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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / ALL BABIES ARE SELFISH COWARDS zine (Foreword by John Morton of Electric Eels)

« on: July 27, 2015, 08:51:02 PM »

All Babies Are Selfish Cowards: A pamphlet by Michael McClelland

Everyone knows that all babies are spineless bludgers who take advantage of all our hard work for their own corrupt, selfish benefit.

What perhaps many do not realise are the extent to which these babies and their greedy ulterior motives are tearing apart the social fabric of our world.

For far too long, these lazy babies have been coasting on by, their every whim pandered to as a privileged minority. It's time we said NO. These babies need to learn the virtue of hard work.

Simply put, these babies must be stopped.



This informative document explores the Baby Agenda in detail and proposes solutions to curbing this alarming trend.

How did these babies come about? Where do they come from? And why should WE give them a free ride? These questions and more will be addressed.

Babies are to be feared and closely watched, lest they may rebel.

Foreword by John D. Morton (Electric Eels, X__X).

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Available now for PAYLII5BOM* via post or in person at any of the dates below:

*Pay As You Like If It's 5 Bucks Or More
BRISBANE: July 31 @ Real Bad
LOS ANGELES: TBA
NEW YORK: September 2 @ Alphaville and September 8 @ Trans-Pecos
PHILLY: September 17 @ The Pharmacy
D.C.: September 20 @ Studio 69
SYDNEY: October 16 @ TBA
MELBOURNE: Date TBA @ Dane Certificate's Magic Tricks

(Part of the Center Negative AUS/US tour)

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / center negative (NZ) in australia (AUS) and america (US)

« on: July 27, 2015, 08:36:19 PM »

Scrappy, skitzy, four-tracky self-music from the distant isles of New Zealand. For fans of the whatever you're into. From bedroom-industrial to political karaoke, this goddamn music has it all.

"It's fucked!"

http://centernegative.bandcamp.com

(You prob ain't gonna 'get' the last release. It's an NZ thing. Just think culturecide and you'll be fine. New album out this week!)

Here's the poster:



Here's the dates:

BRISBANE: July 31 @ Real Bad
LOS ANGELES: Fuck knows. Help?
NEW YORK: September 2 @ Alphaville and September 8 @ Trans-Pecos
PHILLY: September 17 @ The Pharmacy
D.C.: September 20 @ Studio 69
SYDNEY: October 16 @ Blackwire? Maybe? Fuck knows
MELBOURNE: Fuck knows @ Dane Certificate's Magic Tricks

"EMOTION IS CRINGEY" tapes will be on sale at the shows. Help me not fucking die, please!
ALL BABIES ARE SELFISH COWARDS zine too. Foreword by Cleveland punk hero John Morton (Electric Eels, X__X).

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Some news about Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing (NZ)

« on: July 05, 2015, 06:15:14 PM »

Hey dudes, here's a song that's very dear to my heart. This is off GPOGP's upcoming LP 'Scrying In Infirmary Architecture', which will be released later this year -- it's by far their best yet. I'd implore every antipodean-inclined person to investigate these homebody pagans because in my very sincere opinion it's one of the best New Zealand releases ever. Couldn't really be any more honest about it.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKAEdG5GNDc

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: The latest goods from fashionable NZ label Melted Ice Cream

« on: June 14, 2015, 03:38:51 PM »

ANTO PASCO - To Escape



Swoony gaze-rock delivered by way of a gutteral-throated introvert. Plenty of the New Zealand accent to be found, which proves we're not phonies -- yep, NZ really is a country.

http://meltedicecream.bandcamp.com/album/to-escape

TERROR OF THE DEEP - Space Epic

First Clooney in space, then Interstellar, now this? Whether we got suckered into releasing a concept album or just really enjoyed hearing the word "Watsonification", any album about space that isn't completely vacuous is welcome to us. By Neptune, it's varied as the stars!



