***Slovenly Recordings presents the latest full length hunk o’ junk from San Francisco’s last standing Budget Rockers THE CONTROL FREAKS! You should know what to expect here by now, so don’t make us waste our bad breath trying to explain it to you, gum boy. But this time there’s not one, but TWO covers of ‘77 KBD genius—both from Australia, and both by BABEEZ! One of our most worshipped singles ever by a long shot gets the ridiculous(ly enthusiastic) GREG LOWERY treatment on “Dowanna Love,” with newly added C-Freak SHERRILYNN NELSON taking over vox doody for “Nobody Wants Me,” and smashing some cheap keys on the rest of the LP, adding a new layer of scuzz to the classic G-Lo beat! So yeah, like, the new LP is called She’s The Bomb, and IT is the bomb, and it certainly has more to offer than just two cool cover songs. This thing is loaded (and we know “loaded”) with hit after smash hit like “I Hate Your Face,” “Hate List,” and we wish there was at least one more song with “Hate” in the title, but “Creep You Out” is on the level, and you’re gonna need a “First Aid Kit” when this sucker’s done tearing you a new one. But what do we know? We make no claims about being any smarter than this LP. (STREET DATE - 9/06/2019)
LP $15.50
09/06/2019
***The debut album from this noisy garage punk disaster squad led by ANDY CAFFREY of THE HORRORS and AUTODRAMATICS fame. Dick Moves is demented, dope, and has PETE BALESTRIERI (ex-VIOLENT FEMMES on sax). Creepy, ripping and blown to hell. (STREET DATE - 9/06/2019)
LP $15.50
09/06/2019
***It only took us over a year, but in true Goon fashion we think we've finally figured out how to get a proper version of the super limited, custom made and long sold out third LP from GINO AND THE GOONS into the filthy mitts of the general public. Originally manufactured in China and released in an edition of 300 copies on the band’s own SunWray Records label with photocopied artwork pasted onto garbage thrift store LP covers, the Rip It Up album is now available to the masses on MADE IN THE USA vinyl, with digital mastering handled by TIM WARREN at Crypt Records. Mark Twisitworthy at Razorcake Magazine writes: “...catchy yet snotty, fitting perfectly amongst the big name 'budget rock' titles of yesteryear. This is everything I want in a garage rock record in 2018. Listening to this is like having a full LP of only the Jon Von penned Rip Offs songs—raw as fuck but catchy enough to get stuck in your head an hour later. There’s no doubting their adoration of raw rock’n’roll… If you like your garage punk sounding like it’s straight out of the best releases from 1994, then this absolutely must be in your collection.” (STREET DATE - 9/06/2019)
LP $15.50
09/06/2019
***The Kritikal Beatdown continues as Black Gladiator and Slovenly Recordings present the second album from Athens via Crete dynamik duo HAND & LEG. The new LP is called Lust In Peace and it advances the post-punk infused concoction of blazing garage and art-driven destructo-rock as established on their grinding debut. Murky shades of sexual negativity plow forth with the help of white hot distortion, alternating between soul crushing fuzz bass dirges, ungodly squalls of noise, and occasional playful rhythmic rituals that offer brief respite from the saturation of musical sadism. (STREET DATE - 9/06/2019)
LP $15.50
09/06/2019
***From the Best Coast of the Great White North, Vancouver’s SORE POINTS have just become our latest Canuck obsession and we’re pumped as fuck to slap the Slovenly label on their latest EP! This new 7-inch, their third release and first for us, is a bonafide banger from the get-go, putting the smack down with a snarling four songs in six minutes wallop, steeped in that radical moment in time where late '70s UK punk and early '80s Ami-hard core collided. From the opening, ear-piercing squeal of “Not Alright,” to the deadly squall of feedback and brain-bashing pummel on “Not Coming Back,” Sore Points fork over breakneck kicks in spades, and guarantees your own rock’n’roll kicks for days. (STREET DATE - 9/06/2019)
7" $8.50
09/06/2019
***MARK SULTAN, best known as BBQ of the legendary KING KHAN AND BBQ SHOW, and whose repertoire is far too lengthy for this already superfluous run-on sentence, finally lands himself on Slovenly Recordings for a two-track single of superb '60s garage swankness! Monsieur Sultan makes autobiographical on the suave and sparse "Filthy Rat," switching gears from slow to GO! on the swinging flip "Heart Attack," harmonizing with his own bad self over a classic teenpunk shuffle beat with the unmistakable goldenthroat that all the crazed kids the world over swoon for. (STREET DATE - 9/06/2019)
7" $8.50
09/06/2019
***Slovenly Recordings is proud as hell to present the debut LP from Puerto-Punk screamers LADRONES. From the gutters of Atlanta by way of the island paradise known as San Juan, Ladrones exist in that undeniably fun sweet spot of punk and rock ‘n’ roll where pogoing and slam dancing all make sense, dedicating album opener “Tropimuerte” to the island’s tradition of el jangueo (simply “hanging out”) - it could easily go unnoticed for what it really is: a declaration of individuality, defying any demands for conformity*. Led by crazed, mic-gripping she-devil VALERIA SANCHEZ, Ladrones goes Reatards in spasmodic bursts of pure aggression, with a respectful nod to Los Angeles legends X and superhero Exene Cervenka while channeling the swinging and playful doo-wop side of fellow countrymen Los Vigilantes, but this is an extra special snot-rocket en Español that they own to the hilt. ¡VAMOS A TRIPIAL!
