B A L L P E E N ( ! ) B U L L E T I N S
updated: November 9th, 2009
( ! ) DISTRIBUTED DYNAMOS ( ! )
GAY BEAST
"Multi-Purpose Anti-Form"
7" Vinyl Single
The CHINESE STARS
"Heaven On Speed Dial"
LP & Download Package
ALSO NEW IN THE SHOP!:
AIDS WOLF
"Dustin' Off The Sphynx"
7" / CD and
ULTIMATE EDITION
colored vinyl 7" EP
and full length CD
CHROME JACKSON
/ DIAGRAM A
Split 7" EP
Featuring Steve of
ARAB ON RADAR and
ATHLETIC AUTOMATON
LP/CD/ULTIMATE
1st CD
IN THE NEWS:
vv - "Multi-Purpose Anti Form" 7" EP now shipping!
- -- - - Euro-Tour booking NOW!
vv - "Heaven On Speed Dial" LP up for orders!
- -- - - plus "Body" video!
vv - Announcing a new outlet for big bargain offerings...
- -- - - QUINTRON "These Hands Of Mine" - dirt cheap!
vv - Rare (and not so rare) noise, punk and hardcore items...
- -- - - up for bids!!!!
Salütes Sound Seekers ( ! )
SKiN GRAFT's Ace Reporter, "Jazzy" Joe Romita here with another staggering summary of the frankly phenomenal feats fathered at the famed fount of flabbergast... the forever favored, far-from faddish, far-flung frontiersmen of the fashionable Fort SKiN GRAFT!!!! Face front, frenzied ones!!!
Buenas Nachos No-Goodnicks... ( ! )
Your lauded loud speaker Jazzy Joe Romita has returned to deliver a positively profound potpourri of pulse-pounding pronouncements and con-founding announcements - painstakingly peppered to set your non-senses a' sizzle! That's right, the time has come for another baffling barrage of bombastic bulletins pertaining to those under-staffed, underfed, underground underachievers - the unholy union we call - Skin Graft Records!
GAY BEAST Multi-Purpose Anti-Form
GAY BEAST Photos: Waltzcore
ITEM!: From far and wide, the queries keep a' coming - it seems all of Graftdom assembled is pining to know what's the latest with GAY BEAST! Well hang onto your hard hats heroes' we've got a treasure trove of titillating tidbits tossed together to tantalize and tease - this news is sure to please! First, we've got a brand-spanking new 7" single up for grabs (courtesy of allied camp Gilgongo!) - ready and waiting to come correct to your humble abode or haughty P.O. Box. Set your peepers on "read" and take in this savvy solicitation of said sounds:
Released on the heels of their second full length “Second Wave”, this new single from GAY BEAST offers a classic / ancient / much loved gem from early in their existence (called “Multi-Purpose Anti-Form”), and an incredible hectic dual cover / splice (Dymaxion and The Need) on the tail end of the B-side.
Noisy and spastic, yet complex and intricate, GAY BEAST lie in an ethereal netherworld cuddled up somewhere between Devo and Scissor Girls, but with a very specific and special energy that is incomparable, uncompromising and legit.
And the icing on this cake is a beautiful four color tri-fold-out cover conceived by GAY BEAST's own Dan Luedtke! Copies are in-stock now, so to claim your copy, send checks or money orders to the P.O. Box (up top) or place your orders at our handy-dandy Paypal Shop, placed precisely HERE. Overseas Order-ers, please don't forget to add the appropriate shipping charge to your cart - or we'll have to send a separate email hitting you up for it (which is kind of a bummer to do).
Next, GAY BEAST is preparing to tour Europe early next year and booking reservations are being taken now! Europeans, if you want GAY BEAST to light up your chateau, contact Nikita at PAPER AND IRON Booking forthwith - and don't neglect to tell him Jazzy Joe sent ya!
And lastly (but certainly not leastly), GAY BEAST have some new songs that they are itching to get onto to tape lickety split - watch this space for an announcement SOON!!
The Chinese Stars Photo: Anchor brain
ITEM!: Providence's four-pronged slice and dicers, THE CHINESE STARS need no introduction around these parts. With lineage reaching back to Skin Graft stalwarts ARAB ON RADAR and The CHINESE STARS own indelible releases "Turbo Mattress" and "Listen To Your Left Brain", TCS are what we'd call an institution. Now - the band has carefully cobbled together a brand-spanking new long-player for release on their admirable Anchor Brain imprint and SKiN GRAFT is thrilled to present this incredible collection for distribution to all territories - be it this world or the world hereafter!
