Monday, November 2, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
This Year Halloween Fell On A Weekend
1.Funkadellic "Can You Get To That?"
2.Misfits "Hybrid Moments"
3.Rough Bunnies "My Baby Is Dead"
4.His Name Is Alive "Knock Is Open Wide"
5.Spacemen 3 "Walkin' With Jesus" (Demo)
6.Joan Of Arc "God Bless America"
Total Running Time: 15min 26sec
Download here.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Radio Show, Take 2
Monday, October 26, 2009
they told me to tell you
The "Cops Don't Care" 7" is finally coming around and available for pre-order. I know back in the early spring I posted up a thing here about us having some copies, and also some copies of our 12" on Troubleman, but these things take time. M'Lady's has pressed up 600 copies of this jawn, 100 on green vinyl. We will have a few for sale at shows, but if you wanna get in on the ground floor, check out the M'Lady's website and hollar at them over heaahhhh.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
One Beak
I walked around Ypsilanti for about four hours today. Just walking in the Midwestern autumn, freaking out, decompressing, refreaking and eventually just thoughtlessly taking it all in. Went by several houses I used to live in, and the semi-ghetto apartment complex my family lived in when I was in 2nd grade. I thought it would look smaller in scale than when I used to pray someone would throw away a refrigerator box so I could garbage-pick it and breakdance on it with the 6th graders down the block. It didn't look smaller though, it looked way more beautiful than I remembered it. A lot more like a nice place to live and be than my memory had ever made space for. I still don't know exactly what it means.
We're probably gonna start working on our 2nd record in the coming weeks. More on that as it becomes even remotely more clear, but now here's some more documentation of the last month and a half...
City Center at Nightlight, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. October 20, 2009
1.Killer Whale
2.Puppers
3.Thaw
4.Teardrop Children
5.Cookies
Total time: 30min 53sec
And this was the last show of the tour, in Cleveland Ohio. We played through a single input guitar amp, just our electronics and vocals. We'd been dazedly hanging around the gallery for about five hours before the show began, listening to an amazing reggae radio show called "Night Of The Living Dread" and talking about hardcore bands that have animals in them as the lead vocalists. There are more than you would expect!! The man screaming at the start of the tape is my friend Matt G. who I toured around the country with almost ten years ago.
City Center at Doubting Thomas Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio. October 23, 2009
1.Intro
2.If I Lose You
3.Poolside
4.Water Message
5.Teardrop Children
6.Dissolve
Total time: 16min 25sec
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
still set
City Center at Family, Los Angeles, California. October 11, 2009
1.Puppers
2.Cloud Center
3.Killer Whale
Total time 17min 39sec
Friday, October 9, 2009
Juncture
Writing you from Oakland, about four weeks into our tour, still feeling like it's some kind of fanciful vacation with ocassional rumbling noise breakdowns. I saw the stuff you threw out the window on the 505. That was hillarious! Did I ever tell you about how I used to throw fruit in the yard at my old house in Ohio. I thought it was so funny for some reason. Got a book about DJs in Missoula and one that collects Huey Newtons' essays yesterday at ____ _______ in San Fran. I remember coming here on my first tour ever in 1996, it was so different and intense then. Probably still intense, I just feel it with different antennas. Maybe I was just more scared and all the night-times felt more dangerous at that point. Still thinking about _______ and trying to write thoughts down as they come to me. I can't find about half of the photos at all, but I wrote in pencil on the backs of these, little notes just so you know what they are. They're out of order but you probably get the idea. I saw the stack of pictures you left for me on the beach. I wasn't sure that was you. I hope this makes it in time for the party.
Lots of love,
__________
Came up with the idea of Irish Brewpub "Finnegan's Wake", then similarly themed bakery "Finnegan's Cake". Stretched it a little bit for gardening supply store "Finnegan's Rake" and then called it a day for Japanese restuarant and bar "Finnegan's Sake".
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
There Are Countless Formulas For Pressing Flowers
Tour is ruling so much, but we've had limited access to computers. Hanging in Urbana with the Polyvinyl Records crew, Adam was like "Dude, we'll put your tourdates on our website, no problem.." and they made this incredible thing. I have no idea how anything works. Please come to one of these shows and say hi, or check our myspace for updated shows, some of which we don't have full information about yet but things keep coming thru. Always on the way there!!
