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Total Fest Viii
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TOTAL FEST VIII 3-DAY PASS
Total Fest VIII, August 20-22, 2009, Badlander/Palace Lounge/Big Dipper, Missoula, Montana. The eigth Total Fest is shaping up to be yet another blast! Bands announced thus far include: The Underground Railroad to Candyland (San Pedro, CA), Psychedelic Horseshit (Columbus, OH), The Bugs (Portland, OR), Attitude Problem (Oakland, CA), Valsalva Maneuver (Kalispell, MT), Poor School (Missoula, MT/Portland, OR), Lamborghiniz (Seattle, WA), Helms Alee (Seattle, WA), Vile Blue Shades (Salt Lake City, UT), Glassell Park 3 (Portland, OR), Leaders (ex-Fireballs of Freedom, Portland, OR), Wildildlife (Seattle, WA), and the Pine Hill Haints (Huntsville, AL). More bands are announced every week at http://totalfest.org
Total Fest is a three day independent music festival that includes close to 50 bands and performers, barbecues, outdoor recreation, a record swap, and friendly folk aplenty. We'll see you in Missoula this August!
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Japanther
Tut Tut, Now Shake Ya Butt
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JAPANTHER TUT TUT, SHAKE YA BUTT LP
Japanther's always been a band of contrasts. They exist halfway in the world of performance art, and halfway in DIY punk. They get called to compose and perform soundtracks to puppet rock operas and then do a tour comprising largely house shows. They curate video/dance/music performances for major New York museums, and then release music only DIY/independent labels.
Keeping that tradition of contrast alive the lads have teamed up with (Crass co-founder) Penny Rimbaud and released a record of punk songs and poetry. On the surface, that may sound like an odd combination, but this thing is a cohesive and truly a wild romp 'round Africa, the Bronx, San Pedro and Brooklyn, complete with faeries, bicycles and a few cans of spray paint. Japanther's infectious, free spirited trash hasn't let up a teeny bit, it's just gotten more focused and rad somehow. Rimbaud's churning, clever, degenerate cadence is an oddly fitting balance for Japanther's two-minute blasts.
These songs are consistent with the level of songwriting on their epic last Skuffed Up My Huffy LP. Tut Tut, Now Shake Ya Butt was recorded in late 2007 (at Zero Mass in Brooklyn), as the (band-curated/organized) Dinosaur Death Dance performance ran for three (sold out) nights at New York's PS122. On a special note, this record features a sleeper cover of Portland's New Bad Things' "The Dirge"!
RIYL: Screamers, Ramones, Beach Boys, garage sales, Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure
NOTES: NEW RELEASE DATE: 10/21/2008, VINYL COMES WITH DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. STREET DATE: 10/28/2008
ACCEPTING PRE-ORDERS IMMEDIATELY. FIRST 50 MAILORDERS WILL RECEIVE BLUE VINYL COPIES OF THE RECORD. SEE HERE.
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Miss Lana Rebel
All I Need
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MISS LANA REBEL ALL I NEED
Limited, hand-numbered Run of 208, silk screened, artist-signed originals. Comes with song book with lyrics and music.
Real-deal American country music has its roots in the anti-government encampments of born-disaffected Scots Irish settlers in Appalachian America. Those dark hills and hollers are where folks immigrated in order to get away, to not participate in the sorts of activities that most folks thought they should as part of civilization. Specifically, to keep clear of the “revenuers” and others who wanted to get at their wallets in the name of a federal government. When these folks picked up instruments the stories and poems of loss, freedom, often death and once in a while hope began to flow like corn whiskey from an earthenware jug. In that way, I daresay real country’s more punk than punk. As the East grew increasingly crowded, we heard this music coming from places further west, like Texas, Arizona, and California. Lana Rebel continues in that authentic tradition of Spartan, Appalachian/Western country, without the political endorsements (real county’s as apolitical as you can get), dumb hooks or the need to participate in a genre fronted by a qualifying adjective (“new”, “alt” or otherwise). Get ready to have some stories told to you. All I Need will get tears in your Coors, a lump in your throat, and a pain in your chest.
October 14, 2008 release date.
