tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43257486905985906852024-03-13T19:14:27.843-04:00Minimum Tillage Farmingcentral-ohio-centriccruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.comBlogger187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-62592695343469116472023-06-14T17:50:00.005-04:002023-06-14T17:52:52.016-04:00JOHN ZUCK IS PLAYING COMFEST<p></p><p>'tis true, ishkabibble lives on in some way in this town. sunday afternoon in a week or so. yell for jimmy jet, i'll be at werk.</p><p></p>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-80317548746797125872023-06-04T23:02:00.003-04:002023-06-04T23:44:59.474-04:00JUST NOD IF YOU CAN HEAR ME<p>somebody called this blog non-functioning or something like five years ago so i dunno...uh...it is too functioning! totally! dude! </p><p>but he*k i don't even know how this shiz works anymore and i'm on a <i>phone</i> and i'm not even in ohio right now and i have nothing with me to post and i guess i'd do that on bandcamp instead of mediafire now? or do y'all still like rar files? i bet my computer's too old to even do this shiz anymore but like <i>damn</i> if i haven't gotten some treasures in the past few years (srsly, y'all wouldn't <i>believe</i>) and i guess, like, i could reupload some stuff, <i>again</i> (y'all need that first human sufferage, i know it, you know it, everybody knows it), if i can get the computer to agree. actually i found out recently that my mac is so old that the apple website <i>doesn't even list the generation it's from</i>. woohoo! or something. but it looks like i remember some html so hey one sarcastic woohoo there and one genuine homer-style one! ok? yeah? woohoo!</p><p>
anyhow, good to see ya, hope you and the kids are doin' well, leave a comment if yr out there and mebbe i'll seeya someday soon...</p><p>
<b>oh, and while I have ya here I may as well point out that them damned mediafire purges never affected alllll the files uploaded (and some of the images even still exist, tho that isn't a terribly great indicator of whether or not the mp3s are still happening) and shared here so hey maybe poke around and ya might find, still, a buncha posts in a row that remain live (ya will) and perhaps a couple three of those will interest you (they will). i mean damn get that dan gold arp lp already, jeez! *also, if yr on a phone go on and switch to web view (it's at the bottom of the page) so ya can see the list of bands off to the right. ease of use, y'all, it's what this alt.country is all aboot. w00t.</b></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-26919842848221009532015-12-25T12:58:00.003-05:002015-12-25T13:11:26.724-05:00Jeff Kleinman solo set at Café Bourbon Street, December 24, 2015<img src="http://i67.tinypic.com/23j3gvb.jpg"><p>Last nite after gettin' home from my folks' I was gonna wander down to Dick's Den as I sometimes do on holidays but I of course dicked around at home for three to five hours and by the time I was actually at the door I gotta txt from Jeffy about this funny video I sent him once and then he said he was playin' at Bobo so I went over and recorded it. Fuckin' set was killerdiller no lie and the tape turned out excellent. This is some up-to-the-minute shit here, my friends. And if ya wanna hear the sound of Nervosas losing every single one of the people who have liked us in the past, take a gander to the last song in the set, WHICH JEFF WROTE YESTERDAY PRIOR TO THE SHOW. Also included are a coupla 'vosas chunes off the last lp (one with a Drake sample), a Gamma World number, a Pink Reason cover, & a coupla bangers from Jeff's auld prog combo the Slide Machine.<p>Btw Nervosas are playin' on the radio from CD102.5's Big Room Bar on Jan 4 which means you can actually come to the show or just sit and listen to a couple songs on yr radio if yr interested in either of those sortsa things. Perhaps we'll just let Jeff do it, this shit is gooood.<p><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?iv8olsclbd6gb76">last day of the sun</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-66153756724782859472015-12-25T12:40:00.001-05:002015-12-25T13:11:48.307-05:00Rax presents Christmas with McGuffey Lane (cassette)<img src="http://i63.tinypic.com/w97bza.jpg"><p>Hey I heard ya missed me…I'm back!! And since this here blarg was conceived at least 100 years ago during this same season, AND since I've had this here chrisssmuss tape just burnin' a hole in mah, I dunno, pile of junk over there in the corner for what seems like years (it's actually been years), well it just all added up to it bein' HIGH DAMNED TIME to fire up the turd polisher™ and get some more INCREDIBLY NECESSARY digital files of central Ohio musical CHEEnius into yr earholes asap. Again. Which brings us to the cassette at hand.