From the 9353 Bandcamp page: 9353 formed January 5 1983 in Virginia by Bruce Hellington Vance Bockis Jason Carmer and a drumbox. Between 1983 and 2019 there have been 74 members of 9353. 33 are featured here in these recordings. 11 members are now dead. Of the 3 original members, Bruce Hellington is the only remaining […]
Category: Punk
Herd of Wasters – “Total Stinker” (2016)
Here in the U S of A we generate an insane amount of media, and that includes music. Our record stores are chock full of just about every kind of music originating from every corner of the country. And we import a ton of music too. It seems like our appetite for music is insatiable. […]
Thee Katatonix – “Divine Mission” (1984)
Money was tight, the engineer was stupid and the finished product was poorly mixed.— Description of Divine Mission from the Thee Katatonix website I don’t know if the engineer was indeed stupid, but I wouldn’t go as far as to call Divine Mission poorly mixed either. Thee Katatonix’s first and only full-length has a live […]
From The Vault – Interview with Dream Wife’s Rakel Mjöll
Back in the late 2010s I wrote a bit for RVK On Stage, a cool English-language magazine focused on the Icelandic music scene. Alas, the print version only lasted four issues, and while the website hung around for a while after that, when I tried the url earlier today my browser flashed all kinds of […]
Teenage Jesus And The Jerks – “Teenage Jesus And The Jerks” (1979 / 2024)
I just finished reading Adele Bertei’s No New York, a memoir of her time in the No Wave scene in the late 70s and into the early 80s. She was a keyboardist for The Contortions, and though she left the band prior to the recording of their debut album Buy, she did perform on the […]