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Indie List Digest!
May 19, 1995
Volume 4 Number 28
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seam/versus/aminiature/vcc
Thrush Hermit
ANNOUNCE: Destroy Amerikkka
ANNOUNCE: TweeFest '95
ANNOUNCE: Sebadoh Australia & NZ Tour Dates
ANNOUNCE: Karate Tour Dates
ANNOUNCE: Limbo Cafe
ANNOUNCE: You Could Do Worse #4
AD: clunker tape compilation
This week's issue of the Indie List is abbreviated - 'tis the season
after all, of migration. Indeed, the IL seems to function this week
mostly as a resource listing, a map of some of the byways of the
entertainment jungle.
The astute reader will note that, because of the spaciousness of our
living quarters this issue, the announcements and advertisements seem
to run a bit long. They do. Sean has mentioned the guidelines before
- advertisements, in particular, should be limited to around 10 lines
or so, with a lack of hyperbolic cant. We're obviously flexible on
this, but those of you trying to distribute your items should bear the
restrictions in mind as you put your pieces together.
An interesting appeal for information came into our boxes this week.
Seems that a group of people at Repression Records are putting
together a resource guide to independent contacts, which will then
be distributed in various electronic forms. If you're interested,
drop us a line and we can send the PR, or drop a line to
102041.2546@compuserve.com, the organizers of the project.
And on with the show...
-es
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From: austrian@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU (Guy I. Austrian)
seam/versus/aminiature/vcc
The Monsters of Asian-American Indie Rock tour, aka Year of the Dragon
or something like that went down at Mercury Lounge in NY last
Wednesday. After untold travails my friend and I got in, to be
crushed by the crowd. By the way, my frien is an Asian-American and
said his heart swelled with pride at the event, and had never seen so
many of the "bruthas" at an indie rock show before. Me either.
Anyway, we missed all but the last 30 seconds of Venus Car Club, so I
refrain from commenting. All I know is they're from Toronto and had
to be smuggled into the country due to some weird border laws.
Aminiature played an enthusiastic set of hard-edged rock with
Cali-punk echoes. Only 2 or 3 songs really worked for me, but on the
whole a fine show. Good thing they didn't play longer, tho.
Singer/guitarist John Lee was feisty, repeatedly encouraging the
Caucasians in the audience to "suck us." I wasn't offended. Asian-Am
TV crew on hand to videorecord for several minutes.
Outside between sets: friend makes phone call to girlfriend. kids who
look and dress like lou barlow can't get in. stephin merritt and
claudia something from magnetic fields show up in taxi. stephin
swiftly hides behind a friend as homeless woman asks for money and
accuses stephin of being "nasty." Claudia gives change and disputes
charges.
Versus. I've liked this band for awhile now, and the last LP was
good, but christ, this was the most boring set I've seen anyone play
in a long time. plink plink same melody ooh ooh brief noise adoring
crowd. I pass the time by watching jon fine gesticulate at a friend
with beer bottle waving. (yes, it's a galaxy of stars here
tonight...)
Seam. Finally. Headsparks was the reason I made my first trip to my
town's "indie" record store. I listened to it almost exclusively for
a summer's worth of late nights. I could go on and on. The show was
pretty good, though they acknowledged it was an off night for them.
They're definitely an inconsistent live band. Several new songs from
the upcoming album were heard and they were really good--some snappy
numbers and some really sad ones including a long twisting silkworm-y
tune called "Port (or Fort) Charleston" that had Sooyoung so wrenched
up it was painful to watch. The new bass player, William Shin, was
fine. This new album (which is to be called, "Are You Driving Me
Crazy" promises to be very depressing and very wonderful. Sigh.
Okay enough.
-- Guy A.
