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The early 70s were an incredible time for RocknRoll. Music had lost it’s virginity and abuse of all sorts was running rampant. Bands were turning up, de-tuning, and dropping out left and right. Bad trips and other people’s battles were bumming everybody out and the discontent was palpable. These vibes are what informed Salt Lick’s first recordings. Informed and influenced by the Motor City scene as much as the boneheaded side of the American underground, Salt Lick recorded these two crunchy tunes in one short late-night session in a seedy LA neighborhood. Bargain basement beer flowed like wine and you can almost hear the pull-tabs being popped over the hiss of the tape machine. The men of Salt Lick came together over a collective disdain of the castrated rock they’d been hearing and wanted to toughen things up a bit, all while keeping it groovy. “If the ladies ain’t having a good time, no one is.”, one member recalls thinking. This 45 was pressed in a limited quantity of 300 copies, 100 of which on coke-bottle clear vinyl. No picture sleeve necessary. Everything you need to see is on the label. Recorded by Hunter Scztroop and Erik Lake at Black Diamond. Engineered by Jorge Explosion at Circo Perrotti Studios in Gijón, Spain. <CONTINUE> |
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LP - Afflicted Man - I'm Off Me 'Ead (Official 2013 Reissue, Repress, Black Wax, Ltd 300)
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Permanent Records' 36th label release!
"I'm Off Me 'Ead" is DIY psych punk (or "Hippy Punk" as Steve Hall calls it) at it's finest, but don't just take my word for it. Heavyweight record aficionados such as Henry Rollins, Byron Coley, Tom Lax, Doug Mosurock, and Geoffrey Weiss are BIG fans...
The idiosyncratic music critic, Byron Coley (Forced Exposure, Bull Tongue, Spin, Wire, Arthur), really lays it out there: "Steve Hall's Afflicted (Man) project was one of the greatest mystery wobbles to come out of the Brit DIY explosion. Trying to figure out what the hell these records were about took years to unravel. We even thought there might be a Nurse With Wound connection when United Dairies released the Afflicted Man's Musica Box LP. We were stupid, but can you blame us? The slurred psych blues of I'm Off Me 'Ead were so unlike anything else going on at the time, it almost seemed like the whole thing had to be a put-on of some kind. There had been those earlier records, sure, this one felt way different. The concept of UK stoner-punks had existed for a few years, but their output had tended towards the arty end of things before this. There's a latent brutality to Im' Off that truly lashed our feeble minds. But maybe that's only because L.A. was awash in very good acid right about then. Still, it remains extremely difficult to place this music inside the contextual history of what was going on then. Jesus, I would have loved to have caught a gig or two. Unimaginable. I bought I'm Off Me 'Ead at the old Vinyl Fetish store on Melrose in '81, same year I finally managed to snag a copy of Randy Holden's
Population II, and they were both records I'd play to anyone who dropped by our pad in Santa Monica for a listening session. The utterly fucked-up-ness of both guitarists never failed to astonish anyone who wasn't too wasted to acknowledge what they were hearing. And so it is."
Tom Lax's Siltblog posted this: "Afflicted Man's style could best described at stock-in-trade Brit DIY w/an almost Street Level sort've quality to it…Too freaked out for punks, too punked out for freaks... must've felt like a rusty safety pin stuck straight through the heart of whatever DIY fanbase Hall had acquired. And for all the Pink Fairies or Hawkwind type's that mighta come across it, it was too primitive & animalistic for their quid."
Geoffrey Weiss' is one of the most venerable record collectors in the world. He summed it up like this: "Deliriously incompetent, frighteningly direct, and bafflingly out-of-time, there is no doubt that Steve Hall is in touch here with something most of us can't get near. "
We here at Permanent absolutely love this record and are incomprehensibly honored to be the label reissuing it on vinyl for the first time ever. It's been fully licensed by Steve Hall himself and painstakingly remastered by the total pros at Penguin Recording in Eagle Rock. The jacket artwork was graciously reconstituted and touched-up by Bill "Trouble In Mind" Roe. The full-color "I'm Off Me 'Ead" inner sleeve contains a bunch of unseen Afflicted Man photos, an unpublished interview with Steve Hall and a fully authorized reprint of Chris Stigliano's article from Forced Exposure #9 (Winter 1986).
The second pressing (let's hope there's demand for multiple) is limited to 300 copies worldwide.
RIYL: Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, Deviants, The Fall, Alternative TV, Coloured Balls, Michael Yonkers, Vic Godard, Mark Perry, Private Press / Outsider Rock, and REPETITION
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LP - Bitchin Bajas - Krausened EP (Black Wax Repress Ltd 300)
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Permanent Records' 34th label release!
AVAILABLE AGAIN!!!!!!
