Kurt Vile in williamsburg tonight + The Balkans

FRIDAY, JULY 31
BEST WORST MOVIE
An acclaimed feature length documentary that takes us on an off-beat journey into the undisputed worst movie in cinematic history: Troll 2.
Venue: On the lawn of Automotive High School
Address: 50 Bedford Ave. @ North 13th St. (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
Directions: L to Bedford Ave. or G to Nassau Ave.
Rain: In the event of rain the show will be held indoors at the same location
8:00PM: Doors open
8:30PM: Sound Fix presents music by Kurt Vile
9:00PM: Films
10:30PM: Filmmaker Q & A
11:30PM-1:00AM: After-party: Open Bar at Matchless (557 Manhattan Ave. @ Driggs) Courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner
TICKETS: http://newyork.going.com/event-618911;Rooftop_Films_presents_Best_Worst_Movie#

Check it out....Kurt Vile and a documentary...hope the weather holds out.


I was also contacted by the Balkans, from Atlanta about a couple of shows they are playing this weekend: Puppestube (75 Ludlow) on the Lower East side of August 1st, and in Brooklyn at Little Field, August 2nd.
They have a bunch of singles on their myspace, hopefully I can pick a few up and give you a full report monday. The tracks I heard so far are great, especially 'F3'...looking forward to this.

Deathbomb + tik///tik split on Entropic Tarot records (deathbomb arc)

Ok, ...we're kind of back...kind of because the jet lag is still with me and there's a huge pile of singles on my coffee table, more packed away from miles of travel, and I can't deal with opening any of it. I can't even hope to get caught up, I don't know where to start.
This single caught my eye this morning though, so it's what I'm going with.

It looks like tik///tik is part of the insanity that has been developing on the west coast, I'd be real interested to read, or see some kind of noise east coast, west coast graph, map what-have-you to get a better sense of if there is some kind of geographic sound difference going on. Again I ask myself if that's even possible or relevant when it's all out there 24hrs a day, whatever you're into. I still believe what bands/sounds are immediately around you influence you in different ways. You could listen to everything on Not Not Fun, and try to imitate, but sharing the stage/scene with them informs the process in a different way and should lead you to your own conclusion about everything surrounding the music.

So this single is a split? with Naomi Elizabeth and tik///tik. Naomi seems like an art project turned band. I get the sense that's probably a persona she came up with for this pop electronic music, blondie, yaz, minimal synth. At it's best it's vaguely Magnetic Fields, but the videos are really trying hard to be dismissable, then there's the NSFW section of photos she wants $10/month for..... where is that line of playing something so ironic that you actually aren't anymore? Of trying to intelligently talk about something...ie cultural porn imagery, without becoming a part of it? Or are you just attracting that kind of attention and not having a dialogue about anything at all.

On to the far more interesting tik///tik...this is something that would impress even black dice. The amount of noise/glitching here is impressive, really testing my ears. If I have to turn down laptop speakers to where it's nearly inaudible because I'm scaring myself and the cats with undiscovered sound waves, then you have achieved something most bedrooms full of effects pedals can only dream about. Nice work guys. Truly testing patience and eardrums. Holy S asterisk asterisk T.

The description of a single being 'gone instantly', gets me every time. Why am I such a sucker? What's going on? Why didn't I know about these guys?

Entropic Tarot still has a paypal button for this as well, but it might not work, I haven't tried to click through...seems like they have some other things I'll have to look into as well....throw it on the virtual pile.

Either way deathbomb arc has some copies left, and here's what they have to say:

E///T-19 (on Entropic Tarot)
Long long overdue debut vinyl for THE tik///tik. Deathbomb and tik///tik have a long history that hopefully you have followed, but either way, now is the time to grab a part of history. Not noise. Not industrial. Not noiserock. Not glitchcore. Slightly pop vocal dreamboat. This will be gone instantly.

I'm working on that map/flowchart/mess now by the way for the forum section.

