Page 3 of 38

Sister Double Happiness Live

December 1, 2023 / user

Sister Double Happiness was an alternative blues rock band that existed from 1986 until 1995, formed in San Francisco, CA, United States. It’s core members were Gary Floyd and Lynn Perko, who were in the seminal punk rock band The Dicks, and Ben Cohen of the Pop-O-Pies.
Thanks for the tape files Don Sheluga.

Chestnut Cabaret – October 9, 1991

01 – Bobby Shannon
02 – Freight Train
03 – Don’t Worry
04 – Heart and Mind
05 – Sweet Talker
06 – Cry Like a Baby
07 – Lightning Struck
08 – Ain’t it a Shame
09 – Exposed to You
10 – I’m Drowning
11 – You Don’t Know Me

MediaFire Zip of all files

S-21

November 29, 2023 / user

Philly five-piece S-21 made politically-charged punk rock 2015 – 2017
S-21 was Cella (Fugitive Family), Brian (Fugitive Family), Nneka, Tiff (Haldol) and Cassidy (Blank Spell, Cape Of Bats, Destructos).
My friend Bret gave me the files from their live set on WFMU – but I found FMU had already posted it on the freemusicarchive (see link to it below). So, instead I pieced together everything I could find for S-21 so here are their recordings and some live videos for YouTube.

Short Interview with Yoni before 2017 Break Free Fest

Demo 2016

Sheikh · S – 21 – Demo 2016

Year Zero

Operation Menu EP

Live on Hello Children with Faye, WFMU 1/15/2017

Videos

S-21 at The Rotunda in Philadelphia, PA on 2017-05-27

2016-11-05 – Philadelphia, PA

2017-09-01 – Philadelphia, PA

Welcome Worlds – Music From Philadelphia

November 10, 2023 / user

Philadelphia tape compilation from 1987 with a wide mix of musical styles. Bands included are Executive Slacks, Ruin, The Stick Men, Uh-Oh, Charles Cohen, Jim Meneses, The Ambush Bugs, The Heathens, Woz, Interplay, Jack Wright, Da Pliar, Peter Rose, Stephen DiJoseph, Increase The Angle, The Shamanistics, Lump, The Polite Force & Peggy Carrigan. The original wav file is here https://archive.org/details/noise-arch_ww-mfp. It is one file for each side of the tape – I edited out the different tracks from the original file.

A1 – Uh-Oh – Metropolis II
A2 – Charles Cohen – UTEP I
A3 – Jim Meneses – Running In Place
A4 – The Ambush Bugs – Third Degree Burns
A5 – The Heathens – Ooleigh At Great Adventure
A6 – Woz – Taba
A7 – Interplay – Ictus
A8 – Jack Wright – Solo Saxophone
A9 – Da Pliars – Whippin Dog
A10 – Executive Slacks – I’m Coming
A11 – Peter Rose – Idiots
A12 – Stephen DiJoseph – Small Things (Piano Solo)
B1 – Increase The Angle – Picasso’s Last Stand
B2 – The Ambush Bugs – Foaming At The Brain
B3 – Charles Cohen – UTEP 2
B4 – Uh-Oh – Isabella
B5 – The Shamanistics – Quakoids
B6 – Lump – Duo
B7 – The Polite Force – Excerpt From ”Living In The Heart Of The Beast”
B8 – Peggy Carrigan – You
B9 – Ruin – Life After Life
B10 – The Stick Men – Rock’s Alive
B11 – Thom Dura – Intensive Care

MediaFire Zip of all files

Psychic TV – Live

November 3, 2023 / user

Psychic TV bargain with Genesis P-Orridge (RIP) and Alex Fergusson (Alternative TV) in 1981 after the break-up of Throbbing Gristle. After they released 17 albums with Allegory and Self (1988) P-Orridge became interested in the burgeoning acid house and techno movements. Alex Fergusson left soon after and was replaced by techno artist Fred Giannelli, They embarked on a long tour of the US and UK in 1988, Europe in 1989 and another long tour of the United States in 1990. These two live tapes where from that tour. (Thanks for the files Don) You can find their music at these two bandcamp sites https://psychictv.bandcamp.com/ & https://psychictv-ptv3.bandcamp.com/

City Gardens, Trenton – June 24 1990

1 – Infinite Beat
2 – Intoxication
3 – Black Rainbow
4 – Forked SMILE.
5 – Deep Space
6 – Horror House
7 – Snowflake
MediaFire Zip of all files

Chestnut Cabaret – June 26, 1990

1 – Infinite Beat
2 – Black Rainbow
3 – Are You Experienced?
4 – Intoxication
5 – Bliss
6 – Horror House
7 – Snowflake
8 – E – Lusive
MediaFire Zip of all files

Hurang

October 25, 2023 / user

Nice to Meet Me 7 inch from Central PA’s Hurang from 1988. Hurang was Chris Osgood, Dave Laird, Sean Landers & Stewart Ebersole. For more information on the band see this article at Nice Pooper zine. Also check out Stewart’s book about Black Flag bars tattoos – Barred for Life: How Black Flag’s Iconic Logo became Punk Rock’s Secret Handshake

Nice to Meet Me 7″

01 – Nice to Meet Me
02 – Conjugal Visit
MediaFire Zip of all files

Punkin’Pie Hubbub 1990

October 23, 2023 / user

What is the Punkin’Pie Hubbub? We still don’t know! But it has something to do with carting a bunch of city slickers through a small town main street, with screeching guitars and freaked-out antics aboard some approximation of a float.

