While we work on crunk: Robert Scott's 'Ends Run Together' (Flying Nun, NZ - 2010)

We here at LOLOTD are working on some major crunk. In the mean time, we'd like to remind you that back in 2010, we said this about Robert Scott, he of The Clean, The Bats and The Magick Heads: "He has a voice and style that taps deeply. Very deeply.  It’s no wonder that his newest record – Ends Run Together – is another breathless doozy that occasionally makes the hair on our necks stand on end. It quietly slipped out in October and is 1.7th best present to our ears in 2010."

And so, one year later and with perhaps the best Bats record yet obscuring its beauty, let's not forget what came before. One song, "Born In A Tent", actually brought tears to our eyes a few times, and when combustible sonic art has that kind of power, all you can do is be thankful.

• Flying Nun will sell you this for lotsa $$$$, but that's just the way international monetary exchange works

• So, you may want to try it at Other Music first

Endless Boogie + Call Of The Wild + Bogan Dust @ Ewyun Pull 1/26/12

Roll 'Em Smoke 'Em Put Another Line Out

ENDLESS BOOGIE at Union Pool 1/19/12

The Alpaca Brothers "The Lie" (live - 1985)

This exists. 

2010 Back Again: MICHAEL HURLEY Blue Hills (Mississippi)

I wrote: 

"We here at LOLOTD realize it's unfair to compare such a singular treasure as Michael Hurley to anyone, but the first three songs on his lovingly reflective 2010 album Blue Hills – on which he explores electronic piano and pump organ - remind me of nothing less singular than two 1949 Lightnin’ Hopkins’ cuts from The Gold Star Sessions, Volume 1 (Arhoolie), which possess a similarly perpendicular hauntology.  Michael knows where the old people go - where we all go - and the grace with which he captures the horizon is lovely, solemn, resigned and poised. Thanks Michael.  It’s a great big sigh that calms me and therefore, Blue Hills is the 1.1.1.1.1^st (that is 2^nd) best present I sent to my ears in 2010... Which leaves just one more epistle." 

You can still get it at Goner

Snocko Website

KIM PHUC's Copsucker - What, no download code?

KIM PHUC 
Copsucker LP 
(Iron Lung)


So, this vinyl finally arrives via the USPS and it has a poster even. Solid. Solid as a rock. Stuzzadelic and very tempting it is to me. 

But here's an open letter to KIM PHUC and their friends:  Like I need a poster. Geezers are old and in the way. We ain't got time for vinyl, sitting by the record player (sorry, turntable) while it spins in real time. We just pretend.  Yea, I ordered it, but that's just some archaic habit formed when dinosaur jr roamed the Earth. Geezers need audio accompaniment while they take the dishes out of the dishwasher, organize tax receipts and sit in traffic on the Grand Central Parkway waiting for the slaughter. Vinyl serves no purpose in these trying times. 

Where's the download code? They are de rigueur. What's your problem, KIM PHUC? I don't get this crap with Drag City. You have made me cross, Kim Phuc. See you on the 4th. 

 I remain bleary eyed with stained teeth.

Order it here, but don't expect a download code

A 2012 Recap of 2010's Kings of Rock: DEFEKTORS The Bottom of The City

DEFEKTORS  The Bottom Of The City LP

(Nominal/Grotesque Modern)

Wish I had more time tonight to rant about the potency of this one. 2012, you burden me with obligations <sigh>. Anyway, that which was  written in 2010 is sparse, but is thus:

"ATPJR is reminded of nothing less than the Users’ Sick of You/(I’m) In Love With Today 7” and the slightly elder division of the Raw Records stable (okay, but not the Gorillas) when listening to Defektors' bracing racket on The Bottom of the City, which makes it the 1.2.1^st best present sent to mine ears in 2010. Vancouver, who knew?"

Don't let one of the laziest pieces I've ever written dissuade you, The Bottom Of The City  is 1000% fox! 

