scrotum grinder - the greatest sonic abomination ever

released: 2001
label: prank records

once upon a time i was living in a town called brandon located in florida. it's just outside of tampa. one day i was wandering around 1 of the 3 places my roommates knew where to find me if'n they needed to as i didn't have a cellphone at the time. and just in case you're curious:
1: the record store i was currently in. i can't remember its name.
2: the record store down the street from where i was living (aka SOUND IDEA).
3: barnes & noble
as i was wandering about the aisles i came to a stop in front of an album by a band named scrotum grinder. i had never heard of them before. and i paid the $6 for the album on the name alone. 2 days later i bought the album on vinyl at SOUND IDEA. folks got tired of always having to hear the cd getting played in my van (i was going between this album and BURN,PIANO ISLAND,BURN by the blood brothers for awhile there).
the band had an angry female as a vocalist.
that sort of thing is in my wheelhouse.
i came to find out that the band was from tampa but had been broken up for a bit. and then i came to find out that they were reforming to play a day long show at the SOUND IDEA. and i had to fucking be there. i HAD to fucking be there. but apparently when you ask for a day off before the schedule at a job even gets made doesn't mean you'll get it. not even if you're all like "seriously,doug. i need that day off. need. that.day.off." and he shakes his head as if stating "ok. i get it. now get back to work. those dishes aren't going to wash themselves.".

that's a good story,grampa.

they have links to bands with names like:
memento mori
failure face
no statik
hankshaw
assuck

if you dig bands like kill the man who questions or early kylesa or guyana punch line or robot has werewolf hand or damad or combatwoundedveteran....
that is if you've even heard of any of them.
you have?
wanna get together and hangout sometime or something?
don't worry.
my parents will be there the entire time.
they're legally obligated to not leave me at home alone anymore.

DL

spazz / brutal truth - split

released: 1996
label: bovine records/rhetoric records

what you're being given here are 2 bands at the top of their respective genres.
spazz is all out powerviolence.
brutal truth gives you that grindcore.
and with that you have the soundtrack to the next (roughly) 12 minutes of your day.
enjoy.

1 - spazz - spazz vs. mother nature
2 - spazz - nuge on a stick
3 - spazz - donger
4 - brutal truth - pork farm
5 - brutal truth - rumours (die kruezen cover)
6 - brutal truth - foolish bastard

DL

henry rollins / gore - live

released: 1987
label: eksakt records

you know all about some henry rollins.
fronted blag flag.
likes to be called hank.
has something to say about everything.
blah blah blah.

as for gore....
they were a band from the netherlands that played some instrumental noise rock/metal in the vein of later black flag and early (the) melvins and other bands that share a sound with later black flag and early (the) melvins.

so there ya go.
ta and da.

1 - henry rollins - black and white
2 - henry rollins - what am i doing here?
3 - henry rollins - lost and found
4 - henry rollins - followed around
5 - henry rollins - ghost rider (suicide cover)
6 - henry rollins - hot animal machine
7 - gore - mean man's dream
8 - gore - extirpation
9 - gore - to the gallows
10 - gore - arena

henry rollins recorded at el mocambo on 5.17.87 in toronto,ontario
gore records at de bakkerij on 6.9.87 in eindhoven,holland

DL

soundgarden - 3.3.14 - itunes festival sxsw - austin,tx

you know soundgarden.
you know the album SUPERUNKNOWN.
this is soundgarden playing SUPERUNKNOWN in order live in its entirety.

DL

choke their rivers with our dead - 2002 tour cd

i came across these boys and girl from charlotte,nc back in the mp3.com days. ah,the mp3.com days. those were the salad days,bro. the future was wide open. not a care in the world.

fun fact: once upon a time the band's vocalist (cristina) and i had written a few letters back and forth to each other. strictly as fan and musician. she sent me a mix cd. it was a good one. and then i lost it somewhere along the line. stupid dumb line.

this was a self-released 4 song cd that was handed out whilst the band toured (though i had to send off for one as they weren't coming anywhere near me...as most things don't).

as far as i know the band were together for only a few years and released some splits and such. they broke up back in 2003.

so if'n you like practically anything released on robotic empire (namely: pageninetynine or city of caterpillar) this is right up your alley.

yep.

