We’ve got two grand tours by Ipecac artists: The Melvins with Big Business and Otto Von Schirach with The Locust! The Melvins have announced a jam-packed tour of the US from mid-September to mid-October where they will be screening the new DVD they created with hipster cartoon toy designer Dalek – “Purge of Dissidents” at each show! Big Business will be opening the shows, but first The Melvins play one show with Mudhoney in LA (which will also screen the new DVD). If sludge rock isn’t your mug o’music, but weirdness is, you might want to check out the Otto Von Schirach tour with analog afficionado insectoids The Locust that is winding around Europe! Ahhh, I remember when Otto was just a lad, playing underground warehouse shows in SF and The Locust were scaring kids at The Gilman… ([More →])

Wrap your punk-deprived ears around this sound friends – Holy Molar are funtastic old school lof-fi clown punk at its very best. I think of it as Captain Beefheart in a secret rendezvous with Die Monitor Bats, but the press likens it to an incestuous relation between The Locust and Mr. Bungle. Both equally obscure and impossible to categorize, so you must listen!
Their bio reads like the screenplay for DJ Qbert’s Wave Twisters:

There is a tooth stuck in your knuckle and it is rotting from the inside out. The cavity-ridden lackadaisical cultural genocide dirty dentists know no novocaine can ease the pain or tell-tale stench on your breath that is your rotting mouth, so they just ball-pin hammer them out. Back ally dentists pocketing your gold plated teeth and molding the holes with tin foil. There is a chemical reaction in your head. Your teeth are shivering and it’s not from the cold. Because the blood of your gums is the missing ingredient for the elixir that could cure your stupid, stupid nerves, we give you Holy Molar, five dental school drop out hacks still willing to drill away at you just because there are so many obvious holes to fill.

Musicians from as far and wide as Final Conflict, Cattle Decapitation and The Oath came together to create this blasphemous noise that some dare to call music:

ron avila [drums] (get hustle, ex antioch arrow, final conflict)
bobby bray [keyboards] (the locust)
mark mcmolar [vocals] (the oath, virgin mega hore, ex charles bronson, social coma)
justin pearson [bass] (the locust, ex struggle, swing kids, the crimson curse)
gabe serbian [guitar] (the locust, cattle decapitation)

Their latest EP hit the virtual shelves today. It’s titled Cavity Search, features some amazing art by Mark McCoy, and according to the band’s label 31G, it’s “loaded with some serious metal drumming, songs about Pocahotass, and some of the strangest sitar and horn arrangements added to the bands recorded material.”

Cavity Search Tracklist

1. Cavity Search
2. You’ve Had More Kids Pulled Out Of That Thing Than A Burning Orphanage
3. The Night Pocahotass Spread Her Land O’ Lakes
4. My Saturday Night Fever Turned Into A Sunday Morning Rash
5. Der Werewolf Breath

Links

Holy Molar in the DEAF SPARROW zine
Holy Molarspace
You can buy the album direct from 31G