C.O.M.A. was a short-lived new-wave-meets-avant-garde band from France. They emerged from the ashes of an equally short-lived punk band called Chaos, which did not put out any music during its lifetime but saw the release of a four-song 7″ in 2018 called White Punks On Slope comprised of tracks recorded four decades earlier in 1977. […]
Tag: 1979
Zazu – “Captain Starlight” (1979)
I didn’t buy this 12″ of Zazu’s Captain Starlight the first time I saw it over at Volver Records. I picked it up, sure. Appreciated it. Admired it. Smiled. Then put it back. But I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It was still there during my next two visits to the shop. Toying with me. […]
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 […]
P-Model – “In A Model Room” (1979)
The greater Seattle-Tacoma region has some great record shops, though at times if feels like most are more generalists and it would be nice to have a bit more… uniqueness. Fortunately we have Selector Records in Seattle specializing in electronic music, probably the only such store in the state. And most recently we saw the […]
The Plugz – “Electrify Me” (1979)
The Plugz were one of the very first Latino punk bands. Formed in Los Angeles in 1977 they full embraced the DIY ethic, founding their own label Plugz Records (later Fatima Records) to put out their music. Their first full-length album was Electrify Me, a record popular enough to see three distinct pressings in 1979 […]