8/12/22.

Recently we posted about a 7" reissue on Munster Records (Madrid, Spain). The band was Empire and they shared members with legendary band Generation X.

Munster is now releasing "Expensive Sound" the full length originally released in 1981. There are so many great sounds - the Bandcamp page mentions, "While “Expensive Sound” may be better known for the bands it inspired — the neo-psychedia of The Stone Roses and the athletic fretwork of Fugazi - they deserve appreciation on its own merits."

Eyes TAQN (1979, 2009)

Any surviving punk band and its members have to feel honored in being part of the Dangerhouse roster, the short-lived Los Angeles label responsible for capturing the first-wave West Coast punk scene. The Avengers, The Dils, and Bags can attest to that. Los Angeles’ Eyes were let in thanks to labelheads David Brown and Pat “Rand” Garrett both of Black Randy & The Metrosquad, whose Blackettes also included important female key players Exene Cervenka (X), Alice Bag (Bags), Lorna Doom (Germs), and Belinda Carlisle and Jane Wiedlin (both of The Go-Gos). It’s a given Eyes become part of both the Dangerhouse and first-wave California punk legacy. The title track and anti-drug p.s.a. TAQN (”Take A Quaalude Now”) speaks for the entire e.p. in terms of leisurely power-pop structure and energy. There’s no time to rest when Joe Ramirez’s sqeaky vocals and David Brown’s organ (so reminiscent of another Los Angeles punk band The Screamers, whom never released a formal album ever) keep it moving with no breather. You’ll feel that even more on “Disneyland”. Supposedly Ramirez also has a fascination with bees, too? There’s “Research Bee” and “Go-Go Bee”, which is totally worth it to hear him sing the chorus in a funny manner. TAQN has it all, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise or they’re wrong.

Alley Cats “Nothing Means Nothing Anymore”

Various Artists: Dangerhouse (Volume 1)

format: vinyl record

release date: 1991

off of 198 Seconds Of The Dils 7" on Dangerhouse (1977)

RIP Tony Kinman