April 23, 2009 (PRDCT #11 with Screaming Females!)

After the show last night, Screaming Females came in with me for a bit of an interview/to spin some records. I'll have it upped soon hopefully.
Check out their new LP, Power Move, on Don Giovanni in the mean time.

Dangerloves- "Lipsmart" | Lipsmart b/w So This Is Love (7 Inch, 2007) | Fashionable Idiots
The Realtors- "Not Acceptable" | Buy or Beware (7 Inch, 1979) | Realty
Erin Tobey- "Wedding March" | Erin Tobey (CD, 2005) | Plan-It-X/Bakery Outlet
Pavement- "Box Elder" | Westing (By Musket and Sextant) (LP, 1993) | Drag City

Archie and the Pukes- "Straight Edge People Suck" | Archie and the Pukes (7 Inch, 1995) | Centsless
The Casual Dots- "Bumblebee" | The Casual Dots (CD, 2004) | Kill Rock Stars
Tenement- "Summer Street" | Ice Pick (7 Inch, 2009) | 608 Kisses (playlist)
Crass- "Yes Sir, I Will" | Yes Sir, I Will (LP, 1983) | Crass
Yum Yum Tree- "N.E.A." | Glittering Prizes and Endless Compromises (CD, 1997) | Creation

Team Dresch- "Freewheel" | Personal Best (CD, 1994) | Chainsaw
Screaming Females- "Treacher Collins" | Power Move (CD, 2009) | Don Giovanni
Reagan Youth- "Reagan Youth" | Vol. 1 (LP, 1990) | New Red Archives
Social Circkle- "Life Crisis" | I've Got Afflictions (7 Inch, 2008) | No Way
Butthole Surfers- "The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave" | Butthole Surfers (12 Inch, 1983) | Alternative Tentacles
Dynamite Arrows- "Hobo Clown Love Song" | split with Brainworms (7 Inch, 2008) | Rorschach

Foreign Objects- "Lost Time" from "Demo" (CD, 2009) on Self-Released (playlist)
Complaints- "Blank" from "Complaints" (7 Inch, 2009) on Youth Attack (playlist)
Cheeky- "Grow Fins Turkey" from "Choke on a Cheeseburger" (7 Inch, 2008) on Freedom School
Tokidoki- "Cookie Cutter" from "Margie's Candies" (7 Inch, 1995) on Tiny Shoes

Beat Happening/Screaming Trees- "Polly Pereguin" | Beat Happening/Screaming Trees (12 Inch, 1988) | K/Homestead
The Shaggs- "My Pal Foot Foot" | Shaggs' Own Thing (LP, 1982) | Rounder/Red Rooster
Henry's Dress- "Definitely Nothing" | Henry's Dress (10 Inch, 1995) | Slumberland
Pens- "Hate Your Calendar" | split with Male Bonding (7 Inch, 2008) | Paradise Vendors
The Sex Pistols- "Anarchy in the UK" | Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (LP, 1977) | Warner (request)
J Church- "Bomb" | She Said She Wouldn't Sacrifice (7 Inch, 1992) | Allied

April 17, 2009 (PRDCT #10)

Stiff Little Fingers- "Alternative Ulster" | Wanna Buy a Bridge? (LP, 1980) | Rough Trade
Foreign Objects- "Fable" | Demo (CD, 2009) | Self-Released (playlist)
Poppets- "Get Back" | Poppets (7 Inch, 2007) | Plastic Idol
Reports- "Billy Wyman, Metal Detector" | Billy Wyman, Metal Detector (7 Inch, 2009) on Ride the Snake (playlist)
The Proletariat- "Marketplace" | Marketplace (7 Inch, 1985) | Homestead

The Dum Dum Boys- "Stalk the Streets" | Let There Be Noise (LP, 1981) | Bondage
Complaints- "Tired of Living" | Complaints (7 Inch, 2009) | Youth Attack (playlist)
The Pricks- "The Pricks" | Going to Jail (7 Inch, 1996) | Rubber City
The Breaks- "Breaking the Bible Belt" | Get Saved" (7 Inch, 2005) | Firestarter
Deep Sleep "Manic Euphoria" | Manic Euphoria (7 Inch, 2008) | Grave Mistake

Abe Froman- "Russian 101" | Baltimore Is Scum (7 Inch, 2001) | Self-Released
Libyans "Erased" | Crash Course (7 Inch, 2009) | Too Circle (playlist)
Delay- "Grey Like the Whale" | Art of the Underground Single Series Volume 25 (7 Inch, 2008) | Art of the Underground
The Adversary Workers- "In the Middle of Things" | Glenndonia w/ In the Middle of Things (2006) | No Wire
Harpoon Guns- "Nanonii" | III (7 Inch, 2008) | Going Underground

Walls- "Tread on Me" | Walls (12 Inch, 2009) | Iron Lung (playlist)
Backstabbers, Inc.- "Jay Bird" | Shut up and Skate, Skate-Core Compilation vol. 3 (7 Inch, 2001) | Element
Ugly Law- "Ugly Law" | Ugly Law (7 Inch, 2007) | Atavistic
The State- "Die in the Dirt" | split with Fuck This (7 Inch, 2008) | Punk Before Profits
Xbrainiax- "KOB 2006" | King of Blasters 2006 (7 Inch, 2006) | Fatal Apathy/625 Thrash/Ideal/To Live a Lie

