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	HASIL ADKINS "Kim Rock"/"Baseball Bat Song" (Rockin' Bones; Italy) 12" single $9 The West Virginia do-it-hisself one-man-band rocks it hard on the A-side. Some gal named Kim got Haze to pantin' 'n rantin', hunchin' 'n uh-rockin' for a solid 4-minute ramble. He whups out some real cool finger-tangled guitar spurts too. The flip sounds like a straight, and very deep, reading of some old mountain ballad for a couple minutes--and then up pops the subject of baseball bats! Adkins handles this ballad of sexual menace and twisted humor with the elegance of a man possessed. He even takes on the high-voiced role of the scared chick: "I had to run to get away from that baseball bat!" Crazy, man! Crazy man--R.I.P. (1937-2005). This is an edition of 500 copies. Released 2003.
	THE BON VIVANTS Soul Action (Old Gold) 10" EP $10 The Bon Vivants is a band led by Ben Young, who runs the avant-noise-improv label Old Gold in Atlanta. In the past, Ben has also headed a couple of song-oriented art-pop bands (Bad Poet and Forever), but this time around the rock is way out front. Although definitely post-punk in form and attitude, it's hard not to hear bands like the Raspberries and Big Star at the heart of what's happening here (and the Beatles at the root). If you're used to listening to shiny digital sound, my first suggestion here is that you turn up the volume on this platter. Bass player Ben Lawless's 4-track cassette production is brilliant, but it still sounds thin and murky if you don't boost the output. Personally, I think a few bottles of Bass Pale Ale also helps a lot! It all kicks off with "Mercury and Cream," which sounds so much like Big Star playing Eno's "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More." Then the boys use a modified "Sweet Jane" riff for "Highway," which features some excellent spazz-guitar leads. This segues nicely into "Basketbakers," a tune filled with delicious outta-kilter hooks. "The Bells" begins with flying saucer whoosh, which quickly yields to a groovy pop riff and vocals with the reverb turned up to 11. Just beautiful--it should already be at the top of the hiss parade. Flip over the record and dig guitarist Rob Parham's oh-too-brief "Pink Sangria," a nifty blend of Voidoid slither rock and power pop. Then they pull out another "Sweet Jane"-like riff for the intro to "Infinite Surprise," gliding right into a song filled with the spirit of Midwestern pre-punk circa 1974. "The Lake" reminds me of the Beau Brummels from their mature Bradley's Barn/Triangle period. The Bon Vivants dangle that jangle in your ear better than anybody since at least the 1980s (and I don't mean R.E.M.!). Ben Y. sez "The Mall Song" was influenced by Simply Saucer, and who am I to argue? But it's Simply Saucer at their most concise. To my ears, it has that sweet Syd Barrett/Soft Boys thing that a lot of bands did so well in the late 1970s--but not much since then. How'd a band of noise lovers from Georgia get back and down to such an unpretentious approach? Well, I think part of the "secret" is exactly that the outsider improv mindset has once again embraced something that's even more basic to American cultural consciousness: R&R. No irony either. Everything old is new again, and you can hear excitement in these grooves that mere retro rockers always miss because they've spent too much time listening to the same music. Ben Young, who also plays guitar and keyboards, has an unpretentious vocal style with the same sort of mild Southern drawl and slightly geeky whoop that once made Alex Chilton sound so special. And he's aided by a fine band: Ben Lawless (bass, percussion, guitars), Rob Parham (guitars), and Tim Genius (drums). Hey man, these guys are for real, and not even slightly full of shit. How many rock bands in 2006 can pull that off? Well . . . maybe more than a few years ago, but it's still no mean feat. And speakin' of feets, let's roll the rug off the floor and . . . I think you know the next part: boogie!
	KJETIL D. BRANDSDAL (Ecstatic Peace) $12 Fourth LP, I think, by sound-based music-maker from Norway. Electronics samples feedback clang scrape moan into dense swirls and layers. The second side starts with an Eastern-flavored acoustic-guitar trance that deviates completely from what might have seemed like a formula. Etc.

