Well, it's spring cleaning time in
L.A. Everyone is ridding their closets
of last year's skolatons, reorganizing
their lives, dropping bad habits and
(hopefully) picking up on some equal
ly revolting new ones. A bunch of
LA scene standby's, in hiding for
an extended period of time, have
crept out of the woodwork to strut
their stuff latoly most noticeably
Blood On The Saddle, who have
completed work on their second rec
ord. CH3 left Enigma behind and
have a brand new ripping set, every
bit as chaotic as ever. Tupelo Chain
Sex has done some house cleaning;
they're breaking in a new rhythm sec-
tion and should be on a tour of the
Northwest by the time you read this
But Girls! Girls! Girls! is definitely
where it's at in Tinsel Town all the
musically inclined chicks are kicking
ass so hard that the guys are starting
to get scared. Get a load of this activ-
ity: Former Cambridge Apostle and
Castration Squad member Barb
Wire has started up a new combo,
Killer Zombie Girls. The slithery,
squalid and stupelyin sex lutions,
The Lame Flames are back in
tion, with their sex-crazed, alcohol
soaked rip songs. Debbie Dia-
mond has ro joined Feline ne dis
taff answer to the New York Dolls).
As if that isn't enough, The Bangles'
new album, A Different Light, is out
and the Prince-penned single, "Man-
ic Monday is getting mega-airplay
(Bangle Sue Hoffs wasn't comment-
ing on the alleged Prince FOREplay,
though!). The Screamin' Sirens are
about to record demos with X's John
Doe at the board. The Pandoras
have a brand new album Stop Pro-
tending out on Rhino Records, and
are about to tour, and a new Pan-
dora's off-shoot, Boo, has been get
ting local raves from club hoppers.
Get with it, guys, or you'll all be left
in the dust amidst the clatter of spike-
heels and clouds of cheap perfume
...There are a few good new bands
Melanie (keyboards) and Paula
(guitar) of the wild and sweaty
Pandoras
crapping up of the co-od nature
most notably, The Law, a punkabilly
transplant from Seattle. The Mar-
shalls Of Glennie, a wild glam/slam
combo from behind the Orange Cur-
tain, and the Little Kings, who're
generating quite a stir with their a
Texas cow-metal sound. Speaking of
Texas, Polson 13 have undergone
a few changes ex-Big Boy. Chris
Gates, has moved from bass to
guitar, and they've got a new bassist,
who'll be ready to tour with them
come April?... The Red Hot Chill
Peppers, who recently (AHEM!)
graced the pages of none other than
Playboy sold out the Palace in LA,
but catastrophe-monger Bob Forrest
did a decidedly anarchy awan dive
off the stage, right on top of some
poor blind guy. Mr. Forrest got
kicked out right in the middle of the
set, resulting in much on-and off-
stage uproar... Last but not least,
two bitchin' new groups from the
Sacramento-San Jose area - Big
Hair, who, in addition to having two
gorgeous femme singers, (scanty
outfits, undulating hips, you know,
the works) do brash cow-punk with
surfy stuff and bits of craziness, like
a cover Disco Inferno." The other
band is the Cactus Liquors Mad,
wild, drunken and frenzied, these
guys (including Mike and Dusty ox
Tales Of Terror) produce a bizarte
western tinged wall of slop Dof-
initely worth checking out YEE-
HAW! Also from the area are the rad-
ical Code Of The West who're re-
leasing an album and touring Aus-
tralia this May. There was a benefit
wake held at the Club Lingerie for
the families of Patrick Woodward
and Ricky Intveld, the bassist and
drummer in Ricky Nelson's back-up
band, who perished in the highly
publiced plane crash at the begin-
ning of the year. Several LA. musi-
clans got together for the occasion.
Local artists included The Blasters,
Los Lobos, The Knitters, Dwight
Yoakum, Lone Justice and Top
Jimmy And The Rhythm Pigs. The
festivity level wasn't anywhere near
what it would've been under different
circumstances. Spotted at the show
was Nick Lowe, who's been skulk-
ing around various L.A. watering
holes with Blaster Dave Alvin. Mr.
