goat punishment - live tribute to nirvana

now some of you may be looking at the above picture and thinking to yourself "hey,man...i've totally seen something like that somewhere before"

and you'd be right

it's obviously an homage to the frank zappa album SPEECH IMPEDOPHILE

seriously...go and look it up

the rest of us will wait

ok...now that we've gotten rid of that guy...

grAy was supposed to post this(and i'm paraphrasing here) when he "got off of his fat ass" (and i'm not saying that the man's ass is big...just don't let it catch you making eye contact with it)

this is weezer playing under a pseudonym somewhere in hollywood,ca back in 1998 (though grAy apparently has one that was played at the casbah in san diego,ca)

and i'm just gonna go ahead and say it: weezer should just abandon their future plans and travel the country playing nothing but pre-1991 nirvana

1 - mr. moustache
2 - aneurysm
3 - breed
4 - dive
5 - swap meet
6 - blew

DL: goat punishment

dinosaur jr - get me

released 1992

hello there

remember me?

and just when you thought that you'd gotten rid of that smell

"and just where have you been mister?"

well...let's just say that if you ever have to pull off the interstate to use the bathroom at a rest area...just make sure that if you do it at 3:00am in a stall that has a hole in the wall with the words "let's play mystery meat!!!" written over it in permanent marker...as tempted as you may be to play the game by seeing the words written in fancy lettering and the 3 exclamation points and the glitter...don't do it...just do your business and leave

but enough about me

this was a 12" that was released over in the uk

you get a song from the WHERE YOU BEEN album ("get me")...a flying burrito brothers cover ("hot burrito #2")...and an acoustic version of the song "quest"

and now if you'll excuse me...i have to go and remove the shag carpeting grAy put everywhere in my absence (and no...the stains don't make it look psychedelic)

DL: get me

Vaz + Hawks + Pygmy Shrews + Black Skies = Atlanta September 3rd!

If you live within the sound of my voice (or the 404, 678, 770, or 706 area codes), I hereby decree that the evening of September 3rd, 2011 shall be filled with loud music, preferably loud, aggressive, music, and you kind sirs (and that one girl who reads this) are ordered in attendance!

I mean for reals...it's Vaz...ex-Hammerhead for Christ's sake! And Hawks, thee best band in all of Atlanta right now (although, truth be told, there's this upstart group calling themselves "The Black Crowes"...look out Hawks, they seem hungry)! And Pygmy Shrews...diabolical hardcore oblivion straight out of 1979 Los Angeles County albeit from 2011 Brooklyn! And then, to top it all off, fucking Black Skies...the heaviest thing to come out of the Research Triangle since the Shiny Beast / Regraped split lp!

Look ya'll, I am getting older (and fatter...what?!), and my evenings are pretty sacred to me, but this lineup is just too good to pass up, even for an old fart such as myself. So if I can motivate out the front door to have my face sandblasted for a few hours and knock back 13-18 beers in the process (maybe that would explain the fatness?), then there's no excuse for a young, virile, whippersnapper such as yourself not to go.

You have been put on notice.

Facepuller - Anatomy Of Noise

Label: Bang On
Year: 1995

Am I mistaken in remembering that this band had a brief brush with "fame" when Drew Barrymore wore one of their tshirts on the Arsenio Hall Show (or a similar talk show)? Did I just make that up?
Well, Drew Barrymore or not, I have always been a fan of this band's metallic noise rock. It's got a Pachinko via Fudge Tunnel via Tad sound going on, and I'm not sure what about that could be bad. Unless you just really hate Drew Barrymore that much, then I guess it's possible your listening experience could be tainted.

DL

Fugazi - Peel Session 1988

Label: Bootleg
Year: 1988

Someone, and I'm not naming names, said something to me to the effect of (and I'm paraphrasing, but you'll get the point), "what are you going to do, stay up late blogging about obscure bands?".
Why? What time is it anyway? 11:05pm? And what the hell is this "Fugazi" band?

