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updated: August 3rd, 2012

To see the SALE Prices, click the
SALE ENDS AUGUST 31st, 2012

IN THE NEWS:

The PHYSICAL EDUCATION SALE
vv - Massive Summer Discounts For A Limited Time
vv - Order Soon and Order Often!
YOWIE: European Tour
---and New Album Announcement
vv - European Tour this September and October!
vv - "Damning With Faint Praise" out this Fall!
LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS
---join the label: New Album This Fall
vv - "Cleaning the Filth From a Delicate Frame" coming soon!
vv - Produced by U.S. Maple's Todd Rittmann
DOOMSDAY STUDENT and
---KOREKYOJINN European Tours
vv - Both bands touring Europe this Fall (individually)
vv - Ex-Arab On Radar & current Ruins Alone (respectively)

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!!!!

Saints Be Braised! Yessiree - Once again, the one and only Jazzy Joe has come down from the mount and he's got another nipple-hardening narrative of newsworthy notes and nonsensical name-dropping from the nation's numero-uno non-entity of noisemakers and no-good-nicks!

We've got no less than a Bushel and two Pecks worth of items clogging our dockets this morning, including a simply stupendous summer sale and not one, but TWO Flabulous Fall Releases awaiting announcement - including the loonnng-awaited sophomore slumpless slamfest from an old SKiN GRAFT hand making a return to active duty... and another return - this one to the Windy City with a rollicking roster addition hottt off the streets of SKiN GRAFT's former stomping grounds. Time is tight, so plant your posterior pronto and lets get down to today’s show business!!
ITEM!: Tough Times Made Soft Dept. Not long after your monolithic musicologist last posted to these pages, a torrent of hopeful, heart-churning emails came pouring in from a fudgeload of far-out music enthusiasts who will stop at nothing - praying, pining and pleading - 'til they get an On-Line Sale that will enable them an opportunity to glom onto even more glamorous Graft goodies to further embolden their hard-won audio archives.

Now there is no denying that Skin Graft's regular prices already constitute an entertainment value unmatched anywhere, anyhow - but the SKiN GRAFT Department of Public Welfare has taken pity on the plight of our penny-pinched partisans and uploaded THE SKiN GRAFT PHYSICAL EDUCATION SALE - packed to the brim with deals aplenty designed to delight those who like their music served in a solid state - on a shiny digital disc and a hard vinyl platter.

MP3s? Sure, those ethereal audio files are wicked convenient when nesting on your computer's hard drive, i-pod or ps vita, but the Phys Ed Sale is a celebration of that "packaged goods" goodness, the kind that eats up valuable shelf space and comes complete with artwork you can hold in your cold hard hands.

Yes friends, NOW is the time to let loose those dimes you've squirreled away for the summer and toss them into the SKiN GRAFT Fount of Fabulousness. Never before have we offered so much for so little investment - and the returns will last a lifetime. We have a created a special page (apart from the standard SKiN GRAFT Shop) listing all of the Sale items. To see the deals, go to the SKiN GRAFT Shop and click the PHYSICAL EDUCATION SALE BANNER in the upper right hand corner.

Please note that you CAN mix and match sale items with regularly priced items in the shop.

Order soon and order often ( ! ), no amount of pleading will prevent us from pulling the plug come August 31st!!!

All titles available for ORDER at

PLEASE NOTE:
SALE prices are only visible by clicking the BANNER on the SKIN GRAFT PAYPAL SHOP Front Page.

- - - But your hard-earned buck doesn't stop there!
Coming this Fall...

ITEM!: These sleeves have been itching something fierce, so Jazzy's gonna cut straight to the chases and pull out his pair of aces right now! Coming this October - SKiN GRAFT will be releasing two all new full length albums - from none other than St. Louis' YOWIE and Chicago's LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS!

ITEM!: As had been reported previously, difficult music makers YOWIE kick so much ass, that a reported .04% of the population has taken to wearing Depends (tm) just to soften the puissant punt to their pained posteriors! After YEARS of writing, practicing, re-writing, in-fighting, making-up, recording, mixing and mastering, YOWIE is AT LAST ready to unveil their new album! "Damning With Faint Praise" will take on all comers this October!

