I’ve found out about some pretty good stuff lately from this crew, and their new mix of 2013 releases is both streamable and downloadable.
http://8tracks.com/mixes/2893641/player_v3_universal
Shutdown Mix ’13
Dedicated to the gang from the (soon-to-be) late, lamented PUNK GUNK, GARAGE, PSYCH N WILD SHIT! Turntable.fm room. Twenty-one super-crunchy nuggets of the latest, y’know, punk gunk, garage, psych, ‘n’ wild shit, collected for yer listening pleasure by Wub-Fur Internet…
The final FINAL cover for Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine #1, which will be coming to a store near you in a matter of weeks. Web-ordering information will be published here shortly as well & on our Facebook page.
What they call an “unofficial” – i.e. bootleg – release. “There’s a Monster In Me” might just be the greatest SCIENTISTS song they ever recorded, right up there with “Rev Head”, “Swampland” and “When Fate Deals Its Mortal Blow”. Hard to believe it took an unofficial 1985 release to bring it to the people.
STRAPPING FIELDHANDS
Impossible To Say
release date: Sep 18Back in the rough n’ tumble days (& nights) of the 1990’s, you’d be hard pressed to find a single slobbering indie-rock drunkard who wasn’t a Fieldhands fan. From the tremendous early Siltbreeze singles to the magnificent Omphalos full-lengths, the galaxy and beyond were charmed by their wayward off-kilter pre/post-skiffle, pre/post-psychedelic, and pre/post-punk avant pop. Bob Malloy crafted swaying bizarre stories & fables in a fake British accent as convincing as a perfectly fitting Toupée. But aside from 2002’s unsung and virtually unheard Third Kingdom, all has been seemingly quiet in Fieldhands land. But aha! They’ve only been slumbering, laying in wait writing and recording.
Which brings us here. Two brand new songs. One is a lively and scrappy, yet wistful anthem, perfect for hoisting a pint with the lads. The other is a tender Ray Davies-ian ballad about a bearded lady. Hey, you’re the one who asked! We are pleased to present them in an edition of 350 copies, an unknown quantity in the hand-painted Hesske edition available only from the band or from Richie Records // TestosterTunes.
This is a fantastic single and return to form for the Fieldhands. “Impossible to Say” is as good as anything they’ve done; a joyous, short little skiffle that’s instantly ingrained upon the brain, ready to be shouted at top volume over the course of many, many beers.
FORCED EXPOSURE fanzine #6 from 1983. Here’s a piece I wrote on this issue of this magazine back in 2006.
Advertisement for San Francisco’s PAST IT records, 1998. They were the home of the Icky Boyfriends, Demolition Doll Rods, Leather Uppers and other demented garage acts of the day. I happen to know that the owner/manager of the label was in a big NBA basketball phase at the time.
This new 45 from the UK’s THE FIREWORKS is fast, loud, fuzzed and right in the wheelhouse for fans of a certain kind of fast, loud, fuzzed British pop. Distortion and melody that sits together in an exceptionally pleasant manner.
I wrote this review for Superdope #1 fanzine in 1990, right after the coldest night I think we’ve ever had in the San Francisco Bay Area – 17 degrees. Steve Watson slipped on some ice and fell hard to the ground on this night. That never happens here.
Clear that I was already tiring of The Dwarves here; unfortunately they didn’t quite feel the joke had grown cold just yet.
Amazing crude 1977 bootleg material from THE CRAMPS, from the very first bootleg 45 I ever purchased back in high school. The A-side is the band’s ridiculous take on the Red Crayola’s “Hurricane Fighter Plane”, and the b-side is this outstanding near-instrumental that later showed up on their first album.
Note the very polite, likely bewildered clapping after the song ends. Back of the single says “critics threw up”.
AGONY SHORTHAND 