RADIO BIRDMAN. Radios Appear (4 Men With Beards) 16.00 EUR. Originally released in 1977, Radios Appear, is the debut album from one of most important Australian bands of all time. Though they are often lumped in with the punk-rock sound of their contemporaries in London and New York, they actually owe more to the earlier sounds of Detroit, specifically the Stooges and the MC5. Their debut is a scorching piece of snotty rock and roll unparalleled in their country or beyond.
RANTOULS. In The Village Of Rantouls (Chocolate Covered) 12.00 EUR. BACK IN STOCK!! GAVIN from THE FEVERS returns with another amazing power-pop trio—THE RANTOULS! After years of playing covers, he shows off his songwriting chops with a half-hour of the catchiest bubblegum hits you've never heard.
RATAS DEL VATICANO. Tiempos De Austeridad (Hbsp-2x) 15.00 EUR. More primo, kick-ass punk rock from Monterrey, Mexico’s RATAS DEL VATICANO. Pressed on one-sided vinyl with an etching on the B-side. Edition of 500 copies.
RAYDIOS. Now (Dirtnap) 12.50 EUR. Our first release from a Japanese band, and we couldn't really ask for a better one than this. For those not in the know, THE RAYDIOS is FINK from the legendary TEENGENERATE and current member of FIRESTARTER. This is their 2nd album, coming about 10 years (!) after their Demo LP on Screaming Apple. The CD version of Now is released by Japan's Mangrove Records last year (and is being distributed by Dirtnap in the USA), and is just now seeing the light of day on vinyl. It's been remastered for vinyl and remixed by Fink himself, and sounds GREAT. Musically this is no frills, crunchy, mid tempo rock n roll. Less trashy than Teengenerate, but not quite as ‘pop’ as Firestarter, this is kinda a middle ground between the two. Total dream release for Dirtnap. Pinch us.”
RAYMILLAND. Recordings ’79-’81 LP+CD (BDR Records) 16.00 EUR. Raymilland formed in the summer of 1978 in St. Louis and lasted until the fall of 1981. Although starting out playing standard punk covers by the Buzzcocks, Damned, and Ultravox, their original influences and ideas about music leaned more toward the no-wave bands of NY and the more experimental bands from the UK. Raymilland played live eight times; four in St. Louis and four in Chicago. A fifth Chicago date slotted to open for Joy Division never happened when the US tour was canceled due to the death of Ian Curtis. Raymilland released one single in 1980 on Praxis; an influential Chicago music/art magazine, had one song included on the first Sub-Pop compilation cassette, and another on a compilation cassette released by the legendary Dong Dong Tapes from the Netherlands. A self produced demo cassette to attract label interest and procure live gigs was so influential that Wax Trax Records sold bootleg copies in their Chicago retail store. Although the band was constantly recording; there were no further official releases. Almost 30 years later BDR Records persuades the band to release a collection of those recordings. The members reviewed their vast archive to assemble the definitive Raymilland collection, and the result is Recordings '79-'81.
RAZORS. S/T (Vince Lombardy Highschool) 13.00 EUR. Rerelease by this early german Punkclassic from 1980. One of the greatest HC-Punk events in that time. Comes nearly in the same hot artwork as 22 years ago. 14 killer tracks.
REACTIONARIES. 1979 (Water Under The Bridge) 13.50 EUR. An awesome 1979 rehearsal recording from San Pedro, California’s REACTIONARIES—D. BOON, MIKE WATT and GEORGE HURLEY of THE MINUTEMEN, along with vocalist MARTIN TAMBUROVICH. Recorded in the shed in back of George’s house on 17th Street, across the street from San Pedro High School, January 1979.
THE REACTIONS. Saturday's Gone Wild (Cheap Rewards) 18.00 EUR. THE REACTIONS emerged in 1979 amidst the budding South Florida punk scene that featured such revered acts as The Eat, The Essentials, and The Cichlids. Their rapid-fire songs, punctuated by driving guitar and anthemic vocals, foreshadowed the pop punk sound that gained popularity over the next several decades.
The Reactions self-released two limited edition 7” EPs during their brief tenure. Though both records failed to garner the commercial success the band craved, astute music lovers the world over have since discovered their undeniably catchy, hook-filled songs that captivated audiences across Florida for a brief moment in time. The current demand for the original vinyl records has turned them into sought after collector's items.
As its debut release, Cheap Rewards Records is proud to present Saturday’s Gone Wild, a collection of rare and lost recordings by The Reactions. The LP includes the songs from their two releases, 1980’s Official Release EP and 1981’s Love You EP, as well as previously unreleased demo and live recordings that capture the essence of the band’s sound and energy. These tracks were meticulously restored and mastered from deteriorating tapes and now, for the first time, music appreciators can enjoy these lost gems. The record is packaged in a deluxe gatefold sleeve with band photos and liner notes by South Florida legend, Charlie Pickett. All copies come with a free digital download card.
READING RAINBOW. Prism Eyes (Hozac) 13.00 EUR. The Virginia-bred, Philadelphia-based garage pop duo READING RAINBOW explores the tension of dreams-versus-reality on their second full-length release. Since debuting in 2008 with a series of distorted, beautiful 7-inch singles, the band’s ability to lyrically tackle broad themes and big questions has set them apart. Twelve tracks.
REATARDS. Teenage Hate/Fuck Elvis Here’s The Reatards 2xLP (Goner) 21.50 EUR. Goner Records presents the deluxe reissue of Jay Reatard’s first full-length LP, with a bonus album of early tracks recorded on four-track and only released on cassettes. Some songs feature Greg Cartwright (Reigning Sound, Oblivians) on drums! Teenage Hate / Fuck Elvis Here’s the Reatards offers a glimpse into the punk energy and rapidly developing raw talent of a teenage Reatard. The double-album features covers of Fear, The Dead Boys, Lil’ Bunnies, Buddy Holly, Johnny Vomit & The Dry Heaves... and The Beatles!
THE REBEL. Five Year Plan (Monofonus Press) 12.00 EUR. We couldn’t be happier to present to the world a new release from one of our favorite recording artists OF ALL FUCKING TIME! BEN WALLERS aka THE REBEL is the main man behind COUNTRY TEASERS, and continues to amaze with the near constant flow of material out on a variety of labels including a 2007 release from Austin label Emperor Jones. Since playing in our garage in March of 2006 we’ve kept in contact (aka drunk g-chatting), and a couple months ago he was generous enough to send us 13 songs to choose from. We’ve selected our three favorites, and pressed them up proper on a 12″ EP titled The Five Year Plan. Full color everything…. label, jacket, and screen printed B Side. Looks/Sounds amazing. Fans of Ronnie O’Sullivan will be extra stoked. Limited to only 300 copies.
RED MASS. S/T (Florida’s Dying) 13.50 EUR. RED MASS creates dark, driving, and repetitive apocalypse-punk that's unique to Montreal, especially considering that this band features members of now-defunct CPC GANGBANGS. Their dissonant and disjointed dark-wave eventually erupts into hypnotic noise. The sound and vocals range from the low preach of Bad Seeds-era Nick Cave to the severe rants of Fear's Lee Ving, all bound and gagged with acidic guitar solos revived from long-dead Eddie Hazel.
RED MASS. S/T 12” (Psychic Handshake) 12.50 EUR. Absolutely killer four song 45 RPM 12" debut by a Montreal collective led and masterminded by Choyce (aka - Roy Vucino, formerly of CPC Gangbangs, Les Sexareenos, Daylight Lovers and Les Enfants Sauvages, just to name a few of his many groups). Brewing for several years prior to CPC Gangbangs untimely demise, RED MASS delivers on the promise of the Gangbangs artier and more progressive moments without losing one ounce of the ferocity or catchiness they were known for. This might very well be the best thing we’ve heard to date from Choyce, but its only the beginning. The scope and potential of Red Mass is enormous. These four songs offer a brief, exhilarating glimpse of their vision.
RED RED RED. New Action (Big Neck) 12.50 EUR. RYAN SABATIS was the drummer for THE PIRANHAS but decided to break away and start his own band RED RED RED, which he fronted by playing guitar and singing. Red Red Red's first record, Mind Destroyer was released on Big Neck Records years ago to much acclaim and shattered the college charts for a short time. It was a crazed mess of guitar driven rock n roll, intermixed with crazy solos, and wicked hooks. Red Red Red took a break for a couple years, but Ryan ever restless decided to reform Red Red Red into a whole band, new members, new image, and new songs. Red Red Red's second record, New Action kicks it off straight away with the first song "New Action" and that says it all, new action, new beginnings, new ideas. Ryan is slapping us in the face with an even crazier sound than the first record, songs that are written better, hooks that are catchier, solos that are unreal, and words that are all new. Ten songs of fury, rage, punk, angst, rebellion. It's all here. Everything that a band should want in a record, everything that a band should want to be.
REGULATIONS. To Be Me (P.Trash/Ny Vag) 12.50 EUR. Still unwrapped you can already feel this new long release by Swedish Überrockers REGULATIONS buzzing inside its sleeve and in the moment you put the needle in the groove you know you're finally home and that this is the Christmas present you desired and deserved!
Twelve new sharp fusillades that make this silly Hardcore-Punk heart inside of your beaten body jump with joy and pounding pleasure. When it comes to timeless and catchy early 80s US Hardcore sound in these fast and modern times of ours, the REGULATIONS take the biggest part of the cake. Once more they managed to step back to the classic Hardcore of the ADOLESCENTS, the CIRCLE JERKS or BLACK FLACK and stir it up with ingenuity, inspiration and passion in meldodic mid-tempo songs like ''Baghdad Beach Party'', ''Creature in a Cage'' or ''In the Shadow of a Mall''. You also find two excellent slower and distorted tunes with ''To be me'' and ''Down the street'' as well as the fast sweeper ''Busy night'' and the yet to be a classic ''Don't bother me'' which could have been recorded ages ago.
This record sure will keep you warm and shaking your bones to these freezing days coming ahead.
RETAINERS. S/T (P.Trash) 12.00 EUR. After appetizing us on various small platters, these four Minnesotites finally deliver the main course on their first big one. What you get is 12 crazy and overdriven chunks of finest Garage-Punk stuffed down your throat and flushed deep down your guts on a wave of surfy guitarlines, crashing cymbals and distorted vocals. From the fast and sharp openers ''Waste of time'' and ''Gimme a pill'' to the more relaxed, but not less threatening ''Next to you'' or ''Commit crime'' right down to the farewell instrumental ''Outerspace rainbow'', this is a raw and stripped-down mash of rattling KBD Punk, the melodic outbursts of JAY REATARD, some rolling Memphis Punk plus a little Surf here and there banned straight and analogically on a 4-track with the helping hand of beers and burgers. A feast for all you noisehungry hounds out there sincerely brought to by P.Trash and Radio 81. Enjoy!
REVELATORS. Let A Poo Boy Ride (Crypt) 12.50 EUR. BACK IN STOCK!! The unissued 2nd album, recorded in 2 days in 1998, and a goddamn masterpiece! John Schooley, Jeremiah and Bill Randt (back then drummer for the New Bomb Turks) wail through 13 cuts and reach the ultimate climax with "Jitterbug Swing". Play at the right volume (yess - all the way up, buddy) and get blown away by Schooleys buzzsaw guitar and Jerimiah's howlin' vocals. Tracks: We Told You Not To Cross Us/ Missouri Mule/ I Can't Stop Lovin'/ Love One Day/ Killin' Me/ Jack Johnson/ What I Want/ It's A Sin/ Lone Star/ Take It Back/ Buzzard & The Hawk/ Rainin In My Heart/ Jitterbug Swing.
REVISIONS. S/T (Wasted Sound) 12.00 EUR. Justin Maurer of CLOROX GIRLS asked Douglas Burns of THE OBSERVERS and RED DONS to perform an acoustic set at one of Maurer’s book readings for, Don’t You Take Your Life. Burns, along with fellow RED DONS members Hajji Husayn and Derek Skokan, adapted songs he wrote while in the OBSERVERS and SPEDS into an acoustic format for the set. This LP includes songs from the new RED DONS LP as well.
ROACH MOTEL. Its Lonely At The Top (Floridas Dying) 14.00 EUR. It's Lonely At The Top is a full length collection compiling tracks from ROACH MOTEL’s two singles, the We Can't Help It We're From Florida comp, as well as tracks which were intended for their ill fated full length, and two live cuts. Many of these tracks have never been released on vinyl before. Its 21 tracks of early blistering hardcore that mixes the ferocity of early Black Flag with the snottiness of Wimpy era Queers. Gainesville’s Roach Motel (featuring future Maximum Rock N Roll columnist GEORGE TABB) were Florida’s most noteworthy contribution to the early American hardcore scene, gaining inclusion in Stephen Bush’s American Hardcore book. They toured Florida with Black Flag and Saccharine Trust in 1982, and played with Minor Threat, The Necros, and Dead Kennedys. Its a privledge to get to put this LP out. Pressing of 1,000 copies with printed inner sleeves including liner notes, pictures, and flyers.
RONDOS. Destroy The Entertainment (Red Wig) 23.50 EUR. DE RONDOS were around from 1978 until 1980. Besides being an art-collective who were sharing a building they used as a base to launch their commie rockets at CRASSholes, the police, nihilist punx and the corrupted consumer society at large—they made some fantastic records too. Grating repetitive stripped down angry compositions—songs is maybe not the right word. They introduced a new gestalt in the Dutch music world; aesthetically having nothing to do with rock, playing on their own terms, writing their own zines, creating D.I.Y. platforms to be inclusive and inspirational. Rehearsal spaces, gigs and stencil machines. Power to the people. This double LP collects their singles on the first side, a selection from a live concert in 1978 on the second. The second LP also contains their Redattack LP. The recordings are raw and to the point. No studio trickery, overdubs or hippy noodling here. The sound is more related to English bands like Wire, Crisis, Crass (their friends turned foes) and Gang of four. They heavily inspired a new wave of bands including The Ex, Zowiso, de Kift, the Nixe and others. Packaged with a fold-out LP-sized lyric sheet and a 24-page booklet of the band’s history in English, written by Rondos singer JOHANNES VAN DE WEERT in 2009, plus lots of photos and artwork.
ROYAL HEADACHE. S/T (RIP Society) 17.00 EUR. “These dudes have been one of the best things about Sydney's resurgent DIY punk scene for a while, on the strength of a self-produced 7" and some pretty amazing live shows, and their album, produced by MIKEY YOUNG of Eddy Current Suppression Ring and Straight Arrows' O OWEN PENGLIS, delivers on their early promise pretty comprehensively. There's a '60s pop hue to punk jams like ‘Down The Lane,’ but they don't come across as revivalists—you can put that down to a combination of a thick romantic streak and a totally prosaic lyrical style which is so terrifically unpretentious that it makes you wonder why so few other songwriters have been able to write like this.”—Rose Quartz
RUSSIAN ROULETTES. R’N’R (P. Trash) 13.00 EUR. Legends of DIGGER AND THE PUSSYCATS, MOTORSPORT, The SPECIMENS, KAMIKAZE TRIO, The ACTIONEERS and SWEARJAR. What do these bands all have in common? Members from the infamous sub-par supergroup RUSSIAN ROULETTES.
Agostino Soldati bangs his vintage drum kit with a fury rarely seen in this town. Sam Agostino screams and scratches his guitar like a possessed demon and Tim Wold pounds his bass guitar into submission!!!