Defektors at Nominal Records

Defektor Live 2010

SCARCITY OF TANKS coming to SECRET PROJECT ROBOT 1/21/12, invite SIGHTINGS and GUARDIAN ALIEN as interpreters

There's a certain demographic for whom this show is ground zero, and we here at LOLOTD are probably it. You were either disappointed when Universal Congress Of failed to strap one on like Dick Destiny & the Highway Kings or you really do love those Ronald Shannon Jackson records. 

Either way, SCARCITY OF TANKS will right that which was wronged. And if you're worried that SIGHTINGS could give you a headache, then you're not ready for the upcoming feedtime box. Either way, SCARCITY OF TANKS will right that which is wronged. And yes, SIGHTINGS will give you a headache. Also playing: GUARDIAN ALIEN, Borbetomagus, X-X and Oneida!

It's almost 500 miles from Cleveland to Bushwick. The least we can do is wave to each other.

Drugstore Logic



Belonging To October

Overlooked Records 2011 
by Marc Masters and Grayson Currin


SCARCITY OF TANKS

A Wicked Company 2012 - ATPJR's Dedication to Trash Flow Radio

We here at LOLOTD and A Wicked Company know it takes two, at least, to spawn love – or, as they say in Cincinnati, nothing, nothing, nothing but love! Consequently, we continue our 2011 appreciation with a mix dedicated to Cinci’s Trash Flow Radio as served up by Ken Katkin and Jon Lorenz, who disseminate the progressive agenda via their weekly rocknroll sermons with art damaged verve and style.

A Wicked Company 2011 - Trash Flow Dedicaxxion from ATPJR on 8tracks

Having been employed in the mixology industry since 1978, this is without a doubt  LOLOTD's 7th or 8th best sequencing of combustible sonic art yet. Our Trash Flow Dedicaxxion includes offerings from American treasures ANTIETAM and ELEVENTH DREAM DAY, resurrected NYC perpendiculars the SCENE IS NOW (and it is!), impresario Bob Pfiefer's return in the guise of the TABBY CHINOS (along side Cynthia Sley, Don Fleming, Bob Bert, et al),  spiritual engendering via Texas sweat loafs CRUDDY, the DIKES OF HOLLAND (albeit with a late 2010 showing), MIND SPIDERS and - with the best song of 2011 - LITERATURE's "Esquire Esquire" (after  the other best song of 2011, LITERATURE"S "Manmade Man"), Gowanus bayou sweetheart ZACHARY CALE, arterial soul from AZITA and under appreciated dark twang from San Francisco's beguiling SANDWITCHES, who, despite their inability or unwillingness to make a live impact, delivered a touching and unforgettable 2011 missive on relational conflict with Mrs. Jones' Cookies. 

We also include exemplars of DAVID KILGOUR's return to form and crust  vitality from HOAX, burning Olympian sensations with an affection for Deep Wound, MILK MUSIC, a concise and revealing autobiographical knockout from KID CONGO & the PINK MONKEY BIRDS, left field trio ruminations from Brooklyn's awesome HOUSEHOLD, sweet honey in the rock from SORE EROS, a haunting rendering of CRABSTICK's Stud or Houseboy? from the TWERPS, reckless neighborly collaboration greater than the sum of its parts from the BABIES, dream weaving shorn of hiss from Ohio's TIMES NEW VIKING and  classic heartbreak from Cincinnati's greatest band not named the Isley Brothers, WUSSY. 

Also, the FEELIES! 

And finally, KEN KATKIN himself, in a super rare recording from the summer of 1991, in which he regales us with a list of what's in and what's out, followed by DEATH OF SAMANTHA, because they rule. Ruled. Maybe to rule again.

¡Viva la Revolución!

