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HEATHEN DISCO no. 372 TO LISTEN TO

Mountain Movers – Reclamation Yard

Paradize Next – SNOOZINN

Pan American & Kramer – Aquaculture

Adam Wiltzie – We Were Vapourised

Winged Wheel – Grief in the Garden

Outer World – The Message Is the Message

Pointe du Lac – Haménania Manania

Naum Gabo – Schinokapsala

Coffin Prick – Energy Crisis

Cartoon – Die Bonknacht

Torrey – Bounce

Jarvis Cocker – Black Magic

Rosali – Slow Pain

The Poppy Family – Beyond the Clouds

Zombi – Sessuale II

Cheech & Chong – Basketball Jones

The Cenobites – Mommy

Gravediggaz – Mommy What’s a Gravedigga

Jeru the Damaja – Come Clean

Craig Mack – Flava in Ya Ear

Big L – Put It On

Black Rob – Whoa

Pharoahe Monch – Simon Says

M.O.P. – Ante Up (Remix)

Ghostface Killah – The Juks

Loose Ends – Gonna Make You Mine

Lee Ritenour – Countdown (Captain Fingers)

The Sylvers – Now I Want You

Gregory Isaacs – If I Don’t Have You

Space Art – Welcome to Love

Steve Hillage – Palm Trees (Love Guitar)

San Kazakgascar – Crockett Creek

Einstürdenze Neubauten – Kein Bestandtell Sein

Nice Strong Arm – Dying Skin

Spacemen 3 – Big City

ZZ Top – Sleeping Bag

Lynyrd Skynyrd – That Smell

Ghost – Ballad of Summer Rounder

#mosurock #heathendisco #chicago #still single #vinyl #mixcloud

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Jared Leibowich in review

jared leibowich in review with his lp "secret spells" at dusted, still single and yellowgreenred yeah!

nice surprise, today and yesterday, that fantastic lp by mr. Leibowich got another batch of raving reviews Jennifer Kelly over at Dusted writes that Jared “has made an expansive, ebullient solo album here, meriting comparisons to the Papercuts, White Fence and Peel Dream Magazine and, even, once or twice, the Beach Boys in its full multi-tracked, multi-vocaled glory.” Doug Mosurock says…

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Maxine Funke — River Said (Disciples)

River Said by maxine funke

Maxine Funke has been making hushed and lovely songs with guitar and voice for more than a decade. Her songs are the dictionary definition of “less is more.” She strips elusive imagery to pencil-drawn simplicity. A whisper carries soft melodies over translucent lattices of acoustic picking, so that both voice and guitar nestle gently in your ear. And yet these songs are far from slight or ephemeral. They grow gnarly roots in your subconscious slyly and before you’ve really noticed it. Said Doug Mosurock in Dusted of the 2012 disc, Felt, “This is one of those records you’ll have a hard time shaking.”

This latest missive delivers the soft but faintly disturbing songs you’ve come to expect from Funke on one side and some intriguing long-form instrumental play on the other. The two halves of River Said are different but complementary, both water-pure reflections of the natural world (and an adjacent spiritual world), but in different timbres.

The song structured side starts with “Willow White,” a murmured beauty of soft intimations and fluid picking, a serene and bucolic piece with ghosts in the shadows. “A trifle early is the spring/whisper willow whispering,” Funke intones in lucid simplicity, conjuring a riverbank world in sunshine. Yet there are darker, fairy tale elements hovering in the margins, sleepwalkers and nightmare wakers and power lines droning overhead like a beast. Beauty coexists with unsettling archetypes. Later, “River Said,” unleashes eddies and swirls of guitar sound that seem to mimic the motion of water running downhill. An elliptical sketch of a picnic takes shape. Bottles are uncorked, beer is sipped, feet are dabbled in the stream. There is something so clear and simple about the song, and yet it slips in and out of focus.

