Great tune.  You're taking me back to the early 80s.  Looking forward to the upcoming release.

master by detriti
also available on cassette: https://www.detritirecords.shop/cassette/blanche-biau-maraude

Marode Gestalten

Eternally

Medical Records releases the first full length LP in 5 years by LA’s Geneva Jacuzzi. To say Jacuzzi is a multifaceted artist would be an understatement. She is well known for her uncompromisingly obtuse synth-driven pop and one-of-a-kind performance art that is comprised of one time only spectacles and installations. Her works have been presented in famous art institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA and numerous other venues across the globe. She has developed a very focused cult following in the art AND music scenes. She was originally well known for her multitude of self-released home recordings but also released a full length Lamaze in 2010 on the Vinyl International to much acclaim. Not to mention her track The Sleep Room featured on The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol 2. Technophelia is the culmination of a hybrid of DIY and professional studio recordings (with the help of esteemed producer Chris Coady) that resulted in this exquisite album. Features the soon-to-be-hits I’m A TV and Cannibal Babies. Lovers of unique and left-field wave such as Gina X, Ronny, and the like will be transfixed by the raw, oozing newness of it all. All tracks recorded/performed by Geneva Jacuzzi with additional production by Chris Coady at Sunset Sound Studios. Mastered by Josh Bonati. Presented on high-quality 180gram heavyweight white vinyl.

Geneva Jacuzzi -  Macho Island (MR​-​053)

I Repeat Myself

"Holding On" album out on DKA (US) and Avant! (EU.

https://sallydige.bandcamp.com/

Sally links:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sallydige
Instagram: www.instagram.com/sally_dige
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SallyDige

Sail To Me

From the Kill Rock Stars album 'Mating Surfaces,' available at http://lithics.bandcamp.com

Mating Surfaces is the second full length from Portland, Oregon's Lithics. Twelve tightly wound fragments of brittle abstract twin guitar, impellent rhythm, and absurd, imagistic lyricism. 

"A stern danceable sound that summons cut up snapshots of Su Tissue and Mark E Smith, an imagined landscape where Captain Beefheart hits that 99 Records “Too Many Creeps” beat."
-Layla Gibbon (Maximum Rocknroll, Skinned Teen).

PRESS/LABEL: ben@killrocksatrs.com
US BOOKING: joe@groundcontroltouring.com
UK/EURO BOOKING: peter@puschen.net

Mating Surfaces

Excuse Generator

Lithics - Excuse Generator

From the second album "The Last Cup of Sorrow".

Die Stadt

'Good Sense' is taken from Hash Redactor's debut album entitled 'Drecksound', out April 26th through Upset The Rhythm and Goner Records.

A quick glance at the résumés of Hash Redactor’s members might seed certain expectations.  The band is fronted by guitarist Alec McIntyre of Ex-Cult, with NOTS rhythm warriors Meredith Lones on bass and Charlotte Watson on drums, and rounded off by George Williford on second guitar.  But their debut full-length dives into territory that feels distinctly untethered from their lineage and era.  Drecksound is a clattering, shambolic oasis in the sleek digital desert of the late twenty-teens.  
 
Perhaps both because and in spite of the alienation that typifies the glut of rock music at the end of this god-damned decade, these twelve songs deliver a pointed social criticism, more cathartic than suffocating, while championing a nihilism that greets the abyss by laughing mockingly in its face. The chorus to the incendiary Step 2: Success is sneered, not sung, “It’s a long con job and you just got it wrong / banned from the world.” Or take Open Invite’s opening missive, “I won’t settle for anything less than a four-star refugee camp.” McIntyre’s lyrics present a puckish fascination with humankind’s rake-stepping self destruction.  He’s a merry prankster, but more in the mold of a jackbooted Monty Python character than a Ken Kesey acid casualty. Case in point: A-side epic In The Tank, where a vindictive custodian boils alive the wealthy patrons at the sensory-deprivation tank facility where he works.
 
McIntyre and Williford’s guitar interplay on Drecksound draws from some weird rundown of usual and unusual suspects in the tight corner of avant-punk guitar work, recalling some free-association that includes: Marquee Moon, John Fahey gone electric, the playing on Ornette Coleman’s mid-70s Body Meta and Dancing In Your Head, prime-era Flesheaters, and (why not) the first two Meat Puppets albums. Without anything resembling traditional leads, guitars snake in, out and around Lones’s bass lines, which alternate between slinky earworm hooks and steel cable raw power.  All of this is locked in by Watson’s characteristically visceral swing.  It doesn’t feel controversial to claim that the duo of Watson and Lones constitutes one of the best rhythm sections to be heard anywhere in contemporary punk music.
 
Having played out heavy in 2018 with a refined live show, a four-song demo, and several Gonerfest appearances under their belt, HR cut the record at home on a borrowed 8-track cassette machine. The deranged raw tracks were mixed into final form by Matt Qualls at Young Avenue Sound, and mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering. Hash Redactor will be touring the States in summer and with plans for Europe later in 2019. Drecksound is out April 26 on Upset the Rhythm in UK/EU and the rest of the world on Goner.

Available to pre-order here: upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Drecksound

Hash Redactor - 'Good Sense'

Committed by Dark Company.
From CD 1, 'SNAFU', of the triple CD album 'A for Acronym'.

