AFS v. 247 ~ Now Certainty Unclaimed

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VAPID | Do the Earthquake | Practically Dead | Nominal *new
CHARLIE & THE MOONHEARTS | Real Hot Breakers | Real Hot Breakers 7" | Trouble in Mind *new
TY SEGALL | Fuzzy Cat | My Sunshine 7" | Trouble in Mind *new
AUDACITY | Run Kitty Run [Thee Makeout Party] | 2009 Winter Tour EP CS | Burger *new
AUDACITY | Airplane Driver
COCONUT COOLOUTS | Punk House pt 1 | Yeah, Right! 7" | Kenrock *new
JACUZZI BOYS | Planet of the Dreamers | No Seasons | Florida's Dying *new
ELECTRIC BUNNIES | Psychic Lemonade | Through the Magical Door | Florida's Dying *new
SCANTILY CLAD | Mud Dreams | Two CDR | no label *new
MEERCAZ | Troubled Hand | self-titled | Tic Tac Totally *new
RED MASS | I'm on Fire | self-titled EP | Semprini *new
PURLING HISS | Almost Washed My Hair | self-titled | Permanent/Archive *new
MAGIK MARKERS | The Lighter Side of...Hippies | Balf Quarry | Drag City 2009
SIC ALPS | Strepix | v/a: The World's Lousy With Ideas vol 8 | Almost Ready 2009
SIC ALPS | Who Has Time to Protest? | A Long Way Around to a Shortcut | Drag City 2009
ART LESSING | Stupid | The Plastic Couch | Electric Eggplant 2006
SHE | Like a Snake | Outta Reach | Causeway | *new (orig 196_)
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT | Future Possibility Reclaimed | Too Many Hits 2x7" | Columbus Discount *new
OCCULT CHEMISTRY | Occult Chemistry | v/a: Messthetics #107 | Hyped2Death *new
PATTERNS | The Bishop | v/a: Messthetics #107
CARL SIMMONS | The Child Delivers the Stone | Honeysuckle Tendrals | Sacred Bones *new
EXCAVATIONS | side A (excerpt) | self-titled c56 | Stunned *new
EUREKA | Lost in the Funhouse | Big Breath CDR | Stunned *new
WARM CLIMATE | Devine Souffle & the Southern Approach | Edible Homes CS | Stunned 2009
XENO & OAKLANDER | Saracen | Sentinelle | Wierd *new
LED ER EST | Poll Gorm | Poll Gorm 7" | Captured Tracks *new
IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT | Beyond Gourmet | Facilidad? | Turned Word *new
THE WONDER BOYS | I Detta Satan's Rum [Brainbombs] | Den Flygande Varmlanningen 7" | GYLF 2008
TOM KARLSSON | Insektsbokstaverna | Pojknacke | Lystring *new
CIRCUIT RIDER | Chinese | self-titled | no label *new (orig 197_?)
TALK NORMAL | Warrior | Sugarland | Rare Book Room *new

AFS v. 246 ~ Around the World in 80 Ways

This week in AFS...

* the debut vinyl from my fave new SF Bay band of '09, Rank/Xerox!
* "Purple Hiss" scrambled my brain before flattening me; 'scuse me while I go lay down!
* Sounds like Impractical Cockpit has crowded somebody outta my year-end top-ten albums list!
* No Balls offer a promising life after Brainbombs for fans of the dearly departed dukes of degeneracy!

Maybe this Purling Hiss album will also make a run for my year-end top-ten list, too...gonna hafta listen non-stop for a day or two and then decide. First
impression = WOW! If you thought Birds of Maya was appealing at all, this side-project eschews all of the parent-band's restraint for a maelstrom of fuzz 'n scuzz that compares very favorably to top dogs of the J-Psych brigade from Les Rallizes Dénudés through the 90s and early aughts such as High Rise, Nishi Nihon, etc. A little bit o' research led me to this sweet lit'l streamable rocker which shows a different side of Purling Hiss...a more contemporary pop style with something of a 70s AM Gold fascination. There's yet another facet revealed on the self-titled album--available in vinyl and CD format--which is a noisy streak that's completely opposed to that easygoing vibe of "Run From the City". This guy's music might just hafta become my new obsession for a while.

