that's a terrible band name.

i have heard of them but haven't listened yet... probably because of that name

me too! also Ducktails.

school of seven bells.... that album is stunning.....

man, you should hear talulah gosh then!

very good

Oh boy, you're kidding... right?

very good point. i dunno, they get bad rep from people for the associationg with vice magazine and such, but i really could care fuck all about that. in fact, i actually kinda dig vice magazine, epicly later'd is one of my favorite shows on the net. but all the people who say shit like that have fuck all to say about the music, because the black lips do what they do PERFECTLY. the publications that actually only focus on the music, like terminal boredom or z-gun are the ones praising them.

haha, that happens to me sometimes too. they are a band that are real easy to get addicted too, because they have fucking hundreds of records and seemingly every fucking one has something unique or interesting about that demands a listen or two at least, and about 1/4 of them are excelllent, and about 1/8 of them are perfect. its like, if you put on "electric heavy land" and admire the pitch perfect laser-psychedelic riffs and the stockhausen meets hendrix heavyness and fucked upness, then you cant help but want to then listen to the wierd as hell drone and electronic sounds of an album like "born to be wild in the usa 2000". i know i talk about them a lot, but they really are one of my favorite fucking bands. top 20 all time.

^ Do describe.
Might I ask how you go about finding about half the things you listen to?

I surprised that I have until now never heard of the Grifters.

Haha, how do you know about him? I just played a show with him recently. Though I lost a bit of the crowd, because I played after him, and some ppl werent ready for his set. (him and his band told the crowd to shut up, then they stripped bare ass naked and started playing) haha.

It was pretty rad, but noone knew what was coming....I think it freaked some ppl out who were just there to drink...so they left...but fuck those ppl anyway.

yes or shop assistants or heavenly or any early sarah records band or any other "indie pop" band from the mid to late eighties.

check them out. they are a retro "twee" band, but still pretty good.

Helena Espvall's solo set Friday was freakin' killer..

more bands and records:

UN-UN (siltbreeze full length, like the more conventional rock parts of royal trux mixed with the lo-fi parts of tower recordings, i think Marica Basset is one of my favorite musicians, from this band, to double leapords, to hotogisu, to religious knives, to zaimph, she makes killer fuckling tunes)
feedtime-Feedtime (noisy and raw and bluesy hardcore punk, or hardcore blues-punk, awesome vocals too)
Yes Collapse
Bassholes
Leper Print/Artificial Limbs
Metrocide
Garage Indians (amazing noise band that often recalls early sightings covering amon duul 1 that seemingly has nothing availible anymore, i got some of thier stuff on 23 production and i assure you its head fucking)
fat work of error (i want a new album, though the bromb treb solo 7" of drummer neil young is good enough)
taj mahal travellers
absu (new fave death metal)
arthur doyle's free jazz soul orchestra-bushman yoga
nuclear crayons (you know how when a band is called "acid punk", they are hardly acidic or punk at all? like camper van beehtoven is kinda punk, but hardly psychedelic. and the butthole surfers are sure as hell psychedelic and drugged out and are punk in aesthetic, but thier sound is more than anything a blown noise drenched take on classic 70s rock. well, some bands fit the descritpion perfectly, like chrome, and the nuclear crayons. this album is a deliberate attempt to combine the hyper-creative and powerful strand of early 80s british hardcore punk of rudimentary peni and discharge with the psychedelic wierdness of bands like the red krayola and soft machine. brilliant.)
endless boogie (have i mentioned them already? sorry they just fucking rule)
alvarius b with dylan nyoukis-sugar: the other white meat lp (i feel lucky to have this, one of the world's most infleuntial people period, thats mr alan bishop, with one of junk collage noise's true innovators, two very rad dudes from two very different and equally strange styles of music as well as members of two of my most beloved bands of the 90s, prick decay and that band that bishop is in that we sometimes talk about. more in bishop's style than dylan's, but it is so good, i wish i could upload but i only have it on vonyl)

bands blowing my mind lately


Sonic Youth
The Beatles
Parliament Funkadelic

Xasthur (predominantly 'Nocturnal Poisoning.')
Melvins ('Houdini.')
Black Flag (the last three slow tracks on 'My War.')

Those last three tracks on My War is some of my favourite music ever!

Brainbombs (have been obsessed for months)
Krysmopompas (German band with a 2xLP on SS Records. Very Wire influenced)
Kitchen's Floor (three piece from Brisbane, just sent me the unmixed recordings of their debut album. www.myspace.com/kitchensfloor )
Pink Reason (took me a while to catch on but he's amazing)

Man, absolutely. It just reminds me how amazing:


1) Raw fuckin' guitar can be, even when slowed down to a grinding halt.
2) Guitar noise can be as an ambient tool, even when minimal.
3) Greg Ginn is for capturing both of these things.

same here.