DL

No Knife - Drunk On The Moon

Label: Goldenrod
Year: 1995

Maybe more important than explaining this San Diego band's melding of post hardcore with indie rock, is the disturbing lack of Life's Blood videos currently on YouTube. What kind of crazy, mixed-up world are we living in where it's easier to track down a clip of "white girl does the Dougie" (RIP, for reals) than it is to find some live footage of Life's Blood crushing through "Left Out On The Ice To Die"?! Not the kind of world I want my children to grow up in, that's for sure!

DL

Janitor Joe - KCL b/w Bullethead

Label: Amphetamine Reptile
Year: 1992

Janitor Joe are like a depressed and angry Cheap Trick, which is, in my mind at least, a compliment. Of course, you're not to be expected to be completely in tune with my mind, as I don't pretend to understand what's in your mind, or minds, or one collective mind. I'm sure whatever it is, it would be mildly shocking at first, but ultimately soothing in the long term. Not unlike a hot dog eating contest, or a street riot, or something.

DL

Whores - Ruiner

Label: Bandcamp
Year: 2011

When I was in a functioning band, we played a few shows with Whores, and I just thought they were the bee's knees. Complete annihilation every song, never throttling back to let you catch your breath, the band just bulldozed through a set of vintage noise rock like a baseball bat to your neck.
The drummer in a live situation can take a little getting used to, as he sets up his kit front and center, but orients it sideways just to make sure you get a good look at him, then proceeds to showboat beyond Tommy Lee styled theatrics, throwing sticks, climbing over the drums, shooting the audience the bird, yelling, spitting, whatever. I hated that at first as I thought it distracted from the music, but over time I got used to it, and a friend of a friend who recorded these songs informed me that he just plays like that, even in practice or during recording, it's just the way he plays. Fair enough.
Anycrap, if you like straight ahead rocking destructo-thud, then this one is for you. Hammerhead meets La Gritona! The link below takes you to their Bandcamp site, and you can listen to the record for free, but download the fucker for $5, it's well worth it. Hail Atlanta Noise Rock!

DL

Anodyne + Keelhaul - Split

Label: Chainsaw Safety
Year: 2002

Have you listened to that new Tombs record yet? You should.
So if you have, and you wanted to get a little deeper into the history of Tombs, you could certainly do worse than this two song offering from pre-Tombs Mike Hill band Anodyne. You'll get one full-on earth scorching destructo metal assault, and one disturbingly calm Throbbing Gristle cover. Yin and yang? Peanut butter and chocolate? Country and Western?
Side two is Keelhaul, being the best Keelhaul they can be, and then being an even better Keelhaul because they become Craw for a minute. Not that Keelhaul don't already have Craw DNA all over them (just...not in my eyes...please), but bringing in Joe McTighe to guest on vocals exhumes the Ghost of Craws Past, and gives this ole man goosebumps.
Raging upon raging.

DL

Wildildlife - Pea's Feast

Label: Chicas de Hoy
Year: 2007

I've been on vacation, and otherwise traveling for work the past week or so, accounting for the shameful lack of posts here. My apologies to our faithful 15...maybe 17 readers.

As far as "new" bands who consistently bring the thunder, and bring that thunder alongside a delivery of weirdness, there aren't many that can compete with Wildildlife. They are never predictable, but also never irritating, even when they jar your senses by interjecting a noisy sax skronk in the middle of an otherwise healthy post-something sludgy groove. It works. They can go from Harvey Milk (whom they did a split with) to Helios Creed to Bailter Space to Butthole Surfers and back all in the course of one song, and somehow the ride makes total sense. Shouldn't, but it does.

This was released as a CD-R by the band after recording it themselves in their practice space, and later Crucial Blast packaged it up with some demo material, and you can still get that version from the label. You actually should get that version at some point, it's highly recommended.

DL