BANG! Records
Cheapo Pack (5 7"s) #1" (7") | New! | Order it!!
7" - ASTEROID B-612 - MURDER CITY REVOLUTION
From Sydney Australia, this legendary guitar band of High-Energy includes members of The Yes-Men, Johnny Casino, Leadfinger, Brother Brick, Proton Energy Pills. 2 shots straight to your ears.
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7" - SLAPPERS - ERASE YOU (EP)
Spencer P. Jones (Beasts Of Bourbon) is the head of this project which moves between the sounds of Richard Hell, The Ronettes and Beasts Of Bourbon in a very dirty way. 4 tracks EP of this non existing band.
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7" - RACE, HUGO + TRUE SPIRITS - READY TO GO
Legendary Australian musician from Melbourne, ... (READ MORE).
DINGOS, LOS
Thirteen Cook Road" (7") | Order it!!
Gorka Secta was spending a few days in Australia, and one of those nights Kent Steedman (Celibate Rifles) proposes the idea of creating a band and getting into the studio with a few more friends such as Johnny Casino (Asteroid B612), Mick Poole and Tim Chillingworth. This is the way they got into the studio, composed, recorded and mixed two tracks in one evening. Mastered by Celibate Rifles sound engineer Rick O Neal at Turtlerock studio. What you have is here is two shots of pure Aussie high energy, made in Sydney.
A side: Angel, is a psichedelic rock cut in the way of the New Christs, while B side: Waiting, has the stamp on of those classical punk rock hymns by Lovelock-Steedman. ... (READ MORE).
WALLBANGERS, THE
Kick The Drugs (EP)" (7") | DELETED
MICK HARVEY (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Birthday Party, etc) presents this new solo project where he develops his personal hunger for rock´n´roll.
No more ballads or French pop songs.
Here Mr. Harvey, with the help of friends such as Tex Perkins (Beasts Of Bourbon, Butcher Shop, Cruel Sea, etc) or Loene Carmen (prestigious Sydney songwriter), attacks straight to your ears with a four songs E.P. where you can find from the dark swamp noise that he always mastered to the noisiest distorted blues in the line of late 80s early 90s NYC blues sound (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Honeymoon Killers, etc).
This release is presented by BANG! Rcds. in a deluxe limited edition of 500 copies ... (READ MORE).
DEVASTATIONS, THE
The Low Road / Tomorrow Is A Long Time" (7") | DELETED
Listening to THE DEVASTATIONS music means to take a walk on the darkest side of Australian roots. The isolation, bad feeling and pain caused by the fact of being born, and living in such a devastated city like Melbourne ("lost city" as THE POWDER MONKEYS called it) is clearly, sadly and deeply expressed all through the their music. Growing up listening to THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, THE BEASTS OF BOURBON or HUGO RACE, mixed with their passion for the old world, Europe (in fact they moved to EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN´s Berlin),supposed for THE DEVASTATIONS the development of a really sad and amazing style of music, without which, it is imposible to understand the Aussie musical scene nowadays. Consideri ... (READ MORE).
HOSS
A Nice Quiet Chat " (7") | Order it!!
HOSS are here! This seminal Melbourne band presents us their brand new exclusive single! They had not recorded any new songs since 2000 (and their latest record wasn’t even seen), but here they come again! Joel Silbersher (GOD, HOSS, SABOTAGE, TENDRILS, MELONMAN, DARK HORSES...) has temporarily abandoned his friends Tex Perkins and Charlie Owens from his band DARK HORSES in order to record this new single with two absolutely stunning songs. A song of their own whose freshness and compositive & playing perfection will surprise everyone, and a KINKS cover in the B-Side which won’t let you move out of the sofa. After all these years, HOSS have nothing to prove to none. They are conscious me ... (READ MORE).
ASTEROID B612
Always Got Something To Lose" (7") | Order it!!