SACRED SHOCK. You’re Not With Us (Residue) 12.00 EUR. Tough as nails hardcore punk from the depths of Austin, TX. Hard- Hitting and Heavy, on this lp you can definetly see these guys influence from Foreign HC from all over the world i'm sure. I hear Finnish influence, Swedish Influence, Japanese Influence, but all maintaining a certain sound for them. Charging brutal hardcore/punk is the way i can describe it, Oh yeah and they cover HEADCLEANERS on here, whoa.
SAFETY PINS. Better Never Than Late (Evil Baby Records) 8.00 EUR. Review From SuperPunk E-Zine: Madre mía, últimamente flipo con los SAFETY PINS. Antes me molaban, pero escuchar sus discos era un poco duro, demasiado piñón fijo y pocas melodías. Pero tras su compartidos con SWEET NOTHINGS y con NCC la cosa está cambiando y de qué manera. Este LP supone la consagración definitiva. Cada vez suenan más a grupos Killed by death 76-82 y eso mola cantidad. Además se marcan unas versión de lujo, versiones que por otro lado deberás adivinar tú mismo, je je je. Bueno te doy una pista, "Greens" es de los WARDS; y lo cierto es que les queda de puta madre. Una flipada de disco, fácil de escuchar y apto para bailar pogo todo el rato. Me encanta "The safety pins theme" con ese teclado, una delicia con sabor a 80's. Si no lo compras es que no te gusta el Punk.
SAINTS. (I’m) Stranded (4 Men With Bears) 17.00 EUR. BACK IN STOCK!! The Saints were to Australia what the Sex Pistols were to Britain, and the Ramones to America. Moreover, the Saints were blitzing the unsuspecting in their home of Brisbane in 1973, long before the Sex Pistols or the Ramones had even begun. Even today's punk fans are amazed at the sheer tenacity and outright fire of the title cut, 'Nights in Venice,' 'One Way Street,' and 'Erotic Neurotic.' Hear history burning. Original artwork, gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl.
SAM PECKINPAH’S ORDER. Veteranos Del Desorden (Brackula Records/Bazofia Records) 12.00 EUR. Banda de Zaragoza influenciada por bandas como Lone Star,ilegales,o la primera hornada de bandas mod de Barcelona,aunque más garage,edición ultra-limitada de 300 copias.
SEDATIVES. Same (P.Trash) 12.00 EUR. After having given us the first 7'' fix a couple of month ago, us leeches out there craved for more of that exceptional sound.
To finally put an end to our itching turkey, Canada's four-piece SEDATIVES throw these 11 ounces of Punkrock smack into the filthy gutters and back alleys of the record junkie underworld. Each of the anthemic songs is like a candy-like pill that suddenly develops its dark and dangerous effects and takes you for a mid-tempo three-chord-ride on pumping drums, downstroke guitars and church organ tunes that float in the air while a hell of a melodic voice sings of human failure and personal devastation. This is one good bag of an archaic Punkrock record with a sombre undertone and the dose of danger and catchyness that you seek for. The fierce ''Cannot calm down'' and ''Superstitious minds'' are already known from the first 7'' and were now rerecorded with Skottie of THE CREEPS providing guest vocals, as well as Rob of the STATUES singing on the Überhit ''Slip away'', while new songs like the looming ''Backlash'', ''Catastrophe'', ''No Time'' or ''Hollow in the heart'' show that the band is up for more. So keep on scratching till the next time.
SEX VID. Communal Living (Dom America) 11.00 EUR. Eight more songs from this Olympia, Washington hardcore band and the first release featuring the band's second guitarist. Raw, noisy, devastating music.
Killer Lp from one of the best HC/PUNK bands going right now. Dark, twisted, and brutal for sure. You don't want to skip over this one, they've out-done themselves on this lp for sure. From the ultra fast HC Rippers to the slowed down pulverizing jams, this lp is a rock solid monster from start to finish. Great layout and feel to the whole thing. There's a reason this band is loved by almost every HC fan. They rule.
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS. Sleep Talk (1-2-3-4 Go) 14.00 EUR. SHANNON AND THE CLAMS return with a brand new album that tops everything they’ve done before. Sleep Talk features twelve new songs that Kim Fowley and Lou Christie would have clawed each others eyes out to get a hold of in the early ‘60s. Shannon can belt out fierce and fun like Wanda Jackson and Etta James going head to head in a competition for the last bottle of hooch in a song like "King of the Sea" and then play that heartbroken bad girl tryin’ to do good bit that hasn't been done this well since the Tammys or the Shangri-La's in a song like "Tired of Being Bad." CODY, the bands guitarist and other main song writer/singer comes on like a crooning, hiccuping, lo-fi garage version of the aformentioned Christie. Excercising the economy and aggression of Garage Rock in ways Lou would never have imagined but with a tenderness and vocal register you know he'd appreciate. Ian, the band's drummer, in addition to his skill at his own instrument provides additional back ups that would make Ennio Morricone and a tribe of head hunters equally as proud.
SHUDDERS. Big Heat (Teen Action) 17.00 EUR. THE SHUDDERS return with a full-length LP of ferocious, raunchy, rock’n’roll. After quickly selling out their debut 3-song CDR on Teen Action a few months back, the girls swept through the US tearing up stage after stage with bands like NOBUNNY, TURBOSLUT, DIGITAL LEATHER and GRAVY TRAIN, earning them a reputation as a unique and energetic force to be reckoned with. Limited to 240 hand-numbered copies.
SIGHTINGS. Michigan Haters (S-S Records) 14.00 EUR. SIGHTINGS' live shows sure as hell aren't background music for a thrift-store fashion show. They bring the pain but good. Sightings‚ second album (first, Sightings and third, Absolutes are on Load), Michigan Haters captures the sonic abandon that makes their performances such a liberating mindfuck. This Brooklyn by way of Motown trio pounds out an abrasive skronk that at first comes off as a pure denial. The primitivist, lurching rhythms, shuddery basslines and trebly guitar slashes seem conceived to prove that Sightings is more punk than you, and you're just not meant to understand. But then, wait a second. You've been bruised, defeated, and suddenly you're floating in a river of psychedelic scree. Mark M. is yelping out some Lord of the Flies incantations. You can't pogo to it, but you can twitch all night. The violence of Michigan Haters flows in all directions; it destroys itself and the listener to reveal hidden conduits of sound, from the rubberized rumble of "Chili Dog" to the more bleached and angular "Guilty of Wrecking." It's a soundtrack for punching holes in walls and watching them bleed vital fluids. Sightings play noise that hasn't been defused by aesthetic noodling; they're not Sonic Youth and they don't want o be. Think DNA, Big Black, Keiji Haino if you have to think at all. Play it loud and watch the neighbors run for cover. Originally released in 2002 on Psych-O-Path.
SILK FLOWERS. As Above So Below (Captured Tracks) 12.50 EUR. A new six-track EP by this current NYC live staple. Eerie and experimental electronic pop from former members of SOILED MATTRESS & THE SPRINGS and CAR CLUTCH. Recent full-length album released by PPM.
SILLA ELÉCTRICA. Ritmo Suicida (Sólo Para Punks) 8.00 EUR. Después de sus recompendables singles por fin tenemos el debut en larga duración de Silla Eléctrica. Trío afincado en los Mandriles que le dan al punk cavérnicola cual chimpacé en celo se tratase. A guitarrazos simples y con bateria a piñon se meriendam 18 temacos huracanados que deleitarán a los simples de espíritu, porque de ellos será el reino de la felicidad.
SISTA SEKUNDEN. Åldras Med Sti (P.Trash) 12.50 EUR. Swedish Punk devotees SISTA SEKUNDEN's new big plate is filled to the brim with enthusiasm and joyous anthems that go against time and serve as a brilliant manual to age with style.
Still angry, still pissed-off and still loving the healing powers of punky Hardcore the four midsters keep on delivering a sweeping 13-song swipe on politicians, priests and other pigs who want to tell you what to do, left wing hooligans, hispster bands and their overpriced products, welfare states and police violence. They really took their time to rasp and file some hard edges off their sound and stepped a little off the throttle in favor of more melodic and catchier mid-tempo tunes that let us have a glimpse on personal issues like being the last Punk standing, leaving your boring hometown behind, the never ending love for Punk and Hardcore and growing old in style, just like singer Dempe's grandpa Knut, looking at us proud and sincere from the cover of this album. A man who spend 50 years as a steelworker for a goldwatch and a handshake and to whom the song 'Morfar Knut' is dedicated. For all the professional againsters who refuse to give in to a prefab life and rather keep on keeping on listening to some timeless music; get this record that is bound to become a milestone in Swedish Punkrock for generations ahead to enjoy!
SLOWMOTIONS. Dial Eleven (Partners In Crime) 11.00 EUR. Japan's THE SLOWMOTIONS make their stateside debut with this eleven-track LP, which contains all five of the band's out of print EPs that were previously released on HG Fact. The music is a poppy, jangly garage punk freakout played by Japanese hardcore veterans.
SLUGFUCKERS. Three Feet Behind Glass/ Instant Classic 12" (Insolito Records) 14.00 EUR. The Slugfuckers were started in the late 1970s in Sydney, Australia by Terry Blake (vocals), John Laidler (guitar) and Graham Forsyth (bass) who were all at the time students or recent graduates of the Department of General Philosophy at Sydney University. Craig Wilcox (keyboard), Gordon Renouf (guitar, sax), Austin Laverty (drumkit) joined soon after.
They released two extremely rare singles in 1979 which are combined on this 12” and an album in 1981. Bridging the nascence of punk, DIY, and industrial, The Slugfuckers took the true intent of punk and carried it to a logical extreme. With shouted vocals, almost rudimentary playing, volume on ten and many obligatory messy interludes they enthralled, engaged and repelled in equal parts.
A raw, underproduced angry attack that bores right into your brain.
It will catch the ears of those who can embrace abstract punk sounds or industrial harshness. To be filed alongside The Homosexuals, The Desperate Bicycles, The Instant Automatons, The Prats, Door and the Window, The Versatile Newts, etc etc. Avant / Post -punk madness that leaves you scratching your skull. Noise historians will wonder over the use of Manson references, Burroughs samples and Anti-art manifestos way before the Industrial boys tried to claim them as their own." - Harbingersound. "
...noisier and more abrasive than most first generation industrial stuff, a hell of a lot more punk than, say, The Lewd and intelligent in a scary, vicious bullying kind of way" - Johan Kugelberg, Ugly Things Magazine.
Limited to 500 copies, it’s on 180 gram vinyl in tip-on jackets with the artwork from the EP and poly lined inner sleeve plus liner notes.
SMALLTOWN. Implosion (Deranged) 12.50 EUR. SMALLTOWN’s second full-length is Implosion and as expected, it is a total melodic punk explosion. More of the same great melodic mod influenced punk found on their last album, The Music--full of ultra catchy, anthemic songs with raw tuneful vocals and teeth clenching riffs. Think the Strike and Stiff Little Fingers. Their last single was hailed as 'one of the best disc of the decade' in MRR. US tour in the works for this summer.
SMITH WESTERNS. S/T (Hozac) 12.50 EUR. At long last, the debut full-length from Chicago's SMITH WESTERNS has landed and it's going to make this Summer the best ever, for real. With their metamorphosis over the past year from a sloppy teenage punk mess into a full-fledged glam pop explosion, this is one incredible leap of progress. Lovers and haters both will agree, and if you haven't tuned in to their latest recordings, it might cause a jolt of euphoric confusion that you can really warm up to, as you marvel at their fastidious growth while digging through the outer fringes of rock'n roll's vast well of influences. You can either chalk it up to the pristine Fuk Sity production that boggles the mind, or those instant classic songs that stick in your head for weeks, but any way you slice it, The Smith Westerns have officially arrived with this album. Strings and piano? Yep, they've really made those moves, and as they manage to keep each song interesting and unique, fans of true pop will be blown away like nothing else going these days. Straddling the fine line between the misty-eyed feyness of Brett Smiley and Milk'n'Cookies, with the slithering macho grunt of Marc Bolan's silk pajamas tied around Alvin Stardust's throat, it's nothing short of a modern Summer classic power pop album. 800 copies pressed on black vinyl.
SNIVELLING SHITS. I Can’t Come (Damaged Goods) Picture LP 16.00 EUR. The third ever release on Damaged Goods was the original vinyl version of this Album. ‘Terminal Stupid’, their one and only single was one of my favourite’s from 1977 and in 1988 I searched out lead singer Giovanni Dadamo and together we put together this great album. It features both sides of their only 7” plus another track they released on the Beggars Banquet compilation ‘Streets’ (Beggars first release) although they had to change their name (to Arthur Comics) as Beggars were worried about the word ‘shits’ on the cover of their album. Anyway we found another 6 or so tracks and put it out, at the time Gio had also unearthed one of the three tracks that he co-wrote and recorded with The Damned, ‘There ‘Aint No Sanity Claus’ is included on the CD and has never been available before. This is a review of the original album from the Trouser Press website....‘The hazard of anyone-can-do-it musical movements is what might get dragged in. Fortunately, the jokey Snivelling Shits - two London rock critics (singer Giovanni Dadomo and guitarist Dave Fudger) and such musician friends as Steve Nicol of the Hot Rods and bassist Steve Lillywhite - were sharply skilled at smuttily satirising the sounds of '77. As anthologised in this archival colored-vinyl document, the band's brief recording career (eight whole tracks, including the viciously irreverent "isgodaman?," originally released on a Beggars Banquet compilation LP under the name Arthur Comics?) included incisive swipes at the Sex Pistols, John Cooper Clarke ("I Wanna Be Your Biro") and the Velvet Underground. That's history for you.’
SOMETHING FIERCE. Don’t Be So Cruel (Dirtnap) 13.50 EUR. The third album and proper Dirtnap debut from Houston, TX upstarts SOMETHING FIERCE. If the group’s There Are No Answers perfected the Marked Men-meets-The-Buzzcocks brand of snappy poppy punk they’d been working on since their inception in 2005, Don't Be So Cruel finds 'em rapidly expanding outwards from that sound. While undeniably influenced by various strands of ‘70s punk, this record is slightly more subtle and sophisticated than mere ‘77-revivalists would have it. Slightly nuanced, almost understated at times, vapid party-punk this is most definitely not. Thoughtful, well written, well played songs that strike a perfect balance between fun and smart.
SONIC AVENUES. Television Youth (Dirtnap) 13.50 EUR. SONIC AVENUES are just four Montreal kids who started riffing punk tunes in 2006, but since getting swept up in the booming punk epicentre of neighbouring Ottawa, they've been catapulted into the ranks of the best pop-punk acts in Canada! After releasing a few singles, SA dropped a bomb in late 2009 with their debut LP on Ottawa's infamous Going Gaga Records. Within a few short months, the record had sold-out twice, including a European repress by Germany's fine Taken By Surprise and Sabotage Records. Two years later, after obliterating eardrums from stages across North America and Europe, they returned home to record a crushing follow-up, Television Youth for Portland-based label Dirtnap Records. Featuring more of the over-driven guitars, infectious harmonized melodies and blazing 2-3 minute songs that powered their debut, SA have nonetheless pushed the limits into new territories with this latest offering. In short, Television Youth is punkier, poppier, louder and dirtier than anything they've done before. Armed with this devastating new arsenal, as well as ambitious touring plans spanning the (un)civilized world, SONIC AVENUES are sure to keep fists in the air and beers a-flyin' for years to come.
