Space Ritual....

I admit it. I am a HUGE Hawkwind fan...always have been - call 'em hippies if you like.... I'm all about the space rock. Saw them on LSD in my early years and they blew my head maaaaan. Here's part 1 of 9! doc about them... more to follow..

Society Suckers

Tales Of Terror

Tales Of Terror was a semi-legendary Sacramento punk band known for noisy metallic tunes and chaotic drunken shows. Their sole album was released in 1984 on San Francisco's CD Presents label and is pretty tough to find these days (anybody with an extra copy get in touch!). Buried inside one of the all-time greatest punk rock album covers are 12 loud songs influenced by My War-era Black Flag, the Dead Boys, Flipper and probably more than a bit of the hard stuff. Here's an old Thrasher video of the band playing a couple tunes intercut with some classic SF street skating courtesy Mark Gonzales, Steve Rocco and Jesse Martinez...

Rock N Roll Outlaw

The unsung heroes of Aussie rock have to be Rose Tattoo.... every fucker in the world knows ACDC, but only a few harder headbangers have found out about these Aussie gems (let's forget about the Neighbors soap opera love song sibger Angry Anderson did shall we??). All their stuff is great, but the 1st 2 LPs (Rock N Roll Outlaw and Assault & Battery) can't be beat for down and dirty rock n roll.

Ooga Boogas

Let's keep the Aussie theme rolling.... featuring folks from Eddie Current Suppression Ring who you have heard me fawning over a few weeks back the Ooga Boogas fall into the same category, but maybe looser and more out there. If someone hadn't tipped me off I would have avoided them...I mean Ooga Booga? c'mon!.... The Lp on Aarght Records is a banger and has seen a lot of time on the turntable these past few weeks. Of course I missed them when they toured. Typical.

Sharpies!

This early 70s Melbourne, Austrialian scene only recently came to my attention... like a weird cross between glam rockers, hooligans, and skinheads. They seem to have emerged out of the fanbase of proto-punk garage rocker Lobby Lloyd/Colored Balls... worth looking into.
check out the nick of these fuckin' tickets!

Detroit Soul

No...not what you're thinking - we're not digging back into the crates of the 60's - I'm talking later Detroit.... Detroit techno. I promised one of the few readers we'd dig up some shit from his home town.... so here we have it. I was a huge fan of this in the early 90's, still am - but have kinda lost track of where everyone is. Jeff Mills is still the king of the decks - back in the day he was the Wizard on pirate radio, then a member of Underground Resistance. Now he does stuff with orchestras and movies. Just watch his hands. Genius.