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VIVIAN GIRLS - "Death" ("Moped Girls" 7" on FOR US)
MAN OR... ASTRO-MAN? - "King of the Monsters" ("Welcome to the Space Age" 7" on Clawfist
THE 5.6.7.8's - "Sho-Jo-Ji" (blue series 7" on Third Man).
LAMPS - "The Role of the Dogcatcher..." (7" on Fan Death)
RAYOS X - "Vigilancia" ("Suvrimiento" 7" on Damaged Noise).
FOUR EYES - "Pilgrim" ("Towards the End of Cosmic Loneliness" 7" on Puzzle Pieces).
NEON BLUD - "Neon Nites" (split 7" with Diet Cokeheads on West Palm Beotch / Lower ME Into My Coffin).
LITTLE CLAW - "Feeding You" (7" on Siltbreeze).
PAIN JERK + JOHN WIESE - "The River Styx" ("Vague Maze" 7" on A Dear Girl Called Wendy).
DIRTY BEACHES - "Sweet 17" (7" on Zoo Music)
THE TRAGICS - "Laughing Lover" ("Mommi I'm a Misfit" 7" on LBPR).
CRIATURAS - "Aranas en el Corazon" (7" on Lengua Armada).
WEIRD TV - "Sex" (7" on Perennial)
THE WAITRESSES - "Clones" ("In Short Stack" 7" on Clone).
SQRM - "White Rabbit" ("White Saints" 7" on Abscess)
THE SLITS - "In The Beginning" (split 7" w/ The Pop Group on Rough Trade).
WAX IDOLS - "All Too Human" (7" on Hozac).
VIVIAN GIRLS - "Death" ("Moped Girls" 7" on FOR US)
Vivian Girls had fallen off my radar at some point, I'm not sure why. Although an early adopter, clear back to the s/t LP's first run on Mauled by Tigers, and clear through an onslaught of really good singles, somewhere around the second LP the connection just faded. John Quintos recently remedied this by playing their recent 3rd LP, which although not something entirely different, felt fresh and struck much a chord in the inner part of my brain that has a casual affair with 60's girl groups and pop, but of which their newer sound has more directly veered to. I enjoyed it enough to stock it in my distro (Polyvinyl is not a regular in the Gilgongo boxes, I might add), and "Moped Girls" was in my queue. Easily found on Vivalavinyl, where my personal message was accidentally sent out as a new thread. I had 6 people offer me their copy in the matter of a day, but stuck with the original intended recipient of my message, who was kind enough to offer a trade.
MAN OR... ASTRO-MAN? - "King of the Monsters" ("Welcome to the Space Age" 7" (Clawfist)
I'm not under the disillusion that I own ever single Man or Astroman record, but it's got to be close at this point. At least 20 of those things sit grouped together in the M box, and yet every now and then, a previously unseen 7" shows up, this time at the second Nile Record Fair, where Ryan (Garage Shock, Thundercats, Wipers, Eastside Records, ET CETERA) had several of these, set up caddy-corner to Mike Genz, with his King of the Monsters label and distro, ironically enough.
THE 5.6.7.8's - "Sho-Jo-Ji" (blue series 7" on Third Man Records).
Happily picked this up locally at Revolver Records, much unlike the recent LP reissue that Jack White has been nice enough to toss out there, yet can not seem to make it's way into a record store in Arizona. Two great songs, nothing short of what anyone would come to expect from this group. Recently wrote about their live LP that Third Man also released, check that out here: http://obsessivesalt.blogspot.com/2011/05/5678s-third-man-live-10-22-2010-lp.html
LAMPS - "The Role of the Dogcatcher..." (7" on Fan Death)
Also picked up at the last Nile Record fair, from long time unknown peer turned recent "this guy's so great, can't believe it took us 11 years to actually meet each other", TK. Not sure why I didn't already own this, as I'm a reasonable fan of this label. Who knows, sometimes things just slip between the cracks.
RAYOS X - "Vigilancia" ("Suvrimiento" 7" on Damaged Noise).
Follow up to their incredible single on Lengua Armada, which I didn't dig as much, but still thought was good. I'd love to catch this band live. Mail-ordered this from the label that put it out, Damaged Noise, who also have a small but excellent distro - worth checking out!
FOUR EYES - "Pilgrim" ("Towards the End of Cosmic Loneliness" 7" on Puzzle Pieces).
Great new 7" (think 90's college rock ala Archers of Loaf, Dinosaur JR, or from more recent times, Meneguar) on Puzzle Pieces, recent label started by Catherine who used to coordinate the station at WHRB where I've been sending Gilgongo stuff for years. Though we've had the chance to meet (there's actually a photo of us standing next to each other watching Foot Village when I was out there on the second Tent/City tour), we've yet to. Instead, the mailing is now two ways, as we traded some copies of these and another 7" she did for Bad Banana, in exchange for some copies of the Vegetable 7" I did. Check out her label and keep an eye and ear out, she's doing something good.
NEON BLUD - "Neon Nites" (split 7" with Diet Cokeheads on West Palm Beotch / Lower ME Into My Coffin).
Picked up a ton of these for the distro, seeing as the Neon Blud LP was so incredible and I liked the Diet Cokeheads 7" that I grabbed as well. Well done, great sounding track from Neon Blud, less out there and more like Jesus Lizard (in my very humble opinion). Sadly the last recorded output from this line-up, I'm hoping they continue on and keep tossing out more great records. The Diet Cokeheads side of this thing is equally as good, a somewhat similar enough of a vibe that the could be the same group, not at all in any sort of negative context, sorta menacing and eerie.
