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fugazi - in on the kill taker

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Fri, 24 May 2013 21:51:00 +0000

label: dischord
released: 1993

this is where i consider the band heading into the sonic youth portion of their career

wanna fight about it?

DL: in on the kill taker

firehose - 1988 peel session

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Fri, 24 May 2013 21:11:00 +0000

"if you're driving a van...your name had better be either mike watt or person of interest" -me

nuff said.

1 - intro
2 - she paints pictures
3 - making the freeway
4 - hear me
5 - choose any memory

DL: peeling fiREHOSE

unrest - 2.19.93 - 40 watt - athens,ga

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:45:00 +0000

this is SGM

you already know who/what unrest is

1 - bavarian mods
2 - christina
3 - suki
4 - i believe you're blushing
5 - international nautical miles
6 - skinhead girl
7 - love to know
8 - cherry
9 - june
10 - nation writer

DL: unrest @40 watt

kylesa - self-titled

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:37:00 +0000

label: prank
released: 2002

well...first of all...there's the pushead artwork

and then there's the sludge

so...if you've been paying attention thus far...there's some pushead artwork and some sludge

thanks for attending class today

DL: kylesa

snort - ron

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:41:00 +0000

label: self-released
released: 2013

this was sent our way by a fella that goes by the name of addy

and addy is the band's guitar player (actually...he's one of three....yes...three)

and we felt kind of obligated to post this as the guy on the cover of their album (which i'm assuming is named ron...but he looks more like a steven...so from here on in...we'll only refer to him as steven...got it?) is wearing some of SGM's favorite bands upon his jacket

also....we like the music

it's what you would expect from a band that plays some of that "instrumental math rock"....you know...kind of like the stuff you'd expect to hear from some don caballero and piglet and the like

so...do steven a favor and snag this up...he's a good kid

and if'n you'd like to be pals with these guys...go here...and that will lead you to all kinds of things (none of which involves a dark closet)

DL: ron

hawks - barnburner

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Tue, 21 May 2013 23:34:00 +0000

label: year of bad luck
released: 2011

the jesus lizard
the birthday party
shorty
drive like jehu
the "my dog barks some" scene from WILD AT HEART
hawks

and bam!
you just had a lesson in brevity

DL: barnburner

black sabbath - paranoid

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Tue, 21 May 2013 23:13:00 +0000

label: vertigo
released: 1970

if'n it weren't for black sabbath....there wouldn't be a melvins

true story

i mean....imagine it if they were influenced by some other band...like...oh...i don't know...kiss...i mean that would be....

ohwaitaminute.....

DL: paranoid

there's always room for a colostomy grab bag

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:59:00 +0000

well well....

look what's decided to come back

though we're not really all that sure of it's whereabouts...when we went out to get the paper this morning...colostomy grab bag was passed out on the porch...and when we went to poke it with a stick....all it would do is mumble something about a botched sexual reconfiguration operation and montana

so we're not going to ask too many questions

welcome back,colostomy grab bag

and hopefully it sticks around for a bit

because it's always better to know where CGB is at all times

iron reagan - worse than dead

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:50:00 +0000

label: magic bullet
released: 2013

i'm pretty sure some of you folks here at the SGM can handle some of this action

do you own more than one old school suicidal tendencies album?

do you own more than one not rastafarian bad brains album?

do you own more than one old school corrosion of conformity album?

do you own more than one septic death album?

do you see what i'm getting at here?

this is what happens when members of the bands municipal waste and darkest hour get together and throw down and get gnarly,brah

DL: worse than dead

godflesh - merciless ep

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:22:00 +0000

label: earache
released: 1994

FACT: this is awesome to listen to through a pair of headphones that cover your entire ear while sitting on a beanbag in a dark room under the influence of certain substances

or so i've been told

normally...when it comes to the whole remix thing...i'm not really a fan (though it is pretty funny when you're listening to a cd and it skips and someone yells out "remix!"...yeah...i'm looking at you...and i'm lying...it's not funny...it's never funny...no matter how many times you say it...it just shows everyone that you're too lazy to buy/download another copy)

but i digress

the remix...not really a fan...but there are a few rare occasions where it's done properly...and this is a prime example of that

i bought this on cassette when it came out...i had just recently discovered the band (via the radio of all places)...and had bought the STREETCLEANER and PURE albums a few weeks prior...so i was going in thinking it was going to be more of that business...

