Shake Your Chic Behind b/w Stay Away From Music Latin Karate’s transition into indie-rock maturity

Karate’s transition into indie-rock maturity had become so complete by the time they dropped Unsolved that you could play the coffeehouse soul of “Halo of the Strange” and sultry jazz of “Lived-But-Yet-Named” to an unsuspecting punk and spend an entire evening trying to convince them that

and even the Melvins hoisted up the major label flagpole

Beehive sisters The Contessas only experienced a fraction of what could have been

But they certainly used the language of punk to get their point across

Over on the west coast

Shake Your Chic Behind b/w Stay Away From Music Latin Karate’s transition into indie-rock maturityNumero's Hottest Sounds Around trio gathers castaway late '70s grooves from across the Greater Antilles. Stan Chaman's Trinidadian Semp concern delivered Wilfred Luckie's wobbly "My Thing" and the Hamilton Brothers' calypso disco smash "Music Makes The World Go 'Round" in 1978. Across the sea, Frank Penn's G. B. I studio tracked Stephen Colebrook's Doobies inspired "Stay Away From Music" for the cruise ship curious. All three are housed in a custom