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Jan 30 2010, 06:36 AM

so who else has played this all the way thru?

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Permanent Records Chicago | The P-Rex Podcast

The P-Rex Podcast #001 Pilot Episode with Lance, Liz, & Dave (1hr51min51sec)

Saturday, January 09, 2010 3:30 AM

www.permanentrecordschicago.com

idolatry

Jan 30 2010, 11:43 AM

I keep meaning to, but always get distracted by wanting to listen to full-on albums. I have great trouble with podcasts...

spiritofeden

Jan 30 2010, 12:10 PM

Idolatry,

post some sweet links bro.

idolatry

Jan 30 2010, 12:53 PM

Dig this, bro. Seriously, though, I think that whatever I'm mentioning can be sampled really easily, before buying.

Also, I am trying to suffer through this podcast. The awkwardness is palpable even via tinny mp3.

spiritofeden

Jan 30 2010, 01:02 PM

yeah, I know how to use google. thought you might have some new suggestions.

idolatry

Jan 30 2010, 01:12 PM

Just giving you a hard time. I do have a suggestion or two. In the psych realm, though. No freaky hardcore, this time. Posting MySpaces, because I feel bad about sharing shit by bands that can only afford to press 30 copies of shit, you know?

Chicago's own Sadhu Sadhu. Awesome show, last week, at The Hideout. The live album is stellar, and makes great use of its murkiness.

Permanent pimped Carlton Melton, this week, and with good cause. The LP is fantastic, and their cover of Pink Floyd's "When You're In," streaming on the MySpace, is AWESOME. Dude has a live CD-R available for sale via (amongst other outlets, I hope) Aquarius. Can't speak to how good that is, as mine has yet to arrive, but whatever I've heard is good.

Not Not Fun also just put out a Topping Bottoms cassette (Tower of Spines), but the Japanese dude who runs the band has a handful of CDs still available called "Parts." It includes the tracks on Tower of Spines, as well as what he described to me as "2 more long acid jams. both of those jams are near about 15 minutes." Looking forward to the arrival of my copy. Dude's packaging is GORGEOUS (he also did the art and packaging for the new Blank Realm LP/CS combo, which I know a few people have heard and really enjoyed). The band has members in both California and Tokyo, and is dark, krauty, oppressively jammy stuff. Very dank. Check 'em out. Not a for-everybody recommendation, but definitely up my alley.

...Plus, the dude fucking replied to my e-mail in English, which was really thoughtful and probably a huge pain in his ass. Give a listen. Tower of Spines is floating around, thanks to the exposure now promised by a release on NNF.

Oh, yeah...here's his blog: http://create-vil.blogspot.com/

spiritofeden

Jan 30 2010, 01:29 PM

this live Sadhu stuff is pretty rough sounding. kinda digging the non live stuff though.

idolatry

Feb 22 2010, 03:01 PM

QUOTE (simakos @ Jan 30 2010, 05:36 AM)

so who else has played this all the way thru?

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Permanent Records Chicago | The P-Rex Podcast

The P-Rex Podcast #001 Pilot Episode with Lance, Liz, & Dave (1hr51min51sec)

Saturday, January 09, 2010 3:30 AM

www.permanentrecordschicago.com

Don't know if you or anybody else has listened, Simakos, but it's pretty much the stuff that they pimp, week to week, spread out over a few hours and with a healthy dose of semi-awkward white people making inside jokes and feeling self-conscious, because they know they're being recorded. Some KILLER tracks, though. I picked up the El Jesus de Magico "Klip Aught" single because of this podcast, and it's retroactively one of my favorite singles of '09. Amazing.

The second podcast is a bunch of songs from and related anecdotes pertaining to the label's releases. Worth a listen, if you don't already know you love/hate the stuff that Permanent releases. Some great stuff and some shit stuff, as far as I was concerned.

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Feb 22 2010, 03:21 PM

yeah, i heard the new one too... some of it is pretty tough to get thru, songs and dialogue.

idolatry

Feb 22 2010, 03:24 PM

Songs > "Banter"

I mean, come on.

Nice people, I swear. They're not like that, when I speak to them in person. But that doesn't mean the podcasts aren't bloated-to-fuck with...ugh. I don't know. The ambient noise filter helps, but doesn't fix anything. I didn't quite finish the new one, in all honesty. They don't have the deepest catalogue, and two hours is rough when there are only like 10 releases from which to pull songs.

idolatry

Feb 22 2010, 03:25 PM

Also, that cat is awesome. Seriously. I was just in there, a few days ago, and that damn thing nearly stole my heart for the 20th time by doing no more than laying on some Melvins CDs and being cute. I want to steal it.

idolatry

Feb 22 2010, 03:34 PM

Oh, and a new recommendation...

