Going to be out of town for a week, but very excited about the pending release of High Castle's debut EP! Paul Morgan just finished screening the two color covers and they look bonkers (good).
I'll be playing with my band KIT in Portland on July 4th with Jonny X and the Groadies and Thrones! Every July 4th JXATG plays a big birthday show, this will be our third time playing it and my 4th time attending! It's big 13 for them. Free show, 6 pm bbq, 8 pm show at Work/Sound 820 SE Alder.
Also we have a Discogs.com page and I'm selling our releases through that, plus some other distro items I have.
We're having a busy summer. The High Castle 12" should be ready after the July 4th weekend, but we're not even coming up for air cause I am going up to Anacortes for a week to record a KIT record and have something going on every waking moment before we leave. Here are a few places to see what we're up to:
First off, random art show: "You're All Over Living Me - A Group Show Inspired by Dinosaur Jr" organized by Dan Johnson
7-9:30 p.m. Fri. Through July 19.
Lake Gallery, 661 Divisadero St., S.F.
with peeps like Mark Whitely, Tomo, Alissa Anderson, Andrew Scott, and Rich Jacobs (and me).
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Then there's a free show on Monday at Toxic Beach/Tire Beach, on the new bus.
June 22 Monday. Raccoons Julianna Barwick (NY) Chen Santa Maria Hiss & Hum (Celine Dion 2013)
8 pm, donation
*23 book (Heartworm) $15
*ABE VIGODA - Reviver 12" (PPM) $12
*ABE VIGODA - Skeleton LP (PPM) $13
*ILYAS AHMED - Goner CD (Root Strata) $12
*BLANK DOGS - The Fields 12" (Woodsist) $12
*BLANK DOGS - The Fields cassette (Fuck It Tapes) $9
*BONE AWL - Night's Middle 7" (Nuclear War Now) $7
*BRILLIANT COLORS - Highly Evolved 7" (Captured Tracks) $6
*BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD - Preying In Circles CD (Root Strata) $12
*CACAW - Get A Brain LP+CD (Permanent) $17
*CAN'T - Private Time Part 2 LP (Weird Forest) $15
*CAREERERS - Those Who Don't Do Don't LP $12
*CHEN SANTA MARIA - Murked cassette $5
*CHEN SANTA MARIA AND LUUSE CDR $5
*COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER - Figs, Wasps, and Monotremes CD (Root Strata) $12
*CHRIS CORSANO/PAUL FLAHERTY/WALLY SHOUP - Bounced Check LP (Records) $14
*DEAD WESTERN 7" (Weird Forest) $5
*DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH WATER - The Tropics of Phenomenon CD (Freedom to Spend) $12
*EMACIATOR - Coveting LP (Not Not Fun) $15
*FAT DAY - Iguanadonaland LP (Spirit of Orr/100% Breakfast) $14
*FATHER MURPHY - Do the Sinister CD (Box 13) $12
*GROUPER - Wide LP (Weird Forest) $15
*NICK HENNIES - Paths CDR (Thor's Rubber Hammer) $7
*HIGH CASTLE CDR $5
*NADJA - Desire In Uneasiness CD (Crucial Blast) $10
*NUCLEARDEATHWISH cassette
*ERIC PAUL - I Offered Myself As The Sea book (Heartworm) $13
*BRUCE RUSSELL - Gilded Splinters CD (Spirit of Orr) $14
*SCARCITY OF TANKS - No Endowments LP (Total Life Society) $12
*SECRET ABUSE - Violent Narcissus LP (Not Not Fun) $14
*SEX VID - Communal Living LP (Dom America) $12
*SILK FLOWERS 7" (PPM) $6
*SOCIAL JUNK - Concussion Summer LP (Not Not Fun) $14
*STARVING WEIRDOS - Harry Smith LP (Root Strata) $16
*DAVID SCOTT STONE - Plays the Modular Synthesizer CD (PPM) $12
*TOTAL ABUSE LP (Deranged) $12
*U.S. GIRLS - Me and Yoko 7" (Not Not Fun) $6.50
On its way to production is the 7 song EP by High Castle, now given the official title "You're On Your Own Way" (Zum026). It's going to be a one-sided 12" done in time (fingers crossed) for their July West Coast tour. Check their myspace for tour dates.
Another project in the works is a CD release for Core of the Coalman. Jorge is living in Prague right now but when he was back in Oakland last summer his live sets were totally slaying, if you don't know his stuff, check out the End Grain/Spirograph CDR we put out in 2006 and/or read Foxy Digitalis' glowing review of said release. The viola and guitar-centric tracks here are compiled under the title "Box of the Last Help." Hope to get that one out before summer's done.
