By marbles | Published:
June 27, 2010
A search on my own blog tells me I have never mentioned Distortion Records before, which is strange to say the least, considering I bring to them a large chunk of my earnings on a regular basis. Yesterday I brought home with me “Saints And Sinners” Vol. 1 & Vol. 2. A total of 32 [...]
By marbles | Published:
May 14, 2010
I can’t even explain how excited I am finding this gem on Youtube! Halfway the nineties I bought Phranc’s ‘Bulldagger Swagger / Hillary’s Eyebrows’ 7″ and it’s been one of my favorite singles ever since (and not just because it’s on purrrdy red vinyl, although that does help!). I was never able to find a [...]
By marbles | Published:
June 3, 2009
Unfortunately, Audrey is the only song ever released by The Automaticans. Done in style, on clear vinyl with nice cover art and some handwritten background info on a white insert, plus a rocking Team Dresch on the other side of the split 7″. Can’t go wrong there! I ordered my copy from Chainsaw right after [...]
By marbles | Published:
April 6, 2009
This weekend I took New Zealander Ben Crotty on a cycling trip through Amsterdam. I usually advocate against tourists on bicycles because they travel in herds and have ridiculously slow reaction times. Hello, weed. But Ben turned out to be a natural cycling talent and was of course being maneuvered through (or mainly around) traffic [...]
By marbles | Published:
March 22, 2009
One good thing about being born in the late seventies, is having parents who were so excited about the arrival of Compact Discs that they got rid of their record players in a hurry and replaced all their vinyl with those shiny optical discs. And twenty years later, when they start cleaning up attics, boxes [...]
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