Street Anger Blog

NO STREET ANGER THIS WEEK

2008-10-23T12:41:00.002-04:00

because I'm in New York at the CMJ conference.

Standouts so far:
- Ringo Deathstarr (awesome rocked-out shoegaze from Austin)
- A Sunny Day In Glasgow (kinda surprised by this one; total C86/Slumberland worshop)
- Marnie Stern (way better than the last time I saw her)
- Women (Akron/Family reborn as a lo-fi math-rock band?)
- Parts and Labor (see Marnie Stern)
- The Coathangers (all-girl sassy garage punk from Atlanta)
- Ponytail (one of my favorite live bands being one of the best bands I've seen at the festival? NO WAI)

will keep you posted on things and maybe do a CMJ retro$pective. I'M HAVING A GOOD TIME. :)

NYHC on Donahue - 1986

2008-10-07T02:33:00.001-04:00

"Man, Phil Donahue turned the New York hardcore scene into an English class." - Abe Cavin

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Demon's Demands 7"

2008-10-06T00:27:00.002-04:00

Up there as one of the best releases of 2008 for me. I play this on Street Anger Radio all the time, so if you listen you might be acquainted with the title track. This is one of a handful of records I've been spinning recently that make waking up in the morning and dealing with bullshit worth it.

Eddy Current Suppression Ring are four dudes from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, home of some of the best underground music you can find these days (My Disco, Witch Hats, Fabulous Diamonds, a zillion other fucking awesome groups). They all work in a record pressing plant and started the band because they were friends and wanted to be in a sweet band. It took them to the top 10 of the Australian charts with their most recent long-player, Primary Colors, released in the US on Goner. Musically, it reminds me of a slightly slower and garagier Buzzcocks, or if the Clean were more punk. Their songs tend to be slow burners - maybe not immediately catchy, but as you get closer to the end, you have a revelation: "Holy shit, this band rules." They toured the US in '07, and apparently their DC show was one of the highlights. Here's to hoping they come back.

Anyway, the Demon's Demands 7" was released on Iron Lung Records in a one-time edition of 500. It sold out immediately, and now yer only option for grabbing it is off of eBay or a vinyl buying/trading site. I don't think too many will be showing up for a while yet, because this is going to be a jewel of a lot of collections. This rip is my own, and while it's not quite audiophile quality, it just has a little bit of surface noise. Like actually listening to a record.

demon's downloads

Anyone who's interested in unloading other records of theirs, get in touch. I have their s/t LP, but none of the 7"s.

Pixies vs. Toadies

2008-10-01T13:07:00.001-04:00

1988:

1994:

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!

Playlist for 9-25-08

2008-09-26T11:38:00.001-04:00

link

1 Ringo Deathstarr In Love In Love/Summertime EP
2 Ponytail Beg Waves Ice Cream Spiritual
3 My Bloody Valentine Soon Loveless
4 Vivian Girls Never See Me Again s/t
5 Shop Assistants Caledonia Rd. Will Anything Happen
6 Slowdive Morningrise Just For A Day
7 Deerhunter Never Stops Microcastle
8 Magazine Definitive Gaze Real Life
9 Primal Scream Movin' On Up Screamadelica
10 Smashing Pumpkins Girl Named Sandoz Pisces Iscariot
11 The Telescopes Threadbare Taste
12 The Icarus Line Kiss Like Lizards Penance Soiree
13 Black Lips Dirty Hands Let It Bloom
14 Spectrum How You Satisfy Me s/t
15 No Age Sleeper Hold Nouns
16 Hum Green to Me Downward is Heavenward
17 Lungfish Black Helicopters Artificial Horizon
18 Times New Viking The Wait Rip It Off
19 ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead How Near How Far Source Tags and Codes
20 Chavez Laugh Track Better Days Will Haunt You
21 A Place to Bury Strangers Breathe s/t
22 The Clean Beatnik Anthology
23 The White Stripes Lafayette Blues Life on the Flip Side singles compilation
24 The Music Machine Talk Talk Turn On LP
25 Tyvek Sidewalk Sidewalk 7"
26 Tyrades Couples s/t LP
27 The Carbonas Nineteen (Dogs cover) Live at Rob's House 7"
28 The Hives The Hives - Introduce The Metric System In Time Veni Vedi Vicious LP
29 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Demon's Demands Demon's Demands 7"
30 The Coachwhips Extinguish Me Bangers vs. Fuckers
31 Unnatural Helpers Break That Horse Sub Pop Singles Club 7"
32 Unnatural Helpers Easy Way Sub Pop Singles Club 7"
33 Japanther River Phoenix Skuffed Up My Huffy
34 Digital Leather Hologram Sorcerer
35 Shellac Steady As She Goes Excellent Italian Greyhound
36 Sonic Youth Death Valley '69 (feat. Lydia Lynch) Bad Moon Rising
37 Circle Jerks When The Shit Hits The Fan Repo Man Soundtrack LP

ISN'T THIS WHAT LIFE'S ALL ABOUT?
ISN'T THIS A DREAM COME TRUE?
ISN'T THIS A NIGHTMARE TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Need New Body - three videos

2008-09-26T02:30:00.001-04:00

Need New Body are one of those bands that you had a chance to see but never did for whatever reason. Mine was because I had seen Hot Cross the night before and didn't want to drive an hour up to Wallingford again to see some noisy band that may or may not be good. I guarantee they would have put on a better show than Hot Cross.

Need New Body - Buffalo Stance

Need New Body - Beach

Need New Body - Brite Tha Day

2008-09-25T14:00:00.001-04:00

Quick reminder that Street Anger Radio is on tonight 8-10 PM. Doing a show with a lot of shoegaze and heavy 90's indie/alt-whatever, as well as a good dose of ROCK N ROLL.

Make a request and call into the studio!

In CT for the weekend...

2008-09-21T18:54:00.002-04:00

so here are three videos that you should watch.

Slowdive - Morningrise

For a while Souvlaki was my go-to make-out album, but that kinda backfired the last time I put it on. I haven't been able to listen to anything off it since, with the exception of "Souvlaki Space Station," which is their attempt at a dub song. It's also made me appreciate their other albums more.

Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands

Sisters of Mercy - Dominion

PS - seeing MY BLOODY VALENTINE tomorrow with Sean Gray of DNA in the DNA/Hit Dat Records fame. NO FUCKIN WAY.