Mako Sica: Dual Horizon

This is a light recommendation, because I haven't spent the last two or three days thinking that this was going to be the best album ever. It's just strong, sort of spacey, ghostly, long-form, not-full-blown-psych improv-sounding stuff. I enjoy it without fawning, but am probably giving it a partial free pass, since it's coming out of Chicago. So I guess there's a catch. I feel a pronounced New Weird vibe, not unlike the more restrained, less insane shit in Raccoo-oo-oon's work.

Anyway, stream it here, bitches. Curious to hear what, if anything, people think.

pigfuck

Feb 22 2010, 04:44 PM

you really know how to make the hard sell

idolatry

Feb 22 2010, 04:47 PM

I play to tie-break, baby.

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Feb 22 2010, 10:43 PM

QUOTE (idolatry @ Feb 22 2010, 02:24 PM)

Songs > "Banter"

I mean, come on.

Nice people, I swear. They're not like that, when I speak to them in person. But that doesn't mean the podcasts aren't bloated-to-fuck with...ugh. I don't know. The ambient noise filter helps, but doesn't fix anything. I didn't quite finish the new one, in all honesty. They don't have the deepest catalogue, and two hours is rough when there are only like 10 releases from which to pull songs.

don't get me wrong, they are both sweethearts... i see them all the time.

idolatry

Feb 24 2010, 08:51 PM

No doubt a Permanent Records favorite-to-be, the new Nothing People LP is good. It's called Soft Crash, and it may as well be in this thread, I guess. The song "Marilyn's Grave" initially impressed me just because I've been listening to a shit-load of Misfits, lately, and the title made me feel warm inside. The song's just as good as I wanted it to be, though, which is a nice little bonus. You can listen to it on the MySpace page, and you really should. Seriously. Great track.

Just a solid, consistent record with a lot of songs I either enjoy or really, really enjoy. Hate to play the dreaded Consistency Card, but I think it's warranted. No dull/bad songs = good album. Fuzz, some synth, vaguely melancholy chord progressions, a pealing guitar, every now and again...I'm digging it, kids. A pretty clean sound, though, so if you're expected some flash-fried psych, disabuse yourself of that notion before giving 'er a go.

Backslash M Forwardslash

Feb 25 2010, 01:56 AM

I don't believe it's been mentioned, but the latest Witch album, Paralyzed is added a serious punk vibe to their prior stoner/psych sound. Hell of a fun album.

Not my link, but it's probably good.

Witch - Paralyzed
www.mediafire.com/?jm1o5nyrwmy

lostbikes

Feb 25 2010, 06:02 PM

Seeing that Deftones thread put me in the mood to listen to some heavy shit. And anytime I want the most unfuckwithable punk album from the last 20 years, I throw this on.

pigfuck

Feb 25 2010, 06:19 PM

don't really understand the last two posts being itt

lostbikes

Feb 26 2010, 02:16 AM

QUOTE (pigfuck @ Feb 25 2010, 06:19 PM)

don't really understand the last two posts being itt

You don't understand talking about a punk album in the "Psych, Garage and (Non-Emo) Punk Thread"?

spiritofeden

Feb 26 2010, 12:53 PM

QUOTE (lostbikes @ Feb 26 2010, 02:16 AM)

QUOTE (pigfuck @ Feb 25 2010, 06:19 PM)

don't really understand the last two posts being itt

You don't understand talking about a punk album in the "Psych, Garage and (Non-Emo) Punk Thread"?

was gonna say the same thing......

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Feb 26 2010, 03:13 PM

QUOTE (Backslash M Forwardslash @ Feb 25 2010, 12:56 AM)

I don't believe it's been mentioned, but the latest Witch album, Paralyzed is added a serious punk vibe to their prior stoner/psych sound. Hell of a fun album.

Not my link, but it's probably good.

Witch - Paralyzed
www.mediafire.com/?jm1o5nyrwmy

is this the band J Mascis plays drum for?

Backslash M Forwardslash

Feb 27 2010, 01:18 AM

QUOTE (simakos @ Feb 26 2010, 12:13 PM)

QUOTE (Backslash M Forwardslash @ Feb 25 2010, 12:56 AM)

I don't believe it's been mentioned, but the latest Witch album, Paralyzed is added a serious punk vibe to their prior stoner/psych sound. Hell of a fun album.

Not my link, but it's probably good.

Witch - Paralyzed
www.mediafire.com/?jm1o5nyrwmy

is this the band J Mascis plays drum for?

Indeed it is.

Dag Nasty

Mar 8 2010, 10:59 AM

I get that I'm a little late on this but better that than never: King Khan. I was tooling around the north side yesterday blaring Invisible Girl & it compelled me to zoom over to Laurie's Planet of Sound in Lincoln Square to see what else related they had in the bins. I slid What Is!? into the car's c.d. player a few moments later - holy cats, is this just great, celebratory, wondrous, electric racket.

