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OUT NOW: GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION “Unexplained Bite Marks” LP LIMITED TO 200 copies 3rd ever live show from 1994 featuring SEYMOUR GLASS, BARBARA MANNING, PEG MURRAY (US Saucer) MICHAEL MORLEY (the Dead C) Mastered for vinyl by @weasel_walter BODY OF RESEARCH “Vehicle Wasting Away” LP LIMITED TO 110 copies Debut LP from this Pittsburgh, PA outfit. “Bob Weston jamming with Jewels of Thought-era Pharoah Sanders? “ - Ethan Swan DBA @jabseveryday remastered for vinyl by @magneticring @oticsound STILL HOT OFF THE PRESSES: SCISSOR FITS “It Wasn’t Nothing” LP limited to 300 copies. Complete recordings of the legendary West London, UK DIY band EVERYONE’S A WINNER!

Hello all! This Friday is a BANDCAMP Friday and MTS will have TWO new releases that day: the first is the debut vinyl LP by Western, PA’s BODY OF RESEARCH entitled “Vehicle Wasting Away” and the second is an archival recording of the third ever live performance of GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION (featuring Michael Morley of the Dead C) entitled “Unexplained Bite Marks”. Now what makes these two records even more special is they’re the first two releases to be housed in “generic” printed MTS label sleeves designed by my 4 year old son Sebastien. Sebby designed the sleeves which I then had pro printed an each release will feature handmade/paste on/stamped/etc artwork by the artists. Each release will be very limited: Glands is 200 copies and Body of Research is 100 copies, both hand-stamped. Some more great stuff coming in this series so please stay tuned… Thabks Xx

🚨NEW RELEASE ALERT🚨 Out Friday May 1, 2026: BODY OF RESEARCH “Vehicle Wasting Away” LP Debut LP by this Western Pennsylvania band. Instrumentation recorded in abandoned and decaying buildings, tunnels and cemeteries throughout the Northeast US combined with studio recordings to create an album of soaring industrial soundscapes and 90’s style spaced out rock and roll. Mastered for vinyl by Josh Stevenson @oticsound @magneticring Limited to 100 numbered copies in handmade paste-on sleeves with insert. M I N I M U M T A B L E S T A C K S

🚨NEW RELEASE ALERT🚨 Out Friday May 1, 2026 GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION “Unexplained Bite Marks” LP. Live document of their 3rd live performance ever on May 20, 1994 at the Purple Onion in San Francisco. Featuring the lineup of Seymour Glass (Bananafish) @raoultinybear , Barbara Manning @themusicianbarbaramanning , Michael Morley @preciousmetalpacificheights (Gate, Dead C) and Margaret Murray (U.S. Saucer, S.F. Seals). Recorded live to Hi8 camcorder. “The raw and monolithic result is loud, distorted, saturated and more obscured by murk than The Loch Ness monster on a menopausal rampage.” Edition of 200 hand-numbered copies with paste on sleeves featuring a painting by Mr. Morley and a postcard. Mastered by @weasel_walter M I N I M U M T A B L E S T A C K S

Definitive proof that Scissor Fits played the Marquee in Wardour Street. GO and listen to the album on BANDCAMP or your preferred streaming service.

@scissorfits “It Wasn’t Nothing” is Album of the Day on @bandcamp Daily! Thanks @creamocoyl for the words!!! Link in Bio!

🚨🚨🚨OUT NOW🚨🚨🚨 Scissor Fits “It Wasn’t Nothing” LP Available via Minimum Table Stacks Bandcamp and BigCartel stores! Album is also streaming on all major services! “It Wasn’t Nothing” is a career retrospective of Hounslow, UK’s own SCISSOR FITS. The LP compiles both of their 7” singles, their track from the “Snoopies” compilation LP plus additional never before released songs from the band’s archive. 300 copies on black vinyl with a nifty 2-sided insert featuring photos/ephemera/liner notes covering the band’s glorious run from 1978-1981. Cover art by clair Mastered by @magnetic @otic Layout by @raoul Ed Zed of Strange Flesh sez: Hounslow: a seemingly unassuming town with a storied history. Birthplace of MF DOOM. Final destination of the northbound 281 bus. And once upon a time, the stomping ground of beloved post-punks, Scissor Fits. Formed in 1978, with a stripped-down, spiky DIY sound as their sonic template, the band recorded their legendary debut EP  ‘Taught? Tense? Angular? And Other British Rail Sandwiches’ before they’d even played a live gig. An instant classic featuring arch but relatable ditties such as ‘I Don’t Wanna Work For British Airways’, ‘I Wish I Hadn’t Shaved My Pubic Hair Off’ and ‘Waiting For Your Love In The Shower’ the EP garnered glowing press and the inevitable support of John Peel.  A second EP  ‘Soon After Dark’ was released in 1979, which found the band adding a poppy, quasi-psychedelic twist to their now beefed-up sound, and a superb final recording from the same era could easily have made up a third EP. In the tradition of so many punky posses of their time however, the Fits called it quits after just two fabulous singles, burning brightly and briefly, and their legacy is now captured here on this career-spanning compilation. Featuring both the band’s EPs, plus four sumptuous previously unreleased tracks, this is the definitive Scissor Fits article. Dive in. For fans of: Buzzcocks, Department S, Television Personalities, Rezillos, Vapors, Desperate Bicycles, #ukdiy #messthetics #hyped2death

