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France’s MIL MASCARAS recently had some of their unissued material from 2001 pulled onto a posthumous 45 on Hozac Records. It’s terrific stuff, a jagged and wiry all-female post-punk/noise/garage sound that escaped release at the time.

That crime’s been rectified with this lone 45. The song’s called “Fuzz”. 

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One of the coolest and more equanimous things I’ve ever seen done in music history was the time the LA synth/artpunk band MONITOR decided to give one track on their own album to their Arizona pals THE MEAT PUPPETS.

The result, sitting there near the end of Side 2 of the 1981 “Monitor” LP, is this track, “Hair” by the Meat Puppets. It sounds like nothing else on the record; and indeed, like nothing else in the universe. Play loud, preferably at work. 

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GOLDEN STARLET were a British mostly-female band who played an aggressive, loud-punk version of C86 Scottish pop during their brief time on the planet, cira 1994-95. Some might even have called them “riot grrls”. Grrr! 

Everything they did’s on vinyl only, and is collected on an LP called “Token Gadgy”. This track comes from their excellent 1994 “Cheap Tartlets” 7"EP and is entitled “Girl’s Gotta Fanclub”.

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I paid a visit to Amoeba Music in San Francisco over the past weekend and walked out with this box set in my hands: Surf-Age Nuggets: Trash & Twang Instrumentals 1959-1966. This is an under-documented corner of rock & roll, and outside of Crypt’s excellent “Strummin’ Mental” compilations, the raw/surf/hot rod boss instrumental noise that came from garages all around the US has been mostly frustratingly confined to rare, pseudo-bootleg LP’s. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course.

Apparently amongst the many 100+ gems here are among the most rare 45s of all time. It’s got The Nautiloids’ “Nautiloid Reef”, which is a huge plus and a big yeah-hup for the folks behind this one. What a monster instrumental. I’ll post a track or two from this set when I’ve digested it a few times. Right now the big new-to-me winner is “Mr. Custer Stomp” from THE SCOUTS. Let me know if there are other 60s instrumental LP/CDs besides, say, “Diggin’ Out” and “Concussion!” that you’d recommend as well.