This coming Friday July 31st the Teenage Time Killers super-group, led by Corrosion Of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin, will release their debut album through Reprise Records.
Greatest Hits Vol.1 is set to feature appearances from QOTSA’s Nick Oliveri, Foo Fighters’ Pat Smear and Dave Grohl, Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra, Prong’s Tommy Victor and countless other rock veterans. Featuring 20 tracks, a handful of which are covers, including the Rudimentary Peni song that gives the outfit its name, the majority of the LP was tracked at Grohl’s own 606 Studios in Northridge, California.
Check out the full track list below and stream this monster in it’s entirety over on the NY Times website.
Greatest Hits Vol.1 Track-list:
1. Exploder
Vocals: Reed Mullin
Featuring Pat Hoed (Bass), London May (Drums)
2. Crowned by the Light of the Sun
Vocals: Neil Fallon
Featuring Jim Rota (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
3. Hung Out to Dry
Vocals: Randy Blythe
Featuring Mike Schaefer (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
4. Power Outage
Vocals: Clifford Dinsmore
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
5. Ode to Hannity
Vocals: Jello Biafra
Featuring Mike Dean (Bass)
6. Barrio
Vocals: Matt Skiba
Featuring Brian Baker (Guitar)
7. The Dead Hand
Vocals: Reed Mullin
Featuring Woody Weatherman (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
8. Egobomb
Vocals: Corey Taylor
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
9. Plank Walk
Vocals: Pete Stahl
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
10. Time to Die
Vocals: Mike IX Williams
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar)
11. Days of Degradation
Vocals: Tommy Victor
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
12. Clawhoof
Vocals: Tairrie B. Murphy
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
13. Big Money
Vocals: Lee Ving
Featuring Pat Smear (Guitar & Bass), London May (Drums)
14. Devil in this House
Vocals: Karl Agell
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
15. Say Goodnight to the Acolyte
Vocals: Phil Rind
Featuring Jason Browning (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
16. Ignorant People
Vocals: Tony Foresta
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar), Nick Oliveri (Bass)
17. Son of an Immigrant
Vocals: Johnny Weber
Featuring Brian Baker (Guitar)
18. Your Empty Soul
Vocals: Aaron Beam
19. Bleeding to Death
Vocals: Vic Bondi
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
20. Teenage Time Killer
Vocals: Trenton Rogers
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar), Pat Hoed (Bass)
Can a 90s alt-rock icon not enjoy a day out at Disneyland in peace these days? No! As last week, poor old Billy Corgan was snapped by paparazzi riding a roller-coaster and the internet has gone bananas about it. Shameless celebrity snapping aside, the US Weekly came up with the best (worst?) tagline you could ever imagine.
“From a rat in a cage to the House of Mouse! Smashing Pumpkins rocker Billy Corgan took his Mellon Collie self to the Happiest Place on Earth, aka Disneyland, where he traveled back in time to the Wild, Wild West of the 19th century.”
King of post shoegaze guitar haze, Kurt Vile has announced a brand new album for September 25th. B’lieve i’m goin down is set to follow 2013’s masterpiece Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze with gusto as first cut, ‘Pretty Pimpin’, see’s Vile pick up an acoustic to peddle his familiar, dazed guitar across five blissed-out minutes.
Watch below and pre-order the album from Matador Records here.
The most punk duo in the UK right now are the only cunts brave enough to ever call out Steve McGarrett from Hawaii five-O, and that my friend, is why this alienating masterpiece makes this list of good shit this month. Charming bollocks not sung by muppets.- Zac
Run The Meows – ‘Meorly’ (Mass Appeal)
When your crazy idea of having cats appearing as musical instruments to remix your album comes to fruition, and people back it on Kickstarter, the only way to complete the mission is to mike up the felines and get down. EL P came through and delivered, as he always does. Purr over the first offering from the kitty, a mashup of the tune ‘Early’. Download for free from here. Zac
Christian Fitness – ‘The Harder It Hits’ (Prescriptions)
Anyone familiar with Future of the Left will know frontman Andrew Falkous’s acerbic and often unhinged delivery. In new project Christian Fitness, Falkous takes this and adds a healthy dollop of sleaze. Like Prince’s evil brother, his falsetto coos unnervingly, before blasting into a distorted yelp. – Joe Parry
Chastity – ‘Manning Hill’ (s/r)
Continuing the excellent blueprint of Canadian punks who’ve come to our attention over the past few years, Ontario’s Chastity deliver a short blast of melodic noise, both infectious and primal. – Joe Parry
Tigercub – Destroy (Too Pure Singles Club)
