Two BASSHOLES reviews, written by me for WIPE OUT! fanzine, 1998.
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I was going through some old files and found that I’d actually written a batch of record reviews for Eric Friedl (aka Eric Oblivian)’s WIPEOUT fanzine in 1998 that I hadn’t seen nor remembered since that time.
I’m not even sure where to find the mag itself, but now that I have the reviews, I figure I’ll post them up here in the weeks to come. I appreciate Eric letting me yak up this stuff in his pages. I had “retired” from the print fanzine business that year, a retirement that lasted 15 years.
This one’s a record I also haven’t heard since 1998. Has anyone?
These two jumbo music books are sitting on the nightstand, ready to be plowed through over the course of the winter.
There’s “SUB POP USA”, which has very little to do with the successful label of the same name and instead with the fanzine Sub Pop, or Subterranean Pop, which Bruce Pavitt published nine issues of from 1980-1983. I’ve never seen that mag before, but all 9 of ‘em are here. Pavitt then carried on with a column for Seattle’s free rocknroll rag The Rocket from 1983 to 1988, before ramping up the label. Those columns – and more – are all here as well.
The second book is the first printed matter from HoZac Books, and it’s called “NOISE IN MY HEAD: Voices From The Ugly Australian Underground”. It’s by Jimi Kritzler, and it documents the most recent 5-10 years of of Australian rock grunt. Everything from Total Control to UV Race to Fabulous Diamonds (yeah!) to a dozen others I’m not entirely familiar with. Yet.
I’ll emerge from the bed in 2015 to tell you about both books, all right? In the meantime, you can order each at the links.
DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE #2 not only reads as well out of doors as it does inside the house, it has 87 record reviews this time around.
Jay Hinman and Erika Elizabeth wrote about these musical heavyweights:
Allo Darlin’ / Animals and Men / Ausmuteants / Bridge Collapse / Buck Biloxi and the Fucks / Burnt Palms / Civil Union / Cold Beat / The Coneheads / The Coolies / Crayon / Crimson Wave / Crime / Dadamah / Dark Matter / Dark Times / Death of Samantha / Downtown Boys / Earth Girls / Eastlink / Electric Eels / England’s Glory / Eureka California / Expert Alterations / Eyelids / Feature / Fleabite / Flesh World / Good Throb / Gun Club / Heathers / The In Out / Jack Ruby / Joanna Gruesome / Kindling / Life Stinks / Los Cripis / Men Oh Pause / The Mentalettes / Miriam / Mary Monday / Monkey 101 / Nots / Numb Bats / Octagrape / Pang / Piece War / Primetime / Proper Ornaments / Pip Proud / Quaaludes / Radar Eyes / Rema-Rema / Mike Rep & The Quotas / Roachclip / Sauna Youth / Scrabbled / Shoes This High / Silver Shadows / Sleaford Mods / Slowcoaches / Slum of Legs / Sneaks / Sonic Chicken 4 / Southern Comfort / The Spies / The Spits / Spookies / Synthetic ID / Terry Malts / Trick Mammoth / Trust Fund / Tunabunny / Useless Eaters / V/A – “Cool Bands 2” / V/A – “Dangerhouse – Complete Singles Collected” / V/A – “Neu Ist Zeit – Augsburg 1979-1984” / V/A – “Temporary” / Vexx / Velo / Watery Love / Wet Blankets / Wimps / Woolen Men / X___X / Yakks / Ye Nuns
Maybe there’s someone you dig on that list. If so, come take a gander at the thing. We’ll ship it to you for seven bucks + postage.
Now available – Dynamite Hemorrhage #2 fanzine.
Dynamite Hemorrhage #2 is an 84-page music fanzine dedicated to raw and sub-underground rocknroll from the last 5 decades. This one just came out in late November 2014.
It features:
– An interview and career-spanning retrospective with BILL DIREEN, the New Zealand-based musical iconoclast and creator of some of the most weird and wonderful underground pop music of the last 35 years. Great old photos of Vacuum, Six Impossible Things and more – with Direen’s take on his many recordings, bands and general outlook on creation & creativity.
