Greetings internet geeks with too much free time. Before we piss everybody off with more shit talk, we have some real important stuff to tell you about. First off… Buddyhead has 3 new releases coming out, and you should prepare yourselves. The first is an e.p. from a great new so-cal band called Your Enemies Friends. One of the best debut releases we’ve heard in a long time. Even though they’re from Orange County, they’re actually pretty good. Also out very soon is Shat’s “Best Of… The Cunt Chronicles”. This album will change your life. Make sure to come to the Icarus Line show this Saturday at the Troubadour with Pretty Girls Make Graves for the sole fact that we will be debuting the new Shat album in between bands! No shit tubby! And then a lil after that we have the debut album from Sacramento’s The Revolution Smile. This album is heavy. Oprah heavy. Be prepared. All these releases should be hitting stores in the next couple months. Start saving your lunch money now kids.
In even more related Buddyhead news, we need an ad person. We are too busy here getting death threats and lawsuits from crybaby rock stars to be on top of the ads on our website. If you have already done a job like this in the past… like maybe for a magazine, let us know. We don’t need you here full time polishing all of Travis and Aaron’s leather chaps, this is a part time gig. Don’t email us if you’re 14 and think you can handle the job. Also don’t email us if you have no experience with this stuff already. If you do waste our time with your pointless emails, we will find where you live and murder your entire family’s. Email Buddyhead@buddyhead.com if yr down.
For those of you less experienced, if you live in the L.A. area and want to help Buddyhead with some aggravating and tedious shit work, (i.e. intern) then contact Kathleen@Buddyhead.com and we’ll get ya going. Ohhhhh, it won’t be that bad. Maybe you’ll even get a free shirt, slap on the ass, and a chance at catching Travis naked while he gets out of the shower. Come on dude, jump on the grenade… do it for the head.
The February issue of Spin came out and oh boy does it smell like a giant heaping pile of horse dung rotting in the summer heat. It’s almost as bad as last months issue (you know the issue where they put the American Pie 2 soundtrack along with Incubus and Macy Grey in their top 20 albums of the year – people get killed ‘round here for less than that). In this months embarrassment, some “genius” over there, thought it’d be a good idea to run a few pages on the Devil’s henchmen himself, Dashboard Confessional. Leave it to Spin to bastardize the “emo” term even more. Neither one of us read it (who wants to get sick over something like that?), but we both laughed at his new “Planet Of The Apes” haircut. Chris, you better fire your barber champ. Oh, and that article called something like “100 best bands” or whatever is amazingly funny. Not on purpose of course. The Spin staff should all be dragged out into the streets so they can be slapped around with raw fish and then tar and feathered for their crimes against rock n’ roll. The Ramones as the second best band of all time? What paint huffer gave the go ahead on that idea? We know you guys are all about New York pride and shit, but get fuckin real. They put out 67 albums that all sounded the same. Enough with the “Ramones invented punk rock” bullshit. The Stooges and even The Who had way more to do with punk rock, and actually made amazing albums and show up way too late on this list. Sorry to be so anal about something so trivial, but it’s irritating. Fuck New York for always claiming to be originators… ah… sorry for the rant. Also, note to whoever wrote the little blurb on the Mars Volta – Listen up here stud-bolt, you’re blowing it! Their first show was at the Troubadour? How about NO BRO! It was actually at a venue called Chain Reaction in Orange County. Go back to listening to the Strokes, you’ll understand that shit better… after all, they’re from New York.
Rikki Rachtman, of Headbanger’s Ball and Love Line fame, is now selling cars at McKenna Volkswagen in Huntington Beach CA! He told us that all Buddyhead readers will get a good sized discount just because he “likes our little operation”. If you’re really nice, maybe he’ll give you one of his Poison headbands! Call him up and tell him Buddyhead sent you. (714) 842-2000
Recent studies show that going to “indie-rock” shows does in fact pay off! After seeing At The Drive-In only a few times, some “energetic” kids from Seattle started a pop punk band called Vendetta Red. They played a few poorly attended west coast shows, made some ties to the “Christian emo scene”, then out of nowhere their “investor” who had been paying for their lives over the past year or so, stirred up some “major interest”! They quickly became the major label flavor of the month, sending every A&R person who wished they’d signed At The Drive-In scrambling. So anyhow, the boys from Vendetta Red finally cashed in on what’s hot and signed to Epic this week for more money than any other unheard of band ever has. Somewhere around 3 Million dollars. Yep, even more than the Strokes. And yes, WAY more than At The Drive-In did a few years back. Which looks good on paper… but when it comes down to it, unless those dorks end up being the next Guns N’ Roses, they’re gonna feel the pain of large corporate rock dongs sliding slowly up their tail pipes (without Vaseline mind you). And making it that big ain’t gonna happen for these posers. Hey… all you self proclaimed “hip” and cool “indie” kids, this is where your culture gets hijacked and sold back to you as the “real deal”, when in fact it’s the same old suits trying to repackage the same old shit with new bells and whistles like white boy afros, tight pants, and “hip” thrift shop threads ala the Strokes. Hopefully for Vendetta Red, they don’t mind being told what to do for the next few years of their lives. By the way, Epic will be laying off people this week as they lost millions last year. Bummer.