45 Lamp

I know it might seem like sacrilege, but really.... using 45's as home decor can't be wrong.

Zieak is on to something.

Amoeba - my west coast pilgrimage

Cue angels singing....I never have time enough to see any other section of Amoeba other than the 7" singles area....it's amazing. I keep thinking I'll move to San Francisco just to live near this store and figure out how to make money later.

If you have never been there, this is a small view of just the new arrivals section. To your lower left in the photo is the recent used singles rack and this pic doesn't continue on to the left where there is a wall of boxes and boxes of singles for .50.

Complete list to follow.


Don't fuck with Amoeba. I don't know exactly what stashing is...maybe jamming them in another section? But then how do they find them and pull all of them off the floor? What if you were coming right back?
They had everything....Ty Segall that was sold out everywhere else, Jeff Novak new stuff, you name it. Insane.
But please stop stashing, they will kick your ass.

Lucky dragons on Atelier Ciseaux records

New Lucky Dragons single on a new french label, Atelier Ciseaux...crazy, I've been seeing more and more of this guy everywhere. I get a kind of Ducktails aesthetic from Lucky Dragons, one man programming electronic insanity, complex sampling, heavy on the vibes, the pressing of this looks real nice.
Not sure if you can order direct from the label or you'll have to track it down from the usual places...

Fantastic Magic on What Delicate records

The third one down is the band Fantastic Magic, still available from What Delicate records.

I heard this involves Nathan from Wavves?

Confirm or deny...

I have it on my shelf and will review....shortly.

Blue Ribbon Glee Club on whister records

This isn't actually out yet, but here's the heads up anyway...Go ahead and listen to their myspace, a college glee club group performing punk hits....it's good for a laugh....Spanish Bombs is pretty good, and California Uber Alles is insanely annoying.
I love it though, it makes me happy they went this far and recorded a single and pressed it. Not quite yet for sale, I think I grabbed this description from scratch records, but I can't quite remember. There's a lot more to say about what this says about picking these particular songs to perform in this style, the novelty factor, what a fitting end this is for The Dead Kennedys, but Amoeba records in san francisco is calling....

The label Whistler records, says coming soon still, and I've been checking back for the past month.


Blue Ribbon Glee Club
A Cappella Uber Alles
PS, US "These locals tip the scales at around 30 members, culled from the lineups of other Chicago groups, but you can't blame that on the Polyphonic Sufjan mega-band trend-
they're a bona fide glee club. Their sound is so wobbly, so amateur & informal, that calling them a choir would be a bit grandiose, and they plunge into the songs they've chosen-
mostly punk & indie-rock standards. They ooh & aah & bomp-bomp-baah their way through Fugazi's "Waiting Room" & the Clash's "Spanish Bombs," bringing out the
songs' latent whimsy. Performances are entirely a cappella, save for some sparse drumming or tambourine shaking-they even sing the riffs & solos." CHICAGO READER
Whistler
45

Ducktails - Julian Lynch split on underwater peoples

This just in from underwater peoples...new split singles between Ducktails and Julian Lynch who fits alongside the tropical musings of Ducktails. Atmospheric lounge themed orchestration with oboe, or something woodwind...he's making an appearance at Market hotel on August 1st, so I'm going to go see this in person hopefully.
Definitely ordered from Underwater Peoples.

Coming Soon

--Track List--
A1: Ducktails - Parasailing
B1: Julian Lynch - Topi
B2: Julian Lynch - Garden 2

Including DVD with music videos created and directed by Richard Law.
Pre-Order - $7

Love of Diagrams - single release party

Just thought I'd mention this since I've been listening to this album nonstop since it came out, the latest on their myspace doesn't disappoint either, and I'm really looking forward to this album, haven't actually seen this for sale anywhere, it's going to be a hard one to track down:

there is a new song, from the forthcoming album
NOWHERE FOREVER up on our myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/LoveOfDiagrams

the track 'forever' will also feature on a limited edition 7", w. an outtake from the album session, 'with your instinct' on the flipside..Both tracks were recorded at Bear Creek in Seattle by Ryan Hadlock (Gossip, Blonde Rdehead, Steve Malkmus etc..)

