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Spew & Spittle: Zine vs. Magazine
About 2 months ago, I asked one of the advertising reps at an indie label that services the Bath if she wanted to take out an ad. I got a rather unexpected reply...something along the lines of 'TongueBath doesn't qualtify because it's not polished enough...doesn't cut the grade.' Hmmmm. Funny, I addressed this very issue when interviewed by Blaster Magazine in the article "Desktop Rebellion" (Feb. 1995).
Although TongueBath has access to state-of-the-art lay-out software (QuarkXPress and Adobe Photoshop), it was, and still is a dilemma to what degree should I employ these utilities. Do I employ all the technologies available to me so the Bath can have that oh-so-nice 'polished look' and 'cut the grade?' Or, do I retain some of the cut-and-paste look to uphold a zine-ish quality?
It's my understanding that zines are considered to be underground; a written and visual counterculture. What happens when labels start putting the expectation of a polished, computerized finish on publications to qualify for financial support? I'll tell you, those pubs no longer qualify as zines. Zines are synonymous with college radio; you abolish college radio and zines, you lose the underground test-bed. Zines are supposed to be slagged rags with identity. A TRUE indie label Ad Man/Woman knows this. Know what I'm sayin'? (I guess it's time to put my computer programming skills to good use,and devise cut-and-paste software, eh?)
BTW: it's splitsville from Balto. for me, Curtis Bay, TongueBath, TOT, and Ottis the Serial Killer Kitty. We're relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area in mid-March. SO, up-date those databases with the new return address, and be sure not to mail anything to the Balto. POB after 10 March (unless it has first class postage...won't get forwarded without it). AND, keep your peepers peeled for the long awaited back-issue of TongueBath #4 (because of my mathematical proof in TongueBath #5, 5 comes before 4 anyway), due out before the end of summer 1996 comes and goes! (Yeah, right.)
ATTN: All labels....we're a collective of music afficionados with a keen appreciation for all musical genres...ska!,acid jazz, ethnobeat, techno, folk, jazz, blues, rap, hip-hop (and all the derivatives that keep popping up), ambient, experimental noise and regular noise, dub, calypso, reggae, soca, new age, old age, rock, metal (sometimes), punk and hardcore, etc., etc....you get the idea. Send it (this includes recurrent/re-released material, too) ALL!!
TongueBath and TOT: not just your run-of-the-mill punk zine family.
Skim-gerlY, Publisher/Music Editor-in-chief
NOTE: This episode includes music reviewed between December 1995 - March 1996.
Quick Licks
1. Buckets of Drool - Noteworthy, and tongues up!
2. Spitton level on the rise - Worthy of mention
3. Dribble out of the left corner of your mouth - Don't waste your hard-earned beans
4. Warm bucket of spit - Forget it all-together
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN/MICHAEL BROOK Night Song (Real World) - 3, The Paula Abdul of Nusrat records---over-produced.
NOFX Heavy Petting Zoo (Epitaph) - 2, Believe it or not, punk DOES improve with age.
MEPHISKAPHELES God Bless Satan (Pass the Virgin Music/Moon) - 2, "Doomsday" will burn holes in the souls of your skankin' shoes!
VA:STOLEN MOMEMENTS RED HOT + COOL (Red Hot/GRP) - 1,The jazzed-up, hip-hopped volume supporting the fight against AIDS. Just do this; it rules!
GLITCH Out of Sync (Defective) - 4, Deeeeep-six this.
DEFECTIVE SOUNDSCAPES Self-titled (Defective) - 2, This is what Baltimore sounds like...for real, the city itself.
THE WEDDING PRESENT Mini Plus (Cooking Vinyl) - 4, for The Wedding Present fans ONLY.
SHIV Flayed and Ashamed (Thirsty Ear) - 4, Yeah, yeah, I can play that.
AUDIO ACTIVE AND LARAAJI The Way Out Is The Way In (Gyroscope) - 2, Kraftwerk from outer-space.
FRANK BLACK The Cult of Ray (American) - 2, Frank Black IS the bomb.
NEW WET KOJAK Self-titled (Touch and Go) -1, Music for a Jim Thompson novel turned major motion picture soundtrack...a mutated GVSB.
BABYLAND Who's Sorry Now (Flipside) - 1, This is chock full of tunes to experience a 2" binder of rejection letters to..."Application Denied" is electro-bad-assed bliss.