These are solitary songs, and Funke sings and performs them by herself. “Call on You,” adds an overdubbed vocal counterpart, Funke answering Funke in a delicately gorgeous call and response, “I’m gonna call,” she trills, and then, fainter, like a mountain echo, comes the reply, “Call you.” The beauty of the songs comes in their purity and spareness, yet just this once, you see how ornamentation could fill them out and expand them.

Funke interspersed some instrumental intervals into Silk, layering keyboards and electronics and field recordings in abstract squiggles between verse-chorus songs. Here she explores similar un-song-like textures in two long tracks at the end of the album. You can almost smell the salt air in “Long Beach,” an extended meditation on surf and birdsong that Funke embellishes with subtle clicks and rattles of percussion and long crystalline organ tones that roll in and recede like the waves. “Oblivion” natters and scrapes with bowed tones, a cello apparently, but mussed and scratched to illegibility. Slowly a rhythm emerges in quick, overlapping swipes, and birds twitter, en masse, in the rafters. Funke adds some vocals in the second half of the cut, first intoning, then singing fragile lines about obsidian and sea lions. It is quite beautiful, in a shadowy, dream-haunted way, though you can never really get a firm grip on what it signifies.

Both the songs and the noise compositions have their merits—though I prefer the songs—and both distill natural energies into unruffled reflecting pools of sound. Both will calm you down, but also, if you let them, disturb you. These are gorgeous landscapes with sketched in trolls and demons in the margins, hard to see but showing their teeth.

Jennifer Kelly

#maxine funke #river said #disciples #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #acoustic guitar #folk #songwriter #new zealand #noise #field recordings

[salon-du-salon]

MINITEL

Juliette Bineau, Lionel Fernandez, Hendrik Hegray, Erik Minkkinen

minitel crie, chante, joue avec des guitares, des percussions, des lecteurs K7 et divers autres ustensiles non réglementés. minitel est transe joie et bruit. minitel comprend des gens comme Juliette Bineau, Lionel Fernandez, Hendrik Hegray, Erik Minkkinen /…/ no-wave bien digérée ou d’une transe bruitiste et mécanique par des activistes de la scène parisienne 

(Jérôme Noetinger ~ Metamkine)

The French they are a funny race. They like to do it with their________. Drum machines? Synthesizers? Baguettes? Aperitifs? I forget how that old chestunt ends, anyway, the Bruit Direct label is doing a fine service to us all by providing the most wonderous noise escargot, seemingly feeding their potent Gros Gris a diet of petit greens & toxic earth. The 2nd release, this 7″ from Minitel is a plump bugger ripe w/schizophrenic angst; the a-side is clearly borne out of the avant soil once trod upon by Ilitch & DDAA while the flip sounds like the band harvested an entire field of wormwood, distilling it into a noxious absinthe of Swans like potency.  

(Tom Lax ~ Siltbreeze)

Hot, tangled, primal noise scrape rock action with tons of moaning, drum triggers and full-on Greco-Roman scrambler guitar/FX box grapple. France’s answer to Sightings has produced a swift, saturated blow of old-school industrial terror and classic hive attack/defense tones for maximum discomfort. Some more peaceful, tribal motifs on “Sang” and “Minogue” on the B-side act as a cooling off from the hammer attack of the first two songs. Anti-music, pro-knuckledrag, and just what a lot of you yobbos out there want. Actually reminds me of the washing machine churn score of the movie “The Entity,” which Thurston realized the potential of on the Male Slut single. (Doug Mosurock ~ Dusted Magazine)

www.discogs.com/fr/release/1230111-Minitel-Minitel

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3/21/20.

I learned about this release from Doug Mosurock and his heathen-disco feed.  Romero are a Melbourne-based rock outfit.  As Doug points out they remind one a lot of Royal Headache - except these are female vocals.  Mosurock went on to say that some of us (ME!) might compare them to Sheer Mag (but I guess he doesn’t like Sheer Mag).

