Not intended to feature the latest music out there, my ‘Pick of the Week’ is to simply share & highlight music I personally enjoy regardless of timeframe. This weeks pick is Public Image Ltd.’s album ‘Second Edition’.
Public Image Ltd. (PiL for short) was formed by Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon after they disbanded. ‘Second Edition’ was PiL’s second album (originally released as ‘Metal Box’ in a metal film canister on 3 12″s).
This is the soundtrack for those gloomy days, as Lydon’s detached, anxious vocals and somber lyrics, combined with the stark, austere sound of the rest of the band make for quite a listening experience.
Not intended to feature the latest music out there, my ‘Pick of the Week’ is to simply share & highlight music I personally enjoy regardless of timeframe. This weeks pick is Chilean band Panico, who make catchy (dance/post/disco)-punk that should appeal to fans of bands like !!!, The Rapture, & ESG.
The overall sound of ‘Subliminal Kill’ is very raw, almost like it was recorded live at some crazy house party. ‘Subliminal Kill’ was released on indie French label Tigersushi and was co-produced by electronic music pioneers Joakim & Cristian Vogel.
Straight outta UK, crazy motherfucker named Tronik Youth. From the gang called No Love Lost Records, with attitude. No, but seriously, Tronik Youth makes some of the hardest electro beats coming out of UK, or anywhere. No Love Lost Records, or NLLR, has graced us with this hour long set of dance heat for you to step to.
Tracklist:
Intro
The Whip - Trash (Let’s Go To War Remix)
The Teenagers - Love No (TEPR Remix)
The Count & Sinden - Beeper (Fake Blood Remix)
Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Azzido Da Bass Remix)
Fred Falke - Sanctuary
Crookers - Knobbers
AutoKratz - Pardon Garcon
Alex Gopher - Aurora
Muscles - Sweaty (Shazam Remix)
Infadels - Can’t Get Enough (TEPR Remix)
Unknown - In The Club (Headman Remix)
Headman - Catch Me If You Can (Tronik Youth Remix)
Pretty sweet if you ask us. And we’re glad to see that robot chick from the old A Tribe Called Quest albums getting work again.
Tronik Youth, released his ‘We Are’ single last year on Back Yard Recordings. addition to a wildin’ remix by Italian techno-wreckers Franz & Shape (who Tronik Youth has also remixed, in addition to being remixed).
Tronik Youth has also done some nice remixes, including this new one for Nottingham Indie sensation Late of the Pier (who we haven’t mentioned in way too long), an official b-side remix of Gossip’s break out single ‘Standing in the Way of Control’, which we think still has a lot of shelf life left, and this interesting bootleg remix of Post Punk icons Joy Division (a nice follow up to last week’s Sisters of Mercy remix post here. Gothtronix for ‘08, y’all).
Ghosthuster is a proper band from Denton, TX. Fine lo-fi indie rock with catchy lyrics and some electro proclivity (and a penchant for post-punk, to boot). Their demos have been some love from Pitchfork and Gorilla vs. Bear and we’d like to throw down our love and support for their newest (and best yet), ‘Only Me to Trust’. Dedicate this one to your lover-baby and win some major sweatheart points. The vocals are just dreamy.
If you plan on seeing Ladytron at Hollywood & Highland, you need know know that although the party is free, you need an incoming Metro (MTA) ticket stub. So take some public transportation and you can get utterly aresholed on booze without worry! It’s a win/win!
If you want get down with the intimate after party at Teddy’s, know that you need to be over 21, and have to be one of the lucky chosen few. We have a couple handful of invites to give out to this swank little free party, with free drinks and Ladytron on the decks. You’re down? Send an email to us before 3pm tomorrow, and, if you’re lucky, we’ll put you on the list that night—you even bring a date or heterosexual life-partner. To enter:
Greetings. This is my first post, and I thought I’d start things off with one of my favorite hidden gems. Some of you may recognize the band Blitz as one of the most well known old school Oi/Punk bands. However not many people know that in 1983 they had a bit of a personnel split, with half of the band continuing on in the bland Punk style, while the other half released this beautiful monster of a Post-Punk album.
Second Empire Justice is what happens when a good melodic Punk band finally gets time in a real studio, with a real producer (Chris Nagle who earlier assisted the legendary Martin Hannet on a number of Joy Division and New Order albums).
I could go on and on about this album, but instead I’ll let you take a listen and decide for yourselves. This was one of the singles from this LP, and it is also one of my favorite Post-Punk songs ever recorded.
