WEEKEND

first with the blessure grave tour kick-0ff show at UC Irvine. protect me opened. i have to say these dudes have come a long way, ima gymnast pretty much sucked, a lot. that band lacked a serious amount of creativity and i thought was really boring live(especially for a punk band), but protect me rules, these dudes are doing it hard and show no signs of stoping. we came in a couple songs into the set and as soon as we walked in my jaw dropped. the drums where tight and the bass sounds were thick. the samples were on point and the dual vocals flowed right along with the fluidity of their whole sound.
second was blessure grave, this was their first show with rogers and the first time he used more than a floor tom and snare. it was pretty solid up till complications with one of the songs that their was drum difficulty with. all in all they were pretty tight and can't wait to see the improvements when they come back.
crocodiles played next, they were LOUD. I love it when bands play loud. they started off pretty cool until the PA wasn't having it, then some modifications then the show continued with just as much energy. they seemed pretty bummed by the set afterwards, but they sounded pretty dope, i wanted to get my hands on one of those jah crocodile shirts but funds were limited due especially to that altars 7" on the blessure grave table.
sprawl out played last, those dudes are goons and i don't really care for goons

SUNDAY
sunday was a beautiful day i woke up, jammed with brent met his dog and we picked up hatti and tyler and went to that big ass smell show. j-lep played, i wasn't that into them. wavves played second and i was into it, minus my discovery of the dudes lyrics. his new drummer is a rocker guy but the set was tight through and through. weed demon sounded pretty good. third was rings they were kindof rough but sounded really good when they were on. i missed DSS but came back for abe vigoda. i think on the car ride home it was agreed that it was probably the best Abe set we have ever seen. it got kindof emotional towards the end, being it was reggie's last smell show with them and all but it ended on a good note with little said. mika miko played but it was pretty hot and had to go outside. no age played and it seemed kindof flat, we left early cause we were hungry and we had a long drive.
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INFINITE BODY

so i guess i met kyle before the other night, but i am a dick and i don't remember. anyways we were talking and then he was like yeah i do music under infinite body. i had seen the name and asked if he had anything that he could sell me. he told me that he would give me a copy of his 12", what a dope dude. anyways he gave it to me and i listened to it last saturday after i got back from the san diego zoo. it is fucking DOPE. the release is a one sided 12" called "a series of false awakenings" 300 were released by arber. it is one continuous song of all kinds of noises and patterns that is continuously flowing. overall a pretty well thought piece, never getting to crazy or out of control, unlike others who do similar stuff. i think this is pretty rad, i am considering buying his 11 song cd white hymns on, i believe his own label, not today.

but yes this is what "a series of false awakenings" looks like

and this is one of his upcoming shows i am going to


he is also playing a show on the 22nd at the echo with high places but that sounds expensive and i am mentally broke
but if anybody wants to carpool to this show on the 27th let me know

ART IS TOUGH

ROGERS (THE DRUMMER OF NO PAWS(NO PAWS (NO LIONS))) IS HEADING OUT ON TOUR WITH SAN DIEGO GOTH BAND BLESSURE GRAVE AS THERE DRUMMER. ACCOMPANYING THEM ON TOUR IS CROCODILES. BOTH BANDS RULE AND YOU KNOW IT, CHECK THEM OUT ON TOUR IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA.
THEIR TOUR IS AS FOLLOWS->


BLESSUREGRAVE
MYSPACE. COM/BLESSUREGRAVESD
CROCODILES
MYSPACE. COM/CROCODILESCROCODILESCROCODILES

ALSO SEND ROGERS SOME LOVE OR MONEY HE WOULD APPRECIATE IT.

ART IS TOUGH

SAM

DADFAG

dadfag is a three piece punk band from San Francisco that i think is pretty dope, for some reason they remind me of weezer if weezer didn't know how to play or write songs the way they do. when listening to the begining of "no reason" i thought they were going to start playing a rudimentary peni.
one drummer and two guitarists make up dadfag, i am really into the one guitar almost always doing really high leads. they are going on tour towards the end of february up the coast to seattle then back down to SF. you should send them a message to come south and play in LA or somthing

