Travis Cthulhu just got a whole lot more sinister on The Cthulhus’ third CD-R release, EVAPR8. This collection of sci-fi sound poems, strung together with bedroom rock, bent electronics and musique concrète, sounds less like Wavves and more like Trout Mask Replica or early Zappa, with perhaps an assist from Bruce Haack on drum machines, which could easily be lifted from a Baldwin ’70s home organ.

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[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdCRcrgX080] The Screamers live at Target Video L.A. RECORD is proud to partner with Cinefamily to present this unprecedented opening of the vaults of San Francisco’s Target Video, who filmed a giant chunk of the West Coast’s original punk bands (including the still-infamous Cramps at Napa State Hospital and Crime at San Quentin!) and whose [...]

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Dexter Romweber was the guitar half of the Flat Duo Jets, a two-man rock ‘n’ roll band from the deep south that had the power of Dr. Ross and Abner Jay combined. They were filmed for—and broke up during—the documentary Two-Headed Cow, screening tonight. Dex and his new duo (with his sister Sara) have a new album and will be performing in L.A. this weekend. This interview by Nolan Knight.

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Free Drugs : – ) doesn’t stumble, even with Coomers and Curtis switching off vocals and instruments song to song. It has a natural lived-in feel that I like to think comes from them all bein’ pals and having fun and not rushing anything. The songs themselves develop organically—familiar but unique to themselves—and the album holds together well. Despite its many surprises and changes, Free Drugs : – ) comes across like something you’ve been waiting for—or maybe already heard but can’t really remember. Lovely in a dope-induced white fog sort of way. P.S. They’re blowing up so get the album and act like you know.

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dan monick

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