Showing posts with label lo-fi. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Home Blitz

Home Blitz is the recording project of Daniel DiMaggio from Princeton, New Jersey. Deep cut distorted lo-fi with some slop-rock tension and a noisy edge. His jams are hook-laden and demented. Jason Sigal on bass (Lame Drivers, Great Excape) and Theresa Smith on guitar complete the Home Blitz line-up.

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Home Blitz (2007)

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Out of Phase (2009)

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Home Blitz single (2005)
Live Outside single (2006)
Weird Wings EP (2008)
Perpetual Night single (2010)


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Friday, 9 October 2009

Monday, 6 July 2009

Supercharger

Brought together by a love of rock & roll and a newly purchased drum set, Supercharger rocked the early '90s with trashy guitar riffs and a full-throttle misfit punk attack. Based on the cretin hop of the Ramones and the Angry Samoans with a good knowledge of rock & roll's two-minute pop nugget history, Supercharger deconstructed songs till only the essentials of beat and hooks remained. Filling in the gaps with power and volume the music comes across like a cold slap in the face. Teenage mayhem and a general antisocial sentiment cast the band as delinquent savants like those that created the music originally in the 1950s. Calling San Francisco central headquarters, Greg Lowery (bass/vocals), Darin Raeffelli (guitar/vocals), and Karen Singletary (drums/vocals) formed in 1991 and before playing out or mastering singing and playing at the same time, they recorded their debut platter Supercharger and released it on their own label Radio X. As Lowery says of the record, "we basically were learning as we were writing the songs." A limited vinyl pressing of 500 created a collectors item, rumor has it fans/collectors in Japan pay upwards of 500 bucks a pop. Supercharger was later reissued on Bellingham, WA, Garage Punk label Estrus Records in 1997 with two bonus tracks to trump the bootleggers. After a handful of singles the band was back recording their second and final long player Goes Way Out, this time given a wide release on Estrus in 1993. Standing as their masterwork, Goes Way Out was also their swan song as it was their last release and basically came out as the band was folding. The band imploded after a 1993 tour of Europe with the fabulous Mummies where both bands took their budget rock manifesto to places like Holland and Belgium. After the death of the band, the individual members continued to D.I.Y. themselves into punk rock history. Singletary and Raeffelli formed the short-lived Brentwoods and than Raeffelli went on to do a Kim Fowley trip with teenage all-girl band the Donnas. Lowery played in the Rip Offs (with Jon Von who had recently departed the Mr. T Experience), the Infections, and currently the Zodiac Killers. He also started and runs the punk rock label Rip Off Records, which continues to champion the visual, musical, and attitudinal style employed by Supercharger.
~ Chris Larry, All Music Guide



Supercharger (1991)

1. She's so Cool
2. I Broke My Mind

3. All About Judy

4. Sooprize Package for Mr.Mineo

5. The Day My Body Vaporized

6. Lost Cause
7. Phobia

8. Are You a Boy/Girl?

9. San Bruno

10. The Ghost of Steve McQueen

11. You Put the Hex on Me
12. Hey, I'm Gone

13. Whiptofized

14. Hit the Road
15. Gum Flappin' Baby

16. Zodiac


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Goes Way Out (1993)

1. Super X
2. No Sleep

3. Way Out

4. It's Alright

5. Buzz Off

6. You Irritate Me

7. I Took a Ride (When You Said I'm Gone)

8. Bailin' Out

9. Knockout

10. One Way Street
11. Sick to Death

12. Get Out of My House

13. Sissy Jerk

14. Cindy Lou


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Rev It Up! (1993)

1. Rev It Up!
2. I Got None

3. Take a Hint

4. I'm a Hog for You Baby


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Singles Party (2002)

1. Ice Pick
2. Want It Bad

3. Rev It Up

4. I Got None

5. Take a Hint

6. I'm a Hog for You Baby

7. Bad Boy
8. I'm Beat

9. Don't Mess Me Up

10. Live from radio X

11. Boom Boom


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Live 1992 at the Covered Wagon (S.F) (2004)

1. Rev It Up
2. I Got None
3. Knockout
4. It's Alright
5. G.F.B.
6. Bad Boy
7. HEX
8. Vaporized
9. No Sleep
10. H.T.R.
11. Girl Can't Dance
12. SAL
13. Boom Boom
14. Super X

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Also Check: Tour '93 (split w/the Mummies, 1993)

Wednesday, 31 December 2008

The Mummies part II



Runnin' on Empty vol.1 (1996)