CLOCKCLEAN ER - "Ready to Fight"

2008-09-18T10:46:00.002-04:00

May 14, 2008, opening for Negative Approach in NYC. What better way to honor one of the greatest hardcore bands of all time than to cover one of their songs for 15+ minutes?

Live 12" coming out soon.

Drunkdriver

2008-09-15T00:44:00.002-04:00

I can't support driving drunk, but Brooklyn's DRUNKDRIVER are one of the most exciting new bands to come around these parts in a while. Last weekend they flattened Philly and Maryland with punishing industrial punk.

While Drunkdriver are only a three-piece, they make more noise than most full bands - guitarist Kristy cranks all three amps up way beyond where they should be, creating a brutal, bludgeoning, in-the-red sound while singer Berdan pukes out lyrics like "You taste like cancer" into a delay pedal. It's a horrifying combination, somewhere between Baltimore heroes (and Street Anger favorites) Double Dagger and Yahweh or the Highway-era Arab on Radar.

They have an LP coming out on Parts Unknown soon, and have a cassette out, but the guy who put out the cassette flaked or something, so contact the band to find out the best way to get a copy.

Interview coming in the first issue of STREET ANGER zine.

street america radio 9/11 edition

2008-09-12T16:58:00.001-04:00

1 Rage Against the Machine Bulls On Parade Evil Empire
2 Fearless Iranians From Hell Blow Up The Embassy s/t EP
3 Leftover Crack Super Tuesday Fuck World Trade
4 A Frames Hostage Crisis A Frames
5 Minor Threat Guilty of Being White Complete Discography
6 Soul Coughing Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago
7 Toby Keith Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue Unleashed
8 Bauhaus St. Vitus Dance In the Flat Field
9 Clockcleaner NSA Nevermind
10 Homostupids Dick Sting The Intern
11 Black Flag Black Coffee Slip It In
12 Ringo Deathstarr In Love In Love/Summertime EP
13 My Bloody Valentine (When You're Awake) You're Still In A Dream Isn't Anything
14 True Womanhood Cosmic Ray Demo v.1
15 Deerhunter Intro Microcastle (request by Sean Gray)
16 Deerhunter Agoraphobia Microcastle (request by Sean Gray)
17 ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Heart in the Hand of the Matter Source Tags and Codes
18 Nirvana Territorial Pissings Nevermind (dedicated to Sean Gray)
19 Economist Japanese Day Trading s/t
20 Nation of Ulysses Mockingbird, Yeah Plays Pretty For Baby
21 The New Flesh Plastic Parasite
22 Suicide Rocket USA Suicide
23 Arab on Radar Running for Asthma The Stolen Singles
24 Devo Strange Pursuit Duty Now For the Future
25 DNA 5:30 DNA on DNA
26 The Conet Project tcp d1 9 ready ready 15728 irdial Conet Project Disc 1
27 Drunkdriver Secret Eater Born Pregnant
28 Sonic Youth Sugar Kane Dirty
29 Guided By Voices Motor Away Alien Lanes
30 Double Dagger No Allies Sophisticated Urban Living 7"
31 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Demon's Demands Demon's Demands 7"
32 A Place To Bury Strangers Another Step Away s/t
33 The Jesus Lizard Puss Liar
34 Deerhunter Nothing Ever Happened Microcastle

The Hospitals vs. promoter

2008-09-11T01:27:00.000-04:00

Holy shit.

playlist 9-4-08

2008-09-06T14:32:00.001-04:00

1 Karp Prison Shake Prison Shake 7"
2 Hot Snakes Braintrust Audit in Progress
3 Surf Nazis Must Die Worthless Sunday Anti Everything 7"
4 Career Suicide Blink Attempted Suicide
5 The Misfits Last Caress Collection II
6 The Cramps Can Your Pussy Do The Dog? Greatest Hits
7 Vivian Girls Tell the World s/t
8 Witch Hats Hellhole Hellhole 7"
9 My Bloody Valentine Feed Me With Your Kiss Feed Me With Your Kiss EP
10 The Black Angels Mission District Directions To See A Ghost
11 Poster Children Thinner, Stronger Sub Pop singles club 7"
12 Gang of Four Return the Gift Entertainment!
13 Pylon M-Train Pylon 7"
14 Wire Sand In My Joints Chairs Missing
15 Casino Music Viol Af Dis BIPPP: French Synth-Wave 1979-1985
16 The Clean Beatnik Anthology
17 Black Sabbath Into the Void Master of Reality
18 Los Microwaves TV In My Eye Time To Get Up 7"
19 Drunkdriver Warm on the Inside My Chinese Sister cs
20 Pink Reason By A Thread By A Thread 7"
21 Joy Division Living in the Ice Age Warsaw
22 Religious Knives In Brooklyn After Dark It's After Dark
23 They and the Children Watch It Go They and the Children/Daniel Striped Tiger split 7"
24 The New Flesh Plastic Parasite
25 Flipper Ever Generic
26 Double Dagger Bored Meeting Bored Meeting 7"
27 The Monorchid Southern Fried Wonton Impostor Costume 7"
28 Unrest So You Wanna Be A Rock And Roll Star Scott and Zelda 7"
29 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Demon's Demands Demon's Demands 7"
30 Rocket From The Crypt My Arrow's Aim Hot Charity/Cut Carefully and Play Loud
31 Times New Viking We Got Rocket Dig Yourself
32 Wire The Commercial Pink Flag

Video: The Shamen - Ebenezer Goode

2008-08-31T04:25:00.002-04:00

Man England was weird in the early 90's. This video manages to be hilarious and terrifying at the same time, and kinda serves as an effective (if unintentional) anti-MDMA public service announcement.

Video: Hot Snakes - Braintrust

2008-08-30T16:47:00.002-04:00

They only ever played 21+ shows in New York, and I never got to see them. Sean Gray got kicked out of their last show, where they played Drive Like Jehu's chart toppers "Luau" and "Bullet Train To Vegas".

