American Grafishy (1992 Flipper studio album, produced by Rick Rubin)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/d821y1

Know what's a really good hardcore album from 2008? This one!




Melodic like Cave In, tight like old Dischord stuff like Fugazi and Swiz, and adventurous like Slint and Drive Like Jehu. In other words, lots of variety, with a sound that's next to impossible to pin down. Produced by Kurt Ballou, so by that alone you know it has to be great.

has anybody seen that flipper DVD at all? saw it at rough trade the other day and since i am kind of broke decided to hold off, but i remember they had quite a memorable bit in the american hardcore film, so maybe i should go for it.

Yeah, Sask. This is awesome. Fugazi, Jehu, etc. Spot on.

Burzum will like this.

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

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

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.

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].

J.T. IV

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:

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.

That Cheveu record was great.

I should up the U.S. Girls album for you some time. That was some killer lo-fi garagey noise bullshit, right there.

White hills were probably my favorite band discovered in 2007.
I never put a link to these space-psych new york rockers and i guess this is the best thread to do it.

This is their first non self-released cd.
Heads on fire (2007)



And this is a previous cd-r.
Glitter glamour atrocity(2007)



Anyone who likes Hawkwind should give this a listen.

Can't remember about Thomas Function except for that song "Snake in the Grass" which is fantastic.

Cheveu

anyone have their new one

it's called "a little bliss forever"

saw miss alex white w/ simply saucer at subterranean last summer

she killed it but ss suuuuuucked to my surprise. new record wasn't bad, but those songs played live were.

Blank Dogs

I first checked into this mysterious band-like entity after reading the Reader's write-up on Hozac Records a few months ago. Purportedly from Madagascar - though according to the Reader article, the guy or guys behind these records route the master tapes through Atlanta - Blank Dogs make dense, droney 4-track hiss-fests that are simultaneously wild and stoic. Fans of lo-lo-fi madness, oddly catchy melodicism, fake British accents, limited vinyl runs should find much to like about this band. I detect similarities to oddball punk like Trio and Times New Viking, and probably new-wave, goth and shoegaze, but I don't think I've ever heard anything that sounds quite like this before.
More pertinent web action may be accessed here.
Here are five of their singles / eps:


EDIT: Re-upped to include previously missing track.

Can we start a new thread on the original 60s and 70s garage/psych genres? This thread is not cutting it for me. We need more Barbarians, Standells and Remains and less Jay Reatard.

ATDI progginess tossed in.

Any of you guys into Wavves? Really digging the new album that leaked yesterday, cleverly titled, "Wavvves".


There are a lot of links on the internet, but most are for the demo version on de stijl - which dude apparently left right before they released his album? fucked up. If there's any interest, I'll up a proper version.