DL

sonic youth - lost tracks: single b-sides and non-album tracks

released: 1994

this is one of those "unofficial releases" that you've probably heard about.
it's sonic youth.
you know about sonic youth.
at least i hope you do.
if'n you don't this probably isn't where you'd want to start.
BAD MOON RISING.
DAYDREAM NATION.
DIRTY.
MURRAY STREET.
you should go and give all of those a listen.
one right after the other.
like you have anything better to do.
your friends are all doing it.
yeah.
that's right.
put on this ronald reagan mask and then take of your shirt.
that's right.

but i digress....

this is a compilation of...well...the title pretty much sums everything up nicely.
so that's that.

1 - i know there's n answer (beach boys cover)
2 - computer age (neil young cover)
3 - electricity (captain beefheart cover)
4 - jam right pt.1
5 - jam right pt.2
6 - ca plane pour moi (plastic bertrand cover)
7 - i love you mary jane (w/cypress hill)
8 - burning farm (shonen knife cover)
9 - that's all i know (right now)
10 - the destroyed room
11 - personality crisis
12 - the end of the end of the ugly
13 - is it my body (alice cooper cover)
14 - tamara
15 - genetic
16 - hendrix necro
17 - stalker
18 - touch me i'm sick (mudhoney cover)
19 - beat on the brat (ramones cover)
20 - our backyard/traffic
21 - purr

DL

deervana - 6.19.11 - brooklyn bowl - brooklyn,ny

you like it when one thing pretends to be another,yeah?
like transformers.
like gobots.
like voltron.
like stepdads.

this is the band deer tick pretending to be nirvana.
and they put in a might fine effort if'n i do say so myself.
and i do because i just did.
don't sass me.
i don't see you out there pretending to be nirvana.
y'know what.
you can go to your room and pretend to be whatever it is you pretend to be in there.
i hear the noises.
i do your laundry.
yeah.

1 - school
2 - in bloom
3 - aneurysm
4 - blew
5 - lithium
6 - [banter]
7 - about a girl
8 - on a plain [false start]
9 - on a plain
10 - been a son
11 - serve the servants
12 - molly's lips*
13 - scentless apprentice
14 - something in the way
15 - curmudgeon
*=nirvana covering the vaselines cover

DL

sunny day real estate - friday / spade and parade

released: 1995
label: bacteria sour

this was a 7" that was put out through the pushead fan club that was only meant for member consumption.
of the fan club.
perv.

DL

smashing pumpkins - 3.16.89 - wzrd - chicago,il

it's the smashing pumpkins being the smashing pumpkins on college radio.
that sounds like a good time,right?
of course it does.

1 - venus in furs*
2 - snap
3 - my eternity
4 - east
5 - cinnamon girl**
6 - there it goes
7 - nothing and everything
8 - under your spell
9 - rhinoceros
10 - sun
11 - spiteface

DL

V/A - Shiny Grey Monotone Radio - Show 1

Label: n/a
Year: 2012

In America, it's Memorial Day. Where you are, I guess it could just be Monday...it's impossible to verify. But, in America, on Memorial Day, we freedom fighter patriots like to get together with our other free friends, and grill out some sort of foods, drink some domestic beers, and listen to rock n roll music while we talk about how awesome America is. It's pretty cool.
So, in that spirit, I wanted to give you a one hour cookout soundtrack that will surely impress your guests and ward off communism.

Way back when, we were doing an internet radio show under the same name as this blog, and so I would assemble an hour's worth of music to send off to be played each week. A cross section of the type of stuff we champion, and a mixtape of sorts, par excellence. Really excellent, actually. These mixes were painstakingly selected, sequenced, and loved. And not to toot my own horn, but...toot toot...them shits were fucking great. The radio show only lasted a few weeks, but I think I put together about 22 volumes worth of music, plus some bonus themed episodes (Washington D.C., powerviolence, Black Flag...and maybe Unwound?). Those have all disappeared off this blog years ago, and I for one, think it's a shame. So, fuck it, let's post them again, ok? This first show is particularly stacked...but they're all super fucking good.

Show One:
La Gritona
Black Elk
Milkmine
Hammerhead
Drunks With Guns
Young Ginns
Sicbay
The Sunglasses
Part Chimp
Last Of The Juanitas
Copass Grinderz
Black Mountain
Tight Bros From Way Back When
Johnboy
JJ Paradise Players Club
Archers Of Loaf
Fugazi
Polvo
Unwound
Chavez
Engine Kid
Big'N
Barkmarket

DL