Here is a video of "Braintrust," for those of you who are going back to college this week. Don't go to Harvard, don't go to Yale, your disposition will only make you fail.

august 26 playlist

2008-08-29T02:41:00.001-04:00

oah oops

1 * Abe Vigoda Bear Face Skeleton
2 Chromatics Arms Slither Away International Pop Underground 7"
3 Herpes Rad Ab Tod Von Nem Disco-Tänzer 7"
4 Herpes Nie Mehr Sehn Tod Von Nem Disco-Tänzer 7"
5 The Clean Tally Ho The Clean Anthology
6 Hot Snakes Our Work Fills The Pews Automatic Midnight
7 * Mogwai Batcat The Hawk Is Howling
8 7654 Stories Science Fiction 2005 demo
9 Sonic Youth Becuz Washing Machine
10 Witch Hats Hellhole Hellhole 7"
11 Shotmaker Nick's Question Complete Discography
12 My Bloody Valentine Feed Me With Your Kiss Feed Me With Your Kiss EP
13 Black Lips I Saw A Ghost (Lean) Good Bad Not Evil
14 Archaeopteryx Mustachioed Arab With A Money Hat Holding A Calculator and Getting A Good Idea Devastarchaeoptertard Party
15 A Place To Bury Strangers My Weakness s/t
16 Cheveu Superhero s/t
17 A Frames Police 1000 Police 1000/Traction 7"
18 The Clean Platypus The Clean Anthology
19 * Deerhunter Nothing Ever Happened Microcastle
20 Guided By Voices Tractor Rape Chain Bee Thousand
21 Guided By Voices Motor Away Alien Lanes
22 Polvo Tragic Carpet Ride Celebrate The New Dark Age EP
23 Pavement Unseen Power of the Picket Fence Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain reissue
24 Vivian Girls Where Do You Run To s/t
25 Spacemen 3 Come Down Easy Perfect Prescription
26 The Summer We Went West A Turn (Something Moves Again) 1 Following The Holy Moon Goddess
27 The Summer We Went West A Turn (Something Moves Again) 2 Following The Holy Moon Goddess
28 The Summer We Went West A Turn (Something Moves Again) 3 Following The Holy Moon Goddess
29 Indian Summer Touch The Wings Of An Angel... Discography
30 The Kills Dropout Boogie Black Rooster EP
31 Birthday Boyz Basketball Fiction/Birthday Boyz 7"
32 Nirvana Breed Nevermind
33 * The YMD Charles Maggio's Real Last Name Is Ash Excuse Me, This Is The Yah Mos Def

2008-08-28T15:11:00.001-04:00

For some reason the WMUC website didn't save my show playlist from last week, which SUCKS because I was really happy with my playlist from this week. Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

New time slot is Thursdays 8-10 PM, and it's going to rule.

tally ho tally ho

2008-08-25T13:08:00.002-04:00

New Zealand rules. I'd love to go there sometime and scour the Antipodes for Flying Nun singles.

Here's the first one. The Clean, "Tally Ho".

2008-08-25T02:34:00.000-04:00

cat the drive-in

2008-08-24T18:30:00.001-04:00

cedric meow mixler-zavala
omeow rodriguez-lopez

in/catsino/out

Motor Away

2008-08-24T14:20:00.003-04:00

Sorry for the break, I was really busy with my last week of my summer internship, and then spent a week helping my younger brother move to the University of Missouri. St. Louis is cool (check out Vintage Vinyl if you're ever in the area), as is Columbia, where I got invited to a noise show after being in town for 15 minutes.

Here's a Guided By Voices video to make up for the delay. Ohio has a long tradition of weirdo rock dudes - oddly enough, they weren't represented at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. No GBV, no Devo (a huge "what the fuck"), and you can bet your "Busy Making Love And War" 7" that Times New Viking won't be in there. Instead, you get to look at Bono's costumes he wore on U2's "Pompous Asshole" tour in '96.

Also, this video, like most of GBV's, reminds me of Pete and Pete.

8-5 Street Anger playlist

2008-08-06T10:33:00.000-04:00

1 Pavement Box Elder Westing By Musket And Sextant
2 Fearless Iranians From Hell Blow Up The Embassy s/t 7"
3 Black Randy Idi Amin Dangerhouse singles comp
4 A Frames Hostage Crisis A Frames
5 My Disco A Christ Pendant Comfort Her Neck Paradise
6 Silver Daggers Real Neat Flag New High and Ord
7 The Kills Cat Claw Keep On Your Mean Side
8 Sonic Youth Star Power EVOL
9 Flipper The Way of the World Generic
10 Dead Kennedys Let's Lynch The Landlord Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
11 Sex Vid Misprint live cassette
12 Economist Point A - Point B Economist
13 Suicidal Tendencies Institutionalized s/t
14 Brainworms Born With A Beard Which is Worse?
15 Universal Order of Armageddon Entire Vast Situation discography
16 Navies A Surveyor's Measure s/t 7"
17 7654 Stories Secret Decay 2005 demo
18 Shotmaker 10/22/94 discography
19 Indian Summer Orchard Discography
20 Wow, Owls! Five Sexy Alligators, Please Pick Your Patterns
21 White Load Racist Joke 2007 demo
22 This Bike is a Pipe Bomb The Black Panther Song Dance Party With...
23 McLusky Collagen Rock Mclusky Do Dallas
24 The Birthday Party Release The Bats Junkyard
25 Joan of Arc 9/11 2 Boo! Human
26 DYS No Pain, No Gain Fire and Ice
27 Melt Banana Key Is A Fact That A Cat Brings Cell-Scape
28 Homostupids Flies Die The Intern
29 Hot Snakes Automatic Midnight Automatic Midnight
30 Pink Razors Bigger Boat Waiting to Wash Up
31 Black Lips Navajo Good Bad Not Evil
32 Dillinger Four Wrecktheplacefantastic Versus God
33 The Dils Class War Dangerhouse comp
34 Rocket From The Crypt My Arrow's Aim Hot Charity/Cut Carefully and Play
35 Vivian Girls Damaged s/t
36 Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill I Love You Mary Jane unreleased
37 June of 44 Boom Anatomy of Sharks
38 Jah Division Heart and Soul Dub Dub Will Tear Us Apart
39 King Tubby Seaview Corner Rocking Freedom Sounds in Dub
40 King Tubby Israelite Children Dub Freedom Sounds in Dub
41 Scientist Laser Attack Meets the Space Invaders
42 S.E. Rogie Go Easy With Me True Vine Sub-Saharan Guitar Music compilation

8-3 playlist

2008-08-04T16:50:00.002-04:00

Fill-in while Scotty was in Germany at Wacken. Looking forward to hearing some of the ridiculous stories that are sure to ensure.

