Ugly Music for Beautiful People

03-16-06 Show

2006-03-16T20:47:00.000-08:00

This Week's Show

Next week is spring break, so there will be no show or podcast. Sorry :(

Koji Asano - Suite No. 6 - Violin and Viola Suites No.1-No.7
irr.app.(ext) - Fly Away-And Then What? - No Alone (comp.)
Magik Markers - Paris Side (excerpt) - A Panegyric to the Things I Do Not Understand
Parts & Labor - Death - Stay Afraid
Chihei Hatakeyama - Bonfire on the Field - Minima Moralia
Mogwai - I Chose Horses - Mr. Best
Excepter - Bridge Traffic - Sunbomber EP
Can - Vitamin C - Ege Bamyasi
Hair Police - Constantly Terrified - Constantly Terrified
Dan Friel - Dead Batteries - Sunburn EP
Jason Forrest - Satan Cries Again (featuring Dan Walsh) - The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash
Jason Forrest - Sperry and Foil - Lady Fantasy EP
Jason Forrest - War Photographer - Shamelessly Exciting
Comets on Fire - Jam 1 (live from their practice space) - Live Jams (promo CD)
Chaki - untitled - Tussle/Chaki split tape (Deathbomb Arc Tape Club vol. 2 tape 2)
Yellow Swans - The Bombs that Keep Dropping Make It Hard to Sleep - Bring the Neon War Home
Talibam! - Untitled 1 - Talibam!

03/09/06 Show

2006-03-09T20:41:00.000-08:00

This week's show

New thing this week: at the 11pm mark (halfway through the show), I do a short artist showcase. The first showcased artist was Keith Fullerton Whitman.

Mouthus - Growing Up the Giants - Split LP w/ Double Leopards
Animal Collective - Too Soon - Here Comes the Indian
Telepathe - Pet Communicator - Farewell Forest
Capillary Action - Ticking Ghosts, Pt. 1 - Fragments
Khanate - Dead - Things Viral
Man Man - Black Mission Goggles - Six Demon Bag
Chicago Underground Duo - The Light in Between - In Praise of Shadows
Immerglück, Kaphan, Krummenacher & Hanes - Joe Kirby Blues - I Am the Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey
Fruit Bats - Death of the Clayton Peacock - I Am the Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Schnee - Antithesis
Keith Fullerton Whitman & Greg Davis - Knitting Factory, New York USA, June 22nd 2002 - Yearlong
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Stereo Music for Farfisa Compact Duo Deluxe, Drum Kit - Multiples
Fennesz feat. David Sylvian - Transit - Venice
Philip Jeck & Janek Schaefer - Aegean Tea - Songs for Europe
Keijo - Getting Through - Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box
Mars - Helen Forsdale - No New York
Eric Malmberg - Det Hogre Medvetandet - Den Gatfulla Manniskan
Boredoms - Track 9 - Vision Creation Newsun

03/02/06 Show

2006-03-02T20:52:00.000-08:00

This week's show

There were some technical difficulties with the first part of the show. A loose wire caused the left channel to be very very quiet.

Brian Eno & Jah Wobble - Like Organza - Spinner
Chicago Underground Duo - Cities Without Citadels - In Praise of Shadows
Magik Markers - California Side (Excerpt) - A Panegyric to the Things I Do Not Understand
Minsk - Waging War on Forever - Out of a Center Which is Neither Dead Nor Alive
Cul de Sac - The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, CA - I Am the Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey
Koji Asano - January Rainbow - Cold Winter Mix Version - www.kojiasano.com
Wolf Eyes - Dead Hills - Dead Hills EP
Maxence Cyrin - Windowlicker (Aphex Twin Cover) - Domino 10 Day sampler
Earth - The Dire and Ever Circling Wolves - Hex ;or Printing in the Infernal Method
Hella - Biblical Violence - Hold Your Horse Is
Urdog - The Open - Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box
Archimedes Badkar - Tva Varldar - Archimedes Badkar II
Jonathan Kane - Pops - February
xbxrx - Fabricated Progression - Sixth in Sixes
Dysrhythmia - Heat Sink - Pretest
Brian McBride - The Guilt of Uncomplicated Thoughts - When the Detail Lost Its Freedom

02/23/06 Show

2006-02-24T07:24:00.000-08:00

This week's Show

Clogs - Lantern - Lantern
Magik Markers - California Side - A Panegyric to the Things I Do Not Understand
Chihei Hatakeyama - Swaying Curtain in the Window - Minima Moralia
Town and Country - Cloud Seeding - Up Above
AIDS Wolf - Opposing Walls - The Lovvers LP
Talibam - Untitled 3 - Talibam!
Boris - Song 1 - Pink
Koji Asano - Suite No. 4 - Violin and Viola Suites No.1-No.7
Bird Show - Kind Light - Green Inferno - Green Inferno
Gorch Fock - Prologue: Mexia Creek Crossover - Lying and Manipulating
Belong - All Equal Now - October Language
Excepter - One More Try - Sunbomber EP
Rwake - Dying Spiral Galaxies - If You Walk Before You Crawl, You Crawl Before You Die

02/16/05 Show

2006-02-16T20:35:00.000-08:00

This Week's Show

Due to a bad cable, both the Giuseppe Ielasi and Fusaxa tracks are in mono. My bad.

Koji Asano - Suite No. 1 - "Hollersbach" - Violin and Viola Suites No.1-No.7
Clogs - 5/4 - Lantern
Talibam! - Untitled 2 - Talibam!
Richard Leo Johnson - Love and Trouble - The Legend of Vernon McAllister
Sobanza Mimanisa - Kiwembo - Congotronics 2: Buzz'n'Rumble from the Urb'n'Jungle
AIDS Wolf - Spit Tastes Like Metal - The Lovvers LP
Matthew Shipp - The Rose is a Rose - One
Chihei Hatakeyama - Inside of the Pocket - Minima Moralia
Telepathe - Blinded Mouths - Farewell Forest EP
Jack DeJohnette featuring Bill Frisell - The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers... - The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers
Giuseppe Ielasi - Track 5 - Gesine
The Advantage - Wizards & Warriors - Tree Trunk>Woods>Victory - Elf Titled
Belong - Who Told You This Room Exists? - October Language
The Ills - Werekitten - The Ills
Excepter - Bridge Traffic - The Sunbomber EP
Fursaxa - Velada - Lepidoptra
Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice - Snake Earl - The Flood
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Interesting Results - House Arrest
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Trepanated Earth - Worn Copy
DAT Politics - Bubble Queen - Clicks & Cuts 3 (compilation)
Red Sparowes - Alone and Unaware, the Landscape was Transformed in Front of Our Eyes - At the Soundless Dawn

