windian records' singles subscription series

WINDIAN RECORDS is gonna drop one hell of a 7 inch box set in yr lap, just in time for fall.... their inagural SINGLES SUBSCRIPTION SERIES is five fucking essential releases by some of the best garage/punk/power pop bands out there right now......and at a measly $35 dollars it's well worth yer hard earned money.........

"FIVE MORE BLISTERING VIBRATING PLATES TO ADD TO YOUR DELIQUENT ADDICTION." - WINDIAN

Here's the run down on all five bands included in the series...... some old favorites and some killer new bands...... So read on below and get exited.......

THE BARRERACUDAS - ATLANTA, GA.

7TH TIME AROUND B/W NASTY BOOTS (WIN-20027)

ATLANTA POWER POPPERS THE BARRERACUDAS FOLLOW UP ONE OF THE BEST LP'S RELEASED IN 2011, NOCTURNAL MISSION, WITH TWO MORE SIMPLE, YET EFFORTLESSLY PERFECT DIRT GLAM PROWESS THAT YOUVE COME TO EXPECT FROM THESE PUNKERS.

HEAVY TIMES - CHICAGO, IL.

K-9 B/W LANTERN TRAIL (WIN-20028)

CANT SAY ENOUGH GOOD THINGS ABOUT THIS BAND, ITS BEEN AMAZING TO LISTEN TO THEM PROGRESS. THEIR SOPHMORE EFFORT JACKER WAS A CONSTANT SPINNER HERE AT THE WINDIAN HEADQUARTERS AND THIS SINGLE CONTINUES ON WHERE IT LEFT OFF. HARSH DUAL GUITARS WITH A SURFY PUNK UNDERBELLY. PARTY ANTHEM READY TO THE MORE SEDATED B SIDE WHERE HEAVY TIMES CONTINUES TO SHOWCASE THEIR STELLAR BARE BONES WRITING ABILITIES.

STATIC EYES - MILWAUKEE, WI.

TROUBLE B/W WAVES (WIN-20029)

SNOTTY, FUZZ STOMP FROM THE MIDWEST! ROCK AND ROLL, STRAIGHT UP, NO FILLERS, NO SWEETENERS. FEATURING MEMBERS OF GUT REACTIONS, MIDWEST BEAT, AND WHITE FACES. DEBUT RELEASE.

SUNS OF GUNS - WASHINGTON, D.C.

5000 WATTS B/W RALPH E. STATIC (WIN-20030)

WEIGHING THROUGH ALL THE YOU KNOW WHAT THIS FAIR CITY HAS TO OFFER, IT'S STILL REFRESHING TO HAVE AROUND ONE OF THE MOST BRUTALLY HONEST SOUNDING ROCK BANDS AROUND. WITH THESE GUYS IT'S ABOUT THE MUSIC, FIRST AND FOREMOST, SINCE THE BEGINING. NO WEBSITE, NO PRESS SHOTS, NO BULLSHIT. THEYVE BEEN ABLE TO HONE IN ON A BASHING KINKY SOUL SOUND AND REMAIN ONE OF DC'S BEST UNHEARD OF ACTS OVER THE LAST 6 YEARS. WITH ONE SELF RELEASED LP TO THEIR CREDIT, THIS RELEASE BEING THEIR FIRST IN 2 YEARS.

TERRY MALTS - SAN FRANCISCO, CA.  

LIVING WITH THE HUMAN RACE B/W OVER 21 (WIN-20031)

FUZZED OUT SONIC HEATERS TERRY MALTS HAS MY EARLY VOTE FOR RECORD OF THE YEAR WITH KILLING TIME, BUT THEIR LATEST OFFERING IS A ONE UP. 'LIVING WITH THE HUMAN RACE' WILL SPARK THE IMMEDIATE REACTIONS THAT GOT YOU SO IN TO THIS BAND THE FIRST TIME AROUND. B SIDE IS ACOVER OF HENRY'S DRESS 'OVER 21'. A FACE MELTER, A SONIC WITCHING.  A CERTAIN MUST OWN!