RIYL: Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline
VINYL VERSION COMES WITH A CD OF THE RECORD
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Red Fang
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RED FANG S/T LP
Red Fang features four of western (and some former south easterners) America's premier heavy rock and roll players in a band that's part Big Business plow, part Blue Cheer abandon, part SST blowout, and several parts colossal metallic Portland thunder. With exes ranging from Last of the Juanitas to Trumans Water, you sort of start to get a sense of what's going with these dudes. Heavy, but smart. Weird heavy, maybe. Here's what the Onion had to say: "In place of symmetry and precision, Red Fang smears roughhewn, ragged riffs that place the band much more in the camp of Big Business (or even The Sword minus the hobbit shtick). Out behind a new five-song tour EP, the band sports members from all over the place, including Last of the Juanitas, Facedowninshit, and even the legendary San Diego noise collective Trumans Water."
This LP features both of their first CD-only (until now) EPs and one unreleased bonus track. OCTOBER 14, 2008 RELEASE DATE
RIYL: Big Business, Last of the Juanitas, Melvins, Blue Cheer, Black Flag
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Vile Blue Shades
John Thursday California Adventure
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VILE BLUE SHADES JOHN THURSDAY CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE LP
First Pressing of 250.
From deep in the heart of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young's failed state of "Deseret" come the vile brothers and sister of Vile Blue Shades. Sort of like a loaded, swaggering outsider dance group, or maybe more accurately a 12-member collective with two drummers, two or three other percussionists, a keyboardist, 3 or 4 guitarists, a bassist, a dancer and a bespectacled, hulking, three-quarters talking, one-quarter singing front person.
Utah's Mormon, mountain isolation occasionally kicks out some of the wildest underground stuff going (see. Le Force, Red Bennies, Fuck the Informer, Agape, Wolfs, etc.) and Vile Blue Shades bring their unique type of bizarre, compelling music to a gape-jawed West. Reference points abound: VBS are a little bit Gibby Haynes, part James Chance, part Andy Gill, part lots of things, but as far as new bands go they are an unusual, visceral, sleazy spectacle. Read about VBS in September 2008's Salt Lake Under Ground (SLUG) magazine. "John Thursday California Adventure" is the band's self-described "sex record" and it features a range of vivid, pornographic lyrics whose inspiration came in large part from Henry Miller's "Under the Roofs of Paris" work. Jud (Le Force) Powell engineered this and it's the best recorded output they've done yet. This record captures the deliberate half-step calculated off-time echo of the band and has a weird and enveloping vibe. October 14, 2008 release date.
COMES WITH A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OF THE LP.
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Ass-end Offend
Character Assassins
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ASS-END OFFEND CHARACTER ASSASSINS LP/CD
Ass-End
Offend played music that most often gets conveniently tagged with the
"hardcore" handle. Fair enough, I guess. Husker Du and
Gauze were hardcore. And, similarly, the
music AEO plays
is a well honed machete quickly hacking it's way through a jungle of
indie rock mediocrity! Ass-End
Offend produce entirely
ambitious Montana punk rock music and do so with aplomb and
gusto.
While less than pleased with mankind's current state, they
aren't cynics. Rather, these ambitious dudes toured like madmen,
made it to Europe and then unfortunately broke up. I think they sound
most like some the
stuff that Ken Sanderson puts out on his awesome Prank label, or on Life is Abuse. Heavy, dark, alternately
dystopian and hopeful and more
musically ambitious than its peers. Compare to Caustic Christ and His
Hero is Gone, and add a couple truckloads of Evergreen/Great Falls, Montana desolation.
AEO UPDATE: If you dug Ass-End Offend, then do yourself a favor and
inspect SQUALORA (with Matt, Tom and Dan from AEO).
http://poisonedcandy.com/squalora
RIYL: Totalitar, Talk is Poison, His Hero Is Gone
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Ass-end Offend
Unchecked Aggression
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ASS-END OFFEND UNCHECKED AGRESSION 7"
AEO lay out some of the crustiest, raging-est, power-violence-est,
politically aware-est DIY hardcore this side of Tragedy. And where lots
of your anarcho-punk groups tend to spew just as much dogma as your
standard televangelist, AEO topically aren't reductive or simplistic. Unchecked Aggression
was recorded early in 2005 by sound alchemist Mike Lastra at Smegma
studios in Portland, Oregon. The EP is by Wantage USA's humble
estimation, their most focused and dead-on slamming recording to date.
