purple concentrate: altered situations

What if the girl in "Christina's World" were immersed in ameoba waves? Album cover designer and drummer for purple concentrate, Stan Hines, said he had this question in mind when he put the cover together. Check out the altered situation songs underneath the cover.

horn head radio: really strange these signals

A combination of song snippets, down dial radio noise, and moose calls, horn head radio lead singer Kyle Seagram calls really strange these signals "a post-verbal gut."

Album Cover - FAVORITE

02 - 25 - 2010
Album Cover - FAVORITE
12" x 12"
Acrylic Paint - Found Images - Paint Pen - Album Cover

watermelon sugar

Another band that took its name from a Richard Brautigan novel, Watermelon Sugar is not the same as Trout Fishing in America. However, Watermelon Sugar may regroup as Willard and His Bowling Trophies later next year.

Please note that Watermelon Sugar lead singer Kilgore Trout did not take his name from a Richard Brautigan character and that the last novel band he was a member of, namely, Ironweed, is not a Kurt Vonnegut novel.

Montana radio station KLBZ, better know as Kill Buzz, is offering four free tickets to the next Watermelon Sugar concert (if you can call it a concert) to the first caller who can correctly answer the question, "What Richard Brautigan work did Watermelon Sugar bass player Tokyo Montana use as the basis for her name?"

New World Order - Crimes Against Humanity

Chthonic Forces - Adjustment

Album Cover - Cowboy Love

03 - 25 - 2010
Album Cover - Cowboy Love
12" x 12"
Found Images - Paint Pen - Album Cover

skeeter and his antlers: trophy wife

Country Living: New Adventures in Exotic Pet Ownership

Country Living was a cowpunk band who formed in Garden Grove, California in November 1982. The band enjoyed a strong cult following throughout the 1980s and early 1990s before the tragic spelunking death of lead singer and guitar player Slim Jim Dakota in 1993. Their music has been described as an combination of cowpunk, jangle pop, garage rock, Texas swing and rockabilly.

The band's 1987 album New Adventures in Exotic Pet Ownership is considered a classic in the cowpunk genre. It was named one of the top albums of the 1980s by MTV.com and was used as the soundtrack of the Oscar nominated documentary Slim Chances, which chronicles the life and death of Slim Jim Dakota and his girlfriend, dancer Josie Wolly.

The Yellow Fact - 'Waiting For My Manager'

bilabial plosive

Album Cover - MOLD

02 - 24 - 2010
Album Cover - MOLD
12" x 12"
Acrylic Paint - Found Images - Paint Pen - Album Cover

*Thanks for inviting me to this group!

croatia new york

return of the return

mirror stage: e me you

transcendental karaoke

straight A's and dress up

your sacrifice

glup: spankier

from "sherry tea"

shoose shoose with a waddle doddle
ice glistening summer skate inflate
plastic pool shine tanning oil lawn
trim take a squish fish bright chrome
bone steak bake lips ketchup cherry
barely shoose goose with a stealing
glance ants floatee dance baby stroke

d f cult: sink hearse

from "riding along"

these things happen
these that do
guilts its own mother
father do
these things happen
these that do

ohm ohm: between a mantra and a measure of resistance

from "red lightning"

in a wicked blink
if night forgives
everything against
and far away and for
a way to find
the morning blind

Sad Sad Babies: Hey du

Sad Sad Babies is a German krautrock band formed in 1972 as The Groovin' Babies by Hans Klausner (drums) and Berthold Ebersbacher (bass) and later joined by Didi Osterhagen (guitar). In time for their Eurovision debut in 1974, Spit Wannemaker replaced Osterhagen to solidify the classic Sad Sad Babies line up.

Sad Sad Babies were related to the free jazz music scene, both through their work with transexual French pianist Dorothea and through Klausner, who had already won several international jazz competions. The band was also influenced by rock artists, such as Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, 13th Floor Elevators and early Pink Floyd.

The band's 25th studio album, Hey du, was released in 2009. The album cover saw the return of the Kewpie doll motif that was used on the band's first ten albums. The band is often remembered for the tragic accident at a 1982 Munich concert that killed three audience members. A 15-foot tall Kewpie doll balloon was accidentally filled with hydrogen gas and it exploded violently during a pyrotechnic display. Bass player Ebersbacher was also seriously injured in the explosion.

earth soldiers at the kitchen table: fresh bait

from "The Great Fish Hunt"

I got a clutch of worms
In my net
Because birds are like fish
At breakfast.

