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NEWS UPDATE: March 25th, 2022

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BREAKING NEWS ...!

Cellular Chaos are reunited and reignited.
Admiral Grey / Weasel Walter / Rad Chaines / Adam Shead

Hear them HERE and HERE
and experience them at
ELASTIC ARTS of Chicago
March 26th, 2022
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Tijuana Hercules
Hear them HERE and HERE
Join them for the April Fool's Extravaganza at
Chicago's Tone Deaf Records
April 1st, 2022
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Psychic Graveyard and USA Nails
have a new album out Now(!)
Hear them HERE
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METZ and PSYCHIC GRAVEYARD
- UNITED KINGDOM TOUR DATES -
4.1.22 Leicester, UK at 02 Academy Leicester
4.2.22 Blackpool, UK at Bootleg Social
4.3.22 Manchester, UK at Yes
4.4.22 Newcastle Upton Tyne at Cluny
4.5.22 Off
4.6.22 Glasgow, Scotland, at Stereo
4.7.22 Leeds, UK at Brudenell Social Club
4.8.22 Bristol, UK at Thekla
4.9.22 Brighton, UK at Green Door Store
4.10.22 London, UK at Scala
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USA NAILS
- UNITED KINGDOM TOUR DATES-
Apr 01 Bristol, UK at The Fleece
Apr 02 Manchester UK at Gorilla
Apr 03 Birmingham, UK at Hare and Hounds

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pictured: You Fantastic! "Homesickness" compact disc

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NEWS UPDATE: March 4th, 2022

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PSYCHIC GRAVEYARD / USA NAILS
"Split"
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BREAKING NEWS- (!)
We have two new singles streaming today - USA Nails take off the acrylics and go all in for the gel polish manicure with "Tooting Broadway" while Psychic Graveyard haul out the scorching sci-fi hi-fi slamdunk "What Happens At Zero". Both are from the upcoming album "Split", which will be released on April 1st.

You can stream them from today on at all major music outlets, but seeing as it's Bandcamp Friday as we type, we'd especially appreciate it if you plunked down the sixteen bits and bought the songs at our Bandcamp page- or treated yourself to a pre-order of the whole album which will be releasing next month! And if you've already got that on lock, there's plenty more racket to be had where that came from, including Cheer-Accident's latest "Here Comes The Sunset".

Thanks - !

Mark F

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NEWS UPDATE: February 18th, 2022

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CHEER-ACCIDENT
"Here Comes The Sunset"
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CHEER-ACCIDENT's "Here Comes The Sunset" has been cut loose! Here are the early reviews...

"Here Comes the Sunset" packs an epic journey into around half an hour - positively concise for a Cheer-Accident album - and proves that the band continue to care as little as possible about commercializing their “everything but the kitchen sink” aesthetic. Music scenes come and go, but the Accident persist, reminding us that they’re still one of the greatest, most challenging, and most fun bands that Chicago has ever produced - and that their music will always transcend genre and hype".
- The CHICAGO READER

("Here Comes The Sunset") adds to an already impressive catalogue - expect the unexpected from this iconic Chicago-based band". - PROGZILLA

Bloody hell, they’ve done it again. Do we have yet another to throw in to the "which is the best Cheer Accident album" debate? Is this yet another "is this the best album they’ve ever made" situation? They are once again pushing the boundaries, once again thrilling us with their almost outrageous moves... being as obtuse as ever... "Here Comes The Sunset" is as good as anything they’ve done". - The ORGAN

"Forty years in and Chicago’s musical adventurersCheer-Accident are still exploring the furthest reaches". - JOYZINE

"It’s impossible to be bored listening to “Here Comes The Sunset”. At the turn of each piece, surprise after surprise lies in wait... Cheer-Accident remarkably resist the test of aging". - MUZZART

- more reviews to come!

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NEWS UPDATE: February 11th, 2022

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PSYCHIC GRAVEYARD / USA NAILS
"Split"
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PSYCHIC GRAVEYARD / USA NAILS One-Sheet cat #: GR148LP/CD

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The “in-name only” United States and Kingdom’s divisions are more raw and splintered than ever before. And it's from this place of division that the USA’s PSYCHIC GRAVEYARD and SKiN GRAFT Records have joined with the UK’s USA NAILS and BOX Records to form “Split”.