Ralphus- "Canadian" | The Shipment Is In (7 Inch, 1993) | Self-Released
Tropiezo- "Nada" | split with Outraged (7 Inch, 2005) | Punk Before Profits
The Formaldehyde Junkies- "Road Hazard" | Are a Total Wreck (7 Inch, 2005) | Firestarter
Hjertestop- "Løb" | Vi Ses I Helvede... (LP, 2009) | No Way (playlist)
Hated Youth- "Ban the Bible" | Hardcore Rules (7 Inch, 2000) | Burrito

Turpentine Brothers- "Get Your Mind off Me" | Get Your Mind off Me (7 Inch, 2006) | Alien Snatch
Condo Fucks- "With a Girl Like You" | Fuckbook (CD, 2009) | Matador (playlist)
So Cow- "Exclamation Mark" from "So Cow" (LP, 2009) | Tic Tac Totally (playlist)
Bette Davis and the Balconettes- "Like Me, Be My Friend" | Bette Davis and the Balconettes (7 Inch, 1998) | Slampt
Nobunny- "Give It to Me" | Give It to Me (7 Inch, 2008) | Hozac

Screaming Females- "Boyfriend" | What If Someone Is Watching Their T.V.? (LP, 2007) | Self-Released
Sandy City- "#7" | Surfin' WA (CD, 2009) | Lost Sound (playlist)
Wax Museums- "Magnet Part II" | Magnet (7 Inch, 2008) | Fashionable Idiots
Vagina Boys- "Cum" | Vagina Boys (7 Inch, 2008) | Kenrock
Chain and the Gang- "Chain Gang Theme (I See Progress)" | Down With Liberty ... Up With Chains! (CD, 2009) | K (playlist)

Meneguar- "House of Cats" | I Was Born at Night (CD, 2005) | Troubleman Unlimited
Pregnant- "Falling Over" | Wanna See My Gun? (7 Inch, 2009) | Don Giovanni (playlist)
Meth Teeth- "To My Good Friend" | Meth Teeth (7 Inch, 2008) | Sweet Rot
Volt- "Man on the Ground" | Man on the Ground (7 Inch, 2006) | Hozac
Middle America- "It Repeats" | Middle America (7 Inch, 2009) | Home Invasion (playlist)

Issei Sagawa- "Fun with Anthropophagy" | All My Best Lovers Were Pre-Teens (7 Inch, 2007) | Youth Attack/Teardrops
Drunkdriver- "Knife Day" | Knife Day (7 Inch, 2009) | Fan Death (playlist)
Black Kites- "February 2nd" | Advancement To Ruin (LP, 2009) | Ride the Fury (playlist)
Five-O- "Market & Shatterproof" | Fall Through" (7 Inch, 1993) | Fire Thirteen
Catena Collapse- "Maze of Traits" | split with Sinaloa (7 Inch, 2006) | Narshardaa
Dylan Bredeau- "I Sat Next to You and Thought about Being Born" | split with To The Barricades!" (7 Inch, 2009) | Self-Released (playlist)

quick FEST recap

Record Hospital Fest was awesome. I could feel the Body through the floor. L'Antietam's lamps ruled all. Friday night favorites were Cheeky & Little Lungs (of course) and Dead Uncles. Pop punk is the best. Black Clouds, Thick Shakes, & DST too... Really just too many good times to write it all down. Plus I should do school right now instead. Here are some of my favorite pictures. More here (just mine, mostly from Friday night because my camera was low on batteries). There's also some from Future Breed and the Phoenix. I think there's gonna be a write-up in the Phoenix this week too which is cool. And the Herald said this last week:

"As major radio stations stay corporate and Apple plays a shell game with its song-pricing plan, it’s good to see DIY is alive and well around the Hub. One of its epicenters is Record Hospital (the underground rock wing at WHRB-FM (95.3), which this weekend welcomes 20 bands that don’t care about anything other than making great music on their terms. Descend on Harvard Square to catch the garage rock swagger of Thick Shakes, the experimental fury of Life Partners and the ferocious post-hardcore of Daniel Striped Tiger, among others. No booze, no attitude, no false promises - just good tunes."

Cheeky

Little Lungs

Dylan Bredeau

Thick Shakes

April 10, 2009 (PRDCT #9)

Cheeky- "Get Outta Here" | Choke on a Cheeseburger (7", 2008) | Freedom School (FEST!)
Libyans- "Erased" | Crash Course (7 Inch, 2009) | Too Circle (playlist)
Zero Boys- "Amphetamine Addiction" | Vicious Circle (LP, 1982) | Nimrod
Foreign Objects- "Decline" | Demo (CD, 2009) | Self-Released (playlist)
Question- "Be Excellent" | Insanity (7 Inch, 2008) | Fashionable Idiots

Tunnel of Love- "Ghetto Child" | Tunnel of Love (7 Inch, 2006) | Profet
Thick Shakes- "(Baby) You're a Starfish" | Ooh Mommy (MP3, 2009) | Snugglehound (FEST!)
Strange Boys- "This Girl Taught Me a Dance" | And Girls Club (CD, 2009) | In the Red Records (playlist)
The Bayonettes "We're Doomed" | We're Doomed (7 Inch, 2006) | Deranged
Nice Face- "Exterminator" | Exterminator (7 Inch, 2008) | Hozac
Teenage Cool Kids- "Crucial Talk" | Speaking In Tongues (7 Inch, 2009) | Copper Lung (playlist)

