Yeah, late at night in Rockcastle County you hear 'em clonkin' 'n' bangin' on whatever they can find, drunk on cough syrup and mouthwash. They're havin' a good ol' time, even as they're grimly aware of THINGS WHICH YOU DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW ABOUT. Yep, they got the creeps.
"The Creeps" is like "The Blues". Not just a musical genre, it's a feeling, a state of mind. It's that indefinable something that passes ghostly and Neutrino-like between the cracks of your very perception; the stark, gut-wrenching awareness that time is passing.
You had the Creeps when you were a kid. Maybe you still have it now. Maybe it'll come back to haunt you later like a resurrected zombie of your former childhood, returning to check up on you.
CREEPS RECORDS and its distributor SUPERFROTHCO don't like to fuck
around with niceties. We have released records pressed on margarine lids with
a homemade stylus. We have released cassettes that are tenth-generation dubs from our
own master tapes just because we like the sound of tape hiss. Our idea of a successful
album is to burn a CD of your Uncle Louie drunkenly singing Iron Maiden songs in the tub,
wrapping the disc in spray-painted wax paper, and distributing it randomly to a few Flying-J truck stops
in the midwest. If this sounds like the label for you, contact us immediately and
let's talk.
After years of purveying the finest in low-fi lowbrow atonal warbling from Kentucky street-busking duos
Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infection and Cheeseburger and Fries, we've finally decided to enter
the 21st century digital age by flooding the market and hopefully glutting cyberspace with these
deliciously shitty archival recordings of raw squirming humanity.
Yes, that's right, you heard right, we're putting it ALL out there for FREE, thanks to the scary geniuses at the
Internet Archive Open Source Audio Project. That's right,
spontaneous street recordings made by manchild losers on a crappy Radio Shack handheld tape recorder in 1989 while chanting whatever nonsense pops into their heads are now
available ALL OVER THE WORLD on this here dashed clever "INTERNET" thingie as variable-rate MP3s, zip files, M3U streams, and even OGG Vorbis files. In
true Creeps fashion, never before has so much effort been expended for something so little.
Creeps Records is grateful to the faithful consumers who have actually paid real money over the years for our cassette-only releases, and surely our
sister label JLK Records, who compiled some RV&OI material into compact disc releases, feels the same gratitude as well. HOWEVER: it's now the new
millenium. Up is down, black is white, day is night. We now want to GIVE AWAY Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infection's corrosively retarded jingles, and to do
so aggressively. Your new mission is to take RV&OI's unholy jabberings and FORCE THEM DOWN THE THROATS OF EVERY LIVING BEING ON THIS PLANET. Host these mp3s on your own
websites and blogs, or just hotlink to archive.org's versions. Email them to everyone you know. Email them to strangers and ask them to "please pass along". Let's make sure
these pieces of sonic shit are so spread across cyberspace that they can never, ever, ever, be undone, and thus insure their magickal grip on this sector of the solar system forevermore. NOTHING YOU EVER DO IN YOUR LIFE WILL BE AS IMPORTANT AS THIS.
The escadrille of RV&OI files has already begun. Here's one now. The Cheeseburger and Fries tapes will make the digital leap later this winter. If you have any recordings of any kind by either of
these bands, please contact us.
HASIL ADKINS
The late great psychobilly king recorded his final studio session for Creeps
Records, with powerful songs about aliens, fried chicken, decapitation,
the Moon, doin' the Hunch, drinkin', and his lovely girlfriend Amy. Click here to order direct, or
click here to get it through eBay!
Also on CD:
(original soundtrack to Grillo's 2004 performance installation "Blubbering Buttsteaks of Eternal Torment")
Click here to read "That Low Gruesome Sound", a
your source for lowbrow mp3s!
"Night Life" CD
GRILLO THE CLOWN sings
the hits of the 90s!
history of "Creeps Music" written by Mitchell Newport in 2003!