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belakoe:

fuckinrecordreviews:

“…put these brotherly lovers on the top American craftsmen list because they’re hitting all the right smokestorm buttons, right now.”

SUPERDOPE #5 1992 (no page #) 

MONKEY 101 review by Jay Hinman, Editor

  • Jay may have written this ode to Monkey 101 22 years ago, but the “right now" part applies today, cuz they just posted their unreleased 1993 LP  + the Silbreeze and Papa Popov 7”!

"We met up with Paul and Bob outside the Philadelphia Record Exchange last August. Here’s what they had to say.

Tom Leader: You guys seem like some kind of enigma. Do you still play music?
Paul: Yes, I’ve been playing with my band Chino for the last ten years or so.
Bob: I have also.
TL: What do you think of the current music scene?
Bob: A bit like Manchester, England here.
Paul: I really like …
TL: Do you guys have an idea if you’ll be getting back together again soon?
Paul: Yes.
Bob: I would rather play than pay today.
TL: Do you have much contact with any of the bands that were around when you were playing?
Paul: I don’t talk to Sonic Youth that much anymore, you know the breakup, but I still am in contact with Norman Greenbaum.
Bob: We still talk to Ashtray.
TL: What was the last time you guys got together to write a song?
Paul: During the Fairport Convention era.
Bob: At least a couple of minutes ago.

The sky was beginning to set on South Street so we shook hands and talked to Jose.” 

Just listened to “transistor” a few weeks ago!

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You can pretty much set your watch by the arrival of a new DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO podcast, every two or three weeks or so, give or take a few days on either end. Our newest edition is our fortieth (four-zero; #40) and was recorded on the 4th of July in a place where said day is utterly meaningless and uncelebrated. I’ve been enjoying larding these shows up with new stuff rather than mp3s from my outrageously bountiful mp3 collection (you should see it!), primarily because every two weeks I keep hearing new stuff I think is totally rad. Case in point: THE COOLIES, PIECE WAR, THE YAKKS, DARK TIMES, MEN OH PAUSE, POW!, WOLF GIRL and COLD BEAT – all brand new. All great – or else we wouldn’t play it, right?

There’s also the new reissue of The Flesh Eaters’ “A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die” to contend with, as well as important material that its essential you listen to from Tales of Terror, The Milky Ways, Naked Spots Dance and others. It’s one hour and a few minutes, and it’s available for download on iTunes and Soundcloud and in other spots as well – like right here.

Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #40.
Stream or download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #40 on Soundcloud.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes.

Track listing:
YAKKS – Sonja is a Racist
PIECE WAR – Call on Me
COLD BEAT – Falling Skylines
POW! – One Eyed Scorpion
WOLF GIRL – Freudian Slips
USELESS EATERS – Desperate Living
MEN OH PAUSE – Concrete Woman
NAKED SPOTS DANCE – Crescendo/Circle Moon
MEAT PUPPETS – Unpleasant
WORKDOGS – Funny $
THE COOLIES – God Take Me
MILKY WAYS – Guillotine
THE JONESES – Pillbox
TALES OF TERROR – Romance
GANG GREEN – Kill a Commie
DARK TIMES – Be Cool
THE FLESH EATERS – Divine Horseman

Some past shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #39    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #38    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #37    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #36    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #35    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #34    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #33    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #32    (playlist)

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One of the great curators of our time returns with yet another mix of songs so new that many aren’t even out yet. Download them all, and if you’re like me, you’ll find the time to listen a month or two from now.

urbankill:

2014 MIX #8

Pictured: BnP performing in Christchurch. Do yourself a favor and download every one of their albums.

