UT Publishing being the book arm of Ugly Things magazine, just the folks to publish the story of Dutch sixties beat-psych greats Q65! 205 b&w illustrated pages, full of drama, drugs, and of course the making of some amazing music. Fans know that Q65 were, like, Holland's answer to the Stones, or maybe the Pretty Things, so you can imagine that they have some stories to tell! Definitely lots of rock n' roll craziness, at least as much as the surviving members can remember...
A cool and totally DIY daily planner/calendar for 2012 that's also filled with tons of awesome tips for life in San Francisco, covering everything from knowing your rights as a worker to free nights at theaters, fish to avoid, taxi cab numbers, 24 hour diners, weekly food cart meet-ups, farmers markets, knitting patterns, needle exchange places and more... all done with a total lo-fi punk rock aesthetic, plus there are loads of listings for cool events happening during the year. Rad for people who live here to have as a resource and functioning calendar/daily planner, as well as any of you out of towners who think you might be coming to SF at any point in 2012, or hell anyone who just wants a bad ass daily planner.
It also comes with a cd compilation of San Francisco bands including Full Moon Partisans, The Dont's, The Abi Yo-Yo's, and more.
Another big glossy colorful issue of this UK mag devoted to the cool music of (mostly) yesteryear, psych pop folk prog garage etc. The theme this ish is "Beatleisms", which means there's an article all about the sometimes obscure bands/albums that tried to carry on the sound of the Fab Four into the '70s (like Emmit Rhodes, Rockin' Horse, Blue Ash, We All Together and tons more), and also specific features on some of most interesting/successful/weird/notable, like Klaatu, The Rutles, Stackridge and Harry Nilsson... Plus there's stuff on '70s solo Paul McCartney too.
Also, not quite so Beatlesly, this issue also features The Hammersmith Gorillas, The Hollywood Stars, Simones, The Deviants, and more.
Another big thick issue (146 pages) of this Mojo-meets-Ugly Things music mag from England, devoted to cool music of '60s / '70s vintage, or stuff that sounds like it. This ish, baroque popsters The Left Banke (you saw our reviews of their recently reissued records) grace the cover. Also: Annette Peacock, Buffalo Springfield, the High Llamas, Roy Harper, and Los Dug Dug's, amongst others! There's a Munster label feature, an article about the "Paisley Underground" scene, and a Hawkwind album art feature that threw us into confusion: is the album called "In Search Of Space", as we always had thought, or actually "X In Search Of Space", which seems to be the case?
A mixture of Mojo and Ugly Things, this colorful magazine is always a nice read for those who like their music a little bit on the vintage side. On the cover this month, The Hollies! Wait, no, flip it upsidedown, it's the Ramones as the cover stars!! Also this issue: The Bosstown Sound, Popol Vuh, Stephen Stills, The Incredible String Band, reviews, news, all the usual stuff...
Another issue of this rad retro mag from England, featuring Paul Revere and the Raiders on the cover, along with cult power poppers Shoes, psychsters Sun Dial, proggers Caravan, and plenty more... The Stooges, Alex Chilton, The Lemon Drops, The Yardbirds, Granny's Intentions, all that and more this ish.
Another issue of this colorful British magazine devoted to cool music from way back when, the psychedelic and punk eras in particular... The cover is shared this ish by the legendary Lee Hazlewood and the cheerful insanity of Giles, Giles, & Fripp (pre-King Crimson psych pop genius). Also inside, everything from the Damned's Captain Sensible, to proto-metallers Bang, to Michael Fennelley of The Millenium and Crabby Appleton, to UK heavy proggers Samuel Prody... and plenty more, old and new. Lotsa reviews, news, all the usual stuff. Basically if you read Mojo and/or Ugly Things, you should be reading Shindig! too.
"Psych, garage, prog, powerpop, soul, folk..." are this retro-minded magazine's into. This ish, features The Birds (no, not the Byrds) on the cover. Y'know, Ron Wood's band before he was in the Stones. Also: Swedish psych poppers Tages, John Sebastian, The Remains, The Purple Hearts, and plenty more. Including a free 21 track download thingee.
