Isla Invisible; Adiós Cometa; The Ducks; The Bordellos; Brian Bordello; Gilla Band; A.N.J.A.; Kid Gulliver; Suckling; Neon Kittens; Smashing Red; The Postmen; and Salem Trials

Been gone for a couple of weeks, and while on vacation I realized I had starred in my inbox a butt ton of new releases I've been neglecting to share on here. I'll be playing some of these on my hour long KPISS.FM show this Saturday at 5PM Eastern, but you saw and heard it here on the blog first!

From Velvet Blue Music, a 4 song nu-gaze split from Isla Invisible (Puerto Rico/NYC) and Adiós Cometa (Costa Rica). This came out back in July of last year, I missed it. CDs and tapes still available:

Also missed, the Duck's (England) full length, Enter the Cloaca got released in December. The Ducks are nuts, and the lead off track, "Give God a Bone," proves it. Check it out:

In January, the Bordellos released as a free download The Sunday Experience, originally released as a one sided 10inch vinyl EP on Benevolent Antenna Records. Good luck finding that. Y'all know I love the Bordellos:

And in late February, Think Like a Key released Brian Bordello's Songs for Cilla To Sing, a solo acoustic full length that is already on my best of the year list:

A buddy at work turned me on to Gilla Band from Ireland. Their newest single, "Sports Day," is rad:

Belfast's A.N.J.A. has a new single called "Witchmother," it's rockin':

Here's a good new power pop single from Boston, "Kiss and Tell" by Kid Gulliver. Came out in January:

Austin's Suckling has finally released their debut album mid-February, I caught them opening for Jesus Lizard in 2018. I remember there only being two guys on stage and maybe a drummer, but it looks like they're a four piece now. Great noise rock, though they used a sample I have also used in a Legless Crabs song and I'm totally upset (j/k):

Metal Postcard Records has more new releases than you can shake a stick at, with a packed release schedule coming up this month as well, so catch up on these, from Neon Kittens, Smashing Red, The Postmen, and Salem Trials:

Alright, I still have 64 starred releases to check out, the oldest dating from mid-February, but ruminate on these, and I'll try and post again tomorrow. Friday I'm going to work on my KPISS.FM show -- will be featuring stuff from France and Marrakesh! Will be a lot of fun, tune in. And thanks for reading -- go support these artists if you hear something you like.

Multiple Releases from Metal Postcard Records: The Legless Crabs, Salem Trials, Legless Trials; The Bordellos, Super Hit; plus Occult Character, Bigflower; Dave Wallfraf, UFO Över Lappland, and Japmn

June 3, 2012 was my first CNQ post. Not quite the apocalypse the Mayans didn't really predict, just a hobby I've kept up with for a decade now. Pat myself on the back. I had plans earlier in the year to keep up with the blog better, which is always a first of the year goal anyway, but this time I meant it.

But it turns out I didn't. I've been posting occasionally as the mood strikes me and that's fine, it's a hobby and what has kept me doing it for a decade.

I also thought I'd do a nice hour or so of a Mixcloud show for the CNQ ten year anniversary, and maybe that'll happen, I dunno. If I feel like it. I've been doggin' Shadowrun: Dragonfall (The Director's Cut) on Steam the past two days. Killer top-down RPG from 2014. I've never played it before, but I played Shadowrun Returns a while ago. There's Hong Kong as well, but I can't remember if I played that, so I don't think I did.

I finished Shadowrun Returns (I always wanna say I "beat" a game, but this is more a completed, fun task than something I won by being good at it). Anyway, both games have been well written, but Dragonfall especially so. The text is immersive and presented in a way it feels like you're listening to your Game Master. The mechanics are a blast, building your little character to spec is well done, and Dragonfall has just been a hoot since the opening scene. Few games scratch that table-top itch like these Shadowrun games by Harebrained Schemes do. I looked up to see if there's going to be another one, and didn't see any news of a new game, but the trilogy is porting to Switch in 2022. I also read that the IP is owned by Topps. Go figure.

To kick things off, how about a little shameless self-promotion. I'm working on a dumb little video to go with this dumb little song, which is also my best work to date, in my IMO. You can check out the whole Legless Crabs album, "Always Your Boy," over on Metal Postcard's Bandcamp page. It is overall a solid noise-slop effort, in my humble IMHO.

