POW! — according to Castle Face Records — “emerged from the tech-waste of the shiny/shitty new San Francisco.” Their debut album, Hi-Tech Boom (preview and pics of the Vinyl below), was released in 2014 and features your run of the mill resentment toward Silicon Valley, Screamers-style synth punk energy, and a sound I’d liken to a motherboard being evicted from the cloud.
Synthetic ID: Bay Area Post Punk
Synthetic ID is a bay area band. They released an album, Apertures, in 2012 on 1-2-3-4 Go! Records. I never followed up with anything they did after that, but they’re now with Castle Face Records. Seems like this album — my copy, a clear vinyl, pictured below — isn’t on Apple Music but the Bandcamp has previews. The music itself feels like a sustained pressurized blitz, an incredibly successful 8 songs clocking in at 17 minutes. Probably time to revisit.
Hüsker Dü, Love & Rockets, The Stranglers
Nothing more to say than this is some of what I’ve been listening to.
Hüsker Dü: Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely 😢
Love & Rockets: Kundalini Express 💆♀️
The Stranglers: Always The Sun 🌅
Minutemen
Minutemen. San Pedro. Jamming Econo. Mike Watt. D Boone. George Hurley. SST Records. Paranoid TIme. “Anti-rockist eclecticism.” Influences include Richard Hell, Wire, Gang of Four. The militia of colonial times. Political acid funk rock. Raymond Pettibon. The compilation The Politics of Time collects some early stuff and it’s great.