Big and brightly colored, every issue of UK music magazine Shindig! is good readin', if you're into the old school sounds they celebrate, mostly '60s and '70s rock, folk, pop, prog, garage... This issue's got the pre-fab four, The Monkees, on the cover, with a story about their cult movie Head (as Shindig! terms it, their "celluloid suicide note"). Then there's also stuff about Aussie legends The Easybeats, The Iveys (pre-Badfinger band, y'know), Todd Rundgren, Free Design, proto-metallers Banchee, Kaleidoscope (UK not USA), Jim Sullivan, and plenty more, including a ton of reviews, ads for stuff to salivate over, oh and an appreciation of the cover to The Poppy Family's 1969 single "Which Way You Goin', Billy?".
AQ faves the Bee Gees (psychedelic '60s Bee Gees) grace the cover of this issue of Shindig!, the UK magazine of rad old music and likeminded modern day retro sounds. Also this ish: Jason Falkner of Jellyfish, Mighty Baby, The M-80s, The Action, The Move, drummer John Shirley, The Modern Folk Quartet, and plenty more. Plus all the usual features - news, reviews, and the comic strip Bob Dylan Supervillain.
Another big, colorful, glossy, action-packed issue of this UK music mag, devoted to cool sounds from past dimensions (wait, that's Ugly Things motto, well they cover about the same sort of stuff). '60s pop psych, '70 acid folk, garage rock, freaky prog heaviness, all sorts of things we love. Plus they give some coverage to modern day bands with the same spirit and sound.
This time around, it's a US Psych Special, with features on The Strawberry Alarm Clock, Clear Light, The Fallen Angels, Crystal Syphon, and more, including a handy guide to "50 US Psych Albums You Need To Hear".
Plus plenty more, including stuff on Bill Fay, the Alive Naturalsound label, and power pop greats The Shoes! And reviews, reviews, reviews...
Lots to read, lots to oogle, lots to make you go digging around for reissues!
New issue of this UK magazine, kinda like a slicker Ugly Things, devoted to the all the fantastic psych/folk/garage/etc. music of yesteryear - and also to stuff from the here and now that tries to live up to the glories of the past.
On the cover, harmony pop greats The Free Design. Also: Bill Fay, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Ian Hunter, Ken Stringfellow of the Posies, Lee Hazlewood, the Guerssen label, and the Swedish retro-rock scene. And more. A big colorful read, that will get you spinning some old records!
An obscure little band called The Rolling Stones is featured on the cover of this new issue of the UK retro-minded mag Shindig! Of course, we're talking the Stones circa 1967, at their most psychedelic, not today's inexplicably still at it old age pensioners.
There's lots more of course in this big colorful magazine: Family, Ray Stinnett, Gary Farr, Ian Hunter, the Crusher label, Kevin Coyne's Siren, their 2012 writer's poll (Best New Album: Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell), and plenty else besides, including the usual load of reviews.
We had to order twice as many copies of this issue of Shindig!, just 'cause of the cover photo of the band Shocking Blue, specifically their bodacious lead singer Mariska Veres. Lots of sex appeal there. That classic '60s Dutch pop-psych band (famously covered by Nirvana) are only one of interesting features inside this ish though, other retro psych rock (and folk, and pop...) related stuff covered being Satanic Majesties era Rolling Stones, '90s paisley power poppers Jellyfish, Richard Thompson, the Sundazed label, Eastern bloc psych rarities, The Bevis Frond, The Bee Gees, and more. Lots of reviews of course, colorful graphics & photos, glossy paper, the usual good stuff we've come to expect from the UK's much prettier, and more frequently published, answer to Ugly Things. 98 pages this time.
UK vintage/retro sounds magazine Shindig! returns, this time with Broadcast on the cover, kind of a surprise but it makes sense, the piece on them is accompanied by an article all about Giallo cinema & soundtracks. Also inside: The Sweet, Donovan, Mike Heron, Emerald Web, the Ghost Box record label, and bunches more, including the usual tons of reviews. 98 tall colorful glossy pages in all.
