todays hits - sex boys ep

get ready for some sleazy no-fi RnR with RANDY RECORDS latest banger, SEX BOYS from
chicago's TODAY'S HITS!!!!!!!!

comprised of recent kentucky transplant james (who started the band on some sort of dare to write a 1000 songs in a 1000 days), kenny from MAGIC MILK and andrew from THE SUEVES, TODAYS HITS is kinda like a misfit supergroup of chicago's trashy garage underground....  and SEX BOYS, their debut effort, distills all the wonderful misanthropic RnR energy you could want through the fucked up haze of jangly garage and bubblegum trash pop......all four of these songs are addictingly simple and sweet and sure to get stuck in yer over stimulated head the rest of the week.....  not since KIM FOWLEY WAS WARPING THE MINDS OF THE YOUTH CULTURE ON THE SUNSET STRIP HAS A BAND CONCOCTED SUCH A TRASHY AND FUN DEBUT SINGLE!!!!!!

fans of KING TUFF, NOBUNNY, UH BONES, GENTLEMAN JESSE, SLUSHY, BUSY SIGNALS, GLITZ, BARE WIRES and/or any of the bands on RANDY, BURGER or CASTLE FACE need this SEX BOYS EP now........

dude, the party is yours for the throwing,
just drop this 7 inch on yer turntable!!!!

seriously recommended!

listen to the A side of the SEX BOYS 7 inch below -
   and grab one from RANDY himself !!!!!!



and watch TODAYS HITS live at the burlington below -

Todays Hits @Nitetrotter Fest 2013 from Deep Cover on Vimeo.

morgan delt - s/t lp

GET READY TO GO ON A PSYCHEDELIC ADVENTURE WITH TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS NEWEST RnR DISCOVERY, MORGAN DELT, AND HIS KILLER SELF TITLED DEBUT LP !!!!!!!!!!!!

somewhere in the sun fried corners of southern california, MORGAN DELT is trying to resurrect the reverbed ghost of psychedelic pop and scare the world back to that enchanted time in the late 60s where the world seemed like it might just change for the better (musically and otherwise)....... this first full length is an broken-pop analog trance you'll slip right into, a fractured lo-fi reinterpretation of the psych greats, a roller coaster trip through drugged-out weirdo RnR history as if it were all happening at once, a cosmic ritual played out song after fuzzed out song on vinyl where you, the listener, leave yer body and let the vibrations, the high energy warped songs lead you to a place you've never gone before and a place from which you might never return......

sure CAN, LOVE, SIMPLY SAUCER, WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND, SOFT MACHINE and others might've have promised to take us into the outer realms of our minds, but most just didn't follow their cues and missed out on all the adventurous music....but MORGAN DELT is here to the rescue, poised to take us just as far as all those killer psych bands of yore.......and the price of admission is one mutant record you'll sure as fuck spin over and over again........

thank god this was released in the winter, cuz when yer stuck at home, MORGAN DELT's self titled album is all yer gonna need to escape !!!!!!!!!!  


YEAH SO LISTEN TO TWO SONGS OF THE S/T DEBUT LP NOW
AND GRAB YER COPY FROM TROUBLE IN MIND NOW !!!!!!!!!!

ya ho wa 13 - penetration: an aquarian symphony

if yr looking for some far out, experimental psych rock, you need not search any further than YA HO WA 13 !!!!!!!!!  and their seminal mind melting lp PENETRATION: AN AQUARIAN SYMPHONY!!!!!!

for those not in the know, YA HO WA 13 was formed by FATHER YOD out of members of his socal hippie commune / spiritual collective THE SOURCE FAMILY in the early 70s.... while not expanding their minds through meditation and the herbal sacrament and running a successful vegetarian restaurant on sunset strip, FATHER YOD with his music cohorts set out to totally mutate and stretch out psychedelic rock n roll as we know it...... droned and spaced out, filled with chants and freak outs, all sorts of weird percussion and instrumentation, YA HO WA 13 totally blew up what it meant to ROCK N ROLL and pretty much put most of the rest of psych bands of the day into the tame category.......  they recorded all their albums in the garage next to their commune and self released them on their HIGHER KEY label, selling them only at shows and at the restaurant they ran....... making them collectors gold and fresh for rediscovery......

