I am not really much of a one for proper punk, although there is plenty that I find myself really liking. Actually at the moment, after all the brilliantly quirky folk pop of the last few years, I am genuinely itching for someone to break the mould and really make some venomous noise. Now, the last time I wrote something like this some tool left a comment suggesting I try the new Oasis album, so let me get this straight: I do not want fucking kiddie-punk. I don't want stuff that rawks , [...]
So what if Lil' Wayne sold a billion records in a single day? Two For Flinching can't be persuaded by something as fallible as SoundScan . Radio play and flamboyant endcaps be damned, we're all about wading through a whole lotta muck in hope of pulling up an occasional pearl or (for the sake of the name) two. Time to welcome the dog days of August with two selections of popular music that seem to have have neglected the popular part. Tagaq : Auk [...]
Smooch Records unearths an album's worth of songs from a little-remembered early '80s punk band.
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" Bum Kon embraced subculture and laughed it off at the same time; they were above pop culture and they loved pop culture. They were punk and they were not punk. And in the end it really didn't matter. Their legacy was simply to rock as hard as they possible could every time out." - Johnny Maggot , from the liner note for Drunken Sex Sucks Forget the sublime. Forget polished. Forget produced. You'll get none of that because [...]
Bum Kon (named after Korean mass murderer Woo Bum Kon) was one of the best punk rock bands in the early '80s, even if few outside of its Denver home knew it. To those who were familiar – Fanatic's own Dave Clifford for example, who witnessed the band during his very impressionable pre-teen years - Bum Kon was the coolest, most intimidating band on the planet, gliding from a blisteringly fast style on par with legends like the Circle Jerks and MDC into equally intense sort of SST art-metal on its [...]
The Good: Bum Kon - "Drunken Sex Sucks"; I totally don't agree with the sentiments in this song. I happen to think drunken sex is a great old time, but I'm not gonna argue with the furious punk sounds on the track. Fast paced, blistering music, and almost impossible to understand lyrics make this song feel like and old school punk anthem. I like that idea and I like this song. Grade: B Ted Leo
Yup, it's nice out. Perfect weather to load up this playlist on the Zune, get outside, and pretend you're in shape by doing something athletic. Then, after five minutes is up and you're all sweaty and breathing like an asthmatic hyena, get inside in some A/C, grab a chilly Schlitz and listen to the rest of the mix: Meho Plaza - "106 Beats That" (Wire cover)" mp3 Ravens & Chimes - "So Long, Marianne (Leonard Cohen cover)" mp3 Joan As [...]
Obscure 80s punk collector faves Bum Kon finally releases debut album 25 years after immortal Drunken Sex Sucks EP. Bum Kon (named after Korean mass murderer Woo Bum Kon) was one of the best punk rock bands in the early '80s, even if few outside of its Denver home knew it. To those who were familiar – Fanatic's own Dave Clifford for example, who witnessed the band during his very impressionable pre-teen years - Bum Kon was the coolest, most intimidating band on the planet, gliding from a blisteringly fast style on par with legends like the Circle [...]
Bum Kon (named after Korean mass murderer Woo Bum Kon) was one of the best punk rock bands in the early '80s, even if few outside of its Denver home knew it. To those who were familiar – Fanatic's own Dave Clifford for example, who witnessed the band during his very impressionable pre-teen years -- Bum Kon was the coolest, most intimidating band on the planet, gliding from a blisteringly fast style on par with legends like the Circle Jerks and MDC into equally intense sort of SST art-metal on its [...]
Denver's Bum Kon took their name from the Korean mass murderer Woo Bum Kon. In 1983 the band recorded their only single, a five song punk tour de force called Drunken Sex Sucks , along with twenty additional tracks which have never been available until now. The original tapes were found while mastering the Local Anesthetic compilation, quite the listen itself, especially anthropologically speaking; while nowhere near the enjoyment I've been provided with this Bum Kon album. The press release says something along the lines of "the best hardcore album from 1983 that was never [...]
You wouldn't believe the volume of email I get around here. Seriously, there's over 300 new emails waiting to be looked at much less answered. Most of them are from publicity companies hawking whatever new thing they're working this week, some are from individual bands seeking an outlet for their stuff to be heard and some are from readers. Yes, I read them all . Honestly, though, it's less than one in 25 that contain something to be really excited about. Knowing this, it sometimes takes me a while to weed through everything. All of which is to say [...]
Most Likely To: make you want to beat a cop. Last night I dreamed that I was browsing a store that doesn't really exist but one modeled on the many stores in Manhattan's Lower East Side where you can buy cheaply silkscreened t-shirts for acts like The Adicts and The Damned. In addition to those revered staples of the late punk and early hardcore scenes, the racks were boasting plenty of tees for Bum Kon, a Denver hardcore act that recorded a record in 1983 that was never [...]
Our last batch of Smash or Trash entries saw a significant amount of feedback from fans of the following two two artists. I thought it was only fair to once again put both in the cage (and offer a new song) to duke it out to see if a winner prevails: Download : Favorite Shape Triangle - "Back From The From" Download : Alan Wilkis - "Milk and Cookies" [...]
The first four releases by The Replacements are being reissued this week (remastered with bonus tracks). Today through Friday, Kevin Cole will be featuring each of these albums with a giveaway on the Afternoon Show . Each day will focus on a different release, so tune in! Besides those seminal albums, there is a bevy of brilliant new releases this week for all musical tastes: Barry Adamson and Lyrics Born for the groove shakers, Amelia and Don Cavalli for the roots lovers, Monotonix and The Night Marchers for the thrashers, Elbow and The Cinematic Orchestra [...]
I get a lot of emails from record labels promoting their latest efforts, and 99.9% of the time the music isn't even close to relevant for Strange Reaction as I currently run it. Indie rock, some goth, a bit of pure pop, I've been sent maybe two records that fall under the vast umbrella of punk or hardcore. I got an email today from the people promoting a compilation called " The Local Anesthetic ", and man alive, this record looks so good I had to give them a plug. Stuff on here: singles from Frantix, Bum Kon, The Lines, [...]
Local Anaesthetic Record Collectors brace yourselves for a near certain drop in value of rare punk singles following the release of compilation album 'Local Anaesthetic' by San Francisco label Smooch Records . Denver's Local Anesthetic was a record label run by Wax Trax Records co-owner Duane Davis in the early 80s and boy did Mr Davis have impeccable taste. It was the only independent label in Denver of the era that released more than one [...]
For over 20 years, record collectors have bought and sold copies of extremely rare and highly-sought-after punk singles with legendary songs like "My Dad's a F*cking Alcoholic" and "Drunken Sex Sucks." Now, these classic releases by the Denver label Local Anesthetic are available to us all on CD/LP at a considerably lower price. Included in this bargain compendium are rare recordings - the likes of which inspired REM 's Peter Buck and Sonic Youth 's Thurston Moore to later seek out details on how they were engineered - by The Frantix [...]
This compilation just goes to show that our collective knowledge of early--and even current--punk music will probably never be complete. Punk's do-it-yourself ethic has basically handed us a tangled web of artists. And as revolutionary as the genre was, some of the bands aren't even worth sifting through. Quite a few groups have "floated to the top," but there are plenty of decent bands being glossed over in the so-called punk history books. That's where The Local Anesthetic comes in. It's only a small piece of the puzzle, but it's also [...]
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