LP $15.50
06/28/2019
***When BRANDON WELCHEZ from CROCODILES (Fat Possum Records) moved from the sunny, mellow beaches of San Diego, CA to the hyper metropolis of Mexico City, he was practically forced to take that change of scenery and let it manifest into more chaotic, aggressive and ridiculous sounds. The new manifestation is called XENU & THE THETANS, and it’s not rock-it scientology here, gang. This is that primal punk rock madness that pours outta yer pores when you just wanna belt out some Germs / Bad Brains style ‘core and get nasty. Enter the recently-relocated-to-DF JOHNNY OTIS DAVILA aka DR. PAPI from San Juan, PR garage-psych heroes DAVILA 666, and you get equal blasts of hilarity / stupidity slapped in to the mix. And slap this album does! From the album opening anthemic tribute to dead friends “Amigos Muertos” to the more than a little bit dangerous closer “Un Poco de Peligro,” XATT exhales every syllable in swarthy Spanish, and every last beat in the universal language of rock’n’roll!
LP $13.75
06/28/2019
***When BRANDON WELCHEZ from CROCODILES (Fat Possum Records) moved from the sunny, mellow beaches of San Diego, CA to the hyper metropolis of Mexico City, he was practically forced to take that change of scenery and let it manifest into more chaotic, aggressive and ridiculous sounds. The new manifestation is called XENU & THE THETANS, and it’s not rock-it scientology here, gang. This is that primal punk rock madness that pours outta yer pores when you just wanna belt out some Germs / Bad Brains style ‘core and get nasty. Enter the recently-relocated-to-DF JOHNNY OTIS DAVILA aka DR. PAPI from San Juan, PR garage-psych heroes DAVILA 666, and you get equal blasts of hilarity / stupidity slapped in to the mix. And slap this album does! From the album opening anthemic tribute to dead friends “Amigos Muertos” to the more than a little bit dangerous closer “Un Poco de Peligro,” XATT exhales every syllable in swarthy Spanish, and every last beat in the universal language of rock’n’roll!
LP $15.50
06/28/2019
***"Black Gladiator and Slovenly the bomb squad we be, Set to unleash a depth charge of cold blooded circuitry. MODEL ZERO swinging sinister in the LP business, Live from Memphis T.N. it’s the new beat, what is this? Jack Oblivian the illest slid us over some Sheiks, Co-conspirators Goner In The Red broke us off some Ex-Cult this week. The Don Mr. Quintron assembles Drum Buddies from the ground up, Mod Z gnaws the breaks and regurgitates, what the fuck is up Chuck? Kill the Guardian with a Japanese Death Poem, Creepy crawling acidic electro-shocks to the dome. Sludge bombs from a 9MM, such is Modern Life, Deconstructing Mr. Soul, put the Young under a knife. Night terrors etched in vinyl noir, know what we mean? Hitting the racks May 31 two thousand nineteen." STREET DATE IS 5/31/19.
