Current and Upcoming...

NEWS:

VACATION album streaming in full on SPIN.com

TWEENS sign to Frenchkiss Records.

ABDUCTION's highly positive demo review in Maximum Rock'n Roll.

Theotokos Recordings' compilation to raise awareness of the genocides committed against and suffering of "indigenous" Christians in the Middle East.  And the nonviolent Kairos movement by Palestinian Christians and Muslims for civil rights.  Both of which the US media has completely blacked-out.  The compilation will be the first physical release for my label.  I am accepting music submissions of any genre.  While I'd prefer something relevant to the topic, as long as it's good enough for people to actually spend money on it and not toss it away after a couple listens, I'm interested...


LIVE REVIEWS:

- RECTAL HYGIENICS (Chicago), ANIMAL MOTHER (St. Louis), FORCED OPINION, PILLOWBITER @ Trash Factory  - 6/3

- JIM SWILL's "Screenage Wasteland" video presentation @ the CAC - 6/ 10

- MOLLY SULLIVAN and CARNAL UNITS @ the Comet - 6/11

- THE FLESH PETS (Dayton), ARMY OF INFANTS (Dayton), GNAT! @ the Rake's End - 6/14


RECORD REVIEWS:

VACATION - Candy Waves (VINYL/DIGITAL?)
THE SOCIALS - The Beast Bites 7" (DIGITAL + VINYL)
MARDOU - EP
COELECANTH - Demo (CD)
RECTAL HYGIENICS - Even the Flies Won't Touch You (DIGITAL/VINYL/TAPE)
MOLLY SULLIVAN - Bad Weather (Musings) (DIGITAL/CD)
HIGHGATE - Survival (CD)
ETHICIST - Demo (TAPE)
MERKABA/WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS - Split (TAPE)
NEW TONGUES - We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (DIGITAL/VINYL)
SUBSETS - Ape Facin' DIGITAL (VINYL SOON)
DREAMS IN HELL - Oblivion DIGITAL (VINYL SOON)
GREY HOST- Dawn for Vultures (DIGITAL/CD)
SAILING STONES - Sailing Through the Desert of Your Mind Demo (DIGITAL/CD)
SKELETON HANDS - Gone (DIGITAL/CD)


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...THWART!: Interview: Artist Jim Swill

(This interview is from Shawn Abnoxious' blog, "...THWART!".   It's a great interview and may help you better understand where Jim is coming from.)

...THWART!: Interview: Artist Jim Swill: Jim Swill. Press Photo I’ve shared stages with Jim and seen his tuff many different places but when I recently seen a video he create...

Local Music News Update!

Hardcore punk veterans (and one guy who's new to it, but you wouldn't know if I didn't tell you) CRUSHED VELVET, who have 3/4 of WHITE WALLS (RIP), finally put a song online.  It's sick.  Which is what you'll be after you listen to it.

If you're looking to buy THE SOCIALS' new 7", head on over to their website for directions.  However, if you're looking for directions on how to make toast, watch this helpful video.

SUCCORBENOTH's "The Followers of the Sun" album is going to be released on CD/LP by the French label Le Crupuscule du Soir.  I took five years of le French, but I don't know what that means.  Sorry.  Anyhow, you can hear one of the songs here.

Because playing in three bands isn't enough, Daniel of LILIN, SUCCORBENOTH, and STICK YOUR FINGER IN YOUR BUTT AND SMELL IT has a shoegaze/post-rock band called BELOW THE ARCH.  They also have a reverbnation page.

BRAIN HOUSE KIDS PROJECT ALERT!!!!!!!  Tyler Stemmer has a "lucid rock" thing going now called SWIFTY MORGAN, which he claims will "make you believe in rock and roll again".  I don't know about you guys, but I never stopped believing.

This is worth reading

Popular culture has helped create a mindset where sex is less about intimacy and more about possession. "We've objectified sex. It's almost a commodity now, and its really unattached from any sort of intimacy or emotional experience, and if it's a commodity, people feel okay with doing whatever they can to get it."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-kacmarek/rape-culture-is_b_3368577.html

This article, written by investigative journalism students at the University of Massachusetts, is presented as part of a larger series addressing issues related to sexual assault on college campuses.

