Goner Records "Best of 2013"
NOBUNNY
Smoked Changa in Belgium. Died. Reborn. Corey Feldman's memoir Coreyography Shannon & The Clams Dreams of The Rat House LP Cinema Sewer Volume 4 Book Spent a month in Australia Went vegetarian Got to see Bad Sports play over 30 shows Started King Song Records Shot some krazy videos (some of which have yet to be seen) Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, & Little Richard are still alive!
ERIC FRIEDL (Oblivians, TSOT, Goner Records)
Ausmuteants - Amusements lp (Aarght) Buck Biloxi & The Fucks lp + 7"s Gories- The Shaw Tapes lp (Third Man) Life Stinks 7" (Total Punk) Big Star - Nothing Can Hurt Me dbl lp (Omnivore) Gino & The Goons lp (SunWray/ Total Punk) Destruction Unit - Deep Trip lp Ooga Boogas s/t lp (Aarght) Chrome - Half Machine From The Sun dbl lp Devo - Hardcore Devo Vol 1 & 2 lp Underwearheads "Tang Mania" 7" Blue & The Gray "Don't Send Me No Flowers" 7" Legionaire's Disease 7" Len Bright Combo lps Jimmy Smack - Death Rocks 7" The Seeds "Bad Part Of Town" 7" (Sundazed) Ty Wagner - Misery Train 7" (Ugly Things) Nubs - Job 7"
CHRIS SHAW (Ex-Cult)
Total Control remix LP True Sons of Thunder Stop and Smell Your Face LP Sector Zero "Guitar Attack" 7" Division Four Demo Cassette Reissue LP Captive Demo Cassette Rob Jo Star Band Reissue LP Milk Music Cruise Your Illusion LP Playing NYC in the pouring rain with the Oblivians Playing The Smell in LA with FUZZ, Endless Bummer Playing Eurek, CA at The Shanty Playing sold out shows at Webster Hall and Music Hall of Williamsburg with Ty Segall Endless partying with Turd Berkeley
JB HORRELL (Ex-Cult, Moving Finger)
White Fence Cyclops Reap LP Blitz Reissue on Ugly Pop Joe Dolce "Shaddap You Face" single Playing with Dead Future at Café Bourbon Street, Columbus, OH
ZAC IVES (Sector Zero, Goner Records)
True Sons of Thunder LP... big and dumb and manly. Hardcore DEVO... perfectly crude. Toy Love 2LP... the best punk. Buck Biloxi and Fucks records... all of them. Division 4... secret Total Control recipe. Strapping Fieldhands 45... on repeat. Raw Prawn 45... fav Aussie sound. Probably came out last year. Scientists first LP and double LP/live demos... Finally. Blue and the Gray 7"- 60's Arkansas fuzz Jimmy Smack - Death Rocks - December winner. Wreckless Eric at Goner Fest 10 UV Race at Murphy's Cosmic Psychos at Goner Fest 10 Onyas at Goner Fest 10 Head at Goner Fest 10 True Sons of Thunder at Rocket Science Audio NOTS at Buccaneer Moving Finger at Buccaneer So Cow at Buccaneer Goris at Eric's Wedding
JOHN WESLEY COLEMAN III My favorite moment of 2013 is when I did 2 hits of acid, one bong hit, and 3 Irish car bombs. This was at Antones blues club in Austin. I was at the Gary Clark Jr. show... somehow I don't know why I was there. I think Ray Pride from the Crackpipes drove me there. Anyways, I jumped up on stage and pulled my pants down in front of a room of people and grabbed the microphone away from Gary while he was singing. Then I put it under my ass and drafted really loud on it. As soon as it happened, I got knocked off the stage by these Eddie Bauer dressed jocks, and woke up next to the SRV statue on Town Lake the next day. I had more fun that night than watching any band I've seen all year long.
CHARLOTTE WATSON (NOTS, Manateees)
Bona Dish - Zaragoza Tapes 1981-1982 LP (Captured Tracks) 39 Clocks - Pain it Dark LP (Luxury Products) Clothilde - Queen of the Swinging Mademoiselles LP (BORN BAD) Devo - Hardcore Volumes 1 & 2 LPs (Superior Viaduct) Cosmic Psychos - s/t LP, Go To the Hack LP, Down on the Farm 12" (Goner) Q4U - Q1 Deluxe Edition 1980-1983 LP (Dark Entries)
JOHN HOPPE (Goner Records) 1) Cosmic Psychos Blokes You Can Trust documentary (MVD VISUAL) by Matt Weston + Cosmic Psychos live 2) Buck Biloxi & the Fuck/Giorgio Muderer split 7' (Holotrash Records) 3) NOTS "Dust Red" 7" (Goner) + live 4) Devo Hardcore Volumes 1 & 2 lps (Superior Viaduct) 5) Manateees Destruktor 7" (Tic Tac Totally) 6) Gories The Shaw Tapes Live In Detroit 5/27/88 lp (Third Man Records)/Live at Eric's wedding reception 7) Kim Fowley Lord of Garbage book (Kicks Books) 8) Division Four 1983 Demo Cassette 12" (Smart Guy Records) 9) Ecstasy Of Gold lp series (Semi-Automatic Records) 10) Moving Finger live!