http://meltedicecream.bandcamp.com/album/space-epic

Cassingles Series Issue 1



Shirked by the contemptible international vinyl shipping machine, but still not one to be outquirked by the dead-format labels of the world, us MIC folk assembled a quick assemblage that features: The Dance Asthmatics, Transistors, T54, Anto Pasco, and The Dance Asthmatics (Unplugged). Just imagine they're all competing in an aural dance-off, and while you're at it, be quick! They come in threes, and there's only 25*3.

http://meltedicecream.bandcamp.com/album/cassingles-series-issue-1

Finally, subscribe to our damn newsletter! Like all insecure 12 year-olds, we attempt funniness to distract from our weaknesses!

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / NZer seeks bands & US road-friends this winter. Fuck!

« on: May 19, 2015, 09:59:09 PM »

Sigh, here goes. I was gearing up to book/tour manage a full US tour for a New Zealand band in September, and they just bailed on me. Decided they wanna do it by themselves. Now I'm 3-4 months out and would usually start booking right now, not to mention already have purchased my flights. Shit's fucked.

Anyone want an NZ tour booker/manager/roadie/driver in exchange for a way for me to get around the country? I've got 2 full US tours experience, many more in NZ. Worked with small and big bands. I got buddies I wanna catch up with. Couple people on this forum can vouch for me I'm sure/hope. Can tell you about all the good NZ things.

I think I'll hit up Berserktown and/or Gonerfest, so bands travelling to those things might be interested.

Alternatively, fuck, play in one of my bands and we'll do it that way.

Here are my bands, they can help you gauge my taste:

http://team-ugly.bandcamp.com
http://centernegative.bandcamp.com/album/hello

Team Ugly toured the US in 2012 and I TMed for Civil Union last year if you saw em:

http://civilunion.bandcamp.com

And I wrote this TermBo 'scene report' thing:

http://terminal-boredom.com/features/201404nz/

Hit a boy up

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Music Shit / Re: Recently Unearthed Youtube Classics

« on: May 03, 2015, 02:20:19 AM »

martin rev - mari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvgOBpeCAbA

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Music Shit / Re: A SHITSTORM IN AUSTIN

« on: May 03, 2015, 02:18:35 AM »

Lame. beerland dudes are high up there on the list of chillness both times i've been there. their response looked well articulated, which for some reason is rare in these kind of scenarios. shitty dudes in scenes need to stop and be stopped

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Some news about Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing (NZ)

« on: April 26, 2015, 04:34:58 AM »

Hello! Usually I post about NZ bands that are on the Melted Ice Cream label, but as soon as I caught wind of new releases by Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing I took to the internet as soon as I had the chance. It's 2015, and the world must know that the trying-est band on this planet are MY FRIENDS. I would be a bad friend if I didn't somehow persuade you and all your friends to buy the shit out of my friends at once. That's just how this music industry works. And since nobody's paying me to say that, it either means they really are that great or I'm not getting paid enough.

GIRLS PISSING ON GIRLS PISSING RECENT RELEASES



Like all New Zealand success stories, this band is relatively unknown. Yet the waxy blah that has now been secreted from sheer lack of compromise finally certifies my opinion: this deserves the nerdiest of perusals. From Sharpie Crows (of Flying Nun, real obscure label y'know) came Enya fan Casey Latimer, who at said band's point of dissolution did ensemble his way into a more din-friendly sound: Steve Huf's staggering bass, Alex Brown's twisted clarinet and Aki Bukake's spirit-shriek all sit atop those hypnotic cycles that make Catherine Cumming one of the darndest drummers there is.

These are the nicest guys to ever scare you. The greatest team that ever played band-sports with their fingers. The best group ever hyperbole'd. As every rock-ad goes: Read the myth, purchase the music, hear the band! Buy! Buy! Buy!

