A four-song 7″ by Rat Columns is out now on Smartguy Records. You could get it from Smartguy, Midheaven Mailorder, and some other places. Pick it up! You could cop the sick ‘Paranoid Video’ by those freaks Total Control and the epic Boomgates 7″ at the same time, from both those places… Some of the trax; [...]
Pauline Manson’s dual conceptual EPs, ’999′ and ‘Washed To Oblivion’ have been released on cassette by Goaty Tapes! You can cop it here… or at these distros… or, if you live in Australia like 3/4 of PM, you could get it from those guys (follow the signs to Taco Leg) or from the fabulous Albert’s Basement, at [...]
The debut LP from Rank/Xerox is now available on the Make A Mess Records webstore… It has 10 songs and was recorded in a Chinatown dungeon with Eric Bauer (aka King Riff) and Ty Segall. It is 12$ plus postage. Pick it up! — Some trax; – A review of the LP from Yellow Green [...]
‘Rat Columns’ is the new self-titled full-length cassette/CD from Rat Columns. Rat Columns is David West, with help from James Vinciguerra and others of both present and future prescience. Born of rural isolation, then uncultured in Perth, Australia. He now lives in San Francisco, California, USA. Eight songs of dark, ill-fitting pop wanderings and mangled noises. Co-released by ROS Records and Grave New World. Right now [...]
Blistering raw punk from Perth, Western Australia with unexpected, unexplained bursts of both overloaded guitar noise and ’80′s college rock’ melody. Was often compared with Land Speed Record-era Husker Du. On Vertex Records. If you’re in Perth you should be able to find it at Dada Records, I should hope. Otherwise email vertexaudio@gmail.com for a [...]
The debut 7-inch of San Francisco band RANK/XEROX. Their previous release was a split cassette with Grass Widow, now sold out (UPDATE: MORE AVAILABLE). The sound of Rank/Xerox’s four-song 7-inch is one of post-punk tension, messy but vaguely pop in a fractured fashion, equal parts guitar scratchers and synth screamers. I haven’t any more copies. But [...]
The first release on ROS Records, co-released by Farmer Frontier. Frank & The Can I Speaklys’ songs on this record are munted pop, with melodics tempered by ‘eloquent, absurd and sexualised lyrics’, melted guitars and primitive drum machinations. These songs were recorded during some off-time in Burning Sensation’s busy schedule. Soul of Condemned Ape were [...]