02/09/06 Show

2006-02-09T20:57:00.000-08:00

This week's show

Excepter - The Sunbomber - Sunbomber EP
Konono No. 1 - Lufuala Ndonga - Congotronics No. 1
AIDS Wolf - Some Sexual Drawings - The Lovvers LP
Telepathe - The March - Farewell Forest EP
Gang Gang Dance - Before My Voice Fails - God's Money
Jah Division - Dub Will Tear Us Apart - Dub Will Tear Us Apart EP
Town and Country - Blue Lotus Feel - Up Above
Black Flag - Southern Rise - No Age (comp.)
Faust vs. Dalek - T-Electronique - Derbe Respect, Alder
Lafcadio - Untitled 7 - The Attainment of Happiness
Nautical Almanac - Ocularis - Rooting for the Microbes
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Alisa - House Arrest
King Crimson - Nuages (That Which Passes, Passes Like Clouds) - Three of a Perfect Pair
Yes - Siberian Khatru - Close to the Edge
Can - Ibis - Unlimited Edition
Isis - Weight (Fennesz Remix) - Oceanic Remixes/Reinterpretations

02/02/06 Show

2006-02-02T20:11:00.000-08:00

This Week's Show

Cedars of Lebanon - Nilari Ismailis - Archives I
David Thomas Broughton - A Complete Guide to Insufficiency
Zombi - Orion - Cosmos
Orthrelm - Untitled - Split EP w/ Touchdown
Matthew Shipp - Abyss Code - Up Above
Jojo Hiroshige with John Boyle and Aya - Timeless Flight - Noise May-Day 2003 CDR (compilation)
Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice - The Flood - The Flood
The Flying Luttenbachers - Elfmeros - Infection and Decline
Birchville Cat Motel - Uneaten Stars Duo - Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box
Hanged Up - Kinetic Work - Kicker in Tow
AIDS Wolf - We Multiply - The Lovvers LP
T-Tauri - Obliscence - Infinite Motion
Mats Gustafsson (with Sonic Youth) - Part 3: Contrabass Sax - Hidros 3
Brian McBride - Our Last Moment in Song - When the Detail Lost its Freedom

01/26/06 Show

2006-01-26T20:49:00.000-08:00

This week's show

Two issues with today's show. It's twenty minutes short because a basketball game cut into my time. Also, I accidentally recorded it in mono. Sorry about that. All of today's songs were quite long.

Bardo Pond - Bufo Periglenes (Golden Toad) Parts I-III - Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (compilation)
Jane - Ossie - Coconuts
Ocean - First Reign - Here Where Nothing Grows
Hustler White - Untitled - Hustler White/Weirdo Begeirdo split tape
Tetuzi Akiyama - Time Between - Wooden Guitar (compilation)
Koji Asano - Rabbit Room Reservation Center I - Rabbit Room Reservation Center

01/19/06 show

2006-01-19T20:55:00.000-08:00

This week's show

This was my first show in my new timeslot, 9pm to 11pm on Thursdays. It was also the first show that will be podcast.

Black Forest/Black Sea - Inepta - Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Sound Valentine - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic EP
Faust - Jennifer - Faust IV
Arab on Radar - Semen on the Mount - Yahweh or the Highway
Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice - The Flood - The Flood
William Basinski - d|p 2.1 - The Disintegration Loops (disc 1)
Minsk - Wisp of Tow - Out of a Center Which is Neither Dead Nor Alive
Four Tet - A Joy - Everything Ecstatic
Glenn Branca - Light Field (In Consonance) - The Ascension
Charalambides - Black Pope - Our Bed is Green
The Flying Luttenbachers - thrumm'd HTE (for M) - Systems Emerge from Complete Disorder
Black Dice - Seabird - Beaches and Canyons
T-Tauri - Revelation - Infinite Motion
Lightning Bolt - Fleeing the Valley of the Whirling Knives - Lightning Bolt
Earth - An Inquest Concerning Teeth - Hex ;or Printing in the Infernal Method

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 01-10-06 Playlist

2006-01-10T21:53:00.000-08:00

This is my last show in this timeslot. Starting next week, I'll be on Thursdays from 9pm to 11pm.

Meadow House - Tit for Tat - The Wire Tapper 12
Atheist - An Incarnation's Dream - Unquestionable Presence
Transient Waves - Paradise - Across Uneven Terrain (comp.)
Liars - It Fit When I Was a Kid - It Fit When I Was a Kid single
Liars - The Frozen Glacier of Mastadon Blood - It Fit When I Was a Kid single
Liars - Bingo! Count Draculuck - It Fit When I Was a Kid single
Liars - It Fit When I Was a Kid (don't techno for an answer re-mix) - It Fit When I Was a Kid single
Brian Eno - Zawinul/Lava - Another Green World
Brian Eno - Everything Merges With the Night - Another Green World
Brian Eno - Spirits Drifting - Another Green World
Brian Eno - Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960 - Ambient #4: On Land
Khanate - Fields - Things Viral
Weirdo/Begeirdo - Untitled - split casette with Hustler White (Deathbomb Arc Tape Club year two, tape 1)
The Dead White - Untitled 3 - The Dead White CDR
The Lake Passengers - Untitled 6 - The Lake Passengers CDR
Kieran Hebdan & Steve Reid - Soul Oscillations (excerpt) - The Exchange Session Vol. 1
Cul De Sac - Mirror II (Mae and Elena) - The Strangler's Wife
AFX - Every Day - Hangable Auto Bulb
Minsk - Wisp of Tow - Out of A Center Which is Neither Dead Nor Alive
Coptic Light - Mix the Races - Coptic Light

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 01-03-06 Playlist

2006-01-03T21:33:00.000-08:00

Hrvatski - Irrevocably Overdriven Break Freakout Megamix - Irrevocably Overdriven Break Freakout Megamix
Earth - The Dry Lake - Hex ;or Printing in the Infernal Method
Ocean - The Fall - Here Where Nothing Grows
Las Malas Amistades - Gripa Tropical - Jardin Interior
Art Ensemble of Chicago - He Took a Cab to Neptune - Sirius Calling
Men's Recovery Project - New Men - Resist the New Way
Comets on Fire - The Bee and the Cracking Egg - Blue Cathedral
Susumu Yokota - Flaming Love of Destiny - Symbol
Greg Davis and Sebastien Roux - Daybreak - Paquet Surprise
Kronos Quartet - Black Angels (composed by George Crumb) - Black Angels

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 12-10-05 Playlist

2005-12-20T21:52:00.000-08:00

This was a special "Year in Review" edition of Ugly Music for Beautiful People. I think it went well.