2010 again? Why not? A 2010 appreciation of Sabbath Assembly's 'Restored To One'

THE SABBATH ASSEMBLY Restored To One (The Ajna Offensive - 2010)

From 2010: ATPJR understands the No Neck Blues Band can be difficult, and I’m not talking about the music.  Dogged to the last, if not periodically surfacing for air they would’ve killed each other years ago. And the art of surfacing has yielded some sweet bulbs indeed, personal faves being D. Charles Speer, TEST, Malkuth, the lamented Suntanama, K. Salvatore, [and Decimus!] and now, Sabbath Assembly. Restored to One sounds like nothing less than Dave Nuss' collaborative ode to his restive spiritual quest, which is as serious as his life, make no mistake. Superficially akin to those Xian psych sides of yore, these are nine Process hymns exquisitely rendered, with Jex Thoth up front tapping the source. The 21st best present I sent to my own ears in 2010? Sabbath Assembly’s Restored to One! Come together, right now, over me.

The Ajna Offensive

Sabbath Assembly at Love Sex Fear Death NYC

A Wicked Company 2012 - ATPJR Doesn't Not Look Back

A Wicked Company 2011 - ATPJR doesn't not look back from ATPJR on 8tracks.

ATPRJR is listing, gradually, about 2011 throughout 2012. This mix dedicated to Brian Turner and Jim Lastnamenoneofyourbusiness, members in perpetuity of a wicked company. Includes 2011 highlights from the Obnox, Stare Case and a throwback to a time before this with a drizzled reissue of Bloodloss' 'The Truth Is Marching In' on Memorandum Recordings.


With the Mind Spiders, Apache Dropout, Flesh Lights, Literature, Royal Headache, Purling Hiss, the Obnox, Naked On The Vague, K-Holes, Bloodloss, TV Ghost, Above Ground, Stare Case, Prurient, Lady Piss, Pygmy Shrews, Shoppers, Creem, HPP and Creamers. 

(We're taking 2011 all the way to 2013).

2010 Revisited - Fursaxa: Mycorrhizae Realm (ATP Recordings)

Listing gradually and revisiting 2010, as it is my old friend. I wrote:  ATPJR [no relation to ATP] became curiouser and curiouser in 2010, forgot quite how to speak good English and consistently sent presents to is own ears, some of which he will recount during the last few weeks of 2010. How odd the directions will look!

I do not reach levitation easily. But at Kutsher’s on 9/4/10, the offering by Fursaxa – Tara Burke + Helena Espvall and Mary Lattimore – broke my horizon and outdistanced my door. The early afternoon gin ‘n’ tonic scored an assist, no doubt. 2010’s offering is Mycorrhizae Realm and is the 15th best present I sent to my ears during this most beguiling of years .

Fursaxa at ATP 2010

2012's Wicked Company Already? Literature's 'Arab Spring'

Who pulled the shades up?

Literature’s manic minute and fifty-nine second “Manmade Man” was an obvious nugget on Casual Victim Pile II - a compilation that should be rechristened Nuggets anyway - but in no way did it hint at the wowfully delicious filtering of sunny available on Arab Spring. I’ve owned this music – can’t say record, cuz it was downloaded from their bandcamp page – for about what, twelve hours?  Three full plays since the start of January 2^nd 2012, the first round concluded before I even reached the Grand Central Parkway/L.I.E. interchange, and I can’t help but spill silly in an attempt to share; golly, I’m almost giddy. Could be reaction formation, because not everyone gets the privilege of enjoying a great sun drenched January day listening to whatever the fuck they want. In fact, this guy over at the Morton Report profiled Literature on 12/29/11 and wrote, “Literature is a band with a good future if they can but get their music into your hands.” No, Mr. Morton, Literature is now.  Who knows about the future?  We all suffer and while Literature’s music won’t necessarily forestall it, there’s a chance it will make good days even brighter.

It’s a privilege to laze in Literature’s unfettered vessels of the heart and if a comparison fits, the one I’m coming up with is Orange Juice filtered through Harlem, with a dash of those Magic Kids even.  Apparently they have a 2009 record that possibly sounds like Arab Spring, who knows.  But despite this being released on 12/21/11, it’s not going on the 2011 list. I’m saving it for 2012. Literature – if you make it to NYC, I know some geezers who’ll be waiting.

