UKs tribal twang blues trash post punkers  Inca Babies are back with a new album: Death Message Blues. We have been waiting for a long time for new material , 22 years to be exact, and it doesn’t disappoint. The sound is still raw, bluesy twangy and sexy, but the album understandably is more thoughtful and melancholy. Watch for the full review of the new record in next issue of the Drop Dead Magazine in the mean time enjoy a classic Inca babies video and a brand new song from Death Message Blues.

Inca babies - Phantom Track (from the new album Death Message Blues)

We are super excited that the end of the summer festival season doesn’t mean the end to good shows. Highly recommended Part Time Punks Festival  in Los Angele’s comes back on October 11for a second installment. With may bands to be excited about we are especially  looking forward to Jazz Butcher. Another installment from Milan Decays Festival Bats over Milan October 23, 24 also shines with a post punk line up with likes of the Fall and the Lorrys.  And last but not least first ever show (and what a great one! ) for one of our sister companies Vienna Decay (November 7) with Artery, Savage Republic and Squishy Squid. See you at the show kids!

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The first entry in our new column featuring the best in breaking, cutting-edge music!

By Daniel J

2008 was an amazing year for new music. The releases were massive, but one album has been repeatedly driving my brain into schizophrenics. That album is the self-titled first full-length by ex-San Franciscans Lemonade. A mind-melting mixture of post-punk, world music, and psychedelic hi-NRG dance, the album and subsequent remixes (available to download free here) established Lemonade as a cross-genre force to be reckoned with. They’ve opened for a range of diverse acts including Diplo, Les Georges Leningrad, and Holy Fuck.

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Big Weekend

Sunchips

Admittedly I have been a bit silent about the past Drop Dead, no full review, not as many photos as there should have been. Honestly this year was daunting. Between crazy logistics and sound problems, there never the less was magic in the air. Festival officially was 5 days beginning with concerts on the beach under the moonlight but people came early and stayed late so it really was more like a week to two week extravaganza. The bands were amazing, and Portugal was a special place to visit. Simply the whole thing was daunting work to put together and run with a tiny crew but an experience of a lifetime never the less.

There has been copious amounts of videos from the festival on youtube some of questionable quality, some pretty damn good. this will give you some idea of inspiration , madness and silliness that went on last October in Portugal, Drop Dead Festival 6. Kicking things off with a funny segment from a major Portuguese TV station featuring an interview with yours truly and bemused 13th moon.

Please follow me behind the Cut to see UK Decay, Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons, Lene Lovich , Cinema Strange, Phantom Vision, †13th MOON†, and Tchiki Boum playing at the festival.

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Review and Photography By Polina Y

You know how sometimes you see  a guy and you think, damn if only you were mine, I know I could make you happy, damn you’rE so fine, so so fine. Well Bowery Ballroom is one of those clubs. i walk in and fantasize what kind of shows I can put on here, if only you were mine Bowery Ballroom aahh you’re so so sexy. Anyway it’s Sunday December 7th and I am here to see Swedish girl fronted punk group Love Is All. Opening the night is another band I am curious to see Cold Cave, and in the middle is the much hyped about Crystal Stilts.

I discovered Cold Cave through their label Dais Records which in turn I discovered because they are my friends bands (Cult Of Youth) label. Since I didn’t have anything by these guys and their Myspace tracks are quiet varied (from french sounding cold wave electronics, to glitch drone experimental,  to Joy Division influenced gray post punk)i had no idea what to expect. The crowd is filling in which a bit of a surprise on a Sunday and for the opening band but I guess the word is out about these guys and you can see that quite a few people crowding up front are here just for them. Cold Cave comes on stage; three guys in dark coats, all lined up. Each with a synth, the one on the right with what looks like an electronic drum combo.  Before the first note is played the mood is set, a gray, dreary, heavy feeling; and as the music begins it just gets heavier, more dense. When the music has taken you so low you cant picture going much further it explodes with drums and samples.  The sound is repetitive, dreary oppressive post punk that takes you to the brink of desperation and then rips you apart with a battery of explosive noise. The set is interesting and consistent throughout and I am sure to see Cold Cave next time they play.

Cold Cave MP3s
Sex Ads
Our Tears Help The Flowers Grow

Crystal Stilts are on next. This is one of the more talked about NY bands and hypothetically should be a perfect transition between the dreary post punk of Cold Cave and the more upbeat Sixties-influenced Love Is All. In theory that is. The band is combination of Sixties garage sound and Joy Division. They sound really together, the stage show is a bit stoic and for the life of me I don’t understand why they didn’t put the most visually compelling member of the band, the girl garage drummer, up front. But this is not the problem, the problem is this just simply doesn’t work for me. Yes, if some one told me let’s combine Cramps and Joy Division and some Sixties garage I would have probably been really intrigued, but live……let me put it this way: the music is happy but I am ashamed to dance because of the funeral singing, and I cant really grieve or be depressed because of the upbeat soundtrack. I am really confused by this, okay? What should I do? Too depressing to be happy and too happy to be depressing. That said, the singer reminded me of Jim Morrison which is never a bad thing, and their recorded material does works better.