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From: t.hunt@canrem.com (T Hunt)
Thrush Hermit
Well, I just got the new Thrush Hermit CD this weekend, cause they
were playing in Toronto at the Rivoli. The new CD called _the Great
Pacific Ocean_ has recieved some mixed reviews, not about the music
actually but how Steve Albini did the mix on it, but Steve did at
least continue in the trend of his fantastic drum sounds on this
album. All in all this is a very good CD, Thrush Hermit still have
the same kind of pop sensibilities that enable them to write
fantastic songs. If you would like a copy of _the Great Pacific
Ocean_ or their previous EP, _Smart Bomb_, then write to Murderecords
@ P.O.Box 2372/ Halifax Central/ Halifax, Nova Scotia/ B3J 3E4/
CANADA. You can get copies of _the Great Pacific Ocean_ in either CD,
Cassette or Picturedisk format. And do it soon, cause after you get
it, you'll wonder how you ever could have lived without it :) :) :)
- And if you would like a copy of my zine _A Teenager's Guide to
Redrum_ which is an indie music fanzine (mostly Canadian stuff <which
rocks anyways>) e-mail me at t.hunt@canrem.com. Later!
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From: bce2@midway.uchicago.edu
ANNOUNCE: Destroy Amerikkka
I have been inspired by Seth Sanders' Nest Of Ninnies & Liz Clayton's
Wind Up Toy to put out my own 'zine.
The first issue of Destroy Amerikkka, "the PUNK 'zine for outside
agitators and inside infiltraitors"(sic) is finally out & available.
This 'zine is about %40 writing about radical, experimental post-punk
music and %60 radical leftist political rants. Contributors and
stories come from all over the world, but mostly from the Windy City.
This issue features interviews with Boredoms(Osaka)
Lou Barlow(Massachusetts)
Vineland(NYC)
Tortoise(Chicago) by Joep Vermaat
My Bloody Valentine(London) by Ted Gray
Plus lots of comix (by Eye Yamatsuka, Barrett Heaton, J. Little, and
Stefan Economou) and reviews and ranting about Punk Rock, a letter
form subcomandante Marcos(the Zapatista leader), a letter from Mumia
Abu Jamal(the former Black Panther and award winning Journalist who's
book _Live From Death Row_, a collection of some Mumia's sharpest
commentaries published by Addison Wesley is now in the bookstores and
who is currently awaiting execution on death row), some words from
Lori Barbero of Babes In Toyland, and other stuff.
It's available from
Benjahmyn Ewens 1353 North Dean St. #2 Chicago, IL 60622-210253, usa
for $3.50 post paid (anywhere in the world, except P.O. boxes).
Eventually we should have the whole thing up on the world wide web.
Peace,
Out.
Ben
bce2@midway.uchicago.edu
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From: TweeKid@aol.com
ANNOUNCE: TweeFest '95
OK people get those travel plans ready because there is going to be a
TweeFest in New York City on May 20th, that is this Saturday night, at
the West Beth Theatre on Bank Street in the West Village. Yes, we
will have eight bands for you to snuggle up with and all be yours for
the price of a movie ticket (that is what they charge for tickets in
New York). Who is playing I hear you all collectively asking, well
try these groups on for size:
Magnetic Fields, Sleepyhead, Kickstand, The Legendary Jim Ruiz
Group, Slow Children Playing, Racecar, Cobalt, Coloring Book...
The gig is being put together by the members of IndiePop-1 which is an
international internet mailing list. Don't forget to bring your
checkbooks and contracts. Pure pop for all who come by.
Matthew
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From: Kathleen Billus <kathleeb@aw.com>
ANNOUNCE: Sebadoh Australia & NZ Tour Dates
Sebadoh Summer Australia & New Zealand Tour Dates:
June 29 -- The Roxy -- Brisbane
June 30 -- Phoenician -- Sydney
July 1 -- Phoenician --Sydney
July 3 -- Planet -- Perth
July 4 -- Planet -- Perth
July 6 -- Liberty -- Adelaide
July 7 -- Prince -- Melbourne
July 8 -- Prince -- Melbourne
July 11 -- Sammys -- Dunedin
July 13 -- Warners -- Christchurch
July 14 -- Victoria University -- Wellington
July 15 -- PowerStation -- Auckland
kbillus@world.std.com
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From: the critique of pure treason <DLM94001@UConnVM.UConn.Edu>
ANNOUNCE: Karate Tour Dates
well, here's another tour list of another one of them damn good
northeast bands, karate! if you didn't get to see them last summer
when i posted dates (if you did, then you probably already know about
these shows), here's yr second chance. beautiful music, beautiful
lyrics, beautiful people. send yr props out to these folks (and enkoy
yrself in the process), & drop me a line @
-dlm94001@uconnvm.uconn.edu- to let me (and them, if you choose...