Another colorful issue of this right-on magazine from the UK all about cool psych/folk/pop/garage music (both vintage & retro)... This issue has "flower-punks" The Seeds on the cover, and also: Kim Fowley, Francoise Hardy, Marsupilami, The Third Power, Sandie Shaw, You Am I, White Fence, and plenty more. Tons of reviews, lots of informative sidebars, etc. etc.
It's another tall, colorful new issue of this vintage (or sounds like vintage) rock/pop/folk/psych magazine from the UK.
"Great American pop architect" Harry Nilsson is on the cover (another chance to find out why some folks are so obsessed). Other cool cats in this ish include: Swamp Dogg, Dave Davies of The Kinks, Captain Beefheart, Gene Clark, Billy Childish (& Thee Mighty Caesars)... There's a label profile of one of our faves, the Omni Recording Corporation, there's a sixties garage band from Bombay, India called The Combustibles, there's an appreciation of the cover art of Cauldron by 50 Foot Hose. And plenty more from fuzz monsters Morgen to stoner rockers Dead Meadow. Lots of reviews too of course.
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We've been stocking this magazine for a little while now & thought we'd put it on our list this time so mailorder customers (or locals who didn't spot it already on the magazine rack here) could get a chance at it, if they're interested in the sixties-centric stuff that Shindig! specializes in. Published in the UK, this full-color bimonthly is kinda like Ugly Things done glossy like Mojo, covering "psych, garage, beat, powerpop, soul, folk...". They definitely dig into some obscurities of the era, but just not 30 pages deep they way they'd do in UT. This issue has Marc Bolan's folky, freaky Tyrannosaurus Rex on the cover. Inside, stuff about the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Move, The Youngbloods, Slade, and (yes!) AQ fave Aussie proto-metallers Buffalo, amongst others. Plus lots and lots of reviews and the other usual magazine things. And they reserve a smidgen of space for modern-day acts of the appropriately retro persuasion, too. 80+ A4 sized pages.
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This snazzy British psych/garage/folk/R&B/beat mag delivers another colorful issue. This time with Roky Erickson on the cover, back in the day with his 13 Floor Elevators, as part of a 15 page section devoted to the Texas psychedelic sixties scene (with articles on Bubble Puppy, Cold Sun, The Moving Sidewalks, and others)... plus, this issue also boasts features on the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Strawbs, exploito hippie era paperbacks, Jackie DeShannon, producer Mickie Most, and more. Including tons of reviews. 82 A4 sized pages.
The cover story this issue is is all about the early years of The Soft Machine. Also: AQ faves Euphoria ("the remarkable saga of the most expensive cult album ever made"), surf psych maven Merrell Fankhauser, Canada's Allied Records, home to Plastic Cloud and others, a eulogy for horror actress Ingrid Pitt, and much more, including the usual lots of reviews and colorful graphics in this way-back machine of a magazine.
Yet another issue of this retro-minded music magazine out of the UK. We always get 'em, don't always list 'em, but we should 'cause they're good reads indeed if you're into '60s and '70s stuff, like in this issue, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (on the cover, no less!), Procol Harum, actress Mimsy Farmer, Todd Rundgren, The Up, and more, including a feature on the marketing scheme/actual scene known as The Bosstown Sound. And there's of course tons of reviews and news and regular columns etc. as well. All in 99 large glossy full color illustrated pages.
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UK '60s / '70s retro rock (garage, folk, psych, beat, soul...) magazine Shindig is back with another ish, this time Kippington Lodge and Brinsley Schwarz on the cover (not too familiar with them, perhaps? well then read up on 'em here). Also: Rodriguez, H.P. Lovecraft (the band, not the man), Sandy Salisbury of The Millennium, The Poets, articles on The Prisoner TV series and hippy lit, plus the usual ton o' reviews... and more. Including some stuff on new bands that are carrying on the spirit of the '60s...
Another issue of the UK's Shindig, kind of the slicker, skinnier British cousin to Ugly Things, delving into similar territory (but not quite to the same obscure extent). Vintage '60s and '70s garage rock, psychedelia, folk and soul stuff, plus sometimes contemporary bands with retro leanings. This issue's got The Pretty Things on the cover, plus pieces on Alice Cooper, Kevin Ayers, Tim Rose, The Count Five, Funkadelic, and more.