SONIDO ALFREDO. S/T 12” (Discos Humenates) 12.00 EUR. En el verano de 2010 vuelven al estudio, repiten en Circo Perrotti y dejan 10 temas, los 10 del segundo largo que ahora editan, de nuevo, en Discos Humeantes, también sin título y en tirada de 500 copias. Esta vez bajo una delirante portadaza de Pedro Vera, dibujante de gran calibre en la línea de pensamiento de estos tres individuos, e incluyendo una suculenta versión de la celebérrima Das Model de Kraftwerk interpretada “à l’alfredo”. En este segundo trabajo avanzan en su conflicto mongol vs. World dejando para la posteridad porciones de simple y contundente rocanrol, en directo, sincero, crudo, sin envase, sin colorantes ni conservantes, pero con mucho picante.
SONIDO ALFREDO. S/T (Discos Humeantes) 12.00 EUR. Primer largo de este trío practicante de un personalísimo ¡Garage, Surf, Punk! Trece temas en menos de media hora a 45rpm que van paseando entre instrumentales desencaja pelvis y auténticos hits cantados en castellano.
SPECTACLES. Re-Spectacled (Rave Up) 13.00 EUR. Finally one of the legends of the early S.Francisco punk music are on vinyl. These amazing tracks were in fact recorded in 1980 but they never saw the light! Now, after 30 years, Rave Up records discovered these pioneers of Art Punk music.
The band was really popular in the Bay Area and opened for many important bands such Black Flag, The Lewd, The Mentors, Los Lobos, Red Hot Chili Peppers ecc... This album is ESSENTIAL for every fan of bands such Devo, Pere Ubu, Screamers, Von Lmo ecc… So, grab this incredible Lp, all recorded in studio right now! No filler! 100% American genius! Art cover designed by Winston Smith!!!!!!
SPITS. S/T 5th Album (In The Red) 13.00 EUR. Everyone’s favorite space-age mutant skate punks The Spits are back with their long-awaited fifth album (self-titled, as were the previous four) and these twelve new action-packed songs of apocalyptic, fuzzed-out, over-driven madness do not disappoint. Going strong now for over fifteen years, smashing the windows and tearing down the walls every time they roll through town, these truly vicious visionaries have cooked punk down to its most powerful base form, crawling like Neanderthals through the muck and creating a flaming trail of hits that’ll take quite a fit of dementia to ever forget. A perfect distillation of punk’s original open-ended weirdness and modern music’s serrated salvation, The Spits have proven themselves to be no one to fuck with, over and over again. True headliners, never to be followed and for good reason. One of the only modern bands to have several of their songs covered by their contemporaries, The Spits have already done so much but still have so much more ahead, as they continue to influence anyone with a penchant for irresistible punk music, played like there’s nothing to lose.
SPITS. 19 Million AC (Slovenly) 11.00 EUR. A rip-it-up collection of rare and out-of-print material from punk rockers the SPITS. Includes all the songs from the band's 19 Million AC 7-inch EP, along with seven unheard new songs, and a handful of rare and unreleased gems--including covers of GG Allin's "Drink, Fight & Fuck" and the Dick's "Kill From The Heart."
SPITS. Third Album (Slovenly) 11.00 EUR. El tercer disco de estos mongolos. Hoy me visto de monja, mañana de Reagan y pasado quien sabe!!! Originalmente editado en Dirtnap y reeditado ahora por el pequeño gran Pete Slovenly! Punk! Rock! Diversión! Spits!!!
SPITS. S/T (Slovenly) 11.00 EUR. The latest from Seattle dimwitted retard kings the SPITS. A nine-track blow-out of ripping old-school punk, garage rock and keyboard-slobbered new wave, delivered with thought-empty heads and booze-filled stomachs.
SPITS. 2006 European Tour (P.Trash) 15.00 EUR. Now in it's second edition w/green cover! After Pope Benedict paid Germany a visit this year's spring, another highlight is following soon with the European tour of the godly THE SPITS! THE SPITS are well-known for their tilted, yet melodic new wave punk, just like a mixture of the RAMONES and thrashy DEVO. Take this and think of it being spit over the obscure sounds of the late 70's KILLED BY DEATH 7"s and you get quite a good grasp of what to expect from this band. THE SPITS are pure punk rock party! If you've seen them live and didn't freak out, you must be dead! I had that pleasure before - on their last European tour, when even a broken wrist didn't keep the guitarist/keyboarder from turning the whole audience in an old brothel musically upside down. Their crazy stage outfits (Ninja, Taliban, Reagan masks) complete the madness! The a-side (6 songs plus hidden bonus track) fully resembles that "die-hard-party-live-feeling". Catchy tunes such as "Die Die Die", "Drop Out" in a thrashy version, as well as unreleased KBD cover songs from THE KIDS, BLACK EASTER and CRAP DETECTORS will shake you up roughly, so that soon enough you will turn your living room furniture into a mess. The 6 songs on the b-side were being recorded live at the "Dave the Spazz radio show", and there's more SPITS party hits such as "Nuclear Bomb", "Spits Me Out", "Remote Control",... in raw, stripped down versions. All this is being wrapped up in a fabulous "spit on the Pope, and read your result in the Spit-o-meter" screen print cover. Artwork by Jose Menor, screenprinted by Slowboy.
SS-20. Secta Suicida Siglo 20 (Secta Suicida) 12.50 EUR. BACK IN STOCK!! SS-20 fue una oscura banda del DF, con una chica, Zapa, al frente, que solo dejó grabado este mini LP en los años 80, pleno de rabia y desesperación. 8 canciones de punk-hardcore furioso bastan, es una bomba. Píllate esto ya.
LA STASI. Llamando Al Manzanares (Discos Regresivos) 10.00 EUR. Discos Regresivos se enorgullece en presentar el LP más PUNK del año a ambas orillas del Manzanares. 11 temas nuevos y una versión, aptas sólo para mentes inquietas.
Imagina un día lluvioso. Es tu cumpleaños, lleno de asquerosa gente atravesando ojos con paraguas, en el que te gustaría mandar al de al lado a la mierda, insultar y huir cual cobarde, acabando en un parque con un abuelo bohemio.
Ese día, tu cáncer de nalga no te dejará mantener tu humor guay, ni podrás disfrutar la peli porno cómo te gustaría, pero siempre podrás rendir pleitesía a tu ídolo, Javier Clemente, y pensar en matar enamorados en San Valentín o a algún icono de la movida madrileña.
Ese día es como el LP de la Stasi.....
STATIC STATIC. Psychic Eyes (Tic Tac Totally) 13.00 EUR. An official release of STATIC STATIC’s Psychic Eyes LP in case you weren't able to get one of the 200 hand-screened tour copies last year. Static Static combine live and electronic instruments and percussion in a way that produces a serious sounding, sharpened state of bright and hynotic electronic fuzz punk. Citing influences like Devo, Chrome, Electric Eels, Suicide you can gather an image pretty quickly. Definitely a must have rocker with a reserved and serious no bullshit sound that shirks all the speculative bullshit for a straight ahead approach with no time for anything but good fucking songs.
LOS STEAKS. No Moon Album (Discos Humeantes) 10.00 EUR. Los Steaks se estrenaron el año pasado con un par de vinilos editados en sellos forasteros. Un single recopilatorio con Black Orphan y los Menthols en el sello americano Ufo Dictatator y un 7” para ellos solitos en el sello alemán Milk and Chocolate. "No Moon Album" es su primer disco largo, y menudo disco señores.... Caminan a paso firme con un pie en la playa y otro en cementerio y en el pueden encontrarse referencias a los grandísimos Gories, Beat Happening, Subway Sect o Gun Club por nombrar algunos. Escucha Basement, Shadows, Windy Day... y te darás cuenta de que este es el disco que todo joven de bien necesita para empezar bien el año.
STEVE ADAMYK BAND. Forever Won’t Wait (Dirtnap) 13.50 EUR. THE STEVE ADAMYK BAND are a bunch of obnoxious, rowdy, "kids" from Ottawa, Ontario. While the name would automatically draw comparison to a blues, jazz or rock band given the layout, make no mistake; the Steve Adamyk Band are a punk band. The SAB play trash-pop inspired by seventies punk, the skinny tie bands of the eighties, and nineties garage rock. From the ashes of MILLION DOLLAR MARXISTS (Gearhead Records) and SEDATIVES (Deranged Records), the group was born out of necessity—a whack load of orphan songs with no band to call home. Frustrated playing in bands that would eventually call it quits, Adamyk formed a band that could have an endless timeline, even if the name is outside of the standard band name zone. Releasing two European singles before their first live performance, the SAB would go on to unload 4 seven inch singles and an LP in 2010. The self-titled LP in question sold out its initial pressing in three months and received rave reviews. The following year, the SAB toured Europe, performed at SXSW and recorded their sophomore LP Forever Won't Wait. More touring and releases are currently in the works for 2012, as it doesn't appear to be slowing down anytime soon.
STITCHES. Do The Jetset (Vinyl Dog) 12.50 EUR. "Nonsensical. Antagonistic. Confrontational. The Uncomfortable Feeling of Punk." THE STITCHES Do The Jetset on Vinyl Dog Records is a 6-song 12-inch of old Stitches' favorites recorded at Maple Studios by COREY GASH in 2005. The songs are done, um, well, kinda like Devo's “Easy Listening Disc" but with way less talent. Electronic drums, children’s toys and absence of mind are all combined to make a “Metal Urbain fights The Screamers with guitars” 12” EP designed for your 110% New Wave listening pleasure. Originally masterplanned as a way of painting a line on the tarmac between those that are in the know and those that aren't. The Jetset was performed live only once during a strategically place gig at The Brigg in Huntington Beach. The easily stumped, narrow‐minded ones threw chairs, bottles, insults and fists. Death threats were made. When one tough guy threateningly told Stitches' guitarist, JOHNNY WITMER, "Next time you play that shit, I'll fuckin' kill you." He replied, "Why wait?" Words are useless. Limited to 1,000 copies.
STITCHES. 8x12 – 15th Anniversary Special Edition (Modern Action) 14.00 EUR. the 2nd release from our outta the vault series is an absolute killer! on many-a-list for best record of the 90's, we are proud to bring you the 15th anniversary special edition of THE STITCHES - 8 x 12". Originally released in 1995 on the legendary Vinyl Dog Records and now what better way to end out the great year we have had in 2010 than to give this legendary record a Modern Action Records make over. This edition is a one time pressing, limited to 300 copies. It comes pressed on purple vinyl with black and white silk screened covers. Each cover is hand numbered and comes with a STITCHES button attached to the lower right hand corner. Each record comes with a double sided lyric sheet and a double sided 11" x 11" insert showing flyers, pictures, etc from the early Stitches years. To top off this package is an 11" x 17" copy of the original record release poster from 1995. This is actually a dual record release promo poster from Vinyl Dog Records announcing the VD release of THE STITCHES 8 x 12" and also the VD release of the US BOMBS debut LP with a great MIKE/DUANE photo as the centerpiece. Classic artifact, suitable for framing! The actual tunes need no hype, since we know you already heard em and they still stand up to anything released by any band since...So make sure your cup is in and get ready for a five o'clock sack beatdown.... Limited to 300 total copies….
STORMTROOPER. I'm A Mess (Rave Up) 13.00 EUR. Stormtrooper formed and disbanded in a fury in 1975 before punk rock arose
out of the ashes of glam and pub rock! .
Their debut single "I'm A Mess" was described by the British music press as "the sound of a commuter being shoved under a tube train in the rush hour, one for howling at the moon and a tale of drunkenness in the wild of Soho" The band formed at the bar in the Marquee
Club by British front man Nigel Hutchings and bassist Jeff Piccinini who recruited John Pilka on guitar and Mike Lee on drums.
They recorded a demo of 4 songs in August of 1975 and then signed with
Corruption Management on the Portobello Road for a couple of pints and some distant promises. The band played only one gig at the Bath Pavilion, then split-up. This, ladies and gentleman, was before the birth of punk rock and the tracks of this anthology are pure “punk” before... punk!!!!
STRANGE ATTRACTOR. S/T (Red Lounge) 11.50 EUR. Killer Garage Dirt from this brand new outfit! Jeff from the STATUES and his buddies are a dirty bunch of NIGHT BANGERS!! Check it out, the LP will be to kill for!!! Important Facts that might just win you a million on TV: 19 Gripping Songs in less the 20 minutes! And no "Diamonds and Rust" or "The Ballad Of Jimmy Hendrix" either!
SUBHUMANS. Death Was Too Kind (Alternative Tentacles) 13.00 EUR. Subhumans and DOA were the two pillars of the Vancouver, BC, Canada punk scene who caught Jello Biafra's attention and were spotlighted in the landmark Alternative Tentacles compilation Let Them Eat Jellybeans. The Subhumans, first active between 1978 and 1982, were the more elusive of the two, with many out-of-print releases fetching bank on eBay and making it difficult for present-day fans to connect the dots.
Now, the Subhumans join the Alternative Tentacles "Reissues of Necessity" pantheon with Death Was Too Kind, a collection of material from the early years, lovingly remastered from original source material: the very first single "Death to the Sickoids" (only 500 were pressed); the "Firing Squad" single; the self-titled EP; "Look at the Dawn" and "Pissed Off... With Good Reason," two virtually lost songs (only available on the 1996 collection CD released by Essential Noise in Canada), especially remastered for this reissue from the original tapes by Jesse Gander at Hive Studios. Death Was Too Kind features the band's best-known lineup with Wimpy Roy, Gerry Useless, Mike Graham, Dimwit, and Jim Imagawa.
SUBMARINE RACES. Hard To Look At, Easy To See (In The Red) LP+CD 13.00 EUR. Watching the submarine races" is a euphemism for making out (and more) in a car. It's the kind of thing a cop would say to be funny when he knocks on the fogged-up window of your Chevy parked in back of the Safeway to ask what you're doing there at 1:00 a.m. This Submarine Races is a three-piece from Chicago, Illinois, fronted by Ian Adams, formerly of The Ponys and Happy Supply. The Submarine Races play spiky art pop that displays Adams's love for literate UK post-punk as well as the simple but sublime songs of The Easybeats and '60s girl groups. The group is powered by Adams's serpentine melodies, 12-string Rickenbacker leads, and adenoidal vocals, which blend the elegantly wasted plaints of the Only Ones' Peter Perrett and the nervy quaver of the Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano. Bassist Steve Denekas and drummer Paul John Higgins give a jolt to Adams's originals, which are marked by his lovelorn lyrics.
On Hard To Look At, Easy To See, the band's second album, the Submarine Races deliver thirteen tracks that rock harder and are even more infectious than their debut. Adams's pop chops have never been sharper and his anglophile leanings recall the best tunes of Monochrome Set or Pastels. Denekas chips in with a lacerating garage free-for-all, "Let It Go," and the disc even includes a cover of pipe organ magician Korla Pandit's "Harem Bells."