2011's Wicked Company...Music Has No End (with commentary)

Oh, all right. 

As widely reported throughout the media, Left of Left of the Dial has been forced to recant its decision to roll out its Best of 2011 list, slowly, week by week, until March 2012. LOLOTD Chair ATPJR was quoted as saying, "Based on Left of Left of the Dial reader input, we believe the best path forward is to encourage readers to take advantage of the best and most efficient options, eliminating the need to institute the delayed Best of 2011 list at this time." 

So in no particular order - yet - the records listed below have been loved muchly (no $2 convenience fee for reading either): 

• ZACHARY CALE Noise of Welcome cd (All Hands Electric)
• CRUDDY Negative World lp (12XU)
• WUSSY Strawberry (Shake It)
• Au-Go-Go 
• ROYAL HEADACHE Royal Headache lp (R.I.P. Society)
• KITCHEN'S FLOOR Look Forward To Nothing lp (Siltbreeze)
• TOTAL CONTROL Henge Beat lp (Iron Lung)
• Casual Victim Pile II comp lp (12XU)
• ANTIETAM Tenth Life cd (Carrot Top)
• GROUPER 
• A I A Dream Loss lp
• A I A Alien Observer lp (both Yellow Electric)
• THE MEN Leave Home cd (Sacred Bones)
• MIND SPIDERS Mind Spiders lp (Dirtknap)
• ELEVENTH DREAM DAY Riot Now! lp (Thrill Jockey)
• APACHE DROPOUT Apache Dropout lp (Family Vineyard)
• the SANDWITCHES Mrs. Jones' Cookies (Empty Cellar)
• the BATS Free All The Monsters cd (Flying Nun)
• D.CHARLES SPEER & the HELIX Leaving The Commonwealth lp (Thrill Jockey)
• Better In The Red Than Dead (despite the Spits)
• KID CONGO & the PINK MONKEY BIRDS Gorilla Rose
• WOUNDED LION IVXCDM
• THEE OH SEES Carrion Crawler/ The Dream
• the UV RACE Homo
• TV GHOST Mass Dream 
• the PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT II cd (No Quarter)
• EVANGELISTA In Animal Tongue cd (Constellation) 
• BOB PFEIFER/TABBY CHINOS University of Strangers book/download (Power City Press)
• CIRCUIT DES YEUX Portrait lp (De Stijl)
• the FEELIES Here Before cd (Bar/None)
• So you think I got a funny face, well I got no worries
• LADY PISS Streaming 12" (Sympathizer)
• SHAVED WOMEN Shaved Women 12" ep (Rotted Tooth)
• RICK RIZZO & TARA KEY Double Star lp (Thrill Jockey)
• 2010, we hardly knew ye, but I'd like to thank my wife for letting me out to see these bands when them came through NYC during 2011...Dikes of Holland twice! Thanks hon.
• DIKES OF HOLLAND Dikes of Holland lp (Sundae)
• the YOUNG Voyagers of Legend lp (Mexican Summer)
• MILK MUSIC Beyond Living  lp (Perennial)

19. DECIMUS 3 lp (Kelippah)

20. the OBNOX I'm Bleeding Now ep (Smog Veil)

21. Hey Tim Warren, you win

• XRAY EYEBALLS Not Nothing cd (Kanine)
• K-HOLES K-Holes cd (Hozac)

22. the SCENE IS NOW Magpie Alarm cd (Tongue Master)

23. SHOPPERS Silver Year (Feeble Minds)

24. AZITA Disturbing The Air lp (Drag City)

25. HPP HPP 7" ep (Perennial)

Well the names have all changed since you hung around

• SUPREME DICKS Breathing and Not Breathing  4 cd [box] (Jagjaguwar)
• BLOODLOSS The Truth Is Marching In 1983-1991 2 cd (Memorandum)
• HUMAN SWITCHBOARD Who's Landing In My Hangar? Anthology 1977-1984) cd (Bar/None)
• FMP: Im Rückblick/In Retrospekt  10 cd [box] (FMP - 2010)
• MICKEY NEWBURY American Trilogy 4 cd [box] (Drag City)

 Death cannot stop true love. 

