Fasten Yer Earholes

PATTY WATERS – Sings (1966)

This place needs an estrogen injection– not sure why I’ve neglected the bearers of mammalian protuberances, but I will attempt to remedy the situation here and now, without resorting to Lilith Fair-style lameness (hahaha, like that’d ever happen). Anyway, here’s what you need to know about the lovely & talented [...]

I’m a Legend, I’m Hyper-Space

VOID – Potion For Bad Dreams
unreleased 1983 Columbia, Maryland
Straight up, I nicked this over at Punk Not Profit and I thank them for it as I haven’t seen it anywhere else.
Okay, so this is the same Void who produced what is, to these ears, the perfect hardcore record. Their side of the split with [...]

It’s Artastic!

ELECTRIC EELS – The Eyeball of Hell
So what exactly is the significance of today again? Is this the oh-so-holy day when Jesus saw his shadow or somethin’? Or is it a reminder of when he re-animated a rabbit (are we sure that wasn’t a parlor trick involving a puppet?) to the delight of children everywhere? [...]

LSD MARCH – Shindara Jigoku

2004 LP-only release from Japanese multi-instrumentalist Shinsuke Michishita & Crew– this time it’s Masami Kawaguchi (guitar, whom you may remember from Aihiyo) and ex-Fushitsusha drummer Ikuro Takahashi. Seems every LSD March album I buy is boldly emblazoned with thee legend: Picks up where the Velvet Underground and Les Rallizes Denudes left off! Which has some [...]

Feelin’ Kinda Froggy

NINE POUND HAMMER – Smokin’ Taters!
Yee Haw! Yet another chance to bitch about the musical wasteland that was the early nineties. With the majority of punk having become a bad joke, it was almost inevitable that ya’d hafta turn to bizarre hybrids that breathed some new life into its rapidly decomposing corpse. So… how [...]