SUBTLE TURNHIPS. Terd (Hozac) 12.50 EUR. At long last, the French Cro-Magnon punque masters SUBTLE TURNHIPS have returned from the blackness with their third staggering LP of slobbering soiled savagery, and we couldn't be more pleased to help shovel it down your throats. Finally available to folks outside of their alcove of animosity and thrusting forth a sludgy, refreshing blast of toilet-wave toxicity that never sits well in pleasant situations, these three cave-dwelling cretins have created a modern masterpiece of rudimentary punk damage, never straying far off from each song's well beaten two-chord pummeling. For a band that's been surreptitiously releasing records for over twenty years now, the release of this new Terd LP is cause for rejoicing in that, at the very least, it's accessible to the farther-down-the-food-chain life forms that will embrace it the most. Mining only the most slavish nuances culled from punk's deepest grievances and stewed in an acidic bath of primal lunacy stemming from isolation, desperation, and overall sonic decapitation, it's with great pleasure that we unleash the Subtle Turnhips' latest poisonous blast of primordial perfection, the Terd LP upon your vulnerable and unprepared soul. First pressing of 400 copies.
SUDOR. Ganas De Vomitar (Beat Generation/Sólo Para Punks) 10.00 EUR. Después de un EP y un LP compartido, los de Toledo regresan con un disco grande para demostrar que en la ciudad imperial no solo hay espadas, armaduras y espiritú rancio heredado del Alcazar. Título explícito para un contenido que arrolla en sus diez cortes, una exhalación hecha bilis que se devanea entre la herencia de Discharge y el hardcore ochentero de los paises escandinavos, eso sí, sin perder su toque mas rockero en esos punteos de alumno de primaria. Lapos de bilis, inconformismo, rabia y por supuesto sentido del humor.
SUDOR/CRIMEN DE ESTADO. Split 12” (Mal Sonido) 6.00 EUR. BACK IN STOCK!! Por fin disponible el 12" entre estas dos bandas de punk radical del Estado. Ambas tocan punk con letras anarquistas, musicalmente inspirado en Discharge y las bandas italianas de comienzos de 1980. Presentación del disco 'Hazlo tú mismo' con la carpeta y las galletas serigrafiadas. PVP 6 leuros. Si te piden mas, róbalo.
SUPER WILD HORSES. Fifteen (Hozac) 12.50 EUR. HoZac Records is proud to announce the much anticipated debut album by Melbourne duo SUPER WILD HORSES. It's rare that such a striking balance between tough and tender can be executed as well as it has on this long-player, bridging post-punk simplicity with savagely primitive propulsion, all wrapped up in a scratchy indie-pop envelope, sealed and delivered right into your vulnerable skull. Super Wild Horses are two Melbourne gals who switch between guitar, drums and keyboard. Formed in 2009, they play taut, minimal and decidedly garage based pop music that relies heavily on dual harmonies over sparse arrangements. Following the release of their one sold-out EP in 2009, they have played around Australia with the likes of Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Jon Spencer, The Drones and My Disco, including a much-talked about Golden Plains Sunday morning set. In addition to this, they have garnered an international cult following and had a song featured on a Bonds TV commercial. The band's debut album, Fifteen is a heady concoction of hits, from the softly crushing sunny pop tracks that seduce and mesmerize on contact, to the impossibly catchy, noise-laden numbers that channel these ladies' choppy expertise of stripped-down tension and texture. Recorded by ECSR’s MIKEY YOUNG, this breakthrough album perfectly captures the chunky guitar/drum wallop and ripe vocal melodies. Truly an original sound in these modern times, which reflects nuances of alt-pop heroes from Dolly Mixture to The Breeders to later-era Bikini Kill, with all the hooks in between. Don't miss their maiden US Tour this September, along with a special appearance at Gonerfest in Memphis, and the Maximum Freedom Fest near Sacramento.
SWINGING NECKBREAKERS. Pop Of The Tops (Telstar) 14.50 EUR. Long awaited new album by the buzz-loving, NJ garage rock icons who pack houses in Norway and rock out in fictional "Soprano" bars! The trio's first slab in about a decade features the band's typical high-energy rock 'n' snot.
TAMARYN. Led Astray Washed Ashore (Troubleman Unlimited) 13.50 EUR. Somber and seductive, brooding and atmospheric, TAMARYN’s debut EP is filled with the kind of shimmering songs that alto chanteuses like NICO and SIOUXSIE SIOUX offered us in years past. Her voice is both a weight against the current of reverb-drenched guitars and a floating ornament atop the driving drums that underpin her songs. The music hovers between dark, tribal minimalism and lush post-punk grandiosity, infusing the familiar with the unexpected. Led Astray, Washed Ashore is an intriguing release to say the least.”--Big Takeover. Includes guest appearances from NICK ZINNER (YEAH YEAH YEAHS) and JALELL BUNTON (TV ON THE RADIO). Edition of 500 copies. Packaged with embossed sleeves.
TDeK. Carnevision (Munster) 12.00 EUR. Munster Records reedita, en vinilo de 180 gramos, los dos primeros Lp's de la mejor y más infravalorada banda punk que tuvimos en los 80. Rápidos, abrasivos, cáusticos, inquietantes y peligrosos. Radicales de verdad, provocadores más allá del panfleto.
TDK son las siglas de Terrorismo Destrucción y Kaos. TDK nació en el año 1984. Su formación original estaba compuesta por José (guitarra), Maguü (batería), Alfonso Cronopio (voz) y Manolo UVI (bajo). Poco después Manolo sería sustituido por Paco Lanáquera (ex-Panadería bollería nuestra señora del Carmen). La banda madrileña llegó a publicar cinco LP's y tres singles. En sus comienzos su sonido era hardcore punk a toda velocidad y su estilo era cercano a unos Dead Kennedys. De hecho, Biafra, el cantante de Dead Kennedys, escribió a los componentes de TDK felicitándoles sorprendido al escuchar una banda punk del estado español tan salvaje. Su fama llegó hasta los Estados Unidos. En New York, en la emisora punk de mayor audiencia, fueron considerados como una de las diez mejores bandas de hardcore del mundo.
Tras la marcha de Alfonso a EEUU el grupo pasa a ser un trío donde siguen trabajando y editan lo que serian sus tres últimos discos ("A toda prisa", "Como una pesadilla" y "La nueva era de los masters"). Eso si, con un cambio radical en su estilo, llegando a grabar el primer disco de Hip Hop de este país.
TEENGENERATE. Smash Hits (Estrus) 14.50 EUR. REISSUED!!! Fifteen doses of revved-up and raw punk fury culled from FINK and company’s unrelenting kamikaze barrage of 7-inch buzz bombs…only the best of the best from Japan’s undisputed garage/punk overlords, TEENGENERATE! This LP is a fast and furious firebomb of feedback & thunder, tailor made for your next dragstrip showdown or house wrecking party. So, give those worn out singles a rest...back over yer radio, redline your tach.
THUNDERTRAIN. Teenage Suicide (Rockin’ Bones) 10.00 EUR. En los años setenta, antes de que el punk irrumpiera en Inglaterra, estos compañeros de viaje de Dictators o Runaways, le daban al rock and roll cañero y eran muy conocidos en la escena underground tanto de su ciudad (Boston) como de Nueva York. En este álbum, ahora reeditado e incialmente publicado en 1977, nos encontramos con 12 temas, grabados entre los años 75 y 76. En definitiva rock potente en títulos clásicos como "I'm So Excited", "Hot For Teacher!", "Modern Girls", "I Gotta Rock", "Forever & Ever" o "Love The Way".
TIME FLYS. Rebels Of Babylon (Birdman) 13.00 EUR. Oakland, California's enfant-terribles The Time Flys are back with another blast of rock'n'roll rebellion. Performing at the pinnacle of their powers, these guys (and gal) pick up right where their debut, Fly, left off. Together, Sir Eric "The Masher" Von Ravenson, Andy Freeze (aka Andy Jordan of The Cuts), Erin Error and Peter P. Juvenile seamlessly fuse mid '70s glam, late '70s proto-punk, and even later '70s Killed By Death-style punk to create music that, in these stale times, sounds remarkably fresh. The combination of guitar, bass, drums and attitude hasn't sounded this great since the heyday of Sire Records.
Time Flys don't simply rummage the back catalogs of the Velvets or the Voidoids; they dig deep, touching on groups like DMZ, The Real Kids, The Huns and AK-4. Unlike the kid who threw his watch out the window, the Time Flys don't dumb it down like so many balls-out punk retards-- the riffs on Rebels Of Babylon may be tough, but they're also fairly complex. In fact, The Time Flys might be the only group playing original recipe punk at this level in 2007. Doubting thomases who scoff at moderne punk groups might be surprised to discover how much they dig this.
TNT. Manifiesto Guernika (Munster) 14.00 EUR. BACK IN STOCK!! Uno de los pilares y discos más importantes del punk español, "Manifiesto Guernika" (1983) fue el único álbum oficial del grupo de Granada TNT. En él se dan cita el punk del 77, el after-punk de principios de los 80 y los Clash del "Combat Rock", en canciones cuya temática cubre la Guerra Civil Española, "1984" de George Orwell, "La naranja mecánica" de Stanley Kubrick y la influencia poética de la tierra de origen del grupo. Edición limitada con reproducción del encarte original.
TOREROS AFTER OLE. Grabaciones RNE 1984 (Radikal 77) 11.00 EUR. At last the songs that were recorded in 1984, at Radio Nacional de Espaa Studios, see the light. Toreros after Ol played live these songs one afternoon in march, after being invited by Carlos Tena to appear at his radio show. Here you can find three previously unheard Toreros songs! Now you can enjoy the furious and quality raw punk by these punks from Vallecas.
TOTAL ABUSE. S/T (Deranged) 12.50 EUR. Review From MRR #309: Finally, after much teasing and foreplay, the TOTAL ABUSE full-length is out and totally worth the wait! This album is pure bloody-knuckles-wrapped-around-a-bottle-of-despair music, a soundtrack for modern times. I listen to this shit while running and I want to push people out of my way, stomp on top of shiny, expensive cars, and then run againnst the traffic in the middle of the street. I’m not fucking around here. Imagine the nihilistic hardcore intesity of a band like SEX/VID mixed with everything musically cool about BLACK FLAG and you’re just starting to get the picture. Some songs are driving on the mid-tempo side and make you slip slowly into madness, and others are fast and relentless, perfect for skating top speed down the steepest hills in town. You should already have the two Eps by this point (Sex Pig and the demo 7”), but if you don’t, the CD version has both of ‘em as bonus tracks to catch you up on things. Fantastic!!
TOTAL CONTROL. Henge Beats (Iron Lung) 13.00 EUR. BACK IN STOCK!! The combination of all their previous work and a steady live band has come together to form the great Henge Beat LP. These guys have outdone themselves with this one. Musically it rests somewhere between late ‘70s UK new wave a-la Ha Ha Ha-era Ultravox and the "now sound" Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Aussie garage that we all know and love. Add a dash of hopeful Krautrock flavor and the recipe is a smashing success. We could not be happier to offer this perfect execution to you. Beautifully housed in a bright European-art-designed gatefold sleeve.
TOTAL CONTROL/THEE OHSEES. Split LP (Castle Face) 14.50 EUR. BACK IN STOCK!! Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, TOTAL CONTROL destroy with a wicked follow up to their first LP/masterpiece Henge Beat. Four new burners from the unstoppable 5 piece. Hard psych guitar based tracks and floating and dark keyboard centered pieces make this a well rounded feast for your southern hemisphere hungry ears. San Francisco repeat beaters THEE OH SEES return with 4 revised tunes. These are the live, full band versions of four faves that sweaty kids have learned how to writhe to and old chin-scratching music hoarders have proclaimed as "not bad." Producer CHRIS WOODHOUSE is at his peak performance with this recording. It's raw and all speaker-melty—and holy shit, it comes with a free download so you can pour it in your ear at the gym.
TRACAHOMBRES. Rock & Roll Despechado (Tuca Raca) 11.00 EUR. 12 petardazos de fabricación casera, hechos con primitivo rock & roll, punk crudo, blues destilado, cinta americana y mecha rápida. Algunos explotan y otros suspiran, haciendo una traca deliciosa con bastantes baladas de inframundo. Grabado con premura y en directo en el humedo SOTANO de Dani Cardona (una sonrisa Terrible). Ojo, aqui hay sensibilidad, pero también carne cruda!!! Letras existenciales para vagos. Evolución ilógica de su primer Lp. Una cosa está clara, o te gusta o lo odias a muerte. Olvidate de la indiferencia.
TRADITIONAL FOOLS. S/T (Make A Mess) 12.50 EUR. The Fools' first LP has all the right ingredients. 60's garage trash, vintage surf reverb, and raw LA Punk mix together to make your mouth salivate. Definitely get this one.
THE TURN IT OFFS. Too Much Static (Red Lounge) 12.00 EUR. Another exciting Band from Memphis. Garage R'n'B Action on the Go! If I told you they sound like a mix between the Boston Chinks, Lover! and the Oblivians, would that get you mouth watering? Part of this AAAmazing sound is that Harry from the Turn It Offs is the Guy who recorded the Boston Chinks Tracks for their Goner release,the last 2 LOVER! Lps and The True Sons of Thunder, just for some name checking. Cover art for this lush piece of vinyl by Lindsay Shutt.
TV GHOST. Mass Dream (In The Red) 13.00 EUR. Taking their name from the phenomenon of analog television frequency disturbances, Lafayette, Indiana’s TV Ghost conjures an especially sludgy and punishing brand of art-punk. They began making a name for themselves in 2007, when their first 7-inch, Atomic Rain, was released by Die Stasi Records, also home to the noisy likes of Pink Reason and Zola Jesus. TV Ghost’s sinister sound—which echoes the Scientists, Suicide and The Cramps’ ’70s output—and frantic live show won them an underground following; a 12-inch EP on Die Stasi, a single on Columbus Discount Records and their debut album, Cold Fish, followed in 2009 with several rounds of touring the US in support. The band’s trek across Europe in 2010 left a trail of busted gear, annoyed booking agents and new fans behind them. TV Ghost’s sophomore full-length was recorded by Greg Ashley (Gris Gris), and Mass Dream is by far their clearest and most coherent release to date. While sacrificing none of the band’s scuzz-punk dementia, this album is far less dense and impenetrable than its predecessor; Ghost frontman Tim Gick’s lyrics are clearer and his complex song structure a bit easier to get a handle on. That said, this is still blood-boiling, spastic and down right evil music by anyone’s standards. Live, there are few who can match them. Their sets are explosive, destructive and out of control. Gick howls as if his bowels are being extracted through his gluteus, while his eyes roll back in his head and the rest of the band pummels away in noisy ecstasy. Every show they play is psychotic and chaotic perfection. Mass Dream is the first time it’s been captured on wax to perfection.
TY SEGALL. Singles 2007-2010 2xLP (Goner) 21.00 EUR. Jet-packing around the indie / garage cosmos for the last four years, Ty Segall has done too many singles and EPs and split records and shared records and albums and cassettes to count. He’s found himself increasingly in the spotlight, and this year’s Goodbye Bread for Drag City was met with a big wet kiss from the indie media world. But Segall don’t care about that. He ain’t in it for the corporate buck. He’s made it because he’s toured constantly, puts on a great show and genuinely loves what he does. Goner is proud to present a double-album of tracks culled from Segall’s massive out-of-print catalog—plus some stuff that never made it out in the first place. Here ya go: Singles 2007-2010.
