June 24, 2009 (PRDCT #15)

Witches- "Young Ones" | Witches (7Inch, 2008) | Salinas
Suture- "Good Girl" | Suture (7Inch, 1991) | Dischord
Sell Out- "Life" | I Hate the World (7Inch, 1988) | Wasted Vinyl
Grave Blankets- "Trip Wire" | Our Love Is Real b/w Trip Wire (7Inch, 2008) | Hozac (playlist)
Dead Dog- "Partners in Crime" | Dead Dog (12Inch, 2008) | Mauled by Tigers

Used Kids- "Midwest Midsummer" | Hovercraft (7Inch, 2008) | Salinas
RVIVR- "Scrooged" | Life Moves (7Inch, 2009) | Rumbletowne (playlist)
The Bags- "Survive" | Dangerhouse Volume One (LP, 1991) | Frontier
General Interest- "What's a Darfur?" | Right by the Beach (12Inch, 2009) | Ride the Snake (playlist)
The Diamond Sea- "Restless" | Slow Signal (10Inch, 2009) | Yellow Ghost

Shiva the Destroyer- "Cataract Spelled Backward" | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (7Inch, 1994) | Codependent
Lefty Loosie- "Fourteen Days" | 100 Miles an Hour!! (CD, 2007) | Fast Crowd
The Dicks- "Anti-Klan (Part I)" | Kill from the Heart (LP, 1983) | SST
Mouthbreather- "Call Me 'Legion'" | Environmental Youth Crunch/Mouthbreather (7Inch, 2009) | Rorschach (playlist)
Brainworms- "Half a Life" | II: Swear to Me (LP, 2009) | Rorschach (playlist)

Confines- "The Impossible Standard" | Demo (Cassette, 2009) | Self-Released
Frustrations- "Glowing Red Pill" | Glowing Red Pill (LP, 2008) | X! Records
Abscess- "This Town" | Barricaded Suspects (LP, 1984) | Toxic Shock
Francis Harold and the Holograms- "The Eagle Can't Fly with One Wing" | Francis Harold and the Holograms (7Inch, 2008) | Going Underground
Fix Me- "Paradoja" | Fix Me (7Inch, 2009) | Sell Our Souls (playlist)

Sojourner- "Thredony" | Artifice (12Inch, 2009) | 16OH (playlist)
Turboslut- "Exorcism" | split with Pygmy Lush (LP, 2009) | Exotic Fever (playlist)
Youth of Togay- "The Gaychinist" | The Dongs We Bury (7Inch, 2007) | FNS
Down in Flames- "I Don't Care That I'm Falling Apart" | split with Tear It Up" (7Inch, 2001) | Die Hardcore
Aerosols- "Fuck the Pavement" | First EP (7Inch, 2006) | Youth Attack

Cult Ritual- "Saturday's Blood" | Cult Ritual (LP, 2009) | Youth Attack
Rusted Shut- "Dyin Up Here/I Hate Seattle" | Rusted Shut (CD, 1996) | Fleece
Brain Killer- "They Live/We Sleep" | Brain Killer (7Inch, 2009) | Deranged (playlist)
Step Forward- "Pushing Forward" | 10 Song EP (7Inch, 2006) | Painkiller
Waste Management- "Dead Weight" | Get Your Mind Right (7 Inch, 2007) | Painkiller

Punch- "Mending Is Better Than Ending" | Punch (LP, 2009) | 625 Thrash/Discos Huelgas (playlist)
Ampere- "The Jailors Speak of Freedom" | All Our Tomorrows End Today (10Inch, 2004) | Ebullition
Shahrazad- "Unheard Truth" | Shahrazad (7Inch, 1999) | Hand Held Heart
Slices- "Migraines" | Slices (7Inch, 2009) | Home Invasion (playlist)
Attrition- "No Control" | Keep Singing! A Benefit Compilation for Compassion over Killing (CD, 2008) | Exotic Fever
Failures- "I'm Busy" | Test Press (7Inch, 2009) | Painkiller (playlist)

