%HTMLlat1; ]> All the biz at Missing Link. http://missinglink.net.au http://missinglink.net.au/images/logo88x33.png http://missinglink.net.au Ugly Things is one of our fave mags and Issue 27 kicks it big time with their attention to detail,mad indepth articles and true music fan info covering 1960's -2000's garage,the best in Reissues, Books, movies, and opinion.Co-headlining the big cover story this time are The Who and The Small Faces as Andy Neill reports on their controversial ?68 tour of Australia and New Zealand, complete with an array of WOW-inducing unpublished photos. Also, for the first time anywhere, the story of Garden Grove garage rock teens The Spats (?She Done Moved,? ?Gator Tails & Monkey Ribs?), Brooklyn, NY psych rockers The Koala, and ?70s NYC punks The Victims. Also on tap, Jon Savage?s revealing interview with Beatles publicist Derek Taylor about Brian Epstein, a conversation with Animals guitarist Hilton Valentine, Sixties beat girl/style icon Gillian Hills, R&B songwriting genius Alonzo B Willis, Mike Hudson of the Pagans, and Johan Kugelberg?s countdown of the best junkshop Glam Rock discs. And there?s more? Sixties garage rock a-go-go with The Heard (?Stop It Baby?), The Persuaders, The Lost Souls, plus more Garage Rock history from California?s Inland Empire. Also: Exotic beat music from Chile and Venezuela, Jack Downing & the Other Side, and Ade Blackburn of Clinic picks his all-time Psychedelic Top 10. All this and more,in stock now and sent anywhere you wanna http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news1 Hailing from New Jersey,this quartet sure have built a solid following around the world in just a few years, and The Gaslight Anthem issue their new full length The '59 Sound on SideOneDummy (and issued locally by the folks at Shock)which has a dozen Anthemic & Addictive cuts for fans of Hot Water Music, Jawbreaker, Against Me! and of course their hometown hero Bruce Springsteen. In stock now on CD, with the Vinyl option arriving any day. Enjoy ! *And we also have the title cut on 7" vinyl too! http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news2 The new Jay Reatard 'Singles 06-07' is in store! Featuring all his singles leading up to 'Blood Visions', 'Singles 06-07' is 17 songs of explosive garage punk rave-ups. Also still in stock in very limited quantity is the 'Blood Demos' 7" from earlier this year. Reatarded. http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news3 That's right! Today at 5pm Japanese hardcore punk band Realized will be knocking out a few tracks of mayhem and Melbourne's Pissbolt will bring the thrash noise attack. Realized will have t-shirts and CDs, cassettes and split LPs for sale and don't forget to pick up Pissbolt's debut split cassette with Collapsed Toilet Vietnam for your dose of local overblown thrash. ALL AGES and FREE! Also pick up some of the great Aussie releases floating around the shop, the debut 7" from Sydney's hardcore punx Deathcage from members of Smash n' Grab, Red Stain, Masstrauma and more. The melodic punk styles of Request Line and their self titled debut cdep featuring ex-Mindsnare, 28 Days, Fast Times etc. Also on cassette check out the Brisbane punx Teargas, murky Japanese style punk from some of the lads from Insurgents, Dick Nasty and Draft Dodger. Tapes the good old format of the future. http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news4 The local No Escape label issues a healthy stream of pulverizing brutality and we have two newies in stock now which will scorch your brain just fine. The First one is from Poland's Exit Wounds Exit Wounds stampede through 30 tracks of their ruthless and primal grindcore that is even heavier, faster, more intense and more deranged than their already terrifying ?17 Wounds Of Exit? MCD! This barely controlled cacophony is an avalanche of barbaric chainsawing riffs crossing the sociopathic hardcore of Cripple Bastards with Warsore?s detuned regressive grind, frenzied and inelegant drumming like Yacopsae gone feral and starved of any concern for the safety of itself or others, and utterly throat shredding vocal abuse spanning strangulated howls, animalistic snarling, pestilent retching and menacing barking. This unblinking chronicle of agony and degradation includes a brutish Retaliation cover and a blurr-grind take on Haymaker?s classic ?Another Shit Movie?! Truly, truly savage! And it's been awhile between vinyl offerings, but dig this New Split 7" Vinyl Release from Coffins and Skullhog. Coffins, Japan's leading force in old school death-doom serve up 2 cavernously grim tracks of slow motion and mid-paced skullcrushing blasphemy, following on from the colossal legacies left by Winter, Hellhammer and Nihilist and including a cover of Carnage?s ?The Day Man Lost?! Holland's most primitive threesome, Skullhog return to the front with 1 crawling and sprawling epic of menacing and knuckle-dragging neanderthal cruelty fusing the plague-ridden dirge of Autopsy with the thuggish, swinging sludge of Iron Monkey and the Hog?s horrific grind roots from years gone by when they committed their grisly deeds under the Bile moniker. Limited to 500 copies http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news5 Following on from a couple of ravenously snapped up ep's on the local Yellow Ghost label comes this Skull and Bones Records debut from Adelaide's purveyors of manic Hardcore/Metal/Screamo Robotosaurus. Entitled Manhater,it powers thru 13 tracks in under half an hour without barely stopping to catch a breath. Issued in a swank fold out pak with lyric booklet,it may well be your best way of spending 25 odd bucks this week ! And lot's more New Releases in this week also, from pop to punk, jazz to hip hop, folk to black metal, psychobilly to afrobeat so dig that list to your right and tap deep into our online catalogue as it expands each week ! http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news6 So we've had lots of people asking and emailing about these and we now have the new Eddy Current Suppression Ring