Little Lungs- "Loft Coffin" | Hoist Me Up! (CD, 2008) | Self-Released (FEST!)
Petty Crime- "Mathematics" | Forfeit Intent (7 Inch, 1998) | Slampt
RVIVR "Life Moves" | Life Moves (7 Inch, 2009) | Rumbletowne
Dead Uncles- "City of Village Idiots" | ...Is Ruining My Life (MP3, 2008) | Self-Released (FEST!)
Flipper "Way of the World" | Generic (LP, 1982) | Subterranean

The Vomit Visions- "Bliss" | Shove It up Your Ass (7 Inch, 1981) | VV
Middle America- "Scars" | Scars (7 Inch, 2009) | Fashionable Idiots (playlist)
Deathwish- "Tailgate" | Tailgate (7 Inch, 1984) | Amory Arms
Bear Vs. Shark- "Ma Jolie" | Right Now, You're in the Best of Hands. And If Something Isn't Quite Right, Your Doctor Will Know in a Hurry (MP3, 2003) | Equal Vision (request)
Iron Hand- "Liquid Assets" | Demo (CD, 2008) | Self-Released (FEST!)

Drunkdriver- "January 2nd" | Knife Day (7 Inch, 2009) | Fan Death (playlist)
Treblinka- "Kulutuksen Raja" | Thmisyyden Taideteos (7 Inch, 1993) | Hataapu
Food- "March Fourth" | Food (LP, 2009) | Molsook Records (playlist)
Turboslut- "Exorcism" | split with Pygmy Lush (12 Inch, 2009) | Exotic Fever
Daniel Striped Tiger- "Dawn Flared Into" | The Desert Bird (7 Inch, 2004) | Self-Released (FEST!)

Petethepiratesquid- "Rebuilt History" | split with Radio Burroughs (7 Inch, 2005) | Altin Village/FlamesWavesWords/ImpureMuzik/Maldoror/My237/Tender Brason/Warsaw
Redwing Blackbird- "Goldfinch" | Redwing Blackbird (CD, 2007) | Self-Released (FEST!)
Des Ark- "If by 'Gay' You Mean 'Totally Freaking Awesome,' Then Yeah, I Guess It's Pretty Gay" | Battle of the Beards (CD, 2007) | Lovitt
The Ramones- "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" | Greatest Hits Live (MP3) (request)
Life Partners- "AIDS of Spades" | AIDS of Spades (7 Inch, 2008) | Ride the Snake (FEST!)

So Cow- "Casablanca" | So Cow (LP, 2009) | Tic Tac Totally (playlist)
Chain and The Gang- "Trash Talk" | Down With Liberty ... Up With Chains! (CD, 2009) | K (playlist)
Ringo Deathstarr- "Starrsha" from "Ringo Deathstarr" (LP, 2009) | Fan Death (playlist)
Box Elders- "One Foot in Front of the Other" | Hole in My Head (7 Inch, 2008)

Dratsab- "Spoiled Rotten" | split with Reform Control (7 Inch, 1996) | Reform
Death Squad- "Summer of Arson" | 1939. Demo (7 Inch, 2004) | Bonus Choke
Eunuch- "The Sister Wolf" | No Place To Play: A Boston 2008 Demo Compilation (MP3, 2008) | Fatalist
Vomit Punks- "By the Balls" | Pogo Attack (LP, 1994) | Pogo Punk
L'Antietam- "Wrong Ways I Feel Secure" | Arthur Carr (MP3, 2007) | Slave Union

RECORD HOSPITAL FEST 2009

all the info! these line-ups are rough...

FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 6 pm at the Advocate
Thick Shakes
Dead at 24
Life Partners
Black Clouds
Exusamwa
Quits
Dead Uncles
Dylan Bredeau
Little Lungs
Cheeky

SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 4 pm at Holden Chapel in Harvard Yard
Revenge
Eunuch
Dry Hump
Fucking Mess
Iron Hand
The Saddest Landscape
Redwing Blackbird
L'Antietam
Daniel Striped Tiger
The Body

all ages, no booze
suggested donation: $10 one night/$15 two

questions/more info: rhshow@gmail

show up early because space is limited

Drinking Woman

I'm a big Tara Jane O'Neil fan (quick plug, she's got a new album & a tour in May) and am always impressed by the variation in the types of bands she's played in & how long she's been making music for. I think though, in terms of variation, while Rodan were definitely harder than her solo stuff, the Sonora Pine, & Retsin, it's fairly easy to see the bridge between them, especially with the longer instrumental Rodan stuff. I can't really play favorites with all of these bands, but for me, the one that stands apart in terms of sound from the rest of them is Drinking Woman.



Drinking Woman were TJO's second band I think, though I may have the timing a little bit jumbled. To my knowledge, they only put out a self-titled 7", released on Three Little Girls, and contributed to the Go in the Dark comp (along with Slant 6, Rastro!, & the Scissor Girls), released on Christina Billotte's Mira Records, (both of which are posted below), though they might have a demo or something too. Drinking Woman were Heather Cantrell singing, Erica Bricking on guitar, Greta Ritcher on drums, & TJO on bass (though she's just credited as "Tara O'Neil" on Go in the Dark for some reason).



Whereas Retsin & the Sonora Pine give you sort of slowcore pop tunes, Drinking Woman are pretty much straight up indie rock done right. Their song on Go in the Dark is a slightly more lo-fi recording. The vocal backings throughout a lot of the song give it a slightly more pop feel but then you occasionally have someone slightly gruffer in the background switching things up.

