THEY SAY THAT DEADMEN TELL NO TALES,
but GG Allin just released a new CD. Backed
by a group called the Criminal Quartet, Carnival
of Excess should shake up most hardcore GG
fans who are used to the chainsaw sound found
on his usual recordings. Not only can you under
stand just about every word the dookie flinger
says on this one, but his back-up band is playing,
get this-country music... DH Peligro is best
known as the stickman for the Dead Kennedys,
but he has also pounded the skins with the Red
Hot Chili Peppers, played guitar in a group
called the Jungle Studs with Steve DePace from
Flipper and recently sat in with a group called
Nail Bomb featuring members of Sepultura and
Fudge Tunnel. Now Dirty D is playing guitar and
singing in his own band called Peligro with a shit
hot CD full of fast and furious tunes appropri-
ately titled Peligro. DH also made a special
appearance at The Viper Room, a nightclub in
LA owned by Johnny Depp. Monday nights at
this joint feature an extravanganza called Mister
Moo's Grab Bag, which can include women in
cages, adaptations of the TV show The Dating
Game, and even a night featuring Married With
Biohazard
Children's Christina Applegate tending bar. The
evening in question was a tribute to Fantasy
Island, complete with a wax sculpture of Tattoo
that someone ripped-off from the Wax Museum.
In order to facilitate the fantasy of one of the
guys from Counting Crows, DH played the role
of Stevie Wonder and sucked the poison out of
a stricken girl's buttocks after she got bitten by a
snake. Later that night, DH played a black plan-
tation man having all KKK dudes picking cotton
while he beat them and sang the song "Black
Bean Chili Thing" off his new record. After heart
throb River Phoenix cashed in his chips outside
of the Viper Room, the standing joke around
the club is that people are just dying to
get in... Cruising across the nation in a
modified school bus called the Cheese-
box, the White Kaps recently went
on tour with Chicago's Bollweevils.
Guitarist/troublemaker Richie
Rich Paul reported a rain/hail-
storm/tornado watch in Am-
arillo, bouncer problems
with the Bollweevils in
Chicago, a fun gig at
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a skateboard park in Rockford, IL, mosquitoes all
over the place outside of Boulder, Indian tacos
on the Navajo reservation and a collision with a
white owl somewhere around Kingman, AZ. Says
Rich, "His body was smashed through the front
of the air dam and his wings were sticking out
the front-classic Cheesebox!"... Comin' on
strong with dual drummers and a fist full of
horns, there ain't no arguing with Bottom 12. A
serious sense of humor and a thick, sick and
heavy sound herald the band's new CD called
Songs For The Disgruntled Postman. With a
motto like "Shitfaced and pissed-off," Bottom
12 simply can do no wrong... For a guy
who plays acoustic guitar, the music of
Ben Harper is pretty darn strong. A
skater, a poet and a gentleman,
Harper's new CD, Fight For
Your Mind, gets funky,
deep and heavy, rely-
ing on the strength
of lyrics, not distor-
tion to make its point
...New York burl brokers
Biohazard have been busy
in Europe playing huge festi-
vals and getting prepared to
record a new album. Look for a
US tour early next year scheduled
around the snowboard season to keep
Evan and Billy happy. -Brian Brannon
Dickter Scale
Kepone. Skin, CD. This three-piece from Richmond,
VA. pulls another amazing hat trick that's surely not
metal
DFL Proud to Be, CD. "America's most hard-
core Cosmic Psychos. Self Totalled. CD. Aussie
war vets take it to the limit-some really catchy ones....
Paw. Death to Trailors, CD. Second full-length raised a
brow and rocked my soul The Apemen. Surfetval.
Lp. Premium primate surf sounds from Holland...
Dirty Three. Dirty Three. CD. Rumored as Nick Cave's
favorite band. this Aussie three-piece (guitar, violin and
skins) serenades with instrumental originality
Kyuss. And the Circus Leaves Town. Lp. More thick
licks of sandblasted chaos. Fig Dish. That's What
Love Songs Often Do, CD. The new rock sensation this
week is ready for the big time Stanford Prison.
Experiment. The Gato Hunch, CD. This SoCal experi-
ment relies on their own form of post-punk hardness
they've paid their dues on the road, and the sophomore
release proves their heavyweight status State of the
Union, State of the Union. CD. Another powerhouse
from that melodic post-punk seat-serious convictions
fuel their courageous chordage Grinch. Eden, CD.
These East Bayers demonstrate dissonant diversity of
dual guitar crunch, feedback and blistering rhythms:
too many influences to mention also add to their aura
...Ash. Trailer, CD. Yet another overnight pop-punk
sensation that actually caught my ear-this trio from
Northern Ireland wiskfully portrays remnants of the
Undertones and Buzzcocks with a healthy portion of
Dinosaur Jr and other latter-day rock influences...
Jawbox. Absenter, 7. Here's the new single on their
own label. DeSoto-it's fun and fabulous-and look for
the new album in the new year Birdbrain. Bliss, CD.
Small town rockers play like there's no tomorrow:
angst-ridden punk power Welt. Better Days, CD.
Fast, furious Sacramento outfit puts the punk back
into the punch bowl of different flavors. -Rick Rotsiert
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