One Liners...(or thereabouts)
BATHER'S LEGEND
(!)Skim-gerlY (@)Mr. Chris-in-your-face ($)pIZZA mAN (%)Mookie the Mole Pole/Laughing Spongebottom/Who_pisses_youoff (&)Skelly (+)Turtle (~)E- (#)WAYne (=)The Bather's Collective (?)GodDamn TeX (^)Curtis Bay
(!) + (^) VIVA SATELLITE! Nishma (Teenbeat) These guys (gals) have money. You figure it out. THE KEN ARDLEY PLAYBOYS "Eni Fing Two Be Fay Mus" b/w "Is It True?" (Lucky Garage Record Co.) Raw, sloppy punk sax, under I-swear-to-God-I-thought-it-was-Mark E. Smith-of-The Fall on voxs. This will twist your ding dong into a pretzel for sure. It's a buy or die! Ed Note: Keep your peepers peeled for future reviews on LGRC reviews not making it into this issue...Butte, Lunk, Purse, Tim Perkins, Sam Durant...LGRC 2716 MLK Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA 94703 e-mail:humanlife@luckygarage.com. HUMBLE GODS Self-titled (High Speed Media/Futurist) Drummer has trouble bringing it in right. Typical LA punk. We could rag on this all day, but we'll just give it a Bill the Cat 'Ack!' THICK SHAKE Soft Spot (Ballyhoo Guns) Farmer Brown sicked Houndsound on this buncha noise pigs and slopped `em with, er, um, you fill in the blank. The ship came and "The Ship has Left." We gotta soft spot on our butts for Thick Shake. SPACETIME CONTINUUM Emit Ecaps (Astralwerks) Fine, fine techno work. San Francisco as Jonah Sharp's lab proves to be a bastion of majestic, hypnotic,colorful, ambient electronic expermiments. Highly recommended.
(!) MINISTRY Flith Pig (Warner) As far as I'm concerned, Al's lost it...this band died with The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste release. Just Fuck It Anymore!! I give up. FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY Hard Wired (Metropolis) Very smart drum programmers. More irascible rasp in the vocals than on previous releases. Once again, underrated technician-musicans. VA: MACRO DUB INFECTION - VOL. I (Virgin/Caroline) Dub: Originating from the flip-side of singles where vocals were mixed out and replaced by a steady thump-thump-thump of enhanced bass and drums, chicka-chicka-chicka staccato guitar, and echos resulting in a unmistakable rhythmic sound of riding the seas. Many tracks (23)to be had; a few highlights---Disc 1 features SPRING HEEL JACK's "Double Edge Dub" which would certainly complement one of revolutionary dub poet Mutabaruka's serrated-knife jerk-rhythmic chants...BEDOUIN ASCENT's "Broadway Boogie Woogie" is a hard-wired dub...COIL performs a righteous rub-a-dub-dub titled "Hills Are Alive." On Disc 2 BUD ALZIR's "Morocco" is an aural landscape that puts one in downtown Marrakech...SCORN remixes "The End" dubesquely...Trip-hop, space-aged techno dance-a-dub "Come Forward" is performed by BANDULU. Dem dis release is thick with dubbly-dread. Fiyah. PIZZICATO FIVE The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five (Matador) Not since the B-52's has a musical group recreated the `60's party - `70's soul-chart disco music with such a freshness. Japanese duo P 5's fascination with American commercial culture comes across in Maki Nomiya's boopsie-doll vocals and predominantly poetic-love, junk-store lyrics. Instrumentally, Yasuharu Konishi's musical scores have the feel of a`70's ABC Movie of the Week theme. These pop songs are riper than Ru-Paul could ever be...sketch that check and join the P5 Club. TANNER Ill-Gotten Gains (Caroline) Reminds me of that way-cool band Drive Like Jehu. Figures. This is DLJ's roadies' band. M.J. HARRIS/BILL LASWELL Somnific Flux (Subharmonic) Anti-cacaphony to the max. Cerebral mood chili. WEB Self-titled (Subharmonic) I hate to say this, but Subharmonic can produce a limp release. Dang. MISFITS Collection II (Caroline) Too polished. Too much studio knobbin'. Not enough Misfit monochromatic-aticity. Yeah, well, you know...it's a `90's kinda thing, I guess.
