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    • October 1, 2010 5:45 PM CDT
    • Iggy does an awesome psycho killer turn on Aisha by Death in Vegas (The Contino Sessions)
      Also, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer by Fantomas.

    • October 1, 2010 7:09 AM CDT
    • Gacey's Place (about John Gacey) - The Mentality Ill

    • October 1, 2010 6:19 AM CDT
    • The Sonics - "Psycho"
      Also, any song by Hasil Adkins where he talks about cutting off girls' heads. "No More Hot Dogs," for example.

    • September 30, 2010 7:35 PM CDT
    • Dead Boys "Son Of Sam"

    • September 30, 2010 7:33 PM CDT
    • Good memory, but not exactly right, it's the Hollywood Square's "Hillside Strangler" that is on the same KBD comp (#1) as the Child Molester's song of the same name, not F-Word's song. I had to pull out the CD myself to find that out.

      kopper said:

      Aren't both of those on the same Killed By Death comp?

      Mike said:
      F-Word "Hillside Strangler" different song than the Child Molester's song.

    • October 1, 2010 1:05 AM CDT
    • Fuck me: Lily Allen
      Fuck you: Niagara -Destroy All Monsters

    • September 30, 2010 8:47 PM CDT
    • Fuck you: Donita Sparks

    • October 1, 2010 3:48 PM CDT
    • Dave Cloud put the jack on you! When I first saw him, I thought, what's this bank manager doing on stage? That guy rocked! Kevin, tha Shanks bass player, has recorded with him and was telling me all about him. One of the highlights for me. I'm saddened I missed the Oh Sees and the Lamps there and can't paly catch up at Scion in Lawrence. Oh well. I had a great time regardless. I'll see everyone next year.

    • October 1, 2010 11:35 AM CDT
    • I was there it was hot, crowded and rocking. Fell in love with Dave Cloud and the Gospel of Power!

    • October 1, 2010 3:30 PM CDT
    • Funny! I don't have a myface either.

      kopper said:

      Also: If you "Like" the Scion A/V Garage page on Facebook by midnight tonight, you'll supposedly be able to get express access at the shows. I guess you're supposed to let them know at Will Call tomorrow. Which means if you don't have a Facebook account then you're fucked and you'll have to wait in the slow line with the Myspacers, haha!

    • October 1, 2010 3:15 PM CDT
    • Also: If you "Like" the Scion A/V Garage page on Facebook by midnight tonight, you'll supposedly be able to get express access at the shows. I guess you're supposed to let them know at Will Call tomorrow. Which means if you don't have a Facebook account then you're fucked and you'll have to wait in the slow line with the Myspacers, haha!

    • October 1, 2010 1:43 PM CDT
    • Just read this again... are you saying that the exit that is right there close to the Motel 6 is closed and we have to go over the river and get off at McDonald Drive? If so, that's a pain in the ass because we'll have to backtrack on 6th to downtown to get to N. 2nd to take up to where the motel is... It's funny... when we lived in Lawrence we never used I-70. We always took K-10 to and from KC.

      Ruby Soleil said:

      Hey everyone, just picked up my wristbands, and the schedule, which should be updated on the website by now. FYI when driving into Lawrence on I70 please be aware that the Lawrence east exit is closed from both the east and the west. Use the Lawrence west exit, or the Lawrence/Lecompton exit. I recommend using the west exit. If you are driving in on I70 from the west and you miss the Lawrence west exit then hello Kansas City!
      For those of you driving in on I70 from the east: due to construction I70 goes down to one lane each way shortly after Bonner Springs in addition to the east exit being closed.
      Well, this will probably mean nothing to everyone save Kopper, but at least I tried. Most important thing: if your directions have you getting off at the east exit get new directions from I70 getting off at the Lawrence west exit instead.

    • October 1, 2010 10:52 AM CDT
    • Friday: I'll be bartending at the Replay all day, then rocking the Replay all night.
      Saturday: Who the fuck knows. I'm just going with the flow. But I'll definitely end up with the Gories at the Jackpot.

      BONUS: Jarod from Black Lips and Mick from The Gories are DJ'ing the Replay patio post-fest.

    • October 1, 2010 8:29 AM CDT
    • I'll have my Charles Manson "Got Milk?" shirt on tonite if any of you guys are going to be at the Spook Lights, Fag Cop...etc. show at the replay tonight. I hope to meet any fellow Garagepunk.com enthusiasts.

      Safe Travels for anyone on the road over the next two days.

