Star & Dagger is Sean Yseult of White Zombie’s new band, and here are a couple of songs that I recorded for their In My Blood EP, which is available as an ultra-limited, deluxe, heavyweight color-vinyl 12″ with fancy foil-stamped cover here. These tunes will not be on their forthcoming LP, and when the vinyl is gone, it’s gone.
01. Star & Dagger : Out Of Focus
01. Star & Dagger : Out Of Focus
02. Star & Dagger : Stories
Immortal, Eternal. Classic metal / hardcore from New Orleans. Super heavy mosh action, Jack The Ripper, blood, witchcraft – in short, all your favorite stuff – it’s all here! Recorded live in the studio ( yes, this band can play, extremely well ), available on deluxe colored vinyl here, and name-your-price download here.
She’s Still Dead : Hands Of The Ripper
01. She’s Still Dead : Hands Of The Ripper
02. She’s Still Dead : Voices
The surprising, soul-tinged second album from Rik Slave & The Phantoms. Go here to get it cheap!
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Haven’t I Done Enough? “
01. Rik Slave & The Phantoms : Haven’t I Done Enough?
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Get It Right “
02. Rik Slave & The Phantoms : Get It Right
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Company Man “
03. Rik Slave & The Phantoms : Company Man
A short-lived band fronted by King Louie — it’s like, what wouldja call it? Punknewwavecaptainbeefheart? A cool, sold-out double 45 which we recorded on tape at New Orleans’ Piety Street Studios. Check Deviled Oyster to hear the world famous Tele-Mic in action!
01. Brickwar : Bone Trail
02. Brickwar : Deviled Oyster
Get It is a sparkly New Orleans electrofreak party thing. Jean-Eric are equal parts band and art project, equally precise and chaotic, and they always look good. They are here, and this is on iTunes.
Jean-Eric : ” Bull In A China Shop “
01. Jean-Eric : Bull In A China Shop
02. Jean-Eric : Ooh Ah Ah
Get Up! The busy beavers of New Orleans punk are back with their second album in a little over a year, and they’ve come into their own as a hard, tight, in-your-face crack hardcore outfit.
1. 11 Blade : ” Pulled By A String “
01. 11 Blade : Pulled By A String
02. 11 Blade : Get Out
I played guitar on this for my old friend Sid in a practice space in L.A. – it was a demo at the time, one of his first, but here it is on his album, which came out this year. I really liked doing this : after years of playing ” big ” guitar, it was fun to play as ” small ” as possible, a Telecaster through an old Fender Vibro-Champ.
Sid Brown : ” Crossed Fingers “
Sid Brown : ” Crossed Fingers “
A dark rock n’ roll band from New Orleans. We recorded this early 2009 at Balance in Mandeville, LA, and some other places in N.O.L.A. — The band is here, and this album is on iTunes.
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Dancing In The Rain “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Dancing In The Rain “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Complications “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Complications “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” I Shouldn’t Hang Around “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” I Shouldn’t Hang Around “
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf. This here’s about as close as you’re ever going to get to a White Zombie reunion, not that Sean and I are actually playing together on this record – well, I probably did play a little tambourine or something, but it’s hard to remember. This album was recorded over a bunch of different sessions at Piety Street and some other places in New Orleans. Rik Slave sang ” Carry It With You ” in an abandoned pre-civil war building, in 90º heat, in the dark, lit only by the glowing tubes in an antique radio. That sounds so made-up, doesn’t it? It’s not — if you listen closely you can hear the extra-spooky sound.
Rock City Morgue : ” Creeping In The Dark “
Rock City Morgue : ” Creeping In The Dark “
Rock City Morgue : ” Burn “
Rock City Morgue : ” Carry It With You “
Rock City Morgue : ” Carry It With You “
Let Me Atom. Odoms has heretofore been known as ” the other guy from Ballzack “. Here are two songs that I produced from ” Let Me Atom “, his debut album.
Odoms : ” Harvey Tunnel Syndrome “
Odoms : ” Harvey Tunnel Syndrome “
Odoms : ” Human Is A Smart Thing “
Odoms : ” Human Is A Smart Thing “
It’s Not The Heat, It’s The Humanity. The story goes that the band was coming up with this song in their practice space when the Italian guy from next door comes rushing in and says, ” This tune you are playing, it is the devil’s riff !! ” Done and done.
Puny Human : ” Devil’s Riff “
I played guitar on this, from Bluebird’s Black Presence LP. It’s largely an instrumental record which sounds real cool when you’re driving alone at night.
Bluebird : ” Wounded Kids “
Chinese Crawfish. I get a lot of love for this record, and the truth is I didn’t have to do very much. We put Louie’s ” drum kit ” ( the snare is an Ace Hardware bucket, the kick has a big cowbell bolted on it ) in my kitchen, and his ” P.A. ” ( an old Muzak-brand tube amp going through a plastic Radio Shack bullhorn ) in a closet, and the songs just started pouring out of him. Everything you hear here is live, 1 take ( okay, ” I’m 13 ” has a Casio SK-1 overdub ), and the entire album took a couple of 2-hour sessions to record – Louie had an ” interesting ” life at the time, I couldn’t pin him down for longer than that . This one’s on vinyl and CD from Goner Records.
King Louie One Man Band : ” Beat Up By A Girl “
King Louie One Man Band : ” Beat Up By A Girl “
King Louie One Man Band : ” I’m 13 And Too Ugly To Live “
King Louie One Man Band : ” I’m 13 And Too Ugly To Live “
II made this little thing at a friends’ house back in .. I don’t remember, early 2000s – back when the first ” Pro Tools Lite ” came out. I had a really cheap little tube mic pre ( dig the layers of hiss ), a Shure SM57, a little amp ( not to play through, but to slap for a reverb-y percussion sound ) and whatever instruments were lying around .. well, okay, the nice old Fender Rhodes electric piano I played wasn’t just lying around. I really like this – my caffeinated attempt to channel Joe Zawinul noodling as his spacecraft falls slowly into the sun .. know what I mean?
J.Yuenger : ” Space Ark Blues “
J.Yuenger : ” Space Ark Blues “
Yeah Indeed. I guess 20 years ago Ballzack would’ve been a ” rapper ” and I would’ve been a ” producer ” and we would’ve ” made beats ” … but these being modern times and he being the odd talent that he is, we did this. I borowed half-busted old synths, learned how to do MIDI, and sampled warped records I found in Hurricane Katrina mud.
Ballzack: ” yeah Indeed “
Ballzack: ” Man, Fuck! “
The Action Is Go. A perennial favorite, and I continue to hear these songs in unexpected places, which is nice.
Fu Manchu: ” Urethane “
Fu-Manch: ” Laserblast “
Gimme More. a homemade Digi-001 affair, strictly ” bounce-to-disc “. Basic tracks recorded at Grant Curry’s house, everything else done in my living room.
We’re Only In It For The Honey : ” Can you love me “
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We’re Only In It For The Honey : ” Birth of the last horizon “