NEWS!

Hello,

 

plenty of vinyl goodness has just hit the racks: Velvet Underground 7” boxset, John Lee Hooker, Love, MC5, The White Stripes, Hits, Undead Apes, Big Star, Remains, Sir Douglas Quintet, Wilco, Beasts Of Bourbon Lp boxset, Stax Funk, Barrence Whitfield, Flying Burrito Brothers, Aretha Franklin, Golden Staph, Boomgates/SWH split, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Otis Redding, Monsters, Spiritualized, Baby Woodrose, plenty more..

**and- we’re about to do a Norton Records vinyl order- if you got any wants lemme know by Friday 15^th July and I’ll add them to my order!! Ask me for a catalogue to see what they have on hand!!

 

New Australian albums just out:

RON S. PENO & THE SUPERSTITIONS “FUTURE UNIVERSE” CD- debut album from one time singer/songwriter of the legendary Died Pretty. A stunning record!! **our copies signed by Ron

HARVEST SMOKE “MINOR INDUSTRY” CD- debut album of country-tinged rock & powerpop from ex- Screwtop Detonators.

HAPPY HATE ME NOTS “TIME AND THE STATE” CD- great new studio album from one of Australia’s best bands.

MOLTEN UNIVERSE “THE GREEN RAY” CD-debut album of hard rock from ex-Lime Spiders on Off The Hip.

Party in the record store:

Friday 29^th July w/ Chook Race and Stompbox Rumble

**it’s a BYO party: we’ll supply the party, you provide your booze. **afterparty at Pony with a 2am toga-clad slot from Thee Mighty Childish.

Gigs for July:

Sat 9th July Go Go Postal @ The Penny Black w/ The Yard Apes and Djs Sye Saxon & Fuzz Bass

Sat 9th July - The ALOHAS @ the Phoenix Bar, Canberra, w/ Space Party and David Bath & the Hot Tubs FREE entry 8pm start.

Sun 10th July - Mass Cult @ The Grace Darling Hotel, w/ The Hondas and The Chaos Kids 

Fri 15th of July, King Gizard and the Wizard Lizard, Midnight Woolf +more @ the National Hotel, Geelong.

Sat 16th of July Midnight Woolf and The Velocettes @ The Retreat Hotel

Fri 22nd July - YIS @ Old Bar, w/ Russian Roulettes and Baptizm of Uzi

Saturday July 23rd - Harvest Smoke 'Minor industry' album launch @ Yah Yah's w/Swedish Magazines, Wrong Turn and Nici Blue Eyes

Sat 23rd of July  King Gizard and the Wizard Lizard, Midnight Woolf and more at the Old Bar

Fri 29th of July  Richie1250 & The Brides of Christ, Midnight Woolf, Baptism of Uzi and Julian Montan @ The Tote

Sat 30th July-Little Murders@The Vic

cheers,
MICKSTER

OFF THE HIP PARTY! w/ Chook Race and Stompbox Rumble

Here's a suprise Off The Hip party to you're mark into you're calendar! 

 Chook Race

Stompbox Rumble

Come down from 5 PM to hear DJ's Sye Saxon and Reverend Jack Petty Esq hit the decks and see STOMPBOX RUMBLE and CHOOK RACE hit our humble stage. Suprise guest included... Who? It's a secret.

FREE - BYO - BUY SOME RECORDS

Following their last preformance at Off The Hip, THEE MIGHTY CHILDISH will also be playing a Pony 2 AM show later in the evening so book in the baby sitter stock up on Panadol for Saturday morning.

 (featuring one Off The Hip owner, one Off The Hip worker and two Off The Hip shoppers)

HARVEST SMOKE - 'MINOR INDUSTRY' CD - OTH 7108

HARVEST SMOKE are a gang of four, part Perth born / part Melbourne born, who fell into the same room late 2010 to play some music for main man BENNY J WARD's freshly written songs that had been penned on six month road trip that he and his wife Nici undertook around Australia. 

 

The trip was a sabatical of sorts having spent the majority of his post high school years rockin' and rollin' with his best mates in the Screwtop Detonators on numerous tours, shows, recordings, a re-location to Melbourne, and all the other general punk rock shenanigans the youth of yesterday undertook. 

