Shout Out Loud Prints Mix Tape, Now Online

Pat Crann uploaded the first Shout Out Loud Prints mixtape to bandcamp.com for your streaming and downloading pleasure. Amelia, the grunge-pop band I played bass in with Maryn Jones and Ryan Starinsky, has a song on it titled "Bridges." Vile Gash, The Boy Who Could Fly, Screaming Females, Best Friends Forever, The Max Levine Ensemble, and other bands are also represented on the tape/MP3 download.

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Vile Gash & Ian Macchrist

Vile Gash and Ian Macchrist at The Legion of Doom on April 23rd, 2010 for Jimmy Button's birthday.
The 1st track on the player is Ian Macchrist, 2nd is Vile Gash. Or download: VG IM

Shout Out Loud Prints Compilation Tape

                          Tape art by Craig Dransfield of Chop Chop Gallery.

Pat Crann of Shout Out Loud Prints recently put out a tape comp in conjunction with In The Pocket Tapes (both companies are run out of The Monster House art-fraternity compound). The tape is a collection of bands, old and new, that have ordered shirts to be silk-screened from Shout Out Loud Prints. The selection is a veritable who's who of national DIY pop-punk bands in the 2000s including Defiance, Ohio, Screaming Females and Modern Machines, mixed in with local yokels like Vile Gash, Slugging Percentage, Tin Armor, Saint Seneca and my old band Amelia. Previously unreleased tracks from Paul Baribeau, Best Friends Forever, Good Luck, The Boy Who Could Fly and a Minor Threat cover by Letters To The Moon make this a rare comp worth copping. Get yours for $4ppd here.

Full tracklist and insert after "the jump."

"PUNK ZINE"

This is the 'zine I made two years ago. It's about Columbus, Ohio and some of the "punk" bands and artists that have called it home. There are eight interviews - Geoff Hing from Defiance, Ohio, Matt Reber from New Bomb Turks, Andy Hinton from Vile Gash, Phonzie Davis of Left Handed Sophie fame, Jason Molinari who lived at The Neil House, Anne Elizabeth Moore of the book "Unmarketable," John Malta of Rattail Flyers, and Jimmy Buttons who lives at The Legion of Doom. There are articles about The Evens, Bike Punks, the comic "Snakepit," Delay, Tin Armor, the CMA show "Renoir's Women," a janitor's strike at OSU, a successful Clinton-Era protest against bombing Iraq, a Griot memoir of Defiance, Ohio reminiscence, and a review of Magic Flowers Droned by Psychedelic Horseshit. There are reprints of a Lantern article about The Neil House, an Other Paper article about The Legion of Doom, an Entertainment Weekly article about "Columbus, the next Seattle," and something originally published in MRR about the Gaunt/New Bomb Turks scene.

If you want to buy a physical, paper copy Microcosm Publishing probably still has it.

Here are some reviews the zine received.