Drinking Woman 7" + Go in the Dark

April 3, 2009 (PRDCT #8)

The Dicks- "Hate the Police" | Hate the Police (7 Inch, 1980) | Coc
Libyans- "Crash Course" | Crash Course (7 Inch, 2009) | Too Circle Records (playlist)
Lockjaw- "You Dick" | Drinking Is Great (7 Inch, 1985) | Fatal Erection
Dylan Bredeau- "I'm Still Trying to Find Jupiter" | split 7" w/ Ripshit (7 Inch, 2008) | Spicy Soup Productions (playlist, FEST!)
No Talk- "Confusion" | Confusion (7 Inch, 2009) | Going Underground

Brainbombs- "Skinned Alive" | Fucking Mess (LP, 2008) | Lystring
Drunkdriver- "Knife Day" | Knife Day (7 Inch, 2009) | Fan Death (playlist)
St. Albans Kids- "Disstentic Penetration" | split with Off Minor (7 Inch, 2002) | Kickstart My Heart
No Fucker- "Fight!!!" | No Fucker (7 Inch, 2006) | No Real Music
Fresh Meat- "Problem First" | Leather Daddy (7 Inch, 2009) | Fashionable Idiots (playlist)

Foreign Objects- "Fixed Failure" | Demo (CD, 2009) | Self-Released (playlist)
Huggy Bear- "Can't Kiss" | Taking the Rough with the Smooch (10 Inch, 1993) | Kill Rock Stars
The Dutchess and The Duke- "Strangers" | She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke (LP, 2008) | Hardly Art
Cheeky- "The Golden Ghost" | Art of the Underground Single Series Volume 29 (7 Inch, 2008) | Art of the Underground (FEST!)
The Shitty Limits- "Leave Me Alone" | Here Are the Limits (7 Inch, 2009) | Sorry State

Sam
Citizen Fish- "Oslo"
Straight Jacket Fits- "Melt"
Thatcher on Acid- "Grindstone Cowboy"
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments- "My Mysterious Death"
The Mystreated- "I Try So Hard"
Six Finger Satellite- "30 Lashes"
The Tampoffs- "All the Time"

Cro Magnon- "Groundline" | Xxperiments (LP, 2008) | Die Stasi (playlist)
The Intelligence- "Reading and Writing about Partying" | "Reading and Writing About Partying" b/w "Like Like Like Like Like Like Like" (7 Inch, 2009) | Raw Deluxe
Pregnant- "Falling Over" | Wanna See My Gun? (7 Inch, 2009) | Don Giovanni (playlist)
Muslims- "Extinction" | Extinction (7 Inch, 2008) | Sweet Tooth
Witches- "Young Ones" | Witches (7 Inch, 2008) | Salinas (playlist)

Little Lungs- "Loft Coffin" | Hoist Me Up! (CD, 2008) | Self-Released (FEST!)
Mocket- "Pearl Drop" | Pearl Drop (7 Inch, 1995) | Up
The Flatmates- "You're Gonna Cry" | You're Gonna Cry (7 Inch, 1987) | Subway
Fish & Roses- "Monks Hate You" | Friar Tuck Record (7 Inch, 1991) | Ajax
Hjertestop- "Vi Ses I Helvede" | Vi Ses I Helvede... (LP, 2009) | No Way (playlist)

Valoids- "Dirt Lot" | Valoids (7 Inch, 2008) | Stress Domain
The Vicious- "Alienated" | Alienated (LP, 2007) | Feral Ward
Thomas Function- "Belly of the Beast" | Belly of the Beast (7 Inch, 2008) | Fat Possum
Jacuzzi Boys- "Island Ave." | Island Ave. (7 Inch, 2008) | HoZac
Strange Boys- "MLKs" | And Girls Club (CD, 2009) |In the Red (playlist)

Daniel Striped Tiger- "An Errand to Run" | split with Sinaloa (7 Inch, 2008) | Clean Plate/Narshardaa (FEST!)
Rites of Spring- "For Want Of" | Rites of Spring (LP, 1985) | Dischord
Native Nod- "Tangled" | Answers (7 Inch, 1994) | Gern Blandsten
L'Antietam- "Brick Walls" | split with Furnace (7 Inch, 2006) | The Electric Human Project (FEST!)
Redwing Blackbird- "Natalie's Traveling Song" | Sing Me to Sleep (CD, 2007) | Self-Released (FEST!)

March 20, 2009 (PRDCT #7)

Turboslut- "Speed" | split with Pygmy Lush (LP, 2009) | Exotic Fever
The Body- "The City of the Magnificent Jewel" | The Body (CD, 2004) | Moganono
Mind Eraser- "Conscious" | Conscious/Unconscious (LP, 2008) | Clean Plate
Food- "March Fourth" | Food (LP, 2009) | Molsook (playlist)

H100s- "Brown Sugar" | Distort Cleveland (7 Inch, 1996) | Burrito
Amdi Petersens Arme- "De Hjernedodes Nat" | Histeria 2 (LP, 2004) | Lengua Armada
Draize- "Dead Where You Stand" | Long Knives (CD, 2009) | Self-Released (playlist)
Domestik Doktrin- "Ready for the Geek Attack?" | Domestik Doktrin (7 Inch) | 625 Thrash
Mother Fucking Titty Suckers- "Chinese Eyes" | split with 46 Short (7 Inch, 1998) | Last Dollar

Fresh Meat- "Bad Mask" | Leather Daddy (7 Inch, 2009) | Fashionable Idiots (playlist)
The New Flesh- "Nowhere" | The New Flesh (7 Inch, 2006) | Hit-Dat
Kilara- "Wishing" | split with Inquisition (7 Inch, 1995) | Pop a Wheelie
The Festival of Dead Deer- "Stagnant" | split with the Crimson Curse (7 Inch) | Three One G
Pissed Happy Children- "Dead Pig Tell No Tale!" | Vigilante/Gravel Truck (7 Inch, 1989) | New Beginning

