#nervebreakers

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The Nervebreakers opening for The Ramones at the Electric Ballroom, Dallas, TX, July 24, 1977.

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The NERVEBREAKERS: "Mental Shakedown: Laurent Bigot gets the full story of these long-lasting Texas punks" in ten pages from UGLY THINGS #30

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Formerly Street Queen (M Haskins · T Edwards) The Nervebreakers

from Face up to Reality ℗ 2022 SteadyBoy Records

(image from Bad Seed Magazine)

[rustbeltjessie]

The other week, I got the itch to make a radio-themed playlist. I wrote down all the songs I could think of that would fit the theme, and then decided to crowdsource further suggestions via Facebook. After adding everyone else’s suggestions to my own, I began compiling the playlist. The original version had 80+ songs on it. I narrowed it down first by getting rid of artist repeats (there were several bands/artists who had several songs that fit the theme; I narrowed it down to one from each), then by getting rid of other songs which just didn’t flow well with the rest. (Not because I didn’t like them, necessarily, just cuz they didn’t fit well in the final playlist.)

So, here’s the final version. 52 songs that are about radio or at least mention it in some way. Full tracklist under the cut.

dance dance dance dance dance to the radio

The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner

The Velvet Underground - Rock and Roll

Ramones - Do You Remember Rock’n’Roll Radio?

The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star

Joe Jackson - On Your Radio

Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go!

Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

Devo - [I Can’t Get No] Satisfaction

Talking Heads - Radio Head

OMD - Radio Waves

Joy Division - Transmission

The Clash - This is Radio Clash

Queen - Radio Ga Ga

Roxy Music - Oh Yeah!

David Bowie - Starman

Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

Reunion - Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)

X - The Unheard Music

The Sports - Who Listens to the Radio?

Elvis Costello - Radio, Radio

The Nervebreakers - Hijack the Radio

Screeching Weasel - Radio Blast

Pantzig - Another Song About the Radio

Stiff Little Fingers - You Can’t Say Crap on the Radio

Slapstick - Alternative Radio

Fishbone - Modern Industry

LL Cool J - I Can’t Live Without My Radio

The Roots - Rising Up

Rage Against the Machine - Guerilla Radio

Rancid - Radio

The Selecter - On My Radio

Sylvan Esso - Radio

My Favorite - Let’s Stay Alive

Ex Hex - Radio On

Bikini Kill - New Radio

J Church - Austin’s Shitty Limits

RVIVR - Cold In Your Bones

Alkaline Trio - Radio

Jets to Brazil - I Typed for Miles

The Replacements - Left of the Dial

R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe

Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Last DJ

Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere

Counting Crows - Monkey

Ani DiFranco - Superhero

Indigo Girls - Country Radio

Tom Waits - Diamonds on My Windshield

Soul Coughing - Screenwriters Blues

Spoon - Car Radio

The Mountain Goats - Distant Stations

Hedwig & The Angry Inch - Midnight Radio

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The Ledge #631: Inside The Hudson Compound

If you follow me on the ol' Instagram, you may have noticed that every Saturday night I post a collage of my Last.FM stats that, for the most part, highlights the vinyl I've played in my home over the past week.  So I figured why not put together a broadcast featuring songs from those very albums I've enjoyed over the past couple of months?

Soon enough I had enough tracks for not one but two separate shows, so look for a sequel next week. This week's show features almost 60 years of great rock and roll, from 60's psych to 70s glam to late 70s punk, along with a couple of side trips to Americana and Minneapolis. This is certainly a glimpse into what fuels my existence on a daily basis!

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1. Guided By Voices - I Am A Scientist [30th Anniversary Version]

2. Violet - So Lonely

3. Son Volt - Looking At The World Through A Windshield

4. The Bottle Rockets - Farmer John

5. Drive-By Truckers - Let There Be Rock

6. X - The New World

7. Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive (French Edit)

