rock n roll will never die...

rock n roll will never die, but we lost some legends in 2013.....
so take a moment and crank yer stereo in their honor!!!!!!!

REST IN PEACE AND 
THANKS FOR MAKING RnR WHAT IT IS TODAY!!!!!!!


REG PRESLEY OF THE TROGGS -



KEVIN AYERS OF SOFT MACHINE -



FAST EDDIE ALTESLEBEN OF CLONE DEFECTS -



MICK FARREN OF THE DEVIANTS -



JEFF HANNENMAN OF SLAYER -



ALAN MEYERS OF DEVO -



and last but not least...

LOU REED (OF VELVET UNDERGROUND) -

top 30 albums of xx13 !!!

as always this is a difficult list to compile and i went back and forth quite a bit, but here it goes....

TINY GROOVES TOP 30 LPS OF 2013 !!!!!!!!!


1.   obnox - corrupt free enterprise (12xu)
2.   fuzz - s/t (in the red)
3.   pampers - s/t (in the red)
4.   lazy - obsession (moniker)
5.   running - vaguely ethnic (castle face)
6.   gino & the goons - play loud (total punk)
7.   blind shake - key to a false door (castle face)
8.   spray paint - s/t (s.s. records)
9.   gary wrong group - knights of misery (total punk)
10. oblivians - desperation (in the red)

11. heavy times - fix it alone (hozac)
12. basic cable - i'm good to drive (permanent)
13. cave - threace (drag city)
14. black pus - all my relations (thrill jockey)
15. true sons of thunder - stop and smell your face (little big chief)
16. oozing wound - retrash (thrill jockey)
17. cuntz - solid mates (homeless)
18. jeffrey novak - lemon kid (trouble in mind)
19. thee oh sees - floating coffin (castle face)
20. verma - coltan (trouble in mind)

21. cheap time - exit smiles (in the red)
22. night beats - sonic bloom (reverberation appreciation society)
23. sewers - hoisted (homeless)
24. the funs - s/t (manic static)
25. bare mutants - the affliction (in the red)
26. birds of maya - celebration (little big chief)
27. terry malts - nobody realizes this is nowhere (slumberland)
28. kid congo and the pink monkey birds - haunted head (in the red)
29. counter intuits - sheets of hits (pyramid scheme)
30. human eye - 4: into the unknown (goner)

best of the best in xx13

the year is almost over, so now it's time to go through some of my favorite releases of the year..... tomorrow i'll post my top lps of the year, and today i'll start it off with the best 7 inches, comps, et cetera of xx13..... 

this year was so overflowing with goodness, i don't even feel that this list scrapes the surface.  but if you missed any of these releases, NOW IS THE TIME TO CHECK THEM OUT..... after all that is what these lists are about.....

so without further prefacing, 
here is the BEST OF THE BEST OF 2013!!!!!!!!!



Best 7 inches

1.   Endless Bummer - Ripper Current (In The Red)
2.   Action Swingers - Miserable Life (Total Punk)
3.   Obnox - Canabible Ohio (Black Gladiator / Slovenly)
4.   Energy Gown - I Watch The Sun (Self Released)
5.   Gino & the Goons - Troubled (Total Punk)
6.   Fuzz - Sunderberry Dream (In The Red)
7.   Blind Shake - Garbage On Glue (Sweet Rot)
8.   Vacation Club - Daydream (Randy)
9.   Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - Conjure Man (In The Red)
10. Uh Bones - Only You EP (Randy)
11. Gary Wrong / Wizzard Sleeve - Halloween Violence EP (Pelican Pow Wow / Jeth-Row)
12. Buck Biloxi & The Fucks - Holodeck Survivor (Total Punk)
13. Manateees - Smoke That Bird (JKSHK)
14. King Blood - Where Is He? (White Denim)
15. Golden Pelicans - Earls (Total Punk)

Best Comp

Land Of Nod (Scavenger Of Death)

Best 7in Comp

Son Of Flex (Castle Face)

