Saturday, 19 January 2013
Salome - Master Failure
The documentary Dark Days was brought to my attention by the Opester (Underground Exploring Searching for MOLE PEOPLE). It's about homeless people who literally lived under Manhattan in the Amtrak tunnel. Beautifully shot, they focus on a few residents who all have their own stories and various backgrounds. What you hear is Salome, a doom/sludge metal band with vocalist Katherine Katz who has the one most powerful voices I've heard in my life. The band split up a while ago, but good old Katz is still kicking it with the grindcore masters of Agoraphobic Nosebleed.
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Lowlifes in the Basement #49
01. Altered Boys - The Nudge
02. Deformity - No Time
03. Bad Times - Bad Time
04. Jim Florentine - Getting Off (Terrorizing Telemarketers)
05. Carl Perkins - Boppin' the Blues
06. Link Wray - Taildragger
07. Bill Burr - Target
08. New Bomb Turks - Eyes of Satan
09. Andrew Dice Clay - Pizza
10. Dee Dee Ramone - Chinese Bitch
11. Hot Snakes - If Credit's What Matters I'll Take Credit
12. Lost Sounds - Throw Away
13. Richard Pryor - The Goodnight Kiss
14. Roky Erickson and the Aliens - I Think of Demons
15. Slomatics - Outer Space
David M. Spear
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| Amanahilda with dogs, Mexico 2001 |
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| Dancing with Rooster Daxi, China 2006 |
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| Juana Paloma, Mexico 1998 |
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| Lee with pup, 1992 |
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| Mamie brushing hair with Lee, 1988 |
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| Mom and Lee, 1988 |
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| Sherman Smith, 1990 |
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Deformity - Shards
Gritty NY hardcore that sounds both raw/unpolished and refined. Fight scene from the kung-fu classic Hell'z Windstaff. You can find it amongst a bunch of other obscure gems in some Wu-Tang dvd boxset. And it's not all just ass-kicking. Some movies, yeah, you will literally see no women at all and it's guys grabbing balls, poking eyes out and talk fantasy football the next scene (maybe I made up that last part). But then there are also soft-erotic movies with prostitutes and go go dancers. A wide arrange of kung-fu cinema that will show you that Tarantino did not have one original idea in his head when he made Kill Bill (which is still a great fucking film though).
Monday, 7 January 2013
Retainers - Waste of Time
No-nonsense garage punk stomper from 2009. The b-side of the 7", Die Baby Die, is quite the banger too.
Saturday, 5 January 2013
Closet Case - Old Ways
Closet Case made a cassette last year, "It Doesn't Get Better", so hard hitting, knocking your teeth out and raping your mouth so there's nothing left for you to do but swallow. Images from Harmony Korine's underappreciated masterpiece Julien Donkey-Boy.
Sunday, 30 December 2012
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