Skeleton Key - Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon

Skeleton Key is a band I never tire of. The thing they do has been enormously influential on me, and their first full-length, Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon, is an album by which I measure all others. Unfortunately, I believe they were dropped by their label after this record and a couple of key members subsequently left the band. Since then they've floated around a bit, picking up new players and making records sporadically, including the excellent Obtainium for Mike Patton's Ipecac label, and the more recent, and more excellenter, Gravity Is The Enemy for Arctic Rodeo.  Recently the band themselves were kind enough to upload the entirety of Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon to their youtube channel in high quality, being that it's been out of print and difficult to obtain(ium?) for some time. I've still got my original CD copy, but its 1's and 0's are getting a bit frayed around the edges, so this is good news. A vinyl reissue would be even gooder news, but until then...

MIS - Sergio EP

MIS are/were a stupendous weirdo post-punk outfit that the men of Jethrine used to play shows with. They were our BFF band, and the few shows we played with them were our best. We came to think of them as something of a good luck charm. I think that they, much like Jethrine, are more-or-less defunct at this point, but they've got a handful of EP's out that are up on bandcamp for listening and downloading. The Sergio EP is their most recent release and it's flat out badass - blips and bloops and staccato guitar stabs, wild-assed beats, and some pretty damned memorable, artfully arranged tunes.

"Oblio" is my favorite track. It haunts me sometimes.

Out of the ashes of Jethrine...Gall

Hey internet. I haven't updated this mufuka in awhile (not that anybody has been paying attention). Allow me to begin by introducing my new band, Gall. Jethrine fizzled out in a blaze of "meh", and 3/4 of the lineup (the most foolhardy 3/4) have reformed with Jeff Walker of Facepilot fame (?) on drums, forming Gall. We've recorded a few tunes for Meat Necklace, which is available for free, or whatever you wanna give us, on our bandcamp page. We also have one of those gottdanged facebook pages, if you're into that. "Soundcloud", you ask? Sure. Of course. Duh. There's more, but we'll hold off on that for now. It'll be like a surprise later. Auf wiedersehen, dudes. We'll talk more later.

Jethrine on the Facebooks

Look out honey, cause Jethrine's using technology to pigfuck up your faceyspace:

Jethrine Facebook

Jethrine is famous on the internet!

Some kind words about Jethrine and the Wildlife EP over at Built on a Weak Spot, a fine music blog for lovers of the noisy. Jonathan posts a ton of great, obscure, mathy, pigfuck, fuzz n punk bands and usually has something interesting to say about them. He's also a midwestern fella from KC with a powerful love for that midwest scene. I can't recommend his blog highly enough.

Jethrine : Wildlife EP

My band Jethrine has released a rekkid, The Wildlife EP, right here for free in a variety of audio nerd formats. Fans of AmRep and early Touch And Go bands might be into us or at least less disgusted than the average jerk on the street.

Jethrine also has one of those myspace pages...

Carusella

'oly chit. Carusella - Amazing two-piece from Israel. The White Stripes cry themselves to sleep at night knowing they could never be even half this badass. Watch as Carusella melts every face on this beach. Thanks shiny grey monotone!