Sunday, September 20, 2009
McVickars
Friday, September 11, 2009
Time To Go!
"Dinosaur Games" from our last practice before tour. Getting in the car now. See you out there!!!!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Jumpin
(stunned pause...)
Ok. Thanks a million and a half to everyone who got in touch about hooking up shows last week. It was more helpful than you could imagine! Our tour is now mostly booked, with no serious holes or problematic stretches, just a few spots where shows are still getting worked out, down to the wire style. We spent most of yesterday screening t-shirts and most of the week practicing, and it's insane to feel like this thing is already here. SO EXCITED!!!
I posted up the first week of shows below, which are mostly midwest and east coast. If you can make any of them, you really should! If you read this blog, you probably know either me or Ryan and it would most likely be good to see you!!! (That or you could be some hateful, obsessed creeper, plotting horrible things and bad times.. But you should come out to the shows in that case, too. You could probably use a loving hug or some more enriching social exchanges..) If you're wondering about the other five weeks, or parts not listed below, a lot of the shows are up on our myspace and all of them will be soon. See you very very soon in the weird ass world!
City Center Fall Tour Week One:
Fri Sept 11: Europe Gyro, Kent Ohio
w/ Fulltime Ghost and maybe one more.
107 S Depeyster St, Kent, OH 44240. Show starts at 10pm, $3.00 Donation.
Sat Sept 12: Tank Space, New York City.
Resonator Mixed Tape Party
w/ Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun, & Shigeto.
354 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036. 7:30pm, $10.00.
Sun Sept 13: Cake Shop, New York City.
w/ Desolation Wilderness, The Intelligence, German Measles.
152 Ludlow St, New York, NY. 8:00pm, $10.00. We play at 9:00.
Mon Sept 14: Death by Audio, Brooklyn New York.
THE MAZE w/ Calvin Johnson, Arrington Dionyso, Desolation Wilderness & Regattas.
49 South 2nd St. between Kent & Wythe. 9:00pm, $7.00. ALL AGES.
This is part of a series of shows called "You Are Here" aka "The Maze". A three-week festival of performances taking place in a sculptural maze designed and installed within the Death By Audio show space. There is no prescribed order, start time or end time, duration, location of performance, relation of audience to performers, and so on. All of the participating artists have been asked to create something site-specific since the performances will, in fact, take place within the maze. With the K Records crew working together, I imagine this night will be completely amazing and full of weird ideas!
Wed September 16: Open Space Gallery, Baltimore Maryland.
w/ Lesser Gonzales Alvarez, Soft Cat & daytime.
2720 Sisson St. Baltimore, MD 21211. 8:00pm, $5.00. ALL AGES
(thanks for the flyer pic Michelle!)Thur Sept 17: Coconut Grove, Jamaica Plain/Boston
w/ Animal Hospital
396 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain, MA 02130. 7pm, over by 9pm. $5.00. ALL AGES
contact terminalryan@gmail.com for more info.
Fri Sept 18: 123 South Professor St, Oberlan Ohio.
Fri Sept 18: 123 South Professor St, Oberlan Ohio.
w/ Wisdom Tooth
HOUSE SHOW! ALL AGES! FREE! OBERLAN!
Sat Sept 19:TBA Ann Arbor, Michigan.
w/ Our Brother The Native & Blood Necklace.
House show coming together at undisclosed house. More information as it materializes.
HOUSE SHOW! ALL AGES! FREE! OBERLAN!
Sat Sept 19:TBA Ann Arbor, Michigan.
w/ Our Brother The Native & Blood Necklace.
House show coming together at undisclosed house. More information as it materializes.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Calling All Kids
Thurs Sept 10: TBA.
Fri Sept 11: Europe Gyro, Kent Ohio. Not sure if any other bands are playing.
Sat Sept 12: Tank Space, New York City. w/ Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun, Shigeto.
Sun Sept 13: Cake Shop, New York City. w/ Desolation Wilderness, The Intelligence.
Mon Sept 14: Death by Audio, Brooklyn New York. w/ Calvin Johnson, Arrington, Desolation Wilderness, more?
Tues Sept 15: BROOKLYN SHOW HELP
Wed Sept 16: BALTIMORE SHOW HELP
Thur Sept 17: PHILADELPHIA SHOW HELP
Fri Sept 18: TBA New York City.
Sat Sept 19:TBA Michigan.