The Unholy Two- "Porkys" | Kutter b/w Porkys (7Inch, 2008) | Columbus Discount
Cold Sweat- "Kept In/Chains" | Severed Ties (LP, 2002) | Rock & Roleplay
Shank- "Panoramas of Hell" | split with Iron Lung (LP, 2005) | 625 Thrash/Out of Limits
Salvation- "Creaks within the Foundation" | Of Unforgiving Wind (LP, 2009) | Youth Attack
Brainbombs- "Stinking Cocks" | Fucking Mess (LP, 2008) | Lystring
Dynasty- "Animal Disregard" | Animal Disregard (7Inch, 2006) | Dynasty

Reports

This was a request, but also, I think this is a pretty awesome release, so I'm more than happy to oblige.

Reports is a band I don't know a whole lot about. They're from Cambridge, but I've never seen them live. They don't play that many shows around here, and somehow I always manage to miss them. There's an alright garage-y scene around here, but not the sort of hipster garage stuff you find a lot of other places. I do know that Reports keep it real, playing things more on the poppy side of that genre.



I was really impressed with their 7", which came out on awesome local label Ride the Snake. No real frills, just good times. B-side is fuzzier, but A-side is my pick.

Look for the General Interest 12" coming up on Ride the Snake too!

Reports- Bill Wyman, Metal Detector

The Slits

Cut is the first record I ever bought. It fucking rules. That's it.



The Slits- Cut

Cheeky's Art of the Underground 7"

I love the idea of singles series- getting a 7" in the mail once a month = lots of fun. In reality, however, most of the time you subscribe to the series to get a couple 7"s that you actually want and then you get 10 pieces of shit in disc form. The gems you get may make it worth whatever amount you paid up front. Cheeky's Art of the Underground single is such a record.

I think I've already expressed my love for this band in every which way, and trust me, I could go on. The A side of this 7" ("Deal with It") gives you more of the 'tude from the Choke on a Cheeseburger EP. Straight-up pop punk that makes me wanna bask in the sun we had today (I wrote this a week ago- it's been raining recently... wtf happened to summer?). Messier recording than the other 7" that only adds to the charm.



"The Golden Ghost" on the flip side is a pleasant surprise. Rather than your usual pop punk jam, it's a Slingshot Dakota cover. I might leave this one to Brian, who said, "Cheeky AOTU b-side makes me want to stop writing music," and, upon discovering that the song was a cover, "i feel a little better about my own abilities now that i know it took 2 bands to create that perfection."

Outta print, but check out the Art of the Underground catalog.

Cheeky- Art of the Underground 7"

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I'm digitizing a ton of stuff for the station this summer, so if there's anything you've seen played on my show that you want the whole record, give a holler.

Also, my show is going to be from 10-12 eastern on Wednesday nights this summer.

June 17, 2009 (PRDCT #14)

The Joneses- "Criminal" | Criminal (12Inch, 2008) | Full Breach Kicks
Bitch School- "Record Shop" | Bitch School (7Inch) | Lipstick
Grave Blankets- "Our Love Is Real" | "Our Love Is Real" b/w "Trip Wire" | (7Inch, 2008) | Hozac (playlist)
Swamp Rats- "Louie Louie" | Louie Louie | (7Inch, 2003)

No Connection- "Sex Werk" | Second to None (7Inch, 2008) | Barbarossa/Successful Sex/Redhead/Nothing Solid
Hjertestop- "Tvangsindlagt" | Vi Ses I Helvede... | (LP, 2009) | No Way (playlist)
Libyans- "Crash Course" | Crash Course (7Inch, 2009) | Headcount/Shock to the System/Too Circle (playlist)
Bikini Kill- "New Radio" | New Radio (7Inch, 1993) | Kill Rock Stars
RVIVR- "Can't Stand It" | Life Moves (7Inch, 2009) | Rumbletowne (playlist)