7" launches:

July 3rd, Melbourne, The Tote (supports tbc)
July 10th, Sydney, Spectrum (supports tbc)


This 7" is a extra limited edition of only 150 and will be available at these shows and maybe a couple of record stores and via our myspace page..

the album is due out in August in Australia thru Unstable Ape/Remote Control Records with national and international tours to follow..

It might end up for sale here...(the remote control records blog)

Bikini kill on KRS

01 New Radio
02 Rebel Girl
03 Demirep

I mean who doesn't want to wax nostalgic with wax. Especially singles that are way to expensive. $4 for a time machine to the days of alternative radio, when the internet was text on a bbs, and nirvana videos were in heavy rotation, and we dubbed songs in a particular order on a cassette tape for cars and walkmans. I missed Bikini Kill, it's crazy Joan Jett produced this. I watched that terrible Germs movie and she produced their first album as well...een if she was ssleeping on the couch, it's still cool that she lent her name to that, and worked with these guys. This is history.

From KRS:

The First 7". 3 songs produced by Joan Jett.

Repressing of long out-of-print 7". In stores July 21. Available from KRS on July 7.

Comes with a Free Bikini Kill button while supplies last!

I heart mississippi records!

Portland is great, and mostly because of this record store/label ...

OH SEES, THEE / TY SEGALL Split! On Castleface

Aquarius says :
OH SEES, THEE / TY SEGALL "split" (Castle Face) 7" 5.98
Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall cover each other on this brand new smokin' seven inch. We really don't need to say anything more. Anyone who's been listening to the current wave of charged, blown out garage pop these days knows that these are two of the most potent forces in the game. Thee Oh Sees are coming off what we think may be one of the best records of the year, Help, and Ty Segall's debut was one of our favorites of '08. So rad to hear them tackle each other's songs. Thee Oh Sees do "The Drag" with a deep-in-the-void reverb filled flair that suits the song so well. Ty does "Maria Stacks" from The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In, a song which might just be Andee's favorite Oh Sees jam, not just cuz it's hooky and catchy, but it also immortalizes AQ pal and amazing artist/zine-maker Maria Forde. Ty finds a way to make the song a bit more lo-fi and fucked up sounding while still holding on to the great melody that makes the original stick like it does. Pretty much a no-brainer, best grab one of these while you can!

From Fusetron too:

*Artist: THEE OHSEES / TY SEGALL Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Castle Face Country: USA Price: $6.00 "A new single split between two of San Franciscos hottest acts. THEE OHSEES deliver a cover of TY SEGALLs "The Drag," followed by Segall, who offers his take on Thee Ohsees "Maria Stacks." Limited edition of 1,000 copies." - Castle Face.

They are really making my life easy this week. I think aquarius is on this coast! Yay!

Roman Soldiers on Captured Tracks

Today is easy...Blank Dogs and Gary War together and you have single of the year!

Duh.

The vocals are wobblier then ever, the synth hits reaches of despair a casio in hell couldn't hope for. Every effects pedal in the world was chained together for this bad boy. The endgame of all darkwave pop, and insanely interesting.

Go order it already...from Captured Tracks.

FERGUS & GERONIMO on woodsist

This just in from Fusetron:

Everyone loves the Wax Museums, I missed that 12", so this is going to worth picking up from Fuse.

Of course they are playing two dates in NY:

Jul 24 2009 8:00P	92YTRIBECA w/ Crystal Stilts, Little Claw, Magic Kids	Manhattan, New York
Jul 25 2009 8:00P	Market Hotel w/the Beets, Yellow Fever, Magic Kids	Brooklyn, New York

Shit.

Go find Woodsist....(it's not there as of 7/8/09), and bug them, if Fusetron is out.