Crystal Stilts MP3
Crippled Croon

Love Is All have been getting pretty big; since the release of their second, much anticipated album A Hun­dred Things Keep Me Up At Night they are not playing small venues, it seems it’s all uphill from here on.  Although this band is heralded as a rising star in the Indie scene, and at this show attracts an overwhelmingly non-alternative looking crowd, I came to see them precisely because they have an amazing early punk spirit and remind me of X-ray Spex and other early in-your-face girl fronted bands. Yet they are good musicians with a polished, sound, and though there is an undeniable Sixties fetish to their music, somehow they manage to still sound raw and new. Love Is All set lasts a bit over 40 minutes  and luckily you can hear it now via a really good audio recording of the whole show on NYCTaper. The set is a mix of old and new songs, with the quirky choice of a Flock of Seagulls cover, it’s upbeat and full of energy and the gray kids finally start to dance. I try to video record the set for the blog but Bowery security actually pull me out and inform me that yes even if it is just for the blog you have to pay to video record at Bowery. Shame that there is not more video because the set is great, but I did get something pretty good and almost complete. Then the show is over, and I walk away completely happy and satisfied and still more in love with their live sets then their (also good) recordings.

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Love is All MP3s
Used Goods (First Album)

Give it Back (New Album)

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01 Wishing Well
02 Give it Back
03 Talk Talk Talk Talk
04 Aging Had Never Been His Friend
05 Last Choice
06 Seasick
07 NYA
08 Busy Doing Nothing
09 I Ran (Flock of Seagulls)
10 Make Out Fall Out Make Up
11 Felt Tip
12 [encore break]
13 New Beginnings

Great news for art punks and weird wave fiends it has just been announced that the second annual Mutant Transmissions Festival will take place in NYC on April 5th and 6th, 2009.

Last years MTF took place in LA and spotlighted a slew of excellent west coast bands as well as some interlopers. This year mutant Transmissions hits NYC which will give a an opportunity for the east coast weirdos to join in the fun. MT is a DIY event and invites local art and music community to get involved in planning and production. The younger crowd is also not excluded since the festival is traditionally an all ages event and every one is embraced with equal id not all together sane enthusiasm. Watch for the line up and updates on Mutant Transmissions Myspace. To join in the fun email mutanttransmissions at gmail dot com.

Part Time Punks Festival
November 16 2008
http://parttimepunks.com
2pm-2am at The Echo & Echoplex. ALL AGES!

Tickets www.ticketweb.com $20

Have you been starved for the post punk sound? LA’s Part Time Punks has your answer. November 16th, 2008 is the first ever Part Time Punks Festival. The lineup is quite impressive, combining early original post punk bands and up and comers over the 12 hour span and 2 large venues (The Echo & Echoplex). Part Time Punks’ lineup reads like a history lesson of post punk. Innovators of the genre from the Manchester UK Factory Scene are joined by Los Angles Synth punk, Georgia Athens dub punks, and a leading early post punk bands from Boston, and rounded out with dub, funk and psychedelic oriented post punk bands as well as up and coming punk and post punkers from all over .

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Reprint from DDM Issue 1 (Subscribe HERE)

Review by  Saint Euchrid

Don’t let my name fool you. I’m capable of writing an unbiased article on this…oh, w

ho am I fooling? I’m completely biased. I’m a raging Nick Cave fan. The man can do no wrong in my eyes and the same should go for you filthy ingrates as well.

And The Ass Saw The Angel is notorious for inciting feelings of annoyance, disgust, sympathy and even empathy. Euchrid Eucrow is a hunchbacked mute recounting his life story for us whilst sinking in a pit of quickmud. How he got there, that’s for me to know and you to find out by reading the frickin’ book. The story is set in Ukulore valley, Cave’s fictionalized, romanticized, fantasized and otherwise ‘ized’ vision of the American South - a place where years of continuous rain can only be stopped by the birth of a prostitute’s child. Euchrid is born to a family that far surpasses the boundaries of white trash. They’re ostracized by the townspeople (due to completely founded rumors of inbreeding) and live in a shack on the edge of town complete with a junkpile, a donkey and an empty water tower that Pa uses as an arena for the animals he traps.

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