The Orchid Show
@theorchidshow.myatproto.social
He/him. Lapsed writer/musician, guerrilla archivist, socialist, et Jew sans frontières. COVID-consciousness and community care-forward. Death to power.
Also at https://mastodon.social/@theorchidshow.
Also at https://mastodon.social/@theorchidshow.
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Holy Black Mountain Side (Rolling Heads, 2024 - r. 2025)
New CD issue of 2024 LP. Still baffled by the Jyonsun Tsu era retaining the 'Melting Paraiso U.F.O.' suffix as it's so distinct in sound/personnel, but whatever sells more records!
#CDFriday
New CD issue of 2024 LP. Still baffled by the Jyonsun Tsu era retaining the 'Melting Paraiso U.F.O.' suffix as it's so distinct in sound/personnel, but whatever sells more records!
#CDFriday
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Holy Black Mountain Side (Rolling Heads, 2024 - r. 2025)
New CD issue of 2024 LP. Still baffled by the Jyonsun Tsu era retaining the 'Melting Paraiso U.F.O.' suffix as it's so distinct in sound/personnel, but whatever sells more records!
#CDFriday
New CD issue of 2024 LP. Still baffled by the Jyonsun Tsu era retaining the 'Melting Paraiso U.F.O.' suffix as it's so distinct in sound/personnel, but whatever sells more records!
#CDFriday
Scar Crow - ¡Davesnakedass! (Spanish Fly, 1993)
Spanish Fly is one of those early ‘90s labels I don’t hear talked about anywhere near enough. This album is some sax-heavy avant-rock nonsense, like a mathy Caroliner or some shit. I dig.
#CDFriday
Spanish Fly is one of those early ‘90s labels I don’t hear talked about anywhere near enough. This album is some sax-heavy avant-rock nonsense, like a mathy Caroliner or some shit. I dig.
#CDFriday
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Scar Crow - ¡Davesnakedass! (Spanish Fly, 1993)
Spanish Fly is one of those early ‘90s labels I don’t hear talked about anywhere near enough. This album is some sax-heavy avant-rock nonsense, like a mathy Caroliner or some shit. I dig.
#CDFriday
Spanish Fly is one of those early ‘90s labels I don’t hear talked about anywhere near enough. This album is some sax-heavy avant-rock nonsense, like a mathy Caroliner or some shit. I dig.
#CDFriday
The Dead Milkmen - Quaker City Quiet Pills (The Giving Groove, 2023)
The latest (to date) outing by Philly's favourite hackneyed cowpunk sons. Always glad when a band like this is still out there giving it their all.
#CDFriday
The latest (to date) outing by Philly's favourite hackneyed cowpunk sons. Always glad when a band like this is still out there giving it their all.
#CDFriday
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Dead Milkmen - Quaker City Quiet Pills (The Giving Groove, 2023)
The latest (to date) outing by Philly's favourite hackneyed cowpunk sons. Always glad when a band like this is still out there giving it their all.
#CDFriday
The latest (to date) outing by Philly's favourite hackneyed cowpunk sons. Always glad when a band like this is still out there giving it their all.
#CDFriday
#CDFriday continues with the glass-mastered reissue of Hoor-Paar Kraat's double-disc The Eureka Tapes (Goat Eater Arts, 2009 - r. Small Doses/Basses Frequencies, 2011). All the nifty incidental sounds that you'd hear on a New Weird America/Wyrd Folk record, but with no pesky music to get in the way!
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#CDFriday continues with the glass-mastered reissue of Hoor-Paar Kraat's double-disc The Eureka Tapes (Goat Eater Arts, 2009 - r. Small Doses/Basses Frequencies, 2011). All the nifty incidental sounds that you'd hear on a New Weird America/Wyrd Folk record, but with no pesky music to get in the way!
Pussy - Plays Again (private-press, 2023 - r. Morgan Blue Town, 2024)
54 years between a debut and a sophomore record with the line-up (to my better knowledge) fully intact has to be some kind of record. A bit classic-rockier than their first go-'round, but not at all bad.
#CDFriday
54 years between a debut and a sophomore record with the line-up (to my better knowledge) fully intact has to be some kind of record. A bit classic-rockier than their first go-'round, but not at all bad.
#CDFriday
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Pussy - Plays Again (private-press, 2023 - r. Morgan Blue Town, 2024)
54 years between a debut and a sophomore record with the line-up (to my better knowledge) fully intact has to be some kind of record. A bit classic-rockier than their first go-'round, but not at all bad.
#CDFriday
54 years between a debut and a sophomore record with the line-up (to my better knowledge) fully intact has to be some kind of record. A bit classic-rockier than their first go-'round, but not at all bad.
#CDFriday
I hope my neighbours like BTK letters.
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I hope my neighbours like BTK letters.
Closing out another #CDFriday with Armand Schaubroeck Steals' 'A Lot Of People Would Like To See Armand Schaubroeck... DEAD.' (Mirror, 1974 - r. 2024). To me, Armand is the proletarian analogue to Lou Reed, even if he does own that really big guitar store.
