Here’s a new wave/punk/something/something else band fronted by King Louie. We recorded this at New Orleans’ Piety Street Studios, and you can buy these tracks and 2 others on a cool double vinyl 45 from Sweden’s Savage Records. Check Deviled Oyster to hear the world famous Tele-Mic in action!
Brickwar : ” Bone Trail ”
Brickwar : ” Deviled Oyster “
Get It. It’s a sparkly New Orleans electrofreak party thing. Jean-Eric are equal parts band and art project, equally precise and chaotic, and they always, always look good. They are here, and this is on iTunes.
Jean-Eric : ” Bull In A China Shop “
Jean-Eric : ” Bull In A China Shop ”
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. You can get the CD from the band through their website, or on iTunes.
1. 11 Blade : ” Pulled By A String “
1. 11 Blade : ” Pulled By A String ”
2. 11 Blade : ” Get Out “
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 “
Rik Slave sings with Rock City Morgue, which is the band that Sean from White Zombie plays bass and keyboards with, but he has fronted many groups, including The Phantoms, who were originally active from 1984 to about 1995 and were quite popular here in New Orleans. Back then, the band’s core consisted of Rik, bassist RJ O’Rourke, drummer Greg Terry, and a rotating cast of guitar players.
There are a variety of recordings of the original Phantoms, including a 12″ EP, a 45, and numerous demos and board tapes, but when they reformed last year and asked me to produce their album ( which is pretty evenly split between old songs and entirely new ones ), I reasoned that this is a different time and a different band and so I purposely didn’t listen to anything they had.
It’s not really fair to compare this version of ” Do You Believe ” from 1989’s More Drunken Buffoonery EP to the modern recording – they were in their early 20s then, and they’re grown-up men now, and their lineup has been fleshed out with two guitarists and a keyboard player, but it surprised me the other day when I listened to it for the first time. The new recording is a lot more hi-fi, and it’s got a lot more stuff in it, but it really is the same song.
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : Do You Believe ( 1989 )
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : Do You Believe ( 1989 )
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : Do You Believe ( 2009 )
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : Do You Believe ( 2009 )
1989 Phantoms : LJ, Greg, Robert Lambert, Rik
2009 Phantoms : Greg, Chris Lenox, Rik, Pat Catania, LJ, Ben Caston
Here’s a record I recorded and mixed earlier this year. I’ll write a little more on The Phantoms in a bit, but for the time being here’s some tunes from the album.
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Dancing In The Rain “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Dancing In The Rain ”
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Friend I Never Had “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Friend I Never Had ”
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 “
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. Here’s 3 songs from the brand new Rock City Morgue LP, ” The Boy Who Cried Werewolf “, which we 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 ”
Here’s how we make records in the future : engineer emails me basic tracks, band comes over to studio, does guitar and vocals, we mix the track real quick, we email the mix to the pressing plant, and the band is out the door and headed back up to Canada to go on tour. This song is on a limited 7″, although you may be able to get one from the record label, and you can learn more about C’mon here.
C’mon ” : ” Stealing Seconds “
C’mon ” : ” Stealing Seconds ”
Photo by Craig Norris
Orange Vinyl, hand-screened cover. Come on !!
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 “
Odoms’ ” Let Me Atom ” CD is out — which was mostly produced by Odoms and Ballzack ( who has fans ) on a laptop, but I did a couple of the songs, including this one :
Odoms : ” Human Is A Smart Thing “
Odoms : ” Human Is A Smart Thing ”
This track is an example of what I call my ” Silver Surfer ” style, where I form a mental image of the Silver Surfer breakdancing, and then try to imagine what the music being played would sound like. You can see the video for ” Keeping Up With The Jetsons “, which is my favorite song on the album, here.
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 “
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 .
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 “
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”
