- Split LP with Aids Wolf coming out in the next couple months via Nail in the Coffin.  We are very excited about this record. 

- West Coast tour with Twin Crystals in March.  90% of the shows are basically booked, despite TBA's, but still get in touch if you have any ideas.

- US + CANADA tour starting late June.  35-45 days.

- European tour this Fall.  We have found someone very nice to help us.  Details soon!

Included in Byron Coley/Thurston Moore's Bull Tongue Top 80 of 2006. 77. NIGHT WOUNDS - Allergic to Heat LP (Woodsist) Nice, L.A.-based noise-spasmo trio, recorded live a the practice space and doing a cover of VOM's "Electrocute Your Cock" in everything but name! Semi-harsh guitar-stun dynamics and some no-waved based simple ass rhythm charts.

REVIEWS

East Coast weirdo rock label Corleone gets a West Coast blood transfusion, but the results sound just as Providence damaged as anything actually raised and bred in Rhode Island. Best known around these parts as the label that brought us the rubber encased, supremely damaged metallic onslaught that was Throne Of Blood (and rest assured we have been hassling the label constantly for a repress), Corleone offer up this latest blast of off kilter propulsive noise rock drone jam groove that fits pretty cozily amidst their like minded but opposite coasted noisemaking brethren.


Night Wounds have all the right ingredients, angular scrape and skree guitar, chaotic but strangely funky drums, blown out bass, strangled almost new wave vocals, even a saxophone that manages to skronk and kick ass and not sound at all cheesy (which is quite a feat, apologies to Gerry Rafferty). The cool thing about Night Wounds is they almost sound like they could be some forward thinking no wave/new wave band from back in the day. A killer blend of Crispy Ambulance, James White And The Contortions (due mostly to the sax and the damaged jazz vibe), Pylon, and a handful of others whose names escape us right now. All tangled up with bursts of nineties style mathy complexity, stretched out hypnotic grooves, and squalls of noisy chaos.


Imagine if Factory Records had continued on, it's not difficult to imagine that Night Wounds might have embodied "The Factory Sound" circa 2007. A weirdly catchy, super groovy, damaged and demented, gloom infused tribal workout, alternatingly woozy and weird, freaky and funky, as likely to send the dancefloor into a herky jerky frenzy as it is to make the pit explode in a sloppy sweaty tangle of limbs.

- Aquarius Records



Here's an LP I'm so late on I think it's gone plum out of print...but the CD version was put out at least fairly recently on Corleone so at least it's still kinda topical. You probably know by now so I'll just swing through the formalities - Night Wounds is an L.A. based unit who were the trio of Patrick, Ryan and Toby when "Allergic to Heat" was laid down but they could've expanded/contracted since then, I ain't knowing. They're also pretty busy, with a one-sided 12" also due on Corleano in addition to splits in varying formats with like-minded neophytes Soft Shoulder and Knitwitch, 10lec6, AIDS Wolf, Twin Crystals and Shearing Pinx. So plenty of other chances to catch em on wax if you missed this one indeed.
I will preface anything about to say with this - I don't really feel a lot of this new new noise rock clutter that's typically spawned from California or Providence or Montreal or anywhere for that matter (well Russia and possibly Zimbabwe aside). So I was predisposed to be indifferent (or hostile) to Night Wounds before I even played them. Now I won't say they flipped me on my head, but there are great moves all over this record, even enough for a miser like myself to feel rattling his bowels...if not to step out onto the dance floor just yet. Dig opener "Allergic to Heat", introduced by a clarion sax call and a steelwork stomp that digs into my shins and elevates my cullions in a way I've not yet known. There's only one line out of all the sneering vocals I can actually make out and it's "I wish I knew" and every time it rolls around it's just like fuckin' yeah, you know? I get the same feeling whenever "Ex Best Friend" crumples into mega-distorted Naked City type flip outs before whipping back into considerably fucked post-punk slobber, then grinding to a near-halt (must be all those DJ Screw influences I hear about) and ripping out a supremely styrafoam sax chomp from way deep inside the group's own intestines. Less thrilling to me is the rather straight-forward, anthemic "Nineteen" with its repeated chorale of "nineteen/act your age" and the angular, grinding riffage of "Caving In". Both to me seem lesser than what the group is capable of, but it's no raw deal since the LP closes off with three excellent numbers. "Hex Appeal" and "Damage" are both rampant bloodfeasts driven by drumming that thuds and resonates like a well-oiled/programmed machine, but no robot could handle the limbic workout doled out by the former, augmented by zoned out horn shrieks. The militant drumroll march of "Damage" keeps things pretty rigid throughout, allowing only for a shaking guitar scrawl unsolo to pull it through to the homestretch. And it's quite a stretch. At 8 minutes, "X.O.T." represents almost a third of the album's running time (a perfectly succint 28 minutes), and it brings together just about every one of Night Wounds' disparate influences to showcase them under one roof. Starting out with another sax solo amidst a rubble of scorched guitar noise and sloshed drums (not at all unlike a pared down version of those Borbetomagus and Voice Crack tete-a-tetes), the track slowly grinds into a skewed noise/funk rhythm, intermittently exploding with spurts of free improv/fire music wailings and dark, almost sludge metal menace. I'm wheezing over here.
Listening to Night Wounds, one can glean a whole lotta influences packed into their sweet n' sassy approach - This Heat, Faust, Black Flag, Dead C., D.N.A., Mr. Bungle circa "Disco Volante", the Residents, Iggy and the Stooges, Fugazi, Big Black, Liquorball, Butthole Surfers...you could go for days. The trick (and what makes em so likeable) is that they never sound exactly like any one of em, instead melding all parts together in a sweaty gob of gunk that makes for a pretty sweet ride, even if there are a few bumps along the way. You might say it should be no other way. If this doesn't sound like your bag, give it a shot anyway. I was a non-believer and came away quite impressed. If it does sound like your bag and you haven't heard it yet, you'll be in dirty, stinky heaven.