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Closing out another #CDFriday with Armand Schaubroeck Steals' 'A Lot Of People Would Like To See Armand Schaubroeck... DEAD.' (Mirror, 1974 - r. 2024). To me, Armand is the proletarian analogue to Lou Reed, even if he does own that really big guitar store.
(Right there with you.)
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
(Right there with you.)
The Approach were a Vancouver indie-rock band with occasional math-/post-rock tendencies who recently came on my radar because they might share a bassist with Toronto's excellent Practice Wife. Starting on the easel with Wings Of Monarchs (Flyer, 2002); Safe As Houses (Hinge, 2006) after.
#CDFriday
#CDFriday
November 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Approach were a Vancouver indie-rock band with occasional math-/post-rock tendencies who recently came on my radar because they might share a bassist with Toronto's excellent Practice Wife. Starting on the easel with Wings Of Monarchs (Flyer, 2002); Safe As Houses (Hinge, 2006) after.
#CDFriday
#CDFriday
Steaming Coils - Breaded (private-press, 1988 - r. Nate Starkman & Son, 1991)
Delicate songs with oddball arrangements from LAFMS alumni and Brad Laner (future Medicine).
#CDFriday
Delicate songs with oddball arrangements from LAFMS alumni and Brad Laner (future Medicine).
#CDFriday
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Steaming Coils - Breaded (private-press, 1988 - r. Nate Starkman & Son, 1991)
Delicate songs with oddball arrangements from LAFMS alumni and Brad Laner (future Medicine).
#CDFriday
Delicate songs with oddball arrangements from LAFMS alumni and Brad Laner (future Medicine).
#CDFriday
>tfw in your veins flows the blood of dracula but she keep suckin
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
>tfw in your veins flows the blood of dracula but she keep suckin
Spengler - We Need A Miracle (Blue Skies Turn Black, 2001)
One-off album from these spindly Montréal math-emo motherfuckers. Sonically the missing link between the pre- and post-Polyvinyl landscape.
#CDFriday
One-off album from these spindly Montréal math-emo motherfuckers. Sonically the missing link between the pre- and post-Polyvinyl landscape.
#CDFriday
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Spengler - We Need A Miracle (Blue Skies Turn Black, 2001)
One-off album from these spindly Montréal math-emo motherfuckers. Sonically the missing link between the pre- and post-Polyvinyl landscape.
#CDFriday
One-off album from these spindly Montréal math-emo motherfuckers. Sonically the missing link between the pre- and post-Polyvinyl landscape.
#CDFriday
Hey, #CDFriday! Christian Vander is by some number of intimate accounts a weird fascist so hopefully I can butterfly effect him into dropping dead by spinning my long-neglected copy of Welcome's 'Bienvenue' (Seventh, 1996) this afternoon.
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Hey, #CDFriday! Christian Vander is by some number of intimate accounts a weird fascist so hopefully I can butterfly effect him into dropping dead by spinning my long-neglected copy of Welcome's 'Bienvenue' (Seventh, 1996) this afternoon.
Who? Who asked?
October 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Who? Who asked?
Good morning, #CDFriday! Checking in with None Left Standing's 'Stingray Candy 100' (Rhetoric, 1996). The band is mostly remembered for giving way to The Promise Ring, but were (imo) a stronger group owed to wearing their clear Dischord Records influences (Embrace, Fugazi, etc.) on their sleeves.
October 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Good morning, #CDFriday! Checking in with None Left Standing's 'Stingray Candy 100' (Rhetoric, 1996). The band is mostly remembered for giving way to The Promise Ring, but were (imo) a stronger group owed to wearing their clear Dischord Records influences (Embrace, Fugazi, etc.) on their sleeves.
Hey, #CDFriday! Going through the collected works of Milwaukee, WI's The Promise Ring today and hoping to like some of what I hear. Starting at top-left with 30º Everywhere (Jade Tree, 1996), but information about all pictured releases can be found in the alt-text as always.
October 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hey, #CDFriday! Going through the collected works of Milwaukee, WI's The Promise Ring today and hoping to like some of what I hear. Starting at top-left with 30º Everywhere (Jade Tree, 1996), but information about all pictured releases can be found in the alt-text as always.
Quote skeet this post with someone you wish was still alive
October 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Quote skeet this post with someone you wish was still alive
Good morning, #CDFriday! Checking in with the heavily expanded 2010 Southern Lord edition of San Clemente, CA experimental punk band Virulence’s sole album If This Isn't A Dream... (Alchemy, 1989). Most of these guys went on to play in Fu Manchu, but for my money, this was the real shit.
October 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Good morning, #CDFriday! Checking in with the heavily expanded 2010 Southern Lord edition of San Clemente, CA experimental punk band Virulence’s sole album If This Isn't A Dream... (Alchemy, 1989). Most of these guys went on to play in Fu Manchu, but for my money, this was the real shit.
Real heads know.
October 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Real heads know.