Unchecked Aggression features five songs and clocks in at about 7
minutes. Comes with silk screened, two-color covers.
*SECOND PRESSING
RIYL: Caustic Christ, His Hero Is Gone.
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Bacon And Egg
...Are Fanduvo
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BACON AND EGG ..ARE FANDUVO CD (Wantage/Motron)
Bacon
and Egg is a hip-hop metal journey through the wastelands of New
Jersey's and Washington's stripmall towns, BMX paths, and video game
parlours. It's a lifestyle record,
if you will, plum full of
self-references, rhymin', stealin' and tight lead work. Bacon, Egg and
their partner Biscuit are all members of Missoula stalwart wavers
Volumen. Bacon and Egg, aren't just a project. This is very much a
living,
breathing, rocking band with it's own life. "...Are Fanduvo" was
recorded down in San Francisco by their pal Tim Green and the thing is
sonically amazing. Perhaps this might be best enjoyed while staring at
some
kind of Spencer Gifts-purchased lazer show from the middle of a water
bed.
RIYL: Beastie Boys, Judas Priest, Ween
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Big Business
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BIG BUSINESS TOUR CD EP
Add the whistling scene from Bridge On the River Kwai
to a close-range hand grenade fight and, then listen to this CD on
repeat for two days straight. Jared Warren (from Karp, the Whip and Tight
Bros) and Coady Willis (from Murder City Devils) are hard rock practitioners
with vitaes to back it up. This takes up the torch, straps that torch
to the back of a grizzly, and then gets the grizzly angry, then saddles that grizzly and rides it up the front
of a steep, snowy mountain. Four utterly blazing tunes. For what
it's worth, it makes my brother think of what a Karp practice in your basement (from the
floor above) would sound like. Here's their website:http://bigbigbusiness.com |
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Big Business
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BIG BUSINESS HEAD FOR THE SHALLOW LP
A colossal, cudgeling record that's been a long time coming and fills a
real pronounced need for heavy, loud music. Jared Warren (Karp, Tight
Bros., the Whip) and Coady Willis (Murder City Devils, Dead Low Tide,
Broadcast Oblivion) are the two members of the Biz. Head For the Shallow
also features Dave (Scared of
Chaka, the Shins) Hernandez, who plays guitar on a couple of songs. Big
Business have cultivated their "fast and low" deal to the point where
it's a thoroughly metallic affair. And that's the point. Where a lot of
folks took quite a long time to get next to what Karp did, a lot of the
reviews have come back sort of missing what makes this record a crucial
part of the heavy rock canon: it's the screaming, the heft of bass and
drumming and the synchronicity these two dudes have as a unit. If that's
not you're bag, then
by all means, keep your distance. Wantage USA is proud to get you the
vinyl, the CD's on Hydrahead.
RIYL: Motorhead, Karp
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Drunk Horse
Bambi/Dirty Mind 7
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(w. purple vinyl, silkscreened covers) The cream of our
year-of-living-dangerously crop. 2 sweet-ass Prince tunes beautifully
rendered by Oakland, California's own mighty masters of reality. Tim
Green made sure they're loud, clear and otherwise a pleasure to have
next to your ears. People from Japanther to Bryan Ramirez have told me
how much this record has ruled their respective listening
experiences.
Drunk Horse just got itself back from three and a
half weeks across Europe (with Belgian rockers the Feather) and
apparently took the continent by storm. I can only imagine what it
would be like to see as powerful a live rock band as the Horse in a place like rural Slovenia! |
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Drunk Horse
In Tongues
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DRUNK HORSE IN TONGUES LP
It's
been a long time coming, but Drunk Horse keep galloping, faster and
with greater ability and more depth of content. Damn this is a
profoundly bitching record, and I'd say that if there was no Wantage
hand on it whatsoever. If Billy Gibbons and Phil Lynott had cousins in
Oakland, they'd probably hang out with Drunk Horse. In Tongues
is the newest/latest from the mighty 'Horse, and it's a highly
satisfying record. These feature beautiful, hand silkscreened covers
done by Kim and Matt in Brooklyn.
RIYL: John McLaughlin/Mahavishnu Orchestra, ZZ Top, Allman Bros.
