earmark - discography

1995	workman's comp (various artists) from the clubs of the minneapolis,madison, eau claire, and chicago, come eleven bands toasting their comradeship with a workman's comp of big guitar, sludge, pop, trucker, swamp, anthem rock… this compilation is the logical workman fraternal butt slap each band swings at the other in honor of the continued and ongoing success of the workman way… crank up this slab o' digital on your touch and play, put on your favorite underwear and crack a leinie's or pig's eye beer… and piss off/on your neighbor... become a workman (okay, or a workwoman)…
1996	push on junior - want push on junior's immediate brand of big guitar rock-n-roll is hauntingly unfamiliar... the best description is simply "the three brians" (okay, "fiber laxative" works cuz they're organic, gritty and knock the stuffing out of you)... this minneapolis trio has that ahead-of-the-curve spin and take on it all that retroactively gets a group tagged a special new label like grunge, punk, grunk, prog, power-pop, mod, or, eek, alternative... they're "heavy" like when "metal" was something new and meant zeppelin... not glam, speed or death... not cock-rock nor mock-rock... straight-ahead... honest... raw riffery and emotion with no apologies... and not stadium solos or schtick... jamming jells not hippy, head-banger, nor slacker but rather nowist that won't later be thenist... real talent is timeless...
1996	grunge machine - anthology: the rum and malt liquor era SOLD OUT grunge machine was venison's rick fuller with tommy grunge, martin and eric gunn, circa '88-'90... the name of this band says it all... ripping open the cloaked obsessions of a sick and trembling middle-class limbo, the grunge machine howl with primordial abandon, laying bare the rank and cloistered no-being of mid-america... feeding on the fears and compulsions of those they despise (which, in essence, is all), they fashioned the complexities of cruelty into a grim proscenium, gore-flected and malice-stained… into this spectacle they descend, a deus ex crenge machina, a corporeal manifestation of an empty sould' unleashed torment, an intervention of rapacious, lacerating fury... the dramatis personae, abusing their instruments of cold anguish, become a collective aural countenance which imparts no remorse, no fatigue, merely incessant, externalized, paralyzing malevolence, directed at a stagnant and deceptive ecclesiastical heartland ethos… recalling the most apocalyptic work of artaud (restructuring his "all writing is garbage" theorem into a nihilist credo relevant to the 90's wreckage of musical pseudo-culture), the grunge machine factory of principles boldly articulates the marriage of pain and melody as an unadulterated venture... the release, "that's right baby, shake it, shake it", exemplifies this transcending of foundations and limitations... the work's title expresses not only the visual image of gyrating limbs or genitalia but the shattering of inherent psychological cornerstones, all metaphorical rocks of ambiguous salvation… it is the building of a theater of musical cruelty - an anomaly worthy of artaud, lautreamont, even de sade... accept no understudies... the grunge machine is here for the final act… kevin anderson visionary june 1991
1996	king can - maximum power super loud king can formed, in fall of '93, when then drummer dan beeman (youngest of the beeman family of rock, pete and tom beeman reside in guzzard and bill beeman is in silver salute) and then guitarist, john harvey broms, swapped instruments and asked now and then bassist, tal tahir, to form a band... the following spring, the all boy trio put on the gloves and entered the minneapolis rock'n'roll ring, swinging, gigging intensively and recording and releasing a cd ep independently… since then, king can has been blowing off heads around the central states… "maximum power super loud" is their answer to corporate punk that has destroyed america…
1996	suadetones - best of '88-'95 mike suade lounge music...
1997	julp - tijuana donkey show J.U.L.P. was former venison guitarist matt caflisch, goofball drummer mike suade (mike suade) and kevin lian-anderson (venison, potsdamer platz)... super hooky power pop...
1997	the visualists rick fuller and neal sipress doing Venison keyboard demos circa ‘91-’92...
1997	julp - cheap J.U.L.P. was former venison guitarist matt caflisch, goofball drummer mike suade (mike suade) and kevin lian-anderson (venison, potsdamer platz)... super hooky power pop...
1998	push on junior - good time super saver radio hour final cd from minneapolis' finest...
1998	potsdamer platz - featuring kevin lian-anderson very intense avant garde spoken word...
1998	uberscenester - ballad for neve campbell +3 uber scenster is former venison guitarist matt caflisch (now matt young), goofball drummer mike suade (mike suade), davin odegaard (rank strangers, draghounds), and al grande (busiest bankruptcy lawyers in minnesota)...