Also from me, a couple of new Occult Character tracks. Electro-slop, as I do. These are all Pay What Thou Wilt, so shell out some cash, wouldya? How else am I gonna afford the payola to get this crud on the radio?

And if that wasn't enough from me, how about this new Legless Trials, also from Metal Postcard. Son of El Borko from The Legless Crabs and Salem Goz from Salem Trials team up again for two new tracks, "X-Tyrant," and "Has An X Feel." I dunno why we're on about X but we are, for sure. That's ol' Salem himself on vox on "X-Tyrant," and Son of El Borko barking "Has An X Feel." Salem does all the music and pixie dust, hence why these sound, ya know, good:

Speaking of Salem Trials, the unstoppable UK duo have a lot of new stuff out -- they're one of the few bands I know more prolific than me, and their stuff is actually listenable, so I don't know how they do it. From just a couple of days ago, here's two new rockers, "Dynamite Truck Parts 2 & 3" and "FEAR is All I Can Do":

And, from Metal Postcard, a new nine song, 30+ minute digtial release, Vegaland. I haven't listened to Vegaland yet, but Andy and Russ don't do anything shitty:

I have listened to another Metal Postcard recent release, The Bordellos' I Hate Pink Floyd Without Syd Barrett, a compilation of previously released Bordellos tunes that further prove they're the band that matters most:

The Bordellos have also recently released Onion King Tapes vol. 8, another batch from back when the band was called Onion King. I'm not sure the time period that woulda been -- sometime in the last twenty years, Dan Shea of the band isn't that old, and was a teenager when he started singing in it -- and I'm not sure he was a part of Onion King. At any rate, great stuff, the Bordellos rule:

Metal Postcard has a bunch of other new releases, putting cool stuff out at a frenetic pace, go check it out. One of those recent releases is Super Hit, the solo project of Kyle Handley, who I think is up Portland way? He wrote a 6 song EP where each song is a song he sang to his departed pup, Baby Jean. I made up songs to sing to my cats when they were alive (I haven't re-upped on a pet since they passed a few years ago), so I can relate. Catchy, sweet, Baby Jean forever!

From the UK, CNQ fave bigflower has a new single released yesterday, "The Pill." Mellow psych:

And from last month, an uptempo track from Ivor, "Harder." Psych goodness as always:

Noise artist Dave Wallraf, from Hamburg, Germany, has a new piece out called Cutting Up Men, I listened to it today, it's like listening to whalesongs in space. Super cool and at times panic-inducing, but I had it up really loud in my earbuds to drown out chatter at work. Loved all 40+ minutes of it. There's a limited edition CD you can order as well. Noise enthusiasts should definitely check out Wallraf:

The new UFO Över Lappland, Spökraketer is killer-diller, real deal psychy krautrock from Sweden. Gotta get the vinyl (or CD, or cassette), put out by Philly's Burnt Toast Vinyl:

I have a ton of chrome tabs open on my phone, stuff to share on here. I'll try and whittle that down with each post. Here's japmn, friend of a friend in Portland. Cool stuff from August 2021:

And the soundtrack to a short film, from December, 2021:

I'm gonna play some Shadowrun: Dragonfall.

New Rock'n'Roll from Bandcamp!

Another reminder to check out the Clean Nice Quiet Etsy shop, got a couple of new paintings up and it'd be cool if you bought one! Meanwhile a lotta submissions to cover and I've got some Cyberpunk 2077 to play and music of my own to record, so let's get this over with.

I started off the last new music post with a new single from Liverpool's Bigflower, so why not do it again? Solid motorik just under the 3 and a half minute mark, dig it:

New San Franciso label Color and Time Tonight's first vinyl release is from Ohio's Wild Wings. Foil Landscape is 4 tracks of killer psych-punk r'n'r, listen below and order the vinyl from CTT here.

Brooklyn solo act Sunk Heaven has a new release on Crass Lips Records called Porous Mirror. Nine rad tracks, a must listen for fans of experimental/industrial noise:

Total Punk Records is an unstoppable force, they've got new Buck Biloxi and Alien Nose Job coming out which I can't wait for. In the meantime, check out this amazing racket from Montreal's Tha Retail Simps, Reverberant Scratch: 9 Shot in tha Dark, due out March 1 and Total Punk's first release of the year. You can listen to three of the tracks already on Bandcamp, and there's videos for "End Times Hip Shaker Pts. 1 & 2" and "Rock and Roll." Described in the TP hype e-mail as equal parts Velvet Underground and Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs; I can't argue.

