WALNUT KIDS - Debut 7" (Going GaGa Rec.)
Europe exclusive distributed by P.Trash Records!!!
GGR007 , This band hits all the right notes for any fans of budget punk! Basement punk! Super catchy four piece band from Montreal. Grows colourful in a garden with bands like STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, the BLACK LIPS, SUPERCHARGER, the BOYS. Features ex members of little known former Montreal basement punk cool kids the JET FIVE. limited to 500 copies!
http://www.myspace.com/thewalnutkids
V/A OTTAWA GAGA Compilation LP (Going GaGa Rec.)Europe exclusive distributed by P.Trash Records!!!
From the city which has brought you bands like the BUREAUCRATS, the BARRACUDAS, the RED SQUARES, RESIN SCRAPER, the M$M, and the SICK FITS comes the modern basement punk revival. GOING GAGA managed to get 15 bands of Ottawa party animals into one room to record 15 unforgettable hits! These tracks are exclusive to this record! Featuring bands like the M$M, SEDATIVES, the MOTHER'S CHILDREN, the WHITE WIRES, the HOLY COBRAS, the BEACH BLANKETS, the FELINES, and more!!! limited to 500 copies
JOLIETTES - Same 7" (Going GaGa Rec.)
Europe exclusive distributed by P.Trash Records!!!
GGR008 , Great girl band from Sudbury with Rob STAUES on drums, their first release. more info soon...
http://www.myspace.com/thejoliettes
SONIC AVENUES - Same LP (Going GaGa Rec.)Europe exclusive distributed by P.Trash Records!!!
GGR009 , Sometimes all you want is a fun, familiar sound to soundtrack your day. Take SONIC AVENUES, for example; it's not like the Montreal four-piece are the first group to mix the BUZZCOCKS in with a dash of the JAM, but they're certainly one of the best! Their self-titled debut sounds as much like a compilation of early UK punk singles as it does the work of one group. "I Want You to Know," with its excellent keyboard accompaniment, and the fantastic "Bleed Me Dry" are instant standouts. But the group have worked hard to give each song its own personality within the somewhat limiting confines of the band's sound. Yes, the lo-fi production, buzz-saw guitars and drums that sound like cardboard boxes hearken back to the EXPLODING HEARTS, another band to borrow heavily from the SHELLEY/WELLER songbooks. But fun, not originality, is the name of the game here, and SONIC AVENUES have it in spades.--Nightlife Magazine
http://www.myspace.com/sonicavenues
TEENAGER - Give Me Pink LP (Telephone Explosion Rec.)Europe exclusive distributed by P.Trash Records!!!
Toronto garage-punks TEENAGER take a detour straight through the swamp on their debut LP "Give Me Pink." 12 songs about booze, garbage and poverty. Imagine a bunch of old miners drinking moonshine in a hunting shack and you're close. 500 copy limited-run on 12" vinyl and killer album artwork done by Jeremy Jansen & Niall McClelland. "If one were to put their finger on TEENAGER…they would get it back covered in something that smells like shit but taste good "…. --Jeff Clarke (DEMON'S CLAWS)
Our pals from Telephone Explosion put a free sampler up on their site to celebrate their two year anniversary!
The sampler contains 10 tracks, one from each of our 2009 releases.
Here's a link to the sampler
Telephone Explosion - 2nd Year Anniversary /// Track List:
1. Ty Segall - "Swag" //// Taken from: Ty Segall / Black Time - Split LP - TER014
2. Le Kid & Les Marinellis - "T'est Pas D'ici" //// Taken from: Le Kid & Les Marinellis - 45 - TER016
3. Demon's Claws - "How The West Was Won" //// Taken from: "Lost in the Desert" LP - TER010
4. Charlie & The Moonhearts - "Tequila" //// Taken from: Charlie & The Moonhearts / Teenanger - Split LP - TER013
5. Gardens - "As Big As You As Me" //// Taken from: "Sweet People" - Cassette - TER011
6. Hell Shovel - "Already Gone" //// Taken from: Hell Shovel - 45 - TER015
7. Teenanger "Brain Hiccup" //// Take from: Charlie & The Moonhearts / Teenanger - Split LP - TER013
8. Actual Water "Junk" //// Taken from "Leon" - Cassette - TER012
9. Black Time "Contract" //// Taken from: Ty Segall / Black Time - Split LP - TER014
10. Holy Cobras "UFO Alien" //// Taken from: Upcoming Holy Cobras - 45 - TER018
MODERN ACTION – Radioactive Boy 7" (Modern Action Rec.)US-version of the upcoming P.Trash 7" MODERN ACTION are back! Last year the bands debut 7" blew the minds of the masses into orbit. Now the mutants have emerged from hiding to bring you two more nut splattering songs.
BODIES, THE – Angel On The Nine 7" (Modern Action Rec.)US-version of the upcoming P.Trash 7". After 9 years and many false promises (outright lies) about new releases, THE BODIES are finally back with 2 new tunes. They have not broken any new ground with these new songs nor have they progressed in their musical abilities nor expanded into any new territory – and that’s the good news. Both songs are poured from the same mold as all their other songs that you are surely sick of from the last decade...As the saying goes, if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it!!!
CREEPS / FEAR OF LIPSTICK Split - 7" (Scared To Death Rec.)Europe exclusive distributed by P.Trash Records!!!
Yeah, brand new Ottawa label created by Skottie Lobotomy. He is the head honcho of the CREEPS and has also appeared on albums from VISITORS & SEDATIVES. And Ian Manhire (WHITE WIRES, SEDATIVES) is putting the new VISITORS 12" out on GOING GAGA! Rec. soon!!!
Two of Canada's best punk rock bands going right now, Ottawas power pop-punkers The CREEPS and FEAR OF LIPSTICK from Moncton Canada also satisfy with a great Pop-Punk / Powerpop sound. Both team up for this amazing split 7". One original and one cover of the other's band. Limited to 500 all on black wax.
http://www.myspace.com/capitalcitycreeps
http://www.myspace.com/fearoflipstick1234
BAVARIA BOOTSKIOSK - Comeback Des Jahres 7" (Shit Attack Rec.)
http://www.myspace.com/bavariabootskiosk more info soon...
TYVEK - Skyin LP (Exbxtapes Rec.)Ten songs by TYVEK recorded in late 2004 on four-track at their home in beautiful Detroit, Michigan. Early versions of some songs, other songs exclusive to this release. Pressed in an edition of 500 copies, in recycled LP sleeves with full color 11"x17" paste-on art.
CABALLO TRÍPODE - Horror Vacui LP (Tick Tack Totally / Holy Cobra Society Rec.)Since the number of songs included (eight) the way they are produced can not be said that the trio of Gandia (Valencia) have sinned supefluos accumulation or fruit elements of caprice. By contrast, his eclectic lo-fi rock, reminiscent garageras and unbiased, demonstrates a point between Derribos Arias ( "Bom Pack" might be the current corresponding "gills under water"), the cosmic surf ( "Surf the tsunami) and the freest conception of TELEVISION PERSONALITIES pop or BLACK LIPS. Great!!! "Horror vacui" is used in art criticism to describe the filling, with any design or image, the empty space in a play. Unlike their improbable pictorial models, the first album of unclassifiable Horse Tripod, emerged from the ashes of Le Jonathan Reilly, released in Spain and the United States and mastered by Bob Weston (SHELLAC), contains no filler whatsoever.
GRABBA GRABBA TAPE / MARGARITA - Split LP (Holy Cobra Society Rec.)more info soon...
WHITE SAVAGE / TRES DELICIAS 7" (Holy Cobra Society Rec.)WHITE SAVAGE is seasoned: All but one of these heathens have been or are in bands you should know if you don’t already. Jered Gummere’s from the PONYS, Jim McCann is from BASEBALL FURIES and TYRADES, Colin Smith from SCREAMING YELLO ZONKERS, Greg Sharp’s from CHIN UP CHIN UP, and Ryan Weinstein was in the RETURNABLES and ZZZZ. And then there’s Bob Johnson, the saxophone player who works the door at the Empty Bottle and had to kick out a heckler at the very first show he played with the band. WHITE SAVAGE is a mystery: Sometime masks are worn and the six members are no longer their affable, (mostly) Midwestern selves. They are primal savages who will surf on their guitars, swing from ceiling fans, burn themselves on lights, lie on the floor, walk out the door, scream, sweat and convulse. WHITE SAVAGE was born in Chicago, sprung from the good time hang outs of three drinking buddies who all happen to have the spirit of savages running through them. The band rose from the ashes of one dissolved band through friendship and brought in members who needed “funship”: an escape from the parts of the world that bring you down, a place to hug it out when trifling bitches, shitty jobs, and cold cities try to keep the spirit down. WHITE SAVAGE isn’t just a band that goes ape-shit, knocks your head back and smacks you into realizing the wonder of the world, hangs from the rafters and drills holes into the floor. It’s a way of life and it feels all right.