DADFAG

okay

2009 has fully began for me today with the abrupt end of the no paws / rapid youth tour. because we got snowwed into one of the worst storms in Washington history we couldn't make it to Olympia to play, then during the storm our windshield wipers went out. not to mention the van we were touring in didn't have heating / defrosters. we chose to limit our loses by not venturing towards boise salt lake city or denver and head home.

on the other hand
1. we have returned home safely
2. we had a really good time
3. we have tons of tour cdrs that we were selling at shows, because the tour is pretty much over the bands want you to have them, so just send your info to either rapid youth/no paws/ family time and we will send you a copy. these are hand made and contain rad shit. limited to 100 we probably have 60 left.

but again 2009 is now and i can't tell you how excited i am so i will try my best in list form
1. twin lion-awesome power c30 tape
2. trudgers / twin lion split cdr
3. no paws 12"
4. ports o'call / me collaborative zine
plus way more that is all that comes to mind right now

keep your eyes out and check out
Ancient Crux-interracial coupling cdr it is dope

also the no paws / rapid youth tour completes this saturday at the soda bar with christmas island and blessure grave $5 san diego california presented by skull control most likely some djs also

NO AGE NOMINATED FOR A GRAMMY

WTF?
http://blogs.laweekly.com/play/news/grammy-nominations-predictable/

Top 5

1. T.I. -whatever you like

2. John Thill- GIRLS OF METH <3

3. Child Pornography- ???

4. Gang Of Four- Damaged Goods

5. Buzzcocks-What Do I Get?

MEMORY LANE: WIVES

i found this video a couple of months ago on a random youtube binge, it gets me really pumped up

i used to listen to wives "erect the youth problem" when i was in my senior year at high school at full volume. At the time i distinctly remember hating my girlfriend, not really caring about school cause i was pretty much done and having tons of fun with my friends.

the kit/wives split was pretty rad along with collab they did with john wiese that they put on a split 12" with moving units.

but ultimately their wives hate police 7" is the JAM. nothing but angst and punk, it was amazing

Twin Lion @ house in murrieta

for those of you who don't know where murrieta ca is, that is okay you wont have to go there unless you meet somebody from there.
We packed 5 people in my truck and drove really fast so we could see tyler's (rapid youth) first show as twin lion, only to find that they haven't even started setting up yet. This is what "safest in bearhugs" looked and sounded like


it was pretty rad, vocals were crazy loud but that is a + considering i can never hear rapid youth live. He played about five or six songs and the dad cut it off. This house show was thrown by some dude who was i guess visiting his family for thanksgiving break from college. Other bands played and tons of kids ranging from 15-2? showed up and people were raging crazy all over this suburban home. Things were going pretty rad until some dude started playing a radiohead song in the living room. I literally felt like i was falling into a montage / time warp through all of their high school memories, i found myself feeling real warm and safe.

and then like most high school/ bro/ wack ass house parties this one took a turn into AMAZING. I heard sounds from the living room like a fight next thing you know about six hundred pounds of dude were fighting right next to mom's fine china SICKKKKK!!!!
cops came drama continued some dude got real mad cause he couldn't find his symbols and yeah it was a great party.

abe vigoda vivian girls love is all nodzz @ the smell

i went into the show as nodzz were playing, they played on the floor and there were a ton of kids so i couldn't see them. they sounded good. abe vigoda was sick as usual, this was probably the first time in a long time that i have treked out to see them, and it was worth it. vivian girls were pretty rad, they sounded really good in the smell. love is all was like whatever, i wish i would have saw them when i was younger i probably would have been more jazzed on it then. it was a very very fun night, i have been missing going to big shows.

by the way, i went to see women last week i didn't post on this because it sold out and tyler rogers and myself listened through the door, sounded amazing tyler has pictures. andy was there we played hacky sack, i skated with tyler and i am going to start skating again when rogers bro gives my board back.

i don't think i am going to the ports ocall show on sunday cause my rad hippie uncle who isn't really my uncle is in town. but tons of big rad bands are playing, and gil is playing with adam lipman. i AM going on tuesday to ports ocall

american gil has a new song about dracula and intoxication, it is nice.
also the american gil S/T cd-ep is OUT NOW ON NARF RECORDS
no paws is recording our full length should be ready by tour in dec
family time and no paws will have stickers soon
ancient crux cd-ep will be out in early dec on family time
twin lion is getting his stuff together to be put out in january
also tons more stuff