byron coley
@byroncoley.bsky.social
western mass-based writer, archivist & poseur
rec of the day HI SHERIFFS OF BLUE "live at the mudd club & a7" (abaton books LP) swank '83 live stuff from the terminal version of the band w/scott jarvis, joe drake & guest gtr from jerry williams. less art-damage/more raw-edged blues bluster. boss! hisheriffsofblue.bandcamp.com/album/live-m...
LIVE: Mudd Club & A7, by Hi Sheriffs of Blue
6 track album
hisheriffsofblue.bandcamp.com
best cramps news in a long time! no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/a...
Two Punk Legends Help Revive a Cult Band’s Archive (Gift Article)
The Cramps introduced the world to “psychobilly” and turned Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye into fans. Now the duo is part of an effort to bring the music back.
nytimes.com
rec of the day DUMBO'S TINTO BRASS BAND "v.3' (bumbo LP) reet alb from this odd detroit-based post-punk/art-rock band w/ roots in piranhas & druid perfume. this has great d boon-style vocals & musical bursts that recall saccharine trust. south bay north. bumborecords.bandcamp.com/album/bumbos...
Bumbo's Tinto Brass Band v.3, by Bumbo Records
10 track album
bumborecords.bandcamp.com
rec of the day CITY DRAGON "smokes & mirrors" (bruit direct disques LP) first vinyl from a french solo project that can momentarily resemble just about anything from daniel johnston's bathtub blues to jad fair's instrumental miniatures & beyond! lovey! bruitdirectdisques.bandcamp.com/album/city-d...
City Dragon - Smokes and mirrors, by bruit direct disques
30 track album
bruitdirectdisques.bandcamp.com
RIP MONOMAN (JEFF CONNOLY) although this means your record collection is now safer, i will def miss the great leader of DMZ & the Lyres. couldn't find ay live DMZ footage, but god were they amazing www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0dI...
LYRES - Don't Give It Up Now (1984)
YouTube video by MrGroovybassman
youtube.com
rec of the day OLAF RUUP "fuzzy logic" (palilalia 2LP) finally got to this sprawling & softly jagged set of improvs by this german guitarist, put together in 2018 for a gig opening for michael gira. a really beautiful & haunted approach to the electric guitar. olafrupp.bandcamp.com/album/fuzzy-...
Fuzzy Logic, by Olaf Rupp
7 track album
olafrupp.bandcamp.com
rec of the day RED STUFF s/t (skell LP) latest album by tom & kelly wanderer's trio mixes their folky origins w/ raw-ass garage pumice, employing a sweet cover of "candy says" for leavening. wanderer remains an obscure figure. but it's really time to change that redstuff.bandcamp.com/album/red-st...
Red Stuff, by Red Stuff
12 track album
redstuff.bandcamp.com
rec of the day II: ZOH AMBA "eyes full" (matador LP) amazing folky vocal debut by this GREAT avant reed player reveals her tennessee roots. a bit like scout niblett crossed w/ rebby sharp w/ great backing including jim whte on tubs. apparently zoh can do it all! zohamba.bandcamp.com/album/eyes-f...
Eyes Full, by Zoh Amba
13 track album
zohamba.bandcamp.com
rec of the day: KOMOS COWBOYS s/t (Daksina LP) like most daksina titles, this is a sprawler & a good 'un. pat murano & nicholas merz (new orthodox) use diff sorts of electric guitars to set up shivering, pulsing statues of sweet smoke, as abstract as a sand dune decimus.bandcamp.com/album/komos-...
Komos Cowboys, by Komos Cowboys
2 track album
decimus.bandcamp.com
RIP SIMONE FORTI the great choreographer, collaborator with charlemage palestine (among many others) & lsd advocate has shifted dimensions. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/a...
Simone Forti, Movement Artist Inspired by the Everyday, Dies at 91 (Gift Article)
The creator of Dance Constructions that borrowed from sculpture and performance, she was a deep influence in the early 1960s on ideas about what dance could be.
nytimes.com
rec of the day II RUTH PARKER "otherwise occupied" (flippin' yeah LP) bewitchingly straight forward solo folk album from melbourne. the music is unadorned (apart from the dylanoid harp bits) w/ an easy, intimate vibe that is quiet & surprisingly original ruthparker.bandcamp.com/album/otherw...
Otherwise Occupied, by Ruth Parker
11 track album
ruthparker.bandcamp.com
rec of the day DIETRICHS "live bahdu" (relative pitch CD) ace set by don & camille dietrich's post-borbetomagus duo. the sax is a screaming wall of sound, which the cello attempts to swallow. wild & brilliant mix w/ a few quiet passages stirred in. relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-b...
Live Bahdu, by Dietrichs
2 track album
relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com
WATER DAMAGE "live at le guess who?" (12XU LP) another superb alb, recorded live with guests, by this loudly blissed-out texas-based eterno-dream-rock ensemble. in the words of thomas pynchon, "a screaming comes across the sky." cardinal fuzz in the uk. waterdamage12xu.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
Live At Le Guess Who?, by Water Damage
1 track album
waterdamage12xu.bandcamp.com
rec of the day II CIA DEBUTANTE "trespass" (siltbreeze LP) best yet by this french duo whose sound is a lot like something creepily stentorian from the early '80s, but has nothing to really timedate it. a gorgeous post-industrial mix of gtr/voice/electronics. siltbreeze.bandcamp.com/album/cia-de...
