ALPS OF NEW SOUTH WALES

"i cannot be burned, for i, i am made of water."

i got to see chris again recently, we did a show together in the back yard of a friend in sydey, chris of course got the neighbours angry, it always seems to happen, there must be something really piercing about his music, "music that does not obey the rule of walls" i don't hear it. this neighbour was fucking silly and chris sounded very quiet, but it always happens with chris. music this honest is rare and important, hold onto it.

ALPS OF NSW

Alps of the World
2007 - CDR on Spanish Magic

Split 3" (cd) w/ Jasmine Loop Control
2007 on Wilting Flower

Split 7" w/ Frase+Bri
2006 on Shrieksounds

Alps of New South Wales LP
2006 - 12" on Sound&Fury
2006 - CD on Shrieksounds
2007 - CD on Beat is Murder

The Origin of Species EP
2006 - 8" on Shrieksounds

Alps EP
2005 - CDR independent
2006 - 3"CD on Fuck Labels

PUMICE

"my heart is broken, sorrow, sorrow, sorrow, sorrow"

somebody sent me pumice on a tape from new zealand filled with other new zealand bands, and it was the first song and it sounded like two teenagers with a drum kit and a broken guitar and a megaphone had decided to make "strange pop". this is broken records from the late 60's, this is personal diaries sung over bastardized gories songs, this is some of the best there is. actually it is one boy named: stefan neville. he has made alot of recordings. damn i want them all. he has been making them since the nineties, i bet they all vomit excellence.

PUMICE

PUMICE RECORDS AND OTHER STUFF BETTER THAN MYSPACE

Yi-jun cassette (1994, Plop Recordings)
Walkden Fisher cassette (1995, Stabbies, etc)
Poise cassette (1996, Stabbies, etc)
19/4/96 8” [lathe] (1996, Stabbies, etc)
Performance cassette (1996, Stabbies, etc)
Dick Jaws cassette (1997, Stabbies, etc)
I’ll Take No Chance Near a Volcano cassette (1997, Stabbies, etc)
Poin cassette (1998, Stabbies, etc)
Withdrawal 7” [lathe] picture disc (1998, Root Don Lonie for Cash)
Transactions cassette (1998, Root Don Lonie for Cash)
Platter One 7” [lathe] (1998, Stabbies, etc)
Platter Two 7” [lathe] (1998, Stabbies, etc)
Let’s Treat the Pig’s Head as Dip LP [lathe]/cassette (1998, Stabbies, etc)
Dumbo’s Jamaican Egg Dance 7“ [lathe] (1998, Root Don Lonie for Cash)
Sexual cassette (1999, Stabbies, etc)
The Pirate (w/ CJA) CDR (1999, Stabbies, etc)
Platter Four 7” [lathe] (1999, Stabbies, etc)
Go cassette (2000, Stabbies, etc)
Ones CDR (2000, No Label)
A Window Into an Egg CDR/cassette (2001, Stabbies, etc)
Platterplus cassette (2001, Stabbies, etc)
I’ll Take No Chance Near a Volcano CDR (2001, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
Go CDR (2001, Subversive)
Poin CDR (2002, Root Don Lonie for Cash)
White CD (2003, Stabbies, etc)
Raft CD (2004, Last Visible Dog)
Worldwide Skull CDR (2005, Audiobot)
Yeahnahvienna CD (2006, Soft Abuse)
Do Not Destroy (as ‘Stefan Neville’) CD (2006, Last Visible Dog)
Patu CDR (2006, Puissant/Stabbies, etc)
Pipis/Onion Union 7" [lathe] (2006, CMR)
Pebbles CD (2007, Soft Abuse)

he is from new zealand.

COAMHIM

"he told me that i had a hero's soul"

it's hard to understand why i hate one thing but like another. maybe i need to find it myself? coamhim sounds alot like bands i would otherwise hate, but there is something about it, it seems retarded and special. it reminds me of los angeles myths and drug dealers and stuff. no, the more i listen this has a special strange closeness and rareness about it. if he ever gets slicker at recording or writing lyrics i don't know how i'll feel. sometimes badly done music is the best way. on his page you can see a hate letter to his bank, a mental health court contract and a certificate of achievement for "mainting making a commitment to recovery" yeah i like this rare oddness in music.