1 Cheveu Superhero s/t
2 The Dirtbombs I Can't Stop Thinking About It Horndog Fest
3 A Frames Police 1000 Police 1000/Traction 7"
4 Kid Dynamite Death and Taxes Shorter, Faster, Louder (dedicated to Grant)
5 Tyvek Give It Up Summer Burns 2x7"
6 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Colour Television Primary Colours
7 The Buzzcocks I Don't Mind Product box set
8 Vivian Girls All the Time s/t
9 Talking Heads Pull Up The Roots Speaking in Tongues
10 The Black Angels Mission District Directions to See A Ghost
11 Cave In Big Riff Jupiter
12 Lightning Bolt Dead Cowboy Hypermagic Mountain
13 Double Dagger I Was So Bored That I Wanted To Hang Myself On The Dancefloor live on WFMU 3-23-06
14 Drive Like Jehu Do You Compute live in San Francisco 9/16/94
15 Ultra Dolphins Matthew O'Connor Mar
16 Black Eyes False Positive Cough
17 Smart Growth Money in the Banks Surrey
18 Arab on Radar God is Dad Yahweh or the Highway
19 Municipal Waste The Thrashin' of the Christ Hazardous Mutation
20 Nine Shocks Terror Not A Fucking Anthem Zen and the Art of Beating You
21 DYS No Pain, No Gain Wolfpack
22 Homostupids Apeshit The Intern
23 The Carbonas Nineteen Live at Rob's House 7"
24 Le Shok Killed By Fuck We Are Electrocution
25 Municipal Waste Boner City Best Friends Day comp
26 Pissed Jeans Closet Marine Shallow
27 Harvey Milk War Special Wishes
28 The New Flesh Punched in the Head (Drunks With Guns cover) The New Flesh and Robert Inhuman 7"
29 The New Flesh Untitled/In This Shit World The New Flesh and Robert Inhuman 7"
30 Hair Police Track 2 Our Minds Problems Vol. 1
31 Clockcleaner New Slow Nevermind
32 Yukon Mt. Pleasant Mortar
33 Shotmaker Archaeologist The Complete Discography (Disc 1)
34 Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill I Love You Mary Jane unreleased!
35 I Hate Myself Destroy All Monsters Ten Songs
36 Brainiac Go Freaks Go Internationale 7"
37 Randoms Let's Get Rid of NY Dangerhouse 7" compilation
38 The Nation of Ulysses Cool Senior High School 13-Point Program To Destroy America
39 The Weirdos (We Got The) Neutron Bomb Dangerhouse 7" compilation
40 Blackie Knight and the Daylites Twin Cities Demo
41 Black Lips O Katrina! Party at Rob's House 7"
43 The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands Darklands
44 City of Caterpillar Driving Spain Up A Wall (live) Level-Plane Records compilation
45 Flipper Sex Bomb Generic

STREET ANGER 3-HOUR SPECIAL SUNDAY NIGHT

2008-08-02T23:20:00.002-04:00

9 PM - midnight, filling in for LEAVE THE HALL: True Metal Radio while Scotty is at Wacken Open Air.

Sorry about the lack of show this past week, I was dealing with moving (that shit is FINALLY done). Hope you enjoyed Dan Berdak filling in for me and playing some sweet 90's tracks.

Tom Green is a lucky man. His bum was on the cheese, his bum was on the cheese, and he was so lucky that he got a disease (testicular cancer).

Video of the Homostupids from DNA Test Fest

2008-07-28T00:00:00.000-04:00

HEADS UP

2008-07-27T22:07:00.003-04:00

Not for a month and a half, but it's going to be a killer show:

PINK REASON (NYC by way of Green Bay and Siberia, the most depressing & unnerving Joy Division, Velvet Underground, and Throbbing Gristle songs slowed down to 16 rpm or less)
DRUNKDRIVER (NYC industrial punk for industrial people, will make your body leak fluids you didn't know existed)
TRUE WOMANHOOD (DC ambient punk, Polvo/EVOL droning/percussive no-gaze future classics)

More on this later, but it's going to be at WMUC on Third Rail Radio - Sundays, 6-9 PM.

See you there.

Or are you Unforgiven THREE?

2008-07-23T13:28:00.002-04:00

from Blabbermouth:

According to the online sheet music retailer Music Dispatch, METALLICA's new album, "Death Magnetic", will feature the following track listing:

(UPDATE: The Music Dispatch page has since been deleted.)

01. Death Magnetic
02. That Was Just Your Life
03. The End of the Line
04. Broken, Beat & Scarred
05. The Day That Never Comes
06. All Nightmare Long
07. Cyanide
08. The Unforgiven III
09. The Judas Kiss
10. Suicide & Redemption
11. My Apocalypse

Either this is the best joke anyone has played in the history of comedy, or this will be the greatest song ever. Either way, we all win.

Couple this with the rumored documentary on recording Death Magnetic, and we have a lot of lulz to look forward to from Metallica this coming year.

DNA Test Fest @ WMUC this weekend

2008-07-23T10:11:00.002-04:00

Sean Gray of DNA in the DNA is putting on DNA TEST FEST at WMUC this weekend. It's going to be ridiculous. Bands I'm looking forward to seeing include the Homostupids, Home Blitz, FNU Ronnies, True Womanhood, and WMUC's own The Lampshades, featuring Afterlunatic Jaren Love.

July 25 and 26 at WMUC Studios, 3130 South Campus Dining Hall, on the verdant campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. Don't forget to rub Testudo's nose for good luck in the mosh pit.

The new Lampshades album is KILLER, by the way.

Street Anger playlist 7-22-08

2008-07-23T10:05:00.003-04:00

Doug and I only ended up going to one day of Whartscape, the Sunday. It wasn't as good as previous years - way too many dudes in neon short shorts making video game sounds. Fortunately, Double Dagger and Ponytail were there to kill it. Review of both of the new Double Dagger 7"s coming soon.

