Hendo's Song of the Day

Here's a song by the Japanese band The Raydios. The band has ex-members of upper echelon MFs Teengenerate, so you know they kick ass. Enjoy.

The Raydios - Turning Blue

Hendo's Song of the Day

Here's an installment of my song of the day. I made a mix last night for my roomate that was supposed to be based loosely on the movie Terminator 2. While looking through my library of songs at my disposal, I found this one by Rose Tattoo, and obviously it fit the bill perfectly. Needless to say the mix sucked except for this one song. I just finished a long day at work, and I've had this stuck in my head all day. Enjoy

Rose Tattoo - Nice Boys

What I did on my summer vacation

Top 3 albums of the moment:
1. Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
2. The Warlocks - Phoenix
3. V/A - Songs The Detroit Cobras Taught Us

What do you crave (besides White Castle that is...) ???

The Final Solutions

There must be something in the water down in Memphis...So much good music over the years (think about it, really). Another in a long line of Jay Reatard projects is The Final Solutions. For this band of merry men, Mr. Reatard bashes away behind the kit instead of up at the front of the stage. Handling vocal duties for The Final Solutions is a fela by the name of Zac Ives. Their new album, produced by Jay himself, is titled Songs By Solutions, and recently came out on Goner Records. These guys really rock, and some of the songs are insanely catchy. A lot of them straddle the line between arty punk, Pebbles garage, and more power-pop punk. All of this is done with a lot of distortion and snottiness. I could waste your time coming up with lots of comparisons, but lets allow the music to do the talking here:

Tammy
Brown Panther

Here's their myspace page

The Dilletantes

Joel Gion is back. The ex tambourine man for The Brian Jonestown Massacre has a new band, The Dilettantes. Musically, they don't stray too far from his former band. Perhaps there's a slight leaning towards the rockier side of the BJM stuff. Unfortunately, Gion doesn't have the prettiest voice, but it works for this kind of stuff. Gotta love the tambourine.
check it:
Like Crazy


Here's their myspace page

iPod on Random

1. The Reigning Sound - Straight Shooter ; Live At Maxwell's
2. The Singing Loins - Honest Man ; Songs To Hear Before You Die
3. Les Fleur De Lys - Mud In Your Eye ; Nuggets II Box Set
4. Wire - Strange ; Pink Flag
5. Drive-By Truckers - Your Daddy Hates Me ; Decoration Day
6. Link Wray - Friday Night Dance Party ; Missing Links Vol. 4
7. The Handsome Family - Down In The Ground ; Through The Trees
8. Radio Birdman - Anglo Girl Desire ; Live in Sydney '76
9. The Rolling Stones - Factory Girl ; Beggars Banquet
10. Loli & The Chones - I Hate Your Guts ; P.S. We Hate You

Teengenerate

This band kicked so much ass in the mid 90s. How did I not know they were back??????


Teengenerate Live at The Tote, Melbourne, Australia
12/29/06

Miss Alex White And The Red Orchestra

This is some of the best rocknroll being made right now. Miss Alex White has a great Patti Smith-esque (yes.) voice, and it is the perfect accompaniment to the Red Orchestra's brand of Fuzz. Space and Time is the new album on In The Red Records, and it fuckin rocks.

Checkit:
She Wanna

Turbo Fruits

A few weeks ago, I saw The Black Lips play at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ. Needless to say it was one of the better concerts I'd been to in quite some time. The show solidified their place near the top of my favorite current bands list. However, tonight, I wanna discuss the band that played right before them, Turbo Fruits. Turbo Fruits are a three piece from Nashville, TN who also blew me away. I rarely give a crap about stuff like this, but they even looked cool. They had a bluesy take on the typical 3 chord garage/rocknroll. I think what most impressed me though was how loud and explosive they sounded. (A drummer who loves to pound makes a huge difference). Singer/guitarist Jonas Stein has a great laid back drawl of a voice, and I was honestly dissapointed when their set was over. I think they won over a good chunk of the crowd that night. Unfortunately, I missed them a few days later when they were part of another equally cool bill at the Bowery Ballroom (along with Jay Reatard and The Ponys). Their self titled record is out on Ecstatic Peace Records, and here's a track:
Murder
You can stream the album on their website