On The CHINESE STARS' third full-length release "Heaven On Speed Dial", the band delivers their own brand of rock n' roll justice, turning out dance music for white padded cells, themes from porno films yet to be made, lyrical groans from dark checkerboard floors, glow-in-the-dark rhythms and fierce undomesticated guitar thrashings. Filthy and raw, "Heaven On Speed Dial" comes complete with an MP3 download code of the record in its entirety and a lovely insert, hand screen printed in Rhode Island by Devil's Rainbow Printing.
A video for the track "Body" has been embedded up top to get those audio zones good and moist - and as you suspected, The CHINESE STARS "Heaven On Speed Dial" is available for ordering direct from the mighty SKiN GRAFT Paypal Shop HERE (!) - or for those of you who prefer the tried and true way of doing things, send a check or money order to the P.O. Box listed at the top of this page and our mailorder maestro "Dazzling" Dave Stone will see that you are taken care of!
Quintron Photo: Junior Mckaye
ITEM!: With the economy slumped and the economists stumped, the Skin Graft think tank has devised a new angle to encourage the next generation to take a bite out of our storied past. To further our personal mission impossible (to simultaneously move bootys AND units) - we here at the outhouse of ideas are pleased to announce the SKiN GRAFT GOLD GRAB BAG, a new addition to our lauded Paypal Shop that will offer, for an unspecified amount of time, an obscenely low priced platter de jour available only to our loyal listenership. These specials will be posted on the front page of the SKiN GRAFT Paypal shop HERE and will be periodically pimped on our Twitter page HERE. There's no saying how long a given deal will be up for grabs, so best to get in while the gettin's good.That said, our debut SKiN GRAFT GOLD GRAB BAG offering is none other than..
>> CURRENT SPECIAL: <<
QUINTRON
"These Hands Of Mine" CD
# GR57CD (description)
- SALE PRICE EXPIRED -
The Small Print:
Specials are subject to end at any time and are only available through this link. Standard overseas shipping rates apply. Thanks!
... QUINTRON "These Hands Of Mine"! Considered by many to be Q's definitive release, "These Hands Of Mine" remains the greatest, excitingest, most fullest of the spiritest, rocking and especially rollingest one-man-band album ever put to tape. If you're thinking honkin' squonkin' washboard, sideshow one man band, then fast forward past that big bass drum and start thinkin' stripped down drum machine, overdriven Hammond Organ (with Leslie speaker!) and a frontman who screams and gestures like he invented the devil's music. The dance craze starts here, on shag carpeting.
To sample the track "Grandfather Time", click on over to the AUDIO page and let the bad times roll!
ITEM! Who's Up For Bids? Dept: The end of the year is fast approaching and so once again the SKiN GRAFT's SINRAFT auctions are underway. As you surely recall, the notorious SiNRAFT record label is responsible for releasing an unauthorized bootleg of PRE and AIDS Wolf songs in a bounteous, breast-enhanced calendar sleeve, an illegitimate reissue of STRANGULATED BEATOFFS songs and an quadriolgy of LAKE OF DRACULA live recordings - all of which were seized and made available legally via the SKiN GRAFT legal eagles. We here at SKIN GRAFT thought turn-about was fair play and decided to appropriate the SiNRAFT name for a handful of endeavors, including our music publishing arm and semi-annual ebay listings. Culled primarily from Skin Graft CEO Mark Fischer's personal hoardngs, the SINRAFT Ebay Auctions are up and running again - and will see plenty of rare (and some not so rare) noise, punk and hardcore offerings going up in the coming weeks. Lots of stuff has already sold, including uber-rare WHITEHOUSE vinyl and a large lot of SKiN GRAFT CD's on the cheap. Everything from vintage Skullflower LP's to manufactured on demand Joe McDoakes DVD's will be going up the before the auction hammer comes down, so - if you are so inclined, you can keep an eye on the auction action HERE.
Well, THAT as they say, is THAT, wild and wooly ones. Jazzy advises you get plenty of shut-eye before his next update because after you read the wicked wad of wonderment he'll be dropping next time, you bet your bottom that you are gonna be in for a bunch of sleepless nights! Until then...
Excel-sore!
"JAZZY" JOE ROMITA
MORE NEW NEWS:
updated: October 5th, 2009
SQUEEZING OUT NOW...
AIDS WOLF "Dustin' Off The Sphynx"
7" / CD / ULTIMATE EDITION
colored vinyl 7" EP & full length CD
CHROME JACKSON
/ DIAGRAM A
Split 7" EP
Featuring Steve of
ARAB ON RADAR and
ATHLETIC AUTOMATON
ALSO NEW IN THE SHOP!:
LP/CD/ULTIMATE
1st CD
IN THE NEWS:
vv - "Dustin' Offf The Sphynx" EP / CD / Ultimate Edition
- -- - - Now shipping!!!!
vv - All In-Stock Yoshida Tatsuya Titles On Sale!
