Music Videos New & Old

I've missed watching videos for a long time and feel silly I'm only just realizing I've been able to watch them on Youtube on my TV this whole time. Or at least since we've had Roku, or before that, Chromecast, which has been for a hot minute now. Here's a few music videos I've enjoyed over the past couple of days. Also, for Christ's sake, just vote Biden. What kind of uncaring monster/ignoramus are you otherwise.

New Heavy.

I hope the few of you who keep up with CNQ have been enjoying the podcasts so far. I've been having a lot of fun making those and suspect I'll keep it up for a while. I've fallen way behind on posting new stuff from bands and labels I follow on bandcamp. Here's a quick mix of a few things from January. If you're into it, click on it. The next two songs are from Canada's Deranged Records:

Tramp Records is killing it, bringing to light so much cool stuff:

This is the heaviest. Just listen to the whole thing -- what else have you got going on?

Catching Up On December Releases: Hardcore Punk, Powerviolence, Peruvian Psych, and a 60s Soul Re-Issue

This covers the first 10 or so days of the best December releases from Bandcamp artists and labels I follow. Let's start with an excellent new 60s soul/funk 7" re-issue from Germany's Tramp Records. Sid Wallace was from St. Louis:

NYC HC from Toxic State records. The Grave Mistake Records update calls this self titled 5-song 7" "essential." Check it out:

California HC. Whole 11 song album is killer, but here's just one track:

The UK's Mind Ripper Collective has this split between powerviolence acts Endless Swarm (from Edinburgh) and Dallas' Pavel Chekov available as pay what thou wilt. Here's the whole dang thing, clocks in maybe even a little under 10 minutes:

More groovy Peruvian neo-psych from Kanaku Y El Tigre and Tiger's Milk Records:

Rockin', Rollin'.

Whoa! This catches us up to the first of December. Happy Hanukkah from CNQ! This is from 2012, but still resonates today:

The Isle of Man's Small Bear Records has a new pay-what-thou-wilt Christmas album, streaming for free on their bandcamp page. It features CNQ faves Postcode, Nanaki, The Bordellos, and a lot more. Here's the first track off the comp, by Phil Reynolds and the Herald Angels. It's a rocker:

Germany's soul/funk re-issue label Tramp Records has a new Christmas comp out as well. This is Timi Terrific and the Redheads. I'm not sure when this is from -- late 70s, early 80s, I guess:

This bedroom freak-pop from Louisiana band Emotional and Minneapolis' Lawn Chair Records is from the fall:

Super-rockin' from a Minneapolis band and a London label:

A rarities and b-sides album from another Minneapolis band, The Soviettes. Great pop-punk from 2010:

Dig this Ramones-y garage punk from Germany, 2012:

These next two tracks are both from garage-happy PNKSLM:

Open Mike Eagle is hip-hop from LA and Arizona's awesome Mello Music Group:

Heavy-ish punk from Oakland band and Portland's Resurrection Records:

Another heavy track from Sorry State Records' North Carolina Series of seven inches:

Noisey hardcore from Olympia, Washington:

Cool new post-punk two song 7" from Strasborg, France:

Finally, some super-freaky spoken word from Philidelphia:

New Texan hip-hop y noise rock; HC punk from Italy, Chicago, and New York; a new 70s funk/soul compilation from Tramp Records.

HC hip-hop from Houston. Cool video too:

New noise rock from Denton, Texas:

HC punk from Italy:

Label Randy Records and band The Yolks are both from Chicago:

Here's two new full albums, courtesy bandcamp:

New York lady-punks, all in Portuguese. I listened to all of this today, it's rad. They've gotten some press from the Village Voice and Stereogum, much cooler than CNQ:

CNQ's favorite German re-issue label Tramp Records has this compilation, "Praise Poems 2- A journey into deep, soulful jazz & funk from the 1970s," available in various formats. Very groovy:

Let's Rock'n'Roll

I've been away for almost a month. This catches us up with some CNQ faves to around the first of July:

New German punk courtesy France's Crapoulet Records. The band's name translates as "Man Poops His Pants."

