STANDARD EDITION Hand-printed cover and sleeves. Just art, sweat, and sound.EXCLUSIVE TO TRASH CULT:The iconic DEAD boys have given Trash Cult the exclusive pre-sale for their epic new double LP Memory Jar. In-store pickups available immediately.Mail orders ship early May.Recorded at Sound Recordings in Campbell’s Creek using all-analogue gear — no digital trickery.YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!Spend $50 in-store at Trash Cult (including your DEAD LP pre order) and go in the draw to win:1x TEST PRESSING EDITION of Memory Jar (packaged like a book!)A Trash Cult beanie + your choice of a Trash Cult crew neck or hoodie
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SUPER DELUXE EDITION – ONLY 66 COPIES WORLDWIDEHand-printed sleeves. Hand-printed cover. Just art, sweat, and sound.EXCLUSIVE TO TRASH CULT:The iconic DEAD boys have given Trash Cult the exclusive pre-sale for their epic new double LP Memory Jar. In-store pickups available immediately.Mail orders ship early May.Recorded at Sound Recordings in Campbell’s Creek using all-analogue gear — no digital trickery.YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!Spend $50 in-store at Trash Cult (including your DEAD LP pre order) and go in the draw to win:1x TEST PRESSING EDITION of Memory Jar (packaged like a book!)A Trash Cult beanie + your choice of a Trash Cult crew neck or hoodie
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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
Finally back in print! GOD's My Pal 7" is a genuine Australian rock & roll classic, an iconic slice of teen-punk from a band who dissolved only a bit over a year after the release of the record but has had a huge influence on Australian independent music for 37 years - both the band and record itself and the members' musical diaspora throughout the past three decades.
GOD were the Melbourne teenage quartet made up of Joel Silbersher, Tim Hemensley, Matty Whittle and Sean Greenway. They existed between the years 1986 - 1989 and released this 7" on the Au-go-go label, soon followed by the Rock Is Hell 12" EP and then by their sole full-length LP, For Lovers Only.
Punk is Dead exposes the lasting impact of Punk on visual culture worldwide. Hundreds of flyers, photos, set lists, vintage fashions and other ephemera from all of your favourite bands are jammed into this menacing volume. Punk is Dead is massive, featuring a wide spectrum of bands that initially catalysed the scene, and later fuelled its global expansion. Contributing writers such as Wayne Kramer, Arturo Vega or Kid Congo flesh out the visual assault. This long awaited follow-up to the highly influential bestselling book Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement also features hard hitting interviews with Ian Mackaye, one of the most respected voices of the DIY music underground, and Malcolm McLaren, likely the most impactful promoter of the early punk movement. From the unknown to the infamous, they will likely be found within the pages of Punk is Dead, Punk is Everything!
The follow up to the critically acclaimed 'Untitled. Street Art in The Counterculture. Untitled II the irreverent book of street art has again been created without the collaboration of the artists and certainly without the permission of the wall owners. There are blatant statements that embody outrageous lies, articles laced with satire, plus cynical synopses of attempts to commercialize street art and make it fashionable via celebrity endorsement. Consideration is given to the question What the hell is it about the color grey that makes it appeal the powers that be and their ridiculous minions? and Outsider Art is it an expression of artistic impulse without interference from the idea of personal gain? All of this amongst a collection of graffiti collected from all over the world and preserved on these pages before the legions employed to destroy them chip them off the walls. Artists featured include Miss Van, Dan Witz, Ron English, Obey, Banksy, Blek le Rat, Swoon, Os Gemeos, and Herakut.
I'll Kick You In The Head With My Energy Legs depicts the coming of age, travels and traits of a group of skateboarders from London, who managed to escape the grips of a nine-to-five. Each character offers a different dynamic to the ongoing story; be it walking along the sludge covered beaches of the river Thames in search of an American visiting friend who happened to be taking an emergency shit' after accidentally drinking an entire bottle of laxative, or a journey to the hospital to fix a dislocated elbow, or playing with a dead pigeon.
n 2004, before the advent of social media as a global phenomenon, photographer Patrick O'Dell launched the celebrated blog 'Epicly Later'd', dedicated to documenting the adventure and mayhem of the NYC skate/music/downtown scene. Two decades later, the influence of O'Dell's work is apparent, and the original photographs still astonish. Compiled by O'Dell and editor Jesse Pearson, this title collects the best of the blog into a body of work that's evocative wildly compelling.Patrick O'Dell is a photographer, photo editor, filmmaker, and skateboarder from Columbus, Ohio. In addition to the creation of the seminal photoblog Epicly Later'd, his work includes serving as a photographer for Thrasher magazine and photo editor for Vice. He also created and produced the webshow and television adaptations of 'Epicly Later'd', and is an acclaimed director of music videos and the film 'Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine'.