- Outer Space Gamelan



It is nothin short of a goddamn pleasure to encounter a record from a Los Angeles band what's got it's limbs 'n lungs attuned to avant styled scraping's. The Thin Wrist label ably provides as much w/every release by in house trucker's like Open City or Curtains & the Not Not Fun collective have a veritable Spahn Ranch of sonic assassins loose on the landscape as well. And as if that weren't enough, here comes this long player from Night Wounds bringin it's own brand of aural slaughter to the barnyard. Released on the Woodsist label, 'Allergic To Heat' is a solid block of dunt that fuses the distant Kraut thump of nascent Savage Republic w/the No Wave distillation of (early) Silver Abuse & End Result that's capable of peelin both skin 'n paint, either of which is dandy by me in these frigid times (I could stand to lose a couple pounds & an apt. makeover wouldn't hurt). Not that I'm insinuatin Night Wounds studied the moves of any of them bands. Hell, for all I know, they might've woke up one mornin, heard something by Sightings or Blues Control, thought they was Pop bands & figured it weren't a bad racket to be in. Some people's got strange notions. All's I know is that they's armed w/both squall 'n thunder & hats off to Woodsist from providin the lightning to ignite this record like a Mars bonfire. Nice screen printin on the jacket too. Let's see...a NYC label makin itself available for an LA band...I do believe we's all FINALLY startin to 'just get along'. Amen for that!

- Siltblog



One more from Woodsist is the Night Wounds LP called Allergic to Heat. The excellent cover art is not unlike Puff's, but the music of Night Wounds is quite a bit different. They're an L.A. band with a young/wild aggro-pound guitar-slash approach that reminds me a little of Chicago's Coughs, but Night Wounds extend the form significantly with complex and patient structures, and a strange harmonic vocabulary that has a real melancholic heft. On Side 2 it really opens up, most notably during the long last cut "X.O.T.", in which the guitar scorches the desolate earth, the percussion becomes the babelogue among the displaced masses, and then a galloping groove fearlessly emerges to gather them all up and take them to a new home, flames licking at their heels right up until they slam the door shut behind them. Seriously, it's a pretty good LP.....

- Blastitude

Starting December 1st, entire band will be living in Portland, OR.

Working with new people.  Still looking to play with new people.  Write us if you wanna try that and live in that area or wanna commute.

Recording for a three way split 7" with Soft Shoulder and Knit Witch as well as a split 12" with Shearing Pinx in late December before tour.  The former will be out on Gilgongo shortly thereafter.  The 12" will be on a few labels in a two different continents I think.

 

Long overdue, sorry.  Been busy sleeping on beaches and hanging out a mile above sea level.

