THE HUSSY @ ZuZu Tomorrow Night!

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Flyer by G. Gordon Gritty

Hot damn, we have one helluva show in store for you tomorrow night (June 8th). Come out to the Middle East’s ZuZu in Central Square, Cambridge to see Madison’s finest garage punk duo The Hussy! Joining them will be local KLYAM Records homies, Nice Guys and G. Gordon Gritty. This is one not to miss. Oh and did I mention that it’s FREE!
10 PM, 21+ FB Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/691123214350486/

For those of you non Boston/New England folks, here’s the rest of The Hussy’s tour dates:
Tues June 9th – NYC (Manhattan) @ Elvis Guesthouse

Weds June 10th – NYC (Brooklyn) @ Baby’s All Right

Thurs June 11th – Baltimore, MD @ Windup w/ Guantanamo Baywatch
https://www.facebook.com/events/1441285252852025/
Fri June 12th – Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter w/ Institute, Lost Tribe, Nervous Ticks
https://www.facebook.com/events/1571506393107079/

Sat June 13th – Wilmington, NC @ Reggies w/ Deadly Lo-Fi – PORT CITY FEST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/447612688753430/

Sun June 14th – Savannah, GA @ Cathaus
https://www.facebook.com/events/1422705561382140/

Mon June 15th – Atlanta, GA @ 529 w/ Lowbanks
https://www.facebook.com/events/1570806459859917/

Tues June 16th – Birmingham, AL @ Spring Street Firehouse

Weds June 17th – Jackson, MS @ CS’s w/ No Ma’am, Que Pasa
https://www.facebook.com/events/747362258716223/

Thurs June 18th – New Orleans, LA @ Saturn Bar w/ Planchettes, Fez, Que Pasa

Fri June 19th – Austin, TX @ Cheer Up Charlies w/ A Giant Dog, Xetas, Lochness Mobsters, Party Girl
https://www.facebook.com/events/101851070154069/

Sat June 20th (DAY) – Austin, TX @ Yellow Jacket

Sat June 20th (NIGHT) – Dallas, TX @ The Foundry w/ Beth Israel
https://www.facebook.com/events/821866527899970/

Sun June 21st – Little Rock, AR @ Sticky’z w/ Bombay Harambee

Mon June 22nd – Memphis, TN @ Murphy’s w/ Liquid Teens, DJ Vomitor
https://www.facebook.com/events/750644435050451/

Tues June 23rd – DAY OFF

Weds June 24th – Fayetteville, AR @ JRs w/ Pagiins
https://www.facebook.com/events/1617516315156621/

Thurs June 25th – Springfield, MO @ The Outland w/ Chris Gnarly

Fri June 26th – Kansas City, MO @ Minibar w/ Wet Ones https://www.facebook.com/events/359909417539664/

Sat June 27th – Omaha, NE @ O’Leaver’s w/ Digital Leather

Weds July 15th – Spring Green, WI @ The Shitty Barn w/ Tree Blood

TONIGHT! G. GORDON GRITTY’S ‘STILL NOT A MUSICIAN’ TAPE RELEASE SHOW!

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Flyer by Gritty himself
Tonight, G. Gordon Gritty sonically joins the KLYAM Records family. No longer just the KLYAM haus band. Kids Like You & Me and BUFU Records are teaming up to release G. Gordon’s Gritty’s latest 33 song magnum opus entitled “Still Not a Musician,” a compilation spanning ten years worth of gritty material.

The show takes place at our monthly stomping ground: Club Bohemia (the Cantab Lounge basement) located in Central Square, Cambridge.

Local outlaws, The Shallow End Divers and Underwater Bear Ballet will assist Gritty in a fun filled night of loose, slovenly rock ‘n’ roll. Queens, NY/BUFU Record’s own Tall Juan (of Beets/Juan Wauters fame and glory) will shake your hips and stimulate your mind with his epic Ramones odes; only a true Queens man could deliver. Oh and he’s bringing the whole band.

