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New Stage Kick Off Party!

Used Kids has a new stage and a slight step up in our sound equip game. More vinyl too! Always more... Come baptize it in sweat with some local favorites. 

free / all ages / all pizza

THE THREE SPEEDS (the rockin remains of the planktones)
CHEATER SLICKS (live blooze punk n roll)
OLD HUNDRED (indie folk tops solo or full band)
THUNDER THIGHS (loops, violin, and golden voice)
KIZZY HALL (lo-fi punk like ya like) 
DAY CREEPER (garage punk a la mode)

Used Kids Staff Year End Lists 2014

It's that time of the year again, and we would be remiss if we didn't partake in the ubiquitous music nerd annual ritual of letting the world know what we think about certain things. So... here are our unsolicited opinions-- which *mind you* are not the byproduct of promos or butt-rubbing on the behalf of slimy label sales-reps. No SIR-- these are the records that we have spent our hard earned ducats on, and want you, beloved reader-- to know about. Let it be documented, for better or worse (in 3 years time, some of us might really regret these choices!) that these are the records that have reverberated through the echoey chambers of 1980 N. High in the year 2014.


Kellie's Picks

New
American Jobs- Carne Levare (Savage Quality)
Elisa Ambrogio- The Immoralist (DC)
Bitchin Bajas- Bitchin Bajas (DC)
Burnt Skull- Sewer Birth (12XU)
Cheater Slicks- Live Vol. 3 (CDR)
Dark Matter- Dark Matter (Siltbreeze)
Deaf Wish- St. Vincent’s (Sub Pop)

Darlingchemicalia- Spun In White (A Wicked Company)
David Kilgour and the Heavy 8’s- End Times Undone (Merge)
Life Without Buildings- Any Other City (What’s Your Rupture)
Lower Plenty- Life/Thrills (Bedroom Sucks)
Matchess- Seraphastra (Trouble In Mind)
The Pen Test- Interstate (Moniker)
Rakta- Rakta (540 Records)
Ela Stiles- Ela Stiles (Bedroom Sucks)
Total Control- Typical System (Iron Lung)
Unholy Two- Talk About Hardcore (12XU)
Void Vision- Sub Rosa (Mannequin)

Reissues
Alberich-NATO Uniformen (Hospital Productions)
Axemen- Derry Legend (Luxury Products)
The Beachcomber Trio- Live from the Kahiki- Columbus, OH, 1965 (Bacchus Archives)
Bored Games- Who Killed Colonel Mustard? (Flying Nun)
The Chills/ Sneaky Feelings/ The Stones/ The Verlaines -Dunedin Double (Flying Nun)
The Clean- Anthology (Merge)
Cleaners From Venus- Living With Victoria Grey (Captured Tracks)
Cleaners From Venus- Number Thirteen (Captured Tracks)
Electric Eels- Die Electric Eels (Superior Viaduct)
Electric Eels- Spin Age Blasters / Bunnies ‎(Superior Viaduct)
Peter Jefferies- Electricity (Superior Viaduct)
Konrad- Evil (Ethereal Sequence)
Mamman Sani- Taaritt (Sahel Sounds)
Poison Girls- Chappaquiddic Bridge (Crass Records)
Shoes This High- Straight to Hell (Siltbreeze)
Shoes This High- Shoes this High (Siltbreeze)
The Spies- Battle of Bosworth Terrace (Siltbreeze)
X_X- X Sticky Fingers X
V/A- Cynernetic Serendipity Music (Vinyl Factory)
V/A- Killed By Deathrock Vol. 1 (Sacred Bones)

Shows
Helter Swelter- The Clean, Scrawl, TJSA, Unholy Two (Ace of Cups)
Merchandise + Unholy Two (Ace of Cups)
Angie + Nathan Roche (Bourbon Street)
Horrible Fest Cleveland (Now That’s Class)
Deaf Wish + Cheater Slicks (Ruby’s)
American Jobs Release show (Ace of Cups)
Magic Markers + Psychedelic Horseshit (Ace of Cups)
Unholy Two + Burnt Skull (Trailer Space)
X_X (Beachland Tavern)
Cheater Slicks, Harrisburg Players (Bourbon Street)
Peter Gutteridge (Issue Project Room) *In Spirit*
Puce Mary, Ligature, Liebestod, Unholy Two, Melted Man (The Summit)
Terrestrials (Ace of Cups)
Cat Welfare Benefit: INXS and Replacements cover sets (Ace of Cups)

