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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: Apache Dropout "Bubblegum Graveyard" Tour 2012

« on: June 20, 2012, 06:06:00 AM »

16th - Montreal
17th - Toronto

Would fit well... though they are off nights.  I'd be happy to set up the Montreal gig. Any interest?

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: Puffy Areolas Dishonorable Discharge Tour (East/South edition)

« on: June 13, 2012, 08:44:19 PM »

Obviously u need to come to Montreal already.

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Music Shit / Re: Acapulco Presents... Delightful Missives from the World of Music "Criticism"

« on: May 22, 2012, 08:22:59 PM »

This video of Billy Corgan deconstructing tha music biz is laugh out loud funny:

http://video.mashable.com/services/player/bcpid1334694100001?bckey=AQ~~%2cAAABBzUwv1E~%2cxP-xFHVUstjIElcSylrg3oBkxpJs9Nob&bctid=1594567742001

I couldn't get that shit to play, but I wonder just how douchey it gets?  For someone that has been such a willing participant in every level of suckdom that exists in the "entertainment" industry to offer any sort of comment or criticism... It must be really special.

He basically thinks that fame/recognition has replaced being paid to be an artist, and that artists are giving away too much for free. Then he has all these theories about how artists should use social media to get fans to support them deeply and pay up. It's weird watching it, he seems convinced he's figured everything out.

He is also wearing a teenage girl's bucket hat.

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Music Shit / Re: Acapulco Presents... Delightful Missives from the World of Music "Criticism"

« on: May 22, 2012, 06:01:46 AM »

This video of Billy Corgan deconstructing tha music biz is laugh out loud funny:

http://video.mashable.com/services/player/bcpid1334694100001?bckey=AQ~~%2cAAABBzUwv1E~%2cxP-xFHVUstjIElcSylrg3oBkxpJs9Nob&bctid=1594567742001

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Quebec student strike getting pretty gnarly

« on: May 21, 2012, 02:28:21 PM »

With Canadian citizens' fundamental freedoms of association, assembly, and expression recently outlawed by the provincial government, the Quebec student/union/democratic movement is really heating up.  Tonight will mark the 28th night of consecutive demonstrations across the province and it is expected that there will be around 200,000 people at tomorrow's "illegal" demonstration at Place des Festivals.  Needless to say, shit is getting pretty hairy.

Here's a video by MTL drone/metal guy Thisquietarmy compiling news footage of police fuckery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJsG7ev454I&feature=youtu.be

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Record Storage Boxes

« on: May 14, 2012, 11:28:08 AM »

I switched to Uline for bulk mailer orders.  Cheaper than Bags... and considerably cheaper if you can pick-up at one of their locations (I go to the one in Brampton, ON). Obviously, the savings are in bulk orders, but it could be worth it if you went in with a few other folks.

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Music Shit / Re: shit I've been DJing

« on: May 03, 2012, 07:36:52 AM »

Thinking back on the era when I was Djing though... I remember that Catatonic Youth single & the track on the World's Lousy comp being really popular... and a great segue from more traditional punk to weirder stuff.

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Music Shit / Re: shit I've been DJing

« on: May 03, 2012, 07:33:46 AM »

djing is dumb people don't care what they hear at a bar as long as it isn't just noise garbage. Getting asked to DJ just means that the person in charge hopes you have a lot of friends that will come out. It's different if you do one of those like "soul" nights or any night that people always dance at, but for the most part as long as you're playing some fuckin music no one is really gonna care one way or the other. still don't think I'd ever play a hardcore record, though

I used to DJ once a week for like three years with Shauuuunn, and this is pretty much how I feel now.  It would take a really special night or some hefty pay to make it worth the effort for me now.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: The Secret society Of The Sonic Six "Pick Up" 12"

« on: May 02, 2012, 08:32:18 AM »

Sounds very good to me!  Can you school me on this band?  Is it something you're involved with?  I have one of what seems to be a series of single sided 12" EPs.  Picked it up on a whim from SS and I really enjoy it.  In fact, I'm pretty much prepared to rank this band among the very best at what they do on the strength of that material and this new stuff, which I'm listening to now.  Can you recommend a one stop shop, where I might pick up this new one along with a good bit of the back catalogue?

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Music Shit / Re: Baddat For Trubbel

« on: April 26, 2012, 08:28:55 AM »

NEW LP IS THE BEST OF THE FUCKIN YEAR SO FAR ALONG WITH THA RONNIES

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Non-Music Shit / Quebec student strike getting pretty gnarly

« on: April 26, 2012, 08:26:47 AM »

No talk of the Quebec student strike on here, but it's getting pretty gnarly.  Last night the police turned on a relatively small demonstration that followed the expulsion of the Coalition large de l'ASSE from talks with the Minister of Education and the breakdown of those talks.  Of course, the news is spinning this the way it always does: violent protestors, unsympathetic polls, etc; but they are playing with fire here.  The demonstrations are definitely going to continue and intensify now that the semester is over for sympathetic students who were unwilling or unable to abandon classes.  These kids aren't gonna be able to find any fucking work this summer, so they might as well get involved in the struggle that keeps showing up on their facebook feeds.

It will also be interesting to see how this plays out on a larger scale.  On a provincial level, Parti Quebecois has been endorsing the strike, but it seems to be hurting them with the dissolution of the talks and the recent spin.  I don't know if I buy this polling.  On a national level, this will probably hurt the NDP, who rose to become the official opposition on the strength of their support in Quebec, but they have done a good job of distancing themselves from the movement.

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: April 25, 2012, 06:03:59 AM »

Oh my, that Sunflare stuff is pretty fierce. Also appears to be available stateside right here: http://www.roboticempire.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=65&products_id=5142

Interesting that they're from Portugal. My girl and I nearly fucked off to Aveiro back in '07 (goddamnit, we still might...some day), and my foundational research unearthed little in the way of interesting contemporary music, though I might have been looking in the wrong places.  Certainly didn't come across these lads.  Anyone on here from Portugal who can point to some other notables?

And yes to Trio for all the reasons mentioned.

Currently listening to the new Baddat for Trubbel, and it is a perfect album of perfect punk rock.  Great, great band. 

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Music Shit / Re: Acapulco Presents... Delightful Missives from the World of Music "Criticism"

« on: April 24, 2012, 08:16:29 AM »

Sweet holy shit: http://adhoc.fm/post/holy-spirit/

Maligned Liturgist's myopic musing on da state of da counterculture in Kickstarter-funded jamboree of delightful missives is a clusterfuck of largely incompatible concepts! Almost too much to endure! But I love the fact that this guy is peddling this shit in cyberspace, on a website that promises to "paint a dynamic, living landscape of the underground music world at large, setting the reflections of professional journalists and critics alongside artists, promoters, and other music-world personalities." Ho de do!

This guy has graced this thread before, yeah? Has his supervisor not yet bent him over a knee and administered a good spanking?

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Baseball Furies - Greater Than Ever repress

« on: January 04, 2012, 08:05:27 PM »

$28.00 to Canaduh... does that make sense? Can I paypal direct?

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Coitus Int. 'Dead Excitement EP' reissue

« on: January 03, 2012, 07:02:18 PM »

Finally got this. Brav-fucking-O.

I literally sent off my Year-Ender list yesterday and maybe our great editor in the sky will throw this on the list, but I would've liked to have written about it. Up there with any of the year's best exact repro reissues. And the label's from Brooklyn huh.

Same hear, came in the mail a couple days ago & I finally got around to listening to it this morning.  Just a great job. Great record.