Homostupids - (2008) Cat Music 7''

Full disclosure: Homostupids are my favorite rock band in the world as of the printing of this. Both live and on record. This 'Cat Music' EP could be their best vinyl since 'The Glow', and that's some real talk from a dude like me. "Beneath the Blackman" is perhaps their most majestic piece since "Mr. Payback", nearly beautiful in it's ear-clinging deliciousness. "Elves Children's Choir" will rampage through your living room like an army of small children off their adderrall and hopped up on Reese's Pieces. And don't get me started on the B-Side of "Fang Vs. Keyman"...a fucking anthem to nothing if there ever was one. Riveting, and it's backended by a small horn ensemble covering "Sixths". Sheer fucking genius. Someone give these guys the Nobel fucking prize already. Whereas Clockcleaner have apparently succumbed to the pressures of playing Skull Music, Homostupids seem to be getting stronger from it. This record is making me sick...sick of other bands.

Homostupids - (2010) Night Deacon 7''

Here we have six brand new tracks from the best band in America.  The songs featured here are better than all previous recordings, side B kicks off with a 'stupids' traditional re-recorded by a mandolin quartet.  This wonderful record is a must have for morons worldwide.

FNU Ronnies - (2008) Meat 7''

Fantastic debut single from this Philly band released via Richie Penetrator's Richie Records/ Testostertunes imprint. Reminds me of what a better recorded Homostupids offering could sound like on "Meat" (not that this is a high fidelity job in the slightest either), mating garage-punk and hardcore for one of the tastier songs I've heard since the New Year. Wicked solo and a real bouncy and tight rhythm with nasty vox. "Normal Citizen" is deconstructed cyborg-punk like shit, with dual vocals from one dude with a fresh tracheotomy and the other in retardo-warble style, heavy and electronic, and "Ugly" keeps the same vibe, remiscent of a less irritating latter-day Functional Blackouts-like moment. Drum sound mixes the real shit with some machine beats and there's plenty of static and echo to go around. "Robot" is drone-dirge tomfoolery with stream-of-consciousness rambling. Really like this one a lot, visceral thrills backed up with some offbeat tricks and an overall sense of mechanical menace while still sounding pretty loose. Want more. Great insert too.

Gibbous - (2015) Mortal Crust 7''

Genius boy Gib from many stl bands you love playing warped space punk all by himself. Brilliant. Hand stamped covers. Lumpy Records #35

The Warden - (2015) ST 7''

'Not too far off from what a 3rd Sweet Tooth 7" would have sounded like. The beefy kings of hardcore in St Louis.' - LUMPY RECORDS

Blank Dogs - (2007) Yellow Mice Sleep 7''

Blank Dogs, the project of New York's prolific Mike Sniper, indulged in a sloppy, lo-fi version of Joy Division.
Spankin new 45 by our mysterious friend, and it's even better than the 12. "Yellow Mice Sleep" betrays its creator's fond feelings towards My Bloody Valentine and Jesus and Mary Chain with its dreamy melody and thick, soupy guitar-bed. "Housefly" quivers and disturbs, while "Smashed Up People" is Mr. Blank Dog's best song yet, stuffing a catchy chorus into what sounds like a demo version of a Chairs Missing cut.

Silk Flowers - (2008) ST 7''

Forging a hallucinatory blend of synths and deep, slurred vocals that sound like Ian Curtis on cough syrup.

Silk Flowers - (2009) In This Place And Time 7''

New York City gives us a gift all wrapped up and delivered in 4-track filth called Silk Flowers. Featuring members of some of the great weirdo bands of the past like SOILED MATTRESS AND THE SPRINGS and EMERGENCY, this new musical enterprise sounds nothing like either. Somewhere between KRAFTWERK, “cough/cool” era MISFITS, and JOY DIVISION through a broken boom box while sweeping floors at the art museum, you will find this great and deliberately confusing 7” single. An Amalgam of samples, keyboards, drum machine, live drums, pedals and tape hiss finds our present is unveiled and it is as skuzzy and bright as it gets in New York

Puce Mary - (2013) Ultimate Hypocrisy CS

Puce Mary, whose sound has late 70s Industrial’s sexual preoccupation with a vein of dark purple malaise running straight to the tip. Degradation, submission, loss of self, and cathartic release all make an appearance from the cover of Ultimate Hypocrisy to the supplicating female voice that warbles “I was willing to do what he said.” Perverse curiosity forces you to lean in while high-pitched whines drag you backward; this music has you on a leash and it’s taking you where it wants. It does what it pleases. It’s not a kink thing, it’s not a Noise thing; it’s the dark pool seeping under the door in our heads we think we’ve locked up so tight.

Internazionale - (2015) Brothers Of The Baltic Pearl CS

Tuneful ambient. Melodious industrial. Janushoved. Posh Isolation. Copenhagen, Denmark.

William Martyr 17 - (1995) Celebration Of Love 7''

William Martyr 17 were an extremely short-lived band based out of Little Rock, Ar. with the founder of File 13 records on vocals. While not as legendary as Chino Horde, or as brutal as Benchmark, they were the younger band on the scene with their own feelings to display. Sadly before they could really find themselves as a band, their drummer, Chris Horne died in a fatal car wreck. Instead of carrying on the torch, the band dissolved half turning up in the Soophie Nun Squad, the others in Hundred Years War.

Mukilteo Fairies & Las Mordidas - (1994) Split 7''

The Mukilteo Fairies was a brilliant band name that only a Washington local would get. It's a pun off of Mukilteo Ferry, the ferry from a town North of Seattle to Whidbey Island. The band came out of Olympia in 1993 and broke up only a year later. They played hardcore with queer oriented lyrics (often dubbed Queercore or Homocore in that era). They played lots of fast and furious songs and had a huge following during their somewhat short existence. While they played what was essentially grindcore, because of their location and connections, they ended up having most of their releases come out on indie pop labels that didn't exactly know how to market them. Mukilteo Fairies live shows were crazy, singer Josh Plague (Joshua Plogue) would constantly jump out in the audience and audience members would sing along in his microphone.

Battalion Of Saints - (1997) Muscle Of Love 7''

Fast, quick, and brutal -- that was the Battalion of Saints way, perhaps all the more necessary considering the band's fairly conservative surroundings in San Diego. Collecting the original Fighting Boys EP and Second Coming album from the early '80s, plus a number of other random tracks from compilations and singles.

Short Lived - (1990) Victory Garden 7''

David Talley, Dennis Bee, Geoff Kelly, Ray Kamb and Sam Kelly were Short Lived. Punk, kinda poppy.