Lamps- "I Need a Chick" | Songs of Sexual Frustration (7Inch, 2008) | S-S
My Sexual Dad- "The Sham-O-Tronic Fever" | Shark (LP, 2005) | Not Not Fun
The Muslims- "American" | The Muslims (LP, 2008) | 1928
Mika Miko- "Turkey Sandwich" | We Be Xuxa (LP, 2009) | Post Present Medium
Kurt Vile & The Violators- "Slick Licks" | The Hunchback (12Inch, 2009) | Richie (playlist)
Tideland- "Graveyard Song" | split with Pizza (7Inch, 2009) | Cosmic Debris (playlist)

Exusamwa- "Cassettes" | Please Allow Me to Induce Myself (CD, 2009) | Self-Released (playlist)
The Slits- "Typical Girls" | Cut (LP, 1979) | 4 Men with Beards
General Interest- "Drunk Doctor" | Right by the Beach (12Inch, 2009) | Ride the Snake (playlist)
Dead Dog- "Hate Song" | Dead Dog (12Inch, 2008) | Mauled by Tigers
Screaming Females- "Bell" | Power Move (CD, 2009) | Don Giovanni (playlist)

Purple Rhinestone Eagle- "Tidal Wave" | Amorum Tali (12Inch, 2009) | Eolian
Brainworms- "Jay's Big Date" | II: Swear to Me (LP, 2009) | Rorschach (playlist)
Turboslut- "Exorcism" | split with Pygmy Lush (LP, 2009) | Exotic Fever (playlist)
Hul- "Ingen Respekt til Konfirmander" | Den Danske Ungdom (LP, 2009) | Hjernespind
Turboslut- "Invoking" | split with Pygmy Lush (LP, 2009) | Exotic Fever (playlist)
Human Mess- "At War" | Follow You Home (LP, 2009) | No Way
Sojourner- "The End of All Things/Bloodwork Typeset" | The Narrows (LP, 2009) | 16OH (playlist)

Punch- "We're Not in This Together" | Punch (LP, 2009) | 625 Thrash/Discos Huelgas (playlist)
Slices- "I Melt for No One" | Slices (7Inch, 2009) | Home Invasion (playlist)
Punch- "Not So Posi after All" | Punch (LP, 2009) | 625 Thrash/Discos Huelgas (playlist)
Swinehood- "Girl Cops" | In Bad Shape (7Inch, 2008) | Kenrock
Kim Phuc- "Wormwood Star" | Wormwood Star (7Inch, 2008) | Criminal IQ

Homopolice- "Ass Fucker" | Ass Fucker (7Inch, 2009) | Heavy Leather/Rescued from Life
Fag Cop- "I'm Fucking Dead" | I'm Fucking Dead (7Inch, 2008) | Eat!
Complaints- "It's Over" | Complaints (7Inch, 2009) | Youth Attack (playlist)
Psyched to Die- "Five Year Plan" | Sterile Walls (7Inch, 2009) | Grave Mistake (playlist)

June 10, 2009 (PRDCT #13)

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Dynasty

It's my 21st birthday today, so I'm giving you a real party jam to celebrate. I've been listening to Dynasty's self-titled album on repeat for a week or two straight while cleaning up the shit hole that is the RH lounge.



I don't really know a hole lot about this band or this release other than that it came out in 2003 on Tigerbeat6 and contains the drummer from Numbers. And that it's fucking catchy. You can find a little bit at last.fm.

Dynasty play really sweet dancey electropop with songs about stalkerdom and lust for people in uniforms, among others. Anyway, jam this hard for summer.

Dynasty- self-titled

A bunch of interviews

I know I have been entirely absent lately. Life is crazy. I am currently procrastinating on my junior tutorial paper. Here's a few interviews that I did for WHRB's Record Hospital.

Corin Tucker
Screaming Females
Box Elders

I didn't do this one. Someone did about five years ago...
Rose Melberg

I'll be doing an orgy on Simple Machines soon and will be around over the summer doing air.

