kopper said:

The best way is to get other similar blogs to add yours to their blogrolls (or links sections).www.feedburner.com

Right, that and link your blogsite in your sig on any music boards that you frequent, etc.

If all of this other stuff fails, I use divshare which is easy and free up to a certain numbers of gigabytes. You can upload songs and make playlists.

I use blip.tv for uploading. If file is uploaded you can copy the link of the file.
Second step is paste the link to blogcastone.net
Then you get the html code. Copy/Paste html code to your blog.
I use it for my myspace and it works great.

I hope it's helpful !

I agree this place isn't a patch on the old forums for info. In fact, there's absolutely no debate about it. That's the one thing I really miss. I mean, I like being able to come here and add songs to my jukebox and look around a bit but the amount of discourse, sharing of info and music was far greater on the old board.

This site has been around for what, about two years now? I just don't think the amount of participation here is gonna get much greater than it is right now. Sad but true.

Wish I could :(:(

if it is easier to fly to england from where you are then the Gories/Oblivians are playing at the Blast Off Festival in Nottingham, UK this July.

I too live in australia and would love to fly to memphis for the gories/ oblivains show. I can always dream!

Uh... what? I know the Mummies are coming to Austin in like, June.......

Just got my tickets for the Detroit show. Anyone going?

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican April 10, 2009 Dengue Fever is an amazing California band that has helped revive the crazy psychedelic sounds of pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodia. Back in 2005, the band traveled to Cambodia — not only the land of its musical idols, but also the home of its lead singer, Chhom Nimol. That tour — Nimol’s first trip home since she’d immigrated to this country five years before — is the subject of a rocking documentary called Sleepwalking Through the Mekong, released on DVD next Tuesday. Directed by John Pirozzi, the film follows the members of Dengue Fever as they visit Cambodian marketplaces (where merchants are amused by guitarist Zac Holtzman’s Mr.-Natural-as-a-young-man beard and bassist Senon Williams’ height); a school where the band shares songs with a group of children; a studio where Dengue jams with masters of traditional Cambodian instruments; a karaoke bar where a couple of Dengue members sing with some locals to “I’m 16,” an old Cambodian pop hit; and various stages where the group performs its surf-a-delic sounds — nightclubs, an outdoor festival in a shantytown, and a CTN (Cambodia Television Network) studio, where the musicians are special guests on a variety show that makes Mexican television look tame. But as fun and enlightening as Sleepwalking is, there are some basic unanswered questions that leave a viewer not quite satisfied. And these oversights deal directly with the East-meets-West story that is central to Dengue Fever’s appeal. First of all, there’s the question of how the band got so interested in Cambodian rock in the first place. According to allmusic.com, keyboardist Ethan Holtzmann fell in love with the sounds of Cambodian psychedelic rock of the late ’60s and early ’70s — Sin Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea, Pen Ron, and others — when traveling in that country in 1997 with a friend (who got the disease for which the band was later named). But what was Holtzmann doing over there in the first place? Was it some music endeavor? Was he an archaeologist studying Angkor Wat? Just bumming around? I would have liked to have heard him talk about this. But more important is the story of Chhom Nimol. There’s a segment in which Nimol talks about how difficult it was coming to the U.S. by herself. Through interviews and publicity material, we’ve been told that she was a successful singer in her native land. She “sang regularly for the king and queen of Cambodia,” a press release from the filmmaker says. The question is, Why did she come here? Was it to further her musical career? According to Dengue legend, she had a long-term singing gig at a Southern California Cambodian nightclub called The Dragon House before she joined the band (which led to the title of the group’s second album, Escape From Dragon House). I want to know more about her career in Cambodia. When she played before the king, was it command performances at state dinners or more like an American high-school band playing at the president’s inauguration? A Cambodian music teacher interviewed in the film tells us, “The Khmer Rouge killed all the famous singers.” Indeed, those commie thugs who ruled the country between 1975 and 1979 killed artists, intellectuals, professionals, and a third of the population during their time of power. The DVD has a smattering of footage of what looks like real cool Cambodian teen-exploitation movies from that mod à go-go era. But I’d like to hear more about those wonderful Cambodian singers whose music inspired Dengue Fever — and to whom the film is dedicated. Director Pirozzi has started work on another documentary called Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock ’n’ Roll. Let’s hope he makes enough money on Sleepwalking to finish Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten. When Dengue Fever is playing music in this film, frequently there are shots of audience members looking enraptured. Such images of adoring fans aren’t exactly rare in rockumentaries. But wouldn’t it be great if there were a Velvet Underground effect here — if, as the rock ’n’ roll truism goes, anyone who saw them in Cambodia started a band of their own? Perhaps dozens of bands will pop up there, take the music, and mutate it into something new and powerful. Quick word on the CD: Sleepwalking Through the Mekong comes packaged with a soundtrack CD as well as the DVD. If you don’t already have Dengue Fever’s three albums, this could serve as a decent introduction. But long-time fans will be disappointed. Too many Dengue Fever songs here are the same versions that are on their previous albums — “Tip My Canoe,” “One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula,” “Hold My Hips,” and “Hummingbird.” There is a live version of “Ethiopium” (inspired by the music of another nation with a fine little rock scene that was crushed by evil comrades in the ’70s). But there should have been more. The movie has lots of live material that should have made it here. There is some worthwhile new Dengue material, such as the instrumental “March of the Balloon Animals,” plus some nice jams with some of the masters of traditional Cambodian instruments featured in the film. One good thing is that there are handfuls of the old original Cambodian rock classics here by Sisamouth and Sothea, including “Mou Pei Na (From Where)” by both singers and “Dondung Goan Gay” by Meas Samoun, which sounds as if it could have been inspired by Santana. Dengue radio: Hear a huge dose of the Sleepwalking on the Mekong soundtrack and more Dengue Fever and immortal Cambodian rock on Terrell’s Sound World, freeform weirdo radio, 10 p.m. Sunday. And don’t forget The Santa Fe Opry, the country music Nashville does not want you to hear, same time on Friday, both on KSFR-FM 101.1. BONUS: Here's a trailer for Don't Think I've Forgotten.