and thankfully labels like TEE PEE and DRAG CITY did rediscover YA HO WA 13 (and FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF 76 as well as the SOURCE FAMILY's other various one off side projects) and have been reissuing their albums........  apparently there are over 65 lps worth of material much of which has never seen the light of day, even on their own HIGHER KEY label........

i won't suggest you grab all these albums, but PENETRATION: AN AQUARIUM SYMPHONY is their best effort and widely acknowledged as one of the best PSYCH ROCK ALBUMS OF ALL TIME........ way ahead of it's years, and totally entrancing YOU JUST NEED TO HEAR THIS LP NOW.........    one listen might just warp you forever.......  (TEE PEE did reissue it, but it's out of print, though well worth searching for and easier to find than it used to be....)

and once yer hooked on YA HO WA 13, good luck crate digging for the rest of their albums......

GET READY TO HAVE YER EXPANDED AND LISTEN TO PENETRATION: AN AQUARIAN SYMPHONY BELOW -
   and click any of the links above for further reading on YA HO WA 13........




ps....click here to watch the killer documentary on THE SOURCE FAMILY released last year !!!!!  one of my fave RnR films of 2013 hands down.........  

doug tuttle - s/t lp

after the dissolution of his killer krautrock-damaged psych outfit MMOSS last year all was not lost, cuz DOUG TUTTLE decided to channel his energies into a solo bedroom recording project and now thanks to TROUBLE IN MIND, we can all bring home DOUG TUTTLE'S self titled debut album!!!!!!!   and you fuckin' should!!!!!!

west coast hazy psych pop jams meet late 60s british underground warped lysergic vibes....all stretched and twisted into analog mess of melodies and textures that you'll wander around in and get lost.....  these songs envelope you, sometimes with the jangly songwriting, other times with their lush krautrock induced ambience, and certainly lots of haunting vocals creeping out of the cosmic layers of guitars that'll mesmerize you til you gotta flip the record over........ and as you wind yer way through DOUG TUTTLE's headphone masterpiece, you definitely hear his jumping off points though for sure this s/t album is a world of his own creation........ (doug admits a huge obsession with neil young and the byrds, though i also definitely hear some LOVE and HOLLIES in these songs...)

you'll both become addicted to DOUG TUTTLE's lp and need those repeat listen to uncode all the secrets waiting for you in the grooves on this album........

so what are you waiting for, YOU NEED TO TAKE THIS TRIP now........
don't settle for less than another killer jam from TROUBLE IN MIND!!!!!

GO AHEAD AND LISTEN TO TWO TRACKS OF THE S/T LP BELOW  and grab a copy from TROUBLE IN MIND now !!!!!

energy gown - round house 7in

chicago's droned out psychedelic mind melters, ENERGY GOWN, are back with a brand new lathe cut 7 inch, ROUND HOUSE.....and you need to get yr hands on it now!!!!!!

part of the digital comp, ACTIVE LISTENER SAMPLER 15, this new blast of consciousness-expanding space bent RnR from ENERGY GOWN will certainly have the fuzz heads and psych junkies grappling for their newest fix....... continuing on with where their previous single I WATCH THE SUN left off, ROUND HOUSE drones and warps with the best of the lysergic rockers from the past, from LES RALLIZES DENUDES to PARSSON SOUND and back through the rabbit hole to YA HO WA 13, HAWKWIND and FAUST.......ENERGY GOWN distorts and re-mystifies psychedelic rock back to its founding burst of energy in the late 60s.....and doesn't just aim for the rigid genre signifiers so many IN bands use to define themselves as PSYCH....

so yeah if yer into the reverberation appreciation society, cardinal fuzz, trouble in mind and other like minded psych labels, this severely limited single is FOR YOU.

GET READY TO TUNE YERSELF IN TO THE COSMOS!!!!!

LISTEN TO ROUND HOUSE below and grab a copy this recommended jam here -



and watch energy gown at the empty bottle below -

video - (join the) hatewave 7in

TIME TO GET ROWDY cuz TOTAL PUNK RECORDS has a new single out....this time from austin's VIDEO, titled (JOIN THE) HATEWAVE!!!!!!!!!!!

after destroying minds with their debut album LEATHER LEATHER on PLAY PINBALL in 2011 (which i couldn't say enough nice things about) and subsequently terrorizing the nation on tour, VIDEO is back with another snotty punch in the face....and they are anthemic, addicting and nasty as ever.....  it doesn't get any better (or more RnR) than HATEWAVE.....  A THREE MINUTE BLAST OF LOUD UNRULY MEAN PUNK ROCK THAT'LL GET THE KIDS RIOTING INSTANTLY!!!!!!!   and you might not even get to the B SIDE, CAPTIVITY, after you REPEAT REPEAT REPEAT AND REPEAT AGAIN side one of this new single........  

holy shit if you haven't checked out VIDEO yet, NOW IS THE FUCKING TIME......  one of the best bands kicking around these days.......  

