Whose side are you on?

I-94 Bar columnist Earl O'Neill has upset a few people with his column on the upcoming Australian Federal election in which he expounds about why most rock and roll people lean to the left. Or maybe they're the most vocal? Read it here and flame him via the link in his byline. You might end up in his next column.

Turns To Hate - Powder Monkeys

Back to work in more ways than one and the I-94 Bar is again open for business. THere's the odd giveaway running because it's our 10th anniversary. Time flies when you're having fun.

Let's start 2010 with some good news, after a string of bad stuff over the holiday break like the death of the Tote Hotel in Melbourne.

Ex-Powder Monkeys guitarist John Nolan has started digitising old footage of his legendary band and parts are finding their way to YouTube. If you don't know who they were, read this recent Comfy Chair posting by Jim Lewis.

On to the filmclip and word is you might be able to buy some of these shows as DVDs in the near future. That would be money wisely spent. Try this for size:

I-94 Bar Top Tens

It's that time of the year again. The Top Tens are starting to roll in. Klondike Masuak is first cab off the rank here.

Drunk & Disorderly Episode 23

Just in case you were wondering why it was quiet around here, there's a stack of new CD reviews live at the Bar and the latest episode (number 23, no less) of the Drunk and Disorderly Podcast is available here. You can also click on the title of this post.

Here's the tracklist:

Drinking Much Too Long - Russian Roulettes (R & R/Off the Hip)

It's Not Your Fault - Sonny Vincent With Members Of Rocket From The Crypt (Sonny Vincent With Members Of Rocket From The Crypt/We Deliver the Guts-Cargo)

I Love Your Neurosis - The Nervebreakers (We Went And Recorded It Anyway/Brutarian Quarterly)

Hardly a Sane Man's Wallpaper - Apa State Mental (The Reunited Heavy Metal Sounds of Apa State Mental/The Mighty Kong)

The Escape - Radio Moscow (Brain Cycles/Alive)

She's Bad - Nathaniel Mayer (Why Won't You Le Me Be Black?/Alive)

It's All Getting Too Much - The Intercontinental Playboys (Hymns of the Flesh/I-94 Bar Records)

New Bully In The Town - Laughing Clowns (Live at GoMA/Prince Melon Records)

You Can't Sit Down - The Purple Hearts (Before Birdmen Flew/bootleg)

Liberty Lovers - The Dacios (Monkeys Blood/Solarsonar)

American Bandstand - The Seat Belts (We Went And Recorded It Anyway/Brutarian Quarterly)

Big Shot - Bunt (Birdland/Turbo Nun)

Surfin' Armageddon - Jukebox Zeros (Rock 'n' Roll Ronin/Rank Outsider)

Slappin' My Balls - The Meatbeaters (Carry On Tuggin'/Pressed Meat)

Special Kind of Man - Apa State Mental (The Reunited Heavy Metal Sounds of Apa State Mental/The Mighty Kong)

Grammar of Misery - The Barracudas (Mean Time/Big Time)

Down & Out Downunder 3

Episode 3 is up. All Aussie, all Rock Action and all here.

Drunk & Disorderly Episode 22

Are You a Boy Or Are You a Girl - The Faceful (The Dogs Tribute...Doggy Style/Future Now Records)

No Time For Rock N Roll - Left Arm (Disatisoul/Trouble In River City)

All Your Love - Mick Medew & The Rumours (All Your Love/I-94 Bar Records)

Cave Girl - The Texreys (Cave Girl/Ugh! Records)

Downtown Paranoia Blues - Soledad Brothers (The Hardest Walk/Alive Records)

Soul Power - Freddy Lynxx (Full Cover/Sucksex)

Oggie Boggie - The Ooga Boogas (Romance & Adventure/Arght!)

#6 Dance - Truckstop Lovechild (Drink Fight Fuck/Zodiac Killer Records)

Try Something - New Christs (Gloria/Impedance)

Abandon Ship - Gentle Ben & His Sensitive Side (7" single/Spooky)

How Long Is Too Long - The Movements (The World, The Flesh And The Devil/Alleycat)

Dreamcatcher - The Lash Outs (Drink Fight Fuck/Zodiac Killer Records)

Love Cancer - Painkillers (Love Cancer/Truck)

More Drugs More Lies - Sonic Assassin (Downfall of Aces/Nicotine Records)

Bleed For You - Los Hories (What's The Time?/Off The Hip)

