#jay hinman

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“...like the rawer, wilder sister to N.Y.’s STP...& plus a heft of two in-synch guitars [&] joyfully spastic vocal girl-yelp...”

Excerpted live 1992 RED AUNTS review by JAY HINMAN

SUPERDOPE #4 1992 JAY HINMAN, Editor

RIP to the mighty DEBI MARTINI ugh...from the RED AUNTS’ Facebook page 1/17/19: "With tremendous sadness we are heart broken to announce the sudden and unexpected passing of our sister and friend Debi. She was our rock goddess and our anchor and we will always treasure our time together and all that we accomplished. Thank you to all our friends and fans - we love you forever. If you would like to send a message please email [email protected] and we will share with Debi’s family and friends. We are devastated. We love you Debi.  Xo,  Terri, Kerry and Lesley”

RED AUNTS reunion Live 1/12/18

Jay Hinman at Dynamite Hemorrhage in 2019

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“...Beat Happening fronted by Don Fleming. Low-fi crap I can play repeatedly.”

DISASTER #6 no page # January 1990

PAVEMENT review by BILL CALLAHAN, Editor

Could of sworn we posted this Bill Callahan Slay Tracks review before, but multiple Google searches say different.  You think we would’ve kept an off-line database of postings since we started in July 2013, but uh... 

What we did find in the Archives re: PAVEMENT

JAY HINMAN reviews Perfect Sound Forever on page 34 of Superdope #2 (Summer 1991): “Stockton duo who’re creators of two of the last 700 days’ golden singles, possessing a rare mix of dapper fuzzed-pop skewedness and righteously tamppered-with form.”

JAMES MCNEW reviews an early Pavement cassette on page 39 of Popwatch #2 in Summer 1990 (editor: Leslie Gaffney):  “Like if Chrome were a krecs band.”

BILL CALLAHAN? From THE ORIGIN OF FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS by The Editor of FRR, PART 5: DISASTER by BILL CALLAHAN: “Bill was caustic, but unmistakably sharp, and personalized his listening in harsh terms. HIs odes to Jandek still stand as some of the best writing about the man from Houston we’ve ever read.” [as originally published in…DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE #1 (December 2013) JAY HINMAN, Editor

Bill Callahan continues to record really good music for the Drag City Empire, which can be found here.

A Window That Isn't There: The Elusive Art of Bill Callahan by Mark Richardson at Pitchfork (11/13/13)

PAVEMENT at @matadorrecords​

DON FLEMING!

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“...Despite the nearly psychedelic Xpressway-sounding dense guitar pop at the onset, the record eventually descends through homemade banging & clanging and enough tweeter-shredding noise to please the Merzbow fans of this planet.”

LUXURIOUS BAGS review by SUPERDOPE contributor DOUG PEARSON

SUPERDOPE #5 no page # 1992 JAY HINMAN, Editor

LUXURIOUS BAGS Quarantine Heaven at Forced Exposure in stock today (9/10/18) for $12.50: “Luxurious Bags is a one man basement project with St. Johnny & Vermonster connections. This CD stacks his two previous limited LPs from the past coupla years (From Heaven To My Head + Voluntary Lifelong Quarantine) one after the other. Churning guitar-noise density and indie splatter consciousness.” 

Jay publishes in the 21st century in/at Dynamite Hemorrhage, formerly @dynamitehemorrhage, now https://dynamitehemorrhage.com/ on the word-press

The word on the street about Doug Pearson? It’s possible he’s the very same Doug Pearson who played keyz in MONOSHOCK and served up narco waves with NOTHING PEOPLE. It is possible.

XPressway? We got that.

Merzbow 

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“‘It sounds like a bunch of shit’. Uh, yeah, mom, it is. The Inhalants on the other hand--wow.”

INHALANTS review by JAY HINMAN, Editor 

SUPERDOPE #7 (page 30) 1994

Jay Hinman still preaches from all corners of the computer screen about our favorite things: music (Dynamite Hemorrhage) and old motel postcards!

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“...faultless heart intrusion from a guy that you should fucking well know about. Simple.”

BILL DIREEN & THE BUILDERS review by JIMMY JOHNSON, Editor

FORCED EXPOSURE #16 1990 (page 79), Jimmy Johnson, Editor

Whoa, Bill Direen. He maintains a great stand alone web site at http://william.direen.free.fr/ and he is a very busy man. 

Jay Hinman interviewed and featured Bill as the cover story in Dynamite Hemorrhage #2 (November 2014): “An interview and career-spanning retrospective with BILL DIREEN, the New Zealand-based musical iconoclast and creator of some of the most weird and wonderful underground pop music of the last 35 years. Great old photos of Vacuum, Six Impossible Things and more - with Direen's take on his many recordings, bands and general outlook on creation & creativity.”  STILL AVAILABLE!

Although Forced Exposure #16 is no longer available at Forced Exposure, try these Amazon dealers if you dare: 4 used from $19.99 as of 1/1/18.

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“...raucously rockin’ hootenany brain-fry...hopped-up blues-barfing abandon...”

BASSHOLES review by KEVIN CASCELL

OSMOTIC TONGUE PRESSURE #5 (1996) MIKE KINNEY, Editor

OSMOTIC TONGUE PRESSURE originated from San Diego and then Portland, Oregon. Jay Hinman posted the cover of OTP #3 at Dynamite Hemorhhage  

The BASSHOLES originated from Columbus, Ohio

Thanks to KC Schiele for the OMT #5 excavation and share

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“…the most exciting live band I’ve seen…it still stomps most mightily, rough n’ tumble hook-punk…”

LAZY COWGIRLS review by JAY HINMAN, Editor

SUPERDOPE #1 Spring 1991 (page 22)

Superdope was then, Dynamite Hemorrhage is now.

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“This band achieves a murky otherworldliness unmatched by any other on the planet...Mere words can’t describe the intensity of a album so good it literally floored my friend the first time he heard it...”  

FUSHITSUSHA review by SUPERDOPE contributor DOUG PEARSON

SUPERDOPE #5 1992 (no page #) JAY HINMAN, Editor

The PSF catalog is being reissued on vinyl in 2017 as The Black Editions! 

What did Jay Hinman said about Superdope #5 since he published Superdope #5 in 1992? This is what he wrote on 2/24/11: “Finally, I find way more to cringe about in this issue than even in the earlier ones. I was getting cocky, with a fanzine that (a few dozen) people actually liked, and started writing a little over my head. I was just 25 years old, but should have known far better than to start cracking so many BANANAFISH-like dumbass in-jokes that I don’t even understand to this day. My credo at the time appeared to be, “If this line will make my friend Brett (or Doug, or Steve, or Grady, or Mitch, or whomever) laugh, then I’ll put it in there”. Other fanzines seemed to employ this trick, and perhaps at the time I thought it helped cultivate an air of mystery – like something I might want to get in on – but there are things in this one that would have made me just put the thing down and call the editor an insufferable bore. But it was a blast at the time, and perhaps you’ll like it better than I do.”

Jay publishes in the 21st century at Dynamite Hemorrhage, formerly @dynamitehemorrhage, now https://dynamitehemorrhage.com/ at wordpress!