Fans of Terry Riley, Kraftwerk, Conrad Schntizler, and Kosmische Musik in general take note! Bitchin Bajas has returned to Permanent Records (following their split single with Moon Duo) with a brand new record of side-long transcendental synth workouts. This is Bitchin Bajas most accessible and autobahn ready delivery to date!
Bitchin Bajas began as a side project, but Cooper Crain of CAVE and Dan Quinlivan formerly of MAHJONGG have been spending as much time, if not more, with Bitchin Bajas as they have with the aforementioned groups and they've been progressing very quickly. In just two or so years, Bitchin Bajas have released three critically acclaimed LPs (one on Important Records and two on Kallestei Editions), two incredible splits (one with Moon Duo and the other with the Peaking Lights- related Faceplant), and one very limited edition cassette tape.
The two side long pieces on this nearly 40 minute EP were written on their 2012 European tour and recorded and mixed over three days by Bitchin Bajas at Minbal Studio in Chicago, Illinois.
Features eye-popping cover artwork by artist Jeremy Kannapell.
"A whole mess of cats in the drone-age try to spiral upward to the heights of Bitchin Bajas, but few nail the sacred combination of Harmonia/Neu! and Steve Hillage circa Rainbow Dome Music with the same air of confidence." - Tiny Mix Tapes
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LP / CS - Purling Hiss - Purling Hiss
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Permanent Records' tenth label release, which sold out immediately upon its original release, has been repressed for a SECOND time in another edition of 300 copies!
Purling Hiss has recently released records on Richie and Woodsist and garnered rave reviews from just about everybody who's heard 'em. This eponymous LP on Permanent is where it all began! Here's the story: Purling Hiss is the side-project of Holy Mountain recording artists Birds of Maya guitarist Mike Polizze. Birds of Maya are a full-on psychedelic rock band from Philly. Apparently, Birds just aren't full-on enough to satisfy Polizze's far-out tendencies. On his debut solo record Polizze plays bass drums and guitar relentlessly as if he's playing to save his life. This recording is so intense that the pressing plant told us they'd risk breaking their equipment if they cut the lacquers with the original master. We sent 'em a new master and it sounds great! For Fans Of- Birds of Maya Earthless, Loop, High Rise, Les Rallizes Denudes, and lo-fi, blown-out psych. Obviously, this one comes highly recommended.
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LP - Anals - Total Anal - 2015 Hand Screen Printed Reissue
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BACK IN PRINT WITH KILLER NEW ARTWORK AND LIMITED TO 50 COPIES!!!!
NEVER TO BE REPRESSED AGAIN!!!!!!
Metz France seems to be teeming with great bands these days. Cheveu Feeling of Love Normals and A.H. Kraken are just the tip of this incredibly huge Metz iceberg. Many of these bands share members but they all have their very own sound. The Anals sound is similar to the aforementioned bands in their abrasive weird punk base but this duo is more obliviously influenced by the German industrial electropunk group D.A.F. (via the Brainbombs) than any of their peers. Their single on Sweet Rot sold out almost immediately and the demand prompted a repress. Now heres your chance to hear this unique duo?s entire recorded output. This anthology LP includes both songs from the single plus ten previously unreleased tracks.
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LP - Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Sidewalk
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* 150 ON LYSERGIC SPLATTER VINYL EXCLUSIVELY AT PERMANENT CHICAGO AND LOS ANGELES!