*Artist: FERGUS & GERONIMO
Title: Harder Than Its Ever Been
Format: 7"
Label: Woodsist
Country: USA
Price: $5.50
"Fergus & Geronimo are Jason Kelly (of Wax Museums) and Andrew Savage (of Teenage Cool Kids) from Denton, TX, with a sound that is reminiscent of motown, proto-punk, hardcore and garage influences."

Silver shampoo on Whats your rupture records

A1. "Jethro Skull"
A2. "Contest"
B1. "Sonny Barger"
B2. "Dogs"

Nice mimi EP from What's Your Rupture. I like the sound quality they are getting here, not exactly garage, just low-fi from too many layers of sound. Crazy weirdo guitar, great choruses. They know how to record, it just must be some kind of new way. I like it, they have a sense of humor and like 60's biker imagery. It reminds me of the Jacuzzi Boys and Bundle of Fags.
Almost the whole thing is on their myspace, but the 7" is better of course.

What's your rupture says:
Silver Shampoo "Jethro Skull" 7"
Jethro Skull" is the debut EP from Texas party-rockers/mini-bike gang Silver Shampoo. The A-side consists of the title track "Jethro Skull" and "Contest". It's What's Your Rupture's estimation that many a silent night in neighborhoods across America will be interrupted by the drunken slurring of "Jeeettthhhhrrrooooooo Skkkkkkuuuulllll". The B-side includes "Sonny Barger" and "Dogs". These are both subliminally sublime garage pop gems. "Sonny Barger" is a concise little masterpiece of bass slides, twinkling piano and "B-B-B-B-Barger" chants. "Dogs" is a sure favorite with pet lovers and simple math practitioners alike.

Kurt Vile on Skulltones!

Saw this listed the other day on Volcanic Tongue:

Kurt Vile
Fall Demons
Skulltones SKT-010
7"
£6.99

Hand-numbered edition of 375 copies five-track EP from Vile, who channels the ghost forms of Roky Erickson, Skip Spence, Alan Vega and David Johansen across the space of a buncha minimal bedroom nuggets. A mix of home recordings and studio work with a final track recorded by Sore Eros in 2002.

I mention it because dull knife had it for a few hours, and haven't seen it anywhere else yet, they might be the only place to get it, which means that single is traveling some serious distance. I'm going to probably miss this one, and God dam I get mad just thinking about it. I'm surely listening to constant hitmaker right now and crying.

Skulltones says:

$5.50 ppd usa $8.50 ppd world

Trippin' the riffs between some catchy freedom rock and Fripptronics, Kurt is back with brand new songs on this single. Last year's CD on Gulcher was a year end favorite and his recent west coast tour showed that the riffbag runs deep. New record out later this year on Matador... looks like he's growing up fast.

Available from Volcanic Tongue, Revolver, Fusetron, Dull Knife, Armageddon Shop, and others soon.

400 copies, including 25 test presses for West Coast tour.

What?!!!

Just a brief note, because I will be on vacation, at times away from computers and definitely record players. At least until the end of July...not to fear, I will somehow keep up with posts of some kind, but let's face it, I'll miss a day here and there, or thy will be briefer than usual...in general the quality you expect from 7inches is most definitely going to suffer.

I just want to warn you.

It's not really a vacation....I'm off to examine the elusive 7" in the wild and try to live among them.
Oh yea...I also plan to visit Mississippi records, the actual storefront in Portland and buy everything they still have in print. If anyone knows of good record places to check out in the Northern CA, OR, WA area, please let me know....it rules my life. Throw it in the comments...appreciate it.

Other exciting things ahead I may or may not pull of in the next few weeks.... podcast with Summersteps records, Interview with Locrian, A Faulty Chromosome, and fingers crossed.... Jeff Novak.

