Top 13 (of The Week)

Sure,you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology takes over. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the result of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.

13. Jeremy Steig – Fusion
I know, nobody likes fusion. I'm with you, man. “Jazz-rock” is the worst. But this cat Jeremy Steig is a whole different trip. Half-paralyzed from wiping out on his motorcycle as a reckless youth, he developed a unique style of flutin' that is apparent from the first note. It's like he sings – and sometimes screams – right into the flute. It's fuckin' dynamite. He's got a couple dozen records out, stretching from the mid 60's to just a couple years ago (he's still active at 70), but my fave is the Fusion album from 1970. A double-album set, it's pure jazz-funk mega-flute jam bliss. As one Jazzbo critic noted, it sounds like it defies gravity. Seriously groovy, and one of the best albums I've heard this year. (K)



12. GR - Reverse Age
Gregory Raimo (GR)  is the  axe wielding Frenchman behind the ever sizzling blow-out known as the Gunslingers. This is his third solo record. The one before this was a collaboration with Michael Yonkers.  You know the drill, eat a bunch of yellow pills, wash it down with orange juice, have a seizure and grab a guitar. (S)



11. Ten Hours of Kate Upton's bouncing boobs
Some dude – clearly a hero of some sort, or perhaps a madman – has edited together a startling ten-hour loop of curvy supermodel Kate Upton bouncing down the runway in bikini tops that are clearly too small for the remarkable bounty she possesses. I could live without the techno track, but you can always add your own ten-hour mix. I'd suggest something with flutes. Either way, this is a pretty fantastic way to wile away a day at work. (K)



10. A Gang of KISS Children
My wife and I stumbled upon this strange street gang while wandering the streets of downtown L.A. shortly before departure. (S)

09. Stacey Dash Is Normal
Imagine Curb Your Enthusiasm, only instead of prickly, uber-rich aging comedian/curmudgeon Larry David, it starred the less-rich-but-still-loaded hot actress from Clueless, who, it turns out, is also a prickly curmudgeon? I have no idea if this is gonna be a web series or it's going to be a TV show or what, but whatever it is, I am going to watch the hell out of it. (K)



08. DMZ
I saw David Johansen at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch the other night. He was awesome but we're kinda like CNN here at Advanced Demonology, if we don't have a good clip we can't report it. Since it was straight up party music I got a little buzzed up. One of the opening bands played a DMZ cover and I forgot how much I liked that band. Boston Proto-Punk produced by may main men Flo & Eddie. (S)



07. The International Banana Museum
In a continued effort to bring culture to Demonology, I present you with another museum. Last week, I told you about the 8 Track museum and this week, the banana museum. Everybody loves bananas. They're fun to eat, fun to look at, fun even just to think about. And this screwball has a whole goddamn museum dedicated to them. Bonus: it's located on the shore of the doomed Salton Sea, effectively guaranteeing that no one will go there, ever. (K)



06. Dresden Leningrad
You would think there would be more World War Two themed Doom Rock. (S)



05. Heavenly Bodies
This Playboy-produced romance/drama from 1984 is about two warring aerobics studios. The small. Plucky aerobics studio is being bought out by the big corporate one across the street, until they are challenged to an aerobics dance marathon. The winner gets the studio. And so that's what they do, they have a goddamn aerobics dance marathon. This movie is out-a-sight. 90% of it is just girls sweating in leotards. The rest you can nap through. The 80's were awful, but occasionally, they were tremendous. (K)



04. The Erotic City Electric Blues Band
I'm sure at some point this duo is going to shorten the name to: Erotic City. It was written in a basement and recorded in a barn. Kinda like a Swilson record. Written in a Mansion, recored in a shed.  Great mix of everything fast and heavy and fucked up. More magic to come I'm certain of it. Where's Portsmouth? Is that New Hampshire? (S)

03. Nocto Loco
I need to get me one of these things!!! Drive my parents nuts! (S)

02. JuJu - In Trance
Justin Adams, who plays guitar for Robert Plant, teamed up with Gambian griot
Juldeh Camara.  Perfect name for the record and you might be in trance by the end of this thing. (S)



01. Your Reflection - Electric Indian
Awesome, head-spinning psychedelic moog-rock from Kansas City. Tremendous stuff,
I been trippin' out on it all week. You can get the digital version on Bandcamp for 7 bucks;
all proceeds go towards getting this thing down on wax. Groovy. (K)

Top 13 (of The Week)

Sure,you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology takes over. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the result of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.



