Tom Lax of Siltbreeze Records is doing his yearly guest spot on Brian Turner's WFMU show. Listen live now:
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51914
The show will also be archived. Don't miss this as Tom always brings the goods.
Tom Lax Guest DJing on Brian Turner's WMFU Show
On The Horizon: The Dead C. - Armed Courage
There's no one more excited than me that The Dead C are experiencing a late-career renaissance with fantastic re-issues on the Ba Da Bing! and Siltbreeze labels, a split release featuring archival with Rangda and the first magazine cover story (The Wire) in the band's 20+ year history. In addition to the much needed reappraisals of their back catalog the Dead C have also been quietly releasing some of their best new music in ages starting with 2009's Secret Earth and 2010's all-instrumental Patience. After a bit of a lay-off the Dead C will be back on September 3rd with Armed Courage a new release featuring 2 extended pieces that harken back to the Harsh 70's Reality days while still evolving and moving the Dead C agenda forward. After some misguided forays into electronic music in the early 2000's it seems the Dead C are back to doing what they do best: making a huge fucking racket. When it comes to extended noise improvs no one does it quite like they do.
Check out a preview excerpt of the track "Courage":
https://soundcloud.com/badabingrecords/courage-excerpt
Playthings - Live 1981
Playthings were an early 80's New Zealand punk group fronted by Jay Clarkson (The Expendables, Breathing Cage) and Janine Soundercock. They released two 7 inch singles on Flying Nun (Coloured & Bird's Eye View) and they released this limited "official" bootleg of a 1981 live recording recorded at the famous Gladstone Venue (also noteworthy for featuring famous early gigs from The Clean, The Pin Group and The Gordons).
The excellent cut "Stand Up / Sit Down" was featured on last year's excellent Time To Go compilation and after hearing that song again in a different context I was reminded of how great this group was and what a shame it was that they seemingly got lost in the shuffle of that early scene. Lots of excellent straight forward punk numbers throughout with a few highly angular post-punk songs to keep things fresh. As far as I can tell in my research this is the only group Janine ever played in which is a shame because her vocals are excellent.
Link available in comments.
Welcome To Earth - New Podcast
(MP3 LINK AVAILABLE IN COMMENTS)
The first podcast of the new era. A selection of old favorites plus some recent hits.
Welcome To Earth - 8/8/2013
Spectrum - How You Satisfy Me
Bill Fay - Screams In The Ears
Bill Direen - Girl At Night
The Clean - Anything Could Happen
Chrome - Something Rhythmic
The Fingers - Isolation
Real Enemy - Power Virus
Cyclops - Alice
Chocolate Grinders - People With Leukemia
Bo Diddley - Hey Bo Diddley! (Live)
V-3 - Caucasian White
Green River - This Town
The Scientists - This Is My Happy Hour
Iggy & The Stooges - I'm Sick of You
The Fall - Stepping Out (Live)
Skewbald - Sorry / Change for the Same
Silkworm - Tarnished Angel
Misfits - Where Eagles Dare
Sonic Youth - I Love Her All The Time
The Shadow Ring - I Am Lighthouse
Cold Sun - Twisted Flower
Ted Lust - Am I Lying To Myself
The Folk Implosion - Summer's Over
It's back!
Hello everyone, long time no speak!
Decrepit Tapes is back... again. I am eager to start posting again and to once again share the nuggets of joy I have uncovered during my travels.
I do not fault you if you approach any commitment I make to posting with some degree of skepticism... HOWEVER... I must assure you all that I am now unemployed (for the time being) and now have a great deal of free time on my hands.
Look forward to new posts very soon!
A quick sidebar: Does anyone know how to work around this awful compression that Blogger puts on uploaded images? I've tried everything and it makes it all look super pixelated and awful. Any help would be appreciated!
Welcome Back / Greetings From Cowtown
After what can only be called an insanely long hiatus Decrepit Tapes is back with a new podcast about the amazing esoteric music that has come from Columbus, Ohio over these past few decades. This podcast was inspired in part by the fine folks at IndieTorrents and thank you to some of it's members for contributing some of this material.
More podcasts will be on the way and some will include commentary and stay tuned for a bunch of other features.
Podcast for 6.14.11 - ADD
A 15 minute sound collage of songs ranging anywhere from 10 to 60 seconds in length.
ADD by Decrepit Tapess
Podcast for 6.5.11 - Robert Pollard
After a substantial delay caused by computer issues the Robert Pollard podcast is finally ready for your listening pleasure. This particular podcast features between track commentary from yours truly. My hope is that people who have previously written off Bob's post-GBV solo career will find something to love and will investigate some of his newer material further. Feedback on how future podcasts could be improved is always appreciated.
Robert Pollard Solo (6-5-11) by DecrepitTapes3
Coming up next: The ADD Mix: A mega mix of songs that are less than a minute in length. This one will come much sooner, I promise!
PS check the comments section for an MP3 download of this podcast.
Podcast for 5.6.11 - The Creation Singles
Today's podcast focuses on singles released by Creation Records. Lots of great stuff here from bands who may not have gotten as much notoriety as "first tier" Creation bands.
After conducting an informal poll via Twitter people have commented that they would like to have future podcasts with commentary rather than just being straight music. Following this podcast I will make a point to include between track commentary from myself (and possibly others) on future podcasts.
Coming next week: Robert Pollard: The Post-GBV Years
Podcast for 5.1.2011 - Siltbreeze Records
Decrepit Tapes returns with a 90 minute podcast trip down memory lane with the classic songs of Siltbreeze Records
5.1.11 Episode - Siltbreeze Records by decrepittapes
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