- -- - - KOENJIHYAKKEI "Nivraym", RUINS Vrresto & more!
vv - Steve of ATHLETIC AUTOMATON & ARAB ON RADAR
- -- - - Debut split 7" in stock now!
vv - Fan Art Video submission for Haircut, Tacos!
Salütes Sound Seekers ( ! )
SKiN GRAFT's Ace Reporter, "Jazzy" Joe Romita here with another staggering summary of the frankly phenomenal feats fathered at the famed fount of flabbergast... the forever favored, far-from faddish, far-flung frontiersmen of the fashionable Fort SKiN GRAFT!!!! Face front, frenzied ones!!!
Ladies and Gentlemen... ( ! )
Put your heads together for SKiN GRAFT Records' smarting line-up - ( ! ) - hosted by your indoctrination sensation: that fuzzy-faced, genetically displaced, reporter 'o rock n' rancor - Jazzy Joe Romita! Yes, your pickled-punk professor has returned to edify, clarify and terrify with all the biz a'bubbling here at the barnyard of brainstorms! Nail down your chair, leaden your drawers and let's let 'er rip!
ITEM!: AIDS Wolf uber alles! Hold your neighbor's breath no longer - the brand-spankin' new AIDS WOLF entry - "Dustin' Off The Sphynx" has arrived! This piece of resistastance is so far outta sight that your Grafty Gallahad's have seen fit to offer it up in three wild and wooly editions - as a 4-song 7” vinyl EP (with a download coupon for 7 additional tracks), an 11-song full-length compact disc, and an ultra-unruly Ultimate Edition (including a colored vinyl 7" EP, the 11 track CD and an incredible silkscreened sleeve courtesy of the Seripop Studio) available ONLY direct from your penny-pinched pals at SKiN GRAFT Records!
Here's the official press release courtesy of Charlie Nite:
At the farthest reaches of modernity, we still somehow pine for an aesthetic that borders on sociopathy. The badass has long brought this aesthetic principle forward, but barely manages to deliver it to us here in the 21st century. The badass, though common in the vernacular, hyperbolically applied wherever, has sadly gone the way of the fucking chucking spear. Clearly a distinction is necessary to distinguish real badassery from its overuse in language today if there is any hope of salvaging this treasured relic of our cultural past.
Badassery cannot be separated from its roots in death, the overriding theme (aesthetically and politically) of the 20th century. Badass simply cannot describe goofball sneakers, a kid in a Michael Jackson video, or scroungy hobo jammers living in an abandoned water tank. Because badassery, like Annie Oakley's nightly routine, requires a delicate precision - predicated on getting the danger on.
- Excerpt from “AIDS Wolf Present: A Distinguishing Historiography of The Badass Genesis-2009
Formed in Montreal, 2003, AIDS Wolf are the preeminent Formalist / Unknown Wave quartet. They have released two full-length records as well as numerous collaborations, splits and seven inches. Their new EP, titled "Dustin’ Off The Sphynx" is available as a 7” vinyl EP and as a full-length compact disc. Both formats include seven additional bonus tracks from the now out-of-print “Pas Rapport” tour-only tape. These tracks are included on the CD and come as a free download with the silkscreen sleeved, colored vinyl 7” EP.Also available, exclusively from skingraftrecords.com:
AIDS WOLF "Dustin' Off The Sphynx" Ultimate Edition - includng:
----(Produced by Weasel Walter)
----(Hand Crafted by Seripop)
------ (CD includes the 4 vinyl EP tracks
------ - PLUS all 7 tracks from the out
------ of print Pas Rapport cassette!
------ coupon, foldout CD booklet, traycard liner and more!...all snugly secured in a crystal clear resealable sleeve to keep your Ultimate Edition safe, sound and dust-free! To order, send checks or money orders to the P.O. Box (up top) or click to our always open Paypal Shop HERE. Overseas customers, to prevent delays, please don't forget to add the appropriate shipping charge to your cart - or we'll have to hit you up for it before your order ships.
Before we leave AIDS WOLF - one more bit to chomp on.... Now here at the outhouse of ideas, from time to time the news ain't ALL good - like back when DAZZLING KILLMEN broke up just before their tour of Japan - or that time when Jazzy lost the farm on Jesse’s Minor in the third. Before reading any further, lock up the shotgun and step away from the rat poison, cause another bit of the bad is but a single sentence away. Due to the necessary funding falling through at the eleventh hour, AIDS WOLF have regretfully pulled the proverbial plug on plans to tour Europe this Fall - and have cancelled all previously announced dates. The decision didn’t come easy, but the band will try to make it back over as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
European allies, to soothe the pain, Jazzy prescribes the CD version of “Dustin' Off The Sphynx" set on shuffle for two consecutive weeks. Lather. Rinse, Repeat. Okay - now that you've begun bucking up, lets move on to the positive side of European jaunts...
