Hiatus

Well folks, with work piling up Klen House is going to have to go on a vacation of undisclosed length. I don't have time to edit together radio shows right now, sadly.

If you need your dose of Ivan T. W. check out my written blog The Rest is Silence, discussing music, comics, whatever passes my fancy.  So long, friends!

KHR#30: Two Long Songs

Time to get freaky here on Klen House: Two 15+ minute opuses for you to get stretched out on. Earthless' Isaiah Mitchell and Mario Rubacalba have to have my vote for best guitarist and drummer in rock, respectively (bassist Mike Eginton is solid as well, but I'm still a Rob Wright man myself). The group understands that, before you can noodle like a dumbass, you have to have the groove, and 'Godspeed' has a massive pulse of rhythm anchoring the psychedelic madness and giving it that much more heft. And The Young Gods' 'Summer Eyes' is a bunch of dour Swiss industrial kids doing putting out a better Doors song than Morrison, Manzerak, and all those guys ever could. Let yourself go down the rabbit hole for 40 minutes (maybe taking a great in the middle for a smooth, refreshing Kent) and come out a better person. A weirder person, anyway.

1. Earthless - Godspeed
    -Commercial: Kent cigarettes-
2. The Young Gods - Summer Eyes

 Psychonauts assemble here!
Tee-Pee Records put out Earthless' LPs as well as a bunch of other incredible stuff.
The Young Gods website keeps one breast on any new info.

For our addendum today, Supersonic Festival has a multi-part Earthless live show for us!

Klen House Radio #29

A nice mix of cool evening songs to Klen you to sleep, the one and only Klen House Radio is here to provide the tunes. Three Ton Gate is the alias of Scott Putesky, better known as the original guitarist/songwriter for Marilyn Manson, of all things. As a confession, I have to admit I quite like Marilyn Manson's first album, the songs are catchy rock songs, Trent Reznor's production is surprisingly good and I wonder why he never produced any other rock albums, and Scott's guitar playing is really unique, alternately crunchy and slithery. His Three Ton Gate stuff  has the same guitar sound, along with a raggedy DIY production that is pretty damn fun. Black Joe Lewis is about the closest thing to a modern James Brown as I've heard, and damn if it doesn't get your feet moving. It's weird to see a picture of Joe himself and realize that he looks like any typical modern R&B dude, like Usher or something, since his sound is so perfectly retro. Freestlye Kill are a couple dweebs doing what dweebs do best, loud and clattery and likely to annoy most people in the room they hear it...one day I might put up their 83-song debut album, sure to clear a dance floor when you slap it on. Uncle Acid is a new discovery, fantastic late 60s-style hard rock, The Beatles all became degenerates (moreso than they already were) and jointed the Manson Family to record some cracked, crackling slabs of post-Summer-of-Love madness. And finally is a hard-to-find Swans cut, only available on the out-of-print first pressing of their seminal Children of God, it was replaced by a different mix on the later releases. I actually prefer the more acoustic second mix, but this one's got that doomy sound people dig, so give it a spin!

1. Three Ton Gate - Fear Channel
2. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Sugarfoot
3. Cardiacs - The Obvious Identity
4. Bis - Mr. Important
5. Freestyle Kill - The Freestyle Kill Long Song
    -Commercial: QT Tan-
6. What Capitalism Was - A Windy Sea
7. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - I'll Cut You Down
8. Swans - Our Love Lies (1987 mix)

Swing to the left, swing to the right, and download it here!
Three Ton Gate's Soundcloud is updated with cool cuts pretty often.
Cardiacs have stopped touring, but check out their website to follow any developments.
As always, What Capitalism Was offers their whole catalogue for free.
Grab the Uncle Acid album over at Metal Blade, of all places.