Do It Again - The Long Strides (The Long Strides/Off The Hip)

Killer Weed - Eddie Spaghetti (Drink Fight Fuck/Zodiac Killer Records)



Drunk & Disorderly - The I-94 Bar Podcast

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New(ish) I-94 Bar Podcast

Ah, we forgot. Episode 21 went up last week. Subscribe via links on the right or go here and this is the playlist:

Jesus Invented Beer -The Bible Beaters (Drink. Fight. Fuck. Volume III)

Lex In B - The Pink Fits (De Ja Blues)

Doin' Time - The Candy Snatchers (Drink. Fight. Fuck. Volume III)

Stickin' Around - The Soul Movers (unreleased 7")

Bruna - Simon Chainsaw (Alpha Negra)

Memory Layne - The Dolly Rocker Movement (Our Days Mind The Tyme)

Underdog - The Movements (The World The Flesh And The Devil)

Revolution Blues - Blood Group (Revolution Blues EP)

Strange Kind Of Love - Molten Universe (No Love Around EP)

Rock-N-Roll Victim - Death (For the Whole World to See EP)

Hold On Together - Dollhouse (Rock and Roll Revival)

Tell Me Why - Tony Worsley (Before Birdmen Flew)

Primitive Tales - The Kits (Primitive Tales)

I'm A Lover Not A Fighter - The Downliners Sect (International Stomp-O-Lation)

Know Your Product - The Saints (Pig City - Live In Brisbane 2007)

Kick Out the Podcast Jams, Chickenpluckers

A Podcast about chicken. C'mon, give some points for originality!

Get it in iTunes, download it from the link or listen to it by clicking on the player on the I-94 Bar. There should be a player on this here blog, if you look down the right-hand side.

Here's the playlist:

Super Chicken (Toon Tunes: 50 Favorite Classic Cartoon Songs)

Cockblocked - The Jack Saints (Rock and Roll Saved Our Lives...But Now It's Trying to Kill Us!)

Chicken Scratch - The Raunch Hands (Learn To Whap-A-Dang)

The Greasy Chicken - Andre Williams (Movin' On - Greasy And Explicit Soul Movers 1956-1970)

Run Chicken- The Milkshakes (Rockabilly Psychosis and the Garage Disease)

Flight Of The Shit Bird - Six Ft Hick (Canetrash)

Thunder Chicken -The Mighty Imperials (Thunder Chicken)

Chicken Of The Sea - The Raunch Hands (Learn To Whap-A-Dang)

Chicken Head- Whiskey Daredevils (The Essential Whiskey Daredevils)

Chicken - Spark Plugs (Born Bad - Volume 4)

Kicks & Chicks - The Zipps (single)

Finger Lickin_ Chicken - Radors (single)

Chicken Thighs - Andre Williams (Movin' On - Greasy And Explicit Soul Movers 1956-1970)

Chicken Hawk -The Pink Fits (Fuzzyard Gravebox)

Barnyard Blues - 13th Floor Elevators (Bull Of The Woods)

Secret Track

Hear me DJ, buy me beer

Fake Nick Cave on Twitter

Let's be brutally honest. Twitter is mostly pointless nonsense, but it is occasionally throwing up glints of comedic wit. Here's a few from the supposed tweeting of Nick Cave:

"Hoping to premiere my new lingerie line, Get Ready For Love, at my half-birthday party later this month. Sending out invitations."

"At the shoot for the Meow Mix commercial. If I hear the director say 'release the cats!' one more time and wink at me meaningfully, I'll cry"

"Just realized Ed Kuepper is not Chris Bailey. What have I done?"

"Testing March menu at Murder Salads. "Plain Cold Herring"? Disconcerted"

"Getting ready for my first acupuncture appointment. I need to be rid of Mick's hurtful energy."

Gems like these here.

More banal stuff form the Barman here.

Barman is Blipping

I'm on Blip.fm here if that means anything to you. As you were if it doesn't.

Return of the I-94 Bar Podcast

It has a new hosting service so re-direct your Podcatcher or go here. Includes The Kits, Simon Chainsaw, Mazinga, the Booby Traps, the Lipstick Killers and Kevin K.

New look I-94 Bar

There's a bit of work underway. It's still in progress but you can see it here.

All suggestions for improvements gratefully accepted. And yeah, I know the navigation bar blinks in Firefox. That bug's being addressed.