Sunn0))) - CandleGoat - Black One
Konono No. 1 - Ungudi Wele Wele - Congotronics
Koji Asano - Spring Estuary II - Spring Estuary
Red Sparowes - Buildings began to stretch wide across the sky, and the air filled with a reddish glow - At the Soundless Dawn
Pelican - Aurora Borealis - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Wilderness - Marginal Hour - Wilderness
The Pope - Society of Friends - Society of Friends
The Peppermints - Rabid Frogs - Jesüs Chryst
The Fall - Blindness - Fall Heads Roll
Excepter - Jrone (three) - Throne
Excepter - Shoot Me First - Self-Destruction
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Buchala Music Box 100, Hewlett Packard Model 236 Oscillator, Electric Guitar and Computer, Part One - Multiples
Jane - Berserker - Berserker
Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan - It's You - Prospect Hummer EP
Animal Collective - Turn Into Something - Feels
The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez - Frances the Mute
Lightning Bolt - Captain Caveman - Hypermagic Mountain
Black Dice - Motorcycle - Broken Ear Record
Gang Gang Dance - Egowar - God's Money
Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower - School of the Flower

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 12-06-05 Playlist

2005-12-06T22:00:00.000-08:00

This week, I just played ambient music.

William Baskinski - d|p 3 - The Disintegration Loops
fm3 - untitled - Buddah Box
Brian Eno - 2/1 - Ambient #1 Music for Airports
Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Plateaux of Mirror - Ambient #3 The Plateaux of Mirror
Windy & Carl - Sketch for Flea - Dedications to Flea
Greg Davis - Campestral (version two) - Somnia
Robert Henke - Signal to Noise 2 - Signal to Noise

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 11-29-05 Playlist

2005-11-29T21:52:00.000-08:00

John Zorn - Giu la Testa (Duck You Sucker!) - The Big Gundown
Sunn 0))) - Cursed Realms (of the Winterdemons) - Black 1
Warhammer 48K - Get Bodacious - Uber Om
Random Touch - What Passions Rise - The Elegance of Falling
Men's Recovery Project - Resist the New Way - The Very Best of Men's Recovery Project
Animal Collective - Infant Dressing Table - Here Come the Indian
Hella - Madonna Approaches R&B Blonde Wreckages - Homeboy EP
Michael Columbia - Mouse - These Are Colored Bars
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Yesterfunk - Yo Miles! Upriver
No-Neck Blues Band - The Black Pope - Qvaris
Zombi - Taurus - Cosmos
Lightning Bolt - Fleeing the Valley of the Whirling Knives - Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt - 2 Morro Morro Land - Hypermagic Mountain
Michael Chorney with Polly Vanderputten - Folly - Songs in Secret Ink
King Crimson - Industry - Three of a Perfect Pair
King Crimson - Dig Me - Three of a Perfect Pair
Xiu Xiu - Clover - La Foret
Coptic Light - The Horse - Coptic Light

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 11-22-05 Playlist

2005-11-22T21:38:00.000-08:00

Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Rise - The Days of Mars
Ocean - The Fall - Here Where Nothing Grows
Panda Bear - I'm Not - "I'm Not/Comfy in Nautica" single
Panda Bear - Comfy in Nautica - "I'm Not/Comfy in Nautica" single
Tarantula AD - The Century Trilogy III: The Fall - Book of Sand
Jackson and His Computer Band - Fast Life - Smash
No-Neck Blues Band - The Doon - Qvaris
Greg Davis and Sebastien Roux - Good Decision - Paquet Surprise
Lightning Bolt - Magic Mountain - Hypermagic Mountain
Antimatter - There At the Gate - Our Lady of the Skies
Steve Lehman - Damage Mobility - Demian as Posthuman
Black Dice & Wolf Eyes - Side B (excerpt) - Black Dice & Wolf Eyes
Pan-Sonic - Ilma/Air - Kesto (234.48:4)
Boredoms - Track 2 - Vision Creation Newsun
Warhammer 48K - Get Bodacious - Uber Om

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 11-15-05 Playlist

2005-11-15T21:47:00.000-08:00

I got more calls than normal this week. 5 total: 1 for Warhammer 48k, 2 for Big Eyes, 1 for Jane, and 1 for Ocean.

No-Neck Blues Band - Lugnagall - Qvaris
Warhammer 48K - Get Bodacious - Uber Om
Animal Collective - Flesh Canoe - Feels
Las Malas Amistades - El Country - Jardin Interior
Excepter - Vacation - KA
Excepter - "Forget Me" - KA
Big Eyes - Otto - We Have No Need For Voices When Our Hearts Can Sing
Big Eyes - Spidersong - We Have No Need For Voices When Our Hearts Can Sing
Big Eyes - Exercise No. 1 - We Have No Need For Voices When Our Hearts Can Sing
Jane - Coconuts - Coconuts
Ocean - Salt - Here Where Nothing Grows
Steve Lehman - Vapors - Demian as Posthuman
Men's Recovery Project - Why We Are Lazy - The Very Best of Men's Recovery Project
The Bevis Frond - White Sun - New River Head
The Blue Humans - To Higher Time (Live at CBGB, 10/12/90) - To Higher Time

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 11-08-05 Playlist

2005-11-08T21:42:00.000-08:00

Can - Quantum Physics - Soon Over Babaluma
Animal Collective - Banshee Beat - Feels
Men's Recovery Project - Couch - The Very Best of Men's Recovery Project
Ocean - First Reign - Here Where Nothing Grows
Lightning Bolt - Riffwraiths - Hypermagic Mountain
Oval - Untitled 2 - Ovalprocess
The Fall - Blindness - Fall Heads Roll
Greg Davis & Sebastien Roux - Good Decision - Paquet Surprise
Need New Body - Track 1 - Neobobiton 3" CD
Swans - Children of God - Children of God
Windy and Carl - Ode to a Dog - Dedications to Flea
Miles Davis - Sanctuary - Bitches Brew
The Body - Failings - The Body

