SUPERIOR VIADUCT is back with another KILLER FUCKING archival release, this time from san francisco's seminal punks, CRIME, entitled MURDER BY GUITAR!!!!!!!
comprised of their first three blistering singles, including HOT WIRE MY HEART (one of the best songs of all time) and nine unreleased tracks, MURDER BY GUITAR is finally the definitive comp we've needed for years and now we can have all the CRIME we can handle!!!!!!!
fans of early punk, raw RnR and proto punk, especially those into TESTORS, PENETRATORS, ELECTRIC EELS, ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS, DEAD BOYS, JOHNNY THUNDERS, RICHARD HELL and the like, NEED TO ADD CRIME TO YER COLLECTION ASAP!!!!!!!
THIS IS AS ESSENTIAL AND RECOMMENDED AS IT COMES!!!!!!! click here to grab one from SUPERIOR VIADUCT and listen to some of yer new favorite jams below -
thanks to IN THE RED RECORDS we can finally grab the uber classic URINALS' comp NEGATIVE CAPABILITY on wax!!!!!! originally released in '96 by AMREP, this collection contains all three of the URINALS self released 7 inches, a comp track, studio outtakes, and a killer live set....increasing their total discography to 31 tracks of pure short fast and raw punk!!!!!! a necessity in everyone's collection that considers themselves a fan of rock n roll.....and that is the truth!!!!!!!!
for those not in the know, the URINALS were LA's greatest. most art damaged, minimalist punk rock bands.....formed in '77 and existing only until '80 when they mutated into the post punk act, 100 FLOWERS.....the URINALS' scrappy no-fi raw punk rock n roll has influenced more bands than you can count...... everyone from THE MINUTEMAN to OBNOX has covered them, including JAY REATARD and HALO OF FLIES (and the list could go on and on....)
and i'm in good company when i say that ACK ACK ACK and I'M A BUG might be two of the best punk songs ever...... maybe the URINALS didn't invent punk rock, but they made it faster, weirder, more primitive and way more amateur...... they were a band that showed the world that as long as you could learn two chords, you can make a life changing racket!!!!!
SUPERIOR VIADUCT reissued their first three 7 inches (s/t, another ep, sex) earlier this year, but if you want yer URINALS fix all in one place, this comp NEGATIVE CAPABILITY is the way to go!!!!!!!
SUPERIOR VIADUCT continues their reissue campaign of lost punk and post punk gems with cult faves MX 80 SOUND's 1977 lp HARD ATTACK, never before issued in the states......
for those unfamiliar with MX 80 SOUND, these bloomington, indiana rockers made some of the most adventurous and wild art punk of the late 70s......their sound falling someone between TELEVISION, PERE UBU, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, DEBRIS', CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, BRIAN ENO's early rock albums, VELVET UNDERGROUND, the RESIDENTS and free jazz........ WEIRDO, ART DAMAGED, FREE WHEELIN ANGULAR ROCK N ROLL GOODNESS CHOCK FULL OF SURREALISTIC LYRICS, CLATTERING GUITARS, SKRONKY SAX AND WILD RHYTHMS FROM TWO DRUMMERS........ MX 80 SOUND carved out a niche all their own, part midwestern proto punk / part new york post punk and a healthy swirl of avant leanings from prog, garage, noise and esp / impulse records jazz.... MX 80 SOUND dove head first into that art punk sound that people usually ascribe to THE FALL and WIRE, but beat them to the punch.......... and after all these years, their chaotic rock n roll sounds as fresh and edgy as the day it was recorded......
HARD ATTACK was their debut lp for ISLAND RECORDS, after which they recorded two albums for RALPH RECORDS and then slid into obscurity, like so many other killer bands......
but now thanks to SUPERIOR VIADUCT we can all take home a copy of HARD ATTACK,
and i'm crossing my fingers for them to reissue CROWD CONTROL and OUT OF THE TUNNEL, all three albums which are nearly impossible to score these days........
