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SMOG 108CD
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"Ralph Carney was a founding member of the pre-Waitresses band, Tin Huey, but is best known for his long association with singer Tom Waits, and collaboration with his nephew, Patrick Carney, on the Black Keys album, Attack & Release, Carney explains, 'I decided to do another record of tunes I loved, sticking close to the same styles as my first album. Basically a mix of 'honkers and screamers' type saxophonists, mostly from the late 1940's through the early to mid 1950's, alongside kind of obscure Ellington small band songs-- I also did a couple of Coleman Hawkins tunes from his time in Europe in the '30s.'"
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SMOG 108LP
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SMOG 104LP
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"Strictly limited to one pressing only, the LP version of the new Rocket From The Tombs LP will be a sought after collectable as well as an amazing document of brand new recordings from this longest running proto-punk band. Spawning both the Dead Boys and Pere Ubu, Rocket From The Tombs is the finest of all the mythical Cleveland first wave bands. Sonic Reducer, Final Solution, Ain't It Fun, and 30 Seconds Over Tokyo are all original compositions within the band's repertoire. No other independent rock and roll band can claim such a legacy. Featuring the same lineup as 'Rocket Redux', the LP contains eleven new studio songs, produced by David Thomas at Suma. The band remains: David Thomas, Cheetah Chrome, Richard Lloyd, Craig Bell and Steve Mehlman. The two songs released as a 45rpm earlier this year by Smog Veil, 'I Sell Soul' and 'Romeo & Juliet', have been remixed and partially re-recorded."
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SMOG 101LP
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"Strictly limited to 500 copies, with no repress, this is the debut solo LP from Lamont 'Bim' Thomas, the guy behind the drums of This Moment In Black History. Lamont 'Bim' Thomas has a discography as distinguished and extensive as about anybody in Ohio Underground Rock and Roll. From My Unkill Wayne, to the Bassholes, to This Moment in Black History, to the Puffy Areolas, Bim has played on a long list of records that make the collector scum of the world get red in the face and short of breath. However, ask your typical record collector who Bim is and you'll most likely get a blank stare. That's because, for the last twenty years he's been 'behind' the drum kit, working as the backbone for some of the great Ohio underground bands of our time. On these recordings, though, we've got the man at center stage, singing, playing drums, guitar, back-ups and whatever else. The result is a mixture of Ohio punk rock and Detroit soul, the likes of which don't come around very often."
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SMOG 075CD
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"It's generally accepted amongst the Cleveland cognoscenti that Easter Monkeys were the best rock 'n' roll band calling the city home in the early to mid 1980s. Rock 'n' roll in the sense of the Ghoulardi-inspired hybrid that Cleveland is known for. The band was fronted by ex-Kneecappers Chris Yarmock, bassist Charlie Ditto, with Jim Jones (Pere Ubu, Home and Garden, Mirrors) amazingly creepy guitar work and Linda Hudson's basement beat. This release collects up the band's lone LP, comp tracks, unreleased stuff and a DVD of a 1982 gig." Includes a 20-page booklet with photos and liner notes by Gary Lupico.
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SMOG 084CD
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"Pistol Whip was the first ever punk band from Erie, PA, and their lone 7-inch on Endangered Species, released in 1977, is a scorcher and a prized collectible. This release contains the original 7-inch, plus the 1978 demo. The DVD contains wild 8mm footage from back in the day plus interviews, photos, and more!"
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SMOG 083CD
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"Spawning in one way or another both the Waitresses and The Black Keys should count for something. If not, than this release should put Tin Huey in its place as a progenitor of the quirky Akron sound later expounded by both Devo and The Bizzaros alike. This release collects up the band's earliest recordings, spanning the years 1974-1979. For fans, as Robert Christgau describes in the liner notes, of fancy key changes, gut-swooping tempo shifts, elaborate arrangements, and meters you figure out on a calculator. Artwork by Derf."
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SMOG 068CD
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"The third sprawling improv free jazz and punk workout from the likes of Joe Baiza, George Hurley, Mike Watt and Dan McGuire, with special guests David Thomas and Raymond Pettibon."
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SMOG 070CD
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Recorded live in Madison, WI, 1988. "Recorded on the last proper tour and featuring an incendiary lineup, these 9 tracks of blistering punk rock as it came to be known in Cleveland, Ohio have never been previously released and should keep the purists as well as the newcomers pleased."
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SMOG 066CD
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"The newest offering from the Unknown Instructors features 10 tracks of mind melting guitar psychotronics by Joe Baiza, lockstep backbeat from George Hurley and Mike Watt, and the vocal stylings of Dan McGuire, David Thomas, and Raymond Pettibon."
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SMOG 059CD
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"Pere Ubu have really come out fighting with Why I Hate Women, racing towards all horizons at full tilt, pushing the experimental envelope further than ever, but also tightening up their trademark avant-punk attack. If St Arkansas saw them rooting around furtively in rock's darkest, dankest corners, on Why I Hate Women Ubu seem to illuminate these secret spaces with firework displays and thousand-watt searchlights. The rhythm section (Ubu's longest serving) of bassist Michele Temple and drummer Steve Mehlman is tauter and leaner than ever before. Robert Wheeler's bravura performance on vintage electronics has him coming over as rural Ohio's answer to Sun Ra, splattering analog synth and theremin all over the music with wild, visionary abandon. Guitarist (and newest recruit) Keith Moliné veers between wayward sonic expressionism and disciplined garage thrust. At the eye of the storm is singer David Thomas, a true rock maverick at the height of his powers. His vocal approach shows a startling new melodicism, a plaintive purity of expression that cuts through his familiar repertoire of radical voicings and techniques. Lyrically he manages to balance stormy obsessiveness with flashes of playful wit, refracting standard rock themes (love and obsession) through the looking glass of his boundless imagination."
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SMOG 056CD
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"The Unknown Instructors are Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress Of) on guitar, George Hurley and Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE) on drums and bass, and Dan McGuire on vocals. Keeping it all in the family, Saccharine Trust front man Jack Brewer also makes a rousing appearance. The Way Things Work, their Smog Veil debut, features 15 tracks of improvisational poetry rock rooted in the space-is-the-place gospel according to Sun Ra, but its branches extend far enough to brush up against the edges of MC5-styled free-rock, Hendrix-esque melodic unraveling and set pieces that merge the lit-noir duskiness of Jim Thompson with the from-the-gutter reportage of Charles Baudelaire. A sense of bleakness and beauty entwined permeates McGuire's tales of drunkenness and cruelty, his travelogues from the darkest corners of the psyche -- all of which are buttressed by a passel of head-swiveling musical ideas."
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SMOG 050CD
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"Collection of 12 new studio recordings with the current lineup. Featuring David Thomas (RFTT, Pere Ubu) on vocals, Cheetah Chrome (RFTT, The Dead Boys) on guitar and vocals, Richard Lloyd (Television) on guitar, Craig Bell (RFTT, Saucers) on bass and vocals and Steve Mehlman (Pere Ubu) on drums, the 12 tracks on Rocket Redux are: 1. 'Frustration,' 2. 'So Cold,' 3. 'What Love Is,' 4. 'Ain't It Fun,' 5. 'Muckraker,' 6. '30 Seconds Over Tokyo,' 7. 'Sonic Reducer RFTT,' 8. 'Never Gonna Kill Myself Again,' 9. 'Amphetamine,' 10. 'Down In Flames,' 11. 'Final Solution RFTT,' and 12. 'Life Stinks.' David Fricke, editor of Rolling Stone, wrote of Rocket From The Tombs: "No on else in American rock, underground or over, in 1974 and '75, was writing and playing songs this hard and graphic about being f**ked over and fighting mad. No one else is doing it now.""
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SMOG 035CD
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"In pure budget-busting form Smog Veil is known for, we proudly announce the latest bankruptcy inducing release from the creators of Electric Eels and Styrenes -- 2 bands everyone should be familiar with. Amoeba (raft boy) was a rock 'n' roll project of John Morton, formerly of the Electric Eels and X-Blank-X, and Paul Marotta of the Styrenes. The band existed for a few years in the early 1990's playing numerous shows in and around their home base of New York City. Excellent live recordings, along with a couple studio takes round out this release of original material and rocking covers of Electric Eels classics 'Agitated' and 'Jaguar Ride'."
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