Heyooo - first post on the sick new forum to spam/plug some recent releases through BARELY HUMAN, a project that's been running about 10 years covering ideas that circle the DIY underground and its historical precedents. Began as a zine series that spun off into the BH Podcast in 2020, a 12 episode documentary style podcast covering bands from THE FUGS, CRASS, FRANK SIDEBOTTOM and LUCILLE BOGAN through to R.L. BURNSIDE, X-RAY SPEX, ROKY ERICKSON, THE RAINCOATS, LOS CRUDOS, CHEATER SLICKS , COUNTRY TEASERS and more, including TOTAL CONTROL, LOW LIFE and HARAM as the most recent bands covered.
The podcast has been out five years now and can still be streamed wherever, but the project since span out to cover a long handful of zines that I've collected and self-published as a book available from the BH bandcamp. The book adds a long essay on folk and country, some discussion of people like NEGATIVLAND, RON HOUSE, DEAD MOON & WIPERS, and three polemics: one on the punk community embracing philistinism, another on bringing back the punishing frontperson ala Jello & M.E.S., another on the punk internationale..
Cop the book direct from the bandcamp (shipping from Sydney, Australia), or from these stockists internationally:
USA: Sorry State, Extreme Noise (coming soon)
UK: Good Press Glasgow
ITALY: Volume Milano, Radiation Records Roma
FRANCE: Urticaria Records
Hit me up if you'd like to stock the book!
Also on the bandcamp, is a bootleg of underground Soviet post-punk project Вова Синий И Братья По, two albums on used cassette never before reissued from the 1985 Cinereels, by a band who made their music by cutting up tape loops from smuggled western post-punk bands like THE THE and NEW ORDER, sang over the top of it.
There's also a small number of tapes that came with the accompanying zines now collected in the BH book, and some distro items from my old label Meatspin by Sydney bands ROMANCE, BASIC HUMAN and TIM & THE BOYS.
Hit me up at max@barelyhuman.info if you wanna order a big bunch of stuff and I can work on some discounts etc..
So sick to be posting this to a forum and feeling less insane than trying to game the social media mine field.. lookin forward to chattin over the next while!
- Max