TY SEGALL. Goodbye Bread (Drag City) 15.50 EUR. “TY SEGALL has his finger on it. A finger on it, digging into your vinyl, since 2008. But to get to the start, go back a little further, back to 2005 Laguna Beach—a cell phone call from a friend who has something Ty would love to hear: live, distorted Rock and Roll from inside a Coachwhips practice space. Transduced through a satellite, no less. Hold up the phone. Yeah, it’s 2005 and Ty’s gonna move to SF. Get outta high school and move up there. Good thing too cause the EPSILONS were rad but the TRADITIONAL FOOLS were a beer soaked painters cap drying in the sun, son. Until one day when Ty is the only Fool to show up to the show and it’s one of those moments—local history takes a turn and the world ain’t gotta wait much more, now. Ty plays the show one-man-band style and goes home and plans the rest: the records you got, tunes in your head, the unpretentious display of rock wealth. The tours, the bands, endless shows, the honorable way. MIKEL CRONIN, unicorn towel, ERIC BAUER’s recording world, more tours. Memphis magnet and home of beautiful SF—a cheery City State of Yoga and the push of Thee Oh Sees, fog and rain, 2 minutes in the Sic Alps, a snatch of 7"s, split 12"s, marathon recording, six shows in four days (two are free), student union and radio wavves are a scam but beaten, a sun shower of Sour Patch Kids, it’s all about the Kids and EMILY ROSE, the drummer. So what do you get now? It’s 2011. Ty is 23. So, do we get the comedown record? Yes and massive.”
TY SEGALL. Live In Aisie Five (Southpaw) 14.00 EUR. Over the summer TY SEGALL played to a sold out crowd in San Francisco at the Southpaw one year anniversary party. Live in Aisle Five captures Ty in an amazing live set and includes ten classic Ty songs, one new song, and two killer cover songs! All recorded by ERIC BAUER who was also behind the desk for Ty's latest effort Melted. This release is a one time pressing of 1,000 copies!
TYPHUS. Insect Terrorist (Absolute Power) 11.00 EUR. More archival Japanese punk, this complies the ultra rare flexi from 1981 with two bootleg tapes released in Japan, with a booklet of scans of the covers and insert, flyers, translations of song titles and lyrics, adverts and info on Tam and ADK records, making this an essential item for teh Japanese punk fan. 23 tracks in total.
Typhus are famous in Japanese punk history for being one of the earliest hardcore type bands and for providing members for some of the most famous bands, Tam in The Stalin and running ADK records, Shin forming Gauze and Izumi in Aburadako. The flexi was released on Political, the label run by Michiro Endo of The Stalin.
TYRANNA. S/T (Rave Up) 13.00 EUR. Whenever Toronto’s punk scene of the late 70s is discussed, it’s usually the Diodes and the infamous Viletones that get name-checked, while other important bands of the era are overlooked.
In some cases, there are good reasons why groups that regularly played the main punk venues of the era like the Turning Point, Larry’s Hideaway and the Crash ’n’ Burn are now largely forgotten.
Tyranna’s best work wasn’t released on singles at the time, and they rarely ventured outside the city during their brief run in 1978 and 79. This explains why the energetic pop-punk crew led by the snarly Vera “Rabies” Skye, who split bills with Iggy Pop, Jane County, the Members and the Dils, isn’t better known today. The band also appeared on 'My Girlfriend Was a Punk' compilation with the track 'Back Off Baby'.
It may be 30 years too late, but Tyranna’s long-rumoured early demos, finally being released on album on Rave Up records!
TYVEK. Fast Metabolism (Water Wing/M’lady’s) 14.00 EUR. At long last, the vinyl debut of this flawless compilation of TYVEK’s early singles. Long out-of-print, and still in high demand, Fast Metabolism was initially issued as a CDR only release, and quickly caught fire around the world. Hailing from Detroit, and behaving as if Wire had been the world's only hardcore band, Tyvek were (and still are) a much needed adrenalin spike through the breast plate. These songs eventually were released as four very hard to find 7-inches between 2006 and 2008. Issued in an edition of 2,000 copies, with deluxe tip-on jackets, and mastered for precision by TIMOTHY STOLLENWERK, with the vinyl lacquers cut by BOB WESTON, this is a co-production between Brooklyn, New York's M'lady's Records and Portland, Oregon's Water Wing Records.
TYVEK. Blunt Instrumental EP 12” (Night People) 14.00 EUR. TYVEK don't need much introduction, Detroit area art punk garage rockers, who have a bunch of killer prior material on labels like Siltbreeze, Subpop, M'Ladys, X, Whats Your Rupture etc. Absolutely killer stuff here on this deluxe arted-out vinyl reissue of a limited tour cassette. Blunt Instrumental isn't all instrumental, but there is a focus on letting the rhythms and noise play out a bit. What’s interesting is that while the sound and instrumentation jam out a bit more, it feels even more raw and stripped down then the recent full-length LP. A sort of step forward into a more groove-oriented, noisy jammy territory while simultaneously returning to the sound of the early singles. A real raw art punk feel like early Swell Maps or The Fall etc. One of the great bands of these times.
ULTIMO RESORTE. Post Mortem (Radikal 77) 11.00 EUR. Nueva edición de la maketa de 1981, previamente editada envinilo por Tralla Records en 1994. Esta temprana grabación muestra un sonido mucho más KBD de la banda, menos distorsionado y algo alejado de grabaciones posteriores mucho más hardcore. Un documento único de esta crucial banda catalana. Muchos de los temas de esta maketa se quedaron sin prublicar luego, y los que lo hicieron sonaban ya mucho más hardcore que en la maketa. El disco viene con un buen libreto de recortes y fotografías.
ULTIMO RESORTE. La Larga Sombra Del Punk (La Vida Es Un Mus) 11.00 EUR. ULTIMO RESORTE were the bridge between the very first Spanish Punk Generation and the first Spanish Hardcore Wave. During their 5 years of existence (1979-1984) they only managed to record a demo and two impossible to find records. A self-titled 7 track 7" EP and "Una Causa Sin Fondo" a 5 track 12". "La Larga Sombra Del Punk" compiles both those records plus a 16 pages 11"x11" booklet with a long interview with the band and tons of pictures and fanzine clippings.
Musically they lay in between the most aggressive parts of VICE SQUAD, DISCHARGE, ELECTRIC DEADS or even SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES. Fronted by Silvia Resorte her voice became their trademark always backed by an urgent band trying to figure out what hardcore was about and a synth player that created a cold atmosphere over most of their songs. This seminal band hailed from Barcelona and you can tell with the desperate feeling their songs have. Their lyrics have that teenage angst feel that only bands from the early 80's managed to write. Together with RIP, KANGRENA, ANTI-DOGMATIKSS, VULPESS, DESECHABLES or LARSEN this band helped putting Spain in the international punk map back in the day.
THE UNCOOL DANCEBAND. Don't Ask Me To Dance (1977 Records) 15.00 EUR. The Uncool Danceband formed in Doncaster, in December 1978. The original members were Wayne Tyas (bass), Steve Maxwell (drums), Geoff Carline (guitar) and Chris Bottrill (vocals). The first gig was in April ‘79’ and from then on the band quickly established a good following in the north of England.
Exciting new wave pop band! 14 previously unreleased studio demo traces and including exclusive track "1968"!! LTD 300. Tracks: 01 Don't Ask Me to Dance 02 Let Me Be Your Boyfriend 03 Second Thought 04 Never Get The Girl 05 My Girl, Shy Girl 06 Silver Screen 07 Same Mistake 08 Until The Next Time 09 You Make Me Fee 10 No Wonder 11 All Too Soon 12 Tip Of My Tongue 13 My Girl Shy Girl (from Logical Steps comp.) 14 No. 17. (from Logical Steps comp.)
UNDERTONES. S/T (Drastic Plastic) 18.00 EUR. THE UNDERTONES self-titled debut is quite simply one of the greatest records to come out of the British punk scene of the late 1970s. Certainly the greatest to come out of Ireland. Every song sounds fresh and relevant these 32 years later, still evoking the passion and earnestness that the Undertones captured so brilliantly. Sixteen tracks including the singles “Get Over You” and “Teenage Kicks.” Released in limited white vinyl and 180-gram vinyl editions, 500 copies of each.
USELESS EATERS. C’est Bon! (Southpaw) 14.00 EUR. SETH SUTTON clearly made a name for himself in 2011 releasing two critically acclaimed LP’s and a singles compilation LP featuring sold out 7”s from Goner, Goodbye Boozy, and Jay Reatard’s Shattered label to name a few. Seth has created a brand a punk that is hook heavy, angry, and sleazy all at the same time that keeps us wanting more. The time is here for Sutton’s first release of 2012 and his 3rd LP C’est Bon!. On this release Sutton gets a little darker and treads into some new territory including some instrumental tracks that carry a slight Devo vibe as well as Sutton’s original KBD influences. Includes digital download code.
USELESS EATERS. Daily Commute (Tic Tac Totally) 13.00 EUR. Oozing with sleaze, anger, and hooks (what could be more beautiful than that?!), this first proper album from Useless Eaters captures completely tape-fried 70's punk beauty by joining the musicality of the Stranglers and the Adverts with the snot-nose antics of the Lewd or Vomit Pigs. With the proximity effect of the Memphis scene circa 2003-2007. Compared to earlier output, Daily Commute has a beefier sound, though still culled from the same manic recording style. Content-wise, this is the direct result of being stranded abroad, weirded out and pissed off while readjusting from the sudden death of bandmate JAY REATARD. Hands down the most complete sounding and best assembled of SETH SUTTON’s output yet. Previous singles on Shattered, Goner, Goodbye Boozy and more. Highly recommended to anyone constantly blasting their KBD faves or UK D.I.Y. weirdo shit...this is a nice 'lil gem mined from those parts!
UV RACE. Homo (In The Red) 13.00 EUR. BACK IN STOCK!! 2007 saw the first recording from Melbourne, Australia’s The UV Race—a self-released tape featuring four songs of primitive thud, minimal assemblage and high-energy expression. Over the next three years the band has continued to show dedication to these themes with a string of cassettes and singles and their 2009 self-titled debut full-length, and their sophomore album Homo delivers on the promise of these early releases. Working again with Eddy Current Suppression Ring guitarist Mikey Young at the recording and mixing stages, The UV Race developed the songs over several sessions. Their willingness to explore is clear, from the psychotic bedroom confessional of “Girl in My Head” with its confident teen-heat swagger, to the seven-minute closer “Homo,” where nods to the Ramones enclose a psychedelic freak-out reminiscent of the closing minutes of The Stooges’ Funhouse. In between, the band explores influences ranging from their Australian proto-punk and garage fascinations to American country, Krautrock and UK post-punk, citing the Velvet Underground and the Saints as influences.
VEE DEE. S/T (Blvd Records) 12.50 EUR. Chicago garage underdogs and legendary psych-rockers VEE DEE return with their third, simply self-titled, full-length album. Apt, as this record is a simpler exercise than their expansive 2009 double-LP opus, Public Mental Health System. Vee Dee, led by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter NICK D’VYNE, have slowly stretched all notions of “garage punk” throughout their over-a-decade-long stint together, deconstructing psychedelic rock’n’roll into blues-tinged, jammy dirges complete with stoned-out choruses and scuzzy sonic explorations. The nine songs on this album range from two-minute punk jams to epic burners that recall Rocket From The Tombs’ experimental punk compositions, but with a heavy ‘60s Moby Grape rock drawl. As usual, you get the one-two kick of D’Vyne’s vocals combined with his out-of-this-world-for-garage-punk guitar playing rolled up with wah-wah and layered effects, in addition to bassist DAN LANG’s signature fuzz sound and drummer RYAN MURPHY’s precision stomping. Basically, Vee Dee kicks ass and this record is amazing…don’t sleep! Edition of 1,000 copies, includes a download.
VEE DEE. Public Mental Health 2xLP + CD (Criminal IQ) 17.50 EUR. Heavy times call for a heavy soundtrack, and that’s what Chicago’s VEE DEE has accomplished with their new double album Public Mental Health System. This record blurs the lines between garage, punk and psychedelia; it is the sound of desperate, no-compromise rock ’n’ roll of the past being absorbed and then re-interpreted for NOW. Short fast dark garage punk segues into heavy riffing and guitar freak-outs. Moody folk chords bang up against frantic fuzz turnarounds. Over it all, lyrics of abstract yet direct poetry are hollered and crooned, aided by well-placed backing vocals.
VENEREANS. Future Primitive 12” (Discos Humeantes) 10.00 EUR. Grupo formado por comadrejas de Wau y los Arrrgs, Le Jonathan Reilly y un madrileño aficando en levante. Tras un single compartido con Los Plátanos y editado por Tron-U-Sound, presentan al mundo su primer largo, doce temazos cargados de punk breve, pop deforme, guiños a Dead Kennedys, a los Messthetics, al gitano cíclope y a las naranjas. Si lo dejas escapar, tú no eres del ROCK.
VERMILLION SANDS. S/T (Alien Snatch!!) 13.50 EUR. The media attention quicken the interest of US Labels so they had consequently a 45 on FAT POSSUM and a 12" EP on SACRED BONES. They had live radio appearances through the telephone, a european Tour and lately even a show in Bejing, China.
The VERMILLION SANDS are the young-than-your-niece frontgirl Anna Barattin, two MOVIE STAR JUNKIES and Krano on slide guitar. Their debut album is full of Anna's undeniable charming twangy voice and Dorothy Parker inspired lyrics, undercooled americana folk-garage pop mixed up with odd piano & organ and fuzzy synth and southern guitar. Those fellows left the girl-group explosion behind and also it´s right on a wavy subterrenia psycho trail not stopping for harvest festival corn dolly square dances. Is it the bluesy blondie, gothic golightly in the swamped gun club in Insomnia? The self-titled album with eleven originals was recorded by Nene (bs) with loads of pastis & pills in their famous Outside Inside Studios (MOJOMATICS, LOVE BOAT, GOODNIGHT LOVING, MARK SULTAN, LANGHORN SLIM etc). We´re proud to sign another bunch of friends to the label! The CD is in a nice digipack with a short story booklet and the initial press of the LP comes in a silkscreend sleeve, all in animal death party wunderland artwork.
VICTIM. All Our Dreams Are Gone (Rave Up) 13.00 EUR. Formed in Belfast in Mid -1977, Victim soon became familiar faces on the emerging Belfast scene. Following their appearance on the legendary UTV punk documentary 'It Makes You Want Top Spit' and a rapidly increasing live following, Terri Hooley signed the band to his Good Vibrations label in 1978 and released Strange Thing By Night / Mixed Up World 7".
In early 1978, prompted by a lack of venues, Victim made a trip to a local city centre pub because they heard it had a stage! They secured a gig and the legendary Harp Bar was born as a punk venue. In July 1979 they were offered a modest record deal by TJM Records and decided to depart to England, settling in Manchester. Early gigs saw them playing with The Fall and Revillos as well as playing the legendary Factory club to accompany the screening of Shellshock Rock, a film on Irish punk featuring among others Victim. A second release Why Are Fire Engines Red / I Need You on TJM secured good reviews and radio support from John Peel despite its horrendous cover. In November 1979 Victim supported the Damned on an extensive tour. Rat Scabies produced the band's third and in my view best single The Teenage / Junior Criminals / Hang Onto Yourself released in 1980 on Illuminated records. The band continued for several years with line up changes including Mike Joyce (later of The Smiths) and Toni Isaac (the girl leaning against a lamppost on Jilted John's single of the same name!) before deciding to call it a day. This anthology contains a great selection of all their punk material. If you are a fan of Undertones and Stiff Little Fingers, don't miss it!!!!