Hopefully you won't even notice I'm gone while I outsource the following posts to children in China:

The Rebel on Disques Lexi

Number 003 in the Disques Lexi catalog is this EP from The Rebel, with more great sleeve art...this label is off with some quality releases right from the beginning, and definitely things I would not have come across otherwise.
There's a great interview here with The Rebel from Foxy digitalis about the 7" artwork and playing it at the wrong speed (which I did too, maybe inspired by the Mudboy single or maybe just because I also am an idiot), I like his take on being original: it's too easy, choosing a name as ungoogle-able like The Rebel, and literally drawing on an existing 45 sleeve to come up with their art, it's obvious. He's been trying to be original for years and look where it got him. Then I see he's got a new album coming out called 'The Incredible Hulk' and that worked out pretty well, so why not borrow that? An old nazi symbol? Sure, throw that in there.
With songs like 'Aiming low, getting high', it's a syrupy slow catchy, layers of differently affected vocals, different pitches, different lyrics. Slowed down bass...it's like this was played back at half speed...slow guitar meanderings...but then you're singing about getting high so Ben is really going all out for that weed demographic. That's an easy target.

Next up, The Pot is sound collage, backwards beat, kids playing, chanting, synth plodding, repeating....I thought for a minute this was a lock groove, but no, it just goes on and on towards the end.

Next target? Video games. The B-Side has some of the most terrifying glitch electronics that slowly become a casio / gameboy beat...and there's a brief pause before 'Riding in the sun', he's cornering the slowcore low-fi scene. It's a challenge to stick with it. This includes some kind of text being read about world war two, turns out it's from a text, 'The history of the Jews'...well Ben isn't leaving anyone out of his sights, that's for sure.

I think this one is only available so far from Disques Lexi direct.

Lexi003, The Rebel, 'Aiming Low EP' 7-inch
The Country Teasers frontman Ben Wallers (Scotland) is back! Four songs, 2 twisted pop gems, a very nice cover designed by The artist, surprising sleeve notes partly en français s’il vous plait. Aiming Low 7” promotes an album to come at the end of this year on Junior Aspirin.

Mudboy on Disques Lexi records

Lexi002, Mudboy, 'Music For Any Speed' 7-inch

New single in for review today from a new label Disques Lexi out of Belgium. Right away I'm always impressed by thought that goes into these art objects. Super thick picture disc mylar houses a fold out newsprint poster that Catherine from Disques Lexi took in her garden, it's duotone orange and black, and very creepy, a person in some kind of superimposed black cape sits on the end of a young girls hand...she doesn't seem too unhappy about it though, and there's a long history of kids creepily not being scared by things they should...like poltergeists. The last I heard from Mudboy was on DNT records, and I remember hearing something about this ambitious series of singles across a bunch of labels, so I'm assuming this is the latest in the scavenger hunt. Now the title right away has me hooked. Music for any speed. I think I have a personal problem with speed on the more experimental...if it's not there somewhere, then you can bet I'll listen for a while at the wrong speed. I want to know the artists intention. Mudboy solves that problem here right away. It's up to you. So now I can be right no matter what. The insert describes it:
How could these arrangements of sound, this organization of noise possibly matter if absorbed at a distance, which is high speed; or up close, microscopic and slowed down? Do I not hear the same thing? is not every moment passing through my skull? As such these two songs are one.
It's an interesting point, music is a time based medium, you can only spend as much time with it as the device allows, and here's where he takes amazing advantage with this format, how is this going to sound when meant for both speeds? The lowly collectible single is completely tied to hearing this work, it can't exist in another format...and I have a special place in my heart, and shelf for singles that take the uniqueness of the format into account.
I have to wonder too if after this piece was recorded some software was used to get an idea how it was going to sound, or he wrote in real time keeping that in mind, and part of the piece too was the unknown in slowing down or speeding it up? The A-Side 'Thaw' (now wait a second Mudboy, you can't put a running time after these track names!!!! You just said it's up to me! What if I put it on 78? It's not going to be 4 minutes 32 seconds!) has a definite Irish electronic feel. Or Scottish? I plead ignorance in my non indie rock music forms...it's electronic bagpipe sounding...all the notes at once, chords emerging as notes fall away. I can't get over at what speed was it recorded...it sounds fine at 45...a little quick maybe? It's a dream sequence in Bladerunner....or a renaissance faire on another planet. I'm hearing some distorted guitar underneath. At 33 it is weird to suddenly pick apart different sounds, this opening I didn't even catch the first time, but it easily works at this speed as well, it's not out obviously out of place. The organ sound is more pronounced in this version, this sort of airy pipe organ...that's new. Weird.
The B-Side 'Freeze' definitely sounds like it's picking up off of the end of the A-Side, that distorted guitar is fading out with the synth underneath, there's a darker melody working here and since freezing isn't a comfortable idea, I can see where this is headed. The guitar sounds get more and more deconstructed as the song goes on, weird gates and filters, turning it into a sawblade stutter. The onimous organ never leaves and the second half of this movement is just barely moving as it gets colder and colder and everything stops.

