The finest in hermetic sound and vision from around the world…forever buzzing the tower.
We recently hosted our Bay Area friends Mothercountry Motherfuckers in Denver for a hardcore matinee that was so good it made us miss, well, hardcore. Despite their impressive pedigree(Fuel, Bread & Circuits, Torches To Rome, etc.), we had no idea we’d be so blown away by these guys in the live setting. Do yrself a favor and catch this unit whenever the opportunity presents itself.
http://www.pukekos.org/2011/07/bj-rubin-show.html
For those of you who missed it on July 4th, here’s The BJ Rubin Show which features our boys in Vaz and also out-there stylings of The American Liberty League. Hope you like anarchy. Note drunken jam at the end. By the way, you can catch BJ’s show at various times on BCAT.
BBQ starts at 3:30
Music starts at 4 *sharp* and goes until 8:30
we got 2 kegs and 4 grills, BYO if you want
$5 donation at the door (optional)
4:00
:: Sick to the Back Teeth ::
Chris M
http://www.sicktothebackteeth.com/
4:30
:: VAZ ::
(Jeff Mooridian and Paul Erickson of AmRep legends HAMMERHEAD)
http://www.myspace.com/thevaz
http://vazmusic.bandcamp.com/
5:15
:: TinniTusk ::
D Going / A Scott / J Sigal / B Turner performing Fleetwood Mac as Pussy Galore
http://lockerz.com/s/110943071
6:00
:: DeTrop ::
Ryan, Theresa, Dave
Synths, electronics, tapes
memb Home Blitz, York Factory Complaint
http://soundcloud.com/detrop_brooklyn
6:45
:: Epileptinomicon / McCord ::
(Denver, CO/Philadelphia, PA)
http://www.sleepinggiantglossolalia.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/epileptinomicon
http://www.myspace.com/eamonmccord
8:00
:: Lame Drivers ::
http://lamedrivers.com/
http://twitter.com/rad_town
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184746128245652
Key of Shame
(mem. Sightings, No Neck Blues Band/Malkuth/decimus)
Epileptinomicon
McCord
Panther Modern
(Baltimore, MD mem. T.O.M.B.)
OPPONENTS
Human Relief
(mem. Forma)
DJ: Jeff Conklin (EVR)
6/30/2011
Doors: 8:30
Show: 9:00
$7
The Schoolhouse
330 Ellery st. Floor 3
BK
J train to Flushing ave. / L to Morgan ave.
From the bottom up: outside the venue the day of our showcase, The Body(before killing the power a few times), Topping Bottoms, Shit & Shine, Lame Drivers, Expo ’70, Borneo, Blank Realm, a backyard blowout and various hijinks.
Thursday June 30: NYC
w/
Key of Shame (mem. Sightings, No Neck/Malkuth, decimus)
Panther Modern (Baltimore, MD mem. T.O.M.B.)
OPPONENTS (http://soundcloud.com/opponents)
Human Relief (mem. Forma)
DJ: Jeff Conklin (East Village Radio)
@ The Schoolhouse
330 Ellery St. Floor 3
Brooklyn, NY
J train to Flushing ave. / L to Morgan ave.
Doors: 8:30, Show: 9:00
Friday July 1: Philadelphia, PA
w/
Work/Death
Lolly Gesserit
Slow Tongued Beauty
@ Recovery House
5th and Washington
Saturday July 2: Providence, RI
w/
The Body
+ TBA
@Paragon
(ask for details, location hush-hush)
Sunday July 3: NYC
w/
VAZ
Nackt Insecten
Lame Drivers
@Rad Town – 251 Throop Ave. Brooklyn, NY
Daytime Show – 3pm
Eating and drinking encouraged/supported
More from Philadelphia’s McCord here:
http://www.myspace.com/eamonmccord
http://vimeo.com/23099044
​Scum-pop blasters Vaz are a consistently underrated Brooklyn treasure. Vocalist/guitarist Paul Erickson and spasmodic herky-jerk drummer Jeff Moordian have outlived all your favorite scenes–both emerged from the distressed clobber of AmRep stalwarts Hammerhead and released full-length records on practically every cool label in the ’00s (Gold Standard Labs, Load, Narnack). Their fifth album, Chartreuse Bull (Damaged Rituals), adds second guitarist Tyler Nolan and accidentally stumbles into the cassette Renaissance. Their first tape release (and easily their most aggro to date), Bull is 11 charred burners as taut and ugly as secretly bubblegum as anything in their gotta-catch-em-all catalog. Their ill-tempered blast and squawk updates AmRep’s sinister sizzle for more extreme days, still teasing it with the boldest, brashest, shiniest hooks in the nu-pigfuck underground–think Queens Of The Stone Age getting a Pissed Jeans makeunder. Album highlight “Blockade” is two minutes of swinging-from-the-rafters grime-bluster that somehow lets Erickson’s ghostly melodies shine through some fairly merciless muck.