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 11-01-05 Playlist

2005-11-01T21:57:00.000-08:00

Sunn 0))) - Death Becomes You - Flight of the Behemoth
Black Dice - Smiling Off (DFA Remix) - "Smiling Off" CD Single
Black Dice - Smiling Off (Luomo Remix) - "Smiling Off" CD Single
Black Dice - Smiling Off (ZZ Pot Remix) - "Smiling Off" CD Single
Lightning Bolt - Dead Cowboy - Hypermagic Mountain
Metalux - Tremor Loss - Victim of Space
Boards of Canada - Tears from the Compound Eye - The Campfire Headphase
BARR - Lights Out - Beyond Reinforced Jewel Case
The Fall - Midnight Aspen - Fall Heads Roll
Greg Davis and Sebastian Roux - To See The Wonderful World - Paquet Surprise
Erik Hinds - Angel of Death - Reign in Blood
Panda Bear - Untitled 1 - Young Prayer
Melk the G6-49 - The Instantaneous Mobilization of all the Resources in the BURROW and all the Forces of my Body and Soul - Strata: A Young Person's Guide to Experimental Music
Neurosis - Flood - Official Bootleg.02.Stockholm.Sweden.10.15.99
Jenny Scheinman - The Frog Threw His Head Back and Laughed - 12 Songs
Wolf Eyes - Stabbed in the Face - Burned Mind
Orthrelm - Untitled 3 - Orthrelm/Touchdown split
Sonic Youth - Madonna, Sean and Me - Evol

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 10-25-05 Playlist

2005-10-25T21:38:00.000-07:00

John Fahey - Approaching the Disco Void - Return of the Repressed
Soul-Junk - Genesis 15 - Strata- A Young Person's Guide to Experimental Music (comp)
The Bad Plus - Anthem for the Earnest - Suspicious Activity?
The Fall - Blindness - Fall Heads Roll
Xerophonics - Xerox 265DC - Copy Machine Music
Faust - Giggy Smile - Faust 4
Animal Collective - Turn Into Something - Feels
Jenny Scheinman - Albert - 12 Songs
The Blue Humans - Under Power - Clear to Higher time
Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom - Black Spring - The Days of Mars
Sonic Youth - Burdocks (by Christian Wolf) - Goodbye 20th Century
Greg Davis and Sebastian Roux - Sea Grasses and Blue Sea - Paquet Surprise
Greg Davis and Sebastian Roux - I Am Waiting (for December) - Paquet Surprise
BARR - Us - Beyond Reinforced Jewel Case
The Body - Always Waiting - The Body EP
Autechre - Bine - Confield
Christopher Bissonnette - Tenor Viol - Periphery
Antimatter - Klangfilm - Our Lady of the Skies
Lightning Bolt - 2 Morro Morro Land - Hypermagic Mountain
Lightning Bolt - Captain Caveman - Hypermagic Mountain
Lightning Bolt - Birdy - Hypermagic Mountain
Lightning Bolt - Riff Wraiths - Hypermagic Mountain
Lightning Bolt - Mega Ghost - Hypermagic Mountain

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 10-18-05 Playlist

2005-10-18T21:54:00.000-07:00

Lightning Bolt - Mohawkwindmill - Hypermagic Mountain
Christopher Bissonette - In Accordance - Periphery
Erik Hinds - Angel of Death - Reign in Blood
Erik Hinds - Piece by Piece - Reign in Blood
Erik Hinds - Necrophobic - Reign in Blood
Antimatter - Unmanned PRobe - Our Lady of the Skies
Sonic Youth and Mats Gustaffson - Intro - Hidros 3
Koji Asano - Spring Estuary I - Spring Estuary
KTU - Absinthe - 8 Armed Monkey
KTU - Keho - 8 Armed Monkey
Trollslanda - Kling Klang (live) - The Honeymoon Music Compilation
Smegma and Wolf Eyes - Untitled 3 - Smegma and Wolf Eyes
BARR - My List of Demands - Beyond Reinforced Jewel Case
The Body - () - The Body
Old Time Relijun - Los Angeles - 2012
Black Dice - Heavy Manners - Broken Ear Record
Sabers - Emeritus - Specter
Fennesz feat. David Sylvian - Transit - Venice
SUNN 0))) - The Gates of Ballard - White1

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 10-11-05 Playlist

2005-10-11T21:41:00.000-07:00

Special extra-brutality edition!

Khanate - Release - Capture and Release
Six Organs of Admittance - The Six Stations - The Manifestation
Wolf Eyes - Dead Hills II - Dead Hills EP
Black Dice and Wolf Eyes - Untitled - Black Dice and Wolf Eyes
Black Dice - Street Dude - Broken Ear Record
Kid606 - Luke Vibert Can Kiss My Indie-Punk Whiteboy Ass - Down With the Scene
Fantomas - Delirium Cordia (excerpt) - Delirium Cordia
Jandek - I Met You - The End of It All
Hella - Biblical Violence - Airwaves for Your Hairwaves: Live From WNUR
Hair Police - My Skull Is My Face - Constantly Terrified
Fennesz, O'Rourke, Rehberg - We Will Diffuse You - The Return of Fenn O'Berg
No Neck Blues Band - The Sound of Violins - RE: "Mr A Fan..."

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 10-04-05 Playlist

2005-10-04T21:45:00.000-07:00

No show last week = no post last week

Can - Vernal Equinox - Landed
Jason Forrest - My 36 Favorite Punk Songs - Shamelessly Exciting
Flying Luttenbachers - The Elimination of Incompetence - Airwaves for Your Hairwaves
Koji Asano - Spring Estuary II - Spring Estuary
OOIOO - Gold and Green - Fossil
Melt Banana - Shield For Your Eyes, A Beast in the Well For Your Hands - Cell-Scape
Terrestrial Tones - West-Indian Day Parade - Blasted
Pelican - Pulse - Pelican EP
Test Icicles - Boa vs. Python - Boa vs. Python 7"
Black Dice - Snarly Yow - Broken Ear Reecord
xbxrx - The Beat Rolls On - Sixth in Sixes
August Born - A Thousand Butterflies - August Born
Lichens - Shoreline Scoring - The Psychic Nature of Being
Deerhoof - You're Our Two - The Runners Four
Bad Dudes - Megasquid - Bad Dudes
Fursaxa - March Hare - The Honeymoon Music Compilation
The Watery Graves of Portand - Chishima Retto - The Honeymoon Music Compilation
Thom Zephyr Roach - Row Seven - The Honeymoon Music Compilation
KTU - Optikus - 8 Armed Monkey
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Fennesz - Rivers of Sand - Venice
Excepter - Shoot me First - Self Destruction
Sir Richard Bishop - Corpuscle - Wooden Guitar