Lowe is producing demos for the
Blasters and will probably produce
their next album The Beat Far
mers and Mojo Nixon are both in
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the studio recording albums that
should be out in late March of early
April Fur, beloved, long-legged
and pink mohawked bass-woman for
the Hollywood Hillbillies has
pass the Midol please signed on
for a three and a half month tour of
Europe with (you guessed it) the
Cramps We'll soon see if her pink
pussy can do the dog. She ain't
ebandoning the Hillbillies, though
When the Cramps get back to the
states, Lux is gonna produce the
Hillbillies' album Rock Vodka, ex-
Joneses (and God knows how
many other L.A. bands) has formed
a new combo of slobbering hea-
thens known as Kingdom Of Kicks,
Christian Hosol has flung himself
full-force into Hollywood nightlife.
appearing in various states of mind)
everywhere from the Jane's Addic-
tion loft-party to the Zero One Club.
Scenesters say it's only a matter of
time before he starts a band The
Vandals have just signed the con-
tracts with Skill Skates for a Van-
dals board can't you just picture
that flying through windows and over
schoolyard fences?... A Sacramen-
to combo Monotribe has been mak
ing waves in LA, where they did a
tour of barroom floors... Out Of
Bounds, a Summer-action-8-movie
by Columbia, has been shooting all
over Hollywood lately, using just
everyone as extras, including mem-
bers of the glamourous LA. Guns,
Joneses, Little Kings Pandoras,
Boo, etc. Word has it they're going
to be using a lot of live performances
as well, something about X Sub-
terfuge came down from Vegas and
played Fender's in Long Beach with
Social Distortion. Now that (sob-
sniffle, weep, etc.) Spatz has been
closed down, Fondor's is the hap-
pering spot, with the likes of Bad
Manners, Fishbone, Circle Jerks
etc. playing there weekly... Doggy
Style just returned from a whirlwind
tour of New England, which report
edly went very well. Locals were ad-
vised not to eat the yellow snow
The Screamin' Sirens once
again laid a path of destruction
through Northern California which
included a very low key/high velocity
Cowgirl and Injun show at the Hotel
Utah with those wretched Drunk In-
juns whose singer opened with his
acappella version of Hank Williams'
Kawliga while drinking a glass of
red wine and emptying twelve more
before the set was over...NEWS
FROM PHILADELPHIA (and other
assorted areas)...It's been show
timo here in the City of Brotherly (?)
Love: quite a few bands have passed
through FOD, The Brood (with
members from Suicidal Tendencies)
and St. Vitus recently played the
hall was small but the energy was
hot... Hüsker Dü returned for a
show with Soul Asylum and FOD.
Soul Asylum (from the same city
as Hüsker Dü), will have an album
out real soon lots of fun garage
rock music...The Replacements
are moving up up up each time
they play Philly it's at a larger hall
This time around, as usual, their
show was 3/4 covers and 1/4 origi
nals, but it was four-quarters fun
All you "older" music fans take
nate-two shows that really brought
back the memories: Johnny Thun
der is out on the road again. He
kicked off his tour at the Kennel Club
The ex-NY Dolls Heartbreakers
rocker really impressed everyone
with his hard-driving set. Richard
Lloyd (ex-Television) followed up
last year's solid release with an
equally solid performance, also at
the Kennel Club The Dead
Milkmen are out on the road again
so keep your eyes open. They are
planning to release a second album
shortly called Eat Your Paisley Their
first album, Big Lizard in my Back
yard, is now available on import with
extra songs. Executive
Slacks U.S. tour starts this month.
Their video has been receiving top
responses wherever it's shown...A
band from Wayne, PA. Dresden, has
been making a name for itself lately,
playing moody melodic stuff thats al
most, but not quite, in the doom and
gloom made...In the Lehigh Valley
aren, Constraint has broken up.
