Group Of Individuals - Being Bored

Underrated Chicago punk band. You can get this 7 inch for about 1 dollar. From 1989. Underrated.

Group Of Individuals - Being Bored

Aviso'Hara - Mature & Unsatisfied

Underrated alternative rock from New Jersey.

Aviso'Hara - Conspiracy Au Go Go

Aviso'Hara - Red Five (Standing By)

Aviso'Hara - How To feed Your Family

Aviso'Hara - Raspberry Beret

Baxter - 51

Killer heavy riff rocker from Baxter. Under the radar. One album and done. From 1973.

Baxter - 51

The Flock - Hold On To My Mind

2 minuets of pure 1966 garage psych with some fuzz guitar. underrated. seems nobody gives this band any love. i guess because they got so proggy and weird with the violin on the albums, but these singles are great.

The Flock - Hold On To My Mind

Hey Anonymous, you still out there....???

Back in June I posted a mix. The Summer 2012 100 Degree Heat Mix - The Devils Music Mix Vol. 23. I asked folks to guess the tracks. A few were guessed right away and then the mix sat there dormant for months and then I got an Anonymous player who started guessing everything in site! Well, he got stuck on a few and this is one of the tracks. So for all his hard work and effort I am throwing him a bone and giving him one of the unguessed tracks. So here it is.... Track 9 from The Summer 2012 Summer 100 Degree Heat Mix, Ussery from 1973 with some great Hendrix/Trower inspired guitar rock.

Ussery - Listen To The Melody

For those that might want to try the remaining tracks or just check the mix out, you can do so HERE:

There is also an older mix I did back in May 2011 called Mind Games where i asked people to call out the tracks.... I got a few tracks guessed and then nothing. Go have a stab at it PLEASE & THANK YOU.

Cheers!
DD

Fringe Benefit - Fringe Benefit

AAAAAAHHHHHHH..... It's saturday morning, the kids are asleep and the lady is out food shopping and the dogs are being surprisingly quiet, (probably eating my shoes again) so I am on my 2nd cup of coffee and i actually have time to write something! So here is a record that has been on my plate for the last week solid. Self titled from 1977 by a band called Fringe Benefit.

I had never heard this record or even knew it existed until I stumbled upon a copy in a record store in Philly the other day. It was CHEAP (1.99) and looked interesting. So I bought it.
It kind of had a punky glam cover and being from 77 and on the capricorn label, a label associated with more Southern Rock then glam, took a shot. Even though it happens to be from 1977 it sounds older in most spots, 74 or maybe even early. At the heart of it all it’s just a nice well played & produced AOR record but there are plenty of other sounds going on. Some late 60’s pop ala string and horn arrangements on a song or two, some west coast singer songwriter type sounds, even a Queen meets Rush heavy prog mash up that could have been a extra track from Yes - Fragile/Close to the Edge era; Even a little Glammy pub rock via Slade/Sweet, but mostly acoustic guitars rule the roost here. Also throw in a few covers, All Shook Up/Elvis and Suzanne by Leonard Cohen… Sounds like a strange mix but it all works. Maybe I’m getting old but really dig this record. It has not left my player to and from work all week… By the looks of the cover the band had some high hopes for success.... not so much.

So considering I'm pretty sure this thing is way out of print and is very under the radar here it is in its entirety.

Was God an Astronaut and When She's Next Free being my 2 fave tracks but all are worth a listen, who know you may just enjoy it as much as me... If not, oh well. maybe next time.

PS... The Devils Music Blog has quietly crept past 1/2 a million hits.... Not all that impressive in the web world but not to bad for my crappy little corner of the music blog world.... cheers to those of you who continue to support this little slice of musical retardation.


Fringe Benefit - Fringe Benefit