LP $15.50
05/31/2019
***Amsterdam's shattered punk destroyers return with a four-song 7-inch EP of pure raunch rockin' static to destroy your brain cells faster than a stroll through a Carbona factory! At the helm is the maniacal Bone, a man of towering stature, delivering electric radiation upon his path of destruction. Our team of vigilante harbingers of trash is currently composed of fellow mutants: REMI LUCAS and French maestro-bator LOOCH VIBRATO, notorious for his work in the garage punk outfit MAGNETIX—two worthy men if any to join our reptilian hero BONE on his quest for imminent meltdown. "Trooper" is an absolute ripper that kicks the door in and is clearly a bold statement: THE ANOMALYS are still going strong and in fine form,” while “Fire In the Hole" is an explosive mindfucker set to leave you in a daze. On the flipside, "My Own Way" blasts perfectly in a melodic disharmony, and the EP ends with the ass-clinchingly tight "Anomalyphant.” You're not gonna need to go record shopping anytime soon… just keep flipping this lightning hot slab ‘til your mind melts!
7" $8.50
02/08/2019
***Thee most insane CAVEMEN of New Zealand return to Slovenly with a brand new track recorded during their sojourn in Brazil while nuking Earth on their recent world tours, and an outtake from the famed namesake Nuke Earth LP sessions is scoochin’ up mighty close to it on the A-side, while “Drownin’” shows the boys at their most primitive (no, it’s not a Gories cover, but it’s at least twice as raw!), and it should - it was recorded when they were still in high school. We could easily stand a whole album of this mess!
7" $8.50
02/08/2019
***We’ve been jonesing for some thin white rails for a spell, but we never thought we’d get them in the form of the the RAILTHIN BROTHERS, also known as KIM KIX and THE ATOMIC CHILD, best known as Denmark’s POWERSOLO! You’ve seen them mucking it up in the outrageous, viral video for “Boom Babba Do Ba Dabba,” or maybe even live as the backing combo for Jon Spencer or Andre “Mr. Rhythm” Williams, and maybe you’ll catch them on tour in 2019 in support of their new Slovenly 7-inch “Transfixing Motherfucker!” There’s a crazy punker on the flipside featuring our friend and yours, MR. MADS STOBBERUP, with the mongoloid “Nedtur” (sung in Danish), and as the premier A-side feature, we have “Backstab,” which in true Powersolo fashion sounds like Alan Vega blasting as the soundtrack to the carousel ride in John Wayne Gacy’s fantasy carnival.
7" $8.50
02/08/2019
***Montreal’s premier punk powerhouse PRIORS are wasting no time socking it to ya after the release of their New Pleasure LP, and we have three more Slovenly tracks of ill-will and unbridled malice to murder your ears with, and nary a lick of pop anywhere in sight. “Call For You” is a mean mugger of the highest caliber assault, and you can only guess which ditch in Hell “Destroyer” and “Swelter” are gonna leave you laying in, gasping for your last breath in state of eternal decay. Have we ever lied to you before? Not on your life, and we ain’t starting now.
7" $8.50
02/08/2019
***Slovenly Recordings imprint Mondo Mongo is proud to announce our first signing from Turkey with veteran punk creeps THE RAWS. With four sharp and scathing tracks sung entirely in their mother tongue, as with all Mondo Mongo releases, we’ve managed to capture one of the world’s sexiest languages devolve into pure violent chaos. We assembled this nasty little EP just in time for the Istanbul edition of the WE’RE LOUD festival in November 20018, in a strict edition of 300 copies, complete with insert. The four tracks on this “D.D.D.D.Y.” 7-inch have been forged with two purposes: to cause an ass shaking spazz racket, and to smash walls (any walls) with an iron fist—DUVARA DUR DIYEN DEMIR YUMRUK—and we think they’ve succeeded tenfold!
7" $8.50
02/08/2019
***The YOUNG SKULLS are comprised of three storied head bashers: vocalist and guitarist PETER AARON (CHROME CRANKS, AVONDALE ARIFORCE), drummer CHRIS TURCO (TRANS AM, SCEME CREAMERS) and organist MATTY DREAD (EL FRONT, COUNTY HELL). The trio came together in 2015 in the dimly lit basement of a grimy machine shop next to the railroad tracks in an isolated industrial sector of Kingston, New York, about two hours north of Manhattan. And that’s pretty much what they sound like. Scraping sheet-metal guitar. Howling alley-cat vocals. Bashing, hydraulic-press drums. And wheezing organ that echoes the squealing iron wheels of the crude oil carriers thundering by hourly just outside their bleak practice chamber. They sound like all of that cool stuff, with songs. Catchy songs.
