DANIEL BACHMAN playing last night (12/3/15) at The Hotel Utah in San Francisco. Fantastic set of intricate, primitive strum from someone I’ve been hoping would come play the west coast for a while. New-ish LP “River” is highly recommended.
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BULL TONGUE REVIEW, true to their mission, has actually published a clockwork four print issues now on a quarterly basis. Fantastic stuff.
#4 just arrived in the mail two days ago, and I’ve only had time to tackle the Coley/Moore opening salvo of highly obscure records, chapbooks, tapes & proper books. “Exploring all known undergrounds” – no kidding. I’ll admit a fair bit of jealousy toward those who’ve got the time and the gumption to do this much exploring, but hey, I’ll settle for late to the party – as long as I’m allowed at the party in the first place.
So far, upon finishing the first three issues I’ve found myself better-versed in the far-reaching sub-underground than I was a few hours previous, and often more than a little frustrated with some of the contributors. You’ve got certain people throwing up stream-of-thought wordplay and unrepressed societal dislocation on the most inane topics imaginable, and it’s all I can do to not want to mail a dictionary, a Xanax and a copy of “How To Win Friends and Influence People” to a select few of them. It might make for infuriating reading at times, but Bull Tongue Review seems to have been hatched from the same ur-brain that the late 60s underground papers & broadsheets were, and I try to read each issue in that spirit.
Moreover, in addition to Byron Coley’s multi-page review-spew introduction, there are phenomenal arbiters of culture each month like Tom Lax, Erika Elizabeth, Suzy Rust, Brian Turner, Chris D., Alex Behr, Marc Masters, Phil Milstein, Donna Lethal and many more of my all-time heroes. I truly wasn’t sure if it would make it past issue #1 or #2 – my thing sure didn’t – but here we are with one of analog culture’s most consistently mind-scrambling cultural treasures.
I have a new site/blog about film called Celluloid Couch. If that sounds familiar, it’s because I advertised a coming fanzine by that name in Dynamite Hemorrhage ‘zine #2; then started a short-lived Tumblr with the same title earlier this year.
This time we’re here to stay, on the World Wide Web. Come check it out if you like watching movies & reading pithy reviews, interviews & more.
This fanzine just arrived in the mail at our headquarters. Haven’t even cracked the cover yet, but wanted to give you a chance to grab your own if you’re interested.
Please note the classy pin design on the right. I didn’t even order that thing, but it was in the envelope. It’s like they knew me already.
ON SALE – DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE fanzine #2 – only $3.99!
Big price drop to help clear out our warehouse. Order it here.
Dynamite Hemorrhage #2 is an 84-page music fanzine dedicated to raw
and sub-underground rocknroll from the last 5 decades. This one 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 PUNK 45 series of archival 70s punk reissues
– 87 record reviews
– 15 book reviews
– Advertisements from today’s top hitmaking labels
Order Dynamite Hemorrhage #2 here.
How about a full, well-recorded, perfect-sound YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS show from Vancouver on November 6th, 1980?
There’s a new book all about the Butthole Surfers out. So far I can’t find it online for less than $38, nor an e-book edition, so this may have to wait. Saw this band several times at their peak (and once on the decline, headlining over Stone Temple Pilots!), and I have some awesome personal stories (near-arrest, injured cousin from flying guitar shards) from those wild shows alone.
There’s also this big article in the Austin Chronicle worth reading: http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/1999-08-27/522637/
DINOSAUR, later known as Dinosaur Jr., playing in solidarity with the Coalition in Solidarity for the People of El Salvador in 1986.
AGONY SHORTHAND 