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SKiN GRAFT No. 150

Posted in Labels on October 25, 2022

For Halloween -- oh, and to mark the 150th release of the label -- SKiN GRAFT Records has released a new 15-song cassette featuring all new and exclusive tracks. Released last Friday, Oct. 21, the tape includes material by David Yow, Jim O'Rourke, new projects from members of Dazzling Killmen, and more (listed in full, with descriptions, below).

The collection is titled Sounds To Make You Shudder and showcases the noise-rock leanings of the long-running label.

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Track list:

  1. David Yow & YOWIE – The Spider's Greeting The Jesus Lizard’s David Yow is master of ceremonies and none other than St. Louis’ Yowie has got his back, laying down their first new music since the release of “Synchromysticism”.
  2. USA Nails – Horror Show Formed through a mutual love of noise rock, punk and krautrock, USA Nails made their SKiN GRAFT debut earlier this year on the “Split” LP with Psychic Graveyard. For their return, they look no further than the world around us to pen “Horror Show”.
  3. Lovely Little Girls – Procreation (Of The Wicked) Chicago’s avant prog oddballs Lovely Little Girls are back with their reimagining of the Celtic Frost favorite, maintaining the song’s malevolent mood while taking it places never heard before.
  4. Terms – Mouthful Of Moss Having served in acts such as Grand Ulena, Jitters and Yowie, Terms bring a wealth of experience and a heaping helping of the unexpected to the operating table. Their album “All Becomes Indistinct” will be released in 2023. This track is not on it.
  5. Tijuana Hercules – Long Slide “No crossing the River Styx” - Tijuana Hercules apply their hillbilly trance to an Ambrose Bierce tale... a psychedelic take on a murder victim who discovers the dismal neverafter. Headphonically conceived in the laboratories of Frogg Mountain Recording Studio.
  6. Pili Coit – Lo Comte Arou On paper, Lyon’s Pili Coït sound simple enough: Jessica Martin Maresco (of Le Grand Sbam) on floor tom, oil can, synth, drum and vocals - plus Guilhem Meier (of Poil) on guitar and vocals. On record, Pili Coït come together - here for a haunting rendition of a traditional Occitan song. SKiN GRAFT will release their album “Love Everywhere” on vinyl in 2023.
  7. Psychic Graveyard And John Dwyer – Is There A Hotline ? The Osees’ John Dwyer takes Psychic Graveyard’s raw, emotion-filled mechan- ics and puts them through the ringer, remixing the four piece into a squirming, sickly, electronic mess of delights.
  8. Jim O'Rourke - guising Taking up from where Brise-Glace’s Camp SKiN GRAFT track “likeness” left off a hundred cat- alog numbers ago, Jim returns with “guising”, where scary sounds are scarred, then sewnup again into something resembling itself.
  9. Cuntroaches - Borborygmus Here is a first dose of the type of noise-wave, black metal bombast Berlin’s Cuntroaches will bring to the fore in 2023. Their full length is entering post-production. No one is ready.
  10. Strangulated Beatoffs - Happy Halloween Now well into their fourth decade of existence, legendary SKiN GRAFT recording artists Strangulated Beatoffs (just barely) lift a finger to return with their first new recording in 10 years.
  11. Shatter On Impact - Amar’s Volta The new trio from Blake Fleming (formerly of Laddio Bolocko, Mars Volta and Dazzling Killmen) takes you rocketing through the eye of the cobra and beyond the final frontier to strange new worlds. Amar's Volta is slinky, seductive and raw.
  12. Bobby Conn - Don’t Be Afraid A veteran of Chicago’s No Wave scene, Bobby Conn quickly developed a reputation for delivering messages of hope, politics, de- spair, revolution and bullshit in a quasi-falsetto, all the while decked to the nines in glitter, eyeliner and high heels. His third consecutive SKiN GRAFT compilation appearance.
  13. The Flying Luttenbachers - Violence Labyrinth No wave / punk jazz / brutal prog iconoclasts The Flying Luttenbachers’ founding member Weasel Walter takes listeners on a dizzying ride in all directions at once - and straight down where it counts.
  14. Upright Forms - They Kept On Living Dragging behind ghosts of SKiN GRAFT’s Past (Dazzling Killmen, Colossamite and Xaddax) this carbon-based, three- headed organism raise a collective fist at the inevitable dark veil. The debut of Nick Sakes’ new band.
  15. AZITA - Tss Tss Former Scissor Girl and past, present & future Azita Youssefi surprises in the best of possible ways, wrapping up with a reflective synth n’ sax “party’s over” jam that will leave you grasping at straws and reaching for the stars.
     