Elder- "Golden Flower" | Elder (10 Inch, 2008) | Forge Again
Jasemine- "Restiction" | split with Ivich (7 Inch) | Stone Henge
Econochrist- "Withdrawal" | Skewed (7 Inch, 1993) | Ebullition
Fire Team Charlie- "Reflections of a Heartless Man" | Same (10 Inch, 2009) | Adagio 830 (playlist)
Pygmy Lush- "November Song" | split with Turboslut (LP, 2009) | Exotic Fever

Middle America- "Scars" | Scars (7 Inch, 2009) | Fashionable Idiots (playlist)
Rice- "The Seeds" | Rice (7 Inch, 1992) | Vinyl Communications
The Pist- "True Love" | Spit Right in Your Face... (7 Inch, 1994) | Stinky Twinkie Communications
Today's Overdose- "Insomnia" | Today's Overdose (7 Inch, 2006) | Profane Existence/Wasted Sounds
Fever- "Blinded" | South End Style (7 Inch, 2009) | 16OH (playlist)

Punch- "Semantically Challenged" | Eyeless (7 Inch, 2008) | 625 Thrash/Discos Huelgas
MK Ultra- "Stick Figure" | Stick Figure (7 Inch, 1995) | Self-Released
Esso Asso- "Insignation" | split with Abnormal Behavior (7 Inch, 1995)
Waste Management- "Dead Weight" | Get Your Mind Right (7 Inch, 2007) | Painkiller
Herds- "Antlers" | Herds (7 Inch, 2008) | Fashionable Idiots (playlist)

Slices- "Cave Crawl" | Slices (7 Inch, 2009) | 16OH (playlist)
The Hookers- "Kiss My Fucking Ass" | The Hookers (7 Inch, 1996) | Smut-e
Birth Control- "Going to Target" | Birth Control (7 Inch, 2008) | Fashionable Idiots (playlist)
Young Widows- "Took a Turn" | Old Wounds (LP, 2008) | Temporary Residence
Avskum- "Bulletproof" | In the Spirit of Mass Destruction (CD, 2000) | Prank

Immoral Squad- "Book" | split with Union of Uranus (7 Inch, 1994) | The Great American Steak Religion
Saetia- "Postlapsaria" | A Retrospective (CD, 2002) | Level Plane
Majority Rule- "The Sin in Grey" | Interviews with David Frost (CD, 2002) | Magic Bullet

The Machines, 1990-1993

Coming this May I'll be doing a Simple Machines orgy on the Record Hospital.


This is Jenny & Kristin taken from the Simple Machines site.

Simple Machines was a DC area (Arlington, Virginia to be exact) label run by Kristin Thomson & Jenny Toomey from 1990-1998. Its first releases centered around the very basic concept of the simple machine: wedge, wheel, pulley, screw, lever, & inclined plane. The first, Wedge, was released in April 1990, featuring Geek (one of Jenny's bands), the Hated, Lungfish, & Edsel. From there, the series expanded. Wheel came out in September of the same year with a press twice as large. Holy Rollers & the Juliana Experience contributed to that one. Pulley came out in June '91 with Bricks (a pre-Superchunk, pre-Tsunami project), My New Boyfriend, the Nation of Ulysses, & Mommyheads. Screw ensued the following month with Geek (the band's last hurrah), Velocity Girl, Jawbox, & Candy Machine. It was again a slightly larger press with 2500 total up from 2000 of the previous two. Lever followed in January 1992 with Autoclave, Severin, Circus Lupus, & Scrawl. Inclined Plane finished off the Machines series in January 1993 after Simple Machine's 1992 was occupied largely by the Fortune Cooke Prize comp, the Neapolitan Metropolitan box set, & Tsunami's Deep End. 4500 of this one were pressed with songs by Tsunami, Superchunk, Rodan, & Unrest. All of these 7"s were eventually compiled onto one CD, which is what I'm posting.



While putting out this six 7" series, Simple Machines managed to stay true to its goal of supporting their "peers' efforts by working with other small labels, bands, and local businesses to sustain a productive, self sufficient punk/la la network." You can check out some more of their mission statement of sorts along with lots of other goodies (like a comprehensive discography) at their website.

The series obviously features some big names of 1990s indie rock (Superchunk, Nation of Ulysses for example) and some personal favorites of mine (Tsunami, Rodan). I like that Jenny & Kristin always thought about projects thoroughly, piecing them together in creative, cool ways (like the Working Holiday series). I'm really stoked to do a Simple Machines orgy and am excited to get to interview the two women who ran such an awesome label.

The Machines, 1990-1993 compilation
Get it from Dischord

XXperiments

So this is still in print, and you can definitely find it on other blogs, but I have been listening to Cro Magnon's "Groundline" & Buckets of Bile's "Caught It Still" on repeat recently.

XXperiments is an all-girl comp put out this past fall by Ohio-based label Die Stasi. I didn't get at first that the XX is an obvious references to the whole chromosome thing, thinking that it was just sort of a hip/weird spelling of experiments. Sometimes I don't give things like this a proper chance. We got the Zola Jesus 7" at the station (she's doing a big tour this summer btw), and I waited a while to listen to it. When I finally did, I loved it, but I still didn't listen to this comp when Christa brought it in a little while later. I tend to think I don't like this sort of weird not-quite-noise variety of hipness, but I'm glad I finally gave this comp a chance.