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Early Humans
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EARLY HUMANS S/T CD EP
The band that asked the world: "Are you fucking kidding?" We searched hard for a reference point and finally decided on the convenient, if only somewhat apt, Gravity band tag. Early Humans had your rock acrobatics, your screaming, feedback, 7/8 time signatures and thuggish rythym section. Regardless of how it was characterized, Early Humans did one helluva job whipping around their spastic rock and roll. Lyrically it's been compared to Born Against. Musically it's more ambitious, loud and compelling than anything has been in the 2000's. John Peel played tracks, as did WFMU and other enlightened stations. I saw them at Jay's Upstairs with Japanther, in Charlottesville, VA with El Guapo and at their final show, a house show, with Last of the Juanitas. Friends drove from Cleveland and New York for the last show! All were totally sweaty and memorable rock and roll experiences punctuated by Wells' Bonham-inspired pounding, Kevin's spidery-assed bass playing, and Matt's unfriendly axe-attack. Fans can check out Nick's Planaria records for their noisy Blackeye's split 7", the Swedish 7" and Planaria compilation. Also featured on: Hits Omnibus CD.
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Early Humans/stars Of The Dogon
EARLY HUMANS/STARS OF THE DOGON 7
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(w.
silkscreened covers) A blasting two band outing that Wantage USA was
happy to get it's hands onto. Early Humans song comes from the Jonathan
Kreinik (Trans Am sound) sessions that can be found on Planaria's new
7" Blackeyes split, and the Early Humans Swedish single. Stars of the
Dogon brought Baltimore to the world, the world loudly said "yes."
Split singles can fly or flail, and this one frankly flew, fellow. |
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Federation X
Theme For A Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman
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FEDERATION X THEME FOR A NUDE DISINTEGRATING PARACHUTIST WOMAN 7"
Albini-engineered/Golden-mastered song, Dewar silk screened
sleeves, and thick vinyl round out the second, third and fourth reasons
you ought to have this single on your deck. Reason 1: It's Federation
X, guy! If you've found more satisfying rock and roll this decade, then
let me know. Here, Fed X cover Wales' Budgie with astonishing
effect, and It's the most spacious and beautiful rock and roll record
of 2003! These Bellingham/Brooklyn dudes are back in action this
Summer, so look for them at Total Fest, and points east. Word has it
they plan play a set on ... well, talk to them about their plans. |
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Federation X
Rally Day
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FEDERATION X RALLY DAY LP
The sounds Federation X (Bellingham, WA/Brooklyn, NY) makes are
unmistakably American, with deep roots in the dirt-rock, power violence
and country music tradition of its native semi-rural Washington state.
Fed X's powerful, purty ruckus shares more than a little of its DNA
with plow-core pioneers Karp, a youthful staple for members Ben and
Beau X. They also tip hats to songwriters like Bob Dylan and Steve
Earle and guitarists like Doug Martsch and Tony Iommi. The result is a
uniquely coherent approach to heavy, western punk rock..
Instrumentally, Federation X feature two
four-string guitars fuzzy-pumpered through Sunn amplifiers (Bill and
Ben) and a powerful and animated drummer (Beau). That classic
solid-state plow of the Sunn amplifier--a cheap, loud behemoth that
defined the Karp and Unwound sounds--undergirds Federation X's sound
like a rusty iron truss. The Federation X train is rolling, and it's
time for the world to lay on the tracks and enjoy the unique sights,
smells and sounds.
RIYL: KARP, ZZ Top, Unwound
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Fire Witch
JAPAN EP
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Like a pair of lumbering, tusky woolly mammoths wandering the glacial plains and moraines of an pleistocene world, the basses of Fire Witch spin epic adventure soundtracks with an Oz flair for vocabularizing instrumental music, without needless singing/screaming. Meanwhile, locked-in step with the basses, drums announce an elemental backdrop of rain, thunder and tectonic shift.
Put on a Fire Witch record and you can hear the sounds of Pangea: spring runoff, feel the sense the chaos, smell the spring pollen. Patto, Jem and Tommy are also members of Fangs Of.., Elise and Jem, Goat Witch, Inappropriate Tough Guy Behavior and a ton of other bands we know only from pictures and discs. Doesn't matter, we like all of 'em. Fire Witch are from the Melbourne scene that's hatched some of our favorite recent bands (Grey Daturas, Eddy Current Suppression Ring) and we are stoked to offer these to north Americans for the first time, domestically speaking. The first pressing of just 355 comes with hand-screen printed, numbered and signed covers, hand-stamped labels and "Australian Mud" colored vinyl.
