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“Unlike the English Barrett and Beefheart LPs..we are spared hearing Morissey rip through ‘L.A. Blues’.”
LOWLIFE #14 1988 (no page #) GLEN THRASHER, Editor
Hard To Beat review by JON KINCAID
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“Unlike the English Barrett and Beefheart LPs..we are spared hearing Morissey rip through ‘L.A. Blues’.”
LOWLIFE #14 1988 (no page #) GLEN THRASHER, Editor
Hard To Beat review by JON KINCAID
HELL COWS “Piranha” G Spot Crush 7″ ep (Pigface - 1987)
GLEN THRASHER, Editor of LOWLIFE 16 said in 1989: “…wouldn’t you much rather listen to this E.P. by the Hellcows than recent meanderings of the Bullshit Surfers?”
“This fills a space somewhere between the underside of Electric Ladyland and early Tuxedomoon. Slaughter the Sixties!”
LOWLIFE 16 1989 (page 31)
HELIOS CREED review by GLEN THRASHER, Editor
Review of HELIOS CREED’s The Last Laugh by Team Siltbreeze (1989): “Stuttering, accelerated, fill your brain/lungs w/ nitrus shit that can’t be beat.”
Review of HELIOS CREED’s Planet X by McKinley Richard in Alright #5 (1994): “How can you review a Helios Creed record without using the words ‘acid-damaged’ or ‘martian’ or 'acid-damaged martian’ or…”
Review of The Last Laugh by Glen Thrasher in Lowlife 16 (1989): “…kicks the butt of the Butthole Surfers without even trying…I feel the overpowering urge to puke.”
Review of CHROME’s Into The Eye Of The Zombie King by STEVE ALBINI in MATTER #11 (Jan./Feb. 1985): “Buy all of Chrome’s records. Except this one.”
subpop still exists
Helios Creed still exists: http://www.helios-creed.com/
Helios Creed chats with WFMU’s Brian Turner 11/4/14!
WFMU’s Brian Turner still exists: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/BT
“I don’t know what the standing popular opinion on this band is, but I’ve always thought they were one of the best NYC rock bands to die a slow death in the early 80s.”
LOWLIFE 16 1989 (page 26)
BUSH TETRAS review by GLEN THRASHER, Editor
Bush Tetras band photo lifted from the Red Bull Music Academy story about 99 Records by Mike Rubin.
http://www.roir-usa.com/news/2015/03/bush-tetras/
"It is something of an ideal situation when two masters of this status join forces to kick them out free form, and that is exactly what is going on here."
LOWLIFE 16 1989 (page 25)
BRAXTON/BAILEY review by GLEN THRASHER, Editor
Derek Bailey died in 2005. Here's his spot at the excellent European Free Improvisation Pages, which we didn't realize still existed.
Anthony Braxton, Wesleyan University Professor Emeritus, was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
More relevant to the Fuckin' Record Reviews agenda, perhaps, is Professor Braxton's 2005 collaboration with WOLF EYES: Black Vomit.
"Einstürzende Neubauten these guys were not."
LOWLIFE 16 1989 (page 25)
BOY DIRT CAR review by GLEN THRASHER, Editor
"...I have to say they are one of the best bands with too many guitars to come out of NYC in the past ten years or so."
LOWLIFE 16 1989 (page 22)
BAND OF SUSANS review by GLEN THRASHER, Editor
"If you ever want to listen to something that will put you on a cloud with its beauty, simplicity and perfection, this is it."
LOWLIFE 16 1989 (page 22) Glen Thrasher, Editor
BEAT HAPPENING review by Ellen McGrail