BILL DIREEN, taken from Forced Exposure Magazine #16.
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XPRESSWAY were the darker, more experimental record label cousin of New Zealand’s Flying Nun. Operating out of Port Chalmers on the South Island, Xpressway was originally a late 80s/early 90s cassette label and later branched into singles and LPs. They were a real cult taste there for a while, putting out early moody, shape-shifting sounds from the Dead C, Alastair Galbraith, the Terminals and more.
This ad came from Siltbreeze magazine #6 around 1990 or so. (Yes, before Siltbreeze was a raunched-out music fanzine before it was a label). Tom Lax from Siltbreeze was probably Xpressway’s biggest US-based champion; I’d certainly never heard of the label before he started yakking about them and running cool ads like this one.
Here’s a new edition of the Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio Show Podcast, our eighth, recorded at home on a Saturday afternoon while the rest of the world was doing more important things. Download it, stream it, do whatever the hell you want with it – but do listen to it, as you’ll hear an hour of righteous sounds from some pretty gnarly artists, including The Scientists, Grass Widow, Big Blood, the Gun Club, The Door and The Window, Look Blue Go Purple, Sally Skull, the Black Jaspers, Clothilde, the Flesh Eaters and As Mercenarias.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #8
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Playlist for the show:
THE SCIENTISTS – There’s a Monster in Me
SALLY SKULL – Raven
ABE FROMAN – Russian 101
BLACK JASPERS – Smart Car
HEAVY TIMES – Ice Age
A-FRAMES – Neutron Bomb
LOOK BLUE GO PURPLE – Safety in Crosswords
BURNT ONES – Protection Circle
CLOTHILDE – Je T’ai Voulu et Je T’ai Bien Eu
GRASS WIDOW – Advice
THE HOMOSEXUALS – Technique Street
THE DOOR AND THE WINDOW – Dads
FLESH EATERS – Dynamite Hemorrhage
THE GUN CLUB – Devil in the Woods
GOLDEN STARLET – Baby
THE NIXE – You Say
AS MERCENARIAS – Policia
THE MASTER’S APPRENTICES – Undecided
THE BIRDS – You’re on my Mind
THE BREAKERS – Jet Stream
THE GORLS – TV’s On
THE MONTELLS – You Can’t Make Me
BIG BLOOD – Sovereignty You Bitch
Download all of our past episodes, each about an hour long:
Download Show #7
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Download Show #4
Download Show #3
Download Show #2
Download Show #1
This is a photo I took of THE DUST DEVILS live at CBGB in New York City, May 1993. They were opening for Claw Hammer, The Unsane and Rocket From The Crypt. That’s Matador Records head and Conflict editor Gerard Cosloy playing bass there on the right, which surprised the hell out of me when he stepped on stage.
Dust Devils were awesome, by the way, but on the decline a bit….their 1991 show at the 6th Street Rendezvous in San Francisco floored me, but they were flattening out a bit by this time.
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Stunning, echo-laden, slide guitar-murder, low-fidelity version of “Devil in the Woods” by THE GUN CLUB from the Keats Rides a Harley multi-artist compilation from 1981, the same year as “Fire of Love”. A lesser version of this track came out on the Gun Club’s (lesser) second album a year later.
Jon Wahl of CLAW HAMMER (with painting) and Jay Hinman (asleep) in Wichita, KS 1993.
Priests (opening for Hilly Eye) at the Black Cat in Washington DC February 13 2013 photos: Davis White
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FAMILY CURSE, a moderne loud rock band from New York City, have just released their first album “Twilight Language”, and Dynamite Hemorrhage thinks it’s pretty good.
These guys would’ve been right in the wheelhouse of the Touch&Go/Amphetamine Reptile stable around 1989-91, and I’m going to go out on a big limb and say that they’ve probably got some records in their group collection from The Fall, Cop Shoot Cop, Tar, Rat At Rat R, Surgery and Pussy Galore. See what you think by listening to “No Return”, which kicks off the album.
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The one-woman, 1980 UK “band” THE PETTICOATS put our their/her only 45 on the Blah Blah Blah label, and it’s a masterpiece of frantic, buzzing DIY punk. Definitely something the fell below the radar for most of us for many years; I never even heard mention of the single until a little over a decade ago, when the song “Normal” made it onto a Killed By Death comp and a bootleg called “Instant Pop Classics”.
Later, Times New Viking covered this one, “Allergy”, and I think it’s my favorite of the three mindblowers on Stef Petticoat’s single. Share this around with yr pals – they’ll thank you for it.
I’ve put together a new 1-hour edition of the DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO SHOW PODCAST, my phony rocknroll radio show recorded and assembled on a laptop and turned into a podcast. This is the 7th one I’ve made – the other six are all available to download at the links below. This features all manner of underground rock music from 1966 to 2013. Bands you will enjoy hearing include100 Flowers, Murphy & The Mob, Clorox Girls, Veronica Falls, Spray Paint, White Fence, Burnt Ones, Rachel Sweet, The Dum Dum Girls, Pink Floyd and a whole bunch of others – interspersed with talking from a wild, wacky radio disc jockey!
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio Show Podcast #7
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Track listing:
THE DELINQUENTS – Motivation Complex
BURNT ONES – Strawberry Tomb
THE CROWD – Modern Machine
SWELL MAPS – Vertical Slum
CLOROX GIRLS – Boys Girls
DIRT SHIT – Exit
JOHNNY & THE SELF ABUSERS – Saints and Sinners
VERONICA FALLS – So Tired
VIRGINIA DARE – Girl King
RACHEL SWEET – Cuckoo Clock
THE MINDERS – Hand Me Downs
THE FLOWERS – After Dark
WHITE FENCE – Real Smiles
SPRAY PAINT – Spock Fingers
PINK FLOYD – Arnold Layne
ART MUSEUMS – S.H.O.P.P.i.N.G.
TAKE IT – Twenty Lines
THE BARRERACUDAS – New York Honeys
THE LOSERS – Snake Eyes
MURPHY & THE MOB – Born Loser
THE VORES – Amateur Surgeon
DUM DUM GIRLS – Pay For Me
100 FLOWERS – Salmonella
Download past shows, each about an hour long:
Download Show #6
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Download Show #4
Download Show #3
Download Show #2
Download Show #1
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