1. One Potato, Two Potato
2. The House on the Hill
3. Die!
4. (They Call Me) Willie the Wild One
5. The Mummies' Theme
6. Shit
7. The Double Axe
8. Intro
9. Come On Up (live)
10. What a Way to Die (live)
11. The Fly (live)
12. Uncontrollable Urge (live)
13. Justine! (live)
14. (My Love Is) Stronger than Dirt (live)
15. Skinny Minnie (live)
16. One Potato, Two Potato (live)

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Runnin' on Empty vol.2 (1996)

1. Down Home Girl
2. Food Sickles & Girls

3. In and Out

4. (You) Can't Sit Down

5. I'm Gonna Kill My Baby Tonight

6. Dangerman

7. Uncontrollable Urge
8. Girl U Want

9. The Fly

10. The Ballad of Iron Eyes Cody

11. Just One More Dance
12. Babba Diddy Baby

13. High Heel Sneakers


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3 EPs

Shitsville (1990)
1. A Girl Like You
2. That's Mighty Childish
3. (Doin') the Kirk
4. Die!






The Mummies vs. The Wolfmen (split w/the Wolfmen, 1992)
1. The Mummies - Land of 1000 Dances
2. The Mummies - Victim of Circumstances
3. The Wolfmen - Insane in an Insane World
4. The Wolfmen - I Don't Want Noone






Tour '93 (split w/Supercharger, 1993)
1. The Mummies - I'm Gonna Kill My Baby Tonight
2. The Mummies - I Should Better Be Looking for Dangerman
3. Supercharger - Bad Boy
4. Supercharger - I'm Beat




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Sunday, 28 December 2008

The Mummies part I

The once and future kings of budget rock, the Mummies did for garage rock what the New Bomb Turks did for punk: stripped it to the frame, made it as raunchy as it deserved to be, and reminded everyone what was cool and crazy about the stuff in the first place. Of course, while the New Bomb Turks were able to build a career out of their roots punk cross-breed, the Mummies achieved their greatest notoriety after they broke up, but it's difficult to imagine the rawest edge of the garage revival bands existing without the guiding influence of the gauze-wrapped foursome.
Formed in San Francisco, CA, in late 1988, the Mummies consisted of Larry Winther on guitar, Maz Kattuah on bass, Trent Ruane on organ and sax, and Russell Quan on drums; though it was sometimes difficult to tell just who was who since the band performed in mummy suits that made them appear to be wrapped from head to toe in Ace bandages. While the band found a home in the West Coast garage/surf revival scene alongside like-minded bands such as the Phantom Surfers and the Untamed Youth, the Mummies set out to be louder, cruder, and more obnoxious than anyone; bashing out frantic and primitive versions of such classics as "Justine" and "Shot Down" alongside middle-finger originals like "Your Ass (Is Next in Line)," "The Thing From Venus," and "Shut Yer Mouth" on cheap vintage gear rescued from pawn shops and garage sales. In 1990, the Mummies' first single appeared (on the band's own Pre-B.S. label), as did several 7"s on other labels followed, including Estrus, Planet Pimp, and Rekkids; eventually, the band's early singles were compiled on the LP The Mummies Play Their Own Records. (The album appeared on LP only; the Mummies made no secret of their antipathy for digital technology, emblazoning their slogan, "F*ck CDs," on the back covers of most of their records and refusing to release their material in the format, though this changed with the dawn of the 21st century.)
In early 1991, the Mummies cut an album for Crypt Records, but the results sounded a bit too clean and tidy for the band's liking, and the album went unreleased (though the material was later pirated on the infamous Fuck the Mummies bootleg); later that year, they took another stab at capturing their lo-fi assault on tape, and the result was their first (and only) proper Mummies studio album, the gloriously obnoxious Never Been Caught. After extensive West Coast gigging, a tour of the Northwest with Thee Headcoats (garage icon Billy Childish called the Mummies his favorite American band) and a brief jaunt to the East Coast, the Mummies threw in the towel in January 1992, shortly before Never Been Caught came out. However, the group briefly reunited in 1993 when fellow San Franciscans Supercharger asked the Mummies to open for them on a tour of Europe; being big fans of Supercharger, the Mummies agreed, and made enough of an impression on European rock fans that they were persuaded to come back for a headlining tour in the Spring of 1994. Since then, Ruane, Kattuah, and Quan have all played with the Phantom Surfers, while Ruane has also worked with the Untamed Youth; Kattuah finds time to play in the Maybellines; and the busy Quan gigs with the Maybellines, the Bobbyteens, the Count Backwurds, and the Dukes of Hamburg. Larry Winther, meanwhile, has recorded with the Orange Peels.

