I guess today is a dance party theme.

Anyways, this is Fantastic.

Release dates:
Europe - Oct 13th
North America - Nov 17th

That about sums it up. Here's the remix of the track by the always superb, DON RIMINI.

THE COUNT & SINDEN - HARDCORE GIRLS (DON RIMINI REMIX)

In Youngstown, fewer things get finer than this recording by the Death Crazed Teenage Superheroes. This is a lo-fi excursion into garage rock that many bands try to do, but with no great success. These failed attempts at bands are filled with musicians (or lesser) and all are under delusion of their own fame and self proclaimed tortured existence. This is not the case with Death Crazed... at all.

In Youngstown, there's little hope of living a life that doesn't get beyond the steel-gray clouds that hang low over the city. Music like this happens in Youngstown. Borne of of poverty and limited options of were to go and what to do with the time that feels more like a jail sentence than it does anything else.

This is the first EP from Death Crazed Teenage Superheroes. It's title, though a little long, 5 and a Half Tell Tale Signs You'll End Up Like Your Mother...OMNIPOTENT STRENGTH! EP, but is perfect as it emanates the ideas of the three men involved in this project; Chris Splain, Brendan Gaunter and Dennis Thomas.

I am not really in the mood to review this, at the moment. I just wanted to draw your attention to it and tell you where you can download it, as it is a download only release. And I wanted to tell you that after you download this to go to their show this Saturday at Cedars Cafe in Downtown Youngstown.

Oct 4 2008 10PM Cedars w/Rosehips and Church of the Red Museum Youngstown, Ohio

» DOWNLOAD: Death Crazed Teenage Superheroes 5 and a Half Tell Tale Signs You'll End Up Like Your Mother...OMNIPOTENT STRENGTH! EP

A while back I posted this same song (Lovely Allen) by Holy Fuck performing live. Here's a different one. Enjoy. Or watch this one. You know you want to.

From Danielson:

We are pleased to mark the beginning of a season in which we look back upon and celebrate some of our favorite Danielson titles from a rich back catalog that has spanned over a decade.
This epic journey of retrospection begins with the vinyl reissues of ...



Tell Another Joke At The Ol' Choppin' Block

and...



Fetch The Compass Kids
(both of these titles are being released on
Secretly Canadian)

AND...





Tri-Danielson!!! (Alpha/Omega)
(being released on Sounds Familyre)

In addition to being back in print for the first time since 2001, these reissues have some unique attributes.
Tell Another Joke At The Ol' Choppin' Block is now available as a 2x12" LP format (as opposed to the 2x10" format in which it debuted) and includes four bonus songs from a live WFMU session from 1996.


Tri-Danielson!!! (Alpha/Omega) has been partially remixed, fully remastered, and makes its vinyl return dressed up in a brilliant new gatefold jacket along with a very special bonus track.


These reissues, along with lots of other wonderful goodies to be rolled out out over the next month and a half (brand new videos, unreleased mp3s from live shows, radio sessions, and much much more), will culminate November 4th (December 1st in the UK) with the release of...



Trying Hartz (First Fruits '94-'04), a two-disc retrospective of the first ten years of Danielson's body of work.
Aside from fan favorite album tracks, it includes previously difficult-to-find songs, alternate takes, new intros & outros, and a few very choice live recordings!


BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THERE'S MORE!....

Danielson ALIVE! Secretly Canadian is now offering this BRAND NEW, TOTALLY FREE EP from Danielson.
Click the fruit of your choice in the tree below to download the entire thing!



To continue the celebration EVEN FURTHER, the first domestic Danielson tour in over two years will happen in November (starting Halloween night at the Knitting Factory in NYC). Sheesh...so much Danielson goodness.

I certainly wish this little tour was swinging through the Ohio. It's coming no where near this hellish land. So ladies and gentlemen, if you here that The Show is the Rainbow is playing and you are within a decent proximity, go. Here's a brief message from Darren (aka. The Show Is The Rainbow)

FAINT TOUR / EUROPEAN TOUR

HELLO EVERYONE.

I have so much shit going on in November, it's insane. I'll announce who is releasing my new record in the next two weeks, I promise...maybe sooner even. I just have to do ONE last thing before I make the announcement.

