Very cool – thanks to Steve B. for the heads-up.
ROXY MUSIC arrive at the Cleveland airport, 1975. Taken from the awesome Waitakere Walks blog.
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Chris Knox on THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, from New Zealand’s Rip It Up fanzine, November 1982.
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I got this phenomenal track from a bootleg set of mp3s called “LUX & IVY’S FAVORITES”.
From the description on the band I found on the internets:
Apparently, The Ravels were a Brooklyn streetcorner group, just another of many hundreds of similar singing lads, looking for a shot at the big time (or at least a spin on Dr. Jive’s show on WWRL). One of their acquaintances, a man named Elmore Sheriff, had a song he had written back in 1955 that he called “Shombalor”. Sheriff knew a guy named Aki Aleong, who was working as an actor and was heavy into the doo-wop scene (his 45 of “How Do I Stand With You?” on Mona-Lee Records is a VERY desirable slab of wax for group harmony freaks), and Aki had some contacts with some local recording studios.
Result: The Ravels got their chance to cut a record. They immediately cut one of their original songs, “Lonely One” (written by one “W. Denson” – could this have been Wee Willie Denson, who later had the equally strange 45 “Fried Marbles”? Was he a member of The Ravels?) and for the flip side, ol’ Sheriff let the group know that they were gonna cut his tune.
The group got behind it, and made the record (this is why original copies on Vee Jay have “Sheriff and The Ravels” on one side and “The Ravels” on the other). Of course, not only did Aki Aleong take half the writers’ credit for both sides, he got one of the EARLIEST production credits EVER for a rock and roll 45! Aki then shopped the tapes around to several labels, and Vee Jay Records in Chicago picked it up. Neither side was picked as a “plug side” (Vee Jay never printed “plug side” on their promotional 45s for some reason).
Awesome DEADBEATS flyer from a gig they played in San Francisco in the late 70s. There weren’t many of ‘em, from what I understand.
http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/83174627/stream?client_id=3cQaPshpEeLqMsNFAUw1Q?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
Hey, don’t forget that you can listen to, AND DOWNLOAD, my hour-long radio show/podcast Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio, edition #9.
Here’s what I said about the thing when I posted it the first time last week:
I’m back with the 9th edition of the Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio Show Podcast, a podcast that pretends it’s a live radio show but is really just a guy drinking a beer in his den, dragging files across his laptop’s screen, blathering into a mic and then calling it a podcast. It’s a big hour and ten minutes this time, with rare tracks from bands you’ve heard of (The Cramps, Guided By Voices, Royal Trux and Giant Sand) along with buried gems from bands you haven’t (Liechtenstein, Mambo Taxi, The Girls and Family Curse). In between are bands that your friends have heard of, but that you haven’t: Sic Alps, King Tuff, Veronica Falls, Saccharine Trust, The Consumers, Gang Green, White Fence and many more.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio Show Podcast #9
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Gina Birch of THE RAINCOATS, performing live in San Francisco at the Market Street Theater, 1981.
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I played this smoker, “Teen Love Song”, on my Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio Podcast #9 last week, and I got calls from as far away as Moldova, Ceylon and Persia that it had melted the earbuds off at least seven different iPods – and one Zune!
THE CONSUMERS were a Phoenix punk rock band who up & moved to Los Angeles, recruited scary goth punk singer Dinah Cancer to front them, and turned into 45 GRAVE. They’d have never gotten away with the less-than-classy set of lyrics they display here on “Teen Love Song” with a woman singing them, which is why 45 Grave didn’t do this song yet did virtually all of the other Consumers songs captured on their posthumous LP/CD, “All My Friends Are Dead”.
A treatise and call to action on the band V-3, published in Siltbreeze fanzine #6 around 1990.
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Listen Live to Ribbon Around a Bomb tonight…
I’m meeting and assisting DJ La Lengua for the first time tonight, as she’s graciously asked me over while she plays female-fronted punk rock on RADIO VALENCIA from 10pm-Midnight Pacific time tonight (that’s 1-3am on the US east coast, and a different time in other places). If all goes as planned it’ll be my first time on “real” radio since, yep, 1991 (as opposed to the phony radio I’m pumping out weekly now).
Since Ms. Lengua mostly plays 70s/80s punk on her show Ribbon Around a Bomb, I’ve prepared a set of obscure “90s punk” in which the XX chromosome rules. Listen online, via the Radio Valencia app – or via the podcast that’s sure to get posted in a week or two.
AGONY SHORTHAND 