Nabbed this gem from 60s garage band The Tremoloes for a couple bucks at Weirdo Recs in Cambridge. The A side is a sort of half assed Beach Boys rip, but things catch fire on the the B side, “Let Your Hair Hang Down” which has this epic Who like build up to one of the most gratifying fuzz solos ever laid on wax.

Found this little piece o’ noisecore PVD legends on tour, hard to believe this release is 16 years old!

Math The Band are basically what would happen if Adventure Time characters pulled a reverse A-Ha and entered the real world. Shredding 8 bit pop punk that is way better than that sounds, I picked up this amazing, colorful 7” at a show in Providence where in between kids appropriately freaking the hell out, the hyper-energetic guitarist/singer crowdsurfed his guitar, getting it back from the crown just in time for a high kicking flourish breakdown with his keyboard playing partner. Yes, they do all this live. It’s just a whole giant heap of fun.

This 7” EP is from 2010, nabbed it with a stack of NJ’s Black Wine while on tour.. a very compelling, diverse band that rocks their own sound without alienating those who love to rock. THIS ISN’T THAT EASY TO DO, FOLKS! Black Wine rules!

Local band of mystery, they rarely play… but when they do, it’s an intensely gratifying blend of shambolic country waltz, garage keening and whateverness that is pleasing as hell. “Mirror Maze” brings to mind some of Demon’s Claws finer moments while the flip slows down a Monks cha-cha to a sort of Stones-esque sneer. FUN!

I think I’ve put these guys in my top 10 before. Anyways, I just picked up their 7” recently, so there. Nice purple vinyl with gorgeous silk-screened cover, it’s a riotous and meaty lo-fi kick of detuned filthy post-everything heaviness.

Grabbed this guy while on tour, at an in-store at Willimantic Records in CT. I know these guys are legends of New England, but new to my Quebecois ears. Wow, what a canon, this EP, from 2002, doesn’t even hint at the madness this band did with oscillators, trampolines, homemade helmet synths (just google them). This EP is a red-line barf of spazzpunknoise that is definitely all of it’s 12 years ahead of it’s time!

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Yep, you can’t deny the classics, or one of the greatest imperatives ever voiced in punk music. Indeed, fuck off nazis. 7” comes with anti-nazi arm band.

OKOKOK, this is a 10”, I’m cheating.. but this is too fun a band to leave out of my “small vinyl” hoard of the last few months. Saw Hard Nips destroy a room in Providence last month and immediately snapped up this 4 song EP from 2010. Ok the joke of the name is that they are all Japanese… since all the best rock bands in the world now come from Japan, it’s not surprising how good this Brooklyn-based foursome is!

I forget where I found this, but as a Magyar myself, plenty of Hungarian music speaks to me, there is an elegaic, haunted aspect to much of the music of the area (which is chimeric, all sorts of strains in the mix, including Roma, Transylvanian and North African vestiges) This little snapshot of so-called “Gipsy Music” is at times haunting and fiery sounding..