Check out Black Joe Lewis for our Klen House Addendum this time:

Klen House Radio #28

We start off the new year with a bang: a pair of songs from the creative team of Guido & Maurizio De Angelis, a pair of Italian brothers from the 70s who pumped out reams of absolutely ludicrous disco tracks for Z-grade schlock movies with names like Atlantis Interceptor and Watch out, We're Mad. The first of these, the unbelievable theme from Yor, The Hunter From the Future holds a special place in my heart because I watched the hell out of that movie when I was younger, possibly the first movie I ever watched ironically. Everyone knows XTC's Skylarking, a glossy 80s take on The Beach Boys doing the soundtrack to The Wicker Man, but recently Andy Partridge remastered it extensively and put it out on LP, with the original rejected cover art (some of my favorite cover art for an album ever, but I'd get smacked on the wrists if I put it up here, so go find it yerself). Grab your old copy of the album and then listen to this mix of 'Season Cycle', dig how much punchier the bass sounds. A few years ago I worked a miserable job at a major chain bookstore, one of the only thing that kept me going was the ability to put on 'Physical Cities' by jazz combo The Bad Plus and drive all the customers insane.

1. Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - Yor's World
2. XTC - Season Cycle (2010 mix)
3. Bongwater - The Drum
4. Masafumi Takada - Rave On
   -Commercial: Chung King Chow Mein-
5. Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel - Satan Place
6. The Bad Plus - Physical Cities
7. Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - Black Inferno

Ring in the new year 8 days late with Klen House!
Pick up the new mix of Skylarking over at Andy Partidge's record label.
Ann Magnuson, formerly of Bongwater, does pretty well for herself now.
So does Jim Thirlwell of Foetus!

And for our addendum, one of my favorite clips on the internet, Ann Magnuson as Ophelia starring alongside Kestutis Nakas' Hamlet. I'm so going to rip this off someday.

KHR#27: A Year in Review

Well here we are, another year come and gone. It was a shitty year for most things, but one thing that didn't disappoint was the music scene, which delivered several out-of-the-park albums, so I thought for our last show of the year we'd go through 2012 and have a platter of some of the best tracks, right here at Klen House. My love of Swans is old hat by now, their album Soundtracks for the Blind among my favorite, if not my absolute favorite, album of all time, but it bears repeating that this year's offering The Seer is mind-blowingly good, album of the year easily. Goat's "Goathead" is precisely what I imagined Jimi Hendrix sounded like when I was a kid before I actually heard his work. I was eventually disappointed by Jimi, but Goat fries like no other, one of the most cracked guitarlines I've heard in a long time. Cate le Bon reminds me a bit of a modern-day Nico, something that could easily fall into obnoxious hipster irrelevance but she skirts the line quite well, think Nico singing one of John Cale's better albums, Paris 1919 perhaps. Howlin' Rain's newest album has a serious Guns 'n Roses vibe for me, their later, pompously epic stuff like Use Your Illusion or Chinese Democracy, really it's the album Democracy should have been, gloriously huge and screaming toward the stratosphere. Keep freaky, listeners, and see you next year.

1. Swans - Avatar (from The Seer)
2. Goat - Goathead (from World Music)
3. Cate le Bon - Cyrk (from Cyrk)
4. Hexvessel - Woods to Conjure (from No Holier Temple)
5. Ergo Phizmiz - Ophelia (from Eleven Songs)
    -Commercial: Vitalis-
6. Howlin' Rain - Phantom in the Valley (from The Russian Wilds)
7. Red River Dialect - Appleseed (from Allupontheway)
8. Matthew Dear - Earthforms (from Beams)
9. Gold Motel - Cold Shoulders (from Gold Motel)
10. Would You Be My Love - Ty Segall (from Twins)

The tunes will grab you by the throat here!

Got two addendums today, a couple amazing songs that didn't make the show because they were too damn long. Up first is Epizootics! from the always incredible Scott Walker's new album Bish Bosch, which is most certainly on my top 10 list for this year...

And second is a mammoth slice of proggy goodness from Motorpsycho from their new album The Death-Defying Uniform. Prepare yourself for the void!