Speaking of unstoppable labels, Metal Postcard has a number of new releases that all bear repeated listens. First for your consideration is the latest from Brian Bordello, Cardboard Box Beatle, what Brian says is his final acoustic album, and it's probably his best, which is a feat. 11 tracks of heartbreakingly excellent tunes. The words I always use to describe Brian's songs all apply across the 11 song album: raw, honest, amusingly caustic, caustically amusing, and just absolutely beautiful, man. Songs like "Cat Food on the Floor," "Here Comes Eric With His Dead Child Song" and "Salamanda Fruit Fly" are Brian continuing to show us all how it's done. I've been singing "Any Room In Your Life for a Song and Dance Man" in my head all week.

Next up from Metal Postcard, Super Hit is former White Fang guitarist Kyle Handley's solo project, and this 18 track self-titled release is super-solid:

Kyle has another project called The Tyrds and their 8 song release on Metal Postcard is called I Got Shit On My Mind. Fuzzed out!

Salem Trials has a new full length, Foe Fact, and on top of that is releasing a new single every Sunday through February on Metal Postcard. Unstoppable seems to be the secret word for tonight's post, as Andy and Russ from Salem Trials are absolutely unstoppable as well:

Andy Goz from Salem Trials and Son of El Borko from Legless Crabs (who happens to be me) teamed up to release Legless on Main Street, a 9 song effort that features Andy at the top of his game and me just trying to keep up with his undeniable ability to write a bad-ass rock'n'roll song. I like to think of it as the Stones and the Velvet Underground meet Wesley Willis and the Shaggs. It's the best thing I've ever worked on and I'm super proud of it! Here's a track called "Singer" about abusive singer songwriters from the 1970s:

Finally from Metal Postcard, Italy's K. Board & the Skreens have a new EP, 4 tracks of mind-blowing Italian outsider electro-pop. So frickin' good:

Speaking of Legless Crabs, I've been busy with my made-up Naive Noise Rock Collective over on my own Bandcamp pages. Here's three new releases of naive noise rock I've put out. Enjoy at your own risk:

More submissions to come. I got other shit to do now tho. Look out!

Brian Bordello, YUVEES, and LIEEK

"The King of No-Fi," the second solo album from Merseyside's Brian Bordello, is now available as a digital release from Metal Postcard Records. 14 tracks of just Brian and his acoustic, recorded at home over furlough during quarantine in an "automatic" style (see the last CNQ post for an interview with Brian for more on that).  

Both guitar work and vocal delivery combine for some of the best melodies I've heard from Brian, be it solo or his work with The Bordellos, and the album as a whole is a singular, stunningly ethereal work.

As Brian touched upon in our interview, there's not as much amusingly caustic cynicism in the lyrics as in previous releases. There are still many touches of his dry wit slash wry humor (the track "Motherfucker" comes to mind, and the lyric off "Rock and Roll is Dead" -- "The air is full of everybody's sneezes/and I don't care if I catch the diseases/Rock'n'Roll is dead"), but for the majority of the record there is a tender, nostalgic theme that connects each song to the other. At various points it is simply heartbreaking in its honesty and emotional directness ("Lone Piper," "In My Dreams," "God Bless You Jesus," "So Sad"), and with each song Brian manages to make you feel like you're sitting in the room with him as he's recording. And maybe he's even glad you're there, despite lines like "not being deceictful/but I don't like many people," from the track "So Sad." He's not going to give up being wryly caustic all at once.

Brian is always a formidable underground talent, and this album cements his position as "King of No-Fi." I've been waiting for "King of No-Fi" since it was announced earlier in the year -- is it possible I wasn't going to enjoy it? Odds were low I wasn't going to at least get a kick out of it, but I sure didn't know it would exceed all my expectations, and be an automatic contender for album of the year. 

These next two releases I discoverd recently, and were released earlier in the year. YUVEES are from Portland and their album "Human Dance," released back in May, can be ordered on cassette or downloaded digitally. LIIEK is from Berlin, and their self-titled album was released in April. It can be dl'd digitally or ordered on vinyl from adagio830.

