APRIL 2020 | THE CORN-TEEN SPECIAL
Corn-Teen Deal, New Imperial Wax lathe-cut single, 'Ed's Not Dead -- Hamell Comes Alive!' reissue and more.
This ain't the future we imagined...
Hello to all our friends and customers around the world. I hope you are all well and maintaining your center. Theses are fairly extraordinary times we’re experiencing. But for myself and most of you as either Americans, Canadians or Western Europeans we have to remember that we are relatively spoiled people and that the anxiety and hardships we’re currently living through would be viewed by at least half of the rest of the earth’s population as merely a period of opulent inconvenience. Yes, people are sick and people are dying. But the majority of us will not become chronically ill or die. There is widespread economic insecurity. However, the mortality and financial aspects of what we’re facing today are high-class problems in comparison to the daily struggle faced by billions of souls. Let’s take a moment to appreciate just how much we have.

If you’re a longtime subscriber to this newsletter and/or you follow me on Facebook you know that snark and gallows humor are part of my DNA so I’m going to attempt to brighten up the tone going forward here. Longtime readers will also recognize that this is the first newsletter in six months. I normally try to make them a monthly affair without bombarding your inbox with the repetitive sorts of product pitches that force me to spend as much time deleting email as I do reading them. Following the the death of both my Mom and brother Barry last year I decided to take some downtime to not only take care of a wide variety of family business but also reassess where I’m at personally and with the variety of enterprises I’m involved in. 

I’m not kidding when I say it’s been a hell of a five years or so with the deaths of many of my few remaining family members and some very close friends. But, when Davy Jones became ill, now almost six years ago, I had decided early on that as a recovering alcoholic and drug addict that self-pity was not an emotion I would allow myself and that the emotional energy that I could spend on that would be put to better use to try to help others (in my own way). I’m not claiming selflessness - this was and is about my own survival. Still, over the past couple of years I’ve been left with the nagging feeling that I’ve been ignoring my own emotions for the sake of some fairly amorphous higher purpose and in some cases have not really been as successful in helping others as I had hoped. 

It is a case of attempting to simultaneously abide and ignore the two conflicting maxims I hold most dear:
1) You’ve got to give it away to keep it.
2) No good deed goes unpunished.

That’s my first gift to you today - an all-expense paid round-trip journey through the insides of a crazy person’s head.

(AND - as a side note here - The Davy Jones 'Boot Legs' box-set is still in the works...as I've previously offered to everyone who pre-ordered I will give a full refund or credit if you wish - just let me know. Again, I have the money set aside to complete the package. It's more important to me that it is done properly than quickly. I have set September 2020 as the new targeted release date.)

Now, and I hope at least 60% of your are still with me, come January I had successfully navigated the holidays and was trying to find my way forward but still wasn’t feeling it by some standard. South By Southwest was fast approaching and I really hadn’t made much if any preparation. I had significantly downsized my obligations surrounding the annual festival over the past two or three years, having gone from programming and presenting anywhere from six to ten official and unofficial showcases in each of the ten or so previous years down to three or four in the face of diminishing returns in the most recent couple of years.

Still, I managed to wrangle a few favorite venues and assemble some shows. I was finding some enthusiasm again, finally. The backdrop to all this was that I had been hearing news of a fairly mysterious virus with flu-like symptoms that seemingly first appeared in China. I primarily read and follow financial and entertainment news. The first bits I saw about it in the financial papers were in December and didn’t seem that dour and it certainly wasn’t touted as a pandemic. On towards January and into early February the death toll in China was significant but their efforts at mitigating the spread seemed to be pretty effective. And then mid-February, as its appearance and the cascading fallout spread to Western Europe and to our own shores, the forecast became increasingly grim. SXSW was cancelled by order of Austin’s mayor and everything matriculated from there to where we are today.

Hundreds of books will be written about this and people will be throwing out the “what ifs?” forever. While attempting to remain politically agnostic in this forum I will say that:
1) Our own (U.S.) government’s response has been extremely disjointed, and,
2) I do believe that IF the ruling Communist Party of China numbers were more truthful and the data was more forthcoming and shared as it should have been/be the situation might not be as a calamitous as it is. Do not mistake this to mean that I blame the people of China in any way, form or fashion.

Hell, my good friend Jerry Clayworth came to a Hickoids show on February 9th with a batch of buttons that said “Those Hickoids Gave Me Corn Virus 02.09.2020” (!!). For all of the “Monday morning quarterbacking” that is currently being done by all the talking heads on all of the major news outlets twenty-hours a day I can only ask you what were they saying two months ago? And why did a rock band of reprobates and one of their fans seem to be blindly doing more to raise awareness via what I can now say was a timely but awkward and tasteless stab at humor than all those “trusted” media folk?