– Tim Warren from Crypt Records, on the eve of two new volumes of the mind-destroying “BACK FROM THE GRAVE” 60s punk compilations, takes us through in profanity-strewn detail how he’s been putting these comps together since 1983, and the pain the man has endured to make sure you and I get to hear some of the most raw and rare rocknroll chaos of all time…!
– Interview with bedroom lo-fi pop savants HONEY RADAR, currently making many short, abrasive and lovely mini-masterpieces out of Philadelphia
– Interview with NOTS, raw and slashing earworm punk band from Memphis
– KING TEARS MORTUARY, Sydney, Australia’s answer to the question “What would a mix of C86, KBD punk and The Gories sound like?”
– Erika Elizabeth’s overview of lost and neglected female-fronted punk and post-punk bands and records you’ve never heard of
– The Layman’s Guide to 1970s Jamaican DUB – an overview of wild, weird and wacked dub reggae created during its peak era, along with ten essential dub recordings, explored
– Interviews with Jon Savage and Stuart Baker on the new PUNK 45 series of archival 70s punk reissues
– 87 record reviews
– 15 book reviews
– Advertisements from today’s top hitmaking labels
There’s a “Fab Mab” group over on Facebook devoted to the glory days of San Francisco punk rock and, specifically, The Mabuhay Gardens club on Broadway.
Here are two flyers folks posted over there, showing the breadth and weirdness of the day. Roy Loney and the Phantom Movers (ex-Flamin’ Groovies) with opener Black Flag (!!?!). One can only imagine.
Then there’s these back-to-back bills at the American Indian Center at 14th and Valencia, where I believe an artisanal french toast restaurant now stands (no joke). One night it’s the Circle Jerks; the next night it’s Canned Heat. The hippies hadn’t shuffled off San Francisco’s mortal coil just yet to make way for the punx, and it looks like venues were trying their best to turn a buck or two from both camps.
TERMINAL BOREDOM, the longtime online garage punk/punk/underground/etc. forum & digital fanzine, went back in time to the analog era and have published their first print fanzine – along with a compendium of early stuff.
Just got these in the mail yesterday. I think I’ll read them in full public view on my lunch break today. Order yours here.
Pages from DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE #2, an 84-page fanzine now being printed available for pre-order here. We should have them in stock by November 20th or so.
It’s written by Jay Hinman and Erika Elizabeth, and the thing took the better part of 2014 to throw together. Seemed to have turned out all right despite some typos that I’ve already caught post-production. You can handle it, right?
Learn more about what’s in it and order at this link here….!
Hey there.
Yea, it’s November 2014 and the tactile engagement of Fuckin’ Record Reviews #1: The Print Edition – originally advertised for October 2014 – remains confined to the digital realm. Confusion and delay? Worry not Sir Topham Hatt, we are working feverishly to complete this thing and print it on 100% recycled paper before the 2016 election. In fact, we are 64% done (up from 61% last Tuesday), but just like everyone else, we occasionally get stuck between the buttons of procrastination and daydream nation and consequently…it’s proceeding a bit more slowly than hoped.
- Things done to periodically knock my eye off the prize include…
- posting Stretch Heads pix at Now Paying
- rewatching the BBC Synth Brittania doc on YouTube (this has been mentioned previously)
- making out with my pillow
- firing off daily missives at this here FRR tumblr
- enjoying vidz of Mike Wolf’s dog DOMINATING in the park (by the way she’s real, and she’s spectacular)
- Pampers like 72 times since September…2014 USA tour starts next week
- sorting hand sanitizer bottles by color
- omg – rathausrathaus and brainplan records!
- fancying it possible be au courant
- rehearsing the perfect personal intro to belakoe at Anyway Records Night last month
- devouring the Popwatch zines Leslie Gaffney sent (thanx!)
- saying “Alan Licht” out loud more times in a row than any other human for the world record
- organizing Lee Noble selections from best to bestest
- reshuffling our guesses for super secret guest entires into the Death By Audio lottery
- concocting several non alignment pacts
- Best Reasons To Write A Fuckin’ Record Review Today
- ever-never-records
- how many people are in the Gizmos anyway?
