Tonight's special guest--Sonic Chicken 4--came all the way from Perpignan in the south of France to tour the USA for more than a month. Of all the bands I saw at the Gonerfest 6 in Memphis a couple weeks back, this band was up there with Box Elders and Davila 666 among the most smile- and laughter-inducing bands of the entire fun-packed festival. So, please download and enjoy one of the most contagiously fun bands on the planet today. Their set begins just past the halfway point of this program...

Also in this week's AFS...
* What is this mysterious Astro Boy(?)/Hamtramck(?) 7" anyway?
* R.I.P. Dickie Peterson of Blue Cheer
* New Sacto pure pop perfection by California Innovations

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ASTRO BOY | Rebel Now | Holidays at the Beach | Hamtramck 1994
WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH | Ghost 20 | Art Galleries 7" | no label *new
BATWINGS | Dr. Ohm vs the Exploding Amp | split 7" w/ When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth | Us Two *new
OXFORD CIRCLE | Mind Destruction | Live at the Avalon 1966 | Big Beat 2007
BLUE CHEER | Second Time Around | Vincebus Eruptum | Philips 1968
FUNGI GIRLS | Clouds | Seafaring Pyramids | Play Pinball *new
FUNGI GIRLS | Crystal Roads
THE AXEMEN | The Church of the Loosely Brethren | Scary! | Siltbreeze *new
UZI RASH GROUP BAND | New Clear Winter | Hight and Phree | Freedom School *new
WILD MAN FISCHER | Don't Ever Get Mad at Me | Nothing Scary | Rhino 1984
WILD MAN FISCHER | My Friend Robert
WOUNDED LION | Big Boots [Wild Man Fischer] | Friendly? 7" | In the Red *new
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 | 2x4s | Lovelyville | Matador 1991
FRESH & ONLYS | Laughter is Contagious | Laughter is Contagious 7" | Trouble in Mind *new
KITCHEN'S FLOOR | Failure | Loneliness is a Dirty Mattress | R.I.P. Society *new
KITCHEN'S FLOOR | Sparkles
PIGEON RELIGION | Scorpion Milk | Scorpion Milk 7" | Parts Unknown *new
JACK STANDS | You Suck | Box of Feelings CDR | no label *new
JACK STANDS | Black President
GENERAL INTEREST | Sick of Waiting | Right by the Beach | Ride the Snake *new
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SONIC CHICKEN 4 live in Studio A
Neon Night
Airplane Girl
Margharita
Shadow on the Boat
Sonic Night
Girl 66
Crushed
Only Lose
Shalalalalove
Depuis que j't'ai Rencantre
Right Side of...
Creature in a Picture
Too Much to Drink (Last Night)
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BEATERS | Fishage | Fishage 7" | Volar/Single Screen *new
ANDERS ANGEST | Just Nar Allt ar sa Roligt | v/a: Total-Pop! | no label 2009 (orig 1980)
CONTAINER | Livet Stinker | v/a: Total-Pop! (orig 1980)
CALIFORNIA INNOVATIONS | Love is not a Gun | cassingle | Palace of the Golden Cassette *new
NODZZZ | True to Life | True to Life 7" | What's Your Rupture? *new
ADAM PAYNE | ...if you... | Maybelline Weeks 7" | Malt Duck *new
THE INTELLIGENCE | Becky is a Bummer | split 7" w/ Unnatural Helpers | Dirty Knobby *new

This week in AFS...

* new sarcastic no-brow smart-isms from the Ride the Snake stables!
* hear why you will be talking about Life Partners!
* a double-shot of depression for you donut dippin' swines!
* welcome The Intelligence back to the West Coast!
* extreme submerged-fidelity warning: Processors and Dead Wife redefine lo-fi!

