Head Wound City are a hardcore supergroup consisting of Jordan Blilie and Cody Votolato ofBlood Brothers, Nick Zinner fromYeah Yeah Yeahs, and Justin Pearson and Gabe Serbian, both fromThe LocustandHoly Molar.Jordan does the singing. Gabe plays drums. Cody does guitar stuff. So does Nick. JP plays bass. Most everybody sings along. They’ve been in some of the bands that have burned out the backs of your eyeballs, Yeah Yeah Yeahing you into a jitter sex frenzy, Locusting your flesh down to bare white bones, and spurting Blood Brothers all over your clean white sheets. Such an awesome short lived band. They made one record, played one show and that was it. Get this record NOW!
The Baltimore quartet, Love Life, featured ex-members ofJaks,Universal Order Of ArmageddonandThe Great Unraveling. Their uniquely raw,post-punkinfused noise rockoften utilized odd time signatures, driving bass, multi-layered arrangements featuring organs, horns, and strings, and most notably Katrina Ford’s sinister, guttural voice and lyrics. Their sound earned them frequent comparisons to artists likeThe Birthday Party,Diamanda Galas,The Jesus Lizard,Swans, and earlyPere Ubu.In 2004, Love Life broke up, with Katrina Ford, Sean Antanaitis, and drummer David Bergander forming the post-punk cabaret trio, Celebration, and bassist Anthony Malat going on to form Bellmer Dolls.
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but it does contain these two records, which rule, so go for it :)
YEAR FUTURE was founded in early 2003 in Los Angeles. Originally comprised of vocalist Sonny Kay (THE VSS, ANGEL HAIR), guitarist Rockey Crane (DEAD AND GONE, CREEPS ON CANDY), bassist Sam Ott (THE FUCKING ANGELS) and drummer Jim Andersen (of THE PATTERN, TALK IS POISON), the band’s new lineup now includes bassist Pete Lyman (ex-LIVING SCIENCE FOUNDATION) and drummer Chris Hathwell (also a member of the band MOVING UNITS). Really good threeoneg related band. Hard to describe, just check them out.
Swing Kids were a hardcore band from San Diego California during the mid 1990s. The band members were Eric Allen (of Unbroken), Jose Palafox (of Struggle and Bread and Circuits), John Brady (of Spanakorzo and Sweep The Leg Johnny), Jimmy LaVelle (The Album Leaf) and frontman Justin Pearson (later of The Locust), who would release their recordings on his own Three One G record label. They were closely involved with and heavily influenced by the forerunners of the San Diego hardcore punk scene of the 1990s. I got the chance to catch these guys reunion show recently and was blown away. If you sadly haven't heard these guys get this discography asap!
Some Girls was a five-piece hardcore punk band from San Diego, active from 2002 to 2007, consisting of members from a variety of influential hardcore bands. Every album they made is a little different from the last, but they all are amazing. I had to chance to become good friends with all these guys and got to follow them around and film a bunch of their shows. If you never had the chance to see these guys live, I'm sorry, but you really missed out. Below are links to every album they made and a live video I filmed of them near the ending of their existence. One of my favorite bands of all time, these guys really hit the spot for me. Make sure to look up their lyrics as well, Wes Eisold has a way with words that I can't help but love.
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Some Girls live at the Knitting Factory: Shot by me
Jaks were a band hailing from Chicago, Illinois. They created a savage sound full of foreboding doom with an unruly & sharp-toothed intensity of math rock and goth punk. It was heavy, nasty and raw similar to bands like The Birthday Party, Nation of Ulysses and Antioch Arrow. Below is their discography, but this version has 2 extra tracks one is from a comp and the other is supposed to be a Sesame Street song, enjoy.
Here's another band that I had the opportunity to become close friends with and play along side. The Plot to Blow up the Eiffel Tower is jazz meets punk in the best way possible. Another band that sounds like no one else. Sex, sass, and homoerotic live performances all thrown into one. Another one of my favorite bands. Here's pretty much everything by them. Sadly Willy Graves, their wonderful bass player passed away not too long ago. May you rest in peace, I love you Willy.
For those who have never heard or seen Antioch Arrow, it is a pretty impossible task to describe them to you. Because while listening to them on record or live you are for the most part baffled at what is happening. While some critics have dismissed their creations as ludicrous and simply too weird, other critics and their fans hold them in the highest regard for exactly those reasons.
Jenny Piccolo were a 3 piece band from Santa Cruz, CA, active in the late 90s. It featured members of Mohinder and Makara, who later went on to form The Anasazi and Yaphet Kotto.
Doomed punk band The Festival of Dead Deer. They were great because the noise they made could melt steel and boil blood, and they were doomed because they reared up fast, spat out beautiful music, then vanished into the ether. Threeoneg gold.