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Following other stellar. top-to-bottom excellent pure-pop LPs I’ve totally fallen for this year by Veronica Falls and La Luz, the debut LP “Floristry” from Dunedin, New Zealand’s TRICK MAMMOTH is my new saccharine ringer.

I’m not sure if it’s more first-LP Teenage Fanclub or entire-career Look Blue Go Purple but their record’s absolutely worth a pickup if any of the aforementioned get your proverbial motor running. Meanwhile, here’s a video of the band live in NZ.

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After listening to this 2-hour all-Velvet Underground podcast, featuring Jonathan Richman reminiscing about the band, I realized I really need to be regularly listening to more Velvet Underground live shows than I currently am. My Velvets bootleg accumulation phase really peaked around 2004 or so, at the height of the CD-burning era.

Here are a few I’ve got (except “Take A Trip” – have never seen that one). There are at least two dozen more that are amazing, and more beyond that which I’ve never heard.

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UPSETTER fanzine #2, 1978. This was put together in Los Angeles by Chris D. (Flesh Eaters), Judith Bell and Exene Cervenka.

You can read all about it in Dynamite Hemorrhage print fanzine #1.

I was surprised during my interview with Chris D. in said fanzine that Upsetter even existed in magazine form, and if you happen to have a copy you could “loan” me, that’d be real great.

(By the way, this image and many other fanzine stunners can be found at Ryan Richardson’s excellent Fanzine Faves – check it out).

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One of the best UK punk songs ever gets a workover (not really, more of a tribute) by noisy moderne C86 UK band THE FIREWORKS, whom we’ve written about here and in the mag before. If you move fast, you can reserve your space to buy this thing as a flexi (!).

Listen/purchase: Getting Nowhere Fast by The Fireworks

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Stream or download yet another in my series of bi-weekly phony radio shows – DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO #33. This one explores the recent “Punk 45: Kill The Hippies etc.” compilation that Soul Jazz put out; doses out a 15-minute krautrock classic; includes some wild DIY stuff from bands with names like Pissy Relay Switches, Occult Chemistry and Bona Dish; and unveils some pretty stellar new stuff from WET BLANKETS, AUSMUTEANS, PANG, VELO, TRAMPOLINE TEAM and more. More on-“mic” shucking and jiving than usual, too.

Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #33 here.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes.

Track listing:
WET BLANKETS – TV Suicide
AUSMUTEANTS – Felix Tried To Kill Himself 
LUNG LEG – Kung Fu on the Internet 
ANGST – Die Fighting 
IRREPERABLES – Digested System 
THE ZEROS – Wild Weekend 
SAUNA YOUTH – Oh Joel
FLAMIN’ GROOVIES – Dog Meat
VERTIGO – Front End Loader 
SCRATCH ACID – The Final Kiss 
KENDRA SMITH – Aurelia 
TRAMPOLINE TEAM – I’m So Popular 
DEAR NORA – Make You Smile 
ANA HAUSEN – Professionals 
TUXEDOMOON – Joeboy the Electronic Ghost
VELO – Small Town Minded Boy 
PANG – Young Professionals 
OCCULT CHEMISTRY – Water 
PISSY RELAY SWITCHES – Telephone Man 
BONA DISH – Challenge 
CAN – Mother Sky

Past Shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #32    (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #31    (playlist) 
Dynamite Hemorrhage #30    (playlist)

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DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE magazine #1, a 68-page rocknroll blowout that came out the last week of this past December, is down to its last 100 copies. I might be storing them in the garage for the rest of my life, or, if 100 of you act now, I’ll sell out and be forced to print some more.

Ordering information is on the right-hand side of this page. Forgive the astronomical shipping costs; they’re actually lower than what they truly are, if you can believe it. The magazine itself is $7 US.

Dynamite Hemorrhage #1 features:

– An in-depth interview with Chris D., Los Angeles-based punk rock earth-turner, who founded and fronted The Flesh Eaters; ran a pioneering record label called Upsetter; almost released the first Black Flag album; wrote dozens of reviews and helped to edit the seminal Slash magazine; put out his own fanzine with Exene, John Doe & Judith Bell; and much more – all before 1979 was finished. This interview focuses solely on that period of his career

– The first and only retrospective and posthumous interview with SALLY SKULL, a fantastic 1990s all-female Scottish band who made raw, jarring garage punk music with dollops of angularity and dirty pop hooks

– Mail interviews with SEX TIDE and HOUSEHOLD, two current bands working the circuit who happen to be two of Dynamite Hemorrhage’s very favorites

– Quickie interview with BONA DISH, a recently-resurrected early 80s UK countryside band who are poster children for the rough-hewn, spaced-out DIY sound that we’ve all come to worship from that era and country

– Big retrospective on 1980s and 1990s underground music fanzines (like Damp, Butt Rag, Dagger, Two Hundred Pound Underground etc.) by the editor of Fuckin’ Record Reviews blog

– 60-something record reviews written by Erika Elizabeth and Jay Hinman

– 15-something book reviews by Jay & Erika

– Advertisements from today’s top labels

Won’t you order one today?