TRES DELICIAS is the best trio Spain had for years...It´s the new definition for Irrational...as that time you listened GORIES, like first time "Soul Food" sounded in your pick-up. 1 minute it´ll take to say that they are some kinda of KBD. Another one wil say that they sounded to the most primitive GUN CLUB. Nor fucking idea. Or yes?. And as a good food is nothing without a good wine...if they play less than 650 km of your house, better go round to see them and look how with a pair of guitars,a box and goliath the modernloved "She cracked " can be twisted ...
IRRITONES / ROUGH KIDS Split - 7" (Crapoulet Rec.)Limd. green sparkled vinyl! New french killer band with Sonic Polo from HOLY CURSE on guitar, Olivier from HATEPINKS and Miguel and Rudy from AGGRAVATION, they will release their 1st LP on P.Trash March 2010!!
ROUGH KIDS are their friends, met in the last HATEPINKS US tour, they are cool, somes don't have mustachs und tralalas.
BILL BONDSMEN - Disaster Prone b/w 36th 7" (Local Cross Rec.)
This the Bill Bondsmen's 7th release, but their first proper SINGLE. Everything they have done has been a step above what came before it, and this continues the trend. The single format really puts their songwriting ability on display in a way it never has been before. They have taken their tough-as-Detroit midwest hardcore roots (see the countless NEGATIVE APPROACH and DIE KREUZEN comparisons in reviews of past releases) and blown them up. This is bigger, meaner, and better than any early 80's clone bands or too hip jerk off noise nerds.
A/V MURDER - Tourettes b/w Fight Like a Man 7" (Local Cross Rec.)The second release from this Chicago supergroup Post-punk/KBD fusion, featuring Jimmy Hollywood of BASEBALL FURIES and TYRADES, Bill Roe from COCOCOMA, and two other mystery men (women?). Angular punk that moves both horizontally and vertically. "Tourettes" is the seizure-inducing burner and "Fight Like A Man" is the weird and dark turn that throws No Wave bleat and boom into that garbage can. Tightly wound tunes that tick-tick-tick and then explode in perfect time. Short and sharp. Buy or die!!! --MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL/TERMINAL-BOREDOM.COM
WHITE LOAD - Same 7" (Leather Bar Records)Ian`s (Local Cross Records boss) own band! Simple, noisy, violent, hard punk music from Providence, RI. WHITE LOAD take the warped guitar stylings of bands like SEX VID and HOMOSTUPIDS / 9 SHOCKS and apply it to a more manic template... think GANG GREEN circa This Is Boston, Not LA. You can hear samples and order their record at myspace.com/leatherbarrecords.
ANGEL FACE / 1984 2x7" Pack (Born Bad Rec.)
1977 punk rock at its best! 2 legendary Paris bands, 4 unreleased songs, 2 records, 2 sleeves! Those 2 bands had the same singer Henri Flesh, those demos are from his personal archives.
1984 is the band who delivered "Salted City" comped on KILLED BY DEATH VOL. 1. For fan of KBD stuff and french punk!!!
STEPHAN EICHER - Spielt Noise Boys LP (Born Bad Rec.)Wow! You have here the hardly impossible to find complete tape recordings (25 copies!) of this GRAUZONE side project. 5 songs came out on a 7" in 1980. Anyway... this recordings are far more experimental GRAUZONE's. Beatbox, Korg MS20, and Roland Promars, if you see what I'm talking about. It means minimal, punk and cold wave sounds. Attention! This is not the STEPHAN EICHER sound you know from his big radio hits! For fan of SUICIDE, LOST SOUNDS, minimal wave etc...
DUFLAN DUFLAN / LE PRINCE HARRY - Danser Armé / Human Safari Split-LP (Rockerill Production)Yeah, what an amazing dancefloor killer!!! A rough 11 song split LP(limited to 500 copies, cover (handmade serigraphy) by Elzo & Samantha Chope. )
Both bands are trio and dedicated to apocalyptic pop, disco doom, synth punk and a knack for frantic rhythm. Think BLACK BUG / DOCTOR SCIENTIST on drugs mixed with old german electro punk heros DAF (Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft), also not unlike begiums late 80's Electronic Body Punk Musics legend FRONT 242! Last but no least both develop raw energy on stage. Germnan tour in March 2010!
http://www.myspace.com/duflanduflan
http://www.myspace.com/leprinceharry
SCEPTRES - Flatline Generation 7" (Dire Rec.)HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!! Jagged, female-fronted post-punk band whose members are spread across the lower half of the UK. If you liked their first EP on Dire you'll love this one as the band returns with more of the same intricate guitar work and smart and catchy female vox. SCEPTRES finding there insperation in old American punkrock. We are talking make up and greasy hair and late 70 earlie 80 KBD-punkrock, with their own unique voice somewhere between the propulsive punk of the REZILLOS or VICIOUS / MASSHYSTERI and the jagged rhythms of first-wave post-punk bands like SWEEL MAPSS!!!
BäSTARD - Blind Sink LP (Killed By An Axe Rec.)Reissue of the great mini LP from 1995 by French Noise Legends --- 1st time on Vinyl !!! 310 black copies --– which oscillates in-between no-wave, emo, noise rock and experiments; let’s mention for instance its fascinating opening song ‘Death Party’ or the raging ‘Gladiator’ whose guitar lines evoke SONIC YOUTH (circa Dirty) and enhanced by the at once hypnotic and noisy ‘Chinatown’ – is more heterogeneous but opens new paths to explore (the unreleased post-punk band This Heat cover ‘The Fall of Saïgon’ for example).
STAGGERS - Go Go Gorilla 7" (Squoodge Rec.)EXTREEEMLY limited 45 by THE STAGGERS!!! Incl. a killer version of the 6ts punk classic, this one is a one sided 7" lim. with a 2 colored 300 g/m² cardboard sleeve with a yellowish silkscreened b-side! Be fast!!
UNITS - History Of The Units LP (Comunity Library Rec.)HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!! Remastered Audio...32 page booklet...Gatefold “LP style” Jacket... Community Library is proud to bring you the first ever legitimate reissue of San Francisco’s synth-punk legends, UNITS! You can finally get rid of the crappy bootlegs: this is the definitive remastered collection of the band’s most sought-after early singles and selections from their first LP, Digital Stimulation. It also includes unreleased material culled from early demos, recordings made for art happenings and film, and more. This anthology is a view not only into the Units’ seminal years, but is also a step into the rich and under-reissued history of San Francisco’s punk, new wave and post punk years. The end of the 1970’s saw UNITS and their compatriots (PINK SECTION, VOICE FARM, TUXEDOMOON and SCREAMERS) storming punk clubs like the Mabuhay with a new electronic punk sound. The co-opted, predictable guitar rock of the era had given way to aggressive synthesizers, film collage, and punk DIY ingenuity. UNITS were a cornerstone of this unofficial movement, later called “synth punk” and which would come to define a greater west coast DIY culture combining new synthetic sounds, ranging from NERVOUS GENDER, SCREAMERS and MONITOR, to The BLACKOUTS.
CRAWLERS – I Hate Michael Vick 7" (No Front Teeth Rec.)Hell yeah, NFT is super-proud to be releasing the European version of this killer, killer 7”. It was about time we put out another hardcore record!! Old school hardcore punk from Portland. No bullshit, no dicking around, just fast, raw, straightforward and old fashioned hardcore as it should be. Absolutely necessary.
ENERGY - Same LP (Team Science Rec.)
