Over Vert - Gagging + Swallowing

Label: Five Ten Tapes
Year: 2008

Reno based noise rock/hardcore along the lines of Pissed Jeans, Drive Like Jehu, and other spastic, screamy stuff. Recorded by Steve Albini, who you probably know from the liner notes of your Bush "Razorblade Suitcase" album.

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Butterglove - The John Morand Session

Label: Speed Kills
Year: 1997

The release date of 1997 is a bit of a red herring, as this was recorded in 1989 (live on a 2-track machine no less), but I guess nobody got around to it until a decade later. "This", being a Butterglove recording session of course. And "Butterglove" being the band Pen Rollings was doing after Honor Role, and before Breadwinner, and Ladyfinger, and Loincloth.
Butterglove sounds more like Loincloth than Honor Role (or Breadwinner for that matter), it's a sorta stoner rock take on the math rock template that Mr. Rollins helped to shape. The songs are instrumental (with minor exception, there are some lyrics buried into the mix on occasion), and could have maybe benefited from some (more) vocals of some type, but the riffs chug along with enough gusto and heft, and there are math-y enough changes to keep the songs moving right along, so unlike most(ly) instrumental music, this one never bores. I think there are some early 90's hardcore bands (No Escape) that owe a debt of gratitude to Butterglove, whether they know it or not.

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V/A - Skate Rock vol. 5 - Born To Skate

Label: High Speed Productions
Year: 1987

If you listen to Eight Days A Week and don't immediately associate it with Hosoi, Rob "The Barn" Roskopp, and Clause Grabke shredding the Raging Waters "boomeramp", then I am going to insist that you either rent Wheels Of Fire this very instance and study the video at least 6 times prior to hearing this Skate Rock compilation again, or, I will assume you are thinking "what the fuck is this fucking music?" and then go about your well-adjusted and most likely successful life.
Eight Days A Week (all hail Claus Grabke) aside, the majority of this Skate Rock volume is dedicated to the very particular "Venice Beach" strain of crossover thrash. The mutant offspring of Suicidal Tendencies, complete with squealing guitar solos and requisite flipped-bill painter's caps. As far as music to skate to, you could certainly do worse.
Aside from the thrash, you'll get some straight up punk, alternative rock, and whatever shit you would categorize Racer X as. Also, this was a cassette only release (perfect for popping it into the boombox and blasting it from the deck of the neighborhood quarterpipe as you tried your hardest to figure out fastplants).
I'm going skating tomorrow with my son, and I predict a broken pelvis.

The bands:
SNFU
Racer X
Stupids
Eight Days A Week
Condemned Attitude
No Mercy
Naked Lady Wrestlers
JFA
Excel
Dehumanizers
D.I.
Beowulf
Screamin Lord Salba and His Heavy Friends

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TAD - Busted Circuits And Ringing Ears

Sex, Drugs, and Rock N Roll with a side dish of lawsuits and in-band turmoil, Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears chronicles the band's rise and eventual disintegration. It contains archival footage spanning the band's entire career, from the club days to the arenas. The documentary also utilizes insightful interviews from some of Seattle's most respected musicians including Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), Chad Channing (Nirvana), Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Mark Arm (Mudhoney), Mark Felchtone (Zeke), and many others.

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FIX

It's been quite a while since I have contributed to SGM. I moved away from Austin, TX and have since just been trying to keep my head above water.

I have been watching a lot of rock doc's recently and I remembered that this was supposed to have come out, I obtained a copy and thought.. the SGM folks would love this. It's quite the time capsule and at times a bit hard to watch (having been chased by similar demons). I can only hope that somewhere down the road someone will step up to the challenge and tell the entire Ministry story.