7" $8.50
12/07/2018
***"Washington DC band DES DEMONAS exploded into the national consciousness with a debut LP on In The Red a few months back, and they're not letting up now... as diseased organ-soaked and fizz-drenched as it can get. 'Bay of Pigs' keeps it real with it's pounding chorus 'Feeling like a Victim of Tiiiiiime' so naturally this works on many levels. Featuring a guitar player from KID CONGO & THE PINKMONKEY BIRDS, who also did time in THE MAKE-UP, it's got credentials to spare, but this six-foot-five Kenyan lead singer (JACKY COUGAR ABOK, ex-GINO AND THE GOONS) is gonna steal the show for certain. There's a faint Deadly Snakes vibe when the organ tone really hits, too, but this is much, much, heavier and less quaint, with the guttural vocals steering this into a stomping mess of noise. Far more rambunctious and unholy, far more strained and angry."—Todd Novak, Victim of Time
7" $8.50
11/30/2018
***"Slovenly Recordings zooms into a new universe somewhere between their trademark trashy echo-poonk and future-shock squalls with New Pleasure by Montreal quintet PRIORS. Hailing, scaling, and wailing from a long-scrambling Canadian scene whose rep is not as revered as it should be, Priors furiously scrunches together lacerating fuzz riffs, maniacal snare drum abuse, skittish analog shivers, and savagely scared shouting that's sometimes double-tracked into microchip-loose robot nervousness. Priors idea of 'letting up' is a quick drum intro like on 'Sunshine,' the plower pop of 'At Your Leisure,' the half-minute instro-intermission of 'Life Part 2,' or, uh... Oh who are we kidding? They don't let up, and they don't kid. A frozen stare into some slate-grey abyss is their 'look'—two minutes of pummel, their 'sound.' Avoidance of nuclear war or any other waste of time their 'career trajectory.' New Pleasure—their leap-ahead second LP—is the next album to convince you that rock'n'roll not only has gas in the tank, but space rocket fuel too, burning off into worlds beyond this square one."—Eric Davidson (New Bomb Turks, Livids; author, We Never Learn) (STREET DATE - 11/16/2018)
LP $15.50
11/16/2018
***The highly anticipated and way overdue second album from Sacramento, CA freakbeat legends TH’ LOSIN STREAKS has finally landed in the sweaty palms of Slovenly Recordings, and we couldn’t be more gassed! This Band Will Self-Destruct in T-Minus finds Th’ Losin Streaks regrouping after a devastating break-up in 2010—six years after the release of their debut LP Sounds of Violence—teaming up once again with long time friend and producer CHRIS WOODHOUSE (Thee Oh Sees, Blind Shake, Ty Segall) for the sole record he agreed to produce in 2018—the same record proclaimed by mastering engineer TIM WARREN (Crypt Records) to be “'The best American tribute to Freakbeat ever made.” Let’s be frank for a moment here: what this ain’t is the simplistic and primitive ‘Streaks garage stomp of yore. This band has stumbled upon a sophisticated formula that relies far less on the 1-4-5, as the new “Order of the Day” finds our veteran hipsters in all-out mod-mode, propelled by ace-face Mike Farrell’s freshest and most inspiring melodic tattoo to date - you’ll swear it’s the searing cacophony of shagged-out Limey teens dosed on a fistfull of vitamin E, kicking out a wall of twistable scree front and center at a liquid light show in early 90s Madchester. Genius maniac drummer and fellow MONKS fanatic Matt K. Shrugg works in two hairy shots of beat-punk snarl as a composer / vocalist on this outing, monking up a mutated version of the “Complication” riff on “Falling Rain,” and you can bet...