and i was hooked immediately by the gargantuanosity that is the opening track ("merciless")

so what they did was take the grinding sludge that they had been known for previously and spread it open a bit more

now you may be asking yourself "what songs are these remixes of?"

track 1 ("merciless") was actually a song recorded by a band that justin broadrick was involved in pre-napalm death (he provided guitars and vocals on their SCUM album) that went by the name of fall of because

track 2 ("blind") is an original song

track 3 ("unworthy") isn't so much a remix as it is a borrowing of a song called "last of the biomechanical urgents" by a band called murder inc. being black backwards as godflesh gets godflesh all over it

track 4 ("flowers") is a remix of the song "don't bring me flowers" from the PURE album

in the space of those 4 songs...they hit you in the head with a brick...and then give you something to listen to as you drift off into unconsciousness

or maybe i'm just rambling...as i've read that sort of thing happens when some sort of substance is introduced into the situation....

DL: merciless ep

kabul golf club - le bal du rat more

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:34:00 +0000

label: uproar for veneration
released: 2012

do you like a basstone that sounds so crunchy...you find yourself saying out loud "daaaaaaamn...that's some crunchy bass...and i bet that it stays crunchy even in milk!"?

you like the blood brothers album BURN,PIANO ISLAND,BURN,yeah?

what about the refused album THE SHAPE OF PUNK TO COME?

what about fugazi's IN ON THE KILL TAKER?

and what about at the drive-in's RELATIONSHIP OF COMMAND?

this is what would you'd hear if'n you were in the next room and the above mentioned albums shacked up for a "lost weekend"

DL: le bal du rat mort

beastie boys - some live bullshit

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:02:00 +0000

label: bootleg
released: 1997

listen all y'all...if you don't shake yo' rump-ah...it's sabotage

DL: some live bullshit

kmfdm/my life with the thrill kill kult - naive/the days of swine and roses remix split

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Sat, 18 May 2013 10:40:00 +0000

label: wax trax
released: 1994

kmfdm remixes my life with the thrill kill kult

my life with the thrill kill kult remixes kmfdm

and that's all i have to say about that

DL: kmfdm/my life with the thrill kill kult split

joy division - the best of

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Sat, 18 May 2013 05:31:00 +0000

label: rhino
released: 2008

happy birthday,death of ian curtis

fun fact: this was found in a free box at a garage sale

am i the only one that can hear echoes of black sabbath's "war pigs" in the "new dawn fades" guitar tone?
probably.

1 - digital
2 - disorder
3 - shadowplay
4 - new dawn fades
5 - transmission
6 - atmosphere
7 - dead souls
8 - she's lost control
9 - love will tear us apart
10 - these days
11 - twenty four hours
12 - heart and soul
13 - incubation
14 - isolation

DL: the best of joy division

trophy wives - old scratch

noreply@blogger.com (ipecac) — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:51:00 +0000

label: latest flame
released: 2011

hello.

please come in.

you've been asked here to answer a few questions.

are you comfortable?

thirsty?

oh...so you're one of those "get to the point" kinda folks,eh?

fair enough.

we've been told that you're a fan of bands like:

young widows
queens of the stone age
lords
coliseum
mudhoney

should i stop there?

i should also tell you that the band has some ex members of some of the above mentioned bands...vocalist/guitarist billy bisig was a member of lords...bassist tony ash was a member of coliseum...and drummer geoff paton was a member of young widows

well...i can tell by the squirming that you're doing in your chair that you'd like to leave

so...take a copy of this

and we'll have to place the burlap sack over your head again

thank you for stopping by

DL: old scratch

Motorist - Days Of Young

noreply@blogger.com (Gray) — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:31:00 +0000