Then I set a trap for the sky.

And I read a book on how to hunt bear
While baiting my hook with beads
Of carmel and toffee
But not because water is like air,

But because dinner's not next.

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Everybody Loves Robots: S/T

Everybody Loves Robots! (ELR) are an American alternative rock band who began as a duo of Joe Farley and Joe Learner. The band currently includes Jerry Jones, Pip Carnes, and Mary Wilton. Formed in 1987, they are best known for an unconventional and experimental style of alternative music. The group has found success on the modern rock and CMJ charts, in the children's music genre, and in theme music for several television programs and films.

ELR's best-known songs include Killer Robots of Egypt and their cover version of If I Had a Hammer (both from the 1990 self-titled album, Everybody Loves Robots!). Their two appearances on the television show Futurama also brought attention to their songs Bend Me, Bender and Robot Lover. Two ELR albums have been certified platinum: Everybody Loves Robots! and the 2006 children's music album Robots Didn't Evolve from Monkeys.

Dubious Intentions: School's Out

West Ward's a city

East Ward's a town

North Ward's nothin' but a hole in the ground!

Singer and songwriter Jeff Dixon explained in a recent interview with SPIN that the song North Ward on his band Dubious Intentions' latest album, School's Out, was inspired by a real childhood experience:

"I grew up in a little town in Nebraska and we had three elementary schools, West Ward, East Ward and North Ward. Don't ask me why there wasn't a South Ward, nobody ever seemed to know the answer to that one. Anyway, us kids at West Ward used to sing this little song about the other two schools. West Ward was a city. East Ward was a town. And North Ward was nothin' but a hole in the ground. All three schools were exactly alike. All two-story brick buildings, ugly as hell. I guess it was a stupid cross-town rivalry thing.

"Well, one summer North Ward burned down. I mean it totally burned and nothing was left but a big black hole in the ground. All of us kids felt guilty, like our little song made it happen. The kids from North Ward had to be split up and some of them came to our school. Man, we could barely look those kids in the eye. That's what the song is about. Be careful what you f**kin' wish for."

The Gods of Guitar: Our Certifcate of Greatness

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Rip Bjorn: Party Nekkid! (1967)

One of the least successful novelty records of the late 1960s was the U.S. release of Swedish comedian Rip Bjorn's Party Nekkid! While Bjorn was a major star in Northern Europe, the more prudish Americans did not react favorably to the young performer, whose material dealt with subjects like sexual freedom and nudity.

In 1966, Bjorn's single Oh, Lutefisk was a hit novelty song on American radio. It was an innocuous song about an ethnic fish dish. The single led to a recording contract and Party Nekkid! was released in early 1967. Bjorn appeared to be nude on the cover of the album, with a white guitar over his genitals. In reality, he was wearing a flesh-colored bathing suit.

However, the album was considered too racy for display in most U.S. retail stores. In New Jersey, an entire shipment of the albums was seized by state police as obscene material. The album sold fewer than 500 copies and was soon removed from distribution.

Bjorn returned to his native Sweden and became the host of a successful television show that ran for 35 years. He retired from show business in 2005 and now writes childrens' books.

Scoville Units: Code Watchers (Deluxe Edition)

Scoville Units is an American alternative rock band founded by singer and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Asholt. The band took their name from the unit of measure of the Scoville Scale, which measures the hotness or piquancy of a chili pepper. The name is believed to be a tribute to the band Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Fairfax District neighborhood of Los Angleles, California where Asholt grew up.

Scoville Units' debut album, Code Watchers, was a modest college radio success. In 2007, while touring Europe with OneRepublic shortly after the album's release, Asholt overdosed on a combination of Vicks NyQuil, valium, Grey Goose, and heroin in a London hotel room. He was unconscious and with his legs pinned beneath him for 18 hours, which caused a tragic lack of circulation. Even though Asholt lost both legs, he recovered quickly and returned to the stage in a wheelchair in less than six months.

In 2008, Asholt drew media attention when he received three speeding tickets in the Mazarati sports car that he had customized to be driven without legs. Law enforcement officials in Hollywood reported that Asholt had been traveling at more than 120 miles per hour in a school zone. Coincidentally, a track on the Code Watchers album was titled Speeding to My Death. The publicity for the arrest resulted in record-breaking sales of the song on iTunes and Scoville Units' first top 10 hit.

