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Our friends at the ROIR label are offering a 10 track compilation for free download for Valentines Day. It includes James Chance's "Melt Yourself Down" from the Lost Chance album as well as many other like-minded favorites...Grab it here.

Nightclubbing with the Bush Tetras

By all reports, last week's Bush Tetras record release gig at Le Poisson Rouge was a huge success. Who would have thought that this band could or would last 30 years? With the recent release of their latest album, Happy, via ROIR, the Bush Tetras are on a roll. This week, Pat & Emily from Nightclubbing look back at the early days of the band - when "Too Many Creeps" was a New York radio staple, and a finding a fur coat might mean paying your rent for a month or two instead of having to work a straight job while pursuing your art. Plus, we get to see the band performing at Danceteria in 1980...

BT's live at Hurrah (1980) by Eugene Merinov

“You don’t need a million to look like a million!” So went the tagline touting Ritz Furs in a ubiquitous late night commercial that ran throughout the ’70s and ’80s. Ladies were urged to sell their skins or buy them second-hand at a fraction of the price because, like the man said, “Some women ski in St. Moritz; other women just look that way.” Continued here.

 

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New Bush Tetras album coming soon on ROIR

 

Well...sort of new. The Bush Tetras' unreleased album, Happy, will finally see a release some fifteen years after it was recorded and mastered, with ROIR releasing the 12-song album on Nov. 13.

Happy was produced by Don Fleming (Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Screaming Trees, The Posies) and recorded in 1998 at Shelter Studios New York. The album was initially slated for release on Mercury Records, but after the label was sold the album was shelved indefinitely. Attempts by various labels to secure the rights to release the album were thwarted as one merger after another led to lost contacts and contractual questions. The rights to release the album were recently secured by ROIR, a label that has had a lengthy history with the Bush Tetras, dating back to the 1983 Wild Things cassette.

"Happy is the last cohesive body of work that the band made together and the first that we recorded with bass player Julia Murphy," explains Pat Place, guitarist for the Bush Tetras. "We had a great experience recording in the studio with producer Don Fleming. We are so 'happy' that Happy will finally be out in the world after being lost in record company crossfire for 15 years!"

The Bush Tetras formed in 1979, in the lower east side of Manhattan. Pioneers of the indie movement long before the term had been coined, the band's first 7" single on historic NYC label 99 Records (Liquid Liquid, ESG, Glenn Branca), "Too Many Creeps," landed the quirky, post-punk band on Billboard's dance chart. Straddling the line between No Wave, New Wave and Art-funk, the co-ed quartet's influence, and the band's distinctive guitar sounds, can still be heard today.

The band will perform two shows surrounding the release of Happy: Nov. 4 at Part Time Punks in Los Angeles and Nov. 29 at Le Poisson Rouge in New York (with Suicide).

Happy track list:
01. Heart Attack

02. Slap
03. Trip
04. Nails
05. Chinese Afro
06. Pretty Thing
07. You Don't Know Me
08. Buckets of Blood
09. Motorhead
10. Theremin
11. Ocean
12. Swamp Song

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The Bad Brains Daryl Jenifer remembers Jerry Williams

Jerry,

thanks for letting us stay at 171 A ,when we were struggling in the streets of NYC like lost run away Hardcore slaves, for letting us sleep on the stage and under the control room ,and sharing your soaked and dry sunflower seeds, not to mention your Manna bread, and your old school soggy pin joints, thanks for your big brotherly wisdom and patience, and most of all our classic ROIR cassette which blazed the music world with it's message of peace and love, thanks for mixing us live, although you would def me with feedback, thanks for those cashews, and soy milk when I was hungry and had the munchies, we love you man, I can see you now all sweaty in your scuba suit with that white SG, I can hear you now saying "whut's up bruther" with that southern accent - I'd say Jerry "bumba clot"! you'd say whut! Bumper Crop!

There's so much to thank you for Jerry, that I will conclude this by simply saying long live the legacy of the one Jay Dubs! May his kind spirit and giving sharing ways continue to spread throughout the world, through our music and the works of us all, we know who we are, if you are from the 171 A era and family or from any era and family connected to Jerry Williams or not - 1 love J DUBS

sail on brother.

And maximum recognition and respects to our brother Dave Parsons and Dave Hahn, I'm sure they’re jamming and Rocking The Light!

D. Jenifer - Bad Brains

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Daryl will release his first solo album shortly on ROIR. Keep an eye out for it:



Fans of the early NY hardcore/punk scene will also be interested to know that ROIR is also about to reissue the long out of print Loud Fast Rules by the Stimulators.