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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 

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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 

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FUZZ OVERDOSE RECORDS

PRESENTS.........

THE GRUESOMES



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Fuzz Overdose Records is happy to announce the repress! of a limited 800 hand numbered copies. of Canada's tyrants of teen trash THE GRUESOMES debut release Jack The Ripper ep.

RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 30TH

www.fuzzoverdose.com
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 

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Shindig! UK Mag Review (Sept.-October 2009) vol.2 issue 12

THE GRUESOMES
Hey!

Ricochet Sound CD

www.ricochetsound.com

This CD version of The Gruesomes’ third and final studio LP from 1989 makes all the of the band’s work available on CD. After so many miles on the road Canada’s best garage/R&B band were starting to ask ‘What Am I Doing This For?’ but didn’t let it show in the quality of the songs. The likes of ‘Thanks For Nothing’ and ‘Hey!’ are as good as anything they ever wrote.

The Garbage Pail Kids’ demo, recorded in bassist John Davis’ parents’ basement in ’85 must have sounded as if it came from a different planet in mid-80s Canada.

Phil Suggitt






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Monday, August 31, 2009 

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Disc Review

Gruesomes
Hey! (Ricochet Sound)
By Jason Keller
Long before the city became synonymous with hyped-?up art rock bands, Montreal was home to some of the best snot-?nosed teen garage rock in Canada thanks to the Gruesomes. This reissue of their 1988 classic, Hey!, is a joyous reminder of the foursome’s ability to write perfect fuzz-?toned little pop blasts.
When Hey! came out, the Gruesomes had just hit their early 20s and toured the country exhaustively with little success to show for it. You can hear the wear and tear in What Am I Doing This For? and the heavy-?riffed Out Of Our Tree. In case you already own this Canadian gem, Ricochet tacked on the Garbage Pail Kids demos, which were recorded on a four-?track in 1985 and include far-?out covers of Jack The Ripper and The Witch.
Top track: So Far, So Bad






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Monday, August 31, 2009 

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The Gruesomes "Hey!" PDF Stampa E-mail
Scritto da fab    sabato 25 luglio 2009 The Gruesomes "Hey!", Ricochet Sound 2009
Puntuale e precisa come al solito, la Ricochet Sound prosegue con la ristampa del terzo album dei Gruesomes, nella loro trilogia 80s. L'uscita originaria di "Hey!", del 1989, viene qui "completata" con il demo del 1985 "Garage Pail Demo", a formare un piccolo compendio di original 80s fuzz garage beat. I Gruesomes di "Hey!" sono leggermente più "pacati" rispetto alle prove precedenti, e il suono (sempre e comunque "bello deciso") sembra voler trovare nuove soluzioni ("What Am I Doing Now?" più rocknoroll, "Tell Me How You Feel" sul versante powerpop... sembra un pezzo dei Libertines con 15 anni di anticipo, o "World Of Darkness", insolitamente acustica) appoggiate sulla consueta "marca" Gruesomes. Violenza pura è invece il demo, una botta da far impazzire i fans del lo-fi garage più impunito, con le obbligatorie "Jack The Ripper", "The Witch", "Bikers From Hell" e gli insoliti Radio Spots... don't be square!
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 

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martes 14 de julio de 2009

The Gruesomes


HEY! (RICOCHET SOUND CD)

