SPDFGH/LUSTRE 4/NEW BUFFALO

In 1995 I joined Noise Addict. We played shows with SPDFGH and Lustre 4 lots. It was like I had 6 mothers!
Those two bands were so great, and still are. It was such a great time, musically, in Sydney. You could also go to all ages shows at the Metro in the city. I saw Dinosaur Jr play there in '95. The Meanies and Nunchucka Superfly played regularly too, and Frenzal Rhomb.
Anyways, I couldn't find any Lustre 4 clips on youtube. I have Double Happiness on CD. Spdfgh released a couple of albums and they released a 7 inch in this really cool, thick cardboard packaging and I used to keep my weed and my pipe in there when I was 16.
Oh, you can get all the SPDFGH releases on itunes!
Sally Seltmann was in Lustre 4 with Lara Meyerratken (El May). Sally went on to do New Buffalo. Here is my favourit song from that project of hers as well as a SPDFGH clip. SPDFGH featured sisters Kim and Tania Bowers.
Oh, the memories. So sweet. Like cupcakes falling from the sky.

My favourite Robert Altman film?

Big call, I know, but I think it is. It has to be.
3 WOMEN.
(Starring Shelley Duval and Sissy Spacek!!)

C L A G !

Clag were an Australian band from the 90's. from Brisbane, to be exact.
All their material is finally getting a release through Chapter music.
Clag are so amazingly good. It almost hurts, but then everything is washed away in a simplistic happy smiley grin, so it's ok.

The album comes out tomorrow, but i've been ringing record stores in Melbourne finding out if i can get it today.
Hurry up tomorrow!

Archers Of Loaf

They just reissued Vee Vee, probably my favourite Archers of Loaf record.
I didn't know that at the time, and even now, there's a 'Pavement or Archers- who's better?' /pick your side, in indy rock... I like both. (I guess I was 15 when these two bands were in their heyday. If I didn't see idea's been thrown around in zines, I certainly wasn't going to have such debates with my classmates at my private Jewish day school!)

Eric Bachmann has a harsher voice than Steve Malkmus. Harsh is good.
Here's 'Harnessed in Slum's, my favourite song off the record, and I couldn't not post 'Web in Front', from Icky Mettle, which also just got a re release. So good.



("All I ever wanted was to be your spine".... Wish I wrote those words)

CRUNT!

I was typing a word and made a typo- Crunt! You can guess what word I was trying to type...
Anyways, a light bulb went off when i saw it- CRUNT- and I was like 'omg, what happened to the band Crunt? That Kat Bjelland was in with her former husband, and Russel Simmons on drums???'
I love the one (and only) record they put out...
One off projects are good. I don't mind things that start and end in the same breath. At least they happen...

LFO-LFO

Classic.
Perfect use of a 303. Not too wah chripy. Good amount of acid :)

AUTHOR&PUNISHER!!!!

Listening to this record 'AUTHOR & PUNISHER Drone Machines' and it clenches my claws like i'm about to pounce.
Frothy mouth.
Love! Holy woah.

3 jams to start your morning with toast:

Sweet strawberry Jam (serve on thick wholemeal toast)


Marmalade served on sourdough


Apricot on rye

Dead Moon- Walking On My Grave

Someone needs to reissue all the Dead Moon records.
next time I'm in Portland, I'll scout.
I remember when they came here in like 2005. Sick. I saw them about 4 times that tour.
So good

LL Cool (Grace) J(ones)

Still one of my favourite LL Cool J jams.
So raunchy, still, to this day.
Hot stuff.
The sample comes from Grace Jones My Jamaican Guy, of coarse.
Great usage.

HAPPY HOUSE

The Weekend recycling Siouxsie
In a good way:

A GENDER- self (en)titled

I made a (paranoid)punk album
Download it for free:
http://agender.bandcamp.com/album/self-en-titled

Video coming soon.
Playing shows in Melbourne soon too

xxx

this morning....

Best storyteller rapper of the year.
DON TRIP
I posted 'Letter To My Son' earlier.
Check out/DL the Stepbrothers mixtape with Starlito:
http://www.datpiff.com/Don-Trip-Starlito-Stepbrothers-mixtape.255304.html

And these:
http://www.thefader.com/2011/08/30/don-trips-human-torch-iii-and-iheartstrippers-mixtapes/

And this new video LAWYER


BREAK MY STRIDE

I was in the studio yesterday making deity dance music. :)
Had flashbacks of this jam
!

VIRGIN PRUNES- BABY TURNS BLUE

An underrated Irish goth band from 1977.
If I die, I die..., phenomenal album.

The Softies- Hello Rain

Soundtrack to a 16 year old heart falling in love...
Then being broken.
The antidote to all the angsty music at the time.
1996.