* 350 ON BLACK VINYL FOR WHOLESALE
* DEBUT RELEASE FIRST TIME ON VINYL (previously cassette-only)
I really don’t like to make comparisons when it comes to bands that I enjoy, there’s always something different and unique, at least in my eyes, about what I’m listening to. I do not enjoy derivative bands much. So, while Frankie And The Witch Fingers may sound like Ty Segall started a new band with Jay Reatard and they got Charlie Mootheart to join in on the fun, they’re really just a ridiculously talented lo-fi garage rock outfit in my eyes and I couldn’t mean that as a greater compliment. From the moment you start the titular title track on their debut album, Sidewalk, you can hear a deep appreciation for late 60’s and early 70’s psychedelia, refined and captured in the same emphatic and impulsive way, while dragging tricks and sounds from the last fifty years along for the ride. While Frankie And The Witch Fingers seem to incorporate a few more dissonant sounds and breaks, think 13th Floor Elevators or The Velvet Underground, to really spice up the sound and add a level of dissonance to the tightly crafted garage pop melodies, that just seem to melt out of your speakers. Reverberation and fuzz dosed guitars shimmer and undulate in the songs, while echoed vocals float above the instruments, blending in and out of fits of distortion and rave-ups. The bass and drums are like calm pounding waves, powerful enough to chip away at a mountain with out raising an un-needed racket while doing so. Tracks slowly build moment and break into amazing walls of sound and distortion, before fading back into the shadows to reveal the skeletal melody of the song again to let you take it all back in one more time before you’re done. My favorite tracks are when they just hit the gas though, pounding riffs and thundering bass twisting together like a Porsche hitting a lamp post at a hundred and eighty miles an hour, taking your mind along for the ride! Sidewalk has only been released as an extremely limited cassette tape at this point, but word is that might be changing sometime soon but either Frankie And The Witch Fingers is prepping for the release of their second full-length album before the end of the year. I would usually have held off talking to them until the album release but I have to admit, these tunes really got into my head! I couldn’t find a way to buy a tape, hell, I couldn’t even find out who put it out, and I was hoping to score a copy. While I was chatting with these guys though, I just couldn’t help but do an interview; listen to Sidewalk and tell me you wouldn’t have done the same! What follows is a glimpse at a band that in my opinion is on the brink of really bringing the heat. These dudes are just serious enough about what they do to make amazing music and they have enough fun making it, you can hear it through your speakers on every track. After a recent relocation from Indiana to California, I have no doubt you’re gonna be hearing a lot about Frankie And The Witch Fingers before long. In the meantime, get a head start and check out the story so far below, and for the love of all that’s holy – click the Bandcamp link and take in some of the best garage rock you’re gonna hear this side of 1969! - Roman Rathert (It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine, 2014)
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LP - Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Brain Telephone - Reissue
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As the diamond hits the plastic on Frankie and the Witch Fingers' Brain Telephone, a sonic tornado swirls out of the speakers and into your ears like a psychedelic party-line flipping a black-and-white world into technicolor. The quartet cooks up a cachophony of sounds which boil over as the troglodyte beat and the fuzzy phased-out guitars melt together. From here, the spell gets sweeter. A rock n' roll groove laced with slap back and heady lyrics quickly connects your call to the Witch Finger's acid boogie shack nestled deep in the belly of Los Angeles. A transformation occurs as mind bending shadows appear on a yet-to-be-named purple planet with lush gardens of grinning neon fungi bopping and swaying along to each catchy hook and chorus. The serpentine tape reels capture Texas barn burners, hallucinogenic Chuck Berry guitar licks, and middle-eastern rave-ups along the way as well. This adventure is littered with evil caricatures and surrealistic visions that will warble your mind, if you stay on the line.
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150 black vinyl
100 clear vinyl
7in - Hooveriii - Guillotine
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The A-side is a chugging minimal number with a hooking riff. The song is about cutting your brain in half and letting your fears pour out. The flip is an improvised instrumental jam inspired by Krautrock staples like Can & Amon Düül II.
Hooveriii is Bert Hoover from Mind Meld and Jesus Sons on vocals and guitar, Gabe Flores from Babylon on Guitar, Kaz Mirblouk of Numb.Er on bass, Shaughnessy of Jesus Sons and Triptides on Drums, and Jaiq Styne of various LA bands on synth.
Limited to 300 copies
200 Black Vinyl
100 Translucent Purple
7" - Salt Lick - Doctor (Of Love)
LIMITED TO 300 COPIES:
100 Coke Bottle Clear (LIMIT 1 PER CUSTOMER)
200 Black
LP - Hooveriii - Hooveriii
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Never before has a debut album so seamlessly mixed all the best subgenres of 60 years of rock into such a fantastic crystalline stalactite. If the sounds contained within these grooves could be distilled down to something edible, even the smallest dose would be lethal.
Recorded under the influence of Hawkwind, Amon Düül II, Black Sabbath and NEU!
Only 300 pressed!
200 - black vinyl
100 - Seedling Splatter colored vinyl -SOLD OUT
30 - Test Pressings w/hand screened jackets. SOLD OUT
Second Pressing!
Only 100 pressed - Reptile Egg Yellow
Only available online and on Hooveriii's 2019 Euro tour!
Produced by Tomas Dolas (Mr. Elevator / OCS )
Mastered by Mikey Young (Total Control)
Artwork by Jesse Fillingham
LP - Grave Flowers Bongo Band - Flower Pot
LIMITED EDITION 2021 RE-PRESS! ONLY 100 COPIES AVAILABLE WITH TMOQ-STYLE INSERT ARTWORK AND HAND-STAMPED CENTER LABELS!
