RED AUNTS (USA)

#1 CHICKEN
- LP/CD
1995 (Epitaph)






"In your face screeches. Crude blasts of feedback. Discordant and vicious energy blasting from a frantically lit stage. These are the things that little girls are made of. Sugar and spice can take a hike." - Jordan Marshall


"Yowsa! This all-female punk band's energy will singe the hair right out of your auditory canals. They're faster than L7, more frightening than Babes In Toyland and more ferocious than a legion of Riot Grrrls. In fact, they'd probably kill you if you called them Riot Grrls. The pounding drums, whipsaw guitars and bad attitude on "#1 Chicken" also pummel most of the Aunts' Epitaph brethren into the ground too. Just when many punk bands are slowing down and making their sound more accessible, the frenetic pace -- 14 songs in 23 minutes -- and malicious glee of Red Aunts are a rejuvenating shot in the arm ... with a rusty nail." - Heather Phares


"An evening spent with the Red Aunts is about as soothing as a soak in a tub of raw sewage. The Southern California band's brand of unfiltered music is toxic, especially when the vocals hit the piercing pitch of a three-year-old throwing a temper tantrum...this foursome takes a sharp claw to every riot grrrl/foxcore cliché it can shred. Starting with the old one-chord-wonder punk credo, the Aunts add a progression or two, smother it with distortion and top it off with din-singing by either bassist E. Z. Wider (Debbi Dip, aka Connie Champagne) or one of the guitarists, Angel and Sapphire (Terri Wahl and Kerry Davis, aka Louise Lee Outlaw and Taffy Davis). Abrasive as their mix is, the Red Aunts generate a vital energy and humor absent from many indie bands." - Marlene Goldman


"Three hundred words on #1 Chicken? Subtitled "14 Songs, 23 Minutes," there ain't even 300 words on Red Aunts' first Epitaph release, but no matter. Named for a hometown Long Beach restaurant, Chicken is a greasy screechfest -- part catty, part country, part Courtney. Think Silverfish on speed, the Supersuckerettes, or a sexy X: "Detroit Valentine" rhymes "head" with "dead" and "gun" with "run"; "Peppermint Patty" (evidently dedicated to Patty Hearst) surfs along blissfully; reeling off pot synonyms seems the sole purpose of "Mota."

It's not until "Willabell," a four-chord, one-minute cyclone in which EZ Wider screams, "Hop in the back seat, baby/ And hold on tight/ I'm gonna floor it sweet thing/ And fly you like a kite," that a glimmer of the Aunts' best attribute -- stand-out performances, say, the one that won S.F.'s heart like a cheap carnival toy last year -- shines through. See, Angel, EZ, Cougar, and Sapphire know that if you're an honest punk band, it doesn't matter how fat your wallet is, whose label graces your record, or whether you sit down or stand up to pee. What does matter is that you toss an extra verse into "Teach Me to Kill" so Angel can peel off her Telecaster and leap into the pit, slam with men twice her weight, and climb back onstage to light the cigarette still perched behind her ear. That shit makes me wet!

In an era when punk is traded like a commodity and female artists like P J Harvey vamp for MTV's Vaseline-smeared cameras, Red Aunts march in, raid your fridge, vaporize your damage deposit, and leave you for dead in a heap on the floor, eardrums hissing and a smile on your face. How'm I doin' wordwise? 298? Not bad." - Colin Berry

The Red Aunts:

Angel (Terri Wahl) : guitar, vocals
Sapphire (Kerry Davis) : guitar, vocals
E.Z. Wider (Debi Martini) : bass
Cougar (Leslie Noelle) : drums

TRACKLIST:
1.Freakathnon
2. Tin Foil Fish Bowl
3. Hate
4. Detroit Valentine
5. Krush
6. Satan
7. Roller Derby Queen
8. Willarell
9. When Sugar Turns to Shit
10. Poker Party
11. Peppermint Patty
12. Mota
13. Number One Chicken
14. Netty