In other major labels not making money news, Virgin Records will be merged into Capitol by August. The poor sales of Jagger and Kravitz have sealed Virgin’s fate.
The Icarus Line are heading out to destroy the majority of Europe over the course of the next 2 months. Not only does that mean good rock music will be proliferated across the globe, but it also means more spelling mistakes on Buddyhead for you internet dorks to endure, seeing as how Aaron “grammar nazi” Icarus will be hangin out with Euro’s while we suck dick to keep the phone turned on. To coincide with their European tour, a single for “Feed A Cat To Your Cobra” will be coming out in England next month. The cd version will include “Kill Cupid With A Nailfile”, so you superfan dorks out there can go buy that and stop bugging us about repressing that seven inch we put out. For more info and news, check out their newly updated website: www.theicarusline.com If you feel like beating up Aaron for not liking Limp Bizkit or something, here is where he will be every night for the next 2 months:
January
11 Las Vegas, NV – ?
12 Hollywood, CA – Troubadour
22 London, UK – 100 Club
23 Rotterdam, NL – Nighttown
24 Amsterdam, NL – Milkweg
25 Paris, FR – la Boule noire
26 Bordeaux, FR – tba
27 Madrid, SP – Gruta 77
28 tba
29 Barcelona, SP – Garage
30 Lyon, FR – Pezner
31 tba
February
01 Milan, I – Benario Zero
02 Turin, I – Hiroshima
03 off
04 Koln, D – Underground
05 Wiesbaden, D – Schlachthof
06 Zurich, CH – Gaswerk
07 Fribourg, CH – Fri-son
08 Weinheim, D – Café Central
09 Munich, D – Metropolis
10 Vienna, AU – Flex
11 Berlin, D – Knaack
12 Hamburg, D – Logo
13 Munster, D – Gleis 22
14 Gronigen, NL – Vera
15 Den Bosch, NL – W2
16 Kontich, BG – Lintfabriek
17 off
18 Portsmouth, UK – Wedgewood Rooms
19 Manchester, UK – Hop and Grape
20 Newport, UK – TJ’s
21 Northampton, UK – Soundhaus
22 Leeds, Cockpit
23 Oxford, UK – Zodiak
24 Colchester, UK – Arts Center
25 London, UK – Mean Fiddler
26 off
27 Glasgow, UK – King Tut’s
28 Dundee, UK – On Air East
March
01 Belfast, UK – University, Mandela Hall
02 Dublin, IR – New Breathe
03 Cork, IR – Old Oak
04 Galway, IR – GPO
05 Limerick, IR – Hi Stool
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Alien Ant Farm, Fenix TX, Glassjaw, and Local H are rounding out the monstrosity of ass lineup that is the Sno-Core tour aka “Bro-Core” tour. Right now Aaron Icarus is in a feather dress with war paint on chanting around a fire with pictures of his god, Freddy Mercury, praying for an avalanche of great proportions to rid the world of these 4 musical cancers.
Winona Ryder hasn’t been stealing much lately.
Speaking of wrong, Vagrant Records signed Paul Westerberg. Paul, you’re going to hell now.
Spiritualized will release “Do it all over again” as the next single from Let it come down in February/ March 2002, coinciding with their UK tour dates. The release will be backed by new tracks, which the band are recording at the moment. Do drugs.
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Important… Do Buddyhead a big favor and call up Fly PR as many times as possible at (323) 667-1344. Tell them to stop calling Travis’s house every day to see if we got the new (insert shitty band that no one cares about here) CD, we don’t give a fuckkk! Try calling at all hours or maybe talking in other languages.