(@)SHOEGAZER Two Boxing Brown Bears (T.O.N.) Razor-pop. Melodious guitar overload with even more get-up-&-go rausciousness to get you up in the a.m. Or better, why not prank call some moron at 3 a.m. with this? SHIHAD "Gimme Gimme" b/w "Like Everybody Else" (Noise) Noise, noise, noise. Did your mother ever say "Noise annoys." Hey guys, what speed is this record suppose to be on? BOBSLED Self-titled (Tackle Box) Cutesy-girl rock hiding behind loud amps. Songs about ice cream trucks, greasy cafes, screwed-up relationships. I guess if I was a horny 16-year old, I'd like it better. KREATOR Cause For Conflict (Noise) Futuristic fantasy sci-fi cover art + angry voices + thrashing metal din + negative world views = FORMULA. JULIAN COPE ...Presents 20 Mother's (American) Ex-Teardrop Explodes singer returns. Innovative songs. Interesting arrangements. Too bad he rants over and over about drugs, pansy-ism, vegetarianism, and evil christians. Dude, have a beer. GRUNT OUTERMOST Stab in the Ears split (Cat Move/Deadly Verity) Sound machines gone mad. Not much distinction between bands. Still a good lotta noise. REFRIGERATOR How You Continue Dreaming (Communion) Swirling lo-fi sounds of noise, melody and somewhere inbetween. Dreamy, yet raucous.
($)
KING CRIMSON B'Boom (Discipline) Billed
as an official 'bootleg', this double CD is probably the best bootleg any
of you will ever hear. The recording is superb and all the performances
are brilliant...Gentlemen, we're glad to have you back! TANGERINE
DREAM Three Phases: Past, Present,
Future video (Mirimar) As it was billed as having historical footage of
the band's early years, I had high hopes for this. Turns out this is mostly
recnet footage of live performances with little snippets of old footage
and photos. Q SOUTH
Self-titled (Q South) If Kurt Cobain played flamenco guitar, his band (Nirvana)
might have sounded something like this. RED
HENRY Gravity (Blackheart) Van Halen-wannabe
pop band from Northern. VA:
PALEFACE Raw (Shimmy Disc) A man and
his acoustic guitar playing out the modern angst of everyday living. The
few tracks recorded with a band are throw-aways, but most of the disc is
worthwhile. POPD(FECT)
Live at Big Bear (Flipside) I listened to the whole thing. And, I don't
know whether I like these guys or not. But, one of them has the comb-over
from Hell. SUPERCONDUCTOR "The
Strip Oracle" b/w "A Song for Europe" (Mute) A bizzare combo
of quirky spcae music sounds, a splash of psychedelia, and a few power
chords to give it some Umph! CITIZEN'S
UTILITIES "Chemicals" b/w
"Bloodbath" (Mute) Alterna-pop that reminds me of a shiny, red
apple in the grocery store. Looks great, but deep down inside you know
it's laden with carcinogens. POEM
ROCKET "Small
White Animal" b/w "Milky White Entropy" (PCP Entertainment/Matador)
Major background wall-of-dissonance sounds like you're playing 2 records
at the same time. BABYSHAKE
"Depraved" b/w "Ghoul" (Droolbucket) Perfectly played,
risk-free, and no fun.. EX-VEGAS
"Hydrostatic" b/w "Trepid"
(Nylon Rash) Neato artwork. The A-side is strange combinations of half-good
garagish music, and I-don't-care-I'm-Debbie-Harry vocals. The B-side is
a little better. JOLLY MORTALS
Paint Scraper EP 7" (Whirled)
Kids with too much time on their hands and probably a lot of pot. CIRCLE
9/NOEL THE COWARD Self-titled Split 7" (No-fi)
Circle 9 is catchy melodi-punk. Noel the Happy-go-lucky punkers with a
hard-on for Sid Barrett. SPLENDORA
In the Grass (Koch) This Hoboken female 5-some ain't no Riot Grrl group,
and although they've got a violinist and a cellist, can't say the results
are terribly impressive. PACER
Self-titled 10" (Remora/Bear Records)
A 6-song 10"-er of primal rock from NY that breaks no new ground.
VA: BOUNCING SOULS/BASIC SKILLS/YOUTH
GONE MAD/ THE REVILED (Rot'en Roll)
these bands confirm it; punk IS roadkill.
PUDDLE
Do Not Eat Demo Tape (Skinny Pimp)
Funky metal punk that makes me shimmy even on a cold morning. MOPED
"Sibling"
b/w "Paddy Avaricious Abe" (Hepcat) Melodic guitar pop that's
not too pretty to like.
(%) Mookie's (who's pissed you off) been at the Mole Pole with Laughing Spongebottom.
(&) Out playing Art-Phag these days.
(+) Puck's been keeping her busy, I guess.
(~)TVTV$ Pepsi Generation X (Flipside) Real punk, for real punks.