LP $15.50
11/16/2018
***From swingin’ Sudbury, Ontario, CA (nada), here come TOMMY AND THE COMMIES with their debut recordings for Slovenly Recordings, Here Come Tommy and the Commies! Here Come… is 16 blistering minutes of hooliganistic mod-punk madness featuring JEFF HOULE also known as the sole brain behind budget rock cult faves STRANGE ATTRACTOR, and his brother MITCH, known two-thirds collectively as the power-pop force STATUES of P. Trash Records fame. Swagger drenched youngster frontman TOMMY COMMY recruited Strange Jeff by dragging him into a bathroom stall during a punk show, playing him an inaudible demo on a phone. The Houle Two agreed to join forces for Tommy’s first foray into the world of record making on the strength of giving "Spiral Scratch” era Howard Devoto a run for his dosh on the vox on any given holiday. This kid has GOT IT, BABY! In a perfect modern world, songs like “Devices,” and “Suckin’ In Your 20’s” would be massive chart smashes on the level of “Teenage Kicks.” Those days are long gone, but here we are in 2018, giving YOU what you need, and what THEY don’t deserve.
LP $13.75
10/12/2018
CD $10.65
10/12/2018
***From swingin’ Sudbury, Ontario, CA (nada), here come TOMMY AND THE COMMIES with their debut recordings for Slovenly Recordings, Here Come Tommy and the Commies! Here Come… is 16 blistering minutes of hooliganistic mod-punk madness featuring JEFF HOULE also known as the sole brain behind budget rock cult faves STRANGE ATTRACTOR, and his brother MITCH, known two-thirds collectively as the power-pop force STATUES of P. Trash Records fame. Swagger drenched youngster frontman TOMMY COMMY recruited Strange Jeff by dragging him into a bathroom stall during a punk show, playing him an inaudible demo on a phone. The Houle Two agreed to join forces for Tommy’s first foray into the world of record making on the strength of giving "Spiral Scratch” era Howard Devoto a run for his dosh on the vox on any given holiday. This kid has GOT IT, BABY! In a perfect modern world, songs like “Devices,” and “Suckin’ In Your 20’s” would be massive chart smashes on the level of “Teenage Kicks.” Those days are long gone, but here we are in 2018, giving YOU what you need, and what THEY don’t deserve. (STREET DATE - 10/12/2018)
LP $15.50
10/12/2018
CD $10.25
10/12/2018
***To evict is to abandon: it is to purge a space from its essence, its life, and its refuse. It is from this posture that Puerto Rican power-trio DESAHUCIADOS espouses their hardcore gospel of human ruin. Marrying the cult of Nietzsche, Bataille, and decadent poetry with post-punk and deathrock, the sound of Deshauciados is as uncompromising as its influences: an aberrant breed of Christian Death, and My War-era Black Flag,The sonic landscape of their self-titled full-length debut is an ill-mannered mix of lacerating riffs and sludgy progressions that remind us of the constant struggle of trudging through the mire of life.
LP $15.50
10/05/2018
***A whipping, BALLSIER alternate take of "7 a.m." from LES LULLIES debut LP, this time on a 7" with max crunch, b/w a swinging glam-punk dancer flip side called "Dog Food."
7" $8.50
10/05/2018
***Montpellier, France punk-beat-freaks LES LULLIES are back with The Slovenly Sound, swingin’ hard with the follow up to their impressive Don’t Look Twice EP, this time with their first full length LP: self-titled and hittin’ in all the right spots! Les Lullies know what they want out of rock’n’roll, and they nail it but good with ten tracks of Aussie punk styles a la Fun Things and the classic American riffery of Real Kids bowing down to make out with Little Richard’s ringed fingers, 100% geared for the dancefloor!
LP $15.50
10/05/2018
***Slovenly imprint Mondo Mongo—your mother tongues label—presents the first EP sung in Italian from Florence Italy punk finks THE DIRTIEST. On this follow-up to 2016’s stellar and howling Alarm EP, they get drunker and dirtier, ditching the sonic caterwaul of yore, delivering four short and scathing tracks of Spits meets Ramones skate punk attack, making sure to note our insistence of using their native language on “Macaroni.” Grappa hey!
7" $8.50
09/07/2018
***JAIME PAUL LAMB of We’re Loud: 90s Cassette Punk Unknowns fame comes crawling back to the Black Gladiator / Slovenly house of ill repute like a masochist, and as disgusting as ever, with his new Phoenix, AZ unit, PUPPY AND THE HAND JOBS! Puppy’s kink is playing either naked or wearing a diaper on stage (and at private rehearsals) while the Hand Jobs—both male—are decked out to the nines in respectable Ward and June Cleaver garb. Five songs on this EP include the appetizing title track “I Eat Abortions,” and the homoerotic “I Think I’m Gay” (video streaming exclusively on Pornhub Gay).
