catacombz- s/t lp

Catacombz are MILWAUKEE'S secret psych rock destroyers.........much like chicago's CAVE and PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND or the WOODEN SHJIPS, CATACOMBZ play krautrock influenced, punked out heavy psych rock..... the kind that makes you lose yr mind........and drink way too much beer........

i've seen them a few times playing in chicago, always just sneaking in and out of town with sadly little fanfare, usually at a house show and continually forget to mention them on the blog......  they are crazy live, in fact i wish they would just move down here to chicago....i'd go see them every weekend......

CATACOMBZ have three releases..... the newest being self titled and the only one pressed to vinyl.....    if you get the chance to find one of their early tapes or the new release, buy it immediately.....  this is good trippy rock n roll........  highly recommended.......

here's what PERMANENT RECORDS has to say, (where incidently you can purchase the lp, ONLY 200 pressed).....

It's been a pretty kickass year for repetitive/extended psych jams. So far we've had new releases from Wooden Shjips, Cave, Moon Duo, White Hills, Sun Araw, Eternal Tapestry, Oneida, and the list goes on. Well here we have a potential new entry into that otherworldly lineup of the fictional Spaceoutfest 2011. It's Milwaukee's own Catacombz, and their self-titled debut is out in an extremely scarce quantity on Organalog Records. Partially recorded in Chicago under the watchful eye of Cave's own Cooper Crain, the gents, killer musicians all, display an excellent grasp of when to ride a groove into deep state of hypnosis and when to crack out of it into explosive new territory. There's also a comfort level with effects-driven atmospherics that doffs its cap to the Eno rock records and "how can they keep up the intensity for this long, my arms would fall off" Oneida/Boredoms-style drumming, plus occasional use of vox effects that's leaving a delicious Trans Am "Red Line"y aftertaste in our mouths. The whole thing is excellently recorded and tighter than a dolphin's sphincter. We are excited to see what this band will get themselves up to in the future since the present is the exact opposite of shabby. We recommend you snatch one up before it pulls a Copperfield and disappears.

listen/watch below.......

terry malts - i'm neurotic / something about you

TERRY MALTS is fuzzed out power pop / punk from the california scene we all know and love.... they're the hidden gem in the SF rock n roll crowd that gave us the WAX IDOLS, TY SEGALL and THE OH SEES....... but thankfully SLUMBERLAND RECORDS wanted to let the whole world know about TERRY MALTS by releasing two excellent singles...... I'M NEUROTIC and SOMETHING ABOUT YOU....

both 7 inches are worth yr hard earned cash.......  i mean who doesn't like catchy noisy garage pop.....?

and if yr in CHICAGO, GO SEE TERRY MALTS w/ THE WAX IDOLS AND RADAR EYES AT COLES TONIGHT at 10pm FOR FREE!!!!!  

listen to SOMETHING ABOUT YOU, from the new TERRY MALTS single on SLUMBERLAND below.....  click the download arrow on both SOUNDCLOUD TRACKS to grab the songs for free......
  Terry Malts - Something About You by Slumberland Records
AND LISTEN TO THE FIRST SINGLE BELOW......
  Terry Malts - Distracted by Slumberland Records
and oh yeah watch TERRY MALTS live below....

x-ray eyeballs - sundae 7 inch

XRAY EYEBALLS have been one of my favorite new bands this year.....

their NOT NOTHING lp on KANINE from this spring is definitely going to make my top records of 2011, and their HOZAC single CRYSTAL was constantly on my turntable for months.....  and now they've released a 2nd single, SUNDAE on HARDLY ART......

two more noise pop / dark new wave bangers is enough to get me to run out right away to the local record shop.......but you can also
click here to grab the SUNDAE 7 inch....

i suggest you grab this 7 inch before its gone......

watch a live performance of the A SIDE, SUNDAE,  and the music for the B Side, DEJA VU, below......

video - leather leather lp

SOMETIMES I WISH I LIVED IN TEXAS, just because of the music scene....if I could see the WAX MUSEUMS, BAD SPORTS, MIND SPIDERS, HIGH TENSION WIRES and MARKED MEN every weekend I'd be a happy rock n roller kid.......

but lucky for us not there, the texas punk rockers put out enough records to keep us happy all year long......

VIDEO is the newest project in the already creatively over flowing town of DENTON.......  VIDEO is comprised of members from the BAD SPORTS and the WAX MUSEUMS, which already earns them a place in my heart.....but what makes me so stoked about their debut LP LEATHER LEATHER is how outside the normal RAMONES-influenced punk they wander........  VIDEO smashes proto-punk into a wall psychedelic noisy art punk......  fast loud driving songs that make me as happy as the first time i heard the hot snakes.....and leave all those blurry musical genre lines to the side.....all you need to know is this is the sleeper record of 2011.......

revolver writes "Denton TX's VIDEO began intending to sound like a mix between Crime, Chrome and Cream. However, the twelve songs on this debut LP end up sounding like your record collection melted into one solid album. Ranging from songs that have the primal pounding of Flipper, the space jam sessions of Hawkwind, and the lyrical bent of early Alice Cooper and Stick Men With Ray Guns, Video’s debut album should shatter all preconceptions of what Denton's punk scene can produce. Featuring members of THE WAX MUSEUMS, BAD SPORTS, WICCANS, SILVER SHAMPOO, and as many other bands that you can name, Leather Leather breaks the mold of the usual poppy, melodic punk and instead forges a new territory somewhere between punk, hard rock, and weirdo psych."