Brighton has become a breeding ground for a new brand of band bacteria and Tigercub are set to cause an epidemic. Josh Homme-esque drawling vocal delivery and a testosterone charged attitude is the perfect conglomeration for a sound that’s both brutal and ballsy. Latest single ‘Destroy’ is not only a homage to Kyuss with its burly guitars and plundering bass but a driving force in its own right. – Yasmyn Charles
\\GT// – ‘Something’s Wrong With My Mind’ (Communicating Vessels)
This mysterious power trio hail from Alabama with a sound so thick and dense it’ll engulf you like the fuzzy heat haze of the American South. Their howling, swirling noise will be immortalised on July 31st as they release their debut album Beats Misplaced, until then, feast on this nugget of heavy psychedelic goodness. – Dan Druff
Vexx – ‘Black/White’ (Katorga Works)
Hailing from Olympia, Washington, Vexx are sending out waves of excitement across the worldwide DIY punk scene right now with their buzzsaw Avengers/X inspired punk rock attack. They’re fizzing with excitement and touring through Europe at the moment, before landing back in the UK at the start of August. Get Vexxed. – James Sherry
Family Friends – ‘On Your Mind’ (S/R)
Springing out of nowhere with an infectious debut that’s primed and ready to have the A&R’s flocking, this new Aussie bunch set their guitars clean and pristine with beautiful harmonies to match. Get this soothing summer gem on repeat. – Augustus Groove
FLESH – N0T GNA (S/R)
Manchester’s Flesh are crass and caustic. Fuzzed-out guitars trip and roll over baggy Monday’s inspired beats. It’s evident to see why the four-piece have labelled themselves as ‘snot-pop’. Latest single ‘Not Gna’ displays the group’s brattiness in one hard hitting dose. Turbulent riffs and defiant lyrics portray the band as a bunch of wayward delinquents with an attitude to match their huge sound. – Yasmyn Charles
RiXE – ‘INFATIGABLES’ (La Vida Es Un Mus Records)
From their Coups & Blessures EP, these young Parisian bootboys have delivered one of the great records of 2015. Sharp, dynamic, punch heavy anthems are the order of the day. Go see ‘em in the UK in July. – Pete Craven
Ought – ‘Beautiful Blue Sky’ (Constellation)
Montreal’s Ought have followed up their 2014 album More Than Any Other Day with the sprawling ‘Beautiful Blue Sky’. Despite the repetition throughout, the track opens and reveals itself over its seven-minutes. A lot of their music feels like it unravelling, but this is the most composed they’ve ever sounded. – Joe Parry
This is absolute killer blown-out D-Beat destruction from Austin, Texas. Listen to this blistering track off their 2nd album Todos Contra Todos LP, sure ain’t no feeble bastard! – Pete Craven
Interrobang?! – ‘Love It All’ (On The Fiddle Recordings)
Featuring ex-Chumbawamba men Dunstan and Harry, Interrobang?! takes them back to their sharp post-punk roots; The Fall, Wire, Crass, words that mean something, music that inspires action. ‘Love It All’ is their second single and is tense, uptight and then explodes. Fabulously exciting stuff. – James Sherry
Fuzz – ‘Rat Race’ / ‘Pollinate’ (In The Red)
These 2 bonus final numbers have Ty Segall on drums in his new project Fuzz. Would love to know how many new projects he has coming out this year, bloke must not sleep, but once again, it’s on point. Wizard steez stoner radness… – Zac
Sonic Youth lynch-pin, and creative force in his own right Lee Ranaldo is set to feature as the subject of a new documentary titled In Doubt, Shadow Him!.
Directed by Arnaud Maguet, the film is due for release this coming December via Hifiklub and features a soundtrack recorded by Ranaldo himself at Sonic Youth’s studio. Other contributors and members of the cast include Nels Cline, Raymond Pettibon, Alan Licht, Don Fleming and more.
The documentary will be available in DVD format accompanied by a double 10″ vinyl soundtrack. Watch the trailer below.
It is now illegal again for the good people of Britain to copy CD’s for their personal use. Back in October 2014, the Government deemed the action of transferring CD’s into your computer’s music library a perfectly legal practice, but as of last week that rule has been overturned by the High Court.
The case was won by the Musicians Union, UK Music and the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, who rule that the Government was wrong when it did not introduce a compensation scheme to accompany the law for songwriters, and other rights holders, who could face a loss as a result of their copyright being shared unethically.
UK Music estimated that the 2014 regulations, without a compensation scheme, would result in loss of revenues for rights owners in the creative sector of up to £58m a year. With CEO Jo Dipple adding: “My members’ music defines this country. It is only right that government gives us the standard of legislation our music deserves. We want to work with government so this can be achieved.”
It is currently unclear how the change will be enforced.
