Fantastic Ubu-esque death-rattle noise pogrom performed by New Zealand’s SHOES THIS HIGH in 1981.
It’s now available on a limited-edition LP called “Straight To Hell” on the estimable Siltbreeze Records, and you can order it up here.
Not to beat the proverbial dead horse, but in case you were napping last week, here’s a re-post of Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #30:
Action, time and vision take center stage in the 30th edition of Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio, a bi-weekly music podcast featuring only good music from the past fifty years. This week we debut some new material from MANE, HOUSEHOLD, PAMPERS, ROACHCLIP and GROWTH, as well as “catalog” tracks from spectacular bands like The Sperm Wails, Cheater Slicks, Angst, Modern Lovers, Methodishca Tune (pictured),Animals & Men, Johnny Hash and much more. I can’t imagine that you wouldn’t like it.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #30.
Stream or download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #30 at Soundcloud.
Subscribe to the show in iTunes.
Track listing:
ANGST – Neil Armstrong
PAMPERS – Eruptions
LEAVING TRAINS – Cigarette Motel
LA PESTE – Don’t Wanna Die In My Sleep Tonite
JOHN HOVORKA – The Price of the Truth
ANIMALS & MEN – Don’t Misbehave In The New Age
GROWTH – Turn
MANE – Bloostone
STEPPING TALK – Health and Safety
METHODISHCA TUNE – Leisuretime
THE MINDERS – Sally
THE LIMES – Rusty Old Clock
CHEATER SLICKS – Feel Free (demo)
JOHNNY HASH – Pink Lunchbox
BLUE – G’me More
ATILA – TV
A-FRAMES – Test Tube Baby
ROACHCLIP – Government Phone
MODERN LOVERS – Wake Up Sleepyheads (live)
DOLLY MIXTURE – How Come You’re Such A Hit With The Boys, Jane?
HOUSEHOLD – Calculations
SPERM WAILS – The Golden Age of the Casual
Past Shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #29 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #28 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #27 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #26 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #25 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #24 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #23 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #22 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #21 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #20 (playlist)
A Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine reader suggested recently via e-mail that I should try and track Kendra Smith (ex-Opal, Dream Syndicate) down and interview her for Issue #2.
I thought that was a fantastic idea, and I’m totally up for driving north from San Francisco and deep into the Humboldt County woods, if that’s where she’s residing these days, in order to get her story out to the people. If anyone knows how to reach her, or can be of any assistance in this urgent matter, please contact me via email at dynamiteh(at)outlook(dotcom).
Disappearing Act: A Kendra Smith Sampler, 1981-1998
In honor of that Paisley Underground revival happening soon, here’s a re-up of some out of print music from a lady who is almost certainly not going to make a surprise guest appearance. What I wrote the first time around:
It’s been well over a decade since Kendra Smith has been heard from, musically at least. If she’s mentioned at all these days, it’s usually as the co-founder of Opal, the band that would eventually morph (without Smith) into Mazzy Star. Or perhaps there was a flurry of interest when critics started mentioning Opal as a touchstone for blog faves Beach House. But for the most part, she’s been relegated to footnote status — and considering that almost all of the recordings she’s been involved in are long out of print, one imagines Kendra prefers it that way. But the music deserves to be heard! So I’ve put together a one disc compilation that stretches from one of her earliest recordings (a German language cover of the Velvets’ “All Tomorrow’s Parties”) to what I believe was her final live performance to date in 1998. In between, you’ll hear songs from The Dream Syndicate, Rainy Day and Opal, as well as some fantastic solo tunes. It all hangs together quite nicely, with plenty of the hazy, dreamlike sounds that Smith made her trademark. Enjoy!
1. Alle Morgens Parties – Kendra Smith
2. Too Little Too Late – The Dream Syndicate
3. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong – Rainy Day
4. Grains of Sand – Opal
5. My Only Friend – Opal
6. Hear The Wind Blow – Opal
7. Indian Summer – Opal
8. Freight Train – Opal
9. Happy Nightmare Baby – Opal
10. She’s A Diamond – Opal
11. Magick Power – Opal
12. Stars Are In Your Eyes – Kendra Smith & the Guild of Temporal Adventurers
13. She Brings The Rain – Kendra Smith & the Guild of Temporal Adventurers
14. Iridescent 31 – Kendra Smith & the Guild of Temporal Adventurers
15. Aurelia – Kendra Smith
16. In Your Head – Kendra Smith
17. Temporarily Lucy (live) – Kendra Smith
18. Lay This Body Down (live) – Kendra Smith
UPSETTER fanzine #1, 1978. This was put together in Los Angeles by Chris D. (Flesh Eaters), Judith Bell (pictured; an artist and Chris’s then-girlfriend who designed the sleeve and labels for the Flesh Eaters’ first EP) and Exene Cervenka.