KHR #26: A Very Klen Christmas

You'd never expect it, but sometimes even Klen House can relax and enjoy the holidays. So in the spirit of giving, we're here to offer up a veritable Santa's bag worth of tunes, with all your Christmas favorites...C-3P0, H. P. Lovecraft, Daleks, and Mister Magoo are pulling the sleigh, and of course Steve Austin himself is filling in as St. Nick. Nothing else to say, except that I played the hell out of that Six Million Dollar Man album when I was a kid. Enjoy!

1. The Six Million Dollar Man - The Kris Kringle Caper, part 1
2. C-3P0 - Christmas in the Stars
3. The Sonics - Don't Believe in Christmas
4. The Six Million Dollar Man - The Kris Kringle Caper, part 2
5.  The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society - I Saw Mommy Kissing Yog-Sothoth
6. Gary Ferrier - Ringo Deer
7. The Six Million Dollar Man - The Kris Kringle Caper, part 3
8.  The Go-Go's - I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With a Dalek
9. Jim Backus & Daws Butler - I Was a Teenage Reindeer
10. Akim & The Teddy Vann Production Company - Santa Claus is a Black Man
11. The Six Million Dollar Man - The Kris Kringle Caper, part 4

Dig that crazy Christmas right here.

And for today's addendum...hey, let's see more of Stone Cold taking out Sinterklass.

KHR #25: Acoustic Hippie Music

Acoustic guitars (and one acoustic piano) are the theme of the day here at Klen House, a week to indulge my inner folkie and let my politely freaky flag fly.  We start off with the semi-title-track from Anaïs Mitchell's wonderful folk opera Hadestown, a retelling of the myth of Orpheus & Eurydice with Depression-era folk tunes. It's good stuff! The Incredible String Band's 'Painting Box' is another of my favorite tunes, a great slice of 60s slightly-psyche folk rock that worms its way into your head and doesn't let go. I've mentioned on several occasions my love of Michael Gira's band Swans, but he does a pretty killer solo act too, firm and commanding with one of the best voices in music today. Last but not least is a cut from poet Ian Silva, gently British-styled folk which deserves more love than it gets.

1. Anaïs Mitchell - Way Down Hadestown
2. David Morris - Shay
3. Gary Higgins - Cuckoo
4. The Incredible String Band - Painting Box
    -Commercial: QT Quik Tan-
5. John Cale - The Endless Pain of Fortune
6. Michael Gira - Oxygen
7. Ian Silva - Adam's Dream (Liebestraum Blues)

Peace, love, and sandlewood right here!
It doesn't look like Hadestown is touring, but Anaïs Mitchell is putting out an album of ballads!
David Morris' band Red River Dialect has a bandcamp. Did you forget? Here it is!
Michael Gira's Young God Records has everything you could ever want in the entire universe.
Ian Silva's album is available here for free! Why the hell not?

For our addendum today, dig The Incredible String Band...

Klen House Radio #24

Lots of compilation tracks this week, starting off with Daniel Miller (he of Mute Records) and Boyd Rice (he of Sassy and SS uniforms) throwing down some samples and beats that genuinely chilled me when I was a child, and was among the first of many stupid things that probably gave me whatever psychoses I have today. Everyone knows Karp, and if you don't you should, about the only thing on K Records that was ever cool (outside of about half of Beck's One Foot in The Grave). Antonio Contador comes to us straight from Headphonica Records, a label that I keep feeling I should try to get to put out one of my albums, but I'm too self-conscious about that old stuff anyway. Snagga Puss is amazing, the backing track is Dancehall reggae like any other, but Snagga himself sounds approximately 387 years old, wheezing out his lines like he could drop dead at any second. It's a moment that everyone should listen to at least once. And 'He Needs Me', Shelley Duvall's lovely song from the Popeye soundtrack? Well, that's nearly perfection, right there.

