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AUTOBODY (Old Gold) 5-song EP $4 Here's a spiffy little platter from 2001 by a group of Brooklynites who got hissy scatter, wavy guitars, Beefhearty angles, ambient buzz, beatbox syrup, speed manipulation, spazz boogie, and dirty drone all balled up into somethin' that sounds kinda like rock music if you've been livin' on THIS side o' the tracks for the last few years. It's, you know--GOOD.

THE BAD POET Necrofolia (Old Gold) 4-song EP $4 Four surprisingly fresh-sounding lo-fi pop-folk-rock tunes by a group from Atlanta, Gee-Ay, led by Ben Young; recorded on 4-track cassette in 1998 and 1999. The EP starts out like a Buffalo Springfield demo recorded on downs, and then goes in several directions without breaking the song format. I always have to tip my hat to folks who can write not-crap songs at this stage of the so-called game--it's hard to avoid obvious cliches and unintended irony. Ena Ballard's violas add a nice non-rock feel at times, and I also dig Ben's keyboard touches. "Lo-fi" recordings aren't usually so filled with subtle touches and pop-style complexities. Hey, I like this! You might too.

BZ BZ UEU/GOD IS MY CO-PILOT (split) "Tan.geri"/"Portanuova"/"Sisu v'simchu" (2 version) (Music à la Coque; Italy) $6 Two roarin' tunes from Italian not-jazz no-wavers Bz Bz Ueu b/w God Is My Co-Pilot doing two versions of the song that won the 1972 Hassidic Song Contest, a fairly straight "rock" rendition and then a noise-scrape semi-instrumental breakdown. 1998 release.

BZ BZ UEU/NO (split) "Tuna Scooter"/"Bzung"/"Fiction Fiesta"/"First Song"/"Second Song" (Music à la Coque/El Borraccho; Italy) $6 Italian avant-rippin' combo Bz Bz Ueu contribute two hard skronkers (think MX-80 instro '76) and an unfortunately short bit o' grunt'n'toot. On the other side, we get two excellent takes on free-rock tail-chasin' by No (Go Is My Co-Pilot side project). Yep. 1996 release.

CRAWLSPACE/MOOSEHEART FAITH (split) "Lunar Fuckin' Eclipse"/"Children of Flowers"/"Haifa Street Dream" (Jamtongue Recordings/Behemoth Records) $3 1995 split single with non-album track ("Lunar Fuckin' Eclipse") by Crawlspace, and two tracks ("Children of Flowers" and "Haifa Street Dream") that turned up in very different forms on later Mooseheart releases. Crawlspace on this release was Eddie Flowers, Joe Dean, Mark McCormick, Dave Fontana, and Greg Hajic.

FALAFEL AVANTGARDE He-Pea EP (Public Eyesore) $6 Nine-piece free-rock/improv group from Israel. "Mousse Tang (Electric Jahnoon)" beeps loops gurgles along in a sweet 'lectronic soup. Angular float with female vox is always nice. The flip side, "Landerian (Eric the Half Bee)," is a different sorta creature, chaotic but groovin' in a Krautrock/Middle-Eastern-like way that reminds me of the Turkish band ZeN.

FLYWHEEL 5-song EP (Carbon Records) $3 Punky poppy rock trio from Rochester, NY, with gals on guitar and drums, dude on bass. Good stuff with strong non-hooks, complex arrangements, and the necessary dirt to make it real. Released 1995.

THE GIZMOS 1976 Outtakes: "Muff Divin'"/"Pumpin' to Playboy"/"Mean Screen" (Vulcher Records/Hate Records; Italy) $6 Three of the outtakes featured on the Gulcher CD pressed up on nice vinyl, inside a hard cardboard sleeve showing the Gizmos (and Dave Sulak's little sister) sitting and standing on the Gizmobile (Rich Coffee's ride).

HELGOLAND "Dust"/"Groindl in F Major"/"Rabbit Brand" (Music à la Coque; Italy) $6 Cut'n'paste madness from German quartet who squish their noise, muzak, out jazz, concrete, lounge poop, beatbox bleets, not-core, prog damage, and disco-eek into surprising pieces full of ever-shifting rhythms and melodies. I like. 2001 release.

HELLSTOMPER / THE FAGGOT KINGS "Rowdy Beer Drinkin' Night"/"Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother"/"Stolen Shoe Blues"/"The Preacher" (Rockin' Bones; Italy) split EP $5 Rockin' Bones catalog: "Hellstomper is the best hillbilly-punk band around [from Tennessee] and these 2 tracks will be loved by every GG Allin / Confederacy of Scum / Southern-rock fan around. The Faggot Kings are members of the German Community Of Filth, they play 2 songs of muscular destructo-rock!" Edition of 330. Released 2003. Hellstomper do covers of GG Allin ("Rowdy Beer Drinkin' Night") and Ray Wylie Hubbard ("Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother").

HILKKA "I Got the Stink"/"Beautiful Bare Feet" (Carbon Records) $3 "Rochester's answer to Chicago loud hard rock" comes on like mid-80s Sonic Youth welding Blue Oyster Cult riffs to their open-tuned shout. Clear vinyl.

JASMINE LOVE BOMB "An Announcement"/"Empire Sun"/"From Last Summer" (Behemoth Records) $3 Begins with a loose post-rock jam that slowly mixes in snatches of Jack Kerouac, psychedelic effects panning, and another jam fading in. "Empire Sun" could be an outtake from Creme Soda's great Tricky ZingersLP--or maybe a Peter Tork demo for Headthat that was rejected?! Nice choked psych guitar with rhythm section snakin' Easterly. The final cut starts like 80s college-radio jangle-pop before shifting abruptly into a Mooseheart-like pastiche. From 1991. Letter-press sleeve by Independent Project Press.