All it can do is delay it for a while.

...

• LAUGHING CLOWNS Don't Ask Stupid Questions To An Artist, Cop [Live 1982] cd (Prince Melon - 2010)
• ELIANE RADIGUE Transmorem-Transmortem cd (Important)
• VIDEO Leather Leather lp (Play Pinball!) 
• MICHAEL CHAPMAN The Resurrection and Revenge of the Clayton Peacock lp (Ecstatic Peace)
• MICHAEL CHAPMAN Trainsong: Guitar Compositions 1967-2010 2 cd (Tompkins Square) 
• P.G. SIX Starry Mind cd (Drag City)
• Cartagena! Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound of Colombia 1962 - 1972 comp cd (Soundway)
• WICCANS Skullduggery lp (Katorga Works)
• This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM 1957-1982 3 cd comp(Tompkins Square) 
• NATE YOUNG Stay Asleep (Regression, Vol. 2) lp (NNA)
• SORE EROS Just Fuzz cd ep (Blackburn)
• PYGMY SHREWS You People Can All Go Straight To Hell lp (Jack Shack)
• WHORE PAINT Menarchy 7" ep (Anchor Brain)
• MIKE WATT hyphenated-man cd (org/clenchedwrench)
• SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Asleep On The Floodplain cd (Drag City)
• SIGHTINGS Future Accidents lp (Our Mouth)
• TIGER & WOODS Through The Green cd (Running Back)
• PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT Laced cd (Fat Cat)
• NOCHEXXX Savage Herald/Charo 12" (Ramp)
• RHYS CHATHAM Outdoor Spell cd (Northern Spy)
• VIVIAN GIRLS I Heard You Say 7" Polyvinyl)
• MEDICATION Judgement Day 12" ep (Sacred Bones)
• ROBAG WRUHME Thora Vukk cd (Pampa)
• TIMES NEW VIKING Dancer Equired cd (Merge)
• STARE CASE Lose Today lp (De Stijl)
• the SKULL DEFEKTS with HIGGS Peer Amid cd (Thrill Jockey)
• BALACLAVAS Snake People cd (Dull Knife)
• NEGRO SPIRITUALS song on Tumblr
• JACKMASTER Fabriclive 57 cd (Fabric)
• ALVARIUS B Baroque Primitiva lp (Poon Village)
• the FLESH LIGHTS Muscle Pop lp (Twistworthy)
• KINGDOM OF SUICIDE LOVERS System vs. Factory 7" (Golden Hour)
• DAN MELCHIOR Assembalge Blues lp (Siltbreeze)
• ICEAGE New Brigade lp (What's Yr Rupture?)
• FACTORY FLOOR NYC Fall 2011 cd ep (Factory Floor)
• DAVID KILGOUR & the HEAVY EIGHTS Left By Soft cd (Merge)
• AVON LADIES Guns & Gold 7" ep (Katorga Works)

The following have yet to be heard. They are nonetheless highly touted by those held in high esteem, and sometimes we need a friend. I may not have had the pleasure of enjoying these macushlas personally in the calendar year of 2011, but one day I hope they're living all over me: 

• OBN IIIs The One and Only (Tic Tac Totally)
• CHRIS FORSYTH & KOEN HOLTKAMP: Early Astral (Blackest Raindbow)
• LOS LLAMARADA Gone Gone Cold lp (S-S)
• BLOODLOSS  Lost My Head for Drink lp (Dirty Knobby)
• Borgata Boredom lp comp (No=Fi, Italy)
• WHITE OUT Asphalt and Delay lp (audioMER, Belgium)
• SCORPION VIOLENTE Uberschleiss lp (Avant!, Italy)

