Trance Syndicate Reunion Fest

Whoa, I can't believe this wasn't my first post back in the music!

I mean a 3-way reunion of Trance Syndicate alumni? That's really big news. Two of these bands were very central to my regional tastes in the late-'80s & early-'90s (the salad days), and the third was peripheral but definitely there. Let's start at the top...

O yeah, also:
Emo's, Austin, 11/24, tickets @ $15!!



"Pleasures of the Flesh" from Born in Blood (1990)

In case you didn't click that historical Trance Syndicate link, that was King Coffey's independent record label. And King Coffey was drummer for Butthole Surfers (#1 of 1988, #2 of 1987, #8 of 1993, #3 Live of 2010, #11 Live of 2011) - and his label was really good. Pain Teens ruled the roost in certain Houston circles during that heyday, taking it to the next level.

Discogs: The Pain Teens were formed in Houston, Texas by Bliss Blood and Scott Ayers in 1985 although it took them two years to get around to gigging and putting out an album. Originally a punk band with metal leanings aligned with Houston's punk scene, they soon mutated into something else altogether -- a chaotic and sinister hybrid of punk, noise, tape loops, found sound, samples, exotic instrumentation, and pure unbridled creepiness.

Pain Teens are also gonna be playing the night before, as part of The Axiom 25th Anniversary parties:
Fitzgerald's, Houston, 11/23, tickets @ $10!!



"Buddha" from Love Poke Here (1990)

I've already waxed poetic about the greatness of Ed Hall (more than just #2, 1993 and #10, 1988)... and they were truly really great.

Wiki: The band emerged from the music scene based in and around the Dong Huong, a Vietnamese restaurant-turned-punk club whose proprietor Phong encouraged and hosted loud, obnoxious bands too raw and/or unknown for established clubs. The Dong scene was documented on a cassette compilation called The Polyp Explodes (see Crust), which ultimately brought Ed Hall to the attention of Boner Records owner Tom Flynn and to the unwanted attention of Jim Adler (The Texas Hammer) when a class action lawsuit was filed for loss of hearing and mental anguish of many of the band's fans.

I went and saw the previous Ed Hall reunion in 2003. It was spectacular! The final line-up went on to later form the mighty Pong (#3 of 2010, #1 of 2005, #1 Live of 2010).



"They'll Love You for It" from Crust (1991)

As mentioned above, Crust was instrumental in documenting the emergence of a new generation (post-BHS) of Austin weirdos. I'd say they leaned more abstract on the rock-weird spectrum, but who's to say anymore?

Regardless, you must admit that "Chlamydia Is Not a Flower" is a great song name!

Tadpoles from The Void

Continuing with a new series of posts investigating various artists on the recent For Lee Jackson in Space (2012) compilation.



The third track is the LJ Mix of "Jaded Jean", brought to us by yet another band that I'd otherwise never heard of: Tadpoles! (This time the exclamation point is for exclaiming, not a part of the band name proper...)



From what I can tell, the band was from Hoboken and was active throughout most of the '90s. They put out a few albums, ending up on Camera Obscura as well, even releasing a Best Of collection - check out their Bandcamp.



"Snapper" from Superwhip cassette (1992)

Okay, for some reason I was expecting something noisier. Maybe it was some of the album covers, or "tadpoles" reminded me of Toadies, or maybe just the '90s... But this is straight-up Paisley-shoegaze-alt.POP!

!!!!! I feel privileged to bring you a rare 1988 video "Black Angel" from the super-rare cassette Limousines, Sardines, Dinosaurs.

Hahaha! Actually, it's just from the band's YouTube channel. Ha... kids.

"Race You to the Mustard Patch" from Far Out (1996)

Not too un-groovy, yeah? Quite a bit trippy in such a manner. More guitar heft, more effect layers...



"Percolate" from Smoke Ghost (1998)

This one's the album with the original version of "Jaded Jean" as well. Other than maybe the Best Of, I think I'd start here.



"Sunrise Ocean Bender" from Whirlaway (1999)

Yeah, definitely the later stuff. Or like I say, the Best Of... Use With Headphones Late At Night (2001).

Tadpoles main dude Todd Parker has continued with The Witches, check out what he's got going on at their Bandcamp.

Caroliner Rainbow Pick-up Overdrive

I own only one Caroliner record, Rings on the Awkward Shadow (1994 2xLP, released under the name Caroliner Rainbow Grace Blocks Used in the Placement of the Personality).