(#)ACRIMONY The Acid Elephant EP (Caroline) Godhead. Heavy, heavy, heavy. An acid rock flash-back that kills brain cells faster than you can say, "Stricknine." TANNER Ill-gotten Gains (Caroline) An economical trio from Southern Cal. that had me bouncing off the walls. Stage diving and crowd surfing is MANDATORY. SCORN Gyral (Earache) Somber, scary industrial atmospherics that could be called New Dark Age Music. Or, is it The New Dark Age? Either way, real creepy stuff. ULTRAVIOLENCE Psychodrama (Earache) A guy named Johnny Violent created this techno-terror soundtrack; weird, sick, and good to the last drop, of blood.
(=) No collective slams this time out... TongueBath would like to gloat about having the first Punk-Rock Neurosurgery Physician IN THE WORLD as one of our writers. Congrats! to GD TeX on scoring a spot on the George Washington University Neurosurgery Residency Roster!!! Guess it'll be awhile before we hear from TeX again...he'll be slicing and dicing up misfiring neurons for the next millenium. Butt-loads of luck, TeXican!
(?)RACHEL'S Music for Egon Schiele (Quarterstick) Like their previous recording Handwriting, this is hypnotic, quiet, and strangely powerful music. Consisting of 3 members, some of whom are classically trained, Rachel's creates a sound stage that evokes reflective sorrow and tranquility. Mezermerizing. SMACKMELON Blue Hour (Relativity) They should rename themselves 'Smarm'melon. `Cause its smarmy, unoriginal,college rock. THE TRIP "Help Me" b/w "Captain Poland's Bolero" (Sympathy for the Music Industry) The title is apt; someone DESPERATELY needs to 'help' this band and they should be deprived of their instruments. Lead singer shouts like a cross between Patti Smith and Courtney Love-Hole...HELL, even squeezin' a chicken `til it craps on your boots would be more pleasin' than listening to this.
(%)MEN'S CLUB Comin' To Take You Away (Bar None) This is a manly man's rock group. No lack of ideas here, so take yer shirt off and tell a friend. Chicks are welcomed. MOJAVE 3 Ask Me Tomorrow (4AD) What is it with the folks at 4AD? Have they all gone comatose or something? Something. CIBO MATTO Viva! La Woman (Warner) Groove, ambient, hip-hop, jazz, punk, techno, world beat, etc...what the hell, it's all music anyway? Thank God they printed the lyrics. THE ENCRYPTIONS Self-titled (Ginger Leigh POB 683 Artesia, CA 90702-0683) Once again this one-man 'shed band' does not qualify for garage status. Bad, but cool.
Birth of an Indie Label
I figured although I am leaving my beloved [C]Harm City USA...Home of the Double-Ziplock Body Bag, it was only fitting to honor Baltimore labels for the first pressing of this new section: Birth of An Indie Label. Let it be known, of the 20+ surveys I mailed out, the following were the only respondants from Baltimore: The City That Breeds. Orginally they surveys were mailed out in early 1995; updates were requested in the Fall of this past year. Albeit, some of the responses that follow may not be completely up-to-date cause folks were lazy/didn't care, I guess.
The list of interrogations adheres to the following format:
1.) HAT FACTORY 2.) Tony French 3.) Box 41343 Balto, MD 21203-6343 4.) 410.235.1747 5.) Feb. `92 6.) Baltimore bands 7.) Big Heifer, Plow, Palentine, Cockles, Lo-fi/Hi-fi (Collection); someday hope to do Helikopter, Tear Jerks, Hassassins 8.) Com-Four, Cargo, Mail Order 9.) At what? No, we've only just begun. 10.) It's fun. 11.) Got a letter from Bernard in MN who listened to the Big Heifer single 27 times ...front and back. 12.) Don't start without some money to back it up. You just piss people off. 13.) Buy our records.
1.)KWALITY 2.) Joe Loverde 3.) POB 6723 Balto, MD 21285-6723 e-mail: KWALITY@AOL.COM 4.) 410.894.5481/410.377.7003 5.) March `93 6.) Indie rock type stuff (maybe some blues in the future?) 7.) VA: Baltimore I, VA: Baltimore II, Juice, Seade, Stress Magnets b/w Rum & Honey (release date - 3/2/96), Knievel (release date 3/2/96), VA: Baltimore III (due out mid-1996) 8.) DIY, DEID, currently taking some to people who want to help Kwality grow in the future 9.) I HAVE BROKEN EVEN (Ed. Note: congrats! At least someone in Balto has the savy!! A nice guy who couldn't be more deserving. Balls on Joe!!) 10.) I do this `cause I dig Baltimore music and someone has to do it. A lot of mailings to publications and radio, so that people in other towns can listen to the Baltimore bands. 11.)Seade has been signed to Grass Records in NYC. They were Band of the Year in the Baltimore City Paper, and recently voted #7 by City Paper readers for their Kwality Record Co. debut record. 12.)If you believe in a band and can help them without stepping on their toes...go for it! 13.) No comment.