There is a download code for this release, but again, you'll have to use some kind of pitch bend to hear it both ways...or for that matter I guess any number of ways, it's always great to have this option, but it kind of defeats the purpose. 7"'s - 1, Digital files - 0.
Available from Disques Lexi's site or Mudboys own and DNT is supposed to have some, probably in their next update.

Another one coming tomorrow from the Disques, from The Rebel.....

97 shiki on hewhocorrupts inc records

This came in a few weeks ago from 97-Shiki...I just saw Locrian at Public Assembly and happened to mention it and it turns out they know these guys and forwarded them my address...crazy, more about their show later. This mini Ep at 33 1/3 is packaged in a giant matchbook style heavy cardboard sleeve screen printed with lyric insert and digital download card, which is a welcome addition to avoid the work of digitizing it for the old ipod...thanks guys.

I have to say with this impressive packaging I was expecting some kind of conceptual experimental electronics or field recording, leave it to 97-Shiki to not only give you barely a frame of reference for this musically but then to put real thought into the object of the 7" itself, coming up with something completely off the beaten path of black and white xerox. If they put this kind of thought and craft into the sleeve, it has to be a token of things to come once you put the needle down.

The A-Side starts out with Brother...this is angular rock,
With the track 'Massachusetts' it's driven by the bass, which lets the guitar just interrupt changing up melodies, muting harmonics and creating truly weird rhythms out of distorted guitar. This is reminding me of an energetic Gang of Four....a hardcore Gang of Four, the front authoritative vocals. All the parts are working so separately, I don't know how this is working. This was my favorite of the single. It has all the skill and innovation of something like At the Drive in with Fugazi style abstract lyrics, open to all kinds of interpretation, especially in 'Disassemble', I could almost hear them dong this... today.
For having such disparate parts, the hardcore vocal style, a little spurt of guitar melody (or in this case I'd say repeated experiment) in separate speaker channels, it's really clean sounding, all the pieces are separated and just heavy enough but restrained. The brief outbursts, like guitar tourettes that are channelled into interlocked intricacies. I can't find a rhythm to grasp on to, it's pounding, but they just aren't ever happy with anything typical long enough to let it sink in for a few verses. Hardly a chord is played....it's an impressive truly original guitar style. They are testing hypotheses about song construction...and it's all adding up to a new intellectual hardcore sound.

Go get this, it's Locrian and 7inches approved from hewhocorrupts inc.



Locrian, as I mentioned were in town last night at the public assembly. We had been emailing back and forth about when they might be in town to meet and do an interview. I was so glad I caught up with these guys as they passed through and got a chance to talk with them out on the street. An interview will be coming shortly, but I just had to post these bad ass pictures, thanks to their fog machine and candles. It was great to catch them on this varied show with a bunch of other stuff I would have never been exposed to. the curtains opened (nice touch) into a cloud, Locrian spent most of their time in the middle of. There was nothing overdramatic about it, it was adding to the weirdness of having every sense taken over completely. There wasn't any room left for your own thoughts, you just sort of stand in awe of the experience. They were deafening, their huge sound vibrating every inch of the place. One long piece of improvised sound. I was shocked to see the amount of analog gear they had piled up on a table next to Terence, an old taoe machine, a 4-track. I love to see this physical manipulation of these sound machines, who knows what's coming from where, how the sounds are piling up, but it's this complete experience of watching sound being willed into existence.