They are Josh and Chris from SECRET PROSTITUTES and Tom of montrose from NO TALK. more info soon...
www.myspace.com/theenergyhtx
NERVE CITY - Same LP (Sweet Rot Rec.)Sweet Rot couldn’t be happier to present our first full-length release, the stunning debut LP by NERVE CITY. Subtitled “Recordings 2007-2008” this record showcases a dozen songs from the early days of this mostly one-man recording project from Richmond, Virginia. At the core, these are incredibly well written and played melodic songs with nods to the classics like the Stones and VU, but the note-perfect production that’s gone into each song adds an immense amount of haunting atmosphere and the final product is simply quite astounding. From minimalist folk songs, to full, lurching, droning epics this record contains absolutely no trace of filler and will stick with you immediately upon first listen. Perfect for these dark, dreary, cold days of winter. Previous releases on Hozac and Kill Shaman, and a 12” EP coming soon on Sacred Bones.
FEELING OF LOVE - School Yeah 7" (Sweet Rot Rec.)The Metz Trifecta is complete. First it was The ANALS, then A.H. KRAKEN, and now Sweet Rot is pleased to present a third record from Metz, France, a 3-song single from The FEELING OF LOVE. Just like their previous releases this one features a schizophrenic mix that somehow makes perfect sense. You get one studio-recorded hit and one drum machine fuelled jam on the a-side, and an absolutely beautiful, yet fucked, reinterpretation of a Gainsbourg classic on the flip. Pretty cool cover art too.
AMBER ALERTS - Antibodies 7" (Sweet Rot Rec.)After a split with WIZZARD SLEEVE and an impressive single of their own, Montgomery, Alabama’s AMBER ALERTS really raise the bar with their new Sweet Rot 7”. “Antibodies” is a killer drugged-out guitar/synth jam. “Brain Scratch” is pure punk filth. “Somewhere Under the Shit Cloud” takes a repetitive bass riff and drills it into the fucking ground. These songs remind me of a dirty, Southern, teenaged version of the Primitive Calculators and for that I am thankful. Art by CM Ruiz.
IDLE HANDS - Empty Matters LP (Toxic Pop Rec.)
On a trip around Europe in the summer of 2008 we got to catch IDLE HANDS live at a squat in Mainz, Germany. It was probably the best show we saw during that entire trip and IDLE HANDS had a big impact on us. Hailing from Munster, Germany, these boys play a mix of classic catchy punk similar to the BUZZCOCKS but with the more modern dirty/poppy rock of bands like the MARKED MEN. We are very happy to present you with a 12" comprised of their debut self-titled 7" EP, originally released on Three Chords Records and repressed by Hardware Records, and their "Volatile Matters" 7" EP, originally released on Rockstar Records, all out of Germany, with limited distribution in the US. With this compilation we hope to give people on this side of the Atlantic the opportunity to discover this brilliant band.
UNDER AL KRITIK – Under Al Kritik LP (Bad Hair Life Rec.)HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!! Released by our brother in crime Larry from Houston. He will also co-release the upcoming SECRET PROSTITUTES - Mati Di Moskow 7" with P.Trash. So do not miss the start of this fresh Texas label!!!
This is the first long player for this Danish hardcore punk band from Odense. A throwback sound from Reagan’s second term can be heard in the 17 tracks that bring back memories of Iran-Contra, an A-10 blasting a tank, MX missiles, and a still-standing Berlin Wall. Riffs and short solos recall the sound of hardcore bands that had heard Bonded By Blood and Kill Em All and liked them. UAK could be likened to crossover because of their combination of hardcore punk with thrash, but this band is punk before metal. They lack the goofy humor and flip-bill-ball-cap style of mall rat crossover that evolved into rap-metal breeding. Picture them playing with Fearless Iranians, Septic Death, Christ on Parade, or most obviously, D.R.I. UAK would have fit perfectly into the time and this LP could pass as a genuine release from the end of the arms race. (Bad Hair Life LN-003) 2-sided inserts and poly-lined sleeves for vinyl included. Each LP comes in a poly-bag.
www.myspace.com/underalkritik
THEE OH SEES - Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In LP (In The Red Rec.)Somewhere beyond nostalgia, beyond the garage, somewhere beyond the fireside song and supposed goo-rock, you will find the latest incarnation of THEE OH SEES, now a quartet composed of JOHN DWYER (OCS, COACHWHIPS, PINK & BROWN), BRIGID DAWSON, PETEY DAMMIT! and MIKE SHOUN. The prolific Dwyer contends again for best album of his career with his signature AM radio howl coupled with the catchiest of driving tunes, Dawson's gorgeous harmonies, heightened fidelity, thick spring-reverbed bombast, mighty drums, and an undeniable pull.
EX HUMANS - Mai Tais 7" (Colonel Rec.)Humans? Not anymore! Ex members of BEAT BEAT BEAT, CARBONAS, and THE STAR SPANGLES quit mankind to avoid taxes and any heavy responsibilities. The results lie somewhere between a long lost Killed By Death gem and the New York strut of the DEAD BOYS and The DICTATORS. They're Recording an LP this fall with Dave Rahn (GENTLEMAN JESSE, CARBONAS, BABY SHAKES). We personally can't wait. Get em here first while we got em.
RED MASS - Too Many Parties/ Kinda Funny 7" (Wallride Rec.)The newest manifesto from Montreal’s RED MASS, fronted by Choyce of CPC GANGBANGS. Two infectiously catchy and equally deranged slices of noisy experimental garage punk that could only come from the one and only RED MASS. Electronic and live drums, fuzzed out guitars, sound effects with hook drenched choruses to tie it all together into a manic odditorium of psychedelic weirdness. Touring extensively with a constantly rotating lineup of likeminded artists, musicians and fellow weirdos, RED MASS will shortly be taking over your shitty town, and soon the world.
P.Trash will release a RED MASS / STRANGE ATTRACTOR 10" very soon!!!
SNIFFING GLUE - I´m Not Alright CD (Plastic Bomb Rec.)It seems that Sniffing Glue have gotten popular for their tight and nimble approach to hardcore-punk. "i'm not alright" is authentic, energetic, with lots of anger, and speed - all of which is build on a foundation of solid song writing, incredible lyrics, and the occasional inclusion of a catchy melody from start to finish. The 9 new tracks (plus one additional Cover by a german punk-rock classic) on "i'am not alright" are as good as any '80s Reagan-era hardcore-punk record you've ever heard... so yeah if you want to get some kick-ass snotty tunes without fashion styled shit and tough attitudes; or you already got rid off all those classic bands that they always get compared with (bla bla... CIRCLE JERKS, BLACK FLAG...), get this shit as soon as you possibly can. Maybe a record so angry and powerful that it is bound to create an instant slam-dance party in your house? Well, right you are! Bonus: 2 songs of their split-EP with PRESS GANG + 8 livetracks in good quality.
--SNIFFING GLUE sind zur Zeit eine der Bands deutschen Hardcorebands, die Bands wie BLACK FLAG, JERRY`S KIDS und an einer Stelle sogar die DEAD KENNEDYS wieder aufleben lässt. SNIFFING GLUE verstehen sich darauf nicht nur drauflos zu ballern, sondern geschickt zu variieren, so dass z.B. auch Gedanken an punkrockigere 80s-Bands wie TSOL, BAD RELIGION oder die ZERO BOYS aufkeimen. Die CD beinhaltet zusätzlich die 2 Songs ihrer Split-EP mit PRESS GANG. Als Bonus findet man am Ende 8 qualitativ gute, unveröffentlichte Live-Aufnahmen.
TEENAGE KICKS - Uptight LP (Team Science Rec.)Ten songs from this Houston born mod-punk band, drawing heavily from 70s groups such as The CLASH / The BOYS and The JAM / BUZZCOCKS while not forgetting punks roots in sixties Jamaica and Phil Spector girl-pop. Uniformly described by reviewers as 'the sound of a band crashing to pieces' embittered by the state of contemporary punk and the city in which they reside.
NAILS 7" (Taken By Surprise Rec.)
First off there will be a 7" by a new German band called NAILS, not to be confused with the NAILS band from overseas with members of TERROR and whatnot. The first German band to be released on TAKEN BY SURPRISE RECORDS is from Berlin and has the voice of BOMBENALARM, the drums of MÖNSTER, the guitar wolf of MIGRA VIOLENTA and Mr Arndt on the great big ukulele. Driving hardcorepunk in a very classic way with great conscious lyrics. The master is off to the pressing plant while I am typing this and so this record should be available to the masses in January of 2010.
