A limited edition 7" featuring “Belong” b/w “Phone Call”, two tracks from the 2009 Washed Out High Times EP. Offered only as a pre-order bonus with the 2011 Washed Out album, Within and Without. This is the first time these songs are available on vinyl.-- So whats it sound like? Chill wave.
"Guess this new WOODS EP is a more unconscious approach to the written song. A side is a 3-part tape collage/head scratcher called Days Gone By. B side features new easy breezy psych rock single, I Was Gone and the drugged out tribal child, Hang On. Its crunchy. Take with some honey slides"
This split 7” begins energetically, popping off with Xander Harris’ cut, “The Driver”. The pulsating, eruptive synths make this a perfectly danceable tune if you weren’t busy accelerating through a neon-outlined metropolis, wreaking gleeful havoc along the way. As the high-speed pursuit comes to a close, we are greeted to Dylan Ettinger’s more methodical, more insidious cadence of the flip-side “Tipoff”. There’s a surreal whirring and blur afoot on the synth-work which is reinforced by his ominous, otherworldly incantations.
Village Voice: What is "Crystal" about?Xray Eyeballs frontman O.J. San Felipe: "Crystal" started off as a song about these girls I knew who did too much crystal meth, but somehow it evolved into kind of a break-up song, unexpectedly. So now it's a crystal meth breakup song! Village Voice: What inspired it musically?
Xray Eyeballs frontman O.J. San Felipe: I was inspired by New York City in the late-night hours. Just ending up at random places with random people and situations and exposure to danger and shady things . . . I like going out dancing, and I wanted to make a song that DJs can throw on and make people dance at the immediate drop of the needle, or right when the bassline kicks in . . . kinda like when the Cure's "Just Like Heaven" comes on at a party and people freak out. Not to say we sound like the Cure or anything, but the way people lose it when that first bouncy drumbeat and bassline comes on, that's a hard thing to capture.
The Insaints were an American punk rock group from Modesto and later San Francisco, CA, fronted by controversial vocalist Marian Anderson from 1988-1994. She was noted for her powerful, sexually charged and provocative live performances which frequently included on-stage nudity and sex acts. The Insaints made Bay Area headlines when Anderson was arrested for lewd conduct after an infamous 1993 performance at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, CA. The charges were eventually dropped after a yearlong legal battle, but the band broke up in 1994. In 2001, Anderson died of a heroin overdose at the age of 33.A documentary about the Insaints and the life of vocalist Marian Anderson, entitled Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love, and Death of a Punk Goddess directed by Lilly Scourtis Ayers and narrated by Henry Rollins, was released in February 2011. It features interviews with Insaints guitarist Daniel DeLeon, and Bay Area musicians Tim Armstrong of Rancid, Dexter Holland of The Offspring, Texas Terri Laird, and other assorted Gilman Street veterans as well as photos and footage of the band in action.Before their breakup in 1994, The Insaints had only one official release; Diesel Queens vs. Insaints, a split, double 7-inch EP with The Diesel Queens from San Jose, CA, released by Maximum RocknRoll in 1993.
Fuck yeah, Food Not Bombs rules! From the ages of 19 - 21 I worked inside of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Silo's around the Minot, North Dakota area while enlisted in the Air Force. The amount of money and resources I saw wasted on nuclear defense system's & military personnel, not doing anything worth-while at all, was utterly staggering and unbelievable. I wholeheartedly believe that food should be a human right and not a privilege.
Stockholm, Sweden quartet, straightforward 80s hardcore--blistering drums, frantic riffing, and hoarse, shouted vocals--and flesh them out with creative song structures and unique atmospheric touches.
Compilation 7'', very 90's sounding. My favorite track being the Couch one even though there are no lyrics recorded. Apparently, the band ran out of money to pay the studio before being able to record them on.
