Releases

Palberta - Hot On The Beach ( / )

LP Edition of 360. $14 Remixed, remade, remodeled vinylization of Palberta’s JMC Aggregate cassette of 2016. Hot on the Beach is another great leap sideways by this glorious post-tongue trio. The four brutarian tracks on the a-side are shards of songs reductive enough to have earned their “no wave” deal of approval without breaking a sweat. But as usual, Anina Lily and Nina manage to make this ug-thrust co-exist with a whacked-out feel more in line with late ’70s UK scribblers like the Raincoats or Big in Japan. Really fine. On the second side they do a single extended track called “Prolly for the Best” that sounds something like a dance 12” released by 99 Records, recorded anonymously and very… Read more »

Four Thing - Four Thing ()

LP Edition of 500 with Mp3 Download – Digital Download Zach Phillips was a fixture in the Brattleboro scene for a good many years. As a member of Blanche Blanch Blanche and Big French (among others), as well as the creator of many solo projects under various guises, runner of the OSR label, and all around Renaissance handyman,  Phillips moved to Brooklyn a while back. Once ensconced there he began playing as half of CE Schneider Topical, and generally stirring up the same kinds of mytery-aktion which had marked his Northern existence. Four Thing is the result of one his more oblique strategies. Ostensibly a surrealist parlor game involving four objects, four players, and four potential event sequences, Four Thing (the record),… Read more »

Los Lichis - Dog ()

2LP with Inserts / Download PITCHFORK    SPECTRUM CULTURE    DUSTED    ROOTSWORLD This deep into the Internet Era it’s unusual to discover a weird-ass band who’ve been active and recording since the ’90s without ever appearing as a blip on any known radar screen. Yet, here are Los Lichis — a Mexican music/art collective whose recording history goes back 19 years and whose sound is as powerful and strange as any combo around. Some might suggest that Mexico is not known for its underground sonic emanations, but we’ve long dug artists like Loch Ness, Chac Mool, Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, Los Llamarada, and various improv-types we hear about from folks who tour down there. Some of Mexico’s punk and… Read more »

Guerilla Toss - Live in Nashville ()

LP. Edition of 800 $18 FACTMAG IMPOSEMAGAZINE Guerilla Toss Live in Nashville reminds me of the Frank Zappa You Can’t Do That Onstage Anymore series where the arrangements and delivery on the studio versions were so near impossible that they could not possibly be recreated live. Zappa and Co. gladly proved all naysayers wrong. Remember that time when Bill Graham bet the Grateful Dead they couldn’t pull off the Blues For Allah album live? Sure you do. The Dead went into the Great American Music Hall and kicked Graham’s ass. This is what G-Toss achieves here. What a band. I mean damn, what a band. Like one of the first great bands of the new century great. Who would you… Read more »

Curse Purse - Curse Purse With Gary Panter ()

12″ Edition of 37. Numbered. OUT OF PRINT! Because their debut 12” was such a marvel, Curse Purse decided revisit the format, and this time they hauled along guitarist Gary Panter for a ride in the clown car. For those who have never experienced them, Curse Purse (the basic) is a trio with Olivia Kennett on suqeedles and voice, Matt Robidoux on guitar and voice, and “Ted” Lee on drum, guitar and voice. To them, form is nothing but an obstacle to be overcome and parodied. And though he has proven himself to be a thoughtful and cunning string agent in most settings, it appears these three scalawags have subverted the approach of Mr. Panter as well. The sound they… Read more »

Son Of Salami - A Study in Eraser Headless Tape Recording ()

LP FIRST EDITION Edition of 500 Black Vinyl – Found a box of the first pressing LP SECOND EDITION Edition of 500 – BROWN VINYL! 2011 release. Twenty-one lo-fi pop gems from the true heart of Burlington, VT. All songs performed and recorded by Joey Pizza Slice on his eraser-headless portable tape machine. This device allows him to create multiple layers of audio content without the handicap of having to hear the music he’s recording over. Each overdub is a one-shot deal. THERE’S NO ERASING ALLOWED! Results are not unlike some of the lo-fi antics of today’s youth, but I actually think this is a lot better. Funny, strange and charming songs that break free from their primitive trappings, rather than fall back… Read more »

Blood Quartet - Deep Red ()

Blood Quartet “Deep Red” LP Edition of 500 BLOOD LINES OUT OF PRINT Debut LP, following a cassette, by Mark Cunningham’s latest unit, Blood Quartet. Based in Barcelona, the mostly-instrumental band plays insanely great avant garde rock music, with Mark’s electro-Miles trumpet spread across the top like brass icing. Cunningham has been based in Spain for many years now, and his groups there (Raeo, Bestia Ferida, etc.) have been excellent, but Blood Quartet seems like the apex of a musical quest he started with Don King, following the dissolution of his legendary NYC band, Mars. The music they play has a similar cinematic scope to the material Mark composed for his solo LP, Blood River Dusk (FTR 098). But where… Read more »

MX-80 Sound - So Funny ()

LP Edition of 500 Vulcher Eddie Flowers Review  Depending on how you count, So Funny is either the 9th or 10th album, MX-80 Sound has released. Regardless, it’s their first LP since the classic Crowd Control back in 1981, and it’s a pretty goddamn amazing spin. The core of the band — Bruce Anderson, Dale Sophiea and Rich Stim — has been more or less stable for the better part of the last four decades, despite the fact they’ve never had any real commercial success. They’ve all pursued various different paths during that time, but they’ve also continued the bizarre communal creation process that began back in Bloomington Indiana in 1974, and was codified once they relocated to the Bay… Read more »

Negative One - (-1) ()

7″ Edition of 500 Co-Release with %100 Breakfast BANDCAMP Thirteen tracks of skink-voiced post-core burl from the sloppiest pits of Boston’s Fuck-Curtis scene. Angela Sawyer handles vocals as though she’s imagining herself as a squirrel in the grips of a cartoon bear. Bugs & Rats’ brilliant guitarist, Shawnie Brando, pulls lightning repeat-o munge riffs out of his pocket as though he had an endless supply of spit-wet rags. Bassist Sam Potrykus and drummer Nick Neuburg (most recently paired in the excellent quartet, Aykroyd) so yet their dials to PUMMEL, and motor away like the mooks they almost surely are not. It’s kind of a dandy rip. The lyrics (as printed on an enclosed sheet) are like an insane parody of… Read more »