sorry state records writes "Debut 12" from this Texas band that features members of Wax Museums and Bad Sports. While I like both of those bands a lot, this LP pretty much smokes everything those bands have ever done... this has been getting a lot of buzz and for VERY good reason. It's like these guys took the weirdo aesthetic of Wax Museums, but rather than going for straightforward, Ramones-inspired punk they went for a weird concoction of garage, hardcore, and west coast punk. The result is something like if the Adolescents were a lot more lo-fi and were even bigger weirdos than they already were... still, this isn't anything like neo-Adolescents bands who listen to way more Government Warning than actual Adolescents... this is just tough, catchy as fuck punk. An absolute fucking smasher if I've ever heard one."

order it from sorry state records, play pinball records or revolver before its limited pressing is gone....

listen up below......(download link removed by request)

  The Husband by VIDEO
  I Am The Sum by VIDEO
  Prison by VIDEO

bleached - carter 7 inch

rising from the ashes of Mika Miko is BLEACHED.....sugary lo-fi girl group influenced garage pop that'll make you hum along......

i was sad when i heard mika miko broke up, leaving the world without their noisy fun punk rock, but having a BLEACHED 7 inch in yr collection is more than a consolation prize.....  i can't wait for them to release their debut full length.... it'll surely make my best of list next year if it happens......

BLEACHED have three singles out, one on OOGA BOOGA, one for ART FAG and a very recent one for SUICIDE SQUEEZE..... check yr local record store for any and all of these releases.....  

recommended for folks who like WAX IDOLS, DUM DUM GIRLS, or FRANKIE ROSE AND THE OUTS.....

click here to grab the their 7 inch on art fag records


BLEACHED "THINK OF YOU" from Lana Kim on Vimeo.

reigning sound - abdication ep

twice this month, scion has brought us brand new eps by bands much loved by tiny grooves...... first there was the king khan experience ep and now there's a new mini album by the REIGNING SOUND......

more soulful rock n roll from greg cartwright and his band of garage rock stalwarts......  every song sounds like a classic.....bursting with that punk energy that greg honed in the oblivians and catchy lyrics that make you wish that ABDICATION was a follow up to 2009's LOVE AND CURSES lp and not just eight songs long....

i just keep the ep on repeat.....its that good.

so click here for the ABDICATION ep 

listen to LYIN' GIRL from the ep below.....

the spits - lp V

THE SPITS play dirty fun garage punk........little known to the masses, but a highly respected band in the scene.....THE SPITS are a band you need to know about if you love lo-fi punk rock........  they have a series of "untitled" lps out on dirtnap, slovenly, nickel & dime, p trash and now IN THE RED, who has just released their fifth proper studio album.........

THE SPITS fit right in on IN THE RED records and here's what the label had to say......

Everyone’s favorite space-age mutant skate punks are back with their long awaited fifth album (self-titled as were the previous four) and and it does not disappoint. Twelve new action-packed songs of apocalyptic fuzzed-out over driven madness.  The Spits are already as ingrained in modern punk music as possible, yet still manage to devour the rip-offs and influence the youth of today without even looking like they're trying. Going strong now for over fifteen years, smashing the windows and tearing down the walls of our minds every time they roll through town, these truly vicious visionaries have cooked punk down to its most powerful base form, crawling like Neanderthals through the muck, and creating a flaming trail of hits that'll take quite a fit of dementia to ever forget. A perfect distillation of punk's original open-ended weirdness, and modern music's serrated salvation, The Spits have proven themselves to be no one to fuck with, over and over again. True headliners, never to be followed and for good reason....The Spits have been setting the bar high, throughout the Midwest, and soon after, the world over. With an ingenious amalgamation of DEVO's early synth work in tandem with the absolute best Thug-Punk grunt the Ramones could ever maliciously muster, The Spits never try to reinvent anything, they just rip it's head off and drive it home time and time again.  They've always been one of the most original bands of the twenty-first century, yet it never really seemed like they weren't doing anything too experimental, save their signature, yet refreshingly just-ahead-of-their-time, synth/drum machine noise they forced the fickle punk crowds to gladly swallow. When we finally caught wind of them, the demonic void that they filled was utterly too much to handle, and hence became the number one band everyone wanted to see....It was that pre-information overload-type of underground music mystery that just gets all the endorphins rushing. I mean, were they even real? And the way their throbbingly addictive songs just drip like sticky tar out of the speakers, their guitars that sound like food processors seemed to dull all our senses, just at the same time that the impeccable lyrics invigorate us beyond belief.   Possibly one of the only modern bands to have several of their songs being covered by their contemporaries, The Spits have already done so much, but still have so much more to come, as they continue to influence anyone with a penchant for irresistible punk music, played like there's nothing to lose.

In The Red records couldn’t be happier or prouder to finally have the Spits as part of their roster!!

comparisons to the mummies, supercharger, ramones and the misfits are appropriate.......but for you punk rockers, all you need to know if that the SPITS ARE A MUST HAVE...... 

click here for the 5th lp  out now on IN THE RED.........

watch some mayhem below.......