Rosie Thomas, parents lullabies, and Iron & Wine

Posted in Records on October 24, 2022

Rosie Thomas will follow-up Lullabies For Parents with a new volume due, due in March 2023. The concept is less focused on silly, singalong kids music, instead putting its creative energy toward creating a soothing comfort zone for parents. Volume 2 will also feature several guest appearances from friends and … Read more

Martin Bisi announces Feral Myths

Posted in Records on October 24, 2022

On Dec. 2, NYC producer and musician Martin Bisi is back with a new album, Feral Myths, coming courtesy of Black Freighter Records. The new album sees a wide variety of influences coming together, ranging from jazz to krautrock and is described as being about the heroes and villains of … Read more

The Mutants get LP treatment

Posted in Records on October 24, 2022

Old school San Francisco punk band The Mutants shared a new record earlier this year, Curse of the Easily Amused, released on CD via Liberation Hall in July. SPB interviewed the group at the time, too. Now, the album gets a proper vinyl pressing, due on Nov. 4 (also via … Read more

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The Flenser adds Ragana

Posted in Labels on October 24, 2022

The Flenser has announced that Ragana has joined their roster and is at work on a full-length follow-up the duo's 2019 EP We Know that the Heavens are Empty. A queer and female do currently located in Olympia/Oakland, the experimental black metal group draws from Pacific Northwest sounds while making … Read more

High On Fire's MATT PIKE announces US tour dates in support of solo album.

Posted in Shows on October 24, 2022

Having rewritten the hard rock rulebook with his Grammy award-winning trio, High On Fire, to reverse engineering doom metal with his genre-defining trio, Sleep, Matt Pike has channeled his natural talents and chiseled a steely path straight to the heart of modern day metals molten core. Pike announces a string … Read more

Put Ovens on your preorder list (Tony Molina)

Posted in Records on October 23, 2022

On Dec. 5, Tankcrimes will bring a 44-track double LP reissue of Ovens to vinyl for the first time. Ovens and featured a young Tony Molina, one of this ~14 bands to date, with a rough around the edges blend of power pop and pop-punk. As noted in the band's … Read more

Tegan & Sara: TV, a new album, and a graphic novel too

Posted in Bands on October 23, 2022

With a brand new album, the twins' tenth overall, out in a week, Tegan and Sara have shared a video for the song "Smoking Weed Alone," which appears on the upcoming Crybaby (Mom+Pop Music). The single is the fifth to release ahead of the album's release, and it followed the … Read more

Little Punk People's Elliott Fullam joins Kill Rock Stars

Posted in Labels on October 23, 2022

Youthful musician Elliott Fullam has joined Kill Rock Stars, sharing a new single for the label: “Kick You Down” b/w “On and On,” which is fittingly described on the press release as "tranquil and lo-fi." Fullam recently released What's Wrong on Sept. 2, 2022, his debut album on his 18th … Read more

The Elephant 6 Recording Co.: The Documentary

Posted in Videos on October 23, 2022

On Nov. 10 at DOC NYC in New York, NY, a new documentary about The Elephant 6 Recording Co. will make its official premiere. The label is known for its 1990 psychedelic rock scene, featuring Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, and The Apples in Stereo, who were founders of … Read more