Both albums are instantly recognizable post-punk in their separate ways, each still sounding fresh enough to not feel like tired, boring rip-offs of the bands who pioneered their respective sounds. I fell in love with both these albums on first listen - maybe you will too:

Brian Bordello Interview & First Listen Track "Sing Along" from His New Metal Postcard Records Digital Release, "King of No-Fi"

Brian Bordello's latest solo album, "King of No-Fi," is coming out on Metal Postcard Records on August 16, and loyal CNQ'ers know I'm a Bordellos fanatic from way back. I couldn't be more excited about this release. Brian was kind enough to (virtually) sit down with me for an e-mail interview the other day. We chatted about nostalgia, which is a major theme across King of No-Fi, his family band the Bordellos, and bands/songs we don't like. After you read the interview, check out what I do believe is the worldwide premiere of the first song off the album, "Sing Along." If this isn't the worldwide premiere of the song, apologies to whoever did premiere it!

Matt (M): The King of No-Fi is about to be released by Metal Postcard on August 16. You wrote and recorded this on furlough during the quarantine, correct? Can you talk about your mindset during this time and how it may (or may not?) have impacted the new record?

Brian (B): These songs are quite strange as i never actually wrote any of them before i started recording them , i just picked up my guitar set up the mic and sang whatever came out and whatever i played and that was the song . i have always wanted to try and capture the soul of a song . and i suppose being on furlough and only really being able to see my wife and daughter for months ,one's mind tends to float back to various memories and various people ,so i think this is why this album has quite a nostalgic almost romantic melancholy a loneliness about it as i tried and capture the mood , and because a lot of my songs quite often have a little playfulness in the lyrics with some bad puns ,there is a lot less this time around .whether that is a good or bad thing i do not know. But the isolation certainly played a part in the sound and feel of it.

M: Gary Glitter is one of my favorite Bordellos songs. It succinctly covers something art and music lovers are always struggling with, perhaps a little moreso these days, in regards to separating the art from the artist. My mantra for that is "I only separate art from the artist if I enjoy the art." Would you agree or disagree? Is there a point, do you think, where someone transgresses so much in their life that their art should not be separated from who they are, or what they've said or done?

B: Garry Glitter is also one of my favourite Bordellos songs , i have no trouble in separating the art from the artist ,but that is my personal opinion i can understand why people have trouble . let's be honest Garry Glitter raped children which of course is abhorrent and i can quite understand why people no longer want to listen to his records ,but i can separate the two him having sex with a 11-year-old does not make "the Leader Of The Gang " not a fine single. also where do we draw the line people , i know i got a certain amount of flack from some people about writing it ,but for a fact some of those wagging their fingers are huge john lennon fans .and lets be honest he was no angel , he was a violent ,drug taking wife beater ,but they seem to forget that ,and Joe Meek , he shot his landlady with a shotgun and people seem not to have a problem with that .and two of my musical heroes are both John Lennon and Joe Meek . so i have no problem seperating the two .

M: I really enjoy your diatribes on In The Mind of a Bordello. I still chuckle over the line about Liam Gallagher walks like he just shit his pants. I know you also are not a fan of post-Barrett Floyd. Do you think a lot of our musical tastes and opinions depends on how much exposure we get to it? I mean, do you think you would hate Oasis or Dark Side of the Moon so much if you hadn't been over exposed to th by constant radio and video play?

B: i enjoy writing them it is so much fun writing bad things about records you hate , one of the things that annoy me so much about the current culture of not being able to ctiticise things without people fainting in shock and horror . I think i would hate both Oasis and post Syd Barrett Pink Floyd just as much as if i had never heard them before and just heard them the once i wish i only had heard them once as let us being honest about it .they are both terrible Oasis are basically chancers who discovered that having mop top haircuts and walking like you have taken a toilet break in your jeans ,which actually is probably the best thing about the band ,much more entertaining than their music ,i could quite happily watch Liam walk up and down all day as long as he did not have to open his mouth to sing those horrible badly written paint by number pop rock songs Noel writes , the reason he writes such dribble has become apparent over the years and that is he is a talentless cunt who spends so much time concentrating on stopping his eyes from falling out .which is why he looks the way he does . i am sure it must be a medical condition. . and post Syd Barret i might actually hate more , luckily they do not seem to get played as much on the radio than Oasis do over here anyway , so i do not tend to have them assault my ears as much as Oasis ,

M: Just last night Bowie's Space Oddity came on and I was like, Christ, I never liked this dumb song, but I would up listening to it again, and even singing along and grooving to the breakdown, despite myself. Is there a particular dumb, overplayed song you could go your life without hearing again, but when you do hear it, you wind up singing along, or maybe it gets stuck in your head despite your best efforts?

