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DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE’s Best of 2014

Our year was punctuated by the liftoff of our first fanzine the final week of 2013, and by our second issue just a few weeks ago. In between, we made 26 episodes of the Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio podcast, upon which everything from the list below was played.

Best Full-Length LPs/CDs/Cassettes/Downloads

  1. HONEY RADAR – “Chain Smoking on Easter”
  2. SNEAKS – “Sneaks”
  3. COLD BEAT – “Over Me”
  4. THE CONEHEADS – “Total Conetrol” & “Canadian Cone”
  5. GOOD THROB – “Fuck Off”
  6. PROPER ORNAMENTS – “Wooden Head”
  7. TRICK MAMMOTH – “Floristry”
  8. DARK MATTER – “Dark Matter”
  9. GERM HOUSE – “Showing Symptoms”
  10. WHITE FENCE – “For The Recently Found Innocent”

Best 45s

  1. KING TEARS MORTUARY – “Asleep At The Wheel of Fortune”
  2. NOTS – “Fix/Modern”
  3. WET BLANKETS – “Dieter Caught My Bus/Television Suicide”
  4. PANG – “Young Professionals”
  5. MEN OH PAUSE – “Pulse Check”
  6. THE COOLIES – “Punk Is Bread”
  7. LIFE STINKS – “Portraits/Under The Rug”
  8. ROACHCLIP – “Calmer In This town”
  9. VELO – “Tight Time”
  10. SYNTHETIC ID – “Escapement”

Best Archival Releases

  1. VARIOUS – “Back From The Grave, Volume 9” CD
  2. REMA-REMA – “International Scale/Short Stories” 45
  3. CRIME – “Murder By Guitar 1976-1980” LP/CD
  4. VARIOUS – “Punk 45, Volume 3: Sick On You! etc.” LP/CD
  5. THE KLITZ – “Sounds of Memphis ‘78” 45
  6. THE SPIES – “The Battle of Bosworth Terrace” LP
  7. PIP PROUD – “A Fraying Space” LP
  8. X__X – “X_Sticky Fingers_X” LP
  9. JACK RUBY – “Hit and Run” 2xCD
  10. SONIC CHICKEN 4 – “Sonic Chicken 4” LP
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My 51st show and my fact-checking is still riddled with errors, my show’s full of modulation mix-ups and my on-mic “persona” is about as pleasing to the ear as a friggin’ sack of cats. At least the music totally smokes. Notwithstanding my error on Brian Eno’s first album – it’s called “Here Come The Warm Jets”, no der! – and the fact that some songs are mixed too low and some voices too high (that’s why Thomas Edison invented the volume knob for you), I’m excited to share with you some of the finest in raw, sub-underground rock and roll music from the past five decades.

There’s new archival stuff from The Klitz (turn it up) and The Bangs nee The Bangles; there’s new 2014 songs from Pampers, White Fence, Men Oh Pause, Coneheads, Germ House and Parkay Quarts; and a bunch of library stuff from many corners of our world: The Birthday Party, Bill Direen & The Bilders, Razar, The Coolies, Long Blondes, Modern Lovers and so on and so forth. Take a look at the playlist and I think you’ll wanna give it a go.

Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #51.
Stream or download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #51 on Soundcloud here.
Subscribe to the show via iTunes.

Playlist:

THE KLITZ – Hard Up
BILL DIREEN & THE BILDERS – Alien
THE COOLIES – Salute
CHAPTER 24 – You Said
2x4s – Another Day
LONG BLONDES – Separated By Motorways
PARKAY QUARTS – Psycho Structures
WHITE FENCE – Anger! Who Keeps You Under
GERM HOUSE – A Matter of Call
THE BANGS – Outside Chance
THE PRETTY THINGS – Midnight To Six Man
MODERN LOVERS – Old World 
MEN OH PAUSE – Sapphire and Steel
THE FALL – Middle Mass
BRIAN ENO – Blank Frank
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY – Jennifer’s Veil
THE POP GROUP – 3:38
THE EXPRESSIONS – Return To Innocence
THE CONEHEADS – 1982
RED CROSS – Tatum O’Tot and the Fried Vegetables
RAZAR – Task Force (Undercover Cops)
PAMPERS – Suicide

Some past shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #50    (playlist) 
Dynamite Hemorrhage #49    (playlist) 
Dynamite Hemorrhage #48    (playlist) 
Dynamite Hemorrhage #47    (playlist) 
Dynamite Hemorrhage #46    (playlist) 
Dynamite Hemorrhage #45    (playlist) 
Dynamite Hemorrhage #44    (playlist) 
Dynamite Hemorrhage #43    (playlist) 
Dynamite Hemorrhage #42    (playlist) 
Dynamite Hemorrhage #41    (playlist) 
Dynamite Hemorrhage #40    (playlist)

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In case you missed it two weeks ago. New episode (#51) to be posted this week.