RECOMMENDED FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!

listen to the A SIDE of the new single below and GET IT NOW VIA TOTAL PUNK - 



and watch VIDEO live below -



and STAY TUNED FOR ANOTHER FINE VIDEO SINGLE OUT ON HOZAC RECORDS LATER THIS YEAR!!!!! YES I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THESE GUYS!!!!!!!!!

counter intuits - sheets of hits

so january is a time for reflecting on the year past and part of that game is listening to albums you missed, forgot about or just didn't give enough time to.....and one such sleeper hit of 2013 is the COUNTER INTUITS debut s/t lp (aka SHEETS OF HITS) released on PYRAMID SCHEME RECORDS......  an album that just barely squeezed into my best of list at #29....but nonetheless a record i've been spinning non stop recently.......and one you should too!!!!

comprised of the legendary RON HOUSE on vox (GREAT PLAINS, THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS, EGO SUMMIT, etc) and JARED PHILLIPS on guitar / effects / noise (TIMES NEW VIKING), COUNTER INTUITS RESURRECTS THE DEATH RATTLE OF NOISY UNDERGROUND ROCK & POST PUNK SO THAT WE CAN REVEL IN ITS HISSING FEEDBACK GLORY ALL OVER AGAIN !!!!!!!     SHEET OF HITS is nothing short of a sprawling no-fi masterpiece, twisting and turning through sloppy post punk, anthemic noise punk, hazy analog RnR cassette jams and all sorts of exciting dead end experiments from indie rock of years past....... (i could name drop some comparisons here, but that would just detract from how killer these songs are, i mean NO COMPUTER BLUES is fucking awesome)....  not every super group meeting of the minds is great, but this one's an INSTA-CLASSIC.....and sure maybe not for everyone, but those of us ohio rock, noise and lo-fi punk junkies certainly need some COUNTER INTUITS now.......

i assume if you know ron or jared's previous projects you already know how great this drunken sloppy mess of an album is, but if not NOW IS THE TIME TO GET HIP TO IT......

SO LISTEN TO A FEW TRACKS OFF SHEETS OF HITS BELOW
AND GRAB YER COPY NOW!!!  





ps....if yer still not convinced, read the COUNTER INTUITS review on TERMBO, or just stop buying music all together, cuz SHEETS OF HITS is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!

and oh watch a rare live performance from COUNTER INTUITS here -

dreamsalon - thirteen nights

start the new year off with some new jams!!!!  and look new further than the killer debut lp from Seattle's DREAMSALON entitled THIRTEEN NIGHTS, out now on CAPTCHA RECORDS!!!!!!!!!

comprised of members formerly in such "go to" bands as INTELLIGENCE, A FRAMES, FACTUMS and EVENING MEETINGS (just to mention a few cuz DREAMSALON has a resume that'll for sure put most bands to shame...), THIRTEEN NIGHTS is a succinct, highly addicting platter of scuzzed out, psych soaked, art bent post punk that'll keep you returning for repeat spins......

DREAMSALON channels their previous DON'T GIVE A FUCK noisy projects as well as a hearty dose of FALL, PERE UBU, WIRE, 100 FLOWERS throw-out-the-rules post punk and a nice warm coating of hazy dark lysergic freakout psych vibes to finish off THIRTEEN DREAMS.........  and yes this is a band that can think outside the box of those little genre tags we throw around a lot, so that makes this album even more worth the spin......

um you might wanna call this lp "earworming" or perhaps "insidious" cuz it's dark angular songs are gonna stick with you..... and maybe give you nightmares.... FUCK YES!!!!!!

so come on now, get hip to the program and get ready to crank DREAMSALON all the way up!!!!!   this album should've made everyone's year end lists, MINE INCLUDED, but its late november release date made it a sleeper hit instead.........

so go ahead and listen to THIRTEEN NIGHTS now and snag a copy from CAPTCHA here -