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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Tapehead "WELCOME TO HECK" 12"

« on: September 11, 2016, 07:48:20 AM »

Preorder available now. Will ship at the end of this month even before the big launch the first Friday of Oct. Ony 110 copies. Buy a couple and sell 'em on Discogs, etc!

http://mediaschlitz.bigcartel.com/

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / TAPEHEAD tour 10/20-10/26

« on: July 29, 2016, 11:41:43 AM »

Yo wuddup lol TAPEHEAD is a Rochester, NY punk band with members of Brown Sugar, Rational Animals, Utah Jazz, Insubordinates, Beastman, etc. We're hitting the road soon. If all goes to plan we'll have our "WELCOME TO HECK" 12" will us wowowowow. Tentative dates:

Thurs 10/20 - Rochester, NY
Fri 10/21 - Philly, PA
Sat 10/22 - NYC, NY
Sun 10/23 - Providence, RI
Mon 10/24 - Boston, MA
Tues 10/25 - WMass
Wed 10/26 - Albany, NY

I put out the feelers for most of these already but I haven't booked a tour in like 4 years so if anyone really wants to hear our little guitar solos in person please message me! This is what they sound like:

https://soundcloud.com/mediaschlitz/tapehead-so-long-ginger-mary-ann

https://reeltimerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-flexi-7-flexi-disc

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / UTAH JAZZ tour Sept '15

« on: August 24, 2015, 03:59:23 PM »

Hello sexbots,
Jazz tour soon.
Will have many tests of our debut LP.
Plus other cool shit.
Here's the dates:

8/29 ~ Buffalo, NY. Tour kickoff & tape version of LP release with Sun Black Smoke, Love Canal (also tape release), Kharlos @ Hickory Urban Sanctuary, 232 Pratt St. 7pm. $5.

9/2 ~ New York City, NY. w/ Leather Daddy (MA), Exit Order (MA), Nandas. @ Silent Barn, 603 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NYC. 8pm. $8.

9/3 ~ New Jersey or Philly or something? HALP.

9/4 ~ Richmond, VA. w/ Fried Egg, Ultra Flake. @ 25 Watt RVA (115 N 18th St). 9pm. $6. 18+.

9/5 ~ Columbus, OH.

9/6 ~ Bloomington, IN.

9/7 ~ St. Louis, MO.

9/8 & 9/9 ~ I see we're on shows in both Minneapolis, MN. and Madison, WI. Will figure this out I think!

9/10 ~ Milwaukee, WI. w/ G.l.o.s.s., Youth Crush, Holy Shit!, Lifes. @ Borg Ward, 823 W. National Ave. 7pm. $7.

9/11 ~ Day of silence.

9/12 ~ NWI? (HALP)

9/13 ~ Cleveland, OH. w/ TBA @ Now That's Class.

Will post more info soon I think hehe

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / WETBRAIN Live LP

« on: July 22, 2015, 09:37:26 AM »

Got some copies. Holy F.

http://mediaschlitz.bigcartel.com/

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / 1/14 ~ Hank Wood & Hammerheads in Rochester, NY

« on: January 07, 2015, 11:48:04 AM »

Here we go again!

Wed 1/14

Hank Wood & the Hammerheads
Beastman
Tapehead
Danger Troll

9pm @ punk spot.

$

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / TAPEHEAD "The Flexi" OUT MEOW buy buy buy

« on: December 05, 2014, 06:15:01 PM »

Check it out!

TAPEHEAD "The Flexi" 7" flexi

Reel Time Records; RT-F001
2014; Rochester, NY

They're here and they're telling you: it's alright, it's okay. Rochester anxiety rockers, TAPEHEAD, cut their teeth on some high-tension punk rawk byway of 'The Flexi' Two (and a half) song debut, containing all the hallmarks one might expect from ex-members of BROWN SUGAR, RATIONAL ANIMALS, and LOVE PORK. The guitar genius of an intellectual-type, whose abundance of napkin-poetry litters the floor of an overpopulated psyche, deeming access to the corner bookshelf more a theory than a tangible reality, hunkers down with playful conviction amid a sea of chunk. The drums, bass, and guitar kick the spit around magnificently, together chipping away at some sometimes psychedelic weirdness. The low end here sounds wonderfully punchy and condensed--in the same way B?C's first album sounds like a repeated thump to the cranium while cruising through the trenches of the death star, bullseyeing wharf rats and slack-jawed gawkers alike. The vocalization of this half-cocked theory is handled by the nerve-grating cadence of an ex-eighties horror icon, since demoted to record store obscurity. The lyrics grope their way through a series of themes and convictions--sometimes crystalline, sometimes totally muddled and indistinguishable. Universal in meaning, but so is kissing and rubber-necking. (BK)