Rape culture. It's a phrase you hear a lot. But, what exactly does it mean? Is there one general definition? Not necessarily. In many ways the phrase evokes the famous Supreme Court comment about obscenity from Potter Stewart, "I know it when I see it."

And, you don't have to look far to see examples of rape culture these days. Whether it's advertising, movies, music videos or social media -- images, words, concepts -- it's all out there illustrating men dominating women.

"Everywhere you turn there's condoning, trivializing, and eroticizing rape, and collectively it sets a tone that says this is no big deal or this is what women deserve," said Lynn Phillips, a Lecturer with the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Communication Department.

The language of rape culture exists in everyday conversation.

"I raped that test," is a phrase that has become commonplace, connoting a sense of accomplishment. "You might 'rape' somebody you're playing against which means you won really easily against them," said Mike Angelli, a UMass student.

And, there is an endless amount of "joking" about rape occurring in cyberspace.

Trending social media topics such as "the rape sloth" continues to generate a type of editorial cartoon known as memes, which display comments about rape in a comedic form.

"Wanna smell my new cologne? It's called chloroform," quoted one of the statements.

Other meme "jokes" include "Oh you don't want sex? Challenge accepted," and even "I've got a dick and a knife, at least one of them is going inside of you tonight."

ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS OF THE YEAR, DON'T MISS IT!!!!!!!!!!

Rectal Hygienics - Chicago, IL
Nihilistic, violent, sleazy noise rock with a Swans influence, but more fucked-up and punk.  FREE and Buy-it-now downloads of their debut album on their bandcamp and Grindcore Karaoke (bandcamp site full of FREE powerviolence, grindcore, noisecore, and noise run by Scott Hull of Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed).  The LP version is being released by Torn Light Records (run by Alex York) from here and is limited to 300 copies.  This is a one-time pressing, so get ahold of it while you can!!!!

http://fuckrectalhygienics.bandcamp.com/track/bad-behavior (Pay what you want)
http://grindcorekaraoke.com/album/even-the-flies-wont-touch-you (TOTALLY FREE!!!!!)

Animal Lover - St. Paul, MN
Driving noise rock, good stuff.

http://vimeo.com/60888986
http://animallover.bandcamp.com/album/fundango-12

Forced Opinion - Cincinnati, OH
Sick, sick, sick powerviolence... the most brutal band I've ever heard come out of here.

http://vimeo.com/60888986

Pillowbiter - Cincinnati, OH
Hardcore punk/noise rock with scathing social and political lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZNnFm9nR_4

***ALL AGES***

Monday, June 3rd @ 9 PM

$5 donation for the out-of-town bands, but if you're not going to contribute towards gas for them, that's just plain shitty...

@
Trash Factory
2439 Moerlein Ave
Cincinnati, OH

TONIGHT!!! FREE AT THE CHAMELEON (FKA THE BLUE ROCK TAVERN) - BLACKENED CRUST METAL!!!!

June Calender for the Rake's End (as of 5/30)

JUNE 2013 at RAKE's END!



https://www.facebook.com/events/252307928240954/
 
 2141 Central Ave. Cincinnati
open nightly 9pm / 21+ bar
https://www.facebook.com/rakesend/
CONTACT = therakesend@gmail.com

Sat 1 - FOGGER (DJ party)

Sun 2 - Mala In Se, Hank, New Third Worlds https://www.facebook.com/events/137608403096412/

Mon 3 - weekly potluck!

