CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - BLIND will perform at Amos' Southend in Charlotte, North Carolina on May 15. The group's schedule is now shaping up as follows:
Apr. 18 - Ground Zero - Spartanburg, South Carolina
May 15 - Amos' Southend - Charlotte, North Carolina
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - BLIND features Karl Agell, who sang on the classic CORROSION OF CONFORMITY (C.O.C.) album "Blind" (1991), and founding C.O.C. member Reed Mullin (drums). The group, which performs the entire original version of the "Blind" LP, also features Scott Little from Agell's band LEADFOOT, and Jason Browning and Jerry Barrett, both of whom were previously in BAD BRAINS singer HR's solo group.
"We tried a couple of different times to get this going and it didn't click for various reasons," Agell recently told Yes! Weekly. "We all seemed to have different things going on, but the chemistry is just right this time."
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - BLIND's set includes such classics as "Damned for All Time", "Echoes in the Well", "Dance of the Dead" and "Vote with a Bullet".
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - BLIND is:
Karl Agell (CORROSION OF CONFORMITY) - Vocals
Reed Mullin (CORROSION OF CONFORMITY) - Drums
Scott Little (LEADFOOT) - Guitar
Jason Browning (HR of BAD BRAINS) - Guitar
Jerry Barrett (HR of BAD BRAINS) - Bass
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Melvins Celebrate Silver (25th) Anniversary; Plan Special "Evening With" Performances in May
The Melvins are turning twenty five and marking the occasion with a group of celebratory shows set for mid-May in New York, Boston, Chicago and Austin.
The four shows will be an “evening with” the band and feature a first set with the original line-up of Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover (on bass) and original drummer Mike Dillard. For the second set Buzz, Dale and Trevor Dunn (bass player for Fantomas, MadLove, Mr. Bungle) will perform Houdini in its entirety.
“We’re living on borrowed time." explained Buzz. "When the Melvins started I never expected to actually be ALIVE for 25 more years."
The Melvins formed in 1984 in Montesano, Wash., a small town on the west coast of the state. Crover and Osborne have been the two constant members of the band over their twenty-five year history. In that time, the group has been labeled and re-labeled with each passing musical fad but have outlasted each categorization and shone through as a creative entity that is unclassifiable. While the band came to mainstream prominence in the mid-90’s, the Melvins’ most recent releases (Nude With Boots, (A) Senile Animal) have been their most critically and commercially well-received albums to date. Couple that with their seemingly endless influence on other musicians and it’s easy to see why the Melvins have become one of the most well-respected bands of a generation.
The shows are:
May 15 New York, NY Webster Hall
May 16 Boston, MA Paradise
May 18 Chicago, IL Double Door
May 20 Austin, TX Emo’s
Saturday, February 21, 2009
See Farflung Live in March
Farflung will be making two very rare appearances in California in March. They will be playing with Samsara Blues Experiment on the 19th of March at The Echo in Los Angeles and on the 20th at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco with Numinous Eye.
Biblical Proof of the West Side
Biblical Proof of UFOs has lined up the following shows:
February 22: Los Angeles, CA – Punk Rock BBQ at Liquid Kitty
The Bob Lee Experience (playing The Stooges` Funhouse in it`s entirety) - 6:30 pm
Biblical Proof of UFOs – 5:30 pm
Stains – 4:30 pm
Carnage Asada – 3:30 pm
Toothcore - 2:30 pm
February 25: Venice Beach, CA – Air-Conditioned Supper Club
It`s Casual – 12 am
Chingalera – 11 pm
Biblical Proof of UFOs – 10 pm
Lost Marauders – 9 pm
February 22: Los Angeles, CA – Punk Rock BBQ at Liquid Kitty
The Bob Lee Experience (playing The Stooges` Funhouse in it`s entirety) - 6:30 pm
Biblical Proof of UFOs – 5:30 pm
Stains – 4:30 pm
Carnage Asada – 3:30 pm
Toothcore - 2:30 pm
February 25: Venice Beach, CA – Air-Conditioned Supper Club
It`s Casual – 12 am
Chingalera – 11 pm
Biblical Proof of UFOs – 10 pm
Lost Marauders – 9 pm
Monday, February 16, 2009
SAINT VITUS: German Club Shows Announced
Legendary U.S. doom metal band SAINT VITUS has scheduled a couple of German club shows to follow the group's sold-out appearance at this year's Roadburn festival in Tilburg, Netherlands. The dates are:
April 24 - 013 - Tilburg, NETH (Roadburn)
April 27 - Live Music Hall - Köln, GER
April 29 - Die Röhre - Stuttgart, GER
Olivier "Zoltar" Badin of UK's Terrorizer magazine last fall conducted an interview with SAINT VITUS guitarist Dave Chandler.
