Reprint from DDM Issue 4 (Subscribe HERE)

An excellent Indy music blog Better Than Sex run by one of our long time contributors has just reprinted an updated Yip Yip interview from DDM Issue 4. With Blip Fest underway in NYC this weekend what better time to showcase one of our favorite 8-bit bands. Enjoy the video and check out the full interview in print Drop Dead Magazine Issue 4 or on line Here.

Gunfire & Pianos
Zig-Zag/Situation Two
1985

What a monster! This compilation of early goth/post-punk/just plain weird bands shifts and glides through so many moods you might well be a manic-depressive by the end. Read below the cut the full review and listen to every track of this record (all mp3’s taken from the original vinyl.)

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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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