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 9-20-05 Playlist

2005-09-20T21:51:00.000-07:00

Acid Mothers Temple - OM Riff from the Cosmic Inferno - IAO Chant from the Cosmic Inferno
August Born - More Dead Bird Blues - August Born
Black Dice - Smiling Off - Broken Ear Record
Gang Gang Dance - Stanton St./Knitting Factory 10/24/03 - Hillulah
Lightning Bolt - Dracula Mountain - Wonderful Rainbow
Susumu Yokata - The Colour of Pomegranates - The Boy and the Tree
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - Risen From the Ashes - Buck Dharma
OOIOO - Ina no Mori - Gold and Green
Groundtruther - Back Quadrant - Longitude
Excepter - Shoot Me First - Self Destruction
An Albatross - We are the Lazer Viking - We are the Lazer Viking EP
Alan Watts - Love You - This Is IT!
Cerebus Shoal - Mrs. Shakespeare Torso - Chaiming the Knoblessone

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 9-13-05 Playlist

2005-09-13T22:10:00.000-07:00

August Born - Dead Bird Blues - August Born
Gang Gang Dance - Egowar - God's Money
Gang Gang Dance - Passerby 1/06-07/04 - Hillulah
Hair Police - The Haunting - Constantly Terrified
John Fahey - Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Phillip XIV - Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes Vol. 2
Point Line Plane - Open Yr Midnight - Airwaves for Your Hairwaves (comp.)
Christopher Woitach & the Cathexis Orchestra - Verity, Mom and Two Dads - Family
Neu! - Lila Engel - Neu! 2
Black Dice - Snarly Yow - Broken Ear Record
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Always Correct - The Trickle Down Theory of Lord Knows What
King Crimson - The Court of the Crimson King including The Return of the Fire Witch and The Dance of the Puppets - In the Court of the Crimson King
Overmars - Obsolete - Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo
Double Leopards - Untitled - Double Leopards/Mouthus tour LP
U.S. Maple - Ma Digital - Acre Thrills
Smegma and Wolf Eyes - Untitled 1 - Smegma and Wolf Eyes
OOIOO - Moss Trumpeter - Gold and Green
Excepter - Interplay: Back Room - Self Destuction
Excepter - Interplay: Your Room - Self Destuction
Can - Gomorrha - Unlimited Edition
Six Organs of Admittance - Saint Cloud - School of the Flower
Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar - Lesson No. 1

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 9-06-05 Playlist

2005-09-06T22:03:00.000-07:00

Gang Gang Dance - N. Six 5/04/03 - Hillulah
Xiu Xiu - Saturn - La Forêt
Fieldwork - Durations - Simulated Progress
Can - Red Hot Indian - Landed
Black Dice - Motorcycle - Broken Ear Record
Niagara Falls - Guided Tour - Barrel Vault
Opeth - The Baying of the Hounds - Ghost Reveries
Miles Davis - Pharaoh's Dance - Bitches Brew
Angel of Decay - Sick Time Frame - Covered in Scabs
Soul-Junk - Palmbranches - 1938
Overmars - Deux Mexures de Solitude - Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo
Hair Police - Constantly Terrified - Constantly Terrified
Khanate - Capture - Capture & Release
Yob - Grasping Air - The Unreal Never Lived

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 8-30-05 Playlist

2005-08-30T21:48:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I have a new timeslot these days. Tuesdays at 10pm.

Anthony Braxton & Wolf Eyes - Live at International Festival Musique Actuelle, Victoriaville, Quebec
Can - Chain Reaction - Soon Over Babaluma
Hella - Brown Metal - Hold Your Horse Is
The Necks - Mosquito (excerpt) - Mosquito/See Through
Swans - New Mind - Children of God
Swans - In My Garden - Children of God
Swans - Our Love Lies - Children of God
Flossin - Untitled 1 - Lead Singer
Young People - Dutch Oven - War Prayers
The Pope - Jazzman Cometh - The Jazzman Cometh EP
Necronomitron - Unscheduled Sunrise - Necronomitron
Necronomitron - Small Field of Death - Necronomitron
Explosions in the Sky - Six Days at the Bottom of the Hill - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Excepter - The Heartbeat - Throne
Yob - Kosmos - The Unreal Never Lived
The Punks - Beaches and Canyons - Thank You For the Alternative Rock
Sonic Youth - Trilogy: The Wonder, Hyperstation, Eliminator Jr. - Daydream Nation

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 8-24-05 Playlist

2005-08-24T19:41:00.000-07:00

Miles Davis - Helen Butte/Mr. Freedom X - On the Corner
Excepter - Jrone (three) - Throne
Half-Japanese - Some Things Last a Long Time - The Band That Would Be King
Phillip Glass - Heroes (Aphex Twin remix) - 26 Mixes for Cash
Jane - Berserker - Berserker
Can - Soul Desert - Soundtracks
Ruins - Wahzhemvergg - Tzomborgha
Histoire - Architecture - Architecture
Liars - Hold Hands and it Will Happen Anyway - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
Emotional Joystick - Reparation - Plays!
Chord - live excerpt - live
Millton Babbitt - Philomel - OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
No Neck Blues Band - Untitled - Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Names Will Never Hurt Me
Isis - Hym (JK Broadrick remix) - Oceanic Remixes/Reinterpretations
Slint - Nosferatu Man - Spiderland

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 8-17-2005 Playlist

2005-08-17T19:26:00.000-07:00

Kid606 - Phoenix Riddim - Resilience
Oxbow - Time's Up, Sailor Man - Neurot Recordings I
Lotus Eaters - untitled II - Neurot Recordings I
Can - Spray - Future Days
Aaron Dilloway - untitled 3 - Bad Dreams
The Kallikak Family - Portland Oregon, Part 1 - May 23rd 2007
Pelican - Last Day of Winter - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
William Parker Quartet - Groove - Sound Unity
The Pope - Corpus Christi - Jazzman Cometh EP
The Pope - Crazy New Punk in Town - Jazzman Cometh EP
Magma - Hhai - Live
Black Dice - Head Like a Door - Lost Valley EP
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - Cobra Christ of the Cabbages - XIAO
Tyondai Braxton - Haunt the Ghosts who Haunt Me, Better - History that Has no Effect
Kevin Drumm - Hitting the Pavement - Sheer Hellish Miasma
Gang Gang Dance - Nomad For Love (Cannibal) - God's Money

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 8-10-05 Playlist

2005-08-10T19:42:00.000-07:00

I'm back from my vacation.

