WE WANT BLACK DEATH!

Phuqen ay! I dare you to name one thing about this that is not sculpted from raw awesome by the had of Radicles himself. Dare you.

R.I.P. Lux Interior

According to this post at WFMU's Beware of the Blog Lux Interior from The Cramps passed away today. Damn. That man drank rock and pissed roll for over 30 years, changing the land scape of popular music and culture along the way. Pour some for Lux!

In his honor I give you Forbidden City Dog Food. A compilation of freaked out rock n' roll classics that the Cramps used to play at shows.

taste yesterday's yesterdays

an hour long mix of acid damaged rock.
taste yesterday's yesterdays-

Sadistic Mika Band - Silver Child
St. John Green - Canyon Women
Secondhand - Somethin' You Got
Temple - Heathen
Lester Bangs and The Delinquents - Life is not worth living and suicide's a waste of time
The Wibbley Brothers - I Am The Pope
The Death Killers - Your mother is dead she lives in your head
Krozier And The Generator - Khan-Khallilli Bazaar
Ogam Gnomegang - The Golem Is Running Away!!!
Mickie D. - Black Riders
Leland - This Is My World
Staff Carpenborg and The Electric Corona - The every days way down to the suburbs
The Hook - Garbage Man
The Vampires - The Lions and The Cucumber
Rrecreation - California Dreamin
Idea Fire Company - Form

R.I.P. Ron Asheton

Apparently Ron Asheton (60) was found dead in his home this morning. I've been hearing the Stooges all day. At work, on the radio, at home. So, I wanted to mix it up a little and give you "Bored", the only album he recorded with Destroy All Monsters. His playing is so immediately recognizable and rocking that it of course sounds a bit like The Stooges, but Niagra's apathetic recitations add a charming limp to this 70s rock beast. Dig.

Destroy All Monsters - Bored

Bumese, brutality, and STD

Aesop over at the amazing Cosmic Hearse blog has upped the first 2 Burmese albums. Monkeys Tear Man to Shreds Man Never Forgives Ape Man Destroys Environment and A mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity. Here's the Burmese tracks from their 2004 split with Fistula on Crucial Blast. I only included the Burmese tracks so you'll have to buy the album to hear the rest.
Burmese has changed alot over the years but they are always completely fucking brutal. The first time i saw them was at Kimo's in SF, around 02. John Dwyer had just been replaced on drums by Mark Schaffer (The Darklord!), and decided to heckle them by throwing empty beer bottles. The whole place pretty much just errupted into a melee of flying glass and limbs with searing, pounding noise, until Mikey's girlfriend grabbed him and dragged him downstairs by his feet. He kept growling into the mic clenched in his teeth and abusing the bass until the cables gave. I've been to very few shows that have errupted into that sort of vortex of violence, and surprisingly nobody really got hurt. Pure catharsis. All their shows back then were pretty physical. Since then they've dropped the electronic noises and blatant Whitehouse worship, and switched to a two bassplayer, two drummer lineup. These days they tend to let the shear awesomeness of the synchronised drumming do the pummeling. They've even added a female vocalist. Still completely brutal.

Speaking of brutal, the aformentioned Darklord:





http://schafferthedarklord.com/

a happy neu year full of magical snacks (p.s. xo baltimore!)

Welcome to 2009.I'm having a great year so far, hope all of you are too. The friendly fellows of Leprechaun Catering are feeding my ears a delicious rotary platter of auditory pupu snacks with natural happy butt shake flavor. They describe it as "Techno you can't dance to, or free improvisation you can dance to."


...and speaking of awesome music from baltimore:



go Rye Rye!




Teeth Mountain bring the super trance pulsations with the fruity loops and four way skins.




and of course Nautical Almanac, much love! happy new year!

ub radio

My good friend Univac recently reminded me that Ub radio is available at archive.org. Ub radio is a regular live broadcast from the Big City Orchestra crew and friends. There's hours and hours of brilliant auditory insanity courtesy of the collaborations of BCO, bLevin bLectum, j Lesser, univac, Fausto, wobbly, and many others. Enjoy.