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

punk rock classics - the electric eels

the most infamous of all ohio rock bands, THE ELECTRIC EELS have left an indelible mark on punk rock everywhere........more destructive, crazed, unstable, drunk and explosive than any band before or after, THE ELECTRIC EELS run as a band lasted three years, six shows and a few recording sessions during the early 70s..... and after apparently getting banned from ever playing CLEVELAND again due to a fight onstage, getting arrested and/or playing a lawnmower as an instrument, they broke up for good......disappearing into the liner notes of rock n roll history....(a more detailed account of the electric eels can be found here or here.)

sure fellow deranged ohio rockers, the PAGANS, ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS, BIZARROS, RUBBER CITY REBELS, DEAD BOYS and PERE UBU, picked up where they left off, but the world just isn't the same with THE ELECTRIC EELS........  

so if you're forever warped by rock n roll like me,
you need some ELECTRIC EELS in yer life now.......


listen to the killer ELECTRIC EELS' comp 
THE EYEBALL OF HELL on SCAT RECORDS below.......
     and crank it way up!!!!!!!!!!

obnox - canabible, ohio 2x7in

hell yes!!!!!!! more OBNOX joints to destroy my speakers with !!!!!!!!

BLACK GLADIATOR RECORDS copped a handful of extra songs from LAMONT "BIM" THOMAS aka OBNOX, enough to fill out a double 7 inch EP entitled CANABIBLE, OHIO and man oh man do you do not wanna miss out on this one........  

this EP finds OBNOX dissecting pop history as only he can..... CANABIBLE, OHIO is a romp through his musical roots, containing four covers and one original......... the lead off track, "deep in the dusk (redux)" is Bim turning dub, hiphop and punk upside down (warped goodness you have to hear to believe).........and the following tracks are remakes of classic songs by THE URINALS, GAUNT, KING JAMES VERSION (of resurrected numero group fame) and the fuckin' MCCOYS (yes HANG ON SLOOPY, wtf? but so fucking awesome)....all of them getting the snotty / blown out / high octane punk/soul/noise treatment that only OBNOX, the drummer/guitarist/noise-monger extraordinaire, could contrive........

if you know his other bands (PUFFY AREOLAS, THIS MOMENT IN BLACK HISTORY, BASSHOLES, UNHOLY TWO), this will not surprise you at all...... but this is not just some throwaway release comprised of late night jam sessions......CANABIBLE OHIO is an envelope pushing re-statement of the spirit of PUNK ROCK...........you know back we the punks were making truly LOUD WEIRD CRAZY AND NEW MUSIC........ so many people seem lost nowadays, but OBNOX is here to show 'em the way again.........

adventurous and noisy and bonkers as can be, 
CANABIBLE OHIO is just what you need to knock the apathy outta yer ears..........
so of course, it's SUPREMELY RECOMMENDED.
mark another win down for OBNOX........

STREAM CANABIBLE, OHIO BELOW.....
   and grab yer copy from BLACK GLADIATOR now !!!!!!

added bonus, 

watch OBNOX live below - 

http://slovenly.com/store/black-gladiator.html