8. The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow Is Born

9. Moby Grape - Omaha

10. The Standells - Sometimes good guys don't wear white

11. The Kinks - Low Budget

12. T.Rex - Children Of The Revolution

13. New York Dolls - Pills

14. The Flamin' Groovies - Slow Death

15. Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Rockin' Shopping Center

16. The Muffs - You Can Cry If You Want

17. Thee Headcoatees - Don't Wanna Hold Your Hand

18. Miss Georgia Peach - River Deep Mountain High

19. Lydia Loveless - Crazy

20. Amy Rigby - The Old Guys

21. Minutemen - History Lesson - Part II

22. Hüsker Dü - Turn On The News

23. The Replacements - Another Girl, Another Planet 

24. Soul Asylum - Veil Of Tears

25. The Phones - Back In Time

26. The Jam - News Of The World

27. The Damned - Love Song

28. The Vibrators - Stiff Little Fingers

29. The Jim Carroll Band - It's Too Late

30. Nervebreakers - I Love Your Neurosis

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ONCE IN ’79: Nervebreakers - "Hijack the Radio"

ONCE IN ’79: Nervebreakers – “Hijack the Radio” “June 12, 1979 THE NERVEBREAKERS are back again with another new records. This Dallas-based punk band seem to be the defacto opening act for any touring ‘punk’ band that comes through the area. This new single pairs the songs “Hijack The Radio” and “Why Am I So Flipped?” You can catch the band. opening up for ex-13th Floor Elevators vocalist Roky…

[alexadd77]

Nervebreakers - Politics EP 7" 1978 (2011) Get Hip Recordings - USA. Desde Texas, Nervebreakers con su primer Ep, un tanto irregular pero incluyendo el pelotazo, My Girlfriend Is A Rock que justifica tenerlo y mas siendo uno de los primeros singles Punk del area de Texas.

Conocidos por abrir para los Sex Pistols en el Electric Ballroom lanzaron un single mas, grabaron un Lp que quedó inedito y del que salio un single adelanto despues la banda desaparecio, editandose el album al fin en 2004.

#nervebreakers #mygirlfriendisarock #7" #45rpm #newwave #punkrock #texaspunk #vinylcollection #vinyljunkie #vinylrecords #vinylcollectionpost #recordcover #recordcollection #record #recordcollector #artwork #design #music #rock

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Tuska Festival 2023 | Aftermovie from Vita Pictura on Vimeo.

Tuska is a Finnish heavy metal festival taking place annually in Helsinki. The first Tuska took place in 1998. In 2023, the festival had four stages and was visited by 49,000 people.

The Tuska Festival is one of the largest metal music events in the Nordic countries, bringing together fans of heavy music over three days. The 24th Tuska Festival took place from 30 June to 2 July 2023.

Bands attending the festival last year were Gojira, Jinjer, While She Sleeps, Avatar, Glenn Hughes, Mokoma, Lost Society, Diablo, Dance With The Dead, Imminence, Blood Incantation, Vended, Foreseen, Galvanizer, Miseria Ultima, Sepulchral Curse, Vansidian, Kouta, Kúru, VV (Ville Valo), In Flames, Motionless In White, Clutch, Marko Hietala, Haken, Turmion Kätilöt, Memoriam, Butcher Babies, Swallow The Sun, Finntroll, Orbit Culture, Brymir, A. A. Williams, Silver Bullet, Solothus, Dirt, Bob Malmström, Ashen Tomb, Nakkeknækker, Nervebreak, Angles Mortis, Slash The Smile, Ghost, The Hu, Electric Callboy, Lorna Shore, Delain, Urne, Xysma, Imperial Triumphant, Smackbound, …And Oceans, Vermilia, Dreamtale, and Irrational Cause.

[savage-radio-3way-fm]

Episode 020 - Texas Punk

Fun Things - Savage

Buglamp - Sha La La: Howling At The Moon (Ramones) Nirvana - Do You Love Me (Kiss) Hard-Ons - Lick It Up (Kiss) Fu Manchu - Godzilla (Blue Oyster Cult)

Noose - Julie Andrews The Bawhairs - Shauney Bean Fae Pittenweem The Broken Johnnys - Toxicity The Noname - Smash Everything

Cosmic Psychos - Mountain Of Piss The Saints - Demolition Girl

Butthole Surfers - Sweet Loaf Bobby Soxx - Learn To Hate In the 80s Huns - Busy Kids AK47 - The Badge Means You Suck

Bodysnatchers - Are You Into Destruction Nervebreakers - My Girlfriend Is A Rock Vomit Pigs - Baby's Playing Games Really Red - I Was A Teenage Fuck Up