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GUITAR WOLF (Japan)

LIVE!!
-CD
2000 (Ki/oon Records)





"Decked out in black leather, dripping with adrenaline, and straight outta Tokyo, Guitar Wolf come out swinging with what is possibly the noisiest, fuzzed-out, garage punk ever." - Rhapsody


"Seiji, Billy, and Toru have a grasp of very loud, very fast, and very, very dirty rock that verges on the stupendous." - Brian James



"What is that horrible noise? It’s over an hour of GUITAR WOLF live, and they’re out to destroy your eardrums, and that’s just to start with! This is assembled from four different gigs, but half of it’s from their last show at CBGBs. It wasn’t their best show, and it doesn’t matter, ‘cause this band rocks! It’s recorded like you’re on the stage with ‘em. Duck! Seiji’s gonna do another lead! New songs and classics are all battered to within an inch of their lives! This is the way GUITAR WOLF was meant to be documented. You’re not gonna believe it!" - Rock of Japan



"Guitar Wolf...started out as a garage-punk trio nearly 20 years ago, and that's what they still are today. Over the course of nine albums, they've honed the already sharp sounds of punk and early rock into an even more potent din, cherry-picking everything they like from musical history (Link Wray, The Standells, The Ramones, Joan Jett) and discarding the rest.

If it's possible to imagine, Guitar Wolf are even rawer and more immediate than the forebears they're so openly honoring with the same barre-chord progressions and two-note guitar solos. Each of the group's records induces the same vaguely nauseous, clammy-palmed thrill of hearing rock 'n' roll for the first time, that sense you're coming into contact with something sexy and dangerous. The records have been mastered at the highest volume possible, meaning there's really no way to turn them down without just turning them off. Go deaf or lose out, your choice." - Jonathan Marx



Seiji “Guitar Wolf”--guitar & vocal
Toru “Drum Wolf”--drums
Billy “Bass Wolf”--bass & vocal (sadly, died March 30, 2005)


Tracklist:
1.Okami Wakusei (Wolf Planet)
2.Jet Generation
3.All Night Buttobase!! (Roaring All Night!!)
4.Ryusei Noise (Shooting Star Noise)
5.Reizouko Zero (Refrigerator Zero)
6.Jack The Ripper
7.Wild Zero
8.Rock ‘n’ Roll Etiquette
9.Missile Me
10.Kawasaki ZII 750 Rock ‘n’ Roll
11.Summertime Blues
12.Kasei Twist (Mars Twist)
13.Too Much Junkie Business
14.Machine Gun Guitar
15.Ramen Shinya 3-ji (Ramen At 3AM)
16.Kick Out The Jams
17.Rumble


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The GORGONS (France)

NUMBER ONE
-CD
1992 (DIG!)






"Thee Gorgons, a heavily 6 t’s garage punk- influenced combo, comprises of four young belgo-parisians who got it together to deliver one of the most furious muzic that Camembert-land had ever heard." - Sud-Ouest - décembre 1993



"Now, how did the JC and the gorgz met…? My memory escapes me, but as soon as they did, they became sort of unseparable…JC was undeniably the fifth Gorgon to say the least and soon decided to have them live on his radio show, as resident guests, one evening a week. It's was a mutual discovery !....." - Thee JC Pat's extraordinary adventure


"(...) Let us locate start the matter of these furious: Cramps, Stingrays, Milkshakes, Meteors. On scene they take again Headcoats, Mighty Caesars, Gun Club and on the album the "Cry cry cry" of Unrelated Segments already taken again by Cynics on their last LP. For the remainder, they are compos in the line line of the groups that they respect: direct and wild. To make all this din, they are only three, battery low guitar, plus a somewhat disturbed singer who cannot prevent himself from howling. The guitarist must adore Link Wray and Poison Ivy but also the tricks punk sixties.


