockinerd 7" | Amphetamine Reptile 1988
BIG BLACK CLOUD | Allergic to Love | Dark Age | Stank House *new
STEEL POLE BATH TUB | What I Need | Unlistenable | Permanent *new
STEEL POLE BATH TUB | Re-Juvenated
WHITE DRUGS | Surrounded by Studs | Harlem | Kunstwaffe 2007
WHITE DRUGS | Black Wizard Gloaming | Gold Magic | Kunstwaffe/Amphetamine Reptile *forthcoming
WHITE DRUGS | Gold Power
CROWN ROAST | Grubworm | A Nose Has Many Jobs | Unclean 1994
HAMMERHEAD | Mr. Bizmuth/Duh, the Big City | Duh, the Big City | Amphetamine Reptile 1996
PYGMY SHREWS | Please Brain Drugs | The Egyptian | Wantage USA 2009
DRUNKDRIVER | The Accident | self-titled | WTD *new
IRON LUNG | Cancer | Sexless//No Sex | Prank 2008
CORRUPTED | Hombre o Rata | v/a: Uña de Gato, Cuerno de Vaca | Tee Pee 1996
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS | Rock City Rejects [The Chumps] | Growing Up Moving Away | 625 1999
THE NEW FLESH | title unknown | split LP w/ MLU | Cephia's Treat/Human Conduct/et al. *new
NÜ SENSAE | Burn Zero | TV. Death and the Devil | Nominal *new
SHEARING PINX | Violence | split 7" w/ Twin Crystals | Reluctant *new
N.213 | Bed of Nails | v/a: Blood Klub 2 7" | Isolated Now Waves *new
THE EX + TOM CORA | Oh Puckerlips Now | And the Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders | Fistpuppet 1993
STRETCHHEADS | Trippy Deadzone | Pish in Your Sleazebag | Blast First 1991
CAPT. BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND | Ashtray Heart | Doc at the Radar Station | Virgin 1980
RADIOPUHELIMET | Jäämeri | Jäämeri | Spirit 1992
S.P.U.D. | Jesus Extreme | Sour | Flying Nun 1990
SILVERFISH | One Silver Dollar | Cockeye | Touch & Go 1989
NIGHTBLOOMS | Starcatcher | self-titled | Seed 1993
WET ILLUSTRATED | Flying | Born Stoked | Corvette City *new
THE DEFEKTORS | Kick First One | The Bottom of the City | Nominal *new
SEX CHURCH | Ghost | 6 Songs 12" EP | Convulsive *new
STRANGE ATTRACTOR | Push Party | split 10" w/ Red Mass | P. Trash *new
EAT SKULL | An Isolated Guy | Crawl for Freedom CS | Palto Flats *new
FAMINES | Got Lies If You Want Them | Syllables 7" | Mammoth Cave *new
BAD SPORTS | Why Say Don't | self-titled | Douche Master 2009
BAD SPORTS | Should've Known

I'll be leading a big Sacto/Davis caravan out to the third of three San Francisco Bay Area shows for Eddy Current Suppression Ring when the rulin'est Aussie rockers hold court with Thee Oh Sees, Fresh & Onlys, Sic Alps, and Ty Segall at the Serra Bowl in Daly City. I figure on a quadruple-capacity crowd showing up for this, so I won't take any chances. Who else wants to pitch a tent? And if you see me in the front during ECSR, gimme a little room 'cos I'm not gonna be able to control myself. I'm geeked for this like a kid on xmas eve.

Fellow readers, listeners, and KDViateS....Have I built up enough anticipation for the new debut LP--Dark Ages--from Portland's Big Black Cloud? If you've been following the last couple months of AFS, you should have heard a few sneak peaks plus their live-at-KDVS session and songs from their 7" EPs. This fantastic LP will soon be out in an edition of 500, sleeved in beautifully hand-screened red, yellow, and silver covers. They had copies during their recent long-weekend trip to Northern California, and you can hear another hit of bombastic futurepunk from the grooves of my own copy. Can you hardly wait to get yours? Don't worry....I'll keep watching for public availability. Keep checking back!

Another exciting new musical discovery--White Drugs from Denton, Texas--finally found me about three years late, but just in time to pre-order their 2nd album, cooperatively released by their own Kunstwaffe label and...whoa!...AmRep?!?! Okay...hold your horses. Don't read this as a license to submit your band's demo to Tom Hazelmeyer. He is still officially retired from the label business. But when he first heard White Drugs' debut album--Harlem--in 2007, he effusively sang its praises on the AmRep message board, and now he's endorsed the next record (due July 20 and pre-orderable now HERE) by putting the AmRep logo and an AmRep matrix code on it. It looks like a genuine AmRep article....and more importantly, it sounds like one, too! It's supremely pummeling, pugnacious, and creative with its twin-guitar attack and nifty rhthmic divergences, but it's mostly linear and plenty punk, and so many of the riffs and songs invite repeat listens, so I don't imagine I'll forget it anytime soon. It certainly sounds like I cracked open a mid-90s time capsule of a coulda/woulda/shoulda-been-classic unreleased record by a worthy contemporary of Hammerhead. But bands like this were all too rare then, as now, so this sounds plenty fresh. This thing is limited to 350, so don't let the word of mouth grow too long before you cop your own copy!

Another Denton band is on the move on the West Coast this week. Don't miss the Bad Sports, people!

Tue, Jun 29 in Fullerton, CA
@ The Continental w/ Pterodacdudes, Stranger Danger

Wed, Jun 30 in Long Beach
@ Que Sera

Thu, Jul 1 in Santa Cruz
@ ???

Fri, Jul 2 in Oakland
@ Harmchurch
w/ Shannon & The Clams, Uzi Rash, G. Green, and Mike Hunchback

Sat, Jul 3 in San Francisco
@ Pissed Off Pete's

Sun, Jul 4 in Sacramento
@ The Hub w/ Gay Beast and Pistol Pete

Mon, Jul 5 in Portland, OR
@ Slabtown

Tue, Jul 6 in Seattle, WA
@ Funhouse...Death by Steamship

Wed, Jul 7 in Provo, UT
@ The Compound

Thu, Jul 8 in Colorado Springs, CO
@ Rubbish Gallery w/ Dirty Dives

Fri, Jul 9 in Lawrence, KS
@ Replay Lounge

Sat, Jul 10 in Oklahoma City or Noman
@ ???

Tue, Jul 13 in Denton, TX
@ Rubber Gloves

Finally.....Here's fun blast from the past and the AmRep family tree...