We’ve waited a long time for this one. Crowd-funding for the making of ‘Salad Days’, a look at the incredibly fertile hardcore punk movement that exploded out of Washington DC in the early 80s, first started over four years ago when brief snippets and enticing trailers started to work their way across the internets. And now it’s finally here…
We live in an age now where so many bands, movements and artists are getting to tell their stories in film. Every week there’s a new music documentary to see, a story to tell, but Salad Days is something special. From the very start, the Washington DC punk scene documented itself. More than any other punk scene in the world at that time, the participants took care to photograph, film and record everything that was happening. They knew what they were doing was important and special and wanted it preserved. “I didn’t want to own the scene, I just wanted there to be one,” explains Ian Mackaye, who through his work with Minor Threat, Fugazi, Dischord Records and many more is understandably the lynch pin and constant through the whole movie. So the upshot of this is that there is a wealth of incredible footage in this film. It rushes past, much like the music, in a high-speed, high-energy blur. This is not any easy film to sit still and watch in a cinema, as each band and song crashes by, every moment made me want to leap out of my seat and explode.
Ph: Ian Mackaye of Minor Threat, Wilson Center, DC, 1983 by Jim Saah
Film maker Scott Crawford has done an incredible job of capturing the spirit and energy of the time. Having been involved in the scene in DC from a very young age (he was just 12 when he started going to gigs and making fanzines), he was trusted to tell the story and help the various participants open up.
Running chronologically from when Bad Brains exploded onto the scene and everything went FAST with bands like SOA, Void. Teen idles, Minor Threat, Untouchables, Youth Bridge, to the mid-80s ‘Revolution Summer’ years with Rites Of Spring, Embrace, Gray Matter, Dave Grohl’s first band Mission Impossible. They then move onto the end of the 80s as the alternative rock explosion beckoned, and Grohl, fresh out of Dischord legends Scream propelled Nirvana into the mainstream, bringing Fugazi attention they never expected, Jawbox a major label deal and the rest is history.
There are so many magical moments in ‘Salad Days’ that it’s difficult to know where to start but here’s a few. The footage of Void is utterly off-the-hook insane and demonic, the bit where MacKaye talks about Straight Edge and how he still gets people, to this day, phoning him at the Dischord office and screaming “hey Ian, I’m drunk, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT!!” before slamming the phone down, the self-belief, politics and conviction that run through every band, the thought that they really believed they were making a difference and could change. Subject to change. The realisation of just how young everyone one was when this started…
“Salad days” is a Shakespearean idiomatic expression to refer to a youthful time, accompanied by the inexperience, enthusiasm, idealism, innocence, or indiscretion that one associates with a young person.”
That says it all.
James Sherry
You can pre-order the film on Vimeo as it will be Video On Demand from August 4th.
We first crossed swords with Brighton via Canterbury trio Gang earlier this year after they dropped their sledgehammer of a single,’ Silverback’, in January. Since then they’ve whirled through London peddling a fine set of sludge jams to a growing audience, so it’s with great pleasure we find live favourite ‘Eye Garden’ as their next move.
Showcasing the song writing talents of drummer Jimi, as his other-worldly vocal spook entwines with his brother and guitarist Eric’s, ‘Eye Garden’ creeps and crawls deep into your musical psyche via unhinged harmonies and dark, warbled guitar tones.
Dublin’s finest purveyors of noise, Girl Band, have finally announced details of their highly anticipated debut album. Holding Hands With Jamie is due for release on September 25th, almost a year on from their December 2014 signing with Rough Trade back in December, and will feature nine previously unrecorded tracks.
Since blowing our heads off at the Old Blue Last back at the start of 2014, Girl Band have consistently delivered some of the most creative and exicting sounds we’ve heard throughout the year, and this debut is sure to be nothing short of a smash. Get your pre-order in here for a chance to grab one of 250 limited edition yellow presses, each coming with a photo book to match.
Holding Hands with Jamie Tracklist:
1. Umbongo
2. Pears For Lunch
3. Baloo
4. In Plastic
5. Paul
6. The Last Riddler
7. Texting An Alien
8. Fucking Butter
9. The Witch Doctor
Forthcoming UK & IE Tour Dates:
3/11 Patterns w/ Prom, Brighton
4/11 Soup Kitchen w/ Prom, Manchester
5/11 Nation of Shopkeepers w/ Prom, Leeds
7/11 Button Factory w/Paddy Hanna, Dublin
6/10 100 Club w/Prom, London
25/09 Bar Sub w/Paddy Hanna, Belfast
Enigmatic NYC trio Sunflower Bean have today revealed the B-side to their forthcoming debut single ‘I Hear Voices’, due for release on July 24th via Fat Possum.
‘The Stalker’ arrives dripping in phased-out sludge and ethereal new-psych charm, with some coven-esque artwork harking back to the glory days of Sabbath and Hawkwind to match. Having blown us away at SXSW this year and turning heads across the music press both state-side and in the UK, this lot are undoubtedly going to craft a sensational debut album.
Gang
