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NOW TAKING PRE-ORDERS

** Pre-Order Now – out the first week of May 2016 **

Dynamite Hemorrhage #3 is an 84-page music fanzine devoted to
sub-underground music from the last five decades. Like the others, this
is an 8.5"x11" MAGAZINE with a color cover and B&W insides.

It features:

  • The definitive story of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND APPRECIATION
    SOCIETY
    , as told through an interview with VUAS founder Phil Milstein.
    Find out what it was like to lead the secret society of Velvets fiends
    in the 1970s and how Milstein managed VUAS with the fans and with the
    Velvet Underground members themselves.
  • An epic, Homeric oral history of wiry & jagged 1980s San
    Francisco pop band WORLD OF POOH, as told by band members Barbara
    Manning, Brandan Kearney and Jay Paget themselves, as well as choice
    anecdotes from those who witnessed their rise, reign and collapse
  • In-depth interviews with four of the finest acts making rock and
    roll music in the year 2016: WHITE FENCE (Tim Presley); Portland, OR’s
    LITHICS
    ; Oakland’s RAYS and Auckland’s THE COOLIES
  • An interview with phenomenal lost folk singer SIBYLLE BAIER, whose
    early 1970s recordings from Germany appeared a decade ago and stunned
    the world. We found her & gave her the Dynamite Hemorrhage
    once-over, and then went and interviewed & celebrated five of her
    ghostly folk “heirs” (MAXINE FUNKE, JULIE BYRNE, ALLYSEN CALLERY, JOANNE
    ROBERTSON
    and MYRIAM GENDRON) as well as part of the piece
  • “BELOW THE FLYING NUN”, Gregor Kessler’s piece on some of the wildest and most obscure New Zealand 45s of the 1980s
  • An interview with SARA FANCY, aka “Sara” from early 80s UK DIY acts
    Sara Goes Pop and Amos & Sara. You’ll learn about her journey from
    the squats of Europe to the bodybuilding competitions of the 90s to the
    tranquil equine therapy practice she leads today. A fascinating glimpse
    and first look back she’s given on her time spent making music with Jim
    Welton (aka L Voag, Amos etc.)
  • The first-ever posthumous interview with early 80s all-female
    Belgian punk band UNIT 4, who surfaced on the “FM-BX Society Tape” in
    1981 with four amazing songs of shimmering Kleenex/Delta 5/Au Pairs-ish
    brilliance
  • David Perron’s “FREE FORM FREAKOUT” column of outside and experimental tape & LP releases from the last year
  • Jay Hinman and Erika Elizabeth also wrote 82 record reviews devoted
    to the nether regions of sub-underground rocknroll and elsewhere

ORDER IT NOW & YOU’LL GET IN IN EARLY MAY, and that’s a promise!

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Futures & Pasts | 04.16.16

futuresandpasts:

Freeform Portland officially launched on FM this past weekend after a few weeks of online-only streaming & this was my first show at the station that went out over actual airwaves, which was super exciting. If you live in N/NE Portland (roughly), you can catch us at 90.3FM now, but freeformportland.org works for everyone regardless of where you’re physically located. 

Download the show here. Stream at the link above.

Artist – Song Title – Album Title – Label

The Terminals – Blistering Heart – Disconnect EP – Flying Nun
Sticks – Come Back – Under Pressure 7” – M’Lady’s
The Wipers – Window Shop For Love – Is This Real? – Park Avenue
Witching Waves – You – V/A – Days of Our Youth cassette – Bomb the Twist
Anorexia – I’m A Square – Rapist in the Park 7” – Slim
Disco Zombies – Heartbeats Love – Drums Over London 7” – South Circular
Huggy Bear – Her Jazz – Her Jazz 7” – Wiiija
Information – Let’s Compromise – V/A – Tape #1 – self-released
Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Wawa – Press Color – ZE
Lithics – The Thing in Your Eye – Borrowed Floors – Water Wing
The Vultures – Good Thing – Good Thing EP – Narodnik
Scissor Fits – I Don’t Want to Work For British Airways – Taut? Tense? Angular? And Other British Rail Sandwiches 7” – Dubious
Marzipan – I Believe – I Believe 7” – Echonet
Moss Lime – Rock Paper – Zoo du Quebec – Telephone Explosion
ESG – You Make No Sense – Come Away With ESG – 99
The Luddites – The Follower – The Strength of Your Cry 7” – Xcentric Noise
Far Corners – Empty Mine – s/t EP – Limited Appeal
Boomgates – Cameo – Bright Idea 7” – RIP Society
Au Pairs – Domestic Departure – You 7” – 021 Records
St. Vincent & the Grenadines – Look to See – Look to See 7” – Randstock
Dog Faced Hermans – Frock – Every Day Timebomb – Vinyl Drip
Andy Human & the Reptoids – Sarcastic – Sarcastic 7” – Goodbye Boozy
Trash Kit – How D’You Do? – Teenagers 7” – Upset the Rhythm
The Bats – My Way – By Night EP – Flying Nun
Instant Automatons – Laburnum Walk – Sincerely Making a Noise – BFE
Negative Scanner – CPD – s/t – Trouble in Mind
Mission of Burma – Forget – Vs. – Ace of Hearts
Chapter 24 – 4454 – Spindle 7” – Oddbox
The Flatmates- Tell Me Why – I Could Be in Heaven 7” – K
Girls At Our Best! – Getting Nowhere Fast – Getting Nowhere Fast 7” – Record Records
City Yelps – Shut Up – The City Yelps Half Hour – Oddbox
The M&M’s – I’m Tired – I’m Tired 7” – Quark
Meat Whiplash – Here It Comes – Don’t Slip Up 7” – Creation
Chroma – Intervención y Disciplina – Cuerpos Dóciles – Nada Nada Discos
Taiwan Housing Project – White Frosted – Three Songs Record 7” – M’Lady’s
The Gordons – Future Shock – Future Shock EP – Flying Nun
The Dream Syndicate – Then She Remembers – Days of Wine & Roses – Slash
Screaming Sneakers – I Can’t Help It – Marching Orders EP – self-released