Earlier this week Skin Graft boss, Mr. Mark Fischer, sent smoke signals my way informing that XADDAX were in fine spirits, closing their European jaunt with a stay at the SKiN GRAFT Euro resort in Vienna, Austria. And now - YOWIE is up at bat - preparing to embark on their first European tour ever! Dates are filling up, so please contact Jakub at Seek Harbor Booking if you want YOWIE to play in your neck of the woods!

The dates so far:

YOWIE
New LP/CD
OUT in OCTOBER

YOWIE: EUROPEAN TOUR

26/09 DE Berlin @ Bei Roy
27/09 PL Wroclav @ TBA
28/09 CZ Brno @ Bora
29/09 CZ Budweis @ Naab (tbc)
30/09 SK Trencín @ Klub Luc
01/10 SK Bratislava @ A4
02/10 CZ Ostrava @ Plan B
03/10 AU Vienna @ Fluc
04/10 HU Szeged @ Jazz Koczma
05/10 SL Ljubjana @ Menza Pri Koritu
06/10 IT Prato @ Controsenso club
08/10 IT Faenza @ Clandestino
09/10 CH Geneva @ L'Usine
10/10 FR Clermont-Ferrand @ Raymond's Bar
11/10 FR Lyon @ Gaffer Festival
12/10 FR Mulhouse
13/10 FR Paris @ Rigoletto
14/10 BE Brussels @ Magasin 4 w/ Poino
15/10 UK Leeds @ Wharf Chambers
16/10 UK Bristol @ The Croft
17/10 UK London @ Birthdays Dalston - with DOOMSDAY STUDENT
18/10 NL - secret show!
19/10 DE Halle @ Huhnermanhattan

The Facebook Tour Event Page is HERE.

If you have yet to experience YOWIE, their debut full length CD "Cryptooology" and their double split single and comic book set (alongside PRE, MULE and COLOSSAMITE - all AC/DC covers!) are both up for grabs in the aforementioned sale, so set those ears popping now!

LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS
New LP/CD:
OUT in OCTOBER

ITEM!: We now come to one of those rare occasions at the SKiN GRAFT News Desk - the announcement of a new act to the fabled, SKiN GRAFT HALL OF HOTSHOTS...! Just last week Jazzy played a few cuts from LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS incredi-burgable incoming LP to our newest intern Flip Olsen - and after a good five minutes of stunned silence, Flip commented that the band sounded like "the cement-headed three-way love child of Jello Biafra, Tomata du Plenty and Danny Elfman (circa Nightmare Before Christmas) fronting a Zuehl-inflected Sleepytime Gorilla Museum way the fuck off Broadway".

- And while that works for Jazzy, our press magnate, Charlie Nite had this to say:

LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS are an avant-rock band directed by artist Gregory Jacobsen and bassist Alex Perkolup (CHEER-ACCIDENT, FLYING LUTTENBACHERS). Using Jacobsen's grotesque paintings as a starting point, LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS construct theatrical No-Wave suites that morph from of-kilter dance anthems to punishing and ridiculous progressive rock. Simple musical motifs quickly deform into charges of odd harmony and tangled polyrhythms, punctuated by syllable-stuffed cut-and-paste prose; and grounded in a love for catchy melodies – a gravy-encrusted GLEE for the regressive metal and free jazz set.

The band boasts the cream of the crop Chicago's fresh-faced avant music makers Including current and former members of Cheer-Accident, Flying Luttenbachers, Bobby Conn, Murmur, Baby Teeth, Detholz!, Van Dyke Parks and Hot Garbage. - - And The LOVELY LITTLE new album, "Cleaning the Filth From a Delicate Frame" has been produced by none other than Todd Rittmann of US Maple and Dead Rider!

The new albums from YOWIE and LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS are scheduled for release this October on vinyl and CD, with a special ULTIMATE EDITION Bundle available exclusively to SKiN GRAFT Mailorder-ers. Both titles will be up for pre-orders in September!

ITEM!: And along with YOWIE (see above), TWO MORE Tours of EUROPE are currently in the works - DOOMSDAY STUDENT and KOREKYOJINN - (!) with both bands ALSO making their first EVER appearances in the OLD WORLD!

