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ADAM PAYNE'S RESIDUAL ECHOES
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Adam Payne was another mulatto weirdo
tike schlepping through private schools, I'm guessing playing SST and
Frank Zappa tapes in his mom's car during rush hour traffic. Played in
punk rock bands in Jr. high school, getting in and out of jazz soon
followed. Eventually he booked it to red-alert status Santa Cruz in
September 2001 where one gets the feeling he was really born, and born
while bored. Residual Echoes fell into Payne's lap from the ashes of
meat-thrashers, AMCIS (Another Midget Caught In Spokes), two weeks
before begging to play a flag burning Fourth of July party. Immediately
after their set, they were accosted & taken prisoner by a bevy of
bespectacled Trotskyite radicals and prodded with endless hours of
interrogation concering their motives. They were released under the
agreement that they would have as many people join the band as they
could. As it was, "Residual Echoes" was a name set aside for recording
projects only, but after the self-release of their "1st Album" album,
Payne decided to truck on, playing out to see what happened, and thank
God he did.
After several releases, an ever changing line-up, and years (and years and years) of home recordings under Payne's belt, Seconds
brings us half-breed acoustolectrik folk, rock, and doo-wop-pop
hallucinations… All spun together with home-fi budget electronics and
German excursions. Another engaging mess from the Echoes.
RELEASES & FORMATS AVAILABLE
Seconds EP: Penitentrary Loaf [CD, Ltd. 300]
Seconds EP: Penitentrary Loaf [DIGITAL]
BRIDEZ
Trash brat lo-fi fuzzed out noise pop brewings…! Consisting of Will
Ivy, Liza Thorn and Abe Pedroza, BRIDEZ hail from San Francisco and
cite seagulls, the beach, poppies, drugs, teen angst and expensive
everything as influences. Hobbies include: recording, writing songs,
doing acid and shooting music videos. "Ideally we'll shoot a music
video for every song because they're all hits," says Thorn. (Take her
word for it.)
"...Channels a range of muddy garage, early Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Royal Trux, Redd Kross and even bits of early Hole."
(Heeb Magazine)
RELEASES & FORMATS AVAILABLE
Fake Blood Jacket [CD, Ltd. 300 - SOLD OUT]
Fake Blood Jacket [DIGITAL]
LOTO BALL SHOW
"Dark, muscular and intense hick garage blues racket with the
relentless gusto of The Bad Seeds fucking Deanna, sharpened by the
non-cliched post punk apocalyptic edge one finds in Public Image Ltd"
(20 Jazz Funk Greats).
"Loto
is one of the most talented and demented front-creatures in all of
underground rock. Phantom Limbs were a punk Gilbert & Sullivan gone
drastically wrong- perfect for a San Francisco bordello when the '06
Earthquake hits. Now with Loto Ball Show, the music borders on
'Exotica'- but thankfully without the "Lounge" damage. As a painter and
a musician, everything he touches seems to turn into a Lio strip. I
will always be fascinated."
(Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys)
"Loto
Ball Show takes the pants off The Phantom Limbs dead person and puts
The King and Eye in one leg and Hex Enduction Hour in the other."
(Chris D., The Flesh Eaters)
"Slightly reminiscent of Minimal Man's classic The Shroud Of... Like Arto Linsday singing for the Contortions or Gilbert Godfrey fronting the Birthday Party with Lora Logic."
(PunkNews.Org)
"I
believe this is what St. Lester Bangs referred to when he was talking
about "skronk." No-Wave funk getting Skin Graft (the procedure and
record label) onto the zombie of Albert Ayler. This will fuck with your
head so good. In fact, this record sent me into 3 different emotional
states upon the first listen, as ex-Phantom Limbs guy, Loto Ball and
his big band re-taught me how to dance. For this, I thank thee."
(Hex-Education)
RELEASES & FORMATS AVAILABLE
Levy on the Eyeway [LP w/ digital download]
Levy on the Eyeway [CD]
Levy on the Eyeway [DIGITAL]
THE MOON UPSTAIRS
"The Moon Upstairs have pulled off a difficult feat, bringing together
disparate, yet connected, styles and making something cohesive with
their own individual stamp on it. If you give this album a bit of a
chance, the songs will get under your skin and stay with you – and
that's the best trick of all."
(Dusted Magazine)
"...A real band. Not some sort of theme park dress up act."
(George Parsons, Dream Magazine)
"The
group is able to bring in vocal harmonies and guitars with a few
elements of a late Pink Floyd feeling to great effect, but not
everywhere. Elsewhere, they also use hard psychrock guitar arrangements
in their songs. And still, with all this, they don't belong there, but
belong here, in this world, expressing poprock for the new generation,
sophisticated with something of the old one."
(Psyche Van Het Folk)
"...Like a drug-induced head trip, it's as haunting as it is beautiful."
(LA Weekly)
RELEASES & FORMATS AVAILABLE
Guarding the Golden Apple [Gatefold 2xLP]
Guarding the Golden Apple [CD]
Guarding the Golden Apple [DIGITAL]
SILVER APPLES
Contrasting the flowery psychedelic rock music of the late-1960s, the
New York City-based Silver Apples created an avant-garde sound based on
an extensive drum kit (originally played by Dan Taylor) and a little
more than a homemade synthesizer/oscillator, dubbed "The Simeon" after
group founder and lead singer, Simeon Coxe III. Silver Apples were one
of the first groups to employ electronic music techniques extensively
within a rock idiom and have influenced countless bands, everyone from
Suicide to Spacemen 3 to Atari Teenage Riot. After a mysterious hiatus,
the forefather of psychedelic electronic experimentation has returned.
RELEASES & FORMATS AVAILABLE
I Don't Know [7"] - SOLD OUT
Gremlins [CD/EP] - SOLD OUT
WOMEN & CHILDREN
"...Women and Children hearken directly back to the dark folds of the
Paisley underground's nethers. June Serwa has a gorgeous voice that,
more often than not, possesses the tone, timbre, and haunt of Kendra
Smith, though her lyrics focus more on the internal than on the
metaphors Smith staked Opal's mythos around. Her band seems to sprawl
in several different corners of dark folk, from mystical funeral march
to less ordered affairs, but I keep coming back for Serwa's voice,
fragrantly dripping with stained grace. Gorgeous stuff that is no doubt
making some headway to bigger places."
(Dusted Magazine).
RELEASES & FORMATS AVAILABLE
Women & Children [12" EP, Ltd. 500]
Women & Children [DIGITAL]
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