Vortis is back with The Miasmic Years

Posted in Records on October 23, 2022

On Oct. 2, Chicago punk band Vortis returned with a new album, The Miasmic Years, a follow-up to 2018's This Machine Kills Fascists. The band originally formed in 2000, pushing forward over 20 years through life challenges and lineup changes, including the passing of original vocalist Michael Weinstein. The new … Read more

The Lord + Petra Haden share Devotional

Posted in Records on October 23, 2022

We begin this Sunday morning with "Yaman," a track from the newly released album by The Lord + Petra Haden, titled Devotional, out now via Southern Lord. The collaboration features The Lord [Greg Anderson of Sunn O))), Goatsnake and Engine Kid] with vocalist and violinist Petra Haden. and explores droning … Read more

Bitch Queens bring the r 'n' r

Posted in Records on October 22, 2022

Spaghetty Town Records (US) and Lux Noise Records (Europe) has teamed up to bring a new record from Basel, Switzerland-based r 'n' r band Bitch Queens. On Oct. 28, the labels will collaboratively unleash a 5-song EP, PARTY Hard(ly), on the world. Specializing in time-tested rock 'n' roll clichés, the … Read more

The Sleeping Souls (without Frank Turner)

Posted in Bands on October 22, 2022

The Sleeping Souls will be releasing an album in autumn 2023, sharing the first single now: "Liar/Lover" (via Xtra Mile Recordings. The band is known for playing with Frank Turner, but set off on their own path next year for their debut album. The lineup consists of veterans Tarrant Anderson … Read more

Nix & The Nothings announce Here Goes Nothing

Posted in Records on October 22, 2022

Bergen, Norway garage rock band Nix & The Nothings is set to release their debut record. Listen to the song "Why" below, one of 10 burners off the upcoming Here Goes Nothing, which will release officially on Nob. 18 via Apollon Records. The band pulls from fuzzy 1960s garage rock, … Read more

Taste "Carolina Reaper" from Action/Adventure

Posted in Records on October 22, 2022

Hitting the road soon with Hawthorne Heights and Armour For Sleep, Chicago, IL based Action/Adventure has shared a new video for the hot track, "Carolina Reaper," off their soon to release Imposter Syndrome album. The pop-punk quartet will release Imposter Syndrome on Pure Nosie Records on Nov. 11, slyly referencing … Read more

Circa Survive: An EP collection and hiatus

Posted in Splits on October 22, 2022

Circa Survive has a new record with 12 tracks in total coming before the year's end. Titled Two Dreams, the album collects the bands two 2021 EPs in one package, to be available on vinyl, cd, and digitally (EPs: A Dream About Love and A Dream About Death). The band … Read more

BIG|BRAVE with a new full-length on Thrill Jockey next year

Posted in Records on October 22, 2022

BIG|BRAVE returns with a new album in 2023. Titled nature morte and set to release on Feb. 24 through Thrill Jockey, the band has shared one of the six new tracks now: "carvers, farriers and knaves." “It is violent and terrible. It is crushing and alarming. It is common and … Read more

Listen to The C.I.A.

Posted in Records on October 22, 2022

Look out for The C.I.A., coming on Jan. 20, 2023 via In The Red Records. The band, with a previous self-titled release, will release follow-up Surgery Channel. The new band is a three-piece featuring busybody Ty Segall (bass, percussion, back up vocals), Emmett Kelly (bass, synth, back up vocals), and … Read more

Feel Topsy Turvy now, again in January

Posted in Records on October 22, 2022

January 13, 2023 will bring us It Can't Be Easy, a new LP from French punk band Topsy Turvy (available courtesy of Thousand Islands Records). Formed in 2018 in Poitiers, FR, the melodic punk band draws a range of influence focusing on notable melodies with hardcore, indie punk, and emo … Read more