The liner notes for my new album are done. They can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ivcMeG_6DhosdcgGE_BNxfaUGmesJmoH/view?usp=sharing The album is Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer. The album will start popping up on various listening services in the next few weeks, but for now you can read about it at least.
For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!
The track list for the new Wred Fright album, Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer, is currently set as follows:
1. Pep In Your Step
2. All Roads Lead To Death
3. All The Onions In The World
4. My Heart Is An Occupied Territory
5. Put Me On Your Shopping List
6. Having Fun In The Former USA
7. Courtesy Flush
8. Hank Rose And The Rank Hos
9. Black Walnut Season
10. Kaurismaki
11. Stop Communication
12. Forget Me Fondly
13. Scatological Scat
14. Childhood Friend
Basically, I kept all the new songs from 2023 and 2024 in the order of composition/release (though "Childhood Friend" wouldn't be released until 2025, it was written and recorded in 2024). There seemed to be a natural order there that was worth keeping, so I didn't mess with it. The whole of the parts add up to something new when grouped together. The album clocks in at about 36 minutes, which is a good length for an album. You can hear the tracks now at https://soundcloud.com/wredfright
though I have not created the official album/playlist yet. Look for the next post to feature the liner notes
for the album.
For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!
For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!
A new album should be coming shortly. I was going to call it Having Fun In The Former USA like a bizarre modernday Beach Boys album or something, but having done the last album with a title track (one of the songs on it is "Having Fun In The Former USA"), I decided to give the album its own unique title, so it's Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer. It should make for good listening while you're drinking in the fallout shelter before the beer runs out as well. I opted not to add "The" at the beginning of the album title for easier alphabetizing. I like the ring of the title without the article also. You can hear some of the tracks at https://www.soundcloud.com/wredfright, but I'll list the track listing and cover and liner notes here in subsequent weeks, as well as let you know when it's out on Soundcloud, Spotify, Bandcamp, and the rest of the streaming services. I have no plans for a cd or lp release, but you could probably sweettalk me into burning you a cd if you wanted to, and some record label would have to pony up for the vinyl because I'm still scarred from having leftover 1990s singles for decades after (if you need one, get in touch, as I think I still have a couple, but they cost more than they did in the 1990s due to inflation and higher shipping costs, maybe also due to inflation, these days). The first four albums are already out and available for listening (see the aforementioned little blurb below for links).
For more Wred Fright music, give his other albums a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Spotify or Bandcamp!
I have autographed copies of Blog Love Omega Glee available now. This novel's a bit longer than the others, so the books cost a bit more. They're $30 with domestic shipping including (i.e., in the USA) and $40 with international shipping included (i.e., anywhere that's not the USA). If you want a dedication or anything, then please just put it in the notes field and I will try to oblige (no guarantees). Of course, the PDF and EPUB versions are available for free from me (pay what you want if you have the dough to spare) and from the usual ebook retailers if you want to pay a third party for some reason. The printed book is available sans autograph from Amazon, but if you can get it for the same price autographed, why wouldn't you do that? If, for some reason, you want to order multiple copies at once for your book club or something, then just do the math and PayPal me at wredfright AT yahoo DOTT com with the appropriate note about what you're ordering. You don't have to do separate clicks on the Buy Now link. That's the last of the additions to the online bookstore. All the novels are available autographed now. Get 'em while supplies last (actually, if they all sell within a decade or so, I'd probably just reorder some more, but that gets rid of the sales urgency to action, so get 'em while supplies last!).
I wrote an article on the vision of the future offered at the 1939 New York World's Fair for the new Hoof & Antler. You can pick up a free copy of the newspaper with its swell other features at Mickey Mart.
If you don't live near a Mickey Mart, then you'll have to settle for reading my latest novel, The Front Yard War.
This is probably the final single for a while since there's a new album coming out this summer. I experimented with fading this song out, both by playing quietly and then by actually fading out on the recording. Musically, it has the usual vocals, guitar, fake bass, and drums, but I think I couldn't find a good hi-hat sound I liked on any percussion, so I just used vocals for that. I'd buy an actual hi-hat, but I probably have too many musical instruments as it is. Maybe someday. Lyrics are below:
Crossing guards often have a thing for me.
I prefer to jaywalk, but they like to cross me safely.
When I was a boy she just held my hand.
She holds something else now that I'm a man.
She helped me across the street of love.
Make the traffic stop. Make my heart go.
She whips her stop sign up from below.
If she were at the ocean, she could hold back the tide,
but she can't hold me back when I'm inside.
If we stay in the lines, we could do it in the street,
but a crosswalk romance can get trampled under people's feet.
The light may change and people may shout,
but she still puts more than just her arms out.
For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!
Thanks to New Pop Lit for their shoutout about Frighty #2! You can read the second issue of Frighty here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mxtKjKFYzM7k3ujI4S43G1ZcCop15i69/view. Remember, it's designed to be printed doublesided flip on short edge, then you can fold and even staple/bind if you're feeling really inspired. It's not really designed to be read online. I'll probably do a third issue of the zine in the fall since some folks already sent material for it.
Today's Bloomsday, so that means summer is upon us, and I will be taking a short break from the blog. See you in July with a new single, a new album, perhaps another autographed novel to add to the others now available, some music videos, and whatever else the rest of 2025 brings!
In the meantime, why not do some summer reading, starting with my latest novel, The Front Yard War?!
Dave Bell had a noise project named Luftkanone around 2000 or so. It was definitely some crazy extreme music. I saw him play it live a couple of times. He was loosely part of the Cleveland, Ohio USA noise scene for a time but drifted away due to lack of proximity (he moved back to Western Pennsylvania) and some of his fellow noise musicians' antics (I remember him telling me one story about how after a noise show or something they went to an inner city strip club and one of the musicians started yelling racial epithets--as you can guess that didn't go over well and guns were pulled). Vicki, Dave's widow, found some of the Luftkanone cds among his stuff. I couldn't find the music (though some might not consider noise music music, it is music, just an extreme version of it) online, so I posted it on Soundcloud for those of you into not so easy listening. You can find seven tracks here: https://soundcloud.com/luftkanone. I found the names of four of the tracks (from the split with Baal), but the tracks from the first ep I have no idea what they are actually called (if anyone does know, then please let me know as I had to make up some names just to avoid the bland track 1, track 2 approach). It looks like he did record some more Luftkanone tracks, but we didn't find a copy of those (if anybody has more Luftkanone, then please post it and let me know). You can find a description of what Luftkanone was like live in this review: https://vareverta.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/das-waren-noch-zeiten-2000-too-loud-for-the-crowd/.
You can also find more Dave Bell music on Soundcloud:
Anal Spikemobile (I also added 3 tracks here though they aren't new since you can hear them at the end of In Through The Out Hole (Full Cavity Search Edition) album--you can hear them separately now.)
Yeast? (Dave plays drums on most of the tracks and provides vocals on "Bloomsday" and "Duster" among others)
All of these aren't quite as extreme as Luftkanone, but they're probably all for adventuresome listeners. I'd love to hear more Dave music, so if anyone has any Black Squirrel & Freaky, Sacred Hearts Auto Club, or other Dave projects, then please post them and let me know!
After Luftkanone, my albums probably sound like Frank Sinatra, but you can find them on Soundcloud, Spotify, Bandcamp, and other music services/sites!
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