1 Double Dagger Luxury Condos For The Poor Sophisticated Urban Living 7"
2 The YMD Charles Maggio's Real Last Name Is Ash Excuse Me, This Is The Yah Mos Def
3 Japanther River Phoenix Skuffed Up My Huffy
4 No Age Boy Void Weirdo Rippers
5 Bad Brains The Regulator s/t LP
6 At the Drive-In Sleepwalk Capsules Relationship of Command
7 Navies Seeing Hands s/t 7"
8 The Monorchid Red Meat The Lovitt Empire compilation 7"
9 The Shivers Woodie The Lovitt Empire compilation 7"
10 The Cassettes Twelve Minus s/t
11 The Promise Ring Is This Thing On? Nothing Feels Good
12 Embrace If I Never Thought About It s/t
13 Gray Matter Take It Back Take It Back
14 Youth Brigade (DC) Full Speed Ahead possible ep
15 Hella Hello Great Architect of the Universe The Devil Isn't Red
16 Void Organized Sports FAITH / +VOID+
17 Sex Vid Suspended Daylight Tania 7"
18 Sex Vid Tania Tania 7"
19 Antioch Arrow Paper Machay Gems of Masochism
20 Ahleuchatistas Lament for Bhopal On The Culture Industry
21 Herpes Nie Mehr Sehn Tod Von Nem Disco-Tänzer 7"
22 Herpes Fette Muttis Tod Von Nem Disco-Tänzer 7"
23 The Make Up Live in the Rhythm Hive In Mass Mind
24 Pavement Frontwards (live) Slanted and Enchanted LUXE & REDUX
25 Jawbreaker Boxcar 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
26 The Members The Sound of the Suburbs No Thanks! the 70's punk rebellion
27 Mika Miko Wild Bore 666 EP
28 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Get Up Morning s/t LP
29 The Max Levine Ensemble At the Zoo TMLE/Spirit Animals split 7"
30 Sonic Youth Death Valley '69 (featuring Lydia Lunch) Bad Moon Rising
31 Le Shok TV In My Eye We Are Electrocution
32 Times New Viking Devo and Wine Present the Paisley Reich
33 * Ponytail 7 Souls Ice Cream Spiritual
34 Green Day Burnout Dookie
35 Vivian Girls All the Time s/t LP
36 The Icarus Line Spit On It Penance Soiree
37 Hot Snakes 10th Planet Automatic Midnight
38 Ex Models What Is A Price Zoo Psychology
39 D.R.I. Reaganomics Dirty Rotten LP
40 Negative Approach Ready to Fight Ready to Fight
41 Cupid Car Club Edge of the Envelope Cupid Car Club, M.P.
42 George Clinton Atomic Dog Computer Games

Fort Reno schedule announced

2008-06-23T22:52:00.002-04:00

A little late on it, but this year's schedule blows. Serious question, for anyone who may read this who can answer it: what were the criteria that the Fort Reno nominating committee used to select the bands? I'd rather sit through four hours of the singer from the Apes fronting Eyeball Skeleton than see pretty much any of these bands. Even the ones I haven't heard of or heard, because they play Fort Reno and then one other show a year at DC9 in front of 15 coworkers from their nonprofit.

Oh well, at least I'm going to see my WMUC buddies in Friends of the Library play, and probably go see the Apes too. But outside of that... yeesh.

Post your thoughts on the schedule in the comments. Maybe you think that these bands are all good bands and good dudes, or that Statehood just isn't getting their due.

playlist for 6-10-08

2008-06-13T14:42:00.001-04:00

sorry for the delay, just started a new job and i've been super busy. updates to hopefully come soon!

1 The White Stripes The Big Three Killed My Baby The White Stripes
2 Le Shok TV in My Eye We Are Electrocution
3 Harvey Danger Private Helicopter Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone?
4 The Clean Tally Ho! Anthology
5 The Hives A Get Together To Tear It Apart Veni Vedi Vicious
6 Dead Kennedys Let's Lynch the Landlord Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
7 Pg. 99 Richmond is a Hole Document #12 - Pg. 99 and Majority Rule
8 Nirvana In Bloom Nevermind
9 Das Oath Wardance Das Oath/Ampere split
10 Mission of Burma Trem Two Vs.
11 Deerhunter Adorno Deerhunter
12 Public Image Ltd. Swan Lake Metal Box
13 Big Black Bad Penny Songs About Fucking
14 Japanther Challenge Skuffed Up My Huffy
15 Black Dice Narcissus and Echo s/t 7"
16 Charles Bronson Rich Crusties Shall Pay Discocrappy
17 Times New Viking The Wait Rip It Off
18 Pixies Debaser Doolittle
19 Hootie and the Blowfish Only Wanna Be With You Cracked Rear View
20 Velocity Girl Crazy Town Copacetic
21 Wire Map Ref. 41N 93W 154
22 Modest Mouse Tundra/Desert This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
23 Scared of Chaka Permission to Die Crossing With Switchblades
24 Vivian Girls Wild Eyes s/t 7"
25 Barkitecture Ploom Quarry
26 400 Years Life Support Suture and Other Songs
27 The Hated Hey Mister HATED BOX SET!
28 The Make-Up Hey Joe Save Yourself
29 Shotmaker Cut discography
30 Wipers Telepathic Love Is This Real?
31 Q And Not U Busy Lights Busy Carpet Hot and Informed EP
32 oCeLoT Loss Prevention Officer The Quiet Storm
33 Black Eyes Cough, Cough Cough
34 The 1985 Like A Spider Obscured by Pink Clouds
35 The Apes Lightning The Fugue in the Fog

Street Anger Radio playlist for 6-3-2008

2008-06-04T01:51:00.002-04:00

This week's edition of Street Anger Radio is dedicated to Courtney Love, who lost Kurt Cobain's ashes last week because she carried them in a bag around with her.

In related news, I just got an offer to play this on the new Hole album:

1 The Constantines Shower of Stones Kensington Heights
2 Circle Jerks Deny Everything Group Sex
3 Bo Diddley Hey! Bo Diddley Bo Diddley's Beach Party
4 Wire Dot Dash Pink Flag
5 The Pixies Alec Eiffel Trompe Le Monde
6 Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments The Internet Is Just Bad Pot No Old Guy Lo Fi Cry
7 Buzzcocks You Tear Me Up Product (box set)
8 Vivian Girls Wild Eyes s/t 7"
9 Richard Hell (I Belong to the) Blank Generation Stiff Records box set
10 Necros Tarnished Words Conquest for Death
11 Pissed Jeans Boring Girls Live CD-R (KEXP Sonic Reducer)
12 Boris Dyna-Soar Heavy Rocks
13 Ponytail 7 Souls live on WMUC 4-13-08
14 Health Crimewave Health
15 The Birthday Party Zoo Music Girl Prayers on Fire
16 Arab on Radar Attack on Tijuana Queen Hygiene II
17 Rites of Spring Persistent Vision End on End
18 Bluetip Polymer Polymer
19 Shellac Dog and Pony Show At Action Park
20 At the Drive-In Proxima Centauri Have Trigger, Will Travel compilation
21 Universal Order of Armageddon Painfully Obvious discography
22 The Damned Neat Neat Neat s/t
23 Jawbox Jackpot Plus! For Your Own Special Sweetheart
24 June of 44 Have A Safe Trip, Dear Tropics and Meridians
25 Indian Summer Millimeter Live at Pitzer College
26 Moss Icon What They Lack Greta Garbo 7"
27 Life At These Speeds You Know To Say Yes s/t
28 My Disco Installation of Camaraderie Language of Numbers
29 The Adverts One Chord Wonders Stiff Records box set
30 Times New Viking Devo & Wine Present the Paisley Reich
31 The Jesus and Mary Chain You Trip Me Up Peel Session
32 Tom Vek Nothing But Green Lights We Have Sound
33 Talking Heads Psycho Killer The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
34 Brian Eno King's Lead Hat Before and After Science
35 Hole Celebrity Skin Celebrity Skin

