Thanks and a tip of the hat to John at Monkey Beat Podcast for alerting his listeners to a 55-MP3 sampler from Slovenly Records, a Reno, Nevada company.

There's cool stuff from Wau y Los Arrrghs!!!, The Black Lips, Billy Childish, The Reigning Sound, King Automatic, The Hollywood Sinners and more.

And did I mention they're free??!! All you have to do is join their mailing list.
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Yeah as I aluded to in my original email the A-Bones and Flamin Groovies had to follow them. They were good but, really paled in comparison.

Mace Fobes said:

I feel sorry for any poor band that has to play after 'em!

Very cool band. I know Jim from way back in Thee Hypnotics days. My Band The Jackets will be opening up for them in Zürich soon. It will be the first time I'll see the band live. Looking forward to it!

These guys are really fearsome live...saw them at the Sjock fest a couple of years back, and they blew every other act completely away. I feel sorry for any poor band that has to play after 'em!

Totally amazing on stage and on record, I already saw them twice and they'll be in november in my town. As already said: " The best live band I've seen in ages".

Saw them in LA last week & they are a great live band. The best live band I've seen in ages.

Yeah, great band. Also, check out Thee Hypnotics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thee_Hypnotics).

If you have Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/artist/1OEtCjGZfF9ejmkXAtBLWN EDIT: Sorry electrocute, didn't see you'r post.

Yeah, there's a video of theirs posted here. It's pretty killer. Check the videos tab and search there.

Heard of them, but not actually heard them. Gonna have to check them out I think. Read an interview with the singer (I think) a few weeks ago, guy used to be in Thee Hypnotics. I remember them but, again, never actually heard anything they've done.

So uh not too helpful.

anybody else into this great band? did a search and could find them discussed here yet.  saw them last week in new orleans and they blew me away (and the A-Bones and Flamin Groovies).  crazy energy in person and on record.  for those that don't know, think little richard meets mc5.

My visions pretty blurry cause I need to get some glasses eh...

It's too bad you've put this up on the internet. This is the type of thing you're really going to be embarrassed about writing in a few years.

I'm a bit mixed on the topic myself. I don't think there's anything wrong with emulating your heroes but at the same time you don't want to lose your identity either. I don't think I bring one original idea to the table to tell you the truth, but I've gotten a lot of compliments by people I really admire and they say I'm a real original un-original and I really like that compliment.

Yes, Kopper is right. be yourself, even if that takes finding yourself first. I understand that you are young & probably have not yet figured out where you are going with life, but the fact that you are thinking about it is a good start. I remember seeing Lux play at CBGB's when the Cramps first started. He was very different from the Lux he became. People grow & evolve.

kopper said:

What a ridiculous topic. How about just being yourself?

Hey, the New Bomb Turks (Eric Davidson, natch) are on Twitter now:

http://twitter.com/newbombturks Found the Jim Jones Revue, too: http://twitter.com/jimjonesrevue

The Sonics Psycho is quite a stretch. They just liked the title, and didn't even know that Alfred Hitchcock might have based it on a real person.

Alex said:

The Sonics - "Psycho"
Also, any song by Hasil Adkins where he talks about cutting off girls' heads. "No More Hot Dogs," for example.

I rarely cuss but I 'm gonna give this a FUCK YEAH. I've been looking for this for the last five years on youtube. I have a copy on some old VHS that I recorded off AMC when they had American Pop (which wouldn't surprise me if this is the same source).

kopper said:

YAY! :D

Episode #5... GO: Click here for more info!

I didn't get the stoner vibe from Natural Child at all... except for visually, maybe (the bass player did look an awful lot like a stoner friend of mine from high school), but their sound was just raw, sloppy garage rock'n'roll.

I thought Tyvek kicked ass live. Much better than their self-titled LP which I bought recently but didn't care much for (although I do include a song from it on my latest podcast).

Oblivians did sound a bit strange at the Granada. Just wasn't the best venue for them, but they still sounded great.

Check out some of my friend Tom's pics from the fest here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomq/

Luke, As I said... your set was beautiful. I was listening to you guys & realized that the day was indeed going to be great. I hope I didn't miss picking up some vinyl from you guys while you were out here. Thanks Again!

Luke said:

I somehow was lucky enough to be involved in this,

I somehow was lucky enough to be involved in this, and it was the best possible ending to our first trip to America. the only downfall is that we (Sex Beet) were on first, which meant we played sober as hell, but were then absolutely trashed by early evening.

As fas as I can remember, I managed to catch at least parts of: Digital Leather, Cola Freaks, Natural Child, Hunx, Thee Oh See's, The shrines, Gories, and then somehow I ended up watching the last half of Oblivians from the side of the stage. The whole day is a complete haze, but I fucking loved every band I saw. Anyone that didn't go missed out.

I also completely loved the fact they stuck 28 garage punk bands in the same hotel, with 2 days of free alcohol and didn't seem to expect any trouble. I would have felt sorry for the security guard if it wasn't so much fun!

For sure! Let's all get together some time, eh?

Recordgrooves said:

I met a some nice folks from Lawrence, Denver, New York, KC, Brazil & California. chilled out for a sec w/Kopper & Ryan, 2 of the coolest Garage Punkers, from the Lou!

Oh yea, free Oblivians 7"s.

Turns out there was no trouble getting in to any of the shows with my kids & wife. The rowdiest crowd I saw there was for the Oh Sees (best set IMO)



Here is how it worked out for me...

Jackpot Music Hall 4:20 - 4:50 Sex Beet (Raw & Beautiful) singer asked "turn vocals down cause my singing is shit"

Granada Theatre 4:40 - 5:10 Natural Child (Great Stoner Band)

Jackpot Music Hall 5:10 - 5:30 White Wires (Tore it up!)

Bottleneck 5:20 - 5:50 Nodzzz

Jackpot Music Hall 6:00 - 6:30 Teenager (Loved It)

Granada Theatre 6:20 - 7:00 Cloud Nothings

Granada Theatre 7:30 - 8:10 Digital Leather

Granada Theatre 8:40 - 9:25 Hunx and His Punx

Bottleneck 8:30 - 9:10 Thee Oh Sees (John is a madman, keeps getting better and has great taste in guitars)

Bottleneck 9:25 - 9:35 Tyvek (left the set / too much marshall amp sound for me)

Jackpot Music Hall 10:00 - 11:00 The Gories (of course!) Oh wait, WTF Mick was playing a Squier!

Granada Theatre 11:30 - 12:30 The Oblivians (shitty sound for the Oblivians but still had a good time, Greg is my hero anyways.)

Somewhere after 7:30 the times get fucked up, but I came back home Sunday and saw Gentleman + King Khan/Shrines, best funky time since I've seen James Brown.

Khan even took a second to squat down and sing to my 10yr old daughter then came down later to put his hand down and heal her soul.

We had a blast!