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250 clear Flexi-disc / Issued with card-stock insert and stickered polybag

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http://www.discogs.com/seller/ReelTimeRecords
http://reeltimerecords.bandcamp.com/
http://jellymusicinc.bandcamp.com/

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Demo Tape / TAPEHEAD (Rochester, ex-Brown Sugar, Rational Animals)

« on: September 27, 2014, 09:06:55 AM »

Hi.

Newish band from Brown Sugar, Rational Animals, Insubordinates, Love Pork people. "Demo flexi" out next month, 7" shortly after. First song off flexi:

https://soundcloud.com/mediaschlitz/whats-the-story


Some gigs we're playing soon:

9/30 w/ The Virus, Rotten UK, Hammerhead @ Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, NY
10/24 w/ Casanovas In Heat, The Cringe @ The Boiler Room, Boston, MA
10/25 w/ Hank Wood & The Hammerheads, Blazing Eye, Savageheads, Pure Disgust, L.O.T.I.O.N. @ Palisades, 906 Broadway Ave, Brooklyn, NY
10/31 Halloween gig @ lodge, Webster Park, Rochester, NY

Bye bye.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / MS-02: Brown Sugar "Chocolate City" Flexi BUY IT

« on: August 19, 2014, 11:15:04 AM »

Media Schlitz 02: BROWN SUGAR "CHOCOLATE CITY" Flexi 7"

The last gasp of The Shug. Press is already half gone from me so you better hurry up mmhmm.

Also, BUT ME ARE DIFFERENT zine (years' worth of compiled record responses and interviews from an ex-Termbo staffer who couldn't keep up). I put up some new items just now and restocked the incredible BEASTMAN and AWEFUL KANAWFUL tapes too.

I'll use this opportunity to plug KANAWFUL just bcuz: http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/410-shake-appeal-aweful-kanawful-his-rubber-husbands-band/

Here: http://mediaschlitz.bigcartel.com/

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Birdsounds tour July 2014

« on: June 30, 2014, 08:32:10 AM »

Hiya,
Birdsounds is a band! Members of Brown Sugar, Skate Korpse, Beastman, etc.
Here's a taste: https://soundcloud.com/brandon_gaffney/planet-earf-by-birdsounds
See you soon?

7/9 Cleveland, OH w/ Bitches From Hell 3 @ Now That's Class. 11213 Detroit Ave. 9pm. $5.

7/10 Bloomington, IN w/ Heart Attack Jizzers, Nu Youth, Chud @ Bad Boys Club, 809 S Washington. 8pm. $5.

7/11 Lexington, KY w/ Vibrolas. Details TBA.

7/12 Richmond, VA w/ Animal Planet, +TBA? @ Steady Sounds, 322 Broad St. 5pm. $5 donation.

7/13 Baltimore, MD. Details TBA.

7/14 Washington, DC?

Further dates coming.

And don't forget about this cool shit: http://mediaschlitz.bigcartel.com/

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / BEASTMAN - 20m CS NOW AVAILABLE / Jelly Music

« on: June 18, 2014, 11:58:10 AM »

BEASTMAN - "Beastman" CS (Jelly Music, inc.; JL02)



Up from the murky depths of the Genesee to take the villagers by storm, the natives have grown restless and resentful. Seminal cassette offering from Rochester, NY aborigines, BEASTMAN cracks skulls in 2014 A.D. Offering up a uniquely New York-stylee of percussive hardcore punk, this cassette thunders forth for twenty minutes amidst spastic blues-oriented guitar work and prehistoric cries of disparagement. Voicing their primitive wisdom on all things unique to the modern savage, from jaw-dropping progress to penny-ante junkies, BEASTMAN draws from 30+ years of straight-from-the-gut hardcore to upturn some fascinating new stones. Like a weirdly punk take on something outlandish like GWAR, these mutants can lay heavy on the floor-tom at ninety miles an hour well enough to shave any lower east side noggin; they can also plow through exceptionally penned ballads, smothering legions of POISON IDEA-worshiping visionaries with an indoctrinated balance of power and finesse. Somewhere in the prehistoric gray lies BEASTMAN: tuning in on some archaic wavelength, powerful enough to broadcast throughout the stateside and beyond. Colorfully illustrated portrait of Rochester?s offering to at-your-throat hardcore punk in the modern age, now available from Jelly Music.