SALE! ITEM!: Yoshida Tatsuya reports that the KOENJHYAKKEI European tour has been a smashing success – so smashing that they ran out of CD’s to sell midway through the trip!
Unfortunately with such short notice, your rollickin’ record label was unable to get more copies to the band in time for the last few gigs. Now, let it be known that, except for world peace and maybe a second home in Bermuda, the kooky caretakers here at Skin Graft Rex want nothing more than for you, our loyal listeners, to spend your hard-earned shekels on our pristine product line.
The very thought that ANY of our earnest enthusiasts would a attend a scintillating Skin Graft Show expecting to purchase our dynamic discs and then sulk home empty handed and full-pocketed is simply more than we can bear. So to square things up, we're not only putting the KOENJIHYAKKEI titles on sale TO EVERYONE for a limited time – we’re gonna go all out and toss Yoshida’s other bombastic band, RUINS, into the mix too! Sales titles include: KOENJIHYAKKEI "Nivraym", "Hundred Sights Of Koenji", "Viva Koenji" "Angherr Shisspa" and RUINS "Refusal Fossil (Special Edition)", "Palaschtom" and "Vrresto".
To order, visit the CD section of the SKiN GRAFT Paypal Shop - and while you are at it, check out the Everything Else Section for the mind-melting KOENJIHYAKKEI DVD - imported directly from Japan - and playable around the world! So - as young Billy Sides always used to say: Act Now or Pay More Later!
CHROME JACKSON / DIAGRAM A
Split 7" EP
ITEM!: As those who follow the continuing saga here at Skin Graft are well aware, shortly after the release of ATHLETIC AUTOMATON's "Journey Through Roman's Empire" CD, percussionist Patrick Crump was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome and had to be taken out of the game until he had recovered. Surgery on his right hand has been a complete success - and the left hand went under the knife this summer. Heal time is estimated at a good nine months or so - but Jazzy is pleased to report that all signs point to ATHLETIC AUTOMATON returning to action in 2010!
Meanwhile, AA's guitarist Stephen Mattos has been keeping up his chops with a one-man monstrosity known singularly as CHROME JACKSON. Described as an unboxed web of tangled, layered chaos, CHROME JACKSON makes a sensational Spooky Tree debut paired up on a 7" single with the noise-art noodlings of DIAGRAM A (Providence/Western Mass homemade electronics maestro Dan Greenwood). Only 300 split 7" singles have been produced - and we have a limited quantity available for sale via the SKiN GRAFT Paypal Shop! Visit the EVERYTHING ELSE Section to get in while the gettin's good!FAN ART VIDEO Submission of ...
ITEM!: Skin Graft Fan Erik Carter wrote in to share the above homemade video for PRE's "Haircut Tacos". Turns out he put it together for his experimental video class. Here's hopin' he got a (Fuckin') A+!!!!!
And with that, we have come to the end of yet another broadcast day. This is your know-ed news reporter Jazzy Joe Romita signing off and stepping out. 'Til next time, wash your hair, take care... BEWARE!
Excel-sore!
"JAZZY" JOE ROMITA
MORE NEW NEWS:
updated: August 27th, 2009
AIDS WOLF PREVIEW (!):
AIDS WOLF "Dustin' Off The Sphynx"
ULTIMATE EDITION
colored vinyl 7" EP & full length CD
IN THE NEWS:
vv - "DxOxTxS" Ultimate Edition details unveiled!
- -- - - Now available for advance orders!
vv - Isaac to join AIDS WOLF in Europe!
- -- - - GAY BEAST European tour coming 2010!
vv - Performing select shows in Europe this September!
- -- - - All four albums in stock now!
vv - Les Instants Chavires petition online
Salütes Sound Seekers ( ! )
SKiN GRAFT's Ace Reporter, "Jazzy" Joe Romita here with another staggering summary of the frankly phenomenal feats fathered at the famed fount of flabbergast... the forever favored, far-from faddish, far-flung frontiersmen of the fashionable Fort SKiN GRAFT!!!! Face front, frenzied ones!!!
Hezza Gaan Graft-ites!
This is Jazzy Joe Romita saying Howdy Do to YOU, cultured cohort in caustic cacophony! This time around, time is even shorter than your no-goodnick news hound's attention span, so lets delve directly into the left-field lunacy awaiting your ear - here at the fame-fraught frontier of far-flung furor: SKiN GRAFT Rex!