It was originally supposed to come with a pretty awesome zine Christa tells me (she heard from U.S. Girls). They all wrote pretend bios for each other, but the guy who runs the label said it was too girly (which seems weird since that's kind the whole point of the comp). Well, we all know I am into girly shit. Anyway, there's hardly any album art to go along with it as a result- weak.

As I mentioned before, the highlights for me are by far Cro Magnon & Buckets of Bile. Cro Magnon are from Lafayette, Indiana, and you can check its two members' solo work on XXperiments. Haley Fohr plays solo as Circuit des Yeux and Kate Leming as Bird. Buckets of Bile is just one girl from New York.

XXperiments
Buy it from Die Stasi

March 13, 2009 (PRDCT #6)

I promise I'll do a real post soon. I now have access to a USB turntable, so lots of vinyl ripping to be done. I'm gone for the weekend though. Got a giant package of 7"s from Fashionable Idiots today- so good.

Last Priest- "Answer and Questions" | Last Priest (LP, 2009) | 16OH
Bukkake Boys- "Mind Copulation" | Splendid Thoughts (7 Inch, 2008) | Vile Minds
Potatoe Justice- "Social Commotion" | split with Short Hate Temper (7 Inch, 1995) | Yucky Bus
Slices- "Coping Mechanism" | Slices (7 Inch, 2009) | 16OH (playlist)
No Talk- "Tighten the Noose" | Tighten the Noose (7 Inch, 2008) | AG82/Cutthroat/Death Exclamations/Psychowolf

Fresh Meat- "Bad Mask" | Leather Daddy (7 Inch, 2009) | Fashionable Idiots (playlist)
Black Kites- "Taking My Time" | Advancement to Ruins (LP, 2009) | Ride the Fury
Punch- "Nothing Left" | Eyeless (7 Inch, 2008) | 625 Thrash/Discos Huelgas
Ripshit- "I'm Not Unemployable, I'm Just Young and in Love" | split with Offsides" (7 Inch, 2008) | Spicy Soup Productions
Devola- "Disdain for the 2 am Broadcast" | The Resuscitation (7 Inch, 1999) | Gold Tooth/625 Thrash

Jake played two sets
Devoid of Faith- "Commodified Faith" | Devoid Of Faith (10 Inch) | Anomie
Stack- "Untitled" | No Desire to Continue Living | Farewell
Born Against- "This Trash Should've Been Free" | Battle Hymns for the Race War (10 Inch, 1993) | Vermiform
Health Hazard- "Looking for an Answer" | Health Hazard (10 Inch, 1994) | Flat Earth
The Swarm- "Blink" | Parasitic Skies | No Idea

Man Sized Action- "Claustrophobia" | Claustrophobia (1983) | Reflex
Memluks- "Therefore" | Partida (1982) | Stunt Baby
The Thinking Fellers Union Local 282- "Cold Cold Cold Ground" | Tangle (1989) | Thwart Productions
Silverfish- "Weird Stuff" | Silverfish (LP, 1989) | Wiija
Liimanarina- "Sam Kokin Satkynuket" | Supermarket (LP) | Drag City

Teenage Cool Kids- "Queer Salutations" | Queer Salutations (CD, 2008) | Protagonist
Tenement- "Ice Pick" | Ice Pick (7 Inch, 2009) | 608 Kisses
Real Numbers- "Radio World" | Radio World (7 Inch, 2008) | Three Dimensional
Tyvek- "Flashing Light" | Sidewalk (7 Inch, 2008) | M'Lady's
Banana Men- "Love Me" | The Crusher (7 Inch, 1965) | Big Beat

Wavves- "California Goth" | Wavves (LP, 2008) | Woodsist (playlist)
The Autocollants- "Butterscotch" | The Autocollants (7 Inch, 1996) | Drive-In
Curver- "Inside AM" | Inside AM b/w Make Star Shine (7 Inch, 1993) | Fire
Cyclops- "Light" | Light b/w Spolcyc (7 Inch, 1993) | New World of Sound
Buckets of Bile- "Caught It Still" | Xxperiments (LP, 2008) | Die Stasi (playlist)

Drain- "Flower Mound" | A Black Fist b/w Flower Mound (7 Inch, 1991) | Trance Syndicate
Food- "Oxbow" | Food (LP, 2009) | Molsok Records (playlist)
Manumission- "Binary Lung" | Binary Lung (7 Inch, 1995) | Ebullition
Herds- "Vultures" | Herds (7 Inch, 2008) | Fashionable Idiots (playlist)

Dylan Bredeau- "Tiny Feet" | split 7" w/ Ripshit (7 Inch, 2008) | Spicy Soup Productions (playlist)
Condominium- "Pupils" | Pupils (7 Inch, 2008) | Self-Released
Regulations- "Different Needs" | Different Needs (7 Inch, 2007) | Havoc
Self Destruct- "Not Your World" | Self Destruct (7 Inch, 2008) | Dead and Gone
Margaret Thrasher- "Raise the Bar" | Moderate Rock (LP, 2008) | P-Trash (playlist)

Life Partners- "AIDS of Spades" | AIDS of Spades (7 Inch, 2008) | Ride the Snake (playlist)
Lesbians on Ecstasy- "Revolt (Le Tigre remix)" | Giggles in the Dark (LP, 2005) | Alien8

March 6, 2009 (PRDCT #5)

