Acid - Tales Of Contempt

Mutha records punk goes glammy pop rocks. Acid - Tales Of Contempt

Nudeswirl - S/T

One of the best things to ever come out of the sewer state... ===== Nudeswirl - S/T

Big Red – Deeper And Darker

Davenport - (Thank God For) Hurricanes / Real Blonde

Great post hardcore noise rock from 1994. I only need the other Davenport 7 inch on DaDa Records to complete my DaDa Records catalog. I have one on the way as i type this.

Davenport - (Thank God For) Hurricanes

Davenport - Real Blonde

Mental Decay - End Of The Road

It's the end of the road, nothing left to do or say
you go your way i'll go mine, this is our last goodbye...

Mental Decay - End Of The Road

D.F.X. - No Frills

Anybody know anything about this band D.F.X.? From Netcong N.J.? Sounds pretty good. A little glamish / party metal, a little early Motley Crue-ish. So i suspect they are a bit poser-ish, but since this never came with a picture sleeve? and i can't see what they look like, i'm trying not to pass too much judgement! I like the EP but "She Likes To Rock" sounds like lame ass Poison or some other 80's pussy LA Hair bullshit. The Guitar player has some good moves and the singer sounds good sans a few Vince Neil squeals here and there.

D.F.X. - No Frills EP

The Southern Cross Band - Rock & Roll Is Still #1

The Southern Cross Band - Rock & Roll Is Still #1

Grievous Angels - That Instant Fantastic Sensation of Love

Grievous Angels - One Sunny Day

Grievous Angels - It All Comes Around

Grievous Angels - Dream

Grievous Angels - Londons Bells

The Wussies - New Age

A cool little pop punk nugget on the great Headache Records from New Jersey. I do believe that The Wussies were from CT. I usually like my punk/hardcore a little more "hard" but for some reason i really like this band and record.

The Wussies - New Age

Chuck Bene With Johnny Dentz's Hillrockers - Come Back Baby

Chuck Bene - US Rockabilly singer born Charles Salvatore Bene', June 26, 1941 in Hackensack (New Jersey). This rare little rackabilly number on the Rock Records label is from 1960.

Chuck Bene With Johnny Dentz's Hillrockers - Come Back Baby

Hearse - Twist It Up - Ode To A Hollywood Drunk

A couple of former new Jersey hardcore band Bedlam members and friends with some gnarly heavy punkish rock and roll on "twist one up" and a bit more staright forward 60's punk vibe on "ode to a hollywood drunk". This one slips sunder the NJ radar... Drummer Lenny Sblendorio was the label manager of New Jersey's Buy Our Records who put out some of NJ's best hardcore & punk shitz..... Wacky Hi-jinx anyone??? Producer Charly Pip was a member of The Colors & Skulls, another great NJ punk rock and roll band.... he and Lenny are now in a band called DEVILHAUS.

Hearse - Twist It Up

Hearse - Ode To A Hollywood Drunk

The Invaders - Wildroote

Little known punky instrumental garage soul stomper from Wall N.J. Go ahead, tell me more...?!?

The Invaders - Wildroote

Cuppa Joe - Bottlerocket

Cool little indie rocker from the obscure but great Dromedary Records label. Both from the great state of New Jersey. Released sometime in 1993.... that's 20 fucking years ago.... holy shit.... Sounds a bit like Sonic Youth. There is a copy up on eBay right now; BIN for 99.99 bucks! Have at it!

Cuppa Joe - Bottlerocket

The Pur' swa' der...s - You're Mine

Goofy names are nothing new in Rock & Roll, with the misspelling of band names and use of Umlauts and symbols, i never really understood it and as you can tell by this 45 its been going on for a looooooooong time.

I pulled this little New Jersey gem out of a box of shit recently. A nice little garage number. Nothing to punky or wild but cool non-the-less. I'm always on the look out for shitz from my home state. Don't ask me why. I was happy to leave that over run w/ Jersey Shore type scum bags, bennies, old people & half a police state in the dust, yet i still feel the need to collect all things Jer-Z....

As for the Pur' swa' der...s here is some info i lifted: Winners of the 1967 New Jersey Battle of the Bands, The Pur'Swa'Der...s would later compete in the National Battle and finish in a very respectable sixth place. A very successful regional band, The Pur'Swa'Der...s toured for three years as part of a traveling auto show, and recorded a couple of original singles. The band would later morph into The Strimbling Blimbles and record a very successful single before calling it quits in 1971.