13. Aqua Nebula Oscillator
English as a second language groups get forgiven for band names that are just three "trippy" words strung together. But what's in a name? These french maniacs are making some of the most bombastic churning, pulsating, occult, F-R-E-E-K Rock, in all the land. Tear off your clothes snakes and spiders!!!! The new record known simply as: Third is like a Coffin Joe movie in sound. Trouver!! (S)




12. The Destroyer: Acid Rock 
If you're in the mood for some seriously f**ked-up 70's pulp fiction, you can't really go wrong with this head-spinning potboiler about a couple of kung-fu mercenaries trying to keep a well-heeled debutante-slash-groupie from getting  offed by various assassins hired by her rich dad's enemies. The twist? She's in a heavy relationship with Maggot, ,lead singer of "acid rock" juggernauts The Dead Meat Lice (!), who may or may not be into some whacked-out occult shit on top of everything else. Pure delirium. You can buy it from Amazon for a penny. (K)

11. Dizzy and Lalo - Free Ride
What was Dizzy Gillespie doing in 1970? He was hanging out with Steve McQueen soundtrack king Lalo Schifrin (Bullit, Cool Hand Luke), recording this awesome funky-jazzy-disco-y album. Sweet jams. (K)




10. Panopticon Eyelids - Overwhelming Visions
I can't for the life of me figure out how to actually buy this record. Maybe because I've been all kinds of dazed and confused by the sounds seeping from my headphones into my brain. They are from Canada and they are tripping out up there. Like your whole day ruined by a bottle of cough syrup. A bad fever dream. Bitchin'.  (S







9. Shinin' Shade 
Just discovered this Italian slow-mo doomadelic groove machine and I don't even know what to do about it. I mean, they're basically the Italian Jefferson Airplane with an occult-rock edge. I wanna go carve their name into a picnic table or buy a goat or something. Anyway they have a new record out, called Slowmosheen. I don't know how you get it. I think you might have to kill a goat first? (K).





8. Tommy Bolin "The Ultimate" Documentary
Lot's of talking heads but this is all we got as far as docs go on the great Tommy Bolin. Rock 'n die young.(S)





7. Girls, Chains and Epic Warriors
My new favorite Facebook Group posts outrageous 80's heavy metal record covers and then tries to make some sense out of them. I can't believe I spent a good chunk of my adolescence listening to bands like these. And now, thanks to this fucking group, I'm listening to them all over again. Heavy Load, FTW. (K) 

6. Doing Drugs by Michael And Bruce Jackson
If you like late 70's teenage delinquents like Long Island Acid King murderer Ricky Kasso or the cast of Over the Edge you'll love this  riveting account of teenage drug use in the early 80's by the family  that brought us Your Father's Not Coming Anymore ( book about divorce). The best part is the first half were it's real life interviews with what I would like to call "dopers", "burnouts" or "druggies". Kid's who's whole identity is based off of getting high or fucked up. We're not talking junkies. Junkies are boring, just run of the mill "wastoids" and it's a fantastic time capsule.  You can almost hear the NWOBHM in the background as you read, or better yet throw some on while you read. I'm moving and I have to give my copy back to my next door neighbor. It's another fantastic el-chepo book from Amazon.(S)

5. Any Gun Can Play
Just picked up this amazing comprehensive guide to Euro westerns. From Django to Clint Eastwood to bug-eyed Klaus Kinski and (way) beyond, this mammoth tome (500 pages!) maps the history of the genre, provides bios of all the key players, and slathers the pages with generous amounts of photos, posters, and lobby cards. Killer book. PS the hardcover verrsion is crazy expensive, but I got the paperback version for about $30. (K)