Their lead singer is now in a band
called People Who Care... Check
out The Hasbros from Flushing.
NY... In the fun to read department:
There's a new issue of Alcoholic Ton-
dencies out, with another one on the
way And, they're putting together a
compilation tape of music and poet-
ry, so if you're interested in any way,
contact AT PO. Box 13011, Phila..
PA 1910 (send a stamp) for your
copy of what's happening... True
zaniness abounds in the new issue
of Maximum Rock 'N Raoul, with
great cut-ups of shows and per-
formers. Write to 1464 Easton Rd,
Warrington, PA 18976 for a fanzine
full of laughs... From outside of
Philly comes Yuck - it's local, but
covers some national stuff and lists
zines. To contact: 2 Cornwell Drive,
New Hope, PA 18938. A Connecticut
zine called Freakish Thoughts is
available from 353 Capitol Avenue,
Apt. C-3, Hartford, CT 06106, c/o
Clark Yoder. Also, the FT guys have
taken over the long-awaited Mutant
Baby Cassettes project, finally re
leasing the compilation tape and got
ting to work on the Who's Who of
Hardcore they started to compile
...Politics, art, music Anything
goes in the fanzine called Day and
Age from Albany, NY, I available
through distributors, so a should be
near you. Alternative Rhythms, a
cool Florida-based zine has moved.
Its publisher has gone to California
and things are in suspension about
when it will be started up again
...Truly weird and wonderful is the
best way to describe Beatniks From
Space a fanzine publication that
"makes trendy people got their
tooth. This is the best for days when
you want to veg out and just read
and listen to music. A lot of fun!
(Available through the Neither/Nor
Press, Box 8043, Ann Arbor, MI 48107)
There's more to Jersey than
waste-dumps and garbage. Check
out New Jersey's Got It-a compita-
tion featuring Adrenalin OD, Pleased
Youth, Cyanamid, and more (PO,
Ben, Box 2012, Brandon, FL 3351.
Box 363. Vauxhall, NJ 07088). A
cool compilation with loads of stuff Los Angeles legendary Weirdos
to listen to was released in Canada came up from the slime alleys to play
by CKCU-FM, a non-profit campus a one-off gig, opening for Youth
community station. It's chock full of Brigade at the Stardust in Holy
12 bands with offerings of stull froin wood. The packed house was treated
punk to industrial to metodic to crazy, to a rousing set that bagan and
a great way to learn about some of ended with We Got the Neutron
the offerings from up north...Phily's Bomb, other obligations permit,
Impossible Years are slated for a maybe the Weirdos can be poo
nmw release. Their old one is still ausded to do another show. Wan jum
available ra an appealing light have to wait and see Slayer
hurted listen DC's Scream has heading towards LA to play g
new material and is shopping with Venom, and then into the
around for a label RRRecords, al studio. Look for a new Slayer sibum
ready a core and a mail-order, is sometime in the summer Venom
now announcing the start of their should be out with a special USA
very own label With two vinyl te only Ep about now, which will feature
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way, RRR hopes to roaly get movi (live)," "Nightmare and Poison."
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tic, and very altornative and indepen. follows: 3/28 08 Angeles, 3/30
dent. For the complete catalogue Chicago, 331 Toronto, 4/2 Trenton,
and questions write to 151 Paige S NJ 4/4-5 New York City, 4/6 Provi-
Lowell, MA 01852... Warpt Recorde dence, Ri8 Miami Beach... Sul-
has released Godfodder W, a terrific cldal Tendencies, at last word, were
collection of bands like Asbestos in Foda doing some shooting for
Rockpyle, Camper Van Beatho- none other than Miami Vice, that hit
ven, and more. A must own... YO TV show that's all the rage in living
DUDES! A widely established Heavy rooms across America... Keep a
Metal band is looking for a bass sharp ear out for the new single from
player interested in a professional J.FA. It's called My Movie. As Don
situation. Metal Blade Records has P. puts it, "That's the way life is,
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them find someone. If you think their five-year anniversary you know.
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