1. Daniel Miller & Boyd Rice - Cleanliness and Order
2. Karp - Connect 5
3. Mitches Blue Standard - Stop Staring at Me
4. Antonio Contador - Crazy in Love
    -Commercial: Palm Springs-
5. Matthew Friedberger - Greyhound
6. Snagga Puss - Defend It
7. Wicked Witch - X Rated
8. Shelley Duvall - He Needs Me

Download the show before Snagga Puss bites the dust!
Headphonica puts out Antonio Contador, Ergo Phizmiz...me, someday?
Thrill Jockey has been putting out Matt Friedberger's music for a while.

And here's a pretty awesome addendum... Matt Friedberger performing at the Luminary Center for the Arts in St. Louis. He still looks like a dweeb.

Klen House Radio #23

It's getting to the point, 23 episodes in, that I'm forgetting what song I've used previously, so hopefully I don't run into any repeats. Though of course since Rapidshare deletes my files so quickly it hardly matters...anyone know any good free filehosting sites out there?

1. Eagle Twin - Lorca (Adan)
2. The Beach Boys - He Gives Speeches
    -Commercial: Loes Corduroy-
3. Bis - School Disco
4. BS2000 - Sick for a Reason
5. Cornelius - Magoo Opening
6. The Beta Band - Dog's Got a Bone

Beware of faulty meat, just enjoy Klen House here!
Bis is apparently still going strong, check them out in Glasgow!

I've also started a new blog, The Rest is Silence, discussing music, literature, all that jazz. Check it out! Current topic: comics?

An addendum for this week, my favorite song by The Beta Band. This one's for Scotland.

Klen House Radio #22

It's a quiet day, it's raining, and the pundits have finally stopped arguing; it's time for a glass of wine (or perhaps Miles Davis' Bitches Brew?) and these fine tunes playing on your hi-fi system. Celebrate the election (or the lack thereof, at least) with Jared Emerson-Johnson's Busby Berkeley-inspired meditation on war, as well as Ergo Phizmiz's love letter to David Cameron and Nick Clegg. J. J. Burnel took time out with The Stranglers to cut a rad solo album, extremely cold and European, and 'Freddie Laker' is by far the best cut of the lot. A couple soundtrack pieces here as well: Lydia's theme from Caligula is pure late 70s cheese, absolutely ludicrous and fantastic because of it. The Black Angels was an awful 1970 bikersploitation movie, and despite you thinking that could lead to some badass tunes, 'The Cigarettes Song' is among the wimpiest songs I've ever heard.

1. Savaging Spires - When The Devil Says You're Dead
2. J. J. Burnel - Freddy Laker (Concorde and Airbus)
3. Jared Emerson-Johnson - Good For You (Good For Me)
    -Commercial: Maclean's
4. Lydia - We Are One (Dance Version)
5. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Big Baby
6. Ergo Phizmiz - Dear Mr. Cameron, Dear Mrs. Clegg
7. The Black Angels - Cigarettes Song

Enjoy the cool sounds here.
Savaging Spires single is available for just a couple bucks here!
Shadowy Men's unofficial site is still being updated. Pick up the LP of Savvy Show Stoppers!
Don't forget Ergo Phizmiz!

And for our addendum, enjoy the sounds of Savaging Spires if you haven't already.

Klen House Radio #21

I've made if safe to sunny L.A., so now's the time to celebrate. Porno Porkchop is a perverse, semi-guilty pleasure, a drums/acoustic guitar/acoustic bass setup that reminds me of a much more profane, filthy Violent Femmes (and I mean that in the best way possible, of course). Praxis was, at this recording, a supergroup consisting of Bill Laswell, Buckethead, John Zorn, Bootsy Collins, Yamatsuka Eye, and god knows who else, making hellacious clatter before settling into the creepy dub that Laswell and Zorn would master with Mick Harris in Pain Killer. Splodgenessabounds was a bizarre hanger-on in the London oi punk scene, but to my ears they have a kind of goofy vaudeville revue sound that seems totally out of place among the too-serious oi kids.