------ (Produced by Weasel Walter)
------ (Hand Crafted by Seripop)
------ (CD includes the 4 vinyl EP tracks - PLUS all 7 tracks
------ from the out of print Pas Rapport cassette!
------ coupon, foldout CD booklet, traycard liner and more!To secure your copy, send checks or money orders to the P.O. Box (up top) or get instant ordering graft-ification at our always open Paypal Shop, located just a click away - right about HERE. Overseas pals, to prevent delays, please don't forget to add the appropriate shipping charge to your cart - or we'll have to hit you up for it before your Ultimate Edition ships. Complete Details coming in the next update!
And one more thing - - - in a news conference held Wednesday August 19th, AIDS WOLF's previous platter of peril "Cities Of Glass" was nominated for the prestigious GAMIQ award! You can read all about it and cast your vote at the official GAMIQ website HERE!
photo by Discop
ITEM!: In the last update, Jazzy tickled your tastebuds with the picant piles of the positive press GAY BEAST's scintillating Skin Graft debut long-player "Second Wave" had begun to garner. In the wake of the album's release, our European allies have been clamoring for a tour of the old world - and Jazzy is pleased to proclaim that GAY BEAST will indeed be crossing borders early in 2010!!! And get this - in advance of GAY BEAST's overseas ovations, none other than GAY BEAST's own Isaac "Rockin" Rotto is heading to Europe this November with AIDS WOLF - in tow as second guitarist! These dates are still coming together, but we can confirm the following:AIDS WOLF Euro Tour
(Featuring Isaac of GAY BEAST on 2nd Guitar)
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13.11.2009 B, Diksmuide, 4AD w/ Oxbow
14.11.2009 D, Bremen, Friese
17.11.2009 F, Poitiers, Confort Moderne
18.11.2009 F, Bordeaux, Le Saint Ex
19.11.2009 F, Lyon, Grrrnd Zero w/ Foot Village
20.11.2009 IT, Milano, La Casa 139
24.11.2009 A, Vienna, Fluc
25.11.2009 CZ, Prague, Klub 007To get in on the booking of either the AIDS WOLF tour of duty or to inquire about availability of GAY BEAST in 2010, email Nikita at PAPER and IRON Booking! -And don't forget to tell 'em Jazzy sent 'ya!!!
ITEM!: Chins up, Americans. Even though it seems Europe is getting all of the bands these days - your day will come. Japan's progressive powerhouse KOENJIHYAKKEI is the latest to take a European holiday with appearances at select venues this September (!) - including the legendary RIO Festival in France, as well as the Freakparade Fest in Germany! Show details are below!
September 19th
at the RIO (Rock In Opposition) FESTIVAL
CARMAUX, FRANCE
Details: www.rocktime.org/rio/
September 22nd
Sala Clamores
MADRID, SPAIN
Details: www.salaclamores.co
September 25th
Le Abattoirs
LYON, FRANCE
September 25th
Dampfzentrale
BERNE, SWITZERLAND
Details: www.dampfzentrale.ch
September 27th
at the FREAKPARADE FESTIVAL
WÜRZBURG, GERMANY
Details: www.artrock-festival.deA brand new edition of KOENJIHYAKKEI's "Nivraym" was released earlier this year, as was a reissue of the band's "Viva Koenji" (scan for the details in our previous News Updates). You'll find all four of Koenjihyakkei's full length CD's (as well as a limited edition import DVD!) in the paypal shop HERE.
Les Instants ChavirésITEM!: And finally - Jazzy wants to get a quick word in on the hard times one of our our favorite European venues has fallen upon in recent months. JF Pichard, the curator at Les Instants Chavirés (a renowned concert venue & art space in Paris - dedicated to experimentation for over 18 years) has been in touch about how subsidy cuts have impacted their ability to continue their work. The lack of funding has forced the venue to cancel its entire Fall season of concerts and exhibitions. Les Instants Chavirés has a long relationship with Skin Graft and it's artists - virtually every band of ours that stepped foot into France has been greeted warmly by the staff and supporters of the venue at one time or another. A petition has been created to send a message to the powers that be about just how important Les Instants Chavirés is to artists - not only within France, but around the world as well. If you want to help, you can read about Les Instants Chavirés situation HERE - and sign the petition HERE.
Alrighty Alums and Chums - your news hound is keeping it short and sweet this time, but bet ALL of your bottom's dollars that Jazzy Joe will be back with more wizened wordage next month!
Excel-sore!
"JAZZY" JOE ROMITA
MORE NEW NEWS:
updated: July 27th, 2009
NOW IN-STOCK:
PRE "Hope Freaks" LP/CD
PRE "Hope Freaks"
ULTIMATE EDITION LP&CD
IN THE NEWS:
vv - "Hope Freaks" LP / CD / Ultimate Edition!