LITTLE CLAW - "Feeding You" (7" on Siltbreeze).
Also picked this up from someone at the Nile Record Fair, and much like the Lamps 7" on Fan Death, I am not sure why I didn't already own this: I like Little Claw and buy just about every single thing that Siltbreeze puts out, yet this one managed to avoid purchase. Great couple of songs on here, while definitely being "out there".
PAIN JERK + JOHN WIESE - "The River Styx" ("Vague Maze" 7" on A Dear Girl Called Wendy).
John's infinitely complex discography is at times stressful to keep your finger on the pulse of, it's erratic to say the least. Recorded back in 2005 and just now making it's way out on Luca Vinciguerra's label, A Dear Girl Called Wendy, based out of Italy, there's 200 of these floating around at the moment. We traded some stuff for copies of a new Sissy Spacek LP that I did, with a few other things on his end that I am also really excited to hear (a new Altar of Flies 7" + CD, and the Heinz Hopf LP which features sister label, Release the Bat's coordinator, Matthias Andersson).
DIRTY BEACHES - "Sweet 17" (7" on Zoo Music)
Only recently found out about this guy, who apparently has a good deal of hype at the moment. Without any context, I can only speak my own mind, and that's that his output is legit and he deserves whatever credit he is getting. Only even caught on due to a split with US Girls (which I wrote about here: http://obsessivesalt.blogspot.com/2011/03/us-girls-dirty-beaches-split-7-sibling.html). These tracks keep a similar feel, lethargic beach pop, not murky yet still addictive, moody and dark like Suicide. I think that "Sweet 17" might be on his LP, but that's currently ten feet away, safely filed away, so it'll remain a mystery for the moment. Picked this up from my friend Jes, who was in the process of selling off his records. I didn't both looking at this before throwing it on, so please excuse the sound of a fuzz ball that gets caught in the needle about three quarters of the way through. I'd just rerecord the track, but honestly, I was hoping it would stay caught in there for the entire remainder. ...you can't always get what you want though.
THE TRAGICS - "Laughing Lover" ("Mommi I'm a Misfit" 7" on LBPR).
John Quintos and I dropped something like $300 total at a recent show at Sound Kontrol, an unhealthy action for sure, but it was just one of those nights. The bands had great distros and someone had a huge box of their personal collection to toss away as well. This was one of many blind purchases from that night, as Deskonocidos seemed to have a grip on a subsect of modern punk that we were both oblivious to. Based on short descriptions alone, this was one of several successful ones, the Nuclear Family LP on Loud Punk would be another. A reissue from 1981, the Tragics tossed out female fronted punk along the lines of The Avengers and X-Ray Spex (specifically in the vocals). Four songs on the 7" and they are all great. Nicely done reissue, and it looks like it's pretty easy to find - pick it up!
CRIATURAS - "Aranas en el Corazon" (7" on Lengua Armada).
Grabbed from the same night, these guys were on tour (and share members) with Deskonocidos, great fast punk somewhere along the lines of Dirt but somewhat metal-influenced like early Sacrilege. Both bands' sets were incredible.
WEIRD TV - "Sex" (7" on Perennial)
Another great punk unit to pass through Sound Kontrol, also being female fronted and Spanish oriented, was Olympia's Weird TV, who few of us had heard, but all knew were going to be great. Not only has that town been 100% with it's deliveries to Phoenix, but with a 7" on Perennial, you could have carved your opinions in stone before they ever started playing).
THE ORPHANS - "Moscow Massage" (7" on Kapow).
Found this for a couple bucks at local shop Revolver Records, no more than 10 minutes after ranting on how excited I was to hear this singer's new band (Neighborhood Brats, which features one Ms. Jasmine Watson, who I am very much a fan of). Moody punk from a band that was consistently solid. Should note that while I am not typically interested in color vinyl splatter jobs, I must say that this one is neat, clear but with a translucent green looking like it slowly oozed into the press. Have to admit that it looks pretty cool.
THE WAITRESSES - "Clones" ("In Short Stack" 7" on Clone).
Picked this up for practically free. Assumed it was an early 7" by avant-new wave band of the same name, and was apparently right (according to the internet), though this is radically different from the slightly-off-the-beaten-path which is horribly under-traveled aside from "I Know What Boys Like". Instead, this is more like something to expect from The Residents or Cabaret Voltaire, robotic and truly bizarre.
SQRM - "White Rabbit" ("White Saints" 7" on Abscess).
Perhaps the most absurd cover of this I've ever heard, oddball enough that after getting through "White Stain" and "White Socks" on the A-side, I didn't automatically assume this was going to be the Jefferson Airplane song, but sure enough it is, in SQRM's lethargic, Flipper like delivery as I suppose one would expect. Got a couple of these for the distro after picking up their LP on Youth Attack, which had cover and insert art that far out does the absurdity portrayed here!
THE SLITS - "In The Beginning" (split 7" w/ The Pop Group on Rough Trade).
Perhaps a sad statement of the economic instability of modern day, the tale of price tags on this read: 19.99 pounds, $15, and then the one which was typed out on the internet only, $5 USD. Part of a group of five records there were on my never-ending want list, grabbed for fractions of what they should, far outweighing the negative aspect of shipping from the UK. Absolutely bizarre, but who am I to question?
WAX IDOLS - "All Too Human" (7" on Hozac).
Nothing much to note on this one, somewhat standard fare from the Hozac camp, catchy powerpop with a garage feel, cranked out by Heather Fedewa, a name which I am not familiar with offhand, but now know to keep an eye out for, as the two songs on here were a welcome introduction.
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