Advertisement for the second GERMS 45, scanned from Slash Magazine’s 1-year anniversary issue, 1978.
Domain trouble! I had a hell of a time trying to hold on to the URL hedonistjive.com with something called “Google Apps”, and woke this morning to find it expired.
I’ve now migrated over 4 years’ worth of content on my other blog, THE HEDONIST JIVE, to a new URL – www.hedonist-jive.com. If you have a bookmark, please feel free to adjust it accordingly, as the other one appears to be dead as a doornail.
A modicum of praise for Los Angeles’ SIN 34 in NO MAG, circa 1982.
Sin 34 (whom the editors of Dynamite Hemorrhage have a bit of a guilty-pleasure soft spot for) were the perennial opening band on hardcore bills all over LA and the San Fernando Valley in the early 80s. Members later went on to Painted Willie; Dave Markey became an infamous underground filmmaker and was putting out We Got Power fanzine around the time of this review as well.
THE PIN GROUP, live in 1981 in Christchurch, New Zealand. It’s a short 12-minute film of the band with a 2-minute poetry intro. Floored this stuff exists, and is a few clicks away down the internet wormhole.
Not especially readable – but here’s a split interview w/ San Francisco’s ICKY BOYFRIENDS and Toronto’s LEATHER UPPERS – who shared a drummer – from the pages of Portland’s Snipehunt fanzine, a mag I’d love to find some back issues of (especially if anyone saved the “Zip Code Rapists break up” issue….). Enjoy your squinting.
A loping, strangely mid-tempo version of “Smokescreen” by THE DESPERATE BICYCLES, performed on The John Peel show back on April 7th, 1978.
Sure, it was 38 years ago – but if anyone knows how I might get in touch with a member of the ‘Bicycles, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.
THE BAGS, from the insert that comes with Munster Records’ 2xCD collection of all of the Dangerhouse 45s.
From SKID fanzine #5, published out of Milwaukee in 1982. Extra points to publisher Jon Hope for calling out The Groinoids, and for giving the good word to Gang Green, whose tracks on this compilation are absolutely blazing.
I was interviewed for a new piece on KQED’s Arts website about Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine #1, the return of analog culture and the process of over-marinating in and attempting to curate music in many online and offline formats.
AGONY SHORTHAND 