for addt'l info on karate! email eamonn @ -evitt@acs.bu.edu-) know
what you thought. their 3rd & latest 7", which has my favorite song
by them on it, has just been released on art monk construction as a
split w/ex-hoover boys, crownhateruin. they also have a 7" on
self-started records, and a split w/fellow beantowners the lune on
lonesome pine records. rock on...
also look for the new karate/crownhate ruin split on artmonk const.
[earlier tour dates removed... -es]
thu 5/18 Cincinnati OH. Basement.
**EARLY** 5pm w/ The Warmers
fri 5/19 Dayton OH.The Chameleon.
?pm w/The Warmers
sat 5/20 Columbus OH. 1473 Neil Ave(a house)
?pm w/The Warmers
sun 5/21 Princeton NJ. Ind.MusicFestThing
2pm w/Lenola and 6 other bands
mon 5/22 sit-n-spin
tue 5/23 WashDC.The Black Cat
9pm w/ Excuse 17
wed 5/24 Richmond VA. TBA.
?pm w/ The Props
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From: limbocaf@ionet.net (Robert S. Boss)
ANNOUNCE: Limbo Cafe
Limbo Cafe is more than pleased to announce our new home page:
http://www.xmission.com/~adm/bands/limboca/limboca.html
Touch yourselves and smile!
rsb
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From: ycdworse@aol.com (YCDWorse)
ANNOUNCE: You Could Do Worse #4
You Could Do Worse #4 - here at last.
60 measly pages.
Interviews with: Polara, Ashtray Boy, The Goats, The Wrens, Brainiac,
aMiniature, Vinyl Devotion.
Other stuff: Religion, fiction, OK City, Cobain, world music.
100s of reviews (zine, live, and especially recorded music).
The whole thing is $3.00 ppd. Beg now.
Also available at Tower, Barnes & Noble, See Hear and other nice places.
Previously on You Could Do Worse...
#3 - Pavement, Tsunami, Polvo, Gastr del Sol, The London Suede, The Moon
Seven Times, Barnabys, techno/ambient, no sex. 68 pages.
#2 (the ex-Feelies issue) - Wake Ooloo, Luna, Low, The Connells, Drug War
(part 1), AIDS. 60 pages.
#1 - Tommy Keene, The Loud Family, Grifters, The Hang Ups, rap, computer
software, Kerrigan/Harding conspiracy. 60 pages.
Back issues - $3.50 each ppd. Any two for $5.00.
You Could Do Worse., P.O. Box 74647, Cedar Rapids, IA 52407
YCDWorse@aol.com
Checks payable to Rob Galgano or You Could Do Worse.
Rob Galgano
Editor
You Could Do Worse.
YCDWorse@aol.com
YCDW's WWW home page: http://www.magna.com.au/woodwire/zines/YCDW.html
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From: IHOP <clunker@eden.rutgers.edu>
AD: clunker tape compilation
CLUNKER RECORDS PRESENTS:
My Cat Can Swallow A Whole Watermelon Tape Compilation
featuring: ann can be..., biscuit, bumblepuppy, the ice cream cones,
juice tiger, junebug, letterbox, otter pops, pumpernickel, slow
children playing, suazi, weakling and zaius.
13 bands, 17 songs, crank calls, and an additional bonus track by
maine's own pelt = 60 minutes of happy, toe tapping, wrist swinging,
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send inquiries, cash, cherry coke, sean murphy [?! -es] and/or pop
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clunker@eden.rutgers.edu
coming soon on clunker records:
slow children playing/bumblepuppy split 7 inch; non pareils 7 inch;
clunker #3- the love/hate issue
yep, we love you:)
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Malathion Risk excerpts
Watt, Versus
more...
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