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Music Shit / Re: Music for focusing/productivity/zoning out

« on: December 05, 2013, 10:02:24 PM »

New Half High LP is perfect.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: SNAKE - AL MONTFORT DEBUT TAPE

« on: December 01, 2013, 03:11:31 PM »

GONE

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: LIFE STINKS I LIKE THE KINKS #2

« on: November 30, 2013, 08:26:44 PM »

Nobody yet...

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / SNAKE - AL MONTFORT DEBUT TAPE

« on: November 30, 2013, 08:26:05 PM »

Snake is Al Montfort's first solo recording, an 8 song cassette released on Hideotic (UV).

It's a little awkward to run a list of bands with someone I've been playing with for over a decade, but if you are familiar with Lower Plenty, Total Control, Straightjacket Nation, Dick Diver, UV Race or East Link, you are familiar with Snake. These bands have played and jammed every week for the last decade, not to mention overseas touring and making a movie. Al also has a great jacket with Princess Diana on the back.

Over the last year, using the sarangi, assamese buffalo horn flute, sax and been, a zoom drum machine and GUITAR, Al started accumulating solo recordings and it's one of the best tapes of 2013.

This a very eclectic collection of songs, all strong. There's a song that sounds like live Alan Vega that closes with a passage of fractured noise and bursts into a cascade of aforementioned Indian instruments, for instance. Moments of mesmerising drone. Atmospheric, dark psych-folk. ''A journey''.

Recorded over the last twelve months in Melbourne and while travelling in India, Snake is a very powerful selection of songs. Are you my main man? Are you now? Are you now?

Limited to 45 copies, don't sleep. Buy it here: distortmag.bigcartel.com

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / LIFE STINKS I LIKE THE KINKS #2

« on: November 27, 2013, 03:40:08 PM »

LIFE STINKS I LIKE THE KINKS #2

New issue of Life Stinks I Like The Kinks available from distortmag.bigcartel.com and soon, Feel It.

In this issue, less insanity, more genius writing, a contribution from Douglas P (Death In June) and cover art by Avi Spivak.

Writing on:

WONDERBOY
APEMAN
TOO MUCH ON MY MIND
SITTING BY THE RIVERSIDE
TWO SISTERS
LAVENDER HILL

Distort subscribers: will be mailed with next Distort issue

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Music Shit / Re: Electronic/"Dance" music thread

« on: November 06, 2013, 10:04:03 PM »

Sick Surgeon mix here: http://dj-surgeon.blogspot.com.au/2009/08/food-for-thought.html. Follow the instructions to find it on his site as the link is dead.

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Music Shit / Re: Best 2013 Lps

« on: November 06, 2013, 10:02:49 PM »

LAKES
LEE GAMBLE
GUTTER GODS
HOAX
CONTAINER

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / DISTORT 2013

« on: October 21, 2013, 09:34:41 PM »

New issues out November, including new issue of Life Stinks I Like The Kinks.

I've stepped up the distro, check it out: distortmag.bigcartel.com

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Music Shit / Re: HARDCORE 2013

« on: October 17, 2013, 09:19:35 PM »

Melbourne is killing it right now. Saw Velvet Whip and a backyard barbie with the Ooga Boogas a couple weeks back. Tops. Missed them last night, but saw Dribble and Soma Coma playing with Lakes. Excellent night.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Brainbombs "Disposal Of A Dead Body" 2xLP pre-order

« on: October 17, 2013, 09:13:52 PM »

Arturo: precisely.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Brainbombs "Disposal Of A Dead Body" 2xLP pre-order

« on: October 17, 2013, 06:13:48 PM »

Got these for Australia here: distortmag.bigcartel.com

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: PUBLIC EXECUTION LP

« on: October 02, 2013, 07:38:19 PM »

SS BRIGADE. DARBY FRONTING CRISIS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taLauq3Pwao

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / PUBLIC EXECUTION LP

« on: September 29, 2013, 08:11:50 PM »

Incredible. Keep an eye out for it. Brisbane punk from 1983. Best punk reissue I've seen this year.

Feral Ward will be getting it in the US.

In Europe, hit up Paco La Vida Es En Mus, and in Australia, hit up Clint or I've got copies for sale here: distortmag.bigcartel.com

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Music Shit / Re: Yo! How about favorite punk DISS TRACKS?

« on: March 26, 2013, 04:07:10 PM »

Quote from: waynesworld 3 godfather 4 on March 22, 2013, 12:56:11 PM

Quote from: Jerry Scotty on March 22, 2013, 05:08:49 AM
There also was that brilliant single-sided 7" on Proud To Be Idiot featuring Anus, John V (Grabbies) and Mr. California: the Greg Lowery Experience. Also it wasn't namely on PTBI but on a fake label called Rip Offf. As soon as I get home tonight I'm gonna dig it out.

http://www.discogs.com/Greg-Lowery-Experience-Gonna-Break-Yuor-Heart/release/2892881

Apart from the obvious Greg Lowery roast, note the brilliantly titled "Fuck you Marco F. you make me barf" which is dedicated to Marco Ferrarese, the Nerds' guitarist.

Long time want, who's got two?

Here's the GLE story Anus sent me that I printed in Distort. Dumb shit:

there isn't much i can tell you about the GLE thing other that it was fun to record it, and even more fun to watch greg lowery gettin' all pissed off about his name and face and home being on the cover of the fucking thing. yes HOME too, cause we took the pic for the sleeve on his fucking doorsteps. you can see the address on it and everything. and if you look close you can see there is a grabbies 7" in the background as well, that we nailed on the fucking wall and left there when we split. because we are funny like that.

the thing is we didn't planned this to go that way from the beggining - it was sort of a chain of coincidences.
me and davide met with terry -AKA mr. california- pretty soon after we first moved to SF 10 years ago or so. i was in touch with him for a while even before that. he liked the crap we were doing at the time -again,the grabbies band- and we liked his, so it came natural at some point to just get drunk one night and record some stuff at his house with his 4 track recorder.

terry did all the drum machine and programming, davide came up with the guitar parts. me and terry also wrote a bunch of dumb lyrics and did the vocals. that's it we just had a good time.
then later when we decided to put this shit out as a one sided 7er --why im not sure-- some of us came up with the idea that it would be cool to make it look like a rip off records thing (cause if you remember that format was the shtick of the label) and poke some fun at all that hip neo-77 faggotry pathetic bullshit scene that was SO COOL at the time, especially in SF.
You see, we liked some of those EARLY bands before we moved there, but after we met a bunch of the people involved we decided that MOST of them were just full of shit. and we probably should have guessed that in advance too..but we were young and stupid at the time.

anyways, we then took that picture of us (sort of) trying to pose like a rip off band ---you know wearing fucking ties and sunglasses and shit--- on LOWERYs doorstep for the front cover, put a picture of that fucking dork himself playing bass on the back cover, called the fake band GREG LOWERY EXPERIENCE and added even a fake rip off like logo and cat. number.
all on the appropriate black and white RIPOFF recs like cheap paper sleeve. so there you go.

revolver distro bought the whole pressing (300 copies) from me right away cuz they probably thought it was hilarious and disliked the greg dude themselves, and also thanks to him crying about this shit they sold out of them in like 3 days.

the music itself does not sound anything like what were parodying on the package, i'd like to point out. we didn't cared about trying to doing that. it just sound like us being idiots and making some weird sounding shit up.
in fact the story behind it's probably way better than the record itself and i haven't heard the fucking thing in about ten fucking years! but hey, you're the retard who asked about this right?

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