1989: Pussy Galore – Kennel Club, San Francisco
I went to this show. Pussy Galore were in their “Historian de la Musica Rock” death throes and were good but nothing like the band I’d seen two years earlier in LA at Raji’s. I took a woman named Jane as my date. Jane! Did you like seeing Pussy Galore with me??
Man, I used to love the GIBSON BROS, everything about them and then some. The bloom has only come off the rose a little in two decades, and I say that mostly because I played them to death in the 80s and 90s, making me far less likely to listen to them now.
Review from my Superdope #4 fanzine, 1992.
Here’s a great photo of XYX playing live, taken from the WFMU Free Music Archive, where you can download a bunch of their stuff for $0.00.
XYX, the awesome Monterey, Mexico-based rocket-stun reverb/noise duo, may have packed it in last year, but it doesn’t mean I’ve stopped listening to ‘em. Here’s a fanzine piece written and illustrated by Anhelo Escalante, taken directly from her Flick stream (thanks, Anhelo….).
I guess as long as Fuckin’ Record Reviews are going to be so kind as to post my writings from over two decades ago, I might as well get in on the nostalgia trip as well, right?
Here’s a review from my own Superdope ‘zine #4 from 1992. I understand that these tracks will again be available shortly….!
After playing a cool 2008 track from LITTLE CLAW on my most recent podcast, I checked the interweb to make sure they were broken up for good. They’re not! Still around! (That’s a good thing). They’re not based in Portland anymore, but they’re tourin’, and hopefully releasing new stuff soon. Here’s a picture of them in action in 2009 or so.
Short – but I’ll take it – article on wacked-out DC artpunks VOID from Scott Bass in the new Perfect Sound Forever online mag.
Not sure I fully agree, but I appreciate the argumentative feistiness of the argument from James Paton in favor of Captain Beefheart’s two mid-70s “sell out” LPs.
She said she was gonna do it, and then she did it. Erika Elizabeth, the exceptionally knowledegable and savvy WMUA disc jockey who left Western Massachusetts for Portland, OR, now has put together her second digital radio show/podcast, which you can download over on her blog.
Her “Expressway To Yr Skull” show has been vital to my discovery of multiple bands and to my rejuvenation/reawakening to the whys and wherefores of raw, underground rock and roll music – especially of the more obscure pop and female-fronted DIY/punk stuff. And she breaks the news over on the recent post that she’ll be a prime contributor to the upcoming Dynamite Hemorrhage print fanzine, which is coming along pretty fine, actually. Go and download years & years of her shows here – you’ll get yourself muscially schooled & perhaps be a more interesting person as a result.
AGONY SHORTHAND 