Hey man, could you use a little serenity? Grave Flowers Bongo Band thinks we could all use a little and they’re here to give it to us. In order to enjoy this record, you don’t have to get dressed. In fact, it’s probably better that you don’t. And you definitely don’t need to leave the house. This record is best experienced in the comforts of your own home, just as long as your home is as peaceful as it should be. If it’s not, “Flower Pot” should be enjoyed naturally. The organic vibes the Bongo Band project are just as soothing as they are psychedelic. There’s a lot going on here, but the record also feels very simplistic, like a more modern take on Ted Lucas, Sam Gopal, or Tyrannosaurus Rex. The journey is largely acoustic and serene, but the electric and slightly more chaotic moments compliment the rest of the instrumentation like honey on granola. “Flower Pot” is the perfect soundtrack for your next sacrificial effigy burning, but it’s also a record that you can make out to. It’ll ease you into the day or take you away after a long night. A perfect prescription for whatever ails you. I’m sure it’ll blow your mind, regardless of your mental state. Side note: It’d be a goddamn shame if the Bongo Band doesn’t turn into a cult, or at least develop a cult following.
“Flower Pot” was recorded entirely on magnetic tape and the bulk was done at Uly Noriega’s Laundry Room Studio in the El Sereno neighborhood of East Los Angeles in February 2018. The remainder was done on Bert Hoover’s Tascam 388 at Black Diamond Rehearsal Studios with Hunter Stroope. The finishing touches were done in May 2018. Uly Noriega was the recording engineer and did all the mastering as well.
Grave Flowers Bongo Band consists of:
Vaughn Christensen: Bongo
Andy Caly: Electric Bass Guitar
Gabe Flores: Guitars, Vocals, Sax, Synth, Percussion
Gabe Flores currently plays in Hooveriii and Richard Rose and formerly fronted the LA rock powerhouse Babylon, but has “always loved Charles Manson’s “LIE: The Love And Terror Cult” sound with the shitty production campfire vibes hand drums and and acoustic guitar and wanted to try something like that!” So under the influence of Manson, Sam Gopal, Love, Kevin Ayers, Funkadelic, Peter Green, and “all the freaky folk freedom rockers from the 60s and 70s” Flores created “Flower Pot”.
Grave Flowers Bongo Band has only played ten shows so to date, but has already shared the stage with Jessica Pratt, Ex-Cult, Shannon Lay, Follakazoid, Stonefield, Mad Walls, and Levitation Room among others. Keep your eyes peeled for more live performances in the near future!
Only 100 pressed!
Only 30 Test Pressings available!
LP - Stonewall - Stonewall
First officially licensed release EVER! HARD ROCK HOLY GRAIL!
ONLY 500 PRESSED ON "BLOODY MARY" COLORED VINYL!
"So you're addicted to hard rock from 1972 and getting tired of LPs that don't take you for the full ride. You check out tons of 'em. Stonewall? Hmmm... only the most potent and rare stuff can get you off nowadays. Kicks intense enough to remind you why you got into it in the first place. Jams you can't wait to lay on your friends so uncontrollably alive you know it's gonna wipe 'em out. Yeah... you really need Stonewall. It's ritual time.
I hear people all over the world saying Stonewall is a 'Holy Grail'. I agree. 'Holy Grail' status for an LP requires the most extreme and exciting combination of quality and rarity. That's not all. It has to have mystery. It has to reek of humanity. There can be no other LP that beats it at its game. Top dog. It has to be a mindfuck capable of destroying anybody who hears it, including those who have previously only experienced the usual killer classics. Finding a copy must come as close to impossible as possible and remain that way even after everybody knows about it. As an original pressing, Stonewall fulfills all of the 'Holy Grail' requirements and I am jacked that a legitimate reissue finally happens some 30 odd years after it first blew me away!" - Paul Major
"Stonewall was a phenomenal hard rock band that almost no one heard in real time. For years, there was no story at all, only one very blurry picture, and the music was available only to the fanatical.
The sounds, though, are extraordinary, and not just for a “rare” record. Stonewall’s combination of confidence and furious in-the-room energy means they sound ALIVE like the very best hard rock. That a band this fiery and original never got to make a conventional studio record is baffling, but what we have might be even better - the sound of a great band in it’s raw form, bursting at the seams with powerand ideas, live in the room. Like the very best private press LP’s, Stonewall effortlessly inhabits a space nobody else thought to get to. Nobody got to sand off Stonewall's rough edges, so we get to hear what the luckiest denizens of forgotten New York bars would have heard. Even the drum solo is thrilling, perhaps the only time that’s ever been true on a recording. This music looks backwards to psychedelica, forwards to punk, and straight into the stoned eyes of 1972. A producer or record company would have tried to mold them, and they would almost certainly have lost some of the innocence that makes this so fresh seeming almost 50 years later." - Geoffrey Weiss
Furthermore...
