Random Old Records Podcast #41

Jesus Christ, things are crazy as shit in the midwest right now! Tornadoes, hail, sunshine, and a huge pile of badass rock n' roll records to listen to are among the highlights. Random Old Records Podcast #41 is now out and about, and it features an hour of some seriously rad jams from what is shaping up to be one of the best music years on record. This is also South By Southwest week, so #41 features a bunch of bands playing the annual music orgy, and so much more!

We're talkin' amazing pop tunes from La Sera, Frankie Rose, and Summer Twins, raging punk from LA slackers FIDLAR, the noisy Ramones trip of Terry Malts, and the Denton weird power pop of Mind Spiders. We're talkin' brand NEW tracks from Portland's Mean Jeans and Guantanamo Baywatch, whose new LPs won't be out for another month. We're talkin' brain-frying psychedelic rock n' roll from The Sufis and Ketamines.

Most of all, we're talkin' about a track called "Conversation" from one of the most impressive debut LPs I've heard in forever, the 60s sunshine pop/psych hybrid known as OUTER MINDS. Seriously, this album is so fucking good that it's unreal. Think early Arthur Lee & Love mixed with the complex vocal harmonies of The Association, and just run to the record store to buy the goddamn thing NOW.

Random Old Records #41 is loaded with killer tunes, so I hope y'all like it! As always, thanks for reading and listening, and don't forget to pick up one of the tapes my label has put out. I haven't steered you wrong yet, have I?

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Random Old Records Podcast #40
1. Summer Twins - "Got Somebody To Dream About"
(Summer Twins, Burger 2012)
2. La Sera - "Break My Heart"
(Sees The Light, Hardly Art 2012)
3. Frankie Rose - "Gospel/Grace"
(Interstellar, Slumberland 2012)
4. Dreamdate - "What Could I Do"
(Melody Walk, Tic Tac Totally 2011)
5. Camera Obscura - "Let's Get Out Of This Country"
(Let's Get Out Of This Country, Merge 2006)
6. Alicja Pop - "I Can't Remember"
(I Can't Remember 7", Neat Neat Neat 2011)
--Zombie beach party.
7. FIDLAR - "No Waves"
(No Waves/No Ass 7", Mom & Pop 2012)
8. Mean Jeans - "Life On Mars"
(On Mars, Dirtnap 2012)
9. Terry Malts - "Nauseous"
(Killing Time, Slumberland 2012)
10. Mind Spiders - "Play You Out"
(Meltdown, Dirtnap 2012)
11. Glow Kit - "Misunderstood"
(Glow Kit, FDH 2012)
12. XRay Eyeballs - "Pill Riders"
(Splendor Squalor, Kanine 2012)
--Hunx is FAMOUS!
13. Hunx - "Do You Remember Being A Roller?"
(Hairdresser Blues, Hardly Art 2012)
14. King Tuff - "Bad Thing"
(King Tuff, Sub Pop 2012)
15. Teenanger - "Frights"
(Frights, Telephone Explosion 2012)
16. Spider Fever - "Done Wrong"
(Spider Fever, Windian 2012)
17. Guantanamo Baywatch - "Chest Crawl"
(Chest Crawl, Dirtnap 2012)
--Australian new wave explosion!
18. Blasted Canyons - "Get High"
(2nd Place, Castleface 2012)
19. Teledrome - "Double Visions"
(Double Visions 7", HoZac 2012)
20. The Sufis - "Wake Up"
(The Sufis, Burger 2012)
21. Ketamines - "Spaced Out"
(Spaced Out, Southpaw 2012)
22. Outer Minds - "Conversation"
(Outer Minds, Southpaw 2012)

ROR #001: 20th Century Tokyo Princess - I've Never Been Happy & I've Never Had Fun

Ted Clark is 37 years old, works in a liquor store, and hates rock n' roll. He fronts the 20th Century Tokyo Princess, and writes songs that take the life lessons he learned while trawling the back catalog of Lou Reed and Jonathan Richman and turns them into loud, violent messes of feedback and cathartic bubblegum hooks. It's like glam rock made for a world where glamour is in short supply. If you were a music blogger, it would be the Modern Velvet Jesus Mary Loverground.

It's LOUD.

I've Never Been Happy & I've Never Had Fun is an ugly album. It contains eight tracks of raging pop music. It was recorded direct to 4 track and mixed in mono back on 05/05/2010, and is presented with no embellishments or overdubs.

Random Old Records & Tapes is proud to announce I've Never Been Happy & I've Never Had Fun as its debut release. ROR #001 is limited to 100 hand-numbered RED cassettes. Each copy comes with a FREE digital download containing two bonus tracks not on the tape.

Don't just take my word for it though, here's some reviews!

Cactus-Mouth:

20th Century Tokyo Princess is a loud garage rock project out of Cincinnati with a palpable, old school rock & roll energy...Every shrieked vocal, every slamming drum hit, and every buzzing guitar chord feels alive in a way that only on-the-spot recording can achieve. Heck, frontman Ted Clark’s frustrated utterance of “shit!” at the beginning of “That’s What You Are” was in response to a false start. But they kept it. That speaks volumes about the music that these guys are putting out. They don’t feel the need to dress it up, they are just putting it out there. It is what it is, take it or leave it...If you like your garage rock to be loud and sweaty and real, then this is the tape for you.

Permanent Records Chicago:

A rag tag down on his luck bummer pop tunesmith bash and crashes it direct to tape backed by a rhythm section. This shiz is feral raw as fuck distorto pop at its most rudimentary. 20th Century Tokyo Princess' "I've Never Been Happy And I've Never Had Fun" is a lo-fi affair in the vein of Nobunny with less humor and more animosity or some mega lost rehearsal tape from Rocket From The Tombs. Yep, it's recommended.

Roctober Zine:

Lo-fi glam is a blow-your-mind concept, because glamsters, even if they are eating catfood for dinner and killing pigeons to make their boas, always seem to scrape up enough money for heroin and clean guitar production. But this nasty, overmodulated, hook-infected, mumble mouthed garage pop fits the bill. And I’m glad it’s on cassette…anything to make this magnificent mess sound worse!

Click the banner at the top of the page to go to our Big Cartel page and buy a copy today! Less than half of them are left, and they probably won't be repressed, so don't miss out! If you're on the fence, just check out "99 Years"!