Wilderness - Mirrored Palm - Wilderness
Aaron Dilloway - Untitled 2 - Bad Dreams
The Pope - Grip of the Grape - Jazzman Cometh EP
The Pope - Boots and Pants - Jazzman Cometh EP
The Pope - Bravo Strappado - Jazzman Cometh EP
The Pope - Corpus Christi - Jazzman Cometh EP
The Pope - Crazy New Punk in Town - Jazzman Cometh EP
The Pope - Jazzman Cometh - Jazzman Cometh EP
Wolf Eyes - Stabbed in the Face - Burned Mind [request]
Fieldwork - Media Studies - Simulated Progress
The Mars Volta - The Bible and the Breathalyzer - L'Via L'Viaquez single
Origin - Endless Cure - Echoes of Decimation
Kid606 - Done With the Scene - Resilience
Chas Smith - False Security of Numbers - The Wire Tapper 12
Demos Yellow Swans - Live in the Police State Capitol Sacramento CA 11-23-03 - Live in the Police State Capitol
Pelican - Sirius - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Can - Serpentine - Out of Reach
Can - November - Out of Reach
Can - One More Night - Ege Bamyasi
Kevin Drumm - Turning Point - Sheer Hellish Miasma

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 7-27-05 Playlist

2005-07-27T19:28:00.000-07:00

I'm about to go on a vacation. No more posts for a while.

Koji Asano - Park - Final Insurance Collection Vol. 2: 1992-1994
Koji Asano - Humidity - Final Insurance Collection Vol. 2: 1992-1994
Metalux - Calligraphy Zone - Victim of Space
Pelican - March Into the Sea - The Fire in our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Mister and Misses - Dislocation Nation - Tribute to Ugliness
King Crimson - Peace-A Beginning - In the Wake of Poseidon
King Crimson - Pictures of a City - In the Wake of Poseidon
Christian Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Sala Santa Cecilia - Sala Santa Cecilia
Fieldwork - Headlong - Simulated Progress
Fieldwork - Transgression - Simulated Progress
Kinski - Hot Stenographer - Alpine Static
Kinski - The Wives of Artie Shaw - Alpine Static
Kinski - Hiding Drugs in the Temple (part 2) - Alpine Static
Steve Reich - Pulses - Music for 18 Musicians
Steve Reich - Section I - Music for 18 Musicians
Steve Reich - Section II - Music for 18 Musicians
Steve Reich - Section IIIA - Music for 18 Musicians
Steve Reich - Section IIIB - Music for 18 Musicians
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - Paper Trail Blues - XIAO

Sub-Division

2005-07-26T17:39:00.000-07:00

Sub-Division - Express
Sub-Division are a rock band from Mexico City. They blend fuzzy, arty punk with highly affected female vocals that recall early Blond Redhead. They just put out a 6 song EP which has 3 sweet songs and 3 crappy, dated remixes. (Their label is owned by the guy who founded Acid Jazz Records way back in the 90's, which would explain the dated remixing). This is my favorite of the three original songs. It's a very fresh and interesting sound that is pretty detached from everything that's going in the US/UK indie world today.

Pelican

2005-07-25T17:06:00.000-07:00

Pelican - Aurora Borealis
One of the few, but growing, number of bands that blend the abstractness and melody of post rock with the intensity and sonic textures of heavy metal, Pelican appeal to arty metal-heads, rock-leaning avant-garde-ists and cerebral indie rockers alike. This is their second album, and sees them moving in a more post rock direction. They’ve brought in acoustic guitars, but they still have the earth shattering guitar drone of their previous work. "Aurora Borealis" is a short song for Pelican, as it is under 5 minutes long, but it's a fine introduction to their potent blend of heaviness and melody.

Sons & Daughters

2005-07-21T19:01:00.000-07:00

Sons and Daughters - Dance Me In (single version)
I first heard Sons and Daughters at SXSW two years ago when they played the same showcase as their friends Franz Ferdinand, who were on the brink of stardom at that point. That friendship probably helped Sons & Daughters out a whole lot, but they deserve any success they get. Their exceedingly rhythmic and tough take on folk/country rock is a very nice counterpoint to the bland pre-Nashville formalisms of most modern alt-country. "Dance Me In" is from their upcoming album The Repulsion Box, but the single version is a different recording, one produced by Edwyn Collins of Orange Juice.

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 7-20-05 Playlist

2005-07-20T19:13:00.000-07:00

Black Dice - Wasteder - DFA Compilation #2
J.O.Y. - Sunplus - DFA Compilation #2
Deerhoof - Spiral Golden Town - Green Cosmos EP
Can - Yoo Doo Right - Monster Movie
cLOUDDEAD - Dead Dogs Two (Boards of Canada remix) - Dead Dogs Two 12"
Lightning Bolt - 13 Monsters - Ride the Skies
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money I - God's Money
Gang Gang Dance - Glory in Itself/Egyptian - God's Money
Icky Boyfriends - Frank's Mom - A Love Obscene
Squarepusher - I Fulcrum - Ultravisitor
Currituck Co. - Don't the Road Look Wide and Deep - Ghost Man on Second
Metalux - Shelldrum - Victim of Space
Sky Saw - The Garden of Forking Paths - Sky Saw
Prefuse 73 & The Books - Pagina Tres - Prefuse 73 & The Books
Yes - South Side of the Sky - Fragile
Orthrelm - Untitled 1 - Orthrelm/Touchdown split
Blithe Sons - Animals of the Seashore - Arm of the Starfish
The Peppermints - Yellow Rain - Jesüs Chryst
The Peppermints - Snak 10 - Jesüs Chryst

Drunk Horse

2005-07-20T16:04:00.000-07:00

Drunk Horse - Howard Phillips
Drunk Horse - Priestmaker

Goddamn! Drunk Horse play the kind of rock music that makes me want to grab a beer and bang my head ‘till dawn breaks. Some bands revive 70’s hard rock with their tongue in their cheek, and some do it with a frightening level of earnestness. But Drunk Horse do it so well that it just doesn’t matter whether they’re serious or not. They’ve got the southern boogie groove of ZZ Top, the songs of Thin Lizzy and the guitar solos of the Fuck Champs. This is 70’s rock revival that sounds completely modern. Let's call it neo-prog-butt-rock.