B: That happens a lot . the evil magic of pop music , Radio Ga GA by Queen is one of those for me a chance hearing of that song can put me in a bad mood for a week ,i have actually walked to a shop about a mile further away to buy something because the shop had that playing on the radio when i went in ,i should not have bothered because all the way to the other shop i was humming all i can say is radio ga ga radio goo goo ,it drives me insane .

M: I don't mind Radio Goo Goo, but I never heard it until my early thirties. When I was a kid I hated Bohemian Rhapsody, even after Wayne's World, which I was the right age for.

B: Bohemian Rhapsody i love , i am old enough to remember that from the first time it was released in 1975 i would have been 8 and even then in the 70's when there was some strange records in the British charts ,that stood out as being slightly strange and it reached number one . .as my daughter once said as i made her watch reruns of old 70's Top Of The Pops "no wonder your generation are so weird"

M: There's a lot of 80s pop and rock that when I was a teen I thought was garbage that I've come around on now. Hair metal and new wave hits come to mind. Is there anything you hated for years as a youth and have now come out the other side on and like, or even love?

B: that is a very good question , there are loads of records i could not stand i hear on the radio now and i all of a sudden really like it ,i think a lot has to do with nostalgia weaving its spell ,you can hear a song and you are suddenly stood opposite a girl you really liked or with some old friends you have not seen in years . Freebird by Lynard Skynard i always hated . it was always on the jukebox in a snooker hall i used to hang out in all the time as a teenager so i use to complain about it every time it came on saying how shit it was ,but now when it comes on it takes me back to those days of being sixteen surrounded by old friends having a great time complaining about the song i am now getting all teary eyed nostalgic about , the magic of music and why to me it is the greatest art form .

M: O man, I turn the station every time Free Bird comes on. But I know what you mean about getting misty eyed over something you had disdain for as a kid. Or even something you loved and still loved -- I was tearing up at You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go just last week. A piece of nostalgia got in my eye I think. That's you on the cover of King of No-Fi, isn't it? How old were you when that pic was taken? Where were you? Any particular reason that photo was chosen?

B: Bob Dylan is a master at writing tear worthy songs.it must be said . it is me on the cover i was aged 21 and i cannot remember where i was ,it was taken by an old friend i think Roy Bradley but i could be mistaken , the reason i went for that photo was the lp is called the King Of No-fi and it comes out on the 16th of August which is the anniversary of the death of the king of Rock n roll Elvis Presley and in my younger years was a bit of a rock a billy as my quiff might tell you. and also, the lp has a nostalgic looking back feel about the lp so i thought a photo of me at 21 somehow might be fitting .

M: Going back to the Bordellos, the band is primarly you, your brother Ant(hony?), and your son Dan, correct? I know Dan's doing great work with Beauty Stab. Is Ant still active musically? Will the Bordellos record again or is it officially defunct?

B: Is Ant still active musically .. some would say he has never been active musically.. including myself.. , there have been many members of the Bordellos over the years .but myself Dan and Ant have been the only bordellos for about the last 10 years or so . my daughter Nia joined for a bit on bass and she played on our Julian Cope tribute ep released on Metal Postcard a couple of years ago . The Bordellos have not split up , we recorded a new lp over the lock down when Dan became the bubble family member and he was allowed to enter our house again and he stayed for a week so we recorded a lp on my 4 track . sadly, Ant was not allowed to enter the household so could not join in the recording . so it will be the first lp recorded without Ants lack of input .which it is missing, Ants lack of input is defiantly missing .. we will no doubt have him as the cover star on the album sleeve though and call the lp Ant less Music.

M: You recently released what you said were probably the last of the Onion King tapes. These are primarly comps of unreleased material, right? Can you talk a little about the series? What years do they span, were they recorded for kicks or for projects that didn't get released, why this will be the last one, etc.?