Ryan's Picks

TOP 10 ALBUMS 

We / Ours - Demo tape (self-released)
David Kilgour & the Heavy 8's - End Times Undone (Merge)

Lower Plenty - LIFE / THRILLS (Mexican Summer)

Caribou - Our Love (Merge)

Radiator Hospital - Torch Song (Salinas)

Martha - Courting Strong (Salinas)

Rakta - S/T (540)

NehruvianDOOM - S/T (Lex)

Diners - Diners (Diet Pop)

The Men - Tomorrow's Hits (Sacred Bones)

TOP 10 SHOWS (fav. performance underlined)

5/24/14 CRABB FEST Night II Slut Castle / Weird Science / Serengeto / Babe Quest / Delay / Dishpit / Gaze / Sandal Stomp / Hot Mess Monster / Neanderthal / Dog Problem / Nature Boys

1/15/14 Check Mate / Tessaiga / No Tomorrow @ 15^th Haus Columbus, OH

9/20/14 Bloody Show / Deaf Wish @ Ruby Tuesday’s Columbus, OH

3/21/14 Sweet Poison Victim / Blue Friction @ V V K Columbus, OH 

5/23/14 CRABB FEST Rutland, OH Night I. Aneids / Meet the Neighbors / The Fury / Melyn’s band / Marissa Anderson / Pretty Pretty / Napalm Donut / Bad Fog / Desperate Pilot / Satanarchy / Rats Rest / Rag Rage / Onion Flavored Rings

4/12/14 Teenage Strangers (1^st show) / Failed Mutation / Splashin’ Safari / Satanarchy @ V V K Columbus, OH

7/2/14 Radioactivity / Bad Sports / Nervosas @ Ace of Cups Columbus, OH

8/16/14 Moviola / Thomas Jefferson Slave Apts / Scrawl / The Clean – late show - Sundials / Sidekicks @ Ace of Cups Helter Swelter 1 Columbus, OH

4/23/14 Sega Genocide / Pretty Pretty / Tweens / Nude Beach @ KOBO Columbus, OH

11/9/14 @ The Boat - Oakland, CA w/ Joyride!, WUV, Yogurt Brain, Big Kitty

Greg

Death Waltz reissues featuring  Edda Dell'Orso 

+ENNIO MORRICONE – LE FOTO PROIBITE DI UNA SIGNORA PER BENE

+LIZARD IN A WOMAN’S SKIN – DELUXE EDITION

USED KIDS HAS BEEN SLINGIN WAX SINCE 86. TIME TO PARTY!

TWO WEEKENDS TO CELEBRATE TURNING 28!!!

Oct. 4th @ Used Kids Records 1pm FREE

Oct. 11th @ Ace Of Cups 8pm $5

NEW ARRIVALS 9-22

+ NEW ARRIVALS +
NO SEATTLE vol 1 & 2 Forgotten Sounds of the North-West Grunge Era / NIKKI SUDDEN Fred Beethooven / APHEX TWIN syro / SUN RA in the orbit of RA / WIRE document and eyewitness / MARY LATTIMORE & JEFF ZEIGLER Slant Of Light / HOLY SONS The Fact Facts / JOSEPHINE FOSTER Anda Jaleo / BLACK KEYS The Big Come Up / THE GERMS Germicide / JAY DEE Welcome to Detroit / DEEP WOUND Deep Wound / SWELL MAPS International / THE RAINCOATS The Raincoats / IGGY POP Kill City / MADLIB wlib am / LOWER PLENTY Life/Thrills / DEAF WISH Reality & Visions 

+ FROM Drag City Records + TY SEGALL manipulator / BONNIE PRINCE BILLY singer's grave a sea of tongues / DAN'L BOONE s/t / LAETITIA SADIER something shines / PURLING HISS weirdon / US MAPLE acre thrills / SILVER JEWS american water, early times, tanglewood numbers, bright flight, starlite walker / HOLLYWOOD DREAM TRIP would you like to know more?