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RANK/XEROX | Basement Furniture | self-titled 7" | Mongo Bongo *new
RANK/XEROX | Turn to Stone | live on KDVS, 08/17/2009
RONDOS | B-52 Pilot | Destroy the Entertainment | King Kong/Red Wig | 2009 (orig 1980)
TYVEK | Bicycle Fantasy 2 | Blunt Instrumental 2: True to the Game CS | no label *new
SCROTUM POLES | Put an End to It All | Auchmithie Forever | Dulc-i-Tone *new (Orig 1980)
HOBOCOP | Good News | self-titled CDR | no label *new
HERE COMES A BIG BLACK CLOUD | Blackout | LP | Stankhouse *forthcoming
TORTURED TONGUES | Extension Cord | Art of Murder 7" | Lethal Triad *new
THE FEELING OF LOVE | The Way to Suck | Suck/Soul/Porn 12" EP | HBSP-2X *new
WOVEN BONES | Have a Soul | The Minus Touch 12" EP | Zoo Music *new
LOOP | Head On | Heaven's End | Head 1987
T.I.T.S. | Void | Second Base | self-released *new
NO BALLS | Balls | self-titled 7" | Diskad *new
NO BALLS | Subsequent Needs | Come Clean | Release the Bats *new
BUTCHER COVER | Ladyparts | self-titled CS | Military Radio *new
HIROSHIMA ROCKS AROUND | Major Labels Eat Their Shit | split LP w/ Bipolar Bear | Kill Shaman *new
POTATO CHIPS | Never Unintentional | Midwest Tour 2009 CS | no label 2009
SLICING GRANDPA | Double S Bladed Technology | Diaper Down | Scatalogical Liberation Front *new
IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT | Plug Out to Permapasture | Facilidad? | Turned Word *new
EXILES FROM CLOWNTOWN | Mania | v/a: A Range of Greatdividing CS | Greatdividing *new
EL JESUS DE MAGICO | Klip Aught | Klip Aught 7" | Columbus Discount *new
PURLING HISS | Purple Hiss | self-titled | Permanent/Archive *new
PUFFY AREOLAS | El Jita | v/a: Skulls Without Borders 10" | Siltbreeze *new
WAXY TOMB | Don't Slip, Don't Slip | self-titled CDR | no label *new
KIM FOWLEY, JR. | Invasion of the Polaroid People | Son of Frankenstein | Moxie 1981
JP-RAD-ICE | Rite | Combat CDR | Scenery Audio Archive 2004
CHEER-ACCIDENT | Camp O' Physique | Introducing Lemon | Skin Graft 2003
LIFE PARTNERS | Men Are Talking | Men Are Talking | Ride the Snake 2009
SOCKEYE | The Boy w/a Bruised Butt | Barf on a Globe | Mortville/Happy Puppy 2000
WOOLLEN KITS | Tasman | Teenage Love 7" | Periodic Collective *new

AFS v. 245 ~ Skull Checkpoint: Please Show Provenance of Riffs

If cynics and haters and Carrie Brownstein say there's nothing original happening in today's music, well...did they ever consider how impossible (or impossibly arbitrary) their standards of originality are? Damn near everything that's been retroactively credited as original was really just a rather unique derivation of influences which had previously never been successfully blended, or were atavistic and overdue for a rebirth. I'm offering several exhibits for you to ponder this week, including a couple songs from the debut cassette by Chicago's Brain Idea (pictured right), two ripe riffs plucked at their peak of perfection by Siltbreeze for inclusion on the superb Skulls Without Borders 10" comp/"sampler", and a pair of killer songs from 2009's best new band of ladypower from leftfield....plus more, as always....ENJOY!

