Summer/Fall Recordings

Go here to download recordings of Slave Labia, Bruce McClure, Tatyana Kagamas, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Cassandra and Cody Troyan, John M. Bennett, and Tiger Hatchery at Skylab; White Walls at Carabar; Slutever and Drug Money at Bat Chapters; John M. Bennett at the OSU Urban Arts Space; Slave Labia at The Shelf; and Envelope at Spoonful Records.

Also, go here for a download of Unholy Two at Bat Chapters.

Other News:

Austin & Ryan Eilbeck, Columbus Poet Laureate, turn 27. Here's Ryan reading at the OSU Urban Arts Space as part of the Paging Columbus reading series. And here is a synopsis of a stand-up routine Austin once gave at The Screamer House:

Austin approaches the performance area. In the performance area is a cup of water resting on a stool. Austin tells a "joke" then goes to drink water out of the cup. But the cup has been attached to the stool, so Austin has to pick up the whole thing to take his drink. The end. 

Recordings of Wolfs, Psychedelic Horseshit, Seabat

The constituent parts of Wolfs. Wolfs just released its demo "MMXI."

The Wolfs* recording is from the 6/12/11 show at Bat Chapters in Columbus, Ohio.

The Seabat and Psychedelic Horseshit recordings are from the 6/8/11 show at Skylab, my new abode in Columbus, Ohio.

Scroll through tracks on the above player to listen to each band. The playlist goes as follows:

(1) Psychedelic Horseshit
(2) Seabat
(3) Wolfs

Or download.

* Spelling intentional.

Weakness: Record, Columbus Show

Weakness is Kevin Bruce's new band. Kevin Bruce is Jane Bruce's brother. I once booked his old band, K BRUTAL, at the Monster House because he edited a skateboarding zine entitled DeadRamones and was Jane Bruce's brother.

Weakness is reminiscent of Hickey, yet cuts the figure of a band that doesn't know who or what Hickey is. That is the ideal route to 'sounding like Hickey.' I also hear hints of early Meneguar. 

Some of Weakness lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and some of Weakness lives where the economy runs on ten-hour work weeks, sno cones and zine consignments; namely, Bloomington, Indiana.

Now, anyone who talks to me knows I don't listen to music anymore, besides, perhaps, the Das Racist song with the Katy Perry song inside of it. Or Boy Crisis. (I would listen to Deathly Fighter but Christian won't give me a record (and I would listen to Unholy Two, too, but I don't want to be investigated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (and, anyway, I think the Columbus Alive likes those bands and I don't listen to Christian music.))) But I heard the Weakness record and some charred remnant of appreciation for things that 'sound like Hickey' was rekindled, albeit briefly. Make no mistake, this is high praise.

Download the Weakness record here. 

Weakness plays at Bat Chapters, the boho base on Gay St. that isn't Skylab, in downtown Columbus, Ohio, on February 18th, 2011. Also playing: Shut Up, RCI and Slugging Percentage. I believe it is all ages and donation-based.

(Weakness will also accompany The Pains of Being Pure at Heart on a mini-tour in April, news of which I only include so I can mention that TPOBPAH once stayed at the Monster House and everyone told me funny stories about it. I thought that ending with a mention of the Monster House, which is how I began, would give my blog entry a firm, symmetrical structure.)