A Very Special Story- Pour un cheval, deux-trois robes, et un jolie garçon… on achète mes oreilles. August 24, 2010L’objectif d’aujourd’hui était simple : finir la mixtape de Septembre avant de manger. Le résultat c’est qu’il est 16:24 et que premièrement : je n’ai toujours rien avalé et deuxièmement : je n’ai pas réellement finit. Mais comme le manque … Continuer la lecture → […]admin
- Pour un cheval, deux-trois robes, et un jolie garçon… on achète mes oreilles. August 24, 2010
- Acute Records
- VIVA RADIO-TOO MANY SHOWS TO NAME August 11, 2010Yet another Viva-Radio Pyjamarama show catch-up. Seems like I’ve got 8 more shows, starting with three silly ones where I chose a word and picked all songs with that word in the title, then a bunch more awesome shows. Some of these show up in the Pyjamarama archives, some will stream live again during my usual […]Dan
- VIVA RADIO-TOO MANY SHOWS TO NAME August 11, 2010
- KBD Records
- Voodoo Idols – S/T E.P. 7″ September 5, 2010First of two excellent 7inches by Voodoo Idols from Tampa/Florida. Second one has the better known We dig Nixon etched into the grooves. Nixon is great but I think Do the Kirk here is one inch(the size of my supermans cock) better. Rough and stomping with a great bass sound, pretty sax and a singer […]Ted Frat
- Voodoo Idols – S/T E.P. 7″ September 5, 2010
- Lexicon Devil
- Untitled August 29, 2010TOUCH AND GO: THE COMPLETE HARDCORE PUNK 'ZINE '79-'83 (547 pages; Bazillion Points/2010)This has been waaay too long in coming. Touch and Go - the fanzine - had already reached mythological status by the time the 1990s rolled into gear. By last year, I figured that the periodical once known as Touch and Go was a myth. In all my years of being […]Dave
- Untitled August 29, 2010
- Noise Pollution Records
- The Web to play Boomslang Fest August 27, 2010THE WEB will be performing at this year's Boomslang Festival in Lexington, KY. The band will be on Saturday, September 11th's bill along with Death (from Detroit), Warmer Milks, Thee American Revolution and Phantom Family Halo among others. The Web will be playing the front room of Buster's around 7 or 8pm. Rumored to be joining the band on th […]NOISE POLLUTION
- The Web to play Boomslang Fest August 27, 2010
- One Base on an Overthrow
- Sound Lays You To Waste September 5, 2010Connecticut's Myty Konkeror released their first album recently, "I miss the future.", on their own Twin Lakes label. Besides the CD version, there's also a labor-intensive LP version, limited to 30, which includes an individually lathe-cut clear polycarbonate disc (made in New Zealand by Peter King) in a hand-assembled, hand-numbered jac […]Brushback
- Sound Lays You To Waste September 5, 2010
- Pig State Recon
- Caught In My Eye September 4, 2010THE GERMS – Live at The Starwood, Dec. 3, 1980 (Rhino Handmade, 2010) There was always something incredibly severe about the way THE GERMS sounded, playing together. Pat’s guitar, so trebly and screee-producing, took an unholy joy cutting broken shards of riffs into Lorna’s dumpy bass runs and Don’s frequent rhythmic change-ups. Darby’s animalistic howl [... […]mrowster
- Caught In My Eye September 4, 2010
- Small Takeover
- Wretch Like Me September 6, 2010Colorado is eternally linked with John Denver but was also the setting for the Mork and Mindy show which proved the existence of aliens and the fact that despite all the other things he is, Robin Williams is not a homo sapien. Wretch Like Me don't play faggoty country music or as far as know wear red track suits. They play strong pop punk (with just a l […]Chris
- Wretch Like Me September 6, 2010
- Son of Eet U Smakelijk
- THIS IS ROTTERDAM, NOT THE MISSISSIPPI September 5, 2010OK, so tell me which town the following bands are from: 10CC, Barclay James Harvest, Sad Cafe. Any idea? Now tell me which town these bands are from: Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Fall. Got it in a micro-second?In the immediate pre-punk era, there was no way of telling where a certain band was from; all local peculiarities were wiped out in favour of a generic Tr […]Niels
- THIS IS ROTTERDAM, NOT THE MISSISSIPPI September 5, 2010
Category Archives: France
Henriette Coulouvrat – Rockin’ on the Red Book
Henriette Coulourvat – Rockin’ on the Red Book // Paddy Field (MM Records) 1979. What the fuck is this? Well its a totally whacked out French-synth obscurity, that’s what. Back in the day when all the whacked out synth obscurities … Continue reading
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Marquis De Sade – Air Tight Cell
Marquis De Sade – Air Tight Cell // Henry (Terrapin Records) 1978. How about a little French New Wave? Marquis De Sade were a proto-New Romantic band from Rennes, France that went from being a noisy post-punk act to a … Continue reading
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X-Ray Pop – L’Eurasienne / La Machine À Rêver
X-Ray Pop – L’Eurasienne // / La Machine À Rêver (MB5 Records) 1983? A great slice of French Synth wave from the band X-Ray Pop. There is very little information on this band on the web but from what I … Continue reading
Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Press Color
Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Press Color (ZE Records) 1979. One of my favorite recent acquisitions is this release by French/New York, New Wave/No Wave chanteuse Lizzy Mercier Descloux. The way the story goes, Lizzy was in a relationship with Michel … Continue reading
Metal Urbain – Hysterie Connective 7inch
Metal Urbain – Hysterie Connective | Pop Poubelle (Radarscope Angleterre) 1978. One of the greatest releases of the last few years has gotta be Anarchy in Paris, released in 2004 on Seltzer’s Acute Records label. I mean, is there a … Continue reading
Strychnine – Pas Facile / Lache Moi 7inch
Strychnine – Pas Facile // Lache Moi (AZ/1 765) 1980. Strychnine were a GREAT punk rock band from the Bordeaux region in France in the late 1970s. I don’t know much about them other than they were featured in a … Continue reading
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BIPP: French Synth Wave 79-85
BIPP: French Synth Wave 79-85 – As we all know, at some point in the late 1970′s, musicians who had first become enamored with the idea of “punk rock”, and all the freedom that term brought with it, started feeling … Continue reading
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Elton Motello – Jet Boy Jet Girl / Pogo Pogo 7inch
Elton Motello – Jet Boy Jet Girl / Pogo Pogo (Lightning Records) 1978. Lets be honest here. There are punk records and then there are PUNK records. I mean anyone can plug a guitar in, crank it up to ten, … Continue reading
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