But I just picked up 6 of their LP's, for what could only be called bargain-basement prices (most at $10). So low that I'm actually considering them as investments, but maybe this post will lead me to different conclusions. Let's find out!



"Staddalakasta Vein Loom" Hous-towne Tejas, 1800's

Couldn't find anything from Awkward Shadow, but that video clip is named after a song on it. Also it references the Astral HQ city: "live from the banks of the Buffalo Bayou, circa 1883." Caroliner was an experimental anachronist band from San Francisco, and you can read more over on Wikipedia - I'm no expert.



"Mud Cup Monocle" from Rear End Hernia Puppet Show (1985)

Since the artwork is very obscure, I had to do a little research to figure out what I'd got. First up looks like their debut album, Rear End Hernia Puppet Show (1985 box, under the name Caroliner Rainbow Hernia Milk Queen). Sounds kinda Beefheartian, huh? Currently listed on eBay for $75. If my research proves correct, this is probably the big find since it's the oldest of the bunch...



"Dusk" from I'm Armed with Quarts of Blood (1986)

I also picked up I'm Armed with Quarts of Blood (1986, as Caroliner Rainbow Stewed Angel Skins) - which is their 2nd album according to Discogs. I'd actually heard of this album back into the '90s. I guess along the lines of Horse Cock Phepner by Sun City Girls, with whom I'm sure Caroliner shares some kind of history (or at least philosophy).



"Fanged Hymen Flee In Terror" from The Sabre Waving Saracen Wall (1992)

Which brings us to the apparent 4th record, The Sabre Waving Saracen Wall (1992, as Caroliner Rainbow Fingers of the Underground & Their Breakable Bones). Hey, I'm starting to think I might just keep these... weirdo stuff, yeah!



"Huge Gunset" from The Cooking Stove Beast (1992)

Also in 1992 came The Cooking Stove Beast (by Caroliner Rainbow Susans and Bruisins). This one comes with a t-shirt that has two pieces of art - on paper - glued to it. Kinda doubt that I'll ever end up wearing it.



"The Superfluous Snap Pipes The Veteran Lung" from Seal Heal Holler (1995)

The last of the true LP's was Seal Heal Holler (1995, under guise of Caroliner Rainbow Customary Relaxation of the Shale). From what I can see, Caroliner is pretty generous with spelling out all of the lyrics on their homemade insert art. But I guess if you want to read along to the internet, that's something too.



"Gut" from 'Not an LP, a 50+ Minute 7" in 12" Form, including...' (1998)

And finally, as the insert explicitly says: "Not an LP..." So this is a 2-song single (7" in 12" form), that's longer than most full-length albums (50+ minutes). The A-side up there seems pretty Sun Cityesque to me, and the B-side is called "Lower Intestinal Clocks." I'm betting it's pretty weird as well. [Oops, forgot to mention the official release artist: Caroliner Rainbow Stand Still or Fight Beans and Sunstroke.]

I also got the previous owner's list of Caroliner albums as a "folk" insert with this maxi-mega-single. Bonus!!

Master Deck: Saff

Awhile back, I was looking at something (possibly Hookworms' S/T), and I noticed the name Carl Saff. I knew it from somewhere, but couldn't remember why it was familiar... So I checked around and found 15 PAGES at Discogs!! And that's where it all fell together.

There on the first page, a name from my long-ago past: Pencil.



According to last.fm:

A post-punk band with an ever-shifting lineup of late 80s-early 90s Indiana University students, Pencil originally consisted of high school friends Carl Saff (guitar) and Matt Wagner (drums) and fellow students Chris Morgan (vocals) and Karl Desch (bass). Pencil rapidly evolved over the course of numerous gigs in the Bloomington, IN basement show scene...

When singer Morgan and bass player Desch left the band post-graduation, singer Rob Davidson and bass player Tyler Tribby joined and the band recorded a self-released seven-inch EP in 1992 which garnered the attention of NYC-based Grass Records.

I have that 7"! (Apparently 2 copies...) And also their debut full length Skantron (1994) on CD.



According to this interwebs page, it was a ltd edition of 300 - and handnumbered. Okay, I had to pull this one out (took awhile to find)... As the internet and plastic sleeve both say, "Comic & Sticker Inside!" Also correct: "clear green vinyl." Comix by Dan Vebber (Two Felipes, The Onion, Futurama, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Daria), and I have numbered #'s 14 and 290 (of 300).