Also new via Crapoulet, this is from Croatia:

From Richmond VA and Grave Mistake Records:

Lo-fi pop from Japan:

More lo-fi, garagey pop, from Kentucky:

German label, Australian band:

From Small Bear Records, this is rad UK post-punk featuring members of a few different Small Bear Records bands, including The Bordellos and Postcode, longtime CNQ faves.

Rad nu-gaze from Italy. Cool video too:

HC Texas band from my backyard, German label:

California straightedge HC courtesy the Sorry State Records update

Randy Records and the band are from Chicago. Cool garage rock:

Germany's Tramp Records has put out another cool rare funk re-issue, this one from 1969:

More Wild Sound.

Last night I meant to do some catching up but got sidetracked with the interesting output of guitarist and songwriter Mark Palm. So here's what's new in my inbox from the bands and labels I follow on bandcamp:

Houston's Crime Wave I think is defunct but uploaded a few of their albums onto bandcamp today. I've got their Agro-Wax album Nazi Sex/Convulsion Gospels and it's rad. Here's an outtake from the recording session of that LP:

From London's La Vida Es Un Mus Discos, this is, according to the bandcamp page, the "official reissue of (a scarce) Dutch punk (record)...THE VULTURES hailed from Epe, in the middle of the Dutch Bible-Belt. They recorded this 4 Track EP in 1981...Reissued replicating the artwork as originally printed but adding a few unseen full colour pictures on the reverse sleeve."

They call it a "masterpiece of Dutch punk." Pretty cool. Who knew there was a Dutch Bible-Belt.

Tramp Records always puts out good re-issues. This was originally released on Philly's Toxsan Records, I think in the 70s:

From Virginia's Grave Mistake Records:

From France's Frantic City Records:

That's it for the updates from CNQ faves. Here's some new releases I like.

Leather Daddy is awesome hc from Boston:

Wild stuff from Costa Rica:

These hc rockers from Budapest are really into Tony Soprano, with four songs featuring him in the title.

Heavy sound from Italy - is it powergrind when you can't tell if it's powerviolence or grindcore?

The end of all reality sounds like 12 minutes and 3 seconds of Ontario's VOMIR. Impossibly the polar opposite of music, horrible noise, awesome:

Dynamite Hemorrhage's latest show is about an hour of always awesome rock'n'roll from Jay and the gang out there somewhere in the Northwest, I think. Love that podcast. Here's a crazy new song from Cincinnati that the 'Hemorrhage featured first in their most recent podcast, but ya know, it's a great song so here it is again:

Don't forget to check out CNQ's music-blog buds Styrofoam Drone.

Internet Blaster

Two weeks after I began my ambitious new money making scheme, a blog for strictly new music, "Ear Baby," I am tonight shutting it down and going back to strictly CNQ for my 45 RPM posts and new stuff I come across on the Internet. Trying to figure out how to turn a dime on a music blog wasn't fun to think about. CNQ is fun because it's my hobby. Not the first project I began abruptly and ended just as quick - not the last. In the meantime expect more of what you've come to expect from CNQ - quick mixes of new music for my work desk, and obscure 45s of various quality I come across, all posted when I feel like it.

So here's the new stuff I've shared on Ear Baby in the past couple of weeks, in case you missed it. I'm not dedicated enough to go back in and put in the hyperlinks to the labels and whatnot I'd linked to in the Ear Baby posts, so just imagine they're there.

Two new hardcore tracks from Brisbane's Naked Noise Records. The label says they're about to release a promotional tape for Choke's Left with Nothing LP, due out later this year.

