SOUL ASYLUM, taken from 1987 Away From The Pulsebeat fanzine. Believe me folks, this was once a ripsnorter of a live band.
Author: Jay Hinman
OK, brand-new 8Track mix has been completed and is live for you to listen to right now on yer computer or smartphone. It’s all-female, super uptempo 1990s low-fidelity bashing, which loyal Dynamite Hemorrhage readers know is one of our musical calling cards. I’m calling it “Object To I-Dent”, after the Pussycat Trash song included in this mix. Whatever that means. Sounds gnarly.
Half of the 17 songs here come from the riot grrl primordial swamp, the other are rooted more in learning-to-play, third-wave garage punk. Where you draw the line is up to you. You’ll hear quality entertainment from a variety of whooping and screeching young women plying their rough trade two decades ago. I’m especially proud that it’s 17 songs in 27 minutes. Pure blitzkrieg.
Come listen to “Object To I-Dent” here.
Tracks:
- SALLY SKULL – Tear Out
- PUSSYCAT TRASH – Object To I-Dent
- SKINNED TEEN – Dance All Night
- THE RONDELLES – Backstabber
- BUDGET GIRLS – French One
- GOLDEN STARLET – Baby
- LUNG LEG – Theme Park
- MAN TEE MANS – Man Tee Mans (Theme)
- HENRY’S DRESS – Zero Zero Zero
- SKINNED TEEN – Secrets
- MICRAGIRLS – Neki
- GOLDEN STARLET – Boy Scout Club
- THE GORLS – Tracie
- THE RONDELLES – Safety In Numbers
- PUSSYCAT TRASH – 1,2,3,4
- KITTY CAT SPY CLUB – The Searcher
- LUNG LEG – Rock Song
Insert taken from SALLY SKULL’s “Tantivity Tracks” 7"EP from 1995, which I just purchased and received in the mail yesterday.
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While we were spending our time obsessing about New Zealand’s Xpressway tapes and records; cuddling up to the Victor Dimisich Band, The Terminals and the like; and searching every nook and cranny of record stores and the internet for Fall ephemera, this Boston band called THE IN OUT were recording this mindblower of a song, “Club Blackout”. This song is incredible – a farfisa-driven, ear-scraping wormhole straight off of “This Nation’s Saving Grace” but better than any single song on that great record.
From 1997’s “Cosmosis” album on Dark Beloved Cloud records. I know what my most-wanted vinyl LP is now. Anyone know if there’s a legal download floating around out there somewhere?
Interested parties can download the final AU PAIRS show, taken from a 1983 cassette, right here.
This is from a 1988 LAZY COWGIRLS show live at the Anti-Club in Los Angeles, scanned from Australian fanzine B-SIDE in ‘89. Their shows there and at Raji’s were blessed monthly events that carloads of folks from Santa Barbara, where I went to school, would caravan down for.
See the dork with the stern look and the Radio Birdman shirt? That’s me. See the smiling, bespectacled dude to his right? That’s my cousin Doug Miller. I assure you, I was having a mirthful time – slammin’, stage divin’ and getting in fistfights.
AWAY FROM THE PULSEBEAT fanzine front and back cover, 1988.
Wow, the kids are going crazy for 1990s Jane Egypt from LUNG LEG!! By popular request, here’s another shot of Jane in action with her band, this time in 1997 Glasglow!
When I was 20 and 21 years old, I “interned” at SOUND CHOICE magazine, which was a large-circulation music magazine devoted to the obscure corners of cassette culture and independent music. Dave Ciaffardini, the editor, was a DJ on the same college radio station I was, and he was in need of someone to mail boxes, solicit ads and – and – jeez, I don’t even remember what I did there besides hijack promo copies of records I wanted.
Ciaffardini was a very friendly guy who wanted to help mold me into a journalist/publisher, and to some extent he helped me along – giving me my first forum for written record reviews, which later led into me publishing my own fanzine. I’m not sure I would have let some 20 year old dum-dum write reviews for me, but there you go. Here’s one I wrote on The Flesh Eaters when their “greatest hits” collection came out on SST in 1988.
AGONY SHORTHAND 