I’ll just say this about googly-eyed mooning over celebrities when they die: you were just as personally connected and engaged with the deceased yesterday as you will be tomorrow.
Sure it’s sad, but the death of a loved one, a person you know, or even of anonymous youth cut down in its prime is more sad. I’m already maxing out on the “oh shit oh shit I can’t take it today whatamIgonna do Lou died” faux sympathy.
My review of the first GUIDED BY VOICES record I ever heard, circa 1993, from SUPERDOPE fanzine #6.
Here’s something wiry, compelling & brand new from a Tempe, Arizona band called NUMB BATS – totally in league with Flying Nun-style Velvets jangle and much of Barbara Manning’s work w/ World of Pooh, removed of most traces of sheen and left with a pleasant lo-fidelity and left-of-center candy core. The song’s called “Doctor 5”.
Go get it at their Bandcamp page once you decide how much you like it here.
Maybe you were offline last Friday. Maybe you just weren’t checking your Tumblr. It’s for you that I provide a re-post of Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #23 podcast here:
I’m doing my best to crank out an hour of music for Dynamite Hemorrhage’s several dozen listeners every two weeks, and mission accomplished this time, with DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO #23 coming out just about two weeks to the day from the last one I recorded in Norway (!). This one was able to shoehorn 24 songs in a mere 1 hour, 2 minutes – that’s a lot of short, aggressive songs. As promised “on the air”, I’ll try and mellow out a bit next time.
This one showcases some new stuff from SEX TIDE, RUBY PINS, THE AR-KAICS and FOSTER CARE, along with recent stuff from Pampers and Danny and the Darleans…..then there’s some good olde-tyme rocknroll from The Vidiots, Green on Red, Supercharger, Expando Brain, Liimanarina and yes, The Fuckin’ Flyin’ A-Heads! Feel free to download it, stream it, and consume it however you see fit – and while you’re at it, how about trying some of the other 22 hour-long episodes as well? (scroll down – they’re all there).
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #23
Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes
Track listing
SEX TIDE – Beggar, Beggar
FOSTER CARE – Bad Vibe City
OVERNIGHT LOWS – City of Rotten Eyes
QUEER PILLS – Stupid Jerk
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT – These Days
TIME FLYS – Smokin’ Dope
THE RONDELLES – Shimmy-Becker
THE AR-KAICS – No Good
DANNY & THE DARLEANS – Don’t Ask The Question
SUPERCHARGER – Get Out Of My House
DARA PUSPITA – Bertamasja (On Vacation)
GREEN ON RED – Aspirin
SALLY SKULL – You Better Go
JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION – Water Main
TAR BABIES – Native Son
PAMPERS – Eruptions
L.A. DRUGS – Casual Sex
RAKKETAX – Van Agt
RUBY PINS – To Us
SONIC CHICKEN 4 – Sexiest
VIDIOTS – Laurie’s Lament
EXPANDO BRAIN – God’s Words
LIIMANARINA – Naapurin Pojat Puinsine Lintuineen
FUCKIN’ FLYIN’ A-HEADS – Swiss Cheese Back
Past Shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #22 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #21 (playlist)
Tav Falco’s Panther Burns (with Alex Chilton on guitar!) on “Straight Talk with Marge Thrasher” in 1979
Watch through the halfway point to hear Tav argue his case for “anti-rockabilly” with the host.
WOW. MIND SHATTERING CLIP!!!
This was one of my favorite moments in the BIG STAR documentary, and almost single-handedly has me reconsidering my decades-long aversion to Tav Falco. “Axel Chitlin”!
Meet PAMPERS. They’re a NYC band who’ve got their first album coming out on In The Red, like, next week. The song you’re about to play by pressing the button above is called “Eruptions”, and it’s from a ridiculously limited 45 from 2011 on Jack Shack Records.
These fellas have the dangerous, off-kilter distorto-punk thing down, and may even be adding a new chapter themselves. Love this song, in any case. Looking forward to getting busy with that album next week.
Totally wired, jittery (all female?) 1981 UK postpunk/wavoid classic from the one-and-done Lancashire band TARZAN 5. This is from their 45, put out on 021 Records. B-side “Different Story” is fantastic dubby new wave, and you can listen to that here.
I’m doing my best to crank out an hour of music for Dynamite Hemorrhage’s several dozen listeners every two weeks, and mission accomplished this time, with DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO #23 coming out just about two weeks to the day from the last one I recorded in Norway (!). This one was able to shoehorn 24 songs in a mere 1 hour, 2 minutes – that’s a lot of short, aggressive songs. As promised “on the air”, I’ll try and mellow out a bit next time.