NEW RELEASE (NEXT) FRIDAY APRIL 3, 2026: A career retrospective of Hounslow, UK’s own SCISSOR FITS @scissorfits The LP compiles both of their 7” singles, their track from the “Snoopies” compilation LP plus additional never before released songs from the band’s archive. 300 copies on black vinyl with a nifty 2-sided insert featuring photos/ephemera/liner notes covering the band’s glorious run from 1978-1981. Cover art by @claireobdraws Mastered by @magneticring @oticsound Layout by @raoultinybear @ed_.zed of @strange__flesh sez: Hounslow: a seemingly unassuming town with a storied history. Birthplace of MF DOOM. Final destination of the northbound 281 bus. And once upon a time, the stomping ground of beloved post-punks, Scissor Fits. Formed in 1978, with a stripped-down, spiky DIY sound as their sonic template, the band recorded their legendary debut EP  ‘Taught? Tense? Angular? And Other British Rail Sandwiches’ before they’d even played a live gig. An instant classic featuring arch but relatable ditties such as ‘I Don’t Wanna Work For British Airways’, ‘I Wish I Hadn’t Shaved My Pubic Hair Off’ and ‘Waiting For Your Love In The Shower’ the EP garnered glowing press and the inevitable support of John Peel.  A second EP  ‘Soon After Dark’ was released in 1979, which found the band adding a poppy, quasi-psychedelic twist to their now beefed-up sound, and a superb final recording from the same era could easily have made up a third EP. In the tradition of so many punky posses of their time however, the Fits called it quits after just two fabulous singles, burning brightly and briefly, and their legacy is now captured here on this career-spanning compilation. Featuring both the band’s EPs, plus four sumptuous previously unreleased tracks, this is the definitive Scissor Fits article. Dive in. For fans of: Buzzcocks, Department S, Television Personalities, Rezillos, Vapors, Desperate Bicycles, #ukdiy #messthetics #hyped2death

Bonjour mes amis! It’s me, Zinedine Zidane, how’s it going? Me, I’ve been hanging out @popcultureshop75 on Rue Keller in the fashionable city of Paris. There you can pick up excellent disques by the likes of Paris 1942, Alan Vega, Polygon Window, R.N.A. Organism, The Clean, and, as of today, the brand new long player by England’s newest hitmakers, THE MIDNIGHT MINES. I predict big things for these guys, probably gonna be headlining the Zenith soon. Fred also has loads of comics and tapes and Street Fighter II figurines. What a great place. Tell all your Parisien punk mates or people passing through. Apparently bloghouse is back though and the weather is a bit shit, so I got to get out of this country for a while, see you round the way.

Midnight Mines “Slug Train” from the album ‘Feel I’m Slipping Away Now’ on Minimum Table Stacks. A cat shit on my blue suede shoes. A cat shit on my blue suede shoes. No illness. Ray! Turn these monitors up! I can’t hear a fucking thing! Take the middle off, Ray! No middle! Come on Ray, get it together! Come on, move it! At parties, is the fine civilian policeman. Midnight Mines play Mystery Planes Number Twelve, next Saturday 31 January in the upstairs room at Walthamstow Trades Hall, with Rubber and < 3.

Thank you Mr. Coley. Now you heard the man: buy the new LP @ the MTS Big Cartel or Bandcamp and go see the boys in action at Mystery Planes #12 @tradese17 Saturday 31 January with special guests Rubber and <3 So deep, it’s picked up on radios in tunnels…

MYSTERY PLANES NUMBER THIRTEEN 8th February 2026, upstairs at Walthamstow Trades Hall, London E17, 7pm til 10:30pm An evening of primitive performance and found sounds by the Midnight Mines and friends. Our thirteenth edition comes hot on the heels of Mystery Planes Number Twelve on 31st January! Whereas that is set to be a Saturday night rager, this quickfire sequel is a Sunday evening acoustic special, featuring the following: CHRISTOPHER ALAN DURHAM Leader of Detroit’s C.A.D & The Peacetime Consumers, and operator of the All Gone label, performing his songs in a loose, stripped down solo setting. VAIA & TAM Songwriter Ro from Setúbal, Portugal, in intimate duo mode, backed up by Tam (Es), something slightly different than the more post-punk influenced sounds they make as part of Vaiapraia. BARON SATURDAY One half of Midnight Mines in his guitar soli persona, with back-up from bandmate PRVATE SORROW. + winter folk sounds from the Major Trauma Sound System in between acts £5 members £7 Guests and non-members More eternal dream musik 4 yr Sun-Day ev-er-ning