DOOMSDAY STUDENT EUROPE TOUR 2012

Tue 16/10/2012 Nl Rotterdam @ Worm
Wed 17/10/2012 Uk London @ Birthdays Dalston - with YOWIE!
Thu 18/10/2012 Uk Glasgow @ Nice & Sleazy
Fri 19/10/2012 Uk Leeds Wharf @ Chambers
Sat 20/10/2012 Uk Birmingham @ Supersonic festival
Sun 21/10/2012 Be Brussels @ Ateliers Claus
Mon 22/10/2012 Fr Montreuil @ Instants Chavires
Tue 23/10/2012 Fr Toulouse @ La Dynamo
Wed 24/10/2012 Es
Thu 25/10/2012 Fr Lyon @ Le Clacson
Fri 26/10/2012 Fr Torino @ El Paso
Sat 27/10/2012 It Rome @ Dal Verme
Sun 28/10/2012 It
Mon 29/10/2012 De Wurzburg @ Cafe Cairo
Tue 30/10/2012 De Hamburg @ Hafenklang
Wed 31/10/2012 De
Thu 1/11/2012 De Hannover @ Silly Art
Fri 2/11/2012 Nl Amsterdam @ Winston
Sat 3/11/2012 Be Antwerp @ Scheldapen

More Dates To Be Announced!

ITEM!: Re: KOREKYOJINN - Let's let the Press release do the talking - starting off with a little known FUN FACT about the bands moniker!

Formed in 1998 by Yoshida Tatsuya, Japan's KOREKYOJINN (alternately spelled Korekyojin) is a progressive-jazz-rock band determined to redefine the polyrhythmic ensemble.

The style of KOREKYOJINN will be recognizable to fans of Yoshida Tatsuya's other acts, the band has carved out a sound all its own. The trio dance on razors, are sharp as a tack - and their overwhelming ability jettisons them into the outer limits - where progressive rock and contemporary jazz collide into a breathtaking, futuristic, hard rock funk.

This will be KOREKYOJINN's first appearance in Europe.

KOREKYOJINN's new CD “Tundra” is now available, manufactured at your demand, in the SKiN GRAFT Records PAYPAL SHOP.

KOREKYOJINN EUROPE TOUR 2012

OCTOBER
3rd wed. CAFE OTO (London/UK)
4th thu. STENGADE (Copenhagen/DM)
5th fri. Hirscheneck (Basel/CH)
6th sat. TBC (Luzern/CH)
7th sun. REITSCHULE (Bern/CH)
8th mon. TBC (Zurich/CH) 9th tue. CAVE 12 (Geneva/CH)
10th wed. MAGASIN 4 (Brussels/BE)
11th thu. TBC (Lille/FR) 12th fri. LE TRITON (Paris/FR)
13th sat. PROG FESTIVAL (madrid/ES)
14th sun. TBC (barcelona/ES)

We'll have more details as they arrive!

OKAY- time to hang that head and heavy those hearts heroes, the dark side is calling and Jazzy has a night train to catch.

But before you chew your arm off and cut yourselves loose, let me leave you with these immortal words first uttered by acclaimed wordsmith Tungsten Barclay: "Ni-Kittlee LaQuitoe Odo-rok!", which, when translated, comes out something like...

Excel-sore!

"JAZZY" JOE ROMITA

MORE NEW NEWS:

updated: July 2nd, 2012

XADDAX
(ex- dazzling killmen / colossamite / sicbay / my name is rar-rar)
LIVE IN EUROPE:

7th July CZ, Budweiss @ Noise Party
8th July DE, Leipzig
9th July DE, Berlin @ Bei Roy
10th July PL, Wroclav @ Falanster
11th July CZ, Brno @ Boro
12th July CZ, Kutna Hora @ Creepy Teepee
13th July AU, Linz @ Ottensheim Festival
14th July SL, Ljubjanna @ Menza
15th July IT, Margera @ Pop Corn
19th July IT, Milan @ Torchiera
20th July DE, Stuttgart @ Wagon
21st July CZ, Rokycany @ Fluff Fest
22nd July CZ, Praha @ Final
23rd July CZ, Litomerice @ Analek << New show added!
24th July AU, Vienna @ Fluc

The Facebook Tour Event Page is HERE.

- and congratulations to Nick and Chrissy, married July 1st!
(see HERE!)

Thats all for now - BUT -
WATCH THIS SPACE FOR AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON
TWO BIG ALL-NEW SKIN GRAFT RELEASES
COMING THIS FALL!