Essential Logic was a post-punk band formed in 1978. The group was fronted & created by then 16 year old Lora Logic (real name Susan Whitby) who previously played saxophone in the X-Ray Spex. The Spex and Poly Styrene played a seminal part of the punk/new wave movement.
Essential Logic recorded & self released their first 7″ before signing to Virgin records in 1979 and later to Rough Trade. The act disbanded in 1980 but Lora was still musically active, lending her shrieking sax skills on studio recordings for the The Swell Maps and The Raincoats. Lora also released two solo albums and soon after quit recording and joined the Hare Krishna movement as her friend and former bandmate Poly Styrene had done earlier.
In 1995 Lora took part in a short lived reincarnation of X-Ray Spex, sans Poly & in 2001 released an EP of new material with Gary Valentine of Blondie on her roster.
Lora’s part in the X-Ray Spex ‘Oh Bondage Up yours’ & Essential Logic’s feminist forward lyrics made her well known amongst the feminist movement & in 2003 riot grrl heavy record label Kill Rock Stars released a collection of Essential Logic songs entitled ‘Fanfare in the Garden’ which can be picked up from Amazon.
The Bollock Brothers we’re a punk rock novelty act started in the early 80’s led by Jock McDonald. Their early albums were pretty much remakes of older classics, but with tongue in cheek spins on the lyrics. The song ‘Horror Movies’ is irreverent lyrics about horror flicks on top of The Zombies’ ‘Spooky’. Harley David (Son of A Bitch) is of course a slighty re-written Serge Gainsborough cover.
In 1983 Michael Fagan, the man who broke into Buckingham Palace twice & had a conversation with the Queen, recorded a version of the Sex Pistols song “God Save The Queen” with The Bollock Brothers. The Bollock Brothers are still making music today, however ditching most of the comedy and parodies and creating original music which sounds like a grittier Sisters Of Mercy. Most of BB’s albums, old & new are available from Amazon
Because of their latter works, many will say that Soiuxsie & The Banshees were most certainly new wave. But a band with a career that spans 20 years is allowed to try on many different hats & though one of the hats Siouxsie & the Banshees donned was decidedly more dark (i.e. goth) their roots were bathed in the post punk/new wave scene of the late 70’s.
Previously named ‘The Bromley Contingent’ the band’s line up consisted of Siouxsie, Steven Severin, Marco Pirroni (later of Adam & The Ants) & John Simon Ritchie (later known as Sid Vicious). Further down the road the band was joined by Robert Smith & Budgie of the Slits who Siouxsie later married & formed The Creatures with.
Along with Bauhaus, The Cure & Joy Division, Siouxsie & the Banshees were one of the most important & influential bands of that era. The Banshees disbanded in 1996 however Siouxsie and Budgie still make music as The Creatures (last album 2004). In 2006 Siouxsie signed a contract with Universal to produce a solo album.
All of the Banshees paraphernalia available from Amazon and Ebay.
Fellow Missingtoofer Basura just finished two mixes combining all his favorite post punk, electronic, industrial & experimental bands. These fresh bytes of digital delight are titled ‘Live in Le Hot Room Vol. 1 & 2′ They are named so because the room Basura records in gets hotter than the devils balls in a leather jock strap. He suffers so you don’t.
Live in Le Hot Room Vol. 1 Tracklist:
1. The Chromatics- Monarch
2. Tamion 12 Inch- S.K.U.T.Z.
3. Viki- She Talks to Dogs
4. Autechre- Clipper
5. Mu-Ziq- Metal Thing #3
6. Nitzer Ebb- Join in the Chant
7. MSTRKRFT- Neon Knights
8. Covenant- Brave New World
9. Radiohead- Idioteque
10. Aphex Twin- Come to Daddy [Little Lord Faulteroy Remix]
11. Public Image Limited- Bad Baby
12. Audion- Your Place or Mine
13. Le Car- Flame Job
14. Throbbing Gristle- Hot on the Heels of Love
15. I-F- I Do Because I Couldn’t Care Less
16. Justice- Let There Be Light
17. Kavinsky- Testarossa Autodrive
18. Mr. Oizo- Stunt
19. Dopplereffekt- Speak & Spell
20. Andrea Parker- Invasion
21. Joy Division- Passover
22. Bauhaus- Terror Couple Kill Colonel
23. Ectomorph- Parallax View
24. Adult.- Bad Ideas
25. Section 25- Dirty Disco
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