So a while back my first Medication Buddyhead music-blog post was about a band called Les Trois Malheures. Well finally we went through the vaults and contacted the band members and released their lost EP on iTunes! We being me and my friend Håkan who have a label called Carcrash Records. Les Trois Malheures was one of our favorite DC bands ever that scoured the scene for a short time with their discordant and energetic post-punk. A band that was breaking at the seams before it even set sail which left a legacy of bombastic shows and songs that stand the test of time today. To make even the most jaded punk lost in the digital ocean to pump his/her virtual fist yet again. We put it up on iTunes for the punk price of $3.99!

Frodus/The Cassettes nerds take note that Les Trois Malheures was fronted by Jonathan Kreinik, producer for “Conglomerate International” and countless Frodus singles as well as the recent Cassettes album “‘Neath The Pale Moon” and albums by Trans Am, Supersystem, and more… We fondly remember the times when L3M played dark basements and lurked amongst smokey locales. Mr. Krenik has recently been seen as the soundman for The Rapture for the past 2 years and before that he worked with Le Tigre… he’s an organized troublemaker that is to be reckoned with when it comes to the bottle or bass compression. An excerpt from his email about the band:

“The only other real recording of us was done with Craig Gates at Boombox Magnetica version 3, Kansas house, probably with fewer mics than the other one. I think I ran the whole mix through this stereo tuner that had a cool loudness button, but only output in mono, so the orig mixes of those were in mono. Ann used my fender amp and I used some gibson transistor amp that got left in our basement, so the whole thing sounded really weird and Joy Division-y. The version of …Titanic… on here I’m pretty sure was done on the Trident @ National Recording Studio because the Boombox eventually lived there up until Tim Schmieder stole my speakers and stands and mic cables and I sold Nikhil the Otari for a bag of weed and $700. ”

I may post some more here at the NEW AND IMPROVED Buddyhead blog but I listen to lots of nerdy instrumental electronic music (see my last.fm: http://www.last.fm/user/triobelisk/) that Travis doesn’t really like. And since playing guitar in bands for 10+ years along with being surrounded by guitar nerds (see: myspace.com/darkesthour) I tend to not listen to lots of guitar rock and Travis always beats me to the punch when it comes to Britpop… damn! Anyway, enjoy Les Trois Malheures! You can download their tune “I Am The Greatest” at http://myspace.com/carcrashrecords.

Shelby C.