Cat Party- "Jigsaw Thoughts" | Jigsaw Thoughts (7 Inch, 2008) | Rich Bitch
Male Bonding- "Pirate Key" | split with Pens (7 Inch, 2008) | Paradise Vendors
Epsilons- "A Night out with Jay" | split with Hips (7 Inch, 2007) | Ol Factory
Mass Hysteri- "Monotin Tid" | Mass Hysteri (7 Inch, 2008) | Feral Ward
Planned Communities- "Your Body Is a Thunderdome" | Demo (CD, 2009) | Self-Released (playlist)

Pimp Slap- "Mirate" | Pimp Slap (7 Inch) | Gitter Roar
Red Thread- "Double Speak" | s/t (7 Inch, 2008) | Shock to the System
Dylan Bredeau- "I'm Still Trying to Find Jupiter" | split with Rip Shit (7 Inch, 2008) | Spicy Soup Productions (playlist)
Johnny Vomit & the Dry Heaves- "Black September" | Chokin' on a Lude (7 Inch, 1995) | Goner Archives
Turboslut- "Dry" | Order of the Turboslut (CD, 2008) | Self-Released

Life Partners- "Teenager in Trouble" from "AIDS of Spades" (7 Inch, 2008) on Ride the Snake New
Coachwhips- "Extinguish Me" | Bangers Versus Fuckers (CD, 2004) | Narnack
Homostupids- "Under the Dog" | The Intern (LP, 2007) | Parts Unknown
God Is My Co-Pilot- "Grizzly Gizzard" | I Am Not This Body (CD, 1992) | The Making of Americans
Night Wounds- "Nothing Changes" | split with Mutators (7 Inch, 2008) | Badmaster (playlist)

Jake's set
AC Temple- "Yield" | Blowtorch (LP, 1988) | Further
Dolomite- "Puss 'n' Boots" | Of Angels (LP, 1993) | Fiasco
End Result- "Don't Sleep in the Subway" | Ward (LP, 1985) | LSR
Dustdevils- "Slope" | Struggling Electric Chemicals (LP, 1990) | Teen Beat/Matador
Ed Hall- "Wilbert" | Love Spoke Here (LP, 1990) | Boner

Cheeky- "Bad Mood" | Choke on a Cheeseburger (7 Inch, 2008) | Freedom School (playlist)
Kitty Cat Spy Club- "Girl Love" | Decoy X (7 Inch, 1995) | Radio Trash
The Casual Dots- "Bumblebee" | s/t (CD, 2004) | Kill Rock Stars
Barr- "Song Is the Single" | Song Is the Single (7 Inch, 2006) | Post Present Medium
Marked Men- "I Must Be Dead" | Ghosts (CD, 2009) | Dirtnap (playlist)

Queen Mab- "J Is for Jesus Christ" from "Queen Mab" (7 Inch, 1994) on Judgmentil
The Crabapples- "Quality (Not Quantity)" | Crabapples for Change (7 Inch, 2006) | Slumberland
Off With Their Heads- "Sleeping in Carrie's Car" | All Things Move Toward Their End (LP, 2007) | No Idea
Margaret Thrasher- "Dumb Until I Die" | Moderate Rock (LP, 2008) | P-Trash (playlist)
The Urinals- "Surfin' with the Shah" | 4 Track EP (7 Inch, 1978) | Happy Squid

Raccoo-oo-oon- "Mud Mound" | s/t (7 Inch, 2007) | Gilgongo
Velocity Girl- "I Don't Care if You Go" | I Don't Care if You Go (7 Inch, 1990) | Slumberland
Flake- "Deluca" | split with Henry's Dress (7 Inch, 1995) | Omnibus
Cub- "My Chinchilla" | Hot Dog Day (7 Inch, 1993) | Mint
Witches- "Young Ones" | Witches (7 Inch, 2008) | Salinas (playlist)

Rodan- "Milk & Melancholy" | How the Winter Was Passed (7 Inch, 1993) | Three Little Girls
Food- "March Fourth" | Food (LP, 2009) | Molsook (playlist)
Slices- "Desert March" | Slices (7 Inch, 2009) | 16OH (playlist)

RECORD HOSPITAL FEST 2009 (and other business)

This Saturday, March 7
TURBOSLUT (queens of murky hardcore from DC, only Boston show ever)
RED THREAD (Boston hardcore ladies, last show)
MALE NURSES
GARBAGE STRIKE
at Guns of Brighton


RECORD HOSPITAL FEST 2009

FRIDAY, APRIL 10
CHEEKY (NY)
BLACK CLOUDS (Providence)
LIFE PARTNERS
QUITS
LITTLE LUNGS (NY/NJ)
DYLAN BREDEAU (Maine)
DEAD UNCLES (CT)
DEAD AT 24 (PA)
THICK SHAKES
EXUSAMWA
VILE BODIES

SATURDAY, APRIL 11
DANIEL STRIPED TIGER
L'ANTIETAM
DRY HUMP
REDWING BLACKBIRD (NH)
FUCKING MESS (NY)
IRON HAND (CT)
REVENGE
KONTATTO (Italy)


Wednesday, April 22
SCREAMING FEMALES (shredding NJ pop punk)
GENERAL INTEREST
WHITE PROBLEMS
+ 1 more TBA
at Gay Gardens in Allston

Februrary 27, 2009 (PRDCT #4)

Bone Awl- "Will a White Face" | Meaningless Leaningless (LP, 2007) | Nuclear War Now!
13- "Whore" | split with Eyehategod (7 Inch, 1994) | Ax/ction
Mammoth Grinder- "You're Wrong" | No Results (7 Inch, 2008) | Inkblot (playlist)
16- "Doorprize" | Scott Case (CD, 1998) | Pessimiser
Robedoor- "Falle Down" | Shapeshifter Slave (LP, 2008) | Olde English Spelling Bee