I think you should do this anyway. Screw the lack of interest. Besides, we have lots of instrumentals that need to be played. We've got two of 'em up on our page. Check 'em out if you get a chance.

Awesome. Southern Culture on the Skids has been shamed.

HAHAHAHAHA that is hot!!!!!!!!!!!! Is that you playing the washboard.

Is it even possible? Well, check this out.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7bAzxPuQME

18.00-19.30 DJ Thomas Møller:

Indian Jewelry - Zing Zang
Balaclaves - Inferno
Francis Harold & The Holograms - ?
Ean Erase - Illegitimate Love
Geogerige - An My Best to You Juanfare
Black Orphan - Video Kids
Units - I-Night
Gary War - Zontag
Wizzard Sleeve - Alabama's Doomed
Tamaryn - Return to Surrender
Spider - Charlie
Catatonic Youth - Control My Gun
The Secret Society Of The Sonic Six - Into The Night
Bad Livers - Lust For Life
Loosers - Crossbones
Los Dragsters - ?
Cold Cave - Our Tears Help Our Flames Grow
Sixteens - Sixteens
Fish & Sheep - Power Master

19.30-20.30 DJ Jens

Leathervein - You Are The Problem
Thomas Function - Belly Of The Beast
Blowtops - The Ripper
The City Kill - Love's Lonely Children
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Hessian Bodyfarm
The Village Idiot - Stones Of Hate
Love Potion - Stabbed In The Face
Residents - Picnic Boy
Cola Freaks - For Sent
PJ Bonneman - Jeg Kendte Dem Ikke
A-Frames - Police 1000
Jørgen Teller & The Empty Stairs - Argot 2B
AV Murder - Caveman Disco
Lili Z- Let's Go
Barbaras - Summertime Road
Nice Face - Hidden Automatic
Lee Moses - Bad Girl (part 2)
Muletrain - Regression
T2 - Fantasy
Øresund Space Collective - Black Tomato (part 7)

I like the songs alot. Very cool if they're uncomped. Some quick online searches didn't reveal much except the Wakefield Co. did some mastering for Sonobeat out of Texas. There's a pretty comprehensive history at the below link, but unfortunately, none of the matrix numbers match yours. If you exhaust other options, maybe you can contact Sonobeat to see if they have a SJW contact. Then maybe you can confirm or deny that part or get more information. Sonobeat Records Sometimes, it's so hard to track this stuff down. You can find people who where actually there and still don't remember anything after all these years. If nothing else, you're left with great undiscovered gems minus the history. After the listen, now I want to know who it is! Contagious! Good luck & keep us posted.

Sidney J Wakefield? That's helpful, I might be able to follow up on that. Thanks. I screwed up and posted the wrong link, though, sorry about that. The first post now has the correct link in it, it is: http://www.box.net/shared/2dpj5r7ur1 Cheers -- H.

Mad Mojo Marmalade said:

The link opens to 2 Biscaynes songs.

The link opens to 2 Biscaynes songs.

Howdy, all --

I have a white-label test pressing 45 that's been driving me nuts since I bought it, I have no idea who it might be, or anything else about it, so I'm wondering if anybody can help me identify it. Byrds-sounding SoCal folk-rock, has to be 1965 or 66, could very well be the session musician mafia (Terry Melcher and his extended musical family)... or it could possibly be unknown teenagers from someplace. There's a link at the bottom to mp3.s of the two songs.

If anybody's a whiz at decoding information from matrix numbers, the dead wax reads DD-HA-1/DD-TB-1 and (looks like) SJW 7561 on both sides.

While you're there, you might enjoy the Mac Davis protest-song bandwagon-jumping Sonny Bono (or Dylan?) imitation from 1965-ish or the LP by Modern Five, a Euro beatgroup that gigged and recorded in Mexico around the same time.