Pencil live, 1993 Bloomington Street Dance

Still with me? So yeah, Pencil was a local Bloomington post-punk/math-rock quartet while I was there. So massive in their impact that they have 1 total video on the entire web. But I liked them enough to buy multiple copies of their 7" EP, and even a CD of their album. (Here's a most idiosyncratic History of Bloomington Music video.)



Anyway, around this time I disappeared from Bloomington, IN. Pencil would soon break up, and Carl Saff would go on to play in the more successful but shorter-lived Neutrino...



"Back to the Map" by Neutrino, from Motion Picture Soundtrack (1999)

They continued in the same soon-to-be-post-rock vein, just a little bit tighter now. And in Chicago. Being back in Texas again, I was unaware of all this history being made. Right now, their second and final album is available at the recently-restored Indiana Musical Family Tree. Also check out the band page at the newly-resumed Epitonic:

Well, like the subatomic particle, the band is definitely hard to pin down. The Chicago trio makes predominately instrumental rock dominated by dark strange chord progressions and minor keys. It's kind of dark, like Slint, and kind of bizarre and mathy, like Sweep The Leg Johnny, but it possesses a language all of its own which you need to hear in order to remotely understand.

Next comes the surprise reveal, where I know this Carl Saff name from...



"E.D.G.A.R." by Emperor Penguin, from Mysterious Pony (2000)

That's right. Emperor Penguin (#4 of some year)! Emperor Penguin, with Bill Cameron!! If you read that Bloomingtonian history, you might see the parallels: the long-forgotten self-released non-cd EP, the later better-remembered releases, the move away from Bloomington to Chicago, ending up as bandmates in Emperor Penguin? And then the later switch to something completely different.



I really like this act a bunch. Since the Family Tree is back... just go to their Emperor Penguin page, for almost the entire discography. Now including Extreme Gaming (1999), which hadn't been there before. You can still get Emperor Penguin CD's on the internet, which wouldn't be a bad idea. (iTunes and Amazon downloads too.)



"Theme from Moon Base" by Emperor Penguin, from Shatter the Illusion of Integrity, Yeah (1999)

Just one more from E.P., before we move on. The most recent musical project from Mr. Saff appears to be The Warmth, which I have just now discovered.



Making albums through at least 2009. Streaming music and purchases at their website. You can also preview or download multiple albums for free at the Musical Family Tree, if you want to check them out.

But none of this is why Carl Saff has 15 pages of Discogs...



No, it's the Technical category, all because of Saff Mastering.

Just an endless stream of albums, really picking up in the mid '00s - around the time Saff mastered Grails' Black Tar Prophecies, Vol's 1, 2, & 3 (2006, and on reissue #19 of 2010). Lots of Grails and Starless & Bible Black, some stuff for Important Records and Temporary Residence Ltd., even some Houston releases. But the one that really freaked me out to see was Forest Swords' Dagger Paths EP (#21, 2010)... Unexpected!



Mastering, with Carl Saff!!

If you'd like to learn more about Audio Mastering, here's the relevant Wikipedia page. And be sure to buy every single album listed under "Clients" on the Saff Mastering website!

The Fantastic Story of Ed

In honor of the upcoming Pong (3rd!) record release show, tomorrow night in Austin... We're gonna be skipping over the The Clash in discography series, and jumping to: the mighty Ed Hall!!


"Pay For Me" [live] from Love Poke Here (1990)
7/11/92 Norman, OK show: pt.2, pt.3, pt.4, pt.5, pt.6.

This was originally just going to be a bunch of videos because there are some cool ones out there, and some good stuff missing. But then I remembered about the album-by-album artist biographies. So here we are.

Ed Hall were an Austin trio of deranged folks making deranged music for deranged fans. Gary Chester on guitar/vocals, Larry Strub on bass/vocals, and originally Kevin Whitley on drums/vocals. When Kevin left to play guitar with Cherubs, the kit was manned by Lyman Hardy from Houston underground heroes Bayou Pigs. More of the background in this cool Myspace tribute site or even Wikipedia. Chester, Hardy and Lyman later formed Pong with a couple of other Austin luminaries, and they are releasing their 3rd album tomorrow night, playing live and everything!


