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KEATS RIDES
A HARLEY
VARIOUS ARTISTS
- Keats Rides a Harley
Expanded CD release of the
original 9-track compilation from 1981 includes early recordings by EARWIGS,
TOXIC SHOCK, S SQUAD, GUN CLUB, MEAT PUPPETS, LEAVING TRAINS, TUNNELTONES,
HUMAN HANDS, and 100 FLOWERS. This release compiles one bonus performance
each by the original bands, plus the entire HAPPY SQUID SAMPLER from 1980.
23 tracks in all.
100
FLOWERS / URINALS
 100
FLOWERS was a highly regarded Los Angeles band of the early 1980s. Beginning
with its earlier and later incarnations as THE URINALS, the band pioneered
a super minimalist style of punk rock that influenced, among others, The
Minutemen, The Leaving Trains, and The Gun Club, all of whom have covered
material by the band.
100 FLOWERS -
100 Years of Pulchritude (Happy Squid/Rhino)
This co-release contains 28
tracks, including the complete "100 Flowers" LP, the "Drawing
Fire" EP, the "Presence of Mind" single, three compilation
tracks, and two unreleased tunes. Excluding 4-track recordings, this is
the complete recorded work of the band. CD: currently out of print. Reissue
due early 2008.
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URINALS - Negative
Capability…Check It Out (Warning Label Records)
The ultimate early-Urinals
anthology is now available! Includes the complete "Urinals,"
"Another EP," and "Sex/Go Away Girl" 7-inch
material, 3 tunes from long out-of-print compilations, several unreleased
studio and rehearsal pieces, and samples from the band’s archive
of live tapes, including their very first performance as a three-piece.
31 tracks in all, which, along with "100 Years of Pulchritude,"
provide a definitive portrait of the Urinals/100 Flowers’ initial
five-year history. Temporarily Out of Stock, due late Fall 2007.
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URINALS - What is Real
and What is Not (Warning
Label)
2003 release of brand
new Urinals material, either the 20-years later album follow-up
to the 100 FLOWERS record, or the debut long player by the Urinals
-- take your pick. 14 originals including SKYGRIFTER, and TEACH
ME TO CRAWL, as well as a cover of the Bee Gees' psychedelic JUMBO.
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THE
GERMS
Forming/Sexboy (Iloki)
Here is a reissue of the first
release by LA's notorious and seminal punk band THE GERMS, featuring the
late Darby Crash, the current Pat Smear (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) and sonic
terrorist & 45 Grave drummer to-be Don Bowles. Clear vinyl, numbered
edition.
GOD
AND THE STATE
 Ruins:
The Complete Works (Happy Squid)
This album, recorded briskly
in 1983 by a band that played only three or four live shows, found release
after they has split up. The time between then and now has in no way diminished
its impact. The music, unheard by all but a handful of Los Angelenos,
still packs a tremendous wallop.
Canadian Dave Hull teamed up
with Detroit expatriate Barbara Ann Jaeckel to construct these ten songs
as if they were buildings -- architecturally --, an approach which intrigued
drummer Kevin Barrett (post-100 FLOWERS and pre-RADWASTE) enough to join
them for the duration of GOD AND THE STATE's brief life span.
The results can be heard here.
These vigorous, imposing, and mericless songs have been preserved for
interested parties, and wrapped in a hand-printed Independent Project
Press sleeve, designed by Barbara Ann and John Talley-Jones. It is a numbered,
limited edition of a dwindling 1000 copies. You've read about it in Greil
Marcus's Lipstick Traces, now experience it firsthand! Currently Out of
Print.
PETER
JEFFERIES/ROBBIE MUIR
Catapult/Human Carbine
(Xpressway)
Two members of PLAGAL GRIND,
the premier exponent of the Dunedin (New Zealand) Sound, here strike out
on their own with two songs: "one rocks, the other insinuates, both
rule. "
THE
PUNDITS
 Swirl
/ Snowed Me In / Dark and Pretty Wish (Calamari Sound / Happy Squid)
THE PUNDITS are a four-piece
from Pittsburgh, PA whose members include local luminaries John Bell (ex-MANIFEST
DESTINY), Scott Turri, Mike Shanley of BONE OF CONTENTION, and John Young,
ex of FUSEBOX. Although these are "pop" tunes, they have a powerful
moodiness, with an extra veneer of psychedelia courtesy of producer Kramer
(BONGWATER, URGE OVERKILL, GALAXIE 500, MAUREEN TUCKER, etc.) and engineer
Steve Watson (KING MISSILE).
That part of the press establishment
which is not associated with The McLaughlin Group makes reference to "solid
power-pop ala THE JAM," and a comparison to BIG DIPPER. Then there
is the lyrical content, which occupies the resonant and mysterious realm
where Kenneth Branagh joins THE MINUTEMEN for a conceptual encore.
RADWASTE
 Cooking
and Nothingness (Happy Squid)
This Los Angeles area band
features former members of 100 FLOWERS and 17 PYGMIES as well as a unique
four-person (in this incarnation) percussion corps. There are five hook-laden
pop tunes on the disc, each with a distinctive propulsive edge to them.
From the LA Weekly: "a six-member musical firing squad whose four-drum
threat teamed with the hard rocking guitars and vocals of John Talley-Jones
and Michael Kory is fast making them one of LA's most popular club groups."
THE
RUB
 Bikini
Gospel (Happy Squid)
Here is the debut disk from
San Pedro's THE RUB, a trio prone to asking musical questions like "Who
Killed Bob Crane?" Tim Baker (drums), Dan Duarte (guitar/vocals),
and Eddie Mooney (bass/vocals) compose the band, which recalls the exuberance
of bands from Detroit (late 60s and Australia (mid 80s). THE RUB's music
is confrontational and high energy, with material that goes from nerve-damaged,
guitar-slashing rock and roll ("I'm in Love") to heartfelt pop
("The Death of Pop"). Special guests on the album include Louis
van den Berg (of STAN RIDGWAY) and Steve Stain (ex-BLUE DAISIES), with
a mixing assist from John Talley-Jones. (100 FLOWERS).
