I lived in San Francisco in 2002. There were amazing bands and venues on every corner, between there and Oakland. The Coachwhips, Erase Errata, Deerhoof, Oxbow, Tussle, Hella, Numbers, The Vanishing and many, many more.
I got to see all those bands, lots.
The Vanishing are so hauntingly good. I just came across 'Songs For Psychotic Children' tonight, when I was looking for a record to wash the dishes to, and I stumbled upon it in my collection and, now my hands are all warm and mood is sombre.
I'm very lucky to have seen them.
White walls
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Malaria! You You
Malaria! Possibly my most favourite and influential band of all time.
We share the same German blood.
We share the same German blood.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
SPK-Metal Dance
You know, I always go on and on about Severed Heads being one of my favourite Australian 'bands', and it's really quite rude of me not to mention fellow Sydney (industrial noise) group SPK in the same breath, because Metal Dance is one of my favourite 12''s that I own, and I'm just a bit upset at myself that I haven't mentioned this yet. Very rude.
VATICAN SHADOW/PRURIENT
One of my favourite releases this year has been Vatican Shadow's Kneel Before religious Icons.
Vatican Shadow is Prurient's Dominick Fernow.
Interestingly, Prurient's'Bermuda Drains was one of my favourite records of last year. The man creates a mood. It's motif music. He really puts you in there. It's filmic. The Vatican Shadow stuff is like war on repeat, because the truth is, war is always on repeat. This is political music. Big respect.
VATICAN SHADOW 'Church Of All Images' PRURIENT 'A Meal Can Be Made'
Interestingly, Prurient's'Bermuda Drains was one of my favourite records of last year. The man creates a mood. It's motif music. He really puts you in there. It's filmic. The Vatican Shadow stuff is like war on repeat, because the truth is, war is always on repeat. This is political music. Big respect.
VATICAN SHADOW 'Church Of All Images' PRURIENT 'A Meal Can Be Made'
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
SUZANNE CIANI
Absolute hero of mine.
Pianist/composer/Electronic music innovator.
Suzanne made records (now days, she's a very big New Age music composer), designed sound for pinball machines, movies and commercials.
Imagine this in the 1970's.
Watch Suzanne at work designing sounds for the Xenon pinball machine!
One of my favourite pieces of hers:
Watch Suzanne at work designing sounds for the Xenon pinball machine!
One of my favourite pieces of hers:
Jennifer Paige- Crush
Something you may not have known about me is that this is definitely one of my favourite pop songs of the 90's.
Jennifer Paige pretty much came and went with this song, like she sacrificed her career for it or something.
It's so good. And she's so gorgeous. And she has another song called 'Sober', but I think she's talking about love in that song (It's over/and I'm sober).
I thought that was double cool.
'Crush' is amazing. In the video, when Jennifer is swinging on a swing on top of a cliff, I want to catch her, mid motion, and tell her to be careful!
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Romy! HOME
Hi.
Today I begun the process of organic, humble, new beginnings.
Stream HOME and welcome to my sound cloud.
The album is finished!
a mile long chorus line of :) :) :) :) :) :)....
SOUNDCLOUD: http://soundcloud.com/house-of-romyo
Today I begun the process of organic, humble, new beginnings.
Stream HOME and welcome to my sound cloud.
The album is finished!
a mile long chorus line of :) :) :) :) :) :)....
SOUNDCLOUD: http://soundcloud.com/house-of-romyo
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
RAH DIGGA
Rah Digga's DIRTY HARRIET came out on the cusp of the beginning/end of a centruy. '99.
I thought that was gonna be the end for rappers. This girl was going to take over the world, being linked to Busta Rhymes and all. I thought she was going to be the Y2K myth of the world getting fucked up, personified! But it didn't happen. It confused the hell out of me.
Rah was the queen of rap back then, in my eye.
I knew, and still know, every word on that record.
I just heard her do some what of a diss back to Fat trel and Tyler the Creator for using her name in their tracks as metaphors for something not very nice.
Rah's verse is murderous. Clever.
(copy and paste this. via the fader)
http://www.thefader.com/2012/04/06/rah-digga-the-nigga-in-me/
If you don't have Dirty Harriet, get schooled. Get it.
Peace and Love and respect to Rah Digga. Big influence on me as a rapper.
x
I thought that was gonna be the end for rappers. This girl was going to take over the world, being linked to Busta Rhymes and all. I thought she was going to be the Y2K myth of the world getting fucked up, personified! But it didn't happen. It confused the hell out of me.
Rah was the queen of rap back then, in my eye.
I knew, and still know, every word on that record.
I just heard her do some what of a diss back to Fat trel and Tyler the Creator for using her name in their tracks as metaphors for something not very nice.
Rah's verse is murderous. Clever.
(copy and paste this. via the fader)
http://www.thefader.com/2012/04/06/rah-digga-the-nigga-in-me/
If you don't have Dirty Harriet, get schooled. Get it.
Peace and Love and respect to Rah Digga. Big influence on me as a rapper.
x
Thursday, March 29, 2012
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.
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.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
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!!)
3 WOMEN.
(Starring Shelley Duval and Sissy Spacek!!)
Thursday, March 8, 2012
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!
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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)
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)
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