CATUPECU MACHU

I really don't know why this tape appeals to me. I don't like funk, and I don't like bongos. I don't like weird Tom Morello meets Dave Navarro guitars. But there's something about this Argentine demo from 1995....something I cannot explain (or justify). CATUPECU MACHU are still active, and appear to be rather popular...in case you really want to go down a hole. 

CATUPECU MACHU

Vancouver tonight....come say hello (and bring me all of the tapes):

BLEEDING GUMS

Garage punk is supposed to be dirty. It's supposed to be ugly. I'm fine if it's a little sloppy, I just need it to have teeth, you know? Chicago's BLEEDING GUMS don't just have teeth, they have fukkn fangs. Off the rails snotty hardcore, vicious and swinging. I'm in....you coming?

II

Seattle tonight at The Nuthole with JJ DOLL, KID CHROME, PARANOID TIME and PRIVATE ROOM. Should be an absolute ripper....so bring me all of the tapes.

CRIMNAL WAVE

These guys were good when I first saw them a few years ago, but the shit has gotten positively deadly since then. None of the throwback new wave fashion, this dark punk is fierce and aggressive. The Jefferson Crew delivers with desperation. 

RURAL SAVAGES

I'll be listening to this while we drive past the Chico turnoff on our way north. First STERILE MIND jaunt out of the Bay Area - Portland, come say hello and bring me all of the tapes...

KLAM

Sometimes when people dive into '80s dark indie tunes, it just sounds like a poor attempt at a recreation of a thing that was really cool. But sometimes modern beings dive in headfirst....and it works. I could have heard KLAM in 1987, and it would have been awesome....just like it is in 2016. Melancholic down tempo ethereal magic, that's what this shit is. Elizabeth Fraser caliber vocals, deconstructed Robert Smith guitars...I know it's lazy to make comparisons like this, but I could easily file KLAM alongside artists of that caliber, and these sounds would have been worthy of mainstream independent recognition in those years (Maybe they are now, too? I dunno, I mostly listen to mindless DBeat, atonal grindcore and country. Seriously). A feeling, a genre, and a moment in time, all perfectly captured on tape....good job. 

THE CONCRETE VAGINA

This cassette includes The Concrete Vagina and Canciones de Otras Bandas, a covers collection with tracks by RAMONES, WILL OLDHAM, RIDE, VANDALS and BOB DYLAND given the treatment. Well played, my Italian friends....

DYE

My pal John asked me how to describe this brand of punk the other day, and I was at a bit of a loss. Someone wanna tell me what this currently exploding subsubgenre is called...? Because these Texas mutants are doing it right as fukk. A perfect 1-2-1-2 stomp, but it's almost UK Oi! sometimes and I heard REAGAN YOUTH references at least twice....and you can fukkn dance your ass off to it. DYE straight kill this shit, and I included whatever the weird shit was on the flipside of the tape because I like you. 

DYE

RHINOCERVS

On the ninth (of ten) self/un/titled release, the RHINOCERVS label once again leaves you breathless. Haunting and ethereal black metal, this time tempered with atonal ambient/goth and soundtracks to nonexistent films that most would never be able to watch all the way through without crying or screaming. RHINOCERVS is all encompassing, and each release managed to do something different...this one will likely appeal to listeners from well outside of the metal realm, and though I was not struck as immediately as with other tapes (numbers 02, 07 and 12, specifically), with time it has become one of my favorites. Released in 2013, not long before the collective seems to have put this project to bed. Hopefully it's just a nap. 

RH-15

FÖRFALL

OUGGHH!! South Valley Texans fukkn cream through insane Japanese influenced hardcore with screaming leads. I don't know what you thought you needed today, but I can assure you that FÖRFALL is all you will need. Relentless. Excellent. 

DECAY

My demo has three tracks...so that's all you get from me. There are eight on the internet...and I can assure you that the other five are worth your time and effort.