Link: http://www.box.net/shared/2dpj5r7ur1


Thankee schoen --

Hugo M.
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A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican April 3, 2009 Think of Elvis crooning "Wooden Heart" with the puppets in G.I. Blues. Think of John Lennon rocking out with a toilet seat around his neck as he, Stu Suttcliffe, Pete Best, and the other Beatles entertained hopped-up, drunken sailors in various night spots along Hamburg's Reeperbahn. Indeed, some strange rock 'n' roll hoodoo was cooking up in Germany in the early 1960s. And those with ears to hear realize that these cosmic forces, harnessed perhaps by U.S. military intelligence, culminated in an obscure but influential band called The Monks. Though their lone "official" album Black Monk Time, was not released in the U.S. during the '60s, it became an archetypal cult classic — its praises sung by the likes of Jack White and The Fall's Mark E. Smith. But it's available now. A company called Light in the Attic is re-releasing Black Monk Time and issuing a new compilation of lesser-known recordings called The Early Years, 1964-1965. Though you can't buy the CDs until April 14, you can listen to both HERE. (You have to register, but it's worth it.) For those not familiar with the story of The Monks, the band was the product of the U.S. Army. Gary Burger, David Havlicek (aka Dave Day), Larry Clark, Roger Johnston, and Eddie Shaw were American soldiers stationed at Geinhausen, east of Frankfurt. According to the Early Years liner notes, Burger originally was into country music, while Day was an "Elvis worshipper." The two guitarists started jamming together at the base's Army service club and eventually formed a band called The Torquays — named after an instrumental hit of the day by Raton, New Mexico's finest band, The Fireballs. The Torquays were a fairly typical "beat band" of that period, performing a lot of covers by American rock and R & B groups. (A couple of their songs are on The Early Years — "There She Walks" and "Boys Are Boys," an early version of a tune that would appear in a radically different version on Black Monk Time.) They played mainly at Army dances and at Army-sponsored events to promote goodwill (in hospitals, old-folks' homes, etc.). Though nobody was getting rich, the Torquays gig was fun enough that even after they were discharged from the Army, they stuck around in Germany. But then things started getting weird. The band changed its name. The guys got bizarre haircuts — shaving the top of their heads, leaving a monk-like fringe. And, most important, they began seriously experimenting with their sound, writing songs based on primitive beats and minimalist lyrics. Clark's organ style alternated between medieval cathedral, roller rink, and the Tex-Mex-influenced style then in vogue with bands like The Sir Douglas Quintet and Question Mark & The Mysterians. Burger started fooling around with guitar feedback and fuzztone. And for reasons still unclear after four decades, Day traded his guitar for an electric banjo. Some of the tunes sound like crazed polkas or travelogue music. "Hushie Pushie" from The Early Years sounds like a mutation of "Tiger Rag," except they sing "hushie pushie" instead of "hold that tiger." This wasn't the Summer of Love for The Monks. Some of their song titles were punk-rock angry: "I Hate You" and "Shut Up." No longer bound by military censorship, some Monks songs contained vague political rants. Take "Monk Time" (the version on Black Monk Time)

"You know, we don't like the Army. What Army? Who cares what Army? Why do you kill all those kids over in Vietnam? Mad Viet Cong. My brother died in Vietnam. James Bond, who is he? ... Pussy Galore is coming down, we like it! We don't like the atomic bomb."

More often, however, the lyrics were baby-talk simple. Sometimes, just nonsense chants: "Higgle-dy piggle-dy/Way down to heaven/Yeah!" or "Cuckoo, cuckoo/Who's got the cuckoo?/Now someone stole my cuckoo/And I wanna know who who." And as strange and aggressive as the sound was, it somehow never sounded threatening, especially when Burger would introduce tunes like a brainumbling Down'? Well, come on Monks! Let's go!" I, for one, do like "Love Tumbling Down." Instrumentally, the version on Black Monk Time is best, especially the crunching guitar effects Burger gets here. However, on The Early Years, the vocals sound more like a foreshadowing of the music of Ruben & The Jets. Plus, on that version you get the goofy intro. Black Monk Time didn't do much on the European charts and didn't get released in the U.S. until the late '90s. The band recorded a couple of sides in 1967, the country-flavored but still loopy "Love Can Tame the Wild" and the gawdawful, fairy-fey generic folk-rock "He Went Down to the Sea." (Both are included in the reissue of Black Monk Time.) Shortly afterward, The Monks broke up, sparing the world any more crud like the latter song. The Monks had a reunion in 1999 at New York's Cavestomp Festival. Since then, Day and Johnston have died. But as long as people keep discovering this timeless, primitive music, it'll always be Monk Time somewhere.

Anyone see the show last night? Love to hear a review.

And if ya need a life coach ...I only accept payment in the form of bbq

scene the crazy dig? And wtf kinda question is "how good is garagepunk.com?" Fuckin' beautiful, baby... Oh and follow my Twitter, piefaces. I'll show ya "good"

whatwave dave said:

How good is garagepunk.com?

take over the world and spread only cool music.....LOL....

Sweet thoughts .....