I've got a mess o' Lyres lore stored in my cranium, from having shared dozens o' boss bills with them over the years, and having booked 'em at the Bay State and elsewhere, and put out Lyres and DMZ 45s back when Chunk Records was a going concern. My most recent shows with them in the Summer of 2010 proved that they've still got it in Spades. You might dig the "Songs the Lyres Taught Us" series from THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW. Five-plus hours of the original versions of songs from Lyres' set lists 1979 to present, bookended with tasty Lyres-type rarities from Mono's secret stash:

THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW #4: Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Vol. 1

THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW #18: Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Vol. 2

THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW #19: Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Vol. 3

THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW #26: Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Vol. 4

Lyres and DMZ are absolute classics!  Lyres were the first garagepunk show I ever saw.  Their live energy is incredible.

Spook and the Ghouls who released an album called the Whitechapel mureders on Nervous in the late 80s, includes a version of bela Lugosis dead!

What girl bands are you listening to at the moment?

The Hideout comps might be a good place to start. ;)

Thanks Brother

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Joe said:

Don Juan y Los Blancos!

http://youtu.be/7nq2EZT5SXg

 

The podcasts are a great place to find new bands.  Check out Mottey's Garage Black & Blues Show.  Shout Bamalama is great too, but I think it's mostly artists of yesteryear.

 

Don Juan y Los Blancos!

http://youtu.be/7nq2EZT5SXg

The podcasts are a great place to find new bands.  Check out Mottey's Garage Black & Blues Show.  Shout Bamalama is great too, but I think it's mostly artists of yesteryear.

Hey guys, I'm looking for some new stuff mostly Raw R and B stuff like Bunker Hill style, Nic Curran, Little Richard, JD McPherson. Lo-fi Raw Screamin' Rock and Roll. Any Suggestions? Thank you

Awww and I was hoping for the 1st Dr Feelgood (& the Interns)...  which would in my opinion make a better movie?

Hey!

We are on last.fm.

here's the user page:

http://www.last.fm/user/thedarkrags

and here's the band page

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Dark+Rags

www.last.fm/user/PopeyeSquirm

I'm amazed that my musical compatibility with nearly everybody else who's posted so far is either "very high" or "super."

Oh yeah: http://www.last.fm/user/PlanetTrash

Last.fm is currently the bane of my existence. The site is cool and the features are cool, but the similar artists for our band is all jacked and there's no way to fix it. Pretty frustrating, also frustrating to get them to delete the pictures when your lineup changes and stuff. 

I guess it's my fault for ignoring last.fm for the last four years. We used to be on a super extra-punk label and I guess a lot of bands who wanted to be on that label tagged their stuff as being similar to ours and it's not at all. Just as an example listen to this song and then click on any of the "similar artists" - apples to oranges.

Anyone else have their band's stuff up there? Have you ever had this problem? Right now we're trying to get our street team to "scrobble" so that this gets fixed, but they don't say how often they re-set the "similar artists" thingy

Hmmm... Lots of interesting perspectives here. Personally i doubt whether CDs will 'disappear' - certainly not by next year. But they have now joined vinyl and cassette as 'old-tech', but like them, will continue to be produced for the forseeable future. All the formats, digital and hard-copy, can - and do - co-exist, with people using whatever suits or attracts them.

I agree with kopper that, as a long-time radio DJ, playing ALL vinyl on-air was a pain-in-the-arse and that CDs were a boon! We have been mp3-ing our new release CDs at the station for the past seven years or so, and have an on-going job of adding the older CDs to that collection, whilst still keeping our CD/vinyl/tape collection active (we have over 70,000 items from our 31 years of broadcasting, a very cool library to play from, I can assure you!), so, as DJs, we have the choice of using all, or just one, of the various formats (including using our personal iPods). On our shows, the Cat and I generally use CDs because of their 'easiness', with some vinyl (particularly rare local singles or albums) and very occasionally, something from the mp3 collection. We hardly ever use the iPod due to its inferior sound quality... though we do use music sourced from downloads in our "Obscured by..." show, this is because it's the only way we can get hold of some of these rarities to play, so we put up with the sound.

