HoZac Records & Books

Excellent read on #TheZombies from #RobinPlatts out now on @hozacrecordsbooks.bsky.social - covers all the solo and side projects as well

Now in stock and shipping: We Were Living in Cincinnati Vol 2 1982-88 comp LP as well as the debut 7” from teen punks The OBLIQUES and the first official US pressing of The TIGHTS minimalist punk masterpiece from 1978 (Cherry Red #1!) + restock on WWLIC vol 1 and OG copies of Chicago area power pop!

Radio Dies Screaming #12 It has been a while, and don’t we know it. Radio Dies Screaming #12 hopefully minds the gap w/ new stuff from Miranda Spatula & Nowhere Flower, The Obliques, Water Damage, Verdin Brothers…

You've read me rave about Durham band the Obliques before (local teenagers doing a real deal 70s proto punk.) Well, their debut single is out now on @hozacrecordsbooks.bsky.social and @radiodiesscreaming.bsky.social just dropped the song on the new episode.

Do it!

Shipping sOOn, pre-order NOW!

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Post by @snackpointcharlie · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Tonight on Snackpoint Charlie: a free-ranging chat with New Zealand artist Peter Jefferies. The Kiwi musician is the subject of the book “Peter Jefferies: The Other Side of Reason”…

On the latest Snackpoint Charlie on WGXC: a free-ranging chat with New Zealand artist Peter Jefferies. subject of the book “Peter Jefferies: The Other Side of Reason” by Andrew Schmidt (HoZac Books). Peter talks retirement, re-emerging and much more, download at wavefarm.org/wf/archive/1...

Includes my review of the Dallas concert. Also included in the Denim Delinquent book from HoZac.

Coming up next on #HozacBooks

The first ever US pressing of teen-punk sensations The TIGHTS debut 7” EP (Cherry Red Records first release) from 1978 is landing later this month, don’t miss it!

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Ga ik echt een show van 2 uur over en met Peter Jefferies luisteren? Tuurluk wel. Veel info over hem, het Xpressway label en NZ muziek in de 80s/90s. Benieuwd naar die 'lifechanging supernaturalexperience'... Oh en er is een bio uit via @hozacrecordsbooks.bsky.social . wavefarm.org/wf/archive/1...

3rd edition coming this year!

The Zombies: Odessey, Oracle, and Other Oddities An Interview with Author Robin Platts About His Book

Check out a new interview with ‘Times and Seasons’ author Robin Platts up this week on Tracking Angle covering the immense new biography on The Zombies, and grab a copy of the first edition while you still can, shipping now on Hozac Books-

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Teengenerate Live at the Empty Bottle 1995 LP coming this fall on #HoZacArchival!

Graded on a Curve: Rozz Rezabek, 1979 Pop Session Rozz Rezabek is best known as the singer for the first wave San Francisco punk band Negative Trend, but he also cut a blistering batch of tunes after leaving that group that only surfaced as a boot…

"Rozz Rezabek is best known as the singer for the first wave San Francisco punk band Negative Trend, but he also cut a blistering batch of tunes after leaving that group that only surfaced as a bootleg CD release in 1998, attributed to Rozz and erroneously to his former band..."

The Zombies' Inhuman Staying Power » PopMatters The Zombies only had a couple of hit songs, yet Robin Platt's Times and Seasons shows their almost inhuman staying power to this day.

My latest #bookreview for the fine folks at @popmatters.bsky.social on the new biography of The Zombies from @hozacrecordsbooks.bsky.social www.popmatters.com/the-zombies-...

PRE-ORDER: The OBLIQUES debut 7" HZR-231 Black vinyl 1st pressing of 300 SHIPPING MAY 2025

You've probably read me rave about these Durham kiddos before. Their first single is coming out on @hozacrecordsbooks.bsky.social soon.

As a bonus, it's the first credit (photo) I've gotten on a record in quite a spell.

All Over The Place - Jonathan Thornton witnesses the epic struggles of the Bangles as they fought their way out of the L.A. underground and into pop stardom. ...the latest story in Outsideleft Outsideleft.com an independent Arts, Music and Culture Magazine our newest story is All Over The Place

Check out a new feature on 'ALL OVER THE PLACE - The Rise of The Bangles from the LA Underground' book covering The Bangles & the Paisley Underground by Eric Shade up this week on outsideleft.com, EXPANDED 2nd edition shipping NOW on Hozac Books!

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It's the Time of the Season for a Definitive Zombies Bio When the Zombies were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019, it (so far) marked the end of a certain era. They were the last band with roots in the early 1960s enshrined in that glass p...

Check out another huge feature on Times and Seasons - the new ZOMBIES biography by Robin Platts up this week on Houston Press, shipping now on #HozacBooks

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Vinyl sleeve of The Limiñanas "Crystal Anis" album sitting on a velvet Victorian photo stand.

Center label of the Limiñanas album "Crystal Anis" on certified HoZac Gold vinyl with a zoetrope slipmat showing beneath.

Only incidentally chose a different band’s sophomore album featuring a silhouetted figure on a black background for today’s spin, this one from French underground Ye-Ye sweethearts The Limiñanas. Dank, fuzzy, sultry, groovy… whispers of Serge's 60s psych and on the iconic HoZac label.

All Over The Place - Jonathan Thornton witnesses the epic struggles of The Bangles as they fought their way out of the L.A. underground and into pop stardom. ...the latest story in Outsideleft Outsideleft.com an independent Arts, Music and Culture Magazine our newest story is All Over The Place

Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social I’m reviewing All Over The Place, Eric M. Shade’s excellent unofficial biography of the Bangles @hozacrecordsbooks.bsky.social

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On a new episode of The Music Book Podcast, I talk to Eric Shade about his great book about the Bangles, “All Over the Place,” released last year on Hozac Books. themusicbookpodcast.buzzsprout.com/2120946/epis...

Cynthia Plaster Caster. Thanks to Todd Novak of HoZac.

Good mail day from @hozacrecordsbooks.bsky.social !

It’s at the pressing plant now, pre-order coming next month!

Killer Kane Band - Mr. Cool

8:19 AM "Mr. Cool" by 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝
from 𝑀𝑟. 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑙 (Hozac) #nowplaying

WHEN CAN I FLY? BOOK by Michael Belfer with Will York HZB-011 224 pages, paperback FIRST EDITION of 400 copies: SOLD OUT SECOND EDITION of 400 copies: Shipping LATE APRIL 2021 ISBN: 978-1-7359985-0-3

There is a Sleepers book on HoZac. It's in my to-read stack
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1979 Pop Session LP - MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL Previously misattributed as a late recording from San Francisco first-wavers NEGATIVE TREND when released as the unauthorized The Pop Sessions CD by White Noise Records in 1998, these nine tracks are ...

Maximum Rocknroll review of the recently unearthed Rozz Rezabek '1979 Pop Session' Archival LP is in, don't let this missing link of California Punk slip past you!

www.maximumrocknroll.com/review/mrr-5...