The Hedonist Jive used to be my "main" blog. All the quote-unquote good stuff was published here. The problem with a generalist blog is there really aren't a lot of generalists out there any longer who'll read it. We culture hounds love our micro-focused niches; I know this because I organize everything digitally according to topic: I've got my music stuff, my film stuff, my literary stuff, my sports stuff and so on.
So if you're here, you've probably noticed that The Hedonist Jive's mainly been a dumping ground my music podcast, Dynamite Hemorrhage radio. Sorry about that. Can't believe you've hung on this long and kept this thing in your RSS feed. Well, the whole Dynamite Hemorrhage project's been my main focus the past couple years. It's just culminated - for now, in an 84-page print music fanzine called Dynamite Hemorrhage #2. You can order it here.
Now that I'm done with the magazine, I reckon the 'Jive might heat up a little bit more, beyond the dumped podcasts. Book reviews are crackling and seething within me, for starters. Maybe some other stuff too. Stick around, and it might get somewhat interesting around here again.
In the meantime, here's what's in our new magazine:
- An interview and career-spanning retrospective with BILL DIREEN,
the New Zealand-based musical iconoclast and creator of some of the
most weird and wonderful underground pop music of the last 35 years.
Great old photos of Vacuum, Six Impossible Things and more - with
Direen’s take on his many recordings, bands and general outlook on
creation & creativity.
- Tim Warren from Crypt Records, on the eve of two new volumes of the mind-destroying "BACK FROM THE GRAVE"
60s punk compilations, takes us through in profanity-strewn detail how
he’s been putting these comps together since 1983, and the pain the man
has endured to make sure you and I get to hear some of the most raw and
rare rocknroll chaos of all time…!
- Interview with bedroom lo-fi pop savants HONEY RADAR, currently making many short, abrasive and lovely mini-masterpieces out of Philadelphia
- Interview with NOTS, raw and slashing earworm punk band from Memphis
- KING TEARS MORTUARY, Sydney, Australia’s answer to the question "What would a mix of C86, KBD punk and The Gories sound like?"
- Erika Elizabeth's overview of lost and neglected female-fronted punk and post-punk bands and records you've never heard of
- The Layman’s Guide to 1970s Jamaican DUB - an
overview of wild, weird and wacked dub reggae created during its peak
era, along with ten essential dub recordings, explored
- Interviews with Jon Savage and Stuart Baker on the new PUNK 45 series of archival 70s punk reissues
- 87 record reviews
- 15 book reviews
- Advertisements from today’s top hitmaking labels
Order yours here!
Broadcasting from a laptop in San Francisco, California, Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #49 is all about top-tier sub-underground rocknroll from the last five decades. Not a song is wasted, because in a short-attention-span world, we need to bring it, and modesty aside - the show brings it, especially if you use the "scrubber" to skip over the horrifically annoying host.
Then you're left with righteous new stuff from BENT (pictured), DREAMSALON, THE FIREWORKS, ULTIMATE PAINTING and NOTS - along with classy material from days of yore by Pussy Galore, Feedtime, Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, Animals and Men, Honey Radar, England's Glory, Sally Skull, Neon Boys, Syd Barrett and much more. Get it while it's steaming and fresh - download it or stream it now before the squares do.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #49 here.
Stream or download it over on Soundcloud.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes.
Playlist:
BENT - Skeleton Man
THE FIREWORKS - On and On
NOTS - Insect Eyes
PIRANHAS - Dangerline
FEEDTIME - Mother
ANIMALS AND MEN - Render Us Harmless
LUNG LEG - Dirty Plotte
ULTIMATE PAINTING - Central Park Blues
THE CANNANES - Sound of the City
THE MINDERS - Now I Can Smile
HONEY RADAR - Lost and Found
ENGLAND'S GLORY - Shattered Illusions
DREAMSALON - Soft Stab
PUSSY GALORE - Damaged II
MURPHY AND THE MOB - Born Loser
SYD BARRETT - Vegetable Man
NEON BOYS - Love Come In Spurts
GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR - Local Girls
DUM DUM GIRLS - Jail La La
SALLY SKULL - Mean Woman
THE GORLS - TVs On
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND - Mirror Man
Some past shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #48 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #47 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #46 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #45 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #44 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #43 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #42 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #41 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #40 (playlist)
We took an unforgivable three weeks to get this podcast, our forty-eighth, to the people - but we were sorta busy. There was this, and then there was this. And here's this - a 1 hour, 3 minute edition of DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO (#48), which goes from frantic to frantic-er over its 63 minutes and which might be the most edifying phony radio show since our last one - or at least since this one by our magazine's esteemed contributing editor.
If you choose to proceed, you'll be hearing new stuff from Midnight Snaxxx, Primetime, Sauna Youth, Buck Biloxi and the Fucks, Coneheads, Shitkickers, CCTV, Ultimate Painting and Russell Street Bombings. These modern heroes will be interspersed with Grade-A material from winners from the past - like Liliput (pictured); Rema-Rema, England's Glory, Die Kreuzen, The Minutemen and even Clothilde (she follows a set of hardcore and closes out the show in fine style). You know what? I think you might like it.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #48 here.
Stream or download this episode on Soundcloud here.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes here.
Playlist:
MIDNIGHT SNAXXX - Don't Wake Me Up
ENGLAND'S GLORY - City of Fun
PASTICHE - Flash of the Moment
ULTIMATE PAINTING - Ten Street
ELECTRIC EELS - Wreck and Roll
PRIMETIME - Right Track
LILIPUT - Split
CCTV - Le Jom
THE TAKE - Summer
RIGHT PROFILE - Alien
SAUNA YOUTH - Monotony
THE CONEHEADS - Lizard Lady
THE 1-4-5s - Crush Rush
REMA-REMA - Short Stories
RUSSELL STREET BOMBINGS - Homicide Squad
SHITKICKERS - N.Y. Niceguy
DIE KREUZEN - Hate Me
SIN 34 - Nuclear War
RED CROSS - Burn-Out
QUEER PILLS - Time To Fuck
MINUTEMEN - Below The Belt
THE STAINS - Sick and Crazy
BUCK BILOXI AND THE FUCKS - I'm Useless
CLOTHILDE - La Verite, Toute la Verite
Some past shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #47 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #46 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #45 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #44 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #43 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #42 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #41 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #40 (playlist)