In no particular order: James Fella (overall life saver); John Ryan; Tempe folks in general; crazy Midland, Texas dudes; the dude who runs El Casanova in Houston; Big Top in New Orleans; the nice people in Alabama who let us stay and bought us doughnuts; the girl in Atlanta who didn't shoot anyone when she found fifteen people sleeping in her room; Goldwood's Nilbog; Jeff and all the Greenville crazies; Nolen and Charm City Artspace (still the greatest); Badmaster Records and the Danger Danger House (best show of tour?); Goodbye Blue Monday; Jeremy for the tapes and the Meneguar peeps for letting HGCG crash; George, Flywheel and Western Mass as a whole; Owen and Chutney Flatzz (most fucked up 4th yet, still dirty from it); AS220; Nick fucking Brown and his roommates, their bong and their ten foot snake; Cake Shop; Edgar Um; AIR; Paul for being the best tourguide/host of the Summer; George in Cleveland; the Church; the wonderful girl in Wrigleyville who put us up for DAYS; peeps at the Ex-Nihilist (fuck the cops); CAVE OF SPIRITS; Zach & Monkey Mania (RIP); Ryan Agape; Bobby in Salt Lake; Area Code house in Boise; Amy & Jeremy; Bennett & Foodhole; Steve (Ghostride the whip); Placebo!; the Smith River; Arcata peeps for letting us crash (all eight thousand of us); George and ATA; Patrick's mom; Sacramento peeps for making shit happen when it looked like it wouldn't; Jim at the Smell and Santa Monica Beach for giving me a place to sleep for three days.

Hot Girls Cool Guys (brothers from different mothers); Soft Shoulder; Kiosk; Finally Punk; Chico Y Chico; Flaspar; Cop Warmth; Dig Shovel Dig; Roman Gabriel Todd's something or other; Sports; Airoes; God's America; Suitcases; Femme Covert; Will's solo bullshit; Moth Guts; Human Host; Dracula Mountain; Salad; Eagle-ager; Satanized; GREY SKULL; Touch Buddies; Fxxxing Lion; Japanther; George Washington(?); Empire Strikes Back Strikes Back; Zs; This Song Is A Mess; Agape; PUSSY GUTT; Archeopteryx; Animal; Ikebana; ABE VIGODA; SHEARING PINX; CAVEMAN + THE GRINDAS; plus whoever else.  Too many names.

Our first album, "Allergic to Heat", will be released early September on vinyl by Woodsist out of Brooklyn, NY.  The CD will follow sometime after on Providence, RI's Corleone.  Artwork by Steak Mtn.  Eight songs on the LP, nine on the CD (I think?).

The tour cassette on Fuck It Tapes is almost gone I heard.  Get one!

"Rat Magic" is almost sold out.  No repress.

Up next will be the Monkey Mania cassette, threeway split 7" with Knit Witch and Soft Shoulder and a big ol' split 12" with our partners in grime, Shearing Pinx from Vancouver, BC. 

More juicy tidbits of gossip soon.  There is plenty a-brewin'.

New Orleans, LA - Serious fun times.  Played at Big Top which is a rad art gallery.  Walked around the French Quater.  Went to the bathroom in a gross bar.  Slept at some raver dude's house.  Following morning we drank Knockout 190.  Then did an interview on a radio show which was fun. 

Mobile, AL - Played a place with a stripper cage.  All the bands were cool.  Sang without a mic because there wasn't one.  That sucked.  Slept in a really comfortable bed.

Atlanta, GA - Could have been a great show.  Wasn't.  Slept on a couch after smoking crazy weed.

Asheville, NC - Leveled a sketchy basement.  Nice kids, fun times.  Got left at Wafflehouse for three hours.  Sucked.  Slept on a pull out bed.

Greenville, NC - Show up.  Show gets shut down.  Show gets moved two houses down.  Go on at 12:30AM.  Drunken insanity.  Go home with crazy girls.  Wake up ready to get out asap.

Baltimore, MD - Great show.  Hung with Nolan and stayed at his house.  Slept in a little kid's bed.  Watched Bum Fights (sad).  Walked around and spent money and discovered the greatest band of all time, the Attitude Robots.

Philadelphia, PA - Best show of tour.  Took four stackers and didn't sleep.  Felt like life was over.  Figuring out now if it is,

Brooklyn, NY - Cool place, weird sound.  Sloppy + technical difficulties.  Slept at this girl's house in a nice bed and avoided a lot of intense drama. 

Easthampton, MA - Other best show of tour.  Touch Buddies put everyone in a retard trance.  We broke everything we had.  HGCG sounded great from the bathroom.  Grey Skull ruined my night in the best way.  Slept at Jamie's parents house in beds.  Currently eating too much food.

