NEW RADIO SHOW AND OTHER NEWS!

I have recently started doing a new radio show! It is called Abominable Aural Attack! and it is from 2-4 pm every Saturday on 100.7 fm (not great range, mostly SE PDX) or houseofsound.org. Online is the easiest way to listen to it. I pretty much just play punk/hardcore/crust/power violence but that may change in the future. I will be making 120 min mix tapes of every show, so if you want to get a hold of one check out the blog I made for it. All the contact info and set lists are on there and there is a link to it on my page. I am still doing Heavy Metal Vomit Party every other Wednesday on KBOO, so check that out as well.

Things are beginning to look up on other fronts. I just got a new job at the new Lucky Lab brew pub in N PDX on Killingsworth by Interstate and I start tomorrow. It will be open come Friday. My elbow is healing up nicely and I am starting to get some strength back into it. I am also going to be starting a new band with Charlie and Gordon of Knelt Rote fame, called Vile Horrendous Aerial Bombardment. Total noise crust with just drums, noise and vocals. We won't be able to start practicing for a little while though as Charlie is recovering from a broken elbow as well. Also Superbad is playing again in may with GRIDE (CZ), CAPTAIN CLEANOFF (AUS), PLF (TX), WHAT SHAME? (CA), KNELT ROTE and BASEMENT ANIMAL (amazing new PDX grind!). I have also been hanging out with an awesome lady. That paragraph was meant to be like it is. My eyballs hurt. Fuck off!

ATTN: 2009... I WOULD LIKE A YEAR OF MY LIFE BACK...

WELL, 2009 HAS FINALLY COME TO A CLOSE. I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IT ENDED ON A POSITIVE NOTE, BUT, WHO AM I KIDDING. I WILL BE POSTING SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THAT YEAR SOON. BUT FOR NOW I WOULD LIKE TO BRIEFLY STATE THAT IT ENDED IN CATASTROPHE. IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER MY BAND, SUPERBAD, disBANDED, MY PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT WENT UNDER LEAVING ME... WELL... UNEMPLOYED, AND COINCIDING WITH THAT I SLIPPED ON SOME ICE AND BROKE MY ELBOW AND HAD TO GET SURGERY. THE UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE IS ALSO TRYING THEIR HARDEST NOT TO GIVE ME ANYTHING EITHER. PERHAPS THIS YEAR WILL PROVE TO BE FRUITFUL, BUT WHO KNOWS? I SUPPOSE ONE WOULDN'T QUITE CONSIDER ALL OF THAT "CATASTROPHIC" BUT IT IS CERTAINLY A JOLT TO THE SYSTEM. AT LEAST I HAVE MORE TIME TO READ.

WE SHOULD DIE LP FINALLY OUT!

THIS IS A GREAT ALBUM. GO TO THE ANTROPOFAGO ATEO PRODUCTOS WEBLOG TO LISTEN TO SOME OF IT AND PURCHASE THIS GEM OF PORTLAND (BY WAY OF ALASKA) GRINDCORE HISTORY. PRE-SUPERBAD. SUPPORT D.I.Y. CULTURE AND THOSE WHO KEEP IT ALIVE.



(DESCRIPTION FROM THE A.A. PAGE)
"WE SHOULD DIE existed as a politically charged grind/hc/metal unit from 1996 to 2004. Starting in the small town of Fairbanks, Alaska and moving to Portland, Oregon a year later. This LP captures their 2 best recording sessions, one side each. Side 1998 is arguably the darker, colder, rawer and more desperate of the 2 and sounds like the North Portland basement it was self-recorded in. Side 2004 sees a very apparent lineup change with a different drummer, Isaac Von Davis (formerly in Bent Over Backwards and Fall Of The Bastards) and a new second vocalist/ bassist. This material is faster, cleaner and a bit more urgent. Also recorded in a Portland basement. Samples can be found via the link on this site. LP comes with a vinyl sticker and an 18 page "SMALL, ENVIRONMENTALLY DESTRUCTIVE, WASTEFUL PAMPHLET CONTAINING LYRICS AND OTHER SUBVERSIVE WRITINGS." Members of WSD are now in Burials, Ritual Necromancy and Superbad. .A.A. could not be happier with the actualization of this record."

WITH THE COLD FOLLOWS DOOM.

WHEN THE SEASONS BEGIN TO CHANGE, WITH BITING COLD AND VIOLENT WINDS AND GREY SKIES, SLUDGE AND DOOM SEEM TO BE THE ONLY GENRES I FIND MYSELF LISTENING TO. RATHER FITTING, I SUPPOSE. RECORDS OF NOTE TO SATISFY THE ONSET OF MELANCHOLY.


