5 Sep 2010 ✎ reply
Can it get better than this?
It’s like a dominator Elvis on crack preaching the gospel according to Aleister Crowley on a 8-bit drum machine.
This video would give a boner to Glenn Danzig himself.
Now play this shit loud as hell and learn a lesson kid. Alan Vega is your god.
5 Sep 2010 ✎ reply
Mostly known for being the guitarist & singer of the fantastic lovecraftian punk band Rudimentary Peni, Nick Blinko is also a cult figure in underground art with his intense paintings (Blinko was part of the Entarte Kunts 2009 in Portland, curated by Dennis Dread). It’s interesting to note that Blinko, who’s been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, create his pictures when not taking therapeutic medication which simply annihilates his creativity. By his music, his writing and his art, Blenko captures the true essence of the soul facing the great vast nothingness of space and time. A haunting sight of cosmic horror.
Here’s a few examples of his feverish, macabre and religious obsessed genius…
3 Sep 2010 ✎ reply
Nice footage of their performance at Les Beaux-Arts de Paris on january 13th 2009.
I love this band.
More Putre Factio here
2 Sep 2010 ✎ reply
Two great performances curated by the (in)famous Pendu NYC that night in Brooklyn.
The Glasslands Gallery was the perfect venue for that show even if some dumb-ass cops seem to think they are fucking Charles Bronson around here, but anyway…
King Dude is mainly TJ Cowgill, he’s hailing from Seattle and he’s playing haunting folk songs with a voice deep as a grave. It’s sad, dark and it smells like goat in winter. The kind of music you’d like to hear around a bonfire in the woods for the solstice with steak knives and liquor in your blood.
Now, I was disappointed at first when I realized that Cult Of Youth would be playing as a one-man band but actually Sean (leader and songwriter) delivered a fiendish performance, literally possessed by his music, including some new stuff that sounded very promising for the band’s future. Hell, he even granted us with a cover of “Dark Wood Too Awakes” by Current 93 and totally killed it! Somewhere between a mad preacher and a folk poet, it was absolute brilliance here.
I left before Cosmetics, the last band before the disco-dance party, played but I’m sure, even it’s not really my thing, it was a cool show as well.
So thanks to all the bands who played tonight and thanks to Pendu NYC for another great event in Brooklyn. I’m really looking forward to hear new Cult Of Youth material and to all of you out there who like folk music with horns you should check King Dude.
More King Dude here
More Cult Of Youth here
KING DUDE
CULT OF YOUTH
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KING DUDE “RIVER OF GOLD” VIDEO
1 Sep 2010 ✎ reply
Los Vaticanos was a kick-ass italian hardcore band from Rome that totally blew my mind when I discovered them on the “Crash Mandolino II” tape many years ago. They played some vicious hardcore flirting with grind and powerviolence with a very morbid atmosphere. Unfortunately, I didn’t find quite the same oppressive vibe on their LP, “Nerone 666″. And now that I’m thinking about it, the two tracks on “Crash Mandolino II” were even crazier than the demo. Shit, I really need to get these back. In the meantime and from hell’s entrails here’s Los Vaticanos demo tape.
31 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
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30 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
BRAINS
Some new, some old enhanced with a couple of samples here and there. Only amazing stuff as usual and quite faithful to my tastes at the moment.
Also my dear friends, I’d like to remind you that if you ever got your ass kicked by one of the artists featured on these podcasts, do yourself a favor and buy the record.
01. Herschell Gordon Lewis – Blood Feast Radio Spot
02. Sleigh Bells – Straight A’s
03. Drunkdriver – All The Dead Dogs
04. Vile Gash – Mind In Chains
05. Brainbombs – Die You Fuck
06. Cult Ritual – Death Valley ‘69
07. Iran – Dream Summer
08. Lotus Fucker – The Rock That Will Not Be Withered By The Waterfall
09. Die Kreuzen – All White
10. Cult Of Youth – Hungry Animals
11. Herschell Gordon Lewis – Brains Knocked Out
12. Blessure Grave – 17 Years Of Hell
13. Teenage Panzerkorps – Arc De Triomphe
14. Wormsblood – In The Stars
15. Wormsblood – From These Dark Fields (We Can See The Stars)
16. Robedoor – I Thought You Were The Devil
17. Lupus Golem – Minotaure Part 2
18. Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg – Arcane Runes Adorn Thelce
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30 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
Yoga comes out from nowhere, torch the night in iridescent fires and crawls back to its original nothingness.