Label: Self Released
Year: 2013

Setting the Way-Back Machine circa 1993 or so, and landing it on one of the sketchier city blocks of Trade Street in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, ground zero for the local underground music scene (shout out to the New Start posse!), you would have found a couple musicians who were loosing the moors tethering them to a strictly hardcore aesthetic, and experimenting with melody, dynamics, and mood. They made the initial forays into the nascent "post hardcore" landscape, and formed a band called Shatterhed, who put out two phenomenal 7"s of big, rocking, riffy songs that you never heard (unless you're in the Contacts section of my telephone).
Setting the Way-Back Machine circa 1995 or so, and landing it on that same pock-mocked strip of downtown Winston-Salem (which is easy to miss, mind you), and you will witness another group of musicians giving their own spin on hardcore and later post-post-hardcore with a band called Codeseven who put out a few albums that you might have actually heard as they garnered a good deal of praise and platitudes from the general public (oddly enough, I did not hear these albums until this year...I was, how do you say, "out of the loop").
Now, set the Way-Back Machine for the heady summer of 2012 (if you can remember that far back), and, surprisingly, park that thing on the renovated and family friendly Trade Street (my, how times have changed), and you will find a new band forming that takes their cues from the music that informed both Shatterhed (Jawbox, Iceburn [that's right...Iceburn], Seaweed, Fugazi, Quicksand, Nomeansno), and the latter era of Codeseven (Cave In [middle period], Texas Is The Reason, Hum, some shoegaze, some space rock, some Radiohead even), lots of reference points firmly rooted in the 1990s. And when you add all that up, you get a wholly satisfying jolt of big hooks, burly riffs, towering melodies, and shimmering dynamics.
Imagine a new band like Aeges (also firmly rooted in mid-90s post hardcore), and combine that with an older band like Shiner, and there you are. It has the touchstones of the music you've loved for years, and adds a new sheen and a kick in the ass. I've been listening to this album a few times a week since I got a copy, and I promise you, it gets stronger and stronger as you revisit it. I can't recommend it any higher.

DL

Shaved Women - Static

noreply@blogger.com (Gray) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:14:00 +0000

Label: Pass Judgement
Year: 2011

Holy fuck. There's this Midwestern battering ram of deep seeded hate and contempt that called Shaved Women, who undoubtedly have sagging shelves full of early 80's American hardcore (Die Kruezen, Black Flag, Corrosion Of Conformity...you know), and late 80's/early 90s noise rock (Cows, Drunks With Guns, Slug...you know) records.
The result is a blood scrawl of nihilistic intent sprayed across a cinder block wall in the blood of a folded arm audience member sacrificed in the name of vein bulging intensity. Sorry about the mess.
If you like bands like Meat Mist, Twin Stumps, Slices, or Buildings...this one is for you.

DL

Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyle

noreply@blogger.com (Gray) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:02:00 +0000

Label: Merge
Year: 1993

Do you need the refresher course on Gray's Top Ten North Carolina Bands again? Already. Don't you guys ever listen? Ugh. Fine.
1. Archers Of Loaf
2. Corrosion Of Conformity
3. Buzzoven
4. Polvo
5. The Raymond Brake
6. Naked Angels
7. Bitch Magnet
8. Regraped
9. Double Negative
10. Pipe
Honorable Mention: Blownapart Bastards, James Taylor, Subculture, Antiseen, Hellbender, Superchunk, Rights Reserved, Griver, Shatterhed, 700 Club, Well Nigh Forgotten, Confessor, Catharsis, Seven Foot Spleen, Avett Brothers, Small, Flat Duo Jets, Bloodmobile, The dbs, Stillborn Christians, No Labels, Weedeater, Sewer Puppet, Whiskeytown, Geezer Lake, Picasso Trigger, Breadwinner....and....it's late.
Point being, fucking check out number 4 up there.

DL

Metz + Odonis Odonis + Hawks + Liverhearts - Live 04-22-13 Atlanta

noreply@blogger.com (Gray) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:15:00 +0000

Lots of good, nay, great, shows in Atlanta recently or on the horizon. Tons. Hell, tomorrow night you got Thrones with Long Grey Mare (Hawks personnel), Whores just played, there's another Torche show coming up, Iceage, Mudhoney, Coliseum, The Men...and on and on.
But (insert "big butt" joke here), if you can only make it to one show in awhile, may I recommend the above mentioned Metz / Odoinis Odonis / Hawks / Liverhearts joint? Not a band bad in the lineup, including not one, but TWO of the best Atlanta bands in the game! The new Metz record has been in constant rotation, it's incredible.
It's a Monday night which kinda, sorta, definitely sucks, but I figure you can make the school night sacrifice every so often, and this one is worth it. Don't be like me and find a way to puss out at the last minute...fucking go. Make some new memories.