In this issue of this more-retro-than-Mojo mag from the UK... Gene Clark of the Byrds on the cover, along with features on country-folksters like Great Speckled Bird and The Dillards and a list of the '10 Country-Rock Albums You Need'... also a retrospective on Zigzag, the underground UK rock mag of the '60s/'70s, an interview with 'soft pop siren' Margo Guryan, and part one of a two-part feature on classic British exploitation films, among much else, including loads of reviews.
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Formery a bi-monthly magazine, Shindig! has now gone to a quarterly schedule, which means a beefed-up page count, this is BIG! Sorta the size of an issue of Ugly Things (a magazine with which Shindig! has much in common, content-wise) but on glossy, color paper for all the vibrant graphics to really zing out atcha eyes.
On the cover, The Electric Prunes. And among the many other things inside this ish, there's articles about (or interviews with) Dutch freakbeat greats Q65, 10cc's Strawberry Studios, the Light In The Attic label, Texas heavies Josefus, blues raga masters Clark-Hutchinson, former Blue Cheer guitar god Randy Holden, and "the rise and fall of our last great rock band" Thee Hypnotics - you see, it's not all '60s/'70s stuff, or maybe Thee Hypnotics, from the '90s, get a pass... Actually they cover even newer bands, including Swedish garage rockers The Maharajas, here. And then there's some non-music material as well, articles about psychedelic video games (really!) and trashy '70s exploitation paperbacks, including that volume of The Destroyer series Allan's been trying to find, #13: Acid Rock!
Plus the usual reviews, album art features, and more. All in all, lookin' good as a quarterly!
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Another glossy and colorful issue of Shindig!, exclamation point and all. This British music magazine is a must for anyone into the vintage sounds of yesteryear (popsyke, folk-rock, heavy prog, R&B, etc. etc.), as we've said before it's kinda like a combo of Ugly Things and Mojo magazines. On the cover this time 'round, Mott The Hoople. Also this ish, features on The Twilights, The Critters, The Committee, Jamul, Memphis soul label XL/Sounds, and much much more. Including an essay on that staple of dinosaur rock, the drum solo!! And an interview with our pal Vincent who runs the great reissues label Lion Productions. And the usual gamut of reviews.
On the cover: singer Julie Driscoll (and organist Brian Auger, though the picture is just of Julie...). Inside, also: Spirit, Kim Fowley, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Wimple Witch, Iron Virgin, and modern day pagan-proggers Circulus. Plus reviews and news and the other usual magazine features. Shindig has undergone graphic redesign this time around, but it's still the same magazine of good old psych/pop/garage and other vintage sounds, made by bands (mostly) old and (occasionally) new. Includes free cd comp of new bands.
Yet another jam packed issue of outsider rock, modern music, free jazz and everything in between. If you already read the Wire, you should definitely make room for Signal To Noise, they both cover similar sonic territory, but each with their own bent, meaning they compliment each other pretty perfectly.
This month Animal Collective is on the cover. And inside: Akron/Family, Andrew Hill R.I.P., Astral Social Club, The Terminals, Rod Poole R.I.P., People, Future Rapper, Khate, a piece on the Chicago drone movement, and a seriously massive collection of reviews, cds, lps, books, performances, installations and more.
If you read the Wire, and we know lots of you do, you sure as hell should be reading Signal To Noise as well. Very similar, so lots of stuff that should appeal to you Wire readers, but different enough to make it it's own unique beast. Lots of great writers, and of course they write about tons of amazing music.
This time around, Diamanda Galas on the cover. Inside: Atlas Sound, experimental banjo player Paul Metzger, jazz combo Edmund Welles, chamber group Slow Six, pianist and harpist and Coil sidekick Baby Dee, artist Jeff Schlanger, psych rock trio Radio Massacre International, NY noiseniks Carlos Giffoni, Dom Fernow and Brian Sullivan, and of course reviews galore, shows, installations, performances, dvds, cds, lps, books and even mp3s! Always a great read. And like every issue WAY recommended for music nerds and sound freeks.