Atlanta's Chunklet Records has this 12" split available on clear vinyl, from London's Part Chimp and Miami's Torche. Apparently Part Chimp is breaking up and this is their last Stateside release. They have two pretty heavy, five minute-ish songs on the split. Torche covers three Guided By Voices songs. It's really odd, I just heard this today, and just last night I ordered a used CD copy of Propeller/Vampire On Titus, GBV's 5th and 6th album together on one CD. Two of the three covers are from Propeller. The 12" has cool cover art too:

I've been on a bit of an 80th goth kick so this new gothy punk from Australia and Costa Mesa's Mass Media Records sits well with me. Available on colored vinyl:

Mid-70s soul/funk re-issue from Tramp Records:

Cool new French garage from France's Frantic City Records:

More new deutschpunk from German hardcore label Terrortubbies Tontrager:

Straightforward punk from Knoxville. New 10 track album available for dl on bancamp. I like this:

LoVeMuscLe is Lisa Preston and Sir Froderick. Laid back breakbeat with female vocal, what's not to groove to? Originally released back in 2011, this 7 track album is now available for dl on bandcamp:

The wife and I caught Baltimore's War on Women a couple of weekends ago at Spillover Fest in the D and they blew us away, a feat all the more impressive since it was noon on a Sunday and we had not yet begun to drink. Bridge Nine Records put out their 11 track debut album back in February. Radical agitprop fourth wave feminism. Buy the LP from Bridge Nine here. Highly recommended:

They've got a new video too:

Yesterday Twerp Records released this 8-song 45 from Boston punks 2x4. It's their first vinyl effort and you can order it here. Back in November, fellow music blogger Cut & Paste shared the band's 4 song demo, which features the two songs streaming below ("Survive the Mess" and "Lost In Terror") plus two more. Pretty cool hc.

I've been enjoying this new album from Chicago's Broken Prayer. A mix of hardcore with some Devo-esque synth. Available on cassette or green vinyl from Sorry State Records:

If you're into hc and haven't done so already, also check out Gay Kiss' Preservation Measures and Dark Ages' Vapor LPs, both available through Sorry State.

Grave Mistake Records is taking pre-orders for Red Death's Permanent Exile LP, which will be released April 21. The band will also be going on a U.S. tour with UK's The Flex. It's packed with shows all over the country, click the Red Death embed below for those dates:

Also on April 21, Negative Fun Records will be releasing this all female garage punk EP from Philly:

Germany's Sabotage Records has LP previews for these more straightforward punk acts. The first is another all female band, this one from Portland:

...and these guys are from Singapore:

Rounding out this batch from my favorite German labels, Germany's re-issue crazy Tramp Records has just put out their third 45 single collection of rare and obscure funk, soul, and r&b tracks from like, yesteryear:

LA's Recess Records has recently posted this on their bandcamp page, from recently defunct SoCal punkers Summer Vacation, 3/4's of which now operate as Winter Break. As Winter Break, they got press from the A.V. Club the other day. That's big time, good job guys:

I'm a little late to the table on this cassette comp of Australian acts, released in January and already sold out (You can still support 'em with $5 for a digital dl). I recently heard and really like this song. I've also very recently learned the curative properties of retail therapy, so it, ya know, speaks to me, man:

Cool new scuzzy-fied garage rock from Richmond, VA. The Nervous Ticks have a $5 cassette, "Skynet," that should be ready to ship around April 6. Or you can get it now digitally for $2 via bandcamp. Enjoy:

New From Bandcamp

Dallas grindcore act Pissed Grave has a new 10 song album streaming on bandcamp that I'm excited about.

Speaking of punk in Texas, these guys are from Fort Worth. Pill Binge is probably the coolest name for a band ever. Pill Binge will be playing with Pissed Grave and some other hardcore acts, including Lycanthropy from the Czech Republic, on May 10 at Three Links in Dallas.

More grind from Edinburgh's awesome Mind Ripper Collective:

These Boston punks are charging $20 for their mp3. Go 'head on, then:

Sauna Youth's new record will be out in June, here's a track from it they've released already:

Here's another one from Sauna Youth, this one from 2013:

CNQ fave pop-punkers Dot Dash have a new album:

Dirtnap Records is offering a digital dl of 20 Mean Jeans singles. How fun is that:

CNQ's favorite freak-out artist Anklepants is touring Europe and has key dates set for the U.S. - he urges U.S. promoters to get in touch with him at facebooking@qwerty.net.au.

Click here for a 40 minute or so long live video by URSS of Anklepants' last headline show of 2014. Total freak-out, hope he comes to my neck of the woods.

