gary wrong group - knights of misery 12in ep

outta the ashes of WIZZARD SLEEVE rises a new evil force to be reckoned with.....GARY WRONG GROUP !!!!!!!!!!

yes!!!!!!! killer swamp punk voodoo from the backwoods of the deep south.....!!!!!!!  and with QUINTRON on drums and organ no less!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GARY WRONG GROUP just released a 12 inch EP entitled "KNIGHTS OF MISERY" with the help of TOTAL PUNK and JETH ROW RECORDS and holy shit you need this record now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

full of mud caked riffs, primordial drumming, bewitching vocals and schizoid organs / synths, this is a whole lotta wild untamed blown out rock n roll fun....!!!!!!!!!!    just don't call them a garage band.  they might punch you in the face.

fans of THE OBLIVIANS, MUMMIES, THE LEGS, JAMES ARTHUR'S MANHUNT, THE SPITS, TRUE SONS OF THUNDER, GINO & THE GOONS, BITS OF SHIT and THE REATARDS will surely need KNIGHTS OF MISERY in yer collection !!!!!!!

GARY WRONG GROUP is bottle of moonshine soaked weirdo punk that's perfect to get fucked up to....not just on fridays, EVERYDAY!!!!!  

my copy of this record is gonna get worn out quick.  cuz its a stand out record!
but grab a copy soon, this one's almost sold out everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!

LISTEN TO A COUPLE OF TRACK OF
KNIGHTS OF MISERY BELOW -





and watch GARY WRONG GROUP perform POLLEN CHRIST off the new ep LIVE below - 

verma - coltan

even though their debut lp EXU only came out six months ago and is still clinging to my turntable, VERMA couldn't wait to put out another killer dose of spaced out psych rock..........this time entitled COLTAN....... out earlier in the year as a tape on NOTES AND BOLTS, TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS couldn't let such an epic piece of mind altering atmospheric psych rock stay super limited, so they rereleased COLTAN on wax where it belongs......!!!!!!!!!!

picking off where EXU left off COLTAN combines the best elements of krautrock experimentation with droning noise rock, eerie psych and soaring post rock into one wholly engrossing repeat spin..... not to mention nods to some of the best in avant soundtrack work from GOBLIN to JOHN CARPENTER, after all COLTAN was composed with a VICE mini web documentary on the congo in mind........

though a little less straight forward than their live sets or previous work, COLTAN shows just how in the pocket VERMA is......  this new lp finds them honing their improvisational skills and their more out there tendencies......so much so i can't wait to hear what they're gonna do next!!!!  COLTAN builds and builds and slowly sucks you so far deep in the grooves, but the time you hit the final track, you're in for nothing short of a sonic epiphany!!!!!!!!!!!!!

COLTAN is super recommended for those into HAWKWIND, AMON DUUL, CLUSTER, CAN, AGITATION FREE, FAUST and/or NEU!  (yes experimental music junkies take note!)...........as well as any of their contemporaries such as CAVE, ENERGY GOWN, WOODEN SHJIPS, MIND!, TORTOISE, ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE and/or TJUTJUNA..........

this one's gonna rank super high in my year end list,
and it way recommended!
but grab one quick, before it's limited pressing is gone!!!!!!!

and LISTEN to COLTAN below........!!!!!!!!

oblivians - desperation

the wait was worth it........THE OBLIVIANS ARE FUCKING BACK !!!!!!!!!!   YES!!!!!!!!

not everyone is going to fall in love with the OBLIVIANS' new album DESPERATION, but those who don't are people who probably don't know what they're talking about anyway....and you should not take their musical advice.......ever!!!!!