Latest issue from this amazing modern music magazine, giving the Wire a serious run for their money! This time around Jarboe's on the cover, obscured by trees, while inside: Arbouretum, Harris Wulfson, Blood Brothers, guitarist Peter Walker, jam band The Slip, vocalist Lauren Newton, saxophonist Jean Derome, tripped out poster artists Patrick and Amy Borezo, the Globe Unity Orchestra, composer Milton Babbitt, trombonist Steve Swell, Sean O'Hagen of the High Llamas and then an overwhelming array of reviews, insightful and well written, books, live performances, tons of cds, dvds lps and even mp3's, 7", 3"s and tapes, and finally a whole mess of reissues...
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Up until now Sigur Ros has not really been a band we'd associate with wordiness, with spontaneity or with bare flesh. They surprise us with a mouthful of an album title and an eyeful of an album cover. The music as well has floored us -- startlingly different from the trademark blissed out Icelandic grandeur of their previous four full lengths. Nothing tooo drastic, mind you, but Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust refreshes both the band and the listener with songs that are somehow at once both rawer'n'heavier and warmer'n'lighter. Instead of end-to-end waves of dreamy blanketing embraces, there are also moments of bracing starkness and (dare we say?) exuberant immediacy. The combination builds to a (yes, epic!) centerpiece number "Ara Batur" which apparently was recorded in one take and features ninety performers including the London Oratory Boys Choir and the London Sinfonietta orchestra. Whoa, stunning! it's easy to see why they chose to doff their clothing for this one!
This is it. The autobiography. With tons of pictures, some in color, and lots of kiss-and-tell. You know you want it.
White Panther party chairman, former political prisoner (10 years in jail for two joints) and all 'round drugs, sex, and rock'n'roll guru John Sinclair wrote this book back in 1972, it's a classic of the era. Here's a new paperback edition, done by the fine folks at Process Books, and it comes with a bonus cd with tracks by the MC5 (Sinclair was their manager), Allen Ginsberg, Bobby Seale, and more including audio from meetings of the White Panther Party.
Everybody loves the Pixies, and while a lot of us lean toward Surfer Rosa as our favorite, Doolittle is the one that pushed the Pixies squarely into the mainstream. And the cool thing is, they didn't have to change their sound one bit to do it. Read all about the adventures of Black Francis and his gang as they record a record that will go on to shape all of indie rock to come.
Music for airports, music for sleeping, music for film...it's about time someone made music for reading! For his brand new novel Empty The Sun, writer Joseph Mattson called upon the talents of Ben Chasney (Six Organs Of Admittance) to create a musical accompaniment to his novel. What a fantastic idea, especially consideringChasney has shown over the years an ability to create mood and atmosphere with a subtlety and undeniable authenticity that rings with such undeniable truth.
Centered around Chasney's mesmerizing guitar playing as well as wonderful accompaniment by Steve Ruecker on pedal steel, rattlers and bowls, Empty The Sun really is the sound we would want playing as we lose ourselves in a good book. Similar in mood and disposition to the great soundtrack to Mister Lonely that J. Spaceman & Sun City Girls created last year, this is one of those records that flows with a pastoral bliss that could, and we find ourselves wishing WOULD, go on forever and ever. Mostly instrumental, there are a few tracks with really nice subdued vocals including some of the most warm and intoxicating vocals we've heard from Elisa Ambrogio (Magik Markers).
The music of Six Organs Of Admittance really does speak to the soul, so evocative and creative and original, yet still warm and familiar, a rare beast that is as much a fan favorite as an artist's artist, so it's no surprise that Mattson was compelled to bring Six Organs into his world of words, just as film makers like Cam Archer have turned to Six Organs for music in his films, and just about every painter or visual artist we know has copies of Six Organs records in their studio. The sounds Chasney creates seem to be the perfect accompaniment for creation and exploration. And what also makes Chasney's music so amazing is the way it evokes a feeling of comfort, and a gloriously soporific dazem even while you're just sitting on a bus watching your surroundings blur by...
