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TIMES NEW VIKING have a brand-new EP out. They’re back on Siltbreeze, now wizened in the ways of harmony, hooks, subtlety and New Zealand-style restrained washes of jangle and distortion. The EP, which to be sure I’ve only listened to once since I bought it yesterday, continues the march in these directions that was codified on their “Dancer Equired” LP last year.

Take a listen to “Middle Class Drags” and see what you think.

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Curated Chaos from Ribbon Around a Bomb

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Somehow found this site whilst frolicking around the internet & it’s now bookmarked for some deep divin’. Ribbon Around a Bomb is a burgeoning multimedia empire helmed by La Lengua, and she’s pretty rad across the board. Her radio show and podcast is 100% female-fronted punk rock, postpunk and no-wave noise, and I swear, I don’t know how these youngsters know so much about music these days, but goddamn it, they do, and they’re doing laps around us. She’s got a lot to teach me about the past & the present, and indeed all of us.

Moreover, Ribbon Around The Bomb website’s sort of a modern primer on past & present outsider art, music, photography and style. It’s a visual onslaught of photos, links, flyers and all sorts of underground ephemera. I’m just getting really acquainted with it right now. Wanted to make sure you had a chance to do so as well – download a couple of radio shows and get clicking right here.

Curated Chaos from Ribbon Around a Bomb

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This is a flyer for a short-lived, never-recorded band called EARLY MAN SITE, live in San Francisco about 1991 or 1992. The band comprised all three members of MONOSHOCK, who had stopped playing in Isla Vista in 1989 when Grady Runyan graduated from college.

All had relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area by 1991, and Early Man Site had been formed by Scott Derr & Rubin Fiberglass back in Isla Vista in Grady’s absence. They reassembled that band in the Bay Area, with Grady on third guitar. Bruce Shinden and Tom Krueger were the other members of the 5-piece. That, of course, morphed into Monoshock mkII, minus Bruce, and with Tom often showing up on drunken saxophone.

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Hot band alert, people. At least for fans of locomotive, learning-to-play garage pop. One of the better new pop tracks I’ve heard is this fuzzed jangler, “Yours Not Mine" from Monterey, CA’s BURNT PALMS. Monterey! When was the last time an exciting band came outta there – Dura–Delinquent? Two women, Clara Nieto and Christina Riley, helm this group, and have Paul Towber sitting in the bass position.

You can download or listen to Burnt Palms’ entire recorded works – the whole "album” is excellent – here.

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I’m a big fan of the three “BEAT AT CINECITTA” compilations that came out in the late 90s. They are the work of obsessive Italian cinephiles and kitsch merchants, who’ve put together some incredibly groovy – there’s really no other word for it – sounds from 60s soundtracks of lost Italian schlock films. 

This track sits near the end of Volume 2, and is one of those big, horns-n-strings syrup-drippers we love so much here at the ‘Hemorrhage. It’s the theme song from 1966’s “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”, and it features accented English nearly as bad as Lana Del Rey’s. I think you’re gonna love it.

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I got this book in the mail yesterday, and totally immersed myself in it for an hour before being called away for more important duties, like parenting and husbanding and being responsible & all that. It’s a fantastic look/read so far – capturing the early 80s LA suburbs and punk’s surreal explosion there better than anything I’ve ever seen, thanks to photographs of participants as opposed to solely of bands. More to come on this one.