You can read all about it in Dynamite Hemorrhage print fanzine #1.
(By the way, this image and many other fanzine stunners can be found at Ryan Richardson’s excellent Fanzine Faves – check it out).
THE IN OUT are back after a bit of a hiatus with an excellent EP called “Agenda” that rattles off three new tunes – part drugged, part frantic, often in the same song.
If anyone’s allowed to call a “poseur alert” (as the first song on the A-side does), it’s a band that’s been delving into weird Fall/Swell Maps-isms since 1992. Here’s “Agenda”, title track from the new 7" EP.
I played this on the most recent Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio podcast, but want to underscore its excellence by posting it here as well.
MANE are a relatively new trio from San Francisco who play a dark, feverish but still quite pop-influenced sort of sparse postpunk, and I like ‘em. They have a new “mini-LP” (actually what we once called a 7"EP) on Cut-Rate Records and you can get your grubby mitts on it here.
Action, time and vision take center stage in the 30th edition of Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio, a bi-weekly music podcast featuring only good music from the past fifty years. This week we debut some new material from MANE, HOUSEHOLD, PAMPERS, ROACHCLIP and GROWTH, as well as “catalog” tracks from spectacular bands like The Sperm Wails, Cheater Slicks, Angst, Modern Lovers, Methodishca Tune (pictured),Animals & Men, Johnny Hash and much more. I can’t imagine that you wouldn’t like it.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #30.
Stream or download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #30 at Soundcloud.
Subscribe to the show in iTunes.
Track listing:
ANGST – Neil Armstrong
PAMPERS – Eruptions
LEAVING TRAINS – Cigarette Motel
LA PESTE – Don’t Wanna Die In My Sleep Tonite
JOHN HOVORKA – The Price of the Truth
ANIMALS & MEN – Don’t Misbehave In The New Age
GROWTH – Turn
MANE – Bloostone
STEPPING TALK – Health and Safety
METHODISHCA TUNE – Leisuretime
THE MINDERS – Sally
THE LIMES – Rusty Old Clock
CHEATER SLICKS – Feel Free (demo)
JOHNNY HASH – Pink Lunchbox
BLUE – G’me More
ATILA – TV
A-FRAMES – Test Tube Baby
ROACHCLIP – Government Phone
MODERN LOVERS – Wake Up Sleepyheads (live)
DOLLY MIXTURE – How Come You’re Such A Hit With The Boys, Jane?
HOUSEHOLD – Calculations
SPERM WAILS – The Golden Age of the Casual
Past Shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #29 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #28 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #27 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #26 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #25 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #24 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #23 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #22 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #21 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #20 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio returns in 2014 with a show so packed with hits that we had to exceed our 1-hour cutoff a little, so we hope you’ll forgive the extra 7 or 8 minutes here. We think it’s well worth your while to finish all 68 minutes, or else how would you be able to fully ingest outstanding new material from Octapgrape, the Ausmuteants (pictured here), Warm White, Veronica Falls, Blank Realm and Violent Change?
Or “library” material from The Fall, The Middle Class, Electric Manchakou, Boss Hog and Stiff Legged Sheep, among others? Take a listen and let us know what you think – and if you feel like giving it a rating in iTunes, we’d be quite obliged.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #29.
Stream Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #29 on Soundcloud.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes.
Track listing:
BUNNYBRAINS – On The Floor Again
SALLY SKULL – The Running Kind
AUSMUTEANTS – Kicked In The Head
MIDDLE CLASS – Out of Vogue
ELECTRIC MANCHAKOU – She Said
THE SLEAZE – Splotch (On Something Clean)
STIFF LEGGED SHEEP – 19,000,000th Nervous Breakdown (apologies for a verbal miscue on this one; they relocated to SF in the late 80s, not late 90s)
COUNTER INTUITS – Sense of Urgency
WIRE – Outdoor Miner
CONTACT – Fascinated By Time
THE FALL – Tempo House
VIOLENT CHANGE – Word Around Town
VERONICA FALLS – Perpetual Motion
WARM WHITE – Wear My Clothes
BLANK REALM – Falling Down The Stairs
GAZE – So Early To Tell
BOSS HOG – Pete Shore
DEVIL DOGS – Twist and Burn
INHALANTS – Kolchak, The Night Stalker
OCTAGRAPE – Real Light
Past Shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #28 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #27 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #26 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #25 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #24 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #23 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #22 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #21 (playlist)
THE FLESH EATERS, live at Larchmont Hall in Los Angeles, 1978. That’s Chris D. on vocals, Tito Larriva on guitar and John Richey on bass. And some dude’s Levi’s-clad ass in the lower left.
The photo’s an outtake from our lengthy interview with Mr. D. in Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine #1, which you can learn more about here.
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