We haven't had a chance to dive into the actual book yet but with a quick skim we're anxious to ring in the new year laying on the couch with Six Organs playing as we dive into what looks to be a compelling novel.
Gorgeously packaged as well, both the cd and lp, each with a slightly different sized novel, to fit the format...
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Latest installment of this badass music magazine. Over the course of a few years, Skyscraper has gone from a scrappy little zine into a serious chunk of music journalism, leaning toward the indie side of the spectrum but never shying away from ANY music as long as it's cool and weird and good. This time around articles on and interviews with Mogwai, Destroyer, Jon Langford, Dungen, Some Girls, Tristeza, Parts & Labor, Test Icicles, Rah Brahs, Witch, Aids Wolf, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, John Wilkes Booze, Pearls And Brass and loads more. And of course tons and tons of reviews!
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It's weird that this is Skyscraper issue #23, and we've only ever listed two other issues of this kick ass music magazine. Well, we'll try to fix that right up, beginning with the latest and largest issue of Skyscraper, a magazine that began its life covering mostly indie rock, but is now as omnivorous as we are. This time around: The Rapture, The Blood Brothers, Ratatat, Chin Up Chin Up, Erase Errata, Daniel Johnston, The Howling Hex, NoMeansNo, Red Sparowes, Six Organs Of Admittance, Fucked Up, Wires On Fire, Jihad Jerry & The Evildoers, To Live And Shave In L.A., The Lovely Feathers, Captain Ahab, Raccoo-Oo-Oon, Endpoint as well as articles on DIY performance spaces, Lost records, and tons more. Plus all the usual music magazine stuff including LOTS AND LOTS of reviews!!
Another jam packed issue of this amazing music magazine, that somehow manages to slip through the cracks when in fact it's as good or better than any of its modern music contemporaries (The Wire, Terrorizer, Magnet, Sound Projector). With a distinctly indie rock bent, Skyscraper manage to still touch on all sorts of amazing music, reading like maybe the most AQ magazine of them all. This month: Neurosis, Jesu, Baroness, Panda Bear, Black Lips, Explosions In The Sky, Converge, An Albatross, Hot Cross, John Wiese, Die! Die! Die!, Demonstrations, Athletic Automaton, Foreign Islands, the Willowz, Graham Coxon, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, VietNam, Unsane, a focus on Now Wave Chicago and of course tons and tons of reviews!!
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At almost 200 pages, Skyscraper will keep you occupied for a long long time. And it's worth it. Lengthy interviews with Flaming Lips, They Might be Giants, June of 44, US Maple, the Locust, Slaves, I Am Spoonbender, Songs:Ohia, the Melvins, Mr Bungle, Macha, Rachels, and about 8,000 reviews of albums, singles, and printed matter. Sooo worth the five bucks, PLUS you get a cd of previously unreleased remixes including tracks by: Tristeza, Lowercase, Cars Get Crushed, Make-Up, Les Savy Fav, Atombombpocketknife, etc, with full color artwork just ready to be slipped into a jewel case.
The Bottomley brothers (Andrew and Peter) along with graphic designer Justin Wright (aka Expo 70!) have been publishing this fine music magazine for almost a decade now. Consistently well written, insightful, creative, and chockful of interviews, reviews and articles on all the artists we love, a new Skyscraper is always a welcome sight. Issue No. 25 is no exception. It features the likes of Grails, The Locust, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle, Wooden Wand, Art Brut, Low, Shellac, Burning Star Core, Tim Green, Dinosaur Jr, Dungen and many more. 112 pages.
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Okay metalheads, line forms here, to grab this, the final (?), and most elaborate issue yet, of the legendary and supremely kick ass Slayer magazine, #20, or XX as it's grimly printed on the cover, edited and written and put together as always by Metalion, but unlike the past issues, this one is a proper, super fancy hardcover book, a massive metallic tome, and while the outside may look super slick, the inside is the same old Slayer mag, cut and paste old school zine style, lots of drawings and cartoons, different typefaces, photos, no efforts made to smooth the edges, to hide the bits of tape or the staples that might have show up in the photocopies, nope this is a total DIY, kvlt metal zine, gussied up book style. Featuring interviews with and articles about Watain, Morbid, Whiplash, Bathory, Sadus, Kreator, Master's Hammer, Sadistik Exekution, Funeral Mist, Nifelheim, Destroyer 666, SUNNO))), Grotesque, Savage Thrust, Medieval, Invidious Deathrash, Obscurity, Nocturnal Graves, Pagan Altar, Strid, Jarboe and more.