1.) MERKIN 2.) Joe Goldsborough 3.) 310 E. Biddle St. Balto, MD 21202 4.) 410.234.0048 5.) 1987 6.) An eclectic mix of mostly, but not exclusively, guitar oriented alternative(?) rock. Whatever that means, unusual music that needs to be offered for sale; sometimes visionary, sometimes not. 7.) Reptile House, Red Die #9, Krack, Stranger Than Fiction, Onespot Fringehead, Lovenut, Black Friday, Monkeyspank, Ultra Violets, Berserk, Bazooka Joe, Lambs Eat Ivy, Antic Hay, Milkmine, Meatjack, Broad, Jade, All Mighty Senators, Mooncalves, Edsel, Liquor Bike, Dark Carnival, The Unknown 8.) (...otherwise titled the ever growing monster) DEID, Big City Entertainment, CD Review, Dromedary, Shimmy Disc, Universal, Twin City, Get Hip, Choke, Hitlist, Subterranean, Go! Disc, Cargo, Semaphore, Compulsive, Moshpit, Surefire, Canned America, Insomnia, Dischord Direct, Crisis, Record Peddler, Third World, Indie Street Scene 9.) 9 years 10.) Breaking even is a complicated state when you realize all the hidden costs of doing business. Most projects recoup their production and manufacturing budgets by the skin of their teeth. We have broken our backs, a few faces and an occasiona heart. Releasing friend's music can be fun. 11.) Going to the BBC studios in London with Buttsteak for their John Peel Session, and realizing Ringo had grabbed the same doorknobs. Success is releasing 38 records when most indies last about 5 records. 12.) At this point in time, most people involved in alternative rock are careering art school yuppies who deserve a good canning. The emphasis in on money, power,and image, and the notion that indies are farm teams for major label multi-national corporations. Makes me sick. Kinda ironic, huh? 13.) No comment.
1.) MORPHIUSDISC/d.f. (MORPHIUS RECORDS) 2.)David Andler 3.) POB 13474 Balto, MD 21203-3474 4.) 410.625.6195 5.) June 1993 6.) Punk rock, non-idiotic alternative, old style hardcore, avant-garde music of all kinds and even 'near-metal' `90's rock bands who I have sympathy for 7.) Compliation CD Is this a Dream, or Just Random Sounds of Awakening with Music from MPLS, LA, DC, and Germany includes Guzzard, Pile Up and 12 others (Dec. `93), Octopus Things that are Safe to Throw/Things that are not Safe to Throw CD (Jan. `95), Octopus "Lazy Eye" b/w "Smart Bomb" (NC band) (Jan. `95) BEER 7" (Mar. `95) + many more in 1995 8.) Mail order catalogue plus open distribution through American indie distributors. Catalogue is free with SASE. 9.) Label is 3 years old; been in music for 11 years. Yeah right, after I give birth to Siamese retarded quadrupletes by natural underwater childbirth... 10.) I hate dull jobs, and I hate shitty commercial radio, so I'd like to try to help bands out and hope the U.S. music scene might get better. 11.) Decided to do Branch Manager on the Comp CD (Is this...) even though they were broken up. Helped convince them to get back together. Toured with them and Octopus, and then they got signed to Dischord Records. 12.) Don't quit your day job --- in fact, you probably want to get overtime to pay for your releases, which will always cost twice what you expect. 13.) No comment.
