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[Pavement Ist Rad]

It's just good, I don't know. I like it about as much as that Fatal Flying Guilloteens album from last year. Always nice to hear bands embracing this sound.

[Simakos]

Suicide Note kind of reminds of of that band Juno.

[power_nap]

i have just realized i don't like this. it sounds really derivative, and as i mentioned earlier, the singer appears to have a lisp; i just feel like i should carry a handkerchief ready for every time i put this on.

[Burz]

Now this is some noisy metal-ish punk rock I can get behind:


Black Elk - Always A Six, Never A Nine

http://www.mediafire.com/?zari0vbyldz

I think this is even better than their first one.

[Ted Falconi]

Oooh a Flipper DVD? I must have this... now!

http://targetvideo.b...vd-release.html

[Pavement Ist Rad]

Oh, shit. Thanks, Burzum.

Black Elk = masters.

[Saskadelphia]

Okay, this might end up being my favourite grind album of 2008...

[throughsilver]

Oh fucking A. Didn't know they had a new album out.

[Saskadelphia]

It's insanely catchy. And quite funny at times. I once did an email interview with Hoak, and he was hilarious.

[taste the waste]

This Black Elk album is great. My eoy list is going to be noisy as fuck this year. Where the head's at, I guess.

[Saskadelphia]

Burz, or anyone, do you have the new Gods & Queens album at all? Really interested in hearing these guys, the MySpace stuff sounds promising. They're on Robotic Empire.

[Hewletts Daughter]

JEHU/HOT SNAKES/ETC. UPDATE!
Jon Reis has started up The Night Marchers w/ 2 ex-Hot Snakes, they sound okay.

Listening to the Night Marchers full length now and it's pretty alright. I can see myself getting in to this a lot more as time goes on, but first impression of it and I give it a solid thumbs up.

[Pavement Ist Rad]

Night Marchers album is awfully strong, yeah.

[Ted Falconi]

J.T. IV

Chicago's most notorious and elusive loner punk from the golden era, J.T. IV has been evading the spotlight since his first primordial crawl back in the late 1970s that spawned his unearthly brand of psychotic desperation. I became familiar with two compilation tracks that instantly peaked my interest ("Out of The Can" on Homework vol. 1 and "Death Trip" on Staring Down the Barrel), his name was met with blank stares along with obscurities such as The Crucified, The Exit, Razer, and Pistol Whip, when we went over the list of notable late 70s / early 80s band names we'd gathered while researching the Chicago Punk History article a few years back that ran in issue 11 of Horizontal Action Magazine. While "Out of The Can" straddled the fine line between irresistibly catchy strum-along and folky beard-scratching fare, "Death Trip" reared an uncontrollable (and most likely unintentional) punk ugliness that contrasted into the remarkable repertoire of one of the most important underground music figures in the Chicago area at the time. It's evident in these two polarizing styles that John Henry Timmis (aka J.T. IV) was holding onto a delicate balance of twisted internal pop sap with a lashing and bestial ulterior motive, as he brazenly meshed trashy punked-out glam, creepy outsider folk, and noisy basement experimentation into a pattern of controlled chaos that defies all feasible geographical logic. With only one seemingly solid friendly musical relationship in the loosely-knit Chicago "scene" with Sundog Summit's Lee Groban at the time, everything about the J.T. IV saga seem to perfectly encapsulate the "loner/outsider punk" motif, as a poignant example.

As the story goes, Timmis was institutionalized in 1976 at Menninger Clinic for schizophrenia, and from the sound of "In The Can," it's evident that his inner torment from living life in the gutters, struggling with drug addiction and alcoholism, truncated his mental state and he literally has the songs to prove it. His debut single, "Waiting For The CTA" saw the light of day in 1980, and like the rest of the J.T. IV releases, was produced in a tiny run of less than 200 copies, thereby isolating his influence almost by default. The song still rings true as anyone who's ever had to wait on the buses or trains here knows, and plays a cheesy homage to The Velvet Underground's "Waiting For My Man" with a clowny yet perfect sax track. But it's just the tip of the iceberg as tracks like "Monitors" "Out of the Can," and "Song for Suzanne" really cut beneath the surface of the tortured soul at hand and reveal a genuine vulnerable honesty that seems so out of place in today's music. Timmis died in obscurity in rural Pennsylvania in 2002, with very few people aware of his music or his story, yet with the splendid job on this fine reissue package, I'd assume all that is about to change with the new availability of the Cosmic Lightning album.

Underground music detective Robert Manis has been archiving Timmis for the past few years and serves as official curator for the Cosmic Lightning package, and has taken great care to reproduce the original 1987 LP to look sharp and correct. The album faithfully reproduces the original three 7" singles from the early 80s, along with a few live-simulated tracks that delve into the more grotesque song writing style he's claimed as his own. As a bonus, the thick-cut LP comes a collection of home movies, music videos and bizarre "live" performances that are both garish and nightmarish, to say the least.

Well, we are all finally in luck as Galactic Zoo Disk/Drag City have bestowed a proper vinyl reissue, with full-length DVD included, that's deserving a civic award, and offers even more inspiration for all the bedroom loners with impulsive delusions, a trusty 4-track, some whiskey and that ever important case of beer. Drop everything you're doing and buy your copy now before this limited reissue quickly slips through your fingers. The album is released next week, so get in on the pre-order action HERE, you won't be sorry.

