Playlist 2.25.08

Playlist Week of 2/24/08:


Melvins - Queen
Grazhdanskaya Oborona - Все совсем не то
Grazhdanskaya Oborona - Моя оборона
Skin Yard - No Control
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Big Business - Another Fourth of July...Ruined.
The Christpunchers - Cutty
Rwake - Imbedded
Danzig - 777
Janitor Joe - Boys in Blue
Hammerhead - All This is Yours
Monster Magnet - Medicine
Thrones - Black Blade
The Melvins - With Yo' Heart, Not Yo' Hands
Alabama Thunderpussy - Motor-Ready
Gallhammer - Aloof and Proud Silence
The Atomic Bitchwax - Kiss the Sun
Soundgarden - Hunted Down
Slughog - Left
The Butthole Surfers - Sweet Loaf
The Melvins - ANAL SATAN.
Old Grandad - Urine Angel
Black Mountain - Stormy High
The Whip - Freelance Liason
Helmet - In the Meantime

Highlights:
Black Mountain - Stormy High
Gallhammer - Aloof and Proud Silence
Hammerhead - All This is Yours
Old Grandad - Urine Angel
Monster Magnet - Medicine
RWAKE - Imbedded

Yegor Letov Dies at Age 43

1964-2008

Yegor Letov, singer of Soviet-era Russian punk band Grazhdanskaya Oborona, died on Feb. 19th, 2008 of Heart Failure. If you don't know who he is, this dude did a pretty good job of summing things up: http://soveticus.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/yegor-letov-had-died/

Here, take a free album. I don't think Russia cares.

Viva La Christpunchers!

I know we went over a little tiny bit of the Christpunchers in our last broadcast, but I don't feel like it was a sufficient introduction. (Plus I felt that our depiction of them, at least material wise, was inaccurate.)

So...THE CHRISTPUNCHERS. The Christpunchers are a 3 piece instrumental sludge/doom metal band from Detroit, formed in 2001 by Vince Williams (gits, ex-7000 Dying Rats), Josh Diebel (samples, also ex-7000 Dying Rats *vox*), and Mike Alonso (drums, possible ex-Seduce...? I'll try to get confirmation on that.) Conceived through a night of drinking, and free from the constraints of 7000 Dying Rats, due to a hiatus, the bastard band was born out of a bottle of whiskey, and set free to scourge the ears of metalheads and club goers throughout Detroit. Chainsaw guitar riffs and crashing cymbals capitalize on their intense pummeling presence; their tracks layered and supported by samples from cult favorites like "The Warriors" and "Airplane". These guys stand up to their namesake (lifted from an episode of "The Simpsons"), more so than pop-punkers "Christpunchers-MPLS". With audible influences including The Melvins and TAD, and attitudes fueled by their general disdain for their surroundings, these guys pack as much as they can into one big angry menacing package. The Christpunchers are currently distributing their material through Unfortunate Miracle Records.

Discography:

Welcome to the Wonderful World of the Christpunchers (CDr)


Black Lung in the Age of Crime (CDr)


Cold Hands/Every Whore For Herself Single (7-inch)


Psalms For A New Dark Age


Confusion Formula V Compilation (Last Track - Conduit)

Hey, Free Music!
The Christpunchers - Introit - Grandier
The Christpunchers - Tread of the Iron Legion

TAD DVD

As you may have guessed from our first broadcast, we love TAD. (and Boris too, apparently...) There's something about the thick guitars, punishing percussion, and banshee vocals, provided by ex-butcher Tad Doyle, that keeps us coming back for more. Perhaps we love the abuse? Nonetheless, TAD stands out from other "grunge" bands that faded into obscurity after the mid-nineties. In it's livespan, TAD has released 4 studio albums, 1 live album and more than a dozen 7"s of pure underground fury, that stand the test of the time nearly 20 years later. And now there's a DVD capturing their rise to the top and eventual decline:



"TAD took the idea of playing LIVE very seriously; it was a life or death matter. This DVD not only stands as testimony to that claim, but it’s also a cinematic document of the world’s HEAVIEST band EVER (as Bruce Pavitt so incisively puts it) bodily stretching that assertion beyond any previously known limitations. Over our dozen years, TAD blew circuits and punctured eardrums, herniated discs and damaged vertebrae, pinched nerves and triggered sciatica, incited lumbago here, caused concussions there, a catalog of ailments that we took in stride as occupational hazards—may tinnitus forever unite us—and it was worth every thin dime of the always rising physical cost, an iconic barcode branded into our neural and muscular-skeletal tissues for all time. Better than a tattoo, it’s an open scar that roars, a broken alarm bell ringing from the lost event horizon of a long-dead star, one we could never see—that is, until this DVD clipped it back onto the light box of the silver screen, where it can be deciphered and viewed anew. This documentary telescopes the musical pathology of TAD down into the image of an electrocardiograph recording the minor-mode melody of a final infarct, a demented soundtrack that is neither tame nor de-clawed. It was never meant to be. Dare to feel it, and, like me, risk bleeding internally."

-Kurt Danielson, Halloween 2007

Shit's gud. Get it here.

Goodies:
TAD - Wood Goblins
TAD - Loser
TAD - Leafy Incline

Playlist 2.18.08

Playlist week of 2/17/08:

High on Fire - The Face of Oblivion
TAD - Behemoth
Big Black - L Dopa
Boris - Black Out
The Black Angels - Young Men Dead
The Cows - Organized Meat
Fudge Tunnel - Stuck
Nailbomb - Wasting Away
The Birthday Party - Nick the Stripper
The Christpunchers - Cold Hands
Electric Wizard - Barbarian
Jesus Lizard - Mouth Breather
Husker Du - Folk Lore
Flipper - Nothing
Sun O))) - O))) Bow 1
Goblin Cock - Kegrath the Dragon Killer
Vidensang - Second Movement
Boris - Rattlesnake
Bad Brains - The Regulator
Janitor Joe - One Eye
Treepeople - It's Alright Now Ma
Kyuss - Thumb
Orange Goblin - Vagrant Stomp
Alabama Thunderpussy - Get Mad/Get Even
Yawning Man - Rock Formations
Priestbird - Who Took Berlin (Part I)

Highlights from this week:

Janitor Joe - One Eye
Orange Goblin - Vagrant Stomp
Cows - Organized Meat
TAD - Behemoth
Yawning Man - Rock Formations
Kyuss - Thumb
The Black Angels - Young Men Dead
Priestbird - Who Took Berlin (Part I)
Alabama Thunderpussy - Get Mad/Get Even