In early 2009, a deluxe edition of Code Watchers with five additonal tracks was released. The album was given a new cover that features a QR code with Asholt's face superimposed on it. A new album that is as of yet untitled is scheduled for release in June 2010.

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Martian Holiday: S/T

Martian Holiday is a Chicago-based American indie rock band, formed in 2008 and signed to SuperSized Recordings. The band members include: Walter Cartwright, lead vocals and guitar; Omar Kahlil, keyboards, guitar, and backing vocals; Tom Christianson, drums and percussion; and Chachi Charles, bass guitar and backing vocals.

The band's name is derived from the film Christmas on Mars by psychedelic rock band the Flaming Lips. The band first gained attention via a variety of blogs, such as Stereogum. The members claim to be influenced by both 1960s psychedelic rock and Middle Eastern classical music, describing their genre of music as Bucktown Freak.

The members of the band met as students in the Department of Music at Chicago University where they studied ethnomusicology and composition; after graduation they self-produced their first album while concurrently working full-time jobs. The self-titled album met with immediate critical acclaim.

In 2009, Martian Holiday's song Terrible Terrorist was ranked 42th on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of the year. In November 2009, they toured the United Kingdom with Kylie Minogue. They were declared "The Year's Best New Band" by Spin magazine in the March 2010 issue.

The band is also known for their unusually minimalist album cover art. The cover for Martian Holiday featured a Polaroid snapshot that lead singer Cartwright found in a family photo album. Cartwright revealed in a Rolling Stone interview that the people in the snapshot are his mother and her twin brother. The band's sophomore album Green Again is scheduled to be released in June 2010. The band's website was recently replaced with a single image that is believed to be the official album cover.

California Nightmare: Our Lives In Cliffs Notes

California Nightmare was a British folk rock band with traditional influences. The original band was active in the late 1960s and early 1970s and a later version during the late 1980s until the early 2000s. The band was known for songs with controversial lyrics that often resulted in their music being banned from radio play.

The original line-up, which was unchanged throughout the band's first incarnation (1967–1973), was: Marcy Woodcock, vocals; Albert Gross, guitar; Benny Coates, guitar; Allistair Bean, double bass; and Kuwana Mutabi, drums. A new group featuring Woodcock, Coates, Bean and two uncredited musicians was formed in 1987. In 1998, Woodcock quit the band and was replaced by Eurovision finalist Ellen Caan.

The name California Nightmare was chosen by the band as a swipe at American folk rock group The Mamas & the Papas, who recorded the hit song California Dreamin' in 1965. The band felt that the pop sound of the American group was not authentic and worthy of derision. However, California Nightmare never achieved the success of the group they ridiculed.

In 2007, the original members of the band were reunited to receive a Lifetime Achievement award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and to record a short concert that was broadcast on BBC radio. In June 2008, the band, comprising all five original members, embarked on a twelve date UK tour. Tragically, their small plane crashed on approach to Gatwick Airport and all aboard were killed.

In 2009, Our Lives In Cliffs Notes, a box set of California Nightmare's recordings from 1967 to 1998, was released. Recordings featuring the vocals of Ellen Caan were not included in the collection. This was controversial due to the fact that Cliffs Notes, the only one of the band's songs to chart in the United States, was originally recorded by Caan in 1999.

dreams of our own construction: shadow lot

soul rail

My favorite album cover of all time: Buffalo Springfield: Last Time Around. Love's Forever Changes was also a cool design with that psychedelic collage.

On the fringes of a centreless modernity

Scars on the Archive burst on to the Chicago art/medical scene in 2009 after migrating with extreme abstraction from the wild coastal sedgeland outside Hobart, Tasmania.

"Scars" are an urgent exhaustion statement system who eschew silence and noise dialectics in the name of total being immersion. Their tonal range is narrow and tight and instruments are seldom used in orthodox or counter-revolutionary ways. The group is led by the coherent chief of paradise alley. It is followed by scalpels and guerney violence contersinks. The medical link is faulty and needs ingemination.

glory

kidnapped

dead letter office

Trixie

Micheli and the Macchiaioli: Tomboj de niaj patroj

The sophomore album by British alternative rock band Micheli and
the Macchiaioli, Tomboj de niaj patroj, cemented their place in
the history of goth music. Not only were the compositions darker
than that of the band's debut album Macchie Macchie, the heroin
addiction of lead singer Connie Cooper resulted in a bizarre
slurring of the already incomprehensible Esperanto lyrics.

