Richard McGowan's Blog: Smashed-Rat-On-Press - Posts Tagged "article"

(I was going to write a review of this, but decided to blog it instead, just for kicks.)

It's been a while since I read Jefferson Airplane, but I did read it, several times in fact, cover-to-cover... It's on my top shelf. I mean, the shelf way way up above everything else close to the ceiling in a precarious position, and I have to clamber up to retrieve it once in a while. I bought it new, on a news-stand, back in the day as they say, and it has never left my side through all the moves and turmoils of life. I love this book because it's both a snapshot of an era and a snapshot of a band that has been on the tippie-top of my Love List since forever. No matter how far gone I've been into the wilds of grand opera or the orchestral works of Prokofiev and snorted down my schnozz at pop music, I've always somehow been able to see my way clearly back to After Bathing at Baxter's as the crowning achievement of an era which stands alone, like a monumental cheese, in the middle of a mostly desolate plain.

And today I ran into something that reminded me... The San Francisco sound is still a thing, even though it has metamorphosed into something, as Monty Python might remind us, completely different, that their grand parents might not recognize. But if you squint your ears, you can almost see the DNA lining up in a spooky match.

Without further ado, I introduce you to my band du jour, Little Teeth. You can even find them fairly raw on Youtube. Anyway, I had cause to wander over to their Bandcamp page, and I haven't cried like this upon a first hearing since I was unexpectedly exposed to Emilie Autumn, last year I think it was. Hahaha... They snuck up on me. I'm telling the truth. You can see some other stuff I've purchased here...which I didn't know until today. LOL squared.

LSD spritzer anyone? ;-)

The short story Moldgasm, a psycho-erotic thryller by H. Cogito Epsilon is now available from Smashed-Rat-on-Press. This is a transient anniversary special, made available only by request for a limited time. Just follow the bread-crumbs to e-mail The Rodent at SROP specifying EPUB or MOBI format, and a copy could be yours, but we can't make any promises, and the offer may self-destruct at any time. For example, if nobody wants one or we get paranoid about books with humorously transgressive content.

Keep an eye on SROP for more specials as this 40th anniversary year progresses. We are still planning for Epsilon's Anna Conda of the KGB and Mantissa Etherbright's release of The Princess on the Rock on Beltane... And there are rumors of a possible Sanguinity Hematode short story collection in the summer.