The Ugly Australian Underground documents the music, songwriting, aesthetics and struggles of fifty of Australia’s most innovative and significant bands and artists currently at the creative peak of their careers. The book provides a rare insight into the critically heralded cult music scene in Australia.
The author, Jimi Kritzler, is both a journalist and a musician, and is personally connected to the musicians he interviews through his involvement in this music subculture. The interviews are extremely personal and reveal much more than any interview granted to street press or blogs.
They deal with not only the music and songwriting processes of each band, but in some circumstances their struggles with drugs, involvement in crime and the death of band members.
Unprecedented in scope, this book is the definitive story behind the most explosive and influential art form of the last 100 years. The book traces the evolution of the style from its early freight train days to its big-city boom on the streets of New York City and Philadelphia to its modern-day influences, and features profiles and behind-the-scenes stories gleaned from over three-years' worth of interviews with graffiti's most prominent names as well as its lesser-known pioneers. Authors Roger Gastman and Caleb Neelon provide an insider's perspective on the most popular trends and styles that have dominated the scene for the last 50 years, and provide a thorough examination of the regional differences among major American hubs - New York, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Chicago - and under-the-radar scenes in cities, like Washington, D.C., Boston, Miami, New Orleans, and Albuquerque.
THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN GRAFFITI is packed with over 1000 photographs-the majority of which have never before been seen - from more than 200 photographers, most of whom also created the artwork. The authors have spent the better part of the last five years interviewing key figures in the graffiti world throughout America - from the bedrock cities of New York City, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles to the lesser-known, but equally important hotspots of Cleveland, Baltimore, and Phoenix. Approximately 90 percent of the art in this book has never been published, and was sourced directly from the artists who lived the scene, giving the book a raw street vibe as authentic as the history it documents.
The foreword is by legendary graffiti artist, Taki 183. Considered one of the founding fathers of the graffiti arts movement, Taki 183 has never before contributed writing to any book or newspaper/magazine article on the subject. Next year, 2011, marks the 40 anniversary of the 1971 New York Times article written on Taki 183-"Taki 183 Spawns Pen Pals"-that ignited the movement in New York City and cast Taki 183 as the world's first famous graffiti artist. His official Web site is http://taki183.net.
“I think Volvox is really outside of most things and most categories. That’s what attracted me to them immediately. You know, what are we listening to? What is this? Who are these people? That’s the stuff that I love and they were just outside of everything, outside of the experimental scene for sure. Even though people in the scene were supportive of them and loved them. I just think they were very very different. It was just very strange.” - Oren Ambarchi
Volvox were one of the most extraordinary bands ever to emerge from Melbourne, or in fact anywhere else. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, during their short existence (1991 to 1996) they never played outside of said city. Luckily for you dualpLOVER and SPILL have taken it upon themselves to re-issue their back catalog in an effort to preserve the recorded history of one of Australia’s true outsider outfits and to help its legacy grow outside of the few who saw them play or brought the original cassettes.
Describing the unsettling nature of the Volvox sound is somewhat difficult without pointing out one unmistakable feature, the vocals style of Anthoney Riddell (aka 'Lester Vat'), their all-stumbling neurologically damaged front-man, whose infamous fall at the Redfern squats in the late 80s left him in a coma for months, and then with a significant movement disorder. However unlike other bands that have had physically or mentally-impaired members, his involvement was in no way token. Anthony was actively involved in the Sydney noise scene long before his accident, most notably with his project The Good Chamber who some Sydneysiders may remember through the Cosmic Conspiracy tape label. The bands line up also included Dave Taskas (GRONG GRONG) , Glenn Norman, Christine Thirkell + various guests.
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Limited coloured vinyl 5LP deluxe foil slipcase
For the first time, The Clouds present all four of their albums in one limited edition collected box set.
RetroActive features all four of The Clouds incredible albums – Penny Century, Octopus, Thunderhead and Futura – most of which are being repressed for the first time since release.
The box set arrives in a deluxe foil box, and each album arrives on limited-edition coloured vinyl.