WINTER - INTO DARKNESS LP (1990)


MORNE - UNTOLD WAIT LP (2009)


CORRUPTED - SE HACE POR LOS SUENOS ASESINOS LP (2004)


GRIEF - COME TO GRIEF LP (1994)


NOOTHGRUSH - ERODE THE PERSON CD (COLLECTED RECORDINGS 1997-'98)


GODFLESH - STREETCLEANER LP (1989)


BURNING WITCH - TOWERS LP (1996)


CATHEDRAL - FOREST OF EQUILIBRIUM cassette (1991)


THORR'S HAMMER - DOMMEDAGSNATT LP (1995)


SLEEP - VOLUME 1 CD (1992)

JUST TO NAME A FEW. OF COURSE THERE ARE MANY GREATS I HAVE LEFT OUT. THESE ARE JUST THE GEMS I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO THE MOST. CRUSHING.

SUPPORT ZMAG! TRUE RADICALS

Hey fellow grinders,
A little call to arms. ZMAG, an incredible publication and resource for radical journalism/commentary/forums/networking/politics and other such great things, is in urgent need of financial support. Economic times are tough for us all, and the independent quarterlies/magazines/zines are getting hit the hardest out of the published media outlets. ZMAG has been a critical and crucial source of independent reporting and journalism for the last 22 years, but they are facing a potential demise as early as January of this next year! If we let publications such as this fade out and die then we are only hurting ourselves as the access to non-corporate/independent sources of information gathering becomes increasingly difficult to obtain. Posting messages like this isn't really my style but in this case I felt it necessary. So please, please go to www.zmag.org and show your support to our fellows in arms, and those that are more willing than most to dig and trudge through beaurocratic muck and corporate filth to bring us uncompromising insight into the events we may otherwise not even hear about (at least not until political motivation to release the information). Spread the word! Support DIY culture! Fuck off Rupert!

Mike
Ragerizer! Records

Noam Chomsky on ZMAG:

"We live in an era of media concentration, vast efforts on many fronts (political, economic, military, ideological) to insulate state and private power from critical discussion or even popular awareness, and to reduce citizens to isolated atomized creatures restricted to satisfying personal 'created wants.' This massive and coordinated campaign has been partially successful, but only in a limited way.

The range and scope and dedication of popular activism has also increased, all over the world, reaching a level of international solidarity and mutual support that has never been seen before. The basic conflicts are very old, but they have taken quite dramatic and significant new forms, and the stakes are far higher than ever before. It is, regrettably, no exaggeration to say that the survival of the species is at risk -- and many others with it. We all know why.

The popular movements are the hope for a decent future. They of course have to have access to information and modes of interaction. In addition to alternative print and video, to a very large extent they have relied on the internet, which allows people to escape from the constraints of the doctrinal systems, to explore and investigate and discuss crucial issues with one another, to plan and organize.

Z Magazine and ZNet have played a crucial role in serving all of these functions. I see that every day. I travel and speak constantly, in the U.S. and abroad, and spend many hours a day just responding to inquiries and comments. I constantly discover that the people and organizations I come in contact with are relying very substantially on Z projects for information, discussion, and opportunities for interaction and organizing, to an extent that is quite remarkable. Z is also an invaluable resource for me personally, in all of these respects, and also in my case for providing a forum for intense and very constructive discussion, the only one I regularly participate in. And for posting articles, interviews, commentaries, etc., of mine. I know that many others have very much the same experience.

It is of inestimable importance, in my judgment, that Z and ZNet now composing ZCom, expand and flourish, along with their various other projects such as their growing video efforts and incomparable summer school, arguably the most exciting and instructive I have ever encountered.

Again, I do not think it is possible to exaggerate the stakes.

I hope that all of us who are committed to resisting and reversing the powerful currents of reaction and oppression and violence, and showing that another world is indeed possible, will contribute as best we can to ensure that the remarkable achievements of Z and ZNet will be carried forward."

Noam Chomsky

COLLAGE.

Here is the collage we made last night for the insert of the Noisear/Superbad/Sean 3 way split LP. The resolution sucks but once we get it all scanned in and properly cropped it will be pretty awesome. I know I'm stoked.

GENERAL SURGERY, SUPERBAD, ENGORGED, FUNEROT

NOTE: FOR SOME REASON IT REFUSES TO SHOW THE WHOLE FLYER. IT'S ON MAY THIRTEENTH, 6PM, ALL AGES.

THIS SHOW IS GOING TO BE A TOTAL RIPPER. COMPLETELY STOKED. IT'S TWO DAYS AFTER COFFINS! MY, WHAT A BRUTAL WEEK!

UNRELATED: I WILL BE IN COLORADO FROM SATURDAY, APRIL FOURTH, UNTIL TUESDAY, APRIL SEVENTH. IT WILL BE PRIMARILY A FAMILY RELATED VISIT, THOUGH I WILL STILL HAVE TIME TO HANG OUT WITH FRIENDS. MAKE TIME, FUCKERS!