Street Anger Blog

NO STREET ANGER THIS WEEK

2008-10-23T12:41:00.002-04:00

because I'm in New York at the CMJ conference.

Standouts so far:
- Ringo Deathstarr (awesome rocked-out shoegaze from Austin)
- A Sunny Day In Glasgow (kinda surprised by this one; total C86/Slumberland worshop)
- Marnie Stern (way better than the last time I saw her)
- Women (Akron/Family reborn as a lo-fi math-rock band?)
- Parts and Labor (see Marnie Stern)
- The Coathangers (all-girl sassy garage punk from Atlanta)
- Ponytail (one of my favorite live bands being one of the best bands I've seen at the festival? NO WAI)

will keep you posted on things and maybe do a CMJ retro$pective. I'M HAVING A GOOD TIME. :)

NYHC on Donahue - 1986

2008-10-07T02:33:00.001-04:00

"Man, Phil Donahue turned the New York hardcore scene into an English class." - Abe Cavin

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Demon's Demands 7"

2008-10-06T00:27:00.002-04:00

Up there as one of the best releases of 2008 for me. I play this on Street Anger Radio all the time, so if you listen you might be acquainted with the title track. This is one of a handful of records I've been spinning recently that make waking up in the morning and dealing with bullshit worth it.

Eddy Current Suppression Ring are four dudes from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, home of some of the best underground music you can find these days (My Disco, Witch Hats, Fabulous Diamonds, a zillion other fucking awesome groups). They all work in a record pressing plant and started the band because they were friends and wanted to be in a sweet band. It took them to the top 10 of the Australian charts with their most recent long-player, Primary Colors, released in the US on Goner. Musically, it reminds me of a slightly slower and garagier Buzzcocks, or if the Clean were more punk. Their songs tend to be slow burners - maybe not immediately catchy, but as you get closer to the end, you have a revelation: "Holy shit, this band rules." They toured the US in '07, and apparently their DC show was one of the highlights. Here's to hoping they come back.

Anyway, the Demon's Demands 7" was released on Iron Lung Records in a one-time edition of 500. It sold out immediately, and now yer only option for grabbing it is off of eBay or a vinyl buying/trading site. I don't think too many will be showing up for a while yet, because this is going to be a jewel of a lot of collections. This rip is my own, and while it's not quite audiophile quality, it just has a little bit of surface noise. Like actually listening to a record.

demon's downloads

Anyone who's interested in unloading other records of theirs, get in touch. I have their s/t LP, but none of the 7"s.

Pixies vs. Toadies

2008-10-01T13:07:00.001-04:00

1988:

1994:

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!

Playlist for 9-25-08

2008-09-26T11:38:00.001-04:00

link

1 Ringo Deathstarr In Love In Love/Summertime EP
2 Ponytail Beg Waves Ice Cream Spiritual
3 My Bloody Valentine Soon Loveless
4 Vivian Girls Never See Me Again s/t
5 Shop Assistants Caledonia Rd. Will Anything Happen
6 Slowdive Morningrise Just For A Day
7 Deerhunter Never Stops Microcastle
8 Magazine Definitive Gaze Real Life
9 Primal Scream Movin' On Up Screamadelica
10 Smashing Pumpkins Girl Named Sandoz Pisces Iscariot
11 The Telescopes Threadbare Taste
12 The Icarus Line Kiss Like Lizards Penance Soiree
13 Black Lips Dirty Hands Let It Bloom
14 Spectrum How You Satisfy Me s/t
15 No Age Sleeper Hold Nouns
16 Hum Green to Me Downward is Heavenward
17 Lungfish Black Helicopters Artificial Horizon
18 Times New Viking The Wait Rip It Off
19 ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead How Near How Far Source Tags and Codes
20 Chavez Laugh Track Better Days Will Haunt You
21 A Place to Bury Strangers Breathe s/t
22 The Clean Beatnik Anthology
23 The White Stripes Lafayette Blues Life on the Flip Side singles compilation
24 The Music Machine Talk Talk Turn On LP
25 Tyvek Sidewalk Sidewalk 7"
26 Tyrades Couples s/t LP
27 The Carbonas Nineteen (Dogs cover) Live at Rob's House 7"
28 The Hives The Hives - Introduce The Metric System In Time Veni Vedi Vicious LP
29 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Demon's Demands Demon's Demands 7"
30 The Coachwhips Extinguish Me Bangers vs. Fuckers
31 Unnatural Helpers Break That Horse Sub Pop Singles Club 7"
32 Unnatural Helpers Easy Way Sub Pop Singles Club 7"
33 Japanther River Phoenix Skuffed Up My Huffy
34 Digital Leather Hologram Sorcerer
35 Shellac Steady As She Goes Excellent Italian Greyhound
36 Sonic Youth Death Valley '69 (feat. Lydia Lynch) Bad Moon Rising
37 Circle Jerks When The Shit Hits The Fan Repo Man Soundtrack LP