Sun Sept 21st PURPLE 7 // WEIRD SCIENCE in-store 5-7pm

PURPLE 7 music video

Wanna go out Sunday but no too out? We'll get you squares in bed by 9! Right after, a worthy in-store. 
5-7pm * free * all-ages * free pizza * BYO

PURPLE 7

Bloomington fuzzy psych tinged pop , new album Jewel Finger out now!
feat. members of Landlord, Defiance Ohio, Hot New Mexicans
http://basementpop.bandcamp.com/album/jewel-finger

WEIRD SCIENCE

Athens enough rock to overflow the KFC 20 - piece bucket! Riffs a la Butthole Surfers! feat. members of We March, Spooktober
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Weird-Science/165317181158

WEDS SEPT 3RD in-store MINT RECORDS Monomyth // Nap Eyes and a ticket give-a-way!

All the way from Halifax, Nova Scotia 

Monomyth - psych-pop with a simple delivery
https://soundcloud.com/mint-records/candleholder-1

Nap Eyes - jangly and poppy alt rock
http://napeyes.bandcamp.com/

http://mintrecs.com/ 2 decades of releases!!!!

6-8pm FREE * BYO

GIVE-A-WAY!!!  Be the first two at the front counter to mentionThe Gas House Gorillas show at Rumba Cafe later that night (8pm) and win two free tickets to the show!! * to be claimed at will call with your id. 

Used Kids is happy to host a Matinee show on Saturday, August 30th as a part of FeMMe Fest. Check it out!   https://www.facebook.com/FemmeFestColumbus

Record Store Day April 19th 2014

Set your alarms! RSD exclusives, local bands all day, great deals as always. UKR002 7" split Connections / Nom Tchotchkes! Pizza and drinks courtesy of yours truly. See ya then.  

                                                    20% OFF EVERYTHING USED!!!                                                          

12:00 - 12:30 - The Franklin County Landfillers 

12:45 - 1:15 - Wayfarers

1:30 - 2:00 - Dick Mackey

2:15 - 2:45 - Amelia

3:00 - 3:30 - Mahogany & Leather 

3:45 - 4:15 - Goners

4:30 - 5:00 - Mike Shiflet

5:15 - 5:45 - WV White

6:00 - 6:30 - Echolocation

6:45 - 7:15 - Envelope

7:30 - 8:00 - Nervosas

8:15 - 8:45 - Psychic Wheels

9:00 - 9:30 - Sega Genocide

Wed April 9th @ Used Kids White Mystery // Dirty Fences

WHITE MYSTERY // DIRTY FENCES

last minute in-store. 6-8pm. free

Ms. 45 Soundtrack on Death Waltz in stock!

In celebration of the incredible soundtrack for Abel Ferrarra's epic film Ms. 45, which has NEVER been released on any format, we thought we'd post the movie here for you to watch, if you haven't seen it already. Read more about the release below.

 

Ms.45
Score by Joe Delia
Artwork by Alice X. Zhang




Like Abel Ferrara, Death Waltz Recording Company are not prone to shying away from the more extreme corners of culture, and are delighted to be presenting a true underground classic for the first time ever. Ferrara’s pictures often tread the line between grindhouse trash and art-films with insightful social commentary – and unflinching realism – and MS. 45 is his most notorious film, with much of its power coming from Joe Delia’s grimy yet haunting music. A sparse piano motif initially creates a lonely voice for the (mute) heroine but it’s overshadowed by wailing trumpet, electric guitar, and menacing synths that paint a disturbing musical picture of the world she inhabits.

Delia’s music is so great at creating a vivid image in your head and you begin to imagine the grubby streets, the sleazy sex-shops, the leering onlookers, with it building and building until it reaches sensory assault. The instruments sound as violent as the acts on screen, as loud synth stings ring out like gunshots, edgy jazz beats unnerve you, and a repeating brass motif becomes a theme for violence and vengeance – even during the awesome ‘Dance Party’. You may need a shower after listening, but you’ll be right back to play it again and again.

NERD ALERT:
180 gm Bad Habit coloured vinyl (White & Black split)  housed in a gatefold heavyweight tip-on casebound sleeve.

