destroy all monsters

been listening to swamp gas, a 2001 release by detroit art-noise weirdos destroy all monsters. in the late '70s, the band employed ron asheton (ex-stooges) and mike davis (ex-mc5) and achieved some notoriety in the u.k. for playing fairly conventional post-punk rock'n'roll, but in their earlier and later incarnations, they were into something much, much more outre. dig this blastitude 'zine that founder carey loren (who runs detroit area bookseller the book beat) guest-edited, which includes a discography/bibliography and scrapbook. swamp gas features stuff like a spiritualist channeling madame blavatsky, a lengthy rant by mike kelley about 1966 ufo sigtings in michigan, and cut-up snippets from a lengthy sun ra monologue, among other wonders. fascinating stuff.