<p>Now I don't give a shit about the history of McGuffey Lane and neither do you so I'm not gonna spend one hot second of my precious* time (*not actually in any way valuable) lookin' around the inter-whatever-the-kids-call-it-now for info but yeah I mean they're one of the few ever Col's bands what signed with a major label and they're kind of probably maybe our heroes of our landlocked version of yacht rock so really yeah I at this point should have spent way more time with their records and should know all there is to know but I don't, so yeah whatever. Their guitar player owns a studio where I mixed a GbV single with one them Nini brothers once. Once. Scrawl made a record or two there and so did American Dog. And that's about all the trivia I've got.<p>But LUCKY FOR YOU none o' that matters when yr just lookin' to listen to some sweet chunes and here are some prime for the fucking season, A GODDAM CHRISTMAS MIRACLE MINI LP BROUGHT TO YOU BY FUCKING RAX. (For all you youngsters, Rax is like Arby's and they useta be all over the place and actually if you go to Lancaster or like past Circleville on 23 you can still go to one. Some people recommend it. My friend Susan's sister useta run one and I just found out my buddy Mitch useta work there. Small damn world.) So um on to the music, like it doesn't matter what I say here cuz yr gonna download this, I mean how many Col's Christmas albums are there really? But I'll do my best to sell it here, basically you need to know this was made in 1986 and at that point it seems the McGuffey dudez had - like so many folks had around then - met some people with drum machines and shit so this here tape is positively riddled with then-modern sounds and stabs at momrock radio play (think REO Speedwagon or I dunno, some halfcrap soundtrack or whatever) tho' a lot of the rec is still acoustic guitars and piano and shit like I think we all have a right to respect from muskrat lovers like the Laners (and oh yeah they make an attempt at a mandolin/synth strings version of "Greensleeves"…did it influence the ECC? WHO KNOWS). Personally I just hope this little record sees some kinda resurgence and "It's Hot This Christmas" starts getting played everywhere in place of that goddam Paul McCartney ultraturd or any of those asslords covering Wham!<p>Jesus.<p><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?uxw92aje98u42v4">the voices of rejoicing love</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-47639551637459750522014-01-25T18:18:00.001-05:002014-02-06T15:21:13.130-05:00RE-UPS!!!1!!!found a file where i had saved a metric shitton of rars so i'm gonna attempt to upload them all and make up for that brutal mediafire purge a coupla years back. unfortunately some of the best stuff isn't in there (like human sufferage) but i'll try to get what i can ripped again someday soon too. any requests for re-ups you don't see happening please comment on this here post. links on the pertinent pages will be updated but in addition here's a list of what's alive again:<br><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?j0dldjlbd8br3as">el jesus de magico 'self-titled'</a><br><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?ljcnzfhl47ndafn">econothugs singles comp</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/d8pe44ocw8nkcxs/mkhd.rar">magician killer 'hoodoo dub' cdr</a><br>gaunt…but not forgotten <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?884d22d8vhkl9d4">part one</a> <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?i6kfl3hdq5gj9tz">part two</a> <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/u61wj1qn37kh4cm/gbnf.part3.rar">part three</a><br><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?t2o9pblibu0j2q5">great plains 'cornflakes'</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/wbhpev3zzxaxufw/tjsa.rar">thomas jefferson slave apartments demos</a> <a href="http://www40.zippyshare.com/v/98860670/file.html
