oozing wound - retrash

GET READY TO GET SLAYED!!!!!!!!!!  cuz chicago thrashers OOZING WOUND just dropped their debut lp RETRASH on THRILL JOCKEY and you need this blast of noisy hellbent RnR NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

for those not in the know, OOZING WOUND soaked up its members from the best bands in chicago's noise mongering art space / house show scene (CACAW, UNMANNED SHIP, ZATH, BAD DRUGS, to name a few) and decided to take a NO HOLDS BARRED / DOWN N DIRTY approach to the METAL AND SKATE PUNK BANDS we all loved and grew up on !!!!!!!!!   

RETRASH IS LOUD, WILD AND MORE FUCKING THRASHY THAN ANYTHING ELSE YOU COULD PUT ON YER TURNTABLE.....and just the refreshing shot of unadultered RnR you need to clear yer head...... so set fire to all yer old SLAYER and MOTORHEAD tapes, cuz this is the ONE TRASHY, IN YER FACE METAL ALBUM THAT BELONGS NEXT TO YER STEREO....

finally a band that can take back metal from the stupid metalheads who've ruined everything.  YES!!!!!!!!  it's about fuckin' time!!!!!!!!

but don't take my word for it, one spin of OOZING WOUND's new LP is all it's gonna take to melt yer face and get you bouncing around yer apartment.........

somebody better send lemmy a copy of RETRASH, cuz it's that FUCKING GOOD.....

LISTEN TO A FEW SONGS OFF RETRASH BELOW -
   and grab a copy NOW from THRILL JOCKEY !!!!!!!!!!




watch the hilarious promo for RETRASH here -

Oozing Wound - Retrash Commercial from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

and here's the video for WELCOME TO THE SPACESHIP, MOTHERFUCKERS !



and yeah this is OOZING WOUND live at P-REX!!!!!

double dagger - 333 (RSD, thrill jockey) lp + dvd

as if their last tour wasn't enough of a farewell (which it wasn't), THRILL JOCKEY RECORDS released DOUBLE DAGGER's final EP 333 for RECORD STORE DAY this year..... packaged with a dvd of the documentary IF WE SHOUT LOUD ENOUGH (on the band, their final shows and impact on their DIY punk scene), 333 is a more than necessary exclamation point to one of my favorite DIY hardcore / punk bands of all time.   sure i'm biased--being friends with the band, going on tour with them, and helping promote their shows, seeing them play multiple times--but ask anyone who's seen DOUBLE DAGGER live and they will all say the same thing, these guys are one of the fucking best bands ever / if not life changing.......in a world where we're inundated with music and it's hard to get excited about new bands, DOUBLE DAGGER went about things the old school unpretentious DIYway: playing loft shows, releasing their own records, touring cities they felt a kinship with, helping other bands out, and being part of a baltimore scene that's since taken the world by storm...... no trying to be the next hype band or making a career out of it, or aiming for the mainstream...... all DOUBLE DAGGER wanted to is have a fucking fun time and play some RIOTOUS LOUD PUNK ROCK....and we're all the better for it..........

to say these guys will be missed is an understatement.  their last two chicago shows were off the fucking chain and probably the most fun i've ever had at any shows.....   it's too bad there's no more DOUBLE DAGGER to look forward to, but at least we have this film documenting the band and one last killer ep.......

and sometimes it's best to stop while you're ahead.  no need to tarnish all the awesome memories.

everything DOUBLE DAGGER has released is HEAVILY RECOMMENDED
and 333 IS NO EXCEPTION.

SO CRANK THIS SHIT UP LOUD,
FEEL YOUNG
AND REMEMBER THE GOOD TIMES.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY
THANKS DOUBLE DAGGER FOR EVERYTHING.

LISTEN TO TWO SONGS OFF 
DOUBLE DAGGER'S LAST EP, 333, BELOW - 

HERETIC'S HYMN

FOREIGN BODIES


WATCH THE TRAILER FOR THE DOUBLE DAGGER DOCUMENTARY IF WE SHOUT LOUD ENOUGH BELOW -
If We Shout Loud Enough - Trailer (Double Dagger documentary) from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

and watch some crazy footage from DOUBLE DAGGER's last ever chicago show on their goodbye tour courtesy of GONZO CHICAGO.....  (and see if you spot me in the crowd) -
Double Dagger's final Chicago show from GONZO CHICAGO on Vimeo.

black pus - all my relations

BRIAN CHIPPENDALE of the legendary noise rock duo LIGHTNING BOLT has been recording solo as BLACK PUS for quite some time now-- a steady stream of feedback damaged CDRs beginning around 2005 and culminating with 2011's PRIMORDIAL PUS lp on LOAD RECORDS--but all those releases sat back seat to his main gig.  that is until now. BLACK PUS just released a new album out on THRILL JOCKEY entitled ALL MY RELATIONS and it takes his frenzied noise to a whole new transcendent / ear devastating level.....one that makes lightning bolt seem tame by comparison (and is sure to cement the album's place on my year end list)

all the key ingredients are here - distorto vocals / bass oscillations / free jazz meets punk thrash drum blasts / psychedelic walls of feedback / circuit bent electronics / all kinds of weird noises looped and fragmented.....ALL MY RELATIONS is brian chippendale's post modern / inner city, tribal / noise rock manifesto.....  it's as if everything we've learned from psych rock, hardcore, free jazz, krautrock, no wave and punk has been distilled down into one swirling epic eight song album........ hints of the masters of avant musical thinking are here; from coltrane to zorn, and glenn branca to throbbing gristle, not to mention faust, keiji haino and cluster.   maybe it seems like a bit to a stretch to put BLACK PUS next to such forward thinking visionaries, but that's exactly what this ALL MY RELATIONS is striving for, going way beyond the limitations of the loft show staple of the noise rock duo format......

BLACK PUS stretches outs the songs into very spiritual avant garde jazz / minimalist meets maximalist space......deconstructing all these sounds we've become comfortable with, making them sound fierce, ugly and mesmerizing again, and without so much as a guitar.  all you have to do is turn it up loud and let the music mutate and writhe around in yer ears........

BLACK PUS has composed some of the most conscience-shattering noise you'll hear all year long.  and for a LOAD / SKIN GRAFT RECORDS fanatic like me, it feels good to have another release to blown out my speakers with......

fans of any of the following noise mongers ought to rush out to yer local record shop now to grab ALL MY RELATIONS - RUINS, HELLA, FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, BOREDOMS, PINK & BROWN, SIGHTINGS, ORTHRELM, HAIR POLICE, NAKED CITY and/or HARRY PUSSY

this lp is fucking sick.  thanks THRILL JOCKEY.
BLACK PUS comes with the highest recommendation.....

LISTEN TO A PREVIEW OF ALL MY RELATIONS BELOW - (the whole lp can be streamed on thrill jockey's site here)


AND WATCH THE VIDEO FOR 1000 YEARS HERE -

wooden shjips - west

WOODEN SHJIPS are my favorite psych / noise/ drone rockers.

hands down.

so a new lp out this fall is good news.

especially with the stamp of approval by thrill jockey who insisted on releasing it.

WEST is quite the hypnotic lp.  i might just never stop listening to it.......

click here to sneak the lp into yr life, 

but you gotta promise you'll purchase it in september when it comes out.  the wooden shjips don't write such good songs for free..........


listen below to a couple songs of the "west" lp below via youtube.........