#18 FALL 2005
AIR
CONDITIONING
by Chauncey Chaumpers
Completing our two-part "Killed by Pennsylvania"
cover feature (see also Pissed
Jeans interview by Tony Rettman), Mr. Chaumpers of No
Doctors talks to this vein melting PA noise-speed ensemble!
:PISSED
JEANS
by Tony Rettman
VERTONEN
by Chris Sienko
TAIWAN
DETH
by J. Fortunato Perez
FRIENDS
FOREVER
by Brian Miller
These guys are HILARIOUS. And when Mr. Miller of Deathbomb
Arc/Foot Village went on tour with 'em, he not only had
a lot of laughs, he learned a lot about life too. I'm serious.....
V/Vm
by E.W. Hagstrom
IT
SMELLS LIKE A
MENTORS SONG IN HERE!!!
by Tony Rettman
"The
challenge was thrown down Burt style for me to ride a psychedelic
shitstorm right into the eye of the New Wet America with
three groups of urban conceptual gorillas (yes, that is
the correct spelling). And I took it.
Took it like a man . . ."
NO
FUN FEST
by Reggie Queequeg
TEEN
HUBRIS IS VISCERA: The Zyklon Bees & The Pig Snoot Revival
by Charles Lieurance
A staff member we have not seen since issue #1 returns with
a bang about very questionable barbecue and the blues (from
both sides now)....
MOOVYMUSIC!
by Brian McMahon
A rather Percy-centric second installment of
Mr. McMahon's delightful delve into
the world of soundtrack vinyl.....
RECORD
REVIEWS
(pg.
1)
396
Mountains, 500MG,
Alvarius
B, Apothecary Hymns, Astral
Social Club, Baby Huey and the Babysitters, Black Forest/Black
Sea, Born Heller, Espers, Can't, Chinaboise, Christina Carter,
Tom Carter, Charalambides, Clay's
Festering Lungs, Loren
Mazzacane Connors/Christina Carter, Danava, De Hondenkoekjesfabriek
(almost), Demos Yellow Swans
(pg.
2)
Devillock, Al Duvall, Bob Dylan, Endless
Boogie, Es, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Flying Luttenbachers,
Henry Flynt, Dredd Foole, Josephine Foster, Fricara Pacchu,
Gang Wizard/Friends Forever split, Garlic Yarg, Gate to
Gate/Devillock split, Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Gutters,
Hair Police/Crystal Fantasy split, Hammock, Human Host,
Incomparables Club, Johnston Brothers, Kites/Prurient split,
Lau Nau, Lazy
Smoke, Leprechauns Catering, LSD March,
Maledetto/Ottave
(pg.
3)
Master Musicians of Bukkake, Mouthus,
Mt.
Gigantic, Marissa Nadler, Nautical Almanac, The
New Flesh, Om, Orthrelm,
Pãivãnsãde, Pengo, Princess Sweepstakes,
Psi,
Quem Quaeritis, The
SB, Screamin' Mee-Mees, Ramon Sender, Shy
Rights Movement, Sightings, Sightings/Tom
Smith, Silentist, Silver
Daggers, The
Skaters
(pg.