I will turn to the lyrics of the band X for the simple answer to both of those questions:
“The world’s a mess it’s in my kiss.”
Bebbeh(s)!
That was my second gift to you today. Tough truth for hard questions.

And now, finally the good news. Since the dawn of man people have thought they were living in the end times because they compare only their own lifespan and experiences to the sum of human history. This a major speed bump for us but a relative blip on the timeline of humanity. Let’s use this as an opportunity for a massive reset and to consider our actions going forward.

And, as a small but heartfelt way of not only allowing you to get Saustex and other releases at the lowest prices we’ve ever offered them but to also do our part to help alleviate the pain felt by those less fortunate than ourselves we present “The Suffer Not In Silence Sale” which you may also feel free to refer to as “The Corn-Teen Deal”.

The deal is pretty simple - from now through the end of May choose any four or the CD’s listed below for $20 postpaid in the US or any three of the 12” EP or LP titles for $30 postpaid and I will donate 25% of the gross sale ($5 for the CD deal, $7.50 for the LP deal) in an even split between Feeding America and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). 

Even those of you who don’t know much about the record biz can recognize that this is a “loss leader” but it will create a little cash flow for the label, put some new tunes in your house and help out some folks you’ve never met. And if you're cash-strapped all Saustex releases are available on the major streaming platforms and quite a few are available to stream on Bandcamp: Saustex on Bandcamp
Fight boredom! Fight hunger! Fight COVID19!

GIVE THE BARTENDER $OME! MAKE IT A FIVE PACK!
And, you may or may not know that I was a bartender for over a decade. In an effort to help out my drink slingin' friends and other club staff who lost 10% or more of their annual income to SXSW cancellations I'm making the following offer. Send $10 or more to the link below and I will send you the three 12" x18" posters below from our cancelled SX music week events and two of the undistributed "Those HICKOIDS gave me CORN VIRUS SXSW2020" buttons pictured above and I will pick up the postage and pass along 100% of the proceeds to the employees of the venues. Be sure and include your mailing address and please use the 'Family/Friends" option so that money is not eaten up by fees. The exorbitant price of international postage dictates that I can only make this offer for the U.S. IF you simply can't live without these items and live elsewhere email me at jeff.smith(at)saustex.com and I'll work something out that offsets the postage.

IMPERIAL WAX - New lathe-cut single 'Bromidic Thrills' b/w 'Bloom & Wither'
I've covered Imperial Wax fairly thoroughly in recent editions of the newsletter. I'll just say it's an honor to work with them and to have released their debut LP 'Gastwerk Saboteurs'. I've yet to see a live show but have no doubt they are brilliant.

As I mention at the top, I've engaged in a fair amount of waffling label wise over the past six months and the lathe-cut discs have been done since sometime in November but I'm just now making them available - apologies for my sloth.

The hyper-limited edition of 30 lathe-cut single on clear plastic comes in a hand-glued full-color, numbered picture sleeve and includes unlimited streaming of 'Bromidic Thrills' b/w 'Bloom & Wither' via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.


“This is straight up infectious rock’n’roll filled with attitude and looking to get you to move” – Post Trash
“A modern take on post punk” – New Noise Magazine 
“Just crying out for you to dance, shout and be battered down by” – Fighting Bordom
“To put it more plainly, the band succeeds at every approach it attempts” – Big Take Over
“Imperial Wax is a band with fire in their bellies, not some end-of-career cash-in” – the I Newspaper 
“The idea of a band not looking for a fight but ready to end it if one should erupt ” – Uber Rock
“Relentless transmissions of anger, frustration and other volatile states. MES would approve ” – Mojo
'Ed's Not Dead -- Hamell Comes Alive!' strictly limited edition of 100 LP and digital download.
Saustex Records’ is proudly reissuing the 20th anniversary edition of the Hamell on Trial live album ‘Ed’s Not Dead ---- Hamell Comes Alive!'.
The CD edition is long out-of-print and this marks the first broad streaming and digital release and vinyl edition. The LP is a hyper-limited edition of 100 copies on opaque white vinyl and will include an oversized reprint of the cartoon booklet contained in the original CD, hand-glued cover and a download card with bonus edit tracks. Originally the album was slated to begin deliver some time in March but the big lacquer plant fire in February and now the current pandemic situation has ended up delaying the manufacture. We hope to be able to ship no later than early June and the pre-order gets you immediate access to the digital download and streaming edition.

The album is culled from live shows in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and San Diego back in 2000 when Ed was the regular opening act for Ani DiFranco and was also on the roster of her Righteous Babe Records. Ani had her front-of-house engineer record Ed’s show nightly with the unspoken intention of releasing a live album for her label.