Pukekos blog by BJ Rubin posted the alternate versions of many of the songs from the "San Lorenzo's Blues" Nuzzle album. This is a rough mix from the sessions in 1996 that were intended as a demo for that eventual album, but captures the live band pretty accurately. I even found an old flyer I'd forgotten that I'd drawn scanned from Sam's archives... OutHud played this show too but must have been a late addition if they were left off my flyer.
sorry if you ordered something recently, I'm on tour till May 4th and will be able to process orders after that. We got in a recent batch of stuff from Weird Forest (Emeralds, Grouper, Dead Western, Can't vinyl), Bone Awl, Pig Heart Transplant, Brilliant Colors, Total Abuse, Sex Vid, Silentist, Scarcity of Tanks, Heartworm publishing (23 anthology, Eric Paul's book, Chris Leo), Careerers self-released LP edition of 100, and Abe Vigoda's "Reviver" EP. Peep most of it here or email me to get on the complete mailing list - georgeATzumonlineDOTcom.
In the meantime, I'm travelling on the west coast with my band Chen Santa Maria and Dan Friel (from the band Parts and Labor). We'll be joined on the Southern California tour dates with Erika M Anderson and the Some Dark Holler, which includes her sister Nicole, and who just opened for Throbbing Gristle in San Francisco.
Here are the dates! DAN FRIEL + CHEN SANTA MARIA TOUR WEST COAST
April 26th - Seattle, WA. The Josephine. with Totally Ripped, Sex Negatives, Arbitron, Redneck
April 27th - Portland, OR. Valentine's. with White Rainbow, Grandfather Claws
April 28th - Oakland, CA. Totally Intense Fractal Mind Gaze Hut. with Grouper, Date Palms DAN FRIEL + CHEN SANTA MARIA + ERIKA M. ANDERSON
April 29th - Irvine, CA. Acrobatics Everyday @ UC Irvine
April 30th - Los Angeles, CA. The Smell. with Lucky Dragons, The Finches
May 1st - Los Angeles, CA. Pehrspace. with Foot Village, Kill Kill Kill
May 2nd - San Francisco, CA. Oven51. with High Castle, Stamina Mantis, Pompoir
Child Abuse embark on an East Coast tour today, and Oran announced on Facebook that he's done with his memoir! Sounds like it'll be out in September.
Here are the Child Abuse tour dates:
Apr 5
Mercury Lounge w/ THE OH SEES, Z’s, SKELETONS Manhattan, New York
Apr 6
Talking Head Club w/popo, soft cement BALTIMORE, Maryland
Apr 7
HOUSE PARTY! w/BOYMEETSHERMAPHRODITE, SEINZUMTODE, Kottondik, Sphaghetti westerners COLUMBIA, South Carolina
Apr 8
the Pony Pen w/Cripple Wizard Savannah, Georgia
Apr 9
The Earl w/ FACEHUGGER and more ATLANTA, Georgia
Apr 10
Secret Squirrel w/ EL FOSSIL ATHENS, Georgia
Apr 11
Weird Wax w/ TELEPATHIK FRIEND JACKSONVILLE, Florida
Apr 12
Kellys Pub w/ INSECT JOY and FLEXXHAWKE TAMPA, Florida
Apr 13
4 Winds Cafe w/World Ying_Yang and Blue Tongue Sarasota, Florida
Apr 14
tba macon, Georgia
Apr 15
Warehouse on Little Hamilton w/the shit breather and Brain Wreck Nashville, Tennessee
Apr 16
tba blacksburg, Virginia
Apr 18
Showcase Lounge w/NORMAL LOVE, LITTLE WOMAN, BROWN WING OVERDRIVE PHILADEPHIA
Apr 23
Bruar Falls w/ EZEE TIGER (sf), BOLONGANI (sf) Brooklyn, New York
Apr 30
Coco66 w/ CHINESE STARS, PINK REASON, TWIN STUMPS brooklyn, New York
The Tunnel got a write up on Pitchfork's track reviews today...
Also, Scary Mansion is doing some shows in April in France! Check out their tour dates here. They've also got T shirts.
Really stoked, this turned out beautifully, manufactured via Pirates Press, three songs of epic piano-meets-blast beat monstrosity from Portland's Silentist, artwork by the Ripper. It's being sent out to distributors next week, but available in mailorder now!
Other new mailorder goodies from Nick Hennies of Weird Weeds, Fat Day, MV EE, Silk Flowers, Father Murphy, and KIT I started a Twitter if you care to follow...
Interview with High Castle by Chris Sabbath in the Guardian. We are getting the pieces together for this release.
Coming up more immediately is "The Tunnel" 7" EP from Silentist. This will be the first Silentist release that is not on Mark Burden's own Celestial Gang label. We have copies of their most recent full-length in our mailorder...
