Friday, May 8, 2009

NZ Melodic punk split CD


Auckland melodic punk band Fifth Threat have featured in this blog before as have the now Brisbane based kiwi groupNot OK. Not OK have a folk punk lean not unlike Aussie Celtic punkers The Go Set or a restrained Dropkick Murphys. For me Not OK are the better sounding band here as Fifth Threat's drum sound is a little overpowering. This is an advance download. A physical product is in the works due for release hopefully some time soon

You know what to do.

Monday, May 4, 2009

The Cramps - A Date With Elvis

THE CRAMPS “A Date With Elvis”, 1986

“A Date with Elvis” is an inquisitive record. Three song titles beg answers for questions while rock and rolling along. “How Far Can Too Far Go?” is THE CRAMPS letting us know that they’re going to be the ones to find out and let us know. “What’s Inside a Girl?” showcase both the band’s psychobilly swamp rock rhythm section and surf guitar. Throughout the album the sleaze is poured on abundantly but the cake is taken when THE CRAMPS inquire “Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?” People Ain’t No Good” is an infectious dizzingly stomping heavy bass rocker with devilish female backing vocals that assist Lux Interior in menacingly spitting out his disdain for the human race. “Kizmiaz” features the assistance of Poison Ivy’s vocals and this mellow moment on the album sounds like a smutty version of THE CARPENTERS. “Corn-fed Dames” blows the psychorockabilly wind on the thick. Shut the door…you born in a barn? The ideas and sounds on this album definitely contain the hallmark stamp of the twisted deranged minds of THE CRAMPS.


Peacedogman.com has a full overview of The Cramps discography.

Songs The Lord Taught Us

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Been a while

It has been a while since my post because I've been fairly busy with work-related courses and life's been too hectic to find time for a blog post. There was a plan for a Datsuns show review but that can be condensed into a sentence. Support band, The Randoms sounded like a mix of Fugazi and The Pixies while The Datsuns played a few good songs and took way too much time with a lot of only OK songs that made my feet hurt and feel like leaving. I

Here's another re-up

Last time I wrote

Now for something completely different. While I was living in Taichung, Taiwan I lived not too far from a Live House which was an underground music venue that not many foreigners frequented. After watching a Japanese ska-punkers Double Negative and glam metal influenced rockers Trashbox a woman with a keyboard, a microphone and an anime painting, played. She stood out because her music was different from the four on floor rock band format and she was a small woman with a fantastic voice. After seeing Ryoko Mizoguchi play I got her to sign my CD. It's the first time I've ever done this but I had to get the female singer from Japanese hip-hop group Poplar translate for me. I really wanted to know the artist's English name and also wanted her to know I really liked her music.

Here's a snippet of an online English review I found

Mizoguchi's mini-album 1, 2 no 3 de is short, but then my five foot two inch tall mother always told me that the best things come in small packages, and after listening to this record over and over for the past few days I'm starting to think she may have been right all along. Armed mainly with a piano and a voice pitched somewhere between Kate Bush and Cerys Matthews, Mizoguchi has crafted a collection of songs that burrow themselves deeply within your subconscious, then keep bringing you back to them even when you know you ought to be listening to other things.


Friends of mine say she reminds them of Bjork.


Here.

Beastwars - IV

After over a year off for various reasons, we have returned solely because we wanted to review the new Beastwars album. I really w...