Things were going well...Ed was playing for much larger audiences than he was used to and Ani’s audiences were very gracious and receptive. Then, following some dates with Ani as Ed resumed his smaller scale club touring, tragedy struck when Ed was involved in a serious automobile accident that laid him up for nine months. He broke three vertebrae, his wrist, ankle and had 52 staples in his head. He had to wear an upper body brace for the duration of the 9 months.

As a working musician whose bread and butter is live performances this was devastating. Luckily, some friends came to the rescue in the form of Ani’s manager Scott Fisher who gave Hamell the tapes so that he could self-release an album and keep the money, and his good friend George Fontaine (now president of New West Records) who ponied up the money for CD manufacturing. Ed’s longtime road manager Ricki C sifted through the tapes and culled the best performances.

THE SUFFER NOT IN SILENCE SALE AKA THE CORN-TEEN DEAL - COMPACT DISCS
As mentioned above - from now through the end of May choose any four or the CD’s listed below for $20 postpaid in the US and Saustex will donate 25% of the gross sale ($5 for the CD deal) in an even split between Feeding America and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Use the link below to order via PayPal and then please send a brief email to jeff.smith@saustex.com with your selections using the letters and numbers (Example: CD01). We only have a few copies of many of the "other labels/artists" items in stock and some will sell out. International customers: send an email to jeff.smith@saustex.com with your selections and I'll send you an invoice that reflects a purchase price of $16 plus the shipping.
SAUSTEX AND SAUSPOP RECORDS RELEASES:
CD01 STEVIE TOMBSTONE '7:30 AM'
CD02 STEVIE TOMBSTONE 'DEVILS GAME'
CD03 THE TOMBSTONES 'TWANG FROM THE GRAVE'
CD 04 ERIC HISAW 'THE CROSSES'
CD05 ERIC HISAW 'NATURE OF THE BLUES'
CD06 SNOWBYRD 'SELF-TITLED DEBUT'
CD07 SNOWBYRD 'DIOSDADO'
CD08 THE SERVICE INDUSTRY 'RANCH IS THE NEW FRENCH'
CD09 THE SERVICE INDUSTRY 'LIMITED COVERAGE'
CD10 THE SERVICE INDUSTRY 'KEEP THE BABIES WARM'
CD11 THE SERVICE INDUSTRY 'CALM DOWN'
CD12 THE SUMMER WARDROBE 'CAJUN PRAIRIE FIRE'
CD13 SONS OF HERCULES 'A DIFFERENT KIND OF UGLY'
CD14 T. TEX EDWARDS 'PARDON ME, I'VE GOT SOMEONE TO KILL'
CD15 T. TEX EDWARDS 'INTEXICATED!'
CD16 LOCO GRINGOS 'SELF-TITLED DEBUT' (+ bonus live tracks)
CD17 GLAMBILLY 'WHITE BBQ SAUCE'
CD18 THE HARES 'SMOKING IN BED'
CD19 HICKOIDS 'WALTZ A-CROSS-DRESS TEXAS'
CD20 HICKOIDS 'KICKING IT WITH THE TWITS'
CD21 HICKOIDS 'HAIRY CHAFIN' APE SUIT'
CD22 HICKOIDS 'THE OUT OF TOWNERS'
CD23 THE BEAUMONTS 'WHERE DO YOU WANT IT?'
CD24 THE BEAUMONTS 'GET READY FOR!'
CD25 THE BEAUMONTS 'HEY Y'ALL ITS'
CD26 BP FALLON 'LIVE IN TEXAS'
CD27 THE GRANNIES 'BALLSIER'
CD28 THE GRANNIES/THE UPPER CRUST 'LORDS & LADIES'
CD29 GRANDPA DEATH EXPERIENCE 'THE UNFORGIVING SHOE OF THE FUTURE'
CD30 PONG 'GONE'
CD31 THE COPPER GAMINS 'SELF-TITLED DEBUT EP'
CD32 THE COPPER GAMINS 'LOS NIÑOS DEL COBRE'
CD33 BLOWFLY '77 RUSTY TROMBONES'
CD34 FRANCINA JONES & THE OVERTOWN SOUL REVUE 'NO WAY OUT/I AM CONTROLLED BY YOUR LOVE' (LTD CD SINGLE)
CD35 JAVIER ESCOVEDO 'KICKED OUT OF EDEN'
CD36 JOECEPHUS & THE GEORGE JONESTOWN MASSACRE 'MUTANTS OF THE MONSTER: A TRIBUTE TO BLACK OAK ARKANSAS' (FEATURES STELLAR GUEST LINEUP)
CD37 JOECEPHUS & THE GEORGE JONESTOWN MASSACRE 'FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE: A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH' (FEAT. KING BUZZO, J.D. PINKUS, WARREN ELLIS, MICK HARVEY)
WESTERN STAR 'FIREBALL'
CD38 PIÑATA PROTEST 'EL VALIENTE'
CD39 CHURCHWOOD 'SELF-TITLED DEBUT'
CD40 CHURCHWOOD '2'
CD41 CHURCHWOOD '3:TRICKGNOSIS'
CD42 CHURCHWOOD 'HEX CITY'
CD43 COUNT VASELINE 'TALES FROM THE MEGAPLEX'
CD44 DINOLA 'UP HIGH'
CD45 HARVEY MCLAUGHLIN 'TABLOID NEWS'
CD46 RICH MINUS 'THIS SON IS A STRANGER TO YOU'
CD47 VARIOUS ARTISTS 'THE SAUSTEX VARIATIONS VOLUME TWO'
CD48 VARIOUS ARTISTS 'THE SAUSTEX VARIATIONS VOLUME THREE'