Terrorizer: Ironically, in between 1996 when you first split up, and 2003, the band's popularity had grown a lot. How do you explain it?
Chandler: The irony of it all is a friend whom I used to complain to that things were not happening for us in the '80s said to me that to become popular, all I had to do was to disband and reform five years later. How true. But seriously, I don't know what really happened. I guess it has a lot to do with the fact that during the time we were gone the whole doom scene was finally blossoming, at least in Europe, and a lot of those bands were mentioning us as one of their main influences. I actually want to thank you guys at Terrorizer, because when you did that doom special thing spread over three issues, I know we got mentioned a lot and that did a lot for us. Or maybe we just lucky. I don't know. But it still feels weird. I work in a head shop here in New Orleans, I sell pipes you know. And few times, some customers who there looking to buy some stuff would all of a sudden just freeze in front of me and go like, "Wait a second, are you really who I'm thinking you are?" to which I would just answer like, "Errrrrr, I don't know." Usually, they would then rave on about me being in SAINT VITUS and being some kind of legend or whatever. And the only thing I'd tell then would be, "Really?"
Terrorizer: When you started considering doing the reunion shows, did you question which version of the band you'd reactivate?
Chandler: Well, the With Full Force guys explicitly asked for the "Born Too Late" lineup so we knew straight away this would happen with Wino at the mic, yeah.
Terrorizer: But you never thought there could be more than the two shows (Chicago and With Full Force)?
Chandler: Pretty much, yeah. I mean during our lifetime, we had only played in small clubs with punk bands whose fans usually hated us. So the idea was to do one big show and that's it. Plus, everybody's got to take care of their own lives, you know? Wino had THE HIDDEN HAND going on, I had DEBRIS INC. and Armando was playing in a heavy rock outfit called DIRTY RED, so…
Terrorizer: What about DEBRIS INC.?
Chandler: Oh, this hasn't been happening for a long time now. After we released our album in 2005, we did some touring but I then realized the conditions were as horrible now as they were back in the days and since I'm not that young anymore, I just couldn't stand them, really, so I kind of put the band to rest. Since then, I've been jamming from time to time with friends during weekends, but just for the fun of it, nothing really serious.
Terrorizer: Nowadays, everybody in VITUS is pretty scattered all over the country, right?
Chandler: Yeah, I live in New Orleans, Armando and Mark are in California, and Wino is either in Washington or Maryland, I don't remember. Everybody's going to come down here for the rehearsals though. We're probably going to do a show prior to Roadburn as well, like when we played in Chicago in 2003, just to make sure everybody knows what they're supposed to do.
Terrorizer: A low-key DVD from your Chicago show was released in 2007. Are you going to record Roadburn as well?
Chandler: Well, the plan right now is to record both shows and maybe put out a sequel to our '90s live album. But you'd better ask my manager the details because I'm already too busy trying to re-learn those songs I wrote over twenty years ago.
Terrorizer: What about the setlist?
Chandler: Well, I can't reveal much right now but we're going to do mostly Wino songs, including a lot from "Born Too Late". But there's also going to be some surprises, even for our diehard fans, as we're going to play songs we never or rarely did live before.
Terrorizer: Any Scott Reagers songs planned, like from your final album "Die Healing" (1995)?
Chandler: We're going to do some of them, the ones most people see as "classic" VITUS songs but none from "Die Healing", no.
Terrorizer: Wouldn't it be the right time to, at long last, finally re-release your back catalogue? Even if Southern Lord did reissue "V" (1989) and "Live" (1990), your second album "Hallow's Victim" (1985), for example, has yet to be officially released on CD.
Chandler: That's one of the reasons why we want to record those shows coming up as some of those songs might end up on some of those re-releases as yes, I can reveal to you that we just got the permission from Greg Ginn (BLACK FLAG founder/guitarist and owner of SST Records, which released the band's first four full-lengths) to do it. The details have yet to be clarified — are they going be available separately or altogether in a box set, with or without bonus tracks, etc.? But it's going to happen, yes.
For more information, visit www.terrorizer.com.