Hey Little Girl




What is obvious, it is that that does not sound at any time revival (...), Gorgons are descendants of Sonics, Troggs, Milkshakes, Wampas! No the plan of career nor of blunt worship of the sixties, they like to make noise, they like to do it quickly and they like that it sounds true (...)" - Larsen n°4 - March 93


TRACKLIST:
1. Hey Little Girl
2. Lovin' Man
3. Carnou's Creamed Canneloni
4. I Still Love You
5. Cry, Cry, Cry
6. I Hate You (When You're Gone)
7. (You've Got To) Understand
8. Fish Pie
9. You Don't Need Me
10. You've Changed
11. Alone
12. Wild Puss'
13. Gholio Monster (would not rip)



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The MONO MEN (USA)

STOP DRAGGIN' ME DOWN
-LP/CS
1991 (Estrus)





"While the Mono Men were often pegged as just another garage-revival band, anyone who actually listened to them knew there was a lot more to their sound than that - punk, blues, and straight-ahead hard rock informed their sound as much as 1960s fuzz-tone raunch..." - Freak Emporium


"About two hours from Seattle, in the seaside town of Bellingham, WA, the Mono Men pursued their campy retreat to '60s rock revivalism via the Sonics, the Wailers, and loads of teen exploitation flicks, but don't be fooled -- their music is loud, fast, and aggressive.

The Mono Men doubled as indie label gurus, forming and running garage rock asylum Estrus Records; they also host the annual Garage Shock music festival in upstate Washington." - Matt Carlson


"If you want a clearer idea of where these guys are coming from, well, you can safely file their records with those by the Lyres, the Nomads, the early Lime Spiders or early Stems, and maybe to some extent the recent Cynics and Boys From Nowhere. It's music that doesn't necessarily burn it up for tempos (though they do have their fast ones), but relies instead on tough, hard guitar courtesy of Dave and Marx Wright, punishing drums from Aaron Roeder and some great screamer vocals shared by Dave and Marx. Dave Morrisette plays bass." - Noise For Heroes #20




The Mono Men:
Bass - Dave Morrisette
Drums - Aaron Roeder
Guitar, Vocals - Dave Crider
Guitar, Vocals - Marx Wright
Organ - Josie Cat


Engineer - Conrad Uno
Executive Producer - Jay Haskins
Producer - Richard Head


TRACKLIST:
Stop Draggin' Me Down (D. Crider)
Right Now (D. Crider/M. Wright)
Boss (The Rumblers)
Ain't No Friend Of Mine (Sparkles)
No Way Back (D. Crider)
I Don't Care (Mono Men)
Dead End (D. Crider/M. Wright)
That's Her (M. Wright)
Girl (D. Crider)
Stay Awake (D. Crider)
Fate (M. Wright/D. Crider)
Reptile (L. Morrisette)


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Moving Day...

SOUNDS OF NOW! (USA) - V/A

SOUNDS OF NOW!
-LP
1987 (Dionysus)