T-shirts in stock ! Four diff colours (Red, Blue, Black, Yellow) and all sorts of sizes, from Girls tee's to Youth Sizes on through. Twenty Five Bucks and we post 'em out across the land, as well as across the seas. And yes, we still have their Latest 7" single in stock, along with the ripper Split Cassette with UV Race from our May Instore Show. Dig it. http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news7 The Emergency Forever/Too Much limited edition 12"(Exo Records/Metal Postcard). In a word stunning. Forever/Too Much finds Milo and Morgan continuing their ever deepening fascination for all things inspired by early to mid 80s electro monochromatic groove, this brooding beauty will appeal to everyone from disciples of Kraftwerk to lovers of DAF, gloriously parched with a retro accents and liberally dipped with stark minimalist grooves joint single of the missive. -Losing Today Magazine (Italy), June 2008 http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news8 Melbourne's longtime garage indie shakers Rocket Science offer up a swank new album this week utilising the regular instruments found in a good rock unit with some mad keys and the wobbly sonics of the theremin. Inc: the cut Psychic Man which we previously had as a 7" and a CDep,and Initial copies come with a bonus disc featuring four Unreleased Live in London cuts plus a video of the above mentioned single. These fellas have certainly been around the traps in the Melbourne Music scene, with band members also taking up in other bands from time to time, and lead livewire Mr Roman Tucker harking all the way back to the early 80's as an 11-12 year old punk rocker in the ruff & rulin' ROYAL FLUSH, along with a same age music warrior pal Tim Hemensley, whose two recorded blurt outs can be heard on the cool 1984 Melb Punk Comp we carry on CD Eat Your Head. So yes...all dues are paid and it's now 2008 and time to do what the band knows best once more. http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news9 On the local Afterburn label (scotti at Missing Link and his pal Bevan)comes this deluxe CD reissue from one of America's most Incredible Singer/Songwriters/Guitar Pickers. Long Time Rider was originally released by Steve Young as a cassette in the mid 80's, then Reissued as a micro-run CD in 1990 by a small French label (& disappeared soon after),so after close to 20 years here it is again..8 soaring,striking songs where Steve experimented with a Roland Synth and delivers some of his most powerful songs ever (truly a voice of gold !) with songs tackling Alcholism, Divorce, and the the spirits of the American Indians & Ancient Eqyptians. Includes update tracklist hand picked by Bob Dylan associate (& Singer/Songwriter/Artist) Bob Neuwirth, and with lyric booklet,& liner notes in a cool 3 way soft-pak sleeve with the initial pressing in a hand numbered edition of 500 copies. From the 60's Greenwich Village Folk scene thru the Outlaw Country era of the 70's to the present day as a performer of everything from festivals to 3am house parties, Steve Young is a true Long Time Rider...Check him out! http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news10 We've got a couple killer new local releases in store now... First, the Eddy Current Suppression Ring 'Demons Demands b/w I'm Guilty' 7" is here - both the local release on Stained Circles (limited pressing of 300 copies!) and a very small quantity of the US pressing on Iron Lung. This record is exclusively available for mailorder through Missing Link and the band. We also have the Eddy Current Suppression Ring / UV Race split cassette - limited to 300 indiviudally hand drawn covers - recorded right here at Missing Link when they played an instore back in May. We also have the new CDEP from Melbourne's Request Line, featuring ex-members of 28 Days and Mindsnare playing catchy, anthemic pop punk. Add to this a swag of new Aussie hardcore and punk fanzines and it's getting crowded down here... http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news11 OK so the new Carpathian album "isolation" is about to drop (02-08-08) and looks like its going to be one of the killer Aus hardcore releases of the year. We are currently taking pre-orders for it and every pre-order goes into to the draw to win a limited carpathian skate deck, shirt and signed poster. Imagine how envious your friends will be when they come over for a quick round of pre-show practice moshing in your living room and see that sucker hanging from your wall. Oh and for all you vinyl nerds out there, its also being issued on lp format. Get on it. http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news12 Due to unforseen circumstances the Nazarite now / City escape instore that was planned for this sunday (27th) has been canceled. http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news13 We've got a whole bunch of new jams for the people who don't mind ear-bleed: the Condominium 7" is a great four song rager of creepy pervert hardcore punk; the Clockcleaner 'Babylon Rules' has finally seen local release on CD and is in stock; the Hard Luck 'Dead End' LP is back in stock with a real cover this time (!), almost 20 songs of straight forward hardcore; Snake Run dropped in a handful of copies of their very limited tour tape, Adelaide thrash scum dribblers; and, of course, the friggin' excellent looking Merzbow book is finally here to make heads and hearts collide. Of course, it's all available for mailorder, so check us out or get in touch! http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news14 Sike Your Mind 2008 tickets are here and selling fast. It's all happening at the Seaford Community Town Hall on September 20th and 21st. Should be a biggie, so get SIKED. $45.50 for a full weekend pass, or $28.30 for either a Saturday or Sunday ticket. These prices include the regular booking fee. Get in quick or you won't be siked and that would be a goddamned shame. http://missinglink.net.au/index.php#news15 Search our music catalog... keyword http://missinglink.net.au/search.php