blissblog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
amazingly, Joker wasn't even the most amazing thing i saw at the weekendeven more amazing was the performance by... Jad Fair and Lumberobthere was this two-day festival A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music, curated by Mike Kelley & Mark Beasley - went to the first night, lots of good stuff... others more like "concept sound" e.g. the strange...
I Heart Noise (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
MySpace Page Trouser Press Entry Mobilization: The Savage Republic Story (Perfect Sound Forever) Employing such exotic instrumentation as oil drums and metal pipes, Savage Republic were a Los Angeles band whose live shows, according to witnesses, were something to behold. The band recorded a number of albums throughout the 80s, but broke up in the early 90s, only [...] Related posts: Medicine Unofficial...
Speed of Dark (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I posted the beautiful and somber “Pharaoh’s Chariot” from Soulsaver’s third album, Broken, in my Creepy Halloween Mix and liked it so much I decided to look up more songs. I ended up with all of it and a brand-new respect for this joint project of Rich Machin (above, right) and Mark Lanegan (left, [...]
Mic to Mic (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Adam Horovitz will be DJing at the Tony Clifton and Vaginal Davis concert at Santos Party House in New York City next Monday (November 16). Horovitz will share DJ duties with wife Kathleen Hanna and Gibby Haines (Butthole Surfers). Tickets to this 18+ show cost $20 and may be purchased online at Ticketweb . Presumably, Horovitz and Hanna were invited to DJ at Clifton's and Davis' concert when the couple...
Sound As Language (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
If I told you that a particular band in the 90’s opened for the likes of Jawbreaker, Gang of Four, Counting Crows and Jawbox, while also sharing the stage with Green Day, Ben Folds Five, Nada Surf and The Butthole Surfers, you would have to think that this band would have been pretty successful in [...]
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Former Turn-Ons frontman Travis DeVries releases his lushly melodic, Britpop-accented album, Death to God , under the group name deVries today on Noise on Noise Records. The record was produced and mixed by the great local studio guru Erik Blood and mastered by Kramer (ex-Butthole Surfers, ex-Bongwater, ex-Shockabilly, etc.). You can download a couple of tracks from the full-length, "Slowing...
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
East Bay Ray, of Dead Kennedys fame, has entered El Dorado Studios in Los Angeles this week to begin recording a new project. As of right now, the band name has not been revealed, but it features Skip from the Wynona Riders. The record is being produced by Paul Leary (Butthole Surfers, Sublime). The Dead Kennedys declared an indefinite touring hiatus last year due to health issues faced by bassist...
cowsarejustfood (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
even as the original line-up is whittled away (they’ve never really been the same since cederlund jumped ship for disfear) and they record and tour less and less frequently and the rock and roll shit is sloughed off for a return to their harsher death roots, this swedish collective are still one of my allfuckingtime [...]
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
by Amanda Marcotte Sarah MacLachlan is bringing back the Lilith Fair. I am not thrilled. I didn’t go to it when it last came to Austin, because I was in college then, and had to save my money. The only acts I wanted to see w...
Austinist (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Image from Butthole Surfers’ MySpace Butthole Surfers, Peaches, & MEN Saturday, October 31 Stubbs ( 801 Red River ) 7 p.m. | $30 Advance; $35 At The Door | Outside [ info ] | [ tickets ] Texas has nurtured more than its fair share of talented musical acts over the course of our esteemed history. Buddy Holly, Willie Nelson, ZZ Top, Roy Orbison, and Stevie Ray Vaughan have garnered worldwide...
Matablog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
As most of you are aware, when I’m not opening prescription medication I’ve found in Chris Lombardi’s desk attending marketing meetings at 304 Hudson Street,, I spend the majority of my time in the lovely city of Austin, TX. The region’s musical heritage, while often acknowledged in the major trade fairs and sprawling rock [...]
The Breakaway British Hockey Blog (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
"Gotta meet the plane so I can get my monkey Teach him to be cool, but a little bit funky" Butthole Surfers: " Dracula From Houston" There's no monkey...but hopefully, minimalistic and bare though it is, there is a little more funkiness in the world...the Breakaway has followed the lead of Five Minute Major and now has a Facebook fan page ! So come join the army...and feel free...
LAist (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
It was a hell of a week for old post-punk college-rockers in Los Angeles, what with former Husker Du guitarist Bob Mould at the Troubadour and Mike Watt of the Minutemen/ fIREHOSE playing the Redwood in the same five-day period that saw return visits from two of the major acts from Chicago’s legendary Touch & Go label. The Jesus Lizard and Butthole Surfers were two of Independent America’s...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
[10-16-2009] Gibby Haynes was born in 1957, Buzz Osborne in 1964. Melvins and Butthole Surfers were both formed in the early 80s, and so I was not surprised when upon encountering a friend after the show back in Oakland, they asked if these rockers have to use walkers now. Clearly, they are not that old, but judging by my perception of the crowd, which was practically drenched in tattoo ink, the median...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
[10-07-2009] [PART 1 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4] Commemorating the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention for the fifth year in a row, Riot Fest 2009 leaned heavily on Chicago heritage acts (or “nostalgia” for those less charitably minded). The four-day, multi-venue punk extravaganza included some of the heaviest hitters to emerge from Chicago's hardcore scene in the ‘80s and ‘90s...
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