Very interesting, sorta-rockin, etc., esp. to fans of Simply Saucer, Syd/Jandek/Pollard, and/or the Testors, and very much worth your money (I'm totally buying it on Thursday), but here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/dpjoul

[Sid Hartha]

The Weakends - s/t (2008)

from Rob's House Records site:

The weakends are back with the follow-up to their debut 7", and this time it's with a long-player that finds its home a bit more on the blues-punk side of the no-fi French underground. they are banging away, singing through broken PA's, sounding like a way cooler hot rod, 50's, b-movie band then you ever remember, or they sound like what those bands should have sounded like, but they were too self aware or just never that good. [1000 pressed, 900 black vinyl, 100 white vinyl].

I didn't realize they were French until I dug up that blurb. That's really funny. This garauge, it is fantastique.

this is my vinyl rip:

http://www.divshare.com/download/5989666-cf0

[Simakos]

J.T. IV

Chicago's most notorious and elusive loner punk from the golden era, J.T. IV has been evading the spotlight since his first primordial crawl back in the late 1970s that spawned his unearthly brand of psychotic desperation. I became familiar with two compilation tracks that instantly peaked my interest ("Out of The Can" on Homework vol. 1 and "Death Trip" on Staring Down the Barrel), his name was met with blank stares along with obscurities such as The Crucified, The Exit, Razer, and Pistol Whip, when we went over the list of notable late 70s / early 80s band names we'd gathered while researching the Chicago Punk History article a few years back that ran in issue 11 of Horizontal Action Magazine. While "Out of The Can" straddled the fine line between irresistibly catchy strum-along and folky beard-scratching fare, "Death Trip" reared an uncontrollable (and most likely unintentional) punk ugliness that contrasted into the remarkable repertoire of one of the most important underground music figures in the Chicago area at the time. It's evident in these two polarizing styles that John Henry Timmis (aka J.T. IV) was holding onto a delicate balance of twisted internal pop sap with a lashing and bestial ulterior motive, as he brazenly meshed trashy punked-out glam, creepy outsider folk, and noisy basement experimentation into a pattern of controlled chaos that defies all feasible geographical logic. With only one seemingly solid friendly musical relationship in the loosely-knit Chicago "scene" with Sundog Summit's Lee Groban at the time, everything about the J.T. IV saga seem to perfectly encapsulate the "loner/outsider punk" motif, as a poignant example.

As the story goes, Timmis was institutionalized in 1976 at Menninger Clinic for schizophrenia, and from the sound of "In The Can," it's evident that his inner torment from living life in the gutters, struggling with drug addiction and alcoholism, truncated his mental state and he literally has the songs to prove it. His debut single, "Waiting For The CTA" saw the light of day in 1980, and like the rest of the J.T. IV releases, was produced in a tiny run of less than 200 copies, thereby isolating his influence almost by default. The song still rings true as anyone who's ever had to wait on the buses or trains here knows, and plays a cheesy homage to The Velvet Underground's "Waiting For My Man" with a clowny yet perfect sax track. But it's just the tip of the iceberg as tracks like "Monitors" "Out of the Can," and "Song for Suzanne" really cut beneath the surface of the tortured soul at hand and reveal a genuine vulnerable honesty that seems so out of place in today's music. Timmis died in obscurity in rural Pennsylvania in 2002, with very few people aware of his music or his story, yet with the splendid job on this fine reissue package, I'd assume all that is about to change with the new availability of the Cosmic Lightning album.

Underground music detective Robert Manis has been archiving Timmis for the past few years and serves as official curator for the Cosmic Lightning package, and has taken great care to reproduce the original 1987 LP to look sharp and correct. The album faithfully reproduces the original three 7" singles from the early 80s, along with a few live-simulated tracks that delve into the more grotesque song writing style he's claimed as his own. As a bonus, the thick-cut LP comes a collection of home movies, music videos and bizarre "live" performances that are both garish and nightmarish, to say the least.

Well, we are all finally in luck as Galactic Zoo Disk/Drag City have bestowed a proper vinyl reissue, with full-length DVD included, that's deserving a civic award, and offers even more inspiration for all the bedroom loners with impulsive delusions, a trusty 4-track, some whiskey and that ever important case of beer. Drop everything you're doing and buy your copy now before this limited reissue quickly slips through your fingers. The album is released next week, so get in on the pre-order action HERE, you won't be sorry.

Very interesting, sorta-rockin, etc., esp. to fans of Simply Saucer, Syd/Jandek/Pollard, and/or the Testors, and very much worth your money (I'm totally buying it on Thursday), but here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/dpjoul

yeah, this is an interesting record...

i love the VU rip-off song "Waiting For The CTA"

[MrDNA]

I've really been digging the heck out of Part Chimp's "I am Come"



I like this one better than their first, which is also good.

Hard to believe that with a sound that's all about overkill, not one note is wasted. These songs are as tight as any pop groups, just played with ear-splitting volume. I wouldn't call it unpredictable, but I Am Come has slight variety amongst the chaos, anchored by a canny sense of pacing. Add that to the 20-ton hooks of "War Machine" and "Bring Back the Sound", you've got a noteworthy sophomore record-- and, most importantly, one that rocks.

http://lix.in/ac5776

Edited by MrDNA, 28 December 2008 - 06:01 PM.

[Simakos]

i've got garage/lo-fi/psych/whatever mania right now thanks to Ted Falconi and a few friends that have been recommending stuff lately.

NOTHING PEOPLE
THE OH SEES
OCS
COACH WHIPS
BLANK DOGS
WAVVVES
NODZZZ

i'm manic right now... so many fucking records.

[taste the waste]

One of the dudes from Nodzzz works at my local record store. Tried to talk to me about Eddy Current Suppression Ring the other day. I just kinda nodded (lol) at him politely.

[Simakos]

man, this Nothing People record is fucking awesome.