Just really quickly as well, Darian from Edible Onion records just emailed me about a cassette preorder for a new project from Roger of Br'er, I covered a little while back.

The debut EP of The New Heaven and the New Earth, which is the songwriting project of Roger Martinez, who is also in Br'er, is available for preorder. It comes out July 7th.
We're releasing it in a run of 100 cassettes that are encased in spraypainted butterboard, and each case features cut-out "stained glass" windows made with tin-foil, tape, and magic marker.

Just briefly gave this a listen and someone who can compose with a complete orchestra is mindblowing. It's songwriting on an entirely different level. I just have no experience having to think about 20 different elements working their way in and out working with background chorus...this guy is a serious genius. It deserves this kind of attention to packaging, and why at the end of the day it isn't so exciting to play another CD.
Call my mind completely blown again today.

Music, please stop taking over my life, I can't get anything done.

Tiger Bones and France has the Bomb on ShitSandwich records

It has been a while since the Sandwich has come out with one of their singles...I think the last one was Nanox, so I'm glad to see their still in the game here with this split from Tiger Bones. The track on this single isn't on the myspace but the track 'Folder' is heavy on the echo vocals...that crappy far away on a PA sound behind wobbly waving in and out rhythm guitar and what sounds like some kind of piano banging away. They have another track on their own site here.
France has the bomb came to me by way of the Hozac club...or maybe their 3 pack? I forget.... the green cover one....they all came together.
Open Wound is their track, which is on their myspace...lots more distortion echo vocals, lots of yelling really blowing it out. Their mix is harsher, treble up ...cymbals, higher melodies twanging...these two guitars are working in that separate but equal way. They ride between garage record it now and studio indie rock.

From an email from the ShitSandwich a few days ago:
Long Time No Shit
It's been a while since you've heard from us, luckily our newest release is a twofer. Side A features Chicago's own Tiger Bones (formerly known as Gay Baby [yes, really]) with low-budg, hazy and dazzling howls, not to be taken seriously. Side B's got France Has The Bomb, featuring members of pretty much every band that ever graced Minneapolis garages (well at least in the last few years...no Replacements, Husker Du or Prince). Dudes from Sweet Jap, White+Outs, Birthday Suits, Soviettes, the list goes on and on. Each band does their own twist on the lo-fi thing, from the dirgy, driving jam of Tiger Bones' "Walk Right" to the catchy, but brooding France Has the Bomb cut "Open Wound." 100 on white colored vinyl for mailorder only - LIMIT ONE PER CUSTOMER. You know the drill. Orders of two will be filled with one white, one black. Ok, awesome. Order it. Wheee.

Happy 4th of July! I'm going to see if fireworks and records mix.

Ty Segall on Goner records and Truepanther records

Ty Segall is a one man distorted blues punk machine. Initially with the Traditional Fools project, he's moved on to that great full length album Castle Face, and one single on Chocolate Covered records, now a simultaneous release by Goner and truepanther.
The Goner release Cents, is on his myspace. Even listening to this track, it's a huge body of similar work. You love anything he's done, this is no disappointment here. Fuzzed out guitars, distorted vocals with major sing a long melodies. It's always energetic, spazzy, cymbals crashing, awesomeness. One foot in the roots of blues, the other in west coast surf rock. This track is slowly plowing along with this steamroller bassline melody on guitar. His changes are key. like Jay and Jeff, Ty obviously has a natural ability to weave together perfect changes of pop punk. It's always catchy. Maybe that's why they tend to be under 2 minutes. You don't want to just repeat it, it's not their style. Innovate innovate innovate. This type of power punk just exists as a genetic ability....it's their super power.
What's the kryptonite?
CD's?
An Atlantic/Virgin/Epic records contract?