So, having driven a million kilometers through red dirt and redneck country towns, the red man himself - and one time 'Lone Ranga', (look it up) - stopped in Melbourne, called his Screwtop buddy LEROY FRENCH and said "I'm keen to play again, but this time I've written a stack of hits whilst killing time on the road - gold I tells ya, GOLD!". 

So looking to enlist a bass player and a drummer he called upon good buddies STU (Manchu) BANKO and PUGS LYNGCOLN (aka Knuckles) from Sons of Lee Marvin and before you know it HARVEST SMOKE was born. A few rehearsals and a couple of shows later, all of a sudden they're in A SECRET LOCATION studio in Melbourne's inner north east with Paul Mayberry smashing out their debut album ''MINOR INDUSTRY'. Covering power-pop to punk rock to country balladry, the album is a finely polished piece of work. 

Singing songs about a 'CAT AND A DOG'  being in love to a violent thug protesting he 'AIN'T SUCH A BAD GUY' after all, and even penning lyrical magic about the combined nasal flavoured stench of 'BUSHFIRE AND EGGS' of the drummers' beard. 

 

The album is now done and is ready to drop. It's set to be released on JULY 23rd, 2011 through Off The Hip (physical) and Bridge Sounds (digital).

'Minor Industry' Album Launch - July 23rd @ Yah Yah's (Vic) w/ Swedish Magazines, Wrong Turn and Nici Blue Eyes.

View "Dog and a Cat" flim clip - from the album "Minor Industry"

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150284545992848&oid=166804079997173&comments

MOLTEN UNIVERSE "THE GREEN RAY" CD - OTH 7105

Molten Universe are a garage rock band hailing from Sydney Australia featuring Tony Bambach, Gerard Corben and Tom Corben from the Lime Spiders, Richard Jakimyszyn ex-Lime Spiders, New Christs and Hitmen, Phil Jaquet ex-Celibate Rifles and Damien Stofka ex-Death Mattel. They released the "No Love Around" CD EP through Off The Hip Records in 2008 which received excellent reviews and extensive airplay throughout Australia, Europe and the USA. New Yorks Big Takeover magazine declared that "Molten Universe establishes itself as the latest flame keeper of the rock and roll torch" while WMBR Boston voted it in their top 10 new releases for that year. The lyrics of No Love Around exposed the dark underbelly of urban life and explored themes of sexual perversion, voodoo witchcraft and drug induced psychosis. Molten Universe deals out an uncompromisingly heavy garage rock sound which reinforces their stark and pessimistic world view. It is no wonder that Off The Hip label boss Mickster despaired that "It's no wonder there is no love around".

Against this backdrop, Molten Universe are now extremely proud to annouce the release of their debut album "The Green Ray", 9 tracks of bone jarring garage rock which bears similarities to early Lime Spiders 7" releases, which is no surpise given the pedigree of the bands memebers. 8 of these tracks were recorded in glorious analogue at Tardis Studios in Marrickville and Pirate Studios on the picturesque far South Coast of NSW. The album contains 1 live track, a cover version of the Killer Kane Band tune "Long Haired Woman" which was recorded at The Excelsior Hotels "Sydney Trade Union Club Revival" in 2010. The lyrics of The Green Ray album again are slightly unnerving with the band traversing new subject matter such as Alien Abduction - specifically the bands abduction from their Tarago at The Big Merino Truckstop and subsequent torture and brainwashing by mutant alien creatures while travelling the country supporting the Cult on the 1987 Electric tour, geriatric vigilate squads, NWA pro wrestling - in particular the awesome Flair/ Steamboat fued of the early 90's, Ancient Egyptian Mummification practices and transgender prostitution. The music is as heavy and raw as ever and again features some blistering guitar work by turbo-charged guitarist Jakimyszyn.

Molten Universe urge you to connect with your inner selves as the Green Ray Will Read Your Mind.

Go Go Postal this Saturday!

OFF THE HIP RECORDS presents GO GO POSTAL, a new club nite at the PENNY BLACK (420 Sydney Rd, Brunswick), 2nd Saturday of each month. Next show Sat 9th July 2011 w/ DJs Sye Saxon and Fuzz Bass plus mystery band doing 2x half hour sets. Come along for a garage freakout!! Free entry, no excuses.