COMMITTED
Play strange games with what makes you real
What you need to close the deal
In weird ideas the difference is there
But there is no one to really care
To peculiar needs you have to succumb
Or you'll never do what needs to be done

You'll see scenery you don't understand
Just a desert with peculiar sand
You'll see tunnels without any ends
Filled with messages that no one sends

Think odd thoughts about where you have gone
Chase the memories lingering on
In some places are wonders that walk
Stones that fly, walls that talk
To these visions your mind commits
There in your head the knowledge it sits

You'll see scenery you don't understand
Just a desert with peculiar sand
You'll see tunnels without any ends
Filled with messages that no one sends

Porcelain pictures of mantle decor
That is all they can be for
In hidden shades the secrets they sit
But that is where hammer blows hit
And weird ideas are given birth
Grown in the richness of your earth

You'll see scenery you don't understand
Just a desert with peculiar sand
You'll see tunnels without any ends
Filled with messages that no one sends

Play strange games with what makes you real
What you need to close the deal
In weird ideas the difference is there
But there is no one to really care
To peculiar needs you have to succumb
Or you'll never do what needs to be done

You'll see scenery you don't understand
Just a desert with peculiar sand
You'll see tunnels without any ends
Filled with messages that no one sends

Lyrics by P. Greatorex 9th December 2010.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex.

This arrangement by Dark Company.
Copyright © 2010 D & G Music/Explicit Music.

Cover Art:
“Holes in My Reality 2” by Peter Greatorex.
See: https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex-gallery-2/

Performers:
‘Speedy’ Pete Greatorex – lead vocal
Zakk Black – guitars, vocal
Maxx Damage – bass
Sven Stiglund – drums

Vocals and rhythm guitar recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter, 2015.
Everything else recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Europe, 2020.
Engineered, mixed and produced at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2024.

Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.

Fun Facts:
* The lyrics for this song were written 9th December 2010.
* This is a song that Pete never sang a proper studio version of and his vocals were lifted from the demo and cleaned up a bit.
* Well, quite a lot actually. 🙂
* It was during the editing of this track that the main studio computer suddenly decided to mangle itself beyond all recognition, causing weeks of delay and expensive replacement parts to be bought.
* Fortunately no data was lost due to our cunning back-up strategies.
* When we made the original demo of this song, it just had a chugging guitar to keep Pete in key and on time.
* In the demo version the bass continued on for a time after the vocal and guitar, playing the gappy riff and the rhythms.
* The ‘chug’ was replaced here by the twin lead parts, which together with the bass make up the major and minor triads that form the original chord progression (more or less).
* The original had an electronic kit which needs to make a reappearance somewhere.
* The lyric to this suggests the perspective of an older person looking back at his life and the pains associated with that.
* Perhaps the older we become, the better we can relate.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/a-for-acronym-cd-1-snafu/
https://linktr.ee/dark.company
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/a-for-acronym/committed

A for Acronym CD 1: SNAFU

Committed

Downloads

Dark Company: Committed (alpha mix)

Insepulto ~ Falsía

INTRODUCING: THE FLAG AND “OFF MUSIC”
BY NICK SYLVESTER

Let’s start with clarity, and reassurance: The Flag is not another Black Flag reunion band. 

The Flag, which is the artist Ted McGrath’s latest musical project, works in a tradition of New York I only know as 'off music'. A classic sound, turned inside-out. Monk was off. Liquid Liquid was off. Talking Heads were off. Rap was so off! Velvets--a thousand miles off. Even the Strokes were off, if only because *nothing* was off about the Strokes. 

His voice reminds me of weirdo New York crooners like Alan Vega and David Byrne and Sal Principato, though I find him more lovable. Rhythmically the music is very much indebted to stuff like Suicide and Liquid Liquid and On The Corner. Heavy stuff but again: Ted is the people’s champ. “Alpha 60 Punch Out” is the a-side. It’s built off an irresistible full-spectrum percussion loop that propels the song through six or seven distinct movements. On the flip is the introspective "Neighbors": a maximum-delay guitar number about a specific NYC rite of passage known as Getting Mugged.

If you’re playing Brooklyn Noise Bingo at home, this whole release--a teaser for what we hope will be more soon--is a gold mine. Ted played in These Are Powers and Antimagic, and his iconic messy visual style regularly appears on show posters and album covers around town. Jeremy Scott recorded both songs at Civil Defense right before Hurricane Sandy knocked him and many other friends of ours out of commission. Sarah Register of Talk Normal mastered both tracks at The Lodge, and gave them their impossible spread across the stereo field. “Alpha 60 Punch Out” b/w “Neighbors” is available digitally worldwide and on limited edition cassette at the GODMODE shop mid July.

THE FLAG
“Alpha 60 Punch Out” b/w “Neighbors”
Digital/Cassette
GM027. 2013.

Vocals, Loops, and Guitar by Ted McGrath
Additional Drum Programming by Nick Sylvester
Additional Percussion: Ryan Crozier 
Trumpet: Eleanor Logan 

Recorded by Jeremy Scott at Civil Defense, BK
Mixed by Nick Sylvester at The Wood Room, BK
Mastered by Sarah Register at The Lodge, NYC.

Songs and Sounds by Ted McGrath
www: theflagisaband.com
twitter: @tedmcgrath
press: nbs at entergodmode dot com


Alpha 60 Punch Out

The Flag - Alpha 60 Punch Out

Duchess Says was created in late 2003 by four influent members of the Church of Budgerigars who decided to collaborate together in a common musical project. Their goal was to insure a faithful representation of the message of the Duchess (or spiritual budgie) through a precise artistic dialog. Composed of A-Claude (vox, keytar, guitar), Ismael (keyboard,guitar), Phil (guitar, bass,feedbacks) and Simon Says (lo-fi beats, drums and doubtful noises). Duchess Says is serving us a repertory of "moog rock" songs strong in images and enormoustly intense live performances!Their musical influences range from no wave, new wave, punk, to cinema and visual arts. If you pay attention, you could see them perform in the most unusual places such as golf courses, shop windows, vacant building sites etc.. Duchess Says has the mandate to decontextualise the rock and to promote simultaneously their Church on the way.

I Repeat Myself

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