deverova chyba - club 59

released 2006

so there i was...just randomly hopping from video to video on the youtube the other night...and this band kept showing up...i'd never heard of them before...so i figured i'd give their video a click

and 4 plays later...i was hooked

this is a threesome from the czech republic

they play something that will appeal to fans of bands like: the jesus lizard...shellac...nomeansno

and they do it while using only 2 basses and some drums

and not to worry...you're not having a stroke...the vocals are in their native czech tongue

varlata.

DL: club 59

scratch acid - 1.2.87 - de effenaar - eindhoven,netherlands

the thing known as "scratch acid" will be on the move this coming fall

and here's a list of where not to be when that happens:

11.1 - variety playhouse - atlanta,ga

11.2 - cat's cradle - carrboro,nc

11.4 - 9:30 club - washington,dc

11.11 - lee's place - toronto,canada

11.12 - metro - chicago,il

12.13 - el rey theatre - los angeles,ca

12.14 - the fillmore - san francisco,ca

12.17 - neumos - seattle,wa

there will be more upcoming shows announced

and if you feel brave enough to show your face (or the rest of your body for that matter)...this is what you could very well experience for yourself

1 - eyeball
2 - lay screaming
3 - damned for all time*
4 - for crying out loud
5 - mess
6 - el espectro
7 - skin drips
8 - albino slug
9 - big bone lick
10 - s.d.b.j jam
11 - mary had a little drug problem
12 - cannibal
13 - this is bliss
14 - the greatest gift
15 - she said
16 - owner's lament

*=andrew lloyd webber cover

DL: scratch acid @de effenaar

Pines Of Nowhere - Pines Of Nowhere

Label: Slowdime
Year: 2000

Remember the old hardcore band Dead Image? Yeah, that's ok, most people probably don't either, but they were pretty good. Good enough that "ex-Dead Image" actually registered with me on some level. So Chris Turco of Dead Image, and later Oswego, had this brief band going from around 1999 to about 2002, and they played something not far off of what Dischord was releasing at that time, i.e herky-jerky rhythms (not far removed from their Minutemen via Gang Of Four influences) with shouty vocals, and a hint of late 80's Revolution Summer style proto-emo.
There's also a member of Trans Am all mixed up in here. You know, for all the Trans Am-heads out there.
When they play it straight, this band really clicks and unleashes some potent jams. Good shit.

DL

melvins/the jon spencer blues explosion - black betty

released 2011

yeah...this is one of those things that sold out as soon as the thought entered into thomas hazelmyer's head

it's both bands covering the leadbelly jam

your saturday nights just got a whole lot better

bam-ba-lam.

DL: black betty

clockcleaner - auf-wiedersehen

released 2010

this was the band's swan song

on this album...the band completely ditch all of their noise rock leanings and go full bore into some goth/shoegaze/post-punk territory (vocalist john sharkey could totally pass for some early bauhaus peter murphy)

so if you're down with bands like alien sex fiend...the birthday party...the cramps...medicine...joy division...

DL: auf-wiedersehen

skatenigs - chemical imbalance

released 1993

if buttholes are peep shows...then the 'nigs are the window to the soul

remember when industrial music was worth listening to?...ah,the early 90s...PSALM 69...BROKEN...TOO DARK PARK...ANGST...BEERS,STEERS AND QUEERS...

good times

you could also throw the skatenigs album STUPID PEOPLE SHOULDN'T BREED onto that list

this was a promo that was sent out to the radio stations (remember when bins at used cd stores were filled with these things?)

you get the radio remix and the video mix and the album version of "chemical imbalance"

DL: chemical imbalance

the jesus lizard - live at brixton academy 7"

released 1994

this was a one-sided 7" that came along with a copy of a zine called FEAR AND LOATHING (issue #21 to be exact) that was released over in london,england

1 - the art of self defense
2 - nub

DL: the jesus lizard @brixton academy

black congress - davidians 7"

released 2010

do you like the jesus lizard's pissed jeans?

well...you can either take the risk and steal them from off of the clothesline...or you could just download this

choose wisely

DL: davidians

Nudibranch - Automaton

Label: Self released
Year: 1995

A few weeks ago I had a hankering to digitize some records I've had sitting around being all analog and not being digital, so I asked my friend James Joyce (yes, THE James Joyce) if I could come over and listen to records, digitize them, and drink some beers. Not a bad night huh? So first off, we gotta big up Double J for the hospitality. Then, we gotta talk about this particular 'lil gem. When I was flipping through my 7"s, this one jumped out as the quintessential Shiny Grey Monotone candidate. It's a little known 1990's band that hailed from the once-and-future hotbed of Richmond, Virginia, that came along and blitzkrieged anyone lucky enough to see or hear them before splintering off into a hundred fragments (or in this case an equally mysterious/great band called Gingwine) before anyone even knew what was happening. Certainly you can hear the influence of hardcore in here (I would hope they had moshed their balls off at a few Four Walls Falling / Shadowman / Elizabeth Herz triple bills prior to forming this band), but they take it in a very distorted and blown-out direction, not unlike Pachinko, or someone else...who would also be characterized as "not unlike Pachinko". The vocals are a wash of muffled groans and bellows, the guitar cuts across rhythm section's pounding stutters as they drone, stop and start again. Noise-punk?
I only saw them play once (where upon I purchased this very record) and they were an unstoppable train that belted the sparse crowd across the face from start to finish. I also clearly remember the drummer absolutely staring a hole through my girlfriend (now wife, thank you very much [and yes, I'm sure she was thrilled the be there...I was "that guy" who drug his poor girlfriend to shows...and why she stuck with me I'll never know]) for the duration of the set, which somehow didn't make either of us uncomfortable, more like, "I wonder if that guy can hold this up the whole show?". It added to the overall strangeness of the band, in a good way, and made the performance all the more memorable (obviously, right? it was almost 20 years ago).
Highly, highly recommended.

DL

the blood brothers/milemarker split 7"

released 1999

post-punk emotional hardcore

do you like those words put in succession?

well then you're really going to enjoy this because this is what those words sound like

DL: the blood brothers/milemarker split