VOLCANO, THE BEAR

"did you ever feel like jesus? king of the world."

knowing how to measure out the melody and the fear just right isn't something that i come across often, but our friend volcano has it for sure. it has a sweet way about it before it rears it's two thousand bladed fists. snake in your bed? demon in the belly of the beautiful mountain? even on the nice songs, with a bit of noises here and there, you still feel like it's all going to come apart in a few moments and the tension is awesome. i think it has four members: Clarence Manuelo, Aaron Moore, Nick Mott, Daniel Padden. it is from "united kingdom".

VOLCANO THE BEAR

ACTUAL WEBSITE

RELEASES:
A selected discography:
Yak Folks Y'Are EP (Pickled Egg 1999)
The Inhazer Decline CD (United Dairies 2000)
The One Burned Ma CD (Misra 2000)
Five Hundred Boy Piano CD (United Dairies 2001)
Guess The Birds EP (Beta-Lactam Ring 2002)
The Idea Of Wood CD/LP (Textile 2003)
All The Paint I Can Breathe EP (Beta-Lactam Ring 2004)
The Mountains Among Us LP (Beta-Lactam Ring 2004)
Shake Your Crow/Tunnels & Wheels 7" (Gold Soundz 2004)
Catonapotato CD (Broken Face/Digitalis 2005)
Classic Erasmus Fusion CD/LP (Beta-Lactam Ring 2006)
Egg And Two Books CD (Vivo 2006)
Birth Of Streissand 7" (No-Fi 2006)
Volfurten LP (Volucan 2006)
Massive Furniture Invasion 8" (Alt Vinyl 2006)
Amidst The Noise And Twigs CD (Beta-Lactam Ring 2007)
11 Years Of Yes - 1 track cd (Twisted Knister 2007)

BRUTAL HATE MOSH

pronounced "brutal kate moss"

this is some really beautiful and hopeful music, not exactly a regular thing for me, i remember meeting her in brisbane at a house show i was doing and after being a little stunned by how pretty she was she said something great to me about how people waste time and there was a queen who led an army to victory way back in the day at the age of 19 and then i got excitebale and started rambling about doing more and more and MORE. she gave us pictures of me and simon playing and me playing alone too and gave simon a flower saying "it wasn't that bad". it's soft and insulated pop music recorded on a tape and i love it. i can understand some of the words, "diorama" "spatula". good words.

BRUTAL HATE MOSH

send her mail and ask her for a tape.

THIS SONG IS A MESS BUT SO AM I

"is this fucking childish enough for you!"

i remember checking this guy out and reading that he had quit, he started the entire project to deal with his mother's death of cancer and he was greatful for everything he saw and the people he met, but he is done. i'm making a tape of one of his releases right now, my friend chris has it, i think he did some shows with him. "i met him a while ago, he is really straight looking, nice clothes and short hair, like a frat boy, but really really nice. we did a cool show together."

it sounds like a retarded and mean sort of disco anthem of xiu xiu songs. it's good and really dramtic and nice for when you feel that way. once every two months?

there isn't a myspace for him anymore i don't think, it's all over, but i bet if you look you can get his records.

GIRL MOUNTAIN

"halloween on brokeback mountain"

at every show ive seen simon play he has either cleared the room, been booed off stage or asked to stop. the first time i saw him play it was in his side project horsemania, three of my friends stayed to watch and the rest begged me everytime i got near them to make them stop, simon stumbled around and played his little keyboard and screamed every now and then almost completely out of time everytime "I'M LONELY AS HELL". i went back up to tour tasmania where he is from and i got to see him do his own stuff girl mountain, it's just as bad with the music, but theres more of simon in it, and i love it, we wrote five songs for each other in one day and i ended up making simon have them all. he does them better. he does comics to, he is better at the comics, but the music is just as good to me.

GIRL MOUNTAIN

girl mountain "i have no heart" CD-R, 2007, girl mountain tape noise division

girl mountain "she actually fucking said "you're my everything"" cassette, 2007, girl mountain tape noise division

horsemania "below ambition" 2007, girl mountain tape noise division

horsemania "live from birkenau" CD-R, 2007, girl mountain tape noise division

horsemania/poofterbasher split cassette, 2007, girl mountain tape noise division

"SEVEN TIMES IN THE HEAD"

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.