Erika Elizabeth, hostess of the outstanding Expressway To Your Skull radio show and podcast on WMUA, opines about her favorite releases of this year. I’m pretty sure she turned me onto about 47 new bands in 2012, and I’d believe what she says if I were you.
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If you’re feeling like getting a little in touch w/ your softer, more twee side I’ve got a helluva killer song for you this afternoon. It’s called “P.E.I.” and it’s by Vancouver’s PUPS. They’re not even at the vinyl stage yet but have two songs you can download over on their Bandcamp page.
The draw for you pop lovers might be the fact that a woman named Rose Melberg is in the band. I recall seeing her in Sacramento’s TIGER TRAP back in the early 90s, and being more excited about them being from Sacramento (my childhood hometown) than their music – but what does a knuckle-dragger like me know, right?
Here’s a cool article on the excellent WHAT RECORDS?, LA-based label who put out the first DILS single, the first GERMS 45, the KAOS 12" and a few other masterpieces. It came from a Seattle fanzine called DO THE POP! that I’ve got some other good scans from, and that I’ll be doling out accordingly.
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Oh yeah and I also was given the great idea of hosting my podcasts on Soundcloud so ya can just stream em instead of downloadin em. Apparently they only give you 2 hours of upload time for free, though, so these will only be kept up for about two weeks. Anyway, here’s last week’s show and i’ll post the new one in a second!
This is a terrific podcast from KSDT radio in San Diego of modern punk noise, splatter and weirdness of all kinds. A very worthy successor to DJ Rick’s deceased “Art For Spastics” on KDVS. I just wish the host if this one didn’t take his show’s title so literally before going on the air.
Feature from about a decade ago in MOJO COLLECTIONS magazine about Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd bootlegs. I’ve heard some of these – my fave is not here; it’s called “Lost In Space” and has some of their pre-psych, pre-drugs songs on them, as well as all the spaced-out live and studio jams of the 1966-67 period,
So This Is How Tumblr Works
I gained a ton of new followers for this blog over the past week thanks to one person (theheftyhideaway) taking a post I did months ago – an audio post of goofball 60s girl group song “Low Grades & High Fever” by Linda Laine – and reblogging it, with a note to her followers to “Forever reblog this song”. Well, gosh and golly. Thanks. They are doing so, and then so are their followers, and so on.
I guess it’s sort of like the Twitter “Follow Friday” thing, in which you’re randomly nominated to be love-bombed and your follower count jumps dramatically. I’m new to the norms and mores of Tumblr, so it was nice to get a positive lesson in how you folks do things. 98 followers and counting – onward to 100.
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THE LAMPS have always kinda been on the bubble for me……like, I enjoy a good throttling as much as anyone, and their ability to deliver sheets of pummeling feedback and squawk is unparalleled. Sometimes, albeit rarely, they pull it together enough to push out some coherent, driving, intense songs to move the pain forward and inward. I truly do like it when they do that.
I also like how on their new one, “Under The Water Under The Ground” on In The Red, they’ve also done away with the last dregs of those strangled Ralph-Kramden-under-extreme-torture vocals. Did someone get lessons? Did a new fella take over? Whatever, the city of Los Angeles just got a little bit more panicky and tense with this one. See if you can handle the wallop – here’s “An Irrational Fear of Sailors” from the new one.
HIGH RISE from Japan and LIQUOR BALL, live in San Jose (!) in 2000. Thanks to Grady Runyan for the scan/photo.
I’ve told you about the eye-popping, mind-jarring collection of images, videos and music available over on the RIBBON AROUND A BOMB site, curated by La Lengua and devoted to female-fronted punk, no wave and all manner of related cultural artifacts. She’s got a terrific radio show as well on San Francisco pseudo-pirate radio station Radio Valencia with her partner “DJ Ashtray” that’s remarkable in its breadth of femme-punk from the 70s, 80s & (rarely) beyond.
You gotta download the podcast of Show #23, which I just listened to. Mr. and Mrs. Lengua are in the studio with their daughter as she plays a variety of scorching, blinding and ear-throttling punk and postpunk (Slits, Au Pairs and Delta 5 all within a 10-minute block). Mrs. Lengua even gets a shout-out for turning her daughter onto punk rock, having been an original recipe X and Clash fan back in the proverbial day.
These two young women, who normally curse like the merchant marine on shore leave, are on what must be their best behavior, and tone down their filthy toilet talk down to parentally-approved levels. It’s a great listen that even made me ponder whether I should have ignored Girlschool these past thirty years. Listen here.
CRYPT RECORDS ad, 1980s, right around the time the life-changing, musical-taste-rearranging “Back From The Grave” comps started coming out.
AGONY SHORTHAND 