Innards & Two Knights Split - No Scum Allowed

Two posts in like five minutes. I just got off tour with Innards, and they have been talking about this split for a long ass time. I didn't know it was out yet. I still don't know if the pressing is done. Anyways, Innards are dope skreemz and Two Knights are noodle dudes. Both are from the Lone Star State. The Innards songs are dope as fuck, per usual, and the Two Knights songs are pretty cool as well. First time listening to that band but im down with it. Down with the sickness. Go buy this when you can. I don't know shit about Two Knights, but if they have some merch you should pick it up. You should also pick up some Innards merch (Tracing 10inch and our split 7inch whenever that comes out). Innards are going on tour again this winter with The Reptillian, last I heard, so keep an ear out for that.

On a semi related note, since I just got back from tour I'm going to be throwing up some jams from bands I met in the last two weeks. I'm pretty stoked about that. Thanks for everyone who came out and kicked it and shit.

I got this from Circling the Drain, who seems to have the leak on everything. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifHopefully soon I'mma get something that I know no one else has. Crossing my fingers. Word.

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No Scum Allowed

1994! - Most Deaf

There is still time for you to go check out 1994!, Snowing and Algernon on their U.S tour. Also, if you are in Europe, Algernon and '94 are coming your way in like a month. This is their new 7", which I should have picked up in Chicago but I had no money. Story of my life. Two new jams, and radical as they come. Check it out, buy it, and go see them on tour. Def one of the better bands out right now, and really good dudes. Mid-Atlantic all day.

Word.


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Most Deaf

NEW RAEIN LP - SULLA LINEA D'ORIZZONTE TRA QUESTA MIA VITA E QUELLA DI TUTTI

Raein has just released their new full length LP, Sulla Linea D'orizzonte Tra Questa Mia Vita e Quella Di Tutti for free download on their website. The European version of the LP will be released sometime next week and be available on the band's Eastern European tour. A US release is soon to follow. The band has continued to progress forward in the vein of Nati da Altri Padri, the band's previous EP release. There's been a lot of things said about this band, so I'll just put up the LP and let it speak for itself.

Raein's Website



Sulla Linea D'orizzonte Tra Questa Mia Vita e Quella Di Tutti (2011)

Sea Breezes

Yo, hot new Baltimore skrims. Sea Breezes Justin from Age Sixteen, Sawhorse, A Perfect Kiss and like 25 noise/ambient projects. I don't know any of the other dudes, but one of them is Tommy from Age Sixteen's brother. The other dudes in this band were in Distance of, Safari Zone and Shadow Gov't. I honestly havnt heard these recordings yet, but, I had the opportunity to hear some demoish stuff form one of their practices and it was pretty sweet. Its solid skrimz mixed with ambient stuff and it flows really nicely. They always scream though, never singing or any other type of vocal style that can be used by a band like this. Honestly, this band sounds alot like Age Sixteen, but its not a bad thing at all. It's not a rip off, but more of a logical progression from that band all that stuff. Same guitar tone, kind of, and similair overall sound. I personally was a huge Age Sixteen fan, so its really nice to have this band be around. Check it out and support this band whenever you can. They are actually playing in Baltimore tomorrow evening at the Bell Foundry. Heres a video and the demo.


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Summer Demo

The Shy Violet

I don't know what the insider or proper term for this kind of music is, but its basically 80's influenced trippy lo-fi pop. Theres a bunch of people making music like this, so i hear, but the only group like this I have ever really listened to was Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti. You know, that kind of stuff.

The Shy Violet is the current moniker of Jordan Romero. He is from Frederick, Md, but now is in Savanaha, Georgia. I think. He used to be in Drug Money and made acoustic music as The Laurel Tree. Basically Jordan writes and records all this stuff himself and then sometimes plays them live with a band and other times he does it by himself.

I heard that The Shy Violet made a music video, like a real music video. I think he is getting more popular in this scene. He did some tours with Spermwhales which seemed to go well. Peaks, the most recent release, is going to be put on vinyl, I'm pretty sure, which is going to rule. I'm really stoked to hear that shit on wax. Download the three shits below. Keep an eye out for shows and his vinyl.