Wednesday, January 9th, 2002 and Thursday, January 10th, 2002, will go down on the timeline of Rock N’ Roll history. On Wednesday, Aaron Icarus and Travis entered a studio in the capital records building that has been involved in creating epic masterpieces by legendary artists such as the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and Radiohead and payed an engineer about $1000 to compile songs with titles such as “tit fuck” “i threw up on her cunt” and “fuck, i stepped in shit”… that’s right, we mastered the “best of” Shat album. Thursday we mastered the Revolution Smile album. Both are gonna fuck you up.
Shat is going on tour! Well, sort of… Jeff Wood is going on the Dillinger Escape Plan tour to drink beer, pick up chicks, and play some random shows. Shat is only going to perform when Jeff gets real drunk, so bring him lots of booze. We’ll announce the Shat shows as they come up on the Dillinger tour. They’ll be at random, so you probably want to just fucking quit your job working clean-up at A.J.’s Male World Video, and follow the tour around the country like some fucking hippy, but it’s Dillinger and Shat not the Grateful Dead so it’s bomb. Botch, Playing Enemy, and Buddyhead’s own Your Enemies Friends are doing much of the West Coast. Also performing on all of these dates are Darkest Hour, who as you see from this picture are way into fat old gay dudes. If that’s your bag too, head out to these spots for some love.
1/24 Old Bridge, NJ / @ Birch Hill Night Club
1/25 Williamsburg, NY @ North Six
1/26 Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Laga
1/27 Baltimore, MD @ Otto Bar
1/29 Richmond, VA @ Alley Katz
1/30 Winston Salem, NC @ 533 Uprisings
1/31 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade Music Park
2/01 West Columbia, SC @ Uncle Doctors
2/02 Memphis, TN @ Premier Palace
2/04 Tampa, FL @ Orpheum Theatre
2/05 Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room 3045 N. Federal Highway)
2/07 Tallahassee, FL @ The Cow Haus
2/08 New Orleans, LA @ The Shim Sham Club
2/09 Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s
2/10 Austin, TX @ Emo’s
2/11 Dallas, TX @ Canyon Club – Bronco Bowl Theatre
2/13 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
2/15 Tempe, AZ @ Boston’s
2/16 Las Vegas, NV @ Tremors (YOUR ENEMIES FRIENDS)
2/19 Pomona, CA @ The Glass House (W./ BOTCH, YOUR ENEMIES FRIENDS)
2/20 Los Angeles, CA @ the Troubador (W./ BOTCH, YOUR ENEMIES FRIENDS)
2/21 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall (w./BOTCH)
2/23 Portland, OR @ Meow Meow (W./ BOTCH, PLAYING ENEMY)
2/24 Seattle, WA @ Graceland (W./ BOTCH, PLAYING ENEMY)
2/27 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
2/28 Kansas City, KS @ El Torreon
3/02 Chicago, IL @ Fireside Bowl
3/04 Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
3/05 Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
3/06 Syracuse, NY @ Armory High
3/07 New Haven, CT @ Toad’s Place
Some white belt Locust worshipping Canucks who call themselves Hot Hot Heat, got signed to Sub Pop. Great! Another fashion rock band, wonder why you guys are going bankrupt over there. Speaking of…. HOW ABOUT PAYING TRAVIS FOR THE MURDER CITY DEVILS SITE HE BUILT YOU FUCKING CHEAP BASTARDS ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO?!?!?! Anyhow, the hockey loving spock rockers are gonna record an EP with some dude who wishes he was in Built To Spill (Chris Walla from Death Cab For Cutie) and it’ll be out in March on Sub Pop. If you are bored check out their website (http://www.hothotheat.com) for some videos of them lip syncing and dancing around like fruitcakes on top of buildings in tight clothes. It’s worth a laugh. Make sure to watch the singer guy, he does these great hand movements that even Richard Simmons himself would be proud of.
So, Steve-O from Jackass figured that he’d rather be “friends” with us (and use us to shamelessly promote his new dvd’s), rather than kick our asses for making fun of him and having thousands of kids email him. Our new buddy wanted us to pass this little message onto you kids:
Hey Everyone. This is Steve-O again.