">(mirror)</a><br><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?7m175gjiijxizwf">gaunt live little bros '98</a><br><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?27dfrx4abbkw2bb">gaunt live casbah san diego '95</a><br><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?5ius46u989f2b04">red hypergiant</a><br><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?wmpw6j32fm397z2">audible detonation</a><br><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?u1dnjby5d5dbh14">miracle mike</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/r6i0d7wep1ail6m/js_et.rar">jim shepard 'the evil twin'</a><br><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?a5ik10a56ety3g6">mad mike</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/ny9dv81esskbid5/belreve.rar">belreve</a><br><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?c2fegfn846v7pyu">ipps</a><br><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?prbjkk4dtg2gz8e">greenhorn - schwab</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/5h0y2vk423qq83g/greenhorn_sg.rar">greenhorn - steve's garage</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/p59hjgm1g4vc8wz/greenhorn_rw.rar">greenhorn - recording workshop</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/4uc5l88cc8l5x23/sowashes.rar">kyle sowashes 'what's important…'</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/d0l1htbaasnca0l/gut_piston.rar">gut piston unreleased demos</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/onb09j2o3445w8k/daycreep.rar">day creep 'exposed to the universe'</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/l2tl64u9g4mv13a/moon_and_badtimes.rar">the moon & badtimes</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/71dm0kmmifeuici/queensdemos.rar">evil queens demos for 'lovesong werewolves'</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/1bpaw0o66qh4j2h/earwigcenter.rar">earwig 'center of the earth'</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/eed09if9ovxogtv/ofp.rar">our flesh party 'manifest destiny'</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/m88a0dix83ymhwa/el_jesus_61109_summit.rar">el jesus - the summit 6.11.09</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/yr69dbudiaxy47v/malabar_brothers.rar">malabar brothers final demos</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/v8i9dv6nats1mb9/gibson_bros_build_a_raft.rar">gibson bros 'build a raft' cassette dub</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/x0jw75kir1sfr98/floorian.rar">floorian 'what the buzzing'</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/4ezii17zbzqqafj/eardrop.rar">eardrop 'for your ears only!' comp</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/bi3oda4mk28z02w/rjd2.rar">rjd2 vs the braxes cassette</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-82596399221117662292013-06-30T22:43:00.001-04:002013-06-30T22:44:48.823-04:00PHANTODS<img src="http://i44.tinypic.com/2q1t0cl.jpg"><p>i honestly don't know what happened with the phantods. more than ANYONE since rc mob they seemed perfectly primed for so-called alternative stardom. perhaps they're simply proof that no matter how good and/or willing to play along you are, no-one but no-one can "make it" via the traditional channels in col's, o. there just isn't enough true support from any of the necessary entities (radio, press); it's akin to swimming upstream pretty much. i mean, a band that packs 500 people in whenever they play (esp. in a town where yr lucky to get 50) shouldn't hafta get a letter-writing campaign together EVERY time they want a single played on the local "alt" station. it's complete bullshit. is it any surprise, then, that the bands col's is known for haven't really played nice (read: cared about cultivating much of anything beyond an audience of their peers) in town (times new viking, vile gash) or have just moved away (roland kirk, rjd2)?<p>anyhow, i fucking love the phantods. you should go send them $$ on bandcamp or whatever. early mr. bungle-worship with a side of pre-120 minutes stardom liz fraser-isms gave way to more trad late-period emo arrangements and modern power hooks, but they tread the lines expertly. i don't get tired of them 45 seconds in like with someone like paramore, and they're certainly less cliched than a band like damone (who i really do also dig) and better at throwing around horrorpunk touchstones than the always-clumsy-in-that-respect alkaline trio.