Well, good luck with that! Haha.

Seriously, lots of bands are looking for reviews... it shouldn't be too hard to get review material. But then again there are millions of blogs out there nowadays, so you have to make yours stand above the rest and get a good reputation for reviewing. You might just have to start out by reviewing stuff you buy yourself or already have in your collection until you get a name for yourself in the reviewer world.

By the way, when you get caught up reviewing all of these records you're getting in the mail, how about making a new podcast for us? ;)

i posted this in the blog section.... i think... but figured this may be a better place for all your input. I need songs with either Bells in the title or Bells in the song. I am doing a 4 hour radio slot with a Bell theme on Xmas. Or at least that is what I would like to do if I can gather enough songs. I'll even give you a- as requested by- on the air too! So for example of bells in a song, there are bells in Godspeed You Black Emperor- Moya. Throw em at me.... and if you HAVE the song, even the more helpful. The record library there is good... but sometimes hard to find certain songs.

Thanks everyone for your help ahead of time!

The best way is to get other similar blogs to add yours to their blogrolls (or links sections). Of course you'll need to do that for them in return. It also helps to register your blog on as many blog directories as you can find. And make it easy for people to figure out what your blog's RSS (syndication) feed is. Make it obvious. Then give them easy ways to subscribe (add buttons, email subscription options, etc.). Feedburner (now owned by Google) is great for this: www.feedburner.com

I am doing a radio show featuring bells. It can either have the word bells in the song title or in the actual song. Either way... I am compiling a list, so please help me out. I am trying to get this for a Xmas show, as I refuse to play actual Xmas songs. Thanks!

You have a washing machine in your BATHROOM? Call of the wild pirate radio said:

You really wanna know ?
Well...I listen to them on a Mp3 player in my bathroom, while doing my washing and my laundry.
I wash my teeth with Dan Electreau, undress with Lucy Lux, put my dirty clothes in the washing machine with Brad X, sing in the shower with Rob Baker, shampoo with Lord Muck, shave with Alex Piandes, put my socks on with Michael Kaiser, etc, etc...
Now podcasters, you've been warned...

You really wanna know ?
Well...I listen to them on a Mp3 player in my bathroom, while doing my washing and my laundry.
I wash my teeth with Dan Electreau, undress with Lucy Lux, put my dirty clothes in the washing machine with Brad X, sing in the shower with Rob Baker, shampoo with Lord Muck, shave with Alex Piandes, put my socks on with Michael Kaiser, etc, etc...
Now podcasters, you've been warned...

"Recent" albums : Jay Reatard - Blood Visions Cheap Time - Glitter & Gold Black Lips - Let it bloom The Weakends (on rob house rec', http://www.myspace.com/theweakends) Magnetix - Positively Negative All Gun club albums Oblivians -POPULAR FAVORITES Dollhouse - Rock n Roll circus KK& BBQ - Whats For Dinner? ..... Other tracks on my garage blog www.boomshinerecords.com ENJOY !!!

Groovy 60s lp's you can start with. :

1) The Shadows of Knight - Gloria
2) 13th Floor Elevators - the psychedelic sounds of....
3) Love - s/t
4) the Monks - Black Monk Time
5) the Music Machine - turn on...
6) the Birds - s/t
7) the Sonics - here are the Sonics
8) the Sonics - boom
9) Q65 - revolution
10) the Creation - we are paintermen

Compilation series' I highly reccomend:

1) Garage Beat '66
2) Nuggets
3) That Driving Beat
4) Girls In The Garage
5) Back From The Grave
6) Ils Sont Fous Ces Gaulois
7) English Freakbeat
8) (if you can find 'em) Ultra Chicks
9) Pop A Paris
10) GS I Love You

The Misunderstood "before the dream faded" and "the lost acetates".
A Session with the Remains

Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People

'The Lavender Jungle' Senor Charro Records, availble on CRYPT. It's amazing!!!!!!

Fuckin' sux...I never made it to the US store...
So do I have it right that there will still be someone handlin' Crypt US mailorder?

tim told me he's moving back to germany...sucks...

Cheer PJ, its very close to where we're playing!

From Tim:

i'd been planning to move back to Europe since 2001 but got buried in the house repair hell all those years and then it finally sold on march 25th, Bando died June 7th and i just slid into a hole cos living in the back of the store was a nasty ass life.

brooklyn store and usa mailorder was stretching my work to 90 hrs/week and after paying my employees i was making $300 a month and that ain't worth the grind.

hamburg mailorder and store and distro is handled very ably by Dirk, so i can concentrate on all the mastering work for Norton in a comfortable spot in berlin and not get derailed by the constant distraction of the brooklyn store.

Mike Catalano (ex-Academy records, current Norton employee) will take over my remaining lease at the bkln store in late-feb or so and expand it, do mailorder of all kindsa stuff incl crypt crapola.

Hey PJ where is the Crypt shop in Hamburg? We'll be there at the weekend.

Jeepers... Good think I already got all those Back From The Grave and Devil Dogs Lps...

'the village idiot' by the sonics...... makes that a 3rd by them!

Yea, I have a few other versions too, but I like it as it's one of the rawer versions, although Berry's will always have to be ranked at the top. Haven't heard the Fleshtone's version though, will check out the show, thanks.

Thanks for posting the MP3s, Mike. "Run Rudolph Run," originally by Chuck Berry, has been covered by lots of folks. It's on that new Fleshtones Xmas album and there's a version by Keith Richards on the new Little Steven's Underground Garage xmas compilation. The Rockin' Guys (an Arkansas band) also covered it many years ago. Check out my own Christmas podcast:

Here's just a few songs I'm putting on the wife's muzak cd for work. Not strictly GP. Lots of Rockabilly, Soul, & even ska/reggae stuff out there too. Humpers "Run Run Rudolph" Sonics "Santa Claus" Kinks 'Father Christmas" Surfaries "Surfers Christmas" Jackie & the Cedrics "Silent Night Rumble" Detroit Junior "Christmas Day" Kaisers "Mery Christmas Loopy Lu" Check out Dave the Spazz's archived shows for all kinds of X-mas goodies. http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/MS

There was lotsa great garage/psychedelic soul rock in Cambodia in the late '60s and early '70s. Much of it was destroyed after the evil Khmer Rouge took over in 1975. The records were smashed and burned and many of the top artists were killed or died in the labor camps. The stuff that survives is real lo-fi -- probably from third or fourth generation cassettes or whatever. The singer in this video is Ros Sereysothea There's a series of albums called Cambodian Rocks that's great. Same type of thing thing happened in Ethiopia in the '70s when the commies took over there. The Ethiopiques series has some great stuff that lots of us here might like. My favorite of the ones I've heard (there's 20 some CDs in the series so far) is Volume 8, SWINGING ADDIS.

yeah, this is really getting good!!!

Don't know who this is or what genre it is... But oichang0198 on youtube has a bunch of these weird Jap hippies hanging around wharehouses playing steel drums and jew harps...

This show was by far the best collection of tunes of heard yet on any show. And that's saying a lot since all the shows on Garage Punk are great!