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Mar 8 2010, 02:25 PM

"I Wanna Be A Girl"

idolatry

Mar 8 2010, 03:34 PM

Sonic Avenues: Sonic Avenues

I think that this is my favorite record of the first few months of the year. Identifiably Canadian power-pop-punk/-garage. Strong tunes. Catchy. Catchy with some catchiness to spare, actually. Energetic. Really, really, really consistent, which is always a plus for "these" records. Cannot get enough of it. Simple, really fun songs. I feel like some of the board's Reatard-boosters may really dig it. Been spinning it for a few weeks, now, and my enthusiasm has yet to wane. Dig them via MySpace, for an introduction, and trust me. Album's available for pretty damn cheap, too, which is always a plus.

I've read here and there that the band really brings it, live, but I can neither confirm nor deny such claims. Never seen them. All I know is that the album's pretty fucking good.

spiritofeden

Mar 8 2010, 03:38 PM

^^^^

good band.

just ordered the LP

Dag Nasty

Mar 8 2010, 05:56 PM

QUOTE (idolatry @ Mar 8 2010, 04:34 PM)

All I know is that the album's pretty fucking good.

Its been penciled onto my travelling Post-It note.

("penciled" - two "l"s or one?)

idolatry

Mar 16 2010, 11:51 AM

Can anybody tell me anything about this No Balls band? Dude(s) from Brainbombs. I assume there are one or two people here who are already all over this. Tell me what's what, if so. I've heard like two songs. Both awesome. But it seems like everything went immediately oop and that the band has zero web presence. Anybody?

idolatry

Mar 26 2010, 03:31 PM

Tonight, Chicago people:

Also, saw the Plastic Crimewave Sound Celestial Guitarkestra VI (along with local garage-psych dudes Vee Dee and French noise-punks Gunslingers), on Wednesday night. At the Bottle. Good times, even though the 25+ guitars kinda bled together and some cut-rate, possibly homeless George Clinton type was one of the five vocalists. Some out-there stuff, to be sure. People were wandering around dazed even without the aid of drugs, and the people who were on drugs weren't even able to wander around, anymore. Good times, to be sure.

spiritofeden

Mar 30 2010, 11:49 AM

another great band on the same label as the Sonic Avenues. GO CANADA!!

http://www.myspace.com/suppositories

idolatry

Mar 30 2010, 04:58 PM

A punk band, then, if the cover is any indication...?

spiritofeden

Mar 30 2010, 05:31 PM

yeah, dirty crusty old punk.

kind of have a Wire vibe to them. but filthy.

idolatry

Mar 30 2010, 05:43 PM

I cannot imagine a Canadian band churning out crust, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. If anything, it just speaks to my inability to acknowledge that anything other than power-pop/-ballads can come out of your country.

spiritofeden

Mar 30 2010, 05:46 PM

i wouldnt call it crust per say. its just dirty sounding.

idolatry

Apr 3 2010, 11:54 AM

Acid Mothers Temple really brought it, last night, at the Bottle. Anybody else get his/her face melted off? Jesus, what a show.

masterofsparks

Apr 5 2010, 02:38 PM

QUOTE (idolatry @ Apr 3 2010, 12:54 PM)

Acid Mothers Temple really brought it, last night, at the Bottle. Anybody else get his/her face melted off? Jesus, what a show.

I saw AMT once several years back and they totally blew. I'd heard (and have continued to hear) nothing but hosannas about their live show, so I guess it was an off night.
They got their asses handed to them by Subarachnoid Space that night.

idolatry

Apr 5 2010, 06:34 PM

New Subarachnoid album is pretty solid, for the record. Bitchin' cover, too.

idolatry

Apr 5 2010, 07:52 PM

P.S. The new Sun Araw double LP, On Patrol, is pretty good. Probably no need for four sides of music, in this case, but it's nevertheless very strong. Just a bit taken with itself, from time to time. As I'm always eager to point out, the cover is also pretty bad-ass:

Yes, it'd be a lot better without that annoying car graphic, but what are you going to do? It's on NNF. So it goes.

Good stuff, then. Better than the Sun Ark 7" by a fair stretch. Fears mostly allayed. Dubbier than in the past, for sure. Still, this isn't exactly a Keith Hudson album. More Pocahaunted than Magic Lantern, not at all heavy on whatever you call the glo-fi take on contempo heavy psych, and closer (but not too close) to Beach Head than Heavy Deeds (veers solidly into a by-now-traditional glo-fi sound, at times, and also fucks around with some hippie-hipster drones). Leisurely as hell, in comparison to the last LP. By my reckoning, anyway. Get it while it's hot, I guess. When this is on, it's really on; when it's off, it's merely good. As always, the last track is fantastic.

pigfuck

Apr 5 2010, 09:39 PM

otm all over the place. liked Heavy Deeds a lot better, but it'd be hard not too, frankly.