ISN'T THIS WHAT LIFE'S ALL ABOUT?
ISN'T THIS A DREAM COME TRUE?
ISN'T THIS A NIGHTMARE TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Need New Body - three videos

2008-09-26T02:30:00.001-04:00

Need New Body are one of those bands that you had a chance to see but never did for whatever reason. Mine was because I had seen Hot Cross the night before and didn't want to drive an hour up to Wallingford again to see some noisy band that may or may not be good. I guarantee they would have put on a better show than Hot Cross.

Need New Body - Buffalo Stance

Need New Body - Beach

Need New Body - Brite Tha Day

2008-09-25T14:00:00.001-04:00

Quick reminder that Street Anger Radio is on tonight 8-10 PM. Doing a show with a lot of shoegaze and heavy 90's indie/alt-whatever, as well as a good dose of ROCK N ROLL.

Make a request and call into the studio!

In CT for the weekend...

2008-09-21T18:54:00.002-04:00

so here are three videos that you should watch.

Slowdive - Morningrise

For a while Souvlaki was my go-to make-out album, but that kinda backfired the last time I put it on. I haven't been able to listen to anything off it since, with the exception of "Souvlaki Space Station," which is their attempt at a dub song. It's also made me appreciate their other albums more.

Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands

Sisters of Mercy - Dominion

PS - seeing MY BLOODY VALENTINE tomorrow with Sean Gray of DNA in the DNA/Hit Dat Records fame. NO FUCKIN WAY.

CLOCKCLEAN ER - "Ready to Fight"

2008-09-18T10:46:00.002-04:00

May 14, 2008, opening for Negative Approach in NYC. What better way to honor one of the greatest hardcore bands of all time than to cover one of their songs for 15+ minutes?

Live 12" coming out soon.

Drunkdriver

2008-09-15T00:44:00.002-04:00

I can't support driving drunk, but Brooklyn's DRUNKDRIVER are one of the most exciting new bands to come around these parts in a while. Last weekend they flattened Philly and Maryland with punishing industrial punk.

While Drunkdriver are only a three-piece, they make more noise than most full bands - guitarist Kristy cranks all three amps up way beyond where they should be, creating a brutal, bludgeoning, in-the-red sound while singer Berdan pukes out lyrics like "You taste like cancer" into a delay pedal. It's a horrifying combination, somewhere between Baltimore heroes (and Street Anger favorites) Double Dagger and Yahweh or the Highway-era Arab on Radar.

They have an LP coming out on Parts Unknown soon, and have a cassette out, but the guy who put out the cassette flaked or something, so contact the band to find out the best way to get a copy.

Interview coming in the first issue of STREET ANGER zine.

street america radio 9/11 edition

2008-09-12T16:58:00.001-04:00

1 Rage Against the Machine Bulls On Parade Evil Empire
2 Fearless Iranians From Hell Blow Up The Embassy s/t EP
3 Leftover Crack Super Tuesday Fuck World Trade
4 A Frames Hostage Crisis A Frames
5 Minor Threat Guilty of Being White Complete Discography
6 Soul Coughing Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago
7 Toby Keith Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue Unleashed
8 Bauhaus St. Vitus Dance In the Flat Field
9 Clockcleaner NSA Nevermind
10 Homostupids Dick Sting The Intern
11 Black Flag Black Coffee Slip It In
12 Ringo Deathstarr In Love In Love/Summertime EP
13 My Bloody Valentine (When You're Awake) You're Still In A Dream Isn't Anything
14 True Womanhood Cosmic Ray Demo v.1
15 Deerhunter Intro Microcastle (request by Sean Gray)
16 Deerhunter Agoraphobia Microcastle (request by Sean Gray)
17 ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Heart in the Hand of the Matter Source Tags and Codes
18 Nirvana Territorial Pissings Nevermind (dedicated to Sean Gray)
19 Economist Japanese Day Trading s/t
20 Nation of Ulysses Mockingbird, Yeah Plays Pretty For Baby
21 The New Flesh Plastic Parasite
22 Suicide Rocket USA Suicide
23 Arab on Radar Running for Asthma The Stolen Singles
24 Devo Strange Pursuit Duty Now For the Future
25 DNA 5:30 DNA on DNA
26 The Conet Project tcp d1 9 ready ready 15728 irdial Conet Project Disc 1
27 Drunkdriver Secret Eater Born Pregnant
28 Sonic Youth Sugar Kane Dirty
29 Guided By Voices Motor Away Alien Lanes
30 Double Dagger No Allies Sophisticated Urban Living 7"
31 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Demon's Demands Demon's Demands 7"
32 A Place To Bury Strangers Another Step Away s/t
33 The Jesus Lizard Puss Liar
34 Deerhunter Nothing Ever Happened Microcastle