- -- - - and the premiere of the Teenage Lakes Video!
vv - "Second Wave" blows minds!
- -- - - Reviews coming in!
vv - "GuerillaTour": Live on the West Coast!
- -- - - Specific venues now targeted!
vv - RUINS "Vrresto" back in-stock!
- -- - - KOENJIHYAKKEI "Viva Koenji!" back too!
vv - "Face Of Collapse" and "Receurda" CD's
- - - -- SKiN GRAFT Gold Bundle!
vv - Zeek Sheck, Strangulated Beatoffs & You Fantastic!
- - - -- (3) CD's at a price even a mother could love!
vv - Dead Moon Walking: the King of Pop has burst...
- - - - Strangulated Beatoffs remember.
Salütes Sound Seekers ( ! )
SKiN GRAFT's Ace Reporter, "Jazzy" Joe Romita here with another staggering summary of the frankly phenomenal feats fathered at the famed fount of flabbergast... the forever favored, far-from faddish, far-flung frontiersmen of the fashionable Fort SKiN GRAFT!!!! Face front, frenzied ones!!!
photos by Nine Inch NilinaPRE: HOPE FREAKS!
Excise that gag-reflex Graftiites! It's time to glom onto gum-grinding goodness going down here at the hollowed hut of hipster-eeze - that sensational summit of sour sounds, comic book mounds, and coffee grounds - that's right, the hallowed halls of Skin Graft Rex!
Chums, if "Hope Freaks" is a sophomore slump, then send me back to high school post haste! Hottttt on the high lo-fi heels of their contribution to the SIDES 11-14 AC/DC tribute compilation, PRE has been knobbed up by none other than Steve Albini (producer extroidinair of countless Skin Graft classics) and, woo-boy, have they delivered! Cigars all around!
Here's press magnate Charlie Nite, with all of the details...
Hope Freaks is the second album from London's new-school, no wave naughties PRE. Recorded in Chicago with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio and mastered by Weasel Walter in San Francisco, “Hope Freaks” is a power-vault up from the acclaimed newborn gnarl of their debut 'Epic Fits'.
Like it's predecessor, “Hope Freaks” weighs in at a lean twenty minutes. Every punch is packed, and with a master at the faders, you will feel the devil in all its detail. Each unhinged swing never fails to connect.
Since forming in London three years ago, PRE has taken their spring-loaded live-show to the people. Two massive UK tours with The Gossip and stints with the likes of Health, The Mae Shi, Finally Punk and Mika Miko in the US has refined their footwork into a dizzying dance of precision instruments. A sold out performance at the Knitting Factory resulted in a two page spread in SPIN Magazine and the band's infamy lead to a bootleg vinyl release in Eastern Europe.
Most recently, PRE embarked on yet another US tour, pummeling SXSW and the West Coast, and appeared alongside Yowie, Colossamite (Deerhoof) and Mule (P.W. Long) on SIDES 11-14, a double 7” and comic book collection inspired by AC/DC.
And now; bare-knuckled, fist in hand with Skin Graft Records; PRE spring forward for round two - unprotected, unwavering - and with infectious left hooks guaranteed to leave listeners staggering.
Take it from Jazzy, PRE's second movement is a passionately performed, painstakingly prepared platter - primed to set your pulse on pound, and send you parading, pittering and pogo-ing past the premises of pals and nemesis. With disc in hand and head held high, you will carry with you the hope of freaks worldwide.
I know what you're thinking "Jazzy, you princely pontiff, what makes us worthy of such marvelous, must-have merchandise?" Friends, cast aside those doubts of self worth, dispense with the showering of gratitude - just raid mom's cookie jar and BUY! "Hope Freaks" is available in a variety of styles, with one surely suited to quench your inner audioholic. "Hope Freaks" comes correct as a comely compact disc, a vivacious vinyl LP, and for those who want the whole ball of wax with a digital chaser, in a supreme Ultimate Edition, that puts both formats together at one low price! If you like your music to be heard and not seen, then you'll find complete album downloads awaiting your support from a myriad of digital content providers including i-tunes,emusic and zune.
Now if Jazzy's fireside chattering has not already made the sale, and you are in need of further arm-twisting, then skip on over to the AUDIO page, unplug your ears and overdose on "Haircut, Tacos" pulled straight from the "Hope Freaks" master tapes!To order your copy, send checks or money orders to the P.O. Box (up top) or save a stamp and order lickety split at our Paypal Shop HERE. Overseas pals, to prevent delays, please don't forget to add the appropriate shipping charge to your cart. The eagle-eyed accountants count every penny!