4. Feeding Back: Conversations With Alternative Guitarists From Proto-Punk to Post-Rock By David Todd
I Just got this on tuesday, I'm only half way done,  it's already indispensable if you are an Advanced Demonological guitar player or someone who loves them. Todd is a great at interviewing these outsider axe slingers: Brother Wayne Kramer, James Williamson, Tom Verlane, Zoot Horn Rollo, all the way through Johnny Marr, Christan Fennesz and Ghost's Michio Kurihara and many more. Although it's centerpiece is guitar playing in general it's about the creative process and what it means to be a musician that maybe doesn't fit in. Crucial! (S)

3. Sun Preachers
Stellar dirty 70's van rock played by a bunch of hip young Frenchies. (K)




2. The Guess Who - Live at the Paramount
We played them recently on the thanksgiving show and I ran across the rave review by Lester Bangs agin so I thought I'd give it a swing. I'm not going to attempt to recreate the review, but Bangs is right as always…. it rules!! (S)



1. Swilson - Cool Skull
I am the minister of information so I can shamelessly promote my own record. It's out this week and you still haven't downloaded it. It's free demonologist! (S)

Top 13 (of the Week)

Sure,you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology takes over. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the result of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.


13. Bucharest Metro Digital Library
Deep in the bowels of the Bucharest subway, there's a mammoth free digital library! Basically it's a giant mural on the walls at a metro stop. All the books and CDs pictured on the mural contain QR codes. Scan 'em and voila, instant culture. Amazing idea, we should have them here, everywhere! (K)

12. 1-800-Band
If you like exuberant three chord blasts, covered in sweat and sugar, all the way from Brooklyn music city, and who doesn’t, just dial 1-800-BAND.  Don’t really try to dial the number you’ll end up getting a credit card company. This is like if the Warriors were a rock band instead of a gang, and let me tell ya, they are having more fucking fun than you are right now, I’m sure of it. Check ‘em out live on WFMU. (S)




11. Expo '70
Justin Wright is the man/machine behind LA psyche-drone drug-bubble Expo 70. He creates towering monoliths of hazer stoner distress signals and rolling waves of hallucinogenic cough-syrup jams. He's got a new record out, it's called Beguiled Entropy (what?), and it sounds like all the dark secrets hidden inside all those really rough 70's detective magazines. Remember all those ads where you knew they were selling something fucking crazy, but you couldn't figure out what it was? It was this. (K)




10. Message From Space 
Keep in mind when your watching “The Japanese Star Wars” , that  United Artists spent millions of dollars to buy the film and release it here in the States.  Because Star Wars was so successful, how could they lose? (S)





09. Clothilde at Les Charlots
Incredible French TV special from 1967 featuring mysterious ye ye girl Clothilde, who released two amazing Eps when she was 19 and then vanished. Belying her dramatic tunes, this goofy TV show finds her in barrettes and a loud orange jumpsuit (!) lip-synching into the camera with a blank-eyed stare. This is alternated with the Les Charlots running around dressed up as schoolboys and whatnots. What does any of it mean? Who knows, but it sure is fun to watch! (K)






08. Los News
This is what scantly clad sorority girls at slumber parties listen to before they get killed by axe wielding maniacs, who won’t stop calling and breathing heavy into the phone. As far I can tell Los News are from Spain, and they should have called the band Corinthian Leather.  I don’t know if you want to drop 10 euros to find out why. If you drive a ’73 Dodge Charger you might want to consider it. (S)

07. Evil Head
A few years back, punk-porn princess Joanna Angel starred in a pretty amazing/ridiculous/kinda disgusting XXX Reanimator parody, Repenetrator. Well, just in time for Halloween, here's a new horror-sex hybrid from Joanna. Evil Head, as you might guess, is a sex-saturated satire of Evil Dead (or maybe Evil Dead 2? I get them confused), and from the trailer, it looks as nutty as you think it would. Boners will be popped, blood will be shed. (K)

Evil Head, Parody of Evil Dead from BurningAngel Entertainment from Joanna Angel on Vimeo.