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Teenager Speed


Peaks


The Clay Models

Calculator

Calculator are a really tight hardcore band from the Los Angeles area I think. Isn't it something like they go to school all over but are from LA? I don't know really, but I think that is correct. This band plays a style of hardcore that is influenced by multiple genres, obviously, and sounds similar to fellow California natives Touche Amore and Comadre, kind of. I mean there are the like harder hard parts, then the pretty parts, and some driving parts here and there. The new shit has a really fucking heavy part. I remember last summer around the 4th of July I booked these guys a show in Maryland and after the show I was smoking a blunt with most of this band and the dudes in Burn Idols when the guitarist of Calculator and I started taking about being in bands and shit. I don't remember the entire conversation but I do remember that he was talking about how the point of being in a band like this is to come up with really intricate music, shit that is challenging to play, and just get the songs on lock-down. Musical progression and shit. I thought that was really cool, and I think about that when I listen to Calculator. I still think that they generally put the vocals up a lil too high in the mix, but thats just me. The instrumentation is fucking boss, and sometimes its hard to really hear that shit, especially if you are using jankity laptop speakers.

So, below are two links for all of their material. There is a link for These Roots Grow Deep, which is a collections LP of all their shit from their past EP's and splits and what not. I think that they have had a shit ton of releases that culminated in These Roots. My friend has this on vinyl and it sounds fucking sick. The other link is for their hot new shit, New Forms. Ramez tells me I'm the firs to get it or to post it up or something, so big ups to Skramez for holding it down.

They are going on tour really soon with The Saddest Landscape up and down the west coast, and all of the combined dates are conveniently placed on this here flier:

There are, however, two additional dates which Calculator will be playing without The Saddest Lanscape. The first being in Olympia, Washington at my house, and the last being somewhere in Los Angeles. All of their detailed show information can be found here.

You should go to their website, which is right here, and buy the preorder for New Forms, which is coming out on Melotov. For real though, Melotov is pumping out the good ass records recently. I mean that label has always ruled, but she is cornering the market on this good ass California music. And, for real, shes a really cool person. Really nice.

Calculator is going to raffle off a test press of New Forms between people who get that pre order, so all you collectors should jump on that shit. I don't know whats good with the head count on Roots, but you should also get that shit before it sells out. They have some other gear, like a shirt and a monster patch, that is pretty wrad.

For real. For real though. Buy their shit online so they have them gas muns. Go see them on tour with The Saddest Landscape west coast kids. You know you want to go to these shows because TSL hasnt been over here in like 7 years or something.

Get them downloads down there, and watch the video down there too. The video is of an unreleased new track, ohhhhhhhhhhh.



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New Forms


These Roots Grow Deep

Innards / мища - 424/7 Split

I don't really know what to talk about right now. Vancouver just won game two of the Stanley Cup Playoffs because the Boston goalie fucked up super bad. Idiot.

This split is going to be put out on 7 inch by Word Problems and Texas Toast. Innards is from Fort Worth, Texas and мища is from Baltimore, MD. If you don't know these bands you can check out previous posts where we actually gave enough shits to describe the groups. We were hoping to have the wax by our combined tour, but complications here and there have pushed the record's release back to like the end of the month or something. I don't really know. мища has one song and Innards put two tracks on this split. Seeing as we wont have the vinyl of this release, both bands are going to be selling it on alternative mediums. If you can't figure it out, 424/7 is, obviously, 420 424/7

I'm posting this now for two reasons, the most important being that it has already been posted up on some other blogs so theres no point in me waiting any longer. The second is promote tour I guess. I would have liked to have put up a buy here link so we can get that money, but none exists yet. When its for sale I'll edit this post with a link. I am now going to post our tour dates and links to those shows' facebook events because we are all stupid broke and need your cheddar for gas:

June:
9- Baltimore, MD - The Bell Foundry
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=211115615576218
мища, Innards, Pansori, the Sharpest, Voyage In Coma, Sea Breezes