Also includes an exclusive 12" ep from Pre-Nihilist / pre-Entombed outfit Morbid, featuring original Mayhem vocalist Dead, consisting of 4 tracks of super raw, thrashing black metal, murky and muddy and blown out, old demos and a live track, and a creepy bit of spoken word from Dead, raw and primitive and heavy and hateful and BLACK. The perfect sonic companion.
Also included is a big poster, on one side, Jon Nodtveidt of Dissection, the other side, a blown up version of the Slayer #20 cover art, featuring killer artwork by Erik Danielsson. So totally recommended. Every metalhead's bookshelf needs one of these!
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All right all of you Mississippi Records fans who have dug those amazing old school gospel compilations, do we have a book for you! One of the best tracks from The Life Is A Problem... compilation was from Elder Utah Smith, The Church Of God In Christ Pastor who played his electric guitar and wore two giant angel wings to preach the gospel and whip his revival audiences into an evangelical frenzy. For forty years from 1925 to 1965, Reverend Smith travelled across the country conducting his Holy Ghost revivals for his church, and this book collects amazing oral anecdotes, witness testimony and vintage photographs of this legendary gospel figure. Plus it comes with a cd of 18 tracks culled from extremely rare 78's, five tracks of which have never been issued before. So Awesome!!!
Snackpit, the magazine of tasty treats! No, wait, that's not it. SNAKEpit. Also a magazine of tasty treats - that is, if you consider obscure, old school '80s metal a treat!! Dunno why we've never listed an issue of Snakepit before, this "Heavy Metal Magazine" has long been a must read for the most metal of us here. Each issue, like this one, featuring a plethora of ultra in depth interviews with (mostly) long-defunct, cult '80s metal bands, or rather, the former members thereof, many of whom probably haven't done an interview in decades. The interviewer's questions are loaded with such obsessive minutiae, it makes most magazines, with the exception of Ugly Things, look vague and cursory in comparison. Usually the Snakepit writers seem to know more about the history of band in question than the ex-band members could possibly even remember! (They'll throw questions at 'em like, "On April 9th 1982, ACID played live at the Beurshalle in your hometown, Bruges, with SOGGY. What do you remember from that occasion?", stuff like that.)
So, which denim 'n leather clad cults get the Snakepit treatment this time 'round? A bunch of our faves: Acid, Raven, Griffin, Watchtower, Obsession, and (early, Neil Turbin era) Anthrax, among others. And then lots more we maybe, barely had even ever heard of before, such as Blackkout, Voor, Sexist, Excalibur, Existance, Messiaxx, Witch Cross, Baron Steele... All gripping stuff for us metal geeks!
Not everything is '80s, it just sounds '80s. One of the more recent bands interviewed is the late, potentially great Powervice. We'd been wondering what happened to them, they had a great, Iron Maiden circa Killers sounding cut on the Earache comp Heavy Metal Killers a few years ago, then (we learn here) broke up, bummer.
Plus, this issue's densely packed 116 pages are also graced with a section of reviews (reissues, new stuff, demos) which are, interestingly, often quite harsh and negative. And there's plenty of ads for stuff we're gonna want to hunt down as well. Oddly, though, 'cause Snakepit, while its editorial offices are over in France, is published Stateside by the Nuclear War Now label, there's ads for current black metal stuff that they'd never ever cover in the magazine. The closest they'd come are things like early thrash / death metal crossover, like the feature on Chuck Schuldiner's pre-Death demo band Mantas in this ish.
And, as a bonus, this comes packaged with the limited edition vinyl 7" with rare tracks by the Bay Area's own awesome Griffin, live in '82, including their classic "Flight Of The Griffin" and a cover of The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again".