What did you exactly hear? You don’t really know… For a brief moment (but maybe much longer than you think) you visited another world.
You held your breath and closed your eyes. Space and time were gone. And that’s when the visions started: you were standing at the thin edge of reality and the gate, in a slow fractal motion, opened wide…
In stupor, fear and amazement, you saw the whole universe swallowed by a giant voracious mouth, then regurgitated in a cacophonous orgy of sounds echoing from star to star, to the furthest galaxies where the unnamable waits in hunger. Then you got tossed back on earth, like a meteor of light, wandering as a ghost in the strangest places you’ve ever been… Some flooded basement or a putrid swamp perhaps? An abandoned industrial complex in the middle of nowhere maybe? Unless it’s an Enochian temple or the ruins of some long forgotten city, lost in the desert, bathing in moonlight… Shapes and sounds kept on changing until the very last second of your trip. When you finally woke up. Who knows what exactly happened?
“Megafauna” is a sonic Ayahuasca decoction where the notions of “black metal”, “ambient”, or even “songs” can be left at the door (and all due respect, I don’t think that a black metal equivalent of Throbbing Gristle works either, a musical equivalent of H.P Lovecraft meeting Don Juan on a Jodorowsky set maybe). Yoga is all of that and none of that. Yoga is a big mystery that challenges you to face the unknown. And when you think you finally get it, this fuzzy, lo-fi mantra goes deeper in its irrevocable march to the realms beyond. This album is a vortex.
And I’m so glad it exists.
More Yoga here.
Purchase here.
REPTOIDS
ENCANTE
30 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
I THEUNSTOPPABLEDEATHMACHINES WAS LOUD
(and definitely my favorite band of the evening)
II WIZARDRY WAS BALLSY
III LA OTRACINA WAS GLOWING
… and I left before Bezoar.
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30 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
Another great Pendu Disco night A.K.A “Horror Scores For The Dancefloor” which will include a performance by my new favorite band: Cult Of Youth.
Cult Of Youth is a young neo-folk band from Brooklyn with a sharp song-writing who just released a new EP and absolutely deserve your support. Most certainly the best thing I’ve heard in the neo-folk genre in years!!!
The delicate, minimalist, cold electro wave band Cosmetics and the luciferian troubadours of King Dude will also be there, right before the dance party set hosted by Brian K.
A pretty solid event I’m looking forward to…
23 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
Now, here’s a good one.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard contains some of the oldest buildings in New-York City.
The land was originally bought for 40 000 $ by U.S government in 1801.
140 years later, on the eve of World War II, the yard contained more than five miles of paved streets, four drydocks ranging in length from 326 to 700 feet, two steel shipways, and six pontoons and cylindrical floats for salvage work, barracks for marines, a power plant, a large radio station, and a railroad spur, as well as the expected foundries, machine shops, and warehouses…
In 1966, secretary of Defense Robert McNamara closes the Brooklyn Navy Yard along with over 90 other military bases and installations. At the time of its closing, the Brooklyn Navy Yard employs more than 9,000 workers and is the oldest continually active industrial plant in New York State.
In 1967, the City of New-York buys the Navy Yard for 24 000 000 $.
Today, most parts of this giant park have been renovated and are now used for various purposes such as storage, artists studios, cinema sets (the Steiner studios) and other businesses. But some parts remained empty, slowly decayed by time and rust.
I got the chance to take a walk around among these remnants of old forgotten times and bring you back the following pictures…
THE NAVY YARD IN 1944
THE NAVY YARD TODAY
After decades of manufacturing and engineering, the oldest buildings of the Navy-Yard are now gigantic collapsed industrial spaces…
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20 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
“I don’t give a fuck about your war… And I don’t give a fuck about your president…”, says Snake Plissken in his raspy low voice.