CIA Debutante-Trespass lp, by Siltbreeze Records
9 track album
siltbreeze.bandcamp.com
rec of the day FULL SIZE "plays the song" (open mouth/3 lobed LP) worth trying to track down document of a great live set in NC. philly all-stars playing a VU-meets-Rhys Chatham one chord throwdown for the ages. somebody should press more of this. fast. openmouthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/full-s...
FULL SIZE PLAYS THE SONG, by FULL SIZE
1 track album
openmouthrecords.bandcamp.com
rec of the day III STEPHEN COGLE/PETER STAPLETON "an afternoon with victor dimisich" (siltbreeze LP) achingly beautiful, stripped down versions of VDB's tunes, captured live as the pin group was revving up. vibes like reed's recordings at the robinsons's apt siltbreeze.bandcamp.com/album/stephe...
Stephen Cogle w/Peter Stapleton-An Afternoon With Victor Dimisich, by Siltbreeze Records
13 track album
siltbreeze.bandcamp.com
rec of the day HEAVY MOTHER II s/t (total punk LP) thud-psych aside to eddie flowers' last band. more avant-garagoid due to the presence of joe chamandy & craig bell, they pound out beautiful blurt-raunch. not one for the dainty but a slow burn winner. totalpunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-lp-4
S/T LP, by Heavy Möther II
10 track album
totalpunkrecords.bandcamp.com
rec of the day LIMBO DISTRICT "carnivalive" (chunklet LP) henry owings' project to revive the legend of this no-wave-adjacent post-punk combo from athens finishes up w/a lovely, skunkily percussive set that shoulda blown minds back in '82, but didn't get heard. chunklet.bandcamp.com/album/carniv...
CarnivaLive, by Limbo District
12 track album
chunklet.bandcamp.com
rec of the day II: SCISSOR FITS "it wasn't nothing" (minimum table stacks LP) superb comp of the 2 '79 7"s + live tracks by this uk combo. strong whiffs of treacy/ball construction w/ bonzo-like touches. i had always filed them in my head as mopers. wrong! scissorfits.bandcamp.com/album/it-was...
It Wasn't Nothing, by Scissor Fits
13 track album
scissorfits.bandcamp.com
rec of the day VIA s/t (Dromedary LP) 6 songs by a short-lived band led thalia zedek after the end of uzi, just as she was starting work w/ live skull. blazing gtr by her & pre-cell jerry direnzo, gives this a raw, crazed early television feel. insanely good. dromedaryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/via
Via, by Via
6 track album
dromedaryrecords.bandcamp.com
rec of the day CHRIS D "courtroom wedding" (in the red LP) the merle haggard/david goodis of the punk rock generation, chris continues to write & sing brilliant cracked paeans of loss & dissolution. no one does it better. blabbermouth lockjaw forever. divinehorsemen.bandcamp.com/album/courtr...
Courtroom Wedding, by Divine Horsemen
8 track album
divinehorsemen.bandcamp.com
rec of the day GIRL TROUBLE "as is" (k LP) been 33 years since their last LP & this pre-grunge Tacoma quartet returns w/ its original line-up & the same charmed/whacked take on garage rock in its most basic & teenaged form. what a goddamn pleasure to behear. girltrouble.bandcamp.com/album/as-is-...
As Is [WO5/KLP322], by Girl Trouble
23 track album
girltrouble.bandcamp.com
rec of the day II RUMP STATE "psychic sidekick" (12XU LP) just played this 3 times straight & it's not enough. wildly whacked 2nd LP by guitarist Mark Morgan (Sightings) & euro voice nut Gaute Granli. total insanity, in the most pleasant way possible. rumpstate12xu.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...
Psychic Sidekick, by Rump State
8 track album
rumpstate12xu.bandcamp.com
rec of the day HONEY RADAR "reclining psych-out" (honey radar MLP) yet another brilliant slab of avant-pop/psych invention from the great jason henn. this one's almost like a weird rumination-cycle about the existential implications of sunshine pop. honeyradar.bandcamp.com/album/reclin...
Reclining Psych-Out, by Honey Radar
4 track album
honeyradar.bandcamp.com
interesting piece from the nyt on a cooper-hewitt exhibit of musical playback devices. kinda sad, but then what isn;'t these days? no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/a...
When Listening to Music Was a Team Sport (Gift Article)
An exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt celebrates the glorious machines that gave us the soundtracks of our lives before streaming sites shoved them toward obsolescence.
nytimes.com
rec of the day THRESHER "you and me could really exist" (own sound LP) fine 2nd LP by this ontario free-rock sextet, who scoodle out long-form string-thunder w/ occasional vocal wisps & sweaty gobs of steve mackay-esque sax. a righteous northern blast ownsoundrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/you-an...
You and Me Could Really Exist, by Thresher
7 track album
ownsoundrecordings.bandcamp.com
rec of the day: WINGED WHEEL "desert so green" (12XU LP) just catching up with this now & it's spectacular, as you probably already know. they've turned their direction from germanic pulsation to this heat, mixed with all kindsa great shit. an essential spin wingedwheel.bandcamp.com/album/desert...
Desert So Green, by Winged Wheel
9 track album
wingedwheel.bandcamp.com
just had my first hip replacement with another of those and another new shoulder on tbe horizon. but i am hoping to be able to navigate well enough again in a couple of weeks that i can re-start the sharing of my biased views on underground culture. don't say i didn't warn you.
