Courtesy Waitekere Walks blog.
Hey, I just posted a new mix to 8TRACKS for you to listen to. I do these every couple of months and will endeavor to pick up the pace. It’s 15 tracks of acid bath 60s fuzz punk rock, all from the original 45s. Here’s the track list:
1. THE TWILIGHTERS – Nothing Can Bring Me Down
2. CARETAKERS OF DECEPTION – Cuttin’ Grass
3. SCORPIO TUBE – Yellow Listen
4. THE STEREO SHOESTRING – On The Road South
5. KNIGHT’S BRIDGE – Make Me Some Love
6. THE LIBERTY BELL – Reality is the Only Answer
7. HAYMARKET RIOT – Trip On Out
8. BOY BLUES – Coming Down To You
9. MAGIC SWIRLING SHIP – He’s Coming Part II
10. WATERS – Mother Samwell
11. GLASS EYE – Silence of the Morning
12. INEXPENSIVE HANDMADE LOOK – What Good Is Up
13. ORANGE WEDGE – From the Womb to the Tomb
14. KNIGHT’S BRIDGE – CJ Smith
15. MORGAN – Of Dreams
MONOSHOCK live at the Hemlock Tavern – one and only reunion show – last friggin’ month, and I missed it. Thankfully got 57 other Monoshock shows under my belt in the 80s and 90s, but still.
I like APACHE DROPOUT most of the time, I do. I initially had them pegged on last year’s album as being in a Peter Laughner-fronts-a-60s-punk-band vein, but that might only be because their best song “Sylvia”, the one I really latched onto, somehow nailed both a 70s proto-punk feel, a 60s garage/bubblegum chorus, and a poppy, careless je ne sais quoi that I associate w/ Laughner and his ethos.
Their new record’s all right. The cover’s maybe the worst of the year, I’m afraid. The whole concept of the “Bubblegum Graveyard” centers around the Archies, The DeFranco Family and whatnot coming back from the grave. It gets old quickly, but song to song it’s sorta fun. This is the lead track and the one I think I might remember a year from now.
San Francisco’s PAMELA keep building their “Pamela Is Hung Over” collection within their Bandcamp page, adding new songs to the point where I guess you’d reckon it’s really a proper EP now. That’s a good thing, too, since this corker is now something you can pay a few shekels for and actually download. The latest two tracks they’ve added are this one, “Coffin” – which to my ears has a 1974 FM rock vibe feathered into what’s otherwise a tuff, guitar-roar pop song – and “Tooth (Summer is Dead)”, which is an honest-to-god ballad of the Laurel Canyon ilk.
Absolutely one of the best of the new breed. Maybe when they get up to 12 songs they’ll cut the thing into a “compact disc” the way we used to do, hunh?
This new 2+ hour/day crazy commute I’m doing has recently been livened by the discovery of a defunct radio show from 2010 on Boston’s WHRB called CAFFEINE BLUES. The two college-age women who put this together had a phenomenal handle on garage punk, girl-band screech, hardcore and ultra deep-underground 7" obscurities from the 90s and 00s, many of which passed you, me and everyone else by.
Looks like they only did a dozen or so of these shows, so that’s about 24 hours you need to catch up on. Get them all on the also defunct PUZZLE PIECES blog.
AGONY SHORTHAND 