FOR MORE INFO, CLICK HERE......
   AND YOU CAN RESERVE YR BOX FOR ONLY A DOLLAR!!!

LISTEN TO THE A SIDE OF EACH SINGLE BELOW......
   THIS IS AS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AS IT GETS!!!!

lasers and fast and shit - second: cat fight (tape)

besides having one of the best band names, LASERS AND FAST AND SHIT also have one hell of a propulsive fiery art damaged punk sound........

mix in the brash angular punk of LES SAVY FAV, the garage thump of the MISTREATERS, the hardcore thrash of DOUBLE DAGGER and the noise riffing of DRIVE LIKE JEHU....   and maybe throw in some BIG BLACK, NATION OF ULYSSES and JESUS LIZARD for good measure.....  what you get is some of the most engaging hardcore tinged punk rock that doesn't follow those boring old formulas......

LASERS AND FAST AND SHIT might sadly be chicago's smoke machine wielding secret, but they've released a cassette, entitled SECOND: CAT FIGHT, on HE WHO CORRUPTS, so maybe that'll change.........  

this tape is a highly recommended burst of five songs that you'll listen to over and over again........
    and it's some of the best blown out art bent chicago punk of recent years........

LISTEN TO SECOND: CAT FIGHT BELOW......

AND WATCH EM LIVE HERE.......

lumerians - transmissions from the telos vol. iv

i'm not sure which part of outer space the LUMERIANS are actually from, but it's a far out place......  and they play some real way out there spacey krautrock influenced psych jams..... that you need to check out now.......

LUMERIANS might not have many peers in their weird percussive eerie droning motorik interstellar rock on this planet or otherwise, but fans of WOODEN SHJIPS, CAVE and ONEIDA will find some simply irresistible grooves in their new lp, entitled TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE TELOS VOL IV...... and many thanks has to go to PERMANENT and HANDS IN THE DARK for hooking up their satellite dish and transcribing this epic jam to vinyl so all of us earthlings could enjoy it.......

TRANSMISSIONS is filled with analog witchery, voodoo rhythms, mysterious SUN RA melodies, KRAFTWERK influenced electronic alchemy and pure aural hallucinogenic entrancement....... groovy, noisy and all out mind altering.....

this lp is limited to 500 copies, so don't fucking sleep on it....... 
    i promise you fans of avant noise will totally need this lp.....  
super highly recommended 
and on constant spin at tiny grooves.......

LISTEN TO THE ENTIRETY OF 
TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE TELOS VOL 4 BELOW.....



AND WATCH A RARE EARTH APPEARANCE 
FROM THE LUMERIANS HERE.......

Lumerians play "Black Tusk" on Dance Party Revival from m m on Vimeo.

puffy areolas - 1982: dishonorable discharge

PUFFY AREOLAS just dropped what might be the years most fucking intense record, 1982: DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE.......and of course the fine purveyors of noisy mayhem HOZAC RECORDS released it just in time to add a little chaos to the end of yr summer.....

PSYCHEDELIC HARDCORE might be yr best bet at describing PUFFY AREOLAS, but let's just say that not since HAWKWIND destroyed minds on a regular basis have faces been melted this thoroughly......  hardcore punk layered over free jazz skronk set to a proto punk garage blast beat in a druggy haze of psych and no wave, this is rock n roll after the apocalypse has fucking gone down........

MONOSHOCK, OBNOX, PURLING HISS, RUNNING, DEAD C, BLACK FLAG and the STOOGES mixed into one vat of pure 200 proof moonshine that might be better as a molotov cocktail than a drink......... holy shit you haven't listened to anything this fucking insane and great for years........   highly recommended.   nothing can top what PUFFY AREOLAS have done to rock n roll...........it's been thoroughly destroyed........  and that's just the record i'm talking about.....see em live and you will never be the same........

