Lou Miami - Dancing with Death

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

Mogwai - Punk Rock (via applesacks)

The aforementioned interview, sampled in Mogwai’s excellent Punk Rock, synched with the interview footage. Sometimes the internet is wonderful.

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.

Keys to the Streets of Fear - Modern World (Jonathan Richman cover)

One of the many projects of Elio Deluca. This cover of Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers was a Boston Phoenix exclusive a few years back.

The Specials - Nite Klub

Hello weekend!

All the girls are slags and the beer tastes just like piss.

The Specials - Ghost Town (high quality) (via Punkanr)

James Chance & the Contortions - Contort Yourself

Yes, yes, yes.

postpunk:

dontcookbilly:

I’ve been listening to a lot of James Chance and the Contortions recently. There’s something about his Brian Eno supported No Wave punk that I really like.  They’re my favorite part of the No New York compilation. It’s basically James Brown funk meets Talking Heads Lower East Side art rock meets Vic Godard and the Subway Sect punk.

The Clash - Lost in the Supermarket

Little anti-materialism for what looks to be a beautiful spring day.

I came in here for the special offer - Guaranteed Personality!

The Wipers - Potential Suicide

Heading into the weekend seems about as good a time as any to post a Wipers track. This is from the early Is this Real? album - love that bassline. I guess Nirvana did too.