DEFECT DEFECT - S/T 12" (Taken By Surprise Rec.)Fighting their way out of the basement comes Portland’s DEFECT DEFECT with their best record to date! After two quality EPs and constant touring, DEFECT DEFECT hit it just perfect with their catchy-as-hell melodic punk style that hits hard with Colin’s spastic and blunt vocal style with Adam’s excellent song writing. Tracks like Stolen Ground and Post Apocalypse are perfect bookends of this argent and essential LP. Featuring ex and current members of THE OBSERVERS, AUTISTIC YOUTH, THE MINDS, CLOROX GIRLS and the excellent ARCTIC FLOWERS this record will stick out over the pile of vinyl coming out in 2010. Do not miss out on this exciting band!
www.myspace.com/defectdefect.
RED DONS 2nd LP (Taken By Surprise Rec.)
Finally a new record and I cannot be happier to have this one out on TAKEN BY SURPRISE. I got the recording last summer and can't stop listening to it ever since. The band took a long time writing and perfecting new material since their 2007 debut LP, added Zache Brooks from SODA POP KIDS as a permanent guitar don and toured the USA and BRAZIL. A flawless LP of perfect punk music! Retired Nascar mechanic and nowadays fanatic Elk's Club member Doug Burns is finalizing the artwork while I am typing this and probably listening to Simon and Garfunkel... Watch out for some killer screenprinted sleeves on this one!
www.myspace.com/reddons
AUTISTIC YOUTH - Idle Minds LP (Taken By Surprise Rec.)
Recorded a while ago (I think it was around the easter bunny fest last year?) this one is finally all mastered and HOLY SHIT it rips! I am currently waiting on the artwork to be finished and then this one will see the light of day! Of course this will be a collaborative effort with my internet husband's label SABOTAGE RECORDS again. The North American edition will be issued by the great PDX labels DIRTNAP and BLACK WATER!
www.myspace.com/autisticyouth
ANDRE ETHIER - Cop Killer b/w Pride Of Egypt 7" (Les Disques Steak Rec.)We proudly present for the first time on a 7", two of the best songs ANDRE ETHIER, ex DEADLY SNAKES frontman, put out in 2007 and 2009 only on CD on Blue Fog Recordings. This 7" is an opportunity to give him the adoration he richly deserves and discover two of his greatest tunes.
myspace.com/andreethier
SHAKE SHAKE BOLINO - Don't Lose Your Friend 7" (Les Disques Steak Rec.)
SHAKE SHAKE BOLINO is the new CHEVEU's guitarist Etienne side project (he also plays in BOSOM DIVINE, you remember?) with Marie Bolino daughter of Sue Elen and Kim Jong Il Raw Garage blues.
www.myspace.com/shakeshakebolino
THE LAST RAPES OF MISTER TEACH - The Blood Of Another Man 7" (Les Disques Steak Rec.)HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! THE LAST RAPES OF MISTER TEACH are from france and want to blow you with their "Blues Punk" aka the 1st Yakisakana release mixed with the recent BLACK LIPS stuff. You get 4 songs: "The blood of another man / I saw a corps b/w It's all over / Gipsy Knight" Limd. 300 copies - silkscreened cover! A perfect 7"!!!
SIDS - Winter 7" (Rob`s House Rec.)Last year Rob`s House pressed up a limited seasonal 7" with two driving punk tracks from SIDS. As promised, we've repressed it for your 2009 holidays. On paper its a xmas record but in typical SIDS' fashion the synth keyboards, darkly delivered vocals and creepy bells are much more than topical and worth repeat listens throughout the year. the band has completely redone the artwork (we love it!!) and the repress comes on red vinyl. last year's pressing sold out almost immediately so don't miss out.
FEELING OF LOVE - OK Judge Revival LP (Kill Shaman Rec.)The newest LP by these guys from France, released in a limited edition of 500 copies, with cool artwork, printed innersleeves. Features 11 tracks of their Blues-wrangling Trash-Punk, bringing to mind the ghosts of JSBX, PUSSY GALORE, GORIES, DOO RAG, SUICIDE and the VELVET UNDERGROUND, all mashed up and delivered in the wild french Glue Wave sound similar to the ANALS, CHEVEU or CRASH NORMAL!
STEVE ADAMYK - Same 7" (Red Lounge Rec.)
While THE SEDATIVES are taking a small break everyone of them seems to start 5 new Bands of their own to be sure they are not bored!!! STEVE ADAMYK just named a band after himself, are they now THE STEVE ADAMYK?? What the Hell..anyhoo.. you get finest THE SEDATIVES meets CARBONAS sound..what more can a happy piece of vinyl ask for to be pressed into?
www.myspace.com/steveadamyk
HYGIENE - Town Centre 7" (Static Shock Rec.)Following on from the acclaimed (and ridiculously limited) TV Girl EP, London's HYGIENE return with 3 more tracks. From the monotony of completing papers, to the violence of the town centre after pubs kicking out, this 7” paints a picture of London life to the sounds of what could be an undiscovered Messthetics comp track in the making, while still unmistakably 100% punk. File under TYVEK who are travelling a similar road but whose humour and references are always very American. They put together a straight-laced and well executed punk number, and a pair of more adventurous tunes that refract from the same palate. And although there are moments that bring to mind TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, this isn’t a UK-DIY re-enactment as the band does not ignore the last 25 years and even mixes in a couple of moments that approach KBD punk at its fucking best!!!
SICK MORMONS - Why Does Shit Keep Falling From The Sky ? 7" (Gummopunx & Demonomania Rec.)The SICK MORMONS from Amsterdam bring their trashed-out Los Angeles-style punk rock to you! This snotty music is steeped in the bile that swirled around the City of Angels when TSOL and the ADOLESCENTS held court in 1983. This is highly-objectionable punk rock for bad people!
http://www.myspace.com/sickmormons
BLACK MAMBA BEAT - Same LP (Jeetkune Rec.)Long awaited debut full length for this London-based South African trio, featuring mr Stix of BLACK TIME fame. BLACK MAMBA(Dendroaspis polylepis) is an elapid snake and is one of Africa's most dangerous snakes. It has been known to arrive at parties and inject patrons with its venomous beer bite which causes people to headbang or shake a tail feather, the "fuck it, let's have fun" ingredient in the venom eradicates all pretense and pose. Ingredients of said venom include obsession with MINUTEMEN econo ethics, BEAT HAPPENIN' beats, CCR and Mat's flannel. “We walk like the lion!! We got the BEAT!”
CAPPUTTINI 'I LIGNU - Same LP (Jeetkune Rec.)For those who have been wondering what the fuzz on this French Sicilian duo was all about, now it’s the time to fully satisfy your unquenchable desire for raucous, primitive, traditional-yet-hypnotic “blues with a twist”. CAPPUTTINI 'I LIGNU (literally “wooden jackets” in sicilian) is the result of the encounter between a boy (the multitalented CHEB SAMIR from Strasbourg – already in a gazillion bands such as AH KKRAKEN, CRACK UND ULTRA ECZEMA, NORMALS, BLACK SOULS OF LEVIATHAN, TWO TEARS etc.) and a girl, the dangerous sicilian femme fatale Cristina (also in CORPUS CHRISTI). Proud children of the rising new art-punk scene in Rome, the duo fills this record with sin, obsession, death, Appalachian rituals, whiskey driven despair, throbbing passion and greasy Sicilian meat pastries. Dark in its American roots, but clearly an entirely European interpretation of our tortured days. Beautiful exclusive cover art by CHEB SAMIR himself.
RED MASS - SAME 12" (Semprini Rec.)Semprini Records is glad to announce the latest project from Choyce (ex CPC GANGBANGS, LES SEXAREENOS etc)! We know you're already familiar with RED MASS. Their self-titled mini album has seven pysch-pop-garage punk tunes on it and the vinyl version will be out in January 2010.
P.Trash will release a RED MASS / STRANGE ATTRACTOR 10" very soon!!!
ONE STARVING DAY - Atlas Coelestis 2xLP (Narshardaa Rec.)The Italian avant/cosmic-doom/core band is back with another monstrous release. Although the band has always been rooted in its hardcore attitude, its sound has continuously evolved during these years and Atlas Coelestis is just the outcome of this process.