These guys are also apperantly huge stoners, for whatever that's worth

iPod on Random

1. Ween - I'm Dancing In The Show Tonight ; The Mollusk (hell yeah wspn circa '00-'01)
2. The Cramps - TV Set (live at Max's Kansas City 1977) ; How To Make A Monster
3. Calexico/Iron & Wine - Red Dust
4. Neko Case - Brown Eyed Handsome Man ; V/A: Hard-Headed Woman
5. Aretha Franklin - Don't Let Me Lose This Dream ; I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You
6. The Clash - Clash City ROckers ; Clash On Broadway
7. Hawkwind - 7 By 7 ; Space Ritual
8. Husker Du - The Baby Song ; Flip Your Wig
9. Spacemen 3 - Mary Anne ; Live In Europe 1989
10. The Makers - Waste Of Flesh ; The Makers

Harlan T Bobo - I'm Your Man

A few weeks ago, Goner Records released I'm Your Man by Harlan T Bobo. Like a lot of the musicians on Goner, Bobo is from Memphis, and has an impressive resume including Viva l'American Death Ray Music, Jack Oblivian and the Tearjerkers, and a member of King Louie's band. Stylistically, Bobo is all over the map, similarl to the various musical projects of Howe Gelb. Some of the songs are superb hushed-voice Americana that wouldn't sound out of place on a Giant Sand record. Elsewhere, the honky tonk comes even more to the forefront, and on other songs he embraces the bar-rock sound somewhat like The Band in there more badass moments. Sometimes, these changes take place within the same song. Although there are moments where he digs in and unveils some crunchy fuzz-rock, from what I've previously heard on Goner, this overall sound is quite a departure from their usual garage/trash mainstays. This is a welcome addition the roster though, and a nice change of pace.
Check him out:
Pragmatic Woman
Last Step

King Khan & His Shrines - What Is?!

First off, sorry for being such a dingus and being lazy about posts the last few months. I have a whole bunch of current releases I want to write about, so hopefully we can kickstart this thing again. Post. (discount beverages)


What Is?! is the new album from Perrenial Hendo fave King Khan. He's back to his old tricks with his backing band The Shrines. Imagine the most badass soul/r&b group you can think of, and make the frontman a shriekeing, shouting lunatic with an affinity for punk rock, and you've got some fine rocknroll my friend. This new one may be my favorite of his records at this point. It's some killer r&b grooves and skronky Sun Ra freakouts coupled with some raunchy garage. I didn't realize this earlier, but apperantly, KK and some other cool bands like Black Lips, and The Spits did the soundtrack for some German film (??). Khan lives in Germany, so I guess it makes sense, but still, thats pretty cool.
Here's some stuff from the new record:
No Regrets
Le Fils de Jacques Dutronc

Radio Moscow

When I was flipping through the racks of a cd store, and saw a cd on the Bomp offshoot label Alive, it caught my eye. On closer inspection, I realized that the band is basically a two piece, and was produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. This was more than enough information for me to pick it up, and I was not disappointed. Radio Moscow is not your typical two piece. Front man Parker Griggs apparently plays guitar, drums, percussion, and sings, and the other dude just plays bass. Griggs used to be the drummer/singer of the band Duck and Cover, and later the solo project Garbage Composal. The band's myspace page gives a good history of the band, and also describes Radio Moscow as "garage-y but now channeled through the blues with experimental breakdowns, unpredictable tempo changes, crazy rave-ups and fuzzed out psychedelic guitar work." That's about as good of a description as I could come up with, so we'll stick with it. To my ears, there are definite parts that are straight up like the Black Keys, but they seem to take the psych/boogie rock aspect farther. So even though they wear their influences on their sleeves, they never sound like they're ripping anyone off. There's a few songs on the myspace page, (including a cool version of I Just Wanna Make Love To You) and here's one of them: Frustrating Sound.
If you dig the fuzz, it's worth checking these guys out.

