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December 15, 2009

Mincemeat Or Tenspeed - West Coast January

Also Pitchfork today rated Strange Gods with a 7 score
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13777-strange-gods/

more to come:

Friday January 22 :
Neon Hates You / Smell Anniversary Fest
Robin Williams On Fire
Mincemeat Or Tenspeed
Realicide
Simo Soo (from Australia)
at The Smell, Los Angeles

Jan 26
21 Grand, Oakland
Club Sandwich presents
Nero's Day At Disneyland
Hawnay Troof
Mincemeat Or Tenspeed
Teengirl Fantasy

January 28th
The Stud Bar, San Francisco
Strip Mall Seizures
High Castle
Mincemeat Or Tenspeed
Zoo
21+

January 29th
Funcastle, Sacramento - 2309 L St.
Nero's Day At Disneyland
Mincemeat Or Tenspeed
Mucky The Ducky
early 8-10 pm show

Jan 30th
830 58th St, Oakland
Realicide
Mincemeat Or Tenspeed
Swanifant
Birth

Posted by George

November 10, 2009

Thrasher reviews High Castle

"The new High Castle 12" EP is pretty brutal throughout, metal and HC tinged, but it still finds these weird little spazzy, jazzy grooves in spots. Maybe it's art rock? Whatever you want to call it, it's geting some turntable time, and with a song titled 'Are Fixed Gear Tricksters the New Rollerbladers?' I think you get an idea where they stand. It's on Zum Records, and I think it's the band's debut." -THRASHER

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October 15, 2009

Givin' it away - empee free

this link expires at 100 downloads OR by Tuesday the 20th of October, whichever comes first. AND the file folder might look wonky if you are not a Mac user - but it shouldn't impede you from being able to listen to anything here. Zum2009Sampler.zip Size: 54690 KB mp3s included in said download: Abe Vigoda The Intima Silentist Scary Mansion Sea Scouts Boxleitner Mincemeat Or Tenspeed Nuzzle Songs:Ohia Zs Weird Weeds The Lowdown Beans (Jim Routhier remix) High Castle

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September 21, 2009

new podcast up

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September 2, 2009

Long Past Stopping

Oran from Child Abuse is promoting his memoir which is just coming out. This video he made explains things better than we can! Check it out...

Posted by George

August 13, 2009

and we're back

What a mega two weeks it's been. I played some shows in NY with Common Eider King Eider, playing with Bird Show and U.S. Girls, Jack Rose, and Tom Carter, played in a duo with Warren Ng (This Invitation), had a blast in Philly with Ben Peterson and Mincemeat or Tenspeed and Social Junk. There was a total SF/Brooklyn expat show at Silent Barn with Eats Tapes, Child Abuse, MNDR, and new friends from Chicago Ga'an. To top it off, me and 199 other guitarists (and 16 bassists) played in Rhys Chatham's "Crimson Grail" for free outdoors at Lincoln Center.
Well. it's back to the grind for us! But it's not really a chore when you're working on projects that are as exciting as our next two releases - Core of the Coalman's Box of the Last Help (zum027) is a viola-loop extravaganza conjuring up Steve Reich and Tony Conrad - old school meets new. Also just cemented and hopefully done in time for his tour with Social Junk, David Harms aka Mincemeat Or Tenspeed is co-releasing his first manufactured CD (as opposed to the 12"s and CDRs he's already got out in the world) Stange Gods with us (zum028). We're also still working out what The Urxed is gonna do with us, but in the mean time Rob Barber has put out some tracks on Chris Duncan's Hot and Cold zine's final issue.
Of course, the ink is not even dried on the glowing screens that have been pumping up High Castle's debut 12" You're On Your Own Way (zum026), which has gotten praise from Pitchfork, Impose, and Built On A Weak Spot. Here's the Pitchfork review, which gave it more points than the new Jay-Z (7):
High Castle's debut EP is an exercise in brevity-- one side, seven songs, and 12 minutes worth of tribal, frantic post-punk. Keeping things short allows the California trio to pound away without risking tedium, more often than not leaving you wanting more. And despite the band's love of repetition, they pack a decent bit of variety into tiny spaces. "Filth" is literally crammed, with different lyrics howled by two overlapping vocalists, so the words actually take longer to read on paper than they do to sing. What exactly the group is singing about isn't clear, but it's something ugly-- dogs ruling the earth, trash piled to the sun, filth which "accumulates disease of squalor." The meaning may lie more in the sound than the sense, as the band's mash of Lightning Bolt speed, Boredoms dementia, and Black Eyes shout make it all seem like a pretty big emergency. Maybe that's why they're in such a hurry to get things over with, but "Filth"'s spilling energy also suggests High Castle have a lot more of these blasts in store. - Marc Masters

Posted by George

July 28, 2009

George on "tour" through Aug 10

So I will be out of town between tonight and August 10th, so mailorder won't be fulfilled until I return, but you can order from the Bigcartel shop or my discogs page if you don't mind waiting.
In the meantime, NY friends and Philly folk can catch up with me at these events (well, maybe not at the last one!)

July 30th Thursday
Next Year's Models at X Initiative
548 West 22nd St NY, NY 10011
Film and music
Chris Marker's Bestiary
Vito Acconci's Zone
Ken Jacobs' Disorient Express live music by Common Eider, King Eider
John Baldessari's Baldessari Sings Lewitt
Carolee Schneemann's Fuses live music by Bird Show

FREE!

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Aug 1 Saturday
Bruar Falls 245 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY 11211
Jack Rose
Common Eider, King Eider
Tom Carter
U.S. Girls
$9
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Aug 2 Sunday
Death By Audio 49 S. 2nd, Brooklyn, NY 11211 nr. Wythe Ave
Necking
George Chen w/ Warren Ng
Mi Or And the Pedestals
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Monday Aug 3
Copy Gallery
319 N 11th St Philadelphia, PA

Social Junk
Mincemeat or Tenspeed
George Chen
Hunter Stabler
hosted by Ben Peterson

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Friday August 7th @ SILENT BARN
:: UPSTAIRS
:: Child Abuse
:::: Harry Merry
:::::: Ga'an —– mems Coughs
:: DOWNSTAIRS
:: Eats Tapes
:: MNDR
:: dj George Chen
:: PROJECTION ART BY: Nate Boyce

915 Wyckoff Ave @ Weirfield | Ridgewood, Qns M-Myrtle/Wyckoff, L-Halsey| 8pm | all ages
------------------------ Sat Aug 8
Rhys Chatham Crimson Grail
7:30 pm Free Damrosch Park Bandshell

Presented in collaboration with Wordless Music. Commissioned by Lincoln Center for Lincoln Center Out of Doors.

Posted by George

July 14, 2009

High Castle record release

"You're On Your Own Way" 12" EP record release tonight (Tues July 14th) at the Hemlock Tavern in SF! 21+ up. See you there!

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June 30, 2009

how to play guitar

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June 27, 2009

Mailorder closed 6/27-7/5

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.

Posted by George

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