Tuesday, May 31, 2011

June 2011's available titles, the definitive list


Here's a current list of available music from Richie Records // TestosterTunes. Some titles are in dwindling supplies, some just may kick around for a while longer.

Please use paypal, live in the United States, and type the name of the record(s) you would like.

Send funds to TestosterTunes at Gmail

If you live outside the US or if you're looking for wholesale rates, send an email please.

RICHIE RECORDS // TESTOSTERTUNES
available titles June 2011

VIOLENT STUDENTS "Party Addiction" LP $15
PURLING HISS "Hissteria" LP $15
BIRDS OF MAYA "Ready to Howl" 2xLP $21
HOME BLITZ "Out of Phase" LP $15
FACTORYMEN "Shitman" LP $13
KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS "The Hunchback EP" 12" $13

BIRDS OF MAYA w/ HARMONICA DAN "Regulation" 7" single $6
CLOCKCLEANER "Frogrammer" b/w "Early Man" 7" single $6

SOLD OUT, DO NOT ORDER:

BRAINWASHED YOUTH "The Trilogy"
WATERY LOVE "Debut 45"
FNU RONNIES "Meat"

KURT VILE & someone called ROKA

Hey have a look at this hip-wiggler as she paces around the apartment and listens to 'On Tour' by Kurt Vile.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Anonymous, on May 9, 2011 wrote:
WATERY LOVE JUST SOUND LIKE A SHITTY VERSION OF THE LAMPS. CLOCKCLEANER WAS GOOD THOUGH.

Sunday, May 08, 2011

Lost & Found... OOP by HOME BLITZ


Cracked open an unmarked box and look what I found... a stack of Out of Phase by HOME BLITZ. Long suspected to be out of print, this thing was meant for wax, and the esteemed Bob Weston at the Chicago Mastering Service could not have done a finer job cutting the grooves. It's a known contemporary classic and it can be yours (provided you live in the USA) for $15 postpaid to TestosterTunes over at gmail.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

We're Back


Hello again readers. I should apologize for the absence. They say that a spurned lover can only be pushed away so many times before she's had enough. Well I hope that we haven't reached the limit yet, baby. Let me tug at your heartstrings a little while longer.
So what's the story? What do I have to report? Not much.
By now, everybody knows that the WATERY LOVE matinee was an unparalleled success. Dozens of good-time guys and girls showed up for the afternoon of a lifetime filled with beer, loud guitars, and sunshine. Speaking of WL, click over here to listen to and download the tracks from the out of print Debut 45. Thanks to Jason Sigal at the WFMU's Free Music Archive for that.
Most of us have seen PURLING HISS perform a number of times, and those unkempt bags o' bones are picking up steam with each billing. If you knock back a few pints and squint your eyes, you'd swear that the rhythm section is named Scott and Ron. And Dizzy? Everyone agrees that he's the voice of a generation that howls at the moon and talks with its fingers.
Good buddy and friend to the label DJ Sully has retaken the FM dial on Thursday mornings. He's promised slightly more conventional playlists with the same insightful commentary and guest voices. The program is called The Naked Gun and you can learn more over here.
And now let's get down to it. Let's find out what 2011 has in store, what better food you're going to eat, and what you're going to buy that you can't already afford. The Future...
This year will bring tunes from FACTORYMEN, SPACIN', BLUES CONTROL & other select artists.
PARTY ADDICTION is proving to be a hell of an album. It's finding it's way to the top of the charts and we can all agree that it bridges the gap between Kraut and krautrock.
You might as well know that we've joined the social networking site called Twitter. Take a peak at twitter.com/testostertunes if you'd like to keep in touch. No musings on current events or limp stabs at humor, simply relevant information and life lessons.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

VIOLENT STUDENTS 'Party Addiction'



VIOLENT STUDENTS
Party Addiction
RR//TT#29

Here's the last gasp effort from VIOLENT STUDENTS, a defunct Philadelphia-based black hole Punk / HC outfit whose wasters have been and continue to be involved in some arguably more-refined and mature projects. This self-medicated, throbbing set was recorded live at their final gig inside a South Philadelphia firetrap before a crowd of black-clad pencil-necked geeks that shrank with each passing tic of the metronome. Most of those intensely posed youngsters left too early to witness an exploratory stomp through “Seekers of the Truth”. The Students here are joined by BLUES CONTROL’s Lea Cho, who was a last second replacement on guitar when Jim Winters (of Earth Crisis, Conviction, etc) proved tardy. The flip side is A Handy Magician, originally infamously issued as a cassette in 2004 or so. And as a more articulate scribe has famously noted, if you remember a Violent Students gig, then you weren’t there.

