UNDERGROUND MEDICINE
Last update 26 July, 2010
The 2nd press of The Gaggers-You Fix Me Up available now on white vinyl with two different sleeves! While you’re at it; if you can, take 2 minutes 13 seconds away from your Hozac singles club and other various “young men with beards” records and check out something once known as Punk Rock. I’m not bitter, I just like RocknRoll.
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Any Graham Parker fans out there? There’s a GP documentary in the works by two of the guys who did the Ramones-End Of The Century. They need help with financing and have an awesome deal for anyone who donates. Pledge as little as $35 and get a dvd and t-shirt when it’s done. Lots more cool offers too. Check out the trailer and offers here.
I told you once before, don’t you fuck with the Axe! It’s Unnatural Axe month here at U.M. headquarters with two amazing releases. There’s a new split single with Italy’s ever-awesome Nasties and a double lp tribute album. Don’t forget to go to the bottom of this page to get to the lp section.
We finally added a bunch of stuff to the rare/used pages. Not a whole lot of new lp’s or cd’s, but plenty of singles. Not much on the KBD side of things, but lots of cool stuff (not to mention affordable!) to check out.
Just when you think you know it all, you learn something new. I’ve been a Runaways/Joan Jett and Blondie fanatic forever. I got all the records, bootlegs, books etc. Oddly, I don’t have much interest in The Runaways movie, but I’ll see it eventually. Anyway, the other day I’m trolling around you tube and find something I never even knew existed. I stubble upon a holy grail of sorts without even searching for it! Blondie covers The Runaways in 1977! It’s a pretty great version. Debbie's vocal sounds great and Clem is just insane. Well I guess there must be a Blondie boot out there that I need. The hunt continues...
Remember, new records are added weekly, as we get them, not in a single update like the old days...
NEW SHIT! : seven inches
4.50 Broken Bottles
Drinking In The Rain/Lose Every Battle (Bat Skates) Long standing socal punk band. Right in the mix with Smogtown, Stitches, Smut Peddlers, The Crowd, early Social Distortion...
4.00 Complaints
Secrets (Meaty Beaty) Like everything else on this label, it’s excellent punknroll! Includes members of the Radio Reelers, Swingin’ Utters, Lowdowns, others I’m sure... 4-songs, Grey vinyl
4.50 Crime
Extortion + Crazy Beat/Suwani (FYBS) Back In Stock! 2 fast songs backed with a slow one. Almost hard to believe it could be this good. Numbered edition of 400
4.50 Cute Lepers
No Escape/Black Market Lepers 00 (No Front Teeth) England New Lepers is pretty much the same as old Lepers-Great! 2nd press on Lime green vinyl. 2 diff sleeves.
4.00 Dagger Dicks
Sharp For You/Razor Sharp Love (Meaty Beaty) I couldn’t find a myspace page for them, but for some strange reason they sound almost exactly like The Gaggers, Botox Rats, Shanghai Wires, & Disco Lepers-only with a slight bit of powerpop injected. I do mean slight. Lime green vinyl.
5.00 Fast Takers
She’s Goin’ Crazy + 3 (Skygoat) Absolutely Killer PunknRoll from the very fertile land of Portland, Oregon.
300 copies.
4.50 Gaggers
Fix Me Up/Got No Time + Blow The Bank (Rapid Pulse) 200 copy 2nd press on white vinyl! Two different sleeves (100 copies each). A co-release with our friends at No Front Teeth UK-www.myspace.com/nftrecords. Super snotty 77 stlye Punk from England! The debut release from this London trio. 200 black vinyl copies if you act fast (sold out). 100 copy split color vinyl if you act faster (sold outer)! For fans of ’77 UK Punk, The Stitches, Shanghai Wires... Two Fingers Down Your Throat Punk Rock!!!
4.50 Gaggers
You Ain't No Fun/Bored Of You + Nothing To Me (Pure Punk) Italy The 2nd 7" from the Gaggers is a co-release with NFT and this Italian label.
A change of style on this one? Fuck No!
3 more puke-driven cuts! Great backing vocals, catchy as all get-out!
5.00 Gardens
Alive In 5-D/Maze Time (Just For The Hell Of It) New psychy garage from Detroit.
4.25 Hell City Kings
The Wolf e.p. (Cutthroat) Tough punk from Texas. Following in the footsteps of Turbonegro, Glucifer...
5.00 Idi Amin & The Amputees
Disco Bitch/Nasty Nazi (Going Underground) Members of Francis Harold & The Holograms doing their best to sound like a lost kbd classic from Australia circa ‘78 and they do it spectacularly! The Chosen Few would appear to be their blueprint. 500 copies, really cool sleeve.
4.00 Jolts
Kaminari/Loser (Baby I’m A) (Meaty Beaty) Garagey RnR punk from Canada. Another hit for Meaty Beaty!
5.00 Marvelous Darlings
I’ll Stand By Her/Friend Of A Friend (Plastic Idol) The third single from the marvelous Marvelous Darlings.
5.00 Marvelous Darlings
The Swords, The Streets/Galloway (Wall Ride) 2 more gems from the M.D.’s
5.50 Mikal Cronin
Gone/Give It To Me (Goodbye Boozy) Italy Lofi trad rock blues from this Moonheart,Okie Dokie,Ty Segall...
6.50 Modern Action
Radioactive Boy/Problem Child (No Front Teeth) England Limited English repress on red vinyl-already out of print
4.50 Orphans
Electric S/W.W.W.D. (Vinyl Dog) Female fronted socal punk that came out 5 years ago (2005), but we just got it now. 800 copy black vinyl, green sleeve version.