The Hospitals vs. promoter

2008-09-11T01:27:00.000-04:00

Holy shit.

playlist 9-4-08

2008-09-06T14:32:00.001-04:00

1 Karp Prison Shake Prison Shake 7"
2 Hot Snakes Braintrust Audit in Progress
3 Surf Nazis Must Die Worthless Sunday Anti Everything 7"
4 Career Suicide Blink Attempted Suicide
5 The Misfits Last Caress Collection II
6 The Cramps Can Your Pussy Do The Dog? Greatest Hits
7 Vivian Girls Tell the World s/t
8 Witch Hats Hellhole Hellhole 7"
9 My Bloody Valentine Feed Me With Your Kiss Feed Me With Your Kiss EP
10 The Black Angels Mission District Directions To See A Ghost
11 Poster Children Thinner, Stronger Sub Pop singles club 7"
12 Gang of Four Return the Gift Entertainment!
13 Pylon M-Train Pylon 7"
14 Wire Sand In My Joints Chairs Missing
15 Casino Music Viol Af Dis BIPPP: French Synth-Wave 1979-1985
16 The Clean Beatnik Anthology
17 Black Sabbath Into the Void Master of Reality
18 Los Microwaves TV In My Eye Time To Get Up 7"
19 Drunkdriver Warm on the Inside My Chinese Sister cs
20 Pink Reason By A Thread By A Thread 7"
21 Joy Division Living in the Ice Age Warsaw
22 Religious Knives In Brooklyn After Dark It's After Dark
23 They and the Children Watch It Go They and the Children/Daniel Striped Tiger split 7"
24 The New Flesh Plastic Parasite
25 Flipper Ever Generic
26 Double Dagger Bored Meeting Bored Meeting 7"
27 The Monorchid Southern Fried Wonton Impostor Costume 7"
28 Unrest So You Wanna Be A Rock And Roll Star Scott and Zelda 7"
29 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Demon's Demands Demon's Demands 7"
30 Rocket From The Crypt My Arrow's Aim Hot Charity/Cut Carefully and Play Loud
31 Times New Viking We Got Rocket Dig Yourself
32 Wire The Commercial Pink Flag

Video: The Shamen - Ebenezer Goode

2008-08-31T04:25:00.002-04:00

Man England was weird in the early 90's. This video manages to be hilarious and terrifying at the same time, and kinda serves as an effective (if unintentional) anti-MDMA public service announcement.

Video: Hot Snakes - Braintrust

2008-08-30T16:47:00.002-04:00

They only ever played 21+ shows in New York, and I never got to see them. Sean Gray got kicked out of their last show, where they played Drive Like Jehu's chart toppers "Luau" and "Bullet Train To Vegas".

Here is a video of "Braintrust," for those of you who are going back to college this week. Don't go to Harvard, don't go to Yale, your disposition will only make you fail.