7" $8.50
09/07/2018
***Slovenly Recordings welcomes Poland’s prime purveyors of pierogi punk MORON’S MORONS to our putrid populace. This is their first release after 2017’s self-titled debut on the UK’s No Front Teeth Records. It’s called Indecent Exposure and it’s just the kind of hot mess we cream over: sloppy, unpolished shit rock, distorted to the max, and faster than lubed moose manure with barely intelligible vocals that we’re keen to judge based on song titles like “Vibrator Violator,” and the obvious FM radio smash hit of the bunch, “Devil Sucks My Cock and Swallows.” An artistic triumph in every sense that we aren’t likely to witness again, or at least until the release of the upcoming 7” by Puppy and the Hand Jobs!
7" $8.50
06/01/2018
***The Magnificent Planet of Alien Vampiro II is the sophomore full-length Tel Aviv’s psychedelic stalwart yout’ HÄXXAN (pronounced 'chasan'). This is riff heavy and overdriven power trio madness that brings the rock hard, laced on occasion with subtle sound effect trickery and soaked with only the juiciest hooks. “Silkworms” doubles as an earworm, and on “Hunter,” the band shifts effortlessly from humorous heartbroken school boy chant to crashing walls of distortion that would give Ty Segall / Fuzz a run for the money. As a matter of fact, they’ve shared the stage on several occasions, and Ty himself has dug their ecstatic, high energy live show. These kids live for rock’n’roll, and have recently relocated to Berlin, where they can live independent & free, between the river & the sea. (STREET DATE - 5/04/2018)
LP $15.50
05/04/2018
CD $10.25
05/04/2018
***Atlanta’s SUBSONICS are a gutter-glam, minimal rock’n’roll trio. This is their 8th album and it’s called Flesh Colored Paint. Like all their previous works, this is a distilled hodgepodge of decades of popular culture and classic literature culminating in a collection of short and groovy shambolar: Chuck Berry, Albert Camus, AM radio rock jocks, Bo Diddley, Golden Age TV, surrealism, Mad Magazine, kung-fu flicks, Herman Melville, Little Richard, self-negating philosophy, David Johansen, The Bible, Dee Dee Ramone, Lee Van Cleef, Cornell Woolrich, advertising jingles, Dada, Carole King, Bugs Bunny, and Casablanca; the poem, not the film. This is a gorgeous mess of an record, and it’s cool. REAL COOL, KILLER. We hope you’ll find something within to make you think, or at the very least, dance, if it’s too deep. (STREET DATE - 4/20/2018)
LP $15.50
04/20/2018
CD $10.25
04/20/2018
***New Zealand’s THE CAVEMEN are back, ready to drink, fight, fuck and play some goddamn rock and roll! Nuke Earth is their third footlong rekkid and it’s pure, primitive motherfuckin’ GARAGE PUNK like you lust after every night when you’re licking your sexiest leather record jackets, or ‘77 punk steeped in a moldy stack of bootleg Motörhead outtake LPs. The ‘Men have gone batshit crazy, and they’re in full-on attack mode here with 13 tracks of panty dropping chaos guaranteed to land you in jail faster than you can crack one off in a grindhouse showing an “Ilsa” film. Rock’n’roll is here to stay, and it’ll always be for the crazy kids… like it or lump it! (STREET DATE - 4/06/2018)
LP $15.50
04/06/2018
CD $10.25
04/06/2018
***From an infected rat infested Chilean gutter, Slovenly Recordings, in conjunction with Algo Records, presents the debut LP from Santiago’s ANMLS—a crude combat booted kick to the temple in the grand tradition of confrontational units like Eskorbuto and Black Flag. These muchachos must have worn out copies of the entire Black Flag discography, because some tracks sound very much inspired by their early EPs, while other tracks have a darker & heavier Rollins-era sound. This self-titled LP is a 100% Spanish language gang-vox shot of ripping speed-garage-punk soundtrack music for a punk house toilet brawl that’ll rearrange your face for simply existing. Tough sounds for tougher times, born of a pack of rabid jackals disgusted with socio-political realities. ANMLS are ready to ruck! (STREET DATE - 3/09/2018)
LP $15.50
03/09/2018