As always, it's up on the WMUC website until next Tuesday. We discuss Wire's show in NYC this weekend, their first in the US in five years (and boy did it show). More posts of substance later in the week.

Movin' On Up

2008-06-03T15:48:00.001-04:00

Hope your summer's getting off to a good start.

The Wombats - Let's Dance To Joy Division

2008-05-29T00:18:00.004-04:00

Few things whip me into a frothing music-nerd rage more quickly than shitty bands making reference to Joy Division, whether in song or in interviews. I remember a misguided KaZaA session in high school, downloading "Ian Curtis" by Thursday and hearing that whiny gap-toothed motherfucker sing the incredibly tactful line "We heard Ian Curtis kill himself again in your bed." (No, seriously.) There's also the possibly apocryphal Tony Wilson quote about Bono telling him that, when Ian Curtis was alive, he was the best frontman in rock, and that Bono was only number two; after Curtis' suicide, Bono pledged to take his place. I choose to believe this anecdote, because I've already made up my mind about Bono being a shallow, opportunistic piece of shit.

Thanks to German MTV and Facebook, I now have a new target for my [street] anger: "Let's Dance to Joy Division," by Liverpudlian jerkoffs the Wombats.

I first heard this song while studying abroad in Germany this past winter - it was getting a lot of play on German MTV, and I shuddered to think that people in England and Europe actually liked this song. Of course, I assumed it would never catch on in the United States, because we're all more interested in the new Nickelback or Panic at the Disco singles than any faggy British shit. That all changed when I saw the first Facebook advertisement for it, and within 24 hours, my girlfriend called me to bitch about "that shitty 'Dance to Joy Division' song on DC101". THE WOMBATS HAD BEGUN TO INVADE AMERICA'S AIRWAVES!!!!!!111ONE

First off, Wombats, it's incredibly lame to explicitly reference a band in a song title. That's essentially telling your listeners, "Hey, look at us. We're never going to be as good or as influential as our influences." Remember that CSS song "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above"? Obnoxious bullshit. Actually, maybe more bands should do that, because it would mean that I would never listen to them. There's a part of me that would get a chuckle out of, say, Muse writing a song called "Radiohead," but then I realize I'd have to think about Muse.

I was originally going to go into a longer discussion of the lyrics to this song, but I don't want this blog entry to last 50 pages. This band needs to shut the fuck up and go back to England, and take the Kooks with them.

Anyway, here's an awesome live performance of Joy Division performing "Transmission" on some British TV show. While you're watching this, think of it as like taking a long, hot shower after cleaning out the sewers of shitty music. Check out Ian's dance moves starting at 2:18. RIP.

5-27 Street Anger Radio playlist

2008-05-28T13:16:00.002-04:00

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1 Double Dagger Rearranging Digital Deck Chairs Ragged Rubble
2 At the Drive-In Alpha Centauri In/Casino/Out
3 Make Believe Witchcraft s/t EP
4 Times New Viking The Statue Pt. II (A Monument) Dig Yourself
5 Guided By Voices Motor Away Alien Lanes
6 Wire Outdoor Miner Chairs Missing
7 Q And Not U Ten Thousand Animal Calls On Play Patterns EP
8 Life At These Speeds Ice, Thanks Life At These Speeds
9 Maximilian Colby Shoot Hypotenuse Discography
10 Christie Front Drive Now I Do Anthology
11 Chavez Break Up Your Band Better Days Will Haunt You
12 Pavement Elevate Me Later Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
13 Wow, Owls! Five Sexy Alligators, Please Pick Your Patterns
14 Sonic Youth Sugar Kane Dirty
15 Melt-Banana The Call of the Vague Bambi's Dilemma
16 Blank Dogs Leaving the Light On Diana (The Herald)
17 Clockcleaner Vomiting Mirrors Babylon Rules
18 Public Enemy Welcome to the Terrordome Fear of a Black Planet
19 Mclusky Alan is a Cowboy Killer Mclusky Do Dallas
20 Fugazi Facet Squared In On the Kill Taker
21 Navies Illegal Flights An Estate
22 The Summer We Went West DC Streetlight Following the Holy Moon Goddess
23 One Last Wish My Better Half 1986
24 The Crownhate Ruin Late Arriving Rock Dudes Until the Eagle Grins
25 Heroin Has Been Destination
26 Hoover TNT Hoover EP
27 Shotmaker The Game Discography
28 Gang of Four Natural's Not In It Entertainment!
29 Tyvek Air Conditioner Summer Burns 2x7"
30 The Birthday Party Cry Prayers On Fire
31 The YMD Stockton to Malone Excuse Me, This Is the Yah Mos Def
32 Cap'n Jazz Basil's Kite Analphabetapolothology

As always, you can download it for the next week at WMUCRadio.com - click on 'Show Archive (mp3)' then 'Tuesday' then 'Street Anger Radio - 8-10 PM'.

I will be in New York City this weekend seeing WIRE and Drunkdriver. I'm also waiting on a few new records to arrive in the mail. Big updates coming soon.

YouTube - that shitty new Weezer video

2008-05-24T14:59:00.002-04:00

Weezer's new video for "Pork and Beans" makes me kind of hate the Internet.

How can a band go from the frankly brilliant video for "Buddy Holly" to this bullshit?