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GANGLIANS | Blood on the Sand | Blood on the Sand 7" | Captured Tracks *new
FRESH & ONLYS | Black Coffin | Grey-Eyed Girls | Woodsist *new
FRESH & ONLYS | A Taste of Hunger | split 7" w/ Dan Melchior und Das Menace | Volar *new
HENRY'S DRESS | Target Practice | Bust'em Green | Slumberland 1997
FLIGHT | My Business | self-titled 10" | Kill Shaman *new
BRAIN IDEA | The Heat | self-titled CS | no label *new
BRAIN IDEA | Yaweh with a Straightrazor
THE FALL | Wings | Palace of Swords Reversed | Rough Trade 1987 (orig 1983)
THE FALL | Mansion | This Nation's Saving Grace | Beggars Banquet 1985
JOY DIVISION | Dead Souls | Still | Factory 1981
KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS | Denial | v/a: Skulls Without Borders 10" | Siltbreeze *new
SIC ALPS | Clarence in Wonderland [Soft Boys] | v/a: Skulls Without Borders 10"
SONNY & THE SUNSETS | Lovin' on an Older Gal | Tomorrow is Alright | Secret Seven/Soft Abuse *new
FUNGI GIRLS | Kowloon Walled City | Seafaring Pyramids | Play Pinball *new
RIDE | Unfamiliar | Vapour Trail EP | Sire 1991
LIGHTNING BOLT | Rain on Lake I'm Swimming in | Earthly Delights | Load *new
LIGHTNING BOLT | S.O.S.
MAYOR DALEY | Choices | Facial Expressions CDR | Rotted Tooth *new
TALK NORMAL | River's Edge | Sugarland | Rare Book Room *new
TALK NORMAL | Warrior | v/a: My Estrogeneration | Not Not Fun *new
TIMELOAD FOWL | Collaboration w/ James Fella | split LP w/ James Fella | Gilgongo *new
SISSY SPACEK | side A (excerpt) | Fortune b/w The Eyes of Men 7" | Gilgongo *new
AIDS WOLF | Dustin' Off the Sphynx | Dustin' Off the Sphynx 7" | Skin Graft *new
POP. 1280 | Bedbugs | Bedbugs 7" | no label *new
CONDOMINIUM | Pupils | Pupils 7" | no label *new
MUDHONEY | Twenty Four | Superfuzz Bigmuff: Deluxe Edition | Sub Pop 2009 (orig 1988)
SURGERY | Feedback | Feedback 7" | AmRep 1990
PUFFY AREOLAS | Lutzko Lives | Lutzko Lives 7" | Columbus Discount *new
PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND | Shockwave Rider | Shockwave Rider 7" | HoZac *new
MONOSHOCK | Hong Kong | Walk to the Fire | Blackjack 1996

AFS v. 244 ~ I'm Eighteen (times two!)

Sorry, I had Alice Cooper on the brain on this birthday (36, if you don't catch my drift). But I dug all the way back to his most delicate pop nugget 'cos last weekend, the fantastic Aerosols from San Francisco dropped a stunning Alice Cooper cover on a living room fulla new fans at their show with Sleepy Beach and G.Green. In honor of our thermostat kicking the heater on for the first time in almost eight months, I've also dished such delights as this rare gem of Swedish rawk and New Order's dubbiest moment. Also, if you're on the west coast, get ready for another facial-melt from Eternal Tapestry. See below for details...

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COCOBEURRE | Ciba Ciba | demo CDR | no label *new arrival
THE GIRLS AT DAWN | It's the Only Time | 12" EP | Captured Tracks *new
CHRISTMAS | Winter | Winter 7" | Endless Latino *new
STIV BATORS | It's Cold Outside [The Choir] | L.A. L.A. 10" | Bomp 1994 (orig 1980)
WELFARE | Turn the Heat on | On a Mission | Rocknroll Blitzkrieg 2000
NEW ORDER | Turn the Heater on [Keith Hudson] | Peel Sessions 12" EP | BBC/Strange Fruit 1986 (orig 1982)
GODS GIFT | No God | Pathology 1979-1984 | Hyped To Death *new (orig 1980)
GHOST FINK | Catacombs | v/a: TCAC vol 1 Oakland CS | The Church & the Commune *new
UZI RASH | High + Free | v/a: TCAC vol 1 Oakland CS
THE BASSHOLES | Swannanoa River, Concl. | ...and Without a Name | Columbus Discount *new
THE BASSHOLES | New Values
NECROPOLIS | No Tongue, No Talking | Love Theme from Necropolis 7" | Columbus Discount *new
MATT K. SHRUGG | Reef Harp | Instant Images CDR | Guiness Book of World Records *new
WHATEVER BRAINS | Saddle Up | Saddle Up 7" | Bull City *new
THE FEELING OF LOVE | What's Your Name? Who's Your Daddy? | 7" | Avant! *new
THE ELKS | Brain Damage | Date Raped/+Elks+ CS | Yellow Goth *new
THE ELKS | Porchlight Remedy
DAN MELCHIOR UND DAS MENACE | Daylight Robbery | split 7" w/ Fresh & Onlys | Volar *new
DAN MELCHIOR'S BROKE REVUE | To Try & Bust | O, Clouds Unfold | Hook or Crook *new
DAN MELCHIOR'S BROKE REVUE | Tide Rolls on
THE RUB-TOUCH PROPELLOR | When Heads Start Falling | I Don't Wanna Suffer, Man | Poe/Slutfish *new
EXPENSIVE SHIT | Dreamcatcher Culture | Powwow With Chopper CS | Not Not Fun *new
ETERNAL TAPESTRY | Brain Drain | The Invisible Landscape | Not Not Fun 2009
DYLAN ETTINGER & THE HEAT | Miami Heat (The Stakeout) | Smokin' 7" | Not Not Fun *new
FRED BIGOT | Extinction | Mono/Stereo | Holy Mountain/Tlön Uqbar *new
WAXY TOMB | Grey Ice Box Gardens | self-titled CDR | no label *new
SCORN | Days Passed | Evanescence | Earache 1994
TROPA MACACA | Canos Serrados | Sensaçao do Principio | Siltbreeze *new
TRETETAM | Pacific Coast Feather | self-titled CDR | Ikuisuus *new
SONNY & THE SUNSETS | Strange Love | Tomorrow is Alright | Secret Seven/Soft Abuse *new
ALICE COOPER | Apple Bush | Pretties for You | Straight 1969
AME SON | Seventh Time Key | Catalyse | BYG 1970
TALK NORMAL | Lemonade | Secret Cog EP 12" | Just for the Hell of It *new
THE AEROSOLS | Last Cup of Tea | 3-song CDR | no label 2008