April 24 - 013 - Tilburg, NETH (Roadburn)
April 27 - Live Music Hall - Köln, GER
April 29 - Die Röhre - Stuttgart, GER
Olivier "Zoltar" Badin of UK's Terrorizer magazine last fall conducted an interview with SAINT VITUS guitarist Dave Chandler.
Terrorizer: Ironically, in between 1996 when you first split up, and 2003, the band's popularity had grown a lot. How do you explain it?
Chandler: The irony of it all is a friend whom I used to complain to that things were not happening for us in the '80s said to me that to become popular, all I had to do was to disband and reform five years later. How true. But seriously, I don't know what really happened. I guess it has a lot to do with the fact that during the time we were gone the whole doom scene was finally blossoming, at least in Europe, and a lot of those bands were mentioning us as one of their main influences. I actually want to thank you guys at Terrorizer, because when you did that doom special thing spread over three issues, I know we got mentioned a lot and that did a lot for us. Or maybe we just lucky. I don't know. But it still feels weird. I work in a head shop here in New Orleans, I sell pipes you know. And few times, some customers who there looking to buy some stuff would all of a sudden just freeze in front of me and go like, "Wait a second, are you really who I'm thinking you are?" to which I would just answer like, "Errrrrr, I don't know." Usually, they would then rave on about me being in SAINT VITUS and being some kind of legend or whatever. And the only thing I'd tell then would be, "Really?"
Terrorizer: When you started considering doing the reunion shows, did you question which version of the band you'd reactivate?
Chandler: Well, the With Full Force guys explicitly asked for the "Born Too Late" lineup so we knew straight away this would happen with Wino at the mic, yeah.
Terrorizer: But you never thought there could be more than the two shows (Chicago and With Full Force)?
Chandler: Pretty much, yeah. I mean during our lifetime, we had only played in small clubs with punk bands whose fans usually hated us. So the idea was to do one big show and that's it. Plus, everybody's got to take care of their own lives, you know? Wino had THE HIDDEN HAND going on, I had DEBRIS INC. and Armando was playing in a heavy rock outfit called DIRTY RED, so…
Terrorizer: What about DEBRIS INC.?
Chandler: Oh, this hasn't been happening for a long time now. After we released our album in 2005, we did some touring but I then realized the conditions were as horrible now as they were back in the days and since I'm not that young anymore, I just couldn't stand them, really, so I kind of put the band to rest. Since then, I've been jamming from time to time with friends during weekends, but just for the fun of it, nothing really serious.
Terrorizer: Nowadays, everybody in VITUS is pretty scattered all over the country, right?
Chandler: Yeah, I live in New Orleans, Armando and Mark are in California, and Wino is either in Washington or Maryland, I don't remember. Everybody's going to come down here for the rehearsals though. We're probably going to do a show prior to Roadburn as well, like when we played in Chicago in 2003, just to make sure everybody knows what they're supposed to do.
Terrorizer: A low-key DVD from your Chicago show was released in 2007. Are you going to record Roadburn as well?
Chandler: Well, the plan right now is to record both shows and maybe put out a sequel to our '90s live album. But you'd better ask my manager the details because I'm already too busy trying to re-learn those songs I wrote over twenty years ago.
Terrorizer: What about the setlist?
Chandler: Well, I can't reveal much right now but we're going to do mostly Wino songs, including a lot from "Born Too Late". But there's also going to be some surprises, even for our diehard fans, as we're going to play songs we never or rarely did live before.
Terrorizer: Any Scott Reagers songs planned, like from your final album "Die Healing" (1995)?
Chandler: We're going to do some of them, the ones most people see as "classic" VITUS songs but none from "Die Healing", no.
Terrorizer: Wouldn't it be the right time to, at long last, finally re-release your back catalogue? Even if Southern Lord did reissue "V" (1989) and "Live" (1990), your second album "Hallow's Victim" (1985), for example, has yet to be officially released on CD.
Chandler: That's one of the reasons why we want to record those shows coming up as some of those songs might end up on some of those re-releases as yes, I can reveal to you that we just got the permission from Greg Ginn (BLACK FLAG founder/guitarist and owner of SST Records, which released the band's first four full-lengths) to do it. The details have yet to be clarified — are they going be available separately or altogether in a box set, with or without bonus tracks, etc.? But it's going to happen, yes.