eric, greg and jack have been busy pursuing their own bands since the OBLIVIANS called it a day back in '97, and none of those countless bands really strayed to far from what the oblivians were about in the first place, LOUD RAW ROCK N ROLL....CATCHY, DIRTY AND RAMBUNCTIOUS.AS FUCK.... be it REIGNING SOUND, COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS, THE LEGS, JACK-O AND THE TENNESSEE TEARJERKERS, TRUE SONS OF THUNDER and their solo projects recorded under their own names (or any of their other bands to plentiful to list here), ALL THREE OF THE OBLIVIANS never stopped creating a whirlwind of SOULFUL, INFECTIOUS SOUTHERN FRIED GARAGE ROCK CLASSICS that i've always jumped at the chance to grab..........  so it only made sense to get the band back together.....and in the studio......... 

gone are some of the rough edges and some of the youthful provocation / swearing on DESPERATION, but instead we get better songwriting, killer cover songs and a concise album overflowing with future smash hits.......... maybe DESPERATION isn't SOUL FOOD, but who else can jam together in the studio on a whim and write an album THIS FUCKING AWESOME?  yeah, that's just it, no one else can.  or there might be a few people that could, but none of them are around anymore.......   so stop yer whining, THIS LP IS BETTER THAN I COULD'VE EVEN EXPECTED!!!!!!!!!!   this isn't some tired reunion, or boring retread of past accomplishments, or an empty cash grab..... DESPERATION is three of my favorite musicians doing what they do best!!!!!!   and if you think this album falls flat, you might as well just throw out yer stereo cuz it's not doing you any good.......

i hope this is more than a one off from them,
but even if it is, their new lp just furthers their already legendary status.

thanks IN THE RED RECORDS for making this happen !!!!!!!!!!!!!

DESPERATION is hands down the ALBUM OF YEAR.  

A REPEAT LISTEN TIMES INFINITY.

CRANK UP THE VOLUME AND LISTEN BELOW -

gino & the goons - play loud 12in ep

let's just say this, GINO & THE GOONS play just the kind of budget rockin' trashy garage punk you NEED NOW!!!!!!  and their new 12 inch EP on TOTAL PUNK, PLAY LOUD, is gonna be yer new GO TO party record..... so get ready to spin the shit outta this one.......it's MF killer....

hey supercharger isn't around anymore, neither are the mummies, dead moon or the gories, that kinda puts GINO AND THE GOONS out there on their own.....(too many bands are busy writing lame jangly garage pop, and not unruly rockers like they should)....  

goner, crypt, estrus records junkies like me will know what i'm talking about, and when you come across a band this unhinged and wild, you need not read some blog to tell you how good it is.......

plain and simple, this is distorted, loud, drunken, sweaty, rowdy rock n roll just like it was mean to be played...............what else would you expect from TOTAL PUNK?

all you fakers can just go home, if you don't like PLAY LOUD, i'm not sure you even like ROCK N ROLL........

LISTEN TO A FEW TRACKS BELOW........
   and grab this one from TOTAL PUNK now..............
   it's fucking recommended!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wymyns prysyn - s/t ep and waste your life 7 inches

WYMYNS PRYSYN ain't no slackers, cuz they have two brand new 7 inches to throw at yer turntable......and that is exactly where they belong.....now.........

WASTE YOUR LIFE B/W KEEP IT SIMPLE was released via PYGMY RECORDS, last december......and their S/T EP just came out on NO BREAKS RECORDS........  both are supremely recommended slabs of hard hitting blown out rock n roll debauchery....the kind you always need more of.......

stab yer wipers records with a knife, or set your hot snakes records on fire and donate your action swingers or rip offs records to the thrift store, WYMYNS PRYSYN are taking hardcore bruised down-n-dirty rock n roll to new thrashy, warped levels.......  falling somewhere near their fellow atlanta scenesters (GG KING, PREDATOR, COPS, RALPH, MANIC), WYMYNS PRYSYN crank their trashy punk fury all the way up while mixing in the more aggressive and off kilter elements of 80s hardcore, am rep / touch & go guitar strangling and deranged KILLED BY DEATH punk...........

both 7 inches were culled from a severely limited / sold out tour only cassette ep,
so now you don't have to miss out on any of these six feedback dented, high octane bangers....
 which you can snag now thanks to NO BREAKS and PYGMY RECORDS.

