now that all the kids know and love ty segall.....and perhaps charlie & the moonhearts.....
everyone should rewind two years and pretend they were into the epsilons.....
SF garage rock with a synth punk vibe..... comprised of ty segall and members of charlie & the moonhearts, they released two LPs that hold their own with jay reatard's lost sounds period.....
"Bad Sports are a three piece that features TV's Daniel from Wax Museums and Greg Rutherford from High Tension Wires. Bad Sports are a bit more playful, but don't be surprised if this record reminds you slightly of The Reds or the first Marked Men LP."
king khan is a productive man, running neck and neck with john dwyer from the oh sees for most prolific of 2009.
already we have a new king khan and bbq LP, a tandoori knights 7", the almighty defenders LP (with bbq and the black lips) and his shrines reissues earlier this year.
but now we have the black jaspers, a killed by death style punk rock mess that he recorded with a friend in 2001.....(edit)
one of my fav LPs from the year.....so i took the time to rip the vinyl to share with you all.
DUNWICH RECORDS was home to THE SHADOWS OF THE KNIGHT, chicago's best known garage rock band.......but they also released a little known all-girl garage band THE LUV'D ONES..... these chicago ladies definitely could hold their own with the shadows of the knight, gonn and the sonics.
...and unlike what you may think about 60s girl groups, some actually played their instruments.... the ronettes and crystals were vocal groups, not rock n roll like the LUV'D ONES......
and they played some dark gritty psych influenced garage at that..... i couldn't believe how out there the LUV'D ONES were, they would've made the 13th floor elevators proud....if either band actually heard of each other.....
and damn they need to be recognized for their place in rock history, or at least by fans of garage and punk........
anyway years after the fact, a cd was issued of all know LUVD ONES tracks and you need this in yr collection....
Two decades before the Donnas were doing their best to be the "chick Ramones," we had Nikki and the Corvettes, who, besides cranking out some wonderfully catchy pop tunes, had a front woman who was surely many a punk boy's wetdream. Bomp has reissued on CD the band's sole album -- think of a sexed-up punked-up Shangri-Las, fueled by Chuck Berry guitar riffs -- along with their two singles. You get 16 foot-tappin', head-boppin' songs about boys, "Backsteat Love," and dancing that I think would require a supreme effort to NOT enjoy. Bubblegum punk that tastes as good as it looks.
forget the RUNAWAYS, this is classic power pop/punk you need to have....
Mark Sultan (aka BBQ) began his musical career playing drums in a band called Powersquat, a suburban group which combined a number of diverse influences into their notably violent live shows. After Powersquat, Sultan went on to join the Spaceshits, another Montreal-based band whose members approached Sultan in order to procure a lead singer. Sultan volunteered himself for the position and the band began writing songs together. At the time of Sultan's arrival the Spaceshits were composed of Oily Chi on rhythm guitar, Stinky B. on bass, and Skid Marks on drums, though within a few months Stinky B. was replaced on bass by Blacksnake, a Canadian of Indian descent.
The Spaceshits, just like the Powersquats before them, were well-known for their violent stage shows. Sets typically lasted no longer than 10 to 15 minutes, in which time the band would set off fireworks, start food fights, and create disturbances. Eventually the band's raucous live shows would lead them to be effectively blacklisted from most venues in Montreal, a trend which was compounded during an April 8 1996 set in support of the New Bomb Turks. During the Spaceshits' set, Sultan allegedly threw a full beer bottle into the Cabaret crowd; the beer was consumed by someone in the audience. Later, fellow bandmate Skid Marks threw his drumstick into the crowd, injuring the president of a music distributing company which employed Sultan. The final straw in the Spaceshits blacklisting occurred in April 1999, just before the beginning of aEuropean tour, while the band was promoting a new Sultan Records release. Before the show, the band had an altercation with the venue's co-owner which resulted in Blacksnake's hand being injured. A member of the Daylight Lovers stormed the stage encouraging the audience to demand their money back for a show the band did not intend to deliver. This event marked the end of the band's booking in Montreal.
The Spaceshits went on to complete a European tour; one which would prove to be the last for the band. After the European tour had ended, Blacksnake opted to stay behind. Rather than continue on without him, the bandmembers broke up, believing both that the band had run its course,....
and we were left with some of the best garage punk ever put to records, so what's there to complain about.........get the spaceshits lp MISBEHAVIN (via one of those nifty file sharing sites)