Also, they are playing in my hometown of Fayetteville on Sunday the 29th. I'm pretty fucking jazzed. If you're reading this, and you're from Fayetteville. You better fucking come. They'd be a great band to get totally fucked up to, but I'm leaving on a road trip the next morning, so beers will be few.

The Jai-Alai Savant

2005-07-19T20:50:00.000-07:00

The Jai-Alai Savant - Scarlett Johansen, Why Don't You Love Me?
I first heard of the Jai-Alai Savant in a passing mention in the magazine Fader. I saw the word Hollertronix and the word band, and I had to hear it. (For those that don't know, Hollertronix is a DJ/Mixtape duo that is one part Diplo and one part Low Budget). I'm a little unclear how Jai-Alai Savant is affiliated with Hollertronix, but that no longer matters.

To my ears, Jai-Alai Savant sound like a dubbier version of TV on the Radio, or what would have happened if the Clash kept on moving into dub and soul territory instead of breaking up. My roomate Shaun says they sound just like the Police, but I've never really listened to the Police, so I'll have to take his word on that one.

Beck

2005-07-18T18:33:00.000-07:00

Beck - Farewell Ride (Subtle Remix)
I love me some Beck. But, man, Guero just wasn't any good at all. The "Hell Yes" EP got me all ready for some hotness to drop, but shit just didn't work out. With the exception of the hott "E-Pro," basically every remix of any song I've heard off that album kills the original. The remix of "Farewell Ride" by abstract hip-hoppers Subtle is no exception. The original's beat is just a lazy lumbering beat, a handclap, a harmonica and a pedal steel. It sounds like a sub-par outtake from Sea Change. It ain't offensive, but it ain't interesting. In fact, I'm listening to it right now, and I have to force myself to pay attention to it, or it just works it's way to the back of my brain.

Enter Subtle. Subtle, for the uninitiated, are made of members of the underground hip-hop collective/label/sub-genre Anticon. And, to these ears, they are the artistic pinnacle of Anticon. Their album A New White killed, and was a near flawless crystalization of the Anticoncept. On their remix of "Farewell Ride" they drop everything but Beck's vocals, and they don't even keep all of those. Instead, they throw down a languid, creepy beat, some jazz noir horns and some guest rhymes from Doseone and turn the song into a horror-movie funeral procession. A farewell ride indeed.

The Black Mass 7-16-05 Playlist

2005-07-16T13:38:00.000-07:00

I also have another radio show. It's a metal show called The Black Mass. Playlists for that show will be posted here as well. On today's show, my friend Freakin' Joel was a guest DJ for the first half of the show.

Iron Maiden - The Trooper - The Essential Iron Maiden
Electric Wizard - Vinus Sabbathi - Dopethrone
Nevermore - Sell My Heart for Stones - This Godless Endeavor
Coalesce - Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin cover) - There's Nothing New Under the Sun
Demons & Wizards - Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin cover) - Touched by the Crimson King
As I Lay Dying - Meaning in Tragedy - Shadows are Security
High on Fire - Blood from Zion - Art of Self Defense
Kyuss - Catamaran - ...And the Circus Leaves Town
Dew Scented - Vortex - Issue VI
Mastodon - Shadows that Move - Lifesblood
Obituary - Redneck Stomp - Frozen In Time
Origin - Echoes of Decimation - Endless Cure
Mike Gann - Fear's Burden - single
Gorerotted - Fable of Filth - A New Dawn for the Dead
Naglfar - None Shall be Spared - Pariah
Judas Priest - Loch Ness - Angel of Retribution
Arch Enemy - Nemesis - Doomsday Machine
Darkest Hour - Sound the Surrender - Undoing Ruin
Darkest Hour - Tranquil - Undoing Ruin
Darkane - Secondary Effects - Layers of Lies
Motorhead - Overkill - No Remorse
Lamb of God - Hourglass - Ashes of the Wake
Leng Tch'e - Derisive Conscience - The Process of Elimination
A Life Once Lost - Pain & Panic - Hunter
Summon - Intro/Blood Red Skies - Fallen
Converge - Heartless - You Fail Me
Demons & Wizards - Beneath These Waves - Touched by the Crimson King

Ugly Music for Beautiful People 7-13-05 Playlist

2005-07-15T15:17:00.000-07:00

For those that do not know, this blog is named after a radio show I do each Wednesday from 8pm to 10pm central time on KXUA. From now on, I will be posting each weeks playlist on this blog rather than on my livejournal.

Metalux - Sunny Krakow - Victim of Space
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - Paper Trail Blues - XIAO
The Thing - Garage - Have Love Will Travel (Sonics cover)
Swans - Weakling (live) - Speed Deals (comp.)
Thuja - Untitled II -All Strange Beasts of the Past
Mark Dresser & Denman Maroney - Harkemoney - Time Changes
Comets on Fire/Burning Star Core - Untitled A - Comets on Fire/Burning Star Core LP
The Peppermints - Rabid Frogs - Jesüs Chryst
The Peppermints - A. Hotel - Jesüs Chryst
The Peppermints - Cousin - Jesüs Chryst
Orthrelm - OV - OV
The Locust - Kill Roger Hedgecock - The Locust EP [request]
The Punks - Drop it Like It's Hot - Thank You For the Alternative Rock
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Let Us Take it Higher - After the Medicine Show (comp.)

Leisure

2005-07-15T14:21:00.000-07:00

Leisure - Way of Life
Leisure are a rock band from Boston. They haven't released anything yet, but had some mp3s up on their website (their current site seems to be down, but here's an old one that has a couple more mp3s). To the best of my knowledge, the only national press they've gotten was about a year and a half ago when Pitchfork dubbed them one of 5 new bands to watch in 2004, alongside Tussle, Patrick Wolf, the Hold Steady and Ratatat.

Those other 4 bands all released successful albums, but all Leisure has done is record a couple more demos and start up an email list. Nonetheless, Leisure will eventually live up to that sweeping pronouncement by Pitchfork, but probably not in 2005. Maybe 2006 or 2007, though. However, this band will eventually become a hot buzz band and get famous.

