SGM Movie of the week : BAD BRAINS "A BAND IN D.C."

This is a fantastic documentary about the greatest hardcore band of all time.

No matter what your feelings are about the Bad Brains may be, this documentary will answer pretty 

much all of your questions.

I believe this film will probably never be officially released, from what I have read online they had some issues with the final product and no compromises could be met by the band and the director of the film.

It's been pulled from You Tube and Vimeo, so grab it while you can. 

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V/A - Dixie Flatline (Repost)

 

Label : Radioactive Rat 

Year : 1994

  1994 Richmond, VA was a weird place musically. Richmond had a hell of a Hardcore scene in the 80's and I would dare say that they had even better bands than D.C. did. I've seen some epic shows in Richmond as well. That scene was all but dead, and hometown heroes "GWAR" had  been a band for 8 years at this time and were in a weird transitional phase of their career. Breadwinner had been broken up for almost 2 years, and sludge metal pioneers "Buzzov-en" had recently made Richmond their homebase. The metal scene that Richmond is now famous for was just starting to happen, but would be another 8-10 years before it gained the reputation that it has today. Avail was huge, Hose Got Cable also had a good following but soon broke up after this comp was released. I believe Alabama Thunder Pussy formed a year or so after this came out.  I lived in Richmond on and off over the years, and was in the band Mulch which is on this comp but I left by the time they recorded this.

 This comp is a pretty good document of what bands were happening in and around Richmond, VA at the time.  Here's what I can tell you about some of the bands...

* King Sour,  an amazing 3 piece math rock instrumental band. Their bass Player Tom Palazo (sp?) went on to play with Modest Mouse. 

*Buzzov-en, what else needs to be said, you have them and Eyehategod to thank for a lot of the heavier sludge-core bands that exist today.

 *Ladyfinger - Penn Rollins (guitarist for Honor Role & Breadwinner) plays drums in this band and it's pretty much what you would expect.. math rockish, somewhere between Butterglove and Breadwinner.

The rest of the comp is split up by audio vignettes throughout the record. It's not the strongest compilation, and there is some crap on here, but worth checking out for the King Sour, Buzzov-en, Damn Near Rad, and Ladyfinger tracks. - Slander

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Anwar Sadat - Mutilation b/w Demarcation ep

Label: Sophomore Lounge
Year: 2012

Dudes, have you heard this band? Wait....sorry....dudes, and that one girl, have you heard this band?
They started life as many Louisville post hardcore bands do, under the influence of the Dischord Records long roster of arty, angular, and driving proto-emo and post punk bands. Which, has a particularly strong foothold in Louisville, not for good reason, but worth noting.
As they've grown into their own sounds they've seemed to pull in more of that late 90's GSL records jittery, bordering on spastic but not actually spastic, version of English post punk circa 1977 (think of Wire as distilled by The Convocation Of). Their last album has a lot of that slicing, attacking scree tempered with an underlying nod to the simple pleasures of a pop song.
But, lets hit on this particular two song release that I feel finds the band in their sweetspot, and that is taking those same elements mentioned before and putting them into a car that's driving 100mph towards a cliff. Everything about the songs is amplified and hits harder and more intensely.
If you're putting them into the Louisville music continuum then you can certainly hear the Crain and Rodan in their DNA, you will get a taste of the frantic blister of Sunspring, they don't come out of the gate quite as aggressively as Young Widows but you may recognize some of the same discordant guitar squalls, and a good bit of Metrocshifter's take on tension-and-release style hardcore shows up in the mix, and you can probably make a comparison to the latter works of Lords and Breather Resist with their chokehold (no, not Chokehold) brand of hardcore. But sadly, no Kinghorse influence here. There's always next record.

Highly recommended.

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Spore - Complete Disography

Label : Taang

Year : 93-34

SPORE were one of my favorite bands to go out and see live. In the early 90's I was very active in playing music, booking bands, setting up shows, putting up bands, and touring. I got to meet and sometimes hang out afterwards with bands on tour. I would almost always put up out of town bands when they needed a place to stay. SPORE being one of many bands, but I lucked out and got to play a few shows with them and even ran into them while out on the road as well. They were always great to hook up with, and for a minute there it looked like they may have been getting signed. I remember one of them telling me about how one of their songs was going to be in a movie directed by Oliver Stone and written by Quentin Tarratino called "Natural Born Killers". I was so happy for them.. The song "Fun" made it into the film, it's in the part where Julliette Lewis is behind bars and starts beating the shit out of Tom Sizemore. Sadly it didn't make it onto the soundtrack (which it should have.. fuckers!!).. well it never happend for them, and they just went away. 