All these formats have their positives and their negatives and each person will use/buy whichever is most relevant to them... but I do agree that there is nothing quite like the feel/look/sound - and even smell - of vinyl products! [I am very proud of the vinyl that my music has been released on - though last year's single had a download card included - but as it was a 'limited release' of 200 (pic sleeve and bonus inserts etc), I am glad it still lives on available to buy as a download-only]

Yep... I'm still a vinyl junkie!!!

Horrible, that they should stop CDs. Having to download albums would suck. I hate the industry. Wish they'd keep all the shops open and stop downloads instead.

Show #351: "Seven Year Anniversary Show" playlist:

Algarnas Tradgard - "Takeoff/Interstellar Cruise"
Sunday Funnies - "It's Just A Dream"
Friends - "Mythological Sunday"
Dick Dale & The Del-Tones - "Surf Beat"
Paul Parrish - "Numbers"
The Smoke - "Playing With Magic"
Canterbury Glass - "Gloria"
Mick Ronson - "Growing Up And I'm Fine"
The 1910 Fruitgum Company - "(Poor Old) Mr. Jensen"
The Frantics - "Think About It"
New Trolls - "To Edith"
Bloodrock - "Breach Of Lease"
Ross - "The Edge/Nearer And Nearer"
Snow - "Sweet Dreams"
Ohio Express - "Turn To Straw"
The Electric Flag - "See To Your Neighbor"
Friendsound - "Love Sketch"
Michel Polnareff - "Voyages"
Tiny Tim - "The Other Side"
Hard Meat - "Smile As You Go Under"
Bobb Trimble - "Premonitions - The Fantasy"
Jack Kittel - "Psycho"
Jamme - "Poor Widow"
Supertramp - "Give A Little Bit"
Sunday Funnies - "You And I"
Jaime Brockett - "Legend Of The U.S.S. Titanic" -
National Lampoon - "Magical Misery Tour"
Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson - "Teenage Emergency"

Click here to stream this show now: http://eggmanrulez.com/m3u/351.m3u
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Shake off that tryptophan hangover with a sonic barrage of kick-ass garage, punk, and trashy rock and roll.  Murder City Nights #12 is available now - featuring the Consumers, Urinals, Mau Maus, Molls, King Khan, Zakary Thaks and more. Smash it up!

Set List:

• Killing - Subhumans
• Red Rum - Red Scare
• Anti Anti Anti - The Consumers
• The American In Me - The Avengers
• Keep On Knocking - Death 
• Doomsday Romantic - The Hex Dispensers
• Why Do We Suffer - Mau Maus
• Black Hole - Urinals
• Teenage Rear Action - The Parents
• White Stains - Molls
• This Perfect Day - The Saints
• Kill the Bee Gees - Accidents
• Don't You Know - Devo
• Victims - The Skulls
• Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight - The Rezillos
• That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Mission of Burma
• Amerika First - Feelers
• Land Of The Freak - King Khan & the Shrines
• I'll Make You Sorry - The Odds
• Ready for Action - Mexican Moustache 
• Way It's Gonna Be - The Cynics
• On Fyre - Lyres
• Heartbreaker - Sultans
• Bad Girl - Zakary Thaks

http://garagepunk.ning.com/profiles/blogs/murder-city-nights-12

11/25/11

Download or stream the entire Nov. 25th show right here. Find Zero Hour on Facebook here.

Cleopatra – The Precisions 
Heads Up, High Hopes Over You – The Pharaohs 
Caesar – Ty Segall
Queen of the World – Andre Williams
I Couldn’t Spell !!*@! – Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
Little Egypt – The Coasters

Diet, Crime & Delinquency – Personal & the Pizzas
A Guy Like That – Midnite Snaxx
Gotta Have Her – The Penetrators
Gloria’s Dream – The Belfast Gypsies
Baby Jessica – The Barreracudas
Wild – The Gentrys

Friday at the Hideout – Thee Gravemen
Gonna Find a Cave – Mondo Topless
Tarantula – Los Straitjackets
Tura Faster Pussycat – Dustaphonics