4.00 Radio Reelers
Too Dumb To Quit (Meaty Beaty) These San Francisco boys have been around a long time now. This is some of their best stuff! 4-songs, Red vinyl
4.25 Reducers
My Problem/Caveman [non-lp] (Rave On) My Problem is not the Reducers usual pub rock, punky pop fare. It is however, a brilliant track from their latest album sung by Mark Mulcahy from the almost famous Miracle Legion Caveman is a typical Reducers rocker. Super-nice jacket style sleeve. 500 copies
4.50 Sexmachines
Ready, Steady, Go!/School’s Out Forever (Sexmachines) This single is from 2005 and it’s the first we’ve seen of it. Too bad, cause this is realy good speedy super-melodic punk. I'm guessing they were a short-lived band formed from the ashes of the terrific Vanilla Muffins. Apparently this was their 2nd single, the catalog number is SM#02. Both songs are originals.
5.00 Shannon and the Clams
Paddy’s Birthday/Diary: Jimmy (Southpaw) Some very authentic early 60’s girl style songs with a modern touch.
5.00 Sloppy Seconds
You Can’t Kill Joey Ramone/Can’t Stand RocknRoll (Wall Ride) While there have been lots of Ramones/Joey Tributes in the last 10 or so years, this one is at the top of the heap. This woulda been a stand out track on Destroyed.
5.00 Suspect Parts
City Burning/Change Your Mind (No Front Teeth) England Back In Stock! Quite possibly currently the best band out there (if you can actually qualify such a thing). Another two winners!
5.00 GG Allin & The Criminal Quartet / Duane Peters Gunfight
(Ponk UK) Two surprisingly competent GG country songs and a good punker from Duane. The rest is spoken word/interview.
3.50 Gun Crazy / TEEN COOL
(Cutthroat) This came out back in ‘06 and Teen Cool was long gone by then. Maybe Gun Crazy too. Two-songs each of Texas Punknroll. Members were in or went on to Motards, Chumps, Born Liars...
6.00 Unnatural Axe / Nasties
(Lawless) New music from the Axe? That’s right! Their 1st new recordings in 28 years! Two songs from each band: One original and they cover each other. Only 290 copies on mint julep green vinyl in a really nice sleeve. I’d hurry, just sayin’...
NEW SHIT! : Other
11.00 Arsene Obscene - LP
Zone Industrielle (PTrash) Germany Bedroom Punk! Mr. Obscene is the guitarist for the incredible Veines and this is his solo project performed and recorded by himself in his bedroom. 14great short and trashy songs.
8.00 Born Liars - LP
Ragged Island (Cutthroat) Classic style punknroll from these Houston boys. Their first vinyl full-length. 12-songs.
8.00 Botox Rats - LP
Modern Ceasers (Meaty Beaty) Straight up ’77 style punk killers from England. The Botox Rats feature one of the snottiest singers ever. Colored vinyl + a digital download, Yeah!
11.50 Boys Club - LP
S/T (Three Dimensional) Splendid garage pop debut lp! 14 original hits, real nice sleeve.
13.00 Horribly Wrong - LP
C’mon And Bleed With The Horribly Wrong (Eradicator) BACK IN STOCK!!! I haven’t heard an album like this in a looooong time. It doesn’t sound dated, but it easily could have come out on Rip Off Records in the nineties. One killer song after another!
We used to call it Garage Punk so we’ll go with that. Fast but not thrash, high energy, not every song sounds the same, great b & w cover art, lyric sheet/insert, 180 gram vinyl, a download card. What more could you want? Nothing! Split release with www.myspace.com/shitincanrecords.
11.00 Pink Sexies - LP
S/T (Wrecked ‘Em) 8-songs, 7 of them recorded back in '01.
Really nice package on sexy pink vinyl-150 copies only. Comes with a download card.
8.00 Sleazies - LP
Trite Ditties and Meaningless Crap (Rapid Pulse) After six years of cd-only living, it's finally on vinyl! You know the deal, right? High energy Punk Rock & RocknRoll snottiness that never let's up. Sounds better than the cd version. Swirly red/brown vinyl. Buy with the Young People With Faces lp for $10 plus postage.
23.00 V/A Ruling The World From The Backseat - LP
A Tribute To Unnatural Axe (Lawless) 27 artist worldwide covering the beer-guzzling, foot-stomping, fist-pumping, ear splitting, brain tumor-dislodging punk classics of Unnatural Axe. Includes The Neighborhoods, Mission of Burma, The Sleazies, Classic Ruins, Dogmatics, The Queers, UFO Dictatorz, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Nasties, Rev. Norb, and lots more. A double album on two different vinyl colors, full-color cover and insert (which look awesome), and a card for a free download of the whole thing. All that and it’s only 500 numbered copies.
11.00 Veines - LP
Bourgeois Standard (Demolition Derby) Belgium The 2nd Phenomenal lp from The Veines!
Extrodinary PunknRoll from France. 12 new catchy blasts!
9.00 Veines - LP
Perdus dans la ville (Demolition Derby) Belgium Killer Punk from France! ’77 meets
the Rip Offs to give you an idea what they’re like. 16 mid/fast tempo songs mostly sung in French. Includes members of Flaschen and others. NOTE:The covers got a bit bashed up in shipping. Not terrible, but far from perfect. The vinyl is unscathed.
6.00 Young People With Faces - LP
S/T (Rapid Pulse) We’re so pumped for this record! 3 teenage chicks and one teenage dude from Idaho kick out the raw punkrock like it’s L.A. 1978! Besides sound that kicks ass over the cd version, this includes the non-cd bonus killer “I Didn’t Die!” 13 originals and a Rezillos cover. Great cover art! Check out their Cherry Blossom Clinic session. Buy together with the Sleazies lp for $10 + postage.