STREET ANGER RADIO NEW TIME FOR SUMMER TUES 8-10 PM

2008-05-20T19:20:00.000-04:00

STREET ANGER RADIO
TUESDAY NIGHTS 8-10 PM THIS SUMMER
WMUC RADIO DOT COM or 88.1 FM if you in college park

Video Hippos

2008-05-20T15:42:00.000-04:00

One of the reasons why I think a lot of people are excited about Baltimore right now is because so much of the music and art that's coming out of there is created for total sensory overload. For example, the Dan Deacon/Jimmy Joe Roche collaboration Ultimate Reality - it's been receiving almost universal praise, and it's a film made up entirely of distorted, symmetrical clips from Arnold Schwartzenegger movies. There's also a common sense of absurdist humor that runs through a lot of this stuff, which is another reason why people have latched onto Baltimore. It's arty without being self-conscious.

Now that I've finished acting like some Sasha Frere-Jones jerkass music critic, I can get onto my description of the Video Hippos. Jim Triplett plays guitar and keyboard, Kevin O'Meara plays drums, they both sing, and they both make the insane videos that they project behind themselves while they play. Their psychedelic video productions range from clips of some bizarre Berenstain Bears TV show to really creepy hypnotism infomercials to dolphins eating pizza, then crying when they run out of pizza. Yeah, that's right. Watch it.

While they're definitely best experienced live (and they play in the Baltimore/DC area a few times a month and tour all the time), these Hippos totally hold their own musically. Comparisons to Japanther or No Age aren't entirely unfounded, as they are two guys who write short, stripped-down punk songs. The Video Hippos take a different, less aggressive approach than Japanther - there's a definite shoegaze influence in their sound, and they sound a little bit sadder than their contemporaries. Triplett's guitar tone (which he coaxes from a Squier Bullet) is loud, clangy, and a little bit jangly, but there's more space and atmosphere in their sound than you'd normally expect from a two-piece. O'Meara plays on a drum kit that has just four pieces, and he bashes away with laser precision. Last year's excellent Unbeast the Leash (CD on Monitor, spearmint-lookin' LP available from the fine folks at Wildfire Wildfire) features 13 of their jams, two of which ("Bearfight" and "Sick Dolphin") are available for download from this here blog.

Video Hippos play the Light House in Washington, DC on May 29, with DD/MM/YYYY and the Mommies. Right now they're on an extensive tour of eastern Canada with DD/MM/YYYY, heading up and down the Maritime provinces. They'll definitely be touring this summer and fall, so don't miss them when they come to your town.

Video Hippos - Bearfight
Video Hippos - Sick Dolphin

Tyvek

2008-05-09T12:43:00.000-04:00

Every day on my way home from school I pass a house on my street that's under construction. Wrapped around the new top floor, to protect the wood from the elements or whatever, is a layer of Tyvek sheeting. Whenever I see that, I'm reminded of Detroit's Tyvek, whose "Summer Burns" 2x7" was one of the best records I picked up last year. Detroit's always been a hotbed of garage rock, as my buddy Paul, host of soul/garage power hourThe Get Down on WMUC, can attest.

Tyvek's a different beast from your Dirtbombs and White Stripes, though. Of the five members, three of them play guitar, but don't confuse them for any Hawthorne Heights bullshit. They're clearly a rock and roll band, but there's an undeniable post-punk vibe as well: think the Buzzcocks' anxious energy and sense of humor with Pink Flag-era Wire's, er, wiry arrangements. I've included two tracks from my rip of their "Summer Burns" 2x7". "Give It Up" has an awesome guitar riff and singalong chorus, and some of my favorite lyrics of late ("I saw you in the national press, I saw you on the national news / I saw you in the national parks, I saw you in the National Zoo"). "Air Conditioner" slows things down a little bit and is a little weirder, with a driving one-chord verse and lyrics about Whole Foods.

I can't wait to see these guys the next time they play DC or Baltimore. Get it from the fine folks at What's Yr Rupture.

Tyvek - Give It Up
Tyvek - Air Conditioner

On a related, weird note, they were featured on an MTV piece on lo-fi bands along with No Age, Times New Viking, Psychedelic Horseshit, and Jay Reatard. I don't know what's funnier: the fact that MTV is covering a very small and (dare I say) accessible slice of this scene, or John Norris's toupee.

Low Fidelity All-Stars - Battleflag

2007-12-21T01:44:00.000-05:00

i remember hearing this song in like 7th grade or whenever it came out and thinking "WHOA, MAYBE TECHNO IS THE FUTURE!" this song is still really good, and i listened to it like 5 times last night while talking about it. i hope to have an update soon where i discuss this weird phenomenon in "alternative" rock in the late 90's where there were electronic and rap influences on popular rock songs.

as a bonus, here's the original song, by pigeonhed (who i was surprised to find out were on sub pop in the 90's and, i'm assuming, were a major influence on 311)

it's the background music to a slideshow of someone's art, which starts out fairly normal and contains a fair amount of ying-yangs, and then continues into weird drawings of bondage. wonderful.

if you wear either of these t-shirts

2007-12-21T01:41:00.000-05:00

you are probably a tool who goes into a record store and says "oh hey, i'm wondering if you have a cd by this new band... they're called battles, i don't know if you'd have their cd in stock, so can you order me a copy?"

street anger blog is back in session. fuck school. this semester has been a massive headache for me, and now that it's over, i have some more time to commit to podcasting the blogosphere.

YouTube - Tay Zonday with Girl Talk and Dan Deacon

2007-10-10T18:54:00.000-04:00

Holy shit, it actually fucking happened.

You can hear people singing along. This gets me PUMPED. Here's hoping for a Tay Zonday US tour in '08.

Originally posted on BrooklynVegan.

AMQA - Cats Are Neat

2007-10-09T22:39:00.000-04:00

AMQA (or Apple Maggot Quarantine Area; your guess is as good as mine) were some punx from rural Puyallup, Washington in the 1mid-980's, who wanted to start a band with songs about cats and zombies. I found out about them through a chat room on Soulseek, where the members of the chat room kept talking about how great this song "Cats Are Neat" was. I downloaded it for myself and realized that Killed By Death compilations can suck it, this is the best punk song that nobody's ever heard, ever. I got a copy of their LP, Mutant Cats From Hell, thanks to Felix Havoc of Havoc Records finding a copy at the store he runs, but it's weird and kind of like a sloppy D.R.I. This version of the song is, in my opinion, a lot better - it's just sloppy, goofy punk, and can be found on a 7" that's nearly impossible to find. Let me know if you have a copy you wouldn't mind parting with.