You – Stupidity
Cooking With Gas – Red Hot Rebellion

Local Lunchbox
Teenage Monster – The Catholic Boys
Lively One – The Mistreaters
Where Have All the Lovely Ladies Gone – The Catholic Boys
I Won’t Like You – The Mistreaters

See You Again – Johnny Throttle
The Dump – The Ding Dongs
Party Crasher – Mark Sultan
It Ain’t Cheap – Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Sister Love Train – Rocket From the Tombs

Shaw – Reigning Sound
Call Me No. 1 - – Reigning Sound
Eve – Reigning Sound
Dark Eyes – Jack Oblivian
Kidnapper – Jack Oblivian
Crime of Love – Jack Oblivian

Worst in Me – Mighty Fine
Nothing Like Me – Love Me Nots

Time for You to Go – Terry Anderson & the Olympic Ass Kickin’ Team
Bite the Bed – Glambilly
Pins & Needles – Trapper Schoepp & the Shades
Dry County – John Paul Keith
I’m So Happy I Could Cry – John Howie Jr. & the Rosewood Bluff

Help Yourself – Bobby Marchan
Torture – Del Shannon
Creature’s Crawl – Thee Cormans
Ain’t It Strange – Midwest Beat
Puppet on a String – Night Beats
Mumblin’ Guitar – The Mad Hatters

Laura’s a Liar – Muck & the Mires
Head Over Heels – The Cute Lepers
You Make Me Raw – The Electric Mess
She’s My Witch – Southern Culture on the Skids
Hazel Holly (Please Come Back) – The Boss Mustangs
Situation – Mikal Cronin
Ocean River Runs Around the Edge – The Spartan Dreggs

Playlist Nov 24/2010

1. Dr. Feelgood...Lights Out...from the Sneakin' Suspicion LP from 1977 with Wilko Johnson on guitar. Played this as there's a documentary out on the Feelgoods called Oil City Confidential which is supposed to be really good!

2. Deadly Hearts...Hand Shake...from their brand new self titled CD...from Halifax and features Myles Deck on the tubs.

3. Myles Deck and The Fuzz...Halifax Is Burning...from the Beware! The Fuzz LP from 2007.

4. Weirdonia...Green Tables...Windsor duo whom we're trying to get on Radio WW for a live to air.

5. The Diodes...City Of The Dead...from their just released Action/Reaction CD on Bongobeat Records. This song was probably written with London Ontario in mind, but don't quote me on that.

6. The Diodes...Time Damage....recorded live at Call The Office here in London, Ontario 11/18/11.

7. The Diodes...Child Star...as above.

8. The Diodes...Tennis Again...as above. Recorded by the WW mobile unit. There's also video of this one on The Diodes Toronto facebook page.

9. Black Frame Spectacle...A Line In The Sand...from their Grady Sessions CD. Rockin' 2 piece from just east of London Ontario.

10. The Sadies...Another Day Again...from their 2010 LP Darker Circles. Ugly Things honcho did the liner notes so you know these guys are cool. And they're coming back to Call The Office here in London Ontario Dec 3rd.

11. The Sadies...The First Inquisition Part IV...from the 2007 LP New Seasons. Live these guys always toss in some obscure killer cover as their show ender...anything from The Chocolate Watchbands version of Milkcow Blues to The Birds Leaving Here. Jawdroppers that'll blow your mind!

12. Reigning Sound...Lyin' Girl...from the Abdication For Your Love CD. Remember when leader Greg Cartwright came to Call The Office with The Deadly Snakes a few years back? Didn't think so as there weren't many at that show.

13. Eddie Marshall...Moblin' Baby Of Mine...from the 1989 Detour Records compilation called Hillbilly Houn'Dawgs and Honky Tonk Angels. Pure trashy hillbilly hick music that inspired combos like The Cramps...anyone that can make winking sound like wanking and get away with it is fine by me!