Having been remixed by the likes of MSTRKRFT, LIARS and SECRET FUN CLUB, Psychic Graveyard are no strangers to collaboration. Here they determinedly ease layer upon cacophonous layer to their methodically set stage before burning it to the ground. As with their previous full lengths, the songs were recorded with Seth Manchester at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket.

The cuts served up by slabby noise-rock /angular post-punk /dissonant no-wave cognoscenti USA Nails feature notes that work, notes that don't work, wonky ping-pong guitars and shitty solos while musing over clinically medicated anxiety, internet commentators and Orwellian data practices. Although he didn't realize it at the time, drummer Tom Brewins broke his arm just before the band recorded with Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse in London.

He got better, but maybe the rest of us won't.

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PSYCHIC GRAVEYARD PRESS:
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"Deranged genius from former members of Arab on Radar and Some Girls.” - REVOLVER Magazine

(On Eric Paul’s lyrical invention) "This guy’s solipsistic… his mind orbiting another planet- the mix unevenly doubling his inner monologues. Synth player Nathan Joyner, guitarist Paul Vieira, and drummer Charles Ovett all up the psychodrama by savage degrees, leading off with a grinding, foghorn dirge that eventually expands into a punishing industrial hailstorm." - SPIN

"If the music itself isn't in retreat from society, then society backs away from it." - The WIRE

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USA NAILS PRESS:
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"….have proven themselves a raucous, abrasive, and scathing band - difficult to pigeonhole into a single genre. There is something about USA Nails that feels super British. Not in a pompous, patriotic way - it’s more how the band capture a sense the mundane and the monotonous and make it feel bitingly nasty." - DISTORTED SOUND

"A mix of Drive Like Jehu headbangers, nods to psychedelia and a throttling of hardcore (that takes on ) a red-eyed life of its own; roadworn and irritated, its rabid face pressed against the glass.” - The SKiNNY MAGAZINE

"Heavy, crushing, and aggressive." - The NEEDLE DROP

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Stream them at POST-TRASH

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HIGHLIGHTS:
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+ Both bands will tour in 2022. Psychic Graveyard are playing California with HONG KONG FUCK YOU in March and touring the UK with METZ in April.
+ Available in a randomly-mixed Colored Vinyl edition and Jet-Black Vinyl Editiondingb
+ Both LP editions include hand-marked, Japan-style “Footlong OBI”
+ MOD Compact Disc comes packaged in slick, eco friendly DIGIPAK.  

Post-Trash is premiering "Strangest Hobbies", the album's first single from PSYCHIC GRAVEYARD, while Birthday Cake For Breakfast is doing the same for USA NAILS and their single "It's All In The Context". - And if you visit our BANDCAMP Page, you'l find that a pre-order of the album will net you an instant download of each.

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HONG KONG FUCK YOU and PSYCHIC GRAVEYARD
- CALIFORNIA TOUR DATES
3.3.22 San Diego at The Casbah w/ Scary Pierre
3.4.22 Los Angeles at Zebulon Cafe w/ Prissy Whip & DJ John Dwyer
3.5.22 Oakland at Golden Bull w/ Fuckwolf
3.6.22 Los Angeles at Non Plus Ultra w/ FM and DJ John Dwyer

USA NAILS - UNITED KINGDOM TOUR DATES
Apr 01 Bristol, UK at The Fleece
Apr 02 Manchester UK at Gorilla
Apr 03 Birmingham, UK at Hare and Hounds

METZ and PSYCHIC GRAVEYARD
- UNITED KINGDOM TOUR DATES
4.1.22 Leicester, UK at 02 Academy Leicester
4.2.22 Blackpool, UK at Bootleg Social
4.3.22 Manchester, UK at Yes
4.4.22 Newcastle Upton Tyne at Cluny
4.5.22 Off
4.6.22 Glasgow, Scotland, at Stereo
4.7.22 Leeds, UK at Brudenell Social Club
4.8.22 Bristol, UK at Thekla
4.9.22 Brighton, UK at Green Door Store
4.10.22 London, UK at Scala

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NEWS UPDATE: February 4th, 2022

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New Single : CHEER-ACCIDENT : Out Now!
“Maison de Velours Écureuil”
from the upcoming album "Here Comes The Sunset"
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BREAKING NEWS- (!)
The new single from their album “Here Comes The Sunset”, Cheer-Accident’s airy “Maison de Velours Écureuil” is a warm and fuzzy scamp across a red-velvet-smothered space age bachelorette pad. Serve toasted or chilled; it works in all kinds of weather. - - - Features Julie Pomerleau (Monica BouBou of Bobby Conn) on violin & viola.

