Butthole Surfers @ Doornroosje 1985

I never saw them live but out of everything I've found thus far on youtube this clip comes closest to what I always thought one of their shows would have looked like back in the day. Completely fucking insane. How couldn't it be, the original name of the band was The Inalienable Right to Eat Fred Astaire's Asshole. Why the change guys? Really?

Anyway, while googling the aforementioned original band name I found this excellent page HERE that is an oral history of the Surfers. Wow - such a good read. Should be converted into one of those Brilliant little 3 31/3 books.

Also, in researching my missing copy of Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac I found the cover artist's website. Pretty wicked: http://www.macioce.org/

Assembly Line People Program - Glass Static

One of the best live bands I saw at Chicago's Fireside Bowl back in the late 90's. There's such a rift with a lot of groups from this time (my own from the time - Schlitz Family Robinson included) where they were very time/place and just missed the proliferation of digital/inter-tube age. A LOT of great bands from that era just haven't developed a posthumous presence online and it's a shame but totally understandable. One day maybe...

In the end I like to post this stuff to try and catch the artists' attention even if just for a second to say, "Hey, thank you. This was awesome and I still enjoy it to this day."

sys.exe - liquid sky

I know this guy. I really dig his stuff. He's doing some Christian Fisting remixes for us soon.

I'm excited.

Janice Whaley - Wow

I'm not even sure where to start with this one. It began with me reading one of my favorite blogs, Condemned to Rocknroll. Someone left a comment on one of the articles about an all-acapella Smiths cover project. I'm not very into covers, but I happened to have cracked The Queen is Dead and Meat is Murder back out today and of course, like an addict reintroduced to their favorite substance the second I get a nibble of The Smiths it's a very short distance to obsession. Pretty soon I'll be laying on the living room floor, reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman and listening to The Headmaster Ritual over and over and over again.

So after listening to that I did some snooping and found some more of her music. I'm really digging this as well.

Nick Cave - Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow

One of my favorite Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds songs from what is DEFINITELY my favorite album by the group - how have I never seen this video before???

Brilliant!!!

(note Jarvis Cocker in the smashing green suit)

Chelsea Wolfe - MER

Psychetect

Klint Finley is the mastermind that runs one of the best information-nexus sites on the internet, Technoccult.net. He also has a description-defying music project called Psychetect. It is fantastic. It takes me to strange inner spaces where reality melts and my thoughts turn into liquid fire. It is equally great to write to and great to zone uncontrollably; a much-appreciated Shamanic presence in the sometimes bleak and chaotic inner landscape that bubbles around beneath the furthest corridors of my consciousness.

Psychetect's E.P. Extremism is available for $2 here on bandcamp (you can also link to it through technoccult, which is probably an even better route to take because if you've never seen the site before you'll be able to get a feel for just how much information is there.