CRAWLSPACE The Dark Folds of Infinity Grow Pink With Desire (Majora Records) $10 1997 home-recorded (on 16 track) LP which introduced a collective-improv approach to Crawlspace that included these players in various combinations: Eddie Flowers, Joe Dean, Dave Fontana, Greg Hajic, Todd Homer, Larry Robinson, Les Greenfield, and Paul Fontana.  Fred Mills, Magnet: "Some tracks here involve the cut-up, paste/splice aesthetics of serious Burroughs disciples, while others invite squinty-eyed comparisons to Ornette Coleman, Faust, and even the Beatles. The small symphony squawkings of 'Scungilli' could be misheard as outtakes from old cartoon soundtracks; the dada-esque twang and marching kazoo band thump of 'Another Fine Mess' sound like the Godz playing Beefheart."

THE DIRTY BABIES (Wood Shampoo) $10 2005 LP by punk-rockers from Las Vegas.

DISLOCATION Coyote's Call (Fusetron) $9 Way-above-average improv from Japan. Electric strings (guitars?), saxophones, electronics, and samples move with unexpected ease from meditative passages to intense blow-outs to free scatter. Sax player Yoshinori Yanagawa plays with the same sort of depth and passion as Albert Ayler--no fakin', no academic rendering. But he's only part of a much larger whole. The wash of precision rumble and sound-tweaking that surrounds everything creates chaos from an intensely ordered technology. Strange (not "weird"), exciting music.

DREDD FOOLE A Long, Losing Battle With Eloquence and Intimance (Ecstatic Yod) $12 Byron Coley, Yod catalog: "7 songs of studio-recorded solo Dredd Foole on vocals and acoustic guitar, in a totally different vein than the last Dredd Foole & the Din record with Pelt & Thurston Moore. No reverb, no din, just a heap of great Dredd songery. Full color cover art by Kim Gordon."

THE GIZMOS 1976/1977 (Vulcher/Hate Records; Italy) $14 The Gizmos EP, Amerika First EP, Gizmos World Tour EP, and another unreleased outtake of Johnny Cougar's "Boring" (!?) pressed on nice vinyl, with photo of the Gizmos sitting and standing on the Gizmobile for the front cover.

THE GIZMOS 1976: The Rockabilly Yobs Session (Vulcher/Hate Records; Italy) $14 Krazee Ken Highland and Ready Eddie Flowers got the blooz in both their shoes. This contains the entire Yobs session from the Gizmos' Demos & Rehearsals CD, inside a new package, with the usual high-quality Hate vinyl pressing.

THE GIZMOS Never Mind the Gizmos Here's the Gizmos: 1978-1981 (Vulcher/Hate Records; Italy) $14 Vinyl version of Gulcher's collection of the post-Ken Highland Gizmos' recorded output. This includes the NEVER MIND THE SEX PISTOLS EP (with the only original Gizmo Ted Niemiec), the 'Mos side of the HOOSIER HYSTERIA split LP (Dale Lawrence + no original members), and their track from the RED SNERTS comp LP.

THE GYNECOLOGISTS Bukkake Hit Parade (Rave Up Records; Italy) $12 "Greatest hits" LP from early 80s Indiana punk band: "Sex Orgy With The Brady Bunch," "Nancy Reagan on Crack," "Sally Struthers' Tears," "Aunt Bee," "Brandy," "Dahmer's Diner," etc.

