Red Mass - “Red Mass” - [Red Lounge Records]

Montreal based project featuring the Roller of CPC GANGBANGS. Sounds like CPC Gangbangs meets Velvet Underground. Psychedelic space rock ‘n’ roll with elements of noise, folk, punk and electronic music. Dark poppy hooks laced with strange sound effects. Male vox, guitar, drums, electronics, keyborads and flute (on Little Man). Red Mass is a collective featuring many artists/musicians from around the world.

Regular 10″Comes in ultra deluxe Gatefold Sleeve!!
Limited edition of 400 in Black Vinyl

Vermillion Sands - “Miss My Gun” - [Sacred Bones Records]

Foursome out of Treviso, Italy.

ANNA:guitar & vox
NENE:bass
CAIO:drums
KRANO:fuzz & slide guitar

Five song e.p. of freewheelin’ folk, haunted garage and warbly honky-tonk with cutesy female vocals.

Woven Bones - “Your Sorcery” - [Sweet Rot Records]

Three piece. Southern influenced, lo-fi, garage-rock.Recorded and mixed at Laguna Studios in Austin, Texas. On the Sweet Rot Record label. Stooges, Velvet Underground, good shit. Play it.

Gas - “Compressed Gas” - [Siltbreeze]

Threesome (sometimes foursome) from New Zealand. Guitar, bass, keyboard and percussion. The members take turns doing the vocals as well as taking turns with the instruments. This makes for a pretty interesting listen since no two songs sound the same. Recorded at various locations in Christchurch, New Zealand 1996-1998. My picks are “Cubicle” and “Pushing Against Me”.

Bad Statistics - “Lucky Town Gone” - [Pseudo Arcana]

5 piece out of Wellington, New Zealand. Sophomore release. Really weird vocals by Thebis Mutante (sounds like he is seriously tripping on something), repetitive tribal rumblings beneath. Guitars, reeds, bass, drums, organ and electronics. Elements of prog, drone, doom rock, etc.

Gods Gift - “Pathology 1979-1984″ - [Hyped 2 Death]

Another rare comp from Hyped 2 Death… Gods Gift (with no apostrophe) was Steven Edwards (vocals and sax) and Steven Murphy (guitars) and a cast of rotating members most of which were former employees of Prestwich Asylum (the largest psychiatric hospital in the U.K. at that time). They were out of Manchester. The project was active from 1979-1984. 17 tracks. Punk rock! Raw, nothing fancy, fucking good.

Language on track 12.

No Alternative - “Johnny Got His Gun ‘78-’82″ - [Wingnut Records]

Out of print collection (released in 1999 on Wingnut Records out of Berkeley). Tracks recorded at Deaf Club in SF 3/08/1979, Mabuhay Gardens, SF 11/07/1980 and Wheeler Auditorium in Berkeley 1980. No Alternative formed from the ashes of KGB which was originally a 3 piece featuring John “Genocide” Patterson on guitar and lead vocals, Jeff Rees on bass and backing vocals and Greg Langston (Tuxedo Moon) on drums and backing vocals. There were several line up changes from ‘78-’82, leading to the side project Alternative Tools. During during their short lived career they released an E.P. and had songs included on several compilations. They had a brief reunion in the late 80s. This Cd includes songs by?? KGB (7 & 14), Alternative Tools (8 & 21-26) and No Alternative( all other tracks). There are 2 covers: Vincent Davis’s “Be Bop-a-Lula” and Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues”. Post-punk with a 60s garage sound at times.
Language on 1, 3, 8,?? 20.

Super Heroines - “L.A. Riot Grrrls- The Best of 1982-1985″ - [Cleopatra Records]

Los Angeles death rock project featuring Eva O of Christian Death and Jill Emery, who later joined Courtney Love???s Hole. The Super Heroines rose from the ashes of Eva O’s first punk rock band “The Speed Queens.” The original line-up was Eva O.(on guitar), Sandra Ross (on bass), and Del Mar (drums). There have been many line-ups. This album is a best of featuring material from 1982-1985, a limited edition re-issue on blue vinyl.

Weinbach, Brent - “Night Shift, The” - [Talent Moat]

This is comedian Brent Weinbach’s second full length album. It includes material recorded live at the Purple Onion on 1/08/09 (tracks 2,3,9, 14, 20 & 23 ) songs recorded in SF in 2008 (7, 12 & 24) and phone messages from Brent’s answering machine from 2002-2006 (1, 3, 4, 13, 15, 19 & 22).

Watch for Language on 1,2,3,4, 8, 9, 13,19, 21 & 22.
Use discretion with tracks 6 and 18.

Guilty Strangers - “Guilty Strangers” - [Transient Records]

5 song E.P. from Guilty Strangers, a husband/wife project out of of San Antonio, Texas. DIY, post punk with a Halloween vibe. Female, Lydia Lunch-like vocals by Christ-een. Other by Shawn “Scary” Terry. Sounds like S.F. 1977, and N.Y. 1981. This is my favorite band of the year. Can’t wait to hear more.

Cultural Decay, The - “Eight Ways to Start a Day” - [Sacred Bones Records]

Sacred Bones Records delivers another gem! Rare singles and demos from The Cultural Decay, a band out of Belgium that released a single 12″ EP and played a total of 15 live shows from 1980-1982. Guitar, bass, drums, vocal and synth on the first 2 tracks. “Song of Joy” also features piano and saxophone. This is classic early 80s post punk and I love it.