For more information, visit www.terrorizer.com.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Iron Giant Attacks Montreal and Toronto
Fans in Montreal and Toronto will have one last chance this year to catch Iron Giant as they continue spreading the gospel of their acclaimed release, Creator of Scars (Diminished Fifth - 2008)
“The Giant`s stoked to get back to Montreal for our third visit this year! It`s like the Giant`s second home!” says vocalist Chris Lewis. “It`s been way too long since the Giant hit T.O., and we`ve already started to miss our brothas in Maximum R`n`R after the week we just spent with them on the E.C. So we can`t wait to share the stage with them and the Bastard Child Death Cult at the Bovine! It`s gonna be a messy weekend!”
It has been a very busy fall for Moncton, New Brunswick’s Iron Giant. In the past 60 days, Iron Giant has conquered the Beastage in the Eastage Tour (which had them on a journey with Maximum RNR and Brutal Knights), they also performed at the Jagermeister Showcase at the 2008 Halifax Pop Explosion and headlined at Newfoundland’s Rock Can Roll Festival. Now before the year can end, the Giant must return to Montreal and Toronto for two select dates to remind everyone why they are the kings of East Coast Rock ‘N Roll!
Friday, December 12: Montreal, QC - The Green Room, with The Great Sabatini
Saturday, December 13: Toronto, ON - Bovine Sex Club, with Maximum RNR and Bastard Child Death Cult
“The Giant`s stoked to get back to Montreal for our third visit this year! It`s like the Giant`s second home!” says vocalist Chris Lewis. “It`s been way too long since the Giant hit T.O., and we`ve already started to miss our brothas in Maximum R`n`R after the week we just spent with them on the E.C. So we can`t wait to share the stage with them and the Bastard Child Death Cult at the Bovine! It`s gonna be a messy weekend!”
It has been a very busy fall for Moncton, New Brunswick’s Iron Giant. In the past 60 days, Iron Giant has conquered the Beastage in the Eastage Tour (which had them on a journey with Maximum RNR and Brutal Knights), they also performed at the Jagermeister Showcase at the 2008 Halifax Pop Explosion and headlined at Newfoundland’s Rock Can Roll Festival. Now before the year can end, the Giant must return to Montreal and Toronto for two select dates to remind everyone why they are the kings of East Coast Rock ‘N Roll!
Friday, December 12: Montreal, QC - The Green Room, with The Great Sabatini
Saturday, December 13: Toronto, ON - Bovine Sex Club, with Maximum RNR and Bastard Child Death Cult
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Upcoming Scorched-Earth Policy Shows
Scorched-Earth Policy will be playing the following two shows this month:
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008: San Francisco, CA – Fat City, with Imagika, Potential Threat, Tyrannosaurus Christ (8:30 pm, 21+, $10)
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008: Fresno, CA – The Lucky 13, with Something from the Planet Hell, The Dead Garden (8:30 pm, 21+, $5)
www.myspace.com/scorchedearthpolicy
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008: San Francisco, CA – Fat City, with Imagika, Potential Threat, Tyrannosaurus Christ (8:30 pm, 21+, $10)
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008: Fresno, CA – The Lucky 13, with Something from the Planet Hell, The Dead Garden (8:30 pm, 21+, $5)
www.myspace.com/scorchedearthpolicy
Saturday, November 1, 2008
SLEEP To Reunite For Two UK Shows
Acclaimed San Jose, California stoner doom metal band SLEEP will apparently reunite for two UK shows in May 2009. The details are as follows:
May 09 - Minehead - Butlins Centre - Minehead, Somerset, UK
May 10 - Minehead - Butlins Centre - Minehead, Somerset, UK
Active during the 1990s, SLEEP earned much critical and record label attention from early in its career. Critic Ed Rivadavia describes them as "perhaps the ultimate stoner rock band" and noted they exerted a strong influence on heavy metal in the '90s. However, squabbles with the band's record company had contributed to SLEEP's breakup by the end of the decade.
SLEEP featured in its ranks current HIGH ON FIRE guitarist/vocalist Matt Pike.
May 09 - Minehead - Butlins Centre - Minehead, Somerset, UK
May 10 - Minehead - Butlins Centre - Minehead, Somerset, UK
Active during the 1990s, SLEEP earned much critical and record label attention from early in its career. Critic Ed Rivadavia describes them as "perhaps the ultimate stoner rock band" and noted they exerted a strong influence on heavy metal in the '90s. However, squabbles with the band's record company had contributed to SLEEP's breakup by the end of the decade.
SLEEP featured in its ranks current HIGH ON FIRE guitarist/vocalist Matt Pike.
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