Why? Because they're that good. "Way of Life" is one of their new songs, and shows significant artistic growth over their original demos. Their lead singer's voice has matured into a rich Jeff Buckley-esque croon, and the rest of the band has become equal adept at their instruments. Melancholy organ mixes with post-post punk drumming, throbbing bass and even a brief xylophone section. It all leads up to the fiery Neil Young-esque guitar solo that closes the song. This almost 7 minute long song never wears out it's welcome and is their finest work to date.

Currituck Co.

2005-07-14T18:43:00.000-07:00

Currituck Co. - Don't the Road Look Rough & Rocky
Currituck Co. is guitarist Kevin Barker, also of the band Adem. On Ghost Man on Second, he is joined by drummer Otto Hauser of Espers and they bust out two discs worth of fingerpicking and skin slapping. The folk guitar/jazz drums combo was done earlier this year by Six Organs of Admittance, and Currituck Co. pull it off almost as well. "Don't the Road Look Rough & Rocky" is very dark and moody, and is easily the album highlight.

Behemoth

2005-07-13T16:20:00.000-07:00

Behemoth - The Nephilim Rising
Poland's Behemoth are easily the best death metal around today. The only competion is Nile. Behemoth began their career as a black metal band, but slowly stripped away the black to reveal the death underneath. On their most recent album Demigod, the only black metal signifiers left is the corpsepaint and bracers. Now, they aren't the most innovative death metal band around, they play pretty straightforward stuff. But nobody does it better than they do. They're the Arcade Fire of death metal, they take a common, worn out style of music and make it fresh and new again simply by doing it as well as it's ever been done before.

Wolf Parade

2005-07-12T21:27:00.000-07:00

Wolf Parade - Shine a Light
Montreal's Wolf Parade are a hot buzz band of the moment. And they actually deserve it. While what they play is definitely indie rock, they are the first new indie rock band to get me excited in quite a while. Their influences are visible, but they mix them all so well that it doesn't even matter. On "Shine a Light", the lead track from their third self-titled EP and first for Sub Pop Records, they mix bits and pieces of Frog Eyes, the Unicorns, the Constantines and Beck. It works masterfully, and bodes well for their upcoming debut LP.

Red Sparowes

2005-07-11T21:36:00.000-07:00

Red Sparowes - Alone And Unaware, The Landscape Was Transformed In Front Of Our Eyes
Made up of members of Isis and Neurosis, Red Sparowes keep the epic progressive rock aspects of those bands while substituting the metal with post rock. They have very similar song structure to Isis, but with no vocals and more prominent melody. And somehow, it sounds just as heavy. These days, post rock is a mostly barren wasteland filled with has-beens and rehashers, but by coming at the genre from a metal perspective, Red Sparowes have injected new life into it and given us one of the most emotional and moving albums in recent history. It’s brilliance from start to finish.

Darkest Hour

2005-07-08T19:53:00.000-07:00

Darkest Hour - Sound the Surrender
Although D.C.’s Darkest Hour began their career as a metalcore band, they have long since moved on to more interesting and rewarding territory. Their most recent releases have seen them adding more and more European metal touches, in particular the Gothenburg sound of bands like In Flames and At the Gates. On Undoing Ruin, their 4th album, they’ve nailed the fusion of European metal with American hardcore, and secured their place at the head of the class of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal.

Icky Boyfriends

2005-07-07T18:53:00.000-07:00

Icky Boyfriends - Pigs
Icky Boyfriends - Hotel California (Eagles cover)

Icky Boyfriends were an band (or was that anti-band?) from San Francisco in the early 90's. They fucking sucked and also fucking ruled. They have no idea how to play their instruments, so they choose not to. Instead, the flail about while the lead singer rants about his pet kitty, kidnapped co-eds, toe nails, and, of course, girls. "Pigs" is probably the best critique of America's quasi-police state that I've heard since "Copkilla". It's also 18 seconds long. "Hotel California" is a bad cover of a worse song, and it's one of the most entertaining things I've heard in ages. It rambles along until the lead singer forgets what line comes next. They've also got some songs that are really songs, more or less, but if you want to hear those you can pick up the new double disc retrospective A Love Obscene that just came out on Menlo Park. It's exhaustive, exhausting, and shockingly essential.

The Pope

2005-07-06T16:28:00.000-07:00

The Pope - Society of Friends (from Society of Friends)
Bass & drums duo The Pope hail from Los Angeles and like the best 2-man bands, sound bigger than they are. There is a very obvious heavy influence from Lightning Bolt, but tempered with many other influences. The vocals are similar to those of high-energy punk rockers Hot Snakes. The drums are “bash” oriented rather than the tight & complex style of Lightning Bolt. But the most important thing that the Pope bring is an undeniable groove. As noisy, fast and lo-fi as they are, they never loose the sense of swing that makes the hips shake.

Happy 4th of July

2005-07-04T14:28:00.000-07:00

The Mice - Not Proud of the USA
Hailing from Cleveland, OH, The Mice released “For Almost Ever,” a 6 song EP in 1986 and then released the LP Scooter in 1987. And then they broke up. They faded into obscurity and if anyone had heard of them, it was because Superchunk and Guided by Voices cited them as influences. Recently, Scat Records have decided to change that by releasing the EP and LP on CD for the first time. And it’s a very good thing, as these 16 punk inflected power pop gems all deserve to be heard.

The Peppermints

2005-07-03T18:26:00.000-07:00

Hello. This is actually my second mp3 blog, the first being the ill-fated Temp3. I hope that this one last longer.

The Peppermints are a spazzy noise rock band made up of three beautiful women and a dude. They are also super-duper-nice people. I know the later because I saw them play a couple of days ago and they stayed at my house. See the following livejournal entry for details/pictures:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/maskedyodeler/149019.html

Their second album, Jesüs Chryst came out this past week on Paw Tracks Records, which is run by the Animal Collective. It's pretty fantastic, and jumps all over the out-rock map. The only constant is the mix of the cute and the foul (think a unicorn farting) that they do so well.

The Peppermints - A. Hotel
The Peppermints - Onion Salad
On the first track, they sound a little bit like the Fall, if Mark E. Smith was female and the whole band had A.D.D. The second track is kind of a nonesensical shaggy dog story, with Deerhoof-esque accompaniment.