	LE MAN AVEC LES LUNETTS ? (Old Gold) $12 Old Gold catalog: "Perfect summer music for you courtesy of the new LP '?' from Italy's Le Man Avec Les Lunettes! Limited to 1000 vinyl copies, this is some white hot psychedelic Old Gold, cloaked in the poppy Lucky 13 imprint--be the first on your block to brag on this beauty!"
	LIL' BUNNIES 50 Children's Favorites (Rockin' Bones; Italy) $12 Rockin' Bones catalog: "WOW!!! The worst record of all time!!! Absolutely idiot!!! Demented punk!!! Fake Easter bunny cover!!! TRACKLIST: sorry, no tracklist…the band told me that you can call the songs as you prefer!!!" Edition of 500. Released 2001.

MERCURY 4ºF Phased (Suggestion Records; Germany) $10 Swirlin' stompin' chaotic noise-rock band from Switzerland. They sound kinda like the Butthole Surfers with a more focused Hawkwind-like attack, plus mocked-up dog-fight vocals and a nutty cover of "My Little Red Book" (Burt Bacharach/Manfred Mann/Love). Not heavy metal but close enough for those who might have bad memories of getting beat up by Scorpions fans in high school. Sounds pretty dang good to these well-worn ears. Released 1997.

MONOTRACT Pagú (Public Eyesore) $11 Hyper electronic crash'n'burn, glitch-rock, hiphop references, harsh angular (non)grooves, noise a-go-go, precision randomizing, a bit o' space float. Monotract is the NYC-Miami trio of Nancy Garcia, Carlos Giffoni, and Roger Rimada.

THE PANICS 1980-1981: Please Panic!! (Vulcher/Hate Records; Italy) $14 After the original Gizmos were long gone, and Dale Lawrence was leading the late-edition 'Mos in Bloomington, Indiana, this band of high-school goofs appeared on the "scene." They released one inspired slice of teen punk in 1981. "I Wanna Kill My Mom," "Best Band" ("We're the best band in Bloomington/And we buy our drugs on the courthouse lawn"), and a cover of the Ted-era Gizmos' "Tie Me Up, Baby!" use the raw elements of Anglo punk, the Ramones, and second-hand garage-isms to create a burst of greasy kid stuff that has the same feel as early Red Cross on Posh Boy or the Shirkers' great "Drunk and Disorderly"/"Suicide" single. This LP contains all of the music from the Gulcher CD (except four songs from a 2000 reunion show): the Panics' one 7-inch; their cut from Gulcher's 1981 Red Snerts comp LP; '81 demo of lo-fi art-damage punk from a Panics off-shoot called Johnny Esad & the Music Killers; an entire live set from '80 comprised mostly of covers (Ramones, Kinks, later Gizmos, Sex Pistols, most of the cover songs from The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle). Pressed on nice vinyl, like all the Hate releases.

SPLINTERED Moraine (Suggestion Records; Germany) $10 English group, from Kent, do two side-long pieces of swirling druggy droney collage-like rock'n'space. Guitars, drums, electronics, voices, acoustic piano, sax, etc. ooze along in a big soundscape--then fly apart completely in a flurry of heavy-noise-rock crunch'n'mulch through most of side two. Good shit. Released 1996; edition of 600.

SQ/QUADRAFACET (split) (Carbon Records) $8 SQ (Marc Faris and Joe Tunis) take the usual rock instruments and create a slowly developing (but intense) roar with simple melodic touches and a sweet clang. On the flip, Quadrafacet add violin to guitar/bass/drums/vocals, and float through four dense, druggy tunes. Rochester, New York, 1997.

VARIOUS ARTISTS Fire Crawl With Me (Bar La Muerte; Italy) $12 "Dark, electronic and experimental compilation" with Al:Freda (minimal percussion clang and hiss with voice), Daniele Brusaschetto (noisy rock), D.S.E. (spacey guitar float), Lips Vago (synth soundscape with built-in groove), Lava (a034 and Bruno Dorella rocket through a dark swirl), Deep (noisy cover version of an unidentified "well-known 80's group"), and (r) (chill-out prettiness with low-scatch noise). Nice comp.

