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.
MONOSHOCK, from a second reunion show this past month, up in Portland, OR at something called The Bender Festival or something like that.
Brandan Kearney, formerly of World of Pooh, Caroliner, The Steeple Snakes, Faxed Head, The Three Doctors Band and many more, is playing sax w/ the band here. What? How?
One of the most blazing garage punk songs of the mid-90s. This 45 came screaming out of Japan in 1994 and was set to vinyl by Rip Off Records. TEENGENERATE had a few stellar singles but nothing that ever touched this one.
Daniele and Katie from Priests chat w/ Toby from Vol. 1 Brooklyn
photo: Amy June Breesman
Some fantastic photos and press materials from local 60s teen scene garage rock groups in the Dayton, OH area.
I got my first taste of the new WHITE FENCE release this morning on my way to work, and I think it hangs well with his/their other ones. This one’s called “Cyclops Reap”, and if you think I’m damning it w/ faint praise, there’s probably some truth to that. Every album Tim Presley has put out to date has a frustrating hit-to-miss ratio, and is instead all about “feel”, with rare high-quality explosions into the psychedelic ether.
This new one’s a little more countrified than past efforts, but in general you’re going to get what you expect – loops, cut-ups, Syd-style spaciness, English 70s countryside DIY folk-strum, and a British accent most fetching for a guy from LA. I say check it out, and see if you can get down with it. I’ll give it another go on my way home as well. This one’s the track that starts it out, “Chairs In The Dark”.
Seattle punk and experimental art/noise, circa 1983 on the “What Syndrome” compilation LP.
This comes from a 2008 BBC Radio 4 panel show called “Saturday Review” in which each guest has to choose an item for the others to review and discuss. Poet Paul Farley selected “Hex Enduction Hour”. Obliged to give it a whirl are ex Channel 4 and BBC commisioning editor Liz Forgan and journalist and author Antonia Quirke. The presenter is Tom Sutcliffe. No Fall members actually appear but I like this – Farley and Forgan both add a little worthwhile context.
How about this – a BBC radio discussion of one of the great albums of all time.
Interview w/ Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom on the cover of Gerard Cosloy’s CONFLICT magazine #48, Summer 1988.
AGONY SHORTHAND 