CIA Records Houston / Starvation Dance Productions

CIA Records Houston / Starvation Dance Productions 4 decades of transgressive art and music from Houston and beyond. C.I.A.

Records is an independent label originally founded in 1978 by members of the Houston, Texas punk band Really Red. It emerged organically from sounds performed and recorded in people’s garages, back yards and warehouses, nurtured by strong friendships, a vibrant underground music scene, single-room strip mall record stores and a handful of non-commercial radio stations. In the late 70’s and early 8

0’s, the label filled an urgent need to confront institutional violence perpetuating a culture of fear that dominated Houston at the time. Over four decades it's grown into a platform for musical experimentation and risk-taking that continues to uphold a broad range of ideas, experiences and perspectives today. It has been, is now, and always will be a vanguard for transgressive music from Houston and beyond.

We are incredibly pleased to announce a new collaboration with musician and artist  - starting right now. Tim Muddiman i...
11/03/2024

We are incredibly pleased to announce a new collaboration with musician and artist - starting right now.

Tim Muddiman is from Northampton, England. His music career was slowly born out of a deep love of Rockabilly, a Roland TR808 drum machine and the texture of an infectious and rhythmic melody. By his teens Tim was djing at all night illegal Raves in the UK and by his twenties was touring Europe in a few different Industrial bands on guitar or bass guitar. For the first time, at 28, Tim stepped into a role in Gary Numan’s band and for the next two decades would play almost 400 shows around the world as Gary’s bass player or guitarist. In between a sometimes-busy tour schedule Tim played and wrote music for local Rockabilly band Junkyard and joined the Electronic Punk and alternative Hip Hop band Pop Will Eat Itself, as their guitarist. In 2015 Tim produced and co-wrote a number of songs on PWEI’s latest album, Anti Nasty League.

To critical acclaim, Tim wrote two albums titled, Paradise Runs Deeper and Domino Blitz in his own name and performed with band mates known as The Strange between 2014 and 2018. After a long tour with Gary Numan and at the end of 2018, Tim took a long break from the world of music to concentrate solely on painting to which he continues to do today. Now, in November 2024, Tim is joining us to release three new ep’s in 2025. The music is self described as being like snakes of guitars gargling on the throat of an emotional bass string while sparse percussion and the English word create an abstract mind scape for the multi directional physche.

Welcome, Tim!

Bob/Jim/Heather

I had time a couple months back to catch up on my listening to Genetic Memory Radio, Austin & Carol's show on KTRU in Ho...
10/19/2024

I had time a couple months back to catch up on my listening to Genetic Memory Radio, Austin & Carol's show on KTRU in Houston, TX. At just about an hour in Austin is talking about a double album of "sounds made by plants and fungi". Then he announces an entire set of music by Ralf Armin Kaethner. It's great lo-fi grunge, spooky stuff - my inadequate descriptives. It starts out with the INTROVERTS (this is at about 1:03) which was one of the early C.I.A. Records groups. That was a cassette only release at the time. Then about 1:19 it slides into one of the all time classics, "Atomic Bomb" by CULTURCIDE! That one also started out as a cassette release but I had an LP version (CIA-007) pressed by Wakefield Manufacturing, my go to back then. What an amazing song with Perry Webb's original lyrics, Ralf, Robb May on small digital devices, Dan Workman for the screaming guitar track, and the drums were probably Bart (sorry, I should remember that - I'm sure someone will help me). Enjoy!

I have been doing radio for 40 years now. This means I really know what I am doing. However, it also means that I am slowing down with advancing age. To cope with this, I am playing more long tracks and less short ones. So this show features more lengthy cuts, but still in the general ouvré of musi...

Just the other day Bob encountered some especially lovely Facebook praise on one of CIA's most exceptional, but overlook...
10/11/2024

Just the other day Bob encountered some especially lovely Facebook praise on one of CIA's most exceptional, but overlooked releases, a collaboration between Dan Workman and Steve Silverstein called "Antiquated Views of the Future" that came out in 2021. Pressed on orange vinyl and packaged in gorgeous graphics that leave you wondering what the hell is going on, it's pretty great to see this being appreciated.

If you haven't heard it, give it a listen at https://antiquatedviewsofthefuture.bandcamp.com/album/thread-count

Enjoy, and thank you, Mike Trouchon, wherever you are!

Hey everybody.. it's been a hell of a summer, with each of us (Bob, Jim and Heather) immersed in our own worlds, with ma...
10/04/2024

Hey everybody.. it's been a hell of a summer, with each of us (Bob, Jim and Heather) immersed in our own worlds, with major ventures taking us away from this space for a while. But it's October, the light is changing (even if the temps aren't), and as the season shifts, we are excited to pick back up on and push to fruition CIA projects that have been in the works for months, as well as new ones we're looking forward to for winter and spring late this year and early next.

For now, since it's Bandcamp Friday, we're offering up a half-off discount on Geltab, a collection of electronic studio tracks emerging from the rich sonic history of our very own Scott Ayers, on 180-gram vinyl. The discount means you can get the album for $7, plus shipping and tax, today only! Input the discount code "bcf10424" when you order at https://ciarecords2.bandcamp.com/album/geltab . It'll ship within 5-7 business days.

Thanks everybody, and a Happy Spooky Season to all!

12 track album

What some of us missed out on last weekend 😭Con Mydolls Music y Orange Show Center for Visionary Art 💘
09/14/2024

What some of us missed out on last weekend 😭

Con Mydolls Music y Orange Show Center for Visionary Art 💘

Woke up to this  article about  and Wim Wenders! It talks the band’s relationship with the filmmaker and how mydolls’ ro...
09/07/2024

Woke up to this article about and Wim Wenders! It talks the band’s relationship with the filmmaker and how mydolls’ roll in the film came to be.