<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?r32pp2misplz38h">you're the link</a> <br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?philc1a25brx3wf">from your heart to your hand</a>.cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-7881928352767578252013-05-29T20:20:00.001-04:002013-05-29T23:01:50.970-04:00Them Wranch Discography<img src="http://i41.tinypic.com/a1h63a.jpg"><p>lotta folks might not understand that this is DANCE MUSIC but i straight dare 'em not to shimmyshimmykokoPOP when shizz like "whip" comes on. lotsa stuff too ridiculous & diseased about this combo for 'em to really catch on in the unimaginative doldrums that are "garage rock circles" but at least they skipped the very col's thing where they didn't make any good sounding records. plenty here - two lps, two 45s, a whole sonics-of-the-sonics-obsessed session recorded in 'the garage behind the deal' and a short session from a cle studio - to reflect the real go that the r.a.n.c.h. had at it for a few years in the late '90s (post-hairy patt/pre-tough & lovely). these whackos' ideas of what might pass for entertainment are so off the mark that they actually fucken WORK: what sounds at first like pure novelty reveals itself very quickly to be funnier than the cramps/way, WAY groovier than "beat" dreck like the woggles/more imaginative than honestly anyone you can think of. (only band that eventually came anywhere close was the howlies and even they don't touch the copious far reaches of them wranch's ecelcticism.) "beware them that lurk in the shadows," INDEED!<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?oo37mx3qkt2gsao">lps</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?j3xv2re17dxhi7c">45s + sessions</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-80795101184981768602013-05-29T19:55:00.000-04:002013-05-29T22:39:27.326-04:00Action Family Discography<img src="http://i40.tinypic.com/2qvct2s.jpg"><p>action, action, ACTION!! whether yr down or not with chris elliott the serpentine grime-rock stooges-worship SCUZZ of this combo should still stain yr trouser bottoms if yr heart's still beatin' hard enuff to pump all them drugs thru yr system. relocatin' themselves all over the country didn't fuckin' help anyone care at all but really in the long run we're all just shit and pollen anyhow so fuck it, here're some BLISTERING tunes ("i feel fine" will SAW YOU IN FUCKING HALF) that ain't in any danger of disappearin' unless the whole damn world blows up real good so fuck…throw 'em on some shitty juke/roll around on a barroom floor/puke in yr shoes/stop goin' to werk/live on high life for awhile. it ain't the worst life. (p.s. there's one more tune over on <a href="http://actionfamily.bandcamp.com/">bandcamp</a>, dig.)<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?aqkbtz2l1nbn63b">you ain't no brian jones!</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-86145901367955264542013-03-11T11:09:00.000-04:002013-03-11T12:27:12.934-04:00Near Paris 12"<img src="http://i47.tinypic.com/23k7ksl.jpg"><p>so two of the three geniuses from <a href="http://www.minimumtillagefarming.blogspot.com/2013/03/post-industrial-noise-anthology-cassette.html">post industrial noise</a> decided to get a little more radio-ready (?) with their next project, and here ya have it, for what it's worth (which is about $300 [!!!], if ya ask <a href="http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=829910&ev=rb">discogs</a>). i dunno even what to say about this, it just sounds like some idea of the early '80s that people who wanna hate the early '80s prolly have in their head: goofy synth-percussion noises that aren't any fun, vocals straight out of a bret easton ellis novel, etc. songwriting this wrongheaded is so often scattered, smothered, & covered with some gloppy genre trappings or other so, y'know, no surprise. (shoulda studied a little more <a href="http://www.minimumtillagefarming.blogspot.com/2011/01/snapshot.html">snapshot</a>, if they'da asked me.) the attempt at human league/breakdance rock is hilarious. it <a href="http://www.minimumtillagefarming.blogspot.com/2011/01/human-sufferage.html">wasn't all like this</a>, folks - i promise you.<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?djqka4ypsij4asq">you got the moves that could start a fire</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-81547725852282732372013-03-11T10:41:00.001-04:002013-03-11T11:28:29.447-04:00Post Industrial Noise - Anthology cassette<img src="http://i47.tinypic.com/2cj7u9.jpg"><p><img src="http://i49.tinypic.com/a4ljeq.jpg"><p>welp, here it is, the <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/POST-INDUSTRIAL-NOISE-The-Official-Anthology-cassette-DIY-Near-Paris-synth-ohio_W0QQitemZ321045106871QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SRCH:US:101">$900</a> cassette. 