Tracklisting:


   1. Plasma Expander – Orta Vez (Zeno Remix by Mattia Coletti)
   2. Cold Circuits – New Annex          
   3. Year of Birds – Lets Buy A Bridge          
   4. Mornings – El Raval Loop              
   5. Yakks – Centimetres From Your Face         
   6. Power Masters – Idle Mind           
   7. Zulus – Mediacate                          
   8. Thrill Collins – Minister Smith            
   9. Dregs – Tactics                                 
  10. Norymberga – Szympans                            
  11. Beauty Pageant – Lashes                           
  12. Sweater – Jaywalker                          
  13. Darlingchemicalia – FHS                          
  14. Sex Noises – Visions Of Darkness             
  15. Expert Alterations – Three Signs                 
  16. Men Oh Pause – Concrete Woman                     
  17. Wimps – Distraction                                  
  18. Communions – Children                    
  19. Cold Beat – Falling Skyline                   
  20. Taulard – Retour À Phalanstère                               
  21. City Yelps – Vetinary Centre                   
  22. SUN BATHER – Waiting                               
  23. Stickers – Outlet                                    
  24. Carsick Cars – Reaching The Light  (Chinese Version)            
  25. Honey Radar – Scorpions Bought Me Breakfast          
  26. BnP – The Devils (1971)                             
  27. Life Stinks – Potraits                                

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(Mix # 1 | Mix #2 | Mix #3 | Mix #4 & #5 | Mix #6 & #7)

EDIT: For some reason Life Stinks wasn’t in the original upload. Fixed.

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alice-bag:

“There was absolutely no way that bands like the Bags, Germs or Screamers would have been signed to
a major label. I still don’t hear anything quite as confrontational as “We Will Bury You” or “Richie Dagger’s Crime” on the radio, no matter what people say about punk being mainstream
nowadays. One thing that will never come into fashion is challenging the expectations of the average consumer.”

Agony Shorthand interview with Alice Bag.
http://www.alicebag.com/the_bags.html

Interview we did with Alice Bag on our ancient Agony Shorthand blog is linked to here.

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I mistakenly kept calling this band “The Moles” on the latest Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio podcast, only to digital correct the historical record at the 11th hour. MOLE HOUSE are a Detroit-area band affiliated with the All Gone Records family, a collective that’s pushing out some of the best compromised-fidelity, devil-may-care, folk/avant-punk weirdo recordings on the planet right now.

This one comes from a tape of their bands – many of whom rotate through other All Gone bands – called “Worker’s Comp”. I think you’re going to like it.

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I wrote the liner notes for the BETTER BEATLES’ “Mercy Beat” LP a few years back; just listened to their amazing “Penny Lane” this week and thought I’d post it – and the liner notes – for you here. I also did an interview with the band that you can read here.

Historians, record nerds and armchair musicologists are just now extensively excavating the dark crannies of American do-it-yourself whatsis that emerged from the bloom of punk in the late seventies and early eighties. Some of the treasures found in mildewing crates and from deceased moms’ closets speak volumes about the energy and inventiveness of the USA’s bored youth at the time, giving rise to a sub-subculture that found its calling in twisted, art-infused noise & jagged-edge rock, not in “punk” per se – all original, all cleanly cleaved from the past, and often capturing a strange zeitgeist that popular media reckonings of the era seemed to have missed.

Then there was Omaha, Nebraska’s Better Beatles. They sported no originals – just savagely wacked, detuned, deadpan readings of Beatles material in a manner than no one save The Residents could have imagined in 1980. Sure, bands all over the US and the UK were making oddball 45s out of analog synthesizers, primitive recording techniques and decidedly arty leanings at the time, but few approached the deconstructivist beauty of The Better Beatles’ one and only single, the self-released “Penny Lane/I’m Down”. To hear this glorious single in the 21st century, as an increasing number of partisans have (a number sure to blossom with the release of the disc you’re holding), is to still stand agog that a group could go to such unforced, random-sounding lengths and not come off in the least as some dumb-ass, Dr. Demento-lite yuk band. The Better Beatles single isn’t even “funny”. It’s dark and at times transcendent, and it simultaneously lifts the Beatles’ unparalleled songcraft to new and even better heights, while destroying the mythos around the band just the same, in as snotty & underhanded a manner as the rottenest rotten punk you can conjure.

And to think – there was a whole tape’s worth of weirdo recordings of this ilk just sitting around all this time! You’ll probably be the best judge of whether the Beatles’ legacy can survive these covers intact, because different aural cavities are going to hear these unique sounds in all sorts of funny and ultimately polarizing ways.