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The purported theme of our podcast, magazine and blog is “raw and sub-underground rocknroll from the last five decades”. This new edition of DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO, #50, goes heavy on the first and most recent of those decades. Two blazing new tracks from the just-released 60s punk comp “Back From The Grave, Volume 9” make their 21st century online debuts here – and if that’s not reason enough to download or stream this thing, there’s new material from the likes of Parkay Quarts, The Coneheads, Le Skeleton, Germ House, Leggy, Honey Radar, Rakta, Sauna Youth, Bent, The Blind Shake and Pampers. Pampers!

 There’s a blown-out bootleg recording from the Velvet Underground, a little punk rock tomfoolery and all sorts of needless verbal blather from the host. In all, it’s 74 minutes you won’t ever get back – unless you play it a second time.

 Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #50 here.
Stream or download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #50 over on Soundcloud.
Subscribe to the show via iTunes.

Playlist:

THE FOUR – 69
PARKAY QUARTS – Pretty Machines
HONEY RADAR – Drink Your Magazine (live)
REALLY RED – No More Art
SACCHARINE TRUST –Mad at the Company
CONEHEADS – Violence
SHITKICKERS – Debaucher
BENT – Space is Bent
RAKTA – Tudo que e Solido
LUCRATE MILK – Dritte Blinde Meusse
LE SKELETON – Cut Your Finger
SILVER APPLES – Ruby
MUSIC MACHINE – Point of No Return
THE BLIND SHAKE – Old Lake
PAMPERS – Right Tonight
LAZY COWGIRLS – Meat Shop
NEVERMORES – The Way It Is
SAUNA YOUTH – Transmitters
LEGGY – Sweet Teeth
CHRIS KNOX – Meat
GERM HOUSE – Best Laid Plans
VELVET UNDERGROUND – What Goes On (live; from “The Legendary Guitar Amp Tape” bootleg)
KNOLL ALLEN AND THE NOBLE SAVAGES – Animal

Some past shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #49    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #48    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #47    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #46    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #45    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #44    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #43    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #42    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #41    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #40    (playlist)

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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.

Reblogging this, since two other outlets reblogged it today. Admittedly it is extremely uninformative.

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Wrote this about one of the favorites back on my Agony Shorthand blog in 2004….this CD/record in question is available to listen to here.

SUPERCHARGER WERE FAR OUT…… 

There’s a live recording from the early 1990s making the rounds on this illegal file-sharing site (I’ve only read about the naughty site, I’d never actually use it to illegally download music!!) from SUPERCHARGER, perhaps the hottest raw, punk-infused “oldies” band of all time. It’s from about 1992 or 1993 at the Covered Wagon in San Francisco, and for all I remember of those years, I was there. I enthusiastically saw the band a good 6-7 times around this period, but it’s funny, I always rated their garage revisionist pals/peers THE MUMMIES higher and thus celebrated with the latter upward of a dozen+ times. History – at least my version of history – now says Supercharger were the better band, and this blazer of a live set confirms it. What came off as a bit inept and tentative at the time – a posture nurtured by the band themselves – is full-on wild and overamped energy here, with the usual coterie of screaming girls in the background cheering them on. (These same females were fixtures at Mummies and Phantom Surfers shows during the era, and a few later started The Trashwomen. The apple did not fall far from the tree).

The set is way tighter than I remembered, and each 90-second knockout is complimented mere seconds later by another crashing intro. Oh, and a hippie in the audience gets disgraced in public – always a treat! 

Guitarist/vocalist Darren Raffaelli is sorely missed by “the scene” – this guy was a terrific, sweat-soaked frontman, yelping and whooping his way through 50s ramalama oldies and originals that sounded just like 50s ramalama oldies. This live set even contains a version of BUNKER HILL’s masterpiece “The Girl Can’t Dance”, but the band charge through it so quickly you might’ve been lost in your pint while it was playing (at least that’s where I imagine I was). Raffaelli’s last move that I know about was a mid-90s 45 I never heard called “Donny Denim”, to say nothing of his shepherding of THE DONNAS’ first LP (something I’ll spout about in the weeks to come). Greg Lowery, at least, put his post-Supercharger energies toward a hot label and band, and Karen, the drummer? Saw her at Safeway a few years ago in the dairy section.

Yet Supercharger needn’t be lost to history and illegal, immoral file-sharers – there’s a terrific under-the-radar compilation of their 45s that came out a year ago that I highly recommend called “Singles Party”, and if you haven’t heard “Supercharger Goes Way Out”, by all means get on the case! 
(UPDATE: now this is embarrassing. This ill-gotten live set that I was so proud of procuring is actually an OFFICIAL release on Lowery’s Rip Off label! Limited edition! Go to it).