The Fall - To NK Roachment: Yarbles

The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

Yes, it’s the title track, which I suppose makes it a lazy choice…but it really is a crazy rhythm.

Loop - Rocket USA

Hypnotic experimental noisemakers covering Suicide with HAL-9000 soundbytes scattered throughout the album (Heaven’s End)…that’s a slice of heaven right there.

Lou Miami - Dancing with Death

Little-known Boston post-punk Lou Miami & the Kozmetiks, absolutely killing it.

Human Sexual Response-Cool Jerk (via workjobb)

I just can’t resist, even after posting the mp3 album version yesterday. This video is just too incredible to pass up.

Human Sexual Response - Cool Jerk

More Boston post-punk/new-wave fun. This album version is good, but my feeling is that it doesn’t even touch the live show. There’s a great vid on YouTube.

Lou Miami Dancing with Death (via MrEdLemos)

Sexton’s been all fired up about discovering Lou Miami & the Kozmetix, Boston punks from about 1980. Miami put out one album and was apparently a great live show. I think the best description I can come up with is that he was an aggressively homosexual punk that was probably a few years too early to catch on.

This video was just uploaded this past month and is new to us - it’s got a great do-it-yourself feel and an appropriate amount of weirdness, especially the Bergman-inspired figures wandering around the cemetery. This is probably his best song; the lyric “i’m dancing with death - don’t look at my face” is great, especially when he’s screaming it at the end. Also appropriate, considering his eventual death by drug overdose.

Wire - Strange

I can’t believe I’ve never posted a track from Wire…Pink Flag is an all-time favorite album that I listen to frequently. Actually, a quick glance at Last.fm shows it to be the overwhelming winner as my most-listened album (probably more to do with the many one minute or less songs).

tuneage:

The Embarrassment - “Celebrity Art Party”

American post-punk is full of nervous nerds. The New York no wave scene turned bleakness and anxiety into contorted, self-destructive anti-rock. Devo channeled an “Uncontrollable Urge” and traced the devolution of our species. The Talking Heads played the outsiders-looking-in and charted with “Psycho Killer” and “Life During Wartime”. The Feelies mused about “The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness” and invented Weezer with their first album.

Fitting squarely within this tradition are the Embarrassment, the best Wichitan bar-band you’ve never heard of. The band once described their music as “blister pop”, and 1981’s “Celebrity Art Party” pops, blisters, and pops blisters. The volatile, angular guitars and trenchant lyrics leads one to suspect that the band are trying their damnedest to crash that artistic, narcissistic party. A nerd-rock coup d’état? Well, the Embos were certainly nerds.

For some strange reason, I woke up with this song in my head two days ago after not hearing it for a couple months or so…and it’s been on endless loop in my skull ever since. Best Tumblr discovery ever. Thanks Post Punk!

indie-rock-warriors:

Mission Of Burma. Studio sessions. 2009

Great stuff. Saw them live a few months back and they were having a lot of fun; hopefully these sessions will yield something more Vs. than ONoffON (which was still miles ahead of what most bands are putting out).