Futures & Pasts | 04.16.16

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Just got the new TOTALLY NANG fanzine (#3) in the mail. It’s a small-size corker. It’s run by Dee from Glasgow, Scotland, and her tastes run to the esoteric & experimental outer fringes of rock & folk & elsewhere.

#3 has the first half of an interview w/ Heather Leigh; a big piece on the No Fans Box Set; a thing on Florian Hecker; an interview w/ Tim Goss from Call Back The Giants; live reviews & overviews of Sophie Cooper, US Girls and more.

I’m a big fan of the ‘NANG and you might want to be as well. Order it here.

Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio

Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #73

Take a dive into a world of ramshackle song construction, distorted pop noise & avant-whatever tomfoolery this week as Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio does its bi-weekly thing. For our 73rd show we’re spotlighting new or newly-reissued stuff from AMY GASSNER, WOODBOT, CCTV, NICK JONAH DAVIS, DOW JONES & THE INDUSTRIALS, THE WORLD, OBJECTS, ST. VINCENT & THE GRENADINES, WALL, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF and more.

Don’t putter out before the end of the show, or you’ll miss a 1966 ear-bleeder by THE DRUIDS plus “Alcoholic Racing Car Driver” by GENTLEWORMS, and that’s certainly not something you want to tell your children you weren’t around for.

Download or stream Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #73 from Soundcloud.

Stream the show on Mixcloud instead.

Download this one plus older shows from iTunes.

Track listing:

NICK JONAH DAVIS – William Sathya
THE WORLD – Loser
L. VOAG – Kitchen
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 – Hornet’s Heart
JAMES MICHAEL SHEPARD & FRIENDS – Idi Amin Was Sippin’ Tea With The Mutant
DEPARTMENTSTORE SANTAS – Kaleidoscope
AMY GASSNER – Brown Sugar
THE CLEAN – Fish
SAN FRANCISCO SEALS – Day 12
ST. VINCENT & THE GRENADINES – Look To See
DOW JONES & THE INDUSTRIALS – Latent Psychosis
CCTV – Song About Knowitall Sayitalls
WOODBOT – Trash Dump
INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FORCE – Bandstory
OBJECTS – Rogers Park
PATSY – Paradise
THE DRUIDS – Too Shy
WALL – Cuban Cigars
JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF – (Coming of Age in) Samoa
QUANGO – Quickquid
THE COOLIES – Pull The Trigger
GENTLEWORMS – Alcoholic Racing Car Driver

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Check out this well-pieced-together video that was just posted for AMY GASSNER’s 1979 “Brown Sugar”, a falling-apart ramshackle sexpot cover of the Stones, all cobbled together in the great Memphis falling-apart tradition.

“Recorded in the haze of 1979 and possibly under the influence of hog tranquilizers”.

Gassner was in THE KLITZ in the late 70s, Memphis’ first all-female punk band – and their posthumous 45 from last year is also essential listening.

Get Amy Gassner’s 45 here.

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A few weeks ago it looked like our interview with White Fence’s Tim Presley wasn’t happening, so I wrote up this review of his mind-expanding W-X release from late last year.

Then we talked and all was well, but I still had this review saying we weren’t gonna sitting there. So it’s now out of the upcoming magazine, and plopped here on the Dynamite Hemorrhage blog instead:

W-X – “W-X” LP/CD

Tim Presley from White Fence stands head & shoulders above most mortals in his ability to burrow into one’s brain with melodic, playful shards of psychedelia. When we look back at this most recent decade a few years hence, I think he’ll be recognized as a touchstone genius for his era the way Alex Chilton or Mark E Smith are for theirs. He was supposed to be featured in a big way this issue, actually, but somehow that fell apart. Next year in Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, Presley quietly put out a solo side project called W-X this year, and it indulges some of the man’s more outré leanings, calling to mind a guy with a laptop, a week with the deck cleared, and a brain bursting at the seams. W-X is less a disambiguated thread of electro-knob twiddling and is surprisingly a cohesive whole, especially when listened to in a single sitting.

Through a couple of tracks sound like White Fence compositions that
he simply couldn’t wait to get on the next album – especially the
massive “Steer Clear” – others are first-rate, non-dimensional bizarro
world creations like “Brazilian Worm Band”. I’d even venture that some
of this might even be suitable to soundtrack some of those “video games”
you kids are always yammering about. A delightful apéritif as we
collectively wait to dine at the next White Fence smorgasbord. (Castle
Face; castlefacerecords.com)
– Jay