1982-3 recordings from soon-to-be <a href="http://minimumtillagefarming.blogspot.com/2013/03/near-paris-12.html">near paris</a> members. who cares? i dunno. i guess enough people (read: 2) (i mean 7) to punch the value of this thing up to almost a grand. i mean, even i prolly woulda paid two bucks for it just to get it on the blog (the other $887 or whatever i woulda kept) but lucky for you i gots it for free and now so can you. not as cool as antena, not as propulsive as "planet earth" by duran duran, not ANYWHERE near as inventive as the second flying lizards lp, not as reverse psychologically POP as "the model" by kraftwerk, this is a bit too undercooked to really shine texturally and the male voice sounds like a resident impersonating groucho marx…but SERIOUS. reissue on cleopatra? why not? dull, monotonous, behind its own times - this is not the sound of excited, inventive, forward-thinking, fucked-up individuals manipulating/overcoming/destroying/reveling in the (available) tech of the day to make something resonant (like, say, <a href="http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2008/04/social-climbers-st3x7-or-lp1980usa.html">social climbers</a>), nah, this is folks with too much <a href="http://www.vintagesynth.com/arp/arp.php">$$$</a> boring everyone including themselves to death with midwestern art gallery social circle jerk. as good as a seven dollar bottle of sake in an indianapolis sushi bar. i'd rather listen to <a href="http://www.minimumtillagefarming.blogspot.com/2011/05/lestat.html">lestat</a>.<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?2udbtt0xdutxuwr">it gives me plee-zha</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-41037489844331916622012-11-07T11:46:00.001-05:002013-05-29T22:42:00.833-04:00Offbeats 'Dumb Looks Still Free' Vinyl<img src="http://i45.tinypic.com/s6q91e.jpg"><p>offbeats were in th first generation of goofball speedcore thrash pop in th US - perhaps th finest non-genre of musick ever to bounce around vfw hall walls. on th strength of manifestos like <i>'our immediate goal is to buy some more beer'</i>, offbeats were snatched up late in th game by relativity in order to function as that label's very own replacements clones. it did not work and th US sank further into th great depression. before that, tho, they recorded a bunch of stuff they lost th masters to and then way later they dubbed their cassettes onto this record. latter-day member doug enkler went on to form prisonshake with griffin from spike in vain. read up, kiddies: <a href="http://www.clepunk.com/bands/offbeats/index.htm">clepunk article</a><p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?7h10wf3n92dtf8l">download</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-50112215557972006042012-09-12T13:49:00.000-04:002012-09-12T13:51:56.849-04:00Guided By Voices 'Crying Your Knife Away'<img src="http://i45.tinypic.com/331i142.jpg"><p>sleeve notes:<p><i>Bela Koe-Krompecher's 26th birthday party at Stache's in Columbus, Ohio, June 18, 1994. The party actually started at 3:00pm in Bela's backyard. Kegs were flowing and Pete Jamison manned the grill while Bela's grandmother (beer in hand) presided over the whole affair from a La-Z Boy in the middle of the yard. Records were traded, lies were told, and perception was severely impaired. Around 10:00pm the party went mobile, stumbling a few blocks away to Stache's. The drink of choice was Rolling Rock, and before GbV took the stage at least one band member caught a nap.<p>recorded, edited and mastered by Dave Doughman<br>house engineer Tera Stockdale<br>all songs copyright Needmore Songs (BMI) except last song (not from same show) by The Breeders, copyright Period Music</i><p>[note: this is ripped from th original vinyl - green & yellow wax]<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?662pxj68aza3rza">download</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-28586007919083331372012-07-11T20:37:00.002-04:002012-07-12T12:59:39.464-04:00FENSTER<img src="http://i49.tinypic.com/21e2qma.jpg"><p>fairly mersh, nicely orchestrated third wave ska. some distorto guitars but not so much punk to it. some melodic nods to th green day side of things on tracks like "fly as chuck" and some nice '70s jazz-funk type stuff on th following track, "pride and a pack of smokes". i'm sure th lyrics are fine but they might even suffer from a lack of th puns so many later ska bands live(d) on. a huge slice of a notable corner of late-'90s col's for ya here, with members of trigga happy and burlap sun guesting on th aforementioned tracks.