Remember when you first discovered punk rock? Well, if it's a dim memory for you at this point, or even if you just want to relive the thrill, check out Street Eaters. And then, I dare you to tell me they didn't make you feel like you did when you were a young teenage punk ready to take on the whole fucking world.

Street Eaters consists of drums, super sludgy bass riffs, and both members — Megan March and John No — splitting vocal duties. There's an energy to their riffs and vocal delivery that automatically recalls the best of what punk was always meant to be. There's a youthful exuberance to their music, that snarling punk attitude, but it's still catchy as hell. Above all, though, it's true punkness is in its authenticity — listening to Street Eaters, I feel like I'm listening to March and No lay it all out there without any frills, just raw intensity and emotion. ...

Wiretap Music is proud to be helping OneMama throw its annual party and fundraiser this year. It's going down on December 3 at The Painted Gentleman Mansion — a gorgeous Victorian right next to the famous Painted Ladies of Alamo Square.

Here's the deets on the party, which will include live music and DJs, as well as a little more info on who OneMama is and the amazing work they do:

Help us empower women and families of rural, impoverished communities around the world to be healthy, educated, and financially successful. Our current goal is to raise $20,000 to bring our on-site solar panels to the health clinic in Uganda, continue HIV and Malaria prevention programs, provide midwives with critical medical supplies, and to expand to surrounding countries. ...

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Wiretap Music is proud to be helping OneMama throw its annual party and fundraiser this year. It's going down on December 3 at The Painted Gentleman Mansion — a gorgeous Victorian right next to the famous Painted Ladies of Alamo Square.

Here's the deets on the party, which will include live music and DJs, as well as a little more info on who OneMama is and the amazing work they do:

Help us empower women and families of rural, impoverished communities around the world to be healthy, educated, and financially successful. Our current goal is to raise $20,000 to bring our on-site solar panels to the health clinic in Uganda, continue HIV and Malaria prevention programs, provide midwives with critical medical supplies, and to expand to surrounding countries.

THE ONEMAMA EVENT Dec 3rd, 2011 - Saturday Night, 7:30pm-12:30am
The Painted Gentlemen Mansion at Alamo Square
940 Grove Street, San Francisco

Full Night of local and world renown live music by:
SILA - “Funk Master” - Live Music
The Yacine Kouyate African Collective - Live Music
Devyn Rush - from American Idol
Bay Area's Best DJs: The Tourist, Polo Moxquuz
and many more...

See you there!

Al Lover is a busy man. He's remixed everyone from rappers like Das Racist to garage rock bands like Ty Segall to 60s psych hero Captain Beefheart, and is also the DJ behind the beats for the Bay Area-via-North Carolina rap crew Fist Fam. Along the way, Al has been relentless in the pursuit of perfecting his "garage rap" sound. His newest release still samples plenty of what his label, Impose, calls "icky guitar loops," but it's one of the first times I've heard him stepping out completely on his own, and I dare say Al is pretty damn close to realizing his vision, no doubt.

Al Lover is a busy man. He's remixed everyone from rappers like Das Racist to garage rock bands like Ty Segall to 60s psych hero Captain Beefheart, and is also the DJ behind the beats for the Bay Area-via-North Carolina rap crew Fist Fam. Along the way, Al has been relentless in the pursuit of perfecting his "garage rap" sound. His newest release still samples plenty of what his label, Impose, calls "icky guitar loops," but it's one of the first times I've heard him stepping out completely on his own, and I dare say Al is pretty damn close to realizing his vision, no doubt.

If you came up to me in a bar and asked me to tell you why I like Al's music, there's a particular story I'd tell. I tried to get Al to tell it himself, but as you'll see in the interview below, he's far too diplomatic about it all and kinda ducks the question. So again, I'll turn to the words of Impose:

"Our love for Al Lover was one of those instantaneous things that people claim happens. His Woodsist Remixed mix made us believers, even though Jeremy Earl of Woodsist was not down with his scuzzy breakbeat treaments and politely requested he desist. Al's refusal to give a flying F gained him further points in the cool department and we've been casually stalking his releases ever since. We even befriended the Bay Area producer and enlisted him to join our tape series."

Al's contribution to the tape series is called Satanic Tambourines and while it's more Al's original sonic creation than a remix album is, it actually does sample all the other releases in the Impose tape series to date. Which is pretty cool in a meta-way.

