Don't Call It A Comeback

Okay, fuck. Seriously now. It's long overdue, I've started several overambitious posts in the last few months and got sidelined. So let's just dust this thing off with a catch up post and that'll get me back in the game.

Once again, writing from a cheap hotel room. This time just outside Salem MA, and not on tour. We're recording the second BL LP, Rotten Thing To Say, with Kurt Ballou at God City. We just finished Day 5 and it's looking really good. I realized I was a sucker for not having a Karla Homolka song, I've been meaning to do that for 10 years (actually I updated all the songs on the BL BLOG including the new ones). Kurt's doing a serious number on the LP. I've also been able to catch up with old friends this week. Everyone here has chihuahuas and you get to drive past the woods that still have dead witch bodies in them twice daily. We stayed with Nate and Liz for days (thank you guys) and I got to spend some time with Jake at Deathwish to brainstorm layout and other plans for the reissue of Cursed One that they're going to be doing this winter. While we were there catching up, we did a podcast interview that ended up getting pretty heavy and it hits on just about everything, and answers most questions I get asked about Cursed or anything else. Thanks for that, Jake. GO HERE or the image below to hear it, and keep up with DWI about the reissue over the winter.

High Anxiety News

The City Limits comp, that felt like a milestone, the best kind of thing I had hoped to do with the label. And true to form, half the bands (out of 23) are already defunct. This winter there's a few good things on the table. As we speak, the DNF Hurt EP is in the oven and will come out during winter (DNF is a California band with members of Trash Talk and Touche Amore that sound like a more grindcore version of Ringworm circa The Promise but sludgier). Following that, the Purity Control 7" is still on the table, and likely a Burning Love single ahead of the LP, will also be made flesh.

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Speaking of shit that I meant to do ten years ago; thanks to Photoshop, a moral void, many hours of studio downtime, and what they will probably later find out was Tourettes - here they are at last...

TERRORLOLZ!

...10 years too late or still too soon?

...What else happened this year? Motorcycles continue to be awesome. We moved, have a backyard for maximum chill time, already put a hammock in it. In the move, I realized (again) that thousands of books and LPs are fucking heavy, I realized that you don't have to admit you're a hoarder if you have good shelving solutions and a right to left OCD organizing system. We have a rad place that I should post some pictures of, our cat is still the most handsome, Morrissey broke my heart (long story), I got with a boxing gym again, I bought a BBQ and blew it up after 3 weeks (vegans just shouldn't)...what else? Oh yeah...

...GOT SOME RECORDS!

...After looking for the same 12 records literally all over the world, I stepped it up this year and got aggressive with my wants list. And I pretty much murdered, dominated, abused and demoralized the list. There's always some records I'm after but honestly, this was most of the big wants in all departments. Between trading (thanks friends) and buying at record shows, record stores on tour and good ole Hits & Misses back home, here's some shit I copped to fill up the space I made getting rid of old shit when we moved. The ones in red are (were) my most hallowed boner jams:

Bastard - Wind of Pain LP (boot)

Death In June - The World That Summer 2XLP

Scientist - Encounters The Space Invaders

Angels of Light - We Are Him 2XLP

Witch - Lazy Bones 180gr (Shadoks)

Jerusalem - S/T (1972) 180gr (Light In the Attic)

Creatures (Siouxsie) - Take Mine/Sad Cunt EP

Lucifer's Friend - S/T (Quadrophonic / Billingsgate)

Allen Toussaint - Toussaint (Scepter)

Satyricon - Now, Diabolical (gold/gatefold /500)

Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today (Rise Above) Gatefold 180gr

Colette Kelly - Long & Lonely World (Volt)

Babeez - Dowanna Love EP

Flower Travellin' Band - Satori 180gr LP

Pink Fairies - Never Never Land (Polydor) LP

Howard Tate - Get It While You Can (Verve) LP

Blind Willie McTell - Last Session (Prestige) LP

MF Doom - Born Like This 2XLP

Ghostface Killah - More Fish 2XLP

Death Side - Bet On The Possibility LP (Selfish)

Saints - Eternally Yours LP

Paul Bowles - Baptism of Solitude (CD)

John Fahey - Red Cross (Revenant /1000) LP

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (1980) LP

Marion Black - Who Knows b/w Go on Fool (Capsoul 45)

Pussy - Pussy Plays (1969) 180gr

Scientist - Introducing/Best Dub Album In The World (1980)

George Crumb - Black Angels (CRI) LP

Deep Purple - Machine Head

The Jam - In The City

Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up

Godspeed You Black Emperor - 1st LP (@ reunion show)

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone 180gr (@ Amoeba LA)

Necrophobic (SWE) - The Nocturnal Silence (Hammerheart USA)

Skip James - Today! (180gr reissue) Thanks Willem!

Judgement - Just Be

Viletones - Screaming Fist 12"

Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07

Harvey Milk - Life...the Best Game In Town

Jackie Wilson - The JW Story 2XLP

Iron Maiden - Killers

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

Grant Green - Iron City (sealed)

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (Blue Note)

JAMC - Psycho Candy

Sandy Bull - Fantasias

Swans - Public Castration 2XLP

Swans - Feel Good Now 2XLP

Master - S/T LP (1990 version)

Death - Spiritual, Mental, Physical LP

Jesus & Mary Chain - Peel Sessions LP

Lenny Bruce - The Sick Humor Of Lenny Bruce LP

Cocksparrer - Here We Stand

Alice Cooper - Easy Action

Suicide - S/T LP

Yarbirds - Best of the Yardbirds LP

The Innocents w. Kathy Young LP

Boris Karloff - Horror Stories VI & VII LP

Johnny Cash - Here's Johnny Cash

Zero Boys - Vicious Circle

Teenage Head - S/T LP (orig. press)

Teenage Head - Picture My Face / Tearin' Me Apart 7"

Obits - Moody, Standard & Poor LP

Antidote - 7" reissue

Velvet Underground - s/t (3rd LP) MGM

Pentagram - First Daze Here Too (Relapse Reissue) 2XLP

Cock Sparrer - Shock Troops 180gr reissue

Louise Huebner - Seduction Through Witchcraft (1970) 180GR

Kathy Young - Magic Is The Night (Indigo / Picture Sleeve)

The Innocents - Innocently Yours (Indigo 1961)

PRF - 7

John Holt - Ali Baba (Treasure Isle)

The Boys - First Time EP (Nems)

Blind Willie McTell - Atlanta 12 String

Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight

Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice

Warpig - Warpig (1970) Kreation Reissue

MORE PLEASE.

...that's it for now. I'll try to keep this more consistent. Promise.

See you soon.