B: they were recorded late 90's early noughties on a 4 track tape recorder at Ants house , we were called Onion King and was basically the bordellos but not yet called the bordellos , it was myself Ant and Gary storey who played bass and would stay with the bordellos till 2009 and occasionally a pre teen Dan who came to mess about and occasionally play some instrument ,even aged 8 he was a talent . we would meet up and just record ,with no plan but just to get drunk on a Friday night and record songs i had written , alot of the songs we would later rerecord when the other three members joined and we became a six pieceand became serious and some we would rerecord when the other three had left again became less serious and replaced by a now 14 year old Dan . I loved the recordings so have been releasing them a free to download ep series , we must have recorded about 100 songs as onion king in that way . but alot of the cassettes have gone missing over the years .so unless i stumble across some of the missing cassettes .that will probably be the last one.. but there is a good chance i have some knocking around somewhere probably unlabelled at a bottom of a box.

M: Is everything you record on four track? What type of four track do you use? If presented with the opportunity, would you record digitally? Or do you have an aesthetic dislike for it?

B: Not everything i record is on 4 track ,it depends where i am , at home i only have an old tscam 4 track tape recorder which is why most of the songs i have released lately have been 4 track recordings. the bordellos mostly have recorded digitally ,normally on Dan's digital 8 track .the first two bordellos albums was recorded in a 32-track studio that Geoff and Vinny who used to be in the bordellos at the time had which was a old converted barn in the middle of the countryside. we have also recorded straight onto an old ghetto blaster and even onto a mp3 player nothing is too lo-fi ..

M: Thanks for talking with me, Brian! After King of No-Fi, what's up next?

B: next up is the Bordello and Clark lp which i recorded via two 4 track tape recorders over 3000 miles apart with myself and Ted Clark who lived ohio at the time . that was recorded in 2018 and was due out last year but due to being messed about by a few record labels has not yet seen the day , but am in the process of sorting that out with a new label i am quite excited about .so hopefully that will come to something . 

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So, I haven't uploaded a song in forever, and Google has re-designed their Sites page, and tonight is my first night checking it out,and I've had a few brews -- I cannot figure out how to easily embed "Sing Along" into this blog page. However, if you click on the link below, you may be able to listen and enjoy. If not, then "King of No-Fi" releases on Metal Postcard August 16!

Brian Bordello: "Sing Along"

New Lo-Fi and Punk from France, Spain, and the UK; Indianapolis Afropunk from Four Years Ago

Live 5 track album from old French punks. Super heavy, super bitchin'. Pay what you will:

Oh man, this is what I wish I was doing. 4 song blown out blues punk demo from Spain. 2 Euros:

Meanwhile from Metal Postcard, new single from Brian Bordello, $2 and so worth it:

New rnr single from a new Manchester band called Salem Trials, also from Metal Postcard. Extremely, totally, completely rockin':

A search for afropunk on Bandcamp revealed this 9 track album from Indianapolis, from 2016. Absolutely excellent rock n roll, from four years ago. $5:

Bandcamp Waiving Their Vig for Friday 3/20/2020

Hope everyone is safe and well. Remain indoors the best you can, and wash your damn hands! We, humanity I mean, can whip this thing if we stick together (which ironically means giving each other a wide berth right now) and don't panic.

With Bandcamp waiving their vig today until midnight PST, I figured it's high time I pick up a few things I've been meaning to buy. I actually haven't bought anything on Bandcamp in a while. So here's what I purchased tonight:

First up, a rockin' instrumental single from Sweden's Martin Månsson Sjöstrand. If you're a loyal CNQ-er you may know Martin from one of my fave bands, This Heel, who I feature on the blog and the podcast frequently.

The UK's Brian Bordello has been busy recently, first with the 5 track Liverpool Hipster Scene EP, from Metal Postcard Records. I listened to this in the car a while back and I'm always blown away by Brian's honest, raw talent at getting to the meat and bone of a song. He followed that up shortly with a CD release from Wormhole World, a project called Idiot Blur Fanboy. The Idiot Blur Fanboy album is called "Oasis Are the Enemy," it's 11 songs, around 30 minutes of incredible no-fi. Brian is my underground hero, every release of his is as important as the last:

Also from Metal Postcard Records, and Bordellos adjacent, is Beauty Stab with a 3 track EP called "O Eden." Gorgeous, super-sexy lo-fi synth-pop/post-punk from a two piece out of the UK, and one of the members is Brian Bordello's son, Dan Shea. Dan is in the Bordellos with his dad, and was also in a band called Vukovar. Dan has a silky, resonant af voice and he and B. Preston, the other member of the duo, just knocked it out of the park with these three songs. This came out in March of 2019 and I've been meaning to buy it for, clearly, a year.

