My
old boss said he was fined for renting out his SF garage to someone for use as
a bedroom. Bay Area rent has been bat-shit bananananas for a good while now.
Thus the trend of all these lo-fi bedroom/psychy-garage tape releases sneaking
onto the upper shelves of underground record stores. Jo Kusy’s Pennsylvania offering
is no exception, with pre- ‘80s groove for days.
The
Wiener Records, fittingly, is a subsidiary of Burger Records (a garage rock
mainstay), whereby you can pay them (Wiener) to put out your tape under their
label and they’ll distribute a percentage from their online store. This JK
sounds like he coulda made the Burger roster on merit alone, but chose a more
laissez-faire route. At times, I hear a delightful nod to the Boss’s “Nebraska”
album, but, y’know, with lotsa guitar pedals.
and/or
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- Jacob An Kittenplan
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