Split w/ Looks Like Miaou 12" [Tendresse]
GPOGP doubled up with a Belgian band who by all meaningful accounts actually sound pretty similar to them. That's what splits usually do, I suppose, but we're talking about a particularly unconventional sound, as far as goth-twang goes. What's also nifty is that there's a reversible sleeve to make the package feel all that more tangible.
http://tendresserecords.bandcamp.com/album/girls-pissing-on-girls-pissing-looks-like-miaou

Nine Of Swords b/w Ng. 7" [Crane Fortune]
"Single sided 7" vinyl with re-mixed and mastered version of Nine of Swords from 2011 album Eeling. B-side has been made un-playable." Made possible thanks to a particularly warm Termbrother!
http://girlspissingongirlspissing.bandcamp.com/album/nine-of-swords-ng

Gotta catch 'em all, to quote a repressed memory.

GIRLS PISSING ON GIRLS PISSING NEWS

They have an album coming out soonish. I've heard the rough cut, and my ears are thanking me! They need a distro'er for the US, small run, sub-100 copies definitely... get at me on here and I'll put you in touch. Do it for the sleaziest sax solo there is. (And, in a rare moment of comprehensibility, I'll admit that it's the best local album I've heard in years and years. Fucking get in there before Captured Tracks does.)

If you missed it, and you probably didn't, I wrote this NZ 'scene report' on Termbo that included the 'Girls.

For live videos, there's plenty here.

Enjoy that dirge!

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Music Shit / Re: Greatest band photos

« on: April 07, 2015, 10:19:07 PM »

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Music Shit / Re: what's your favorite part of music

« on: February 15, 2015, 09:54:17 PM »

when that bass or other instrument drops

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: The latest goods from fashionable NZ label Melted Ice Cream

« on: February 10, 2015, 02:58:34 AM »

THE WINEBOX INQUIRY - S/T Cassette



Two-ish years back, William Daymond (The Pickups, Terror Of The Deep, Axemen) took to a tape recorder in a Wellington bedroom to fling out a pile of self-conscious hits.

12-strung as it might be, song titles like "Nothing Happens Anymore" and "I Am A Cliche" bring a modern, jaded tone to jangles that might otherwise seem retrospective. (Compare away, idiots!)

Definitely get this thing on tape -- it's handmade, as always, and there are 3 songs not available digitally.

https://meltedicecream.bandcamp.com/album/the-winebox-inquiry

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Music Shit / Re: Culturcide

« on: January 11, 2015, 06:19:45 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culturcide
http://culturcide.bandcamp.com/

Either this stuff is newly online or I'm just an idiot

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Music Shit / Culturcide

« on: January 07, 2015, 05:22:55 PM »

can't find much about em online. "tacky souvenirs..." is probably my second favourite album (so much so that i even ripped the thing off at one point).

any inside info? tell me about this dang band!

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Music Shit / Re: New Zealand in 2014

« on: January 02, 2015, 02:46:23 PM »

I'll be travelling to NZ in late Feb, and to ChCh end of that month. Any shops carrying this stuff there or best to mailorder?

I'd suggest:

-Real Groovy in Auckland
-Audio Foundation in Auckland
-Galaxy Records in CHCH
-Slow Boat in WEL
-Too Tone in Dunedin

Most of the stuff I mentioned is digital at least, cassette at best -- bands here can't afford vinyl. That said, mailorder where you can because I doubt there'll be much stocked at the above retailers. You should be able to get your Kilgour/Coolies/FN reissues kinda stuff at those places however.

Why/how you in NZ? Touring? Gimme a message if you swing through Auckland.

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Music Shit / Re: New Zealand in 2014

« on: December 26, 2014, 07:03:58 PM »

Just updated the OG post with a few slip-in honourable mentions.

should be getting the Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing 7" test pressing any day now! can't wait

Get that shit far and wide.

And how is your taxi service

No joke, this has become my promoter name in NZ. Think I'm gonna start using it to fund future tours.