Monday, December 31, 2012
My Year in Reading, Again
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
CTRL Force Best of 2012
Made in Missoula! Catchy, riffin' punk with a lot heart and great playing. When music this good is made in the Inland Northwest, you *flip your wig* every time you listen to it.
2. Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV
A phantasmagoric bricolage of fun pop music from the 1970's onward.
http://duneslala.bandcamp.com/track/vertical-walk
5. Terry Malts - Killing Time
7. Black Breath - Sentenced to LIfe
8. X-TG - Desertshore/ Final Report
9. Radar Eyes - s/t
10. Hunx - Hairdresser Blues
11. My Bloody Valentine - EPs -1988-1991
12. Plateaus - s/t
13. KING BROTHERS - Mach Club
14. Art Fad - Banditos
15. Is/Is - III
16. Chrome Cranks - Ain't No Lies in Blood
17. Crocodiles - Endless Flowers
18. Fuxa - Electric Sound of Summer
19. Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
20. Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO - Son of a Bitches’ Brew
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2. Boy Friend – Lazy Hunter3. Riff Raff – Obtuse Angle
4. Ty Segall Band – Tell Me What’s Inside Your Heart
5. Brian Jonestown Massacre – I Wann To Hold Your Other Hand
6. Shonen Knife – All You Can Eat
7. Bare Mutants – Without You
8. Mind Spiders – Fall In Line
9. Heavy Hawaii – Super Bowl XXVII
10. Gayze – East Coast Dying
(edit by Keith: I forgot about that Terry Malts album, I heard it a bunch this year and loved it!)
Of the three albums Ty Segall released this year Twins is by far the most straight forward poppy album and also my favorite. It’s probably my favorite Ty Segall album. Sometimes Ty Segall reminds me of Jay Reatard even though they sound nothing alike. Both way too prolific, both way too consistent and both long haired and very impressive.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Summer of Our Discontent Explicated
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Oh no, not again!
This blog has been really dead. That's cause music stuff has been going at an almost dead pace, at least compared to before. Also I haven't had the internet at home in over a year. Anyway, here's a release by a band that's too old.
I meant to wait to post this till after I posted this Christwrong release that's been in the works forever but it's still not done. Anyway, I'm in Boise and have some other bands going now. I think things are looking up. Hopefully that Christwrong thing will get finished someday.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wowee, a new Tim Blood release?
(by Joe?/Anonymous? |
This was gonna be the tour tape but here it is now! It's has been in the works for like 10 months or something. Almost every part was recorded months apart but I think all the songs came out pretty solid sounding. ENJOY!
Also, there's a few more songs floating around that'll probably get released at some point, just so it will feel complete to me, but don't wait up for it!
Monday, August 27, 2012
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Tour Reading List
Keith:
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny or The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber (can't decide!)
(As you can see I'm on a big Sci Fi kick again.)
Ryan:
On Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Discourse on Thinking by Martin Heidegger
Kant by Paul Guyer (I won't get through this, it's 600 pages, but it's really interesting. Very concise.)
Clyde:
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Too Afraid To Ask by David Reuben
The Portable Nietzsche by Walter Kaufman
Wilson by Daniel Clowes
Body World by Dash Shaw
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Damned by Kurt Vonnegut
American Splendor by Harvey Pekar
The 120 Days Of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
Tim B.:
2666 by Roberto Bolano
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (You could say I'm on a Latin American Literature kick, or something.)
Andrea:
Bats: Biology, Behavior and Folklore by Glover Morrill Allen (Natural History is a current interest of mine.)
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Matt:
Boss by Mike Royko
And more to come!
Monday, July 16, 2012
Whooooooo, Hooooooo!
1. We're leaving for tour next weekend with Art Fad and Clyde Webb. It's gonna be pretty big. Here's the details: http://www.facebook.com/events/196339637151607/
We're gonna play shows, we're gonna goof around, we're gonna sell tshirts and all the other band stuff, we're gonna get sick of each other, etc.
2. There's gonna be a tape ready for the tour with our new "Spring Break in Hell" ep on one side and some other unreleased stuff on the other side as well as the "X Mass" ep which was never physically released. Some of the songs have been gestating for almost 9 months now but it's finally coming together. Wouldn't have wanted it premature or some shit.
The ep will make it onto the internet sometime after tour and all the other stuff will make it on there eventually as well. Also, we'll have cds of the "Summer of Our Discontent" album if you want with a brand new lyric sheet!
3. 1D is coming to record today.
Potential album cover? (photo by Mark (Dad) F.) |
Thursday, May 24, 2012
more recording and shows
tim blood is playing this inlander fest thing in spokane on the 1st which sounds like fun: http://www.inlander.com/spokane/volume
also we got an article written about us for it: http://www.inlander.com/spokane/article-17991-bands-to-watch-tim-blood-and-the-gutpanthers.html pretty weird stuff.
tim blood, christwrong and vipe all gave two songs each to an idaho bands comp that should be coming out soon. i don't have many details but our songs all turned out pretty well.
last weekend our good friend matt from came over and recorded a few tracks. can't wait to hear the finished product! also check out his music at the sun mantra link on the side.
and on the dl, ryan and i are setting up to record a secret project (as i type this) that we've been working on since the winter. spooky.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Christwrong demo recording pix
just found some recording pix of an old christwrong demo that should be out on a mysterious comp along with some unreleased vipe and tim blood songs. more info soon.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Caffeine Insomnia
Thursday, April 19, 2012
(E)The Future of Crust(A)
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Pet Cemetary Cover Recording!
Here are some pictures of recording our version of the famous Ramones with their song "Pet Cemetery." Done originally for the hit film "Pet Semetary" written by Stephen King, the song has a message that our group really much agrees with.
As for the recording, we used much vigor, setting up blankets, mics, and equipment to get the truest sounds imaginable. The drums used an SM57 & an AT4050 on the snare, SM57s on each tom, a D6 on the BD, EV N/D 357a dynamic super cardioid pattern girl's mics on overheads, and a Shure Beta 87a on hi hats.
The guitars used various fuzz and overdrive pedals on various parts of the song. And we used a 57 and AT4050 on the Peavey badass cabs. Keith played a fake telecaster. Tim played a mexican's strat. Ken played a mexican's p bass.
On bass guitar amp of fender rumble 100 with 15" speaker we used a DI box, a D6 kick mic, and a 57.
We will use the AT4050 for all vocals. We use a Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 interface for AD/DA conversion.
All in all we have obtained a fast wall of sound sound with many superfluous tracks and big ideas. We are adding Yamaha synthesizer soon on chroruses. Check out: ramonetothebone.info for the Ramones compilation our Pet Cemetery will be on at the end of the month. Punkliv.