LISTEN TO TWO TRACKS OFF DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE BELOW....
   and GO BUY IT NOW FROM HOZAC....




WATCH PUFFY AREOLAS LIVE BELOW...

timmy's organism - raw sewage roq

TIMMY'S ORGANISM is back with another fine slab of spaced out demented punk rock entitled RAW SEWAGE ROQ... ....out now on IN THE RED records......

you probably know Timmy Vulgar, the mad man behind the group, from HUMAN EYE and THE CLONE DEFECTS, and if you like either of those otherwordly detroit garage bands, you certainly need to check out TIMMY'S ORGANISM.....

words you might use to descibe the mayhem of RAW SEWAGE ROQ in a real music review could include...... dirty, loud, caked in mud, spastic, junkyard, aggro, outsider, punk as fuck, warped, art bent, fuzzed out, anarchic, destructive, influenced by (insert drug of choice), apocalyptic, bastard child of the detroit sound........ well you get the picture.....  a seriously a catchy weird garage rock record of epically historic proportions......  the motor city should be proud......

at a time when many say rock is dead, TIMMY'S ORGANISM drags the corpse out of the grave and fucking kills it again with some of the best most deranged soulful outer space garage punk you'll come across......

check out a few songs from RAW SEWAGE ROQ below.....
   very highly recommended

needles//pins - 12:34 lp

MAMMOTH CAVE RECORDS is back with another killer fucking release this time from NEEDLES//PINS, entitled 12:34.......and it's one album that you must buy as soon as you can get yr hands on it....

awesome snotty power pop laced punk rock from vancouver, NEEDLES//PINS start where white wires, gentleman jesse, young governor and others leave off......taking it up a notch, they write classic songs like the best of the power pop pioneers --THE SHOES, 20/20, THE SPEEDIES, DWIGHT TWILLEY, THE NERVES and ELVIS COSTELLO......  NEEDLES//PINS pack the riotous punk energy of BUZZCOCKS and the RAMONES with all the epic hooks as the CARS and the ROMANTICS....... for someone who loves jams catchy as fuck, NEEDLES//PINS are just what you needed..........  and the 12:34 lp will make the coldest, loneliest and most boring of days fun and crazy again......... "shaker" and "i dont mind" are sure to be stuck in your head all day long......

very highly recommended....... especially for those bare wires, nobunny, ketamines and mean jeans fans getting jittery for their next sugar pop fix.....
   
but don't take my word for it, listen below........

watch em live here.......

the oh sees - putrifiers ii

THE OH SEES have been kinda quiet this year.  their usual pace is two to three albums a year, but they've spent most of the spring and summer touring instead of recording--which is ok by me, i love seeing them live.... but guess what? they're set to release their new lp PUTRIFIERS II in early september on IN THE RED and it's nothing if not a killer new slab of fuzzed out garage psych......

whereas last year's CASTLEMANIA was more about songwriting and experimentation, and CARRION CRAWLER was a mesmerizing garage punk free for all jam, PUTRIFIERS II falls somewhere smack dab in the middle, culling elements from both extremes of the band.  john dwyer may be the leader and main songwriter behind the oh sees, but his backing band is as much part of the draw nowadays as he is.  early oh sees albums were quieter weirded outsider psych punk affairs and as we've bought lp after lp, the band has grown more important in the formula, especially after adding lars of the INTELLIGENCE....... with PUTRIFIERS it seems as if john has taken his rough sketches to the band and banged out the finished product with them and instead of just having them implement his ideas......  the new lp starts off with a bang, turns this way and that, slowing down to mellow eerie psych ballads before ratcheting back up to full blown garage pop fuzz......  every song on PUTRIFIERS is catchy and if we lived in an alternate world where radio was ruled by good taste, these songs might all by hits........  i love having three oh sees lps to buy a year, but having just focused on one release has payed off.  PUTRIFIERS is a concise fun yet wild ride you'll spin over and over again......... 

