You'll Never Play This Town Again by Harry Pussy is now available to buy on compact disc from Load Records...
"Scattered, Smothered, Covered, Chunked, Topped, Diced and Peppered American free rock from a Clinton-era free rock three piece. Harry Pussy left Miami rug burn on modern music like few others in the 1990's. The early period of this band, documented on What Was Music exhibits a free range panic attack with a distinctly wiry wiggle. As tha band progressed, and they did like a monkey virus hopping from cage to cage, they stepped things up to a frothy thug level. Look at the songs, feel the vibration, stroke the leather. Songs on this release span the years after "Ride A Dove" and feature a few cover (Nip Drivers, Kraftwerk, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks).
The material on this CD was recorded in 1997 primarily at various locations but really exists in a timeless void like little before or after. Plenty of outfits have sucked the blood from the raw this raw nipple and come back with five o'clock shadows leaving little facial semblance of the original Hamburgler that this Miami trio laid out for a nation punch drunk on the Spice Girls and the Archers of Loaf. Come into the buffet and gorge on the real-deal, all-you-can-eat headburn this shiny silver disc offers you: a time capsule that offers promise for future times and possibilies.
Recommended for those seeking spicy food, experimental aircraft and adventerous game play."
"As formally staggering as anything on Trout Mask Replica", The Wire
"The most abrasive band America has ever seen", Pitchfork
"Blistering blasts of beyond-damaged noise-rock", Tiny Mix Tapes
"Rock-as-blunt-explosion... sheer power that is all its own", All Music
"What murderers hear in their heads", Tracks from the Stack
"A mix of raw violent noise and muscular no-wave jazz angularity", Stereogum
"Inhuman, Linda Blair-in-The Exorcist vocal malfeasance", Baltimore City Paper
"The template for countless bands that came after", Austin Chronicle
"Changed my life the first time I heard it", Dean Spunt, No Age
[Alas merely a tribute page]
Harry Pussy was a rock band from Miami, active from 1992 to 1997. Featuring Bill Orcutt on guitar and vocals, Adris Hoyos on drums and vocals, briefly Ian Steinberg on accordion, and later either Mark Feehan or Dan Hosker on second guitar, the band recorded primarily for the Siltbreeze label.
Harry Pussy was often grouped together with what were termed "noise" bands, though the term hardly does them justice. Orcutt's unique but highly developed approach to the guitar along with Hoyos impassioned attack of her drumkit place the band more directly in a lineage of rock and jazz.
The band conveyed values of uncompromising aestheticism and self-reliance as an alternative to the passive consumerism offered by mainstream 'alternative' rock of the era. Their ecstatic celebrations of life were often violent and sexually charged. Their legacy continues to inspire creative self-development among the current dedicated practitioners of rock and roll.
