Dynamite Hemorrhage favorites SALLY SKULL just reunited a few weeks ago after 18+ years for a new show, which you can watch in its entirety here. If you’d like to read the interview I did w/ them, Dynamite Hemorrhage #1 is still (barely) available here.
BLACK FLAG doing “American Waste” with their no-doubt-about-it best singer by a mile, Dez Cadena. Utterly life-changing when I saw this Target Video in high school.
(Originally written on my Agony Shorthand blog in 2005…)
THE RUTTO : “EI PALUUTA” 7"EP…..
A wild, borderline-inept, off the rails Finnish pseudo-hardcore record from 1983. I’ll take it! There’s a reason that record collecting scum have been scouring the auction sites for THE RUTTO’s debut of late. Now that I’ve heard the whole 6-minute package instead of just its kickoff track “Ma Vihaan”, I’m really floored by it. It’s just a massive wallop of sound, featuring a high-pitched Greg Ginn-like feedback whine that preludes every track, and a pummeling, fuzz-heavy guitar that brings almost as much steady intensity as Ginn did to tracks like “Police Story”or “I’ve Heard It Before”.
The female vocalist has this vessel-bursting vocal scrape that sounds like she’s attempting to spit up all 5-6 vowels at once – then again, perhaps that’s just the Finnish language for ya. She’s a real hoarse shouter nonetheless, and her amateur take on “singing” is in line with the rest of the DIY pleasures to be found on Rutto’s debut. Each of the 5 tracks buzz at a steady mid/high-tempo pace and don’t vary for 7/8ths of the track, yet all sort of fall to pieces at the end and stop, rev up again, and finally collapse into chaos. Fans of SOLGER, TEDDY & THE FRAT GIRLS and the motherf***in Flag themselves will be impressed. Get it on your dorky want list ASAP.
We pulled out all of the stops this time to bring you the finest in raw, sub-underground rocknroll from the last five decades. Some epic crate-digging and mp3-filing had to occur before recording of DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO #61 could commence, but now that we’re done with it, we’re pretty satisfied with how berserk and gnarly the set of tunes is this time. Download it and see if you agree.
New stuff this time from CHINESE GIRLS, CCTV, SAUNA YOUTH, SEEDS OF DOUBT, SHITFUCKS, CALAMARI GIRLS, HONEY RADAR, PEACERS, RAYS, AQUARIAN BLOOD and so much more……
CHINESE GIRLS – Pop Life CCTV – Paranoia SHITFUCKS – Trappen Upp Til Porten AQUARIAN BLOOD – Savage Mind SAUNA YOUTH – New Fear THEE MIGHTY CAESARS – La-La, La-La, La-La-La KNIGHTS BRIDGE – CJ Smith CALAMARI GIRLS – He Got That Plan on a Tag on the Back of His Jeans HONEY RADAR – Bird Bath Math PEACERS – R.J.D. (Salam) MADELEINE CHARTRAND – Ani-Kuni DAVE E. AND THE COOL MARRIAGE COUNSELORS – Searching Through Sears MERCENARIAS – Da Do URGE OVERKILL – The Polaroid Doll CHROME – TV as Eyes HARD-ONS – Ferdi’s Song GIRLS AT OUR BEST! – Warm Girls RAYS – Made of Shadows THE PLAYTHINGS – Feeling OK GAS – Pushing Against Me SEEDS OF DOUBT – Others Pay
THEE MIGHTY CAESARS : “DON’T GIVE ANY DINNER TO HENRY CHINASKI” LP
Hands down the best record of BILLY CHILDISH’s exceptionally prolific career. I went hog wild scarfing up MIGHTY CAESARS vinyl in the late 80s/early 90s when the first Crypt best-of compilation turned me onto these guys, and at one point I think I had the entire discography before Thee Headcoats went off the deep end and tossed off onto the public every fart & titter committed to tape . This one from 1987, all 19 minutes of it, was by far the boldest and most raw thing this very bold & raw trio put to vinyl, featuring early wide-groove, near-45rpm versions of hits like “She’s Just 15”, “Devious Means” and “I Can Tell”.
This is when Childish & co. were deepest into their LINK WRAY fixation(s), so among the 10 tracks are incredible, hotwired versions of “Comanche” and “Run Chicken Run” – the former is so booming & loud I’d venture to say I’d even take it over Link’s version. Also features a thumper of a run-through of THE TROGGS’ “I Want You” and several other fantastic originals that never made it to later best-of comps (to my knowledge), like “The Bay of Pigs” and my fave, “La-La, La-La, La-La-La” (easily one of the Top 3-4 Caesars tracks ever).
It’s a band that’s not difficult to forget about sometimes, given their daunting discography and near vanishment from the historical record, but man, if someone was wise & prescient enough to re-press this thing, I can think of a lot of ears that’d wanna hear it.
Weeks in the making, it’s Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #60, a kinda longish-running music podcast/phony radio show featuring sub-underground rocknroll from the previous five decades – and then some.
Because I dawdled and took my time w/ this one, it meant I was able to cobble together some stellar new materials from VITAL IDLES, SHITFUCKS, SAUNA YOUTH, ERASE ERRATA, RAYS, BUMMER’S EVE, SPRAY PAINT, FRAU, HONEY RADAR and even LIME CRUSH. Oh yeah.
I also wandered down into the Dynamite Hemorrhage Library and pulled up pre-2015 material from DANNY & THE DRESSMAKERS, BONA DISH, DIE KREUZEN, TEDDY & THE FRAT GIRLS and more top musical favorites of yours, on quality par with those.
VITAL IDLES – My Sentiments SPRAY PAINT – Entry Level Human TEDDY & THE FRAT GIRLS – I Owe It To The Girls LIME CRUSH – It’s You TIME FLYS – In My Skool HUMAN SWITCHBOARD – No! SNEAKS – This Is FRAU – Discipline THE FLESH EATERS – Agony Shorthand (1978 demo) HONEY RADAR – Drink Your Magazine THE FALL-OUTS – Another Fad DAVIE ALLEN & THE ARROWS – The Young World THE BRISTOLS – Questions I Can’t Answer RAYS – Drop Dead DANNY & THE DRESSMAKERS – Don’t Make Another Bass Guitar, Mr. Rickenbacher DIE KREUZEN – Rumors SHITFUCKS – Alla Pa Busen DADAMAH – Prove SAUNA YOUTH – Abstract Notions MYELIN SHEATHS – Half Wit ERASE ERRATA – Another Reason To Arrest and Imprison The “Free” THE PITS – Dumb Things BONA DISH – Challenge BUMMER’S EVE – Blue
We’ll be heading out on a bit of a vacation for a few days, so thought we’d leave you with a re-post of last week’s podcast, just in case you hadn’t pressed play yet.
I bought my first copy of Maximum RocknRoll since….well….let’s say it’s been a few years. Why? Because they had the good sense to have Dynamite Hemorrhage contributing editor Erika Elizabeth write a column.
She’s in the new July issue, talking about THE SHIFTERS, URANIUM CLUB, her lost female-fronted punk piece in Dynamite Hemorrhage #2, and some other deeply-buried obscurities that you need an alterna-sherpa like Ms. Elizabeth to help find.