THE VICTIMS. Sleeping Dogs Lie (1977 Records) 17.00 EUR. The best Australian 70's punk band! Includes their 2 singles plus previously unreleased demo tracks. Tracks: 01 Television Addict 02 Flipped Out Over You 03 High School Girl 04 T.V.Freak 05 I Understand 06 Open Your Eyes 07 Perth Is A Culture Shock 08 Disco Junkies 09 Horror Smash 10 Monster 11 I Wanna Be With You 12 Uranium Song 13 Charlie 14 Telethon Song 15 (I'm Just A) Victim 16 Out Of My Head 17 Girls Don't Go For Punks.
LOS VIGILANTES. S/T (Slovenly) 13.00 EUR. The debut full-length bruiser from San Juan, Puerto Rico’s LOS VIGILANTES. Fourteen original tracks of juvenile delinquent garage-punk smash. Heavy on the ‘60s side with a healthy dose of droopy /50s doo-wop back-up vocals, rocked with additional organs, tape loops and swagger. Vigilante JORGE MUNDO (aka JOTA) filled in for DAVILA 666’s lead guitarist on ther maiden European tour and played lead guitar on Davila 666’s Tan Bajo LP (In The Red).
VIOLENT MINDS. We Are Nothing (Deranged) 11.50 EUR. Twelve new tracks from VIOLENT MINDS compiling their recent We Are Nothing 12-inch and Just Kicked In 7-inch (both on Deranged) on one album. Includes some of the band’s fastest tracks to date, as they rip some straight forward hardcore rocked raw, distorted and deadly. Twelve songs in all. For fans of DISCHARGE and NEGATIVE APPROACH.
VIVIAN GIRLS. Share The Joy (Polyvinyl) 14.50 EUR. On their third album, Share the Joy, Brooklyn’s VIVIAN GIRLS continue to sharpen and refine their transcendent mix of garage thrash, girl-group warmth and infectious pop hooksmanship. The trio’s vibrant blend of guitar noise and melodic sweetness has already made the band one of America’s most celebrated and influential young bands, and has helped to spark a wave of similiarly-inclined female-fronted acts who’ve followed in their wake.
VIVIAN GIRLS. Everything Goes Wrong (In The Red) 11.50 EUR. Brooklyn's Vivian Girls are back with Everything Goes Wrong, released almost exactly a year after In The Red's reissue of their self-titled debut. The band have taken their time with this new album and recorded it in six days--rather than the three their debut took--though many of the songs were still recorded in single takes. Over the last year, the Vivian Girls have toured the US and Europe extensively, received a considerable amount of national and international press, sparked fierce debate as to whether they are a refreshing blast of unselfconscious punk rock energy or a crew of contemptible, incompetent posers and, perhaps most significant of all, become the subject of a question on the Jeopardy game show. Everything Goes Wrong is a darker, moodier album than its predecessor, with a couple tracks clocking in at almost twice the length of anything on their debut. That said, the influences remain the same; Ramones, '60s girl groups, surf, indie pop, etc., etc. This is immediately classic stuff.
VOID. Sessions 1981-1983 (Dischord) 12.50 EUR. Thirty miles north of Washington, there is a town in Maryland called Columbia, one of the first planned-communities built in the US, and in retrospect, the perfect birthplace for a band as completely chaotic as Void. Their DC debut was in 1980 at the first Wilson Center show, a marathon fifteen-band affair largely organized by the Bad Brains. When Void started a song it was as if each member was playing his own parts as fast as humanly possible, but not necessarily together. Unlike most bands, whose performances become predictable, Void shows became increasingly discombobulated and ever more fraught with disaster. The live chaos remained even as they started to embrace a metal image and sound towards the end of their three-year existence. While to some it may have seemed like complete cacophony, to those in the know it was music on a higher level. While organizing their archive, Dischord came across the four-track of Void’s first recording session. It was done with Steve Carr at Hit and Run Studios in November ’81 and never officially released. The tape was remixed by Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara at Inner Ear earlier this year. These embryonic versions of what would become Void classics as well as songs that didn’t make the cut prove just how driven this band was to capture their own sound. Sessions 1981-83 features the entire Hit and Run session along with the first Inner Ear demo (including the Flex Your Head cuts and the songs that ended up on the Condensed Flesh 7-inch), two outtakes from their second Inner Ear session (that spawned their legendary split LP with Faith), and a couple of live recordings including one that is almost certainly the last song they ever played.
VOLT. S/T (In The Red) 13.00 EUR. Review From MRR #290. If the A-FRAMES recruit a lady and work on a John Carpenter soundtrack, the might get sued by VOLT (though the VOLT dude has a better voice). It’s cool that In The Red has the grit to put out this murder disco stuff among its thrashy roster. I dig the one-two of “Couples” and “Alles Neu” especially the latter, which brings the telegraph to the dance floor. Never saw it coming, did you? The sole weak spot on the album is the Viagra reference. Never, never do that again. Wait, I think they just sang, “porno then hovering” – wow, instantly redeemed! Good stuff.
VOMIT SQUAD. Amon Ra Bless America (Psychic Handshake) 12.50 EUR. The debut release from this Canadian punk rock supergroup comprised of KING KHAN, CHOYCE (RED MASS, SEXAREENOS, CPC GANGBANGS), DANNY MARKS (SPACESHITS, CPC Gangbangs), and their childhood friend RICHIE RITALIN on vocals. Six tracks pressed on puke colored wax. “King Khan, Choyce (Red Mass), Danny Marks (Spaceshits/CPC Gangbangs) and outsider singer Rich Ritalin convene to celebrate the life of Jay Reatard, the death of restaurants, and the welcoming of a cannibal age. Bordering on hilarious, this record kicks out six tracks of wild-minded, buttoned-up garage punk, Ritalin’s vocals providing the strangest touches of all. Imagine an accountant with mild manners getting in front of this train and explaining himself. It kinda rules, actually, and I hope they continue to get even more ridiculous with future releases. 1000 copies on vomit marbled vinyl, definitely warrants further investigation.”—(Doug Mosurock - Still Single)
VOMITO. Siempre Fue Terror (Puzkarra/Ttan Ttakun) 14.00 EUR. Disco en directo con 13 canciones de los Vómito sacadas de distintos directos con sonido bastante aceptable. Incluye un libreto de 20 paginas con entrevistas, fotos, articulos de prensa, fotos....etc.
WAVVES. Wavvves (Fat Possum) 14.50 EUR. When not watching Cops or drinking 40s in the park, NATHAN DANIEL WILLIAMS blogs on classic rap and records waves and waves of effortlessly great slack / crust / beach / punk compressed onto four-track cassette in his San Diego bedroom. WAVVES exemplify every pastiche of what anyone in their mid-20s has been through musically and, somehow, some that they have not. How tunes written by a 22-year-old can evoke boyish reverie and reverence of thoughtful nostalgia is anyone's guess, but that's the sound of today's American youth! It's a new day rising and as the Wavves get higher, they gotta converge. You can choose to stay down in the curl, but if you follow the winner, we can meet up on the crest.
WAX IDOLS. No Future (Hozac) 13.50 EUR. The San Francisco Bay area’s most promising breakout, and formidable female-fronted pop wonders are not who you may already believe or expect. Lead by the enigmatically agitated HEATHER FEDEWA (aka HEATHER FORTUNE, ex-HUNX & HIS PUNX, BARE WIRES, and current BLASTED CANYONS), WAX IDOLS straddle the line between ripping tough/tender post-punk/goth-pop, and irresistibly anthemic indie rock hooks, somewhat like Joan Jett would sound like tearing through Best Coast with a chainsaw or if Mary Monday had been a member of Wire. Your curiosity may have already been piqued from their unabashed debut 7-inch “All Too Human,” released on Hozac earlier this year, but it’s hard to imagine anyone being ready for an LP of this caliber, bursting at the seams with hits for all seasons, and effortlessly blurring the lines between viciously beautiful temperance and an unwavering, attitude-soaked attack on your comfort zone. With an arsenal of songs that range from chest-pounding melodic punk screamers, to tense-yet-tumultuous tracks of sadness overcome with bombastic pop precision, No Future is one of the most impressive LPs we’ve had the pleasure of releasing, and one we’re sure will go far. Fedewa’s uniquely surly-yet-sultry voice has such an lasting impact, it seamlessly traces the gamut of human emotions back & forth from the unhinged heights to the inescapable doldrums, all tied up in perfect blasts of modern pop/post-punk subdued simplicity that are as upfront and immediate as any of of their legendary influences.
WAX MUSEUMS. Eye Times (Trouble In Mind) 14.00 EUR. After a 3 year hiatus North Texas’ lovable misfits (who share members with THE BAD SPORTS and MIND SPIDERS) are back with a four-headed thirteen-eyed monster of an album that while still slightly awkward, is undeniably focused and endearing. Eye Times is a musical step forward with moments of glammy art-rockness that proves once and for all these clowns ain’t just one-joke jerks. The charming nerd-o aesthetic that was so prevalent on the early singles and first LP remain, but now with added sexual frustration.
WAX MUSEUMS. Zoo Full Of Ramones (Tic Tac Totally) 13.50 EUR. Billy’s Room, TX. Peering across the floor through beer cans, garbage and vomit-encrusted B-movie clamshells...something moves. You slowly look into a shaking cheeseburger bag...AND THE WAX MUSEUMS EMERGE TO CLAW YOUR NOSE OFF! It lands on a rotting hamburger. You die. They've crafted the sickest spectacle of partying, sharp humor, and Steinberger basses since they crawled out of a VCR in 2006. And if you've had an eyeball (Yes? No?!)...you've seen them. But do not dismay if you've missed any of their out-of-print wax previously issued on Hozac, Douchemaster, Kenrock, Rehab or Fashionable Idiots. Because here's the entire carnivorous monkey-house in one 24-track LP...Zoo Full Of Ramones!
Our scientists at TTT have recreated the very primordial ooze of the band. Returning to print every dose of concentrated hyperactivity, and enhancing them with an extra beaker of UNRELEASED, and rare material, circa 2006-2008 AD.
WAX MUSEUM. S/T (Douchemaster) 13.50 EUR. Apparently there is absolutely nothing to do in Denton, Texas but write songs. Douchemaster Records feels privileged to bring you the first full-length album from the extraordinarily prolific WAX MUSEUMS. You know what to expect at this point and The Wax Museums deliver. Fourteen tracks of killer Educational Punk.
WEAKENDS. S/T (Rob’s House) 12.50 EUR. Bordeaux, France’s WEAKENDS are back with the follow-up to their debut seven-inch. This time it's with a long-player that finds the group still banging away, stillsinging through broken PA's, still rocking and still claiming the title of France's best garage band. Limited to 1000 copies.
WETDOG. Frauhaus (Captured Tracks) 14.50 EUR. Frauhaus is like an itch you don't want to scratch. For the album's bite-sized 30-minute duration, London-based trio Wetdog jabs, plods, and stammers out some of the best jaunty female post-punk since The Slits or The Raincoats. And while its fair to say that Wetdog exist in the spirit of these pioneering groups, they're not here to pay homage. To compartmentalize them in such an air-tight micro-genre would be to assume that these ladies subconsciously desire to be a cover band. A more apt description of Wetdog would place them alongside like-minded yet essentially dissimilar contemporaries such as Vivian Girls or Micachu.
WHITE MYSTERY. S/T (White Mystery) 12.50 EUR. If you're a fan of stripped down garage rock, loud drums, and/or redheads, meet your perfect match. WHITE MYSTERY is the two-piece brother/sister duo of ALEX and FRANCIS WHITE. Alex is best known as the guitar rockin' front women of MISS ALEX WHITE AND THE RED ORCHESTRA (In The Red), but with her latest venture with brother Francis, she strips it down to a guitar and heavy-handed drum garage rock sound with fourteen original songs recorded in Chicago.
WIRE. Pink Flag (4 Men With Beards) 15.00 EUR. Originally released on Harvest in 1977, Pink Flag is perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk. Exhibiting severe art school damage, Wire careens at breakneck speed through 21 songs in 36 minutes to create an album that has influenced bands for nearly thirty years. Original artwork. 180 gram audiophile vinyl.
WIZZARD SLEEVE. Make The World Go Away (Hozac) 12.00 EUR. Just as the harrowing chill of summer's slow death drifts across the land, the skin-crawling death-punk masterpiece debut LP from Alabama's confederate glue-wave goth 'tards, WIZZARD SLEEVE hits the shelves and drags all the sinister vibrations from the ugly side of psychedelia right up front where it belongs. As their influences have cited, and the self-described trinity of Chrome, Crime and Creedence settles into place in your chemically-damaged skull, and the unexpectedly danceable hits from their string of vile, self-depreciating 7-inch singles are reborn with a devastatingly murky effect that will drag you down into a hole faster than any over-the-counter anti-anxiety cocktail you've ever ingested. Like Peter Murphy sucking on a tailpipe, Wizzard Sleeve are the end of the line for your happy good times and the start of a new atrocious standard in head-expanding, zooed-out and shut-in true punk weirdness that won't be getting many brownie points with mom, dad, church leaders, or parole officers anytime soon.
WOODS. At Echo Lake (Woodsist) 13.50 EUR. The distance between 2007's At Rear House and 2010's At Echo Lake may at first seem only semantic, but it more properly represents a move from a kind of informal back porch jam ethos to a fully-committed vision of the infinite possibilities of group playing.
"Over the past few years, Woods has established themselves as an anomaly in a world of freaks. They were an odd proposition even in the outre company of vocalist / guitarist / label owner Jeremy Earl's Woodsist roster, perpetually out of time, committed to songsmanship in an age of noise, drone and improvisation, to extended soloing, oblique instrumentals and the usurping use of tapes and F/X in an age of dead-end singer-songwriters. Recent live shows have seen them best confuse the two, playing beautifully constructed songs torn apart by fuzztone jams and odd electronics.
"At Echo Lake feels like a diamond-sharp distillation of the turbulent power of their live shows, in much the same way that The Grateful Dead's "Dark Star" single amplified and engulfed the planetary aspect of their improvised takes. Some of the material here--the opening "Blood Dries Darker," the euphoric "Mornin' Time"--is so lush that lesser brains would've succumbed to the appeal of strings and horns, but At Echo Lake is more Fifth Dimension than Notorious Byrd Brothers, nowhere more so than on "From the Horn," a track as beautiful in its assault on form as "Eight Miles High" or Swell Maps' "Midget Submarines." But despite the instrumental innovation the album heralds--G. Lucas Cranes' psychedelic tape work on "Suffering Season," guest musician Matthew Valentine's harmonica and modified banjo / sitar on "Time Fading Lines"--At Echo Lake is all about the vocals. Woods' secret weapon is the quality of Earl's voice, absorbing the naive style of Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Neil Young while rethinking it as a discipline and a tradition. Here he is singing at the peak of his powers, in a high soulful style bolstered by heavenly arrangements of backing vocals.
