PUNK PLANET - THE TYRADES "DETONATION!" EP
Wow!! At first played at 33 rpm. I was unimpressed, but then at 45 rpm! The male vocals turned into female and the mid-tempo became break neck speed. This would fit in with anything produced by Tim Kerr in the last few years. May be known as that guy from the Baseball Furies other band. One great single including a near perfect version of THE DICKS, "Lifetime Problems", thank you.
GARAGE AND BEAT - THE TYRADES "DETONATION!" EP
I haven't invoked Alice Bag's name so often in I don't know how long, but these kids obviously thrive on the kind of punk rock
that spawned "We Don't Need the English" and all the other raw blasts of L.A. hoodoo voodoo circa '78. Jenna Tyrade has a great voice
that works in much the same way that Polly Styrene's did in her glory days. The band does a wonderful job of staying on the edge
where they can just barely keep the speed and clarity going long enough to maintain the beat. The term "sloppy but endearing" comes bounding
to the fore...proudly. The sleeve looks like something that would have been advertised in Slash way back when too.
HEAD IN A MILK BOTTLE - THE TYRADES "DETONATION!" EP
Yow! Love this sound! Simplistic, fast, with an amazing classic punk/new wave feel, thanks in part to great vocals by Jenna Tyrade. This
is a side project to the Baseball Furies from Buffalo, NY. Jimmy Hollywood dropped his bass and picked up guitar, recruited Dave Unlikely from
the Trailer Park Tornados to pound the drums, and all I can say is this is some killer punk rock, a must for fans of KBD-style proto punk.
RAZORCAKE - THE TYRADES "DETONATION!" EP
A damn goo band with a minimalist sound that would'e fit in nicely with the late '70's/early '80's art punk scene, meaning it's annoying in all the right ways. A definite keeper here. Great cover of the Dick's "Lifetime Problems," too. Gary Floyd must be beaming with pride.
HIT LIST - THE TYRADES "DETONATION!" EP
Another awesome single. This is apparently a side project of the BASEBALL FURIES, who I totally dig, but it's a bit
different form the FURIES: it's more fucked up and features lots of noise and cool female vocals. Three originals
and a DICKS cover.
MAXIMUM ROCK-N-ROLL - THE TYRADES "DETONATION!" EP
Some of the best female vocals I have heard in a long time. They are so loud, screeching, piercing and very extreme,
they completely drown out the music. I think that's fantastic. The music is pretty cool too. Garagey punk with some
nice distortion on the guitar, but who the hell can pay attention to that with these vocals?
GO METRIC - THE TYRADES "DETONATION!" EP
Members of the Baseball Furies and Trailer Park Tornados burn through what looks and sounds like a really good ep from late
70's L.A., updated with guitar breaks that feel like they're flying three times faster than the song, as if Jimmy Ordinary's
fingers, moving with all the speed he can muster, still can't keep pace with the ideas in his head. Jenna's snarling vocals
seal the Dangerhouse sensibility.
ROCTOBER - THE TYRADES "DETONATION!" EP
Snotty atmosperic PUNK that seems as real as bad speed. Or maybe a good whippet... I played this for two days straight.
HORIZONTAL ACTION - THE TYRADES "DETONATION!" EP
Big Jimmy Ordinary sent us the "reject" versionof the TYRADES debut 7" with hopes that we'd
hate it more than he even did. Ha! What a dumper! We not only hated it less than him, but
I even liked a good majority of it. The female vocals tear through your cigarette stained heart
and remind you to hate yourself. Kinda like the MAGGOTS' excellent "Let's Get Tammy Wynette," but
with more desperation and less talk of shopping center beatdowns. The cover of the DICKS'
"Lifetime Problems" is stupendous and no matter how much Jimmy hates, WE LUVS.
CYCLOPS ZINE - THE TYRADES "DETONATION!" EP
The Tyrades have just released their first EP, "Detonation," on Big Neck Records. Who are
the Tyrades you ask. They’re Jimmy Hollywood of the Baseball Furies side project. They
remind me of the Baseball Furies if they were thrown in the trunk of a big Plymouth with
Dale Bozzio of Missing Persons. The record starts off with "Detonation." It’s a ferocious
rocker with some cool fucked-up guitar work. On "Vicious Rumors" Jenna Tyrade spits the
lyrics out of her mouth like a bad taste while the guitars grind away at your skull. "Stop
Starring" is about some guy starring at Jenna. She sings, "Not ‘uh, not a chance. Not ‘uh,
not a chance. Not ‘uh, not a chance. I would never touch you." "Lifetime Problems" is a
cover of a Dicks song. I ain’t sure who the Dicks are but they must be some punk rock band.
The song blazes at ninety-to-nuttin’ as Jenna laughs, "ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha" like
she’s some mad woman. I suspect she is. This record is about as intease at rock ‘n roll gets.
Get it at BIG NECK RECORDS.
SMASHING TRANSISTORS - THE TYRADES "DETONATION!" EP
It wouldn't be that hard to play this to people and say it's some band from '82 found on a "Bloodstains" type comp. A pissed
off art chick's spitting and screamin' over a discordant scramble of equipment so cheap that the guitar goes outta tune by the
end of the first verse. With songs, comparing love to a detonation and everyday creeps and sounding like it was recorded in a
dank basement with cobwebs and rats dying from poison for atmosphere, the Tyrades fit it to a tee. It's like someone hacked the
Suburban Lawns into tiny little pieces and though they could never put them all back together they tried anyways. Jimmy "Hollywood"
Ordinary of the Baseball Furies is the guitar playing sick man with the dangerous plan behind this.