Insightful liner notes courtesy of Tony Rettman.

Side A
Intro
Overpower, Overcome
Very Hot & Awfully Wet
Seekers

Side B
A Handy Magician (orig. RR//TT#2)


This record will ship in about 3 weeks, so please show patience or purchase a copy from a trusted mail-order house or chain record store.

U.S. - $15 postpaid
Canada - $18
The Rest of the World - $25

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Monday, March 07, 2011

For those with an unsatisfactory social life...


A monthly event featuring recorded music and a cash bar. It occurs at a reasonable hour on a weekday night so it's ideal for people with jobs.

Monday March 14th's Invited Guest: Max Milgram of AKA Music, Violent Students, Watery Love, & Overt Hostility.

Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011

HOMOSTUPIDS to visit the West Coast


Attn: Readers in California, Reno, the Pacific Northwest, and Vancouver. Cleveland's HOMOSTUPIDS are making an out-of-character trip to your area. It takes a special combination of begging and bribing to get these mutants to even cross the Ohio River, so one can only assume that they're expecting something special from the mellow hordes near the other Ocean. Only a bona fide mental defective would pass up the opportunity to witness the globe's foremost black-hole Skull Music act.

Fri. Mar 4 San Fran w/ Knight Of the New Crusade, Wild Thing *Venue TBA
Sat. Mar 5 Oakland w/ Little Queenie @ Stork Club
Sun. Mar 6 Sacramento w/ Rat Damage @ The Hub
Mon. Mar 7 Reno w/ Soda Jerk @ The HQ
Tue. Mar 8 Portland w/ White Fang, Therapists @ House Show
Wed. Mar 9 Olympia w/ Criminal Code, Red and Black @ House Show
Thr. Mar 10 Vancouver w/ Shearing Pinx, Eating Out @ Honey Lounge
Fri. Mar 11 Seattle w/ Black Breath, Condominium, White Wards @The Highline
Sat. Mar 12 Portland w/ Condominium, Organized Sports @ Slab Town

Monday, February 14, 2011

NEVERMIND by CLOCKCLEANER re-released

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Six years back, Cleaner got involved with a grownup who wears black nail polish and hangs a pentagram around his neck. Scary! This frightening individual pulled up in his hearse, got a hold of an album titled Nevermind, and disappeared in a plume of smoke. Haven't seen him since. He's likely stirring a cauldron and staring at the calendar, waiting anxiously for Halloween to arrive.

Anyway, the reasonable people at Fan Death Records have re-released Nevermind on a vinyl LP. It's a nasty record that's been locked away by a comic book reader for too long.

Click over here

and here

Thursday, January 27, 2011

BIRDS OF MAYA live clip


Here's a vid from way back in May 2010 when BIRDS OF MAYA played their Ready To Howl record release gig at the El Bar in Philadelphia.

Many thanks to Tiffany Yoon.

Here's some dates for Birds-related events..

Sun 1/30/2011 SPACIN’ @ Kung Fu Necktie, Philadelphia
Fri 2/18/2011 Megajam Booze Band @ Mroom, Philadelphia
Sat 2/19/2011 Purling Hiss @ Good Weekend Warehouse, Allentown
Sat 2/26/2011 Birds of Maya @ Golden West, Baltimore

Sunday, January 23, 2011

third speed light... got blood in your eyes



[Took down the photo of Daniel. Too gruesome to look at. -Ed.]

All evidence points to a wild gig at the Cake Shop in NYC the other night. Dan DiMaggio of HOME BLITZ evidently took a chair to the face during the latter portion of their set. The uncompromising showman carried on with the set in spite of a gruesome gash above the eyes. He's since been stitched up and he's in high spirits.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

PH and 'Stupids news


SATURDAY JAN 22
PURLING HISS
HOME BLITZ
THE MAD SCENE
@ The Cake Shop, NYC

THURSDAY MARCH 3
PURLING HISS
BOGAN DUST
@ Kong Fu Necktie, Phila

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Additionally... OG Skulls THE HOMOSTUPIDS are going to the West Coast in March.

Monday, January 03, 2011

Happy 2011


Expect some news from this web presence in the near future. For now, here's a photograph.


Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Paging Dave Kendall (or more likely, Lewis Largent)... it's a PURLING HISS music video

Here's a nice hazy vid that the Sunday post-midnight crowd should appreciate. It's a tune called "Passenger Queen" by PURLING HISS and it's from the album titled Hissteria.
It was put together by Jake Fennell in southern California.