On Friday June 21st, there
was a party for "Open City"
at New York City's Whitney
Museum, with music provided
by contributors to the publication,
including groups such as
Pavement, Palace Brothers, and
Silver Jews. The organizers also
mixed in other favorites such as
the "Ghost Dog" soundtrack, the
Mamas and the Papas, and
Francoise Hardy. As Pieter has
already contributed to "Open
City," and I will have some
drawings published by them later
this year, they were kind enough
to include the BLOODYMINDED
track, "The Misbegotten Son,"
from "True Crime," in the
evening's soundtrack mix.
Special thanks go out to
Joanna and Jocko for distressing
the unsuspecting museum patrons!

Texas is still the reason...
Lift to Experience are a
band from Denton, Texas
that act as an uncanny
cross between Jon Wayne
(see their obscure 7" on
the mysterious Dental Records)
and Medicine, two groups
that are loosely related to
BloodLust! The band played
an extremely high volume
show at the Prodigal Son
(come for the grilled cheese
sandwiches, stay for the
band) on Friday night,
opening up with "a little
cover version that we have
been playing on this tour"
- namely "Kashmir." The band
is not at all precious, as their
Cocteau Twins connection
might suggest. The wall of
sound was aided by a battery
of old effect pedals, and a
guitar that ran through a
rotating Leslie cabinet. Nice!
The highest highs and the
lowest lows. AMAZING.

Do you like doom?
It seems that you cannot buy a cup
of coffee these days without running
into a doom or stoner rock show.
Isidro, Ed, and I went to see a triple-
header at Chicago's jazz showcase,
the Note, last night. New York's
Unearthly Trance opened up, with a
slow set of Eyehategod- and Burning
Witch-inspired sludge, followed by
the Canadian heavy psychedelic band
Sons of Otis (who is Otis?). Electric
Wizard headlined, and they were quite
heavy, although not much to watch.
Orange Goblin definitely put on a more
entertaining show a few weeks back.
The 90-degree night was fruitful, though,
as a new term came in to being:
"War Pig" - as in gothapotamus, but in
a Sabbath inspired setting.

How inspired was it that the
Rapture opened up with
"Dumb Waiters" off of the
second Psychedelic Furs
album? Their set was
another blistering PiL/Gang
of Four influenced assault
that definitely lived up to their
last visit. The mismatched
opener, the Lack, were quite
good, doing a heavy, distorted
Cop Shoot Cop meets Ministry
thing. Their label, Troubleman
Unlimited, also put out the
Lovelife CD, and seems to be
getting more and more interesting.

More live new wave last night.
The Electroclash-related group
Soviet played at Schubas. They
reminded me of the period in OMD's
recording career when I stopped
listening to them. They had an
interesting DVD projection as a
back-drop (and backing tape, I
suspect), and they seemed more
sincere than the Faint, who seemed
like a bad Orgy-style nü wave/metal
band. Off to see the Rapture tonight.

-Ed, Von Leutch, and I saw
Adult and Trans Am last night.
It was cool, and all, if not a
bit too arch-nü wave. I did
like the Monkey Twins on the
Tonight Show, the night before
last, though.

-Ed and I saw the Warlocks
on Friday. The show was
much heavier than their
compact disc would lead you
to believe. Live, they sound
like a nice cross between Black
Rebel Motorcycle Club and
Spacemen 3.
-An update on BloodLust!
availability from other mail
order services in Europe and
in Japan should be forthcoming...

- The new June catalog update is available
by e-mail. It contains a newly expanded
sale section.
Now SOLD OUT:
-BloodLust! 013 Dead World "Thanatos Descends" CD
-BloodLust! 021 Mark Solotroff and Sshe Retina
Stimulants "Excellent Manipulation Of Distorted
Tape Death" (4 x cassette box)
-BloodLust! 023 Slogun "The Will To Kill" cassette
-BloodLust! 034 The Sodality "Confusion" 7"
-v/a "The Sound Of Sadism" CD
(Malsonus/Crowd Control)

The new issue of "Timeless"
arrived, and Xavier did an
amazing job with it. The
presentation is increasingly
more professional, while the
content remains firmly in
the gutter. The inclusion
of "Libidinal Ramblings" was
a funny surprise. Once
again, the contact address
for this recommended
publication is:
timeless@wanadoo.fr

Back from a whirlwind five-day
visit to NYC...
Highlights include:
-"Cremaster 3"
-Neue Galerie - Museum for
German and Austrian Art
-Aimee Beaubien at Marvelli
Gallery (especially for Bellmer fans)
[526 West 26th Street]
-Lovelife and Liars at NorthSix
-"Sunday Afternoon" at 303 Gallery
-Meeting Gary from D.I.R.T.(!?!)
-Teo Gonzalez at 123 Watts
-New Interpol e.p.
-Lee Bul "Live Forever" at
New Museum of Contemporary Art
-The other two apostles, of
course, Pieter and John (THANKS!)