***Slovenly Recordings proudly presents the debut vinyl offering from Greek punk prankster GEORGE FOTOPOULOUS, doing business as electro-punk outfit NOMOS 751. This self-titled LP houses more music than should be legally permissible on a single album, with 17 tracks of tricky compositions propelled by rinky-dink synth and programmed percussion ranking at zero acidity on the PH scale for Phat Beats. Having previously rotted our minds in the mid-aughts with his Thessaloniki budget rocker crew KOMODINA 3, Mr. Fotopoulos has developed and perfected a seizure inducing sonic smorgasbord of complicated and hilarious racket and punk rock polyrhythms that sounds like your favorite Stranglers LP played at 45rpm, or perhaps backwards, or at least in Greek. In fact, the tongue is so twisted that it’s barely recognizable as humanoid, and we therefore spaced adding the Mondo Mongo imprint to the jacket. Enjoy the gibberish whatever you’re capable of computing: there’s a giant, full color newsprint poster housed in the jacket with lyrics printed in both Greek and English, for the curious and / or literate. (STREET DATE - 2/23/2018)
LP $15.50
02/23/2018
***"Originally released as a limited 7" on the band's own Wau Records label, this WAU Y LOS ARRRGHS!!! single sold out in a flash at their farewell gig in May 2017. Copies of the OG press are selling for stupid bucks online, so we reissued it, this time around with brand new cover art from Canuck lo-brow illustrator hero DARREN MERINUK, and souped up vinyl mastering by Crypt Records honcho TIM WARREN. These are, without a doubt, two of the most action packed punk blasts we've ever heard from Wau and the gang, and it's now available again, worldwide for the first time." (STREET DATE - 2/02/2018)
7" $8.50
02/02/2018
***Greek freak-rock has finally slithered its way into the Black Gladiator stable after years of us trying to keep everything as America-centric—as the birthplace of rock’n’roll—as possible. Sometimes you just glom onto a sound that stimulates your cochlea in such a manner that its origin becomes as meaningless as rock’n’roll itself. Athens duo HAND & LEG is the unit that has popped our intercontinental cherry with their debut, self-titled album of throbbing arthouse post-punk, sonically akin to the more stripped-down elements of the French glue-wave scene. IRO (bass guitar) and STELIOS (drums) bleed gross distortion over grinding sex beats with precision, alternating vox on tributes to unlikely American folk gods Dave van Ronk and Lester Bangs, while channeling the traditional, Minoan minimal music of Crete to complete their primitive manifesto: The Kritikal Beatdown. LP is limited to a one-and-done press of 500 copies.
LP $15.50
12/22/2017
***Our global travels searching for the wildest rock’n’roll sounds in existence has so far only yielded one release from a Japanese band (Raydios), until now. To commemorate Slovenly 200, we present, from Kobe, GŪTARA KYŌ, and their self-titled vinyl debut on our Mondo Mongo imprint. Gutara Kyo (roughly translated: crazy slovenlies) reminds us of our earliest experiences with hardcore punk as teenagers, pulsing blood to the skull and clotting. There is a youthful fury and hilarity in every track, with painful, ear-piercing skree from start to finish, harnessing both the loose garage punk swagger of Teengenerate and the blistering hardcore attack of Los Crudos with MATSUMOTO-SAN shrieking in Japanese for the duration. Previously only available as a CD on Bakudan (JP), this new edition comes on a large-hole 10-inch platter and features an insert with lyrics translated to English by GREG SNAZZ. Mastered for vinyl by TIM WARREN. (STREET DATE - 12/01/2017)
10" $15.50
12/01/2017
***This is the second album by THE MONSIEURS, from Brookline, MA. It is called Deux, and if you were expecting anything other than the heaping pile of distorted real rock’n’roll mess that you’ve come to know and love from ANDY "CALIFORNIA" MACBAIN and crew, then you’ve got another thing comin’ pal o’ mine. You get NOTHING new here but a fresh batch of tunes that somehow hasn’t been pulled out of the pop swamp song book ass until now, delivered with the violent abandon of a dirty rat front man and the two bruising blonde foxes that are his driving force. It’s never not a good time to slap a record like this on, and it’s always a good time when you slap a record like this on. (STREET DATE - 12/01/2017)
LP $15.50
