Pearl Harbour Is The Shit Dude

Soooooooo, Pearl Harbour is just another great nugget from Los Angeles. LA nuggets. Piper and Sky. A couple o' California sisses. Whoa, is 'sisses' a word? Anyway, this is super melodic and sundried perfection. Fits right there with Best Coast and Nite jewel. So go and click below and listen! My favorites are Lost At Sea and Vapor Girls. Look for some releases soon. Lastly, look for them LIVE in San Diego with Beaters and Best Coast on Friday July 17 at The Whistle Stop. I mean if you live in San Diebro.



Pearl Harbour Myspace

New Poster / Thursdays In San Diego

Thanks to our good bud Taylor Gonzales, we have a brand new flier/poster for our new night, Expressway To Yr Skull. Not too shabby, Tay Tay...not too shabby. Big Thursdays in San Diego. What could be better? Brought to you by yr dogs, mario, Brandon, Sir Charles and Big Uncle Dimitri Dickinson.

New Crocodiles Video - Summer Of Hate

Crocodiles have a new video by Christin Turner and here it is for yr viewing pleasure. It's for the jingle, "Summer Of Hate". Go ahead and take a peek. Christin Turner rules.

Updates On West Coast Tour w/ Crocodiles, PENS, & Grafitti Island

The Intelligence has been added to the 8/22 Seattle date.

Also, a new date has been added:

8/29 The Casbah in San Diego:

No Age, Wavves, Crocodiles, PENS, Grafitti Island

Cold Cave West Coast Dates

I'm probably jumpin' the gun but fuck it. Cold Cave is playing some west coast dates and they are listed below. Should be kinda magic.

Thursday Sep 3 - San Diego - Cold Cave, Crocodiles, Strange Boys, The Anasazis and DJ Mario Orduno @ Expressway To Yr Skull @ Soda Bar

Saturday Sep 5 - Los Angeles - Cold Cave @ Fuck Yeah Fest

Sunday Sep 6 - Los Angeles - Cold Cave, Crystal Stilts VENUE TBA

Monday Sep 7 - San Francisco - Cold Cave, Crocodiles, DJ Mario Orduno and guests @ The Knockout

Crocodiles, PENS, Grafitti Island Announce West Coast Tour

I'm super pumped, proud, jazzed and psyched to announce the dates of the Art Fag Recordings 7" tour with Crocodiles, PENS & Grafitti Island!! These dates are in celebration of the upcoming 4 way split 7" with all three bands and Dum Dum Girls. Look for a few more shows to be added and special surprise bands added including a few dates with Dum Dum Girls.


Aug 19 2009 RICKSHAW STOP w/ Crocodiles, PENS & Graffiti Island San Francisco, California
Aug 21 2009 DOUR FIR w/ Crcodiles, PENS & Graffiti Island Portland, Oregon
Aug 22 2009 CHOP SUEY w/ Crocodiles, PENS & Graffiti Island Seattle, Washington
Aug 26 2009 CREPE PLACE w/ Crocodiles, PENS & Graffiti Island Santa Cruz, California
Aug 27 2009 SPACELAND w/ Crocodiles, PENS & Graffiti Island Los Angeles, California

Poster Skills Or Lack Of Thereof

Oh, and here's the poster for this Friday's big night in San Diego, California.

Updates And Whatnot : If Yr In San Diego, California

SO here are the nights/shows that we're working on in the next few weeks. Feel free to attend all of them.

Friday 6/19

Hawnay Troof, BAADDD (Australia), Ale Mania, and DJs Mario Orduno & Jeff Graves @ Soda Bar / $5

Sunday 6/21

Religious Girls (East Bay, CA) and Our Brother The Native (Ann Arbor, Michigan) LIVE & DJ Mario Orduno @ Too Many Creeps @ The Whistle Stop / FREE

Friday 6/26

Woven Bones (Austin, TX), Sunday Times, The Anasazis, Heavy Hawaii and DJ Mario Orduno @ Soda Bar / $4


Aren't these SICK things?

Legendary NZ Artist / Producer Chris Knox Had A Stroke

Chris Knox, pioneer in recording all the early Flying Nun records and front man of The Enemy and Tall Dwarfs had a stroke this past Thursday. His family and friends have set up a blog (which I linked below) to learn updates and basically all things Chris Knox .

I blogged about CHris Knox back in October. There was a time recently, that I could not get enough of the New Zealand/ Flying Nun indie stuff from the late 70s and early 80s. Seriously, The Clean (which Mr. Knox recorded) played all night every night for a while. A lot of people don't know of this scene, and it's ok, but you gotta check it out if you don't! It will truly make you happy. The Chills, The Verlaines, The Clean, The Enemy, everything on Flying Nun. Below I posted a mini rock doc (I love rock docs) covering the early parts of Chris Knox' musical roots. Check it out, then check it ALL out.







Chris Knox Blog

Ye Olde Maids LP On Sale Now

It's time to peddle our beloved wares. What we have here, people, is a fine 140 gram hi quality black disc with ten soon to be classics. It's sheathed in a gorgeous silver colored jacket. Two inserts are also added for extra added bonus. SICK.