RELEASES FROM OTHER ARTISTS AND LABELS:

ROOTS/FOLK/COUNTRY/SINGER-SONGWRITER
CD49 HILARY YORK 'THE MOON'
CD50 HILARY YORK 'IN THE DARK'
CD51AMBERJACK RICE 'BICYCLE VIGILANTE'
CD52 AMBERJACK RICE 'GET SO LITTLE"
CD53 AMBERJACK RICE 'NEW ROOTS'
CD54 CHUCK'S WAGON 'I PLAY COUNTRY'
CD55 CHUCK'S WAGON 'LIPSTICK AND SIN'
CD56 CHUCK'S WAGON 'BLACK ROAD'
CD57 CHUCK'S WAGON 'LIVE IN AUSTIN TEXAS'
CD58 CHUCK'S WAGON 'SELF-TITLED'
CD59 CHRISSY FLATT 'WINGS OF A BUTTERFLY'
CD60 CHRISSY FLATT 'WALK WITH KINGS'
CD61 SAM COLE & THE D.W. IDOLS 'SELF-TITLED'
CD62 MITCH WEBB & THE SWINDLES 'DRUNK FIR YOUR AMUSEMENT'
CD63 MITCH WEBB & THE SWINDLES 'SONGS IN THE KEY OF T'
CD64 MITCH WEBB & THE SWINDLES 'LONELY KIND'
CD65 VARIOUS ARTISTS 'UNPLUG THIS' (LIVE AT HOLE IN THE WALL)
CD66 HANS FRANK “EL GALLO” ‘CINCO DE GALLO:LIVE AT BONESHAKERS’
CD67 LOUISE GOLD THE QUARTZ ORCHESTRA ‘DEBUT’
CD68 RICH MINUS 'LIVE AT THE AUSTIN OUTHOUSE'
CD69 THE NASHVILLE LIVERPOOL UNDERGROUND MEDICINE SHOW ‘S-T’
CD71 SEAN WHEELER & ZANDER SCHLOSS ‘WALK THEE INVISBLE’
CD73 SLACKEYE SLIM ’EL SANTO GRIAL LA PISTOLA PIADOSA’
CD74 BEAVER NELSON ‘MACRO/MICRO’
CD75 VARIOUS ARTIST ‘DANIEL COLBY PRESENTS THE MUSIC OF FARMAGEDDON RECORDS’
CD77 VARIOUS ARTISTS ‘BLACK HILL HIGHWAY’