 

 

Phoenix, AZ
Showed up late, missed Soft Shoulder, Father's Day, Kiosk and Finally Punk. Felt like assholes. Played fun set with kids falling on ground. Then ate shrooms and talked about scientology and DJ Screw for hours. Passed out on a kitchen floor.

Tempe, AZ
Spent all day hanging. Ended day with living room show. Kiosk & Finally Punk rule. Passed out on couch.

El Paso, TX
Huge, sketchy venue. Bought a mace (spiked balls attached to chain on stick) and swung it around during HGCG' set. One person cared. Slept in shitty hotel room after hitting ourselves with mace as an initiation into an unnamed gang. Passed out on bed.

Midland, TX
Middle of nowhere. Sketchy building with black widow spiders. Really great kids. Totally trashy and sweaty set. Tons of fun. Didn't sleep. Drove onward to Austin. HGCG van broke down. Fixed it, then got stuck in traffic jam after two trucks hit eachother dead on going 70. Walked up to the wreck and watched the helicopter land and pick up one body. Where did the other one go? Walked around while everyone slept at Elizabeth's (Finally Punk) house. Passed out on floor, then was moved to bed.

Austin, TX
Totally muggy and hot. Chico Y Chico ruled, as did Finally Punk & Kiosk. Then everyone left and we played to Ryan's high school friends. Swam at a hotel. Took pills and smoked weed and passed out on the balconey. Then moved to floor, and then bed at 6AM.

Houston, TX
Short drive compared to others. Got real excited pulling into H-town and seeing the hoods made famous by Fat Pat, Lil' Flip, Hawk, Z-ro, Keke and Screw. Played a fun, loud show. Cop Warmth was good/scary/intense. Just swam in a pool and chilled (or the opposite of that) in a hot tub. Writing this now. Probably going to pass out in a single bed with Patrick.

New Orleans tomorrow.

We only have a few shows unconfirmed.  Holler at us if you can help with Texas, Louisiana, Ohio, Chicago and Missouri.  We'll do anything!

Bunch of upcoming shit.

First up, our full length will be out shortly after tour.  The vinyl is being taken care of by Woodsist, which is Fuck It Tapes' outlet for vinyl/cd.  30 minutes, eight songs.  The cd version will be announced soon and it features an extra ten minute jam.  Art by Steak Mountain.

For tour Fuck It Tapes will be issuing a cassette featuring a song from the album, the version of "Hex Appeal" from the out of print split with Coughs and an unreleased jam.  It's probably called "Platinum Showers".

Our dear friend John Ryan will be releasing a live cassette on his Workout Tapes imprint.  He's one of our favorite people in the world and he is in one of our favorite bands in the world.  The tape was recorded on our last tour at Monkey Mania in Denver, Colorado.  Limited to 100.

After tour we'll be recording some new material for a split 12" with Pretty Thigh who are full of youth and angst.  It'll be entitled "Live Knife in Vein" and it's gonna come out on their label HIV Tarnations.  It will brutal.

Lastly, we will be recording a song for a three way split 7" with Soft Shoulder and Knit Witch, two of our favorite bands from the Western lands.  Gilgongo will be releasing this.

Get as pumped as possible and we'll see you on tour.

So mid-June will be the start of our "Young Money Hustlers" tour with Sacramento's Hot Girls, Cool Guys.  Over a month of battle rapping, attempting to beat Tony at basketball, twenty dollar bills split amongst two bands, sweating constantly and overall fun times.  Dates are coming in as we get them, rather than having a whole page full of "TBA's".  If you go to www.gashflow.com then you will see a slightly rough sketch.  Some things are being changed around but the final word will be on here because I don't have the patience to update that site as often.

Also, today I'll have two mp3's from our forthcoming LP up.  Both are unmastered but you will get an idea of what to expect.

Get pumped, be happy, lot's of positivity ahead. 

We are traveling all over the US of A in July.  Please holler if you can offer any help.

Tempe, AZ
Tuscon, AZ
Dallas, TX
Austin, TX
Houston, TX
New Orleans, LA
Montgomery, AL
Atlanta, GA
Greensboro, NC
Richmond, VA
Baltimore, MD
New Brunswick, NJ
NYC
Providence, RI
Portsmouth, NH
Easthampton, MA
Allentown, PA
Cleveland, OH
Detroit, MI
Chicago, IL
Bloomington, IN
St. Louis, MO
Kansas City, MO
Denver, CO
Salt Lake City, UT
Boise, ID
Portland, OR
Arcata, CA
San Francisco/Oakland, CA
Sacramento, CA