Eternal Tapestry on tour...

Tue 11/17 in Chico, CA @ The Down Lo
Wed 11/18 in Oakland, CA @ Heco's Palace
w/ Heavy Hills, Pod Blotz, Heco (himself!)
Thu 11/19 in Los Angeles @ L'Keg Gallery
w/ Sun Araw, Pocahaunted, Pearl Harbour
Fri 11/20 in San Francisco @ The Hemlock
w/ Barn Owl, Moon Duo, Real Estate
** Sat 11/21 in Sacramento @ Funcastle (2309 L Street)
w/ Ganglians & G.Green
Sun 11/22 in Arcata, CA @ Steve’s House
w/ Starving Weirdos
Mon 11/25 in Portland, OR @ Abyssal Behemoth (pocket sandwich)
w/ Wet Hair, Pete Swanson, Chrome Wings

** Denotes my official birthday party....I guess someone's gonna mix some NOS coctails and try to trick me into drinking one??!?! Whatever...I'm just excited that three of my favorite bands are playing, and hopefully a buncha friends will come have a power-hang and a mega-dangle. Starts at 8pm, I think. Don't walk on the neighbor's newly seeded lawn or sit on his newly renovated porch, please!



What can I tell you about these other records??? Maybe a lit'l later.....check back....I'll really try to post some reviews this time, okay?

Thanks for listening...I hope you liked some new things!

AFS v. 243 ~ For Weird's Sake!

Too tired to write anything right now...sorry! Check back tomorrow, maybe? Just enjoy listening for now! Sorry, garage turkeys...WEIRD is back in November!

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RIB CAGES | In Wilderness | Right on or Wrong 7" | Lemon Session *forthcoming
CUDEVASO | Kurwa | Tryin' to Fuck You! CDR | Fater Disks *new
TODDI WELLMAN | Saba | self-titled CDR | Le Temps Qui Seche 2008
TODDI WELLMAN | Nane
BIPOLAR BEAR | Goth Time Rag | Harlem Pripyat | Mexican Summer *new
AIDS WOLF | Old Fashioned Values | Dustin' Off the Sphynx 7" | Skin Graft *new
WIRE | 2 People in a Room | Document and Eyewitness | Rough Trade 1981
PIER | Perplexed Beach Scene | The Bree-Fings vol. 1 CDR | For Noise's Sake *new
REPRESSIVE PROTEINS | Centurion at the Mall | Centurion 2xCS | no label *new
PIER | Playing Shapes | self-titled CDR | Tigerasylum 2008
GOSLINGS + WARMTH | Unleavened | The Heaven of Animals | Archive *new
MOON DUO | Ripples | Killing Time EP | Sacred Bones *new
GALAXIE 500 | Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste | Today | Rough Trade 1991
GANGLIANS | Make It Up | Blood on the Sand 7" | Captured Tracks *new
SUN MANTRA | Honeymaker | self-titled CDR | no label *new
INDIAN BINGO | Casim Glue Co. | Scatalogical | Independent Project 1989
THEE OH SEES | The Fizz | Dog Poison | Captured Tracks *new
TYVEK | Invisible Girls | Blunt Instrumentals 2: True to the Game CS | no label *new
TYVEK | untitled | Blunt Intrumental EP | Night People *new
PUFFY AREOLAS | Bowel Movement (It's All About) | Lutzko Lives 7" | Columbus Discount *new
LITTLE CLAW | Human Taste (Below the Tide) | Human Taste | Not Not Fun/Ecstatic Peace *new
TALK NORMAL | Grinnin' in Your Face | Secret Cog EP | Just for the Hell of It *new
17 PYGMIES | Lazarus | Jedda by the Sea | Resistance 1984
DOWNY MILDEW | Floorboard | Mincing Steps | Texas Hotel 1988
TURKISH QUEEN | Blood and Gold Dust | Cusp | no label 2003
KRYSMOPOMPAS | Gesa | Gesa 7" | Avant! *new
MATTRESS | Lost & Found | Low Blows | Malt Duck *new
FACTUMS | Solar Wind | Flowers | Sacred Bones *new
INCA ORE | Shine On | Silver Sea Surfer School | Not Not Fun *new
OAXACAN | Ost Zephyr | Immolation CDR | no label 2009