Here’s the deal, I’m releasing the first uncensored videos to star myself, Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Wee-Man, Preston Lacy and others. The release date is now January 15th. There are two of them: Don’t Try This At Home: The Steve-O Video, and Don’t Try This At Home Presents: The Career Ending Footage of Steve-O. We had a significant battle getting our television commercials past the censors. All the different commercials (60 seconds “clean” and “dirty” and 120 seconds “clean” and “dirty”) are now cleared and I’m totally stoked on them. We also rounded up Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Jeff Tremaine, Dimitry Elyaschevich, Rick Kosick and myself to record an absurd commentary “special feature” for the DVD. Look for that special feature to upset people more than the videos themselves. I hope everyone has DVD players! Judging by how many e-mails I received after you guys decided to post my e-mail address on your website, I thought it would make sense to send you this message and request that you post on your website the following e-mail address: steveovideo@homail.com where anyone can send an e-mail to receive pre-release information within a couple of days. Other news you may want to include is that I’m no longer homeless and MTV officials have announced that we will be beginning the production of Jackass: The Movie in January and the movie will be in theaters everywhere late in 2002. The entire cast of jackass will star in the movie and the budget is ridiculous. Our first trip is to Australia to film with Steve Irwin (the Crocodile Hunter). Wish me luck guys. I’ll get back to you guys with more info and mail you my videos.
touch soon,
Steve-O.
Jesus-metal band Zao broke up 3 shows into their tour with the Juliana Theory, while on stage. It’s Brett Detar’s fault. It’s always his fault. If you like Zao and Jesus you should fuck that dude up.
The fruity synth player from the Faint (Flock of Seagulls 2001) is in a Carls Jr. commercial. He’s the dude spraying the restaurant counter while the other guy is trying to eat his $6 burger. Sounds real Hiroshima-Nagasaki!
The new Anthrax album entitled “In The Mail” will be out next month.
Sonic Youth are working on their new release (time to start saving up for drugs), as is Ween (likewise).
Adam Pfahler’s (from Jawbreaker) wife, gave birth to their second daughter on Halloween. Her name is Stella. In his recent newsletter he stated:
“I’m planning on doing another record with J Church for Fat Wreck Chords. The bonus is that Kelly Green (formerly of Pee) will be singing, too. In other band news, I’m also playing with Richard Baluyut (Versus), Mikel Delgado (Little Deaths) and Lorna Goldie Lithgow in a band going by the name of Wysall Lane (Richard’s former solo project). We’re thinking of changing the name, however. Any suggestions? The Jawbreaker compilation ETC. is finally done and will be out in mid-2002. I know I’ve been promising a release date, but I don’t have one yet. I swear I’ll let you know the specifics when I get a date. Lastly, I just negotiated getting Dear You back. It’s anyone’s guess how long all the paperwork will take, but it will be on Blackball Records and come with an extra track on an enhanced CD with a video. Whew!” We all just got massive boners.
Duff, Slash, and Izzy still aren’t back in GNR.
MTV has two new shows coming out this season… oh boy is right. One is called “Stung” and it’s being called a “Candid Camera type show with Red Man and Method Man”. The second one is a real world type show about Ozzy’s family. Weird is right. Jack better wear some Buddyhead shirts or he’s off the team.
Gary Busey is out on $50,000 bail for abusing his wife.
Morgan Lander from Kittie listed the Icky line’s record as her #3 album of 2001 on www.shoutweb.com’s artist picks. Click here. Hit dat shit!
Gideon Yago was out in the City Of Angels for New Years. His activities consisted of record shopping at Amoeba, spinning records as the ball dropped with Travis at Vida, a touch of intoxicants, sticking his tongue down the throats of emo girls, and basically raising hell. The ruckus even spread to one of his fan sites… click here.
Victory records sold Snapcase for $1.7 mil. Call them at 1 888 4 HRD COR and ask them if Tom can borrow some money for whores.
Download the Frank Black and the Catholics live show from August 25, 2001 at the Lowlands festival in England. It’s pretty Hiroshima-Nagasaki! Click here.
Christina Aguilera’s new album is expected to be out sometime around June. Who cares… someone get us that fucking sex tape. NOW!
