Preorder PENS' Debut LP

You can now preorder what is sure to be one of the best records of the year. PENS' debut lp, "Hey Friend, What You Doing" on De Stijl Records. The record comes out on September 14. I've been waiting on this lp forever and I'm psyched. 'High In The Cinema' is one of my longstanding favorite songs since I heard it last year, and I'm sure it will be yours too. I think...it should be.. Ok go preorder!

And then obviously don't forget they arrive on our coast in 7 days to start the big Art Fag recordings West Coast tour w/ Crocodiles and Graffiti Island. Find the dates posted somewheres on this here blog or elsewhere on the internets.

Best Coast / California Bloggin'

Check out homegirl's blog. It's full of Best Coast related thoughts, jams, interviews, fave vids, and whatnot. Who doesn't like whatnot???

In related news, Best Coast's 7" is coming soon. Hold yr horses. We're wayyyy excited and it's almost done! It's gonna be on yellow vinyl like the big ol' sun. First press 500.

Relax. Male Bonding Crap Shoot.

Relax. Male Bonding Crap Shoot. is a fun blog by Male Bonding. If you don't like Male Bonding, you may not want to go there, though cuz it's only really about Male Bonding. I have fun over there cuz I like Male Bonding. I just got the 7" split with Old Blood, Graffiti Island and Rapid Youth. Ehhhhh....it rules.

PENS In Dazed Digital

Yo yo yo what's up. Dazed Digital did a thing on PENS. A q&a and some song streams. Check it out here if you want. It's entertaining and shit.

No Age's New EP / LISTEN 4 FREE

Listen to the upcoming No Age ep, "Losing Feeling", here.

SICK.

Best Coast Press / Vice Magazine

My homegirl got all up in Vice. Check that shit here. Her and her dog Bobb are causing a big racket on the blogosphere. The 7" is gonna be sick and I'm getting the test presses tomorrow and pretty excited about it.

FYF Fest Line Up Announced

FYF Fest Presents:
Save Our State Parks
At the Los Angeles Historic State Park
On Saturday, September 5th 2009
www.fyffest.com

The Black Lips
Lightning Bolt
Tim & Eric
Lucero
Converge
F* Up
The Thermals
No Age
Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio
Glass Candy
Japanther
Times New Viking
Darker My Love
Carbonas
Peanut Butter Wolf
Crystal Antlers
AA Bondy
Mika Miko
Har Mar Superstar
Nobunny
Telepathe
Cold Cave
The Strange Boys
Katie Stelmanis
Dios
NinjaSonik
Kurt Vile
Eat Skull
Avi Buffalo
+ More to be artists and comedians to be announced

Tickets are $20 and go on sale Tuesday, August 4th at noon through ticketweb.com

Go here for all the details.

Record Shopping : Byron Lee And The Dragonaires

Yesterday I went record shopping and found a ridiculously beautiful 60s copy of the above lp. What the fuck right? Who ever sees beautiful 1960s jamaican records in good shape? Nobody. Anyway, it's a damn perfect record. It even comes with an insert with some ska dance moves and brief lessons on how to execute them. And on the cover there's a little ad: 'Wherever there's SKA...there's Red Stripe".

The song below is on the lp.






November 4 is the one year anniversary of Byron Lee's death. I'm planning a party. Stay tuned..

West Coast Summer Tour 2009

So here it is, ladies and germs. The tour flier for the highly (right?) anticipated west coast tour by Crocodiles, PENS and Graffiti Island. Simple, stark, and highly photocopied. Just how we like it. This tour's going to be a doozy folks.

17 Seconds / Bam Bam

Anybody in the market for 17 seconds of brilliance? Eye/ear candy? Ok, here's 17 seconds of Sister nancy's 'Bam Bam', kind of a summer jam, no?

Graffiti Island Interview Via Fader

Fader just posted this interview with Graffiti island and I thought all 20 of you loyal readers would love to take a nibble. Of course, G.I. are heading to California soon and have a song on the exciting new Art Fag 7" with Dum Dum Girls, PENS & Crocodiles, so this seems like perfect timing. Meet Graffiti Island in their own words and listen to their Moon Tan offering to the 7".

As we've been saying the past week, you can preorder the record here and thank yrself on September 1st when it ships.

Forkast On Internet Forever

Pitchfork has discovered my best kept secret. Internet Forever's 7" will be released in a little under a couple months and you can read their take on the matter here. The 7" has two songs on it, 'Break Bones' which is Forkasted and '3D'. If you have any taste for noisy melody, these songs will be stuck in yr head for weeks and weeks. And if you like those, go to their Myspace and listen to 'Cover The Walls'. The first time I heard it I listened at least ten times in a row.

Mutating Meltdown / San Diego / Aug 7

One of my favorite records released this year is the Mutating Meltdown 7" on M'Lady's Records. It's post punk, no wave, distorted disco GOLD. Veronica & Erin from Finally Punk are 2/3 of MM, and I think it's their best project yet (although I love the fuck out of all of 'em, nuff raspeck).