Adding to the morbid feel of the album's nine tracks was a cover
that featured a 19th century photograph of the catacombs of Paris.
The title of the album translates from Esperanto to "graves of our
fathers" (although this is disputed by some experts).

A digitally remastered version of Tomboj de niaj patroj was
released in 2009 on the Paupers U.K. label.

Micheli and the Macchiaioli: Macchie Macchie

Micheli and the Macchiaioli were a British alternative rock band
active from 1978 to 1996. They are known for complex
instrumentation and atmospheric and often unintelligible vocals.

Though formed in the post-punk and New Wave era, Micheli and the
Macchiaioli continues to defy precise categorization. Their music
is recognized as being a key influence on ethereal goth.

Although the entire band earned critical praise, lead singer
Constance Cooper's unique vocals received the most attention.
Cooper sang almost entirely in Esperanto, an artificial language
created in the late 1870s and early 1880s. She is often confused
with Icelandic pop singer Björk and mistakenly referred to by the
name Micheli (both of which infuriated Cooper).

A digitally remastered version of the band's debut album Macchie
Macchie was released in 2006. It resulted in a lawsuit between
Cooper and record label Paupers U.K. over claims that another
vocalist was used to overdub some portions of the recording. The
label denied Cooper's allegations and the suit was eventually
dropped. Cooper committed suicide in 2008 following an
unsuccessful solo comeback attempt. The headline in The Sun read
"80s icon Micheli found dead at Blackfriars Tube."

spank pea

spunt: spunter

The jelly candy oboe o-rings ringing bass horn blowing giant tiger striped spandex factory fun filled licorice.

Larry: sort of

sort of is the album for wondering if you actually washed those socks you're wearing.

Dr. Mysterium: Sundown Love Potion by Cece Chapman

Dr. Mysterium: Holy Wine by Cece Chapman

I-35 Austin: round down

Being Ernest: Sea Change by Fritz Liess

A growing trend in popular music is for bands to cover entire
albums by other artists. For example, The Flaming Lips recently released a cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.

Now, Santa Cruz, California alternative rock band Being Ernest has jumped on the bandwagon with their latest album, a cover of Beck's Sea Change.

Sea Change is the band's third studio album and their first
recording of work by another artist.

As with Beck's Sea Change, the album was released with four different album covers and hidden messages under the CD tray.

say you love me: love signs

say you love me issues love signs just in time for Valentine's. There's nothing more romantic than a fantastic marketing ploy.

pig face damnation

How pig face damnation came to be is an astounding story in itself. Critics have labelled it an Insane Clown Posse ripoff, but the dynamic of pig face damnation is of a different order than that of Insane Clown Posse. Indeed, pig face damnation actually set out to write music for topless bars and issued "sit and spin" ten years ago when it was known as Hot Silver, when critics called it a Motley Crue ripoff.

The idea for pig face damnation came after drummer Kit Larsen quit Hot Silver to open a midnight volleyball/mosh pit lake club in Austin. Grubber Thompson and Pete Tinsel, the two remaining Hot Silver members, recruited a drummer and bass player after spending a month in the Grand Canyon trying out their chants. With the formula for a "chant band rather then a yell 'naked' band," Grubber and Pete put together pig face damnation within a half year after Hot Silver disbanded.

As to the name, "pig face damnation," Grubber credits a visit to the Video Bar in Deep Ellum in the 1980s, where he saw Leatherface enacting his chainsaw chase on the big screens (the one Grubber remembers was above the downstairs dance floor) to his fascination with meat masks. Grubber was six at the time he visited the Video Bar, and his tales of Deep Ellum are worthy of his forthcoming movie, Me and Joe Bob Briggs, where Grubber narrates his "horror movie youth" in detail.

But "pig face" itself, as Grubber tells it, relates to the masks worn by certain Washington Redskin fans. To this inteviewer's satisfaction, Grubber could not quite relate "pig face" to Leatherface, but perhaps the masks worn by Leatherface and Washington Redskin fans they are all part of the "meat mask" fascination Grubber spoke of.

Check out "My Bloody Valentine" and "Redder and Redder." As the chant goes on "Axe Battle," "It's all grunts and squeals and the thrill of surviving a spin on Ixion's Wheel."