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LIFE PARTNERS | Men Are Talking | Men Are Talking | Ride the Snake *new
MICHAEL YONKERS w/ THE BLIND SHAKE | When You're Fallin' | Cold Town/Soft Zodiac | Learning Curve *new
MICHAEL YONKERS w/ THE BLIND SHAKE | The New End
CACAW | Pazuzu | Get a Brain | Permanent 2009
CHEVEU | Kador du Porno | Cheveau | Permanent *new
THE INTELLIGENCE | I Hear Depression | Fake Surfers | In The Red 2009
SUN MANTRA | Pockets Pull (in So Many Ways) | self-titled CDR | no label *new
WICKED AWESOMES | Ghost Beach | Punk Holograms | Psychic Handshake *new
BEATERS | Obamanation | Fishage 7" | Volar/Single Screen *new
GENERAL INTEREST | Cops in Love | Right by the Beach | Ride the Snake *new
ANGST | Pig | self-titled | Happy Squid 1983
HERE COMES A BIG BLACK CLOUD!! | Mission Statement | Party Vietnam 10" | Hovercraft/Stankhouse *new
PROCESSORS | I Can't Get Drunk Without My Glasses | A Lean Night CS | no label *new
PROCESSORS | Buzzkill
SOFT SHOULDER | Mary Ann | Mary Ann 7" | Gilgongo *new
IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT | Corn on the Bayou | split LP w/ Nuclear Family | Friends & Relatives 2002
PIGEON RELIGION | Shootist | Scorpion Milk 7" | Parts Unknown *new
HAMMERHEAD | Zesta | Into the Vortex | Amphetamine Reptile 1994
DEAD WIFE | Choke | Subterranean Megazit CS | Campaign for Infinity *new
SLEETMUTE/NIGHTMUTE | In Adulthood...Black Steel Sick | unreleased LP | no label 2004
SHEARING PINX | Battery Born | Weaponry | Divorce *new
AMON DÜÜL II | Eye Shaking King | Yeti | Liberty 1970
MOON DUO | Speed | Killing Time EP 12" | Sacred Bones *new
ETERNAL TAPESTRY | Cosmic Dream | The Invisible Landscape | Not Not Fun *new
OMON RA | It's Nice to See You Again | split CS w/ Chris d'Eon | Divorce 2009
OMON RA | Brand New Baby
DEAD WESTERN | So Many Signs | Suckle at the Supple Teats of Time | ??? *forthcoming
ÉL-G | Tim et Henri | Tout Ploie | SS Records *new
MUDBOY | Freeze | Music for Any Speed 7" | Lexi Disques *new
ROBERT RENTAL | On Location | Double Heart 7" | Mute 1980
SECTION 25 | Haunted | Charnel Ground 7" | Factory Benelux 1980
FOR AGAINST | Autocrat | Echelons | Independent Project 1986
MANTLES | Don't Lie | self-titled | Siltbreeze *new

This week in AFS...
* Gonerfest 6 recap!
 * Sun Mantra is for people fighting autumn's creep
* Getting set for Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom VIII fest!

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CHEATER SLICKS | I've Been Had | On Your Knees | Gawdawful 1989
CIRCLE PIT | Everybody Left | Everybody Left 7" | R.I.P. Society *new
KITCHEN'S FLOOR | Twenty-Two | Loneliness is a Dirty Mattress | R.I.P. Society *new
GIBSON BROS | Sugartail Rock | Big Pine Boogie | Okra 1987
BASSHOLES | Fear and a Hand Full of Sand | Haunted Hill | In the Red 1995
BASSHOLES | Hey O.J. | Hey O.J. 7" | In the Red 1995
MOM | Monkey's Smuckle | Smells Like Dirty Dog Dicks 7" | Grotesque Modern *new
GARY PANTER + JAY COTTON | God Save the Queen | One Hell Soundwich | Savage Pencil 1989
STREETS OF RAGE | I'm Gone | Beat Your Kids CDR | no label *new
THE PENS | Networking | Hey Friend! What You Doing | De Stijl *new
NITWITS | Captain America | split 7" w/ Mohinder | Unleaded/Stinky Feet 1994
VILE NATION | A3 | No Exit 7" | Even Worse 2008
IDOL PUNCH | Dried Nasal Mucus/Milk & Sugar | Culture Market 7" | MCR 2000
GENBAKU ONANIES | Nanni Mo Nai | Forward Command Post 7" | Public Bath 1991
RED MASS | Ghosts | Scars CS | Campaign for Infinity *new
BLACK FEELINGS | Eternal Bad Trip | self-titled | Alien8 *new
SUN MANTRA | Garden Sounds | self-titled CDR | no label *new
DAN MELCHIOR UND DAS MENACE | Visiting/Strange Exchanges | Obscured by Fuzz | Topplers *new
MIRRORS | Hands in My Pockets | Something That Would Never Do | Violet Times/Hovercraft 2009 (orig 1975)
MICHAEL PSYCHO | Decent Setups | Think | Black Hole 1990
MATT K. SHRUGG | Climbing the Air | Instant Images CDR | Guiness Book of World Records *new
THE MANTLES | Burden | Burden 7" | Dulc-I-Tone 2007
NOTHING PEOPLE | Late Night [Syd Barrett] | Late Night | SS Records 2009
PROBLEMIST | Overcame/Slapping | 9 Times Sanity | Sordide Sentimental 1984
COREPHALLISM | Speaking in Tongues | self-titled 3" CD | Apop/Lascivious Aesthetics *new
GHOST MOTH | Hamas Movements 1 & 2 | v/a: Tarantismo Summit Vol. #1 | Rampage *new
CACAW | Cacti in the Dark | Get a Brain | Permanent 2009 *request
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN | Haus der Lüge | Strategies Against Architecture II | Mute/Elektra 1991 (orig 1984)
BILLY BAO | Auxilio | I Am Going to Kill All the Rich Man CS | Badmaster *new
ULTRATHIN | Break-In | split CS w/ Twin Crystals | Campaign for Infinity *new
CHEVEU | Rupture Movement 1 & 2 | Cheveau | Permanent *new

This week on AFS...
* The Mattress tour is swinging through the West Coast home-stretch this week!
* Matt K. Shrugg has laid another vinyl-worthy golden egg on ephemeral CDR format!
* Perhaps the most momentous release of the DIY cassette label zeitgeist gets a side-long run!
* The new batch from SS Records knocks it outta the park!