    • October 1, 2010 7:28 AM CDT
    • BTW, if you happen to be in KC tonight, the American Royal Barbeque is going on down in the west bottoms. I recommend it if you like beer barbeque and huge parties. http://www.arbbq.com/ Stay away if you are averse to parking nightmares.

    • September 30, 2010 10:05 PM CDT
    • Did anybody on here go to the Portland show? What were the lines like at that one?

      Hey Kopper - look forward to seeing ya'll. I'll shoot you my phone # via email - text or call me. Here's a few things about Lawrence for the uninitiated - its about 45 minutes west of KC. For those in the western KC burbs its really like another suburb and it has the best record store (Lovegarden) w/in 200 miles - check it out. 2 of the venues (Liberty Hall & the Bottleneck) are on the north end of Mass. St. and the Granada & Jackpot are on the south end. They're 2-3 blocks apart.


      KU football will be on the road so no need to worry about college football crowds. However, there's a big NASCAR race in western KCK so there could be delays along I-70 if you're coming from the east. If you are coming in from the east you may want to consider taking I-470 south and then west and connect up w/I-435 and then connect w/K-10 west bound. It's going to be in the mid 60's w/a few clouds so its going to be an awesome day.

      One question - Gories or Oblivians?

    • October 1, 2010 10:01 AM CDT
    • One bad relationship leading to another!

      Adam Sheets said:

      I'm gonna check out the Sixtyniners for sure. I've already checked out the new Hank III and I pretty much agree: it's good, but not great and he seems a little uninspired. My biggest issue was that on the title track, he didn't make the worlds of country and hardcore "fit" together like he had on Straight to Hell and Damn Right, Rebel Proud.

      As for how he got hooked up with Curb, (from the always correct Wikipedia) "Three years after a one night stand in 1995, Hank Williams III was served papers on stage while opening up for the underground band Buzzov•en. The judge told Williams that playing music was no real job and to come up with $60,000 in overdue child support. To avoid being branded as a deadbeat dad, Williams signed a contract with Nashville, Tennessee, music industry giant Curb Records to pay off the debt."

    • October 1, 2010 7:07 AM CDT
    • I'm gonna check out the Sixtyniners for sure. I've already checked out the new Hank III and I pretty much agree: it's good, but not great and he seems a little uninspired. My biggest issue was that on the title track, he didn't make the worlds of country and hardcore "fit" together like he had on Straight to Hell and Damn Right, Rebel Proud. As for how he got hooked up with Curb, (from the always correct Wikipedia) "Three years after a one night stand in 1995, Hank Williams III was served papers on stage while opening up for the underground band Buzzov•en. The judge told Williams that playing music was no real job and to come up with $60,000 in overdue child support. To avoid being branded as a deadbeat dad, Williams signed a contract with Nashville, Tennessee, music industry giant Curb Records to pay off the debt."

    • October 1, 2010 1:40 AM CDT
    • A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
      October 1, 2010


      Call this one Hank III’s “contractual obligation” album.


      Rebel Within, the fifth album on Curb Records by the grandson of the sainted Hank Williams, has plenty to like, and there’s nothing really bad on it. Still, it lacks the punch of most his previous works, especially 2006’s Straight to Hell. This one has the feel of an odds ’n’ sods outtakes record.

      I’m not exactly sure how a radical troublemaker like Hank III — whose heart lies in the world of hardcore punk as much if not more than in that of country music — ever got hooked up with a label like Curb in the first place. True, young Hank’s dad, Hank Williams Jr., has recorded on Curb for years. But by most reports, Hank III has long been estranged from Junior — who calls Kid Rock his “rebel son.”

      Curb your enthusiasm: The company is run by Mike Curb, a political conservative and former lieutenant governor of California. He was also a musician, heading a vocal group called The Mike Curb Congregation. The MCC provided background vocals for the Sammy Davis, Jr. hit “The Candyman” and had a hit of its own with “It’s a Small World” — yes, the theme from the Disneyland ride. The Congregation also backed Hank Jr. on the pre-outlaw-country schlock hit “All For the Love of Sunshine.” Back in 1970, when he was head of MGM and Verve Records, Curb gained national notoriety for dropping 18 acts from the label, including The Velvet Underground, for suspected drug use.

      It’s not surprising that a self-described hell-raiser and vocal advocate for drinkin’, druggin’, and — at least at one point a few years ago — devil worship would knock heads with someone like Mike Curb. Curb and Hank III have been involved in several lawsuits through the years. The company didn’t want to release a record by the singer’s punk band, Assjack. That’s certainly their prerogative.

      But, in an example of pure music-industry evil, Curb also fought hard to keep Hank III from taking it to another label or releasing it on his own. The company even got a court order stopping the artist from selling self-burned copies of Assjack CDs at his shows.