MORE NEW NEWS:

updated: May 14th, 2012

: OUT NOW :

XADDAX
"COUNTERCLOCKWORK"
LP/ CD / ULTIMATE EDITION

- ON SALE FOR A LIMITED TIME -

DAZZLING
KILLMEN CD

COLOSSAMITE
All Lingo's CD

DAZZLING
KILLMEN CD

All titles available for ORDER at

- NEW RELEASES OUT NOW -

RUINS ALONE
LP/CD

CHROME JACKSON
MOD CD

DOOMSDAY STUDENT
MOD CD

SATANIZED
LP / MOD CD

PRE
THIRD ALBUM

KOENJIHYAKKEI
LIVE DVD

KOREKYOJINN
MOD CD

CAMP SKiN GRAFT
MOD CD

RUINS
MOD CD

GAY BEAST
LP / MOD CD

ARAB ON RADAR
VINYL LP

AIDS WOLF
LP / CD

All titles available for ORDER at

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!!!!

XADDAX: "Energetic and Vital!" - K.K. Null

ITEM!: Look, No amount of Jazzy double talk can top the quote up top from ZENI GEVA slash YONA-KIT main man K.K. Null when referring to the debut LP from XADDAX , the new band from Nick Sakes (Dazzling Killmen) & Chrissy Rosettie (My Name Is Rar-Rar).

XADDAX "Counterclockwork", will be available as a 12" vinyl LP and a manufactured on demand Compact Disc from all discerning record retailers on May 8th - or it may be ordered direct from the SKiN GRAFT Shop in the above formats - OR as a supremely-swank mailorder-only ULTIMATE EDITION - that bundles a Colored Vinyl 12" LP & the MOD CD in one package! The Ult Ed Colored vinyl LP is known to come in a cornucopia of colors - - - already spotted: a lovely Liver-Colored platter de jour and a split down the center half greyish blue - half marbeled green variant!

If you prefer to purchase your fix digitally, then visit our Digital Download page HERE - - - and to indulge in an absolutely free sample, just point and click HERE for your no questions asked MP3 of Lives of Nerves.

- Or you can simply watch the Video, ably assembled by Rob Woodcock...!

XADDAX Lives of Nerves

Steamin' Hank Shteamer on XADDAX:

Nick Sakes boasts one of those impeccable underground-rock track records. His discography to date encompasses three brilliant, insular projects: prog-minded post-hardcore nightmare merchants Dazzling Killmen, cryptic art-punk psychos Colossamite and the skewed yet surprisingly tuneful Sicbay. Now, more than two decades on from Sakes's recording debut, comes the part where we inform you that the guitarist/shrieker has "matured," and is prepping his first singer-songwriter record or somesuch. Except that's entirely false; Sakes's latest band, Xaddax-- a duo with drummer Chrissy Rossettie -- is as challenging and gloriously cathartic as anything he's done to date.

Sakes and Rossettie met at Chicago's Fireside Bowl back in 2001, when Sicbay shared a bill with Rossettie's former band, the head-spinning neo–No Wave outfit My Name Is Rar-Rar. Flash forward to '09, when Sakes (then living in Minneapolis) and the Brooklyn-based Rossettie reconnected online and struck up a long-distance romance. Soon Sakes headed east, and within a few months, the pair had hatched a new musical entity, named Xaddax in honor of their shared love of "palindromes and pointy letters." A flurry of live shows commenced.

"Counterclockwork", the debut Xaddax release is a must-hear for any Nick Sakes fan, but what's most impressive about the 25-minute LP is the way it places his trademark livid howl in an entirely new context. Working with a mad-scientist electroacoustic drum set-up -- huge toms, no cymbals, various sample-triggering pads and a foot-controlled synth pedal -- Rossettie pounds out lurching math-disco rhythms, haloed in scuzzy sci-fi FX. Sakes responds with perversely anthemic riffs and mantra-like shouts, resulting in a kind of hot-wired hardcore -- like Devo gone nastily dystopic. In a sense, Counterclockwork sounds like nothing Nick Sakes has ever done, but the record's spirit -- venemous aggression combined with bold ingenuity -- fulfills every promise of one of the most fiercely uncompromising discographies in contemporary American music.

In advance of the XADDAX final exam, here are two excellent primers:

o Prior to penning the print up top, Hank Shteamer took some time out from his gig at Time Out NY to scribble together “Sums of Parts: Nick Sakes from DAZZLING KILLMEN to XADDAX” at DARK FORCES SWING BLIND PUNCHES

o And here is an invaluable interview with Chrissy Rossettie, conducted by HEY DRUMMER, YOU RULE!

