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