Until February 9, 2009 only available via the Wantage List.
RIYL: Laddio Bolocko, Grey Daturas, Hammerhead (Minneapolis), etc.
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Fireballs Of Freedom
SNOW KING 7
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THE FIREBALLS OF FREEDOM SNOW KING 7"
The
debut Fireballs single, recorded at Wedgewood in Seattle by Jim
Collier in 1996, we think. This single captures these transplanted Fargonians at their
sweatiest, garagiest, and trashiest. Hell, it's surprising these things
don't smell like stale Old Milwaukee and cigarettes! Features three songs, all
of which totally rip, but in a way sort of dissimilar to how the 'Balls
get it done these days. Limited, limited, limited! RIYL: The MC5, Run Westy Run, Big Boys.
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Fireballs Of Freedom
Greasy Retrospective
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FIREBALLS OF FREEDOM GREASY RETROSPECTIVE CD
The "Greasy Retrospective" collects many of these Portland/Fargo/Missoula bros' middle-nineties works, including the
legendary Jim Collier sessions that resulted in the Snow King 7", their
debut, as well as the Conrad Uno/Egg stuff, that came next. It's been expertly
remastered by the good folks at Golden, includes Andy Smetanka's Out Of My Head video and some hilarious band picks, copious liner notes detailing the Fireballs phenomenon.
The Fireballs of Freedom toured extensively through the late 90's and
early 00s, got themselves to Europe once and even opened for the
Stooges at a huge Basque festival. Punk rock rarely has the Fireballs'
ability to use psychadelia, and their music is an over the top,
memorable experience, steeped in excess, joy and fun. Word is that
Kelly, Sammy, Paul and Grady are busy in recording new songs.
The Balls' website has some of their new songs.
RIYL: MC5, Big Boys, Blues Explosion
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Fireballs Of Freedom
Exorcism In The Key Of You
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THE FIREBALLLS OF FREEDOM EXORCISM IN THE KEY OF U 7"
This
seven-inch single, recorded in late 2002 at Austin Texas's Sweatbox
Studio, is a testament to the will and fury that the Fireballs unleashed on a
nightly basis. This thing represents at least seven inches of powerhouse scuzz-funk. This
single, put to tape by Poison 13's Tim Kerr, features Austin musical
icon Patches on the Rhodes keyboard. That set-up prefigured their
current one guitarist, one keyboardist, one bassist, one drummer
line-up. It screams like a scalded howler monkey. The music the FOF
make has changed substantially over the years, but it's always kept
guts, presence and humor at its core.
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Humpy/fireballs Of Freedom
Gardent City Blackout Invitational
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HUMPY/FIREBALLS OF FREEDOM GARDEN CITY BLACKOUT INVITATIONAL 7"
A crushing circa 99 blast of inner-mountain hardcore punk rock done in a way
that only Montanans (and, err.. transplanted North Dakotans,
Minnesotans, and Texans) could. It's rugged and raw, it's got a
silk-screened cover, and features Humpy's sound at its most viscous and
tough and the 'Balls as they started to hone their scuzz-rock down to
sharp point. This single came out just before the Fireballs moved to
Portland, and a couple years before Humpy called it quits for good. Oh
yeah, and It's a split with Missoula 90's community punk label, Pink
House.This single's one of my personal favorites from the Catatlog, if
only because it features the lyric: "Don't give a fuck about what Jerry did, Don't give a fuck about what Ian thinks, Just let me get another free drink."