Okay! So, check my tourdates out! I just got added to two weeks of touring opening for THE FAINT! The Faint is one of my favorite bands making music today, and I'm so stoked and honored to tour with a band I love and look up to! Should be a blast!

After that tour, I have to drive to chicago to leave IMMEDIATELY for my european tour. I will be playing a few shows with THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES / RUSSIAN CIRCLES, and touring Germany with BAD DUDES!!!!

I also will be heading back to NORWAY, which I'm so excited about. One of the best experiences of my LIFE was playing that festival there earlier this year, and I seriously can NOT BELIEVE i am already going back.

Okay! That's all the news I want to share right now. It's a lot. SEE YOU AT THE FAINT SHOWS SUCKERS!!!!

LOVE,
Darren

Over-hyping is fun.

This video is point and case for over-hype, but over-hyping is like food to GMPD. Both Ultimate Donny and Gil Mantera would not be the same if you watched this video and it didn't make you feel somewhat awkward and guilty.

Here's a little crumb from the GMPD camp bulletined this morning. With out further adieu Youngstown's own Gil Mantera.

You may remember awhile back hearing that GMPD was going to be on the morning show The Daily Buzz. It never aired. In the end, we were too much for the Buzz to handle.

We got our asses up way too early still hungover from too much dancing and drinking with our bus brethren, drove to the studio in Orlando and Han Solo'd a performance. Pretend you, your parents or grandparents are watching this at 7 AM on the tele.

Living in Youngstown feels like living life after breaking up with the person you loved the most. You never want to leave and you don't want to be there at the same time. David Bazan plays music that feels like Youngstown; a debate between progress and standing still; kissing and crying; loving and fucking; hurt, but still walking; Jesus and apathy. It feels like he's lived here too.

You may not agree with this feeling or that his music echoes what it feels to have gray clouds hang over your head in life, but listen still.

Video from the DVD "Bazan: Alone At The Mic" Pre-order now at
» davidbazan.com/dvd

» Watch the other video from David Bazan's Alone At The Mic here

Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me

Cold War Kids (Onasis remix) - Something Is Not Right With Me
Cold War Kids (IS&T remix) - Something Is Not Right With Me

If you’re a Cold War Kids and Richard Swift fan, then start licking your lips. Swift has remixed the Kids’ single Something Is Not Right With Me — two times. You get the luxury of enjoying the song as remixed by his alternate personalities, Onasis and Instruments of Science & Technology.

Loyalty to Loyalty, the latest effort from Cold War Kids, will be out Sept. 23. And in case you didn’t already know, Swift released Ground Trouble Jaw a few weeks back.

Starflyer 59 Dial M and Denison Witmer Carry the Weight test-pressing LPs are now on-sale. These are both in ultra-limited editions of 25 and will ship as soon as they arrive from the factory (approximately 4-6 weeks before the official release date). They will ship without artwork and the artwork will be sent later. Both LPs will have an additional track exclusive to the LP release. Soporus 24,110 cd is also available for pre-order and will ship just before the retail release date of 28 October.
Unwed Sailor is gearing up to finish History in early October. Unwed Sailor is also planning extensive touring in the fall, hitting the road in the US in November and then off to Europe for late November/early December. We'll have confirmed dates soon.

I reviewed this album already earlier last week with my infantile ill-formulated take on Lovedrug's latest release, 'The Sucker Punch Show'. I asked Matt DeBenedictis to share his opinions on this album as I respect his opinions often more than my own. Here are his thoughts on the same album. - Steven Andrew

I can’t remember exactly where it was said- possibly an interview, maybe a speech by his son, but I do know it was said and that’s what really matters. So it has been remarked that Kurt Vonnegut wrote out of his feeling of disgust for the world around him. Slaughterhouse was from his disgust with war and dealing with having been in one. Breakfast of Champions was rooted in disgust of too many things to even count. Michael Shepard of Lovedrug is very much the same as Kurt V. in this sense of disgust being the birthplace of the art.

Lovedrug’s first album Pretend Your Alive had a formula to it. Guitars- loud and gritty, but if the song’s music was full of hooks and almost brit-rock piano parts that tender coupled hearts can hold hands to, make the lyrics dark and sharp like a perfect horror film. The second full play album (Everything Starts Where It Ends) followed the formula, but this time the grit was wiped out by knobs and buttons during production. The result was a record that should sound angrier and fuller than the first, but that is only achieved at points leaving Lovedrug as suspects of being a pop rock band. That formula has been laid to rest on the new album.