It’s also a sweet reminder that they’re playing today at (5-8pm) and will be speaking after a screening of Paris, Texas at ’s Brown Auditorium tomorrow (9/8/24, 2pm).

Don’t miss out on these awesome and well deserved celebrations of Mydolls 💗

Chronicle article link in bio.

Today is all about Mydolls, you guys. Screening “Paris, Texas” at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston tomorrow! Performing ...
09/07/2024

Today is all about Mydolls, you guys. Screening “Paris, Texas” at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston tomorrow! Performing Orange Show Center for Visionary Art today! And there will be dogs!!

Go 💗

Houston band Mydolls became close friends with director Wim Wenders, making a memorable cameo in the award-winning classic.

Hey there friends..Wouldn't you know it.. BANDCAMP FRIDAY IS BACK. As such, it's time for a brief update. Over the summe...
09/06/2024

Hey there friends..

Wouldn't you know it.. BANDCAMP FRIDAY IS BACK. As such, it's time for a brief update. Over the summer we've been releasing singles, teasers if you will, from regular artists (i.e. The Popeboy Collective), and from new ones we've introduced (Red Nightmare, for instance).

Though it's been otherwise quiet, we have several projects brewing that will make the remainder of this year pretty exciting. Full albums from the above-mention artists. An experimental collaboration very different from anything CIA has done before. And projects on the horizon from folks you all know well, that'll prick up your ears. But we won't speak their names just yet.

Instead.. (it being Bandcamp Friday)... we are offering 2 FREE CD'S WITH THE PURCHASE OF ONE LP. Till 11:59 tonight (9/6/24) this deal is on the table. Want that treasured double vinyl edition of "Teaching You the Fear...Again"? Take a couple CD versions for free to give to your friends! Been waiting around to pick up that motley-colored vinyl copy of Manifestation 11? Get Manifestations 9 and X on us (in CD form, that is)!

You get the picture. We get all the proceeds, which go toward funding these upcoming projects. Just make your LP purchase and indicate in notes which CD's you'd like sent. Visit our merch page at https://ciarecords2.bandcamp.com/merch.

Seriously though.. thanks to everyone, always, for paying attention to us here, and for supporting independent music everywhere. Love you guys.

Art = Mary M. McGee / The Popeboy Collective

We’ve got a new single for y’all from the Popeboy Collective. “Ink”. With guitar tracks by Tim Muddiman, of Gary Numan a...
08/12/2024

We’ve got a new single for y’all from the Popeboy Collective. “Ink”. With guitar tracks by Tim Muddiman, of Gary Numan and Pop Will Eat Itself. We’re bringing it to you as part of an EP called “Kill Me O’Clock”, a release that will grow as we add singles to it over time.

So have a listen to “Ink” at https://thepopeboycollective.bandcamp.com/album/kill-me-oclock (link in bio) and watch this space for more!
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New today on C.I.A. Records by Red Nightmare: The QueenRed Nightmare, a solo keyboardist and songwriter named Aleksandra...
08/02/2024

New today on C.I.A. Records by Red Nightmare: The Queen

Red Nightmare, a solo keyboardist and songwriter named Aleksandra Craine, lives in Kentucky, producing creepy-pretty, witty, pi**ed off synth-goth anthems. She is fierce and dedicated to her craft, and as a new addition to CIA's family, very worthy of multiple listens.

She's on our Bandcamp in the link Bob shared, and we put her songs up on Spotify too. Both links are on her band page at https://www.cia-records.com/red-nightmare

Give her your ears and share it if you like it. Thanks for your support!

track by Red Nightmare

Amazing lineup in Houston’s First Ward this coming Friday, August 2! Not to be missed
07/29/2024

Amazing lineup in Houston’s First Ward this coming Friday, August 2! Not to be missed

An update with stellar pictures, post Harry Dean Stanton Fest from Mydolls Music. Hopefully somebody recorded that show!...
07/16/2024

An update with stellar pictures, post Harry Dean Stanton Fest from Mydolls Music. Hopefully somebody recorded that show! 💘

 at , describing their unique history and influences as one of the earliest almost-all-female punk bands to rise out of ...
07/13/2024

at , describing their unique history and influences as one of the earliest almost-all-female punk bands to rise out of Texas.

Tonight they play on a bill with Tommy Stinson of the Replacements! If you’re in Lexington, KY, don’t miss them at The Green Lantern Bar - doors open 7pm ✨

Mydolls Music at Black Magic Social Club, performing a warm up show before they pack up their van and head off to Harry ...
07/10/2024

Mydolls Music at Black Magic Social Club, performing a warm up show before they pack up their van and head off to Harry Dean Stanton Fest tomorrow! Honored they played for us in HTX first 💕

If you’re in Lexington, Kentucky this weekend, don’t miss what promises to be an amazing show! Check the HDSF website for details (https://www.harrydeanstantonfest.org/).

📸 Heather L Johnson /

Tomorrow, friends.. Mydolls Music amidst a powerful lineup of Houston women-fronted/all women punk bands at Black Magic ...
07/05/2024

Tomorrow, friends.. Mydolls Music amidst a powerful lineup of Houston women-fronted/all women punk bands at Black Magic Social Club. Show starts at 6:30 / $15. Be there!

Playing the PRETTY IN PUNK show featuring all female/femme punk bands this Saturday, July 6, at 8:45 p.m. at

📷 Classic mydolls at the Jockey Club in Kentucky during our Midwest Dead Armadillo Tour (1983)

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