You’ve read the reviews, you’ve heard the album, and you’ve seen the eBay auctions where it’ssold for the price of a new car. You’ve probably bought the fully authorized Permanent Recordsreissue, or at least you should. But do you know the story of the now-legendary band behind theultimate hard rock holy grail, Stonewall? Bits and pieces have leaked out over the years —sometimes accurate, often not — but until now, no one’s really dug deep to find out whoStonewall really were.That is, until Doug Sheppard uncovered the real story of Stonewall for Ugly Things #65. Whatlittle has been out there on the internet about Stonewall has generally centered around thealbum sessions — superficial at best and wildly inaccurate (most can’t even spell the members’names correctly) at worst. But there was more to Stonewall than just the album: Formed rightout of high school in 1969 by four guys who’d already paid their dues in Long Island garagebands, they were ready to parlay their enthusiasm into a new unit dedicated to the burgeoningheavy rock genre a la the Jeff Beck Group and Led Zeppelin.Far from studio denizens, Stonewall played out regularly at local venues such as Pete’s CandyStore — plus parks, colleges and even a matinee at the Fillmore East. No wonder they were sotight by the time they entered the studio to record the fabled album in 1971. For the first time,the years leading up to the album are covered in detail via interviews with drummer TonyAssalti, original bassist Renie Gennosa (who also played with heavy psych gods Morgen) andband associate/roadie/musician John Glauda, whose vivid memories fill out the picture ofStonewall. And the story didn’t end there, as members continued to play in various projects witheach other in the ensuing years.If you’ve been hungering for more ever since any one of the iridescent Permanent Recordspressings of Stonewall has blown your speakers and your mind, look no further: Pick up a copyof Ugly Things #65 via the magazine’s website and dive into the real story in a real format, print.
T-shirt - Stonewall - Unisex
Cop one of these super soft tees and be the envy of all your record collector friends! This LIMITED EDITION, officially licensed shirt is a serious collector conversation piece, a comfortable hard rock holy grail endorsement, and difficult decision eliminator. This shirt will surely be sickest black band t-shirt in your closet and that will make choosing which black t-shirt to wear a no-brainer! Buy one for each day of the week! Or just wash this one every now and again. You decide. As you might've already suspected, these were hand screen printed by Jay Beckey (@e.s.serigraphy) on black cotton.
LP - Salt Lick - Salt Lick
150 Black Vinyl! 100 Midnight Oil Blue!
Limited number of test pressings w/hand screened jackets still available.
Hey Amigos!
Lance from Permanent Records here! Historically, I’ve done all of the writing we use to promote new releases and I’m always stoked to do it. I’m excited about every new release we put out and I have plenty to say about each and everyone. That said, writing about this one ain’t quite as easy. I play bass in Salt Lick and I love it. It’s an absolute pleasure to jam with my boys Erik and Miguel (also my co-workers at Permanent). We get together once or twice a week after work, crank the amps, drink a few cervezas, and make some noise heavily influenced by our favorite kinds of rock’n’roll. Anyone following Permanent for the last 12+ years knows the kind of shit I’m into. I’ve compiled some of my faves in the form of Brown Acid and I’ve written an uncountable number reviews of some of my favorite reissues in our email blast. We all DJ late 60s and early 70s Hard Rock, Psych, Freakbeat, Garage, and Proto-Punk / Metal regularly. We eat, drink, and breathe this stuff. Erik has played in a bunch of great bands over the years including bands we’ve released music by like Jesus Sons and Mind Meld. Miguel is a veteran rock’n’roller from Spain and has travelled the globe playing in bands, DJing, and buying records for decades. So rather than describe how our band sounds beyond discussing our influences and previous endeavors, I’d just like to say please take a moment, click on the listen link, and decide for yourself if you dig the tunes. If you dig ‘em, please buy the record so we can keep doing what we do and keep the rock’n’roll flame burning!
Gracias!
Your old pal,
Lance
"Salt Lick is the very new L.A. trio with heavy connections to Permanent Records, Mock Records, Jesus Sons and that particularly collector-y Bonehead Crunchers/Crushers/etc.-style blunt-object 70s rock ‘n’ roll...Enthusiastically working the same grinding vibes of that recently rediscovered wave of old-school weirdos who got lost somewhere between prog rock they couldn’t play and punk rock they didn’t get, and who’s we-just-wanna-rock! 45s ended up creating a whole micro-genre of longhair off-the-grid proto-proto-punk. (Salt Lick also claims as an influence “the one good song on a bunch of major label LPs from the early 70s,” which is also very accurate—and Permanent/RidingEasy’s own Brown Acid comps also make a nice sampler of this sound.)" - LA Record
"Coming on like an MC5 fever dream... Salt Lick’s debut ..shakes the window panes until they beg for mercy. See-sawing on a monster riff, the track is muddied and murky but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t knock the wind out of you. Salt Lick rounds up members from the Permanent staff, but its more than just a bit of nepotism here – it seems that those curating the power of pummel can also deliver it just as well. This is scuzzy, crusted, exhaust huffing garage rock with no spit shine in sight."