august 26 playlist

2008-08-29T02:41:00.001-04:00

oah oops

1 * Abe Vigoda Bear Face Skeleton
2 Chromatics Arms Slither Away International Pop Underground 7"
3 Herpes Rad Ab Tod Von Nem Disco-Tänzer 7"
4 Herpes Nie Mehr Sehn Tod Von Nem Disco-Tänzer 7"
5 The Clean Tally Ho The Clean Anthology
6 Hot Snakes Our Work Fills The Pews Automatic Midnight
7 * Mogwai Batcat The Hawk Is Howling
8 7654 Stories Science Fiction 2005 demo
9 Sonic Youth Becuz Washing Machine
10 Witch Hats Hellhole Hellhole 7"
11 Shotmaker Nick's Question Complete Discography
12 My Bloody Valentine Feed Me With Your Kiss Feed Me With Your Kiss EP
13 Black Lips I Saw A Ghost (Lean) Good Bad Not Evil
14 Archaeopteryx Mustachioed Arab With A Money Hat Holding A Calculator and Getting A Good Idea Devastarchaeoptertard Party
15 A Place To Bury Strangers My Weakness s/t
16 Cheveu Superhero s/t
17 A Frames Police 1000 Police 1000/Traction 7"
18 The Clean Platypus The Clean Anthology
19 * Deerhunter Nothing Ever Happened Microcastle
20 Guided By Voices Tractor Rape Chain Bee Thousand
21 Guided By Voices Motor Away Alien Lanes
22 Polvo Tragic Carpet Ride Celebrate The New Dark Age EP
23 Pavement Unseen Power of the Picket Fence Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain reissue
24 Vivian Girls Where Do You Run To s/t
25 Spacemen 3 Come Down Easy Perfect Prescription
26 The Summer We Went West A Turn (Something Moves Again) 1 Following The Holy Moon Goddess
27 The Summer We Went West A Turn (Something Moves Again) 2 Following The Holy Moon Goddess
28 The Summer We Went West A Turn (Something Moves Again) 3 Following The Holy Moon Goddess
29 Indian Summer Touch The Wings Of An Angel... Discography
30 The Kills Dropout Boogie Black Rooster EP
31 Birthday Boyz Basketball Fiction/Birthday Boyz 7"
32 Nirvana Breed Nevermind
33 * The YMD Charles Maggio's Real Last Name Is Ash Excuse Me, This Is The Yah Mos Def

2008-08-28T15:11:00.001-04:00

For some reason the WMUC website didn't save my show playlist from last week, which SUCKS because I was really happy with my playlist from this week. Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

New time slot is Thursdays 8-10 PM, and it's going to rule.

tally ho tally ho

2008-08-25T13:08:00.002-04:00

New Zealand rules. I'd love to go there sometime and scour the Antipodes for Flying Nun singles.

Here's the first one. The Clean, "Tally Ho".

2008-08-25T02:34:00.000-04:00

cat the drive-in

2008-08-24T18:30:00.001-04:00

cedric meow mixler-zavala
omeow rodriguez-lopez

in/catsino/out

Motor Away

2008-08-24T14:20:00.003-04:00

Sorry for the break, I was really busy with my last week of my summer internship, and then spent a week helping my younger brother move to the University of Missouri. St. Louis is cool (check out Vintage Vinyl if you're ever in the area), as is Columbia, where I got invited to a noise show after being in town for 15 minutes.

Here's a Guided By Voices video to make up for the delay. Ohio has a long tradition of weirdo rock dudes - oddly enough, they weren't represented at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. No GBV, no Devo (a huge "what the fuck"), and you can bet your "Busy Making Love And War" 7" that Times New Viking won't be in there. Instead, you get to look at Bono's costumes he wore on U2's "Pompous Asshole" tour in '96.

Also, this video, like most of GBV's, reminds me of Pete and Pete.

8-5 Street Anger playlist

2008-08-06T10:33:00.000-04:00

1 Pavement Box Elder Westing By Musket And Sextant
2 Fearless Iranians From Hell Blow Up The Embassy s/t 7"
3 Black Randy Idi Amin Dangerhouse singles comp
4 A Frames Hostage Crisis A Frames
5 My Disco A Christ Pendant Comfort Her Neck Paradise
6 Silver Daggers Real Neat Flag New High and Ord
7 The Kills Cat Claw Keep On Your Mean Side
8 Sonic Youth Star Power EVOL
9 Flipper The Way of the World Generic
10 Dead Kennedys Let's Lynch The Landlord Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
11 Sex Vid Misprint live cassette
12 Economist Point A - Point B Economist
13 Suicidal Tendencies Institutionalized s/t
14 Brainworms Born With A Beard Which is Worse?
15 Universal Order of Armageddon Entire Vast Situation discography
16 Navies A Surveyor's Measure s/t 7"
17 7654 Stories Secret Decay 2005 demo
18 Shotmaker 10/22/94 discography
19 Indian Summer Orchard Discography
20 Wow, Owls! Five Sexy Alligators, Please Pick Your Patterns
21 White Load Racist Joke 2007 demo
22 This Bike is a Pipe Bomb The Black Panther Song Dance Party With...
23 McLusky Collagen Rock Mclusky Do Dallas
24 The Birthday Party Release The Bats Junkyard
25 Joan of Arc 9/11 2 Boo! Human
26 DYS No Pain, No Gain Fire and Ice
27 Melt Banana Key Is A Fact That A Cat Brings Cell-Scape
28 Homostupids Flies Die The Intern
29 Hot Snakes Automatic Midnight Automatic Midnight
30 Pink Razors Bigger Boat Waiting to Wash Up
31 Black Lips Navajo Good Bad Not Evil
32 Dillinger Four Wrecktheplacefantastic Versus God
33 The Dils Class War Dangerhouse comp
34 Rocket From The Crypt My Arrow's Aim Hot Charity/Cut Carefully and Play
35 Vivian Girls Damaged s/t
36 Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill I Love You Mary Jane unreleased
37 June of 44 Boom Anatomy of Sharks
38 Jah Division Heart and Soul Dub Dub Will Tear Us Apart
39 King Tubby Seaview Corner Rocking Freedom Sounds in Dub
40 King Tubby Israelite Children Dub Freedom Sounds in Dub
41 Scientist Laser Attack Meets the Space Invaders
42 S.E. Rogie Go Easy With Me True Vine Sub-Saharan Guitar Music compilation