Q&A: Vaz frontman Paul Erickson on “Blockade”
What is “Blockade” about?
It’s about writer’s block! I was thinking about how I couldn’t think of anything and then thought of it! [Musically,] I think it’s inspired by my Norwegian DNA. Working with [producer] Ben Greenberg is just the tops. No fuss, no hassle.
One thing that’s always made Vaz stick out is the boldness of your hooks. Are there any contemporary major-label rock bands you secretly love?
Drawing a blank here.
Why did you release your new album on cassette?
One reason for the cassette was the time factor. We had a tour coming up and wanted it out now.
What’s the most memorable show you’ve played in New York?
Opening for the Fall at Knitting Factory. Not my favorite, but the most memorable.
What’s your favorite place to eat in New York?
M. Wells in Long Island City!
Go here to download “Blockade”: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/04/vaz_blockade_mp3.php
The first few minutes of this fan-made video feature an old school Cruisin’ Classic from our boys Lame Drivers. Enjoy the tune, enjoy the beasts.
ECON/Hijdra= unlikely joining of forces? Perhaps. Brave & The Bold, Marvel Team-Up, Red Heat, you know the drill. Sometimes it takes a coven, sometimes it takes the perfect pair.
In what seems like unlikely news, SGG recording artist Bobb Bruno will be performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight. Bobb will be shredding with his group Best Coast, so it’s not really that weird. 12:35 EST on NBC. If we had TV we would cheer our buddy on for sure…
www.aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html
SHIT AND SHINE Live At The aQuarius recOrds / WFMU Showcase – SXSW 2010 (Sleeping Giant Glossolalia)
Last year’s aQuarius / WFMU South By Southwest showcase was pretty tough to beat, if we do say so ourselves. An entire night of aQ faves, every single one kicking huge amounts of ass, and basically blowing us away over and over again. Just check out the lineup: Speedwolf, Iron Man, Moon Duo, Pierced Arrows, Dengue Fever, Epileptinomicon, Todd, True Widow, Sonny & The Sunsets, Headdress, Home Blitz, Drunkdriver, and Shit And Shine. We’d be hard pressed to pick a favorite set of the night, but lots of folks, ourselves included, might find ourselves leaning toward the rhythmic chaotic cacophony of Shit And Shine, a UK based multi-drummer drone-psych-noise unit who once called Texas home. And who, besides kicking up a glorious drum heavy racket, managed to keep the crowd riveted for their whole set, the members clad in strange costumes, a bunny suit, creepy plastic masks, furry animal heads, all while manning multiple drumkits and constantly switching instruments, and creating a glorious wall of pulsing, pounding, hypnotic sound. Luckily, the whole thing was captured on tape. And while maybe something is lost without the visuals, the music holds up surprisingly well on its own, the group’s single song set spread out over two sides, right out of the gate, the band lock into a rhythm and don’t let up.
The sound is blown out and in the red, helping make it sound exactly like being there (and like you forgot your earplugs), the legion of drummers, pounding out a rhythm in perfect unison, while the rest of the $+$ crew do their thing, their thing in this case being super distorted fuzzed out bass, processed alien vocals, blasts of screeching feedback, squalls of psychedelic white noise buzz, a sound that is basically krautrock writ NOISY and BLOWN OUT and HEAD CAVINGLY LOUD!
By the time the second half (side) rolls around, the buzz and pound are interrupted by thick shards of almost poppy melody, streaks of almost shogazey looped fragmented noise, until finally the jam switches gears, just a bit, and we get the $+$ version of ‘bringing it down’, a churning Circle like sludgekraut hypnorock groove that plays out until the record settles into a locked groove, which if you’re not paying attention, will have you listening to that single groove for EVER, before realizing something is up. And hell, we actually listened to it for 5 or 6 minutes, and probably would have let it keep on playing… (and the first side ends with a locked groove too, so be prepared to be mesmerized, endlessly there too!)…
Heavy and hypnotic, the perfect sonic souvenir if you were there, an even more perfect slab of crushing corrosive rhythmic noise rock weirdness if you weren’t.
Housed in a full color sleeve, an Austin backyard on one side, one of the $+$-ers on the other. Includes a Xeroxed insert, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, each one hand numbered.