ipod on random

The Fake Headlines - The New Pornographers, Mass Romantic
Soul Deep - The Box Tops, Dimensions
Slow Rollin' Low - Waylon Jennings, Nashville Rebel
Cynthia - Bruce Springsteen, Tracks
If I Have To Go - Tom Waits, Orphans, Brawlers, Bawlers
Rebel Am I - Aston Familyman Barrett, Familyman in Dub
Justice Tonight/Kick It Over - The Clash, Super Black Market Clash
I Should Of - The Pretenders, Loose Screw
Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying - Ricki Lee Jones, Live At Red Rocks
Crystal Frontier (Widescreen Version - Calexico, Even My Sure Things...
Somebody Changed - The Clientele, God Save The Clientele

Vegas Men Accused of Enslaving Chinese Acrobat Troupe

This is the best headline I've seen in a while:

"Vegas Men Accused of Enslaving Chinese Acrobat Troupe"


here's a little bit about in case your curious.

By the Associated Press
LAS VEGAS -- Three men enslaved more than 20 members of a Chinese acrobatic team, feeding them little, paying them next to nothing to perform and confiscating their passports and visas, federal authorities said.

CPC Gangbangs

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The Black Lips

The Black Lips seem like an odd choice to become a hipster chic band, releasing their latest live album on hipper than thou label Vice records. With their insane sloppiness, rudimentary playing and loads of feedback, i wouldn't assume they'd be one of the more accesible or listener friendly rocknroll bands out there. But through it all, they have a great melodic sense, and I suppose thats what the kids are latching on to. Songs like "Boomerang" were meant for campfire singalongs. On Los Valientes Del Mondo Nuevo, the self proclaimed flower punks recorded themselves live in the city of sin itself, Tijauana. Just from listening to the crowd's reaction, you could tell that the show must have been a crazy party. The band is smokin also, in all of their sloppy, gritty glory. From the drunken introduction in Spanish to the psuedo spaghetti western outro, this album is a lot of fun. These guys are also touring this summer, they're playing at Maxwells next month, just before taking the stage as part of this summer's Siren Fest on Coney Island. Check it.

Los Straitjackets

Instrumental rock heavyweights Los Straitjackets released their first album of songs sung in Spanish a few months ago. They usually team up with a stellar list of guest musicians to handle the vocal duties for them. For Rock En Espanol Volume 1, they worked with Big Sandy, Little Willie G (from LA legends Thee Midniters) and Cesar Rosas (of Los Lobos). The album is filled with covers of rock/r&b covers sung in Spanish like: De Dia y de Noche (All Day and All of the Night), Loco Te Patina el Loco (Wild Thing), and Dame Una Seña (Gimme Little Sign). The band is as tight as ever, and each of the guest vocalists compliment the band nicely. The slower paced songs (which sometimes bore me, but not these ones) work just as well as their rave-ups. They're touring the country and Europe this summer, so make sure to check them out when they come by you. I've never seen them live, but I'm sure they are really fun.

Here's a tune for you: Calor
Here's their website

Mark Sultan - The Sultanic Verses

Mark Sultan has done it again. Over the last year and a half or so, Sultan (aka BBQ) has steadily risen up the charts of my favorite musicians. I had long been a fan of The Spaceshits/Les Sexareenos, but his work as BBQ, King Khan and BBQ Show , Mind Controls, etc. has also blown me away. This new record (officially his "solo" debut??), The Sultanic Verses on In The Red Records certainly does not break the mold that Sultan has created for himself. It has more of the simple, trashy three chord rocknroll that fans of his have found on his other releases. It seems effortless for his to come up with insanely catchy songs at an alarming rate. I honestly feel that he has one of the better voices in rocknroll right now. He can croon with the best when he wants to. No news of another east coast tour at the moment, but I'll be there wherever he plays around NY.
Here's a tune from the record : Two Left Feet
Here's his official website

Philadelphia

Fancypants just forwarded me an article from the New York Times about the Philadelphia Phillies. Apparently, the team is about to achieve a milestone that no one would want to reach. They are 14 games away from losing their 10,000th game as a franchise. They have already officially lost more games than any other professional sports team. Philly fans have gotten accustomed to losing. Can you make a case for another team to be considered among the most pathetic in all of sports?