Since the beginning of their decennial career, One Starving Day impact has always been definitely dark and claustrophobic, and their long suites alternate between hardcore/doom basic structures, cosmic openings, and deep and calm intimacy. Following the wide positive comments about their first album, Broken Wings Lead Arms to the Sun, the band has been described as a hybrid between Neurosis and GSYBE!. For this new release, called Atlas Coelestis, the band evolves towards a more personal song writing in order to design more particular musical landscapes. The album has been recorded and mixed by David Lenci at Red House Recordings and mastered at Chicago Mastering Service by Bob Weston. Atlas Coelestis sounds like a very particular mixture of sounds. Explosions of analogue synths, mystical patterns of harmonium and organ, fierce vocals full of anguish, delicate cellos patterns, eschatological tapes and samples, a solid rhythmic session, melodic and powerful guitars, they all characterize the complex sound of this album. The result is an amazing avant-gardist mixture of different codes ranging from hardcore/doom to krautrock and contemporary music.
http://www.myspace.com/onestarvingday
AMERICAN DEATH RAY 7" (Disordered Rec.)
more info soon...
HOMOSTUPIDS - The Load LP (Load Rec.)Cleveland's HOMOSTUPIDS's new record is a tunnel ride through a reverb soaked youth hall that spreads confusion like manure in the spring soil. Fast, noisy, Garage-Punkrock. A buffet of great taste & unparalleled ear fakery. Don't worry, it's skull music so you can rest your nappy dome assured.
CHAINSAW EATERS / MELTING WALKMEN - Same Split LP (Mastermind Rec.)Lim. 165 copies, please pre-order!!! CHAINSAW EATERS is a two-piece band consisting of drums and keys. They sound like dark basement, leather, amphetamine and anal sex! This is a downer, but the way we like it. Shawn Foree DIGITAL LEATHER love to meet the EATERS in a black room!!!
http://www.myspace.com/chainsaweaters
MELTING WALKMEN is bass driven WARSAW / NEW ORDER-inspired punk rock with a touch of NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS + BIRTHDAY PARTY with really great vocals.
http://www.myspace.com/meltingwalkmen
SKIND OG BEN - Same 12" (Mastermind Rec.)
It's a KILLER!!! Lim. 300 copies. Is a two-piece band from Kolding, Denmark. Everybody tells me they sound like JOY DIVISION, SUICIDE, WIRE with a touch of MISFITS and a lot of other old farts. I think they sound like two country boys with expensive equipment and no knowledge as how to use it, trying to make a punk record. The record includes six slow, melodic, cold, catchy songs with drum machine and great vocals..
http://www.myspace.com/skindogben
MEERCAZ - Same LP (Tic Tac Totally Rec.)("OLD SCHOOL" TIP-ON JACKET w/ INSERT) Debut LP from Muslim Delgado's (LEADERS) Meercaz. This is Muzz's post-Leaders solo effort with assistance from Sarah Epstein (HUNCHES), Kyle Raquipiso (METH TEETH), Clay Silva, and many other contributors. "The approach is primitive but spacey, simultaneously "retro" and "futuristic" without batting an eye. It's aggressive guitar music that's "punk" in its DIY manic quality, but with an aesthetic that's much closer to the late 60s and early 70s. To my ears, MEERCAZ is one of the handful of things in recent years that matches what I think modern rock music SHOULD sound like (and rarely does)." -Eddie Flowers. Mastered for vinyl at the great Chicago Mastering Service, with a nice old school "tip-on" jacket, and insert w/ liner notes by Eddie Flowers.
http://www.myspace.com/meercaz
LE FACE - Le Face LP (Tic Tac Totally Rec.)This long-awaited 7 song 12" adds to the bands run of shambolic desperation (as displayed on the Salvador Dali 7" EP) and their knack for spirited first wave sounds (a-la Isolation LP). This new self-titled record adds a thicker wash of black to the pallette without obscuring any of their former records' degenerate charm. Cover art by Gitane Demone (Christian Death). This one brings out the best LE FACE has kicked into our heads yet. LE FACE now return with 7 new songs of hate and the innocence of 70's punk classics. The band has quite a back-story and if you wanna read about beaten audience members, addiction problems and cops then google em. Their sound is completely nihilistic and shambolic in sticking to the purity of old flavors. Hating you like GG. Taunting you like Lee Ving. Hating themselves like Darby. With this record their music has come into a fully matured nihilistic shadow. Draped up in some indiscriminate wool blanket and sweating out the guitar clang and snotty vox spitting through. Optimistic as a bloodied rape victim on the side of the road. Great punk record.
http://www.myspace.com/leface
CONCEPCION GLORY BOYS - Hacia El Este LP (Bowery Rec.)13 amazing songs by the Spanish COCK SPARRER. 13 juvenile, urban, uncorformist and timeless hymns that don't leave your head till the doomsday. A record full of chauvinist punk, acidity and old taste that reminds all the 77´s legacy. This LP will like to punks, lovers of mod revival and hooligans addicted to the catchy chorus. Definitely it will be one of the best records in 2009!!! http://www.myspace.com/concepciongb
LOVER! - Lost In The Shuffle! (The Singles Collection) LP (Red Lounge Rec.)First up a singles collection with those gazillion 7"ers Rich did last year!
JOHN WESLEY COLEMAN III - Steal My Mind LP (Certified PR Rec.)After years on the singles circuit we have finally graduated to the Long Player... and WOW, what a crazy good way to start! John is the guitarist for The GOLDEN BOYS and recorded "Steal My Mind" at Laguna Studios in Austin TX. Wes explains his Summer Jam 2009 as "... 10 hours, eleven songs, 2 bottles of Bullet Burbon, 100 beers, a carton of smokes, marijuana & stuff, Chinese food and good friends altogether to make this live shit...". These booze soaked anthems will rot away at your brain like a $8 fifth of store brand swill! Includes great covers of Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns And Money" and Lester Bangs' "Life Is Not Worth Living And Suicide Is A Waste Of Time". ... Just in time to make everyones "best of 2009" list...
http://www.myspace.com/johnwesleycoleman
BAD SPORTS - Same LP (Douchmaster Rec.)Denton , TX is the equivalent for Douchemaster Records of a bar you can always go into and always expect to get laid afterwards. In this case she's particularly young and hopped up on speed. If you missed the two Bad Sports singles from 2008, then you don't know about their major league hooks and their seemingly unchallenged quickness. BAD SPORTS are a three piece that features TV's Daniel from WAX MUSEUMS and Greg Rutherford from HIGH TENSION WIRES. Orville just sits around and writes most of the songs. BAD SPORTS are a bit more playful, but don't be surprised if this record reminds you slightly of The REDS or the first MARKED MEN LP. Their debut LP features fourteen songs!
KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES - Australian Tour 7" (Juvenile Rec.)Please pre-order! Limd. 300!!! It'll be for their Australian tour - numbered with a nice cover and all that. Tracks are `One U Luv`(slightly different version to the BEATMAN split from 2001 or so, long outta print) and `Saba Lou`(off Three Hairs and You're Mine).
STRAIGHT ARROWS - First 7" (Juvenile Rec.)Please pre-order! Limd. 200!!! Juvenile has teamed up with RIP Society (as Juvenile Society) to repress a numbered batch of 200.
http://www.myspace.com/thestraightarrows
KIDS OF THE BLACK HOLE - Scary 12" (Pain of Mind Rec.)Finally this chapter seems to be finished as we have now all parts together. after nearly one year of planing and production it´s done!!! KIDS OF THE BLACK HOLE serve us with 6 songs of melancholic and melodic classic punk(rock)! it always reminds me of a mixture of HÜSKER DÜ,WIPERS and ADOLESCENTS! like most bands on pain of mind this three-piece is another incest-super-group with members of NOVEMBER 13TH, CAVE CANEM, INFAUST, T-34, HYPOCRITICAL SOCIETY, TEENAGE ANGST and several more... they have been playin´for a while and their demo tape was sold out after a few weeks. on this record there´re all new songs! listen to: www.myspace.com/kidsoftheblackhole3
SICK SICK BIRDS - Heavy Manners LP (Toxic Pop Rec.)Baltimore's SICK SICK BIRDS present their debut LP, and we couldn't be happier to be involved with this band on their third release. This album is leaps and bounds ahead of what they were doing on their "Chemical Trains" EP, which is one hell of a feat as that record did not disappoint in the least. The songs here are tighter, cleaner, and more vivid. The band takes a bit more of a relaxed approach here, but that doesn't mean it doesn't pack the same punch as it used to, it's blows are just more precise. The hooks are there for sure, they're just a bit more subtle, which ends up making them all the more effective. If you've become used to the band's previous material then this stuff will certainly knock you back a bit, but it's got claws that'll grab you immediately. Elements of 1990s indie greats like the PIXIES, SUPERCHUNK, JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, and HOTSNAKES are prevalent, but there are also nods to Athens' Elephant Six scene as well. We were quite blown away when we first heard this recording and have no doubt you will be as well.