Soon The Sucker Punch Show will be on shelves and search engines on downloading sites, and though it’s easy to say this is a new version of Lovedrug as every album has an almost entire cast of new musicians playing behind Michael, this is a new Lovedrug, but not simply because the names on the album credits and on the myspace page are new-Michael’s level of disgust has pushed him to choose a new path.

Rumors have scooted and shot all over the internet that after a year of touring and not getting the success Lovedrug deserves and is entitled to he fired the entire band to only use hired hands from here on. I have no idea if that is true. I do know to take notice when the opening line of a record is “Got sick of the marching band and lost my head.” From that point on it’s clear this is a new kind of Lovedrug album.

Previously the protagonists in Michael’s songs have not always been clear. They have been demons of the personal side, of the actions we do, and just characters caught up in life, but a question can be posed- is this album more autobiographical and personally focused? Easily my favorite song on The Sucker Punch Show is “Broken Home”, which is by far the catchiest song that will take days to get out of your head. If you want to know the actual mixture of drinks and pills to get the chorus out of your skull please contact me because the concoction to get my brain back took four days to invent. Broken Home is a song of being left behind by those you love and feeling lost in all you are. Broken Home is a letter that is never sent. It’s a letter about trying to figure out what has happened and trying not to lose yourself.

Songs like Blood Like and The Dirtiest Queen hold the closest resemblance to the sounds of Lovedrug before this record, but still these two songs hold possible road maps for where the band is going. The best way to describe much of the record is to imagine what would happen if The Foo Fighters did a session with Jeremy Enigk fronting it all. It would be rock, but not too much, and there would be hooks and pop-like melodies but there would still be tales of life in darkness. All of that is The Sucker Punch Show.
The most stand out song on the record is Everybody Needs A Halo. The song is everything it screams about. It is sex juices, divinity, questions stacked up like buildings that will never fall, death, slumber, anger that turns to laughter. It’s all here and when together this is a mess. It’s sloppy. It is an anti-pop song. Songs like this are known as “Take me for what I am.”

It’s been a good many years since Michael Shepard met with Adam Ladd to form a new band that would be more straightforward than their last one together. Members have run to Michael, and ran back as well, but Lovedrug is not stopping. This is about to get real interesting and I know I’m not going to hang on to anything during this ride, well maybe my own disgust.

Clikatat Ikatowi, along with Gravity Records labelmates Heroin, Mohinder, Angel Hair, and Antioch Arrow help define the Sand Diego sound of the mid-'90s. This was what some call the second wave of emo, a decade before guyliner pop punk bands getting dubbed with the label. Influenced in part by the more melodic DC sound a few years before it, but adding in more elements of hardcore, noise and jazz, bands like Clikatat Ikatowi could go from slow building indie rock to complete chaos and back again within a song, sometimes multiple times. This photo is by Amy Halligan from a 1992 show at Seattle's Velvet Elvis.

Drummer Mario Rubalcaba has played in a string of bands, including Rocket from the Crypt, Thingy, The Black Heart Procession, Hot Snakes, the Sultans and Pinback.

»SOURCE: http://10thingszine.blogspot.com

Way back in 2004 (God it feels like that was 20 years ago now) this band put together a handful of songs that would become very inspiring to me. That disc was Pretend Your Alive and it was something that did indeed make me feel alive somewhere inside. I was a believer in most things Michael Shepard had put together from the late 90's to that point. He's had a healthy relationship with some of the best music made. I remember that year I was tagging along with a friends band on tour which concluded at the Cornerstone Music Festival in Illinois. Lovedrug gave a remarkable performance that year. It was nothing short of glorious. In attendance to that festival show future Lovedrug drummer Matthew Putman. A man who's talents I respect endlessly as he was and is involved with some of my other favorite projects (Snailhuntr, Bear Colony and Unwed Sailor). When later that year it was confirmed he'd make the move from Little Rock, AK to Canton, Ohio to join up with the newer more trans-American line up that was forming under the leadership of Michael Shepard.

Things change though. Even Michael Shepard seems to have changed or perhaps it was everyone he surrounded himself with that made him shine the way he did in records past. This new records see a new line up. Even guitarist David Owen has slipped away to toil in the dark with his own music (which I suggest you listen to here).

