dirtbombs - oeey gooey chewy ka-bloey!

YES!!!!!!  IN THE RED is dropping a brand new album by the DIRTBOMBS this week....the long awaited "bubblegum" lp entitled OOEY GOOEY CHEWY KA-BLOEY!!!!!!!!!!

holy shit, i've been waiting for this one forever!!!!!!   OOEY GOOEY follows 2011's techno meets garage punk concept album PARTY STORE, and this time mick collins and co. take dead aim at the bubblegum am pop of the 60s, with their unique double rhythm section motor city is burning garage rock lens of course.....  and the result is some of the best DIRTBOMBS songs to date, and their best album since the uber classic ULTRA GLIDE IN BLACK (from 2001).... these super sweet. sunshine soaked songs on OOEY GOOEY are destined to be garage rock standards down the road, and this album is for sure gonna be in my top ten of xx13 list........  OOEY GOOEY just proves once again that the DIRTBOMBS are the best garage rock band around!!!!!!!!!

even if you don't go for the "concept" of the album, or are even much of a fan of "bubblegum" you will still find yerself stuck in the grooves of OOEY GOOEY CHEWY KA-BLOEY!!!!!  i wasn't too sure about PARTY STORE at first and i don't call myself much of a fan of the archies and the lemon pipers, but you don't have to be a buddah / kama sutra records am pop junkie to think this new one is a highly addicting spin (but if you are, you're gonna be in heaven).......seriously one listen and you'll be hooked......

SO LISTEN TO A FEW SONGS OFF THE NEW ALBUM BELOW,
   and then surf over to IN THE RED to grab yer own damn copy!!!!!!!






as a bonus,
watch the DIRTBOMBS live at amoeba records below -

dirtbombs - consistency is the enemy

It’s been almost two years since Detroit’s finest garage rockers the DIRTBOMBS have graced us with a new album– their last effort being 2011′s triple LP PARTY STORE on In The Red Records. There’s rumor of a new album all recorded and mastered just waiting to get shipped off to the pressing plant, but we don’t have to wait anymore for our next fix of Mick Collins and Co’s soulful brand of garage punk. CASS RECORDS has stepped in and pressed up our next dose of Dirtbombs, in the form of the singles comp CONSISTENCY IS THE ENEMY.

If you’re familiar with the Dirtbombs discography, or fanatical like me, you know that we’ve been waiting for this LP for quite some time. Consistency is the vinyl companion to their In The Red released career stretching singles, live and unreleased tracks collection If You Don’t Already Have A Look, released way way back in 2005. That double CD cataloged all those rare and expensive singles the Dirtbombs are known for releasing at such a high octane and prolific pace–last count they’ve released over thirty 7 inches! Sadly at the time, In The Red didn’t think a double or triple LP was financially worthwhile (or more than likely that all the rabid Dirtbombs fans had most of the singles already). But seeing that they’re one of the last bands standing from the initial garage rock explosion of the 90s/early00s, steadily releasing more albums and gaining new fans, these singles needed to be re-released into the world on vinyl.  I wish Consistency Is The Enemy was more than the mere 16 songs it is (the CD compilation contained 52 songs), but with such fiery garage hits as “Here Comes That Sound Again”, “(I’m Not Your) Scratchin Post”, and “They Hate Us In Scandinavia” as well as killer blown out covers of the Ohio Players and Yoko Ono, every song on the LP is a repeat listen.

Nobody can match the Dirtbombs’ raw power meets motown punk vibes, expect perhaps the Oblivians.  For the uninitiated, Ultraglide in Black is a better starting point, but Consistency Is The Enemy kind of works as a Best Of. And with more and more young bands jumping into the punk / garage scene, an album like this is sure to cement the Dirtbombs where they belong: along side the best garage punk outfits around.

LISTEN TO HERE COMES THAT SOUND AGAIN AND THE SHARPEST CLAWS
OFF CONSISTENCY IS THE ENEMY BELOW..........

drunk pixels - THE DIRTBOMBS w/ white mystery

thanks to GONZO CHICAGO for filming 
this awesome show last month 
at the SUBTERRANEAN......


THE DIRTBOMBS blew my mind as always 
and you can't go wrong with local chicago garage rockers 
WHITE MYSTERY....... 


i almost died i had so much fun at this show.......


watch below.......

Dirtbombs + White Mystery - Chicago from GONZO CHICAGO on Vimeo.

THE DIRTBOMBS play chicago and nyc FOR FREE

this is the best xmas gift a garage punk rocker like me could ask for.........