Best Cover Album

Castle Face and Friends Velvet Underground and Nico

Best Label

Total punk

Best Reissue Label

Superior Viaduct

Best Reissue

Urinals - Negative Capability (In The Red) and their first three 7 inches (Superior Viaduct)

Best RnR Show

Thee Oh Sees / Blind Shake / Obn IIIs @ The Empty Bottle

Best Live Album

Fuzz - Live In San Fran (Castle Face)

Best Best Of

Resonars - Greatest Songs Of (Trouble In Mind)

Best Rarities Collection

Thee Oh Sees - Singles Collection Vol 3 (Castle Face)

Best New Band On The Scene 

Gino & The Goons

Best RnR Reunion

Oblivians

Hardest Working Most Prolific Motherfucker

Obnox

Zine

Droppings

Blog

Terminal Boredom

up and comers - manateees

2013 has been a fucking killer year for music, especially with an onslaught of amazing new bands that appear out of nowhere every day!  one such band i've been meaning to post about all year is memphis' new garage punk miscreants, MANATEEES!!!!!!   and everytime i was just about write about them i found out they were releasing yet another down n dirty single for yet another of my favorite record labels....  so i guess we'll cover them all right now, cuz you need to hear them yesterday!!!!!!

this year MANATEEES have released fucking MUST OWN 7 INCHES on PELICAN POW WOW, GONER, TIC TAC TOTALLY and JKSHK....  all of them blown out, drunken, thrashy punk like i can never get enough of.....   and as far as i'm concerned they might just be THE BAND TO SEE LIVE if yer ever in memphis....certainly they keep the city's longstanding tradition of unruly punk chaos alive.....

so if yer a junkie for BUCK BILOXI & THE FUCKS, TRUE SONS OF THUNDER, THE OBLIVIANS, REATARDS, GOLDEN PELICANS, PAMPERS, FOSTER CARE, GARY WRONG GROUP and anything on GONER / TOTAL PUNK / PELICAN POW WOW / CRYPT / JKSHK RECORDS, YOU FUCKING NEED TO INTRODUCE YERSELF TO YER NEW FAVORITE GO TO BAND!!!!!!!

and watch out for a brand new single from MANATEEES on TOTAL PUNK early next year, cuz there's no doubt in my mind it will melt yer face like all four of these singles.......  

TRASHY / UGLY GARAGE PUNK DOESN'T GET MUCH BETTER THAT THIS!!!!!!!

SO PREVIEW ALL FOUR OF THEIR KILLER SINGLES BELOW!!!!!!!!  and make sure you collect 'em all!!!!!!

SMOKE THAT BIRD on JKSHK -



DESTRUKTOR on TIC TAC TOTALLY -



CAT FOOD on GONER -



OUT FOR BOOZE on PELICAN POW WOW -

our solar system - vart solsystem

BEYOND BEYOND IS BEYOND RECORDS just unleashed one of the best PSYCH ROCK ALBUMS OF THE YEAR from sweden's OUR SOLAR SYSTEM entitled VART SOLSYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!  and guess what? YOU NEED IT NOW!!!

this cosmic collective of RnR misfits channels the most mind expanding moments of AMON DUUL, PARSON SOUND, HAWKWIND, SUN RA'S ARKESTRA, CAN, SOFT MACHINE and TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS, complete with all the droned out epic jams and lysergic freakouts you could want in a psych rock album!!!!!   FUCK YES!!!!!