-- RAVEN SINGS THE BLUES
Tracklist:
Midnight Oil
Dirty Dream
Dead Drunk Blues
Woman
Into The Night
Parapraxis
Hi Babe
Comedown Countdown
Doctor (Of Love)
Never Coming Back
LP - Pachyman - In Dub
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Envisioned in the style of early dancehall records, Pachy García took upon the task of recreating the sonic endeavors of Scientist, King Tubby, Lee "Scratch" Perry and the great engineers and players of instruments of early Jamaican reggae music. Inspired by Channel One Studios and Roots Radics band, the tone was set in a dancehall fashion with some detours into Rub-a-Dub and Rockers style playing. Recorded at Pachy’s own 333 House from January to March in 2019. Written, produced, all instruments played and mixed by himself.
LP - Raven - Back To Ohio Blues (CRYSTAL CLEAR VINYL)
WATCH THIS VIDEO ABOUT THE HISTORY OF "BACK TO OHIO BLUES"!
CRYSTAL CLEAR VINYL IS LIMITED TO 250 COPIES!
Permanent Records is profoundly proud to present this limited edition reissue of Raven's highly regarded 1975 wasted hard rock masterpiece, Back To Ohio Blues. More hard rock than blues, this stoned proto-punk record is one-of-a-kind and is finally being reissued with its original minimalist artwork. Fans of other wasted private press geniuses like Circuit Rider, George Brigman, and Heitkotter will absolutely want to file this on the shelf right next to the cheap beer filled mini-fridge to be enjoyed in the garage with the next six-pack / bong rips sesh.
But don't take our word for it, here's what the heads at Acid Archives had to say about this rarity: "Messed up bluesy hard rock biker statement which I'm told comes straight from this guy's reality, no posing but the real thing. Great punky vocals relate stories on smack, sex, Ohio, Harleys and everything else that makes life worth living. Sample lyrics: "gotta get high, gotta get f***ed, nail me to your cross". An impressive intensity especially on side 1 and one of the few local white blues rock LP's that truly works. A classic of mid '70's local hard stoner dementia; would make a good double bill with the Merry Airbrakes."
Unless you have $1500 in your piggy bank to spend on an OG, you shouldn't think twice about plunking your hard-earned milk money down on this reissue, before it's gone again.
LP - Golden Grease - Zero Time (LIMITED EDITION LEMON-LIME COLORED VINYL)
LIMITED EDITION LEMON-LIME COLORED VINYL IS LIMITED TO 300 COPIES!
Zero Time drops April 28th 2023 via Permanent and is available for pre-order on March 31st 2023.
Permanent Records is profoundly proud to present the debut album by GOLDEN GREASE!
Golden Grease are a pummeling post-punk/garage unit out of Los Angeles. Their debut LP Zero Time comes ripping in just over 22 minutes crashing through influences ranging from post punk, hardcore and krautrock. Zero Time is dedicated to the absurdity of modern existence.
Recorded by Mike Kriebel at Golden Beat Studios
FOR FANS OF: Total Control, The Fall, The Spits, Wire, Goggs, NEU!
Mixed by Mike Kriebel and Golden Grease
Mastered by Mikey Young
Cover Illustration by George Wylesol
Tracklist:
1. New Crisis
2. Zero Time
3. Customer Service
4. Party Problem
5. Morphing
6. Reality War
7. Headlights
8. Eraser
9. Assisted Living
LP - Golden Grease - Zero Time (TEST PRESSING)
TEST PRESSING LIMITED TO 30 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES!
Zero Time drops April 28th 2023 via Permanent and is available for pre-order on March 31st 2023.
Permanent Records is profoundly proud to present the debut album by GOLDEN GREASE!
Golden Grease are a pummeling post-punk/garage unit out of Los Angeles. Their debut LP Zero Time comes ripping in just over 22 minutes crashing through influences ranging from post punk, hardcore and krautrock. Zero Time is dedicated to the absurdity of modern existence.
Recorded by Mike Kriebel at Golden Beat Studios
FOR FANS OF: Total Control, The Fall, The Spits, Wire, Goggs, NEU!
Mixed by Mike Kriebel and Golden Grease
Mastered by Mikey Young
Cover Illustration by George Wylesol
Tracklist:
1. New Crisis
2. Zero Time
3. Customer Service
4. Party Problem
5. Morphing
6. Reality War
7. Headlights
8. Eraser
9. Assisted Living
LP BUNDLE - Golden Grease - Zero Time & Eddy Current Suppression Ring - All In Good Time
THIS BUNDLE GETS YOU A COPIES OF: Golden Grease - Zero Time LP & Eddy Current Suppression Ring - All In Good Time LP. Both records for just $24.99!