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PHOTOBOOTH | Kill the Weekend | Pretty Baby 7" | Raw Deluxe *new
JOHNNY ILL BAND | The Doctor | self-titled 7" | Kaboodle *new
WICKED AWESOMES | Turbo Future | Punk Holograms | Psychic Handshake *new
MATT K. SHRUGG | When I Fall | Instant Images CDR | Guiness Book of World Records *new
MATT K. SHRUGG | (We Aren't Here for) Yesterday | Mentor to Wall CDR | Guiness Book of World Records 2008
MATT K. SHRUGG | Bullshit Avenue | Instant Images CDR
THE INTELLIGENCE | Mister Children | split 7" w/ Unnatural Helpers | Dirty Knobby *new
UNNATURAL HELPERS | Confidence | split 7" w/ The Intelligence
CACAW | Snakehead | Get a Brain 12" | Permanent *new
ASMUS TIETCHENS & OKKO BECKER | Repartition Concrete | E | Dom 1988
MATTRESS | Lost & Found | Low Blows | Malt Duck *new
BROTMAN & SHORT | This Is Control | Joint Testimony 3" CDR | Hardscrabble Amateurs *new
BLACK MATH | Reading Mysteries | self-titled 7" | Lost Space *new
LOW RED CENTER | Trace Elements | self-titled 10" | SS Records *new
LOW RED CENTER | Test Tube | self-titled CDR | Instincto 2008
PINK NOISE | Flow Into the Void | Graffiti Youth | Kill Shaman *new
PINK NOISE | So Into You
CHROME | Electric Chair | Red Exposure | Beggars Banquet 1980
NOTHING PEOPLE | Boccioni's Mother | Anonymous | SS Records 2008
WHITE NOISE | Your Hidden Dreams | An Electric Storm | Island 1969
PRINCE RAMA OF AYODHYA | Celestial Jewelry | Zetland | no label *new
PRINCE RAMA OF AYODHYA | Suns of Bees
WARM CLIMATE | Lost Teeth/Organ Donor | Edible Homes CS | Stunned 2009
WARM CLIMATE | Cave In
WARM CLIMATE | Edible Homes & Gardens/Synth Pads for the Homeless
MANBOT | Manbot | self-titled 7" | NuVu 1981
ÉL-G | Al-Kado | Tout Ploie | SS Records *new
LITTLE CLAW | Frozen in the Future | Human Taste | Not Not Fun/Ecstatic Peace *new
MILK MUSIC | Pipeline | self-titled CS | no label 2009
STUPID PARTY | Closer | self-titled | Freedom School *new

This week in AFS, we...

* are treated to a sublime live in-studio session from the Stockdale/Corcoran/Julian/Bui quartet
* explore the newest branches of the Antennas Erupt family tree
* enjoy a double-shot from the new debut LP of the aptly named Wicked Awesomes
* features on the tours of Dadfag/Brotman & Short and The Slaves/Cloaks
* pay respects to Jim Carroll

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DETENTION | Dead Rock & Rollers | Dead Rock & Rollers 7" | Rigor Mortis 1983
JIM CARROLL BAND | People Who Died | Catholic Boy | Atco 1980
THE NERVES | Hanging on the Telephone | The Nerves 7" | The Nerves Record Co. 1976
PAUL COLLINS' BEAT | Crying Won't Help | The Kids Are the Same | Columbia 1981
WICKED AWESOMES | Space | Punk Holograms | Psychic Handshake *new
WICKED AWESOMES | Streaming Intelligence
BROTMAN & SHORT | A League to Destroy All Nations | Rubix Dudes CS | Hardscrabble Amateurs 2008
CHAD STOCKDALE / KEVIN CORCORAN / NICK JULIAN / DAVY BUI QUARTET | untitled | Live in Studio A
CHAD STOCKDALE / KEVIN CORCORAN / NICK JULIAN / DAVY BUI QUARTET | untitled
CHAD STOCKDALE / KEVIN CORCORAN / NICK JULIAN / DAVY BUI QUARTET | untitled
THE CULTURAL DECAY | End of the Corridor | Eight Ways to Start a Day | Sacred Bones *new
ETOILE FILANTE | Poupé Mecanique | Emanuelle Sous Acide CDR | no label 2009
GRAUZONE | In der Nacht | Grauzone | Off Course 1981
THE SLAVES | Who Is the Master of Them All? | Aliens EP | Slave 2009
EXPLODE INTO COLORS | Sharpen the Knife | Coffins 7" | M'Lady's *new
BAD THOUGHTS | Oh Jena! | Oh Jena! 7" | M'Lady's *new
SEX CHURCH | Dead End | Dead End 7" | Sweet Rot *new
MENTAL POWERS | Appear/Juniour | split 7" w/ Free Choice | Fifth Column *new
THE PINK NOISE | Black Cadillac | Gilded Flowers CS | Campaign for Infinity *new