Welcome to My Teeth Need Attention. I'm Joe Tunis. This podcast is essentially an extension of my radio show Numbers on WAYOLP Rochester NY 104.3fm and wayofm.org. This platform gives me a little more flexibility on things I'd like to cover, as well as encouraging people to check out music covered, directly supporting artists and labels, and also talk about Carbon Records, the label I've been running since 1994.
In this podcast, I feature new and old music, underground and weirdo, as well as theme-based episodes, label features, and interviews.
Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast or Mixcloud, rate and review it, share it, etc. You can also follow us at @myteethneedattention on Instagram.
But aside from being a podcast, MTNA is also a print zine! Below is the list of all issues.
Issue #4
This issue features interviews with Myriam Gendron, Michael Morley (Gate, The Dead C), Christina Carter (Charalambides, Obscuress), and Miranda Soileau-Pratt (The Spatulas), photos by Liam Grant, as well as record and show reviews.
8.5 inches x 5.5 inches, 56 pages, full color photocopy, saddle stitched with a variety of cover paper colors. Luck of the draw! :)
Issue #3
This issue of My Teeth Need Attention includes interviews with Jackson Wingate (Flipped Out, Burnt Hills), Joe Piccirillo (Minimum Table Stacks), photos, fiction, reviews, and more.
The zine is: 7 inches x 7 inches, 60 pages, full color photocopy, saddle stitched.
In the tradition of early issues of seminal underground zines like Bananafish, Muckraker, and Chemical Exposure, My Teeth Need Attention #3 includes a 7” EP with six exclusive tracks. Carbon challenged luminaries from drone, American primitive, improvisational, and experimental undergrounds to respond to the spacial limitations of a 7” comp, and the rewards are brisk punches of sound, revelations of style, and surprise detours from an international host of artists. Both sides end in locked grooves. 7” cover is a sketch variation of zine cover, printed in 3 color Riso, with multiple variants. Vinyl labels are hand-stamped.
side A
Greymouth - Gunned it
Liam Grant, Grayson McGuire, Devon Flaherty - Spoonful
Bill Nace - Phone Call (For Lena)
side B
Will Veeder - Sora Sorrow
Bruce Russell - Au bord de la mer
only vernal pools - even the night moth
The zine and 7” are only sold together, and are limited to 330 copies!
Issue #2
This issue features interviews with Matthias Andersson (Discreet Music, I Dischi Del Barone, Forlag For Fri Musik, Arv & Mijo, etc) and Antony Milton (PseudoArcana, Claypipe, etc), Liam Grant photography, record reviews, road-trip log (Pengo long-weekend), fiction, and more...
8.5 inches x 5.5 inches, 42 pages, full color photocopy, saddle stitched with orange card-stock cover and heavy newsprint interior.
Issue #1
This issue features interviews with Stefan Christensen (C/Site Recordings, Headroom, Mountain Movers, Center, etc) and David Shapiro (aka Alexander, Center, Nagual, Kath Bloom collaborator), Brian Blatt photography, record reviews, road-trip log (Petty Bunco Big Outdoor Party weekend in Philly), fiction, and more...
8.5 inches x 5.5 inches, 28 pages, full color photocopy, saddle stitched with kraft card-stock cover and heavy newsprint interior. NOTE: some copies are all white, or all kraft. Luck of the draw! :)
In this episode, I sit down with Mark Anderson and Mark Sadgrove of Greymouth to discuss how they found themselves moving to Japan and meeting, past and future plans for the band, Mark S's label A Binary Datum, their four-piece group Mysteries of Love, Mark A's involvement in Suishou No Fune, the difference between "batches" and "cribs", and more.
In this episode, I sit down with percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Otto Hauser. We discuss his childhood and college years, his early introduction to percussion, his years back in Rochester working at a record store and playing in various bands, and his journey into the world of the "New Weird America" / "freak folk" music scene(s).
This episode features some tracks featuring Jim Shepard, new C/Site Recordings releases, Greymouth, The Dead C, 90's loud-rock, etc.
In this episode, the second of a two part interview, I sit down with guitarist and label owner Eric Hardiman. We discuss his newer projects Sky Furrows, Spiral Wave Nomads, and the monumental collage project Parallel Systems, which he's been working on during the pandemic, scheduled to be released in the summer of 2021.
In this episode, the first of a two part interview, I sit down with guitarist and label owner Eric Hardiman. We discuss his highschool and college years in the DC area, early musical influences, his hiatus from playing live music, and his eventual resurgence into the underground music scene after moving to Albany. In this part, we also cover his time in the improv collective Burnt Hills, his solo project Rambutan, his duo Century Plants with Ray Hare, and his label Tape Drift.