Includes a giant fold out poster and booklet featuring all new exclusive sleevenotes from composer Joe Delia.

What Went On in What Goes On #3

 

One of the cool artifacts that we attempted to sell at the Columbus Flea was this issue of What Goes On, a Velvets Fanzine from the early 80s. Aside from the awesome layout, the great editorials, and comparatively superior content to other VU zines of later origin, we happened to notice that our friend and Cheater Slicks drummer,  Dana Hatch penned a very well written article for this very issue, once upon a time, chronicling live Velvets records and related projects. So, great people of the interwebs, here it is for you to read and appreciate. And maybe if you ask nicely in the comment section, maybe someday we'll scan the whole issue.

New Arrivals! 2/11/2014

 

 

Dead Moon - Trash and Burn (Reissue)

Mississippi/ Change Records

One of their harder to find and more perfect records. An absolute monster of a rocker. Killer high energy songs. Once again DEAD MOON deliver a record of all hits with no misses. Pure as can be. Lovingly remastered by TIMOTHY STOLLENWERK.

Ti Paris et Sa Guitare LP

Little Axe

       

A true masterpiece by one of the legends of Haitian music. The debut album by Haiti's favorite troubadour reissued for the first time on vinyl. Beautiful guitar playing with the minimal rhythmic accompaniment of maracas. Haitian blues music at its best.  ‬

Troubadour music never belonged in studios. It was happening in the backyards of Haiti in the 50s & 60s, played for small gatherings & chickens.  Very minimal, but inventive, entrancing guitar playing, inspired by the Rara Voodoo tradition. His voice hoarsed by too much clairin, the haitian moonshine, he sings of the eternal blues of poverty, simple joys & tough romance. Fans of Joseph Spence will dig this.

His songs, covered over the years by so many Kompa orchestras, are still hummed in Haiti & all over the diaspora. Try whistling Bam Pam Ladan to any Haitian & watch them smile. Some know these wonderful songs that were crafted by Ti-Paris a long time ago, but very few have heard the original versions. Here they are. 

   

Peter Buck - I Am Back To Blow Your Mind Once Again LP

Mississippi

New solo album from Peter Buck.

A second dose of solo weirdness from Peter Buck – whose best known, of course, as guitarist and co-founder of REM – but he's been a lot of cool and interesting stuff with the Minus Five, The

Baseball Project and more in the post REM years – and we admire the heck of his freewheeling solo stuff, too! This one's filled with skronky blues rockers and poetic acoustic tunes alike, with lots of dissonant guitars and unpredictable twists and turns. Other players include Scott McCaughey and other frequent collaborators and special guests. Includes "Ride That Road", "My Slobbering Decline", "Life Is Short", "Southerner", "Here In Heaven", "(You Must Fight To Live) On The Planet Of The Apes", "Welcome To The Party", "Drown With Me", "West Of Sunset", "Roswell" and more. (Vinyl only release!)   

Peter Buck- S/T LP

Mississippi

A loose, raw and charmingly informal first ever solo album by Peter Buck! If memory serves, he was the one in REM who most sounded in interviews like he wanted to cut out of the rock star racket and wished to play what they wanted, where they wanted, be it in a garage, a gymnasium or wherever – and bless him, here he is with a purposely under-the-radar, vinyl-only release for the mostly archival Mississippi label! Frequent collaborator Scott McCaughey, the Decemberists' Jenny Conlee, legendary guitarist Lenny Kaye, Sleater Kinney's Corin Tucker and other guests make up the band. Includes "10 Million BC", "It's Alright", "Some Kind Of Velvet Sunday Morning", "Give Me Back My Wig", "Nothing Matters", "So Long Johnny", "Hard Old World", "Nowhere No Way", "Vaso Lovo", "I'm Alive" and more.

 

Lori Goldston

Mississippi   

Cello solos.

Musings, explorations, meditations, ramblings and a spooky folk song on acoustic—and a bit of amplified—cello. Recorded by Mell Dettmer and released by Mississippi Records.

Based in Seattle, Lori Goldston is a classically trained cellist with quite the CV. Her past collaborations include Nirvana, David Byrne and Cat Power just to name a few. Lori also co-founded Black Cat Orchestra and joined the Seattle band Earth a few years back.