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Inner Muscle #8/disgruntled Nation 7
ZINE/7
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INNER MUSCLE #8/DISGRUNTLED NATION "COMBO-PACK" zine/7"
5+ years old, this came out in the Summer of 2000 and was a downright fun project. To make it all happen Disgruntled
Dave Parsons hit me with a proposition: his bands, Disgruntled Nation
and Sasshole, were going on tour and it would be great news to have a
local zine along. It had been about 3 and a half years since an issue
of Inner Muscle, the zine we used to do, had come out. So, I
got right to work cranking some reviews, stories and rounding up the
usual crop of contributors to fill an issue. Disgruntled Nation were a
great Flathead/Missoula band with more than a few well-worn copies of
Poison Idea's Pick Your King EP in their collection. The zine
has an interview with (Swedes) Henry Fiats Open Sore, a story about
Latvian Apartment Leftovers, an E. Europe travel journal, reviews,
a piece by Yale "Star" Kaul and a bunch of other shit I forget. |
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Japanther
Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty
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JAPANTHER DON'T TRUST ANYONE OVER THIRTY LP
*SECOND PRESSING ON NUMBERED OPAQUE PINK-ORANGE VINYL: NOW AVAILABLE*
Japanther are the Brooklyn DIY punk duo, formed as a senior project while the two participants were completing art school. While they often refer to themselves as "more of an art project than a band" Japanther gets points for making some of the most hummable and inspiring music of any art project in recent memory. Part Screamers unpredictable live intensity, part Misfits gut-simple anthemery, part RZA deft samples/beats and part Providence artblast/freakshow, Japanther defies easy categorization.
In 2005 Japanther was invited by part of (minimal/conceptual artist) Dan Graham's and Tony Oursler's Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty performance. Japanther composed and performed new songs, revamped existing ones, and used their sampling/found sound skills to fill in the gaps for the soundtrack of this ambitious puppet-play.
This is the vinyl version, which features 14 total Japanther songs and audio clips from the play.
First Pressing of 500: Sold Out
Second Pressing of 300+ on Opaque Pink Hand-Numbered Vinyl: Available |
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Last Of The Juanitas
The Jay
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LAST OF THE JUANITAS THE JAY 7"
(w.
silkscreened covers) The Wantage USA debut single with Portland's most
cacophonous and technical, jazz-metalists. The A side features a new
recording of an original called The Jay,
which one could somehow compare to the brutal stomp that Nirvana had
happening on their Bleach LP. The B side features a brilliant and
weird Sun Ra cover. Wantage always dug the fact that the Juanitas
were not only down with Sun Ra, but interested enough to
record a cover of his Blues On Planet Mars. Last
of the Juanitas music has always been kind of difficult to
discribe, but, at minimum the stuff is ambitiously technical,
cathartic, dystopian and completely inspiring in a way that few bands
can be. They took the best parts of Black Flag and Drive like Jehu and
added a ton of their own jazz. RIYL: Nirvana, Black Flag, Drive Like Jehu
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Last Of The Juanitas
Time's Up 12
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LAST OF THE JUANITAS TIME'S UP 12"/CD
(white
vinyl, 45 rpm, silk screened covers) Last of the Juanitas are Wantage
USA's millennial favorite band. We witnessed the Juanitas' paranoiac
thwap more times than anything else (excluding Volumen) in 2002. They
make music to jog through the rubble of destroyed cities to. Chops,
licks, guts, power? Call it what you will, but it's here in spades,
friend. Disc jocks from John Peel on the BBC to Niki Payton at KBGA
have played tracks on their radio shows, as have many of North
America's more enlightened stations.
See also Red Fang, Miss Lana Rebel, Juanita and the Family and Party Time, and the Hits Omnibus comp.
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Last Of The Juanitas
In The Dirt
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LAST OF THE JUANITAS IN THE DIRT CD
Ten tracks of new Juanitas' material. Ahh, and what material it is.
This is their most accurate and powerful sonic capture to date. Hessian aural
warlord Mike Lastra of Smegma studios in Portland cranked nobs, and
this is a start-to-finish gem that you'll play over and over for
yourself. Metal, jazz time and raw powerful energy to spare, not to mention some of the bar-none most excellent, "free-loose, but sync'd up and tight". This is the
soundtrack to your life, Wantage person. Unfortunately we forgot to
list David Sullivan, the second guitar player on this record, anywhere
on the cover art. David's contributions add 4th and 5th dimensions to
the Juanitas' already complex deal. Hats off to you, former Shiny Beast
guitar player David Sullivan!
RIYL: Shiny Beast, Captain Beefheart, Melvins, Ruins, Black Flag, John Coltrane.
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Le Force
Le Fortress
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Like a chrome
plated predatory turbo falcon, scanning the horizon for prey, and
good times, Le Force is a band on the move. The group is a compact
three piece, (two guitars, drums, occasional vocals) with an incredible
ability to write music. Their songs are very inspired by the NWOBHM,
and those middle-nineties American groups that helped America, and the
world, to refamiliarize ourselves with that amazing stuff, and
all of its technical glory. To wit, Tim Green (Nation of Ulysses,
Lice, Fucking Champs) engineered the recording. This CD comes enhanced,
so you can check out a high quality video, and some other extras.