21+ :( sorry kids… $8. Doors at 8:30, show starts at 9. See you soon.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1611879172387740/

P.S. G. Gordon Gritty is hitting up Chris Collins’ “Mass Ave and Beyond” Radio show on WZBC from 5-7PM before the show. Tune in to 90.3 around 6 or a little after to hear the band play before you catch em’ in the flesh.

TeleVibes New Album “High Or Die” / Release Show MAY 24

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Flyer By Kayla Savage

It is another TeleVibes release show at the Middle East Upstairs and we KLYAMers of course remember just how nice these occasions are. The last one was over a year ago in celebration of Washed Up, but tonight it’s all about High Or Die, seven songs of sheer guitar psychedelia and Pete Coldpack inspired freak-outs. They’ve been playing some of these numbers for a while, ya basically feel at home in Boston’s finest green beer guzziln basements listening to the Tellies. YET, bro, these are arena sized jams and I don’t usually say that in a good way. The grooves are bustling too hard and Out There for something like “Acyd” to not be loved by any kind person who fancies rock ‘n roll shoved to its spaciest noisiest outer boundaries.

Well then listen below or hop over to their BANDCAMP (where you can listen to High Or Die) and do your part in supporting our No Sho pals – come through to see them tonight MAY 24th 8 PM Middle East Upstairs with a very musically linkminded crew – Holy Wave on tour from Austin, Texas, and two local psych shimmies Soft Eyes and Fedavees.

G. Gordon Gritty’s “Still Not a Musician” Coming Out On KLYAM & BUFU/Release Show @ Club Bohemia (5/29)

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Flyer by Gordon himself

Yo what up freaks, KLYAM and BUFU are teaming up to bring you the latest release “Still Not a Musician” from Boston Outsider Rockin honoroller G. Gordon Gritty aka Gangbang Gordon. GBG is in the past, let the past be the past. I miss the name too, but Gritty is just as wiry and wholesome and weird and charming as the gangbang. In fact, it’s exactly the same and entirely different. Huh?

More on that later.Joining in on the slopfest are some of our favorites in recent memory. Waltham, MA’s The Shallow End Divers are opening up the festivities with their brand of balls out, no fucking around 60s garage rock ‘n’ roll – slime that would feel right at home at the Delta House. Fellow Bostonians, Underwater Bear Ballet share a similar fuzz fidelity and shake things in an even weirder direction. Rounding out the bill is Queen’s, NY’s own Tall Juan. You may have seen Juan playing alongside the shorter Juan, Juan Wauters in The Beets and in his solo work. Well, if you dig The Beets/Wauters, then you’ll freak out over Tall Juan’s similarly captivating, Ramonesian folk garage pop. Check out the dude’s latest music video for “I Like to Stay Home” (R. Stevie Moore) below. Directed by Beets vet Matthew Volz.

KLYAM & BUFU Present: G. Gordon Gritty’s “Still Not a Musician” KLYAM Records/BUFU Records Tape Release Show w/ Tall Juan (NY), Underwater Bear Ballet, The Shallow End Divers @ Club Bohemia (Cantab Lounge basement) in Cambridge, MA on Friday, May 29th!

This show is 21+ :( sorry kids. $8, 8:30 PM. COME OUT!
FB Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1611879172387740/

APRIL 2015 RECS: WHIP APPEAL, ANDY CALIFORNIA, JIM LEONARD

There was a time six years ago in which your Kids, us KLYAMers, had no clue about the curious power of local rock ‘n roll bands. Right now, on this very April 22, 2015, that seems unheard of. Preposterous. It’s hard to track down when our precise journey into this HomeGrown began, but I’ll tell you what. Whatever is whatever and now is now. Now is always a perfect chance to document some “new” performers that I found particularly inspiring and exciting over the past few weeks of attending shows.