THE DIRTBOMBS are playing two shows this month for free...one right here in chicago... and the other in nyc for the east coast kids.....


and both with chicago's very own brother/sister garage rock duo, WHITE MYSTERY......


all you gotta do is RSVP via this link........


and i'll see you december 16th at the subterranean for probably my favorite show of the year..........

if you don't know how awesome the dirtbombs are.......watch below.......

scion a/v club GARAGE/PUNK SEVEN INCH SERIES

scion may or may not be encroaching on our beloved garage rock scene, but free music from our favorite bands is never a terrible thing.  


so i guess we owe a thanks to scion for this singles series.......

as far a i can tell this is every release 
in the scion a/v club garage/punk 7 inch collection......
              (they have also released a few other rock, metal and hiphop singles, but that's less interesting....)



so click here to grab the first ELEVEN singles in the series......
     (all grouped as one easy to download .zip file)


black lips / pierced arrows
cola freaks / digital leather

king tuff / hex dispensers

human eye / sex beet

jack oblivian / mannequin men

oblivians / andre ethier

reigning sound / last year's men

dirtbombs / davila 666

the strange boys / natural child

kid congo & the pink monkey birds / 
            hunx & his punx

nobunny / jacuzzi boys

and  here to grab THE SPITS two 7 inches

(grouped as another .zip
    so the spits fans can just grab these two releases.....)
      
the spits "haunted fang castle" ep 
(which is quite weird)  & the spits / dan melchior split

and   
click here to grab the 
CHEAP TIME / BAD SPORTS
7 INCH......

some of these singles are no longer available 
for download at scion....... 


      
so this might be the only place to grab these 7 inches.....

go to the party store right now

so jump the gun and rock the new dirtbombs lp "party store"..... its more fucking fun then you might even imagine.

but remember you need to buy this lp when it comes out on feb 1.......promise?

until then, click here to go to the party store

new garage explosion!!!!!!

vice records is a big fan of garage rock and understandably so. it is a record label as well as a magazine....and somewhat of an internet video channel......

so why is VICE in bed with SCION to promote garage rock is beyond me.......but here's a great new documentary on the garage/punk scene all us kids dig.

jay reatard, dirtbombs and many other make appearances.... i guess corporate sponsorship isn't always the worst.

dirtbombs want you party old school detroit style

from detroitblackout...... "Detroit garage rockers The Dirtbombs know how to pay a little homage. They did so with 2001′s Ultraglide in Black, covering soul numbers from the ’60s and ’70s. The band’s new album Party Store goes a different direction, but the concept sounds promising enough: live renditions of ’80s and ’90s Detroit techno......"

nice, I can't wait, more gritty detroit rock n roll with a 80s dance beat.....maybe not what i expected, but the dirtbombs have always mixed it up a bit/ and the good bands usually do........

check out a track from the new Dirtbombs "party store" lp below.......

garage punk classics - blacktop

Blacktop was the first post-Gories project for Mick Collins.

While similar to the legendary garage punk three-piece, Blacktop is a clear progression, in terms of musicianship and songwriting skill, for Collins and is also the beginning of his movement towards noisier material.

The band's sound was fuller and more sophisticated, due in no small part to the addition of a bass line and the songwriting input of Darrin Lin Wood (Fireworks, 68 Comeback). While still drawing from a wealth of blues, soul, and mod influences, Blacktop crossed into seemingly new territory, even covering Captain Beefheart's "Here I Am, I Always Am."

I've Got A Baad Feelin' About This, their first album, was recorded on an eight track at a friend's house in Dallas and was released in 1995. Half of the album's tracks, and several other unreleased ones, were assembled and released in Australia as Up All Night. As with the Gories and his other projects, Blacktop released several 7" singles throughout it's brief career.

The band never made it back into the studio, but In the Red Records reissued their debut LP with the bonus material from the Australian release in 2003, comprising everything the band ever recorded.

Too bad they didn't stick around, but Mick Collins went on to form the Dirtbombs, so none of us can be that disappointed........ (thanks to Allmusic,com for the help)

click here to grab I've Got a Baaad Feelin'

gories seven inch mania

click the gories....

for a collection their very out of print 7 inches, easily downloaded via mediafire.

thanks chunklet for the twitter tip off........

the dirtbombs on pbs

We Have Signal: Live From Birmingham - The Dirtbombs from We Have Signal on Vimeo.

also from alabama public television's we have signal are shows featuring health and parts & labor...so check it out....