8-3 playlist

2008-08-04T16:50:00.002-04:00

Fill-in while Scotty was in Germany at Wacken. Looking forward to hearing some of the ridiculous stories that are sure to ensure.

1 Cheveu Superhero s/t
2 The Dirtbombs I Can't Stop Thinking About It Horndog Fest
3 A Frames Police 1000 Police 1000/Traction 7"
4 Kid Dynamite Death and Taxes Shorter, Faster, Louder (dedicated to Grant)
5 Tyvek Give It Up Summer Burns 2x7"
6 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Colour Television Primary Colours
7 The Buzzcocks I Don't Mind Product box set
8 Vivian Girls All the Time s/t
9 Talking Heads Pull Up The Roots Speaking in Tongues
10 The Black Angels Mission District Directions to See A Ghost
11 Cave In Big Riff Jupiter
12 Lightning Bolt Dead Cowboy Hypermagic Mountain
13 Double Dagger I Was So Bored That I Wanted To Hang Myself On The Dancefloor live on WFMU 3-23-06
14 Drive Like Jehu Do You Compute live in San Francisco 9/16/94
15 Ultra Dolphins Matthew O'Connor Mar
16 Black Eyes False Positive Cough
17 Smart Growth Money in the Banks Surrey
18 Arab on Radar God is Dad Yahweh or the Highway
19 Municipal Waste The Thrashin' of the Christ Hazardous Mutation
20 Nine Shocks Terror Not A Fucking Anthem Zen and the Art of Beating You
21 DYS No Pain, No Gain Wolfpack
22 Homostupids Apeshit The Intern
23 The Carbonas Nineteen Live at Rob's House 7"
24 Le Shok Killed By Fuck We Are Electrocution
25 Municipal Waste Boner City Best Friends Day comp
26 Pissed Jeans Closet Marine Shallow
27 Harvey Milk War Special Wishes
28 The New Flesh Punched in the Head (Drunks With Guns cover) The New Flesh and Robert Inhuman 7"
29 The New Flesh Untitled/In This Shit World The New Flesh and Robert Inhuman 7"
30 Hair Police Track 2 Our Minds Problems Vol. 1
31 Clockcleaner New Slow Nevermind
32 Yukon Mt. Pleasant Mortar
33 Shotmaker Archaeologist The Complete Discography (Disc 1)
34 Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill I Love You Mary Jane unreleased!
35 I Hate Myself Destroy All Monsters Ten Songs
36 Brainiac Go Freaks Go Internationale 7"
37 Randoms Let's Get Rid of NY Dangerhouse 7" compilation
38 The Nation of Ulysses Cool Senior High School 13-Point Program To Destroy America
39 The Weirdos (We Got The) Neutron Bomb Dangerhouse 7" compilation
40 Blackie Knight and the Daylites Twin Cities Demo
41 Black Lips O Katrina! Party at Rob's House 7"
43 The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands Darklands
44 City of Caterpillar Driving Spain Up A Wall (live) Level-Plane Records compilation
45 Flipper Sex Bomb Generic

STREET ANGER 3-HOUR SPECIAL SUNDAY NIGHT

2008-08-02T23:20:00.002-04:00

9 PM - midnight, filling in for LEAVE THE HALL: True Metal Radio while Scotty is at Wacken Open Air.

Sorry about the lack of show this past week, I was dealing with moving (that shit is FINALLY done). Hope you enjoyed Dan Berdak filling in for me and playing some sweet 90's tracks.

Tom Green is a lucky man. His bum was on the cheese, his bum was on the cheese, and he was so lucky that he got a disease (testicular cancer).

Video of the Homostupids from DNA Test Fest

2008-07-28T00:00:00.000-04:00