VINYL FORMAT. First up on Rong's shiny, new imprint with DFA is Free Blood's "Never Hear Surf Music Again" 12-inch. This two-piece Brooklyn band has more street cred than you can shake a stick at, and for good reason. Consisting of Madeline Davy (Octopi NYC) on the microphone and John Pugh (formally of !!!) also on microphone, Free Blood has got some serious, serious heat on the mic and mixing board. Hey, really, who needs other band members when you're rockin' a style this damn hard?

"Never Hear Surf Music Again" is an unpredictable druggy number, a mangled hybrid of Beatles-esque melodies fused angrily with a Butthole Surfers song. It's followed by the steaming mayhem of "Quick and Painful," a raucous affair that delivers a swift kick to the jewels. On the flip, the Barfly boys stretch things out a bit with a nine-minute Walter-Gibbons-style disco remix of the title track.