The Podcast thingie has moved too. You can access it via the sidebar here or directly at the new host Libsyn. It sure beats the clunky place it was hosted before.

The Bar's 2008 Top Tens start rolling in

It's a new look Top Ten this year as we've moved it over to Wordpress to allow interactive comments. Ken Shimamoto (aka Stashdauber) is the first cab off the rank and you can read his entry here - and of course do better yourself if you're not hep to his jive.

Album of the Year? I think so, folks...

It's Johnny Casino & The Secrets Week at the I-94 Bar. There's the Review of the new album ("I Am Who I Am, Not Who You Want Me To Be"), the "Drunk & Disorderly" Podcast, now the Interview and the album and accompanying EP are both on sale in The Shop. And the Sydney launch is this Saturday at The Empire at Annandale (which I'd attend except it's The Barmaid's birthday and she has other plans.).

Drinking with Drunk & Disorderly

The latest I-94 Bar Podcast (number 13, if you're counting) is chockful of songs about drinking. Download/play/subscribe via the interface at right. Here's the playlist:

I Wanna Drink - The Deviants (This CD Is Condemned - Total Energy/Alive)

Drunk - Alcoholics Unanimous (20 Years of Tanked Up Tunes - Steel Cage Records)

Good Morning, Headache - Dark Carnival (The Last Great Ride - Sympathy For The Record Industry)

Two Days Off, Five Days On - Hell To Pay (Two Days Off … EP)

Super Fucked-Big Drunk - The Me-Thinks (The Make Mine A Double E.P. - Indian Casino)

Drinking Alone Under The Moon - Sour Jazz (Rock & Roll Ligger - Acetate Records)

This Bar - Hitmen D.T.K (Moronic Inferno - Zeus Records)

BBQ Liquor - The Pink Fits (Fuzzyard Gravebox - Off The Hip)

Booze To Blame - Ian Rilen & The Love Addicts Ian Rilen (Passion, Boots & Bruises - Phantom Records)

Drunk On a Train - The Painkillers (Drunk On a Train - Blazing Strumpet)

Broke, Drunk & Stoned - The Hangmen (Metallic I.O.U. - Acetate Records)

Pub - Cosmic Psychos (Go The Hack - Survival Records)

Drive Thru Bottlo - The Veebees (Crack Us Anotha! - Ocker Records)

Half Price Drinks - The Deviants (This CD Is Condemned Rock - Total Energy/Alive)

Another one of those Podcast things

Episode 12 is up and you can find it streaming via the player at right or get it here. Playlist as follows:

Gravybillies In The Sky - The Band Who Shot Liberty Valance (Outlaw Death Laser Drinkers From Hell - Turkeyneck Records)

Show Me Your Tits - Stinky Lou And The Goon Mad With Lord Benardo (12 Roots ‘n Boogie Blues Hits - Voodoo Rhythm Records)

4 Flights Up - Screamin’ Stevie And The Credit Union (Four Flights Up - Turkeyneck Records)

Cut You Loose - Digger & The Pussycats (Let’s Go To Hospital - Spooky Records)

Dick Shake - The Juke Joint Pimps (Boogie The House Down Juke Joint Style - Voodoo Rhythm Records)

Baby Jane - The Hydromatics (The Earth is Shaking - Suburban Records)

Frustrating Sound - Radio Moscow (Radio Moscow Blues - Alive Records)

The Colour Of Her Eyes - Laurie Wade’s Cavaliers Pretty Ugly - Incessant Noise Recording)

I’m a Liar, Play With Fire - Sonic Assassin (State is Enemy Forever! - Freakshow Records)

Red Glare -Brimstone Howl (Guts of Steel - Alive Records)

I Am The Light - Even (Even - Rubber Records)

The Sky Belongs to Us - Nunchukka Superfly (If Ya Not Careful With Electricity It Will Kill Ya - Chatterbox Records)

The Devil - The Hangmen (In The City - Acetate Records)

Drunk & Disorderly Episode 7: "All KIndsa Sounds"

And if you're bored, here's Episode 7. Stream it from down below, read the playlist here.

Drunk & Disorderly Episode 6

The latest is up. Go here where you can read the playlist or play it from the blog by clicking below.

Sit down, have a drink

Been battling the 'flu in a big way lately, hence the lack of posts. Thus, what follows is purely medicinal.

I had to do away with the embedded shockwave file because it played an annoying piece of cocktail music in ther background, but click to test your skills at bartending. http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif