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Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #196

First Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio episode in our “new era” in which all of our previous podcasts – both DH Radio and several spin-offs – are combined into one super-spectacular, raw, sub-underground musical  cornucopia. Read all about the “format change” right here. Terrific new stuff from the Analog Africa label this time around, along with The Strange Girls, Non Plus Temps, Allysen Callery, The Ornette Coleman Trio, Polka Dots, Laurel Premo, Jooklo Sextet and much more.

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Track listing:

JOOKLO SEXTET – LSD Mingus Post Blackout
SONIDO VERDE DE MOYOBAMBA
– Zarzamora
MITA Y SU MONTE ADENTRO
– El Yoyo
THE MOVERS
– Give Five Or More
LOS SIDERALS
– Virgenes Del Sol
THE NIGHT HAWKS
– Rockin’ Hawk
THE BLUE BIRDS
– Khari Neem Ke Nichey
THE STRANGE GIRLS
– Wasp
NON PLUS TEMPS
– Endless Jetty Night
CHILDREN MAYBE LATER
– 27 Club
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND
– Dropout Boogie
POLKA DOTS
– Zweifel
ALLYSEN CALLERY
– Crazy Lady Blues
DIANE HILDEBRAND
– Early Morning Blues and Greens
SAMMI SMITH
– Manhattan, Kansas
OLIVER
– Off on a Trek
LAUREL PREMO
– Torbjørn Bjellands Bruremarsj
JOHNNY YOUNG
– Untitled #1
GEORGE GRUNTZ
– Main Theme
BYRON ALLEN TRIO
– Decision for the Cole-Man
STEVE REID
– C You Around
THE ORNETTE COLEMAN TRIO
– Faces and Places
ROBERTO DE SIMONE
– Secondo Coro Della Lavandaie

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Format Change!

I grew up fanatically listening to radio in the 1970s and 80s, because if you were a budding music obsessive, that’s what you did. Those of us who’d get particularly attached to a station lived in fear of the “format change”, in which a station you listened to (say, KSAN) surreptitiously ripped-and-replaced their programming overnight, and what was once a strange, moderately free-form rock station became a dopey country station (or easy listening, news/talk, smooth jazz etc.).

So it’s certainly easy to explain why I’ve resisted expanding the remit of my Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio podcast over the last ten years and have mostly kept the 195 episodes strictly focused on “sub-underground rock and roll roll from the last six decades”. Having thematic unity and a sense of continuity from song to song has made the show relatively fun to program and well within whatever made-up boundaries I’ve used to define the show: rock-based, sub-underground, generally lowered fidelity, slapdash, punk-influenced; whatever.

When I’ve wanted to stray off the reservation, I’ve done things like spin off an all-dub podcast (Hemorrhage in Dub); an all-jazz podcast (Jazz Libertines); and an everything-except-rock-music podcast (Adult Listening). There was a folk/country podcast called No Lonesome Tune. I even did an all-78rpm show called Otherworldy and Gone for a bit, and a brief pre-WWII blues show called High Water Everywhere. There was another one called Final Sounds out there for a while, too.

Not everyone likes nor can handle a cacophonous mix of genres, and yet there’s a certain nostalgia many of us share – even if we weren’t around to experience it – for late 60s/early 70s US & UK free-form rock radio stations, the ones who’d mix Captain Beefheart with free jazz with Firesign Theater with the Stones with the Seeds, and so on. Or for those college radio stations like my beloved KFJC forever pushing boundaries and blurring lines. Or for the strange pirate radio stations that still crop up around the world and which I enjoy streaming on my computer from time to time.

And let it be said: after 195 episodes of a purely rock-focused Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio, it’s felt like diminishing returns when I’ve religiously stuck to my made-up format as referenced above. In 195 hours of faux radio, I’ve probably played every genius song I’d ever want to, and it’s only new releases and new discoveries that keep the show motoring into uncovered ground. Meanwhile, I’ve resisted shoehorning other musics into the show for fear of poisoning the well and possibly alienating the listener(s), despite personally being kinda musically omnivorous and perpetually discovering exciting new reissues, archival stuff and genres I’m just getting comfortable with for the first time, such as abstract 60s pop, cumbia, freak folk, Arabic music of the 70s and a ton more. This is why I’ve done those spin-off podcasts, and why even that doesn’t make a ton of sense to me going forward.

I’m heartened by how well a sort of eclectic, free-flowing programming has been pulled off by shows such as Tucson-based David Mittleman’s Observations of Deviance and Greatest Music of Man & Womankind on KZAX out of Bellingham, WA. Jordan Burgis’ now-defunct Encyclopedia Esoterica has been a big listen of mine over the years, as has Domenic Gagliano’s Searching for a Thread on WRFI in Ithaca, NY (and of course, most of these shows are on Mixcloud, which is what makes them so easy to discover and/or subscribe to).

So the Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio format change is an attempt to steal from those fellas, and to beautifully and harmoniously bring together all the crap I listen to at home and want the rest of the world to enjoy as much as I do. My “curation”, such as it is, will still be with a goal of only playing the good stuff, whether it’s from 1922 or 2022. I’ll keep mixing in sub-underground rocknroll. I haven’t decided yet if I want to totally go hog-wild and jumble up genres within a given set, or if each set should more or less be within a particular genre or complementary genres. At the end of the day, it’s just navel-gazing on my part, but I’m just kind of like that – these shows are often mixtapes for myself, though it’s fucking fantastic that upward of 600-700 people listen to them every time I make one. Thank you.

With genre shackles loosened, it’ll also allow for the show’s length to wander a bit. For years the podcast has been an hour long, give or take a minute or two, and I’m a believer in shorter-is-better for the most part. A 3-hour podcast is too overwhelming, at least for me it is – so I’d like to settle on something comfortably between an hour and two. You can rest assured that you can be free to skip around as you see fit, as I know you will.

The most recent Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio episode – no. 195, the “Crud Crud Special Edition” – points the way forward. It’s a transition show, I guess. If you like the rock-only shows, there are 194 episodes before that one that you can stream and in some cases download at any time. Stay prone & ready for the next episode if you’re interested, and as always, I’m amazed and completely thankful that anyone still listens to this thing. In 2012, when I kicked it off, I thought 20-30 listeners would be a major coup. Perhaps that’s where we’re headed next – we’ll see!

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Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #195 – “Crud Crud” Special Edition

This very special episode is a tribute to the mp3 blog “Crud Crud“, run by Scott Soriano, that existed from 2005-2012 and which was a premier bargain-basement crate-digging site of outstanding R&B, surf/hot rod instrumentals, Latin loopiness, garage pop and global exotica, all on 45s, mostly but not exclusively from the 1960s. I used to download like crazy from this thing and ultimately compiled four 80-minute CD-Rs of favorites from his blog. This special episode shares an hour of the best of ’em, all super under-the-radar gems across many genres.

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Track listing:

BARNSTORMERS – Bug Stompin’ (Stomp That Roach)
LOS CRAZY BIRD’S
– Soy Normal
EL CLOD
– Gringo
LINDA LAURIE
– Jose He Say
SUZI JANE HOKOM
– Home
WHIZZ KIDS
– Sweet Honey
THE CARAVELLES
– Lovin’ Just My Style
SPOONER’S CROWD
– Two In The Morning
DE-FENDERS
– Drag Beat
DYNAMIC DIAL TONES
– Boss
THE SUPER DUPERS
– The Jungle Jingle
MANUEL & THE RENEGADES
– Rev-Up
RINKYDINKS
– Hot Potato (Part One)
THE TRIPLETS
– Baghdad Beat
JAN MINK
– Come On In
DAVID McCALLUM
– Communication
DON CARSON & THE CASUALS
– Yes Master!
JEAN KASSAPIAN
– The Snake
WILLIE TOMLIN
– Check Me Baby
JIMMY J & THE MARK-LEE SOUND
– I’m a Lover Man
JEANETTE WILLIAMS
– You Gotta Come Through
LULU & THE LUVERS
– Forget Me Baby

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Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #194

Gauzy, Syd-damaged pop, blistering UK punk, global DIY experimentalism and psychedelic 60s overdoses – all wrapped in one 70-minute package called Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #194. It very well could be the best collection of music on the internet. New stuff this time from CHILDREN MAYBE LATER, NON PLUS TEMPS, SMIRK, QUILTBOY, BRANNTEN SCHNURE, HOT CHICKS, TASTE and SHADE….plus a set of six scorchers from the “I’m a Mess! Punk 45” compilation, and then those 60s nosebleeders toward the end….and more….!

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Track listing:

CHILDREN MAYBE LATER – My Favorite Painter
NON PLUS TEMPS –
Facts Sound Like Myths
TASTE –
High Chew Rumble
QUILTBOY –
Settle The Score
PETER JEFFERIES & ROBBIE MUIR –
Catapult
BRANNTEN SCHNURE
Ruhloser Kopf
JOHNNY AND THE SELF ABUSERS
Saints and Sinners
TRASH –
Priorities
THE CARPETTES
Help I’m Trapped
THE ART ATTACKS
– I Am a Dalek
THE EXILE
– Fascist DJ
MACHINES –
True Life
HOT CHICKS –
Ariel
SHADE –
Circular Economy
CLAW HAMMER –
Sick Fish Belly Up
WORLD OF POOH –
G.H.M.
HOUSEHOLD
– Our Song
THE STEREO SHOESTRING
– On The Road South
THE TWILIGHTERS
– Nothing Can Bring Me Down
SCORPIO TUBE
– Yellow Listen
CARETAKERS OF DECEPTION
– Cuttin’ Grass
THE MOODS
– Rum Drunk
SMIRK
– Symmetry

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Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #193

A leap into the great unknown both literally and figuratively, with a new computer recording an episode of our programme for the first time in ten years, and a distinct and impressive group of sub-underground misanthropic entertainers, the likes of which include HOT GUM, V-3, ANSWERING MACHINES, NO FRIENDS BAND, BLUES AMBUSH, PLEASANT MOB,  SMIRK, THE EYE and so, so much more.

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Track listing:

ANSWERING MACHINES – Razor Burn
HOT GUM – Clothes
PREENING – Associated Press
THE COOLIES – Throwaway
SWIMMING POOL Q’S – Rat Bait
PERFORMING FERRET BAND – Plastic Macho Man
PINK FLOYD – Arnold Layne
PLEASANT MOB – Irene
SNEAKERS – Ruby
SMIRK – Revenge
NUMBERS – Intercom
REZILLOS – No
TOXIC SHOCK – Sensationalism 
THE EYE – Adjust Audio Accordingly
V-3 – 4 Ever Low Man
NO FRIENDS BAND – Reduced General IQ
ROYAL TRUX – Gold Dust (demo)
THE MIRRORS – She Smiled Wild
BLUES AMBUSH – Horse Noises

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Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #192

Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #192 presents a colorful and dissonant cavalcade of sound, showcasing new stuff this time around from TASTE, ANNA SAVAGE, KILYNN LUNSFORD, DRUTY and ADDED DIMENSIONS, along with newly-reissued material from MAXINE FUNKE and HAMILTON STREETCAR. This pairs nicely with both a fine chianti and library material from Buck Biloxi and The Fucks, Amateur Hour, Madeleine Chartrand and the Cheater Slicks – among others.

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Track listing:

TASTE – Passed Out in Petals
KILYNN LUNSFORD – Reality Testing
XV – Prison
THE SHEAVES – Make Time
HAMILTON STREETCAR – Invisible People
JONATHAN HALPER – Leaving My Old Life Behind
WOODEN SHJIPS – Death’s Not Your Friend
ADDED DIMENSIONS – Technical
BUCK BILOXI & THE FUCKS – I’m a Genius
CCTV – Mind Control
ICKY BOYFRIENDS – I Was…
CHEATER SLICKS – Sadie Mae (demo)
SALLY SKULL – Raven
ANNA SAVAGE – Queens Rd
MAXINE FUNKE – First in Spring
MADELEINE CHARTRAND – Ani-Kuni
AMATEUR HOUR – Jenny’s Place
WIRE – Mercy
DRUTY – Zarobki

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Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #191

Aside from a self-indulgent set packed with 70s LA punk masterpieces, Dynamite Hemorrhage #191 is mostly new material, and lots of it. In exactly one hour, you’ll hear freshly-unwrapped stuff from the likes of NON PLUS TEMPS, THE SHEAVES, ANNA SAVAGE, KACIMI, DEBT RAG, HONEY RADAR, RIBBON STAGE, JEANINES, HOLT BODISH, GUITAR, SAVE OUR CHILDREN, and even bands we can’t pronounce like BZDET and DEHIDRATALT FEJEK – and more.

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Track listing:

THE SHEAVES – Good Health
DEBT RAG – Say Ah (Earth Beat)
ANIMALS & MEN – Don’t Misbehave in the New Age
NIGHT KINGS – Black Fluid
MIDDLE CLASS – Out of Vogue
THE DILS – Class War
THE GERMS – Circle One
FLESH EATERS – Agony Shorthand (‘78 demo)
THE BAGS – Babylonian Gorgon
JEANINES – That’s OK
JEANINES – After All
RIBBON STAGE – Playing Possum
HONEY RADAR – Square Hotline
DEHIDRATALT FEJEK – Oda a Salvus Vizhez
KACIMI – Les Rois
NON PLUS TEMPS – Continuous Hinge
GUITAR – 122
BZDET – Mateuszq
MALE IDIOT THEORY – Cancel Today
SAVE OUR CHILDREN – S.O.C.
HOLT BODISH – Tossed Off Rockers
ANNA SAVAGE – Saturn Again

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Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #190

With only minimal flogging of our new fanzine, Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #190 showcases some of the finest young acts of today and their talents, including RRR BAND (pictured)DEBT RAG, ROSWIT, HOLD BODISH, PUPPET WIPES, THE GABYS and MALE IDIOT THEORY. Whew! There’s also a slew of other highly-trained musicians from the past playing highly intricate music, including favorites of yours like the Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Calamari Girls, The Shallows, Plagal Grind, A-Frames, Lovely Midget and more. Dig in!

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Track listing:

DEBT RAG – Column
THE GABYS – The End of Love
THE SHALLOWS – Trial By Separation
KNEELING IN PISS – Music for Peasants
ROSWIT – Grape
CALAMARI GIRLS – He Got That Plan on a Tag on the Back of His Jeans
MAD WALLS – Somewhere Anywhere
PUPPET WIPES – Victims of the Stones Disease
LOVELY MIDGET – Cooking Chicken
CONCRETE – Uranium Plant
HOLT BODISH – Words To Reason
PLAGAL GRIND – Marquesite Lace
MALE IDIOT THEORY – Spency
A-FRAMES – Plastica
THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS – No New York
RAYS – Drop Dead
THE RONDELLES
– Shimmybecker
THE GAMBLERS
– Teen Machine
RRR BAND
– Rock For Birds

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NEW: Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine #10

We’ve got a new issue of the Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine, just out in August 2022, a big 64-page 10th issue. You can order a copy here. Here’s what’s in it:

  • TAKE IT! fanzine overview: A look at what was probably 1981-1982’s finest fanzine, straight out of Boston and created by, among others, Byron Coley, Richard Meltzer, Mick Farren, Gregg Turner, Ira Kaplan, Phil Milstein, Julie Farman, Gerard Cosloy, editor Michael Koenig and more. We go issue by issue to wind back the proverbial hands of time and take ourselves deep into their passions and annoyances and the great underground rock debates of the day.
  • CHILDREN MAYBE LATER: Interview with a new trio of San Francisco Bay Area bon vivants with an impressive pedigree and playful meld of loopy Syd Barrett flights of fancy; sparse Young Marble Giants-styled quietness & minor-key New Zealand sub-underground dissonance. Learn what makes them go!
  • THE TWILIGHTERS: A phoned interview with Jay White of Texas psych/punk/fuzz face-melters who created that one 45, “Nothing Can Bring Me Down”, and no more. What was it like to be barnstorming teen clubs and swimming parties in the mid 1960s and getting exploited by the business for your youth and inexperience? Jay White tells all.
  • ONYON: An interview with Leipzig, Germany’s raucous, distorted purveyors of a distinct strand of post-punk that’s got a big foot steeped in ragged garage punk, and a smaller one in throbbing, glassy-eyed coldwave.
  • MOONLOVE: Lost 1985 college band from Kent, OH who were unearthed this past year with the re-release on LP of their archival tape “May Never Happen”, some of the most lovely and captivating Velvet Underground-inspired music of theirs or any other era. We assembled appx. two-thirds of the band to take a look at what went down.
  • A SURVEY OF MODERN SOLO GUITARISTS: From Liam Grant to Alex Archibald, from Matthew J. Rolin to Gwenifer Raymond, from Joseph Allred to D.C. Cross to Laurel Premo to Daniel Bachman and beyond. These are the modern solo guitarists we thought it might be worth writing a piece about.
  • A TRIP DOWN THE “SMILE” RABBIT HOLE: What happened to the editor when he truly immersed himself in the candy-coated 1966-67 world of Brian Wilson, and how the obsession snowballed, grew wings and took over life as we know it for a couple of months.
  • FILM HEMORRHAGE: A column on film to complement the stuff we wrote about in Issue #9 – 1970s film, Eric Rohmer, Sean Baker, film noir and more.

Plus 25+ record reviews and many photos and an untold number of opinions on things.

Order here.

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Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #189

Don’t call it new wave, call it “modern music”. The newest Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio has new sounds from MOM’S PLATE, PUPPET WIPES, ZDROJ, HOLT BODISH, LONG ODDS and THE JEANINES – as well as something from the new THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 reissues + all manner of modern music from Mirrors, Ghosts Before Breakfast, Tapeworm, The Spits, Sister Ray, The Sloths and more. Oh – and Moonlove’s album is called May Never Happen, not Anything Can Happen.

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Track listing:

MOM’S PLATE – Anxiety
HOLT BODISH – Happiness is Another
PUPPET WIPES – A Web For Every Garden
SCHOOL DAMAGE – Phone Drone
THE STACHES – Sub Zero
WOODBOOT – Bad News
THE SPITS – Flags
TAPEWORM – Break My Face
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 – Hurricane
LONG ODDS – Not Enough Stars
GHOSTS BEFORE BREAKFAST – All Your Mysteries
THE JEANINES – Dead Not Dead
WURLD SERIES – What Would You Do
ZDROJ – Otwórzcie Parki Zdrojowe
MIRRORS – Out of Order
BENT – Where’s The Fire
LANTERN – Strange Weather
SISTER RAY – Purgatory
SLOTHS – Makin’ Love
THE BRENTWOODS – Buri Buri Bash
COUNTRY TEASERS – Anytime, Cowboy #2
PUSSY & THE LEARJETS – Nothing Can Bring Me Down