      As Hank III and The Louvin Brothers would say, “Satan is real.”

      Hank III responded by selling T-shirts at his concerts emblazoned with the message "Fuck Curb!” He also refuses to sell his Curb CDs at his shows.

      Back to the record: But maybe the slapdash, so-long-Curb-Records nature of Rebel Within isn’t the only the reason for the more subdued spirit of the album. Some songs here deal directly with the consequences of nonstop partying, crazy indulgence, and addiction. If Straight to Hell and Damn Right, Rebel Proud were parties, this one is the hangover.

      The first song is called “Gettin’ Drunk and Fallin’ Down.” And, like other songs on the album, such as “Lost in Oklahoma” and “Drinkin’ Ain’t Hard to Do,” it’s more about fallin’ down than it is about the joys of gettin’ drunk. “It’s the kind of living that’s going to put me in the ground,” he moans. And you believe him.

      In the title song Hank sings “The more I try to do right it just seems wrong/I guess that’s the curse of living out my songs.” This is an obvious reference to a line from a famous tune by his dad: “Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?”

      Then there’s “#5,” a slow honky-tonker with heartbreak fiddle and sobbing steel guitar. It’s about quitting, or at least wanting to quit, heroin. “This is the last time the needle’s going in to try to set my soul free,” he sings. “I’ve done had four friends die around me/Now I realize that old number five just might be me.” (In an interview on Outlaw Radio Chicago, Hank said that in real life, he has never smoked crack or shot heroin.)

      “Tore Up and Loud” is more like the Hank III of yore, both in content and in sound. It’s full of distorted vocals and psychobilly reason and ends with an obscene rant about being free (tempered by a sly “shave-and-a-haircut” banjo riff).

      Indeed, don’t think Hank III has lost his sense of humor. The album ends with a wild hillbilly romp called “Drinkin’ Over Mama.” But it’s not your typical country mama song. Here mama starts drinking at the age of 61, and she gets killed “by her own crack pipe.”

      It’s sure going to be interesting to see what Hank III comes up with next, now that he’s out of the Curb cage.

      Also recommended

      * Too Drunk to Truck by Sixtyniners. In the tradition of their Voodoo Rhythm label mates The Watzloves and Zeno Tornado, this is a European band — from the Netherlands, to be exact — that loves good old American honky-tonk music.

      But like those other acts (and Hank III, for that matter), the Sixtyniners love it enough not to get too reverent about it. The title song, for instance, is a play on a classic by The Dead Kennedys. And “Livestock” is an animal party that starts out with barnyard noises.

      Sixtyniners, led by singer/guitarist Michiel Hoving and drummer Claudia Hek, play some covers here — a spirited “John Hardy” sung by Hek, a stomping take on George Jones’ “The Race Is On,” and a fun “Almost Done,” a song that has appeared under various guises, such as Leadbelly’s “On a Monday” or, slightly altered, as Johnny Cash’s “I Got Stripes.” Here it’s done with a shuffling beat and cool trombone.

      The band even evokes memories of Jerry Jeff Walker on “Terlingua,” the pretty tune that closes the album. And they can do some crazy blues too, like the Bo Diddley-esque “Hell” and “Play Dead,” in which the guitar sounds like a punkier version of Duane Allman.

    • October 1, 2010 7:12 AM CDT
    • I still use mixtapes for the same reason others have said, I did it for years as a kid and I drive an old enough car that has a cassette player so they're always handy. I also love mix CDs and I think podcasting is just the latest equivalent and a great way to be exposed to new music, especially for more specialised genres where the fans aren't going to come across that music by any other means unless they scan through enough blogs or type just the right keyword when searching for something completely new, in that way podcasts are greatly beneficial to the music industry if it's concerning a specific genre because the listener will generally be more dedicated to that style and is likely to order the album anyway. Of course that's not always the case but never the less, that's got to be a positive when one considers the massive decline in CD sales in the past decade.

    • October 1, 2010 1:46 AM CDT
    • That just reminded me to listen to Eighties matchbox bline disaster.

    • October 1, 2010 1:35 AM CDT
    • They're not necessarily a goth rock band although the media often tends to label them 'gothabilly' is a more modern band from Brighton in England called The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster, their first album Horse of the Dog is awesome dark themed garagey punk and one of my favourites. Definitely worth checking out. Then there's the Vile Imbeciles who was started by the Eighties Matchbox lead guitarist after he left the band which is more in the Birthday Party sort of vein. Both great bands I'd highly recommend.