VARIOUS ARTISTS OGX (Old Gold) 2LP $20 Atlanta label Old Gold celebrates its tenth year of crazy music with this ultra groovy double vinyl packaged in recycled LP covers, with a big booklet and inserts. Released and unreleased music by Jad Fair and R.Stevie Moore, Petland Toy Faktory, Charlie Parker (the free-music group), Bad Poet, Morgan Guberman, CD (Christian Dergarabedian), David Daniell, Eyeball Hurt and the Medicine, Cheryl Leonard, Zandosis, How To Kick Yourself, Two Geniuses, DangerWoman, L. Contra, Dog, Davey Williams and Eugene Chadbourne, Drue Langlois, Bon Vivants, Autobody, Untanned Hide Of A Young Cow, the Buford Highway, Yximalloo, More, Tom Heasley and Ken Rosser, Gold Sparkle Band, Die Spatzen, and Craig.

VARIOUS ARTISTS Red Snerts (Vulcher/Hate Records; Italy) $12 Reissue of 1981 Gulcher Records LP compilation of Indiana punk and new wave. Most of the bands fall roughly into two categories. The first is post-Ramones punk: Dale Lawrence's Gizmos ("The Midwest Can Be Allright"), the Panics ("Drugs Are for Thugs"), the Zero Boys ("New Generation"), the Jetsons, the Defekts, and Post Raisin Band. The other "category" is art-damage new wave, mostly of the post-Devo sort: Mr. Science, A. Xax, Dow Jones & the Industrials (kinda punk too), Last Four (4) Digits, and Amoebas In Chaos. The Dancing Cigarettes fit in there too, but you can hear a lot more going on with them: Canterbury prog, free jazz, Captain Beefheart. On the other extreme, teenage Phil Hundley does an inspired 30-second garage-a-billy tune called "30 Second Affair." The duo of bay-root offers up an effective, no-bullshit take on English-inspired post-punk. These guys came from the "scene" in smalltown Vincennes, Indiana that exported the Lazy Cowgirls dudes to L.A. For this recording, future Cowgirls Pat Todd and Allen Clark were the rhythm section; vocalist Pat played bass, with Allen on drums. It's the first recording by both, and Slippy Town fans might want to note that Allen was also a founding member of Crawlspace. Finally, there's Freddy & the Fruitloops doing a dopey ska tune that may or may not be a "joke."

VARIOUS ARTISTS Songs from 20th Century Homes (Old Gold) $9 Collection of home recordings, originally released on cassette, from around the city of Winnipeg and a couple other places in Canada. The music varies widely and wildly: primal improv, noise, free-jazz-like sounds, songs, kids acting silly, adults acting sillier, tape manipulations, the theme from Night of the Hunter, skronk-rock, etc., etc. Featuring these artistes: Rudy Bust, Drue & Myles Langlois, NDF, Alien Hybrid, Albatross, Adrian Shalom Williams, Michael Dumontier, Pot Roast, Eyeball Hurt & the Medicine, the Untanned Hide of a Young Cow, Tom Elliott, go action with da-da sound, the Garage People, Todd Martin.

THE W.I.N.K.S. Too Hot to Be This Cool (Rockin' Bones; Italy) $12 Rockin' Bones catalog: "Imagine Tura Satana from Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! starting a punk band after too many tallboys and you'll understand the eternal bad girl camp at the heart of this local endeavor. The women of the Winks cultivate a saucy, swaggering dynamic that keeps their otherwise straightforward approach to punk rock ticking. There's no wheel reinvention here, just a 20-minute nonstop burst of come-ons and put-downs. They brings to mind the trashpunk of the BobbyTeens and early Donnas mixed with the wild raw of the VKTMS and Deadly Weapons. TRACKLIST: He's a gun, You're so hot, Sorry baby, You're gonna die, Miss brown, Fuck me around, Turn it up; Saturday night, Trick or treat, Electric, Don't want to, Never gonna die, Spoil me." Edition of 666. Released 2005.