Apologies for the interruption to this music-only focused blog; this is a lone reminder that if you like to drink good beer – and I know ya do – I publish another blog called Beer Samizdat, and by clicking on the link above you’ll be blessed with a pithy summary of the Great Craft Beers of 2012, According To Me. Enjoy.
This is an interview I did via mail with Japanese psychedelic speed freaks HIGH RISE back in 1993. Definitely one of the great lost-in-translation interviews I’ve ever seen, all modesty aside. All I did was ask the tough questions.
Fantastic band, too, if you’ve never heard their late 80s/early 90s material. Interview taken from SUPERDOPE fanzine #6, 1993.
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A crazy and panic-stricken version of the obtuse “Puerto Rican Ghost” by MARS, recorded live at Artists’ Space in New York City, 1978. Lydia Lunch moaning in the background.
Juvenile collage of CRIME images, from early San Francisco punk rock fanzine NEW DEZEZES, 1978.
Suburban Relapse ‘zine downloads
…all courtesy of great American La Lengua over at Ribbon Around a Bomb. (Suburban Relapse was one of those ephemeral early 80s punk/underground ‘zines that never made it to the west coast, and therefore never made it to my collection).
For sale! I’ve got a couple dozen left of this fanzine, SUPERDOPE #8, that I put out back in 1998. The other issues are pretty much sold out – but this one can be had for a mere $3 US, $5 Canada or $7 rest of world if you’d like to send money via Paypal.
Make it payable to jayhinman(at)hotmail(dotcom) – not that exact combo, but instead using the @ and .com – and thanks for doing business w/ us!
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Played this song on Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #2, my podcast, which you can stream here and download here, but maybe you don’t have time for all that.
In that case, meet PETTY CRIME. The sum of their recorded history is one 5-song 7"EP on the UK’s Slampt Records in 1998. This one’s called “Mathematics” and it’s a corker. Wound-up, stuttering, female-fronted British speed-punk written in algebra.
Cover of ANOTHER DIMENSION #4, a Patti Smith fanzine from the mid-1970s.
PUSSY GALORE, scanned out of Forced Exposure magazine 1988.
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For years I’ve gotten TH’ FAITH HEALERS confused with a band called MOONSHAKE. While I was prattling on about having seen the former play live around 1994 or so, it was actually the latter (who I didn’t like).
Recently I got (re?-)acquainted with Th’ Faith Healers stuff, and while a lot of it is wankadoodle noise pop with a glossy indie sheen of boredom, some of it is decidedly not. The best song they did, “A Word of Advice”, is presented to you here for your listening pleasure. From 1992’s “Lido”.
AGONY SHORTHAND 