<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?tx87q44a5wz4g86">download</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-50093507358108527732012-07-11T20:37:00.001-04:002012-07-12T12:58:01.560-04:00The Staggers Will Make Hundreds<img src="http://i47.tinypic.com/3498lk3.jpg"><p>when i mentioned th <a href="http://minimumtillagefarming.blogspot.com/2010/05/pillowbiters-better-luck-next-time.html">pillowbiters' misogynistic streak</a> i mentioned th staggers' even BIGGER one, simply because their other lp ('the staggers are dead, long live the staggers') is - seriously, here - th ONLY lp that has ever actually disgusted me. for some reason this one doesn't make me feel fucking filthy (no pun) when i throw it on. that may bum them out, but i'm not exactly sorry about it. of course they'll never top th wicked comp track <a href="http://cringe.com/redhour/mp3/Staggers_Hell.mp3">"hell"</a> (which they evidently despise), but this is some hella decent sub-amrep scuzz. members of <a href=http://cringe.com/diaphragm/classicalass.html">classical ass</a>, whose kickass lp i'll dig out & post one o' these days.<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?vrx5bbtvldu8gmu">download</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-83653758251554999392012-07-10T14:55:00.001-04:002012-07-10T15:01:40.340-04:00Anna Ranger 'Dolphin Blue' EP<img src="http://i45.tinypic.com/1oxap4.jpg"><p>three <i>fucking stellar</i> tracks from recent full-band sesh, check it out. not downloadable (who knows why, but i'm sure you can figure something out if that bugs ya). full lp to come this fall.<p><a href="http://annaranger.bandcamp.com/">http://annaranger.bandcamp.com/</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-45445838422872049982012-07-10T14:39:00.000-04:002012-07-10T14:39:33.058-04:00Jim Shepard & Charles Cicirella 'The Dispossessed'<img src="http://i47.tinypic.com/2lxum1w.jpg"><p><i>This entire session was recorded as you hear it - no planning or disgusting egos intervening. I came in from Cleveland, Jim already had music laid down (except for typewriter, acoustic guitar, violin, and aerosol can which were all laid down live and this includes dead traffic you hear throughout recording). I listened through headphones while reading poetry that in a large part was written either that day or previous afternoon. This CD is released as an honest & quite sublime testament to Jim's diverse artistic nature/temperament & how when the chemistry is good & stinking, like an over satiated sun, anything can and does occur. Jim and I were and still very much are caterpillar astronauts and I'll miss being his friend and foil FOREVER… ONWARD FORWARD INFINITE<br>Charles Eric Cicirella</i><p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?t94r75u3mlntiad">download</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-59448854321353326552012-07-10T14:38:00.000-04:002012-07-10T14:39:46.719-04:00Tree Of Snakes 'Beheaded' + "I Am A Lion"<img src="http://i47.tinypic.com/35je79d.jpg"><p><img src="http://i45.tinypic.com/29p2iyx.jpg"><p><img src="http://i48.tinypic.com/opjsz.jpg"><p>'nuf said! (except that this file also includes th four songs from th "i am a lion" 45!)<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?dhms9xymbenkskm">download</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-20820167877304719922012-06-06T17:03:00.002-04:002012-06-06T17:14:00.757-04:00Frostiva 'Ochnomos'<img src="http://i49.tinypic.com/2lcbw2d.jpg"><p>my first encounter with frostiva was when they were already broken up but some of 'em were called rabbit and they got a song on an <a href="http://minimumtillagefarming.blogspot.com/2010/09/alive-comps.html">alive comp</a>, so forgive me if i completely missed th boat. this disc knows what it's doing and clocks in at th perfect 26 minutes, tho' with six songs ya gotta wonder what th ladies are doin' rilly, i mean 15 songs/26 mins, sure, one song/26 mins, sure, but six/26? hm. well i can tell ya what they're doin' in fact is darkly jammin' around with some smooth and sinister harold faltermeyer synths they hint at with th first tune ("la magia verde") but there they are knee-deep in track three ("zero hour") after begging ya to notice in track two ("paramount impostor"). kind of a siouxsie-without-a-budgie vibe in some ways, or a magneta-lane-without-th-pop-songcraft. fourth tune ("eros") is straight in with a throwing muses approximation that almost immediately gives way to something that coulda been on th fourth or fifth lush lp. certainly a post-shoegaze vibe that carries over into th fifth track ("pathos") but th kind of shoegaze vibe that's aware that lush covered zounds on a single, and isn't afeared of borderline prog/math arrangements and that kristen hersh warble. this sounds more cle that col's even down to th post-industrialisms (<a href="http://minimumtillagefarming.blogspot.com/2011/05/lestat.html">lestat</a>, i mean) of th final number ("suspiria" - complete with those goblin synth-swathes). more than anything tho' i'm thinking they were a VERY indie <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb6M6RFF1Jk">heartthrobs</a> which makes sense i guess i mean they shoulda had a tune in th end credits of th l-word too. i think they're pretty much back together or at least were as behind you with knives (possibly th best kitchen reference band name ever).