1.) NO-FI 2.) Chris Plummer 3.) 531 Forestview Linthicum, MD 21090 4.) 410.859.0856 5.) Spring 1994 6.) Noel the Coward, for right now. Promoting the bedroom/basement/garage/whatever scene. 7.) Just Noel the Coward for now, but I'm interested in helping out others who do music for personal/political reasons, rather than for economic/fame seeking goals. 8.) Local consignment at record stores, ads in zines. Nothing by distros; have written and sent samples, but no bites. 9.)Haven't really started. I guess combined times of all the effort probably amounts to one week + 1 year. Yes -- I only spend the money to make tapes when someone sends me $'s. I shell out money to buy stuff, but I haven't spent more than a total of $150. 10.) Because Sam Phillips did. (For you culture retards, he ran Sun Records.) And to promote and get other people to hear what that introverted guy/girl next door has been doing at ungodly hours...find out why the bedroom light is on at 2 a.m. 11.) Finding mail at my bedroom door when I come home from work. 12.) The only thing to do is to get off your ass and do it. However, you will find the following dilemma --- cassettes suck in quality, but the younger audience members will buy them most, because they're cheap to make and sell. (I dub them at home.) But, zines don't care for cassettes to review. Singles get an easy review chance, but no one will buy them if you've got a tape that costs $1 more with more songs. I guess a CD is the most economical, because you can make them for the same price as a single and sell them for more. You'll have to fork-out a month and one half of your paycheck, though. To start out, do a split single with a band you like; and a band you know will sell. You'll need about $900 to press and market a single, so don't be stupid. 13.) No comment.
1.) PENULTIMATE 2.) Volker Stewart in Balto., with sometime west coast partner Stephen Long 3.) POB 4842 Balto, MD 21211 e-mail: ebbelw01@clark.net 4.) Decline to disclose. Hint: phone book. 5.) 1986. Did previous work as co-founder of MT, which later split into eMpTy (Seattle) and Musical Tragedies (Germany). 6.) Indie,punk, garage. 7.) Past/current - Derelicts, Cat Butt, Love & Respect, Liquorbike, Cerveceros, Primordial Undermind. Future - Stomach Pump, Bardo Pond, Teentoallers, Cryin'-out-louds. 8.) Depends on the record. I like taking things to stores directly, but for obvious reasons, distributors are essential. In the past, have had good experiences with Cargo (US), Estrus, and various small mailorder houses. Have had decidedly negative experiences with Caroline and DEID; Although I hear more positive things about both now. Have had so-so experinces with TCI and just started working with Surefire;who take a little, but seem to do a good job getting it out. Lately, all have been fuckers about taking new bands, claiming people don't buy unknown 45s anymore. Harumph! 9.) 11, sum total; 9 with Penultimare. This is one of the funnier things I have seen in awhile. (Ed. Note: I agree, it's pretty funny. The Bath finally had a year in the black, but still in the hole over all time.) 10.) Sheer idocy. Drooling desire to be parto of a 'scene.' I dunno. 11.) Getting Love & Respect, the most underappreciated band Penultimate,to do recs with me. 12.) Think long and hard. You may like the music, but that doesn't maean distributors with take it. 13.) No comment.
1.) REPTILIAN 2.) Chris X 3.) 403 S. Broadway Balto, MD 21231 4.) 410.327.6853 5.) Nov. `89 6.) Punk rock, ska, noise 7.) Ginger, Edith, Checkered Cabs, Glazeride, Helikopter, Blank, Listless, Horsebreed, Headlice, Preschoolers, Jakkpot, Attica 9, Downer Boys, Motocaster, Maypole, Stinking Lizaveta 8.) DIY, Cargo, Surefire, + many more. 9.)7 ; Bwah ha ha! 10.) I love music. I love vinyl. 11.) Still waiting for it. 12.) Don't give up your day job. 13.) No comment.
1.) YOU SAY WHEN 2.)Jennifer Talbert/Erik Boring 3.) POB 4751 Balto, MD 21094 4.) 410.366.8402 5.) Sometime in 1993 6.) Pop! In all shapes and sizes - hooks, melody, even harmony. All things that have been woefully neglected in B-more. We also are in the porcess of helping some friends distribute their product. 7.) Shadowmen, Kicksouls, The Jennifers, The Mommyheads, Sick, Gill 8.) At this point we're going it alone ---but we're searching for some outside help. (Received some help form DC's Simple Machines.) 9.) As you say when - almost 4 years. HA HA HA HA HA - neither Jennifer or myself have honed our business sense to the cutting edge of some other labels. 10.) Originally, because Shadowmen wanted to put out a 7" and Jennifer and I knew that Baltimore was going to ignore them. We've always loved pop, and Baltimore has a bunch of great bands that deserved some attention. 11.) When the first order came in, or when we read the first positive review...there have been a bunch of little rewards that sustain us, but no big bonanza, yet. 12.) Thanks for caring enough to ask about Y.S.W. It's cool to know that folks out there care...as for starting a label, I don't really know what to say, except that get ready to give up your living room, free-time, privacy, etc....and have a BLAST!! 13.) No comment