More info on Golden Grease below:
LIMITED EDITION LEMON-LIME COLORED VINYL IS LIMITED TO 300 COPIES!
Permanent Records is profoundly proud to present the debut album by GOLDEN GREASE!
Golden Grease are a pummeling post-punk/garage unit out of Los Angeles. Their debut LP Zero Time comes ripping in just over 22 minutes crashing through influences ranging from post punk, hardcore and krautrock. Zero Time is dedicated to the absurdity of modern existence.
Recorded by Mike Kriebel at Golden Beat Studios
FOR FANS OF: Total Control, The Fall, The Spits, Wire, Goggs, NEU!
Mixed by Mike Kriebel and Golden Grease
Mastered by Mikey Young
Cover Illustration by George Wylesol
Tracklist:
1. New Crisis
2. Zero Time
3. Customer Service
4. Party Problem
5. Morphing
6. Reality War
7. Headlights
8. Eraser
9. Assisted Living
LP BUNDLE - Grave Flowers Bongo Band "Flower Pot" & Grave Flowers Bongo Band "Strength of Spring"
THIS BUNDLE GETS YOU COPIES OF: Grave Flowers Bongo Band "Flower Pot" LP & Grave Flowers Bongo Band "Strength of Spring" LP. Both records for just $17.99!
LP - Zipper - Zipper (PERMANENT EXCLUSIVE "WHISKEY AND CIGARETTE SMOKE" COLORED VINYL)
EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE ON "WHISKEY AND CIGARETTE SMOKE" COLORED VINYL FROM PERMANENT RECORDS! LIMITED TO 250 COPIES!
"For our 50th label release, Permanent Records was stoked to reissue the 40th Anniversary reissue of Zipper's self-titled LP from 1975!!!! It's hard to believe that it's almost the 50th Anniversary of this ripper! You all know Fred Cole from Dead Moon, The Lollipop Shoppe, and most recently, Pierced Arrows (just to name a few)! But preceding both of his more "famous" bands (and others like The Rats, etc, etc) was Zipper! Formed when Fred and Toody Cole returned to Portland, Oregon after homesteading in Alaska, Zipper was the beginning of both Whizeagle Records, their in-house label, and Fred's long illustrious DIY RnR career. Equal parts acid fried psych, raw blistering guitar fireworks, proto-punk pummel and bone crunchin' heavy rock machismo, Zipper was Fred's headfirst dive back into the rock world after his disillusionment with the 'garage scene' post Weeds / Lollipop Shoppe. No managers to tell him what songs to play or what 'sound' was in. No label to fight with. Just Fred Cole and a close knit group of fellow disenchanted rock n rollers (Lorry Erk, Jim Roos and Greg Shadoan), playing their in-the-red whiskey and cigarette fueled music as loud and furious as can be!!! So for those into scorching Acid Archives psych rock, Zipper is yer next fix! And for those those Fred and Toody Cole completists, this reissue is ESSENTIAL, as originals go for as much as $250!!!! For everyone else, if you like yer rock n roll, RAW, MEAN AND UNHINGED, just like it should be."
"Fred Cole's mid-70s album is as uncompromising as anything he's done. His vocal style is aspecially strident on these hard rock songs, which don't have the garage-style feel of Dead Moon or the occasional subtleties of Loilipop Shoppe. The first song is a bunch of raunchy double-entendres. Pretty twisted...This LP is worth hearing. It's unigue and wild.(Aaron MilenskI, THE ACID ARCHIVES)
"this is righteous rock to the max, full of chunky, proto-punk riffery and blowout solos that never stray too far from a punk aesthetic despitethe cock-rockery leanings." (Brian Turner, WFMU)
"File under awesome. 1975 no-frills, no bullshit, cock rock, This is Zipper- Fred Cole and company's. sicko American twist on Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.(Aquarium Drunkard)
For Fans Of: Dead Moon, Led Zeppelin, Granicus, Jerusalem, Grand Funk Railroad
LP - SWIMMING BELL - CHARLIE {LTD. TO 250 COPIES}
"Charlie" drops January 19, 2024 via Permanent and is available NOW! LIMITED TO 250 COPIES: WHITE VINYL WITH PINK SPLATTER
Reminiscent of mid-70's Laurel Canyon, "Charlie" is a testament to Schottland's ability to blend introspective lyrics with intricate melodies and Americana harmonies, to create a unique vision of humanity. Influenced by artists such as Jeff Tweedy, Jason Molina, Neil Young, Gillian Welch, and Beck, Swimming Bell's music encapsulates a journey through emotions and experiences, while paying homage to the beauty found in life's most intimate moments. Produced/Engineered/Mixed by Oli Deakin Mastered by Joe Lambert Photography by Maiwenn Raoult Layout by Bridget Beorse
FOR FANS OF: Phosphorescent, Judee Sill, Sharon Van Etten, Rosali, Meg Baird, Cowboy Junkies, Bonny Doon
Preview "Charlie" digitally HERE!