"Compuesto por 16 temas de varios grupos de la escena.
Comeinzan ZEBRA STRIPES con un antológico "The trip". Imposible comenzar mejor. Les siguen THE BEGUILED con un tema bastante más rockin'; "I don't care" y con un tono parecido, pero acercándose a un sonido más 50's, AL PERRY con "Glue sniffing revival". Acto seguido, JONNY SEVIN nos obsequian con otra maravilla "Hey joe", que mezcla atmósferas psychesixties con un toque de caos crudo. Desde Grecia aportan su grandeza LAST DRIVE con "Valley of death" al más puro estilo "Last night". Los siguientes en recorrer el vinilo son THE SPECIAL ONES que se auto tributan con 2 "The special ones". R'n'r séptico de los 50's. Los CRAMPS sacarían jugo de este sonido!. Tras ellos, unos auténticos colosos: THE CYNICS con "Get away girl", un tema muy 12flightsup!! Cierran esta cara THE LEGENDARY GOLDEN VAMPIRES con un apocalíptico "Heartbreak hotel"
La cara B también la abren ZEBRA STRIPES con "El paseo", cantada en castellano.. de aquella manera, pero castellano al fin y al cabo. Unos fuzzeos con sabor a tetricidad nos indican que THEE FOURGIVEN andan amedentrando a la gente opr la zona, con un demoledor "Hang up". Les siguen unos farfísicos CHUD con "Rumble at the love-in". R'n'r con teclados tupédicos! Pero si lo que quieres es calidad, aquí tienes a los YARD TRAUMA para desplegar la que necesites con "I'm not like everybody else" pegándose con las PANDORAS por copar el puesto más importante de garageras americanas están las BROOD, que nos sueltan un "You lied to me before" capaz de derretir el cemento de nuestro cerebro. Los UNTOLD FABLES son los siquientes en aparecer, y lo hacen con un destructivo "pressure". Fuzzeos a discreción y unos halaridos salvajes es la fórmula que utilizan para dejarnos secos. Siguiendo la política de distorsión orejil, los LAZY COWGIRLS nos atacan con "Re-ocurring thang". Por último aparecen de nuevo YARD TRAUMA con "Music"." - ipunkrock.com


El track list:
1- ZEBRA STRIPES (The trip)
2- THE BEGUILED (I don't care)
3- AL PERRY (Glue sniffing revival)
4- JONNY SEVIN (Hey You!)
5- THE LAST DRIVE (Valley of death)
6- THE SPECIAL ONES (The Special Ones)
7- THE CYNICS (Get away girl)
8- THE LEGENDARY GOLDEN VAMPIRES (Heartbreack hotel)
9- ZEBRA STRIPES (El paseo)
10- THEE FOURGIVEN (Hang up)
11- THE CHUD (Rumble at the love-in)
12- YARD TRAUMA (I'm not like everybody else)
13- THE BROOD (You lied to me before)
14- THE UNTOLD FABLES (Pressure)
15- THE LAZY COWGIRLS (Re-Occurring thang)
16- YARD TRAUMA (Music)


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The NOMADS (Sweden)

THE COLD HARD FACTS OF LIFE
-CD/EP
1996 (Lance Rock)





"World beat, my ass. Garage-rock -- of the particularly brutal stripe played by these canny Swedes -- is the real universal tongue, as this collection of Canadian garage anthems proves. Contents include two Ugly Ducklings covers, a version of the Jury's "Who Dat" (no, I never heard it before, either) and a cover of Teenage Head's immoral classic "Picture My Face," complete with re-tooled riff. Additional bonus: Handsome cover art clearly influenced by Porter Wagoner LP of same name." - B.F. "MOLE" MOWAT


"Scandinavia might not seem like a particularly likely place to find a flourishing garage-rock scene, but Stockholm's legendary Nomads have been kings of the drag-punk underground in those great Nordic hinterlands for more than two decades now. It all started in Solna, a Stockholm suburb, in early 1980, when four teenage malcontents got together and began gigging locally as Mike Nomad, playing a raw, blistering style of rock that borrowed liberally from seminal American groups like The Sonics, the MC5, and The Cramps. In 1981 they became The Nomads and recorded their first seven-inch, a crude dirty cover of The Sonics' already crude and dirty garage-rock classic, "Psycho." Throughout the '80s the band continued in this fashion, with singer and rhythm guitarist Nick Vahlberg and lead guitarist Hans üstlund the only constant members. In spite of their distinctively vitriolic, fuzzed-out punk mode of garage rock and the frenetic energy of their live shows, the band remained little more than a curiosity, virtually unknown outside of Sweden.