~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide








Fuck C.D.s! It's the Mummies (1992)

1. Skinny Minnie
2. The Frisco Freeze

3. Red Cobra #9

4. Justine

5. The Thing from Venus

6. Shot Down

7. Shut Yer Mouth

8. Your Ass (Is Next in Line)

9. Stronger than Dirt

10. Little Miss Tee-N-T

11. Come On Up

12. She Lied

13. Sooprize Package for Mr.Mineo

14. The Ballad of Iron Eyes Cody


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Never Been Caught (1992)

1. Your Ass (Is Next in Line)
2. Stronger than Dirt
3. Little Miss Tee-N-T

4. Come On Up

5. Sooprize Package for Mr.Mineo

6. Rosie
7. Shot Down

8. The Ballad of Iron Eyes Cody

9. Skinny Minnie

10. She Lied
11. Red Cobra #9

12. The Frisko Freeze

13. Justine
14. Mariconda's a Friend of Mine

15. The Thing from Venus

16. Shut Yer Mouth
17. Jezebel


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Party at Steve's House (1994)

1. Shake
2. Big Boy Pete
3. Caesar's Gonna Get in Trouble You Know
4. Don Galucci's Balls
5. I Hear You Laughing
6. You Better Stop
7. Babba Diddy Baby
8. Tough Enough
9. Just One More Dance
10. I Don't Like It
11. Duel
12. Zip A Dee Doo Dah

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The Mummies part II

Monday, 15 December 2008

Feedtime part II



Suction (1989)

1. Motorbike Girl
2. Possum
3. Drag Your Dog

4. Ever Again

5. Highway

6. Confused Blues

7. I'll Be Rested

8. Pumping a Line

9. Meter

10. Social Suction

11. Trouble

12. Valve Frank

13. Arse


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Billy (1996)

1. Billy
2. You Don't Know My Mind
3. Melody Line
4. Long Haul
5. Hero
6. Wagon
7. 6-Slap
8. Vigilante Man
9. You
10. Relax Your Mind

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Feedtime part I

Friday, 12 December 2008

Feedtime part I

Imagine laying your head on railroad tracks, feeling the vibrations of the oncoming train rattling through your head, and leaving your head on the tracks as the train roars over it, and you're getting close to the sonic assault that is Feedtime. Crude, repetitive, droning, simplistic; these are all qualities that lead to big fun when any one of Feedtime's four records lands on your noggin with a resounding thud. In fact, it would be reasonable to more succinctly describe these guys as Australia's Flipper/Big Black/Melvins (pick one). Amazingly, there is something that passes for nuance in each of their records. Emerging from the tar pit of sound are blues licks (albeit the loudest, most-distorted blues licks you've ever heard), folk, and country touches, and art damage on a par with Flipper and Pere Ubu. Ferociously direct, the music of Feedtime is as relentless as it is dark; there are no happy moments here, and the gurgling, vomited-up vocals add to the black mood. That, however, doesn't mean these guys didn't have a sense of humor: their third record, Cooper-S (the title comes from the name of an Australian manufactured sub-compact car) is loaded with covers (Beach Boys, Stones, Ramones, etc.), wherein Feedtime bludgeons each one to death with tongue-in-cheek. Sadly, and perhaps unsurprisingly, Feedtime's extreme take on rock & roll ground to a halt in 1989. Maybe they simply were too intense for themselves to continue, but in the meantime they unleased a lugubrious fury of sonic distress that few bands have equalled.
~ John Dougan, All Music Guide


Feedtime (1985)

1. Ha Ha
2. Fastbuck
3. All Down

4. Searching the Desert

5. Doesn't Time Fly

6. Dead Crazy

7. Don't Like

8. F#

9. Clown

10. Gee
11. Southside Johnny

12. Wonder What's the Matter With Papa's Little Angel Child

13. I Wanna Ride


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Shovel (1988)

1. Shovel
2. Rock n Roll

3. Mother

4. More than Love

5. George

6. Nobody's Fault But Mine

7. Fractured

8. Love Me
9. Baby Baby

10. Nice

11. Shoeshine Shuffle

12. Gun'em Down

13. Dog

14. Curtains


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Cooper-S (1988)

1. Fun Fun Fun
2. If You Can't
3. The Last Time
4. Hear Me Calling
5. H.D.
6. I Don't Wanna Go Out
7. Lightnings Girl
8. Sad, Lonely & Blue
9. Pure Religion
10. Play With Fire
11. Loudmouth
12. We've Gotta Get Out of This Place
13. Paint It Black
14. Street Fighting Man
15. Ann