AFS v. 242 ~ Vichy Water live on KDVS!

Vichy Water are a Sacto trio that formed this summer. You might remember that I had them on AFS as guests when Ratas del Vaticano visited. They had literally formed about 72 hours before that program, so they didn't really have full-fledged songs then. But lately, they've been wowing Sacto's live-show roll-call (one of whom was so impressed, he's gonna release their first 7" on his Weird Forest label) with some dazzling performances, and I was so struck by how far they'd progressed, I invited them back to the KDVS studios to play their effervescent postpunk for you. If it seems like Sacramento has a ton of bands lately, it's partly because these three people have started more bands this summer than anyone else, and they also flank Andrew in his rock quartet version of G.Green. There's also a Mayyor in there.

This week on AFS...

* Sacto band Vichy Water revisits for a more fully-fledged, fleshier live-in-Studio-A performance!
* Vichy Water interview reveals a fun, earnest band that sometimes shoots sparks!
* HoZac's "Fall 2009 4-Pack" sounds pretty, pretty, pretty good!
* Today's cassette subculture's gnarliest scuzzmongers!

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THE NYMPHETS | I See | I See 7" | Signed by Force *new
TYVEK | Robots, Dogs | Blunt Instrumental EP 12" | Night People *new
SILVER SHAMPOO | Dogs | Jethro Skull 7" | What's Your Rupture? 2009
CLUB TANGO | Performance | v/a: Messthetics #107 | Hyped2Death *new (orig 1981)
GOD'S GIFT | Anaesthetic | Pathology 1979-1984 | Hyped2Death *new (orig 1984)
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VICHY WATER live in Studio A
Affirmation Action
Shattering Spirits
Oh, Diana
Turn It Down
The Samba
Choice Pumps
Sacto, Great Job!
Drunk Jesus
Ass Treatment
Crap Culture (w/ Andrew of G.Green)
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THE DEFNICS | Suicide Trip | v/a: Cleveland Confidential | Terminal 1982
PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND | Shockwave Rider | Shockwave Rider 7" | HoZac *new
WIZZARD SLEEVE | When I Die [the Pagans] | Make the World Go Away 7" | HoZac *new
SHARP ENDS | Ghosts of Chance | Northern Front 7" | HoZac *new
A CERTAIN RATIO | The Thin Boys | The Old and the New | Factory 1986
FLIGHT | Molly, Don't Fade | self-titled 10" | Kill Shaman *new
CHEVEU | Sacha | Cheveau | Permanent *new
ACCIDENT DU TRAVAIL | Landowski | self-titled 12" EP | Bruit Direct Disques *new
LOW RED CENTER | Sun Outside | self-titled 10" | SS Records *new
TWIN CRYSTALS | Boys Still Pictures | split CS w/ Ultrathin | Campaign for Infinity *new
GAY BEAST | Pressing Hard | Multi-Purpose Anti-Form 7" | Gilgongo *new
KALIBAS | Masticate | Eyes Forever Red 7" | Howling Bull America 2000
HELLHAMMER | The Third of the Storms (Evoked Damnation) | Apocalyptic Raids | Metal Blade 1984
EXTRA SEXES | Gap/Solvent Bone Remorse | Gash Bulb CS | Skrot Up *new
BUTCHER COVER | Embracist | self-titled CS | Military Radio *new
BUTCHER COVER | I'm Anti-Me
ANAL BABES | Punk Rock [David Peel & Death] | Cocaine Swastika 10" | Incognito 1999 *request
THE AXEMEN | Shacked Up in Yr Egypt Tomb | Scary! Part III | Siltbreeze *new (orig 1989)
TIMES NEW VIKING | I Smell Bubblegum | Born Again Revisited | Matador *new
BLACK TAR | Familiar | self-titled CS | no label *new
FACTUMS | Three Sheets Rider | Flowers | Sacred Bones *new
TEEPEE | Satisfied Heart | Morals | Senzei *new
BUCKETS OF BILE | Growing Gone | Outside Mind CS | Speed Tapes *new