Fix: The Ministry Movie shoves your ass way, way backstage with the scariest band EVER

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Vincas - Blood Bleeds

Label: Douchemaster
Year: 2012

Keeping the hot hand for Georgia bands going, here's an Athens band who have churned out an impressive debut lp of blurry noise that conjures up swampy blues riffs strangled to death in a hail of swirling distortion. A Place To Bury Strangers traffic in this trade. The Bad Seeds do it as well. Even a Rusted Shut comparison wouldn't be too far out of place. You could hear some Gun Club in mix if you listen close.
Go listen, enjoy it, and order the reissue from Douchemaster. Then, apologize to your eardrums for me...they'll be bleeding soon enough.

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Wymyns Prysyn - Green Ribber

Label: Self Realeased
Year: 2011

The follow-up to the insanely great Tres Umbros album picks up where that record left off; fuzzy, loud, blown out, good timin' punk rock (with emphasis on the rocking). It was noted previously, and will be noted again, that Wymyns Prysyn shares their guitarist with Shiny Grey Monotone favorites, Hawks, but while Hawks are dark and violent, Wymyns Prysyn are fun and exciting. Hawks will take a riff and drive it into a brick wall over and over again just to mutate the wreckage into ever less recognizable pieces of noise rock. Wymyns Prysyn will take a riff and drive it into backyard party, maybe injuring a few guests as they blast through the wooden privacy fence, but certainly making up for it with an epic three man keg stand (no pants...of course).
The band was nice enough to offer this ep to you for free on their Bandcamp site, so I suggest you go there and see what else you can rustle up. Meanwhile, they will be touring starting August 12th, and if you think the idea of Drunkdriver playing a set of Mudhoney covers sounds good, then you should be in attendance.

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The Want - Acid Millennium

Label: Mack-Daddy
Year: 1997

How's about something a little different?
You know how when you flip through used records in the store (people still do that, right?), and you flip past Black Sabbath and see Bloodrock, and think "that's a bitchin' name, I wonder if they're any good"? You keep flipping past bands like, Cactus, James Gang, Black Oak Arkansas, Dust, Leafhound, Sir Lord Baltimore and the like, with all their scratched up covers and dog-eared corners. Well, eventually, you suck it up, you pay your $3 and you go home to see what these bands are all about, quick to discover just how dedicated to boogie these bands were, and maybe just how dedicated to boogie you are (metaphysical shit, man).
The Want would have absolutely been in league with these types of bands. They would have had an early time slot at California Jam 1974, but they would have rocked the suede fringe off all those sun-baked burnouts.
Big, deep, rocking grooves, and self comparisons to Humble Pie, so...you get it. Personnel from: Eighteen Wheels Burning
This is their third album, and later Southern Lord put out a compilation of tracks from their second and third albums. I'll get the second one up here soon if you're interested, but don't have the first one.

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Hum - Live - Fun Fun Fun Fest - 11-06-11

Label: Bootleg
Year: 2011

Is Fun Fun Fun Fest the best festival in the United States? Seems like it. If you like festivals I suppose. I don't, but lots of people do. Most people don't have a problem being around lots of other people, but I do. Not into it. Not that I'm agoraphobic or anti-social or anything (shit, ask around, people LOVE me), but the thought of standing around all day in a parking lot sitting through so many bands that all begin to bleed together into a mess, waiting for that ONE band you've always wanted to see, only to be 100 yards away and surrounded by 10,000 douchebags who insist on singing every word in order to prove to you that THEY are the true fans of this band, and holding their phones up the entire show so as to capture the moment that they are ostensibly actually LIVING...well, that's just not my bag.
Fun Fun Fun Fest seems to get the best bands (maybe Fuck Yeah Fest gives them a run for their money), and if I was going to go to one of these festivals, that'd be the one. Or the Chaos in Tejas one. Or Fuck Yeah. Or if Scion does another one of their car commercials in Atlanta again (that was a great show), then maybe that one too.
Sound quality is B+, audience recording.
Hum rip.

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Old Wounds - Terror Eyes

Label: self-released

Year: 2011

Five songs in under 10 minutes that bring to mind everything from Eyehategod, Converge, Botch, and Melvins to Black Sabbath. Probably my new favorite band at the moment.

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