The Big Boys - Frat Cars The Big Boys - Security Scratch Acid - Cannibal

D.R.I. - Sad To Be D.R.I. - Violent Pacification D.R.I. - Thrashard

The Dicks - Hate The Police MDC - Pay To Come Along MDC - Revolution In Rock

Lord High Fixers - It's About Revolution Sugarshack - Fun Fun Fun My Ass The 145s - Volvo Hatchback Sons Of Hercules - Gimme Some Jesus Christ Superfly - Looking Back

Reverend Horton Heat - Big Bad Rocket Of Love Fuckemos - Love 40 Fuckemos - Celebration Daniel Johnston - Don't Play Cards With Satan Stickmen With Rayguns - Kill The Innocent

Butthole Surfers - Moving To Florida

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In The Rock 1/10/1978: The Sex Pistols play The Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas. Local rockers The Nervebreakers open the show. Sid scored some junk, and the march to destruction has two stops to go. #SexPistols #RockHonorRoll

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Zeus be like

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The interpreter · Roky Erickson Live in Dallas 1979 with the Nervebreakers

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"Formerly Street Queen" was the very first song I wrote with my Nervebreakers songwriting partner Mike Haskins. I am guessing that was perhaps 1975 or ’76, when I was around 21 years old. “Formerly Street Queen” is an excellent example of it’s time & what is now referred to as “proto-punk,” with alternating fast & slow parts topped off with an epic-sounding final long section, building up to a resolution with a spaghetti-western turn at the end. 

My old band from that era, The Nervebreakers, have a new/old album (FACE UP TO REALITY) released last year by Freddie Krc’s SteadyBoy Records, filled with original songs written & performed during the band’s late ‘70s heyday, but never documented & recorded until a 2009 band reunion. Got that? New in 2022, but recorded in 2009, but composed before 1980. "Formerly Street Queen" is included on this release.

Please check your local record store to see if it’s in stock. If you don’t find it there, I have some available here on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/155359139433

The ‘street queen’ illustration included here was one I lifted from a social media post, with no attribution listed for it’s source, that I ran across recently. Since we had a song with that in the title I posted it to Facebook with a link https://youtu.be/OHUHncPED2w to the song. Lo & behold, the wonderful Miriam Linna of Norton Records  commented & informed me: “That image was hacked out of Bad Seed mag!” Bad Seed was a famous groundbreaking fanzine she & her late husband, Billy Miller, put together many years ago. So I quickly inserted in my posting the real source for this image that you see here, with apologies. Miriam’s one of the coolest, cutest dolls around but I know you don’t wanna get on the bad side of the original “bad seed."

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Tim Buckey - I Can't See You 

Happy Birthday to Timothy Charles Buckley III, born on February 14, 1947. "I Can't See You" is the first song off his first album from 1966. From this album sleeve, he may look like just some random folksinger. The latest in a never-ending line of folkies at the time. But from the first crashing notes it becomes evident that no, this isn't your average 1960s folkie. Yes, it's semi-electric folk, but there's also jazz, punk, & avant-garde  elements here, in a tenor singing (his high school friend) Larry Beckett's  beautiful poetic lyrics. And as he did for the rest of his life, Tim Buckley broke the rules. Leading off this, his very first Elektra Records release with not the most commercial radio-friendly tune of the collection, but the least. Here is a youtube of “I Can’t See You” here: https://youtu.be/xDeE7TtoF1Q

I first heard Buckley at 13 years old, early in 1968, when my local Dallas "underground rock" station KNUS, the first of it's kind in Big D on the FM side of the dial that played at least one album cut from almost every new LP release of the time, & practically none of the Top 40, that dominated AM radio back then. It was where I first heard The Velvet Underground, The Jeff Beck Group, The Red Crayola, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, Condello, The Ill Wind, & on & on. I'd save up my lunch money allowance all week, & on the weekend head over to Preston Record Center & pick out an album by the coverart & what I'd heard on KNUS radio. One week they were playing Tim Buckley's long epic, "Goodbye & Hello", the title song from his more psychedelic second album. So that was what I picked out to purchase with my hard-hoarded cash & was introduced to the varied music of Tim. For some reason I never went back to this first album until much later in the 1970s. Maybe it was that folksinger cover. After the obviously drug-induced cover photos of "Happy Sad" & the likes, that first album coverart never struck my fancy until I later realized just how brilliant & different Tim Buckley was. But once I finally did investigate further, Wow!

