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These Arms Are Snakes

Posted on December 12, 2009 by admin

The sort of postmodern hardcore your little sister will also like. If she has tattoos and / or piercings, is infatuated with Charles Manson, digs Richard Kern, prefers Johnny Depp to Brad Pitt and owns several records by bands that you don’t know anything about. – Monochrom Official Site Blog MySpace Page Seattle rockers TAAS [...]

Stuff You Might’ve Missed – Polvo

Posted on September 8, 2009 by admin

Chapel Hill, NC Polvo are considered to be one of the key bands in so-called “math rock” genre, even though the band themselves rejected this label in interviews. Their name comes from Spanish word for “dust” (and it also means “sex” in Spanish slang). The initial line-up consisted of Ash Bowie, Dave Brilawski, Steve Popson [...]

Butthole Surfers

Posted on August 26, 2009 by admin

There are few experiences in this life that leave one feeling as sullied as a spin through the grooves of a Butthole Surfers record. Unlike so many nouveau scuzzbos, Austin’s Butties don’t descend into the depths of squalor to make a point about the human condition — they just like it down there. Splotches of [...]

Stuff You Might’ve Missed – Brainiac

Posted on August 21, 2009 by admin

After the show a fan waiting to have Buckley autograph her copy of “Grace” asked how Taylor had died. “He blew up!,” he shouted as he grabbed a beer bottle off the bar, threw it across the room without breaking it and walked away to the jukebox on the other side of the room. Gayle [...]

Stuff You Might’ve Missed – Shellac

Posted on August 7, 2009 by admin

Southern Records Page Associated Entries: Big Black, Mission Of Burma, Rapeman Originally Published On: 04-24-2009 Although not as mean/noisy or controversial as his previous projects, Shellac is still undeniably Albini-esque, with their records being full of roaring guitars and off-kilter song subjects and much like Big Black, the band refused to be manipulated by music [...]

Stuff You Might’ve Missed – Big Black

Posted on August 6, 2009 by admin

MySpace Page Associated Entries: Rapeman Originally Published On: 09-16-2008 What started out as a tiny bedroom project for Steve Albini eventually turned into one of the most mesmerizing and violent rock bands of the 80s, if not the whole music history. If rock music was criticized by many parents for being tasteless and offensive, then [...]

Stuff You Might’ve Missed – Rapeman

Posted on August 5, 2009 by admin

Rapeman spits out sparks with the conviction of Albini’s acerbic intelligence. – Trouser Press MySpace Page Associated Entries: Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid Originally Published On: 11/22/2008

Stuff You Might’ve Missed – Denison-Kimball Trio

Posted on August 3, 2009 by admin

Southern Records Page Associated Entries: Jesus Lizard, Laughing Hyenas Originally Published On: 01-13-09 Denison-Kimball Trio was actually a duo of Duane Denison (Cargo Cult, Firewater, Jesus Lizard) and James Kimball (Mule, Laughing Hyenas, Jesus Lizard), which was active throughout the 90s and recorded a number of albums and singles for such labels as Skin Graft, [...]

Stuff You Might’ve Missed – Jesus Lizard

Posted on July 31, 2009 by admin

Original Article: Jesus Lizard / Scratch Acid (02/07/2008) Jesus Lizard was formed shortly after the breakup of Scratch Acid, when David Yow relocated from Texas to Chicago and teamed up with Duane Denison (Cargo Cult). He also recruited former Scratch Acid member David Wm. Sims and early on they used drum machine, before adding drummer [...]

Laughing Hyenas

Posted on July 27, 2009 by admin

Laughing Hyenas are either a comically cartoonish “junkie hate noise” band from the AmRep/Your Flesh school of wank or a streamroller of depresso drug blues with an incredible throat-ripping singer – Agony Shorthand Beautiful Blues-Noise – Grunnenrocks Associated Entries: Jesus Lizard, Denison-Kimball Trio Powered by torturous howling of vocalist John Brannon, Ann Arbor, MI band [...]

New Releases – Jesus Lizard – Inch

Posted on June 5, 2009 by admin

Main Entry: Jesus Lizard Date Of Release: April 18th, 2009 Format: 9 x 7″ Label: Touch & Go

Big Black

Posted on September 16, 2008 by admin

What started out as a tiny bedroom project for Steve Albini eventually turned into one of the most mesmerizing and violent rock bands of the 80s, if not the whole music history. If rock music was criticized by many parents for being tasteless and offensive, then Big Black certainly represented the worst nightmares of responsible [...]