The third album by BLOWERS, BLOWMANIA, is a raw and ferocious blast of garage punk straight from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. With a four-pronged vocal assault and an unrestrained attitude, the band delivers pure intensity and irreverence at every turn. Inspired by The Reatards, The Spits, and Wipers, BLOWMANIA channels the untamed spirit of punk at its most chaotic and unapologetically loud. Prepare yourself for a sonic explosion!
Sleeve artwork fully illustrated by Luiz Berger.
Welcome to BLOWMANIA – one wild ride of a record that sees BLOWERS returning to form and upping the ante, turning their blistering vocals and buzzsaw guitar sounds up to maximum levels while adding synth for extra layers and urgency, with some truly warped production touches to top it all off. It’s an all-out attack from opener ‘Wasted On My Own’ to closing track ‘Everybody In This Room Hates Me’. The album delivers full-blown earworms and depraved humour about hospital-prone fans (‘Tony’s In Hospital Again’), drug love (‘Mushrooms On My Mind’), anxiety (‘Nightmares’), lifestyle choices (‘Cigs, Beer and Wine’) and hate-fuelled duets (‘I Hate You All The Time’). BLOWMANIA delivers 11 sharp shots of unapologetic punk adrenaline and is not for the faint-hearted – enter at your own risk!
BLOWMANIA follows up from BLOWERS’ debut self-titled LP released to acclaim and disgust back in 2021, and their second album, Blown Again, in 2023 (both on Chaputa Records/Spooky Records). BLOWMANIA was engineered and mixed by Julian Cue (Street Sweeper, Gut Health, Civic, Screensaver) and mastered by Mikey Young.
BLOWMANIA is due out in April 28, 2025 on Chaputa Records (EU) and Trash Cult Records (Australia).
Tracklist:Side 1
Bleary eyes and stoned, the legends Astrofuzz have given Trash Cult limited exclusive early release vinyl copies of their new self-titled album and holy shit...it's a monster!!
Be the first kid on your block to own a copy of this slab of pyschedelic shoe gazing doom. Ohhhh...
Did we mention they were signed? Oh, so lucky...half genuine, half forged - surely that makes them even better and more exclusive?
Ultra limited CD box originally issued on Murder Release in a 8 cassettes box set hand-made by Moreno Daldosso back in 1994. Hand pasted cardboard box including a numbered insert. All artworks are reproductions of 1994 originals. CDs are remastered from original tapes.
Radio Birdman - When the Birdmen Flew: An Illustrated History Hardcover Book
When The Birdmen Flew is an Illustrated History book, jam packed full of photos, memorabilia and ephemera from 1974 to 2007 to create the ultimate Radio Birdman rock and roll book.
The bands archives and scrapbooks have been collected by lifelong Radio Birdman fan George Munoz with additional items supplied by other Birdman fans from around the world.
George has been collecting Radio Birdman files since 1976 and has compiled a large collection which he dreamed of putting together into a book. That time has now come and High Voltage Publishing is proud to make that dream come true.
The books starts from early days and the beginnings of Radio Birdman. Rare early photos, flyers, posters, set lists and everything in between and much of it unseen for years or never seen at all. The best items have been chosen and presented in this huge book.
Beautifully designed and laid out by George Matzkov.
Recollections, opinions, confessions, revelations, quips, anecdotes, and analyses by, for, and about the art mutants and other creative weirdos working in a rural Northern California college town in the early 1980s. It's like a Philip K Dick short story meets contagious polythelia. Answering questions no one is asking -- it's the BuFMS way. There's no salacious gossip here, no long-festering resentments litigated, no tell-all humiliation porn. If that's your thing, you'll have to content yourself with living to clutch your pearls another day. Not that it's wall-to-wall good manners.
Characters and oddballs abound. Some shit-talking, but nothing scandalous like we're used to nowadays. Still, the content of this Encyclopedia Spastica is slanted toward making music, listening to music, making connections because of music: tape experiments, electronic improv, spoken word, live recordings, punk, psychedelic rock, non-music, and general WTF. Not at the exclusion of film and video, though, and radio shows, radio plays, guerilla theater, stand-up comedy, art installations, zines, collages, poetry and fiction, television shows. Activities, projects, experiences, learning, creating, obsessing, giving up, all that, the whole wad. Every page is adorned with supporting visual flyers and posters, paintings and drawings, newspaper clippings, photos and stills from film, television and video production, prints, personal correspondence, interview transcriptions, and autobiography excerpts. 28th Day, Vomit Launch, Serious Problmz, Bicycle Ballet, Ziplok, Under Glass, KCSC, Beor The Friendly Thing, Jett Hotcomb, The Conduits, Daily Planet, Unlikely Modernists, Man Overboard, The Viper, EL&C, The Protons, Glands of External Secretion, Chaplain Addington, Doug Roberts, and Bren't Lewiis Ensemble