http://www.myspace.com/sicksickbirds
SLEEPWALL - Is That Factual? 7" (Toxic Pop Rec.)Long Island's post-hardcore heroes are back with a two-song single to melt your mind. "Tennessee Sun" on the A-side is a bouncy feedback filled pop jam full of thick melodic riffs and energetic drums. The B-side's "Change Your Ways" is dense and sweet like molasses and hits that sweet spot that bands like DINOSAUR JR, SUGAR and HUM introduced us to in the 90s. Let's hope this single serves as a teaser for an inevitable full-length just around the corner, because this will definitely leave you wanting more.
http://www.myspace.com/sleepwall
SLEEPWALL - Come In From the Cold 7" (Toxic Pop Rec.)Long Island's SLEEPWALL sound like they should be in their 30s in the early 90s trying something new and a bit more melodic after playing in rough and raw hardcore/punk bands since their teens... but they're not. Most of the five guys that make up the band do indeed come from the hardcore scene (and have done their time in bands like ROBOT WHALES, SICK OF TALK, and the AGENT) but they are in their early 20s and filled with a voracious appetite for all things music-related. It's no surprise then that they gravitated to a sound similar to post-hardcore bands like SUGAR, HUM, and even HÜSKER DÜ. Sleepwall's debut 7" EP reproduces that thick and ethereal guitar playing topped with desperately sincere vocals and melodies so sweet you'll wonder how they're even able to fight their way through the riffs. Call it rehash if you like, we're just psyched that today's young ones are digging through their older siblings/friends collections and checking out what the punk pioneers did after their early 80s bands called it a day.
http://www.myspace.com/sleepwall
DOUBLE DAGGER - Bored Meeting 7" (Toxic Pop Rec.)DOUBLE DAGGER is the musical face to Baltimore's graphic design team known as PostTypography, so I suppose it would be fair to call this "art-punk", but don't let that fool you into thinking that this is some pretentious hipster-fest as DOUBLE DAGGER are quite vocal about their contention of such things. This three-piece (bass, drums, vocals) is doing what all great bands must do, they are taking something tried and true and twisting it and turning it into something new and unique and fun. Bruce's over-driven bass and Denny's tight yet lively drumming combine to create a frenetic and frantic soundtrack for Nolen's sharp wit to weave clever diatribes of our failures as humans. Comparisons could be made to bands like GANG OF FOUR or FUGAZI or WIRE, but only as far as influences go, not as direct "sounds like" references. DOUBLE DAGGER are a one of a kind experience who can play alongside art school favorites like Dan Deacon as fluidly as punkrock stalwarts like the BUZZCOCKS. If you're new to these guys this is a great place to start before you dig deeper into their previous two full-lengths, and if you're an old fan the CHALMERS engineered remix of "I Was So Bored I Wanted To Hang Myself on the Dancefloor" is sure to put a smile on your face.
http://www.myspace.com/doubledaggersucks
DEAD MECHANICAL - Medium Noise LP (Toxic Pop Rec.)After more than a year's wait since the CD came out, the vinyl version of DEAD MECHANICAL's debut full-length is finally here! We dare you not to fall in love with this record. Upbeat and catchy tunes with sweet hooks back up dual vocals, one gruff and nicotine-throated and one eager and honey-coated. The band perfectly blends the sounds of bands like JAWBREAKER, SUPERCHUNK, mixed with IDLE HANDS & STATUES to create a sound that you'll be humming endlessly. Lucas' lyrics tell tales and pay equal attention to unrequited love and social/political missteps, taking cues from both Mr. Schwarzenbach and Mr. MacKaye, while Matt's weave fantastical odes to life's inconsistencies, not unlike Mr. Congelliere and his quirky witticisms. This band could easily fit on stage at Gilman or in Chapel Hill in the mid-90s, but thankfully they're here with us now making new music that the kids of 15 years from now will be wistfully imagining themselves seeing at a Charm City basement show in 2008.
http://www.myspace.com/deadmechanical
DEAD MECHANICAL - Binghamton Calling b/w Leave It Alone 7" (DM Rec.)Baltimore's DEAD MECHANICAL bring us 2 more songs of JAWBREAKER meets IDLE HANDS & STATUES inspired melodic punk as a teaser single for their upcoming LP, due out this fall. The A-side will appear re-recorded on the album and the B-side is exclusive to this single.
http://www.myspace.com/deadmechanical
DEAD MECHANICAL - A Great Lie 7" (Sex Cells Rec.)HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! 3 great new songs from Baltimore's DEAD MECHANICAL specialize in the neat trick of creating songs that threaten to devolve into noisy chaos, only to drag you back with an ear-grabbing hook or a head-bobbing chorus that's pure pop/punk nirvana!
File under: IDLE HANDS & STATUES
http://www.myspace.com/deadmechanical
PSYCHED TO DIE - Sterile Walls 7" (Firestarter Rec.)With life comes death. With death comes peace. Psyched To Die can find no peace and channel that frustration into a bunch of rippin' punk songs for all of us to enjoy while they make the best of this time they've got. Tormented minds and twisted brains with melodies to sink your teeth into. Mikey ERG, Brian G. (FORWARD TO DEATH / FOR SCIENCE), and Jay HUNCHBACK have joined forces to shred heads and rip shit here on their debut EP. After dropping quite an impressive demo last summer, the boys are back with seven morose punk rock gems soaked in bitterness and hopelessness, all the while maintaining a prescribed dosage of humor and wit. Still, you won't find any positive sentiments or inspirational messages here, PSYCHED TO DIE remind us that when life gets you down, sometimes the best option is to simply cut your losses while you still can. Sterile Walls is your one way ticket to either the nut house or the morgue. Choose death.
http://www.myspace.com/psychedtodie
ERGS, THE - Thrash Compactor 7" (Firestarter Rec.)
Early DESCENDENTS meets ADRENALINE OD... more info soon...
http://www.myspace.com/theergs
BOY TOYS - Girls Like You 7" (Spin the Bottle Rec.)Native Hoosier Hotshots that dwell down by the Wabash have their recommended debut release out on Spin the Bottle Records. A limited press of 3oo! They sound like a cool mix of a Hippie inspired BLACK LIPS song blown by stoned BEATLES. Look out for these road kings: myspace.com/theboytoysmusic
FERGUS & GERONIMO - Blind Muslim Girl 7" (Tic Tac Totally Rec.)Denton white-man-soul/pop duo featuring Jason Kelly (WAX MUSEUMS) and Andrew Savage (TEENAGE COOL KIDS). In FERGUS & GERONIMO, the WM lo-fi recording aesthetic is alive and well to be sure, but don't expect any songs about "jack off rats" here. Just Blind Muslim Girls! A casual project, but the band cites a serious well of inspiration including southern soul, '60s pop, psychedelic and Motown influences as the kick behind FERGUS & GERONIMO's sound. Good stuff. Uh, yeah. Get it!
PRIMITIVE HANDS - Split Mind 7" (Tic Tac Totally Rec.)Debut 45 from Brian Hildebrand's (DEMON'S CLAWS, MIND CONTROLS, CHOCOLAT, CONFUSERS) PRIMITIVE HANDS! Completely unaware of itself in the best way, it has pounds of grit squeezed from a light-weight guitar and snare aesthetic. No tricks, no smoke, no mirrors, well...smoke, but just minimalist blues-based rock n roll for the most discerning primitive pallette!
V/A - DENTON DENTON USA! LP (Play Pinball Rec.)Killer compilation will feature:
The Wax Museums
Bad Sports
Fergus & Geronimo
Video
Teenage Cool Kids
The Uptown Bums
Wiccans
The Teenage Bees
Fungi Girls
Bleach Boys
Secret Bangs
Chief Death Rage
The Influence
The Pumpers
review will follow soon...
