THE SCENE IS NOW RE-ISSUES

 

The Scene is Now, their trilogy re-issue CDs via Australian label Lexicon Devil are available now. Those are "Tonight We Ride" (Lost/Twin Tone/1988) featuring the dB's drummer Will Rigby and Pere Ubu bassist Tony Maimone, "Total Jive" (Lost/Twin Tone/1986) and 1985 debut album "Burn All Your Records" (Lost) which including 'Yellow Sarong," as later covered by Yo La Tengo. Also TSIN's best-of compilation "Oily Years 1983-1993" is available on Bar/None.

RIYL: Red Krayola, Yo La Tengo, Feelies, Slovenly, Pere Ubu, Minutemen/fIREHOSE. 

“You can never say enough about The Scene Is Now” - Ira Kaplan, Yo La Tengo.

READ :: Philip Dray interview by Jason Gross (Feb. 2001) @ Perfect Sound Forever


TSIN were formed at the dawn of the 1980s by Philip Dray and Chris Nelson, a band born from the ashes of no wave trio, Information (the third partner of that outfit being Rick Brown). Influenced equally by the ragged avant-folk sounds of the Holy Modal Rounders and The Fugs, the screech of DNA and Mars, and the traditional Americana of Bob Wills and Hoagy Carmichael, TSIN instantly set themselves apart from the pack. Their music was an indefinable mixture of the old and new, the impenetrable and the accessible and the weird and wonderful.
The point is this: between the years 1984 and 1988, they released three magnificent albums on their own label, Lost (the last two being in co-operation with the Twin/Tone label), which have been out-of-print for a dog's age and had never seen the light of day on compact disc. Until now.  (Lexicon Devil)