THE MINUTEMEN, NoMag fanzine, Los Angeles 1983.
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“…they’re all wonderfully celebratory herks & jerks in the patented blink-and-you-missed style.” – J Hinman
DISTURBED #2 1995 (page 17), ROBERT PLANTE, Editor
- Last month we celebrated JIMMY JOHNSON as Fuckin’ Record Reviews’ inaugural UNSUNG HERO OF ROCKNROLL WRITING. There was a Forced Exposure discography at the end of the Jimmy Johnson interview in which Byron Coley tossed off comments about each release, with Disturbed editor Robert Plante adding unauthorized liftage from other sources.
- The Minutemen review above does not appear to include Coley commentary, but instead swipes an equally sharp JAY HINMAN review from Superdope #7 (1994).
B-SIDE magazine #20, Australia, late 80s. Great features on feedtime, Venom P. Stinger and Ed Kuepper – among others.
CRUSH! fanzine #3, published in 1990 out of an Iowa college town by a guy whose name escapes me right now. Brian?
Jesus I don’t remember, but this ‘zine came in various guises and wasn’t always called Crush!, either. Classic snotty scene in-joke vibe, leaning heavily toward independent pop and away from punk, garage etc.
KENDRA SMITH still hasn’t contacted me yet regarding my public request for an interview for Dynamite Hemorrhage magazine #2 – perhaps because she’s purportedly in the woods without running water, wisely shielding herself from the likes of me – but while we wait for her to hear my plea, here’s a pic of her in her Dream Syndicate days, scanned from NoMag fanzine in 1983.
There’s a pair of previously unreleased – and really good – tracks from Dadamah out on Grouper’s Yellow Electric label that I can’t get enough of right now. Looks like this 7” has been out for a while, but only just came to my attention with the recent release of that Roy Montgomery comp, also on Yellow Electric. Initially, I sort of dismissed it, thinking that Dadamah’s music had already been pretty comprehensively compiled, and falling back on that old complacent rule that “previously unreleased” so often means “didn’t make the cut.”
Thankfully, haunting B-side “Absent and Erotic Lives” opened the latest Dynamite Hemorrhage podcast, and caught me off-guard. Metronomic rhythm and preoccupied guitar strums are definitely okay by me, but this track stands out by virtue of a building, anxious tension that haunts (with some help from those keyboards) even as it hypnotizes. With more of the same on the A-side, this turns out to be pretty ideal material for Yellow Electric.
BLACK RANDY & THE METROSQUAD, from the insert that came with the Dangerhouse complete 45s collection put out on 2xCD by Munster Records.
FLESH EATERS are playing the Whiskey w/ the Alleycats, you guys. In 1978. I’m all in.
Scanned from Slash magazine’s 1-year anniversary issue.
Maybe today’s youngsters don’t know it, but HoZac Records out of Chicago was once a pseudo-porn/garage punk fanzine called HORIZONTAL ACTION. This seems to be the only issue (#3) I could find in my fanzine boxes in the garage, but I know I had the other ones around…..
https://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/dynamitehemorrhage/86031913566/tumblr_n3qxs0IW4l1qhh3zd?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
Well, here it is. Straight to ya from NWI.
this is amazing. total weirdo kbd that could have come out in 1980. if i still did i radio show i’d sandwich them between bands like V;, SEEMS TWICE, THE FEELIES, SUICIDE SQUAD, LUCRATE MILK, etc. so much more interesting than 99% of current punk/post-punk/hardcore right now.
What do any of you know about this track or band? C.C.T.V.??? Anyone know how to track it/them down on the internet? So far completely un-Google-able.
AGONY SHORTHAND 