OUR SOLAR SYSTEM seamlessly merges the best of krautrock experimenting, west coast hippie psychedelic jams, mind melting late 60s/early 70s japanese rock n roll, post free jazz avant sonic exploration and high flying space rock into one HELLUVA A FUCKING JOURNEY THROUGH DEEPEST CORNERS OF YER CONSCIOUSNESS !!!!!!!!   and no substances are needed to enhance yer mind, cuz this VART SOLSYSTEM's druggy haze will swallow you whole!!!!!

fans of YURI GAGARIN, CAVE, WOODEN SHJIPS, MMOSS, VERMA and/or WAY OUT THERE EXPERIMENTAL PSYCH ROCK N ROLL NEED TO GET SUCKED DEEP INTO THE OUTER REALMS OF COSMOS WITH THIS ALBUM BY OUR SOLAR SYSTEM !!!!!!!

seriously recommended.  

listen to the whole album below 
  and pick one up now from BEYOND BEYOND IS BEYOND here!!!!!



and watch the video for JUPITER off VART SOLSYSTEM here -

mc5 - a true testimonial

KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!   

you already know that MC5 is one of the best RnR bands of all time.....but you might not know that there was an excellent documentary made about them called MC5: A TRUE TESTIMONIAL.....  it premiered at several festivals in 2002 but due to a lawsuit (and a stupid one at that) it has never seen the light of day as a DVD....(and you can't stream or rent it either....a certain band member wants it to disappear for good)...but thankfully some music junkie like me posted it on youtube for all of our enjoyment......  yes, the internet will not let a killer film like this go unnoticed!!!!   

SO STOP WHAT YER DOING 
AND WATCH MC5: A TRUE TESTIMONIAL BELOW - 
   (at least until it gets yanked from youtube...)

cuntz - solid mates

oh man get ready cuz you need to get terrorized by the CUNTZ!!!!! and their ferocious new album SOLID MATES!!!!!!!!!!  out now on HOMELESS RECORDS!!!!!!!

seriously one of the best / most unhinged / fucking feral slabs of PUNK ROCK ANGST in recent memory, australia's CUNTZ are out to destroy you and your boring ass life with SOLID MATES!!!!!  or at least soundtrack yer next night of mayhem!!!!!!!

echoes of their unruly aussie forefathers from VENON P STINGER, fEEDTIME and BIRTHDAY PARTY are present as well as the same ugly determination and delinquency found in their fellow punk mates, SEWERS, THE STABS and BITS OF SHIT are cacophonously present on SOLID MATES...... their second album (following the wildly hateful and widely acclaimed ALOHA) is an UNSTABLE MIX OF PUNK VOMIT, POST PUNK VITRIOL and THUGGISH NOISE SURE TO UPSET ANY CASUAL LISTENER AND MAKE FANS OF ANGRY ROCK LIKE ME (MOST LIKELY YOU) FLIP SOLID MATES OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!  and it's quite unlike anything else you're hear all year!!!!!

seriously a fucking awesome and explosive spin that is gonna make year end lists for sure (but not any lists at any of those so called reliable indie music sites)  !!!!

so stop reading,
and listen to SOLID MATES below !!!!!!!!
   and grab a copy from HOMELESS stat !!!!!!!

guitar wolf - beast vibrator

GUITAR WOLF are BACK!!!!!!!!! and with a brand new explosive album entitled BEAST VIBRATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

most of the classic 90s garage punks are retired these days, so it's a breath of fucking fresh air that GUITAR WOLF are still pummeling crowds and bruising eardrums twenty years later....... BEAST VIBRATOR picks right up where they left off after 2011's SPACEBATTLESHIPLOVE (and will leave you with scars just like all those classic lps on GONER and MATADOR back in the day).......this is some of the LOUDEST AND MOST FURIOUS RnR of 2013!!!!!!

and well if you haven't listened to GUITAR WOLF's deranged / muscular / kamikaze style of garage punk NOW IS THE TIME TO INTRODUCE YERSELF TO ONE OF THE BEST BANDS AROUND !!!!!!!!   no joke, these guys are legendary, and even if BEAST VIBRATOR isn't quite hands down classic like PLANET OF THE WOLVES, it sure as hell beats some of what passes for "garage punk" these days.......

so get this album now, 
and BLOW UP YER STEREO.
fucking recommended!!!!!!!!

LISTEN TO A FEW TRACKS OFF BEAST VIBRATOR BELOW -





AND WATCH GUITAR WOLF LIVE AT GONER FEST HERE -