Discography:
Albums
* Harry Pussy aka "In an Emergency You Can Shit on a Puerto Rican Whore" (1993, Siltbreeze) LP
* Ride a Dove (1996, Siltbreeze) LP/CD
* What was Music? (1996, Siltbreeze) CD compiles first LP early 7" and compilation tracks
* Untitled aka "Fuck You" (1997, self released) LP
* Live at Salon Zwerge, Chicago (1998, Blackbean & Placenta) one sided LP
* Live Fuck Love Songs (1998, Infinite Egg) LP
* Live (1998, Cherry Smash) 10" - Note: final show, Churchill's, Miami 5/5/97
* Let's Build a Pussy (1998, Blackbean & Placenta) 2XLP
Singles & EP's
* Untitled aka "Nose Ring" (1993, Esync) 7"
* Untitled aka "Girl Holding Frog"(1993, Esync) 7"
* Please Don't Come Back from the Moon b/w Nazi USA (1994, Blackjack) 7"
* Untitled aka "Miami Style" (1994, Planet) 7"
* Split w/ Noggin (1994, Chocolate Monk) 7"
* Zero de Conduite (1995, Audible Hiss) 2x7"
* Black Ghost (1996, Siltbreeze) one sided 7"
* Split w/ Bunny Brains (1996, Brutarian) 7"
* Split w/ Frosty (1998, Menlo Park) 7"
* Split w/ Pelt (1998, Klang) 7"
* Chuck +1 b/w Mandolin (1998, De Stijl) 7" (as Radiation Nation/Toxic Drunks)
* Wreck Small Cocks on Expensive Pussies collaboration w/Cock E.S.P. (1998, Freedom From) Lathe cut 8" edition of 30
Cassette Tape
* Vigilance (1993, Chocolate Monk)
Video
* Live Fuck Love Songs (1998, Hells Half Halo) VHS
Compilations
* Music Generated by Geographical Seclusion and Beer (1993, Esync)
* Bananafish Mag. 9 7" - Track "rehearsing the white improviser"
* Cool beans Mag. 6 7" - NOTE-Same material as track 5 on Frog 7"
* Whump Mag. 1 2X7 - Track "Psychokiller (Pts 1 & 2)"
* KAOS Theory (1997, Cottlestone Pie)
* KSPC: The Basement Tapes Vol. 2 - Track "Nazi USA" (1997,KSPC) CD
* Prayer Is The Answer (1998, 777 was 666)
* RRR-500 Lock Grooves (1998, RRRecords) LP
* Tarot or Aorta: Memories of a PRE Festival (2003, SmackShire) CD
Bootleg
* Live On WNUR
* Final Recording Session, Atlanta-3/5/97
The slingers and I are currently in the planning stages of a fall euro tour for GR, fall euro tour for the slingers, and an early spring US slingers tour. Currently looking for other acts to join the tours; shoot me a message via the contacts below if interested. Mammoth Wave is also always looking for new artists to work with so get in touch if we can be of assistance.
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Shawn Glover Mammoth Wave Media 237 E. 11th Ave. Columbus, OH 43201 (419)-205-7377 shawnglover@gmail.com mammothwave@gmail.com twitter.com/MOTCA
Thank you very much for da Link Up & Sharing the music Nice to meet you through cyberlink! Luv your tunes & keep up da Great Work! Wishes you All da Best in 2009! Enjoy your Week!
You made The Florida Show Podcast #2. It features an eclectic mix of bands from all over Florida from the 1950's to today handpicked by "afficianadoes" Jeffrey Howard and Kristin Messina.
xNoBBQx Skewer 10" LP (Ltd to 300 copies) - Out May 12th
We first came across xNoBBQx (just call them No Barbeque, I guess) in Piccadilly Records last year when the Siltbreeze vinyl reissue of their first CD-r appeared on its shelves. The Siltbreeze label being a bastion of all that is great in terms of dirgy, lo-fi, transcendental unmusicality, we were thus intrigued to hear this slab. And, we have to say, it was one of the greatest shop-listening experiences of all time. Here was a duo, probably of fully grown men, bashing away at their instruments in a manner that suggested they had never really learned any 'proper' technique. We later read a review, in fact, that put it thus:
"So what exactly is the difference between an xNoBBQx recording and a couple of 14 year olds bashing instruments in the garage with record pressed down on one of their mum’s old tape recorders? Probably not a whole lot, actually, but I get the feeling that’s precisely the point. " (Cyclic Defrost)
Well, yes, that does largely seem to be the point. But it's a helluva point. The Australian duo, in spite of their unabashed simplicity, manage to create sounds that are warm as an old-fashioned blanket, each piece having the ability to induce a state of complete, dribbling mental stasis. It's disjointed, scratchy and 'difficult', yes. But it also manages to be completely absorbing. If you like your rock deconstructed to the nth degree, we highly recommend you dig this.
xNoBBQx will be touring the UK from 10th May 2009. We'll be putting them on in Manchester on 12th May (venue TBC), so keep yr eyes on this page.
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