06. Paths Of Glory
Look I’m sorry to recommend something like a Stanley Kubrick movie on the Top 13, I know we mostly dedicate our time to finding less obvious diamonds in the rough, but I never saw this flick and it’s great. So in case you never saw it, it’s streaming on Netflix right now. Spoiler Alert: There were no happy endings in World War One, millions of people died and it just lead to World War Two, only thirteen years later. (S)






05. Kings of Glam
Awesome BBC doc on the glory daze of 70's glitter rock. Lotsa vintage footage and new interviews with Suzi, Noddy, Jayne County, Rolan Bolan (!) and more. Great stuff, and the whole doc is on Youtube. Let's bend some genders! (K)






04. Grand Trine
A mix of proto-punk sleaze rock madness and free jazz, what’s not to like? The song titles read like an Advanced Demonology shopping list: I am magnet, catatonic state, love & napalm, prescription drugs, and Nazi gold. (S)

03. Electric Eel Shock  - Rock ‘N Roll Can Rescue The World
I watched the debates the other night, got depressed so I needed something to cheer me up. (S)

02. Eddie Harris – It's All Right Now
Went to the record store today and was lucky enough to score Eddie Harris's seminal '76 psychedelic-soul-funk-jazz classic This is Why You're Overweight for the less-than-princely sum of $2.99. Killer. This is one of the album's many sweet jams. When I listen to this, I really do feel like it's all right now. (K)




1. Beefheart: Through The Eyes Of Magic By John “Drmbo” French
Captain Beefheart is a musical genius, but the guy who made it all happen was drummer John French. He wrote down what the Captain played on piano (mostly) and transcribed it for guitars and taught it to the band.  This is the craziest account ever of playing in a Rock ‘n Roll band. I’m not talking Def Leopard, with girls and drugs (well some drugs) crazy.  I’m talking Jim Jones and The people’s Temple crazy; I’m talking David Koresh crazy. It’s a miracle the story doesn’t end with mass suicide or the whole band going up in flames.  Captain Beefheart ran his band like a cult and John “Drumbo” French has the emotional scares to prove it. It’s done in a oral history style with French Interviewing most of the key players. Warning: this thing is a tome. Set aside at least a month to get through it. It's Everything you wanted to know about Captain Beefheart but were afraid to ask. (S)

Top 13 (Of The Week)

Sure,you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology takes over. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the result of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.

13. I Miss Drugs

Not me personally, but lots of people do. This very funny new web series very accurately portrays what happens to former with-it types (like me and Swilson) once we approach middle-age. Hint: Ikea and Hulu Plus is involved. Sad but true. (K)

I Miss Drugs-Episode 1-"Almost There" from I MISS DRUGS on Vimeo.


12. Space Shuttle Endeavor Over the Mind-Warp Pavilion
The now retired spacecraft got a piggy back ride from a 747 this morning and flew all around the Los Angels area. Lady Swilson and I Watched it from Billion Dollar Beach across the street from the the Mind-Warp.  What a sight! (S)






11. Strange Forces
German headphone melters Strange Forces have a new album out, "I'd Rather Listen to the Bloody Birds". It's a swirling kaleidoscope of reverb-drenched space-case guitars and meandering doper grooves. The psychedelia is so dense you can get lost in it. In Venus, the sky is made of acid. This is probably what it sounds like when you parachute into the Venusian atmosphere. (K)





10. Wapassou - Wapassou (1974)
An extremely obscure group from france. They make stoned, sexy, psychedelic groove music. Perfect for skinny dipping in ice cold waterfalls and smoking hashish if your into that sort of thing. Kinda like a much header version of the Vampyros Lesbos soundtrack. (S)






09. Warp Drive is Possible! 
NASA is pretty sure that with a little tinkering, we can just bend space around a little and achieve interstellar space travel. Seeing as we're discovering potential new habitable zones in far-off galaxies at a pretty regular clip these days, it's nice to know we might have a way to visit. There's a good chance it'll take 100 years or so to pull it off, so I would suggest you eat a lot of kale and stay hydrated, so you'll be around when it happens. (K)





08. Mule: Summer 1994
Man does this make me nostalgic. In the summer of 1994, many a drunken evening on the back porch of a Jersey shore house was spent with If I Don't Six on the box. Conjuring up memories of  eating shorties from Wawa and washing them down with Natty Ice . They are a largely forgotten phenomenon now,  a completely original cocktail of blues, punk and redneck swagger. P.W. Long had an amazing self taught guitar style and the rhythm section was as bombastic as it gets. They moved from Detroit to Philly, a move that seemed to make sense at the time, than P.W. struck out on his own and now I think he writes restaurant reviews. (S)