12/01/2017
***Welcome to the rock’n’roll manifestation of Eddie Murphy’s 1987 Raw concert. If you haven’t seen it or listened to it lately, it’s a remarkable, rapid-fire onslaught of hilarity that rages with new ideas and jokes that you hadn’t heard before at every turn, and Eddie never misses a beat. Enter Leisure Opportunity by PROTO IDIOT—né ANDREW ANDERSON, also of Manchester’s THE HIPSHAKES, and his pals CALLUM DARLEY (drums) and MICHAEL SEAL (bass). “If you like that, then you’ll love this” is the maniacal chant on “I’m An Artist.” Hear it enough and you’ll believe it! The Eddie Murphy parallels shouldn’t be too much of a stretch, but if it seems a bit obtuse, think Ray Davies with Attention Deficit Disorder. Better? Either way, Leisure Opportunity is no comedy album, per se, but it’s riddled with humor on both the musical and lyrical fronts. (STREET DATE - 11/03/2017)
LP $15.50
11/03/2017
CD $10.25
11/03/2017
***Black Gladiator and Slovenly are back with another archival '60s punk release, this time from an impossibly rare Delta, Pennsylvania 45 by SITES N' SOUNDS. Gigging from Baltimore to York to Hershey in the mid-60s, including an appearance on Baltimore's Kerby Scott TV program, Sites n' Sounds were students at Kennard-Dale High School when they recorded this absolutely genius single at Courier Recordings studio in Fremont, MD, releasing it on Ohio's CEI Records label in 1967. We dug up this 45 towards the end of 2016, listened to it about 100 times in a row that evening, and began researching the band the next day, which resulted in locating organ player MIKE MCFADDEN in our own backyard. He provided insanely cool band photos—two of which are reprinted in full color for the 7-inch insert. When we alerted Crypt Records honcho Tim Warren to the discovery, he declared it an "unknown MONSTER mooder!" and applied his loving and astute mastering touch for re-release. We couldn't be more proud to present this haunting teenbeat single to the world 50 years later.
7" $8.50
09/08/2017
***Slovenly Recordings is proud to present A Gut Feeling—the fifth foot-long (their 3rd for us!) from Sardinian rhythm ‘n’ beat powerhouse THE RIPPERS! Super tough mod-punk snarl and freak-beat floorstompers with galloping tom-toms on “Pain” recall Billy Childish‘s Native American worship channeling Buddy Holly, while “No One Cares” delivers hair-splitting harp wail in the grand tradition of Slim Harpo’s finest Excello Records sides as interpreted by The UK’s sharpest degenerate 60s rockers. “Stop to Drive Me Mad” is as fresh a sound as you’re ever gonna hear from these musical luddites, and tipping the hat to The Creation is as proggy as you’ll get from our heroes primitivi.
LP $15.50
06/30/2017
***BACK IN STOCK!!! At long last, Black Gladiator and Slovenly boldly present the first ever reissue of the infamous Eat Hot Lead LP from San Fernando Valley’s PUKE SPIT & GUTS! Fully authorized by the band’s surviving members, this is a ten-years-in-the-making project that was originally slated for re-release by Alternative Tentacles. A crew of spirited So. Cal. weirdos, as opposed to mere punks, Puke Spit & Guts released the LP on their own Important Records label in 1980. Members DONNY DEATH, CAPTAIN WORM, DICK HEAD (real name!), MARIE MANSLAUGHTER and STUICIDE assembled this absurdist and raunchy LP with the unholy shrieks of human beings being fed into a countertop blender between each track. On the opening cut—the 'PS&G Theme'—Death declares most bizarrely and brazenly 'Sex Pistols couldn’t hold their liquor, Ramones wear tennis shoes! Alice Cooper is a party pooper, we’re the punk band for youuuu!' On 'Kill for Kicks' he proclaims 'I’m so tired, I’m so bored, I don’t wanna live no more! Life is a fucker and I’m a whore!' And it only gets weirder from there. Marie Manslaughter lets you know if you wanna get some of her fine lovin’ you gotta get with some self-mutilation on 'Send Me Your Ear,' and even then, anal sex is outta the question on 'You Ain’t Never.' We’re not even gonna attempt to tell you What Captain Worm is yelling about on the title track. This one-in-a-million scumbag rarity makes a killer companion to your...
LP $15.50
06/09/2017