bands that are blowing your mind lately
 

havnt done this in a longtime.

my tastes have been ridiculously diverse today. The main thing I suppose would be all the new lo fi rock n roll and punk wieder psych bands, the blank dogs/siltbreeze canon. Some particular bands that I have just gotten into are the Ooga Boogas, the Country teasers Human Eye (you must listen to this band the cooles heavy psych shit ive heard since comets on fire first came out, allthough its much much darker, and its remarkably rock and not improv based), Black Time (if i had known about them earlier "Double Negative" would have surely been in my top five records of last year, sort of inbetween Brainbombs and straight punk), Pink Noise, A-Frames, FNU Ronnies, Endless Boogie, and Teenage Panzkerdrops. I also like the new Black Lips lp, I know lots of people think they are a lame hipster band, but hipster or not, I don't see anything bad about five drunk dudes struming on guitars and singing like shitfaced sailors in unison while creating these fun and wild extremly soulful garage songs. Its not nearly as good as "Los Valientes del Mundo", but itll do. They are a band people are surprised that I'm so into.

Becuase of all this i have pulled out all my older grarage stuff that influenced the new shit. I have recently gotten into the Clean's compilation that came out last year and I fucking love it. The Saints have defintely gotten a place back in my list of favorite bands, and Australian Punk in general i think is just some of the most exciting and pure music ever. The Gories, the Gun Club, the Kinks, Teegenerate, Cheater Slicks, the Controllers, Inhalants, and many many more.

At the same time though, I seem to be mixing it up with all sorts of the wierdest noise and psych bands I can find. Slicing Grandpa, Kuupuu, the Julie Mittens, id m theft able, Israeli Intelligence, Oaxacan, etc...

I'm getting overwhlemed by this huge influx of amazing new music. It almost seems that I hear more bands thatr I dig than I don't. This lo-fi noisy rock music though is just totally my thing.

My life is pretty much Miley Cyrus and Happy Hardcore at the moment. I've just ordered some Principal Edwards' Magic Theatre though. And it's getting to be the right season for the Canterbury scene, know what I'm saying?

I haven't listened to new music in ages. or anything that is AWESOME or beyond.

Man I love the black lips. & they are not a hipster band that's a bunch of bullshit. They've been working their ass off for 8 years as a band and did not get any hipster over night success bs...

The newest cd is ok tho, I havent heard all of it, but I still think let it bloom or we did not know the forest spirit made the flowers grow are my favs from them...

So far this year the most impressive thing I've seen was the Tom Carter solo set at Issue Project Room. 25 minutes of guitar bliss. He has a great guitar sound and built up a compelling structure, but unlike his more delicate stuff this piece roared.

Oh yeah Jack Rose playing with the pianist from D Charles Speer and Dan from Harmonica Dan last Saturday was also very happening.

Definitely on a miley cyrus kick myself. Good call, Glice.

sholi

for me it's been Electric Wizard.

black dice and wet hair.

arthur russell has probably owned my 09 the most though.

FINALLY PUNK, love is all, the new comet gain.

as for older stuff: irma thomas, frances gall and other 60's french ye-ye singers, one last wish, the cramps, martha reeves and the vandellas, beat happening, bumblebee unlimited, ABBA. that's what i've been listening to a lot lately.

oh and blatz too.

Boris, Ghost, Malice Mizer, Sigh, Ved Buens Ende.

Good call on The Clean and The Saints, you should check out the Laughing Clowns, Ed Kuepper's band after he left The Saints.

I've just been listening to every single Acid Mothers Temple album.

oh, i just bought the new dum dum girls and it's amazing, so i'm sure i'm going to be listening to that a lot in the next few months.

I'm really enjoying predator vision and sun araw.

Massive Attack and Portishead

Assume that Autechre are always blowing my mind.

profane by couch.

Watersports by Mi Ami has been playing on repeat a lot for me lately.

a lot of bands I was going to name have been mentioned. mi ami, wet hair, sun araw, predator vision

the magic lantern acoustic 12" blew me away..didn't expect it to be as full sounding as it was

also the masters for some DNT LPs: plankton wat, attesupa. incredible stuff

The pains of being pure at heart

good live band. okay studio band.

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.