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I’ve made a new 8Tracks mix of some of the best rocknroll music from the past twelve months. I hope you’ll join me over there and listen to “REFLEX ON YOU”. It’s 17 of the most raw and exciting tracks from the year past, from wild sub-underground artpunk to garage noise to bent pop music. You’ll hear humdingers from Constant Mongrel, Priests and Spray Paint, among many others.

Track listing:

  1. CONSTANT MONGREL – Reflex
  2. PRIESTS – Radiation
  3. UV RACE – Life Park
  4. EDIBLE ARRANGEMENTS – Dark Water
  5. THE SLEAZE – Too Close To Home
  6. PARQUET COURTS – Smart Aleck Kid
  7. THE WIMPS – Hello Frustration
  8. SPRAY PAINT – Spock Fingers
  9. LANTERN – Strange Weather
  10. RAW PRAWN – None Left
  11. KELLY STOLTZ – Double Exposure
  12. PRISSY CLERKS – Death Wish
  13. WHITE FENCE – Trouble is Trouble Never Seen
  14. FREELOVE FENNER – Vicky’s Day
  15. COLLEEN GREEN – You’re So Cool
  16. BURNT ONES – Strawberry Tomb
  17. VERONICA FALLS – Timeless Melody

Stream the mix here – mobile or web is fine.

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I pulled in quite an ethnic music haul at Amoeba Music in San Francisco today. It’s probably the most I’ve spent in a single day on music in at least five years – thankfully mostly on credit.

While shopping at Amoeba I realized I was witnessing the store’s death rattle, which was unsurprising yet caught me a little off guard (examples: about 40 people in the enormous store on a Saturday afternoon; CD buy backs at about 25-50 cents a pop; no lines; diminished stock on just about everything; new reduced store hours (closing at 8 every night on a very high-trafficked street). I’ll write some more about that next week on my other music/film/literature blog The Hedonist Jive.

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England’s DESPERATE BICYCLES not only wrote songs encouraging people to join bands, start labels and whatnot, they also provided this handy 1978 primer on their rights upon getting arrested. Many Britons of punk age were, in fact, finding themselves under arrest around this time – miners’ strikes, dole queues and all that.

“Advice on Arrest” was one of 6 songs on their “New Cross, New Cross” 7"EP, and I thought you might like to hear it.

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Always loved this; it’s from the June 18th, 1981 issue of the UK’s SOUNDS music newspaper. VICE SQUAD were one of the first straight-up punk records I ever bought, not long after this letter to the editor.

“Your true vocation is obviously a sensible home life with a loving husband (me?)…..”

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Very cool pop song from a Greek band (!) called The Occasional Flickers.

Listen to: Capitalism Begins At Home 7" by The Occasional Flickers

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New episode of Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio Podcast – our 14th. I recorded this over the weekend with you – you – in mind. I knew you’d want to hear new stuff from The Sleaze, The Delphines, Raw Prawn, The Wimps, Cheater Slicks and The Oblivians. I figured you’d be up for cuts from new reissues from Come and the Androids of Mu. And my thinking was that you’d also be real happy if I played some older stuff from Ty Wagner, Susan Lynn, The Other Half, Pussy Galore and a whole bunch more. So an hour and fifteen minutes later, Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #14 was ready to go.

Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio Podcast #14

Track listing:

THE RONDELLES – Backstabber
THE SLEAZE – Too Close To Home
THE NIGHTS AND DAYS – Garbage Can
SUSAN LYNN – Don’t Drag No More
THE BRENTWOODS – Go Little Sputnik
PUSSY GALORE – Pretty Fuck Look
TY WAGNER WITH THE SCOTCHMEN – I’m a No Count
COME – Orbit
KENT III – Satellite
THE GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION – Hide Your Love Away
WORLD OF POOH – Laughing at the Ground
GLAXO BABIES – Christine Keeler
THE WIMPS – Quit Your Job
RAW PRAWN – Stitched Me Up
THE TYRADES – Message From The Operator
THE INHALANTS – Middle Ages
THE DELPHINES – Hit Me Up
THE OTHER HALF – Oz Lee Eaves Drops
OBLIVIANS – Mama Guitar
DIG DAT HOLE – A Similar End
ANDROIDS OF MU – Confusion
LUNG LEG – Krayola
SICK THINGS – Sleeping With The Dead
INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FORCE – Bandstory
CHEATER SLICKS – Love Ordeal 

Download the previous one, #13, here – and get the other 12 here.