Chris D – Flesh Eater, Divine Horseman etc – has finished and released his long-promised encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films.
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One of the best spazzy, detuned garage punk songs of the past year is by Sydney, Australia’s RAW PRAWN, and it’s called “None Left”, and you get to listen to it here.
Download my Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio podcast #12, and you’ll not only get to hear the song there, you’ll get to hear me say the band’s name in Australian as well.
Look at these 1978 lineups, playing at 1839 Geary in San Francisco (which is now “Tommy’s Joint”, a touristy burger place, and which was once 60s rock palace The Geary Temple). CRIME, WEIRDOS and THE GO-GOS on one bill.
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This 45 from a late 70s New York group called the HAND GRENADES has been fooling “punters” for years who mistook it for a British DIY record from the same era, myself included. When I found out these dudes were from “the Apple” I was incredulous. I guess I still am.
But here you go – a really great, lost-to-time stark and strange inepto-garage record from a band who have very pleasing elements of the Swell Maps, Wire and Steve Treatment. Enjoy!
Chris D’s Japanese Gangster Film Book Is Finished
…and here’s Kendra a few years earlier, in the classic DREAM SYNDICATE lineup, the ones who recorded “The Days of Wine and Roses” and the outstanding first Down There EP.
Cool early picture of the little-seen Kendra Smith/David Roback band OPAL, circa 1988 or so. By the time they played my town, they were called Mazzy Star, and Kendra was off to new things.
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As most interested peeps will know, “Wings” was originally performed to completely different music from that which eventually landed on the flip of “Kicker Conspiracy”. A recording (from London, I think) was issued on the expanded “Perverted By Language” but it was kinda boomy and echoey. This one – from a gig in Eindhoven, April 1982 is much cleaner,some very minor tape warp at the beginning notwithstanding.
Got a new mixtape/radio show/podcast that I’ve made just for you, and it’s called DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO PODCAST, EDITION #12. I recorded it direct-to-laptop and completed it within the past five minutes, and it’s got some real musical whoppers on it that I carefully curated for ya. You’ll hear new stuff from Raw Prawn, White Fence,The Mentalettes and Veronica Falls, as well as a plethora of aggressive pop, nervous punk, wiry garage and far-out psych from the last five decades. I say this every time, but this twelfth one is absolutely, positively the best collection of music I’ve ever put together – including mixtapes made for girls.
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Track listing:
STEVE TREATMENT – The Hippy Posed Engrosement
RAW PRAWN – None Left
DEAR NORA – Make You Smile
REVERSIBLE CORDS – Highway Tomorrow
THE 2x4s – Iron Line
BLAST OFF COUNTRY STYLE – Giggles & Gloom
THE SHITBIRDS – Schiessbird
WHITE FENCE – Trouble is Trouble Never Seen
THE STEREO SHOESTRING – On The Road South
BUBBLEGUM LEMONADE – Unsafe At Any Speed
SALVATION ARMY – Mind Gardens
100 FLOWERS – Motorboat To Hell
VERONICA FALLS – Timeless Melody
MICRAGIRLS – Electric Chair Twist
SOCK PUPPETS – Summer Jacket
BATHROOM RENOVATIONS – Apathetic Hell
TYRANNA – Shock Face
THE WHITEFRONTS – World’s Fair
WARUM JOE – Tchang
SLUGFUCKERS – Rhizome
D.R.I. – Busted
SICK THINGS – Police
THE GERMS – The Slave
NUMBERS – Information
THE MENTALETTES – Fine Fine Fine
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One of the more, uh, “fun” 45s I’ve heard of late is by Germany’s THE MENTALETTES, “Fine Fine Fine”. Totally over-the-top 60s girl group beat/garage, with a frontline of singers from all over Europe and dudes in the back, keeping the big beat screaming. I’ll play a track on my next radio show/podcast, OK? Learn more about the band here.
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