LA’s Static Static latest incaration is equal parts rabid timber wolf and laser guided cyborg killing machine. It is a volatile mixture of two parts Detonations and one part Red Aunts, so be sure to wear eye protection and a lead smock before loading these jams onto the decks. “No Bodies” b/w “Go Get It Now” vinyl 7-inch with jacket hand-screened by the band themselves.

New York Night Train presents Melbourne’s Witch Hats’ first states-side taste of their latest full length “Celluloid Soul”; and “Hell Hole” does not disappoint! These 4 lads are the new heirs to the throne of Australian noise rock, and they channel The Birthday Party and The Scientists and shake and bake it all with their own secret recipe of sturm und snot.  And it is produced by the very Phil Calvert himself! Plus an unreleased S3 cover song on the b-side? CLIKC-BUY-NOW, the first pressing is almost gone!

“Hell Hole” b/w “Revolution” 140g vinyl 7-inch w/ silk-screened jacket on silver card stock.

Last time the Witch Hats raided New York city they left a pile of shattered ear drums, hanging jaws and broken hearts. Plus, they forgot a crate of their Austrailian-only 12-inch EP “Wound of a Little Horse”! This was the release that first turned us on to these lads so we’re just tickled to be able to have some of these “imports” to sell! Check out our full review of this record here.

S-S-S-Spectres debut EP Sea Potentia Divina was recorded in seclusion by the band with little or no aid from outsiders. Indeed, S-S-S-Spectres guard their mysteries well, and these four songs hide as much as they reveal. Each two-minute no wave nor’easter hints at moments of tight, layered post-punk dance even as they careen toward chaos and dissolution. Mr. Flaherty’s manic, sizzling 12-string guitar work owes more to the car-crushers at the impound lot than to the Byrds. Ms. Zumas likewise cuffs and stomps her belabored drum set into an insistent cacophony of jungle creatures one minute, and the grim, disciplined report of one hundred carronades the next. Through it all M. Zbyszynski’s bass lurches like a drunken sailor with a serious case of the heebie-jeebies. The band hangs their cryptic whispers, chants and yelps over this precarious frame like so much voodoo ouanga. New York Night Train is pleased, honored and little bit terrified to bring one of Brooklyn’s most well-kept and sinister occult secrets finally to the surface.

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Viva l’American Death Ray Music’s long-awaited fourth album, In The Meantime… is as stylistically restless as the members’ rootless lifestyles. Touring extensively in Europe the last few years, singer/guitarist Nick Ray, drummer Jeff Buock, and bassist Harlan T. Bobo currently reside in New York, Austin, and Memphis respectively. Cutting their teeth in acts as diverse as Polyphonic Spree, Reigning Sound, 68 Combeback, American Death Ray, in the first years of the 21st Century, formulated an artful fusion of glam and soul unparalleled on their recordings for Sympathy Record Industry.   More »

“Starting his recording career at the dawn of the 80′s, Kid Congo Powers sidestepped the prevailing shallowness of that decade to appear on some of the finest records of that era- The Cramps “Psychedelic Jungle” and “The Smell of Female”, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds “Tender Prey” “The Good Son” and Barry Adamson’s “Moss Side Story” to name a few. This latest addition to his discography easlily lives up to that pedigree. Songs such as “The Last Word” with superbly discordant guitars and anguished vocals, call to mind the first Voidoids album, whilst JOHNNY could be Blitzkreig Bop put thru a blender and sung down a telephone. Most of the lyrics on these songs wouldn’t have disgraced even the most laconic of Warhol’s Factory hands “It’s the weather, it’s the war/ I’m confused, I’m a whore.” - MOJO, February 2007 (4 stars)

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After the 1995 dissolution of Hartford, CT’s mess-rock poster children St. Johnny, who Sonic Youth signed to Geffen in 1992, bandleader Bill Whitten, with only an Epiphone Les Paul Jr. copy and a notebook full of rough edged hits to his name, found himself in New York. Informed by New York Dolls, T-Rex, and Mott the Hoople instead of his previously slack, droning St. Johnny work, Whitten introduced Grand Mal later that year. Whitten has spent the last decade since writing brilliant off-kilter rock’n’roll gems about first round K.O.’s. bail-jumping ex-wives, disaster films, mustachioed fascists and endless misadventures. Continuing work with St. Johnny producer Dave Fridmann, including studio appearances by friends like the Flaming Lips Stephen Drozd and Mercury Rev’s Grasshopper, Grand Mal released a slew of albums on Number 6, Slash/London, and Arena Rock before calling it quits after 2003’s critically acclaimed Bad Timing. Whitten quietly returned to home recording, and, out of nowhere, delivered his most realized, relaxed album to date: Love Is The Best Con In Town. More »

Best known for his guitar work with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cramps, The Gun Club, Congo Norvell, and Knoxville Girls, KID CONGO POWERS has also played with the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Make-Up, Mark Eitzel, The Angels of Light, and many more. SOLO CHOLO, a collection of rare nuggets and previously unreleased tracks compiled by Kid himself, focuses on the other side – his substantial body of work as a singer and songwriter. There’s also no shortage of the guitar work that made Kid famous in the first place.
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