But on to my own musical career. When I was finally putting together my last & possibly final musical project in 2017, my damaged hearing required a lower volume, different approach that started out as just a trio with my pals Eric Hisaw & Dan Hoekstra on guitars, & turned into a combo simply called The T. Tex Edwards Group, when we later added JJ Barrera on bass & Shawn Peters on drums. It had started out as a songwriting project with Hisaw. After years of mainly playing covers of semi-obscure 60s Brit & off-kilter C&W nuggets, I wanted to see if I could still write some meaningful songs like I had years ago with Mike Haskins in The Nervebreakers & Click Mort in The Loafin' Hyenas. I had started writing things down during a month-long rehab torture at Austin Recovery, & upon my release, contacted Eric about possibly getting together & putting some music to my scribblings. We cranked out a few songs & added a Tim Harden tune, a Bob Dylan song, along with some reworkings of some of my earlier Nervebreakers & Loafin' Hyenas originals. Plus this song from Tim Buckley, that I absolutely fell in love with upon my first listening all those years ago. When we later recorded our batch of originals, this song, (along with Gary Stewart's "Single Again"), were the only two cover songs that we recorded at those sessions. Hopefully sometime soon, those recordings will see the light of day...

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T. Tex Edwards is an unsung pioneer of cowpunk & honky tonk murder ballads who started out in the '70s with the punk band Nervebreakers. His first solo album (with Out on Parole backing) was a stroke of demented genius that caused a stir when released by cult label Sympathy for the Record Industry Records. Later records with The Loafin' Hyenas & a collection INTEXICATED followed. -- JT Lindroos 

   After playing around Austin for a few years, this version of Out On Parole went into Cris Burns' South Austin studio in 2011 & recorded a whole bunch of tunes that we had been playing live. Here are the first batch of eight. A second album from these sessions with even more songs with follow later on this year.

To download this fine collection of tunes follow the link....

https://ttexedwards.bandcamp.com/album/devil-get-away-from-me?from=fanpub_fnb&utm_source=album_release&utm_medium=email&utm_content=fanpub_fnb

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The Ledge #556: More Miscellany

This week's show is once again a mix of old and new. There's quite a few brand new releases highlighted, accompanied by quite a few records that I've found myself playing in my free time. 

Which leads me to a question to my lovely listeners. For as long as I've done the show, the presence of "themes" has been a constant. Honestly, that's how my brain works best for picking music. It gives me a reason to air a tune. Even the monthly new release episode is basically a theme that's just like shows based on certain years or terms.

Lately, I have sort of abandoned the theme and played these kinds of old/new mixes. Part of this is that due to the fact that I now report a top ten playlist every week to the Radio Indie Alliance. I know I can submit any ten tracks I play but I've been paying even more attention to new music than usual.

So this is what I want to find out from you guys. Do you like these freeform type of broadcasts or should I revert back to having a weekly theme? The themes aren't going away entirely, no matter what anybody says. But should they become a monthly occurrence just like the new release show? Let me know by commenting on this post, or contacting me on the various social media platforms. Oh, and I need ideas on what to title these shows!

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1. Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents, Teenage Kicks

2. Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents, Bite Your Tongue

3. The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs, Fast, Fucked and Furious

4. Matweeds, I Can Feel The Fire

5. Continental, Hello

6. Slamdinistas, Cut Me Some Slack

7. Tony Valentino, I'm A Sexy Punk Rocker

8. Erotic Devices, Drink Before You Think

9. Bobcat, Smoke Show Girl

10. On, Take a Shot

11. The Shaggs, Shaggs' Own Thing (vocal version)

12. The Exbats, Mr. Bucky

13. The Muffs, Changes

14. Ume, Suffragette City

15. Quasi, Doomscrollers

16. Yo La Tengo, Sinatra Drive Breakdown

17. The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Light Is about To Change

18. Archers Of Loaf, Wrong

19. Green On Red, Hair Of The Dog

20. Mental As Anything, The Nips are Getting Bigger

21. The Clash, Clash City Rockers

22. Iggy & The Stooges, I Got a Right 

23. Nervebreakers, I Love Your Neurosis

24. The Almighty Defenders, All My Loving

25. The Jam, London Girl

26. The Hawks, Big Store

27. TV Eye, Stevie's Radio Station

28. Cult Figures, I Remember

29. Kepi Ghoulie, I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend

30. Kepi Ghoulie, I Remember You

31. Kepi Ghoulie, She's A Sensation

32. Metal Marty, Goddamn Divorce