Lori Goldston has scored and/or provided music for several films and shorts including Bass Ackwards (Linas Phillips), Humpday (Lynn Shelton), and Crashing Waves (Britta Johnson) and has also been commissioned to do live scores for several silent films.

 

V/A - 100 Moons LP

Mississippi/Change/Canary

Hindustan Vocal Compilation

Absolutely great compilation of early Indian vocal 78s. Features artists such as FAIYAZ KHAN, HIRABAI BARODEKAR, DATTREYA VISHNU PALUSKAR, and BADE GHULAM ALI KHAN. Mediative and exciting vocals from the masters.  Great liner notes and mastering by IAN NAGOSKI complete with photos. A co-release with Canary Records

V/A Anxious Color: Stranger Than Fiction Psych Rock 1966 to 1967 LP

ABOVE DEATH / Ghanaian Movie Posters

One of the benefits of buying junk is that sometimes, every once in a while, you find something super interesting. This handpainted Ghanaian movie poster was found earlier this year in a whole-sale lot. After doing a bit of research we found out more about the painting, its purpose, and the history behind Ghanian movie posters, and mobile video clubs that emerged in the late 80s. Basically, these mobile cinemas consisted of a VCR, a TV and a power generator. The operator would move the setup from town to town showing films in social clubs, houses, and open air. In order bring out more people, and to advertise their business, artists were commissioned to create large interpretations of scenes from the film (which would be shown to them ahead of time) using acrylic paint on flour sacks. Painters were encouraged to change scenes, or add elements beyond the film's content to make the screenings seem more appealing. Depending on the poster, a depiction might represent personal or social form of expression. Sometimes, the title of the film itself could even be mis-translated. Posters were folded and/or rolled for easy transportation along with the other equipment. Read  more about this interesting history below, and check out the photos of the painting that we found! If you would like to bid on this piece of history, visit the auction on our ebay page. There is also a great book, "Extreme Canvas: Handpainted Movie Posters from Ghana" with hundreds of other great examples that is worth checking out.

TITLE:  ABOVE DEATH

TYPE:  Horror

DATE OF CREATION:  probably 1990s

ARTIST: SA MAGASCO for Peace Video

SIGNED: SA MAGASCO lower right verso

SIZE:  43.5” W x 60” H

MEDIUM:  Acrylic on flour sack canvas

CONDITION:  This is an original authentic piece in good condition.  The painting is mostly complete, the perimeter of the poster worn away and discarded due to usage, travel and light exposure. Please see photos.  

GENERAL BACKGROUND:  In the late 1980s a cottage industry developed in Ghana, West Africa composed of entrepreneurs who possessed three pieces of property – a TV, videocassette recorder (known then as a VCR), and a portable, gas powered generator. Armed with these tools they set up itinerant, make shift theaters inside social clubs, houses, and restaurants where they showed movies on the VCR and sold tickets to a delighted and noisy audience.  Sometimes, they even traveled from village to village; but it was the need to attract customers that gave birth to what is now recognized as a distinctive, compelling collectible — the Ghanaian movie poster.

Generally speaking, the movies they showed fall into four broad categories: Hollywood movies, most often obscure titles with an occasional hit thrown in for good measure; Bollywood movies from India; Kung Fu movies from the Hong Kong film industry; and Nollywood movies from Nigeria along with their Ghanaian counterparts.

The artists who created the posters were essentially commercial illustrators who used acrylic paint to make shop signs and other forms of advertising. When it came to the canvas their own economic circumstances and resourcefulness led them to use opened-up flour sacks.  This material was cheap, readily available, and the perfect size for large posters. These were posters meant to be displayed outside, and surviving posters often have the patina of authenticity, having “aged” in a distressed, engaging manner.

Ghanaian movie posters always present a lurid, colorful patchwork of images intended to attract, engage and entice the viewer. Each and every time they succeed in sucking the viewer into an imaginary, surreal world which may or may not be relevant to the film. As art and advertising, they are wildly successful, and it is the combination of the two which makes them memorable, indeed unforgettable when compared to other movie memorabilia and poster art in general.  Today, the creation of these posters has all but disappeared as they have been replaced by printed advertising.  This and the other original posters we are selling represent a brief moment in time when art, ingenuity and advertising met in the cross hairs of history - and then they were gone.  

