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Even though I was a bit of a “new waver” in the early 80s with a serious Siouxie & The Banshees, Bauhaus & Simple Minds addiction, I also tuned in every Tuesday night at 8pm to the early Maximum RocknRoll radio show on KPFA, whose signal we could barely pick up at my house in San Jose. It’s where I learned about hardcore, early LA punk, and all sorts of bizarre leftist political agitprop for the very first time.

For those who hadn’t picked up on it, it’s also where the whole “And now stay tuned for Jay and the gang” ripoff intro that I do on Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio came from. Here’s a flyer I scanned yesterday from the Prelinger Library announcing the debut of their radio show, which I think came on for the first time in 1981.

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I visited the Prelinger Library in San Francisco today. It’s a vast archival collection of printed ephemera comprising subcultures, political movements, maps, landscapes, histories and so much more. I’ve lived in San Francisco 26 years and didn’t know this was here for the past 11+. Thank you Public Collectors for letting me know about this treasure trove that’s mere walking distance from my place of employment.

Naturally I spent my time with my nose buried in the late 70s/early 80s punk flyers & fanzines. I scanned a bunch that you’ll see in coming days here, including this one – Noh Mercy/Pink Section/Peccadillos at The Mab, San Francisco, likely 1979.
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I wrote this frothing review back on July 6th, 2006 on my Agony Shorthand blog….

WOODEN SHJIPS : “SHRINKING MOON FOR YOU” 10”EP……

Intense, layered, guitar acid-wash motorbike rock from a San Francisco act who, with one record, are now one of my favorite bands on the planet circa 2006. Imagine an ear-blowing cross between SUICIDE, “White Light/White Heat” VELVET UNDERGROUND, the guy that did that “Get Stoned Ezy With The Afflicted Man” record and some nut with a tape loop machine, and you’ve gotWOODEN SHJIPS on this wide-grooved psychedelic head trip.

The first side is the monster title track, which sounds like an army of bikers with guitars gone completely haywire on mushrooms & ready to mow down every pusillanimous punker in their path. They carry this on for many, many a minute, but no matter how long it is it’s just not long enough – the needle’s going right back where it started. W-o-w. This is truly one for the out-there “heads” and the “garage punks” to sit down together and break bread over.

“Death’s Not Your Friend” is the ghostly Suicide-ish one and is just as great, sounding just like they got Eno to guest star on keyboards for the soundtrack to some modern vampire flick; “Space Clothes” is a bunch of bizarre looping, backwards shit & test-pattern guitar, and it’s totally eerie and mean. When your pals tell you there’s no good new bands poppin’ up in 2006, you need to grab them by their fine Dacron ensembles and force-feed them this gargantuan EP. Time to hit the hustings and learn more about WOODEN SHJIPS and ask why they’re literally giving it away when this should be $100 on eBay right now (!).

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Because living is better than dying – because a sheepish return with head between legs is better than no return at all – it’s Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #65. First show in two months. We can’t help ourselves.

The fruits of my return from exile are hopefully soon to be apparent. Just press play, or download, and you’ll hear new stuff from MANSION, SEX TIDE, BLACK ABBA, MARADEUR, HONEY RADAR and more – plus new reissues from MARS, VINCENT OVER THE SINK, DEPARTMENTSTORE SANTAS – and a show-stopping three-song set from some of today’s finest young pickers, including ANDY McLEOD, JOHNNY YOUNG and Mr. DANIEL BACHMAN.

So indulge yourself, why don’t ya?

Stream or download from Soundcloud; stream the show on Mixcloud instead; or subscribe to the show on iTunes.

Track listing:

MANSION – Fleshed Out
BLACK ABBA – Lost Dog
PAPER TULIPS – Sanitation
MARAUDEUR – Bad Morning
SUBURBAN HOMES – Conformity in the UK
SEX TIDE – Cleveland Avenue
MARS – Cry
VINCENT OVER THE SINK – Mice in the Ocean
RUTH GARBUS – Kisserine Chalk
DEPARTMENTSTORE SANTAS – Monkeys and Organ Grinders
OLIMPIA SPLENDID – KL
HONEY RADAR – Milk Maid
SURVEILLANCE – Death
BATSWING SALOON – Harold and Maude
VERONICA FALLS – Timeless Melody
JOHNNY YOUNG – Going to Pleasant Valley
DANIEL BACHMAN – Orange County Serenade
ANDY McLEOD – Down Darby Creek

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BULL TONGUE REVIEW, true to their mission, has actually published a clockwork four print issues now on a quarterly basis. Fantastic stuff.

#4 just arrived in the mail two days ago, and I’ve only had time to tackle the Coley/Moore opening salvo of highly obscure records, chapbooks, tapes & proper books. “Exploring all known undergrounds” – no kidding. I’ll admit a fair bit of jealousy toward those who’ve got the time and the gumption to do this much exploring, but hey, I’ll settle for late to the party – as long as I’m allowed at the party in the first place.

So far, upon finishing the first three issues I’ve found myself better-versed in the far-reaching sub-underground than I was a few hours previous, and often more than a little frustrated with some of the contributors. You’ve got certain people throwing up stream-of-thought wordplay and unrepressed societal dislocation on the most inane topics imaginable, and it’s all I can do to not want to mail a dictionary, a Xanax and a copy of “How To Win Friends and Influence People” to a select few of them. It might make for infuriating reading at times, but Bull Tongue Review seems to have been hatched from the same ur-brain that the late 60s underground papers & broadsheets were, and I try to read each issue in that spirit.

Moreover, in addition to Byron Coley’s multi-page review-spew introduction, there are phenomenal arbiters of culture each month like Tom Lax, Erika Elizabeth, Suzy Rust, Brian Turner, Chris D., Alex Behr, Marc Masters, Phil Milstein, Donna Lethal and many more of my all-time heroes. I truly wasn’t sure if it would make it past issue #1 or #2 – my thing sure didn’t – but here we are with one of analog culture’s most consistently mind-scrambling cultural treasures.

Order yours here.

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Fantastic new-to-me, likely old-to-many podcast for experimental mp3 diggers and shufflers who like it raw and deeply underground.

It’s called FREE FORM FREAKOUT; it hails from Mankato, MN; and it’s already up to 69 episodes.

The fella who hosts it – “David” – is exceptionally knowledgeable and patient in his detailed explanations of crude, dark, looped and strummed music – some hovering in the rock or folk idiom, some not. Regarding the music played, imagine a mix existing somewhere between The Wire magazine (minus the techno), Bull Tongue Review and Syphon Me Plasma. I suspect I’ll learn a lot here.