LISTEN TO THE S/T EP BELOW -


AND LISTEN TO THE WASTE YOUR LIFE 7 INCH here -

and see WYMYNS PRYSYN on their JUNE TOUR,

seriously fuckin' don't miss out.

10th: Memphis @ The Lamplighter
11th: St. Louis w/ Doom Town
12th: Kansas City @ Badhaus with Dark Ages, Night Moves, and Dirty Work (tent.)
13th: Iowa City @ The Mill with Good Habits, and Dead In Bed
14th: Minneapolis
15th: Chicago Day show In Store @ Permanent with Jacuzzi Boys
Night show @ (possibly a generator show) Carbon Leak, Split Feet
16th: Cleveland
17th: Kalamazoo @ 411 Club w/ No Bails
18th: Columbus @ Bourbon St. w/ Fumes
19th: Detroit @ Lager Haus (tent) with SROS Lords, Inflatable Best Friends, Growwing Pains.
20th: Toronto w/ Valley Boys, Kremlin (tent)
21st: Buffalo @ Spiral Scratch Records w/ White Whale, Johns, Thaals
22nd: NYC @ The Acheron with Foster Care, Deformity, Heathen
23rd: NYC @ DBA w\ Shoxx, Degreaser, Modra
24th: Providence @ Munch House w/ white load, white pages, funeral cone
25th: Philly @ Kung Fu Necktie: with Abandos
26th: Baltimore or Pittsburgh
27th: Richmond @ Gallery Five
28th: Raleigh30th: Charlotte: @The Milestone w/ Joint Damage, Meat Group

proof it'll be worth yer while found below -

the hecks - trust and order 7 inch

Falling between genres can lead to the early death of a band, especially these days with the internet
hype machine's need for shorthand and brevity.  Though connected to the "garage" and "noise" scenes in Chicago, THE HECKS are out to prove that those / any "labels" are meaningless, even if they have to do it one 7 inch at a time.  Their debut single, TRUST AND ORDER released on MONIKER RECORDS earlier this year, is just the feedback-laced experimental guitar/drums dual attack all those stuck in the blog race to the bottom need to listen to right now.

Elements of Sonic Youth's art rock experiments in feedback and guitar tuning, Wire's discordant post punk minimalism from "Chairs Missing,"  and the Fall's irreverent pop structures all shine through on "Trust And Order."  Though to allude to those touchstones is besides the point; the Hecks are blazing a trail through the history of post punk all on their own, not just trying to cop a few guitar tricks from YouTube videos.  (They might even deny any of the musical references made here, but it's a review so some have to be included, right?)

On the title track, a casual minimalist drum beat starts the groove off before a simple repetitive guitar lick kicks in, and before long we're somewhere in the realm of "EVOL" or even Slint's "Spiderland" but mixed with plenty of Urinals' urgency and angular art weirdness of MX-80 Sound or DNA.  Short, precise and too the point, "Trust And Order" lingers like a daydream long after the tone arm returns to its place; those shimmering guitar riffs are earworms for sure.

Flip it over and "The Time I Played With My Puppy" begins like a shattered pop song from Guided By Voices and ends with a short experiment in droning noise.  It's almost two distinct songs trainwrecked into one catchy mess, the kind you might imagine Suicide playing if they were a drums / guitar duo.

So are the Hecks more of a shoegazing noise rock band, or a no wave obsessed garage outfit?  They have a knack for sculpting sheets of noise, yet both songs on the single have fragmented moments of pop beauty too.  One thing is for sure, they've collected some of the most interesting turns of post punk from the last thirty years and compiled them into one killer 7 inch.

Listen to TRUST AND ORDER below -
   and grab yer own copy from MONIKER RECORDS here !!!!!!!

WATCH THE HECKS LIVE here -

mx-80 sound - hard attack

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........

STREAM HARD ATTACK BELOW -
   and pick the lp up from SUPERIOR VIADUCT here