Creed’s favorite band, Boy Sets Fire (or the artists formerly known as Boy Hits Car) are pretty wack… right? Well, just when you thought they couldn’t get any lamer, they go out and prove you wrong by booking a tour with the jock-punk kings, Pennywise. Have fun at the brodeo guys. If you would like to see thousands of jocks booing a band off the stage for “not being fast enough” and “fags”, go to one of these shows…
jan 16 Newport Music Hall- Columbus, OH w/ Pennywise
jan 17 Bogarts- Cincinnati, OH w/ Pennywise
jan 18 State Theatre- Detroit, MI w/ Pennywise
jan 19 Riviera Theatre- Chicago, IL w/ Pennywise
jan 20 The Rave- Milwaukee, WI w/ Pennywise
jan 21 Quest Club- Minneapolis, MN w/ Pennywise
jan 23 Club Laga- Pittsburgh, PA
jan 24 Fletcher’s- Baltimore, MD
The singer guy with the creepy weird mustache from Korn, Jonathan Davis, had a nervous breakdown while recording the steaming pile of shit they’re gonna package with a cartoon cover, called the new Korn album, and sell millions of to America’s lower bracket of I.Q. holders. From what we heard, mustache guy was in the studio alone doing vocals, the rest of the band was out buying new Adidas jump suits or something wack, and he just lost his shit. He wants to now pushback the album, go back into the studio and redo all of his vocals with the entire band present. Music sucks.
Speaking of Korn, that fatass bass player they have is putting out a solo hip hop record. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it many times in the future… just when you think things can’t get any worse… they surprise you and really start sucking on the donkey’s salty sweaty balls. http://www.fieldysdreams.net
Kris Roe of the Ataris finally got tired of being the chubby kid with a bald spot and shaved his head.
Goldfinger’s guitar player quit the band and now they are trying to find a replacement from their fans, but all their fans are like 12 and couldn’t even chew gum and walk at the same time, let alone play an instrument, so we’re not sure what the fuck they’re thinking there…
Biz Markie will have a cameo in Men In Black II. We’re hoping he ends up playing a guy who disembowels and mutilates Will Smith, but as it turns out he’s going to be a space alien who teaches Will Smith how to beatbox. Weak.
Looks like we appeal to Slipknot and Nickelback fans now! Some dude from roadrunner put us on his best of 2001 list. Send us some promos we can sell at Amoeba for drug money dude. http://www.roadrun.com/wildcard/
Scot Stiglich – sales
In no particular order, Top 11:
Fu Manchu-California Crossing advance
Kevin Tihista’s Red Terror-Dont Breathe A Word
Muchacha-Plug In And Go
Motley Crue Autobiography
Woolworthy-Blasted Into Ashes
Delilahs 8th Anniversary Party
Local H-Here Comes The Zoo
Buddyhead.com
Cheap Trick at Double Door
Zeke-Death Alley
Slipknot-Iowa
That dude from Bush is finally gonna tie the knot with Gwen Stefani. Her bass player is still kicking himself. Jeff Wood promises to get their kids strung out and pregnant.
Blur is heading back into studio to record a follow up to 13 with Fatboy Slim producing. Sounds sketchy.
Anal Cunt broke up.
Music4autobahns just put up some video interviews with Walter from Rival Schools, Hot Water Music, Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio and Ian Mackaye from Fugazi. Also, if you look in the archives there is an Icarus Line interview and a Buddyhead one as well. Click here.
Pro skater and raging drunk, Daniel Shimizu, found himself serving 9 hours of jail time this week after the pigs caught him and some friends skating a skateboard park without pads and helmets. Aaron Farley was there filming (without a skateboard mind you) and got slapped with a ticket. Safety first boys!
Saves the Day was on Conan O’Brien. They do not know anything about rock n roll. Hopefully you fruitbaskets set your vcr’s to capture the gay.
Epitaph finally got a clue and dropped the Voodoo Glow Skulls. They are currently trying to trick other shitty labels into signing them. Hey guys, we’ll put a record of yours out if you don’t mind doing another split with Hickey.
Jessie Turner is sober again! He’s also filming a new movie out in New York this week. Email him and let him know you think he’s just as funny when he’s sober. He needs a little cheering up. jessie@buddyhead.com.
The Impossibles broke up….. again. That’s what you guys get for covering At The Drive-In.
Damien Jurado is trying to get released from the final record of his contract with Sub Pop cause they want to continue to bend him over the hood of their Camaro. Oh yeah, and they are in breach of contract. Rumor has it, he’s going to end up on Secretly Canadian.
Orange County’s premiere all-ages venue, Koo’s Café, has closed it’s doors. Looks like bands touring through this area will have to find another place to get ripped off at while the hordes of weird looking pimple faced heavy set kids with dyed black hair will also search for a new place to stare at each other.