You can read a pretty keen interview w/ band member Jim Corbett HERE:

The Pur' swa' der...S - You're Mine

Uge - Mad Charles - Mad Charles Love Theme

Hey Red Boy look what i found...!

From Sommerville NJ its Mad Charles: the World’s First Singer, Songwriter, Karate Robot who CRUNCHES the evil opposition! He seeks peace BUT he will fight and destroy all EVIL!

Fats Pinto don't stand a chance!





Uge - Mad Charles

Uge - Mad Charles Love Theme

Whiteboys - Maybe I Do - Wasting My Time - Young Girls

In my lame attempt to find all thing NJ & NJ related i over paid for this "punk" rock 7-inch a while back. Actually it might have been part of a trade deal. Either way it was priced way to high and in a moment of weakness i snatched it up. You know how it is? You walk into a place with such anticipation that even if something is too much loot or you don't really need it, you don't want to walk away empty handed.... Anyway, its not a bad little record but nothing to earth shattering. Way more ROCK than PUNK.... Chalk off one more lame NJ record from my list.... Here is what hyped 2 death had to say about it below.

WHITEBOYS -Maybe I Do 3:44 (Sunrise Music)Orange, NJ '78: pre-Ambulance: Members of Orange, NJ's Whiteboys twice missed their shot at punk fame. Their only 45 has been kicking around for years in a "promotional-only" version that never had a PS. Radio and fanzines utterly ignored it and it never made it to retail. (Who knows if they ever gigged). Then they reconstituted as Ambulance and did a great 45 with a nebbishy pink PS that never even made the 50-cent bins, although it has belatedly ascended into the KBD whacko$phere.

http://www.hyped2death.com/

Whiteboys - Maybe I Do - Wasting My Time - Young Girls

Shrapnel - Go Cruisin' - Way Out World

Here is another in my "New Jersey" series. This is the 2nd single from NJ Pop Rock band SHRAPNEL. The band included David Wyndorf (future Monster Magnet leader), Daniel Rey (aka Daniel Rabinowitz - future Ramones producer), Phil Caivano (now also in Monster Magnet), Danny Clayton and Dave Voght (RIP).

I've known Dave Wyndorf for years but don't have a personal relationship with him, but are paths have crossed through the years, but Dave Vogt was one of the coolest and nicest guys around. He used to bar tend at certain joints around the Jersey shore and always had good things to say and was always easy flowing with the beers....

I remember seeing these guys on a local TV show waaaaaaay back in the day long before i ever heard of Monster Magnet. And i know these guys were kinda poised for success having had their own comic book back then and after 2 singles were signed to Elektra and released an EP. Not really sure what happened, but hey, their breaking up formed Monster Magnet.

I have the 1st single somewhere but for some reason i haven't been able to track this one down until now. Its a far cry from the drugged out psych rock of early Monster Magnet but its a fun little power pop rock ride for a few minuets.




Shrapnel - Go Cruisin'

Shrapnel - Way Out World

Bad Guys - No More - Ex-Cape

More New Jersey Hardcore & Punk Love....

I had always thought that Bad Guys came before The Worst but i was just told from Greg Gory of The Chronic Sick that The Worst came first THEN they changed to the Bad Guys but after everyone told them this was a bad idea and they then went back to being The Worst.

Good thing they did too because this record is no where near the ripping hardcore awesomeness of what The Worst were. What we have here is a more punky power pop type style. I guess these guys were trying to be more "mature"....??? I for one am glad they went back to the jersey shore knuckle head hardcore shore-core thing. Its not a bad record but it aint The Worst.... heh....

Bad Guys - No More

Bad Guys - Ex-Cape

The Colts - Shiek Of Araby - Guiding Angel

The Colts is one of two black vocal groups that came out of Bakersfield, California (the other group was The Paradons of "Diamonds and Pearls" fame). Lead singer Ruben Grundy, his brother Joe Grundy, and Carl Moland lived on the same street in Bakersfield. When the three moved to Los Angeles to attend L.A. City College, they put together a vocal group with fellow student Leroy Smith, who came from New Jersey. (Love all things Jersey!)

Read more HERE:

The Colts - Shiek Of Araby

The Colts - Guiding Angel