I always thought SPORE was what the band "X" (the Los Angeles one) would sound like if they decided one day they wanted to be Sonic Youth. The male / female vocals being the "X" reference ( she sounds a lot like Excene at times) and the noisey feedbacking song writing structure being the "Sonic Youth" reference.

This is both LP's plus a their version of  "The Beatles" I Wan't You (She's So Heavy) which apperared on a 12" ep they put out between records and that being the only song that wasn't on either of these lps.

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Blank City - Documentary

Fantastic documentary about the New York No Wave film and music scene.

Great segment on Richard Kern.

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Lechuguillas - Just Me & My Dad

Label : Bandcamp
Year : 2014

Stumbled across this while digging for new sounds on Bandcamp. It's heavy, it's noisey, and it's from Austin, Texass. You can download it from  bandcamp and name your own price as well. . any questions?

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GOLDEN SHOWER RADIO HOUR - Episode #002

Golden Shower Radio Hour

Episode # : 002
DJ : Slanderbob
Download or Listen Below



Hammerhead - Swallow
Ruins - Onyx
Victims Family - I pissed On A Tree *
Noodle - House Guest From Hell
Chrome - TV As Eyes/Abstract Nympho
BOMB - I Loved You and Then I died
Division of Laura Lee - Love Sretioscope
Whores - Bloody Like The Day You Were Born ( out in December on Am Rep's DGFITS 13)
Halo Of Flies - Ritches Dog
Dickless - Sweet Teeth
Tragic Mulato - She's A Ho
Couch Slut - Carpet Farmer
Cutthroats 9 - Dissension
Baxter Stockman - Ten Rock
Honor Role - Lives of the Saints #135 (Naked Wife)
King Missile III - Marin Scorsese
El Flaco - Army Man (live)

Wanna spin an hour of your favorite tunes?
Submit playlist ideas to : goldenshowerradiohour@gmail.com

We are especially looking for people from outside of the United States to contribute music from their country. If you are in a band and want to contribute it's a plus (and you can be shameless and plug your bands music)

New Shows Every Sunday

* I grabbed the wrong rip of the Victims Family tune..
sorry bout the quality drop. Won't happen again..or will it?

Crunt - S/T

Label : Trance Syndicate

Year : 1994

Another one off supergroup type release. One of my personal favorites as well. Stu Spasm (Lubricated Goat) and Kat Bjelland (Babes In Toyland) and powerhouse drummer Russel Simmons (John Spencer Blues Explosion) were CRUNT. This is the only thing they put out, and one of the few Trance Syndicate records featuring a band that wasn't from Texas. This slab of plastic straight up rocks! - Slanderbob

01.Theme from Crunt

02.Swine* 

03.Blackheart

04.Unglued

05.Changing My Mind

06.Snap Out of It

07.Sexy

08.Punishment

09.Spam

10.Elephant

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The Treasures of Long Gone John

Reposted by request

The Treasures of Long Gone John is a feature-length documentary film by Gregg Gibbs that chronicles the eccentric art and musical obsessions of indie record producer and self-described "anti-mogul", Long Gone John. The product of a troubled childhood, John found success through the establishment of the record label, Sympathy for the Record Industry. During the past seventeen years he has single-handedly released over 750 records by over 550 bands and helped launch the careers of Hole, The Dwarves, The White Stripes, Rocket from the Crypt, and The Willowz, among many others.

Along the way, he has compulsively amassed a vast collection of art and pop ephemera, in addition to starting the Necessaries Toy Foundation. The film explores the work of several of the artists he collects and collaborates with, including: Todd Schorr, Mark Ryden, Camille Rose Garcia and Robert Williams. The film also features a wall-to-wall soundtrack of over 40 bands with artwork by 20 artists, including original animation and time lapse photography. The Treasures of Long Gone John is an enticing trip through the independent record industry and the Los Angeles "lowbrow" art scene. 
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THRALL - CHEMICAL WEDDING

Label : Alternative Tentacles

Year : 1996

I remember when I first saw Thrall at Emo's in Austin and had my face melted off by their intense loudness and abrasive sound. The Rev. Mike Hard (God Bullies) getting buck naked and acting like a possessed mad man. One of the best shows I've ever seen. and I was quite surprised at how nice of a guy he was afterwards. They just don't make em like this anymore. Great LP from start to finish. Wish I had a lyric sheet to go alomg with this one. I think Alternative Tentacles, may still have some copies of this one floating around.

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