TERMINAL BOREDOM

It’s been so long since we last posted reviews it’s quite honestly an embarrassment. I can apologize until I’m blue in the face, but it won’t make me feel any better about it or make up for the delays experienced by the staff and all those bands and labels kind enough to send in materials. I’m sure you’re all as sick of hearing this as I am humbled to keep having to say it. All I can do is soldier on to the best of my capabilities and available spare time. So, here are the first batch of reviews from the mythical Issue 25. Some of them are surprisingly timely, some inexcusably tardy. But here they are regardless. I still have another batch simmering, plus a new edition of Demo Zone//Tape Delay in the oven as well. Look for them shortly, if you don’t see your release in this portion, rest assured it will be in the next. We plan on having the reviews desk cleared soon and we’re just about there. Please feel free to hassle the editor via e-mail either way. Issue 25 does actually exist, hopefully the Table of Contents will finish construction any day now and we’ll fill in the blanks from there. Interviews with Lamps, Chinese Burns, Christmas Island, more columns and features, promises, promises…anyone wanting to contribute (and we welcome some new review staffers this time around as well) please contact the editor, we’re always hiring. Things are looking up for Termbo updates, for real. On a more somber note, Buffalo’s greatest record store (owned and operated by fellow Termbros) Spiral Scratch Records recently had a fire, and we’d like to ask anyone willing to send some help/support/kind words to watch this thread for news. Hopefully it will be back soon and even better than before. We’ll talk more soon…

More delay tactics from the editor! I’m drowning over here. Anyway, here’s the long-awaited Florida’s Dying interview, finally brought to fruition by our pal Mike after my failed attempt. I think he did a splendid job. Along with this comes a complete (for now) Florida’s Dying discography assembled with some help from Rich. This is the first in an ongoing series of label interviews/discographies for Termbo, to give some behind-the-scenes info on labels we all know and love and them men who run them and to also start amassing an archive of discographies-in-progress which will be updated with new releases and scum stats as we get the info. This is our first try at the discography page format, so all feedback and additions/corrections will be appreciated and used to keep things as accurate as possible. I know this one will have some updates as soon as certain savvy collectors get a peek at it (there’s some variations on the Hibachi Stranglers presses we need to address for one…). Thanks to Mike and Rich for their help. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Rich in person a few times, and he’s as nice a guy as they say. If anyone has a label they’d like to feature, let me know. Next time: REVIEWS, no shit. We have enough for a double (maybe triple) page section this time, and the first one is ready to go once some sleeve scans are complete. See you soon (or maybe at Horriblefest)…

Issue 25 is still in the shop getting tuned up. In an effort to buy myself some more time to dig out from under all these record reviews I have to paste together, here’s another teaser, this time in the form of my two favorite columns, Too Much Junk and Cheap Rewards. Mr. Collectorscum serves up an all-Jersey affair with accompanying MP3s. Dr. Hyde continues with his Nineties sleeve variants rampage. Both are top notch and the stuff that Terminal Boredom needs more of. Interested parties should contact the editor if you’d like to join the team. I’ve painted myself into quite the corner with the tardiness of this update, but the light at the end of the reviews tunnel seems to be in sight. Once we get all that fixed up we’ll have almost a half-year’s worth of reviews for you to gorge on along with some long-promised interviews, columns and features. “Real life” has been severely and annoyingly cutting into my Termbo time these past few months, and as always I apologize profusely to everyone out there awaiting reviews and to staffers who have been gracious enough to put up with my sliding deadlines. Hopefully, we’ll be back real soon…

Hey now. Same old story here, I just realized there hasn’t been an update since freakin’ January. We’ve been hard at work on Issue 25 here at the HQ and just lost track of time. So here’s a preview to keep things moving somewhat…Up first, we welcome Mr. Tony Rettman into the fold with hopefully his first column of many, called ‘Going Nowhere, Eating Things’. We’re thrilled to have him on board and look out for his Detroit HC book coming soon. Preview #2 is part of the 2009 wrap-up I should’ve posted, oh back in January or some shit, but inexplicably decided to save for the new issue. Check out skullmusic 2009. We’ll be back real quick with the unveiling of the full issue, with more of the usual hard-hitting columns, interviews with Florida’s Dying Records, Lamps, Flight and more, plus some new features, another installment of ‘TV As Eyes’, Black Mike on garbage detail, the staff’s 2009 wrap-up, a heaping ton of reviews and more. See you soon. RIP Bruce Roehrs and Alex Chilton.

Hey now. Here’s the latest batch of tape/demo/CDR/zine reviews to keep you occupied whilst we configure our very timely 2009 Wrap Up. Very soon. Short and sour. Our coverage won’t be as expansive as it has been in years past. Just staff members and a few special guests. We’ll have a new issue following very soon on the tails of that, with some crucial interviews, columns and articles and a wheelbarrow piled with reviews as well. Our plea for contributors has been well received so far, so look out for some new blood mixed in with the old guard. And we’re still always looking for intrepid interviewers and collectorscum-types looking to spew knowledge/opinion, on a permanent or one-shot basis. Drop the editor a line if you fit the bill. Bands/labels/readers, thanks for the promos and thanks for being patient. See you again real soon.

Jeezus. One day it’s October and you’re getting ready for Halloween, next thing you know it’s Christmas and you still haven’t updated the damn website. Time flys and such shit. Here are some new reviews I’ve finally cobbled together, some older than others, some pretty damn fresh. We have some more to come very soon as well, but on deck is the next Tape Delay/Demo Zone column, hopefully before the end of 2009. Some more standard reviewage after that, some Favorites of 2009 recap shenanigans, and the tentative plan is to have a big new full issue in January at some point. Trying hard. Mandatory apologies to all bands and labels for the delay, if you don’t see your stuff here, don’t worry, it’s coming. And as always, we’re looking for help if you have ideas for columns/features/interviews. We could actually use some more review staff these days as well, as we seem to have lost a couple more soldiers. Contact the editor. Also, a belated Happy Holiday season to everyone out there who has touched TB in some way: contributors, readers, bands, labels, message board posters and lurkers and more. As TB stumbles into its sixth year of existence, we once again hope to make the site bigger and better and more frequently updated. At least that’s my New Year’s Resolution. Again. See you soon.

RIGHT HERE. BE BACK SOON.