You can stream this at all major music outlets (public service announcment: get vaxxxed), but seeing as it's Bandcamp Friday as we type, we'd especially appreciate it if you plunked down the ten bits and bought the song at our Bandcamp page - or flat out treated yourself to a pre-order of the whole album which will be releasing in just two short weeks!

SPOILER ALERT! If you need any further convincing, let us direct you to the ever-affable The ORGAN where your arm will get a mighty good twisting... Scribe supreme Sean Worrall has laid ears upon "Here Comes The Sunset" and has written a spoiler-filled review of the highs and lows that lie ahead! Read at your own risk!



Okay - Thank you (!) Be sure to come back next week - - we're going to put another album up for pre-orders (choke, gasp!)

Mark F.
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NEWS UPDATE: January 14th, 2022

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CHEER-ACCIDENT
"Here Comes The Sunset"
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STRANGULATED BEATOFFS
"Porky The Pig and Bess" Double Single and Comic
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BREAKING NEWS- (!) Big thanks to eagle-eyed Graft-ite "Dishin'" Dave Hadadd for tipping off your under-informed SG IT department that the downloadable 22-page PDF comic book accompanying Bandcamp's STRANGULATED BEATOFFS "Porky The Pig And Bess" Digital Double Single had gone missing! The situation has now been rectified - and the comic will download alongside those four fantastic Beatoffs beauts - "Porky The Pig and Bess", "(Beat Me With A) Rump Roast" , "Exorcist 3" and "Fart Inhaler".

If you had previously purchased the the single from our Bandcamp store and did not receive the comic, go HERE and hit "download" to score your rightful claim - and - if you have not previously purchased the STRANGULATED BEATOFFS digital double single and comic book set - then you best get to rectifying that right now!

There's plenty more where that came from - we've got single and comic sets from the likes of FRUITCAKE, ZENI GEVA, DAZZLING KILLMEN, RUINS, SHELLAC, HIGH ON FIRE, SPACE STREAKINGS, YOWIE and UFO OR DIE to name just a few. We've even got physical copies of a handful of them hidden away here and there! So have your wallet at the ready and complete your collection HERE.

CHEER-ACCIDENT
"Here Comes The Sunset"
Vinyl LP / Glass-Mastered CD / Ult-Ed / Digital
( ORDER at BANDCAMP )

CHEER-ACCIDENT PDF One-Sheet cat #: GR146LP/CD

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“In the end, this album does not reach the heights of “Introducing Lemon” or “Fear Draws Misfortune”, but for anyone who already likes the band, it is worth picking up, and you can't really go wrong owning this album - although I would still recommend "Fear Draws Misfortune" as the starting point if you are looking to get into this Chicago-based band”.

- The GAZZARDIAN
(writing about the 2006 album “What Sequel?” over at Prog Archives)

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In the sixteen years that have passed since the review above, Cheer-Accident have put off death, then faded out, and now… “Here Comes The Sunset”- ?!? When will all of this ending end, you ask? Well, Cheer-Accident’s unending series of endings comes to a close (yet again) with their 24th album - brand new for 2022 - on Friday, February 18th.

What gives? - Peeking through the earglass, it sounds like we’ve got some cutup / schismatic Plastic R&B, something vaguely resembling Eurodance, a coupla minutes of Prog, a dash of melancholia, and a would-be (you know, right up until the "middle section") faithful rendition of a famous song by their fellow (but less drably attired) Midwestern rock band, Cheap Trick.

Join us for a gloriously dismal time as Cheer-Accident’s constitution collapses upon itself once again. You CAN go wrong listening to this. You can go exactly this wrong.

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"(Cheer-Accident) fold as many abstruse styles into their songs as possible - without collapsing into a nightmare tangle – and strike a keen balance between angularity and tunefulness - performed with incredible skill and precision." - The WIRE

“Cheer-Accident is worth deliberate investigation.” - NPR: FRESH AIR

Chi-town’s long running CHEER-ACCIDENT are classification-defying experimentalists... on the fringes of progressive rock, art-pop, and noise, whose M.O. has been one of constant reinvention”. - BANDCAMP DAILY

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HIGHLIGHTS:
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+ Available in a randomly-mixed Colored Vinyl and Jet-Black Vinyl Editions
+ Both LP editions include hand-marked, Japan-style “Footlong OBI”
+ Features CHEER-ACCIDENT’s faithful rendition (right up until the middle part) of CHEAP TRICK’s “Dream Police”.
+ Ultimate Edition includes Glass-Mastered CD resting in a high-gloss DIGIPAK. 