Two songs from Texas comp The Polyp Explodes (1988).

Ed unleashed havoc on the world by contributing to the 1988 comp The Polyp Explodes (FREE!), with such other distinguished mayhem-inducing artists as ST-37, Crust, and Miracle Room. Their two songs were "Dirt" and "Sister Ruth." You can hear the Ed-ness just starting to form. The sister is trying to scam card-readings and $80 mojo candles, and the ravings of "Dirt" would re-appear on debut album Albert, but with a different name - and a different songs would steal its title. (Really??)


"Reading" [live from 2003 Reunion] from Albert (1988)

Albert (1988) 6/10 - Still kinda putting it together at this point, the debut doesn't quite have the pummelling heft or slicing cleverness of later releases. I think Ed found their niche with pseudo-insightful humor that poked holes and pierced bubbles - rather than stoopid funny, poo-poo jokes, etc. Still lots of great noise rock and several really good songs.

[Lala goned.]



"Turkeey" [live Austin 1996 SXSW] from Love Poke Here (1989)

Love Poke Here (1990) 9/10 - This was my first Ed Hall record, after seeing them open up for Butthole Surfers a couple of times in May 1990. I still consider "Pay For Me" one of the greatest live show kick-offs. Maybe a little heavy on drummer-sung tunes (never a good idea), this one houses multitudes of all-time favorites: "Blue Poland," "Hearty Tom Foolery," plus the whole run from the awesome "Buddha" to the end. Still one of my absolute favorite albums!

[Lala goned.]

By this time, Ed Hall were getting hugely gigantic in Texas and landed a part in Richard Linklater's Slacker (1991). The band finishing a show to an improbably empty house while a bouncer picks up the photographer, and Whitley as the guy whose friends dump his typewriter over the bridge.


"Luke Flukenstock" from Gloryhole (1992)

Gloryhole (1992) 10/10 - Wow. This album delivers on all the promise. Being contrarians, every song is named for some fictitious character, from "Rachel Hourglass" through "Sandra Gubernatorial" (which is their cover of Kiss ballad "Beth" already retitled "Deth" on the 7" single). "Hortense Buttermilk" is actually the driving psych anthem "Grumbler." And "Buster Enamel" is a second go at crowd-pleaser "Buddha" from the previous one. They're pretty much all standouts!


"Guido O'Brien" from Gloryhole (1992)

The embedded videos here are from the Trance Syndicate Love & Napalm vhs comp. There were two 7" and one CD comps by this name, plus the videos. Wally Rowell, who did film projection at their live shows, directed both. I always wondered if this was the same Wally film-maker who used to come to Star Laser Force back in the day, but never figured it out for sure. Ed Hall live shows were just completely epic.


"White House Girls" from Motherscratcher (1993)

Motherscratcher (1993) 8/10 - Just a week ago, I made this my #2 Record of 1993, and it was awfully close to #1. First record with Lyman on the sticks, and he brings a more solid, less frantic beat. The songwriting would have to take a dip after the heights of Gloryhole, but there's too much good stuff here. Any remaining punk has fully given way to pure weirdness, and the instrumental jams are among their very best.



La La Land (1995) ??/10 - I'm ashamed to admit it, but I've never owned this album. When it came out, I just didn't dig it. Looking back, that was probably sour grapes - since I was living in abject poverty and angry despair. But that's not the case anymore, and so I've got no excuse. I won't cover up this part, but I'll add on later when I've rectified the situation.




Oh, and Pong will be releasing their 3rd album, Escobarb (2010), tomorrow night at the Continental Club in Austin!! Free cd if you dress up like a robot.

Three Who Would Shimmy-Disc

Almost the weekend, so a quick 3 from the great Shimmy Disc label of the '80s, '90s and maybe beyond... Bongwater was label-founder Kramer's main band, which grew out of Shockabilly's dissolution. They replaced Eugene Chadbourne with Dave Rick on guitar and Ann Magnuson for most vocals. She sang, but also talked a lot... Like pretty much all King Missile, who were influential on the spoken-word performance-art thing that kind of happened in the '90s. And finally, one of my favorites from one of my favorites, Ween's second (and last independent label) album: The Pod.