AFS v. 241 ~ Slippery Slopes & Black Time live on KDVS!

This week on AFS...

* The Slippery Slopes from Florida live in Studio A!
* In the Red recording artists Black Time from England live in Studio A!
* A Fashionable Idiots triple capsule of new releases
* The end of Columbus Discount's singles club year one, and the beginning of year two
* a couple shoulda-been AOR nuggets unearthed from the 70s

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MIDDLE AMERICA | Every Night | Every Night 7" | Fashionable Idiots *new
FRESH MEAT | Get to Work | Problem Fixer 7" | Fashionable Idiots *new
HERDS | Winter in the Midwest | self-titled | Fashionable Idiots *new
MAYYORS | Deads | Deads 12" | Hurling Man 2009 *request
ANAL BABES | Flabby Sagging Flesh | Delirium or Diarrhea | Accident 1994
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SLIPPERY SLOPES live in Studio A
Pizza, I'm Against It
So Tight It Squeaks
Space Paranoids
Sad Tugs
Bikini Binge
No Nerds
Dan Savage
Carburetor
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CHEAP TIME | Wildlife | Handy Man 7" | Douche Master 2008
CHEAP TIME | People Talk | self-titled | In The Red 2008
BUZZER | Teacher's Pet | Teacher's Pet 7" | Tic Tac Totally 2009
XTERMINATORS | Occasional Lay | Microwave Radioation 7" | Radio Active 1979
THE DICTATORS | Faster & Louder | Blood Brothers | Asylum 1978
BROWNSVILLE STATION | Mister Robert | A Night on the Town | Big Tree 1972
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BLACK TIME Live in Studio A
Black Time Theme
Hostile Cosmos
Contract
Fascist Bathroom
Infestation
Asleep at the Wheel
You Make Me
Scary People
Downtown
Mystery Shudder
I'm Not a Young Man Anymore
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VOM | I'm in Love with Your Mom | Live at Surf City 7" | White Noise 1978
NITZINGER | Live Better Electrically | Live Better Electrically | 20th Century Fox 1976
PUFFY AREOLAS | Lutzko Lives | Lutzko Lives 7" | Columbus Discount *new
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT | Let Down (and Hangin Around) | Too Many Hits 2x7" | Columbus Discount *new
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT | Sun-Bleached Kool Aid
THE PHEROMOANS | Phantom Darwin | Savoury Days 7" | Savoury Days *new
GOD'S GIFT | People | Pathology 1979-1984 | Hyped2Death *new (orig 1979)
RED MASS | Skank | self-titled | Semprini *forthcoming

2009 was the year of the return of the "singles club", and Columbus Discount's series was the best. Just as Year Two kicks off to an outstanding start with Lutzko Lives by the Puffy Areolas of Toledo, Ohio, Year one ends on a brilliant note! Psychedelic Horseshit's Too Many Hits double-7" is certainly the most consistently satisfying release since their first single--Who Let the Dogs Out?--way back before anyone had a preconceived notion about the band. Seriously....if you think this band's discography is a like a steaming duke with some nice lit'l bits of corn in there, stop picking through the poo of the past and have a listen to this. This is like a heap o' huitlacoche. Naturally gnarly, amply swissed, not overly fucked over...Damn near perfect! Don't know what huitlacoche is? Google it! I want you to appreciate how I went to the next level with my metáfora de maiz. Remember when Sebadoh took a turn towards punk rock on their awesome Siltbreeze single? Well, if they'd never returned from that trip, but took another turn into joyful melody with a nod to the indie-rock gods of southern Ohio's past two decades before diving into the crucial works of The Fugs and David Peel & the Lower East Side, then they might've come out sounding like this.

And Puffy Areolas??? "Lutzko Lives" just absolutely smokes! That is my new pump-up jam! This is the band I most wish I could play in right now.