To round out the post we'll swing in another direction with this new jazzy/funky vocal:

Alfonso Ramos Y Su Orchestre: "El Sonsonete" and Tony Hernandez and the Latin-Liners (Capri Records, 1970s)

Per the Austin Chronicle's Musicians Register:

"Alfonso is known as “El Mero Leon de la Sierra” or “the distinguished silver-headed living legend” among Tejano music fans...In 1998, Alfonso was inducted into the Tejano Music Awards Hall of Fame. In 2002, (he) was inducted into the Tejano R.O.O.T.S. Hall of Fame."

El Sonsonete was the B-side to El Silencio de la Noche. Both songs were on the 1973 Capri Records album, La Unica Mujer. This 45 is catalog #CA-265. The address on the 45 label is in McKinney, Texas. Cool.

The 45 label identifies the A-side as a Ranchera song, written by Mexican music legend José Alfredo Jiménez. El Sonsonete has the initials "D.A.R." where the songwriter credit usually is. Not sure what that means, maybe it's a traditional? The 45 label identifies El Sonsonete as cumbia.

Listen to Alfonso Ramos and His Orchestra play El Sonsonete:

Download El Sonsonete

If the embedded player above doesn't work for you, try this link: El Sonsonete

Besides the McKinney address on the label, I couldn't find any info about Capri except that they also put out some Latin psych-funk back in '72 from Tony Hernandez & The Latin Liners. The Hernandez LP is called La Voz Encantadora. Back in '12, the guys at latinfunk.org posted the track featured in the Youtube video below, as well as the song Jo Tex, plus some biographical info about Hernandez. Gotta find me some Tony Hernandez.

New Punk 45 and LP for Charity from The Great Dismal Swamis and Anti-Flag; New Clara Engel; New Punk from Virginia; Old Peruvian Funk; New Breakbeat

Windian Records is releasing a special edition of The Great Dismal Swamis' new 45, Phantom Tollbooth. All the proceeds from the sale go to the Travis Jackson Memorial fund. Jackson was the owner of Windian Records, and passed away earlier this year in a highway accident. It's limited to 67 copies, and you can order it here. The Great Dismal Swamis are absolutely fantastic:

In November, Anti-Flag's A-F Records plans to release a compilation called THIS CONCERNS EVERYONE. It will feature one of my fave guitarists, Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello, among other cool folks, doing covers of protest and rebel songs. Awesome! It'll be on vinyl, limited to 1000 copies, with neat color variants. You can pre-order here.

If that wasn't super-cool enough, A-F is asking folks to submit protest songs of our own. They want MP3s, and you can send 'em to thisconcernseveryone@a-frecords.com, or on social networks by tagging the post with #ThisConcernsEveryone. Per their press release:

"The submitted tracks will be featured and promoted on A-F Records’ SoundCloud player...a portion of proceeds from the record’s sales will be donated to the Right To Heal Campaign, which is a joint effort between The Iraq Veterans Against The War, Organization of Women’s Freedom In Iraq and the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions In Iraq."

Here's a pretty sounding new Clara Engel song, with a video by videographer/video artist Éric Chabrely:

The UK's Tiger Milk Records is taking pre-orders for Peru Bravo: Funk, Soul & Psych from Peru's Radical Decade, on LP, CD, and MP3. It's tunes from '68 to '74. Man oh man, that is cool.

I can't get enough of this new Flesh Wounds, outta Chapel Hill:

I asked Sir Froderick for a single of his J Dilla inspired breakbeaty gutterfunk, but he hasn't got back to me at this writing. So here's the full second side of his new piece:

Got some new stuff on the way by CNQ's favorite axe-man/singer/songwriter Adam Holtz, and as always a ton of 45s I never get around to posting. Have a good Labor Day.