"Lesbians of Russia", "Jimmy"
Bongwater (NYC)
Double Bummer (1988)
Also available: "You Don't Love Me Yet", "Psychedelic Sewing Room"




"Jesus Was Way Cool"
King Missile (NYC)
Mystical Shit (1990)
Also available: "Martin Scorsese"




"Demon Sweat"
Ween (New Hope, PA)
The Pod (1991)
Also available: "Mononucleosis" and The Pod

Free KVRX Now! Local Live Legal

From the archives of Austin's KVRX 91.7fm Local Live show... lots of in-studio performances, going back to '96. Some have just one song, some have many more. But all are single-song downloads, so you might have to mess with the folders and tags to get 'em where you want 'em in your library.

[Click image to check for future Wild Moccasins songs]
In parentheses, the number of songs links to that show's page with the songs. The artist name links to MySpace (with sample songs streamable). I'm kind of going against the Headspace's obscurity grain here, but you can always just browse the archive yourselves.

1990s
1996: Kinky Friedman - (9 songs) - Country
1998: Cat Power - (4 songs) - Folkie
1999: Okkervil River - (2 songs) - Indie
1999: Explosions in the Sky - (7 songs), 1st gig!
and 2000 - (4 songs) - Post-rock


2000-2001
2000: Modest Mouse - (13 songs) - TM&A preview.
2001: Of Montreal - (4 songs) - Indie
2001: dr:op:fr:am+e - (1 song) - Electronic
2001: ST37 - (1 song) - Psych


2002-2003
2002: Octopus Project - (1 song) - Electro-rock
2003: Dead Meadow - (1 song) - Psych
2003: Brian Jonestown Massacre - (3 songs) - Stoner
2003: Avey Tare & Panda Bear - (3 songs) - Noise-pop

2004
2004: Gruff Rhys solo acoustic - (3 songs) - Psych-pop
2004: Secret Chiefs 3 - (2 songs) - Psych
2004: Devendra Banhart - (3 songs) - Folk
2004: Weird Weeds - (1 song) - Folk
2004: Six Organs of Admittance - (1 song) - Psych-folk
2004: Sebadoh - (4 songs) - Indie Rock
2004: Tia Carrera - (2 songs) - Heavy Jams
2004: The Black Angels - (1 song) - Psych


2005-2006
2005: Smog - (1 song/1 video) - Folkish
2005: Dizzee Rascal - (1 song) - Grime
2006: Ghostland Observatory - (1 song/1 video) - Electro
2006: The Dirty Projectors - (2 songs) - Indie

2008
2008: The Krayolas - (1 song) - Garage
2008: Shearwater - (1 song) - Folk
2008: The Calm Blue Sea - (1 song) - Post-rock

Whaddya mean, Post-Rock?

Here I was going to write a whole explanation on what all I mean when I call many of these bands "post-rock." But this Wikipedia article does a really good job. (Post-rock fans are the type to make sure the Post-rock Wiki entry is up-to-snuff.) I would just disagree that it’s “non-rock” music - it’s just as much rock as Krautrock and prog-rock.

But basically, we're talking about rock band line-ups playing rock-type songs that put the emphasis on aspects that most real rock bands don't focus on. Dynamics instead of "changes," songs drawn out in arcs rather than verses and choruses, tones and moods over riffs and vocals. Not to be confused with the similarly-rooted, and somewhat overlapping, genre math-rock.




Louisville's Slint was a major nexus for both. For post-rock, they staked out new spaces for the guitars and rhythms to explore. For math-rock, they built algorithmic song structures, and made the instruments wheel geometrically around a common center of gravity. Spiderland (1991) is one of the pinnacles of '90s independent rock, far beyond its seminal role in genre-spawning.

Two intermediary bands are worth mentioning here. Don Caballero (more math-y, still with riffs but instrumental) started off with For Respect (1993). Rodan were also from Louisville, taking it from math to post-math. Here's my own personal How the Winter Was Passed 7" (1993), a rarity! Both of these were way too early to be either/or, so they're kind of like transitional fossils in the evolution of whatever we're talking about.



[Pt. 2 here]

True post-rock starts taking form around the time of Tortoise's Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996). It's got the instrumentals, it's got the atmosphere, it's got the 20-minute opening track, and the elaborate full-sentence title. It's got the look and feel of hand-tooled avant rock. And it got enough critical acclaim to launch a whole sub-genre.

Scotland's Mogwai took it international with Young Team (1997). Slow and serious, built like a classical symphony... They also would need two/part YouTube videos due to song lengths.