This one is from Goner

TY SEGALL "Cents" (Goner - 51 GONE) 7" $ 5.75 (07SEGALCent)
***"Cents" is a teaser single for TY SEGALL's upcoming Goner Records full-length, Lemons. The three-track 7-inch features exclusive versions not available elsewhere. "Ty Segall is a phenomenon in a bite-size package. He plays guitar and drums, and howls like a wolf in awe of the moon. His boyish good looks, sky-blue eyes, and fever shakes may make you swoon, but it's his lustrous croons and garage rock songs awash in boisterous distorted noise that will make you take notice." -SF Chronicle. Upcoming Lemons Full-Length to be released 7/14/2009.


Then I noticed this one from TruePanther records out of Brooklyn....how many labels are in Brooklyn, it's insane.
***You know, I just checked on this, the paypal button still works, but it does say sold out underneath...it's up to you. Definitely a label I'll be checking up on....and sooner.

New single from SF's one man band genius Ty Segall. Universal Momma co-written with his MOM Cherrie Segall. 86'd is a ripper. Limited to 500

Oh wait, one more,a split 12" with Black Time from Telephone explosion.
I think we have a new hardest working man in rock and roll.

William Burroughs on Sub Rosa via Fusetron

Was in boston this week hanging out with my friend Matt, working on stuff and driving back to catch Explosions in the sky.
I was all set to talk about a couple of Ty Segall singles and then looking at a fusetron email, saw this single from William Burroughs and just had to mention it.

First off, I can't find any info about this release anywhere, not from Sub Rosa, or any other UK singles distro's...tons of searches later and there's not a picture or description to be found. I'm still trying to decide if this actually is a 12"?
But if Fusetron says it has it, then I'm buying.

A long time ago I picked up a single of Burroughs and Gus Van Zandt called Millions of Images...which was crazy...I guess Gus is playing guitar and drum machines under some recorded spoken word Burroughs insanity...it's a document. I always wondered if Van Zandt did this after the fact or they actually got together...did Burroughs know about it? If so that's the only Burroughs 7"....until now.

I bring up Matt because we got into a long conversation driving back from Boston about the Beats and how much they influenced our college years. And I think it wasn't just us. It was the period of our lives when we should be reading that stuff...I mean I was amazed I never heard about any of these characters in high school. It was that combination of this underground scene and that reaction against the 50's let down...it was perfect.
I think I saw Naked Lunch on HBO, but I didn't get it. It just fit into our world view perfectly...we were moving away from home, writing on old typewriters with rolls of paper, taking roadtrips in shitty cars...being completely ridiculous. Documenting everything, who was going to be Neal Cassidy?
We met Allen ginsberg in Washington square park, he signed our copies of Howl. There was a Ginsberg doc at Film Forum...a show at the Whitney...it seemed like it was everywhere. Kerouac GAP kahki ad's.
Anyway, I wonder now if that was us discovering something on our own that then there happened to be a reintrest in this time period by coincidence or we were just into it thanks to these little signifiers. They just seemed cool, how could a couple of art school kids in the 90's connect with this? Does anyone still? Are there kids now as excited about that shit as I was? Completely blowing my tiny mind?

Anyway, these are outtakes from the LP that was released on Sub Rosa, or maybe just tracks off that full length, but I'm going to contact fusetron and pick up a copy and read On The Road again.

From Fusetron

*Artist: BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.
Title: Three Allusive Tracks From Break Through In Grey Room
Format: 7"
Label: Sub Rosa
Country: Belgium
Price: $14.00
"Three extracts from one of Sub Rosas absolute classics, William S. Burroughs Break Through In Grey Room (SR 008CD/LP), featuring extraordinary, cut-up voices recorded during the mid-60s in hotel rooms in New York, Paris, and London. Available in a very limited edition of 300 copies only, with labels designed by famous French artist, Stéphane Blanquet." -Sub Rosa

plus Fusetron has got copies of that Black Dice tour single I reviewed a little while back.