Joyzine is premiering the album's opening track "Star Vehicle (Four Flats)" over at their website right this very instant.  Check it out HERE.  - And then we encourage each and every one of you to pony up and place your orders at our BANDCAMP Page. You'll find that over HERE.

Thank you kindly!

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ITEM (!) The United States Postal Service has gone postal on us yet again - ringing in the new year with yet another price f’ing price hike.

To take a little bit of the sting out - we’re bringing back the digital edition of the CAMP SKiN GRAFT compilation at the “Pay What You Want” price point for just a little while.  The MOD CD comes in at just $12.85 and would be steal at even at ten times the shipping cost.  This is “hands-down” the best compilation of the 90’s, so go get it one way or another.

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CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
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This long unavailable, critically-acclaimed compilation was the first attempt to arrive at an audio definition of the “Skin Graft Records” sound. File under: No Wave, Electronic, Jazz, Rock, Noise, Progressive Rock, Free Jazz, Abstract, Fringe Metal, Space Rock, Punk, Avantgarde, Glitch, Art Rock, Hardcore, Outer Jazz-Rock - - or as they say with a wink and a sub pop nod: “Now Wave”

• Collects rare and exclusive tracks from bands such as Brise-Glace (Jim O'Rourke), Zeni Geva, Dazzling Killmen, Bobby Conn, The Flying Luttenbachers, Cheer- Accident, The Scissor Girls, Quintron, Ruins, UFO Or Die (Boredoms), U.S. Maple The Denison Kimball Trio, Omoide Hatoba and many more!
  
  
• Spex Magazine's Album of the Month - November 1997

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• “Every few years, a definitive compilation album comes out that helps define true avant garde - this is it." 
  - Ink 19

• “Skin Graft picked up the torch when Amphetamine Reptile went m.i.a., releasing some essential noise rock and fucked up punk records. In an effort to give us, the listening public, a sampling of all the ruckus they favored, the label put together this compilation which spreads the spectrum of their aesthetic. You got your art damaged rock, your freakout jazz, your unabashed noise, your droning metal, your hardcore, your punk, your space jams, and most everything in between." - Shiney Grey Monotone
  
  
• ”The greatest WTF?! compilation ever put to disc. Essential!" - Runny Noise
  
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  SIDE ONE:
  The Browns: My Name In Italics
  U.S. Maple: Missouri Twist
  The Flying Luttenbachers: Demonic Velocities
  Lake Of Dracula: Plague Of Frogs
  Yona-Kit: Skeleton King
  You Fantastic!: Riddler 5
  UFO Or Die: Zombie Tube
  Zeek Sheck: The Beeper Gets Digested
  Chuck Falzone, Telepath: You're Just Too Scared Boy
  Shakuhachi Surprise: Nande
  Melt-Banana: Zoo, No Vacancy
  
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  Strangulated Beatoffs: Satan's Pool Party
  Monitor Radio: Insouciance
  Colossamite: Bewilderbeast
  Flossie and the Unicorns: Chewing Gum
  Shorty: Mitzy Lodge
  ZZZZZ: One Two, May
  Cheer-Accident: Filet Of Nod
  Denison Kimball Trio: Framed
  Ruins: Hydromasgroningem
  Akaten: Latham's Snipe
  Omoide Hatoba: Pikadom
  
  SIDE THREE:
  Last of SG's: Bye To Bags
  Mount Shasta: S171
  Dazzling Killmen: Windshear
  Quintron: Bug Attack
  Bobby Conn: 69 Annee Erotique
  Nood Ham: Tokyo Santa
  Tortured Machine: Flash Fire
  Space Streakings: F.O.J.K.
  Zeni Geva: Terminal HZ
  F-Stein: Mighty Fuckin' Robots
  Brise-Glace: Likeness
  

You can give a listen and get it over at our BANDCAMP Page HERE. 

Thanks -!

Mark F.
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