07. Who Killed Captain Alex? 
Isaac Nabwana is Uganda's first (and only) action film director. His entire production company is a volunteer, guerrilla army of stuntmen, actors, and explosive "experts", and from the completely fucked-up trailer for his epic, "Who Killed Captain Alex", we just might have a major new...well, I don't know if talent is the right word, but phenomenon definitely works. There's also a kickstarter campaign going to shoot a documentary on Nabwana, which I think needs to happen. (K)





06. The London Cowboys
After the break of  the Idols ( which include Jerry Nolan and Walter Lure) Barry Jones and Steve Dior formed the London Cowboys. They were the nucleus with which a revolving cast of punk rock luminaries played, including: Nolan, Glen Matlock, Tony James (Generation X), Pete Farndon (Pretenders), Terry Chimes (The Clash, Generation X) and sometimes Monroe from Hanoi Rocks. This is sleazy glam in all the right places. Somehow I missed 'em but I guess they were big in the U.K. (S)





05. Krofft Supershow
Mid 70's Saturday morning insanity. A variety show from some dark psychedelic cartoon hell, served up weekly during bouts of sugar-cereal overdosing. This show fried my mind but good. I'm still not over it. Now some maniac has posted 'em up on Youtube to infect a whole new generation with it's drug-soaked zaniness. (K)






04. Jim Ford by way of Sly Stone blitzed on Dick Cavett 
This footage  has been kicking around for some time and it's not really funny to see Sly all fucked up (looking sharp I might ad)  but I just realized he name checks the great Jim Ford! Too bad this is Jim's fifteen minutes of fame right here. (S)






03. Black Devil Disco Club
The deepest darkest disco ever made and i'd like to thank Seth, the drummer in Swilson for this most crucial Advanced Demonological find. Bernard Fevre a french musician who released synth library music under the name Milpatte, recored and released an Ep of satanic disco in 1978 to relative obscurity. Of course in recent years it has resurfaced at the hands of some DJ's and has been hailed as the classic it really is. Fevre has started recording and releasing under the Black Devil moniker again and it's all pretty good. Outsider, satanic, loner disco! (S)





02. The Doors of Perception: Weird Funk, Psychedelic Soul, and Acid Jazz from New York City (1970-1974)
The title says it all, really. My new fave comp of all time. You can't get more far out than this, man. This shit is ALL THE WAY GONE. (K)





01. The Fall - Ersatz GB (2011)
I'm a huge Fall fan but I go in and out of consciousness with them, it's hard to keep track in this fast moving world. Every now and again I wake up and say : "wonder if there is a new Fall record?"…well I did that this morning and came across one from 2011…is there a newer one? It's great! I thought Your Future Our Clutter was great so hopefully he's on a roll. (S)

Gunslingers: Manifesto Zero

Gunslingers

Manifest Zero

World In Sound Records

Imagine if the British blues boom never happened in the late 60’s (a concept that Ken and I seem to be obsessed with). Everything else the same: The Vietnam war, LSD, Eastern Religion, free sex, Andy Warhol, Nixion, Black Panthers, the Fillmore East and West, the whole cosmic egg scramble. Just no Eric Claption, instead Rockabilly was all the rage, Johnny Burnette is king. The kids aped Charlie Feathers and Hasil Adkins (this would happen in the late 70’s of course, but I’m talikin’ Sci-Fi here) and John Mayall started an Eddie Cochran tribute band, later on they traded in their leather jackets for beads and the evolution of rock continued on its natural crash course with oblivion. Flash! It’s 2012 (wow!) and the Gunslingers seem to be oscillating around this parallel universe of rock history. As if that’s the way it went down.

MANIFESTO ZERO, the follow up to the amazing NO INVENTION came out back in 2010, where was I, smoking grass in Malibu listening to James Gang records? Meanwhile somewhere in France a Texas chainsaw “massa-cree” was going down. Instead of chainsaws it’s guitars. This is what Tex Watson heard inside his mescaline-addled brain when he was chasing the farmers wife around with a carving knife. Dig it!



-Swilson