1. Porno Porkchop - Sgt. Squishy
2. Praxis - Cold Rolled/Iron Dub
3. Splodgenessabounds - I've Got Lots of Famous People Living Under the Floorboards of
                                        My Humble Abode
4. Voltaire - Cannibal Buffet
    -Commercial: Rockefeller for governor-
5. Disque 9 - The Vision The Gift & The Question
6. 23 Skidoo - Quiet Pillage
7. Gary Higgins - Cuckoo
8. Riyou Kinugasa - Life is Beautiful

Life is beautiful when you listen to Klen House right here.
The guy from Porno Porkchop has, you guessed it, a bandcamp.
Not much info on Disque 9's creepy collage, but you can find their album on Amazon, surprisingly.

And for the addendum this week, let's all clap hands and sing along to Metro City Ransom:

No post this week, just goats!

Going to be moving to lovely Los Angeles in a few days, so to placate you here's a video of a man playing a goat like a musical instrument...

Wait, I missed last week too? Damn!

KHR #20: Spotlight on Spookey Ruben

At the risk of sounding repetitive, Spookey Ruben is another unheard pop maverick, and you should all  drop whatever it is you're doing right now, because Spookey's music is guaranteed to be better and I can pretty much say without worry of being proven wrong that none of you have ever heard of him until now. Canadian tunesmith Spookey put out one album on TVT, the very, very good Modes of Transportation, Vol. 1 before giving up on major labels forever. He's put out 3 albums and a handful of EPs since, and each and every one of them is wonderful, combining the best of Grand Royal Records with XTC, a dollop of prog and a very bizarre sense of humor. The prog in this set comes from the title track to his most recent album, Mechanical Royalty, a 15-minute behemoth that would make Robert Fripp grimace with jealousy, whereas we kick off with 'My Female Friends', up there with the previously-mentioned 'Food & War' by Ergo Phizmiz as one of my favorite songs ever.

1. My Female Friends
2. Don't Take Your Dog to the Park
3. Growing Up is Over?
4. Kubla Khan
    -Commercial: Ultrabright Toothpaste-
5. Mechanical Royalty

I wish I had more female friends. If you do too, click here and enjoy!
Spookey's got a tumblr where he posits philosophical musings. Fun!
He puts out his stuff through Hi-Hat Recordings these days.
And you can get all his albums off of his bandcamp as well!


Our addendum today is Spookey's video for his first single, 'These Days are Old'. It's a great song, and if you go far enough back on the comments you can see a comment I made like a year ago making fun of his totally 90s braids!

Klen House Radio #19

This week I bring you a mix for the whole family, starting with (who else but) The Young Fresh Fellows, a band that inhabits that same sphere of snotty rock and roll that Billy Childish and The Soft Boys do; while it's no longer cool to wander around Seattle with Nirvana blasting in your ears, if you got the Fellows in there you'll be just fine. Von LMO, like the earlier-played Boris Police Band, was another one of those fixtures of the New York No Wave scene that everyone forgets about, stylistically similar to The Contortions, and everyone loves them, right? And finally let's not forget the Rick Potts Band, from the other end of the country at the same time The Contortions and 8-Eyed Spy and all them were terrorizing NYC. If I ever get a 'real' radio show, I'll put this song at the end of every episode, like Rodney did with The Porpoise Song (another great track there, by the way).

1. The Young Fresh Fellows - Rock'n'Roll Pest Control
2. Schmuel! - Ebony Concerto
3. The Rick Potts Band - Platform Swimfins
4. The Real Pros - Teenage Queen
    -Commercial: Fairy Liquid-
5. Von LMO - Crash Landing '88
6. Æther Technicians - One of These
7. Scumtron - Locomotive 3D
8. What Capitalism Was - A Windy Sea

Enjoy my junk, here!
Schmuel, along with many others, can be found for free at Headphonica!
The voice of 'Keven' in Locomotive 3D now makes video games here!