The major Montreal scene (and acronymic names) began with Godspeed You! Black Emperor (aka GY!BE). Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000) brought in cinematic dynamism, slow-build-to-apocalypse crescendos, and all epic songs. And a formula is born!

Explosions in the Sky (or EITS) are from Austin, and nice folk by all accounts. They take their post-rock a bit heavier, metaller, more explosive! Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever (2001) continues in the proud tradition of interminable album titles. Its airplane cover and textual art got the rumors going about something about 9/11. Nonsense...




You can read more about Japans's Mono and their melancholy film-score classicisms, with extra noise outbursts, here. The Athens, GA youngsters in Maserati speed it up, motorik-style. As their (single-word!) bandname would imply.

Finally, Austin's The Calm Blue Sea is very Mono-esque, which is to say Very Godspeed-ish... They have several videos found here, and have just recently scored a silent film.

And that brings us up to now, with Mono and Maserati finishing their tour together in Austin next weekend. I can only assume The Calm Blue Sea will be in attendance.



Just for good measure, there’s also post-metal, descended from Neurosis mostly. But that’s an altogether different story...

Free Music for You!

No, this isn't an MP3 blog. (Not yet at least!) But the internet is a web of worldwide proportions, and there's plenty of room for even legal downloads of great quality - or at least of high weirdness.

That's kind of the driving force here: some mixture of quality and weirdness, or something. Anyway, besides the "illegal" downloading, there's also record labels and distributors... but their sites usually just offer single songs (at low bitrates) or sampler collections. Then there's Archive.org and eTree.org, but they'll take a little more explaining (like BrownTracker and the FLips Trading Hub).
So later, dudes!!

I'll shoot for bringing two sources (more or less) for interesting, free and legal, downloads - of decent chunks of music, approximately an album's worth minimum. About weekly.

[Click to Free Music ~
Sample tracks]
Approximately an album's worth? You scream out, "Not enough!" - briefly mistaking this for an infomercial taping. Be careful what you wish for. First up is some minimalist dark ambient concept stuff. Rockist snobs, fast forward. The Caretaker takes his/its name from Kubrick's The Shining, doesn't play any instruments, and obsesses on themes of memories: haunted, persistent, or forever lost...

Dusty and forgotten memories, echoes and vibrations from the past. Using as source, recordings from the 1920's and 1930's era of Ballroom music. Often painful and desolate memories, recalled and replayed from beyond the grave of our senses. In amongst this darkness lies the solace of a semi-recognisable melody or phrase, a beacon of light in this often dark and distant ocean of haunted recalled audio.

The newest, maybe best, album ("Persistent Repetition of Phrases," 2008) isn't yet available for free - newly available on vinyl through Forced Exposure! But approximately nine (~9) albums' worth can be found HERE. Six cd's are the epic "Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia," (2005). And then there's also "The Complete Digital Collection (1996-2008)," which lets you pay $25-$50 (you choose) to download pretty much everything, including the last album.

And Discogs.com just pointed me to a current-year release - again for free! Haven't listened to it, but will very soon. Free download of "Recollections from Old London Town" (2009).


[Click to Free Music ~
Sample track]
Okay, rock fans, you can come back. Did you hear about the 9 albums of dark ambient manipulations of 1920s... No? Okay, whatever. You like Hawkwind? You like Chrome? What about some noisy Floyd? Sure you do. So, how about twenty-four (24!) self-released cassettes in that same vein? Great space-rock resource Aural-Innovations hosts the ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY of the Thru Black Holes Band.

Thru Black Holes Band released 24 cassette albums between 1989 - 2004. Based in southern Ohio, the band consisted of Mike Roden, Jerry Rieger and Sug Franklin, with Sug later replaced by Bolt (Bill Rolson). The music was characterized by a brand of Space Rock and Psychedelia inspired by Hawkwind, but with the band exploring many other styles and influences.

Apparently, not much else is known about this "southern Ohio" band, so nothing to do but dive right in. I'm admittedly concerned about those later theme albums: Rasta, Old West, Halloween, Pirates?!?! So I'm starting with "Smoking Glass Wreckage of the Alien Octopus Face" from 1992 (a fertile peak of output), then working my way outward thru time. Really digging it so far!
[Note that each song is downloaded separately - drag, man.]


That oughta settle yer hash for a week or so...