It’s been 4 years since the last time these australian old school rockers let us enjoy some new stuff. They haven’t stopped playing live (from time to time they did some club of their natal Sydney and even less often they played Melbourne), but ever since their wonderful “Reading Between The Lines” they hadn’t released anything. So now, and with BANG!’s usual politics of recovering dark gems, we present you with a new exclusive single, limited to 500 copies, in which are included two lost songs from their best period. These two songs (one of their own, “Always got Something to Lose”, and the other, “Murder City Revolution”, a demolishing HUMPERS cover) were recorded in 1995 and 1996 in U.S.A ... (READ MORE).
HUGO RACE & THE TRUE SPIRITS
Ready To Go" (7") | Order it!!
It is a great honour to release this exclusive single for BANG! RECORDS from HUGO RACE & THE TRUE SPIRIT. HUGO RACE keeps his characteristic intimist side in this single, bordering with the most sinister madness. A style he has been perfectly doing for more than 20 years in his native Melbourne, where he started with PLAYS WITH MARIONETTES, following with the legendary THE WRECKERY (a clear reference point for Jon Spencer), later on with ROWLAND S. HOWARD and as a temporal member of NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, finally getting to his most personal project and his band for the latest 15 years: THE TRUE SPIRIT.
This is what Mr. Race says in relation to the songs of this single, his late ... (READ MORE).
FLAMING STARS, THE
Spilled Your Pint / Sixty Nine" (7") | Order it!!
Spilled Your Pint, the new single from north London’s finest, The Flaming Stars, was recorded April-May 2004 at the legendary Toe Rag Studios. The A Side – a mixture of pounding drums, footstomping and shouting - is taken from their new album, Named & Shamed, while the B Side, Sixty Nine, is only available on this single. Since the band first walked into Toe Rag studio in Shoreditch in 1995 to cut their debut single, they’ve played all over the UK, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Greece, America and Japan and racked up seven John Peel Sessions.
“I first saw the Flaming Stars way back when, in the same Kings Cross boozer where the Pogues had started. That night, taki ... (READ MORE).
POWDER MONKEYS, THE
Straight Until Morning" (7") | Order it!!
ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN JEWELL COURTESY OF BANG! RECORDS. In this ocasión BANG! RCDS is proud to present a single with the best live recording ever by THE POWDER MONKEYS. This dareful afirmation is not done by us. These are textual words by John Nolan (POWDER MONKEYS, BORED!), as he explains himself in the inner part of this gatefold single. He says as well that this is his personal tribute to his late friend and co-leader of the band, Tin Hemensley (POWDER MONKEYS, BORED!, GOD). It was recorded in Melbourne in 1995, at this "damned" band´s best moment, which was one of the most important references to the Scandinavian R´N´R scene which succeded a few years later. >p> This deluxe edition sing ... (READ MORE).
ROWLAND S HOWARD
Autoluminiscent / Ocean " (7") | Order it!!
The legend is back. Since that magistral double LP and CD titled "Teenage Snuff Film", issued in 1999, this genious and master of Australian R´N´R has returned.
BANG! RECORDS is proud to bring you his latest recording up to now, and the first one in 5 years, recorded at the mighty Atlantis Studio in Melbourne. ROWLAND S. HOWARD always knew how to be surrounded by big genious musicians (as for example HUGO RACE, NICK CAVE, TEX PERKINS, BARRY ADAMSON, LYDIA LUNCH, NIKI SUDEN and a long etc). In this ocasión it wouldn´t be different, and has chosen as supporting band the most important band in the new antipodic generation, THE DEVASTATIONS. He who was one of the pilars of historical bands ... (READ MORE).
SLAPPERS, THE
Erase You (EP)" (7") | Order it!!
Dear oh dear! But what´s this new staff Spencer P. Jones surprises us with now??? This is nothing but a recording he did in 2003, stuck somewhere in his home and rescued by Bang! Rcds. for enjoyment and satisfaction of all the fans of one of the most charismatic and important artists of Australian music ever!
In this unique E.P., the leader of THE JOHNNYS and BEASTS OF BOURBON liberates and frees his passion for N.Y.C. trash-blues sound, without loosing at any moment his spirit and identity. The one which has given Aussie sound some of it´s greatest moments.
Backed by a band which sounds like a kennel of annoyed bitches with female vox, guitar and drums, that will hook you at the ... (READ MORE).