<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?hx9yzqm46ssdll2">download</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-32545490084303339822012-06-04T21:18:00.003-04:002012-06-04T21:19:41.522-04:00Human Boys<img src="http://i45.tinypic.com/2upxqts.jpg"><p>human boys have a lot in common with <a href="http://minimumtillagefarming.blogspot.com/2010/05/ipps.html">ipps</a> for sounding exactly dick like them: they play shows slim-to-no times a year; their tapes, tho' killer, pale extremely seriously in th face of those rare live shows; and they're in th tippity-topmost percentile of insanely great bands to ever aimlessly wander col's streets. th first of th two cassettes here compiled finds h.b. in a similar setup across th tracks, with one of 'em on drums, one of 'em on vocals (predominantly positively <i>SPAT</i> across whatever room they were in), and one' of em (i should mention there's only two of 'em) on grinding, distorted keyboards; th second tape obfuscates this arrangement (if indeed it's employed) with jackhammered samples and an even-more boombox-esque recording quality, but weaving thru th bilge is some of th most aggressively inventive aand necessary musick this side of th suicide, throbbing gristle, & this heat records that it belongs in league with.<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?4oulv5z6x86vgo7">download</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-87383614182027821712012-06-04T20:01:00.000-04:002012-06-04T20:13:54.078-04:00Superstar Rookie // Early Empire<img src="http://i49.tinypic.com/2r3xamw.jpg"><p>roughly 150,000 years ago i was talking to kevin from 84 nash and he mentioned that they (of consistent drummer woes up to that time) were almost positive they were gonna hire this dude dan i'd never met and would i like to go "check out" his band even though he played guitar in it? yeah, sure, ok, sez i, so we go to th then-newly-reopened northberg tavern (aka basement of donato's) and see superstar rookie play. i left afterward pretty jazzed aboot it cuz they were doing a sort of jawbreaker thing that was a lotta fun and (i know it seems impossible to believe) no one else was mining th same territory, so (for that as well as myriad musical reasons) it seemed damned fresh. after meeting those dudes my old band (don't ask) played with them many a time and they at one point dragged me to this funky, failing bar/grill they said they were gonna turn into a rock club by badgering th weirdo old dude there who would nuke you a hotdog for 75¢ (which they did, that place is our beloved bobo) and then of course after awhile they broke up like everybody does. dan (bandman) did indeed play with and eventually quit 84 nash and started the handshake and is now back drumming in kyle sowashes and for awhile a coupla th other rookie guys (travis & cop) had a band called early empire (with another handshake guy - joel walter, who also plays with kyle sowash now, but in his other band, animal cubes - as it happens), whose ep i am so nice as to include in this file here available as well. listening to th 'problem with words' disc after digging it out from oblivion a few months ago, i was pleased as PUNCH to note how well it's holdin' up. i ended up playing it three times at th bar that nite and no one bitched. <p><img src="http://i49.tinypic.com/wo6fc.jpg"><p>early empire are maybe a bit more "serious" - with some uncomfortable nods (probably inadvertent) toward th crummy butt-rock side of 'emotion' so prevalent in th late '90s (and still) - but it's good to hear th dudes let go on some of th mid-song passages and fast bits. their love for intertwine-y treepeople guitar figures really shines on "january one" - probably th most rookie-like of th songs on their disc - and their abiility to write sunny day-style stuff without completely ripping them off quite maybe inspired a little jealousy from th rookie's recordist jon chinn. (file includes th aforementioned 'the problem with words' cd & early empire ep - 'resolutions and a gun' - as well as superstar rookie's way-great debut 45 on diaphragm.)