Ultimo disco con el que la discográfica Ricochet cierra la serie dedicada a recuperar el legado de los canadienses Gruesomes. Ya no será necesario pagar mas de la cuenta por una copia de sus discos en vinilo, a no ser que sufras vinilosis crónica. Este Hey! Fue editado en 1988 y seguía los pasos del “Tyrans of Teen Trash” y “Gruesomania” teenagers o quizás no tanto haciendo música de garaje y r&b, con Bobby Beaton dejándose las cuerdas vocales en el micrófono en los temas más endeudados con los Downliners Sect como pueden ser “What am I doing this for?”, “So Far, So Bad”, les salía la vena sónica en ese “Don’t waste my time” y sin dejar el sonido del Northwest se suben al árbol que siempre defendieron los Wailers “Out of my Tree” y rinden pleitesía a los holandeses Outsiders cuando se enzarzan en el “Won’t you listen” desde luego volviendo la vista atrás ese tema fue todo un icono en toda una generación de chavales descubriendo viejas bandas. Los temas propios se movían desde los instrumentales como “Hey!” que ya dejaban una pista de lo que hoy son Fuad and the Fezztones o “El diablo”, la parte mas pop llega de la mano del tema “Tell me how you feel” con algún guiño a los Byrds ó “World of darknees” casi acústica, pero donde se movían con total soltura era en los sónicos mas basicos creados en las cocheras americanas, sonidos que dieron lugar a temas como “That ain’t right”, “ I can dig it”, “Thanks for nothing” o “It’ s all in your mind” que me trae a la cabeza el clásico de Larry and the Blue Notes, y como no podía ser de otra manera el cd contiene ocho temas extra, temas que grabaron para ese par de chalados que se hacían llamar Deja Voodoo con varios discos editados en su propio sello Og, incluso Midnight Records el primer sello de los Fuzztones en NY les edito “Too Cool, Too Live,….”, pero no nos desviemos del tema, corria el año 1985 y unos mocosos se metían en los estudios de los citados Deja Vodoo y graban una maqueta adelanto de lo que mas tarde serian las primeras grabaciones editadas de los Gruesomes, temas como “Jack the Ripper”, “The Witch”, “I never loved her”, “Bikers from hell” o “For all I care” ejecutados con la arrogancia que unos quinceañeros con la cabeza volada por tipos como Gerry Roslei o Lord Sutch, además de encontrar un tema inédito hasta el dia de hoy “I try” en una maqueta que se llamo “Garbage Pail Kids” (demo 1985) y un par de anuncios para emisoras de radio en Toronto y Ottawa, todo ello acompañado por unas notas escritas por el amigo Dave O’halloran del viejo y alucinante fanzine What Wave. Como información comentar que The Gruesomes se reuniran para el festival Wooly Weekend a principios de Agosto en Montreal y antes de acabar una llamada si tienes una banda, puesto que Ricochet Records está buscando maquetas. (Oscarkotj-2009)




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Thursday, June 11, 2009 

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WOOLY WEEKEND GARAGE FESTIVAL

       MONTREAL,CANADA (AUGUST 6-8).


THE GRUESOMES WILL BE HEADLINING THE 1ST NIGHT!!(AUGUST 6TH).

FEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE "SKY SAXON(SEEDS), ELECTRIC PRUNES,

? + THE MYSTERIANS, GONN, A-BONES, FLAKES, MORLOCKS AND MANY MORE!!

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!      INFO LINK BELOW!

http://www.teenbeattakeover.com/

        FUZZ FORWARD..........RAVE ON!!!!
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 

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RICOCHET SOUND + THE GRUESOMES ARE PROUD TO


ANNOUNCE THE OFFICIAL CD RELEASE OF **HEY!** .




OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE OF MAY 26TH!





22 FUZZ FUELD TRACKS INCLUDING BONUS SONGS (THE


ORIGINAL 1985 GARAGE PAIL KIDS DEMOS).




PRE-SALE CONTACT : RICOCHETSOUND@YAHOO.CA




FUZZ FORWARD...........RAVE ON!!!

       

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Sunday, March 01, 2009 

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RICOCHET SOUND ACCEPTING DEMO'S !!



WE ARE NOW ACCEPTING DEMO'S FOR FALL (AUTUMN) RELEASES.


UNFORTUNATELY AT THIS TIME WE ARE ONLY ACCEPTING


MATERIAL FROM CANADIAN    BANDS/ARTISTS!!


RICOCHET SOUND IS A GARAGE-PUNK, PSYCH + POWER-POP  LABEL.


SO PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT  MATERIAL RELATED TO THOSE SOUNDS.


PLEASE REMIT TO THE BELOW ADDRESS.



RICOCHET SOUND
P.O. BOX 71315,
2001 UNIVERSITY B301,
MONTREAL, Q.C.,
H3A 3S9 CANADA

EMAIL:  ricochetsound@yahoo.ca



"THE TIME IS NOW...............SO LET'S DO IT!!"








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Friday, February 27, 2009 

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February 26th, 2009
The Gruesomes - (Ricochet Sound Recordings)

 Gruesomania
Martin Siberok [The Hour--Montreal,Canada]
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Back in the '80s, Montreal's indie scene exploded with a host of hot
young bands covering an array of musical genres. The Gruesomes grabbed
the garage-punk corner with their straight-ahead, no-holds-barred
approach to this wonderfully raw '60s style. Weaving basic R&B
rhythms, fuzz-ridden guitar riffs, snarly vocals and teen urgency, the
band produced a primitive sound that placed them in the vein of such
groups as Count Five and The Standells as well as early Rolling Stones
and The Pretty Things. This re-release of the band's 1987 second album
with Way Down Below (a live show staple) and Je cherche (originally by Les Lutins) also includes the six songs from their Unchained 12-inch EP.
These guys made us proud of Montreal music back then - and they still do.

 



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