Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine is available for sale – but only for about 10 more days, because I’m moving to Norway for the summer, and I don’t think they have mail service or envelopes there (and I’m not going to haul my last box of remaining ‘zines there to find out).
So if you’ve been considering getting our first issue for yourself or a loved one, now might be the time. I’ll take orders until May 11th, then I’ll disable the Paypal link until mid-August, when I return with a big blonde walrus ‘stache and a belly full of whale.
Order Dynamite Hemorrhage #1 here.
It includes:
– An in-depth interview with Chris D., Los Angeles-based punk rock earth-turner, who founded and fronted The Flesh Eaters; ran a pioneering record label called Upsetter; almost released the first Black Flag album; wrote dozens of reviews and helped to edit the seminal Slash magazine; put out his own fanzine with Exene, John Doe & Judith Bell; and much more – all before 1979 was finished. This interview focuses solely on that period of his career
– The first and only retrospective and posthumous interview with SALLY SKULL, a fantastic 1990s all-female Scottish band who made raw, jarring garage punk music with dollops of angularity and dirty pop hooks
– Mail interviews with SEX TIDE and HOUSEHOLD, two current bands working the circuit who happen to be two of Dynamite Hemorrhage’s very favorites
– Quickie interview with BONA DISH, a recently-resurrected early 80s UK countryside band who are poster children for the rough-hewn, spaced-out DIY sound that we’ve all come to worship from that era and country
– Big retrospective on 1980s and 1990s underground music fanzines (like Damp, Butt Rag, Dagger, Two Hundred Pound Underground etc.) by the editor of Fuckin’ Record Reviews blog
– 60-something record reviews written by Erika Elizabeth and Jay Hinman
– 15-something book reviews by Jay & Erika
– Advertisements from today’s top labels
RHINO 39, Los Angeles-based creators of a blazing 1979 single on Dangerhouse (“Prolixin Stomp/Xerox/No Compromise”), as featured within the Munster Records 2xCD collection of all the Dangerhouse singles.
DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO #36 is now ready for streaming and download, just like the 35 episodes before it. This one takes a mild-psych left turn at the start before veering back into underground artpunk, pop, DIY experimentation and garage gnarl from the last fifty years.
New stuff’s on proud display from Cold Beat, Buck Biloxi & The Fucks, Trick Mammoth, Thee Oh Sees, Pang and the Sleaford Mods, along with some little-heard genius from Chapter 24, The Milky Ways, 999999999, The Nights and Days and the Inflatable Boy Clams – among others.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #36
Stream (or download) Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #36 via SoundCloud.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes.
Track Listing:
BUCK BILOXI AND THE FUCKS – I’m A Genius
THEE OH SEES – Drop
JULY – My Clown
999999999 – White Devils
MAD MIKE & THE MANIACS – The Hunch
ICKY BOYFRIENDS – Muffin
COLD BEAT – Mirror
TRICK MAMMOTH – Floristry
PANG – Stockpile
THE NIGHTS AND DAYS – Lookin’
CHAPTER 24 – Spindle
INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS – I’m Sorry
THE KILLJOYS – Johnny Won’t Get To Heaven
THE GERMS – No God
RHINO 39 – Xerox/No Compromise
SIN 34 – Forgive and Forget
NIP DRIVERS – EYOB
CRASS – Do They Owe Us A Living?
X – Hey You
SLEAFORD MODS – Black Monday
SCRITTI POLITTI – Bibbly-O-Tek
LITTLE CLAW – Brackish Stratum
THE MILKY WAYS – (Can’t Seem To Find) My Way Back Home
Past Shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #35 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #34 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #33 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #32 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #31 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #30 (playlist)
Advertisement for the second GERMS 45, scanned from Slash Magazine’s 1-year anniversary issue, 1978.
Domain trouble! I had a hell of a time trying to hold on to the URL hedonistjive.com with something called “Google Apps”, and woke this morning to find it expired.
I’ve now migrated over 4 years’ worth of content on my other blog, THE HEDONIST JIVE, to a new URL – www.hedonist-jive.com. If you have a bookmark, please feel free to adjust it accordingly, as the other one appears to be dead as a doornail.
A modicum of praise for Los Angeles’ SIN 34 in NO MAG, circa 1982.
Sin 34 (whom the editors of Dynamite Hemorrhage have a bit of a guilty-pleasure soft spot for) were the perennial opening band on hardcore bills all over LA and the San Fernando Valley in the early 80s. Members later went on to Painted Willie; Dave Markey became an infamous underground filmmaker and was putting out We Got Power fanzine around the time of this review as well.
THE PIN GROUP, live in 1981 in Christchurch, New Zealand. It’s a short 12-minute film of the band with a 2-minute poetry intro. Floored this stuff exists, and is a few clicks away down the internet wormhole.
Not especially readable – but here’s a split interview w/ San Francisco’s ICKY BOYFRIENDS and Toronto’s LEATHER UPPERS – who shared a drummer – from the pages of Portland’s Snipehunt fanzine, a mag I’d love to find some back issues of (especially if anyone saved the “Zip Code Rapists break up” issue….). Enjoy your squinting.
A loping, strangely mid-tempo version of “Smokescreen” by THE DESPERATE BICYCLES, performed on The John Peel show back on April 7th, 1978.
Sure, it was 38 years ago – but if anyone knows how I might get in touch with a member of the ‘Bicycles, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.
AGONY SHORTHAND 