If you like what you hear, we hope you'll order the LP and come celebrate the record release at the Roadhouse on Feburary, 2nd 2024!
Review from Far Out Magazine U
THE SKINNY: Art is the only facet of our society where the term “easy” is dolled out as a descriptor and met with wholesale disdain. The idea that all art must be uncomfortable for the audience is likely a notion perpetuated by gatekeeping students in a desperate attempt to ratify their tuition fees. But, in every other aspect of our world, to describe something as easy is to acknowledge the frictionless pleasure it can afford your life. Swimming Bell, the project of Katie Schottland, and her release Charlie is undeniably easy.
Of course, that isn’t to suggest that Charlie is a love child of Hotel California and Tusk, far from it. While it certainly plays with the sunlight found in Laurel Canyon, and there is a continual drip of 1970s nostalgia coating the record from cover to cover, the songs and, most notably, Schottland’s lyrics are decidedly modern. Written before, during and after the global pandemic, the songs are rich and textured, offering light, dark, highs, lows and everything in between.
This variety of focal points isn’t quite matched in Schottland’s vocals. Rarely does she swerve away from providing a honeyed tone to her delivery, sweet and sticky with golden hues and comforting warmth. While this could become saccharine for a different listener, it allows the moments of vulnerability to become all the more poignant for it. Like that knotty blanket that sits at the end of your couch, this record is threaded together with love and care.
Charlie may not be avant-garde and lacks the glinting edge that most musos require to sharpen their tongues, but there is authentic storytelling, lilting tunes and the kind of creamy production that is luscious enough to forget how difficult it can be to construct. Intricate melodies and songs that discuss love, grief, and everything in between aren’t exactly what you’d call easy listening. But Schottland’s work is certainly easier than most. It is easy to put on as you make yourself a cup of coffee, easy to recommend to a friend without fear of judgment, easy to listen to without much thought, and just as easy to lose yourself in.
For Fans Of: Making ravioli and drinking red wine, allowing occasional breaks to sit under a blanket, forget about making ravioli and instead focus on drinking red wine.
Charlie track by track:
Release Date: 19 January | Producer: Katie Schottland and Oli Deakin | Label: Permanent Records
‘I Believe In Us’: Schottland seems intent on showcasing her vocal in this opener. As a slow build, it works well to open the record but falls a little below the LP’s high watermark. [3/5]
‘Take It Easy’: A tale that most of us can at least quietly attest to having experienced, sees a hedonistic evening slip into the inky morning, complete with all the dreamy dread that comes with it. A standout moment. [4.5/5]
‘For Al and Lee’: Schottland’s guitar skills, much like Joni Mitchell, will likely go under the radar, but here she displays her skills with a cultured calm. As Joe Walsh once said: “It’s all about the right hand”. [3.5/5]
‘Company’: One of the more vulnerable moments on the record that allows a depth for Schottland to explore. A fantastic lead line provides the guide rope to dive along with her. [4/5]
‘Ash in the Jar’: A dashboard-banging beat may set this song off to the races, but it is the powerful guitar that tells us everything we need to know. A heartbreaker. [3.5/5]
‘Born Wild’: Vocals are perhaps the quickest way to attack the heart of the listener, and despite following a similar pattern of the rest of the tracks, this one feels entirely more special. [4/5]
‘Fly Like An Eagle’: Probably the most obviously influenced by the 1970s soft rock explosion of California’s Laurel Canyon, there is little here to dislike if you’ve been aiming for a return to such a time. Those hoping to avoid “soar like an eagle” references look away now. [3.5/5]
‘Delkab Ave.’: There’s nothing particularly wrong with this number, but it falls a little flat compared to the rest of the LP. That’s to be expected, considering the song’s tempo, but it’s hard not to hit a lull. [2.5/5]
‘The Carnival’: A gentle vocal and a tambourine accompany you on the first notes of this track, and they are enough to transport you into Schottland’s world before brass enters the fray and the song lifts off. Languid and luscious, it’s a wondrous moment. [4.5/5]
‘Just Begun’: It’s hard not to enjoy an ironic song title, and putting this one as the album’s closer is an easy way to get a cheap laugh out of me. But the laughs quickly stop as Schottland sings, pulling you into her world for one final story. [4/5]