Expect tours soon, and enough material recorded to warrant a double
album in 2008.
RIYL: Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Fucking Champs.
Le Force's website is here.
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Mountain High
The Wicked Wanderer
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MOUNTAIN HIGH WICKED WANDERER LP
Halfway in the hazy, intense fog between Amon Duul II and the Pink Fairies occurs Philly, PA's
Mountain High. Their twin-drummered, frenetic punk is the greatest
thing to come out of the City of Brotherly Love since the Framers
partied down there. This marks the first full real-deal (9 songs,
including an awesome psych-jam odyssey) LP by this outfit in their four+
year existence.
Mountain High recorded this record themselves (at their "Stewd" Studio) and the craft and care invested shows at every turn.
NOTES:
-Hand numbered, limited edition green vinyl on first 100 orders.
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No-fi Soul Rebellion
Lambs To The Slaughter
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NO-FI SOUL REBELLION LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER CD
Dagg
if this No-Fi stuff doesn't deserve it's own special little page in
history of rock and roll and hip hop. It really is the bizarre intersection
of those two things, and where often times that sort of deal is just
awful, No-Fi Soul Rebellion is a refreshingly energized, fun and
empassioned outfit. Part Beck, part Karp, and well, mostly its own
deal. This thing has it
all: melody, dance parts, slow parts, fast parts, metal, pop. And it's
not some unfocused collage either. Nope, it's Heimerian genius. 5
songs. RIYL: I Hate You When You're Pregnant, Prince
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No-fi Soul Rebellion / Volumen
Lady Cop/Ch*rch
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VOLUMEN/NO-FI SOUL REBELLION LADY COP/CHURCH 7"
NO-FI
SOUL REBELLION: World, go head and get ready for the man/wife duo
that's more than ready to commence the fun-having and hand clapping
stomp-dance! No-Fi Soul Rebellion, like their name implies are an
outfit on the move. W?ntage isn't quite sure what the No-Fi Soul
Rebellion platform is all about, but we assume it has to do with things
like being natural, enjoying yourself completely, being original and
shaking your back-end, like you weren't gonna get another chance to...
later on. The music is live/original funk-karaoke, and it probably
wouldn't offend any member of this outfit. And what action!
Achtung!
VOLUMEN: New-Wave from the Treasure State. Starting points aren't
always easy for the fellow tasked with summarizing Volumen, but as far
as a totally succinct description, Dave Crider once said that Volumen play
"heavy new wave," and that's about right. Sort of Squeeze-y, sort of XTC-y, but also kind of heavy. How many bands can you name who've played Zabadaks in Kuldiga, Latvia?
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No-fi Soul Rebellion/mountain High
Split 12
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Sonic double-drummin' marauders Mountain High take No-Fi Soul Rebellion up to the peak
of K2 and a stoney dance contest ensues, (local)Yeti wins it and everybody
celebrates by sledding to base camp on the back of the Abominable Snowman.
The Bellingham-Philadelphia power-soul stomp axis
has never sounded this white hot. Damned right. Treat yourself, this
thing is limited, and it'll stomp its way right into your heart.
Split
release with Philadelphia's Hot Dog City label.
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Oxes
Oxes 10
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OXES A.O.R. 10"
Once
just a surly trio of wireless Charm City dodge-ballers, now Oxes have
toured with Wire and are back from a couple trips to
Europe. They know about the good life. Chris even played drums for
Will "Prince" Oldham for a while. This is Oxes' controversial parody
record. Limited, limited, limited! Totally O.O.P. dude.
You can see there sweet live version of Thus Spake Zarathustra done at SXSW in 2006 here, and order their records from the good people at Monitor.
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Red Fang
Tour CD
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RED FANG TOUR CD EP
Red Fang are half of
Last of the Juanitas (as well as ex-Shiny Beast, Facedowninshit,
Lachrymator, Regraped, Party Time, Bad Wizard, Trumans Water, All Night, etc.
... you get the idea) members, and their sound is loud like the
continental shelf cleaving off into the Pacific. It's got all the heft
of a say, a Melvins, but then
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