"At Echo Lake feels like the transmission point for teenage garage from the past to the future. Deformed by contemporary experiments, bolstered by magical traditions, it's the sound of now, right here, At Echo Lake." --David Keenan, Glasgow, March 2010
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WOVEN BONES. Minus Touch (Zoo Music) 13.50 EUR. WOVEN BONES’ ANDREW BURR says, "All of us in the band have spent way too much time with The Velvet Underground, ... (more) Link Wray, and other loud/primitive forms of rock and roll...The simple drum beats behind our songs are definitely inspired by the drumming of Mo Tucker and the primitive beats behind bands like The Shangr-Las and even Neu. I personally have been eternally infected by the music of the above mentioned bands and others like The Troggs, Simplyxs Saucer, Spacemen 3, Les Rallizes Denudes, The Adverts, The Ramones, The Damned, The Gun Club, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and The Vaselines. I know subconsciously those things are always heavy influences on my song writing." Pressed on white vinyl.
X-CERTS. Rated XXX (Bristol Archives) 13.50 EUR. As 1978 wore on, we thanked God for the likes of UK Subs and Angelic Upstarts, and here in Brizzle...the mighty X-Certs! With Clive Arnold (vocals and guitar), Simon Justice (guitar), Taf (bass) and Neil Mackie (drums), The X-Certs served up welcome blasts of Clash-style punk anthems. They were politically charged and passionate, friendly and down to earth, and a great live act, but for some reason their recordings were relatively few and far between. One track, Blue Movies, on Hearbeat Records' 4-Alternatives EP, and another called Anthem on the same label's acclaimed Avon Calling compilation album. And that's yer lot with the original line up.
This edition includes a Limited Edition Insert with stories from all four members of the band, Introduction by Shane Baldwin and never seen before pictures.
Artwork completed by the legendary Bristol designer Sam Giles.
X-PRAYS/THE NOT AMUSED. Split 12" (Wanda/Rumble) 10.00 EUR. Back to the seventies with THE NOT AMUSED and this bunch of great punk-mod songs! And back to early eighties with these caustic kbd-punk inspired new songs by X-PRAYS...
X-PRAYS. S/T 12” (Bowery) 9.00 EUR. BACK IN STOCK!!! X-Prays is a Punk trio from Madrid, formed by members of Webelos, Grupo sub 1, Obediencia... and arisen from the ashes of the missing Asiatics, but more aggressive, more direct and definitely more Punk! The amazing female vocals are the absolute stars, wich immediately bring to your memory KBD bands as VKTMS, Electric Deads, UXA, and they would neither be out of tune by sharing the stage with bands like Spastics, Tyrades or Gorilla Angreb. However, they don't resign to their own sound, combining, in a fairly original way, simple instrumental with these bold vocals. The result: inmediate, direct and catchy songs that will make you flip out! Listen and judge for yourself.
X-Prays son un trío madrileño de Punk formado por miembros de Webelos, Grupo Sub-1, Obediencia... Surgen de las cenizas de los desaparecidos Asiatics con una propuesta más agresiva, más directa y, definitivamente, más Punk. Las flipantes voces femeninas son las protagonistas absolutas y en seguida traerán a tu memoria a grupos KBD como VKTMS, Electric Deads o UXA. Tampoco desentonarían compartiendo cartel con bandas más actuales del calibre de Spastics, Tyrades o Gorila Angreb. A pesar de ello, no renuncian en ningún momento a tener un sonido propio y composiciones originales, que combinan, de un modo bastante original, la sencillez instrumental con unas audaces melodías vocales. El resultado: hits instántaneos tan pegadizos como inmediatos. Pero lo mejor es que eches una escucha y juzgues tú mismo.
X-RAY SPEX. Germfree Adolescents (Earmark) 15.50 EUR. One of the great English punk bands of the late 70s, X-Ray Spex was formed in 1976 by school friends Marion Eliot (Poly Styrene) and Susan Whitby (saxophonist Lora Logic). They exploded onto the punk scene with one of the era’s great singles, the feminist punk rallying cry "Oh Bondage, Up Yours." With Logic’s sax stating the melody semi-tunefully and Jak Airport’s guitar laying down a wash of distorted chords, Styrene’s vocal, especially on the chorus, is a marvel, making this one of punk rock’s great moments.
So, too, was X-Ray Spex’s debut album, Germ Free Adolescents, which was great in spite of "Oh Bondage" not being on it. The songs were guitar-driven punk-pop that combined outrage and aggression with a sense of alienation and disenfranchisement about rampant commerciality and an increasingly sterile and artificial world. And that was it from X-Ray Spex. Like all the best punk bands, they burned brightly but not for long.
YEAR ZERO. Year One (P.Trash Records) 13.00 EUR. Whatever these Canadians guys secretly mix in their drinks, it seems that it brings out an endless stream of brilliant and catchy, yet distinctive songs in each of their bands SEDATIVES, STEVE ADAMYK BAND, LAST COMMUNION and MOTHER'S CHILDREN.
So here's their new combo YEAR ZERO with a debut LP that actually consists of two parts; ''Bottle Artillery'' with 7 songs recorded in 2010 and the 9 tracks session ''No Tongue for Eros'', recorded a year earlier. Packed together, they called it ''Year One'' and it sounds fierce yet grounded, relentless but positive, and so effortlessly unwavering to the very end. It is both excitingly familiar and so fresh in skill and maturity that you are unlikely to hear anything like it elsewhere currently. Pulling from the classic Power Pop leanings of the BUZZCOCKS in songs like ''Pros & Cons'', to the ragged and rapid REPLACEMENTS and mostly HÜSKER DÜ tones in the majority of the songs, right down to the influences of fellow Canadians the DOUGHBOYS or PUNCHBUGGY, this record is a tight, fuzzy underground treasure in the waiting.
YOLKS. S/T (Bachelor/Randy) 12.50 EUR. It would be a profound understatement to say that we are really happy to have this record out! The self-proclaimed “Kings of Awesome” from Chicago, Illinois, recorded 11 Songs and after quite some time for mastering and artwork, preparing every single detail - we just received some boxes with records back from the pressing plant just to find out that this album turned out to be exactly like planned! The awesomeness of this record is kinda hard to describe, it just sounds like a bunch of well written 60ties styled pop songs, stored in a vintage suitcase, left alone at the porch where sun and rain left some marks on it, before opened up again and accidentally sprinkled with honey. This surely tastes good! Believe me. Last weekend, at the five year anniversary of our PMK KLUB, one of the premier rock and roll venues in Austria, we did a secret test audition and well, the kids went crazy, they ordered massive amounts of beverages just to cool down their feet. Every single one had at least two blisters, but also a very satisfied smile on the face! Well, that’s what this album is all about: soulful rock n roll for sophisticated ass shaking!
YOUNG CANADIANS. A.k.a. The K-tels (Lady Kinky Karrot) 11.50 EUR. THE YOUNG CANADIANS blazed onto to the Vancouver scene in early 1979 and were soon heralded as one of the most creative, mostly undiscovered punk/new wave scene's best bands, alongside the SUBHUMANS, POINTED STICKS and D.O.A. This reissue includes the Hawaii EP (1979), the Bob Rock-produced This Is Your Life EP and few previously unreleased live tracks.
YOUNG LIONS. From The Vaults LP+7” (Schizophrenic) 15.00 EUR. Schizophrenic is pleased to release the first LP in an archival series focusing on the early days of the Toronto hardcore scene. From 1980 to 1984 The YOUNG LIONS were at the forefront of the hardcore punk scene. From the Vault compiles tracks from the Young Lions numerous demos, T.O.H.C. 83 cassette, unreleased and recently unearthed gems, and more. For the uninitiated The band was an absolutely killer early Toronto hardcore band that played raw, catchy hardcore punk in the vein of Subhumans, Toxic Reasons, early DOA and Stiff Little Fingers. The first pressing of the From the Vault LP includes a 12”x24” double-sided color insert with liner notes, flyers and memorabilia, and a bonus three-song 7-inch.
YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS. I Don’t Think This Is… (Munster) 12.00 EUR. Seattle most-loved rockers and the reverends of the irreverent, YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, are back with I Don't Think This Is... Young Fresh Fellows, their first full album since 2001, and 25 years after the release of their groundbreaking first LP, The Fabulous Sounds Of The Pacific Northwest. It doesn't matter that Fellow #1 SCOTT McCAUGHEY is on permanent duty with REM since 1994, THE BASEBALL PROJECT (since last year) and also leading his solo project THE MINUS 5, with famous guests such as Peter Buck (REM), Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer (The Posies), Bill Rieflin (REM), Chris Ballew (Presidents of the USA), his good buddies from Wilco, etc. For some die-hard fans Scott will always be 1/4 of Young Fresh Fellows, the greatest rock & roll band on the planet, and the most important export from the Pacific Northwest since The Sonics. The remaining three quarters of this explosive cocktail are TAD HUTCHINSON, KURT BLOCH (FASTBACKS), and JIM SANGSTER.
THE YOUNGER LOVERS. Rock Flawless (Bachelor Records) 12.50 EUR. Fantastic second full lenght by Brontez Purnell's THE YOUNGER LOVERS project, recorded and mixed by Matthew Melton (BARE WIRES, SNAKEFLOWER 2,...). Brontez is not only the head of THE YOUNGER LOVERS, he writes the ”She‘s over it!” column for MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL zine and he‘s got his own dance ensemble „Brontez Dance Company”. Before he came to Oakland, CA he lived in Triana, Alabama and Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he released a zine called SCHLEPP, after moving to California he started a new zine called FAG SCHOOL, he played in guitar in the band PANTY RAID with Seth Bogart a.k.a. HUNX, both joined the band GRAVY TRAIN!!! and after they broke up and HUNX moved on Brontez started THE YOUNGER LOVERS. This release is limited to 350 copies.
ZERO BOYS. History Of Zero Boys (Fans Club) 13.00 EUR. From 1979 into '83, the Indianapolis based ZERO BOYS were the finest hardcore blitz in the Midwest if not all the lower 48 states. Proof is Vicious Circle and the two decades since of copyists, bootleggers, practitioners and reunion concert pogoers. Though before and after that LP's 1982 release they recorded the Livin' in the ‘80s 7-inch, songs for three comps and released the post-mortem History Of... cassette revealing their transformation into a toured band warming to the metaphysical and their demise while still waving torches of rock 'n' roll panache. When the Ramones lost it, the Zero Boys found it; adding a slam brigade fist to the Blitzkrieg Beat. The Zero Boys managed to come with one of the best early ‘80s punk records, or one of the best records ever, period. Between Vicious Circle and History Of, the entire recorded output of this legendary Midwest punk band's original line up is, finally, collected.
ZOLA JESUS. Stridulum (Sacred Bones) 13.00 EUR. ”Since her debut lp for Sacred Bones last summer, Zola Jesus’s profile has grown exponentially. Her video for “Clay Bodies” debuted on The Fader and her likeness was plastered all over the Internet. The Spoils made dozens of year-end lists including The Wire, Pitchfork, The Fader, and Dusted, and fans and critics alike now seem rabid for new material. So without further ado, we present Stridulum, the new, far less lo-fi 6-song ep from Nika Roza Danilova. Recording her vocals for the first time with professional instruments, Nika’s voice is brought to the powerful forefront of the mix unleashing the full range of emotions that had previously only been hinted at in her previous work. It’s a siren song for the apocalypse, which manages to come across immensely nurturing at the same time.” Received an 8.1 rating from Pitchfork.
ZOLA JESUS. Spoils (Sacred Bones) 14.50 EUR. Sacred Bones is proud to present The Spoils from ZOLA JESUS. Hailing from the unsuspecting locale of Madison, Wisconsin, Zola Jesus--the alter ego of NIKA ROZA DANILOVA--occupies a sphere of sparse industrial rhythms, no-fi drones, and ethereal femme vocals. Those who have seen her handful of live shows, heard her WFMU set, or caught any of the acclaimed, sought after, and now mostly out of print releases on Die Stasi or Troubleman Unlimited already know. For those uninitiated, The Spoils may be the most fully realized representation of her sound. Zola Jesus has two previous releases on Sacred Bones, the “Souer Sewer” single and a limited CD of a live performance from WNYU.
ZOLA JESUS. Tsar Bomba (Troubleman Unlimited) 13.50 EUR. On Zola Jesus’ upcoming EP Tsar Bomba, the local project’s bleak pop sensibility stays afloat on a lake polluted with white noise, dirty industrial rhythms, and hissing synthesizers. The spooky vibrato of Madison vocalist NIKA DANILOVA effectively throws the dreamy hooks of Ronnie Spector down an empty well. In live sets, DEAD LUKE’s sonically haunting synthesizers crawl over the minimalist rhythm section of bassist LINDSAY MIKKOLA and tom-tom player MAX ELLIOT to provide an adequate backdrop for Danilova’s heaving vibrato and sinister shrieking.”--Madison Decider. Edition of 500 copies.
VV.AA. Sólo Para Punks. Rock Nacional Vol. 2 (Discos Cobra) 12.00 EUR. Probablemente el mejor recopilatorio de punk mejicano de los 80. Editado por Discos Cobra este LP incluia temas de las bandas mas representativas de la escena nacional: Rebel'd Punk, Sindrome del Punk, Descontrol y Desorden Publico.
VV.AA. Galician Bizarre (Self Released) 9.00 EUR. El disco recopilatorio Galician Bizarre da cabida a 15 temas inéditos de otras tantas bandas gallegas. La mezcla entre el costumbrismo y la modernidad, pasado por el punk, el pop y el rock ya tiene vida propia en forma de vinilo de 12”. TELEPHONES ROUGES, INDOMITOS, NOVEDADES CARMINHA, METRALLETAS LECHERAS, ANENOME, THE VICIOUS, NOISE PROJECT, LE CUL, CU DE VASO, SHIT PONY, LEE VAN CLEEF, LOS SANTOS, ZOOFILIA, SRASRSRA, THEE POSSUMS.
VV.AA. Busted At Oz (Permanent) 16.00 EUR. Finally! After 30 long years since it's original release, THE DEFINITIVE CHICAGO PUNK DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE AGAIN ON VINYL! Busted At Oz was originally released in 1981 on Autumn Records. It has been long out-of-print and regularly fetches collector prices in stores and online. It contains some of the earliest recordings from well-known Chicago punk acts such as NAKED RAYGUN and EFFIGIES, as well as more obscure Chicago punk groups such as STRIKE UNDER, SUBVERTS, SILVER ABUSE, and one of Chicago's first mostly-female post-punk groups, DA. The tip-on jackets for this 30th Anniversary limited edition vinyl-only reissue were reproduced by Stoughton to look exactly like the original by using the actual vintage print left over from the original pressing! The original master was expertly remastered for vinyl by COOPER CRAIN (CAVE). Additionally, the original printed inner sleeve has been reprinted. Also included are retrospective liner notes from original members of some of the bands. The best part... all proceeds will be donated to the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. Edition of 500 copies.
VV.AA. Under The Covers Vol. 2. A Tribute To Paul Collins, Peter Case And Jack Lee (of The Nerves) (Volar) 16.00 EUR. A tribute to THE NERVES featuring a who’s who of the current indie scene’s finest. Includes tracks from GRASS WIDOW, READING RAINBOW, WHITE WIRES, HUNX & HIS PUNX, THE MANTLES, WHITE FENCE, AUDACITY, PERSONAL & THE PIZZAS, DAVILA 666, LE FACE, TIJUANA PANTHERS, SO COW, NEVEREVER, MOONHEARTS, SHARK TOYS, RATAS DEL VATICANO, FORGERY SERIES, and COWABUNGA BABES. Limited edition of 900 copies.