4)
Smegma, Specs
One, Sublime
Frequencies label, Sun City Girls, Sunn0))), Tar
Pet,
Taurpis
Tula, Text of Light, To Live and Shave in L.A., Tumble Cat
Poof Poofy Poof, Valley of Ashes, Million Tongues Festival
CD, The Naked Prey OST, A
Veritable Whirlwind Of... comp, Tapeworms Eat Bookworms
comp, Vertonen,
Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Warmer
Milks, Watersports,
Weird Weeds, Keith Fullerton Whitman,
Jack Wright, Xex,
Yuma Nora, Zs, Zelienople
7-INCH
ROUNDUP
Part Two: Kreamy
'Lectric Santa, Major Stars, Warmer Milks, Neung Phak, Air
Conditioning, Popular Shapes, Menstruation Sisters, Strangulated
Beatoffs, Hall of Fame, Kompleksi, Lil Pocketknife/Barr,
L.A. Bands in 2004! comp, Miguel Mendez, Jacob
Smigel, The Rebel, Hedgecreep, The Clutters, (the
original) Donna Summer, Jon Mueller (not actually a 7"!),
and Sexy Prison! Then there's
Part One: Japanther, Melted Men, Kevin & Chad, Rorn,
The A-Sides, Psychic Ills, Stereo Motherfuckers
STAFF
REVIEWS
Correspondents weigh in on several different
records and etc. from all over the map, featuring Charles
Lieurance, E.W. Hagstrom,
B. Edwards, Tracy
Heightchew, one Patty
Hearst, and a whole slew of new new FREEVIEWS
by the one and only Bonnie
Banks!
ZINE
REVIEWS
Night Moves, A Dangerous Game, Ghost Press,
Sniper Glue, Smallflowers Press, Shuttlecock, The Wire,
200LBU, Bananafish, Roctober, Kiss My Grits....
BOOK
REVIEWS
Stuff
from Slow Toe Publications and Soft Skull Press, and by
D.A. Levy, Jack Brewer, Daniel Nester, Max Sympathy, Catherine
Theis, Neal Stephenson, Robert Silverberg, the Suicide bio,
and "Romantic Love Up In This Young Piece"....
ON
THE TOWN
with Reggie Queequeg
He's back! With an all record-review edition
of On The Town, in which our man "tackles" To
Live and Shave in L.A., Xex, Sightings/Tom Smith, Lord of
the Yum-Yum, Rusted Shut, The Eagles, Elyse Perez, Wolf
Eyes, and Don Howland. Yes! The Queequeg magic is back!
NEW
YORK SHOW REPORT
by Daniel DiMaggio
He's back too! Queequeg and DiMaggio -- look
out, here comes trouble! Here, thee double-D reviews tons
of performances by the likes of Temple of Bon Matin, Mouthus,
Kites, Slo Jams, Knifestorm, Dreamhouse, Saccharomanic Targets,
2673, Vampire Can't, um, um
. . . . oh yeah, Feathers, they're supposed to be real
good, so that's cool, um, um . . . . a couple more,
check and see who.
R.I.P. PIGGY, MOOG, FERRARI
WHAT'S
ON
SHOP CITGO
(#18 still
isn't done! Still waiting on the Chicago Show Report and
maybe a couple other surprises.....
things sure do take forever)
"Blastitude" is the title of a track by Angus
MacLise (1938-1979), drummer, jammer, electronic musician,
punk, hippie, poet, publisher, father, world traveller,
early member of the Theater of Eternal Music and the Velvet
Underground. The track can be found on the archival CD Invasion
of the Thunderbolt Pagoda (1999, Siltbreeze/Quakebasket).
STAFF
NEWS 8/29/05
Just 6 months ago I was telling you about Tony
Rettman's new mag, now another Blastitude contributor has
also went and done the real thing. Joe S. Harrington has
put out the first issue of a big mag-style rock zine called
Kapital Ink, 8.5x11, nice paper, glossy
color cover, 110 pages. 50 of those pages are devoted to
a drunken interview with a Portland, Maine band called Swamp
Witch Revival that hasn't played a show in three years and
never even recorded! Another 40 pages is the review section,
piss-you-off funny with plenty of insights and lots of gossip,
mostly about Portland, Maine, although Harrington throws
his Mad Magazine-influenced barbs at anybody, and
Paris Hilton herself crosses paths for a page. There's hardly
anything about The Strokes this time but there is an inordinate
Anton Newcombe fascination going on. (I've still never heard
the music, almost to the point where I'm trying not to,
but Dig! is in my "cue", and his name
sure has a nice satanic (majesties request) ring to it.)
To order Kapital Ink write kapitalink at maine dot rr dot
com. (Funny review of the mag here.)
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