Go to Art Fag Recordings website to purchase.

Pumped!!

Big Thursdays

God, look at this crooked ass sloppy poster. Sheez, right? Whatever. Tomorrow night is the big launch to our new weekly. Expressway To Yr Skull. It's at Soda Bar. Remember I told you in the blog post down a few? Anyway, it should be bananas and super bonkers. We have our ol' friend Andrew Miller, from Angel City coming down to add his special magic. Punk / Records / Rap / Fun / Magic / Beer.

New Video For Mika Miko's "I Got A Lot (New New New)"

Mika Miko is the best punk band in California. Most fun, most cool, and for the sake of sounding dumb, MOST PUNK. Everything about them always means fun. Their records, their live shows, their videos. Always fun. The new video is for 'I Got A Lot (New New New)' and was directed by No Age's Randy Randall with Lana Kim. FUN. Peep it please.

The Others From A Brother Planet / 1989

Hey next time you fools, in yr bands, groops or whatever, are thinking you look cool with yr promotions or whatever...take a look at this. Of course this kinda push couldn't happen in this day and age, but you could try. Nothing's more exciting than new shit. And 20 years ago this was the new shit. Today this it's STILL the new shit. God I can't believe I saw these fools with PIL, New Order and Sugarcubes. 'Member tha Sugarcubes?

Expressway To Yr Skull

When our night in San DIego, Skull Kontrol, at Live Wire ended due to license restrictions we were all super duper sad. These nights were MAGIC. Packed and loud, Thursdays were like New Year's Eve every week. Punk, rap, oldies, noisy ear hole cleaners and anything we wanted were spun shockingly to the enjoyment of all the fools that came through the doors.

Well I'm happy to announce a new night to give new life to our mangled up vision. This Thursday, we (Crocodiles' Sir Charles & Brandon and myself) start Expressway To Yr Skull at Soda Bar. There'll be new things to offer here including booking bands every now and then that we're proud to bring to our teeny, sunny and beloved San Diego. It will usually be free, or a tiny baby cover charge if we have a live groop. I hope if you are around you can make it out one of these messes. This week we have a special guest, Los Angeles' Andrew Miller.

You Don't Own Me (64/65?) By Leslie Gore

Sheez loo eez, this song and performance is badass. I love Leslie Gore. I used to own the 45 of 'You Don't Own Me' but I took it to one of our ol' dj nights and with the drinking I lost it to the god of suds. I ruined a lot of records that way actually. I once took out a Roy Orbison record from it's sleeve and it looked as if the cookie monster dunked it in beer and took a bite out of it the size of a 50 cent piece. Anyway, this particular performance...so good. She's such a badass. Hr VOICE. This is a feminist anthem!







Btw, don't cry for me in regards to that 45. I have a 60s copy and two 80s copies of her Golden ass Hits lp. You should go get it!

The State Of The World Today

Art Fag Recordings has a Twitter thing. Can u imagine? In this day and age? In a post 9/11 world?

Ye Olde Maids Press

Yoyo, below are some links to some badass press Ye Olde Maids got this week on The Fader and RCRDLBL. Peep it. There are hi quality downloads on the RCRDLBL write up.

Also, the lp will be available to buy next week. Check here for the heads up!!



The Fader


RCRDLBL

I Hate Art

I do hate art. Art like this I mean. Jim Jarmusch's new movie is a self loving, boring, snoozer of meaningless crap. It goes NOWHERE. As my friend, who accompanied me said, the script must have been ten pages because nobody says shit, except of course the shitty lines about nothing. And that being said, it's no great visual cinematic masterpiece either. Sure the main dude looks cool with his nice suits, but after 4 or 5 costume changes into the same dumb (and cool looking) yet different color suit it gets old. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Yawwwwwwwwwwn. I want my fucking two hours back.

I had a video guide back in the day, that rated the movies 5 stars, 4 stars, 3 stars, 2 stars, and a turkey. Happy Thanksgiving Jim Jarmusch.

June In San Diego

A couple changes and additions to the June calendar. Check 'em below if you will be in San Diego in June cuz that's where these are at.

June 13 - Love Is All, So Cow, Christmas Island, Beaters @ The Casbah. $$$$$

June 19 - Hawnay Troof, BAADD, Ale Mania @ Soda Bar. $$$$$

June 21 - Religous Girls, Our Brother The Native @ Too Many Creeps @ The Whistle Stop. FREE.

These should all be MAJOR ass fun.

The Girls At Dawn

Imagine taking parts of Rough Trade 1980, Black Tambourine, a darker Shangri-Las and smooshing it together with a bunch of addictive, haunting pop ditties. Oh and sprinkle some Shaggs on there too. What you get is the perfect shambles called The Girls At Dawn. Three Brooklynites freshly formed and about to stay in yr skull for a long time. They're releasing records on Hozac soon. It's starting to get ridiculous and my ears are becoming spoiled. Maybe 2010 is going to suck or something?




The Girls At Dawn Myspace