VV.AA. Es Chaos Is Die Botschaft Volumen II (Luziprak Recs) 14.50 EUR. This second compilation contains some Austrian Proto Punk and Punk Rock from the first generation, including some rare & some unreleased Punk influenced Powerpop, Trash Rock, New Wave and No Wave stuff! Lim. 1000 copies.
Side A: SCOOTER - Crazy Police (Wr.Neustadt, 1982); WILLI WARMA - Ich sprenge alle Ketten (Linz, 1981); TOM PETTINGS HERTZATTACKEN - I Found Out (Lienz/Wien, 1980); NULL KOMA NICHTS - Der Weisse Rum (Feldkirch, 1982); RPB - Tenebrae (Wien, 1981); HOTEL MORPHILA ORCHESTER - Sex in der Stadt (Wien, 1982); COMMERCIALS - Mein Kampf (Wien, 1981); KILLROY - Robert Damiens (Wien, 1984)
Side B: INTIMSPRAY - One Million Barrels (Innsbruck, 1980/81); FRONTAL - Keine Ahnung (Wels, 1983); EXCALIBUR - Sweet Little Girl (Wien 1982); DIRT SHIT - Der letzte Dreck von Wien (Wien, 1978/79); CADILLAC - Cold Love (Wien, 1976/79); ÖMÖ - Pumperl geht... (Graz, 1982); BLACK VEIL - Take Me As I Am (Wien, 1982); X-BELIEBIG - Fang an (Wr.Neustadt, 1980).
VV.AA. ¡Brutales Matanzas! (Cintas Pepe) 14.00 EUR. Nuevo compilado punk en vinilo de 12" con las mejores bandas de México y Perú: LOS NASSIS, RATAS DEL VATICANO, MORBO, LOS MONJO, CRIMEN, INSERVIBLES, MASTURBATOR, LOS MARGARITOS, KILLER CASSETTES y TRES AL HILO!!!
Portada serigrafiada. Edicion limitada a 300 copias, comprenlo ahora ¡¡¡hijos de la verga!!!
VV.AA. Fm-bx Society Tape Vol. 1 (S-s Records) 13.50 EUR. “S.S. Records is pleased to present the first vinyl edition of the FM-BX Society Tape Vol. 1. Originally released in 1981 on only cassette, with a limited run of 200, FM-BX V1 was the first in a series of compilation tapes released by the staff of a radio station in Brussels, Belgium. Needless to say, not many tapes made it around, and very few survive today. I’d say that is a shame but with this vinyl release, the word will get out about the bands on this tape, albeit a few decades after its initial release! FM-BX V1 features three bands, two from Belgium, one from Scotland. The Belgium bands are ISOLATION WARD and UNIT 4. Isolation Ward are known in underground synth collector circles, as they had a bit of a run after their debut on this release. Bleak and futuristic, Isolation Ward fuse post punk with early 80s synth sounds and a DIY approach. The stars of FM-BX are the all-woman foursome Unit 4. Little is known about the band or their current whereabouts. No problem because their music is all you need to tell you that they had something special going. By their sound, the influences are obvious: Kleenex, Delta 5, and the Raincoats all reverberate here though less ‘slick’ than any of those bands. Unit 4’s aesthetics are more akin to the Petticoats and, at times, the Shaggs. This is truly wonderful punk rock. From Scotland comes the TOPPLERS. If the name sounds familiar, it is doubtful that it is because of the band. One of the Topplers is a guy named ALLAN HENRY, who runs the excellent DIY label Topplers Records. In fact, it is Allan who turned me on to FM-BX to begin with. His band The Topplers? Great stuff. Teens with an ear towards the TV Personalities, The Times, and Subway Sect. They only existed for a couple years but wound up on this tape and, as a result, with an opening slot for Golden Earing! These are the only recordings that exist. Had they come out at the time on a 7”s, I have no doubt DIY collectors would be fighting over copies. 500 pressed, housed in a sleeve cobbled together from the original cassette release. Brief liner notes by The Topplers’ Allan Henry.”—S.S.
VV.AA. 6 x 2 x 12” (Volar) 12.50 EUR. This long-in-development compilation is finally seeing the light of day. Featuring three of Canada’s best post-punk acts coupled with three of San Diego’s, this 12-inch highlights the common ground that acts in both countries share. DEFEKTORS deliver a blast of punk energy with “Not the One”; O VOIDS contribute their lurching “Crawling Machine”; hot off their HoZac and Mammoth Cave Records 7-inch, SHARP ENDS debuts their best track yet, “Whiteout,” a scorching, noisy post-punk anthem. On the US side, San Diego’s ALE MANIA follow up their Volar Records and Hell Yes! Records 7-inches with the great, chaotic “Fawkus”; BEATERS offer up the pulsating “They Don’t Really Care About Us”; and SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY turn in their first new track since their Sacred Bones 7-inch, “Where is the Light”. 45 RPM, all handmade covers.
VV.AA. Hookup Klub Round One (Hozac) 13.00 EUR. Yes, its finally here, all on one handly format for accessing the hottest cuts from the first Round of the HoZac singles club, along with two previously unreleased BONUS TRACKS by TEEPEE and IDLE TIMES. This compilation spans the first ten elusive subscription-only 7-inch records released from 2009-2010, featuring rare tracks by DUM DUM GIRLS, WOVEN BONES, BOX ELDERS, FLIGHT, WHITE MYSTERY, TEEPEE, IDLE TIMES, MOTHER OF TEARS, ART THIEVES, and TEETH (the elusive Blank Dogs/Spider side project), and is not to be missed.
VV.AA. Party Platter (Florida’s Dying) 14.50 EUR. ”Two and a half years in the making Florida’s Dying’s Party Platter is finally done. Thirteen tracks from thirteen party bands across the US, and each song is about a brand new dance. This is the party record of the year and just in time for the summer. Now you and your friends can do "The Cuddle Up", "Huckle Buck", and who doesnt love to "Wiggle It Around". Features jams from JOHNNY AND THE LIMELITES, NOBUNNY, HUNX & HIS PUNX, COCONUT COOLOUTS, RANTOULS, SWEET SIXTEENS, SEXCAPADES, GARBOS DAUGHTER, SLIPPERY SLOPES, BRIANS, DIRTY BUSINESS, PERSONAL AND THE PIZZAS, THE PUDDIN’ POPS, and THE YOLKS.
VV.AA. Worlds Lousy With Ideas 8 (Almost Ready Records) 14.50 EUR. "The eighth installment in the Worlds Lousy compilation series abandons the 7" format in favor of the full twelve. Pretty much everyone worth talking about in 09 is on here, as the LP collects exclusive tracks by Blank Dogs, Vivian Girls, Tyvek, Oh Sees, Sic Alps, Times New Viking, Intelligence, Pink Reason and Guinea Worms. Beautiful, silkscreened covers with art by Cassie of the Vivian Girls." There are nine different screened covers, one by each band.
VV.AA. Bloodstains Across Sweden (RedRum) 14.00 EUR. 13 essential punk rock blasts! Featuring Watabout, Kriminella Gitarrer, Bugs, Rude Kids, Glo, Usch, Brulbajz, Mizz Nobody, Butter Utter, Vicuous Visions, Liket Lever, Blodarna. Booklet features liner notes with info on all bands and covers of their 45s.
VV.AA. Bloodstains Across The Midwest (Fan Club) 14.00 EUR. Third record in the Bloodstains series. This, along with Texas and California were the originals of this series. The information given about the bands/records is as often fiction as it is fact. The Gynecologists, for example, were definitely not from Hogfuck, Indiana. I should know--that's my hometown! Actually, next time you are in Indiana, go to Bloomington, head to the corner of Kirkwood and Walnut, right on the town square. You'll see a video store called Plan 9 Video. It's downstairs, under a book store. Ask for Kerry Scott. He's none other than Tommy Afterbirth! Then you can go take a shit on John Mellencamp's front porch. Like Texas and California, this is one of the best in the series! However, being from the Midwest, this one has a special place in my heart.
VV.AA. Neighbors Annoyer (Fan Club) 14.00 EUR. Comp KBD from USA, Scotland, UK, Ireland (Cramp, 00.3 Minutes, Screaming Dead, 48 Chairs, Pink Section, The Toys, Joe Cool & The Killers, Eddie Fiction, VDU`s, The Scabs, Visitors, Voice Of Puppets, Vital Disorder, Puncture, K9`s,The Dazzlers) [16-songs] 500 made. Rare original 1977-1982 punkrock from the vaults.
VV.AA. Dangerhouse Vol. 1 (Frontier) 13.00 EUR. Either the A-side or B-side from each of the bands appearing on the long-defunct and most collectable LA punk indie label. With THE BAGS, X, BLACK RANDY, DEADBEATS, WEIRDOS, RANDOMS, EYES, DILS, AVENGERS, RHINO 39, ALLEY CATS, HOWARD WETTH.
VV.AA. Dangerhouse Vol. 2 (Frontier) 13.00 EUR. More classics from the Dangerhouse label's vaults. Also contains previously unreleased songs. Bands include BAGS, EYES, BLACK RANDY, X, AVENGERS, DILS, ALLEY CATS, WEIRDOS, RHINO 39, RANDOMS.
VV.AA. Rocky Mountain Low - The Colorado Musical Underground Of The Late 1970s (Hyperpycnal Productions) 2xLP+CD+24-page Booklet 25.00 EUR. Rocky Mountain Low is a unique portrayal of a late-1970s American Punk/New Wave scene. It is the first time that a Punk/New Wave scene, from its inception in 1976 through to the end of 1979, has been documented in its entirety. In their presentation of Colorado’s musical reaction to the initial wake of Punk Rock in the late 1970s, the compilers have set the bar unattainably high for future would-be historians. While Colorado’s late-1970s underground music scene was small and existed on the margins of the larger, more well-known scenes, its documentation is important in that what is being presented is a complete and accurate portrayal of part of the cultural movement that was taking place at the time. Thorough and comprehensive research viewed through an objective lens provides a previously unseen snapshot of America’s musical underground of the period. This documentation shows that the Punk movement of the late 1970s was anything but paint-by numbers Ð a concept that seems to have been sadly lost on younger generations. Until now, very little has been known about what transpired in Colorado’s musical underground in the late 1970s. Did you know that Wax Trax, who later became world famous for their record label in the 1980s, started as a store in Denver in 1975? Their early story is told here. Or that Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys fame is a Boulder native? Contained in this compilation you will find the origins of the Dead Kennedys name (see Radio Pete bio) as well as some of Jello’s pre-Dead Kennedys recordings, available for the first time ever (including a bonus, vinyl only recording of the improvised, very crude original “California Uber Alles”). Deluxe, double LP package which includes a bonus CD of the recordings, as well as a 24-page booklet containing extensive historical liner notes, dozens of photos, and complete biographies for 19 bands, 17 of which are represented with recordings: Ravers - Front - Radio Pete - Jonny III - Immortal Nightflames - Joey Vain & Scissors - Dancing Assholes - Dirty Dogs - Corvairs - Lilly Rose & The Thorns - DefeX - Healers - Instants - Profalactics - Guys - Cells - Transistors. 32 songs/84 minutes of music. All material is previously unreleased with the exception of the Dirty Dogs track which was taken from their 45, self-released in 1978. “Rocky Mountain Low is an insanely great insider's view of the Colorado underground scene of the late '70s. We'd never even heard of half the bands here, but Joseph Pope was an active participant, and along with Dalton Rasmussen he pulled together a great set of unreleased nuggets from demos, rehearsal tapes & whatnot. Like lotsa scenes in their early days, the sounds here are heterogenous -- '60s style Pop, hard Garage, weird experimentalism and Brit-damaged lunge are all part of the mix, just as they were in the day. The book included is a great blend of history, attitude, crappy-looking fliers and the best picture of Jello Biafra you will ever see in this lifetime. Every town deserves this kind of deep investigation. Superb shit.
VV.AA. Shiftless Decay – New Sounds Of Detroit (X! Records) 12.50 EUR. A collection of scathing tracks from the current Detroit underground. You get unreleased tracks from TERRIBLE TWOS, LITTLE CLAW, FRUSTRATIONS, TENTACLE LIZARDO, HEROES & VILLAINS, JOHNNY III BAND, MAHONIES, FONTANA, THTX (MATT SMITH OF OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY/VOLEBEATS), ODD CLOUDS, along with a pre-released track from HUMAN EYE and a TYVEK song that only appeared on the super-limited Flowers tour CDR.
VV.AA. Killed By Death #5 (RedRum) 14.00 EUR. The first of 2 (along with #6) volumes done in Australia. Until a reissue in 1998 both of them were tough to find. A really good LP, with a little more of an international focus than previous volumes. Great tracks from the Neo Punkz, Nubs, Cracked Actor, Maggots, Dieter Meier among other. Rating: 8.5.
VV.AA. Killed By Death #6 (RedRum) 14.00 EUR. The second Australian volume, reissued in 1998. The most international volume so far. Fewer classic tracks here though most are still above average. The Funeral Dress track is actually from 1987, though the label of the record is misleading. Goodies from The Kids, Dirt Shit, Next, Hitler SS and Tampax. Rating: 7.5.
VV.AA. Killed By Death #7 (RedRum) 14.00 EUR. Done as a joke, featuring records that were on the want list of the person who did #5 y 6. They even went so far as to put his address on the back of the jacket. An excellent volume, with the Village Pistols, Chain Gang, Guilty Razors, Absentees, Fresh Color and Maids being the standout tracks. No crap tracks here. This one was getting tough to find until it was reissued in 1998. Rating: 9.
VV.AA. Killed By Death #8.5 (RedRum) 14.00 EUR. The first of 4 volumes of “All American Punk, No Foreign Junk”. Excellent volume, bringing to light some previously unknown (and ridiculously expensive) records. The cover of this one (an S&M theme, from the Public Disturbance sleeve) caused my copy to be temporarily seized by the fucking morons at Canaduh Customs due to the nature of the subject matter. Move into the 20th century assholes. Two pressing, I don’t know what the difference are. It’s damn bootleg, who cares! Rating: 8.5.
VV.AA. Killed By Death #9 (RedRum) 14.00 EUR. Still more obscurities and even more ridiculously priced records than Volume 8.5. Tapeworm is way over-rated. All of the tracks are winners, with Tapeworm probably being my least favourite tracks on the LP. Two pressings as for #8.5. Rating: 9.
VV.AA. Killed By Death #10 (RedRum) 14.00 EUR. Still more US (and a few Canadian) obscurities for the 3rd “All American” volume. Quite a good record, similar in quality to #8.5, not quite as good as #9. Ratin: 8.5.
VV.AA. Killed By Death #12 (RedRum) 14.00 EUR. The final volume of the “All American Punk” series. More real obscurities, not that many killer tracks but consistent throughout. Ebenezer & The Bludgeons, Lubricants, Rejects (the second track), Meaty Buys, Nubs and Teenage PhDs are the winners here, with most everything else a close second. Rating: 8.5.
VV/AA. Killed By 7inch #1…#5 (RedRum) 14.00 EUR. A compilation of the first 5 Killed By 7 Inch EPs. Most of those were released only in editions of 300 copies and they quickly disappeared. If you missed out on those now you have another chance. An average collection of tracks. Rating: 7
VV.AA. Bloodstain Across California (RedRum) 14.00 EUR. Great compilation. A bunch of goodies including the mighty Child Molesters, Cheifs and Dogs. Barely a bad track to be found though I could do without the juvenile idiocy of the Insults. Rating: 9.
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