Well all that being said, I'm straight trippin' that they're on tour now and on the way to sunny San Diego on Aug 7. Badass. They're playing a kinda big deal at Soda Bar. Beaters are playing and celebrating their new 7" release, along with Christmas Island, Wicked Awesomes and Le Face. Also, for extra added pleasure bonus, Crocodiles' Brandon will finally be back to help me clean the earholes of all the unsuspecting guests.

8 BUCKS playa...

Oh wait, how bout the flier huh? Gay Chicanos. All expressing themselves. What a find.

Lastly, check the Mutating Meltdown Myspace thing for all the tour info. They're playing literally EVERYWHERE so go see 'em!!

Male Bonding

'Years Not Longer' by Male Bonding is my favorite song right now. Go listen to it! It's on their Myspace. It's perfect, really.

It's going to be on an upcoming split 7" with Eat Skull to be released by Tough Love Records. It's due in September and you can preorder that shit at their website. There's only 500 copies being pressed. The cover's kinda sick too.

September Nights / San Diego

September 3 - The Strange Boys, Cold Cave, Crocodiles, The Anasazis @ Soda Bar $8

September 4 - Glass Candy, Cold Cave, Best Coast @ The Casbah $12

These were confirmed today, so i thought I'd share them with the San Diego fools. They should be magic nights.

Too Many Creeps / Gun Outfit / San Diego

This is a poster I made for a special show next Sunday. I'm kinda pumped on it cuz I love Gun Outfit and I love playing records with my friend Brian. He plays in Christmas Island and Spirit Photography and he's a top ass cat. Gun Outfit are punkers. Good ones too. This crap is free, and potentially tons o' fun. San Diego, you are some lucky ducks.

Sex Is Disgusting 002 - Mazes 'Bowie Knives' Single

So our UK dogs Sex Is Disgusting have just released a sure stunner of a record. Mazes' 'Bowie Knives' is a blown out fuzzy spoonful of sugar. Get it while you can neighbor.

SID002 - Mazes 7", limited to 250

A: Bowie Knives

B: Bethesda, I'm A Smoker

ORDER NOW

Prices include postage:

UK - £4.50

EU - £5.50

World - £6.50

Paypal - sexisdisgusting@gmail.com

Dum Dum Girls, Crocodiles, PENS, Graffiti Island 7" Preorder

Art Fag Recordings 005 is now available for preorder. A 4 way split featuring Crocodiles, Graffiti Island, Dum Dum Girls and PENS. 4 new songs just in time for..eh...late summer. 4 Fuzzed out gems, totally different, yet meant for eachother on this magic slab.

This will not ship until September 1st. The pressing info is as follows: 300 black, 200 white (white will only be available on the upcoming West Coast tour.). Order here.

Here are the final and complete tour dates:

08/19 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop #
08/21 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir #
08/22 - Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey #
08/23 - Portland, OR @ SMMR BMMR %
08/25 - Sacramento, CA @ The Blue Lamp $
08/26 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Crepe Place #
08/27 - Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland #
08/29 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah ^^

# Crocodiles, PENS, and Graffiti Island
% Graffiti Island and PENS
$ Crocodiles, Graffiti Island, PENS, Ganglians, and Christmas Island
^^ No Age, Wavves, Crocodiles, PENS, and Graffiti Island

New PENS Video - 'High In The Cinema'

PENS have just made a video for their song, 'High In The Cinema' . HITC was the song that made me love them. The vid is hella low budge and it works nicely. Did you know FUN was back in?

After you watch and sign in to the PENS fan empire, don't forget they are coming to the West Coast August 19-30 and releasing a song on an Art Fag Recordings 7" which includes Dum Dum Girls, Crocodiles and Graffiti Island. Preorders soon...stay tuned...

San Francisco's Grass Widow Has Released A Ten Out Of Ten LP

So I order records for a store in San Diego. Today I was totally pumped to recieve this thousand dollar order from Revolver Distribution. It was like Christmas. I ordered a copy of everything for myself, and I went kinda nuts haha. Anyway, the highlight of my day was listening to the new Grass Widow lp. Mother of god. It is the most perfect 'album listen' I've had in a long time. Seriously, my listen went like this: side A, side B, side A, side B, side A, and then I ran out of time and went home. I know there's good and great songs on tons of records but the way these songs all fit and flow on this record is rare. Wow. Sorry I'm trippin'.

San Francisco's Make A Mess Records, which put this out is on a roll with records recently released by Brilliant Colors and Nodzzz. I can't wait to hear what's next from them. And I most definitely can't wait to see Grass Widow live. SHIT. The California goldrush continues...

Oh and here are some dates they have in the next few:


AUG 21 2009
HEMLOCK TAVERN W/PSYCHIC REALITY SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

AUG 28 2009
TBA W/PURPLE RHINESTONE EAGLE SF, CALIFORNIA

SEP 3 2009
TBA W/STUPID PARTY SAM’S CLAM DISCO, CALIFORNIA

OCT 18 2009
TBA W/GAROTAS SUECAS (BRAZIL) SAN FRANCISCO