Formed in 1985 in Hertford, UK. Initially a 4 piece comprising Paul Rixon on guitar and vocal, Bill on guitar, Stuart on bass, Mark Flunder from the Television Personalities on stand up drums.
Mecca Normal is an influential two-piece indie rock band from Vancouver, Canada. Formed by Jean Smith and David Lester in 1984, Mecca Normal is considered one of the archetypal, pioneering leaders of the riot grrrl movement. Smith writes lyrics and sings in a style that is often confrontational and laced with feminist themes; Lester’s melodic yet dissonant guitar swirls and loops around her vocals. Merging the personal with the political in their songs and art-related activism, they helped define the sound and spirit of the early diy / indie rock / riot grrrl movement alongside bands such as Beat Happening and Bikini Kill.
Mocket, an Olympia, Washington-based punk band, was comprised of Audrey Marrs, Matt Steinke, and eventually Carolyn Rue (one-time member of Hole). The band debuted with the Pearl Drop 7” on Up Records in 1995
This is a particularly chilling vinyl debut. Nerve City's music is always atmospheric and often depressing, but "Bars" descends to a harrowing new depth. Drawn out at a deliberate pace, the layers of reverb and menacingly slow pick slides spin a cavernous, hopeless tale of woe. It's haunting—I wouldn't want to play this on a bad day. "Over It", on the flipside, may offer some relief. It is a stellar garage stomper, recorded in the same cave as "Bars" but up tempo and with lively hooks.
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet was a Canadian instrumental rock band with a strong surf influence, formed in 1984. The band members were: Don Pyle on drums, Brian Connelly on guitar, and Reid Diamond on bass, who died in 2001. They released a string of EPs and singles throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, achieving some success, but remain perhaps best-known for the track “Having an Average Weekend”, which was used as the theme song to The Kids in the Hall.
Silver Daggers is some fucked up saxophone, and distortion, they are really fighting to get together, and it's pretty nice when it does. I think they have some kind of affiliation with Load records of course. Impressive stuff. Indescribable.
Shearing Pinx is 2 guitars, drums and some noise, I am into silver daggers sax, but I think I am more excited about these noises.This stuff demands your attention, it is not background music.
“Alexander Graham Bell” is frantic and tense from the get-go, with an emergency-warning bassline ushering in a quick and powerful post-punk ride, somewhere between Wire’s early demos and the Popular Shapes full-length. More bands should opt for this sort of locomotive drumming, but then again, you’ve got to have some level of chops to pull it off, which Teenage Nightwar certainly do. “Letdown” is less frantic, maybe think Wire circa Chairs Missing, which anyone with ears will enjoy. Both songs are over in a flash, leaving me with a taste for more. Very nice indeed.
The Black Heart Procession (occasionally spelled The Blackheart Procession) is an indie rock band from San Diego, California. The band was formed in 1997 by Pall Jenkins (member of Three Mile Pilot, Mr. Tube And The Flying Objects and the short-lived Ugly Casanova) and Tobias Nathaniel (also of Three Mile Pilot). Again, not really my cup of tea. Sounds similar to Danielson to me (which I prefer).
The one fellow attended the high school I went to for my senior year and I really enjoyed his band then, Struggle. The other fellow I met at my house, he and my house mate's band went on tour together through Europe back then.
Coming from Sydney and formed in 1984, The Cannanes were an indie pop band associated with K Records and several Flying Nun acts. Today they enjoy a cult like following, described by some as ‘the world’s most indie band’ because- despite never having a manager, agent, or signing a formal record deal- they have toured the world and produced a sizable discography. Kurt Cobain notably listed them as a band he liked in his journals.
This is the 3RD EP from Richmond's trashiest garage punkers. 1 song on the A side, 2 on the flip. Between the 2 EP's they recorded in 2009 this one was the catchier of the 2 7''es as the 'Hole Sailor' record (on No Way) opted for a more bash and crash faster punk sound like the Dwarves going head to head w faster Angry Samoans where this record focused more on the band making more rousing catchy punk tunes like those bands too but focus on the 'catchy' part. Still in the vein of the tunes the band had already done to date so its not like the band is going pop exactly, which they most certainly aren't its just got this Dictators, Dead Boys sort of catchy vibe to it, also comparable to the Brutal Knights.
Garage punk band from Idaho that would morph into The Real Pills.
Alabama ghost country music featuring Jamie Barrier, who is also the front man for well traveled punk band The Wednesday. Personally, I am not a fan of this style of music at all. Grabbed these two 7 inches out of the dollar bin just to check out as the silk screened covers & graphics intrigued me.
Alabama ghost country music featuring Jamie Barrier, who is also the front man for well traveled punk band The Wednesday.
The Youths were young, bored and from Lisbon, a dead city for punk rock.
Tit Wrench were a experimental noise unit from grew out of the ashes of Neighborhood Watch in the late 1980s and spent several years making electronic punk songs, putting out records, playing shows, etc.
An American indie rock band from Arlington, Virginia, formed by housemates Jenny Toomey and Kristin Thomson in late 1990 to play at New Year’s party. They enlisted former housemate John Pamer to play drums and Andrew Webster from Jenny’s previous band GEEK to complete the line up.Following their inception, Tsunami split their time between touring, recording various 7” singles and devoting time to Toomey & Thomson’s Simple Machines record label- from which Tsunami would release the majority of their own music.This record came out on an Australian label. All copies were on red vinyl. Both tracks were later included on the World Tour and Other Destinations CD.
Welcome back to the dated sound of the 90's.Tracklist
A1 Circus Lupus - New Cop Car
A2 Jack O Nuts - Gearjammer
B1 Crain - Blistering
B2 Derelict Hotel - Nailhead
A single sided 7 inch on an Italian label with a band from Germany, Spain and Portland. Spider Babies being the standout track due to the snotty vocals but all decent tracks in a little over six minutes.Tracklist
A1 Jet Bumpers - Sonic Reducer
A2 Pleasure Fuckers - What Love Is
A3 Spider Babies - Ain't Nothing To Do
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.