ROCK/PUNK/GARAGE
CD78 THE KRAYOLAS 'BEST RIFFS ONLY'
CD79 THE KRAYOLAS '1070 (I'LL BE YOUR DIRTY MEXICAN)'
CD80 THE KRAYOLAS ‘LA CONQUISTADORA’ 
CD81 PAT TODD & THE RANK OUTSIDERS '14th & NOWHERE'
CD82 PAT TODD & THE RANK OUTSIDERS 'BLOOD & TREASURE'
CD83 THE ROCKIN’ GUYS ‘PERFORMANCE ART MISCREANTS’
CD84 CORY CASE ‘WAITING ON A REMEDY’
CD85 THE FEELERS ‘LEARN TO HATE THE FEELERS’
CD86 VARIOUS ARTISTS ‘THE SOUNDS OF GASOLINE VOL. 1’
CD87 VARIOUS ARTISTS ‘THE SOUNDS OF GASOLINE VOL. 2’
CD88 VARIOUS ARTISTS ‘THE SOUNDS OF GASOLINE VOL. 3’
CD89 LOS MOCKERS ‘ORIGINAL RECORDINGS 1965-67’
CD90 VARIOUS ARTISTS ‘L’AUSTIN SPACE’
CD91 OS HAXIXINS ‘SELF-TITLED’
CD92 THE WEAKLINGS ‘ROCK’N’ROLL OWES ME’
CD93 SUNDAY DRUNKS ‘ON THE PROWL’
CD94 SUNDAY DRUNKS ‘SELF-TITLED’
CD95 STICKPONY ‘HEAD FIRST THROUGH THE SOUND’
CD96 AIN’T ‘IF IT’S ILLEGAL TO ROCK AND ROLL THEN THROW MY ASS IN JAIL’
CD97 EVERYTHING MUST GO ‘APOCALIPSTICK’
CD98 SINISTER SIX ‘SINISTERIA’
CD98 LOS #3 DINNERS ‘THE WHOLE ENCHILADA’
CD99 BLOWFLY ‘BLACK IN THE SACK’
CD100 MIDNIGHT BOMBERS ‘EVIL STREETS’
CD101 KEN JONES PEACE CORPS ‘PASTURES OF PLENTY’
CD102 MOTORAMA ‘PSYCHOTRONIC IS THE BEAT’
CD103 THE UGLY BEATS ‘TAKE A STAND’
CD104 LOS EXPLOSIVOS ‘S-T’
CD105 THE ANGEL BABIES ‘S-T’
CD106 ODDLY ENOUGH ‘NO CEMENT OR DIRT’
CD107 THE BUG NASTIES ‘WHICH WAY YOU GONNA’ GO?’ 
CD108 BILLY JOE WINGHEAD ‘DARK RIDE’ 
CD109 BILLY JOE WINGHEAD ‘SPANISH ASSHOLE MAGNET’ 
CD110 TAXI ‘LIKE A DOG’ 
CD111 THE FUNCTIONAL BLACKOUTS ‘BEST OF THE MONKEES’ 
CD113 JUANITA Y LOS FEOS ‘S-T’ 
CD114 THE NERVEBREAKERS ‘WE WANT EVERYTHING'
CD115 THE LEGENDARY TIGER MAN ‘MASQUERADE’
CD116 BAMBULA ‘GUILTY PLEASURES’
CD117 GREGG TURNER ‘PLAYS THE HITS’
CD118 THE TWO TIMIN’ FOUR ‘DARK BEFORE THE DAWN’ 
CD119 THE TWO TIMIN’ THREE ‘PAYIN’ THE PRICE’ 

ELECTRONIC/ODDBALL
CD120 HYPERBUBBLE ‘SOLID POP’
CD121 HYPERBUBBLE ‘AIRBRUSHED ALIBIS’
CD122 MISSION GIANT ‘I SCREAM SOCIAL’
CD123 HYPERBUBBLE ‘CANDY APPLE DAYDREAMS’
CD124 SILO 10 ‘S-T’
CD125 CREVICE ‘2’
CD126 DAVID COOPER ORTON w/ JAMES SIDLO ‘RE: COOPERATION TRANS-ATLANTIC COLLABORATION’
 

PP EL V COVER WEB
The Grannies Ballsier
THE SUFFER NOT IN SILENCE SALE AKA THE CORN-TEEN DEAL -
LP'S AND OTHER VINYL RECORDS
Again, as mentioned above - from now through the end of May choose any THREE of the vinyl items listed below for $20 postpaid in the US and Saustex will donate 25% of the gross sale ($7.50 for the vinyl deal) in an even split between Feeding America and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Use the link below to order via PayPal and then please send a brief email to jeff.smith@saustex.com with your selections using the letters and numbers (Example: V01). We only have a few copies of many of the "other labels/artists" items in stock and some will sell out.
International customers: send an email to jeff.smith@saustex.com with your selections and I'll send you an invoice that reflects a purchase price of $26 plus the shipping. Also please note that these are the "Sturdy Black American Vinyl" editions where there are limited color vinyl editions, however, in some cases we'll fill the order with colored vinyl if no black vinyl remains AND double albums will count for 2 (TWO) selections and 7" records for 1/2 (ONE-HALF) a selection.
SAUSTEX AND SAUSPOP RECORDS RELEASES:

V01 THE HARES 'SMOKING IN BED'
V02 HICKOIDS 'KICKING IT WITH THE TWITS'
V03 HICKOIDS 'HAIRY CHAFIN' APE SUIT'
V04 HICKOIDS 'THE OUT OF TOWNERS'
V05 HICKOIDS 'ALL THE WORLD'S A DRESSING ROOM: LIVE IN LA 08.24.2018' (DOUBLE LP, COUNTS AS TWO SELECTIONS)
V06 HICKOIDS/GRANNIES '300 YEARS OF PUNK ROCK' (SPLIT LP)
V07 THE BEAUMONTS 'THIS IS AUSTIN' (LIVE)
V08 THE BEAUMONTS 'HEY Y'ALL ITS'
V09 THE GRANNIES 'BALLSIER'
V10 THE GRANNIES/THE UPPER CRUST 'LORDS & LADIES'
V11 IMPERIAL WAX 'GASTWERK SABOTEURS'
V12 PONG 'GONE'
V13 THE COPPER GAMINS 'LOS NIÑOS DEL COBRE'
V14 BLOWFLY '77 RUSTY TROMBONES'
V15 JAVIER ESCOVEDO 'KICKED OUT OF EDEN'
V16 JOECEPHUS & THE GEORGE JONESTOWN MASSACRE 'MUTANTS OF THE MONSTER: A TRIBUTE TO BLACK OAK ARKANSAS' (FEATURES STELLAR GUEST LINEUP - DOUBLE LP, COUNTS AS TWO SELECTIONS)
V17 JOECEPHUS & THE GEORGE JONESTOWN MASSACRE 'FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE: A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH' (FEAT. KING BUZZO, J.D. PINKUS, WARREN ELLIS, MICK HARVEY)
V18 WESTERN STAR 'FIREBALL'
V19 WESTERN STAR 'ANY WAY HOW'
V20 PIÑATA PROTEST 'PLETHORA'
V21 CHURCHWOOD '2'
V22 CHURCHWOOD '3:TRICKGNOSIS'
V23 CHURCHWOOD 'HEX CITY'
V24 COUNT VASELINE 'TALES FROM THE MEGAPLEX'
V25 DINOLA 'UP HIGH'
V26 HARVEY MCLAUGHLIN 'TABLOID NEWS'
V27 A PONY NAMED OLGA 'AVE MARIA'
V28 HAMELL ON TRIAL 'NIGHT GUY AT THE APOCALYPSE PROFILES OF A RUSHING MIDNIGHT'
V29 POCKET FISHRMEN 'THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD' (LP + CD - COUNTS AS TWO SELECTIONS)
V30 CHURCHWOOD 'JUST THE TWO OF US' 7" (COUNTS AS 1/2)
V31 CHIEF FUZZER 'TRANSCENDENTAL ROAD BLUES' 7" (COUNTS AS 1/2)

RELEASES FROM OTHER ARTISTS AND LABELS:
TEXAS!
V32 TEXACALA JONES PONY ISLAND EXPRES (S-T DEBUT)
V33 SABBATH CROW 'CARRION HIGHWAY WEIRD SUN'
V34 THE DIFFERENTIALS 'DRIVE ON!'
V35 JEAN CAFFEINE 'SADIE SATURDAY NIGHT'
V36 WILD BILL OGDEN'S 'FIGHTING FOR THE TITLE'
V37 MAX & THE MAKEUPS 'CHASING THE MONSTERS'
V39 SCREECH OF DEATH 7" (COUNTS AS 1/2)
V41 THE NERVEBREAKERS 'WE WANT EVERYTHING!'
V42 THE NERVEBREAKERS 'HIJACK THE RADIO'
V43 HOGBITCH 'S-T'