COAMHIM

from pheonix, arizona. no records yet.

JOHNNY SAW HORSES

"couldve sworn you where still standing behind me"

me and jess from this band had this conversation the other day, it probably gives you a better idea of what they sound like than anything else could:

scuzzmother: i'm gonna own your tongue.

me: i'm gonna grab yr boobs with my claws and you'll have to drag me around for days.

scuzzmother: i still remember what it was like to have you in my womb.

me: I WISH I'D NEVER LEFT!

then hysterics and heavy gazes we learnt from prince video clips. actually they sound very dramatic, well thought out and fucking great. nothing about what me and jess do together is well thought out.

JOHNNY SAW HORSES

Releases:

Old Demo (2004)

Tie the Legless Bitch to the Mast
(2005 - 21 tracks, limited run with hand made individual art work for each disk)

New Demo (2005)

Autumn Tailgated My Daughter
(2006 - 6 tracks, 1 secret, limited run of 25, individual 'surprises' in each disk)

Mujer Muerta EP
(2007 - 6 tracks with artwork from Brigit Ryan and photography by Veronica Carrasco)

Autumn Tailgated My Daughter
(reissued on Paeoniflorum Records with new artwork by Sophie Penrose)

from melbourne, australia.

AIDS WOLF

"We are a cult . Our intentions are unclear. We bring ill will."

i love aids wolf, it's angry man's noise. i'm tired of sitting down when i hear a loud intense lot of noise, i think i would dance to aids wolf, or i could stand getting beat up to aids wolf, they are way cool. they remind me of the bands the older kids at my school used to like that talked about killing people and they scared me. this could be a band that belongs to a cult, except it's too obvious, hell, the vines are more likely to belong to a cult, see aidswolf sound like the horror that a cult is, like the jonestown massacres and stuff, but the vines would actually be a part of that cult, cause they are safe and unsuspected, but completely villianous.

AIDS WOLF

AIDS WOLF BLOG

split 12" with night wounds on nail in the coffin- out this fall

NEW full length coming out spring 08 on lpu & skingraft records

they are from montreal, quebec.

BENOIT PIOULARD

you know the difference between somebody who can't really play and sounds great cause they think harder about what they mean instead of how they sound and somebody who actually puts alot of thought into the songs they make musically? i think ben-wah does both. he probably takes days to record a song, most people i know and love take days to record whole records, this guy is cool to have in the middle of my "do it now right now musicals". it's like climbing a sycamore tree and practising making out on your hand, except you really mean it and your gonna get it right.

BENOIT PIOULARD

ACTUAL WEBSITE

précis (cd for kranky)
fir (7" for type)
new faces ep (digital)

apparently you can get all his stuff on the internet, so look it up.

p.s. pronounced BEN-WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

SERPENTS OF W.I.S.D.O.M

"she goes where! they don't know! to the subtle world below! take her hand and you will see!"

ancient sad boys trapped with a wand inside a tape machine, living under old recordings they learnt about rythm, but not clarity, goofy and epic i guess is the best way to try and explain what this makes me feel like, it reminds me of swinging upside down from a play set and pretending to be hercules from the disney one, not the arnold schwarzzenegger one (i can't spell his name). it's cool psychadelic sillyness, go forth and devour it. then kill them and live in their tape machine.

SERPENTS OF W.I.S.D.O.M

ACTUAL WEBSITE (FREE MUSIC TO HEAR)

RECORDINGS AVAILABLE - order at BAD-MASTER RECORDS
~SERPENTS OF WISDOM/TICKLEY FEATHER split 7" - BM006 $6 (2007)
~TELEGRAPHIC TREE CD (EP) - BM008 $6 (2007)
~??????????? (??) - BM0?? $?!? (20??)

p.s. i can't tell how many people are in this band.

p.p.s. they are from philadelphia.