<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?2t3hbdmqldtg5ri">download</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-6353135214000834672012-06-03T20:42:00.000-04:002012-06-04T20:15:28.739-04:0016 Bitch Pile-Up<img src="http://i50.tinypic.com/30bierk.jpg"><p>sarah bernat was in town last last wknd (at least) & talkin' to her briefly at th bar reminded me that i'd found a few instances of their tapes &c being available to dl but hadn't mentioned that on this here blarg yet. as with all (sure) groops that get lumped in with their peers, 16 bitch are about as different from sword heaven as they are from rc mob, but their recordings are of such a consistently high quality that i wouldn't hesitate to mention them in th same breath with not only s.h. but mb, pengo, sightings, &c. if you actually downloaded th magician killer record (if not well <a href="http://minimumtillagefarming.blogspot.com/2011/07/magician-killer-hoodoo-dub.html">DO IT NOW</a>), dug it, & haven't heard these ladies, fucking pucker up. they released appr. 7000 records; here's four. thanks to <a href="http://noisenotmusic.wordpress.com">not noise music</a> and <a href="http://thestaticfanatic.blogspot.com">the static fanatic</a> for these.<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?y3u762gu4t3rb78">b.f.f.</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?wn2ztgfg2m1">lord hall</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?4a1nv21bvwg835a">make like a fetus and abort (with mike shiflet)</a><br><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mhmdemmmx3t">ADAD</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-302799008082606842012-06-03T16:06:00.000-04:002012-06-03T16:09:54.806-04:00Tom Foolery & The Mistakes<img src="http://i47.tinypic.com/24nipav.jpg"><p>before there was them kyle sowashes there was tom foolery and the mistakes and if you like th latter you'll like th former and fer shirley vice-a versa. once i seen em open for duvall in dayton. like you care.<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?a1i7414dn0pfxro">download</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-84048468531946383472012-06-03T16:02:00.000-04:002012-06-03T16:09:06.192-04:00The Bygones 'Circles'<img src="http://i45.tinypic.com/dph95f.jpg"><p>the bygones' first proper album-length release here, and tho' i prefer th two sessions prior (one released on cdr with a sleeve photo depicting much desk clutter and milwaukee's best and th other - th debut of "burgundy eyes" - simply a lost demo; i have since lost my copies of both of these), that doesn't mean this isn't a fuckin spectacular disc. every song on here is a <i>classic</i> and if anybody gave two sh*ts aboot th first wallflowers record i'd say this one deserves to be right up there alongside it. as it is, it is - but in th $3 bin (great things come from there). sigh.<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?75cbjcva4x63d84">download</a>cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-22692394287987388172012-05-12T18:51:00.001-04:002012-05-13T02:10:10.490-04:00Dirty Mouth<img src="http://i50.tinypic.com/24q7hvc.jpg"><p>
dirty mouth is in a lotta ways easily th best band in col's right now (even if it's simply because i can't think of one other band that's actually any fun*). their songs are all super good, they don't get bogged down in their politics, and they even have a good time scorching th shit out of a nirvana cover. all you Serious Punx™ take note: this is how it's done.<p>
<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?tlaj023ltomj5qq">new demo</a><p>
<a href="http://dirtymouth.bandcamp.com/album/dirty-mouth-demo">first demo for free on bandcamp</a><p>
*except hookers made out of cocaine, who are also fucking amazing.cruise_elroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04541033303273315559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325748690598590685.post-77560476663071763572012-05-08T20:34:00.000-04:002012-05-23T01:56:08.732-04:00Gut Piston 45<img src="http://i46.tinypic.com/j10x8x.jpg"><p>
same time i grabbed th <a href="http://minimumtillagefarming.blogspot.com/2012/03/gut-piston-demo-1992.html">recently-posted gut piston demo from '92</a> i got this 45 on eardrop from '95 - kind of a banner year in col's rock'n'scuzz and this here seven-incher belongs right up there on th short list of th era's TOP HITZ.<p>
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