USA
V44 REQ'D 'FALL IN LOVE ON HATE STREET'
V45 THE GRANNIES 'FOR THOSE ABOUT TO FORGET TO ROCK'
V46 I AM NEXT/THE GRANNIES (SPLIT 12" SINGLE)
V47 THE FRONTIER CIRCUS 'A LITTLE BIT PSYCHO...A LITTLE BIT WESTERN'
V48 CHUCK 'U.S.A.'
V49 THE HORNY WACKERS 'THEY ARE SAVAGE'
Raw, hedonistic trash rock baptized in Pussy Galore, The Cramps, and the Oblivians than bathed in the rotting bones of Eddie Cochran. 
V50 ARTHUR ALEXANDER 'ONE BAR LEFT'
Contemporary release by first wave NYC power-popper.
V51 THE BACKSTABBERS 'TO ELEVEN'
10 storybook anthems about their undevoted love for the finer things in life: women, bottles and pills. For fans of the Saints, Sonic Rendezvous Band or Radio Birdman.
V52 TRMRS 'SEA THINGS'
Fuzz-drenched West Coast psycho-surf.
V53 J.J. & THE REAL JERKS 'BACK TO THE BOTTOM'
West Coast reprobates whiff of the same inner city sleaze as fellow riff 'n roll heathens like the Heartbreakers, Humpers, Berlin Brats, Joneses and The Dragons.
V54 BATTERED SUITCASE 'OBLIVION'
Unique compound of girl-gang, ferocity mixing elements of muscular poppy Rock 'n Roll bands like Suzi Quatro, the Runaways, The Muffs and The Fastback.
V55 CURTAINS 'DEEP IN NIGHT CITY'
Eerie soundscapes for deranged punk mutants and twisted new wave vampires.
V56 FIST CITY 'HUNTING YOU'
Canadian band fuses the agitated, post punk grit of bands like the Desperate Bicycles and the Raincoats with an acid soaked take on the Vaselines and Shop Assistants downer pop.
V57 CORY CASE 'WAITING ON A REMEDY'
Debut folk rock album from rag-tag rocker Cory Case whom you might know from his former band the Licks.
V58 THE LOVESORES 'GODS OF ANCIENT GREASE'
Scott Drake finishes what he started with The Humpers.
V59 THE WEAKLINGS ''ROCK'N'ROLL OWES ME'
High-octane garage punk from Portland featuring Bradley of P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. LP 
V60 DR. BOOGIE 'GOTTA' GET BACK TO NEW YORK CITY'
Awesome LP by these LA adherents of the Flamin' Groovies, New York Dolls and Mott The Hoople. LP 
V61 SMUT PEDDLERS 'TEN INCH'
Orange County beach punk ala Stitches and US Bombs. 10" LP 
V63 LE FACE 'ISOLATION'
Deconstructed punk ala The Urinals and Electric Eels. Extreme. LP 
V64 GESTAPO KHAZI 'S-T'
Self-titled debut from So Cal band that echo The Gun Glub and The Wipers. LP 
V65 SHARK TOYS 'S-T'
LA band that recall the ramshackle early pop-inspired punk of TV Personalities, Modern Lovers and more. LP 
V84 GAY SPORTSCASTERS 'FUN PACK' BOTH 90's SINGLES ON COLORED VINYL (COUNTS AS 1/2)

I NTERNATIONAL
V66 THE UNRELEASABLES 'SOLITARY CONFINEMENT'
London derelicts brew up an inebriated, molotov-concoction of the Dead Boys, Pagans, Zero Boys, Ramones and the Dwarves.
V67 JONESY 'S-T'
Cartoonish Canadian punk that touches all the bases of the first wave of American punk.
V68 HUMAN RACE 'NEGATIVE' 
A full on Italian snot-punk attack for mind bending, glue-sniffers everywhere.
V69 THE LUCKY PUNCH 'KICK UP A HULLABALOO'
German band pays homage to classic American boogie rock and does it well.
V70 MANIC ATTRACTS 'EYES WIDE SHUT'
Vancouver based-band bring a barrage of snarling feedback and distortion that blurs the lines between psychedelic downer pop and their warped take on garage rock. 
V71 DISCO LEPERS 'SOPHISTICATED SHAME'
London's Disco Lepers brilliantly spew 11 rabid scuzz-punk rippers like the the nastiest elements of the Vomit Pigs, Satans Rats, The Victims, The Dickies and The Lewd.
V72 RATTENS KRATER 'BYGGA UPP ETT STORT BERG'
Dark, driving wasteoid hits with complicated riffs and clangy, bouncy hooks from this Swedish band whose influences range from the Wipers to Flipper to Gang Of Four to a bit of the Swell Maps.
V73 MORALENS VAKTARE 'S-T'
Swedish scuzzy mid-fi, diamond in the rough is like a punk rock-snot rocket shot straight outta 1978.
V74 THE CREEPING IVIES 'STAY WILD'
Scotland's Creeping Ivies seamlessly mesh stripped down 50's Rock N Roll, Swampy Blues, R&B and raw, unbridled Garage Punk into their own depraved, cauldron of Riff N Roll supremacy. 
V75 MISTY WHITE 'MISTY' 10" EP
V76 SWAMPS 'KITANO HOMARE'
Hyper-trashy Japanese trio ala Oblivians and Gories. LP 
V77 THE ROUTES 'LEFT MY MIND'
Yardbirds and Pretty Things inspired Japanese garage. LP 
V78 THE DYING SHAMES 'S-T'
London act that distills the sounds of The Faces and mid-sixties Rolling Stones. LP 
V79 OVERCHARGE 'ACCELERATE'
Debut from this Italian trash-metal band. For fans of of Motorhead and Nashville Pu**y. LP
V80 THE HAVENOTS 'ROCK'N'ROLL WEEKEND'
Hard charging Japanese power pop ala Buzzcocks and LA bands like The Nerves. LP
V81 RÄJÄYTTÄJÄT "RÄJÄYTTÄJÄT"
Heavy, scuzzy Finnish band for fans of the Stooges and the Pagans. LP 
V82 THEE MIGHTY FEVERS 'F**KIN' GREAT ROCK'N'ROLL'
Trashy Japanese punk rock from members of Teengenerate and Guitar Wolf. LP 
V83 TOMY & THE COUGARS 'AMBUSH'
Buzzcocks inspired power-pop from this French band. LP 

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Vaya con Dios mis amigos...
Tom Rowsey
Tom Rowsey left this earth from San Antonio on March 9th, 2020. The likely cause of death was organ failure as he had been in poor health and hospitalized a number of times in recent years.