WHIP APPEALSaw ’em at Traphaus in New Bedford, April 4, 2015 –  The under the ground pride of Newton, Massachusetts but fuggit what ya say I mean Jamaica Plain, this mysterious trio had me curious the moment I clicked into their web 1.0 official website – http://lastchancestudio.com/whipappeal/ weeks ago. Technological aesthetics to the side (which I’m real fond of, ‘b t w’, I’m privy to repeat listens of their first record Troll Patrol: Spill Yr Juice : Chunk In Chains. Did not know what they’d bring to the live show…I mean does anyone. But they brought themselves, spilling away at clicky clinky noise pop (just some catch phrases to get yourself to listen to the damn record – which actually trolls the spectrum of rock ‘n roll and experimentalism), Dann and Pat switching between drums, guitar, and vox with James a mainstay on the beaten up keyboard and microphone. Some performances were nerve bursting hip hop – something I just don’t see around these parts but I’m like Mickey D’s, I’m loving it. I was in my own world watching them, just generally amazing that there is a crew doing THIS here and now. I can’t wait to catch them in a packed sweatbox. I CAN FEEL IT.

ANDY CALIFORNIASaw ’em at Middle East Upstairs, April 10, 2015 –  If there’s an old timey Boston based garage soul and raunchy impresario – legend even – it’s Andy. Alone he’s Andy California. With others, he’s no doubt a big part of the crunch catch all the slimers around here righteously dig, THE MONSIEURS, twirling a mic stand and shouting into your face. And I hear of THE MARTY KINGS, too. Anyway, on this night, Andy California is a ball of fun in the sea of cameras and smiling folks out to enjoy a night of music. He’s right on the floor, in other words, hell his microphone is taped securely to his guitar so he can do just as he pleases. He cranks out tunes that I’d safely call natural – wild-I don’t need anyone-else but ME throwbacks. If dude opened every local show, people would get the stick out the ass and move along ALL night. Powerful stuff.

JIM LEONARDSaw ’em at Smokey Bear Cave, April 18, 2015 – Ty Segall, White Fence, Jim Leonard. Jim Leonard solo is something I’ve only before dreamed of as an actual thing. I knew he had it in him, I just didn’t know how when where and what. For clarification: this dude’s not a new performer – his damn near classic home-recorded entirely self produced debut A Brief History of Slime was quietly released in 2010, two years later he joined Fat Creeps on drums, and nowadays he’s bashed with Al Marantz and the Piffs and Ben Katzman’s Degreaser. With a fresh new psychedelic batch of oozy sous chef slime called Treble In Paradise (out now on BUFU Records), Jim Leonard, for the first times to my knowledge, is a live performing machine. With merely a tape player, mic stand, and effects pedal, dude karaoked over tunes from the album. Spazzing and getting up and close and personal with everyone and everything, intimately intimidating. This was literally the funnest way I’ve seen a solo musician tackling his own material. He cued guitar solos, simply bringing a personalized vibe to the basement  and better yet I b-b-bet everyone who attended agrees. Check out new album: http://jamesleonard.bandcamp.com/album/treble-in-paradise

*SHOW TONIGHT*: Nice Guys, Black Beach, Jacques Le Coque, GBG @ Club Bohemia (4/17)!

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Flyer by Jim Leonard

Hello local mischief makers, boy do we have a shoe for you tonight. Tonight, tonight, at Club Bohemia (Cantab Lounge basement) in Central Square, Cambridge, KLYAM Presents: Nice Guys, Jacques Le Coque (CT), Black Beach, and Gangbang Gordon. 8:30 PM, $8, 21+ sorry kids :(  Facialbook event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/748501435268691/

It’s been nearly two years since we’ve seen our punk slimy Connecticut brethren in Jacques Le Coque, but now they’re back and with a new record, may I add. Hooky (King Pizza), pick that sheet up at the show and listen to it here: http://jacqueslecoque.bandcamp.com/ I WANT YOU TO GET SOME COQUE!

