Wednesday, March 10, 2010
From The Valley Within (Lost Records) 1983. Man seriously? Say it ain’t so, Joe. Two obscure 1980’s hardcore 7inches in a row? This one is from San Jose, California and is one of those comps that I searched for for years. Why? Cuz it has The Faction on it, [...]
We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida (Destroy Records) 1983. Continuing the Florida theme, we have a hardcore classic from 1983. Back in the days when 7inch compilations with thirteen great tracks were the norm. It’s funny really because this was one of those comps that nobody (outside of Florida) [...]
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Bone – Pirate The Islands // The Headlines Have It (Rumble Records) 1979. Bone were simply a bunch of dudes who liked to party. Party hard. They were from Florida and they lived the lifestyle all the way. It was the 70’s baby. Times were crazy! Don’t fuck with my [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
CAVEAT: if you wanna hear this music, you’re gonna have to buy this LP. The folks behind it requested I do not share even one track. I’m gonna review it anyway because it is fuckin’ awesome.
A great companion (precursor really) to the Local Anesthetic compilation from a few years ago, Rocky Mountain Low [...]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Cipher – Body Chemistry, Harmonic 33, Cymatic Mambo // Modern Medicine, Brown (Right Brain Records) 1981. A band I was first introduced to on the Savoy Sound LP. At the time I assumed they were a local San Francisco act but it turns out that they were actually from Los Angeles and [...]
Ruin – Fiat Lux (Meta Meta Records) 1986. Probably the most ongoing request that I have seen over the years with Last Days is Fiat Lux by the Philly band Ruin. I wrote about them back in 2007. Few bands have inspired such rabid devotion amongst a fan-base as Ruin. Part [...]
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Raymilland – Recordings 79-81′ (BDR Records) 2010. Another amazing reissue, this one from my hometown. If you have never heard of Raymilland, that’s probably not too surprising. They were a short-lived Saint Louis post-punk act that existed roughly in the time period defined by the title of this release. Certain [...]
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Method Actors – This Is Still It (Acute Records) 2010. The folks at Acute Records have really outdone themselves this time. I think I say that every couple of years about Acute but this time I mean it. For realz. This Is Still It on Acute documents the first year [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
UJ3RK5 – The Anglican, The Locator // Eisienhower and the Hippies, Booty Dread (Quintessence Records) 1980. A post-punk classic of dryly academic dadaism. UJ3RK5 (pronounced “You Jerks”) were a band of social misfits from Vancouver who released this wacky EP in 1980. Coming out of the ‘photoconceptualism’ or ‘post-conceptual photography’ art movement [...]
Clatter and Jive with The Teeth
Third edition of the Last Days of Man on Earth podcast. Still going strong. No signs of stopping. In fact, I think this may be the best one yet. And that’s not just hyperbole. That’s the real deal. One thing however. It may not [...]
Minimal Compact – Minimal Compact – Statik Dancin’, Creation Is Perfect (I Am A Camera), Ready-Made Diary // To Get Inside, Happy Babouge (Crammed Discs) 1981. The first Minimal Compact EP immediately maps out the two distinct personalities of the band. On one side, Minimal Compact were a classic European (by way of Israel) [...]
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Poptronix – TV Programmed TV Set // War of Crime (Klang!) 1981. I am working on the latest edition of the Last Days of Man on Earth Stumblemix but it is taking longer than I was expecting. So here is a good one to tide things over. You wouldn’t be wrong to [...]
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Rowland S, Howard, the guitar player for the Birthday Party and Crime and the City Solution as well as numerous amazing collaborations, died of liver cancer yesterday at 50. He was a big influence on me. While growing up in the omnipotent shadow of a Midwestern Classic Rock Abomination, I naturally thought [...]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Lovebug Starski & The Harlem World Crew – Positive Life (Vocal) // Positive Life (Instrumental) (Tayster Records) 1981. Another classic by the Little Starski, this is one of the last party records ever recorded and it definitely goes out with a bang. In fact, the backing track is so insanely tight and funky that [...]
Friday, December 25, 2009
In lieu of another writeup, I decided to post a set of some of the best videos I’ve personally come across this year. Happy Holidays to everyone.
Madness – Bed and Breakfast Man: From Madness’ first album which is criminally underrated today. Yeah, yeah…I know that Our House was a huge [...]
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Russian Meatsquats – Lets Hang Out! (Whoopsie Kerplonk Records) 1986. In the annals of musical history dating from the dawn of time, when cavemen crafted makeshift stringed instruments from the decayed lining of mastodon entrails, to the current era, what with its mp3 encoded bit-rate mania, one thing is certain. The Russian Meatsquats [...]
Saturday, December 19, 2009
F-Systems – People // Naked Kiss (Classified Records) 1980. A great slice of new wave punk from Austin, Texas. F-Systems were peers of KBD favorites The Standing Waves and The Inserts and were on the same Classified Records label. Both sides of this single are winners and just have that aggressive [...]