weird old cassettes and brand new cds (also weird) [WZRD]

Nurse With Wound - Nylon Coverin', Body Smotherin'
Book of Lies - Sleepily Coiled
Zen Bovine - Going Down
Tribe - Circles and Squares

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy #!!!!
IfIHadAHiFi - Ay, Paisano #
Lolita #18 - The First Gale of Spring
Mahnty Core - 12 Hits of Acid

Zombies on Broadway - Theme
Modern Machines - Rosa #
The Fever - Redhead #
Intrinsic Action - Proto-Male/Bad Jack

AKT - Prince No Deserto Vermelho #!!!
Pari Kekkonen Band - Untitled (from Wahrnehmungen Sampler 1981)
Rogalli Revival Band - Angst (from Wahrnehmungen Sampler 1981)

Urbn DK - Adjustment Center
Screeching Weasel - Inside Herself (live WZRD 1992)
USA is a Monster - The Clay People

Necktie Party - Straight Through Your Head
Birdy Nam Nam - Body, Mind, Spirit #
E.N. - Down Syndrome

The Modifiers - What I Want
Sons of John Glenn - Repeat and Fade
The Knights of the New Crusade - When Knights are Low #

Sound Collage:
Dairy of a Young Punk Audio Zine #6 !
Crawling with Tarts - Grand Surface Noise Opera Nr. 7: The Decadent Opera #

Gideon Alorwoyie and the African American Unity Ensemble - Untitled (live)
Bendeniz - Kirmizi Liber (from Turkish Groove) #
Morrissey - I will See You in Far Off Places #

Deadtech - Got Me on the Run

TwoSlaps Radio #2

[TwoSlaps Radio is the only weekly funk and soul show currently airing on Chicago radio. You can catch it every tuesday morning, from 2 - 4AM on WLUW 88.7fm]

5678's - I'm Blue
The Ikettes - I'm Blue (the Gong Gong Song)
Desmond Dekker - The Israelites

Herbie Hancock - The Melody (On the Deuce by 44)
Madlib - The Rock (Humps) #
The Counts - Thinking Single
Coldcut - True Skool

Fishbone - Party at Ground Zero
King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew
Isley Brothers - Lay Away

Up, Bustle & Out - 1,2,3, Alto Y Fuera
Funkadelic - I wanna Know if it's Good to You
Saul Williams - ???

The Residents - This is a Man's World
Benny Spellman - Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette)
Brenton Wood - The Oogum Boogum Song

The Beastie Boys - Namaste
Tabla Beat Science - Audiomaze
Kay Jel Ma - Bibson/Xuman (from Africa Raps)

24 Carat Black - 24 Carat Black (from Blaxploitation Vol. 2)
Jasmon - Dimdanana (from World Lounge)
Blockhead - Tryptich Pt 2

Eric Burdon & War - Paint it Black


[Eric Burdon & War doing "Paint It Black"]

Friday. Broke. [WZRD]

Hawkwind - Infinity
Coitus Int. - Under my Skin
Plastillina Mosh - Ode to Mauricio Garces
Frank Hubbell & the Stompers - The Night they Raided Minskys

R.L. Burnside - Shake Em On Down
Bomboras -Adventures Through Inner Space
Bix Beiderbecke - Lazy Daddy (take two)

Eugene Chadbourne - Misty I know You're Misty 'Cus You Miss Me When I'm Gone
Butthole Surfers - Hey
Parliament - Dr. Funkenstein

To Catch aWave - Someone Recently Stole the Front Tire
Madball - Our Family
Legendary Pink Dots - Prisoner
Klaus Nomi - The ColdSong

Klaus Nomi - Wasting My Time
Beck - Bonus Beats
Orgasmo - Sevrock
Split Lip Rayfield - Coffee

Neu! - After Eight
Naked Aggression - They Can't Get Me Down
Cabaret Voltaire - Hells Home
The Temptations - Hey, Bo Diddley

Kraftwerk - Kristallo
LarynxZillion's Novelty Shop - The Missing Link
VAST - Dirty Hole

Dean Martin - Lay Some Happiness on Me
Buckethead - Ghost
Bertolt Brecht - medley of songs from "Zeit Wirdknapp"

Klaus Schulze - Percussion Planate

Two Slaps Radio [WLUW]

James Brown - People Get Up and Drive that Funky Soul
Ronnie Foster - Mystic Brew
Shirley Bassey - Light my Fire (Kenny Dope Remix)

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Antibalas - Elephant

Catalyst - The Demon, Pt. 1
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Domino

Frank Zappa with the Plastic Ono Band - Turkey
Black Merda - Cynthy Ruth
War - Four Cornered Room

Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman
Pharaohs - Damballa
Charles Wright - Take Your Time

Sun Ra - Where Pathways Meet
Pharcyde - Passin Me By
Amon Tobin - Pirhana Breaks

Greyboy Allstars - Ruffneck Jazz
Vampires Sound Incorporation - Droge CX 9 (from Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party)
Madlib - Mystic Bounce

Herb Zwick - Commies Go Home
The Mohawks - The Champ

ill-fitting shorts are the new fannypack-and-moustache

Date: 4/15/06
Show: Tarantula Hill benefit at Ex-Nihilist
Price: Donation
Things I missed to be there:Second Fridays in Pilsen, Thymme Jones at South Union Arts, Radiant Darling at Bar Vertigo

Noise is a hard sell on the first warm warm Friday of the year. Despite the fact that over ten bands were scheduled to perform (about half actually did), it was a modest crowd at the former Nihilist combo. As per usual, I missed a few bands at the beginning and end. Here's what I saw.