May 1, 2009 (PRDCT #12, last of the semester)

Please Inform the Captain This Is a Hijack- "We Train These Robots" | Defeat Or Humiliate The United States Of America (LP, 2006) | Clean Plate
Necros- "Tarnished Words" | Conquest For Death (LP, 1983) | Touch and Go
Complaints- "Tired of Living" | Complaints (7 Inch, 2009) | Youth Attack (playlist)
God Fodder- "No Sleep" | No Sleep (7 Inch, 2008) | Motorchest
The Conversions- "Basement Escapism" | Prisoner's Invention (LP, 2007) | Level Plane

Bikini Kill- "Carnival" | Bikini Kill (12 Inch, 1992) | Kill Rock Stars
Psyched to Die- "Sterile Walls" | Sterile Walls (7 Inch, 2009) | Grave Mistake (playlist)
Human Mess- "Uncaged Animal" | Uncaged Animal (7 Inch, 2008) | No Way
Born Against- "Mary and Child" | Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children (LP, 1992) | Vermiform
Libyans- "Crash Course" | Crash Course (7 Inch, 2009) | Too Circle Records (playlist)

Witches with Dicks "Next of Skin" | American Railroads (7 Inch, 2007) | Kiss of Death
Good Luck- "Stars Were Exploding" | Into Lake Griffy (CD, 2008) | Self-Released
Tranzmitors- "Last Night" | Tranzmitors (LP, 2008) | Deranged
Wounded Lion- "Carol Cloud" | Carol Cloud (7 Inch, 2008) | S-S
Brenda Lee- "Dum Dum" | Dum Dum b/w Eventually (7 Inch, 1960) | Decca

Lemuria- "Pants" | Get Better (LP, 2008) | Asian Man
Box Elders- "Hole in My Head" | Hole in My Head (7 Inch, 2008) | Grotto
The Vaselines- "Molly's Lips" | Enter the Vaselines (CD, 2009) | Subpop
Raooul- "Straitedge" | Fresh and Nubile (7 Inch, 1993) | Lookout
Big Boys- "Fun Fun Fun" | Fun Fun Fun (12 Inch, 1982) | Moment

Screaming Females- "Lights Out" | Power Move (CD, 2009) | Don Giovanni (playlist)
Gun Outfit- "On the Beach" | Gun Outfit (7 Inch, 2008) | Post Present Medium
Leatherface- "I Want the Moon" | Mush (LP, 1991) | Roughneck
Career Suicide- "Cherry Beach" | Cherry Beach (7 Inch, 2008) | Sewercide
Heavens to Betsy- "Me & Her" | These Monsters Are Real (7 Inch, 1992) | Kill Rock Stars

The Dutchess and The Duke- "Armageddon Song" | She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke (LP, 2008) | Hardly Art
Sissies- "Stand Up" | Everything In The World - A Discography (CD, 2004) | Plan-It-X
Mika Miko- "Wild Bore" | 666 (12 Inch, 2006) | Post Present Medium
X- "Your Phone's off the Hook, but You're Not" | Los Angeles (LP, 1980) | Slash
Cheeky- "The Golden Ghost" | Art of the Underground Single Series Volume 29 (7 Inch, 2008) | Art of the Underground
Deep Sleep- "Textbook Timebomb" | Three Things at Once (CD, 2009) | Grave Mistake (playlist)

Negative Approach- "Your Mistake" | Tied Down (1983) | Touch and Go
Last Priest- "The Addict" | Last Priest (LP, 2009) | 16OH
Former Members of Alfonsin- "Devil's Vocabulary Test" | split with Bread and Circuits (LP, 2000) | El Grito
Punch- "Nothing Left" | Eyeless (7 Inch, 2008) | 625 Thrash/Discos Huelgas
Slices- "Coping Mechanism" | Slices (7 Inch, 2009) | 16OH (playlist)

Timber- "Beginning" | Timber (7 Inch, 2008) | Something Crucial
Life at These Speeds- "Younger Monkey" | split with Thank God (7 Inch, 2007) | Exotic Fever
Witches- "Young Ones" | Witches (7 Inch, 2008) | Salinas
Tara Jane O'Neil- "Drowning" | A Ways Away (CD, 2009) | K (playlist)
Des Ark- "Saddle Is Waitin (C'Mon Jump on It)" | Live on WXDU v. 2 (CD, 2008) | Self-Released

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