Pygmy

Apr 6 2010, 09:56 AM

Anyone here ever listen to Division of Laura Lee? Pretty decent band, Does Compute was an awesome album.

http://www.divisionoflauralee.com/

Ted Falconi

Apr 6 2010, 11:31 AM

QUOTE (idolatry @ Mar 26 2010, 03:31 PM)

some cut-rate, possibly homeless George Clinton type

This guy.
From the band ONO, who are somewhat legendary. I used to see their album around a bit, but never bought or heard it.

idolatry

Apr 6 2010, 12:00 PM

Secret History of Chicago Music = sold.

idolatry

Apr 10 2010, 03:26 PM

Don't think I've mentioned this, anywhere. Just wanted to let y'all know that this Radar Eyes self-titled cassette (on PlusTapes) that I bought on a whim, a few months ago, remains amazing. Side two, in particular, is fucking incendiary. The closer, "Long Road Home," is one of my favorite songs of the year, and really scratches me in many of the places I often itch. Killer stuff. Blown-out, free-wheeling, repetitive, casually fret-scorching (wtf?) shit.

Dig tunes on the MySpace, but know that the band doesn't seem to know exactly how it wants to sound or where it wants to go. This means that songs like "Long Road Home" and "South Side" (and even "Superman") sound like careful-yet-explosive psych scorchers, other songs, like "Prairie Puppies" or "Shakes" (the latter of which isn't on the cassette and pre-dates the tunes I know) sound poppier, streamlined, and sometimes even New Wave-y. It's a weird contrast, for sure. The stuff on this release bears a consistent sonic touch, though, so there's always that. Also, there's the added bonus of every song on the cassette being really good; it's just that the second side is SO good that it kind of decimates that which came before.

Anybody's interested but has trouble finding this and is known by me to be a hip cat, feel free to get at me. Or just buy it, you know? Most of it's streaming on the MySpace, and it only costs a few bones. I bought it after hearing just one song, and I'm hardly disappointed.

idolatry

Apr 18 2010, 09:34 PM

Birds of Maya are putting out a new 2xLP (three songs across four sides, for some reason) on TestosterTunes. Shipping/arriving now. In some cases, already arrived. It's called Ready to Howl. It looks like this:

Birds of Maya = Philly psych/kav?hiuw8 band that features/once featured/I have no idea-ed the Purling Hiss guy, whose name I can't be bothered to look around and check for spelling. Michael Pollizze, or something like that. Dude also, again, either was/is/or sometimes is in The Violators (of Kurt Vile & fame).

Anyway, quite some time back, now, Birds of Maya put out a pretty good debut LP called Vol. 1, on Holy Mountain. Not nearly as deep-fried as the Purling Hiss LP, but that's no knock; you can be pretty fucking fried and still not sound like that one. Shit wasn't exactly "Incense and Peppermints." It was, however, the good stuff. This new one is also the good stuff. Worth the price of admission? Well, that's obviously in the eye of the beholder. But I say it's definitely worth a listen. Recommended if you like the really blown-out stuff I talk about, would like to hear a less technically precise or just a grotesquely recorded interpretation of High Rise, or any ugly, long-form psych jaaaaaamz. Sonics are not exactly the most pristine you'll ever hear, on this thing, so bear that in mind.

I don't know. I like it, so I think you should listen to it. Strongly recommended. Somebody else do a write-up and help me feel like less of a pusher.

Allegedly playing Chicago on May 9. No venue, time, price, or other information has been communicated.

_______

Apr 28 2010, 12:16 AM

woah

Spoiler/NSFW: click to show/hide

spiritofeden

Apr 28 2010, 09:51 AM

woah....

undo

Apr 28 2010, 11:29 AM

Both my local record store and the Borders used to have every X album for sale, now they're impossible to find.

Really the only band I've wanted to listen to this month.

Sid Hartha

Apr 28 2010, 11:32 AM

QUOTE

Best of garagehangover.com
Vol.1: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BHFB7QZM
Vol.2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3Q8XKF5D
Vol.3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XCU5D870

Without even knowing the contents, I can safely recommend these.

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Apr 28 2010, 12:25 PM

QUOTE (Sid Hartha @ Apr 28 2010, 11:32 AM)

QUOTE

Best of garagehangover.com
Vol.1: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BHFB7QZM
Vol.2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3Q8XKF5D
Vol.3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XCU5D870

Without even knowing the contents, I can safely recommend these.

yeah, you turned me onto that blog... those are the ones i am grabbing first.