• BROKEN WATER Peripheral Star 12" (Perennial)
• PHANTOM FAMILY HALO/MEAH! split 7" (Sophomore Lounge )
• the MALEFACTORS OF GREAT WEALTH Today Is the Best Day of My Life cdr (Old 3C)
• MARS Live at Artists Space lp (Feeding Tube)
• OVENS 7” EP (Catholic Guilt)
• the FLESH LIGHTS/NAW DUDE split 7" (12XU)
• JAKOB OLAUSSON Morning & Sunrise (DeStijl)
• OBN IIIs The One and Only (Tic Tac Totally)
• CHRIS FORSYTH & KOEN HOLTKAMP: Early Astral (Blackest Raindbow)
• LOS LLAMARADA Gone Gone Cold lp (S-S) 
• SHELLEY SALANT & FRED THOMAS Duo C-40 (Life Like)
• BARDO POND / CARLTON MELTON split (Agitated)
• COULOURS 12” EP (Freelovinganarchists)
• SEX CHURCH | Beneath the Bottom | Growing Over | Load 
• NO NECK BLUES BAND Ytiu lp (Kelippah)
• CHUCK BETTIS Urgency Renewal cd-r(donttrusttheruin)
• DECIMUS 8 lp [and all the others] (Kelippah)
• MATANA Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Conleur Libres cd (Constellation)
• ALL THE COLD One Year Of Cold (Kunsthauch) cd 
• BAD INDIANS The Path Home 7" (Ginkgo)
• OMMA COBBA lp (Sweet Rot)
• PSANDWICH Northren Psych(Columbus Discount)
• COLA FREAKS Cola Freaks lp (Douchemaster)
• NATE WOOLEY/CHRIS CORSANO/C. SPENCER YEH Seven Storey Mountain cd (Important)
• POOR SONS Dyunes EP (self-released) cassette 
• BILL ORCUTT How The Thing Sings cd (Editions Mego, Austria)
• the PAPERHEAD The Paperhead  lp (Trouble In Mind)
• SHIGGAJON Asconema LP (Chironex)
• BILL DIXON Envoi (Victo, Canada)
• JEFFREY NOVAK "Back At The Bottom" 7" ep (Trouble In Mind)
• DREXCIYA Journey of a Deep Sea Dweller (Clone Classics)
• DANIEL KNOW Evryman For Himself (La Société Expéditionnaire)
• DEAD GHOSTS Dead Ghosts lp (Florida's Dying)
• JOHN WIESE Seven of Wands cd (Pan)
• FAT WORM OF ERROR Broods lp (Ecstatic Peace)
• the PAPERHEAD Focus In On...The Looking Glass lp reiss (Trouble In Mind)
• PREDATOR Predator lp (Douchemaster)
• FARMERS BY NATURE Out of This World's Distortion (Aum Fidelity)
• BURNING SENSATIONS Burning Sensations 12" (Vertex, Australia)
• CHARALAMBIDES Exile (Kranky)
• ULTRATHIN Glass City 7" (Bad Master)
• EVAN PARKER/OKKYUNG LEE/PETER EVANS The Bleeding Edge cd (Psi, UK)
• BARRERACUDAS Nocturnal Emissions cd (Douchemaster)
• 3 TOED SLOTH Jukebox Single #2 7" (Negative Guest List)
• PROVIDIEN Followed by a Wraith lp (Amethyst Sunset)
• RICHARD PINHAS & MERZBOW Rhizome/Paris 2008 cds (Cuneiform)
• MANNEQUIN MEN Mannequin Men lp (Addenda)

...as well as music from AUTHORIZATION, LESLIE KEFFER, PULSE EMITTER, the LOST DOMAIN, WEIRD TV, HANK IV, the FEELING OF LOVE, HAUNTED HOUSE, PER PURPOSE, KIM PHUC, PLATES OF CAKE, WATERY LOVE, the RENDERERS, LIQUOR STORE, MICHAEL BEACH and probably 1000's more.