haymarket riot - bloodshot eyes

released 2001

i recall someone asking for something by this band over in the forum section back in 1935

and seeing as how we are all things timely around the SGM...here it is

this is one of them there "post-punk/post-hardcore" bands from chicago,il

if you were to see this is a music store...it would possibly have a "for fans of: early/mid 90's dischord records" sticker slapped on it

they also have members of other SGM-friendly bands that go by the names of big'n and sweep the leg johnny amongst their members (which ones exactly?...look that business up for yourself...SGM is all about the education)

post-punk/post-hardcore [x]
dischord records [x]

do it

DL: bloodshot eyes

milemarker - frigid forms sell

released 2000

what better reason to post this album (see post below)

this is the album that had gotten me turned onto the band (actually...it was the song "sex jam two: insect incest"...the best song ever written comparing humans to praying mantis')

heard of a band called your enemies friends?

heard of a band called cursive?

like the refused album THE SHAPE OF PUNK TO COME?

see what i'm getting at?

DL: frigid forms sell

Milemarker - Future Isms

Label: Point The Blame

Year: 1998

The Calvin Krime post from a few minutes ago (remember it...it's right down there...just below this one) prompted this current Milemarker post from right now (remember it...you're in it right now...at the end of your eyeballs). The bands share a similar world view, if not completely similar sonics. Both emerged from the world of punk and hardcore, and both embraced the post-hardcore and emo sounds of the era to create something to penetrate the dwindling attention spans of college age people everywhere.

If you're from North Carolina (and praise sweet Jesus if you are), you may remember Milemarker member Al Burian from his time in Hellbender previous to this. Or maybe you would have remembered Milemarker member Ben Davis from his time in Sleepytime Trio previous to this. Not ringing a bell? Okay, well then maybe you would travel into the future to remember Milemarker member Dave Laney's work in Challenger or Auxes...er...after this band.

DL

*Turns out Stickfigure Records (right here in my backyard) has the re-released cd version of this record still for sale. You can purchase it direct from them..

Buy it

Calvin Krime - You're Feeling So Attractive

Label: Amphetamine Reptile

Year: 1998

The second album by the band oft-overshadowed as "the band Har Mar Superstar was in before he was a Ron Jeremy look-alike", and probably the best material the band ever recorded. You get to hear all of their influences in one solid package; the Minneapolis hardcore sounds of Guzzard, the Olympia art-emo sounds of Unwound, the Chicago noise rock sounds of Shellac, the D.C. epic emo punk sounds of Nation Of Ulysses, and the San Diego spazz rock sound of Drive Like Jehu. All that for the low, low price of Calvin Krime! You can't lose.

I'm not promising any new ground will get broken on this record, but I'll also promise this ain't just a nostalgia trip. I guess it's somewhere in the middle, the kind of shit you'll like if you like this kind of shit. N'ah mean?

DL

dig it baby! dig it baby! dig it a hole!

do you like the u-men?

do you like them enough to want to see them get back together...to at least play a reunion show?

well...go show it here

v/a - kill rock stars

released 1991

this is one of those "ask and ye shall receive" things

this was the first LP released on the kill rock stars label

but enough with the history lesson

1 - bratmobile - girl germs
2 - some velvet sidewalk - loch ness
3 - courtney love - don't mix the colors
4 - nation of ulysses - n.o.u. cooking with gas!
5 - unwound - you speak jealousy
6 - mecca normal - narrow
7 - nirvana - beeswax
8 - heavens to betsy - my red self
9 - steve fisk - strong,warm and in command
10 - bikini kill - feels blind
11 - witchypoo - reaper song
12 - melvins - ever since my accident
13 - infamous menagerie - immediate impound zone
14 - kicking giant - make you come
15 - fitz of depression - everybody and their dog
16 - jad fair - red dress
17 - 7 year bitch - 8-ball deluxe
18 - kreviss - i.o.u.
19 - untitled

DL: kill rock stars

i got this on the ebays for a mere $7.00

there was also a queers flyer/poster that came along with it...but i'm not gonna bother posting it...we don't want none of them peculiar folks around here...does we?

sgm: age 2

it's that time again folks

2 years ago on this day...SGM was belched onto the earth

and in celebration...there's going to be an office basement party...and everyone is invited

we're bringing back twinks the contortionist magician clown...seeing as how he somehow walked away from last year's shindig with only a slap on the wrist (that's him up above...apparently his meat wasn't meant to be on a grill...some folks just don't seem to have a sense of humor)

this year we're having the first annual david yow look alike chili cook off

the petting zoo is also making a comeback

music will be provided by the jesus lizard cover polka band...THEN COMES OOMPA

so hopefully we'll be seeing you there

and of course...it's a clothing optional affair

v/a - endangered species

released 1990

this was a box set made up of 6 7" that got released over in germany

i'm not even going to give any sort of description

once you see the list of bands included...you had better automatically clicked on the DL down yonder

1 - bullet lavolta - hello there*
2 - bitch magnet - white pieces of bread
3 - cows - good cop
4 - bastards - groovy space man
5 - halo of flies - clowns
6 - monster magnet - murder
7 - surgery - losida slide
8 - codeine - castle
9 - helios creed - boxing the clown
10 - bored! - christine
11 - green river - ain't nothin' to do**
12 - unsane - four sticks***

*=cheap trick cover
**=the dead boys cover
***=led zeppelin cover

DL: endangered species

the vss - 11.8.96 - 924 gilman st. - berkeley,ca

to quote one of the other SGMers..."And yeah, VSS live were a punishing proposition"

if you like bands such as death from above 1979/unwound/monorchid/the locust...

yeah

1 - death scene
2 - lunar weight
3 - (noise)
4 - chemical in chemistry
5 - in miniature
6 - i cut my teeth
7 - the flesh inside
8 - what of the ticks?
9 - nervous circuits

DL: the vss@924 gilman st 11.8.96