Insect Deli sounded like she was trying to put together a broken rave and she didn't have the right glue. Forget everything I've ever said about not enjoying people fiddling with boxes, she does it right. I highly recommend listening to her new album.

Warmth was building up to something that never really happened.

Rubber Spunky sounded like two spaceships fucking in the jungle.

Pommel "sounds like Fantomas covering the score from the WPWR Power 50 Sunday afternoon mystery movie" would be a great example, except for the fact that Fantomas did something like that, and it sounded nothing like this.

Panicsville finally fixed that rave Insect Deli was fiddling with. Then he played it backwards. Then he slowed it down. Then he smashed it against Billy Side's face. The two minute set was well worth the seven month wait.

also, Rotten Milk was tweaking booty jams on his laptop in a way I dug. I left before headliner Bloodyminded started because the beach was calling to me and I couldn't be inside no more.

built on a technicality [WZRD]

Slavic Soul Party - Going Down, Looking Up
Adventure Time - The Age of Aquariums
Bobby Conn - The Homeland

Hans Grusel - Common Housefly Symphony #
Condenada - War Eternal
Insect Deli - Taste Test
Illaziam - Gling

Pleasure Forever -Czarina
Chicago Underground Trio - Protest
Negativland - The Perfect Cut

Nico - Chelsea Girls
C-Rayz Walz - 3 Card Molly
Rolf islevand - Passacaglia spontanea#

Vincent Parker - Electro Revival Squad#
Lyrics Born - Callin Out
Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf - Methods

Ganglion - Thinning the Herd#
Little Annie - Bless Those
Eliot Lipp - Gordo
VeeDee - Midwest Tet

The Mothers of Invention -Montana
Cock E.S.P. - Take Some Ibuprofen and you Probably Won't Feel the Pain (Dixie Prix remix)
Metal Urbain - Ghetto
Fartz - Is this the Way?/Judgment Day

Error - Brains Out !
Takagi Masakatsu - j.f.p.

grotus - Up Rose the Mountain
Quintron - Miniture Breakdown
The Go!Team - Ladyflash

Fred Frith - Guitar Solos

dEAR eRIC,
Please write reviews of the following shows you've been to in the last mointh

1. Bludwulf and Disrobe at the Albion House
2. BunnyBrains, Sir Richard Bishop, Jackie O Motherfucker at Union Pool [Brooklyn]
3. The Chicago Sound, Gays in the Military, and Black Bear Combo at the Beat Kitchen
4. No Fun Fest at the Hook [Brooklyn]
5. Lord of the Yum Yum, To Catch a Wace, Nick Butcher at Mister City

i keep going to shows, but all I write are playlists [WLUW]

Pedestrian - The Toss & Turn
Eliot Lipp - Rap Tight #!
Coldcut - New Skool #

Blondie - Bang a Gong/Funtime (live)
The Contours - Just a Little Misunderstanding (from Mod Club Party)
Smack - For a Daqui (from The Sexual Life of Savages)

The Highwaymen - Highwaymen
Bad Brains - Right Brigade

Eyedea & Abilities - Act Right
The Free Design - Never Tell the World !!
Nous Non Plus - Tant Pis Pour Toi #!

David & the Citizens - Summer is No Man's Land
H.P. Lovecraft - Homemade Time Machine !
Josephine Foster - Der Konig in Thule #!!!!

Smashing Pumpkins - Cinnamon Girl
Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down Quartet - The Curse of Being in Love
Shopping - Dan-Nat-Dun-Uh (from Regime Change)

I-Attack - I-Attack
The Groodies - Carcrash
Naked Raygun - Bananacuda

Manu Chao - Clandestino
SamaraLubeski - Sister Silver #!
Felix Da Housecat - Rocketride

OOIOO - Mountain Book
Eels - If you see Natalie (live) #
Gogol Bordello - 60 Revolutions *

zZz - Godspeed
Acid Mothers Temple - L'Ambition dans le Miroir

. [WLUW]

Cocteu Twins - Iceblink Luck
The Infrasonics - The Job #
McClusky - To Hell With Good Intentions

Daniel Knox - Cake 4 #
The Capricorns - Don't Close Your Eyes #
Tom Waits - Ice Cream Man

Tortoise - Tin Cans and Twine
Odd Nosdam - 11th Avenue Freakout Pt. 2
Sun City Girls -Space Prophet Dogon

Busdriver - Unemployed Black Astronaut
Kickball - Brown #

Screeching Weasel - Anthem for a New Tomorrow
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts #
Doveman - Teacup !

Judas Priest - Diamonds in the Rust
Gorillaz - El Manana
Da Beatminerz feat. Wordsworth and the Last Emperor - It Ain't Enough

Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Looper - Sugarcane
Lord of the Yum Yum - Flight of the Bumblebee

Four Tet - and then patterns
Ween - Don 't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)

Massive Attack - Leave with me
Polkaholics - Polka Your Troubles Away