However he will, in a few hours, be parachuted on Manhattan island, which is now a maximum security prison and a no man’s land surrounded by a gigantic impenetrable wall. Plissken has 24 hours to rescue the president, captured by the duke of New-York, with the help of Harold, Brain and Cabby and leave the island that no one leaves… Yes, another post-apocalyptic flick from the early eighties, a Carpenter’s masterpiece with an amazing casting (Isaac Hayes and Lee Van Cleef in the same film, fuck yeah) and the most badass hero ever. I remember the VHS sleeve at my local video store made a huge impression on me when I was a kid.
So here’s a nice treat for you my friends, in praise of 80’s and the apocalypse, here’s the “Escape From New-York” soundtrack.
Once you go in, you can’t get out.
18 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
If rock n’ roll could only be represented by two books and not a single more, “Please Kill Me: The Uncensored History Of Punk Rock” would be one of them, the second one being, of course, “The Dirt” by Mötley Crüe. Everyone who said “The Lords Of Chaos” should go back watching Watain videos on Youtube and never come back here again). But right now we’re going to talk about this great anthology of punk music (in the widest sense) by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain who basically put in a chronological order some interviews they did through the years with the most influential actors of the movement: musicians but also managers, artists, writers, club owners… “Oral History”, it says on the cover.
So therefore, and as opposed to most rock books, “Please Kill Me” has been written by the ones who did punk and not by some wanna-be musician journalists who are mainly responsible for the fact that almost everybody on this fucking planet think that punk was born in England in the seventies.
We start from New-York with The Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol, The Factory, Patti Smith, then Detroit with the MC5, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, go back to NYC with The New-York Dolls, (the most handsome) Richard Hell, The Ramones, the opening of CBGB, the first issue of “Punk Magazine”. We bump into David Bowie, Jim Morrisson, Bebe Buell, Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious shooting up in the bathroom with Dee Dee, hookers & drag-queens, poets & junkies. We read these street stories of a New-York that seems so long gone now and get this smelly, vivid, insane picture of the city wherein our heroes try to survive along with the rats and cockroaches and, if possible, put out a couple of records. These epic tales, that you could almost read to your people around a campfire, aren’t in any way the deeds of some heroes in shining armors: it’s dirty, mean, politically incorrect, full of drugs, sex and betrayals. It’s wild and nasty.
We laugh with them, cry with them, struggle with them, and close the book with the feeling that we shared with them one of the most amazing story ever told.
“Please Kill Me” is a must-read.
Have a look here.
Buy it wherever you can.
13 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
Welcome to the part III of our Mayhem Archive, a testimony of the early black-metal scene in Norway revolving around (the true) Mayhem.
This time, we bring you original letters written by Euronymous himself (the guitarist and leader of the band who got murdered by Varg Vikernes in 1993 for those who don’t know) who was an epistolary enthusiast. Euronymous was corresponding with a whole bunch of contacts all over the globe, spreading the word the old-school way. One of his current correspondent was Morgan A.K.A Evil from Marduk, a die-hard fan of the band at the time, but you’ll also find here letters written to a peruvian contact named Pocho Metallica (what a fucking sick name!!!) and last but not least the infamous letter announcing Dead’s death.
Of course there might be more Euronymous letters that can be found on the internet or even originals on e-bay and this is only a sample.
Last but not least, these letters were used with kind permission of Chagrynn from Death Row For Traitors which is the ultimate ressource about the life, work and death of Euronymous in order to keep his memory unstained by Vikernes shit storm.
What appears the most from these letters is that Mayhem was really damn broke and was mainly trying, like any other garage band, to survive, get their expenses paid and trade some records to keep the underground alive. Definitely punk and D.I.Y! Of course these letters are also enriched by the Mayhem folklore, they smell like blood, sweat and poison, and Euronymous his mainly responsible for the myth around his band (which by the way never survived his loss) but they show a different side of the norwegian horde.
I really enjoyed reading that stuff so I hope you will too! I mean, how couldn’t you enjoy the prose from a man who used to sign autographs saying: “May the blue bird of happiness never shit in your tea”!
Letter I:
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Check the other parts of The Mayhem Archive here and here.
And yes click on the letters to see it bigger, stupid.
13 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
HEROÏN CHIC
01. Nico – Janitor Of Lunacy
02. Menace Ruine – One Too Many
03. Burzum – Jesu Død
04. Suicide – Dominic Christ
05. Coil – Going Up
06. Snowman – Wormwood
07. Mount Eerie – Through The Trees
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12 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
A promising event (is it the title that makes me say that?) in Long Island on august 15th with Wold including some live action by Collier Schorr, the guy who takes pictures of soldiers and athletes.
