Rays – Drop Dead
Fantastic dark-night-of-the-soul punk gnarl from my fave new Oakland/SF/California/USA band, RAYS.
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Videos
Dynamite Hemorrhage favorites SALLY SKULL just reunited a few weeks ago after 18+ years for a new show, which you can watch in its entirety here. If you’d like to read the interview I did w/ them, Dynamite Hemorrhage #1 is still (barely) available here.
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BLACK FLAG doing “American Waste” with their no-doubt-about-it best singer by a mile, Dez Cadena. Utterly life-changing when I saw this Target Video in high school.
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One of the year’s best so far – Melbourne, Australia’s THE SHIFTERS and their faux tale of growing up in 1970s Northern Ireland, “Creggan Shops”. They made a video for it and everything.
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Remember our discussion the other day on 1980s New Zealand band THE KIWI ANIMAL?
Here’s a 9-minute 2002 film on that band’s Brent Hayward, called “Love Is A Painkiller: The Life and Times of Brent Hayward” you should check out.
It’s devoted more to the man’s film and performance art work and to his outsized personality than it is to his bands (among whom also number Shoes This High, Smelly Feet and Fats White), and is an insightful look at the sorts of gifted artistic characters nurtured in New Zealand over the last three decades.
Huge thanks to Orlando Stewart, who made this film as a student in 2002, and to Brendon Ross, who connected me with him.
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I think it’s important that everyone hear this song. From 2003 on Twisted Village Records – LA DRUGS.
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Blazing video and best track from NOTS new album. Got 90 seconds? Spend it here.
Nots have a great interview in the new Dynamite Hemorrhage magazine #2, which comes out tomorrow….!
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CLAG, from Brisbane, Australia, performing “Scum Manor” in 1993. Thanks to Jon for turning me onto this one about fifteen minutes ago.
You guys were already way onto Clag, weren’t you??
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NEGATIVE APPROACH, live (full set and goofin’ interview!) in 1982 on the “Why Be Something You’re Not” cable access TV show.
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AGONY SHORTHAND 