There's a release party tomorrow night at Milk Bar featuring Al Lover, Burnt Ones (psychic sleaze fuzz), Fist Fam (psychedelic country rap tunes), and POW (disco punk). You can check out the first single from Satanic Tambourines, "Black Magick Starter Jacket," here.

Peep my interview with Al Lover below.

WTM: You've done some pretty badass concept remixes in the past. What's this new album all about? What inspired it?

The new project is a few beats I had sitting in the vaults for a while that I really liked, but never put on any projects. Impose approached me about doin' the tape and I figured that was a good excuse to utilize them. They sent me a bunch of tapes they had released prior (mostly experimental noise and lo fi rock stuff, really cool). We had discussed possibly sampling the tapes to make beats out of, but when I heard them they inspired me to try and create a real muddy noise vibe to sit under the beats. I sampled all the tapes and ended up looping them into the erie soundscapes that sit under the beats and really create a cool tone to the project. It's pretty spacey.

WTM: Where did the inspiration come from for your "garage rap"? Have you always listened to both rock and rap equally or what?

I think it came from just getting board of digging through the same stuff as everyone else for samples. Old jazz, soul, r&b, psych rock, just old stuff. I love that stuff, but I just wanted to try something else out, plus there's so much good Rock 'n Roll being made right now. I don't know when the moment of inspiration struck, I guess around the time of the "Woodsist" project (most of which isn't garage). A lot of the stuff I've been digging on lately has heavy r&b and blues vibes, which is my favorite shit anyhow. I've always listed to both rap and rock n roll though, the first tapes I remember having as a kid were Guns 'n Roses, and NWA. The rap rock combo can be pretty bad if done wrong though, I try and tread these waters very carefully.

WTM: How'd you hook up with Impose?

They just showed me a lot of love from the gate with the Woodsist thing. Then I met Derek and Blake at the last SXSW and they were super cool, good dudes. They asked me if I wanted to do the tape and I of course said yes.

WTM: I think more people should hear about the Woodsist remix debacle. Care to share?

Old news, basically after I made the project I gave a copy to Jeremy Earl, I hollered at him via email to see if he had peep'ed it out and he and his publicist gave me the old cease and desist. I'm not trippin', I understand why they did it, but it was still kinda funny. I actually ran into him at a bar a few months back and apologized for causing them any distress, he said it was all good. I don't want any bad blood with other artists, it was a good learning experience for sure.

WTM: When and where can people hear you spin live?

I play 45s at random shows every once in a while, but also every 1st and 3rd Saturday at the 540 Club on Clement St. in SF. It's a little dive, but it's fun. I'm more concerned with perfecting a live show for the music than spinning records right now. I'll be playing my first live beat set at Milk Bar for the Tape's release on Nov. 23rd. We'll see how it goes, should be pretty trippy.

WTM: You're also a part of the Fist Fam crew. How do you decide which songs to use for Fist Fam and which to use for your solo stuff?

Yeah, shouts out to the Fist Fam. Some beats just sound like they need rapping on them, some don't. Engineering them for rap is a whole other ball game though. I don't engineer my shit for rap most of the time, I don't really engineer it at all. Most of the time I just want it to be instrumental. I don't want it to sound too polished, but I have been cleaning up the sound a bit lately just because it seems like a natural progression. I still favor the grimy shit any day. We have another project coming up that I'm producing. I trying to get my EQ game a little tighter first. I don't care for over compressed sounding stuff though, so it'll still be a little ugly and hollow.

I wish I could look forward to being identical twins with Future Twin some day. Then maybe we'd work out one of those secret languages twins have and I'd understand where their brilliantly catchy punk-noise-pop is coming from.

Until then, I'll just have to stand there and watch them in awe like everyone else. Awed, mainly, by Jean Yaste's impossibly loud, throaty, howling voice. She's all sweet and nice when you talk to her offstage, then she gets up there and just belts it out with a fierceness that is something to behold. And the music underpinning it all is just the right mix of garage punk riffs, psychedelic noise, and pop dynamics to complement her otherworldly vocal stylings. ...

We've got tunes so new, many of them aren't even available yet. Even we couldn't believe this month's show. We got the goods from Mwahaha, Future Twin, Jen Schande, Bees Table, and so much more. Feast your ears, friends.

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