PERSONNEL: Not listed TRACK LISTING: 1. Love Affair 2. Cazalla 3. The Naked Flame 4. Love Is Good 5. Sticky 6. Godiva 7. Can’t Help Myself 9. She Drives Me Wild 10. Cut Me Loose Guitarist Ivan Julian is a national treasure. A founding member of the seminal punk group Richard Hell and the Voidoids, he has performed with the Isley Brothers, The Clash, Matthew Sweet, The Bongos, Richard Barone, and Shriekback. We met in the late ’80s, when he…
PERSONNEL: Hanna Fox: Drums Rose Thomson: Bass Tim Thomas: Guitar This tape may include from zero to eight extra songs, depending. This tape is an unmastered demo not to be sold or traded for crack. All songs by Babe the blue OX (BOX) copyright 1992 TRACK LISTING: 1. Home 2. Honey-Do 3. Chicken Head Bone Sucker 4. Gymkhana 5. Waiting For Water To Boil 6. Tongue-Tied 7. Booty Nobody who saw Babe the Blue Ox perform will ever forget the…
PERSONNEL: Angela Coon: Vocals Chris Papa: Bass Karen Roze: Bass, b. vocals Mat Kolehmainen: Drums Recorded by Dan Rathbun at Polymorph Produced by Ninewood and Rathbun All songs by Ninewood ©1997 except words of Elephant Cadaver which were taken from Pachuco Cadaver by Don Van Vliet and words of Marginal Lullaby which were taken from Mark Strand. TRACK LIST: 1. Eaglet Shaper 2. Marginal Lullaby 3. New Can Of Ice 4. The Flume Atrocity 5. Elephant Cadaver 6. Bone Dirge…
Among the kings of the Brooklyn Beat scene was Formaldehyde Blues Train, purveyors of swamp-rock supreme.
It’s Not Mystery Friday in this Universe, but we do have a mystery here. No J-card, just a cassette with the number 2 and “Chaos Oblivion” scrawled in pen on a gray sticker. Not in the DU DemoBase™, so pre-Internet. What does the “2” signify? Side 2? The album’s title? The band’s name? It’s ambiguous. I don’t know about you, but I’m kinda excited. Let’s assume the 2 means side 2, flip the tape over and listen to the (un-stickered)……
PERSONNEL: Unknown TRACK LISTING: 1. Take Back Myself 2. Judgement 3. We Got Unity 4. One Life To Living Dead 5. Slave Away This tape kicks ass! Fierce metalcore, mostly, although “Take Back Myself” has that Nirvana post-punk/surf-rock vibe. Who were they? Where did they live? Where are they now? So many questions. TURN IT UP.
PERSONNEL: Doug Grober: Drums Mike Brayton: Vocals, ? Cam Brennan: ? Bill Rocamora: Vocals, ? Produced performed and recorded by Thrillcat Recorded during January 1992 at the MacColl 8-track studio in Providence, RI TRACK LISTING: 1. Somebody Hold Me 2. Honeyface 3. Will You Be There 4. Give Me The Reason 5. You’re Jaking Me Around 6. Don’t Make Me Blue 7. It’s Only Love “The band doesn’t play much anymore, to my dismay. Billy, one of the lead singers…
Loud and noisy and crudely recorded on a cheap karaoke cassette recorder, Noise Ethic will be too much for some listeners. I find it fascinating and real, and exciting
PERSONNEL: Lisa Blanchard: Voice Mark Massaro: Acoustic and voice Brad Rigney: Electric guitar Engineered by Dave Produced by Brad/Dave TRACK LISTING: 1 – Big Monster Moon 2 – Cloud 3 – Super Ego 4 – Doll Face 5 – Vienme 6 – Discrete “A uniquely original band from Boston, MA. Formed by Mark Massaro around 1995, the group consisted of Mark (acoustic guitar, vocals), Lisa Blanchard (lead vocals, piano, pianosaurus, and acoustic guitar), and featured Brad on electric guitar on…
An unaccompanied, unadorned, intimate and arresting self-released 1995 cassette.