DOWNLOAD: Honeycomb Bones - Evil Age EP

Honeycomb Bones
Evil Age EP
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Honeycomb Bones are a feral garage two piece from Hull; Michael (guitar and vocals) and Craig (bass) with drums kicked by a machine programmed .loose and fast, the only clue being the slightly tinnyr snap of the snare. You won;t care, and it's almost integral to the frantic sound.  Friends since primary school, the duo have been making scratchy lo-fi demos for a few years before starting gigging and playing a more developed garage-punk style with the added electronic element in the form of drums though there's nothing scratchy about this release, it burns fiercely with a thick smoke-warped production that fills up the space and swamps your head.  No garage band worth their salt should think of clearing up their sound much further.

The sound is a lot of Oh Sees, especially in the fx addled vocals of Forgetting Over that uses a head-rattling tremelo/delay shock treatment to awesome ends on top of an already killer riff and stomping beat. Keep Your Fever has a taut post-punk disco slash and stab the like of which Franz Ferdinand cleaned up but Honeycomb Bones bury back under its rightful place of dirty scuzzy overdriven fuzz. Going further back there's a Cramps-y ominousness in the bass boom and vibrating spaces of lead picking plus the omnipotent garage rock presence of Link Wray free-wheeling hot-blues surf-streak.

They are planning to release a cassette or a 7" some time in the future, but no firm details as to when or what it will include. I'll be sure sure to let you know where and when.

VIDEO: Woven Bones - Your Way With My Life

Continuing this weeks (accidental) garage rock theme we bring news that Austin TX psychedelic noiseniks Woven Bones just dropped their debut 12" album In and Out and Back Again on Chicago's Hozac Records with this video as a preemtive firestorm to set you alight in advance (unless you got it already). It's probably going to sell out as quickly as their previous four 7"s but this time it's almost twice the size! No doubt a band this fierce is deserving of a bigger slab of shellac.

DOWNLOAD: NFR Mix 3 - Crushing On To Tapes

Crushing On To Tapes: A John Dwyer Primer

NFR Mix 3, May 2010

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Here's the third mix in our continuing series, and it's a pretty special one, especially if you're into Garage Rock.

This mix coincides with the release of John Dwyer’s Nth record release as Thee Oh Sees, but that’s just coincidence.  I started this almost a year ago, got sidetracked, and now I've managed to come back and finish it - Just in time for Warm Slime.  Still, I make it sound easier than it was to track all this stuff down.  The internet offers gratuitous providence at the best of times, but even so, tracking down some kind of recorded output from each of the bands within the man’s hyper-prolific trajectory has been pretty difficult – I even turned up the listing ‘Owes Rick Money (Thief)’ which I’m pretty sure isn’t a band and some kind of in-joke I’m not privvy to.  There’s also something called Darkthrone that I could never find, but as far as I’m concerned that’s just Fenriz and Nocturno Culto and I’m happy to leave it at that; though if Dwyer was to pop up on their next album playing flute I wouldn’t be surprised. Only Superpit truly eludes me.  From all I can find they might have been his high school band with only a couple of practices to their name let alone any recorded output.

So what this compilation features is 19 tracks from 16 bands including a couple of alternate monikers for the same group, plus a couple of live duets and a load of interview samples that hopefully colour in the character of the man a little further outside the boundaries of the music. Buckle up.

To expound on each group with dates, members and discographies would be gratuitous and detract from the kinds of spontaneity, creativity and chaotic artistry that a career spanning Doom through Garage Rock to Teutonic Electro alludes to.

So here’s to him – Keep on crushin’ Dwyer!

Thanks for downloading.  Enjoy!

Tracklist:

Yikes - Carol Ann (Whoa Comas - Blood Bomb, Kill Shaman)

Pink & Brown - Messy Bessy, Get Undressy (Shame Fantasy II, ToYo/Load)

Landed – ‘Untitled 5’ (Everything's Happening, Vermiform Records)

The Drums - Big Paper (Demo)

The Ohsees - It Killed Mom (Sucks Blood, Castle Face)

Sword & Sandals - Live @ The Stork Club, NYC 2006

OCS - Devil's Last Breath (4, Narnack)

Dig That Body Up, It's Alive - Exploding Globes (A Corpse Is Forever, Castle Face/Rock Is Hell)

Netmen - Itsu-Bou (You're Soaking In It - The Sounds and Smells of Load Records, Load)

Coachwhips - You Gonna Get It (Bangers Vs. Fuckers, Narnack)

The Trawgs - I Can't Control Myself (Teenage Meadows Of Infinity, Galactic Zoo Dossier)

Zeigenbock Kopf - Blinded By Lust (Nocturnal Submissions, Tigerbeat6)

Thee Oh Sees - Meat Step Lively (Help, In The Red)

Burmese - Twenty Missiles Later (Monkeys Tear Man To Shreds, Man Never Forgives Ape, Man Destroys Environment, tUMULt/ToYo)

Revenge SF - Bird On A Wire (Welcome To The Party, Narnack)

The Hospitals - Rock And Roll Is Killing My Life (The Hospitals, In The Red)

John Dwyer & Sam Hillmer – Live @ Death by Audio, NYC 2009

Krang – ‘Untitled 5’ (Krang, Self-Released)

The OhSees - Drone #4 (Grave Blockers, Castle Face)

Fecal Face Interview Segments

Coachwhips

Benefit Show

Hospitals Fight

Fight Video Guys

Walrus TV Artist Feature Segments
Cool Old Man

Jobs

Plane Death

Your Blood On My Hands

CalTV Interview Segment

Indie Rock

Bands & Instruments:

Burmese (Drums)
Coachwhips (aka Roachclips) (Guitar, Vocals)
Dig That Body up... It's Alive! (Guitar, Vocals)

The Drums (Drums)
The Hospitals (Guitar)

John Dwyer & Sam Hillmer (Flute & Drums)
Krang (aka Tar-Aiym Krang) (Guitar)
Landed (Guitar)
Netmen (Guitar, Vocals)
The Ohsees (aka Thee Oh Sees, OCS, Oronoka Crash Suite, Orinoka Crash Suite) (Guitar, Vocals, Noise)
Pink and Brown (Guitar, Vocals)
Revenge SF (aka Revenge) (Drums)
Sword and Sandals (Drums)
The Trawggs (Drums)
Yikes (Guitar, Vocals)
Zeigenbock Kopf (Vocals, Electronics)