A scan of the new MUDHONEY documentary DVD, I’m Now. Take a look at who’s listed dead last in the “cast”. That’s yours truly, right behind Sonic Youth/Pussy Galore’s Bob Bert.
Julie Lanfeld from SF Valley hardcore heroes SIN 34 at their reunion show in 2008. Wow. Read about it here.
Track listing:
GANG GREEN – Snob
WHITE FENCE – Pink Gorilla
KING TUFF – Sun Medallion
SUZI JANE HOKOM – Home
SIC ALPS – God Bless Her, I Miss Her
THE GIRLS – Keep It Simple
VERONICA FALLS – My Heart Beats
GUIDED BY VOICES – Melted Pat
AMY LINTON & STEWART ANDERSON – Hipsters, Scenesters, Teenstars and Fakers
KELLEY STOLTZ – Double Exposure
O-LEVEL – Pseudo Punk/O-Level
UV RACE – Life Park
THE CONSUMERS – Teen Love Song
SACCHARINE TRUST – Hearts and Barbarians
DUSTDEVILS – Throw The Bottleful
ROYAL TRUX – Red Tiger
LIECHTENSTEIN – Stalking Skills
THE CRAMPS – Subwire Desire
MAMBO TAXI – Screaming In Public
GIANT SAND – Center of the Universe
BILL DIREEN AND THE BILDERS – Retail Trade
FAMILY CURSE – No Return
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Before there was Expressway To Yr Skull, before there was Ribbon Around a Bomb, before there was the Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio Podcast, there was ART FOR SPASTICS. DJ Rick’s radio show on Davis, CA’s KDVS was the first, and for a while, the only, radio show that I downloaded and listened to on my “iPod” every week.
He went away – and for one week at least, he’s back. Absolutely a treasure chest of art punk, noise, bizarro pop & garage and that sorta thing.
Just got hipped to a new issue of Gerard Cosloy’s CONFLICT magazine, “first in 22 years”. Truly a “formative” magazine in my, uh, musical development and retardation. There was that spring break around 1986 where I borrowed Jackie Ockene’s huge stack of Conflict back issues and read them cover-to-cover at my parents’ house. Never looked back. Indie rock was on.
So I haven’t read Gerard’s latest, but I’m certain the snark will be off the charts, and the musical taste will be superlative. Click here to download Conflict’s first post-Information Superhighway edition.
‘O’ Level – Pseudo Punk & O Level
Late 70s UKDIY pop troupe that shared members (and sound) with Television Personalities. The included tracks are up there with the best of that band’s early material, plus how fucking rad is that sleeve?
One of the great ones.
Ad for the 3-song HALO OF FLIES single Siltbreeze Records put out in 1989, the very first release for that label.
In case you were wondering where Dynamite Hemorrhage stood on the matter, the new Eat Skull album, which I just finished listening to in its entirety on Spotify, is a total snore. I never much cottoned to the cut of their jib anyway, but was hoping for something along the lines of the wacko Kiwi-pop/sea shanty hybrid they were peddling for a record or two there. Nope. Turgid nod-off rock for the bargain bins of 2014, I’m afraid.
HOWE GELB from Giant Sand, looking regal in Forced Exposure magazine #15. This was from around the time of “Storm”, which is when I saw them (1988) live at Raji’s in Los Angeles – one of the more eye-opening and best rock shows I’d seen to date at that time. (They opened for the Lazy Cowgirls by following them onto the stage at about 12:45am…).
SILTBREEZE magazine’s “picks” from Issue #8, which, judging from the records they most loved, came out in about 1988. This is a tame, almost-SFW photo compared to the rest of the issue’s marginalia. Damn those fellas had some good taste, though, hunh?
AGONY SHORTHAND 