USA/Mexico Laredo (2017)

Released at the end of June, USA/Mexico's debut Laredo is without question my favorite album of 2017. Noisy, fuzzy, rumblings that will hypnotize and cauterize your mind + ears.

This comes from their Bandcamp bio: "The long-awaited/rumored/feared debut recordings from Austin, TX trio USA/MEXICO are finally upon us. Guitarist Craig Clouse (Shit & Shine, Todd), drummer King Coffey (Butthole Surfers, Rubble, Hugh Beaumont Experience) and bassist Nate Cross (Marriage, When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, Expensive Shit) have somehow created a musical landscape that exceeds present day reality for absurdity and nightmarishness. There's faint (oh ok, try "loud") echoes of their past works but their combined forces have resulted in an album as bludgeoning and all-encompassing as any that's occupied shelf space in my home or yours."

Meat Puppets - 1985 - Phoenix, Arizona

Meat Puppets

14 February 1985 

The Mason Jar 

Phoenix, Arizona

03:07 Magic Toy Missing
04:40 Enchanted Pork Fist
07:00 The Whistling Song
08:58 Maiden's Milk
12:17 Away
15:58 Oh, Me
18:30 Too Real
20:35 Buckethead
23:00 Up On The Sun
26:45 Lake Of Fire
28:28 Creator
30:42 Swimming Ground
33:47 Hot Pink
37:20 Plateau
39:46 Seal Whales
42:16 Animal Kingdom
44:44 Good Golly Miss Molly
48:44 Lost
52:00 Two Rivers

Sonic Youth - 1983 - Milan, Italy

8 November 1983

Odissea 2001

Milan, Italy 

The World Looks Red

She's in a Bad Mood

Early American

Burning Spear

Confusion is Next

Brother James 

Kill Yr Idols

Making the Nature Scene

Shaking Hell

The Good and the Bad

Inhuman 

The Birthday Party - 1983 - Minneapolis

The Birthday Party

6 April 1983 

First Avenue 

Minneapolis, Minnesota 

01. Hamlet (Pow Pow Pow)
02. The Six Strings That Drew Blood
03. Deep In The Woods
04. Dead Joe
05. Swampland
06. Fears Of Gun
07. Wild World
08. Big Jesus Trash Can
09. Sonny's Burning
10. She's Hit
11. 6" Gold Blade
12. Pleasure Avalanche

Butthole Surfers - 1988 complete SNUB-TV interview

Butthole Surfers

complete interview

at home in Texas 

19 May 1988 

portions were used for a segment on 

“SNUB-TV”

Butthole Surfers - Nov. 1987 - Los Angeles

Butthole Surfers

Variety Arts Center
Los Angeles, CA
11/7/1987

The beautifully demented sights and sounds
from a stop during touring
in support of their 1987 release
Locust Abortion Technician.

1) -noise-
2) Something
3) Rocky
4) Sweat Loaf
5) Ricky
6) Graveyard
7) Paranoid
8) 100 Million
9) Backass
10) scream sequence
11) Julio
12) Cherub
13) Gary Floyd
14) Psychedelic Jam
15) Pittsburgh To Lebanon
16) Johnny Smoke
17) Jimi
18) 22 Going On 23
19) X-Ray

Live Skull - 1986 - CBGB

Often noisy with peaks of audio power/dissonance
paired alongside
valleys of subtler, melancholy laced interludes;
New York City's  
Live Skull
are captured below on July 1986 playing
NYCs legendary venue CBGB.

Filmed by Greg Fasolino.

Pussy Galore - Maximum Penetration compilation

Maximum Penetration is a compilation 

of clips and live performances from  

Pussy Galore 

in all their noisy, snarling, glory.

Jon Spencer (guitar, vocals) 

Julie Cafritz (guitar, vocals) 

Kurt Wolf (guitar) 

Neil Hagerty (guitar) 

Bob Bert (drums)

Pig Sweat 

White Noise 

Just Wanna Die 

Nothing Can Bring Me Down 

Biker Rock Loser 

Constant Pain 

Pussy Stomp 

NYC 1999 

Cunt Tease 

When I Get Off 

Get Out 

Pretty Fuck Look 

Trashcan Oildrum 

Die Bitch 

Spinout 

Kill Yourself 

No Count 

Fuck You Man / Encore 

Alright

Butthole Surfers - 1987 - Atlanta

Butthole Surfers

15 May 1987 

Rollick (formerly the 688 Club), Atlanta 

Videographer - Barry Mills

I was lucky enough to witness the Locust Abortion Technician tour when the Butthole Surfers played Chicago about a month before the show featured below. 