FUNGI GIRLS - Seafaring Pyramids LP (Play Pinball Rec.)HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!! What the fuck do internet-era kids do when they're growing up in the middle of nowhere with an understanding of great music? In doing so, FUNGI GIRLS have recorded a blistering album of concise and experimental songs ranging from shoegazing grooves and stoner rock riffage to psychedelic pop freakouts, channeling everything their teenage brains can handle. Eight songs round out their debut LP recorded and produced by Jason Kelly (The WAX MUSEUMS,...).
HAUNTED GEORGE - American Crow LP (In The Red Rec.)more info soon...
ACTION - Slashing, White Hot LP (Rave Up Rec.)The Action, one of Canada’s first punk bands, formed in Ottawa in 1977. Their style combined early American and English punk like The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, and The Vibrators with rock influences such as The Rolling Stones’ guitar attack and The Allman Brothers’ dual-guitar and slide-guitar leads, which, combined with provocative lyrics and an untouchable stage show, made The Action a musician’s band. The Action was chosen to open for The Ramones in 1978 and helped spearhead punk across Canada when they supported The Stranglers on that band’s first North American tour the same year. This collection covers The Action’s short but wild career from 1977-’78: their debut 12-inch (which includes the cult classic “TV’s on the Blink”) and a recording for a never-released follow-up EP, plus smokin’ live tracks recorded at the infamous Rotters Club in Ottawa, Canada.
CARDIAC KIDZ - Get Out LP (Rave Up Rec.)Started in 1974 as ‘Glass Onion’, they were based in San Diego. During the glorious years, the ‘Kidz’ performed with the cream of the local punk bands of that era, such The Penetrators, The Dinettes, DFX2, Hitmakers,The Standbys, Gary and the Blind Dates, The X-Terminators and more... The guys released also two great records in 1979, the amazing single ‘Get Out/Find Yourself a Way’ and ‘Playground’ 7" EP. The Cardiac Kidz are featured on two ‘Killed by Death’ compilation albums which seemed to solidify their place in the historic annuals of the history of US Punk Rock. They just recently granted an interview to San Francisco's Maximum Rock'n’Roll magazine. Buy or Die!!!
WARMJETS - Wanna Start A War LP (Rave Up Rec.)Philadelphia’s punk rock finest band! Started in 1977, the band was really popular at the ‘The Hot Club’, one of the main punk venues in USA. They had a punk ethos, but laced with a potent pop mentality and a big sense of pure theatricality that reminded one of suck disparate outfits as Sparks, The Weirdos, Lance Loud’s Mumps and The Dickies, not to mention The Monkees! Unfortunately the band recorded only one acetate and few studio tracks that you can find in this anthology that contains the best production of their unlucky career!!! Pure US punk genius, grab this!!!
BUZZER - Teacher's Pet 7" (Tic Tac Totally Rec.)The follow up to their Douchemaster Records debut. This one sounds like the Cuts at times to me, but harder. I like it because it's straight up unashamed rock n roll with an overt glam vibe...and it serves as a perfect reactionary sound-off to all the shit everyone is copy-catting still right now. So blah blah blah, I guess if you HAVE to pin it down, it's sort of a return to the gray murky times where stadium goof pop rock and punk were figuring each other out in a lot of bands cases during the mid 70's. But with much more clarified edge thanks to decades of punk and power-pop successors and the like. Think ROCK solos and other shamelessly melodic shit like la-la-la-la hooky choruses that are actually great sounding.
CHARLIE & THE MOONHEARTS - Drop In, Drop Out 7" (Tic Tac Totally Rec.)"Drop In Drop Out" channels 80's vibes of then-youthful Orange County punk experimenting, but then they colored it all in with fuzzed-up guitars and the scuzzed-up melody-driven stylistic tendencies of 60's garage rock. All of this finds its way into songs that most importantly (and above all else) do not sound contrived in any way, rehearsed, too thought out, or anything ese that proves less than a straight kick to the head.
LENGUAS LARGAS - I Feel 7" (Tic Tac Totally Rec.)Debut 7" from LENGUAS LARGAS includes 3 songs that linger in a minimal mode through a haze of herbal therapy, alcohol, and dark vibes. LENGUAS LARGAS employs cold, minimal, post-punk stylistic leanings and tosses them through everything in the kitchen sink. Gathering up neat layers of friction and warming them up for the humans of the planet earth.
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE - Nur Flops 7" (Spastic Fantastic Rec.)HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!! Allright, the selftitled greatest partyband all over is back with its first release on wax. 13 garagepunk smashers, voll of hits for your heart and your mind. The freshness of DIE GOLDENEN ZITRONEN, the hit surety of a DEAN DIRG, together with the crazyness of HATEPINKS and a certain fast forward thrash of THE ITALIAN STALLION and every other band will miss. Provocative discotrash meets incredibly insane garagepunk and the best artwork since years! Limited to countless colored combinations of vinyl!
www.myspace.com/hitlerimerdkern
German review:
Top Tip !!! Die (selbstbetitelt) dickste Partyband der Welt ist zurück mit dem ersten Release auf Vinyl. 13 Garagetrashpunk Knaller, voller Hits, fürs Herz und für den Kopf. Die Frische der GOLDENEN ZITRONEN, die Spritzigkeit der HATEPINKS, zusammen mit dem Hitgarant eines DEAN DIRG und der ITALIAN STALLION Dresche und alle anderen Bands können getrost einpacken. Provokanter Discotrash meets grenzdebilder Garagepunk, so oder so ähnlich, jedenfalls das geilste Cover der letzten 100 Jahre und auf buntem Vinyl mit gefühlten 500 Kombinationen! Wer nett fragt, kriegt noch ne Notfall CD fürs Auto obendrauf!
www.myspace.com/hitlerimerdkern
NIHIL BAXTER - Same 7" (Spastic Fantastic Rec.)After their first impressive demotape out of the year 2008, Nihil Baxter is ready to accelerate with 10 new thrashpunk killersongs on wonderful black vinyl! Some of you might see some anologys to SURF NAZIS MUST DIE and indeed it's a smiliar direction, even fans of DRI or TEAR IT UP will have a nice time with single. For me, it is going to be an upcoming classic in german punk history.
www.myspace.com/nihilbaxterofdeath
German review:
Nach dem großartigen Demotape aus dem Jahr 2008 legen Nihil Baxter aus Stuttgart nochmal ordentlich nach und tischen uns hier 10 frische Thrashpunk Smasher auf den Plattenteller. In der hiesigen Welt des Internetzes wurden sie bereits als Nachfolgeband der Jungs um SURF NAZIS MUST DIE gehandelt, und auch TEAR IT UP oder DRI dürfen zweifellos als Orientierung genannt werden. Für mich DIE Single des Jahres!
www.myspace.com/nihilbaxterofdeath
SINGING DOGS / COKEROCKET Split 7" (Primitive Rec.)Limd. 300 copies, more info soon...
WOVEN BONES - Janie 7" (Needless Rec.)more info soon...
DOGGS - Same CD EP (No Front Teeth Rec.)Sixty Nine in Zero Nine…fuck yeah, NFT is super proud to bring you lucky scums The Doggs debut EP. Four tracks (over 17 minutes!!) of killer old fashioned garage punk…real punk. The Doggs play an old sound, simple but aggressive that stands in front of you like a huge wall, the kind of sound that fundamental bands like The STOOGES pioneered. Although they got many influences they still create their own fuckin' style...the Doggs' style is unique. You need to hear this…this will blow your nutsack dry. Tracks: 1. Underground Kicks / 2. Kiss My Blood / 3. No Lights / 4. Animal
DC SNIPERS - 2nd LP (Daggerman Rec.)The long over-due follow-up to the DC SNIPERS' 2006 Missile Sunset LP, this eponymous second album kills with KBD sleazed out punk action. 400 pressed on 180g black vinyl. Hand screened jacket with lyric insert.
STALIN - Stop Jap Lp (reissue )
KBD punk classic LP from Japan 1982! more info soon...