To order visit:
Okay, prepare your peepers people! Tis time to peer 'pon the premiere of PRE's "Teenage Lakes" music video, affably misdirected by Carlos Charlie Perez and set to stream by the tasty taste makers at PitchforkDotCom. As had been previously reported, Jazzy Joe was to make his video debut alongside PRE, but seems your Nutty News Reporter had one Italian Beef too many at the Craft services table and had to skedaddle for a bit of impromptu bypass surgery just as the cameras were set to roll! Big thanks Jovial Jake Friedmann for stepping in front of the camera and providing the magical introduction.
WORLD PREMEIRE!
PRE "Teenage Lakes" (Hope Freaks LP/CD):PRE PRESS Quips:
o “While PRE's debut "Epic Fits' scored 5 of 5 stars in these pages, there are simply not enough stars in the heavens to do justice to "Hope Freaks."
- Making No Waves
o “Epic Fits is more fun than any number of last year's punk releases. If Pre have a trademark it's that they'll derail anything moving. Pile-up's the point."
- Pitchfork
o “It can be hard to stand out among the hundreds of bands that play the annual CMJ Festival, so the hallucinogenic noise-smiths in PRE left it ALL on the floor!?"
- Spin
o ”Love it! Screaming yelling yelping relentless girl voice, erasing all errata... "Epic Fits" indeed. Meticulously slicing and cleverly crafted razor sharp noise tantrums - beautifully unawkward and very easy to listen to! Yes! Pre make the noise jump."
- Organ
To order visit:
photos by A.K.
ITEM!: GAY BEAST 4-Ever! The press is starting to roll in on "Second Wave" and the critics have unanimously dubbed it a winner - without a penny of payola changing hands!!! Here's a smattering of what's being said around the web:
The Needle Drop HERE
Brooklyn Vegan HERE
Goon HERE
Citizen Dick HERE
Culture Bully HERE
Silent Barn HERE
Jazzy waxed plenty poetic on GAY BEAST "Second Wave" in his last update, so just scroll down to the May 22nd News Desk entry for the entire skinny. And yes, copies of the GAY BEAST "Second Wave" Ultimate Edition (which includes the album on both formats enclosed in a 12" 4-color Hand Silkscreened Gatefold Jacket and a poster-sized 4-color process fold-out insert - all wrapped in a crystal clear resealable sleeve and a Silver Foil Sticker garnish!) are still available. Limited quantities also remain ofGAY BEAST's first full -length CD "Discrobics". All direct mailorder copies come in a hand-silkscreened sleeve, so buy now or regret later!!
G U E R I L L A T O U R !
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Post script: SHOW CHANGE: MIM in LA on July 23rd (was at Ukrainian Culture Center) - - now at The SMELL with Wavves!
Tatsuya Yoshida (RUINS / KOENJIHYAKKEI) in Bangkok:ITEM!: V for Victory! "Vrresto" (RUINS) and "Viva Koenji" (KOENJIHYAKKEI), two of Tatsuya Yoshida's most powerful prog packages are back in stock for ordering - both online and off!
KOENJIHYAKKEI "Viva Koenji" CD
Finally available again, Skin Graft proudly presents Koenjihyakkei’s second album “Viva Koenji!!” to western listeners. With the original issue on Japan’s God Mountain label largely unheard and fetching enormous prices on the collector’s market, “Viva Koenji!!”, generally considered the band’s heaviest album, returns to print in a deluxe, remastered edition. Headed by vocalist / composer / drummer extraordinaire Yoshida Tatsuya (of the bass and drum duo RUINS), Koenjihyakkei boasts a listenership comprised of zuehl prog fans, no-wavers and adventurous music enthusiasts; and has proven itself the most exciting contemporary progressive rock acton the planet.
“Koenjihyakkei towers over most modern progressive rock because of an attention to detail and an overwhelming force of conviction. No irony here: this rocks with the teeth and heart to cut through the “scenes” and the "overground" like a knife. …Koenjihyakkei may go down as Tatsuya Yoshida’s greatest achievement: the most perfect fusion of straight prog, the avant-garde and hardcore punk. Amen.”
- Pitchfork
RUINS "Vrresto" CD
Like their visual namesake, RUINS are colossal. An avalanche of energy, nuanced and direct, written in stone. Japan's drum(s) and bass duo RUINS are renowned around the globe for their mind-bendingly fast and complex hyper-progressive rock onslaught. Ruins are masters of quick-change, stop/start tempos, time signatures and textures. Hardcore, psych, speed metal, art rock, funk- all are elements incorporated into their music, but what comes out is irrefutably original. Unquestionably RUINS.