Over the years I have attended a lot of live shows but that one remains my all time favorite. The combination of incredible music plus the over the top visuals; such as the fog machine pushed into the red line, the heavily odd movies projected either behind the band or onto banks of fog, and the painted naked dancer with glued on facial hair, created an alchemy the likes of which was a true mind-scrambler.

Torche - 2015 - Brooklyn

Here's Torche's entire set 

from a show this past March. 

They were delivering their unique brand 

of sonic heaviness to a receptive crowd 

at the Saint Vitus in Brooklyn, 

the night after I caught them in Boston.

26 March 2015

0:00 - Piraña
1:45 - Sandstorm
4:20 - Healer
7:05 - Minions
11:35 - Loose Men
14:08 - In Return
17:07 - Kicking
19:50 - In Pieces
23:20 - Reverse Inverted
26:48 - No Servants
30:28 - Believe It
34:22 - Sky Trials
36:26 - Across the Shields
39:34 - Vampyro
42:03 - Restarter
47:30 - Barrier Hammer
51:23 - Undone
53:05 - Blasted
56:48 - Annihilation Affair
1:01:32 - Charge of the Brown Recluse
1:04:00 - Harmonslaught

Video shot and edited by Nicolas Cusworth:

www.arpeggiamedia.com

Originally posted by Heavy Blog Is Heavy

Sonic Youth - Mojave Desert - 1985

Sonic Youth
5 January 1985
Gila Monster Jamboree
in the Mojave Desert



Brother James
Kill Yr Idols
Brave Men Run
Death Valley 69
I Love Her All the Time
I'm Insane
Flower
Burning Spear

Butthole Surfers - 1985 - San Antonio

Butthole Surfers 

Cameo Theater

San Antonio, Texas
---

21 September 1985

1. Intro
2. Moving To Florida
3. Dum Dum
4. To Parter
5. Tornadoes
6. Cherub
7. No Rule
8. BBQ Pope
9. The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave
10. Lady Sniff
11. Something
12. Pittsburg to Lebanon
13. Psychedelic Jam
14. Comb
15. Butthole Surfer

Credits to:
Hothcanada's and BC, with extra thanks to Notsaved for the additional info.
weldermatt for sharing

die kreuzen - Philadelphia - 1989

die kreuzen 

playing at 

JC Dobbs - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1989

in support of their 

Gone Away EP.

01. Shine
02. Best Goodbye
03. Elizabeth
04. Gone Away
05. Heaven
06. Number Three
07. Holes
08. Lean Into It
09. Deep Space
10. Stomp
11. Big Bad Days
12. Man In The Trees
13. Seasons Of Wither
14. Earthquakes
15. Shake Loose
16. Different Ways
17. Bitch Magnet

Big Black - CBGB - 1986

Big Black
at CBGBs
July 1986

Godflesh - New Orleans - 1991

Godflesh 

delivering their heavy sounds 

in a live performance
at Tipitina's

New Orleans, Louisiana 

on the 10th of April, 1991.

This footage is from the US version of the 

Grindcrusher Tour 1991, 

featuring the line up of 

Napalm Death, Godflesh, and Nocturnus.

Helmet - Chicago - 1992

The mighty 

Helmet 

brought the heavy to the 

Cabaret Metro 

in Chicago 

on the 25th of January 

1992.

Pussy Galore - Fort Worth, Texas - 1989

Pussy Galore 

9 July 1989 

Axis Club 

Fort Worth, Texas, USA 

Nothing Can Bring Me Down

(The Twilighters cover) 

Adolescent Wet Dream

Sweet Little Hi-Fi

Understand Me

Pig Sweat

1 Hour Later

New Breed

Undertaker

Adwd #2

NYC: 1999!

DWDA

Wretch

Kicked Out

Dick Johnson

Hang On 

 

 

Big Black - CBGB - 1987

The three piece (plus drum machine Roland) Big Black created some amazing noise skronk during their tenure from 1981 to 1987. Even though my time living in the Chicago area overlapped with their existence, I never got to see them live mainly because I was under twenty-one and never obtained a fake i.d. Here is some footage from 1987 when they played CBGBs on their final tour in support of their Songs About Fucking record.

Melvins - Salad of a Thousand Delights (full show, 1991)

  The Melvins ripping it up at the 

North Shore Surf Club, Olympia, Washington, 

May 16, 1991.

1. "Antitoxidote"
2. "Euthanasia"
3. "Zodiac"
4. "Oven"
5. "If I Had An Exorcism"
6. "Boris"
7. "Kool Legged"
8. "Wispy"
9. "It's Shoved"
10. "Anaconda"
11. "We Reach"
12. "Hog Leg"

die kreuzen - 2013 - Reunion Documentary

This short documentary from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 

chronicles die kreuzen's rise, fall and rebirth; 

as well as their recent reunion show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

plus this footage of "All White"

from the show