Joining the Coque, will be some local ruffians if I ever saw any. I’d like to give a shout out to URSULA first though, they were originally scheduled to play this show, but couldn’t make it due to illness. :(, we send our best wishes their way and you need to LISTEN to them immediately: https://ripursula.bandcamp.com/
Filling in for them is bizarre noisemaker, occasional hipshaker nonmusician Gangbang Gordon. https://gbgordon.bandcamp.com/ Playing a quick solo set to warm y’all up for…

Black Beach is a newer band to me, but one that has consistently shaken my soul with their aggressive brand of psychedelic garage grunge mish mash. Picture The Doors partying in a van with Mudhoney and Nirvana. Throw in some blistering surf rock for good measure. http://blackbeachma.bandcamp.com/
A fantastic addition to the messy, care free rock ‘n’ roll embodied by fellow Bostonians in Miami Doritos, Midriffs, and…

KLYAM Records’ own Nice Guys. Needs no introduction or explanation. Look thru the archives sucka. http://niceguys666.bandcamp.com/

Peach Kelli Pop – “Princess Castle 1987” Music Video/Matinee Show @ T.T. The Bears Sunday!


Take a peek at the new music video for Peach Kelli Pop’s “Princess Castle 1987” off her latest album III (Burger Records) and catch PKP live this Sunday (4/19) at T.T. The Bears alongside Littlefoot, Feral Jenny, Bong Wish, and Fleabite. It’s presented by Illegally Blind and as longtime PKP fans you know KLYAM will be in the house. Check it out: https://www.facebook.com/events/398873680281146/

The Prefab Messiahs – “Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive” 10″ EP Now Available at Deep Thoughts and Armageddon!

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Yo! We’re so damn excited to be co-releasing The Prefab Messiahs 10″EP “Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive” with Burger Records! This shit is sweeping the nation, trust me you don’t want to be a clueless loser and not have this piece of wax in the palms of your sweaty hands. You want to be a weirdo, we’re everywhere as they say. Hahaha alright enough of my weirdo marketing melarkey. Where can you find this record? Well, you can always purchase a record at one of our KLYAM shows (next one is 4/17 at Club Bohemia) or you could hit up our online store: http://klyam.bigcartel.com/ ORRR even better yet, now you can find this record and ALL of our releases at Deep Thoughts in Jamaica Plain, MA and Armageddon Records in Cambridge, MA. Coming to Weirdo Records soon!

By the way, check out the new music video for “College Radio” directed by Plastic Mynd!

TONIGHT: KLYAM & RAD CASTLE PRESENT THE BARBAZONS, MIAMI DORITOS, GANGBANG GORDON @ ZUZU!

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Flyer by Kurt Egghart

Heyooo, KLYAM is coming through Cambridge tonight to co-host Rad Castle’s Monday night show at Middle East’s ZuZu. We’ve got quite the line up before us, in fact it’s pretty incestious, rather klyammy. The Barbazons (formerly The Fagettes) are the next release on our very own KLYAM Records and they’re headlining this shindig. The next next release of ours is the non-music weirdo Gangbang Gordon and he/they are revving the engines, warming everything up real nice. KLYAM recs stalwarts Miami Doritos are playing right dab in the middle.

You’d be a fool and masochist if you missed this. Don’t, we love fools and masochists! Music starts at 10 PM, it’s 21+ sorry kids :(, but it’s FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Facialbook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1415996088706073/

Listen To The Barbazons “Bad Catholics” (From Upcoming KLYAM Tape!)/Show @ ZuZu (3/30)

For Bad Catholics, there is hope. This new one is coming soon on Avec Plaisir – the debut full-length from Boston’s slick, sloppy, and f-u-n rock ‘n roll quintet now calling themselves The Barbazons (and who we previously knew and loved for years as The Fagettes) coming on April 21 VIA our label KLYAM Records.

Git ready!!!!!!!! KLYAM-006

The Barbazons next show is a KLYAM Presents event this upcoming MONDAY MARCH 30 @ ZUZU in Cambridge with MIAMI DORITOS AND GANGBANG GORDON. 10 PM! FB EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/1415996088706073/

Boston based shows/fests – DIY, punk, noise