And new for the show, introducing The Klen House Addendum...too busy for the whole show? Check out a choice cut from your friend and mine, YouTube. Sometimes it'll be a different mix (like this time), sometimes it'll be something totally different...

Klen House Radio #18

Has Autumn officially started yet? It still gets too sticky and disgusting for me, and yet now I plan to make a pilgrimage down to the hottest and stickiest of all place, Los Angeles itself. We start with one of my new obsessions, the oh-so-aptly-named GOAT. The best way to describe them is that they are what you expected Jimi Hendrix to sound like before you finally heard him, polyrhythmic and funky, screaming psychedelic guitar flourishes, and echo-y, intense vocals sing/chanting God knows what. Isabelle Adjani is one of my admitted actress crushes; she absolutely made Posession the work of wonder that it is, though it's only recently that I discovered she had put out an album. It's goofy, catchy, kind of Abba-esque, a must for anyone who digs on French pop (and everyone should, really). Steel Leg is Keith and Jah Wobble of the ever-loved Public Image, Ltd. cutting an EP of noisy, experimental dub reggae with punk movie director Don Letts...it's mostly forgettable, but I have a special fondness for this one, so here it is.

1. Goat - Goathead
2. This Heat - S.P.Q.R.
3. Roy Ayers - Ebony Blaze
    -Commercial: Pan Am
4. Isabelle Adjani - Ohio
5. Steel Leg - Haile Unlikely by The Electric Dread
6. Shizuo - Blondo

It's a perfect Fall soundtrack, right here!
Grab the Goat album here! Wait...they're Swedish? Even better!

Klen House Radio #17

This week starts out with a track from Gareth Williams' post-This Heat collaboration, Flaming Tunes, a clattery slice of avant-catchiness that proves that  Charles Hayward wasn't the only member of Heat to be able to skew pop music. Lost Sounds features the late, great Jay Reatard on guitar, and Marc Almond sings lead on Coil's take on Soft Cell's take on Gloria Jones' seminal soul slice 'Tainted Love'. Coil slows Soft Cell's dancefloor beat down to a dirge, and it's amazing that a simple tempo change makes it's goofy sexy lyrics much more uncomfortable and disturbing. Red River Dialect is a new find; delicate acoustic guitars, slight psychedelic shading, and wistful vocals brings to mind the British Folk Revival I have such love for, without the overt hippie trappings that the 'Freak Folk' banner hoisted upon the scene in recent years.

1. Gareth Williams & Marie Currie - Beguiling the Hours
2. Lost Sounds - I'm Not a Machine
3. Coil - Tainted Love
4. Dog Shredder - Battle 07
    -Commercial: Typhoo-
5. Dymaxion - Chase Scene W/ Transistor Radio
6. John Zorn - Igneous Ejaculation
7. Nora Dean - Night Food
8. Red River Dialect - Dependence
9. Black Mountain - No Satisfaction (Campfire Mix)

Enjoy the creamy sounds here.
Red River Dialect's Bandcamp page has 'Dependence' as well as a lot of other glorious cuts!
Dog Shredder's got one too! Even I have a Bandcamp somewhere!
Marie Currie still maintains the Flaming Tunes official site, where the album was just released on glorious vinyl!