with many bands imitating their sound, the new lp reminds me why i've been a fan of john dwyer since his early days playing with the coachwhips.... no one blends psych, garage, punk, krautrock and 60s pop melodies like THE OH SEES effortless do.   even if you have no idea what i'm talking about, you'll dig PUTRIFIERS II.  it's that good......

super highly recommended.  
and almost sure to be my favorite record of the year.  

i know you can't wait to hear the whole new album, 
  so i'll share a few tracks to tide you over...




and watch THE OH SEES live at Pitchfork Fest below....

apache dropout - bubblegum graveyard

APACHE DROPOUT are back with a stellar new album entitled BUBBLEGUM GRAVEYARD on TROUBLE IN MIND records..... this is some of the best garage rock you'll hear all year, i promise.......APACHE DROPOUT made my best of the year list in 2011 with their awesome debut lp and the new album is for sure one of the few MUST BUY lps you'll come across this summer........

Bubblegum Graveyard continues on with the more of the same fuzzed out 60s loving garage sound you can expect from Apache Dropout......yet they've upped the ante by adding catchy bubblegum melodies, more psychedelic vibes and a little bit of b movie horror silliness to their sound......and they have quite the driving primitive beat that bangs these songs into yer head where they get stuck all day long.... while many bands cop that retro sound, few can make it there own like APACHE DROPOUT.......  imagine THE SEEDS, BOX TOPS, COUNT FIVE, LEMON PIPERS, BLUES MAGOOS, THE SHADOWS OF THE KNIGHT, TOMMY ROE and 13th FLOOR ELEVATORS all poured into one hell of a GARAGE ROCK COCKTAIL.....this is one drink you're going have to get drunk on........

super highly recommended......especially for garage fans that love IN THE RED, TROUBLE IN MIND, HOZAC, BURGER, SOUTHPAW and CASTLE FACE records.......   i could list you some of their contemporaries they sound like, but they kinda have their own thing going and it's fucking great.........

so listen to two tracks off BUBBLEGUM GRAVEYARD below.
   and go buy it now......





watch em live below........

foster care - bad vibe city lp

FOSTER CARE is probably one of the best punk rock bands out there, and you and almost everyone else has never heard of them.....

that might be because they refuse to spend hours of facebook promoting themselves, or even touring much outside their homes in brooklyn but it'd be a shame if you didn't turn yr ears their way for at least a second......

FOSTER CARE play mean drunk spastic lofi punk rock, the kind that you don't hear much of anymore, unless you're constantly spinning your old KILLED BY DEATH comps.......and FOSTER CARE also features members from tiny grooves fave's CARBONAS and the EX HUMANS.......and man oh man do they keep that dirty garage punk tradition alive..........

their brand new lp, BAD VIBE CITY, has just been released by JKSHK RECORDS and its some of the most snotty trashy punk rock you'll hear all year long........ those who love their PUNK ROCK LOUD AND FAST AND RIOTOUS AS FUCK need to grab one of the 500 copies of the LP now........the lp is chock full of CIRCLE JERKS, JFA and ANGRY SAMOAN style thrashy punk.... BAD VIBE CITY is the perfect soundtrack to yr next night of blackout drinking, party hopping, bar fighting, girlfriend stealing, puking and/or ending up on someone else's floor the next morning barely alive........and we all need an album like that if we plan on staying young and stupid.......