THE JOHN WILKES BOOZE "Whiskey and Pills"/"Marc Bolan Makes Me Want to Fuck" (Family Vineyard) $6 Wise-ass contempo garage-rockers from Bloomington, Indiana. "Whiskey and Pills" is a stoopidly single-minded hopped-up R&B-cliched romp that sounds way better than it "should." On the other side, "Marc Bolan Makes Me Want to Fuck" isn't nearly as good as the title itself (not sure it could be!), but it's also not what I expected, so thumbs up their noses for that side too. Very Midwestern, in all the right ways, and definitely NOT the next White Strokes, so don't worry! 2002 release. Numbered edition of 600.

LARSEN / MR. BREAD (split) "Swan Crash Two Die"/"Ripley" (Bar La Muerte; Italy) $4 Two very swell contempo Italian rock groups. Larsen romp through a noisy post-rock tune with "found vocals." Mr. Bread do a similar thing, with only two bass guitars and drums, plus they've got the added umph of 70s prog/metal touches welded unpretentiously to their essentially raw rock instrumental.

LIZ GIZZAD Crime Trilogy (Behemoth Records) $4 Great free-rock noise-groove from England: droning organ, pounding drums, guitars freakin', vocal grunts buried in the mix. With members of Cosmonauts Hail Satan.

ORTHO Paper (Ignivomous) $5 "Noise" from New York that you don't ever gotta hear: sandpaper stuck to used vinyl, with the label info rubbed out and replaced. Comes in a paper bag with "ORTHO" written on it. I've been told this record is not merely conceptual, and was meant to be played, "especially on audiophile turntables." Uh-huh.

OVO REMIXED BY CRAWLSPACE / TREMOR + ERZIEHUNG (split) "American Family"/"Fieber2"/"Fieber1"/"Was Hängt Denn Da?" (Cold-Coffein-Addict; Germany / Bar La Muerte; Italy) $5 "American Family" was a very brief burst of noise from the Italian band OvO (Stefania, Bruno Dorella, Jacopo, Capoccia, Eddie) "remixed" by Crawlspace (Eddie Flowers and Greg Hajic). We looped the drums from OvO, and jammed on top with piping chanter and pennywhistle--then added a bit of fugged-up patriotic marching-band music, which leads right into the full OvO piece (only a few seconds long). The other tracks are cut-and-paste electronics/noise created by the German bands Tremor and Erziehung.

PORK QUEEN "Sunspot Gila"/"13 Ways to Prevent Hijack" (Giardia Recordings) $5 Canadian sound explorers assemble big, thick chunks of turntable'n'synth (?) sound on the first side, and then get it real low'n'scratchy for the other. Do I hear a fiddle? Released 1994.

TANAKA-NIXON MEETING "Blessed"/"Tanks" (Giardia Recordings) $5 Mellow fellows Michael Morley and Danny Butt improv on guitar and cello. One side is sparse and kinda pretty; the other side is low, dark, ominous. Good stuff. Released 1995.

ZANDOSIS Z Vs. W (Old Gold) $5 Almost nine free/hardcore anthems for our current predicament: "Dick Cheney Bleeding to Death on the Streets of Detroit," "Dan Quayle Motherfucker!", "Condoleeza Rice Eaten By Piranhas in 60 Seconds," "Tony Blair Eaten by French Poodles," "Paul Wolfowitz Boiled Alive in His Own Urine," "Ari Fleischer Split Right Down the Middle," "William Kristol Raped in Prison," "Richard Perle Torn Apart By Jackals," "Fuck John Cage" (ha-ha!), "April Glaspie, You Fucking Bitch," "Trentt Lott Asking for Directions in Brooklyn (aka Fuckin' Cracker)," "George W. Bush Go Straight to Fucking Hell," and not included "Colin Powell Uncle Tom" [see below]. Marshall Avett: "In January of 2000, we got together with no pre-conceived notion of what we'd sound like. T-Def (Charlie Parker, Free Bass, 'Destroy All Music' on WREK FM) was known to be loud, frantic, noisy and deliberately so. Stewart (ex-William Carlos Williams, Lustmordem, At War with Satan, PissChrist) played drums with a tiny Han Bennink on one shoulder and a tiny Dave Lombardo on the other. I had an alto saxophone, a microphone and a borrowed amp. Together, the sky would be the limit or the sky would fall. Fast forward to March of 2003. That motherfucker George W. Bush is sending the country (and its young men and women) to fight a pre-emptive war for no real good reason. We'd been playing very free, early-FMP/Haters style music, and focused our sonic output on those pushing this invasion. The result was about 15 short bursts of energy directed at 15 members of the Project for the New American Century. It felt good. Damn good, in fact. And it sounded good. The next time we played live, we played this new hardcore set. The lazy art crowd in the house enjoyed it. We dug it, too, sent it to the Czech Republic, pressed it onto 220 heavy vinyl records, wrapped them in print shop cleaner paper, and are unleashing it on the world. We didn't get a test pressing done, so 'Colin Powell Uncle Tom' was omitted by the pressing plant. If you want to hear that song, gather two of your friends, count to four real fast and start screaming 'liar' and/or 'fucker' or any combination of the two while your friends unleash a torrent of rage. When you're done, say 'sell out.'" Old Gold's Ben Young: "Edition of 220. 180 gram vinyl. Hand printed covers on press washing paper. Each is unique. Just like the rest of us."