Read the lyrics to "Cats are Neat" to see if you would enjoy this song. If you don't think this song is funny, in concept or in execution, this blog is probably not for you.

Cats are neat when they sleep on your feet
Cats are cool when they follow you to school
Cats are rad when they chew on your dad
Cats are fun when they play with your tongue

chorus x4:
Cats are neat
Cats are neat
Meow, meow, meow, meow

Cats are bitchin' when they sit in the kitchen
I just think "gosh" when I see a cat mosh
Cats are cool when they play with your tool
Cats are great when they eat off your plate

chorus x4

Cats are sweet when they're smashed in the street
Cats are creative, they're the real fashion skater
Cats are crazy 'cause they're just so darn lazy
Cats are nice when they chase pesky mice

chorus x4
meowwwwwwwww............

AMQA - Cats Are Neat

YouTube - Animal Collective live on Conan O'Brien

2007-10-08T11:40:00.000-04:00

Give most bands four minutes of broadcast network television time, and they'll play their most popular song, or the single from their newest album. They'll move a few more units, get some exposure they wouldn't have otherwise received, and the performance will show up on YouTube with dozens of comments asking people to post a chain letter on five other videos or else the ghost of social networking sites pastw will haunt you forever.

Then there's Animal Collective, who are almost nothing like "most bands". When playing on Conan O'Brien last Thursday, they used the time allotted to them to play "#1" off of new album Strawberry Jam. Basically, they made space noises for four minutes.

I'm not a huge fan of Animal Collective. I haven't heard the new album yet, I'm only familiar with Sung Tongs, and when I saw them at SUNY Purchase when I was in high school I couldn't get into their set. This is a solid performance, and I'm going to check out their new album based on the fact that parts of this song sound like the music from Super NES Final Fantasy games. I also like it because Animal Collective are extending a middle finger (or, uh, part of a paw) to NBC's viewing audience. Watch it until the end for an awesomely awkward Conan/AC moment.

High Places

2007-10-06T16:19:00.000-04:00

Back in March, I went back home to Connecticut for Spring Break (WOOOOOOOO), and on the last night of my stay visited my then-Brooklyn-dwelling buddies Zach and Andy to see Lightning Bolt in a warehouse. Apparently, about 3000 other people had the same idea – the venue it was held in was roughly the size of DC’s 9:30 Club, with two massive rooms set up for the different bands to play in. Also on the bill were the excellent BARR (aka Brendan Fowler), Marnie Stern, Baltimore’s Ecstatic Sunshine (who will be profiled here upon the release of their next album Living), and this band from Brooklyn that I hadn’t heard anything about, High Places.

And holy shit were they awesome. High Places are Mary Pearson and Robert Barber, who sing tropical pop songs over electronic beeps, spacey field recordings, and percussion played on found objects. After playing them for my friend Ebbie, he said it sounded kind of like Creature Comforts-era Black Dice covering Microphones songs, and that’s an interesting way of describing them. High Places share the otherworldly, blissful qualities of both of these bands, and would be at home on K Records alongside the Blow and Mount Eerie.

High Places released a 7” earlier this year on Ancient Almanac, an interesting label that releases just as many objets d’art as they do music releases. I guess I got one of the last of the pressing, because they recently sold out of the ridiculously limited edition of 300 copies on white vinyl. They also have a new 7” out, a picture disk with photographs by Los Angeles photographer David Horvitz.

I ripped the A side of their first 7”, featuring the songs “Head Spins” and “Sandy Feat”, which have a Deerhunter-esque electronic wash as an interlude between the tracks. “Sandy Feat” is without a doubt one of my favorite songs of the year. Keep an eye on High Places, because they’re making some of the most interesting, unique, and catchy music being written by anyone.

High Places – Head Spins/Sandy Feat

Yukon

2007-10-05T01:15:00.000-04:00

Man, when I moved to College Park, I was so stoked on DC. There were so many good bands that I was really into – Mass Movement of the Moth, Polar, Q and Not U, Navies, and so on… but in the past two years the DC scene has kind of collapsed onto itself. It seems like the only bands that are still around are hardcore bands, and while there are some hXc bands that still rage (particularly Coke Bust, who will be featured on this blog in the near future), there’s not a lot of weird shit that I can get stoked on.
Fortunately, College Park is 30 minutes away from Baltimore, which has the best scene in the country right now. One of the highlights of this scene are Yukon, who released their debut full-length Mortar on local label Terra Firma last year. Yukon would be put squarely into the math-rock camp, as vague and overused as that term can be. They’re a complicated band, sure, but instead of mere technical masturbation along the lines of Guitar Center dudes, they ROCK THE FUCK OUT. Think early/mid-period Don Caballero, or Polvo with their amps turned all the way up.

The first time I saw them was last year, in College Park legend Don Wade’s basement, on a bill with fellow Baltimorons Dactyl and Silver Spring’s Fugazi-loving The Fordists, both excellent bands. But Yukon seriously blew me away – the perfect combination of complicated and noisy riffs, laser-precise drumming, and Denny Bowen (who also plays drums in the excellent Double Dagger) howling low in the mix about urban planning. How fucking awesome is that.

I think the key to Yukon’s success might be in their drummer, Nick Podgurski, who is trained in jazz and brings a wide array of tricks to the rhythm section. He can be heard especially on “Ribosome,” the #1 hit single off of Mortar, and really ties the band together a la Damon Che. Don Cab’s kind of a lazy comparison to make, considering the breadth of the genre, but there aren’t many bands that know how to kick out the jams like the men of Yukon. These guys never fall into the trap of noodly bullshit, they just play tightly-constructed jam after jam.

They’re playing Bodymore Murderland on October 13, at the Current Gallery. Don’t miss them.

Highlights from Mortar:

Yukon – Consolation Enterprise
Yukon – Ribosome

pirst fost

2007-10-05T00:09:00.000-04:00

Instead of studying for a big exam I have tomorrow, I decided to set up a blog that I've been meaning to do for a while now. This blog is going to be the source of all information regarding my radio show, Street Anger Radio, Tuesdays 4-6 PM on WMUC-FM 88.1, ten watts of goodwill broadcasting out of College Park, Maryland. I'll be posting ripped streams of the show here, as well as about various bands, songs, and records that I'm particularly excited about.

Blogger software is really slow.

-- Chris