In the early '90s, The Nomads were able to connect with a larger European audience after shows with The Ramones and Iggy Pop and soon thereafter, thanks in large part to the garage-rock revival spearheaded by bands like The Makers and the Mono Men and the help of Bellingham garage label Estrus Records, the band picked up some new American fans too." - Jesse Ashlock


Tracklist:
1. Hard To Cry
2. She Ain't No Use To Me
3. Picture My Face
4. Get Away From It All
5. Who Dat?
6. Nothin'
7. That's My Girl (Rotten To The Core)
8. Been Burnt


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CHELSEA (Japan)

CHELSEA
-CD
1999 (LDK)





"I first saw these guys at Kawasaki Citta years ago and the singer Baba stormed on stage waving a Japanese flag and immediately jumped into the crowd before singing or screaming a word. Chelsea was pure mental noise with a speedy psychedelic edge. Factotums used a track off this album as the music to be played when we walked on stage at our recent Koenji gig. It really gets me focused, gets me aggressive, and in the mood to perform, although Im not sure what the rest of Factotums think about it. I followed Chelsea round and then when Baba left to form Kubikarizoku I followed that band round. I eventually got to know Baba - which often happens if you go to all the shows - and now count him as one of my best friends in Japan. Hes a hardcore hippie-punk warrior-poet from Kyoto who takes no bullshit and retains the true Samurai spirit. I swear he sleeps with a copy of Hagakure under his pillow at night. I feel like hes probably my brother in an alternative universe. I have total respect for the man." - Simon Factotum


"...he is the Lord of the Japanese Underground. He bounds out from the undergrowth that passes for the backstage at Shimokita Shelter and leaps into the crowd - Levitating? Flying, more like. Trusting his faithful acolytes who dance like they are biting off the heads of a live chicken in a woody hill just outside downtown Port au Prince. We are one second into Nokemono's second ever Tokyo show. They played here once last year. And Baba, head honcho sexy singer, chewing on an antler the monster, ex-Chelsea and ex-Kubiukarizoku, has the crowd in a trance. Dangerous shit. He's lording it over the crowd after just one second. Nobody goes to the bar for a drink. Nobody goes to the toilet to take a leak. Nobody wants to miss this. Scientists would die for this - the missing link between man and beast - and he's got the musical magic going down too." - Simon Bartz

"Guitars thrash wildly. Drums are beaten sadistically. And ripping through the noise like a crucified devil is the shriek of a creature that seems half-human. This emaciated, bearded beast is naked bar a pair of silvery blue shorts. Behind the long, straggly hair his eyes burn with terrifying intensity. When he isn't screaming, he makes chewing motions with his mouth as if he's gnawing on an invisible bone. In other words, we got a freak show on our hands with a New York Dolls-on-speed soundtrack...

Marky drives me and Baba to a saba eatery in Kyoto and we talk about his status in the Japanese music scene. He's a legend, but I can't quite figure out why. His music is great, but he's released few records.

"I am really happy that people respect what I do, even though I haven't released much," he says. "I think it's because our live shows are good. Hahaha!"

You released a couple of records with Chelsea and one live video with Kubikarizoku. Don't you regret not releasing more stuff?

"I am full of failures and regrets about the past," he says, in between slurping some miso soup. "And I know there will be further problems in the future. I hope to overcome these things little by little. That's what keeps me making music. It's an exercise in exorcism. Hahaha!"

But if you don't release stuff your legacy may fade in time as people forget the shows. Don't you want to go down in Japanese musical history?

"If we create great songs and do great live shows, we will become legendary. I'm in a band and obviously that's what I want. If that doesn't happen, that means some factors are missing. That is all. Anyway, it depends on me and my determination and spirit." - Simon Bartz

Tracklist:

01. Magma No Otoko
02. Ira Ira Suruze
03. An An Abazure
04. Damena Yatu Eno Uta
05. Ma-a Iika
06. Oresama No Rock
07. Kuso Kurae
08. Gira Gira Rock
09. Ete Kou
10. Monogoi Boogie

Caveat: Acquired from Audiogalaxy in 2000, Track 8 is low level for the first 28 seconds

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