This one showcases some new stuff from SEX TIDE, RUBY PINS, THE AR-KAICS and FOSTER CARE, along with recent stuff from Pampers and Danny and the Darleans…..then there’s some good olde-tyme rocknroll from The Vidiots, Green on Red, Supercharger, Expando Brain, Liimanarina and yes, The Fuckin’ Flyin’ A-Heads! Feel free to download it, stream it, and consume it however you see fit – and while you’re at it, how about trying some of the other 22 hour-long episodes as well? (scroll down – they’re all there).
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #23
Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes
Track listing
SEX TIDE – Beggar, Beggar
FOSTER CARE – Bad Vibe City
OVERNIGHT LOWS – City of Rotten Eyes
QUEER PILLS – Stupid Jerk
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT – There Days
TIME FLYS – Smokin’ Dope
THE RONDELLES – Shimmy-Becker
THE AR-KAICS – No Good
DANNY & THE DARLEANS – Don’t Ask The Question
SUPERCHARGER – Get Out Of My House
DARA PUSPITA – Bertamasja (On Vacation)
GREEN ON RED – Aspirin
SALLY SKULL – You Better Go
JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION – Water Main
TAR BABIES – Native Son
PAMPERS – Eruptions
L.A. DRUGS – Casual Sex
RAKKETAX – Van Agt
RUBY PINS – To Us
SONIC CHICKEN 4 – Sexiest
VIDIOTS – Laurie’s Lament
EXPANDO BRAIN – God’s Words
LIIMANARINA – Naapurin Pojat Puinsine Lintuineen
FUCKIN’ FLYIN’ A-HEADS – Swiss Cheese Back
Past Shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #22 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #21 (playlist)
MODERN INTERNET RADIO SUPERSTARS
My best ideas for what to listen to and play on my own radio show/podcast are likely stolen from the curators and tastemakers of today whom I follow and listen to regularly. There are only a few who meet my exacting standards. Let’s meet them.
SECRET MEANING OF THINGS – A way-leftfield dose of 80s postpunk esoterica and 45rpm obscurities from Seattle’s streaming-only Hollow Earth Radio. I believe the DJ’s name is Brittnie Fuller, but she tends to lay pretty low and let her weirdo, “mutant sound” record collection do the talking for her.
WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT – This one’s a little more difficult to get, since it’s not podcasted (yet), and requires that you listen online to KWTF’s stream on Tuesdays from 10-11pm Pacific. You’ll be glad you did. I’ve known host Chris Selvig since we were both better-looking, and his collection of psych, long avant-rambles, New Zealand noise and African jook jams will get you gazing at your navel and drooling with glee for the hour that it’s on. (Update! He’s started a SoundCloud account and is uploading his shows. DH’s patented passive-aggressive nagging gets results)
STONED OUT OF MY MIND – Whenever I need to know what the rawest, loudest and most gonzoid garage punk and straight-punk records sound like, I head over to this San Diego-based hour-long podcast and allow my ears to bleed profusely. Sure, “Debaser”’s bar for quality punk rock is set a little lower than mine, and at times his back-announcing very much lives up to his show’s name, but I find myself coming back repeatedly. Where else is one to discover The Sleaze and Hank Wood & The Hammerheads?
RIBBON AROUND A BOMB – I get the feeling the DJ La Lengua (pictured) might be running out of steam a little, since she’s only posting her shows once in a coon’s age. Maybe you should download like 30 of them right now and tie up the entire internet for hours, and she’ll get with the program again. It’d be good for you and good for humanity, since this KCSB alum (like me!) has superlative taste in female-fronted punk rock and postpunk, and a deep collection of oddities from around the world. Her on-air schtick is quite fetching and guaranteed to keep you listening for the next wild 45 or comp track from Kleenex, Sin 34 or Rutto.
EXPRESSWAY TO YOUR SKULL – I write about Erika Elizabeth’s show all the time, and she’s now the main other contributor to the forthcoming Dynamite Hemorrhage print ‘zine. So I’ll go light on the praise this time, for once. If you haven’t heard her WMUA show or new podcast, you need to.
If I’m missing any other fantastic shows, won’t you please do me and us all a favor and let me know about them?
SEX TIDE, the new pride of Columbus, Ohio rocknroll.
AGONY SHORTHAND 