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Feedtime part II

Thursday, 4 December 2008

The Gories

The emergence of the Gories heralded a new Golden Age of Detroit rock beginning in the late '80s; a renaissance of noise and rustbelt rock which lasts through to today. Formed in 1986 by three Detroit natives, none of whom previously knew how to play an instrument -- Mick Collins, Margaret Ann O'Neill (Peg), and Dan Kroha -- they took their name from a band of the same name which appeared in the "Gidget" series of the late '50s/early '60s. Comprised of two guitarists and a drummer (i.e. no bass), the Gories concocted a primal, raw yet soulful blend of garage punk, culling a wealth of inspiration and cover material from Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, and John Lee Hooker. The three-piece also paid homage to the Keggs and Nick and the Jaguars, two other bass-less bands from Detroit. The Gories began their recorded career in 1987 with two tracks on the Wanghead With Lips compilation It Came From the Garage, Vol. II, the same compilation which featured Nine Pound Hammer (who would go on to become Nashville Pussy). Len Puch, the owner of Wanghead, recorded and released their first album, House Rockin', in 1989. According to legend, these first Gories recordings were executed in a tin shack. For their second album, Alex Chilton of Big Star joined them as producer, recording I Know You Fine, But How You Doin' for the French label New Rose. Throughout this entire period, the band continued to release various 7" singles, including a cover of Spinal Tap's "Give Me Some Money" for the Sub Pop Singles Club. In 1992, Crypt released Outta Here, their last album, and then re-released both House Rockin' and I Know You Fine in 1994. Since the demise of the Gories, Mick Collins has continued to perform in Blacktop, King Sound Quartet, the Screws, the Dirtbombs, and has contributed to Andre Williams' Silky and The Black Godfather and Speedball Baby's Uptight. Dan Kroha spent some time in Rocket 455, but is primarily known for being one third of another Detroit bass-free rock band, the Demolition Doll-rods. Peg O'Neill recorded a few tracks with '68 Comeback and is in the Darkest Hours from New Orleans.
~ Alex Zorn, All Music Guide













House Rockin' (1988)

1. Feral
2. I Think I've Had It

3. Charm Bag

4. Boogie Chillun

5. I'll Go

6. Hidden Charms

7. Sovereignity Flight

8. You'll Be Mine

9. You Done Got Wrong

10. Sister Ann

11. Give Me Love

12. Let Me Hear the Choir Song


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I Know You Fine, But How You Doin'? (1990)

1. Hey Hey We're the Gories
2. You Make It Move
3. Detroit Breakdown
4. Stranded
5. Goin' to the River
6. Early in the Morning
7. Thunderbird Esq
8. Nitroglycerine
9. Let Your Daddy Ride
10. Six Cold Feet
11. Smashed
12. Ghostrider
13. Chick-Inn
14. View from Here

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Outta Here (1992)

1. He's Doin' It
2. There But for the Grace of God Go I
3. Outta Here
4. Can't Catch Up With You
5. Crawdad
6. Omologato
7. I Got Eyes for You
8. Telepathic
9. Trick Bag
10. Drowning
11. Rat's Nest
12. 48 Hours
13. Great Big Idol with Golden Head
14. Ichiban

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Thursday, 13 November 2008

The Hunches

The Hunches, from Portland (Oregon), are heirs to the glorious tradition of Northwestern garage-rock. Yes. No. Shut It. (2002) is the sonic equivalent of a carpet bombing campaign. Along the axis of Rolling Stones, MC5 and the Cramps, the Hunches ridicule the very idea of a rock song. Their frenzied "songs" are epileptic fits and at times they even display melodic flair. Hobo Sunrise (2004) is no less lethal, perhaps even more tribal and dissonant. The reckless, breathless, shameless mess evokes underground gods such as Von Lmo and Feedtime.



Yes. No. Shut It. (2002)

1. Murdering Train Track Blues
2. 10,000 Miles

3. Static Disaster

4. Explosion

5. Hurricane

6. Same New Thing

7. Chainsawdomy

8. Lisa Told Me

9. Let Me Be

10. Confusion

11. Got Some Hate

12. The Ballad

13. Oh Woe Is Me

14. Peeping Tom Crawl

15. Accident


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Hobo Sunrise (2004)

1. Where Am I
2. Compression
3. As the Droning Fades On
4. Turkey Timer Pinocchio
5. She Was a Surgeon
6. I'm an Intellectual
7. Nose Dive
8. This Human Behavior
9. When I Became You
10. Intellectual um
11. Too Much Adrenaline
12. Two Ghosts
13. Frustration Rocket
14. A Flower in the Ending

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Fuck Disco Beats EP (2004)

1. Fuck Disco Beats
2. When I Became You
3. Jakob's Voices

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