I've been meaning to pick up the latest Boys' Age releases, as he's been busy. Japan's Boys Age cranks out excellent warped guitar-based damaged pop. Here's his two most recent singles:

Richter Scale is a punk label out of the UK and you can get all of their 32 releases for $15 U.S. dollars. Here's a sampler from their most recent releases, hardcore, noisey stuff. Love it. Why would you not shell out $15 for this?:

This brings me to the end of my spending spree -- the new album from St. Louis' Fried E/M, off of Lumpy Records. That's Lumpy from Lumpy and the Dumpers on drums. We got to see these guys in a little taco place (Killer's Tacos) up in Denton a year or so ago. Impressive, high energy performance. I just ordered the vinyl for this -- I'll be hosing it down with Lysol and placing it in quarantine when it arrives:

You should also order a print from Fort Worth's incomparable Jack Daw Folk Art!

New Rock'n'Roll from Bandcamp & Youtube

Good Lord Almighty it's hot in Texas. I got a few things to share tonight. First up, the latest album from Freak Genes, "Qwak Qwak," is absolutely incredible. It's available via the UK's Drunken Sailor Records, and was released back in April, so I'm late to the party on this gem, but better late than never. So many good songs on this 17 song album. Indebted to Television Personalities, Wire, the Buzzcocks, and the Kinks, their press release says this album's "original inspiration was the Raincoats LP Odyshape. So far, they sound nothing like that."

I love this shit tho. They've got a video coming up for "Give Way," and you can get the album on vinyl from Sorry State Records. Oh, man, this is the good stuff:

Full disclosure -- Metal Postcard is amazing. Here's a new one from the Hong Kong based label:

And you know the first full length release of my own no-fi, electro-brut music project, Occult Character, is on Metal Postcard, right?

Australia's Tom Ugly has a new catchy single. At first I thought, oh, this is good but it's too poppy, but it's growing on me:

Next up is a new video by Sage from Ontario, the single off their new self-titled debut album. God, I love music videos, and I'm glad when new bands do them, and I'm glad when they contact me to feature them. Cool shit, check it out:

From Hartford, CT, a track off a new 6 song album you can get on CD and dl on bancamp, a good first effort:

Madd Blake and the Stalins, Miss Her Beer, and Mark Palm

Man I need to share a 45 to stay legit. Maybe next week. In the meantime, here's some new stuff.

Madd Blake and the Stalins are from Puerto Rico and play Cramps-inspired "primitive rock'n'roll," which I can dig for sure. Here's a live video from their first live gig, performed just last week. Bless this Internet!

CNQ's gunk-buddy jllull has a new rock'n'roll print zine called Miss Her Beer so go order it after you're done here. She's also been keeping a music blog called Punk Gunk that I've been unaware of until this evening, but glad I found out about it. The name, I think, is inspired by the Punk Gunk, Garage, Psych & Wild Shit facebook page, a turntable.fm group that, after turntable.fm's mishandling and demise, stuck around and kept cool.

Blogger's having problems with its blog list widget, by the way. I'm proud of the ridiculously long blog list I have that dates back three years, but keeps the most recently posted blogs at the top (featured at right on the web browser version of this page). Sometimes I think I might should clear out the ones that haven't posted in over a year but who knows, maybe Crud Crud will post again one day. Anyway, it won't let me add to it right now.

From Germany's Hardware Records, tape release of this '80s style hc punk solo project of guitarist and songwriter Mark Palm:

I've never heard of Mark Palm, but he's apparently a busy dude. Here's more hc from him, this from 2014:

Palm is also in this more poppy band Supercrush. This is from June of 2014:

...and in this SF-based shoegaze act, Modern Charms. This is from 2013:

He's in the totally metal Black Breath:

I think he got his start in this band Go It Alone:

And a sort of metal sounding project called Devotion followed that. This is from 2008:

Here's an interview with Palm talking about Night Prowler. And here's what I think is his bigcartel site, KRAM Records.

Finally, in the shameless self-promotion department, here's a new two song EP from my new band, Badger Carcass (stylized as BDGRKRKZ). We're calling it post-garbage because it's like, what comes after garbage.