XADDAX are:
Nick Sakes - vocals and guitar
Chrissty Rosettie - drums, electronics, backing vocals

Recorded and Engineered by Colin Marston
at Menegroth: The Thousand Caves, Queens, New York

Mastered by Weasel Walter

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PRESS QUOTES:
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o "Energetic & vital!" - KK Null of Zeni Geva / Yona-Kit

o "There is a certain category of well-known DIY-rock lifer who's been around forever and has been in a long string of bands. Folks like Ian MacKaye, Ben Weasel, Dave Pajo, Walter Schreifels, Mick Barr - even icons like Robert Pollard or Kathleen Hanna fit in this general classification. But if anyone's keeping some sort of master ledger of these sorts of folks and Nick Sakes Dazzling Killmen, Colossamite, Sicbay and now XADDAX), isn't on it, that list is incomplete. In terms of combining raw aggression with unconventional yet totally memorable form, Nick Sakes is one of the most potent musicians I've ever heard. Chrissy Rossettie plays a hot-wired electroacoustic kit, which she wields like a post-industrial orchestra. Since there are only two members of XADDAX, the division-of-labor vibe is right in front of your face: What Rossettie brings to the table... as drummer and full-spectrum sound generator—is an inspired short-circuiting-cyborg vibe." - Dark Forces

o "Face Of Collapse" the debut album by Xaddax frontman Nick Sakes' band Dazzling Killmen, was declared the top heavy album of the 90's by Alternative Press. "Sounds like Dave Bruebeck's Time Out played through Carcass' PA system." - Alternative Press

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TRACK LISTING:
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1. Lives On Nerves
2. Sick Sneak
3. X Train
4. Busted Circuits
5. Falls Off The Bone
6. The High Hat
7. Dropping Knives Down The Well
8. Rickety Surveillance
9. Hit Cancel
10. Stark Terms

Preview MP3: Lives On Nerves
Mail Orders: SKiN GRAFT Records PAYPAL SHOP

RECORD RELEASE SHOW:
- MAY 24th Brooklyn, New York @ Death By Audio
with Normal Love, Cellular Chaos, In Heat

- MAY 26th (Record Release Encore show)
ALL AGES - - - opening for RORSCHACH, CONVERGE, INDECISION
in NYC @ Le Poisson Rouge

XADDAX is planning to tour EUROPE in JULY and they have created a KICKSTARTER page to help fund the trip!

The band writes:
Airline tickets from NYC to Prague are around $1000 each. We need two. Please help. We love you.

- - - Want us to record a cover song using YOUR NAME incorporated into the vocals? Give us $300. - - - Want some stickers and buttons? $10. - - - How about $2? We need help.
Thanks.
Got any requests? Let us know!

HOLY SHINOLI! You read that right - For a $300 pledge, XADDAX will record a COVER TUNE of YOUR CHOICE and will EVEN TOSS YOUR NAME into the song! Wanna hear XADDAX play "Freebird"? "Couch Slouch"? "Auld Lang Syne"? THIS IS YOUR CHANCE!!!

For all of the DETAILS and the Tentative EURO TOUR Itinerary, GO HERE!

ITEM!: And don't forget - we've got RUINS ALONE navigating US soil even as I type (Check out this awesome poster for the PSYCHO DE MAYO event at THE SMELL emailed over by GIl Kuno!) and we can count the minutes til AIDS WOLF make their last stand - All of the Details are in the update below!

Excel-sore!

"JAZZY" JOE ROMITA

Click HERE for MORE new NEWS ( ! )

- ON SALE FOR A LIMITED TIME -

DAZZLING KILLMEN CD	COLOSSAMITE All Lingo's CD	DAZZLING KILLMEN CD

- NEW RELEASES OUT NOW -

RUINS ALONE LP/CD	CHROME JACKSON MOD CD	DOOMSDAY STUDENT MOD CD

SATANIZED LP / MOD CD	PRE THIRD ALBUM	KOENJIHYAKKEI LIVE DVD

KOREKYOJINN MOD CD	CAMP SKiN GRAFT MOD CD	RUINS MOD CD

GAY BEAST LP / MOD CD	ARAB ON RADAR VINYL LP	AIDS WOLF LP / CD