Iron Hand- "An Ode to No One" | Demo (CD, 2008) | Self-Released (playlist)
Groundwork- "Utopia" | Living in Fear (7 Inch, 1993) | Bloodlink
Bones Brigade- "Board Youth" | Blatant Rip-off (7 Inch, 2002) | Belief Crisis
Hatred Surge- "Servant" | Servant b/w Bestial (7 Inch, 2008) | Deerhealer
Fever- "SES" | South End Style (7 Inch, 2009) | 16OH (playlist)

Fuckface- "I Can't Win" | Descent/Give Us Beer (7 Inch, 1996) | Self-Released
Coke Bust- "Source of Misery" | Demo (7 Inch, 2006) | Headcount
Life Crisis- "Churchstate" | Churchstate (7 Inch, 2005) | Deep Six
Slices- "Coping Mechanism" | Slices (7 Inch, 2009) | 16OH (playlist)
Dangers- "We Broke the PA" | Anger (MP3, 2006) | Self-Released

Jake's set
Raein- "On Air" | split with Funeral Diner (7 Inch, 2004) | Red Cars Go Faster
Shotmaker- "Curve"
Cease Upon the Capitol- "Untitled #3" | Cease upon the Capitol (CD, 2007)
Neil Perry- "Breathing with One Bad Lung"
Acrimonie- "Cloudburst" | split with La Quiete (7 Inch, 2002)

Mass Movement of The Moth- "Crimps + Ties" | Outerspace (CD, 2006) | Exotic Fever
Foreign Objects- "Lost Time" | Demo (CD, 2009) | Self-Released (playlist)
Neon Nazis- "Past Life Dictator" | split with Hips (7 Inch, 2007) | Going Underground
DC Snipers- "(Baby) Don't Be So Violent" | split with Tampoffs (7 Inch, 2006) | Daggerman
Girls at Our Best!- "Fun City Teenagers" | Pleasure (LP, 1981) | Happy Birthday
Finally Punk- "Hypertension" | Hypertension (7 Inch, 2008) | M'Lady (playlist)

Witches- "Young Ones" | Witches (7 Inch, 2008) | Salinas (playlist)
Boys of Now- "Road Trip" | Not Ready For Primetime (7 Inch, 2000) | Heliotrope
Monument- "Busy Being Bees" | A 3 Song 7" (7 Inch, 2008) | Self-Released (playlist)

Contaminators- "Non-Existant Love" | Non-Existant Love (7 Inch, 2008) | Going Underground
Pink Reason- "Winona" | Winona (7 Inch, 2008) | Woodsist
Men's Recovery Project- "Frank & Judy" | Resist the New Way (CD, 2000) | Vermiform
Mutators- "What Guts Want" | split with Night Wounds (7 Inch, 2008) | Badmaster (playlist)

Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live- "The Apocalypse through Sound" | I Am the Great and Firey Force (CD, 1998) | Outpunk
Mankind?- "Let Her Be" | split with Dirt (7 Inch, 1994) | Tribal War
Spitboy- "The Threat" | Spitboy (7 Inch, 1992) | Lookout!
Margaret Thrasher- "Weight" | Moderate Rock (LP, 2008) | P-Trash (playlist)

Wolves- "16" | split with Sinaloa (7 Inch, 2004) | Clean Plate
Food- "Cascadia" | Food (LP, 2009) | Molsook (playlist)

Grlz

I've been listening to some of the MAXIMUMROCKNROLL radio podcast things the last couple days. They have a couple pretty awesome lady punk specials up here. The more recent one has a bunch of post-punky, dancey things that I don't really listen to that much on my own (though I probably should), but whenever I do, I really love it. They played one track that was reissued on the Grlz comp, which we got in at the station last fall (came out in '05 though I think). The subtitle of Grlz is appropriately "Women Ahead of Their Time."

Though Grlz jumps around a little bit in space & time, ranging from the English Slits in 1979 to Brussels immigrant Anna Domino in 1988. The album still remains cohesive sonically though with feet-tapping high hats typical of art punk. You get synth-driven songs like "Softness" by Dorothy, more reggae/dub ones like "Fade Away" by New Age Steppers, or my ultimate dance song from that era, Delta 5's "Mind Your Own Business." (The beginning of the Wanna Buy a Bridge comp with "Alternative Ulster" and that are my favorite beginning to a dance party.) Grlz gives you the expected with the Slits and Bow Wow Wow for example, but also uncovers a few you might not already know.

While Grlz of course can't compare to something like Wanna Buy a Bridge or Cut in terms of importance in a scene, it provides a pretty good historical retrospective. I'm not going to delve into all of that, but there's a thorough history up here.

Grlz: Women Ahead of Their Time
Get it from Crippled Dick Hot Wax

On an entirely unrelated note, Turboslut will be playing in Boston on March 7. It'll also be Red Thread's last Boston show. I'll post more details when I know. Lots of news on Screaming Females + RECORD HOSPITAL FEST 2009 to come soon. Also, check out Foreign Objects. They're a totally awesome new post-punky band with Terry from the Conversions on vox, Meghan from Ampere on bass, Melissa from Red Thread on guitar, and Dan from Libyans on drums. I saw them play with Get Laid, General Interest, & Acid Reflux this past Friday, and it was awesome. They have a demo tape, which is now on the Record Hospital playlist.