I really don’t know what to expect, there’s also a bear on the flyer. Maybe, even, I’m a little scared…
12 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
Bay Area thrasher veteran, he was famous for one thing.
This:
(I never knew the guy but thought I might share, his stage-divings were so SICK!!!)
12 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
5 days before his death, GG Allin showed up all high and fucked up on American TV, announcing his reign to come as the new messiah without omitting to add he will rape your children too. His confrontation with the dumb-ass audience and the other guests is absolutely thrilling, GG was a hell of a wounded animal and a great guy. We miss you GG!
12 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
I had the opportunity to work recently on a photo shoot at the Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn.
The Floyd Bennet Field was New-York city’s first municipal airport and became a national park service acquisition since its shut-down in 1971. Today the Floyd Bennet Field is ranged among the historical sites of the city. Some of its buildings have been converted in business concessions and a sport complex. A small portion of the former airfield is now also used by an environmental education program for gardening.
Fortunately for us, a few hangars haven’t been re-used yet, mostly for financial reasons, and offer an interesting sight of industrial decay.
I was really not expecting to find anything like that there so I’m glad I did. The only problem was that I had very little time to walk through this mess to really explore the complex (a custom building seems much more well preserved from the outside but I couldn’t get in) and, last but not least, I didn’t have my camera. These pictures were taken with my phone. Guerilla style.
Couldn’t help myself thinking how awesome it would be to set up a show in there…
Now, the bikes that you can see at the end and that we used for the shoot are the property of crazy-ass Neil A.K.A Mister Tinker. If you’re into old custom bikes you should definitely check his blog here. Yes, one of these babies was born in 1953…
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Check Playground #1 here.
3 Aug 2010 ✎ reply
“Countdown To Extinction”.
Giant robot machines, dark shattered clouds, abandoned highways, acid rain, merciless “man vs. cyborg” wars, reoccupied bunkers, endless black smoke from fortresses factories, customized lazer weapons, pale sick sunsets, freezing nights, piles of metallic carcasses covered in ashes, thick pollution fog, smell of fear, paranoïa, genocide, war trials, corporate alienation, twinkling red eyes, cold robotic sounds, Skynet, The Nostromo, Major Dutch and his squad, The Thunderdome. No glamour, no fun, just war, sacrifice, pain and death machines.
Mankind facing its final confrontation against technology, against himself, the countdown to extinction…
3 Aug 2010 ✎ 1 reply
The true originators of sludge are back in the states for a few gigs next september. The band, famous for its violent, out-of-control shows, will play in NY on september 30. This event cannot be missed. Be there of be dead.
28 Jul 2010 ✎ reply
La Otracina, Telecult Powers and La Big Vic are playing at the famous Coco 66 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn tonight. The concert starts quite late, which is interesting I think. Things will probably get weird. It’s 5$ and it’s a bunch of great bands so if you happen to be around…
19 Jul 2010 ✎ reply
SUPER NOVA
01. Salem – Redlights
02. Fuck Buttons – Solar Surf
03. White Hills – Vision Of The Past, Present And Future
04. The Psychic Paramount – Gamelan Into The Mink Supernatural
05. Boredoms – Supergoing
06. Survival Unit – Stot Till
07. Robedoor + Pocahaunted – Hunted Gathering
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12 Jul 2010 ✎ reply
If the Death Star would have been built in 1982 and included, among other things, a disco, you can be sure that this album would have been a total must on the dance floor. Even the bad guys need entertainment, we never think enough about that. Or even where and what they eat for example.
Horror space electro disco rock with a low, evil, guttural voice conducted by Darth Vaders look-alikes.
Weird as fuck, totally funny and entertaining. This record is great.
Warning – Why Can The Bodies Fly
11 Jul 2010 ✎ reply
ANCIENT STONES & SKELETON KINGS
01. Satyricon – Walk The Path Of Sorrow
02. Kvist – Min Lekam Er Meg Blott En Byrde
03. Burzum – Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
04. Wolves In The Throne Room – Crystal Ammunition
05. Trelldom – Sonar Dreyri
06. Drudkh – Fallen Into Oblivion
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