KHR #16: Spotlight on Ergo Phizmiz

Ye gods...where to even start? I discovered Ergo Phizmiz thanks to the Music for Maniacs blog when the ever-wonderful Mr. Fab put up a download of the album Nose Points in Different Directions, and was very impressed by the opening number 'Pangolin', which seemed to be some sort of drill'n'bass song put together with samples of Jew's harp, accordion, banjo, and the like, though I didn't really give it much thought past that at the time. It wasn't until later when I discovered both his 15-hour-long album The Faust Cycle and a one-man-band rendition of Bon Jovi's 'Livin' On a Prayer', complete with a modified teapot in the rhythm section, that I started to seriously take notice. What I found was mindblowing: a one-man pop kaleidoscope, spinning out radioplays, operas, audio collage, children's music, Syd-Barrett-inspired pop, accordion-led takes of stupid radio hits from the late 90s, all being churned out at the seeming rate of an album or performance every month. The well is endless and it's neigh-perfect, it's only because I try and limit my shows to 30 minutes or so that I can't give examples of some of Ergo's more out-there works, and hopefully this taste (admittedly of his more pop-oriented stuff) will get you troweling the depths of the Free Music Archive for more. Of special note is 'Food & War', which has to be among my favorite songs now, featuring a rhythm section of handclaps, a malfunctioning cuckoo clock, and a bike horn over just some of the best 60s-style acoustic pop as you could imagine. Go listen!

1. Pangolin
2. Food & War
3. Livin' On a Prayer
4. Celia (Live)
    -Commercial: Dippity-Do-
5. Music for an Underground Circus
6. Feel Yr Dzeez
7. The International Birdie Song

Prepare to let Ergo fondle your mind here!
Ergo's official website is here.
You can find hundreds of his songs for free at the Free Music Archive!
Ergo's blog is a great source of info on his many, many current projects.
His YouTube channel has a few songs and alternate versions that don't seem to be available elsewhere.

Happy 100th Birthday John Cage!

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.” 

John Cage's official website.

Bradford Werner, who conducted the above video.

Klen House Radio #15

 Finally managed to tear myself away from the new Swans album The Seer long enough to post some tunes. I consider myself monstrously lucky to have gotten a copy of game Theory's Lolita Nation on eBay for about $25 since their cheapest album right now is going for about double that, and Lolita is the one everybody wants. It's great, fractured 80s pop music, a must for anyone who likes the stranger side of synth and boomy drums. I've written before of my love of Text, but it bears repeating; that they only made one album and one EP is a travesty, especially since the EP is maddeningly difficult to find. So, nice guy I am, I offer you listeners a tune from it.

1. Chefs - Food
2. Flux Information Sciences - Flux Summer
3. Game Theory - We Love You, Carol & Alison
4. The Go! Team - Did You Feel It Too?
    -Commercial: Midas Muffler-
5. Text - Sailor
6. Naked City - Party Girl
7. Matthew Friedberger - Shirley

Stay away from Mara, and listen to these sounds here!
Game Theory's Scott Miller has a music blog (and a book!) that you can check out here!
Flux Information Sciences have made nearly their whole catalog available here for free!
Matt Friedberger puts out like a record every month, get them all here!
And hell, go get the new Swans album here, it's my album of the year so far!

Klen House Radio #14

This week we have some contemplative acoustic stuff before the commercial, leading off with my newest discovery, the kickoff track from an apparently-unnamed EP by The Haxan Cloak. Deep stuff, slow and moody with gorgeous cello work, a nice compliment to David Tibet's cover of the ever-loved Blue Oyster Cult's 'This Ain't The Summer of Love' from his sort of bizarre remake album Crooked Crosses For the Nodding God, which contains redone versions of the entire tracklisting of the uncomfortably-close-to-being-racist Swastikas For Noddy. On the other side it's all poppy punk, ending with an amazing rendition of The Dream Syndicate's 'Tell Me When It's Over'. My uncle used to drum for a lot of LA punk bands, and when I was a kid I would see fliers from shows his groups played with the Syndicate, but it wasn't until the last few years that I realized how absolutely amazing they were. Check it out!

1. The Haxan Cloak - Horses Hung
2. Current 93 - The Summer Past
3. David Sandström - The Colour of His Shoes
    -Commercial: Plymouth Barracuda-
4. Cardiacs - As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea
5. Fingerprintz - Yes Eyes
6. The Dream Syndicate - Tell Me When It's Over (live)

Sway this way right here!
The Haxan Cloak's tumblr is full of creepy stuff for the whole deranged family.