10- Philadelphia, PA - Hong Kong Garden
22 West Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, PA,19123
мища, Innards, more TBA when I get in the loop

11-Providence, RI - The B Cave
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129953693749692
Cam Foss, Twin Cyclist, Sleepwalkers, Ancestors, Three Cheers For Columbine, мища, Innards

12-Allston, MA - The Whacky Kastle
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159656544097850
мища, Innards, Sohns, Caffeine Patch, Cowboys Are Indians

13-Brooklyn, NY - The Charleston
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121569837925248
мища, Innards, Sohns, Sleep Bellum Sonno, Ghost Robot Ninja Bear

14-Pittsburgh, PA - The Shop
мища, Innards, Sohns, Worn Out Tigers, Edhochuli (JON'S BIRTHDAY)

15-Southbend, IN - Generic
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130660637010946
Pachangacha, Innards, мища, William Bonney, The Reptilian, Sohns

16-Kalamazoo, MI - The Strutt
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105177486239121
мища, Innards, Sohns, William Bonney, The Reptilian

17- Milwaukee, Wi - The Borg Ward
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112400898846580
мища, Innards, Living and Wrestling, William Bonney, Half Awake, Slob Donovan

18-Chicago, Il - Strange Light
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188617244517164
мища, Innards, Sohns, Algernon Cadwallader, Snowing, 1994!

Come hangout and get shitty.

Word.
Also, this might be our last post until this tour is over because we are both going.

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424/7

Ampere - Like Shadows

I don't really try as hard as I once did to get these hot new albums first and throw them up here, so I let all these other blogs go out and get em for me. There are only so many new records that are coming out that I really give a shit about, so my interest in intensive blog lurking has wained dramatically. Last night in between bong sessions and Magic The Gathering battles I saw that Damian Jozwiak, some jaded kid from Indiana who seemingly spends most his day on the internet and runs a tumblr music blog called Re-Winded Tapes posted up this album. If he had it then I would imagine that he got it from Circling The Drain or something, because that blog seems to be pretty on top of their shit.

Ampere's new full length, Like Shadows, sounds like a continuation of All Our Tomorrows End Today, which arguably was their best release as a whole. They had some preview songs up on soundcloud for a minute and one of those tracks was a second part to a AOTET song, Escapism. This is the first release the band has put out since their split with Off Minor back in '08, so of course this shit is a BIG FUCKING DEAL. It seemed that Ampere took a back seat to Will Killingsworths recording profession and his slew of recent side projects (Weaklings, Failures, Vaccine).

Like Shadows is ridiculously good. I'm serious. Obviously anything this band puts out will be bad-ass, but this is a really solid album, which like the new Beau Navire, does not have any fluff tracks on it. 15 fucking awesome tracks ranging from like 20 seconds to like 2 minutes. I don't really know what else to say about the album. If you like Ampere you already know what you are getting yourself into: no one else sounds like Ampere.

The release for this record is coming up in Easthampton right? Its like in the first half of June I think. They are also playing the You and I reunion in July. I would imagine that Clean Plate is putting out this record, but there might be some other people involved. If you like the fucking record buy it. This is one records that is really worth your money.



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Like Shadows

Other Piglet Songs

It's Memorial Day. Remember that band called Piglet from Chicago? Well, up until recently I thought they only had that EP and a demo, but I found out that they have a live tape and another song that was on a compilation or something. Apparently there is also a remix 7 inch, but I can't find that. Granted that I personally don't like these tracks as much as the Lava Land jams, these tracks are still pretty boss. Check it out. Word.


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New Algernon Cadwallader LP - Parrot Flies

So, if you haven't had enough from this blog lately, here's more Algernon Cadwallader. I think that's three in a week. I really thought I would be sick of these guys by now, but every time I see them I'm reminded of how much I like them. Here is their new LP, Parrot Flies, which should be coming out sometime this summer. The band is on tour right now across the U.S. playing a lot of these songs. I managed to see them on their first night of tour.

To be honest I haven't listened to this yet, I just got it and decided to post this first. Sounded good live though.

Enjoy!





Parrot Flies (2011)