Day
Off From Karma (Happy Squid)
The Rub's second album, suppressed
by the authorities for many years, finally released on CD! The follow-up
to BIKINI GOSPEL includes "1000 DAYS", a wistful, but headlong
evocation of lost innocence, which was initially released on the 2nd VIVA
LA compilation from Italy. Other songs include LEARNING TO LIVE, LAST
DREAM, and NO SYMPATHY. The band, composed of Eddie Mooney, Dan Duarte,
and Dirk Vandenberg provides us with material which is a little more literary
and a little more trenchant than your average Mariah Carey disc.
STUKAS
OVER BEDROCK
 The
Age of Aquariums (Happy Squid)
The STUKAS are known variously
as the "comedy-punk band that time forgot (Southern California Alliance
for Survival--honest!), a band whose lyrics "extol the virtues of
Yogi Bear as a youth roll model" (Maximum Rock 'n' Roll), and "the
leading purveyors of Pre-Cambrian rock (themselves). On The Age of Aquariums,
the STUKAS cover such pertinent concepts as living on the edge--on a budget
("Four Bucks"), intergalactic territorialism ("Locals Only"),
and gloom 'n' doom asa way of life ("Burned," a SWANS soundalike).
Beware of the occasional indelicacy for these STUKA boys deal in brutal
parody for painful times. Or, as one astute fan wrote, "your a very
good band your grate."
TEN
FOOT FACES
Ten Foot Faces (Independent
Project)
TEN FOOT FACES is, as the name
suggests, a wall of sound based upon SoCal surf music. This, their debut
release, is an ep featuring "Don't Want Love" and two others,
produced by the band and Vitus Matare (TROTSKY ICEPICK). As is customary
with the label, this package includes familiar hand-printed card stock
cover.
TROTSKY
ICEPICK
 TROTSKY
ICEPICK began as DANNY AND THE DOORKNOBS when Vitus Matare and Kjehl Johansen
teamed up following the demise of their bands, THE LAST and 100 FLOWERS,
respectively. The initial emphasis was on songwriting and recording, but
with their third release, BABY, and its college radio hit "Bury Manilow,"
the band began to play live with greater frequency.
DANNY AND THE DOORKNOBS:
Poison Summer (Old Scratch/SST)
The first album by what became
TROTSKY ICEPICK -- the cassette consists of the SST re-issue, which has
been entirely remixed and includes three extra tracks.
TROTSKY ICEPICK:
Poison Summer (Old Scratch/SST)
TROTSKY ICEPICK's second album
has the same title as the first--now the band name has changed! The self-released
LP comes pressed in a finely marbled black and white vinyl. As above,
the CD and cassette versions offered are the new SST rereleases, complete
with three remixes and two previously-unreleased tunes.
Baby (SST)
TI's third record and debut
SST debut disc, which features the college radio hit "Bury Manilow"
and some instructional tunes like "A Little Push at the Top of the
Stairs." Features the third lineup in as many albums: Vitus Matare,
Kjehl Johansen, John Rosewall, and Jason Kahn. The CD has two bonus tracks.
El Kabong (SST)
The 'pick's fourth album, featuring
new drummer Hunter Crowley (once again, ex-LAST) and vocalist John Talley-Jones
(100 FLOWERS, RADWASTE), explores new psychic terrain. The sound is tougher,
the themes darker. Features MAGAZINE's "The Light Pours Out of Me,"
and Vitus's mean take on ELTON JOHN, "Long Grey Baggy Soul."
The Ultraviolet
Catastrophe (SST)
Album #5 celebrates Love, Betrayal,
Pestilence, the Iraqi Supergun, Italian B-Movie Icons, the Physical Sciences,
Comic Book Superheroes, and the like with a sonic crunch and a melodic
sixth sense. Features the band's covers of TELEVISION's "Venus"
and THE MONOCHROME SET's "Alphaville."
Carpetbomb the Riff
(SST)
Ex-MIDDLE CLASS bassist Mike
Patton joins the band, along with new drummer John Glogovac, resulting
in a tougher attack. Features "Imaging Neptune" and "Bad
Girls Go to Hell."
See also VENA CAVA.
VENA
CAVA
VENA CAVA was an early 90s
power trio composed of John Talley-Jones (100 FLOWERS, RADWASTE), David
Nolte (WEDNESDAY WEEK, MARIA MCKEE), and Debbie Spinelli (HOLY SISTERS
OF THE GAGA DADA, CINDY LEE BERRYHILL). They have been described as sounding
like "METALLICA crossed with the PIXIES," which is flattering
but probably inaccurate.
 Desert
Mercy / Garden (Calamari Sound / Happy Squid)
Two original songs by the Los
Angeles-based trio in a convenient, portable 7" vinyl format, which
showcases this band's punchy, melodic and direct approach. DESERT MERCY
was produced by Earle Mankey (SPARKS, CONCRETE BLONDE) at his studio,
with GARDEN produced by band guitarist David Nolte.
 This
Perfect Day (VENA CAVA) / (I'm) Stranded (TROTSKY ICEPICK) (Calamari Soud
/ Happy Squid)
Here are two early SAINTS covers
on a split-artist single. The TROTSKY side is also available on the import-only
tribute release "Neurotically Yours," while the VENA CAVA side
is exclusive to this disc. A charming blast of crunchy nostalgia rocketed
into contemporanea.
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