14. Ran-Dells...Martian Hop...speaking of The Cramps, this is from Lux and Ivy's Faves Volume 6. Surf doo wop from Mars!

15. Alex Chilton...Bangkok...from the double LP Decade...or is it Decayed, oh no, that's the Neil Young triple LP. For all of the flood victims in Thailand and it ties into The Cramps theme of the above 2 tunes.

16. The Sphinxs...Asia Miner...from the split 12" with Miesha and The Spanks.

17. Legend Killers...Gonna Snap...from the We're Workin' On It CD from 2006.

18. Deutsches Paniks...You Can't Get Enough Of Me...from the one sided 12" First You Get The Money.

19. Cinecyde...Enemy Man...from the 1982 LP I Left My Heart In Detroit City on Tremor Records and by request for Erwin.

20. Dark Rags...On Your Own...from their just released debut CD. From Greece and they are on the garagepunk hideout as well as one of the CD's.

21. Lonesome Ghost...Haunted By God...from the garagepunk hideout CD Songs The Hideout Taught Us. 2 piece outta Aylmer Ontario.

22. The Hook Up...65 Has No Blues...recorded live at Brennan's Beer Bistro here in London 11/5/11 when they put on a killer show with The Reply and The Fine Print (who's name i could not remember....brain farts).

23. The Hook Up...The Man Who Called Up The Devil...from their soon to be released CD of the same name.

24. The Hook Up...Silver Kiss...from the CD Tomorrow and Today on Ricochet Sound. This song was stuck in my noggin' so i had to play it!

25. The Hook Up...Minstrel Boy...from the garagepunk hideout CD Noises From The Hideout with artwork by our pal Darren Merinuk.

26. Rock'n'Roll Monkey and The Robots...Put A Record On...from their Spooky Kooky Attic Static CD.

27. Party Lights...Before You Came Here...from their only 7"....had to fade this one as we ran outta time once again.

Thanx for all the call-ins, requests, facebook comments and general HEYs!!!

No show next week as we're pre-empted by UWO Hockey but back on Nov 8th with an all female led band show as we remember the Montreal Massacre.

Here's the link to listen to the archived show:

http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWThu1900.mp3

"Telstar " and "Night of The Vampire". Although it's not an instrumental, I love "Johnny, Remember Me".

So Many to choose from: The Tornados 'Ridin the Wind' prob my fave but also love Sounds Incorporated 'Keep Movin' and The Fabulous Flee Rakkers 'Green Jeans'.

Dex and Sara Romweber do The Who @ Norton Anniversary.

http://youtu.be/po1Z8mAchYo

Digital Downloading has KILLED the Music Business! Read this;

http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=46980_0_2_0_C

Sad, but TRUE! We are at the END of an Era!

Dave said:

Also, stores are buying very little qty nowdays. Stock isn't moving like it used to. I've noticed that stores will pick up maybe 3 copies each of an album (not including one stops) and then restock over and over. Stores are being extremely cautious, they don't want to be left with anything that can't be returned (ie; vinyl) As strange as it sounds, our cd sales have skyrocketed in 2011, and I think a big reason for that is that cds are returnable to the distributor, most distributors do not take returns on vinyl, so stores are picking up very few copies, and only restocking when the last copy is gone. Cds are returnable, so stores are more liberal with the purchasing.  Stores may pick up 20 of a cd format, and only take 2-3 of the same release on vinyl format.

 It's getting rough. But if you have a great back catalog, great bands that are touring and are active, and a decent promotional budget, there are distributors out there that will pick you up.  Not sure if you give advances to bands? But that is a way to break in and get some bigger bands, if you have one decent sized band that has a solid sales history worldwide, and is active, that can be enough to boost your overall label sales, and that would be time to approach a distributor. D

Distributors are also being extra cautious now also, so finding a distributor among the very few left, is a bit more difficult, and gone are the days of distributor advances to labels.

 

No worries! It took me a while to read through all the old posts and figure out what I had said almost 4 years ago! I barely come here anymore. Sometimes it takes me a few days to find time to reply. Read my previous replies to other responses.

Dave said:

Damnit, again! I just realized that I replied to a question from 2007!

Sorry about that. I'm brand new here, and sorta old :)