Ted Taylor: "I'm Glad You're Home" (Ronn Records, 1970)

I picked up this Ted Taylor 45, "It's A Funky Situation" b/w "I'm Glad You're Home," for 49 cents at the Half-Priced Books at Preston Village in Dallas. "It's A Funky Situation" was a single from "Taylor Made," and I am completely in love with the whole album. It's on Google Play, so it's probably also on Spotify. I highly recommend it. Here's Ted Taylor's Wikipedia entry, here's a little info on Ronn Records outta Shreveport courtesy Discogs, and, here's a more lengthy history of the label. Super-cool.

For educational purposes, here's "I'm Glad You're Home," which isn't on "Taylor Made," and, I believe, has yet to appear on our Internet until now. It does appear on a best of Taylor called "Ever Wonderful Vol. 2."

After you listen to this, go listen to "Taylor Made."

Korla Pandit: The Universal Language of Music Vol. 3 (1970s)

I very recently learned about Korla Pandit, from fellow pioneer of the mind Don Mangus -- check out Don's Pandit article on his blog, It Only Hurts When I Smirk.

Pandit's story is interesting stuff (see Don's blog for the details), so when I found The Universal Language of Music Volume 3 in Vintage Freak's dollar room the other day, I jumped at it -- especially when I saw it was signed by the man himself, in black marker: "Best wishes to Ray/Korla Pandit/1979/Friday 13th." Cool!

Funny enough, when I checked out the album on discogs, the comment/review, from 2011, said:

"Does anyone know how common autographed copies of this record are?"

To which someone responded:

"Common enough - as a private release (usual trend to this homemade market) the items was "personalised" this way..."

O well, I'm still proud of it, especially since it only has one skip, and was only a buck. You can buy it from Amazon "new" at $25 or used starting at $4.00.

You can hear Pandit's The Universal Language of Music Vol. 1 over at the sadly extinct music blog Dinosaur Gardens. Dino Gardens sez Volume One was published 1954. Discogs doesn't give a year for Vol. 3, but it's got a cover of Spinning Wheel (released in '69) on it so it was put out sometime in the 70s, maybe as late as '79, since that's when Pandit's autograph is dated on the cover. The cover of "Spinning Wheel" is rockin' and I'd love to share it on here too, but unfortunately that's where the one skip is. #firstworldproblems. He also covers Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago, but the rest of the songs are his. Here's Tone Power!, written by Pandit, "Creating orchestral sounds on the electronic organ and piano," per the vinyl's centerpiece. It's pretty funky.

Tone Power!

Flesch: "Freaky Love" (1977)

Okay, starting with just what's on the disc, as I got it sans sleeve:

On Big Tree Records (BT16089), written by Albert Eatmon and Flesch. Produced by Huey Meaux's Sugar Hill Studio in Houston. Published by Crazy Cajun Music, distributed by Atlantic Recording Corp. A promotional copy.

Here's another song Albert Eatmon wrote:

I couldn't find out anything about Flesch. If anybody out there knows anything about Flesch, please e-mail me and give me the 4-1-1.

Freaky Love

Download Freaky Love

I love this hobby. When I picked this 45 up from the Half-Price Books in Dallas earlier this year, I only did so because it was titled "Freaky Love" and it was $3.00. Now, after an hour's worth of internet research, I know a little about that cat Albert Eatmon; a wikipedia's entry worth on producer (and convicted sex offender) Huey P. Meaux; and the historic Sugar Hill Recording Studio of Houston (whose current President and CEO is Dan Workman, who was in Culturcide, which oddly enough I only just became aware of last night after a reference to them on the music blog Cheap Rewards). Boss!

Sting: "Theme From Brat" (1979)

Not the kama sutra, Don't Stand So Close To Me Sting, but the obscure 1970s funk/soul artist Sting. Souldennis at RarePhillySax has already done diligent research on this funky instrumental. As he notes, this is the B side to the "Do It In The Shower" 45". I picked it up at one Half-Price Books or another for $3.00, no sleeve.

Theme From Brat

Dicky Williams: "Fat Girls" (1989)

A funky blues number from a 7" I picked up at one Half-Price Books or another for $3.00, no sleeve, because I liked the song title. Here's a Dicky Williams' bio and discography, and here is his MySpace page.

This song is off 1989's "In Your Face" LP.

Download: Fat Girls