Some gems we dredged up from the basement...

Some gems we dredged up from the basement...

"A Grecian beauty reveals her most secret thoughts and passions as she describes her many sensual nights of Lesbian love. Her budding desires awaken on the isle of Lesbos. Voluptuous pleasures she had never known transform her young body into trembling submission"

"actual interviews with prostitutes, homosexuals, pimps and "Johns" in which we hear them tell the fascinating story of their lives; their experiences, how they work, what they do and why, the money they receive and the money they pay; their fears, anxieties, hopes and strange loves... all in their own words in a a frank, graphic and revealing description of a way of life few of us know or understand." 

"Vividly dramatized by the sultry voiced "Ilona", an actress of great talent and beauty" ... "Constance Chatterley bares her most intimate emotions as she tells of her erotic raptures and sexual fulfillment."

BACK IN STOCK From 540 RECORDS

BACK IN STOCK From 540 RECORDS

"Peter Gutteridge is the man who launched a thousand Flying Nun bands. Founding member of The Clean, the Chills, the Great Unwashed, Snapper and the Puddle, Gutteridge released one solo album, Pure, on Xpressway Records in 1989 which was recorded between 1986-1987.

1989 Xpressway, 1 of the finest labels ever 2 exist release Pure. A collection of fragments and completed songs recorded on a Fostex 4 track. They were all written 2 tape, ideas going down as I made them up. I was my own technician. There were no studio bills or aesthetics 2 deal with. Recording in a studio after this experience was a frustration.

Once in a while, I believe u become a kind of channel, even if slightly muddled. The tainted shamen? I don’t know. What I can say is this record yer hopefully holding in hand had its genesis long b4 I ever picked up a guitar. Ive always loved a dirty drone. Notes corrupted and split apart by the miracle of the sympathetic note- ie. Bagpipe, chanters, organs, piano’s, ad infinitum. Throw a few clear notes in and you achieve creation on yr own terms. Link it up 2 the background hum of the universe doing its thing and u have hypnosis in a sound. Shmaya.

Now a word about distortion- fate smiled on me the day an Alron Doubler fell into my hands. Transistors are indeed wonderful things- that multiplicity of notes generated bespeaking some giant periodic table of the cosmos spewing song out of yr humble speakers. I was always blown away by the sheer variety of directions made possible by this small simple piece of divine circuitry with just 2 knobs! And I had the time, I realized this was the moment. This thing had been breathing through me all my life! The stars were in the right position 2 deliver a dose of cosmic junk 2 the hungry ears of N.Z. (The guys 2 doors along View St, Morley, Merritt and visiting co-conspirators thought the same, getting onto and forming their own opinions and units of corruption. ie. Dead C and other miscellaneous. Details- I havnt really got the patience today- whew Dunedin 1986, 7, & 9, quite a remarkable place.)

Pure. Chris Hazlewood, that fine and erudite man slipped me a few notes on the subject. It comes down 2 the essence of things. Music is the food upon which our souls thrives. Its not a luxury. Its an essential. Children simply don’t grow up properly without it. Look back 2 any relatively sane part of human history and u find pulse and melody were a natural part of human existence.

Pure- it’s a 7 yr old called Fenris with his 1st guitar and a Marshall stack, he visits his grandma Liz over the road and if Im lucky pops over, takes in the pulse and sound of things. Immersion in the sacred tide. Ive taught him Buddy. Shmaya- the light and vibration in A. He has a brother called Nate who’s autistic and calls himself Beethoven- shards of language and music flowing him all the time. Now, that’s Pure.

Pure- 1989, this humble cassette strikes the deck and b4 u know it- everybody’s using it, wence b4 its only commercial use was 2 describe Speed. As Ive discovered personally use the word Pure and yve got a long way 2 fall- take note any 1 using this word! Pure= you betta B!

Good Luck and Enjoy." - http://chaosintejas.bigcartel.com/product/peter-gutteridge-pure-2xlp

If this interests you (and it should) here's a great interview from The Snapper...
http://www.slightlydelic.com/the-snapper-interview-w-peter-gutteridge-by-wes-holland/