LISTEN TO FOUR TRACKS OFF BAD VIBE CITY BELOW......



and watch FOSTER CARE kill it live below......

the living eyes - ways to make a living 7 inch

THE LIVING EYES just put out what might be my favorite 7 inch of the year......and with stiff competition that's saying quite a bit......... they are continuing the australian invasion in the very best of ways, marrying snotty garage, melodic diy pop and lo-fi punk rock into one hell of a catchy fucking single--WAYS TO MAKE A LIVING.......

out now on ANTI FADE RECORDS, a label that you incidentally ought to check out now, LIVINGS EYES' new 7 inch combines the classic guitar riffs of the 13th Floor Elevators and Kinks with the bounce of Ty Segall and The Oh Sees........and on top of it, they have one of the most unique lead singers in the scene........ i can't stop listening to this single and can't wait to hear a full length from them.......

i could rave on and on about the Ways To Make a Living 7 inch, but you just need to check it out for yrself.......... so listen up below.......  and click here to buy it from ANTI FADE......




and watch 'em perform the title track of the 7 inch live below.......

monoshock - walk to the fire (reissue)

Monoshock's "walk to the fire" may just be the holy grail of psych punk madness.....out of print for years, S-S Records has come to the rescue and reissued this masterpiece of amps up to 11, wall of noise, guitar soloing, punk chaos......   


imagine a train wreck of hawkwind, mc5, stooges, dna, black flag, spacemen 3 and most certainly blue cheer spilling blood and cocaine all over yer record player........... certainly monoshock deserve the same reverence we give the gories and the oblivians....... and we need to lose the 'lost' part of the tag 'lost classic' when it comes to "walk to the fire"...


MONOSHOCK DESTROYED ROCK N ROLL FOR THE VERY LAST TIME and no one noticed except a few record collectors and julian cope.....(you can read his love for Monoshock here.)......i couldn't believe this record when i heard it for the first time, it's pretty much everything i love in a record, from the high energy proto punk pummel to the noisy psych guitar attack.......


so go grab this very excellent double lp of rock insanity before its out of print once again....... SS Records definitely wants to sell you a copy now......


listen below and get ready for yer ears to explode......

meat mist - smut lp

MEAT MIST play just the kind of noise punk you need to get through a bad day....... super loud thrashing distorto guitar with churning percussion and some aggro screaming that makes me feel like i'm at a sweltering basement show right now....... all sorts of am rep, load, skin graft records love is apparent in Meat Mist, and that's a good thing because not enough bands pummel you this way anymore....... fans of shaved women, solid attitude, lightning bolt and running will all dig MEAT MIST........ 


so with high recommendation, you oughta check out their new ep SMUT, four tracks of blistering sheets of noise fun below.......

and if you can, check MEAT MIST out on tour......

AUGUST 1 Lansing, MI @ 4th Culture Studios w/ Texas Instruments, Borrowed Time, DSS

AUGUST 2 Cleveland !!!NEED HELP!!!

AUGUST 3 Syracuse @ Badlands w/ Death Camp, Flip Shit, Natural Selection

AUGUST 4 Allston, mass@ w/ Districts, Matahari, Strike to Survive

AUGUST 5 NYC@ CHarleston w/ My America

AUGUST 6 Phillidelphia @Underground Arts w/ Wiccans, Heavy Medical, Cop Problem, 

AUGUST 7 Atlantic City @ Boneyard

AUGUST 8 Columbus @ Legion of Doom

AUGUST 9 Cincinatti @Kirby House w/WHITE WALLS (12" release)

AUGUST 10 Indianapolis@ Skull Mannor

AUGUST 11 St. Louis @ No Coast sk8 shop w/ Shaved Women, Trauma Harness

AUGUST 12 Birmingham @ TBA w/ Japanese Women

AUGUST 13 New Orleans @ EUCLID records

AUGUST 14 Houston @ SuperHappyFUnLand w/ A N G S T

AUGUST 15 SAN ANTONIO @Houseshow

AUGUST 16 AUSTIN @29th street Ballroom w/ Naw Dude, Bath Salts, ghetto girls

AUGUST 17 DENTON @houseshow w/ Innards

AUGUST 18 OKC @Bad Grannies w/ CHUD, GRG

AUGUST 19 COLUMBIA/MO @Hair Hole w/ Gay Uncle, Coward

watch 'em destroy it live below.....