Few, if any, bands can appeal equally to both Slayer fans and Debussy and Webern enthusiasts. In recent years, Tatsuya Yoshida has carried the RUINS mantle all on his own, as RUINS Alone, continuing to tour the world performing the uncanny vocalizations, psychedelic inventiveness, infectious melodies, improv spasticity, and thrashing workouts RUINS are renowned for. Previously only available overseas, "Vrresto" is available in a new edition, extensively remixed & remastered (and in some cases, re-recorded) by RUINS founder Tatsuya Yoshida at Magaibitsu Studios in Tokyo. "Vrresto" also includes two tracks newly sequenced into the album, making this the broadest RUINS release to date.
Online orders, visit the Paypal Shop HERE.
DAZZLING KILLMEN and 4-Legged Friend:
ITEM!: "Dazzling Killmen were born of Nick Sakes' late-20's crisis. Sakes thought "If I want to start a band, I better do it soon". Nick bought a guitar and was only able to scrape away at the beginning. But as luck would have it, he managed to find the perfect complement in a pair of jazz students, bassist Darin Gray and drummer Blake Fleming. Within a few months of forming, the band wound up in the studio, punching out a 7" single of the tracks "Numb" and "Bottom Feeder" on Nick's own label Sawtooth records. Though done on a fairly low-cost basis, the single set the tone for what was to follow from the Killmen - an incredible amount of technical skill, sharp changes in time, combined with an all-out assault from the lyrics and an unschooled, but obviously impassioned Sakes on guitar."
So begins the band history page on DAZZLING KILLMEN (HERE), and in many respects, Skin Graft Records history begins here too - so in honor of the debut SKiN GRAFT Band (and inspired by Steve Albini's return to production duties on PRE's latest), Jazzy is proud to proclaim that for a limited time both DAZZLING KILLMEN titles have been bundled together - for newbies and oldies alike - for just $17.99!
DAZZLING KILLMEN Face Of Collapse CD
Original recipe! The first Skin Graft full-length album back in print! LOUD LIFE at ALTERNATIVE PRESS magazine declared "Face Of Collapse" the TOP ALBUM of the 90's based on the following criteria: 1) Avoidance of formula or cliché. 2) Dexterity of Rhythm section, 3) Quality of album's production values, 4) Lack of predictable lyrical subjects - Satan, Straightedge, Viking folklore, etc. "Sounds like Dave Bruebeck's Time Out played through Carcass' PA system." Found on lots of "best of" lists everywhere.
DAZZLING KILLMEN Recuerda CD
Collects re-recordings of the the first album "Dig Out The Switch", the Lounge Ax cassette, the singles, unreleased gems and about 20 cub scouts. 76 minutes of blistering fast emotional Prog-Math-Hardcore. Your band can't play this. These guys wrote the book before the dogs ate it. Legendary.Online orders, visit the Paypal Shop HERE.
The Fair Zeek Sheck (warning: not brain safe):
ITEM!: Quick - grab the windex, spritz away that stray toothpaste residue and take a long hard look in the mirror - Have you got what it takes to hang with the Skin Graft elite? If you are unsure, then you certainly don't have three key releases that have time and time again separated the slicks from the sicks:
ZEEK SHECK
-- "Good Luck Suckers" (details HERE)
YOU FANTASTIC!
-- "Riddler" (details HERE)
STRANGULATED BEATOFFS
-- "s/t" aka "Beating Off All Over The World" (details HERE)
These three CD's are so deliciously dandy, so asskickingly out-there, that only the most hearty SG fanatics have dared unlock their secret grandeur. But today, the gates are opening to all! Yes, Jazzy has convinced the eggheads upstairs to bundle these three prized picks at a price way-below their the paltry retail price - in an effort to assist those Skin Graft supporters less fortunate than others. That's right, for just $17.99 (!!!!), the FAR-OUT FAVORITES Bundle - consisting of ALL THREE CD's can and will be delivered to your divine den of inequity!!! MP3 samples from all three bands are available for broadcast now at the AUDIO page for a flash education!To order visit:
And finally....
STRANGULATED BEATOFFS
"Beat It / Jackin' Off With Jacko"
7" vinyl single (edition of 300)Not long ago, STRANGULATED BEATOFFS took time out from their busy schedules to issue a tribute to the recently departed Michael Jackson. Limited to 300 copies and sporting watercolor artwork by Stan Seitrich, the a-side is a stunning rendition of "Beat It", while the flipside unleashes the instant club hit "Jackin Off With Jacko". Quantities are very limited and just a handful remain for sale in the Everything Else section of the Paypal Shop HERE. Limit 1 per customer, please. Proceeds will go toward the purchase of the King of Pop's bones for tasteful display alongside Joseph "John" Merrick's remains. Thank you.
July 7th Update: This item is SOLD OUT!
To Ed McMahon - Respect.
Excel-sore!
"JAZZY" JOE ROMITA
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