“…I can’t say no to something as snotty, aggressive and abrasive as this, and neither can you.. So don’t”
de/create issue #3 September 1994 (no page #)
MONOSHOCK review by either NICK CAIN or IAIN COWPER-SMITH, Editors
Jay Hinman at @dynamitehemorrhage
Check out this well-pieced-together video that was just posted for AMY GASSNER’s 1979 “Brown Sugar”, a falling-apart ramshackle sexpot cover of the Stones, all cobbled together in the great Memphis falling-apart tradition.
“Recorded in the haze of 1979 and possibly under the influence of hog tranquilizers”.
Gassner was in THE KLITZ in the late 70s, Memphis’ first all-female punk band – and their posthumous 45 from last year is also essential listening.
A few weeks ago it looked like our interview with White Fence’s Tim Presley wasn’t happening, so I wrote up this review of his mind-expanding W-X release from late last year.
Then we talked and all was well, but I still had this review saying we weren’t gonna sitting there. So it’s now out of the upcoming magazine, and plopped here on the Dynamite Hemorrhage blog instead:
W-X – “W-X” LP/CD
Tim Presley from White Fence stands head & shoulders above most mortals in his ability to burrow into one’s brain with melodic, playful shards of psychedelia. When we look back at this most recent decade a few years hence, I think he’ll be recognized as a touchstone genius for his era the way Alex Chilton or Mark E Smith are for theirs. He was supposed to be featured in a big way this issue, actually, but somehow that fell apart. Next year in Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, Presley quietly put out a solo side project called W-X this year, and it indulges some of the man’s more outré leanings, calling to mind a guy with a laptop, a week with the deck cleared, and a brain bursting at the seams. W-X is less a disambiguated thread of electro-knob twiddling and is surprisingly a cohesive whole, especially when listened to in a single sitting.
Through a couple of tracks sound like White Fence compositions that
he simply couldn’t wait to get on the next album – especially the
massive “Steer Clear” – others are first-rate, non-dimensional bizarro
world creations like “Brazilian Worm Band”. I’d even venture that some
of this might even be suitable to soundtrack some of those “video games”
you kids are always yammering about. A delightful apéritif as we
collectively wait to dine at the next White Fence smorgasbord. (Castle
Face; castlefacerecords.com) – Jay
NEW FLEXIBLE SINGLE COMING SOON!
New flexidisc from THE WORLD, coming soon on Play Pinball Records. Best song yet?
Excellent, skittering punk rock chaos from Auckland’s THE COOLIES in 2010.
We’ve interviewed the band for Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine #3, coming next month. Thanks to Sjionel, Tina and Stefan for submitting themselves to a proper DH grilling.
In case you were wondering where the Slash Magazine founder and journalist copped his name. Recently reissued as well.
Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine #3 cover is done. We’re finishing this thing up now and will have it out in May.
Excellent new interview with HONEY RADAR’s Jason Henn to look at here.
First episode of the podcast under the name Futures & Pasts; last episode of the podcast as a once-a-month installment. Starting next weekend, I’ll be doing a weekly two-hour episode of the show at Freeform Portland – listen live online at freeformportland.org or on an actual radio in the Portland city limits each Saturday night from 8-10pm PST. You’ll also be able to hear each episode after the fact in streamable/downloadable format right here on the blog. Fuck yeah.
Download the show here. Stream at the link above.
Artist – Song Title – Album Title – Label
The Nice Men – Nuclear Summer – Nuclear Summer 7″ – Mrs. Green
Mocket – Bionic Parts – Bionic Parts – Punk in My Vitamins
The Urinals – Scholastic Aptitude – Negative Capability, Check It Out! – In the Red
Foster Body – Drawer – Moving Display – Diabolical
This Sporting Life – Total Loss – Show Me to the Bellrope – Flying Nun
The Beakers – Line Up – Four Steps Toward A Cultural Revolution – K
Objects – Back Problems – demo – self-released
Henry’s Dress – (You’re My) Radio One – s/t – Slumberland
Tough Customer – Clean & Clear – The Worst! cassette – self-released
Lung Leg – Right Now Baby – Right Now Baby 7" – Vesuvius
Silver Fox – Marble World – Waves On In 7" – M’Lady’s
Ex-Debs – Paint Huffers 1997 – Initial Demo – self-released
Kicking Giant – This Song – Alien ID – K
Swell Maps – Read About Seymour – Read About Seymour 7" – Rather
Neighbourhood Threat – Trivial Pursuit – s/t cassette – Cheap & Nasty
Slumber Party – Sooner or Later – s/t – Kill Rock Stars
Thin Yoghurts – Drink Problem – Girl on the Bus 7" – Lowther Street
The Click – Rope Around My Neck – Fraction 7" – Sound Ideas
Doctor Nod – Places It Goes – Top Tips cassette – Clean Nice Quiet
Neonbabies – Eingebrochen – Nervös 7"- Teldec
Numbers – I’m Shy – Numbers Life – Tigerbeat6
Lithics – The Snake – Borrowed Floors – Water Wing
DNA – 5:30 – A Taste of DNA EP – Rough Trade
Morbid Opera – Sledgehammer – Jesus Loves You, So Give Us Your Money 7" – Sublapse
WALL – Cuban Cigars 7" – s/t EP – Wharf Cat
The Vores – Get Outta My Way – Love Canal 7" – Family Only
Paint Thinner – Glistening Dots – demo cassette – self-released
The Fakes – Look-Out – Production 7" – Deep Cuts
City Yelps – We Like the Hours – The City Yelps Half Hour – Oddbox
Bound & Gagged – Chains & Polymers – s/t EP – Modern Method
The Particles – Driving Me – Colour In 7" – Certain Music
Goodbye Expressway to Yr Skull – great listening to your amazing array of punk, pop & ultra-obscurities from all corners of the sub-underground for the last five years. A hearty welcome to Futures & Pasts!
AGONY SHORTHAND 