- Thomas Storck at WFMU….real or unreal?
- writing this post…
- Several changes have taken place that render the advertisement above obsolete. As you might’ve heard, our brother Tony Rettman got signed by Monument Records to annotate the lost recordings of Barefoot Jerry and we wish him well. He may visit with us in FRR #1: TPE, but we hope to see him return to his Hardcore in Silhouette status by 2015.
- Since we last wrote, New York Observer’s Vicky Wheeler has dedicated her life to figuring out how to be the sixth member of Wussy, and of course we wish her well. Maybe we’ll see more of her in 2015. We begged her to don’t leave us now, but who can complete with Chuck & Lisa?
- GOOD NEWS: In the stead of those now gone, we’ve tricked urbankill’s Matt T to write like 40-60 fuckin’ record reviews! Jay Hinman called Matt one of the curators of our time, and we are delighted to offer Matt a platform to sink or swim. He’s submitted a dozen or so reviews so far and they really cut the rug.
- We’ve also employed Bela Koe-Krompecher of belakoe krompecher’s blog to write fuckin’ record reviews! Yea, we’re pretty impressed with our networking power too.
- So…see you soon! In the mean time, dynamitehemorrhage #2 should be out soon and try reading it while listening to cyanidetooth‘s The Whole Tooth & Nothing But …(ever/never – 2014)
WHY THE FUCK we would create more tangible stuff in the future, namely FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS #1: The Print Edition?
Because…VIVE LA RÉSISTANCE!
Svenonius: “In the sleek Apple future, our ‘outdated’ possessions are turned into symbols of poverty…We’re encouraged to lose our possessions…
Meanwhile, those who have hung onto possessions are castigated, jeered at, and painted as fools…This is fine for the cyber elite; they can live as they wish. But why is their ideology impressed on all of us through this shame-based propaganda? Why is the “hoarder” so loathed by the Apple authorities?
Because she is feared.
The record collection or magazine or newspaper might reveal some clue to a social movement or trend or fashion or sensibility that defies their moronic stranglehold on consciousness. A burp of resistance. A clue to a way out. A signal that life doesn’t actually depend on high-speed internet access.”
ALL POWER TO THE PACK RATS by Ian Svenonius Jacobin / a magazine of culture and polemic (July 2014)
- We don’t love everything Svenonius belches forth with Chain And The Gang, Cupid Car Club, Felt Letters, Make-Up, Nation Of Ulysses, Scene Creamers and Weird War, but now and again we can get down.
- We are aligned, however, with Svenonius on many matters of thought and we found the linked article All Power To The Pack Rats to be a very worthwhile justification for keeping stuff.
- It also helped us clarify why we would create more stuff in the future, namely FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS #1: The Print Edition – because we’re fighting the powers that be!
- Of course, we recognize Fuckin’ Record Reviews utilizes the internet in an obvious fashion, but if our print version – which, by the way, we will not be posting to the tumblr (for the most part) – offers one burp of resistance, then good on us and our collaborators.
- Why do it? Now you know. Now we know. HEY! HO! LET’S GO!
Announcing our second year of Fuckin’ Record Reviews with…
FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS #1
- Print Edition – numbered,
Rettman-kissed copies- many, many pages
- eye popping grafix
- might be a total wreck…but it *will* be!
OCTOBER 2014
- (you only have yourselves to blame)
“…it’s an LP that’s so infinitely likable that I feel it’s my duty to invite them over for sandwiches.”
Superdope #2 Summer 1991 (page 32)
LOVE CHILD review by JAY HINMAN, Editor
- This was Jay’s second zine in two years and he’s never really stopped since. He’s infected. That’s why he’s delivering unto the world Dynamite Hemorrhage #2 in late 2014, so get your toilet seat ready – that’s where these print things are supposed to be read, or did you forget?
- Mind you, any person with an internet portal thing and a printer could download and print out Superdope #2, which Jay offers gratis in PDF form at…
AGONY SHORTHAND 