First pressing / 200 CS

Listen Here:
http://jellymusicinc.bandcamp.com

BUY:
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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / BEASTMAN / THE PUNKS midwest tour 2014

« on: May 13, 2014, 08:54:28 PM »

Yo.
2 bands from Rochester, NY are doin a little ting.

BEASTMAN: Caveman ADD violence, members of FLIP SHIT. http://jellymusicinc.bandcamp.com/releases

THE PUNKS: Cro Mags vs. Fleetwood Mac, members of BROWN SUGAR, DEATH CAMP.

5/30 Rochester, NY, BEASTMAN & PUNKS tape release w/ Gun Trouble, Hott Mayo @ punk spot, $5.

5/31 Columbus, OH, "LESS THAN MUSIC FEST #8&1/2" w/ Fuck You Pay Me, Brain Tumors, Bill Bondsmen, Nukkehammer, Vegetative State @ Bourbon St., 2210 Summit Street, 8PM, $8, All Ages.

6/1 Chicago, IL w/ Brain Tumors, Sputter @ LiveWire Lounge, 3394 N. Milwaukee Ave, 7PM.

6/2 Milwaukee, WI w/ Foreign Lawns, maybe Holy Shit! @ Ground Zero, 666 Askapunk Ave, 6PM, $6.

6/3 Bloomington, IN w/ Fine Young Casuals, Laffing Gas @ Bad Boys Club, 809 S. Washington, 8PM, $5.

6/4 Cleveland, OH @ Now That's Class, 11213 Detroit Ave, 9PM, Free gig.

6/5 Pittsburgh, PA w/ Zeitgeist @ @ Certain Death (generator show by the river) ask a punk, 8PM, $5.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / 3/1 ~ Bad Taste's 10 Year Anniversary & Last Show ~ ROCH, NY

« on: February 22, 2014, 12:40:29 AM »

Oh hey.

A very special gig for you here:

BAD TASTE (final show, bye bye)
THE NARCS
FLIP SHIT
SULK
THE PUNKS

4pm @ Hazelwood Grove Lodge, Ellison Park.
Rochester, NY
$

If your interest was ever piqued by the rumors of the Roc... here's your gig.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Reel Time Records

« on: December 06, 2013, 07:35:11 PM »

Wrote some reviews for Mr. Kucharski recently. Check 'em out.

http://reeltimerecordss.bigcartel.com/

Would highly recommend everything he's put out too. Highest quality shit in the DIY biz. Entirely analog reproduction process, reels being transferred directly to one of Columbia's old lathes(!!). Great punk shits. 

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / ROCHESTER SHOWS

« on: April 07, 2013, 02:26:30 PM »

Bring yer girlfriends.

5/06 - State Poison, Beastman, Green Dreams, Obsessor, Bad People @ Hazelwood Lodge in Ellison Park. 6pm, $6.
5/09 - Youth Avoiders (France) + more!! ~ MOVED TO SYRACUSE: https://www.facebook.com/events/159423720900858/
5/19 - UV Race (Australia) Bad Taste, Big Brain, Glass @ The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave)
6/11 - Vaginors (Australia) & more! @ TBA
8/01 - Stoic Violence (CA) @ TBA

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / MEDIA SCHLITZ records

« on: January 04, 2013, 02:56:07 PM »

Currently building a webstore. Upstate New York proto-end-times-rock-musics now located in punk headquarters, Rochester, NY. Wholesale copies of the UTAH JAZZ ep can be gotten as well by emailing mediaschlitz@gmail.com

mediaschlitz.bigcartel.com

Coming soon to the store:
ACCEPT THE DARKNESS #10 / BUT ME ARE DIFFERENT #1 split zine
BROWN SUGAR "THE VEGETARIAN" EP (?!?!)

buy buy buy!