This new record sees the song writing of an entirely different. I don't recognize one name in the liner notes, with exceptions of Michael Shepard as he remains the central core to the project. This new effort from Lovedrug is sad. It's not the inspiring force it was. The songs aren't crafted fully to be the emotional explosion that the first disc was . The album tees off with a guitar riff that serves as the primary melodic loop through the song. I thought I was listening, to You Stupid Girl by Garbage. Unfortunately, I wasn't. The chorus swells to what sounds like a tantrum of poorly chosen lyrics that appeal strictly to the 14-18 year old high school crowd and their in ability to select clever music to fashion their tastes after. Instead it's a steady diet of Fall Out Boy and Panic At The Disco and walls covered with the latest fresh faces from Alternative Press lining every inch of their rooms.

I'd have to say that this is a huge let down in Michael Shepard's ability to craft a well written record. He's using the formulas, which is fine if you can dress them well like he did on the first, but this one feels like I am just listening to the frameworks for songs. I am equally disappointed in the lyric department. The song and presumably the title track Everyone Needs A Halo is an example of poor lyrics. The music is terrible too. It's probably the worst track on the whole disc. It feels like it's trying to had sometimes. Not always. There are jut these moments that make me cringe a little.

Despite the lackluster quality of the song writing, the songs sound good. Lovedrug still utilizes a guitar sound long abandoned in the mid-90s. It's a sound near and dear to me, so when coupled with impassioned, well-placed lyrics and music it makes a for an experience you won't forget.

There aren't many tracks doing anything special on this album, but I think the tracks Panicked Witness and Dying Days are the only call out to the Lovedrug I knew. Maybe touring with all those shitty Tiger Beat emo bands had a reciprocal effect on them? This album is something I will forget about, but I can't forget how disappointing Lovedrug has become or how bad that cover art is.

From Drowned in Sound

Nirvana’s former manager has pinpointed Courntey Love’s arrival in Kurt Cobain’s life as the moment the band changed forever.

In new book Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business Danny Goldberg says that “Courtney's very presence was a metaphor for the end of one era in the band's life and the beginning of another,” going on to describe her as Cobain’s “mouthpiece”.

After initially being “charmed by Courtney's self-effacing affect” he talks about how she had “numerous personae she could call up at will, and this would be the last time I would ever see Courtney as an underdog.

“The weekend in January 1992 that Nirvana did 'Saturday Night Live' for the first time was a turning point that put into focus the heroin problem that was to haunt Kurt for the rest of his life.

“Courtney called me at home the morning the show aired,” Goldberg continues in the excerpt, reproduced at Spinner.com, “and asked me to get Kurt $5,000 in cash so they could do some ‘shopping’.

“I felt pretty uncomfortable as I delivered the package of $100 bills to her at the hotel. Abruptly, the dark cloud of drug excess had entered the band's life. I was confronted by the baroque facade of lies and the awful glassy-eyed deadness that regular heroin use provides.”

Cobain and Love went on to marry in Wakiki the next month, the former dying just over two years later.

Goldberg, pictured above in place of the usual 'look at Courtney with her minge out' photograph, will release his book later this month.

Get ready. After Pelican returns from their European dates with Torche they just may visit your neck of the woods.

PELICAN, KAYO DOT, STEVE BRODSKY - 2008 TOUR DATES

October 28 - Mt. Clemens, MI Hayloft

October 29 - Columbus, OH Ravari Room
October 30 - Buffalo, NY Tralf Music Hall

November 1 - Allston, MA Harper's Ferry *

November 2 - New York, NY Bowery Ballroom *

November 3 - Milford, CT Daniel Street *

November 4 - Philadelphia, PA North Star Bar *

November 5 - Washington, DC Black Cat

November 7 - Charlotteville, VA Outback Lodge

November 8 - Raleigh, NC The Brewery

November 9 - Atlanta, GA The Drunken Unicorn

November 10 - Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbits

November 11 - Gainesville, FL The Common Grounds

November 13 - Tampa, FL Orpheum

November 14 - Orlando, FL The Social

November 16 - Memphis, TN Hi Tone Café

November 18 - Louisville, KY Uncle Pleasant's

November 19 - Chicago, IL Subterranean

* w/ Zozobra