Tue 4 - Cloud Becomes Your Hand (live bands...) http://cloudbecomesyourhand.bandcamp.com/

Wed 5 - 20ccs Vs. Chinn Chilla (rap, doom, noise, punk HYBRID SHOW) https://www.facebook.com/events/161465417363599/

Thr 6 - Down They Fall + Cincinnati Chiptunes https://www.facebook.com/events/174431576054696/

Fri 7 - DJ Grover! SOUL POWER!!! spinning his extensive selection of 45's

Sat 8 - Prize The Doubt (live bands...) https://www.facebook.com/PrizeTheDoubt

Sun 9 - International Noise Conference!!! https://www.facebook.com/events/231913886948842/

Mon 10 - weekly potluck + The Amends (live bands...) http://theamendsmusic.com/

Tue 11 - Zigtebra (live bands...) http://www.facebook.com/zigtebra

Wed 12 - Rio & The Ramblers (live bands...) http://www.reverbnation.com/riotheramblers

Thr 13 - Smokestack (live bands...)

Fri 14 - Army Of Infants, Gnat, more http://armyofinfants.bandcamp.com/

Sat 15 - DJ Soulstep! http://soundcloud.com/soulstep

Sun 16 - Zionide (live bands...)

Mon 17 - weekly potluck + live music!

Tue 18 - METAL SHOW with Predominant Mortification & The Outlawed www.facebook.com/wamplerbooking

My Stupid Ass Getting Kicked Off The Stage

timothy "treebeard" adams live at cincy by the slice (cincinnati, ohio) 3/23/13 from Cincinnati Local Music Scene vid on Vimeo.

TONIGHT!!! THE MELVINS AT TAFT THEATRE!!! ALL AGES!!!

THE MELVINS @ TAFT THEATRE (BALLROOM) - CINCINNATI, OH

@ 8:30 PM

ALL AGES!!!

TICKETS ARE $20 AT THE DOOR

Information below taken from here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/134804076697355

Legendary sludge/drone kingpins MELVINS have a new album in stores this April, and their tour in support of said record will lead them to The Ballroom at the Taft on May 29th!

Remember, anything worth doing, is worth overdoing! Well, it's 2013 and the seemingly tireless Melvins have yet ANOTHER record ready for release. What is this, their 50th record? Maybe? Anyway, the newest Melvins release is called Everybody Love Sausages. "This record will give people a peak into the kind of things that influence us musically," explains Buzz Osborne. "We REALLY like all of these songs along with the bands who actually wrote this stuff because first and foremost we are HUGE music fans."

For those who don't know, The Melvins have been a band for nearly 30 years...

The Melvins have done a shit load of albums.... How many is a shit load? No one really knows.

The Melvins live in Los Angeles and it's understood in hip circles that the United States tilts left and anything covered in slime tends to slide straight out to California. If your sliding too fast when you slide into San Francisco you tend to glance off south and the real scum bags end up in Los Angeles where their skin dries into a Malibu Ken tan which most hipsters have to painstakingly remove with Easy Off oven cleaner.

The Melvins have four members.

King Buzzo... Longest surviving and only original member left. When they get around to replacing him there will be no original members!
Dale Crover... Long standing drummer and part time guitar player. Dale likes his booze in a High Ball glass.
Jared Warren... Bass player, singer and part time drama geek. Jared also plays in the band Big Business.
Coady Willis... Drummer. Coady has a funny story about trying to play a gig in leather pants. Ask him, it's funny as shit! Coady also plays drums in Big Business.

So there you have it!
 
You can find other interesting bits and bobs about the Melvins on line and some of it is even true! Well, it's at least as true as what the band would tell you in person.

Recent playlist

Baptizer - 2013 Tour CDr
Napalm Death - The Peel Sessions
Merkaba - Bones Of The Sacred Forest
Rectal Hygienics - Even The Flies Won't Touch You
Molly Sullivan - Bad Weather (Musings)
Woe - A Spell for the Death of Man
Mental Destruction - Straw
The Cherry Point - Night of the Bloody Tapes
Death in Graceland - Come On, Touch Me
Parhelion - Temples in Ice
Bolt Thrower - War Master
*Ncense - More Spacious Than the Heavens [Eastern Orthodox Christian Chant in English]
Mardou - "Bounty Hunter" (Stereo version)
Malware - "Amendment"
Malware - "Cop Killer"


Reading:

The Daily Missal
Latest Maximum Rock'n Roll issue
Latest issue of Citybeat
Various articles in my feed