This is described as power-pop.  I think we need a new genre name for this that gives one a sense of the “soul” that is present with the aforementioned bands and Romero.  I mean, these songs could have been produced in Motown during the 60s with Phil Spector...the sound would have been different, but there would have been a shared sense of soul.

This is released on Cool Death Records - they’re also responsible for the amazing Tyrannamen release I mentioned several years ago.

#Romero #Melbourne #Australia #Cool Death Records #Doug Mosurock #heathen-disco #Royal Headache #Sheer Mag #Phil Spector #Motown #Tyrannamen

[mapledeathrecords]

Killer review for Metro Crowd by Doug Mosurock for @heathendisco / Still Single #mapledeathrecords #mdr029 #metrocrowd https://www.instagram.com/p/BxM0Yb-Fv8K/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1i0e6kz0uvpxy

#mapledeathrecords #mdr029 #metrocrowd

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Blades of Joy

Bandcamp Monday is back with something I was hipped to via Doug Mosurock’s new-ish e-newsletter Heathen Disco. Lots of good writing there, you should definitely sign up! Blades of Joy are a Bay Area four-piece that make me think of classic Paisley Underground janglers like Opal and the Rain Parade, but with a more powerful rhythm section driving things along, not to mention some tasty guitar heroics. Vocalist Inna has a dreamy voice that’s nicely contrasted by the revved-up nature of a lot of the songs (though Blades of Joy can write a beautiful Red House Painters-y ballad, too -- check out the gorgeously melancholy “22″). Really strong stuff, get into it. 

#blades of joy #bandcamp monday

[statechampion]

TROPICAL TRASH LP # 2 “SOUTHERN INDIANA DRONE FOOTAGE” OUT TODAY ON NATIONAL WASTE PRODUCTS (BORN FROM THE ASHES OF LOAD RECORDS). 1ST PRESSING OF 300. ART BY MATT LOCK.

“...Here TT deliver a tour-tightened, conspiracy theory-enlightened set of energetic noise rock, aggressive but leavened by human intellect and seemingly no desire to wallow in transgressive scum other than that which they make. It's maybe their most organized effort to date, definitely their most sympathetic recording, a clean representation of the band's power. It's my favorite record of theirs so far.” - Doug Mosurock

ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY! -- https://tropicaltrash.bandcamp.com/album/southern-indiana-drone-footage

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John Dwyer's pre Oh Sees band Coachwhips ready expanded reissue of "Night Train" (Girlsville)

John Dwyer’s pre Oh Sees band Coachwhips ready expanded reissue of “Night Train” (Girlsville)

Reading a review on the Still Single blog for Ruby Karinto’s new LP on HoZac, I noticed that underground rock scribe Doug Mosurock placed them in the conext of three fertile underground music scenes: New York City in 1978, Chicago in 1993, and San Francisco in 2002. Coachwhips Night Train is very much a dispatch from that San Francisco scene in 2002.

I had arrived in town the year prior and I…

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#2002 #Coachwhips #DEMOS #Girlsville #Night Train #OH SEES #Outtakes #San Francisco

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Live Picks: 6/21

Greys

BY JORDAN MAINZER

If you don’t want to take out a small loan, head to Sleeping Village.

The Rolling Stones, Soldier Field

You’ve probably heard it: The Rolling Stones have been on their No Filter tour since 2017, but not to the U.S. It was supposed to come to the U.S. a couple months back, but Mick Jagger had to get heart surgery (while Keith Richards somehow remains alive), and so the shows had to be postponed--for only two months? Isn’t that how long an NFL player is out with turf toe? In any case, now, the American leg of the tour starts tonight, here in Chicago, where the turf toed play, at Soldier Field. The Stones come back to Soldier Field on Tuesday, and the ticket prices are through the roof, so you’ll have a better chance of catching the band around town than seeing them in concert. But I had to include them here--they’re the Rolling Stones!