Mon Sept 21: CHICAGO/IOWA CITY SHOW HELP
Tues Sept 22: CHICAGO/IOWA CITY SHOW HELP
Wed Sept 23: CHICAGO SHOW HELP
Thur Sept 24: 810 Gallery Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Fri Sept 25: The Terrace, Madison, Wisconsin.
Sat Sept 26: ST PAUL/MINNESOTA SHOW HELP
Wed Sept 30: TBA Seattle/Vancouver.
Thurs Oct 1: TBA Seattle/Vancouver.
Fri Oct 2: House Show, Portland Oregon. w/ Calvin Johnson, White Rainbow.
Sat Oct 3: Northern, Olympia Washington.
Mon Oct 5:NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HELP
Tues Oct 6:MIDDLE CALIFORNIA/OAKLAND HELP
Wed Oct 7:OAKLAND/SF HELP
Fri Oct 9: TBA Los Angeles, California.
Sat Oct 10: TBA Claremont California.
Mon Oct 12: TBA Phoenix Arizona.
Tues Oct 13: TBA Tuscon Arizona.
Thurs Oct 15: House Show, Austin Texas.
Fri Oct 16: HOUSTON/DENTON/DALLAS SHOW HELP
Sat Oct 17: ANYWHERE BETWEEN TEXAS AND ST. LOUIS SHOW HELP
Sun Oct 18: Firebird, St Louis Missouri. w/ our boy Travis (not sure of his band name.)
Mon Oct 19: LEXINGTON/LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY SHOW HELP
Tues Oct 20: Nightlight, Chapel Hill North Carolina.
Wed Oct 21: Rachel's, Bloomington Indiana.
Thurs Oct 22:Firehouse, North Manchester Indiana.
Fri Oct 23: Doubting Thomas Gallery, Cleavland Ohio.
Sat Oct 24: TBA Detroit Michigan.
Friday, August 21, 2009
EXTRA CREDIT

Eleven days ago, my brother went to Japan for the first time in his life. This is a huge deal for him, because he is a Japanese Studies major at his school, and he has always been fascinated to the point of obsession with Japanese Culture. He also loves Japanese hardcore music, which I won't even pretend to talk about. He's kind enough to be constantly giving me records and CDs, but for some reason it's lost on me.
Anyway, today I was thinking about what his trip must be like, and I made this song that's kind of about it. One of the lines is "I've got a brother in the future" because he told me that Japan is like 11 or 12 hours ahead of us, so I keep telling people that he's in the future. I'm pretty sure everyone is sick of the joke, but come on - dude is living a time that hasn't even happened for us yet!! BUT IT HAS!!! OR IT IS?!?!
Hope the future rules, Zach.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
microglisten
1.Mamas & Papas "No Salt On Her Tail"
2.Woods "To Clean"
3.The RFD "He Is Coming"
4.Lazy Smoke "Sarah Saturday" (Demo)
5.Eduardo Mateo "Tras De Ti"
6.The Hollies "Hey Carrie-Anne"
Total Running Time: 18min 8sec
Download here.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Pure Tones (Tonal Purity)
When I was in 4th grade how old was I then? Seven, eight, nine?
Pre-teen/pre-sex/pre-id/pre-most stuff priorities were different than they would be even a couple years later. By thirteen and fourteen the kids on the bus to freshman year of High School were already doin' it, smoking a pack a day, well over drinking Mad Dog 20/20 and talking about inhaling freon from their dad's heating and cooling business. I was always too scared for any of the above, or even to just buy the Metallica shirt and the British Knights and smoke the Marlboro reds like any self-respecting burnout peer of mine was doing. Months signified insurmountable change at those ages, and I guess at every age depending on some variables. At nine, before the maelstrom, the most important thing was getting permission to spend the night at each other's houses, and giddy terror over whatever horror movie was coming up and if we'd get to see it and if it was real or not, and always the radio on to some weird top 40 or late-night Quiet Storm R&B Detroit station, feeling time evaporate completely and not sure if I'd fallen asleep or just sat in the beanbag chair in still contemplation all night, mesmerized by the newness of everything and the soft MIDI keyboard tones that filled the basement.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Oppressive Heat
Our band equivalent of a significant other Silk Flowers are out now on tour, Chicago today and the west coast/northwest in the coming days. If you are in earshot of my voice and these venues, go see them play, they rule!!! Check out their blog here for more info.
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