Bad Secrets - “Bad Secrets” - [Robotic Empire]

BAD SECRETS debut 9″+CD release of seven tracks. Two-color silk-screened covers, custom 9″ records, color vinyl, CD of the same jams included. Musically it’s a cross between pinnacle shoegazer stuff and lo-fi, psyched out blues… brought to you by folks from YOUNG WIDOWS / BREATHER RESIST and KODAN ARMADA. On the Robotic Empire label out of Richmond, Virginia.
PRESSING INFO:
* 600 copies of “metallic red” (custom “metallic” pinkish-red color)

No language.

13th Chime - “13th Chime” - [Sacred Bones Records]

The band formed in 1980 in the small London over-spill town of Haverhill in Suffolk. The Chime was born out of the British Punk scene. Vocalist Mick Hand, guitarist Gary O’Connor and drummer Ricki Cook were previously in a band called The Antix with Steven Woodgate (aka Rupert). After Rupert died of an asthma attack during a gig with the Dead Kennedy’s, 13th Chime (a reference to George Orwell’s 1984) was formed with bass player Terry Taylor, formerly with the hard hitting three piece The Wynd-ups. The band released three independent singles: Coffin Maker, Cursed and Fire. This album is 10 tracks including those 3 singles and 3 previously unreleased tracks. Born from the punk scene 13th Chime became Gothic before the term really existed in relation to music. The band actually had two coffins made and converted them into speaker cabinets for their PA. Lyrically, the music is influenced by a fascination with the supernatural and the occult.
No language.

Das Black Milk, ???The Purple Parade???, Summersteps Handmade, CD

Out of West Scranton, PA DAS BLACK MILK is a 5 piece garage rock band of guitar, vox, bass, organ, drums, sound manipulations??and programmed effects. ??12 tracks including hidden noise track beginning 5:38 into the track. Language on #12! Straight ahead Rock and Roll but they refer to themselves as ???now??? blues.

Dudu Geva - “Retrovulva 2003″ - [Le Vilain Chien]

Dudu Geva is a collective out of France (they are originally from Chile including members of Oso el Roto Oso). They got their name from Israel’s most famous cartoonist (who died of a heart attack back in 2005). The material on this album was recorded between 2005 and 2008. They are friends with Les Clubs Des Chats and are also on the Vilain Chien label. They are a weird mixture of psychedelia and punk rock influenced by the like of Caroliner and Os Mutantes with vocals that at times sound like someone is torturing a cat in heat. French import of 300.

Elliott, Max - “The Nature O’ Nature”, -[Sacred Bones Records] 45

Max Elliott is a solo artist from Wisconsin. He plays guitar and sings off key (with a tone of desperation). This is indie pop bordering on freak folk territory. 3 tracks. Side A, track one is 5 minutes long. The other 2 tracks run about 2 and a half minutes.

Grave Blankets - “Our Love Is Real” - [HoZac Records]

Grave Blankets was a trio out of Columbus Ohio 2005-2008 (2 of the members moved on to form Fey Gods). Guitar, bass and drums. Self described as lo-fi dirge pop. “Our Love Is Real” has male and female vocals and reminds me a bit of the Rogers Sisters out of NY. “Trip Wire” also has male/female vox and it pretty rockin. Both tracks run about 2 and a half minutes. Released on the Hozac label which has brought us No Bunny, Nice Face, Jacuzzi Boys, Static Static, Volt, White Savage, etc.

Des Jeunes Gens Modernes… [coll] - [Born Bad]

Des Jeunes Gens Modernes is a collection of French post punk/new wave from 1978-1983. 12 bands, 12 tracks. We have material from 5 of the bands on this comp in the KFJC music library; Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Kas Product, Ice, Metal Boys and Charles de Goal. Most tracks in French (3 are not, tracks 5, 6 and 9). Mostly upbeat and extremely danceable in an 80s new wave way. The Bord Bad label has released modern French bands Magnetix, Frustration and Cheveu (to name a few).

Burning Image - “Fantasma” - [Alternative Tentacles]

Often thought of as America’s equivalent to England’s Bauhaus (to me they resemble Christian Death more closely than Bauhaus). Burning Image came out of Bakersfield, California during the 80s. The music scene in California at the time was heavily dominated by punk rock but Burning Image stood out with it’s death rock dare I say “goth” approach. This is their first album in 20 years. 10 tracks of gloomy and doomy layerings of heavy experimental guitar sounds inspired by life during wartime and economic collapse on a global level. Moe Adame and Tony Boranno on vox and guitar, Paul Burch on drums and Anthony Leyva on bass.

LANGUAGE ON TRACK 5

Static Static - “Psychic Eyes” - [Tic Tac Totally]

Part of the “Glue Wave” scene ( a term coined by the founder of the Hozac label), this is heavily distorted new wave party rock. Led by six foot plus male singer “John Henry” and backed up on keys by “Miss Mass Destruction” and “Lesley” (ex Red Aunts) on drums. Lots of distorted feedback and groovey organ noodlings. Other bands on the Hozac label that would go nicely with this are Volt (from France) and Chicago’s “White Savage”.