Amphetamine Reptile

My first exposure to Thomas Hazelmyer’s Amphetamine Reptile imprint was the Cow’s “Daddy Has a Tail” Cassette. A friend of mine brought it in and asked me to play “Bum In The Alley” on my weekly radio show.  This lead to me exploring their “Dope-Guns” compilations… I was hooked. AmRep had/has an approach that’s both artful and dangerous. They were hip, crude, smart, and seemed somehow exclusive even when they started getting popular. I didn’t know Thomas was a visual artist until I started taking notice of his hand carved and printed Melvins releases a few years ago. I love what this dude pulls off with an x-acto knife, a slab of linoleum, ink and some paper. In 2019, I finally reached out to him about working with us on a shirt for The Locust. The band was notoriously hard to please when it comes to the art they use and I thought Tom might be able to get it right. A few days later he sent over a finished print…No conceptual thoughts, No sketches. Accompanying the art was a brief message: “This is my one and only attempt”.  I sent it to the band and they all loved it… No changes, no pushback, no dissenting opinions.

Here’s an iron on patch featuring Tom’s “Speed Kills, Accelerate!” design that we offered on some sold out shirts a while ago. Dig It! -Charles Cardello/ Bifocal Media 

Limited to 100 embroidered iron on patches.