TIMMY VULGAR (Human Eye, Timmy's Organism, Clone Defects)
Well 2013 is coming to a close and I'm glad!! It's been kind of a shitty year at least since October. Why? With a super close friend/band mate passing. R.I.P. "Fast" Eddie Altesleben!! Raise your next glass to him. Also friends family members passing... Man, terrible. Anyway. That aside... The good things about 2013?... I'll start in order. Ten in the order as they happened, sorta...
01. Pink Reason Live at "LESS THAN MUSIC Vol.#2" Columbus, Ohio. Kevin Failure has been at this project/band for over a decade, and Pink Reason are one of my favorite modern bands. Top 5, to be specific. Live they are insane, they've blown my mind every time I've seen them! For all you regular Pitchforkers that don't know what that is... it's classic, high octane, bloodthirsty, loud, ugly, nasty, kick your bearded plug ear ringed, tattooed ass back to WHERE ever the hell you came from... baaaa!!!
02. Cheater Slicks Seeing them live at SXSW. And their Reality Is Grape LP!! The record smokes! Released in 2012 but I didn't hear it till 2013. Also Nu Sensae at SXSW was super cool. Had no idea who these guys where. Still don't know much. I stumbled upon them live, glad I did.
03. Destruction Unit Live at SXSW and in Detroit. Also the Deep Trips LP on Sacred Bones. Dig it. Super sonic powerhouse acid eatin' rock'n'roll me another!!!!
04. Flesh Waves Tapes Rad Tape label out of the metro Detroit area. They released my first cassette this year, I'm proud of that! Along with other Detroit local bands/projects. Check em out!
05. Eat Skull: III On Woodsist. Their live set was great this year too. Love this band.
06. The Go: Fiesta On Burger. Also a great live set at the Atlanta Mess Around Fest.
07. The Zeros Live, at the Atlanta Mess Around Fest. Sounded just like the records! They played all the classics! Thank god!! Other wise they would of been on my shit list, like WIRE and the FLAMIN' GROOVIES. All original members, even ELVEZ! They looked great for some ol' cats too.
08. David Bixby Live in Detroit at Trinosophes. If your not familular with David Bixby, he released two amazing albums, one in the late 60s called Ode to Quetzalcoatl and one in the 70s called Harbinger: Second Coming. His music is a spiritual journey of psych-folk from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Take a listen, you'll shed a tear.
09. Moonhairy The Kingdom of Eternal Poverty also on Urinal Cake Records. My ol' good buddy Jimbo Easter who's old bands marked their territory PIRANHAS and DRUID PERFUME. Now MOONHAIRY! Cartoon rubbish rock. The best band in Detroit, possibly the world. This record will have ya pourin oatmeal on your self.
10. Clone Defects Thankful we got to play our last three shows this year. It was time waaaay well spent with our good friend Eddie. It's so unreal that you are gone. Love you, brother.
MADISON FARMER (Goner Records) Cosmic Psychos @ Gonerfest 10 - Hi-Tone (9/28/13) Barbaras / Oblivians @ Hi-Tone (2/23/13) UV Race / Total Control / Parquet Courts @ Murphy's (5/28/13) The Bats @ Red7 - Chaos in Tejas - Austin, TX (5/30/13) Mikal Cronin / Destruction Unit / Shannon & the Clams @ Murphy's (6/25/13) Nik Turner's Hawkwind @ Hi-Tone (11/8/13) NOTS / Priests @ House Show (6/9/13) Cybelle Blood Reunion @ Gonerfest 10 - Murphy's (9/28/13)
NOTS
Our Favorite Places to Get Weird:
Eli's Mile High Club: Our number one hobo hangout on this list. Located underneath a freeway near an overpass Oakland, USA.
Saturn Bar: Sweet pit action. Best balcony for spectators and smokers. There's also a bar kitty who only loves Bailey, the bartender.
House of Creeps 2: Warehouse weirdos with a hot tub in the kitchen and a non-functional fire pole next to the bathroom. Holler at Bryan from Talk Sick Brats when you go.
Conspiracy Corner: Sometime they meet at an after-hours pizza shop. Sometimes they meet via headset mic at the coffee shop. Either way, they will find you.
COMING UP IN 2014 - NOBUNNY US Tour - including East Coast dates - Jan/Feb - Goner Records Party @ Beerland - Austin, TX - Friday, March 14th - Ex-Cult's sophomore LP recorded by Doug Easley - Spring - Gonerfest 11 - Sept 25-28th - Reatards Reissue - PLUS new music from SO COW, TY SEGALL, & more!