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updated: 02 / 06 / 2002

ITEM! As your buddy Jazzy Joe begins to peck away here, legions of secret service agents are burning the midnight oil, beefing up security and purchasing chic new sunglasses deep down in Austin, Texas... cuz the word is out - SKiN GRAFT is bum rushing the SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST Music Fest Friday, March 15th!!!!!

Feast your peeps on this line-up!:
ARAB ON RADAR
CHEER-ACCIDENT
THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS
and PINK AND BROWN

All four masters of disaster will take to the stage at EMO's Nightclub ~and you can bet your bottom the world will never be the same!

For further info and directions, contact EMO's and consult the SXSW website. Major label heads and industry types wishing to "do lunch" should contact Art Ceaser (sic) at the Chicago headquarters. We're all big eaters, so line up plenty of credit on those expense accounts big shots!

P.S: Honarable Graftites of China, Tatsuya Yoshida (RUINS) has seen the smoke signals and is heading your way (with Keiji Haino!) this March!

ITEM! Regulars round these parts might recall that just a few short months ago, SKiN GRAFT hopped in the sack with SYMBIOTIC Distribution to get our powerhouse platters in the record store bins where they belong (before comin' to your home to roost, that is!). We launched with a handful of the latest releases late last year -and now the time has come to dump the motherload! SKiN GRAFT's BACK CATALOG is READY to ROLL! Now your local store can stock SKiN GRAFT's past victories for ALL customers to purchase, shoplift or ignore!

If your local record haunt isn't stocking SKiN GRAFT titles, then please do your duty and give em a hearty heave-hoe in this direction:
http://www.symbiotic.net

Record store purchasers, we have created a handy PDF file so that you may peruse our catalog:
http://www.symbiotic.net/pdf/SKiNGRAFT_catalog.pdf
~ You'll need the ACROBAT READER to check this out.

To read the scoop on the SKiN GRAFT / SYMBIOTIC hook up, check out the July 2001 edition of the Ballpeen Bulletins.

ITEM! Word comes from the techies in the audio/visual cage that the ARAB ON RADAR video for "God is Dad" is a "wrap"! Indie director Rusty Nails has risen from the gutter and is in the midst of the fateful, final edit! Watch this space for news on the video's world premiere at the SGTV page! ~AND Europe is all abuzz cuz ARAB ON RADAR will be jetting over to broaden the flock and spread the good news in May and June. Shows are being booked now, so if you want to get in on this, contact Joachim at Ideal Booking ASAP!

ITEM! Checked out the SKiN GRAFT RADIO page lately? It's been a good looonng while since DJ Peters has spun a new show. The Supersphere studios have decreased their live broadcasts of late and our affable DJ was petitioned by Chicago's WNUR to start spinning for them! But all is not lost! Thanks to the wonders of the internet, you can listen to the archive of SKiN GRAFT WEBISODES ANYTIME! Give 'em a click and you'll hear an assortment of SKiN GRAFT classics, live stuff, unreleased gems, songs from our pals and the best (& worst) of the demos sent in to Skin Graft! ~AND SG CEO, ART CEASER (sic) has made a special arrangement with Nick Sakes (renowned as the singer / ax man of DAZZLING KILLMEN, COLOSSAMITE and SICBAY) to present SICBAY's Map Reference Radio to SKiN GRAFT dot com visitors!! It's hour after hour of listening pleasure, and they're adding MORE bands to the program all of the time! So go to the SG RADIO page, tune IN, and tune all that other crap OUT!

ITEM! There's time for one more quick plug before I hit the tracks. Another pile of magazines has landed in my hammy hands, this time straight out of Sarajevo ~and there's just enuf English in there to keep those pages turning! The zines in question are titled NEURO and the latest issue is packed to the gils with goodness - including interviews with RUINS and SKiN GRAFT's newest signee's GORGE TRIO and PINK & BROWN! Issue #2 includes ARAB ON RADAR, THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS & QUINTRON ~ and issue #1 features YONA-KIT's K.K. NULL, MELT-BANANA and Bara of EARWING RECORDS!
Contact Goran at electric_dandruff@hotmail.com to mailorder these suckers today!

Alrighty, Fare Thee Well and Fuck Thee Off, Friends -
I'm outta here! Off to the races!

updated:12 / 03 / 2001

ITEM! In addition to our regular roster of rockers (recounted across our wondrous website), the time has come yet againfor your peerless pontiff (persuaded by your plaintiff prayers), to provide the puzzled populace with a proclamation that will positively produce peerless, pulse-pounding pleasure to all peoples 'pon this planet! Simply said, NOW is the time to announce two new additions to the SKiN GRAFT family of far-outs! - GORGE TRIO and PINK AND BROWN!

pic by oops wilson

GORGE TRIO

While your hip and hirsute hero here hoped he'd have hours and hours to harangue the hypnotized, heaving herd with a host of homilies, there's simply no time for chatter! The tub is calling and you know how I loathe tepid water! But far be it from Jazzy Joe to leave his homie's hanging! Here's where you can learn more about this terrific twosome!!!!:

The fine feathered folks at Toyo Records have whipped up a snazzy 'lil Pink And Brown site:
http://www.toyorecords.com/pingebing.html
Be sure to pick up their debut CD "Final Foods" over yonder!

And - The brighter bookmobiles among you may recall the members of Gorge Trio from their tenure as 3/4's of COLOSSAMITE. Here's an MP3 sample (a big one!) .
GORGE TRIO w/ MILO FINE "One Hand & One Foot" / 9.30 MB
from their album "For Loss Of" on Freeland Records (Visit them via the Links Page!).

Watch for this space for further announcements on their SKiN GRAFT debuts! Prepare to purchase, or pine away and perish, peerless ones!

So til next time SKiN GRAFTiTES remember - "aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus!"

Excelsior!

"JAZZY" JOE ROMITA ( ! )

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