Alabama eight-piece soul band St. Paul & The Broken Bones open.

Miranda Lambert ft. Pistol Annies, Huntington Bank Pavilion

I’d normally stay away from the usually bro-infested Country LakeShake Music Festival at Huntington Bank Pavilion, but this year, the ladies are running the show--and righteously so. I’ve said for years that Miranda Lambert is one of the best songwriters of the decade, let alone country songwriters, and seeing her headline a festival is a treat unto its own. But to see her alongside the songwriting and singing prowess of Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley is another thing entirely. The country supergroup has released three albums this decade, most recently Interstate Gospel late last year, matching the feminist weed-whiskey-and-guns fire of Lambert’s output. Hearing those songs intermingled with Lambert’s will only further canonize her within contemporary country. 

Greys, Sleeping Village

I was a big fan of Outer Heaven, the 2016 second full-length release from Canadian post-punk band Greys. Last month, they followed it up with Age Hasn’t Spoiled You, and while it’s not the ear-catching, pummeling political force that Heaven was, it’s certainly the band’s most instrumentally varied album. It should make for a fascinating and blistering live show.

The Gotobeds headline. Rock band Ethers also open. DJ Doug Mosurock (Heathen Disco/​CHIRP Radio) spins before, between, and after sets.

#live picks #the rolling stones #soldier field #ronnie wood #st. paul and the broken bones #browan lollar #miranda lambert #huntington bank pavilion #country lakeshake music festival #pistol annies #ashley monroe #greys #sleeping village #carpark #shehjaad jiwani #the gotobeds #eli kasan #ethers #russell calderwood #mary mckane #tim thomas #doug mosurock #chirp radio

[still-single]

HEATHEN DISCO no. 368 (11 Feb 2024)

set 1

Loveliescrushing – Flowered Smother

Blitz – New Age

Squarepusher – Lone Raver (Live in Chelmsford Mix)

Can – Future Days

System – Don’t Disturb This Groove

Murlo – Cat Got Your Tongue

Beth Orton – Daybreaker

Los Doroncos – Drum

Longmont Potion Castle – Cement Pirates

Love Child – Stumbling Block

Michael Garrison – Eruption

set 2

Julee Cruise – Until the End of the World

Beverly & John Martyn – Auntie Aviator

MC5 – Miss X

Faxed – Down JT

David Nance – Cure Vs. Disease

Fiery Furnaces – Leaky Tunnel

Unrest – Cath Carroll (10cc Mix part 2)

The Cardigans – Erase/Rewind

Itasca – Imitation of War

Lupo Città – Only in Love

Eightball & MJG – Comin’ Out Hard (screwed & chopped)

Lès Modernos – Laques1

Claude Fontaine – Play By Play

Gabor Szabo – Every Second Counts

set 3

Dejing - Dejing 3

Just Mustard – I Am You

Skullflower – My Sweet Lord (excerpt)

Batard Tronique – Momo Star Flash

The Equals – Mystic Syster

The Fall – I’m a Mummy

Mope Grooves – Time Runs Out

ML Buch – Solid

Riki – Know

Cabaret Voltaire – Jazz the Computer

Hawkwind Zoo – Hurry On Sundown

Mount Florida – Space Echoes

Data – Blow

Midnight Mines – Cuntsville USA

The Skaters – 3

Janne Schaffer – Postman’s Knock

Shit & Shine – YOUR DADS A LOSER

Water Damage – Ladybird

#mosurock #heathendisco #still single #chicago #vinyl

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Hey, listen to this always great radio show by Doug Mosurock with a track off Zusammen Clark’s Earlier lp in the memory of Jean-Charles a great selection of new and old releases! records still available from us , now on sale cause you need those records.