Mos Def is going to be in 3, count them, 3 movies in the future. Hopefully, none of them will star Method Man or Redman.
The Cassettes (featuring Shelby from Frodus) are playing two shows on the wrong side of the nation. Dates below. Peep the website for mp3s. www.thecassettesmusic.com
January 16th – Brooklyn, NYC – Club Luxx w/ The Witnesses (Ex-Rondelles), and Main Man. Doors at: 9pm, The Cassettes play first! For info goto: www.clubluxx.com
January 24th – UVA The Pud House, Charlottesville, VA – Art opening and rock show, w/ The Devil Is Electric, The Remotes. Doors at: 10:00 pm, For info email: Wendy (wjh2b@cms.mail.virginia.edu).
That techno raver dork who’s responsible for shit like Nsync’s “pop”, BT, got his Los Angeles home studio broken into while he was playing grabass in London for Christmas. The thieves made off with thousands of dollars worth of equipment and all of his new recordings. Good. Maybe they weren’t in it for the cash. Maybe they are superheros who have been sent to this planet to fight the evil that is shitty music.
Princess Superstar is going on tour. If you like hot white girls who rap with Kool Keith, you might wanna check her out.
1/15 Seattle, WA @ Crocodile – live performance
1/16 Portland, OR @ Satyricon – live performance
1/17 San Francisco, CA @ Justice League – live performance
1/19 Los Angeles, CA @ Knitting Factory – live performance
1/21 New York, NY @ Veruka – DJ set
1/26 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory – live performance
1/28 New York, NY @ Veruka – DJ set
Some kid who is putting out a picture disc comp emailed us and asked if we’d post a blurb about it. He said Shat isn’t on it but that it’s “for the cause” or something. So I guess you should buy it. It’s called – Satellite City Launch#001 “Masculine Make-Over”, benefit for Boston-based crisis center. It comes out in January 2002 (which is now!) and it’s a 12″ Picture Disc featuring unreleased or live tracks by Submission Hold, Kid Dynamite, Eulcid, Stephen Brodsky, Onelinedrawing, the Dillinger Escape Plan, Rocky Votolato, Homage to Catalonia, Last Days of April, Jane Speed, Bluebird, and Sharks Keep Moving. Contact Brian_SatelliteCity@hotmail.com for more info on how to support the scene.
The Suicide Machines, Poison the Well, and Catch 22 are going on tour. Aaron Icarus is way fucking pumped for this because he loves ska and moshing. He also likes when dudes touch his weiner.
1/22 Jacksonville Beach FL @ Freebird Cafe
1/23 Gainesville FL @ Market Street Pub
1/24 Orlando FL @ The Social
1/25 Fort Lauderdale FL @ Freez
1/26 St. Petersburg FL @ The State Theater
1/27 Tallahassee FL @ Cow Haus
1/29 New Orleans LA @ Shim Sham
1/31 Austin TX @ Emo’s
2/1 Dallas TX @ Galaxy Club
Weezer’s going out on a nationwide hunt for the perfect 13 year old Asian girl that’s boyish enough to be mistaken for Data from the Goonies. They’re taking Saves the Day, cause Rivers heard one of them is part Asian. If you’re into Lord of the Rings or illegal child porno, you should go to one of these shows, you’ll have a bomb time.
2/5 – Charlotte, NC @ Cricket Arena
2/7 – Rochester, NY @ Blue Cross Arena
2/8 – Lowell, MA @ Paul E. Tsongas Arena
2/9 – Wilkes-Barre, PA @ First Union Arena
2/11 – East Rutherford, NJ @ Continental Airlines Arena
2/12 – State College, PA @ Bryce Jordan Center
2/14 – Hamilton, ON @ Copps Coliseum
2/15 – Montreal, QC @ Molson Centre
2/21 – Nashville, TN @ Municipal Auditorium
2/22 – Raleigh, NC @ Entertainment & Sports Arena
2/24 – Tampa, FL @ Ice Palace
2/25 West Palm Beach, FL @ Mars Music Amphitheatre
Weezer also just put up their new website. Check it out at http://www.asianexxxtasy.com/. Also, they just said in the new AP that they are going to be more like Judas Priest. We’re guessing this means they aren’t gonna suck anymore and Rivers is finally coming out of the closet.
Har Mar Superstar has assured himself a nice toasty spot in hell. He’ll be opening for The Strokes on their next tour. Har Mar said that’s he’s gonna be getting a geri-curl especially for that tour. Sounds like he’ll fit in just fine.
Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s new album is coming out March 5th 2002. FREE ODB.
CMJ named Vagrant label of the year. We now name CMJ dipshits of the year.
Mark “the snake” Brickey formerly of The Enkindels moved to Buffalo, NY and started a new band with members from Buried Alive called “The Holy Angels”. Mark is still old and wack. http://www.theholyangels.com
Dan The Automator signed to MCA Records.
The Weakerthans will play 4 consecutive nights in February to celebrate their 5th anniversary. The bummer is you have to be in Canadia to see them, yep all the shows are in Winnipeg. No thanks.
Royal Albert: Feb 21
Pyramid:Feb 22
Wellington’s:Feb 23
West End Cultural Center: Feb 24
Cave In is going to on a tour of Europe because Stephen needs to update his shit porn collection and Adam can’t get enough of dutch hookers.
1/6 Germany Munster Gleis 22
1/7 Germany Bremen Schlachthof
1/8 Germany Hamburg Hafenklang
1/9 Germany Berlin Wild at Heart
1/10 Germany Monheim Sojus 7
1/11 Holland Rotterdam Waterfront
1/12 Belgium Kontich Lintfabriek
1/13 England Birmingham Capsule
1/14 England Glasgow 13thNote
1/15 England Leeds Josephs Well
1/16 England Derby Victoria In
1/17 England London Underworld
1/18 Belgium Hasselt Muziekodroom
1/19 Germany Osnabruck Ostbunker
1/20 Germany Saarbrucken Hellmut
1/21 Germany Munchen Backstage
1/22 Switzerland Wil Remise
1/23 Switzerland Geneva Usine
1/25 Spain Barcelona Razzmatazz
1/26 Spain Madrid Gruta 77
1/27 Spain Basque Cntry
1/28 France Toulouse LR
1/29 France Besancon Cylindre
1/20 Italy Pinarella di Cervia Rock Planet
1/31 Italy Ponderano Babylonia
2/1 France Paris La peche
2/2 Holland Tilburg 013-popcentre w/ quetzal
2/3 Holland Arnhem Goudvishal w/ quetzal
2/4 Holland Amsterdam OCCII w/ quetzal
Dylan Roadie (ex-Icarus Line roadie\metal head\Gabe from Murder City’s brother) and his butt buddy Frankie from a band called The Super Magnificent Action Trio who Frankie says is really good (we have no idea, he is too stoned to send us a demo) have been throwing what they call “the best parties in Seattle” lately. They live above a certain rock club and throw the after parties for the band’s they like (the anniversary/pretty girls/super magnificent action trio, ugly casanova/les savy fav/mars volta/international noise conspiracy/rival schools/the hives, and the next one is the ron jeremy show after party). All the parties begin at 2am and are some serious Boogie Nights type shit including a full bar, bartender, dance party dj’s, a disco ball, Dylan and Frankie dancing around in silver thongs, and a make-out room! You have to have an invitation to get in (and we’re not sure how you get one cuz well… we don’t live in Seattle), because if you don’t, the bouncer (Gabe from the Devils), will crush your head. Anyway, after the Death Cab For Cutie show a couple Fridays ago a nameless employee of Sub Pop got so crazyfaced drunk she barfed on the stairs and the carpet and ended up face first in her own puke. Later on that night she kept the party going by attempting to piss on Dylan’s record collection but failing and pissing all over the carpet, kitchen floor and Frankie’s shoes. And the fun didn’t stop there, she then plopped out a string of four turds in a straight line, sat in them and continued to fart. Sub Pop sure knows how to pick em.
Speaking of Seattle, the newest Seattle supergroup, Minus The Bear, is heading out on your soon. They feature members of Botch, Kill Sadie, and Sharks Keep Moving. Go to their show and tell Dave he’s un-bomb for pussing out on Aaron Icarus’s offer to kill random hookers the last time he was in town.
January 18 – Graceland – Seattle, WA.
January 19 – Blackbird – Portland, OR.
January 20 – Moxy’s – Chico, CA.
January 22 – Tremorz – Las Vegas, NV.
January 23 – Muse – Tucson, AZ.
January 24 – Casbah – San Diego, CA.
January 25 – Spaceland – Los Angeles, CA.
January 26 – Gypsy Lounge – Lake Forest, CA.
January 27 – Bottom of the Hill – San Francisco, CA.
