Rezzz…Erection! Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love to Blog

PENTAGRAM – Human Hurricane [bootleg, 1998]
What immediately intrigued me about this legendary, Arlington, VA combo was an interview I read with them eons ago, regarding vocalist Bobby Liebling’s quirk of carrying his current fave underground rock record to grade school with him— and what a list! Sir Lord Baltimore, Stray, Blue Cheer, Savage Resurrection, [...]

Subterranean Cave Blues

LUSTMORD – Paradise Disowned (1983)
One of those people that like to fire up the neurons to awaken the amygdala deep in yer medial temporal lobes? It’s ok– humans enjoy being scared for whatever primal reason preprogrammed into our DNA… likely has something to do with our constant wrestlin’ with our fragile mortality. Anyway, as much [...]

Dirt May Be Your Santa Claus

MELVINS – Tora Tora Tora (4 x 7-inch bootleg, 1995)
Not a whole lotta need to scribe a damn thing about these gents. Yer either thee type that’d eagerly consume a tape of King Buzzo, Dale Crover and their bassist of the week wrestling with thee beer shits (Coming Soon! With Mike Patton as ‘guest’ flatulence) [...]

MERCYFUL FATE – The Lost Tapes 1978-84

Ok everyone: put on yer black leather studded beanie caps with thee glistening chrome propeller. For we are not concerned with thee (at times) questionable fidelity of this here bootleg. No, our aim is to slip into our frequent roles as nerdy musicologists. We must dissect every nuance and subtlety of a contraband recording such [...]

Pantheon II

I think something we often lose sight of as fans, and ESPECIALLY as music bloggers is the fact that a pretty sizable majority of Thee Greatest R&R Ever Made wasn’t created by long-forgotten artists with two songs to their credit. Nor is it measured by “only five copies ever pressed but three were smashed by [...]