5/21/2011
@ Red 7 in ATX
featuring Goddamn Gallows and Antiseen
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Pointy Shoe Factory
Pointy Shoe Factory was from Denton, spawned from YETI. Goth DFW style. Dudes broke up and started another band, The Great Tyrant. Then the bassist for the Great Tyrant shot himself. Then the dudes went on to form Pinkish Black. So check all that stuff out, its better than what you're probably listening to.
Horror Train
Friday, May 20, 2011
Division Of Power
Anarchist punks from Fort Worth, Texas. Couldn't grab an album cover. This is their facebook page. Post-hardcore/Crust. Pretty awesome stuff. Heard one of the members used to run the Fort Worth IWW. Check it out DUDES. (by the way these dudes posted this themselves on mediafire, fuck a profit.)
Division of Power - Act Your Wage
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
The Birthday Party
When everyone else I knew was listening to Joy Division and talking about how cool and dark Ian Curtis was, I was listening to the FUCKING BIRTHDAY PARTY. Nick Cave's first band.
The Birthday Party is why I could never fully appreciate Joy Division. Joy Division was sad and isolated, due mostly because of production by Martin Hannett. Even Peter Hook had this to say about Martin Hannett's contribution, " There's no two ways about it, Martin Hannett created the Joy Division sound." To the Birthday Party isolation was ipso facto, like 'uhm yeah being fucked up and young means isolation dude, duh'. Probably having a lot due to being from Australia, an island the size of a continent with less people living there than the U.S. The Birthday Party had their sad theatrical moments, see songs Several Sins, Wild World, and well, like their whole discography up to half of Prayers on Fire. I'll have no argument or conjecture about it MY Birthday Party is Junkyard and the Bad Seeds/Mutiny EPs. Prayers on Fire is awesome, but the absolute brutal introspective pain that's captured on the aforementioned records is astounding. Rowland S. Howard's brutal reverb guitar dissonance, Tracy Pew's Funk-Sex-It-Thing bass, and both Phill Calvert and Mick Harvey's percussions are intense and driving: aggression coming to euphoric crescendos on songs like Junkyard, Dead Joe, Hamlet Pow Pow Pow, and Sonny's Burning.
If you don't know who Nick Cave is then you should get out from under a rock. Nick Cave is at my most favorite period of his, drunk, addicted, abusive, rock and roll poet escaped from hell repenting to heaven. And as a special treat Blixa Bargeld plays guitar on the Mutiny EP track Mutiny In Heaven, which is also the last track of the last record by The Birthday Party. I mean, even Henry Rollins gets wet in the pants about THE FUCKING BIRTHDAY PARTY.
A couple years back I noticed a frightening trend, lots of people knew who Nick Cave was (fuckin' duh), but like a single percent of them had heard The Birthday party. I mean, I thought everyone would've known these dudes. Lots of bands reference The Birthday Party as influences, but no one really had a clue. Well fuckin' get one dudes! Shits like rockabilly from hell. Its the darkest, scariest, and some of the most honest music ever created. The Birthday Party where my Joy Division because The Birthday Party wasn't just sad, it was sad and fucking pissed about it.
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