Tom was born in Kerrville, Texas and was raised in Austin. Through the years he would also live in Memphis, Seattle, Las Vegas, San Antonio and New Orleans. He is survived by his brothers John and Chuck Rowsey, daughter Ruby and ex-wife Patti Meagher.

Tom, or Tommy as most of his friends liked to call him (among other more colorful nicknames) was an excellent chef, guitarist, singer and songwriter. Over the years he would play in Austin’s Trouble Boys, Whoa! Trigger and Stagger Lee, numerous acts from San Antonio including The Happy Dogs, Speedbuggy, Stinko and The Country Giants, and alongside me in several iterations of the Hickoids, The I.L.K. (Interstate Leisure Kings) and most recently with The Swishbucklers and Cocksucker Blues. We played our last live show together in January of this year.

On a more personal side - I considered Tommy one of my best friends. We were roommates several different times in the 90’s and early 2000’s. We saw each other at our worst(s) and we would get mad at each other and fight like girls but we also had a lot of love for each other - I considered him a brother. Many found Tommy’s often off-color sense of humor off-putting but once you got behind that you discovered there was a sweet, generous and intelligent man. We could make each other laugh like nobody’s business and when you don’t have much and the chips are down sometimes that’s more than enough.

I’m gonna’ miss you fool.

PHOTO: The Swishbucklers circa 2001 by Victoria Renard. L-R: Bathhouse Mike, Tommy Too Long John, Shanghai Slim, Patches.

Ron Goudie
Ron Goudie passed away on January 23,2020 after a lengthy-illness in The Netherlands.

If you’re not familiar with Ron, he was a member of Modern Warfare and was co-producer of one of the most seminal of all second wave US punk compilations ‘Hell Comes to Your House’ that featured and introduced many folks to some great bands including 45 Grave, Social Distortion (the superior punk version IMHO), Christian Death, 100 Flowers and Red Kross. Ron would go on to sign platinum-selling Christian Metal band Stryper and produce albums by acts as disparate as Mojo Nixon and GWAR, holding a number of executive level positions at a variety of labels. In short, he was one of the people who shaped the mid-80’s American underground and paved the commercial way for acts like Nirvana to bust out at the turn of the 90’s.

Ron had spent most of the past two decades living in Amsterdam, still active as a producer and musician, taking occasional producing gigs in locations as far-fetched as South America and Africa. In his last decade he spent most of his energy on his band The Grandpa Death Experience (GDX). I released their album ‘The Unforgiving Shoe of The Future’ several years ago on Saustex. Though not a themed album it leans lyrically heavy to ruminations on aging, the nature of sin, regret and (you guessed it) death.
We played quite a a few shows in Holland and Germany with GDX...great guys and players in the band. I really enjoyed those times with Ron and them. As with anyone who spent as long as Ron did in the trenches of the music business there will be a variety of opinions but I can say he always did me right. I will miss his vision and humor.

R.I.P. my friend.

PHOTO: Bob Yothers

Michael "Bircho" Birch
Michael "Bircho" Birch was found unresponsive by his es-wife on Becky Balboa on the morning of March 18th at his home in Little Rock. He apparently went peacefully in his sleep. He had been having chest pains and indigestion so it is believed he succumbed to heart failure.

He was a rock solid drummer, barber, father and always a good friend to me - I was usually smiling when he was around. He was a supremely lovable and funny man. I enjoyed the time I spent working with him at the Hole In The Wall in Austin and our short-lived musical project Johnson City.
He'd always come out to our shows in Arkansas where he returned to live a number of years back and had recently begun to play with his old LR outfit Trusty. He worked hard at improving himself and pursuing and maintaining sobriety to better the lives of his son JoJo and all those around him. I will miss his genuine smile and friendship and inimitable laugh.
You were a good and a real one brother.
Jesus, Joseph and Mary...it was a ride putting this thing together.
Let's be careful out there. As always thanks for your continued support.
Smitty
Jeff Smith
Saustex Records