After playing a cool 2008 track from LITTLE CLAW on my most recent podcast, I checked the interweb to make sure they were broken up for good. They’re not! Still around! (That’s a good thing). They’re not based in Portland anymore, but they’re tourin’, and hopefully releasing new stuff soon. Here’s a picture of them in action in 2009 or so.
With the Australian doper-scuzz minimalists EASTLINK, it’s all about the riff. Heavy, punishing, repetitive riffs where 3 guitarists lock on to something intense and primal for four minutes, and only one guitarist outside of the core unit is allowed to stray into modulated feedback and a different pulsating riff.
“Wild Dog”, the one I’m posting for you here, reminds me of Vertigo’s germinal “Two Lives”, one of the late 80s’ most spectacular murders-by-guitar. Eastlink have members of UV Race and Total Control in their ranks, and my sources tell me that these two tracks came from a tape that was making waves last year (“remastered for extra punish”); other tracks from it are soon to be found on additional 45s as well.
The newest episode of my hour-long music podcast, DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO (#22), was recorded in a hotel room in Oslo, Norway this week, rather than in our home base of San Francisco. See if you can detect a distinct “Scandinavian” flair to the show, to say nothing of the babbling and storytelling brought on by extreme jet lag. With a plate of smoked salmon by my side and speed skaters cavorting outside of my window, I played new music from Hannah Lew (Grass Widow)’s COLD BEAT, from Baltimore’s WILDHONEY, as well as a new punisher from Australia’s EASTLINK – to go with some righteous tunes from other eras from Monoshock, Bill Direen & The Bilders, Weenie Roast, Fifty Foot Hose, Slovenly, Mike Rep & the Quotas and more.
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Track listing:
COLD BEAT – Worms
JOHNNY YENG BANG – Fool
EYES – TAQN
WEENIE ROAST – Flowerpot
SLOVENLY – Plug
BILL DIREEN & THE BILDERS – Alien
LITTLE CLAW – Race To The Bottom
WILDHONEY – Like Me
DINOSAUR – Bulbs of Passion
THE CHEFS – You Get Everywhere
THE RAMONES – Judy is a Punk (demo)
MIKE REP & THE QUOTAS – Rocket Music On
FIFTY FOOT HOSE – Red The Sign Post
MONOSHOCK – Primitive Zippo
NEW FUGITIVES – That’s Queer
MAN TEE MANS – Man Tee Mans (Theme)
THE WHITEFRONTS – Six Buses
EASTLINK – Wild Dog
Past Shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #21 (playlist)
For you “Breaking Bad” finale fans who already know and love the Badfinger song that closed out the entire series, let me introduce you to a cover version of the song that’s nearly as good – Barbara Manning and the San Francisco Seals’ “Baby Blue”, from ‘93’s “NoWHere” album.
Short – but I’ll take it – article on wacked-out DC artpunks VOID from Scott Bass in the new Perfect Sound Forever online mag.
Not sure I fully agree, but I appreciate the argumentative feistiness of the argument from James Paton in favor of Captain Beefheart’s two mid-70s “sell out” LPs.
She said she was gonna do it, and then she did it. Erika Elizabeth, the exceptionally knowledegable and savvy WMUA disc jockey who left Western Massachusetts for Portland, OR, now has put together her second digital radio show/podcast, which you can download over on her blog.
Her “Expressway To Yr Skull” show has been vital to my discovery of multiple bands and to my rejuvenation/reawakening to the whys and wherefores of raw, underground rock and roll music – especially of the more obscure pop and female-fronted DIY/punk stuff. And she breaks the news over on the recent post that she’ll be a prime contributor to the upcoming Dynamite Hemorrhage print fanzine, which is coming along pretty fine, actually. Go and download years & years of her shows here – you’ll get yourself muscially schooled & perhaps be a more interesting person as a result.
Byron Coley’s classic FLESH EATERS 1982 tour diary piece from Take It! fanzine has been digitized and posted online here.
While we’re busy at work on our first Dynamite Hemorrhage print fanzine, the folks at Austin, TX’s RUBBERNECK have just cranked out their seventh. This one’s got features on folks we like at the ‘Hemorrhage as well, including Spray Paint, SS Records and The Sleaze. Order it for a mere 5 bucks here.
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