The Swine - Self Destroyer

noreply@blogger.com (Gray) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:21:00 +0000

Label: N/A
Year: 2013

Fuck yes. L-O-U-D and fooked. Apparently this is a one man (nut) jobber, which makes it even more impressive. It employs the use of a drum machine, which will get the inevitable Big Black comparison, but I would say there's more Ministry than Big Black (but it's probably more Pissed Jeans than either). There's a highly warped "cover" of Helmet's "In The Meantime" which is barely recognizable, as it's been overdriven into complete submission and the riffs seem to have been..."altered"...which is way more fun than just playing it, as Helmet already made their version readily available. All-in-all, a good, noisy, death ride that will most certainly not help you sleep anytime soon.
Essential.

DL

V/A - Shiny Grey Monotone Radio - Show 10

noreply@blogger.com (Gray) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 01:39:00 +0000

Label: N/A
Year: 2013

It's been a couple months since the last Shiny Grey Monotone Radio show, huh? Anyone keeping score?
Well, with spring in the air, pollen filling my head, and shitty ass baseball ruling Sportscenter, here's the next installment of bummer music to turn your frown upside down, and then upside down again. It's guaranteed to clear out any backyard corn hole tournament in under 27 minutes (which is, incidentally, about the time Mule is swinging their collective dicks through a swamp-blues-boogie woogie). Fun Fact: close observers to the series will also note this volume marks my first "mistake", in that I repeated a band, which I was trying not to do...see if you can determine who that is.
The bands:
Nomeansno
Autumn Rising
Oil Rape Seed
Marjan Crash
Lightning Bolt
Black Eyes
Mar
Men Of Unitus
Mule
Killdozer
Wrangler Brutes
Slughog
The Bronx
Officer May
Hedonists

DL

Cop Shoot Cop - Ask Questions Later

noreply@blogger.com (Gray) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:20:00 +0000

Label: Interscope
Year: 1993

Has this never been posted here? Why's that? Is it because this was the "sellout" major label debut? Is it because of the three-man horn section employed on this album?
Dude, I just don't know.
I do know this; what happened to all of the other contributors to this site? Ipecac seems to fall off the face of the earth every so often, but he generally reappears for a time before going rogue again. The other dudes (girls? doubtful, but maybe?) usually post for a short while, then completely disappear forever. Curbstomp Your Enthusiasm anyone? Where my dawgs at?

DL

Brainiac - Electro-Shock For President

noreply@blogger.com (Gray) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:01:00 +0000

Label: Touch And Go
Year: 1997

Unfortunately, the final release from Brainiac, as singer Tim Taylor passed away after a car accident the same year it came out.
Produced by Jim O'Rourke, it documents the band getting further away from their noisy punk roots and embracing the pseudo-futuristic Kraut rock and ambient sides of their personalities. There's more synth/Moog sounds than previous records, and "atmosphere" trumps aggression by a long shot. Only the final track, "Mr. Fingers", hearkens to the glitchy ferocity and swagger of their earlier albums.

DL

Todd/Part Chimp/Lords/Hey Colossus - Split 10"

noreply@blogger.com (Gray) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:24:00 +0000

Label: Rock Action
Year: 2006

Take 10"s, then take 4 bands, then take a phillips head screw driver and jam it into the front of your face, then try and force this mix of distorto-destructo noise rock back into that leaking hole. It will be your pleasure, and you can thank me later.
Once song per band, and for my money Hey Colossus might take top prize, but it's your world squirrel, decide for yourself.
Essential.

DL

Late Blomer - Late Bloomer

noreply@blogger.com (Gray) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:29:00 +0000

Label: Self Aware / Lunchbox
Year: 2013

This record could not be coming out at a better time of year (assuming you live in the Northern Hemisphere...and if you don't...well, why the fuck wouldn't you?!), the weather is changing, the trees are blooming, the birds are chirping, the perfect season for a loud, catchy, good-timin' rock record. I mean, listen to it and tell me that you can't envision a round robin badminton tournament in your backyard (front yard if you're a renter I suppose), a cooler full of Busch tallboys, and a couple good-enough-looking female neighbors hanging around. Fucking party time, man.
This one goes at it in a Dinosaur Jr meets Monsula meets Pavement meets Replacements meets post hardcore meets 90's indie rock kinda way. Poppy and bouncy, but still unpolished and urgent enough to be endearing.
Bring on Spring! Bring on Late Bloomer!

By the way, you should buy away here. Only $11 and it's on awesome half and half colored vinyl!

DL