CAPPUTTINI 'I LIGNU - Same 7" (Shit Music For Shit People Rec.)HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!! Fronted by Cheb Samir from the NORMALS, TWO TEARS, AH KKRAKEN, this is a gem of thrashy blues with a noisy garage punk feel. Fans of previous Cheb Samit project would love this. Limited 300 / Packed in a beautifully desinged sleeve comes with digital download of all 4 tracks. Find some songs here: http://www.myspace.com/shitmusicforshitpeople
HENRY FIATS OPEN SORE - Mondo Blotto CD (Alleycat Rec.)Stockholm. The sky turns black - the living Swedish conspiracy loudmouths HENRY FIAT'S OPEN SORE's "Mondo Blotto" is driving insane Vikings and inka tribes, the re-occupied Stasi commando bunker party PROLETKULT REC proudly offer you the vinyl documentary. It has 20 killing shortcuts of rocknroll redemption along the path. The HFOS are around for a decade now and continue to be the origin of any punk and hardcore identity crisis. The forces have deadly units to prepare future soldiers for day x. We have countless ground troops, and we have the mother ship of chaos - HENRY FIAT'S OPEN SORE!
SNUFFED BY THE YAKUZA - Everybodys Gonna Die Tonight CD (Alleycat Rec.)http://www.myspace.com/snuffedbytheyakuza more info soon...
PISTOL MOB - Close Enough CD (Alleycat Rec.)http://www.myspace.com/pistolmob more info soon...
SCRAGS - The Scrags CD (Alleycat Rec.)http://www.myspace.com/scrags more info soon...
DEN STORA SÖMNEN - Same CD (Alleycat Rec.)http://www.myspace.com/fonziebohlinbandet more info soon...
INDUSTRI ROYAL - Tacky Skills CD (Alleycat Rec.)
http://www.myspace.com/industriroyal more info soon...
MOVEMENTS - The World, The Flesh And The Devil CD (Alleycat Rec.)http://www.myspace.com/themovements more info soon...
PLASTOBETON - Same 7" (SDZ Rec.)Brand new release. Post-industrial art-punk from Metz, France in the vein of early METAL URBAIN with hints of DAF and US MAPLE. Includes members of AH KRAKEN, FEELING OF LOVE, THE ANALS and THE DREAMS. 3 Songs in french, one in english.
http://www.myspace.com/plastobeton
REBEL, THE - Exciting New Venue... 7" (SDZ Rec.)Great record from the twisted mind of Country Teasers singer and lyricist BEN WALLERS. Think THE FALL, CALVIN JOHNSON, "Songs in the key of Z" comp, etc. 4 songs.
http://www.myspace.com/pleasebanmusic
DIGITAL LEATHER - Lousy Manipulator 7" (Neat Neat Neat Rec.)This is a new song called "Lousy Manipulator". The B-sides are an acoustic version of "Depression" and a cover of The REATARDS "I'm So Gone"!
STATIC STATIC - Witchmouth / Kill Us Operator 7" (Neat Neat Neat Rec.)more info soon...
SHITTY LIMITS - Limit's Appear 7" (Wallride Rec.)
more info soon...
IMPACT - Solo Odio LP (Gonna Puke Rec.)Official and licensed reissue for one of the few all-time classic lps of the first wave of Italian hardcore. Hailing from Ferrara, early 80’s era, IMPACT , along with WRETCHED, NEGAZIONE, INDIGESTI and DECLINO, set the stylistic and esthetic standards for a musical genre, later to become world famous, that mixed the political vehemence of british tradition (such as that of CRASS and CONFLICT) with the violent riffs of early american hardcore (CIRCLE JERKS and ZERO BOYS above all). Ten songs, a little more than 15 minutes of musical and ideological assault, through which IMPACT became a legend and changed the lives of three generations of Italian punks to come.
JOHNNY & THE LIMELITES - And Then We Kissed 7" (Rocket Reducer Rec.)
300 copies... more info soon...
JOLIS - Same LP (Scanner Rec.)Miguel the drummer of the AGGRAVATION has just created, a new label, “Scanner Records”. The first disc is the LP of “JOLIS". Cover by Antipesto!!! More info soon!!
BLEW UP - Same 7" (Relax-o-Matic Vibrator Rec.)Recommended follower to the HATEPINKS - Auto-Ejection MLP on Relax-o-Matic Vibrator. Amazing Garage Blues Punk! more info soon...
WOLFDEN - Coconut 7" (Rocket Reducer Rec.)So, like, Dan from VEEDEE is a hilarious dude, right? Well, now you can own that hilarity on vinyl! It's goddamn awesome pop/rock, and the lyrics are like Raffi for adults. They sing about coconuts, being a wolf, and liking shellfish! Myself, I don't. I'm not Jewish, or anything, but I am from the midwest, and if I eat fish, it's gotta be a Friday in Lent that I'm hanging out with my dad. Fish is gross.-Pat Rocket Reducer- 300 copies on black. Hand numbered.
STABS - Split Lips 7" (Stained Circles Rec.)
more info soon...
BLANK DOGS - In Here 7" (Down In The Ground Rec.)My two favorite BLANK DOGS tracks (A-SIDE from the amazing 12" Woodsist Rec.) on a single slab of wax. Full color sleeve by MR. BLANK DOGS himself with a limited pressing. PRE-ORDER welcome!!!
GRAVE BLANKETS - Our Love Is Real b/w Tripwire 7" (HoZac Rec.)Emerging out of the spectacular modern musical hotbed of Columbus, Ohio, Grave Blankets are one of those bands that write colossal hooks into their songs that stick to your ribs upon first listen and furiously embed themselves into your evoked set of perilous preferences. Stripped of any gloss or NME hype, Grave Blankets offer a true picture of how disgustingly pure rock'n roll is done, as they careen and writhe under your skin and somehow walk away with one of the most memorable hits of the year, in a year already full of stellar releases.
MEDICATION - Don't Die b/w Fog 7" (HoZac Rec.)The cold, dark waves of desperation and imminent mortal doom ring true on this debut 7" from MEDICATION, a home recording project from Conneticut that delves into the drifting echo-filled world of Mikey Hyde, who makes no qualms about addressing the despair and melancholy vibes swirling around his cranium. With jangling, distant orchestrations plodding alongside the beat of an old gypsy drum, this might just be the epically Autumnal record that sets you straight this year, and fans of PINK REASON might just find a new perennial favorite within these desolate grooves.
SUBTLE TURNHIPS - Fuck The People Fuck The Power 7" (HoZac Rec.)If they let people in America gargle with razorblades like they allow the folks in France, then the mighty force of the SUBTLE TURNHIPS would be as big as Paris Hilton's forehead, and ten times as ugly. As an enigmatic band that's been mostly self-releasing records for the past eighteen years, the time has come for their first US release, and we're mighty proud to host them on our label. With their slop-punk aesthetic effectively tickling the nuances of SWELL MAPS, TV PERSONALITIES, DRUNKS WITH GUNS and BRAINBOMBS, this is one 7" EP that will win over anyone with a lick of good taste, and/or a pulse."
CLOCKCLEANER - Skinheaded Lady b/w Hate City 7" (Stained Circles)
Here we have the new and rumored to be final recording from Philly nose pickers, CLOCKCLEANER. Not a ton of copies to sell so pre-order fast!
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - Primary Colours LP (Goner Rec.)YES! 2nd album from Aussie superstars... straightahead rock/punk with great lyrics that completely stick in your head... best album of the year? WE THINK SO! LP comes with free download coupon!
CRETEENS / STRAIGHT ARROWS 7" (Resistance A Go-Go Rec.)
infos soon...
SO COW - Commuting 7" (Going Underground Rec.)When I first heard the A side " Commuting" I instantly fell in love with this guy..so a few months later we have this amazing 3 song ep . A little bit of Sarah Indie Pop, the GO-BETWEENS, the UNDERTONES, the OUTCASTS and the old Irish charm and you have a 3 song record that will be stuck inside your head for months. Fucking essential.
FRANCIS HAROLD & THE HOLOGRAMS - 7" (Going Underground Rec.)Out of the dinges of Bisbee , Arizona have crawled a sick , twisted monster . A vile group that have created an amazing sound not played as great since BOBBY SOXXX / STICKMEN WITH RAYGUNS . You can compare this single to a nightmare , but in a good way. If you are listening to CLOCKCLEANER or PISSED JEANS this is your new favorite band