Shot in a variety of formats including 16mm color film, Simon Nagle and I created and recorded this event for a documentary film course at Temple in 1990.

Look for Richard Fravel, Arthur DiFuria, Andrew Clees and Noel Babineau of the Uptown Bones. Also Eric DeJesus, Elizabeth Duby, Tom Miller, Jim Reed, Joe David, and an entourage of Hubbub followers and fans.

Happy Halloween! Enjoy.
—Paul David

Cave Canem

October 18, 2023 / user

cave canem was a Philadelphia band comprised of former members of Electric Love Muffin. Frank Campbell (drums) and Brian Campbell (Bass) The two joined forces with Kate Heim on lead vocal and Rich Cartes on lead guitar and began playing locally in March ‘91. cave canem formed in the fall of 1990 and have since sought to combine the simple emotion and power of hard rock with a unique melodic quality. Each member contributes their own diverse influences to the band to create cave canem’s powerful moody original sound. Kate and Brian are currently in a reformed Poppy with Craig from Scram.

Wishing Well 7″

01 – Wishing Well
02 – Waterfall
MediaFire Zip of all files

The Chills – Live in Philadelphia

October 12, 2023 / user

The Chills – first up basically it’s just one song from a show in 1990 at JC Dobbs. After Pink Frost you can hear the tour manager ask to stop recording. But I wanted to put it up anyway. (Thanks for the tape Don) But since one song and a partial isn’t very much I added two recent show videos from Youtube. One from the Troc and the other from City Winery.

JC Dobbs – April 18, 1990

01 – Pink Frost
02 – Effloresce and Deliquesce (Patrial)

The Chills – Trocadero Philadelphia,Pa 2-23-19

The Chills – City Winery Philadelphia, Nov 15, 2022 (playlist 6 videos)

The Clean – Live from Johnny Brenda’s 06/06/12

October 11, 2023 / user

The Clean Live from Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia June 6, 2012.
Just filmed a few songs – some are not complete and I didn’t have a tracklist so they are most likely not in the order they were played. I first heard the Clean (David Kilgour, Hamish Kilgour (RIP) & Robert Scott) when kdu got the Tuatara – A Flying Nun Compilation in the Mid-80s. Although I instantly became a fan of all the bands on the comp and it opened me up to the whole New Zealand scene, the Clean were my favorite. I soon go the compilation not sure if was album or cd at that point and tried to find anything by them. The one problem of discovering this band this way was they had broken up in 1982, so I figured I would never see them. I did manage to see the ex-members current band (ie. The Bats, The Mad Scene and David’s solo bands). Then they reunited and I got to see them at Maxwell’s and then more new music and tours that brought them to Philly. These vidoe clips were shoot on my phone from their show at Johnny Brenda’s. I wasn’t sure I was going to put them up but with the deeply sad passing of Hamish and no other clips that I could find for that show I decided to add them here.

0:00 – 1:59 – Anything Could Happen
2:00 – 4:45 – Fish
4:46 – 7:13 – The Dream Life U Need A Rubber Soul
7:14 – 12:00 – Getting Older
12:01 – 15:17 – Odditty
15:18 – 17:35 – Tally Ho

A Subtle Plague

October 6, 2023 / user

A Subtle Plague moved to Philly for a while in the mid 80s from upstate New York before moving on to San Francisco. If I remember right the first time I meet them was at an Agitpop show probably at Dobbs. They had just moved here and soon after began playing all the clubs in Philly and very quickly became part of the scene. They had a very unique sound with world-wide influences that was unlike any other local bands at the time. They were defiantly one of my favorite bands to see live at that time. So, I’ve collected three live tapes all from Philly shows – the first two while they were living here and the third from when they returned in 1990. The first is a live tape they released from Bacchanal on October 21st 1987. The 2nd was a Live on WKDU (not sure of the date of this one – also Thanks Jackie & Diego for the tape) The third is from the Khyber on October 22, 1990. (Thanks Don for this one) As a bonus I’ve added a video about A Subtle Plague from Youtube and a couple of flyers, sticker and tape case images below.

Links to the bands releases – Amazon MP3 & Apple Music.

New music is available these days, spawned from the past members of A Subtle Plague under monikers The Durgas featuring Chris & Benji Simmersbach and The Cult Inside My Head with Pat Ryan and Magnus Fleischmann.