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GG King — Remain Intact (Total Punk)

Remain Intact LP by GG KING

GG King has come a long way since he fronted the Carbonas and advanced substantially since his last full-length, Unending Darkness (of which, Doug Mosurock said, “Build your own world, rain on it, mope around, riff hard. There is no more complete of a voice in punk-leaning music right now,” in his year-end for 2015.) Remain Intact retains the fuzzy, drum-rupturing fury of GG King’s earlier work and incorporates roughly the same cast of characters: Ryan Bell on bass, Josh Feigert and Mike Koechlin on guitar (in addition to King himself), Tyler Kinney on drums and cameos from Chris van Etten, Graham Tavel and Andrew Wiggins. The difference is here that he makes the music anthemic. There are strong, memorable tunes under the dissonance here and at least a couple of songs that would be fists-up, lighters-lit, arena-sized bangers in an era that valued such things.

Start right at the beginning with “Remain Intact,” with its bright, clarifying guitar riff, not just the slash and burn punk strum you might expect, but something lighter, prettier, almost new wave in the tone-bending mesh. The chorus, too, is woozy but ear-wormy, slurred and snarled but inescapably tuneful. It is, right off the bat, more song-like than anything on Unending Darkness, which was excellent, but made roughly zero concessions to pop likeability.

“Melt On You” is even better, a ragged romantic ripper about love and death and surrender. It’s framed by big crashing chords and racheting drum play and comes on like a tidal wave, but you could sing the chorus after a single listen, and you’ll hear it in your head before you’ve been listening very long.

Not that King is going soft. “Dekalb County Endless” arises out of a brutal, rupturing explosion of bass; its narrative is yelped and groaned, an endless litany of Atlanta-area place names spat out in desolate contempt. (GG King does not appear to like the farmers’ market.) “Golden Horde Rising” machine gun sprays guitar riffs in every direction as it gallops headlong into the void. “Rising, rising, golden horde rising,” chants King and his band mates in a straightforward act of punk mayhem.

The disc ends in an odd but really kind of mesmerizing way with “Timesick (Doom and Gloom).” Here King talk sings against the woozy thunder of fuzzed out guitar about the nature of time. His observation, which will resonate with anyone who’s ever watched the progress bar in iTunes, is about how dividing the tedium up into ever smaller packages only hastens the race towards death. It’s a startling bit of philosophy from an artist who, so far, has seemed content to punch up the walls.

So, stronger tunes, better songs, deeper thoughts and, really, no major compromises. I’d call it a win. Remain Intact is understating things. GG King is still growing.  

Jennifer Kelly  

#gg king #remain intact #total punk #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #punk #atlanta #the carbonas

[iwillnotreturnyourrecords]

Michele - “Lament of the Astro Cowboy”. 1968, Curt Boettcher production, Lowell George on fiddle. 

Wowsers... amazing stuff!!!

Thanks to my pal Doug at @still-single and his show on chirpradio.org!

#mosurock #lament of the astro cowboy

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7/30/19.

Sometime crazy things happen.  Lester Maddox was elected governor of Georgia in 1966.  The Mets won the World Series in 1969.  And both Bill Roe and Doug Mosurock bought this new 7″ from Tyvek. 

Tyvek are a Detroit, Michigan based band.  Protomartyr is from the same town and while the bands don’t really sound alike, the urgency is there in both.  Tyvek tends more to the punk/garage/pop sound.

I can see comparisons to The Fall, Parquet Courts, or Bodega.  This, however is shorter bursts of music more reminscent in length (if not musically) to Tony Molina.

#Tyvek #Detroit #Michigan #Lester Maddox #The Mets #Doug Mosurock #Bill Roe #Protomartyr #The Fall #Parquet Courts #Bodega #Tony Molina

[mapledeathrecords]

Killer review for Metro Crowd by Doug Mosurock for @heathendisco / Still Single #mapledeathrecords #mdr029 #metrocrowd https://www.instagram.com/p/BxM0Yb-Fv8K/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17w891meemhll

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