8-8-08 88 BOADRUM LA (Photos and Videos)

I had the privilege of going to the 88 Boadrum in LA at the La Brea Tar pits. I got there about 3 hours early and was able to screen print my own Nike branded 88 Boadrum tee. After the tee was done I went and sat down next to drummer 88 (Zach Hill) about 10 minutes before 8:08pm when the show started. The Boredoms led by Yamantaka Eyes started by having everyone ride their cymbals for about 15 minutes till loud and slow tribal beats took over the cymbals. Yamantaka Eye led the charge by pounding his 7 neck guitar setup and since I was next to Zach Hill (who I am convinced was the loudest drummer there) I heard the 88 boadrum performed by mostly Zach Hill. He was improvising his own Hella-like beats every 20 seconds and proved to anyone within a 50 ft. radius that he was the best drummer there. The show ended 88 minutes after it started the same way it began with everyone riding their cymbals. It was one of the best shows I have been to in a while and surely a experience I will not forget.









Future Nike ad?




Cute photo of me and Zach.


This is near the end of the set at about the 60 minute mark.

This is how the show ended with the spiral of drummers standing and hitting their cymbals.

Peter Beste (Black Metal Photography)

I don't know how this dude did it, but he managed to live and take photos with some of the most messed up people around for 7 years!






Check out his website.
http://www.peterbeste.com/news.html
Buy his book!
http://www.amazon.com/Norwegian-Black-Metal-Peter-Beste/dp/1576874354/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209761671&sr=8-1

Here is a little documentary he helped with. VBS.tv tries to tap into Ghaal of Gorgoroth:
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5


Brutal huh?

Buzz Cuts!

Disc 1
01 Kryptonite | Three Doors Down
02 Fat Lip | Sum 41
03 I Miss You | Blink 182
04 Blurry | Puddle Of Mud
05 I'd Do Anything | Simple Plan
06 Celebrity Skin | Hole
07 Sour Girl | Stone Temple Pilots
08 Last Resort | Papa Roach
09 Running Away | Hoobastank
10 Hangingaround | Counting Crows
11 Lakini's Juice | Live
12 Hanging By A Moment | Lifehouse
13 The Way | Fastball
14 What It Is To Burn | Finch
15 The Chemicals Between Us | Bush
16 Smooth Criminal | Alient Ant Farm

Disc 2
01 Higher | Creed
02 Meant To Live | Switch
03 Butterfly | Crazytown
04 Hemorrhage (In My Hands) | Fuel
05 My Own Worst Enemy | Lit
06 I Will Buy You A New Life | Everclear
07 Amber | 311
08 Somewhere Out There | Our Lady Peace
09 Bodies | Drowning Pool
10 I Hate Everything About You | Three Days Grace
11 Inside Out | Eve 6
12 Send The Pain Below | Chevelle
13 Wherever You Will Go | The Calling
14 Fly | Sugar Ray f/Supercat

Just watch the Commercial.

I have been blasting this for the last month at work as a joke that was kind of serious. Anyways, It's the most brutal double lp I have heard.
After one month of constant play I am thinking about suicide.

No need to support this one.
Just download it and get sucked into its hypnotic trance.

Disc 1 http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yil9itnvhlh
Disc 2 http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yjciy4xbf4m

OOP Post #1

Magic Lantern

At the Mountains of Madness

NNF103—CS

Plenty of cacophony comes crawling outta the NNF mailbox/inbox on a daily basis, but it’s been a spell since an hourglass of holy din has caught us captive quite the way Magic Lantern’s tape has. This LBC guru posse formed last year but only began laying down live sets in the last four months, and the evolution is radical. The A side shockwave, “At the Mountains of Madness,” rides a roiling riff through forcefields of charged tones, percussion concussion, and collective overdrive before slowly ramping up and over drug-rock repetition into raw light cone rapture. A perfect cyclone of basement storm and interstellar Hawkwind, and a real contender for CS single of ’07 in our book. The live B piece shows a looser slice of psychic youth, all amplifier wash and blissed waves of Bardo comedown…like a teenage Taj Mahal Travellers bootleg. Illuminating. Keep yr eyes peeled for more ML signal flares on NNF in the future. Stenciled tape-labeled tapes with full-color fire-dancer J-cards in gold-flecked cases embellished with jewels. Edition of 100.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?remmyu1mimx


Barn Owl

Bridge to the Clouds

NNF104—CDR

A couple months ago this subtle San Fran three-piece rolled into the local CURIO for a low-key night and fucked everybody up. No one saw it coming. Their Digitalis debut was great – a warm wooden walkabout of six-string finger-dancing and acoustic themes – but it seemed a bit squarely/safely in post-Chasny territory, so no one freaked. Well apparently they’ve since relocated to a darker oaken throne, cause the LA show was a Sabbathy campfire of pentagram bass grooves, eloquent electric desolation, and stripped war drums. Music for dying in the desert to. Bridge to the Clouds was the tour CDR they were slinging on the trek, and though it’s not as purely psychedelic and forsaken as their live incarnation, it does serve as a powerful pathway to the present…hovering above Barn Owl’s earlier earth-bound Evan Miller mode with foreshadowing flashes of future shamanic doom alchemy. An NNF full-length is in the works, and we can’t wait. Stamped CDRs in silkscreened, spray-painted, gold leaf stamped arigato paks wrapped with rainbow ribbon. Edition of 147.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zj9xk7dmifu


Pocahaunted/
Orphan Fairytale

Release the Bats #027—7"

"One track each from Pocahaunted (California) and Orphan Fairytale (Belgium). Pocahaunted has been real busy the last year: opening for Sonic Youth, several collaborations with Robedoor, tape/cd-r releases on Not Not Fun, Arbor, Fuck It Tapes etc, split LPs with Christina Carter and Mythical Beast... and yeah, we could go on forever (and mention the 2 new vinyl albums on Arbor and Woodsist that are being released at the same time as this 7"...)! Here Amanda and Bethany gives us "Warpaint," another dubbed-out and almost heavy lo-fi anthem with that always so special and unique Pocahaunted vibe. The discography of Orphan Fairytale, the solo moniker of Eva Van Deuren, mainly consists of very limited tape and cd-r releases so far, with the only previous vinyl output being an amazing collaboration LP with Mudboy. Live actions includes a performance at No Fun Fest 2007 and a set that took place inside of a container. Here she continues with her haunting and always captivating and melodic keyboard hymns. "Made By Mermaids" is a trip in the ocean gone bad. Limited to 500 copies. Full colour labels, yellow big-hole sleeves with design and screenprint (in glowing red) by RTB-sidekick HLG."
--Release the Bats
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2ymjm9jh11w

Origins of Town Hag (SWORD HEAVEN)

This post probably should have been first, but I am lazy and forgetful.

The title of the blog comes from the most brutal song to ever fall upon my ears
and the most brutal live band I have ever seen or heard!
SWORD HEAVEN

Here is the song---Town Hag
http://www.mediafire.com/?xfrwxzonlny

Band Site: http://www.myspace.com/swordheaven

5-20-08 Magic Lantern / Pocahaunted

5-20-08 David Scott Stone - Bobb Bruno - DARYLALEXANDER - Magic Lantern - Pocahaunted +1(Short)Video


David Scott Stone
Davids set was killer. I don't know the guys name that played with him.(help anyone?) It was very song based. David played his usual dancy jams, but the other dude played some super drawn out romantic(?) piano riffs, while some spoken word stuff was being played via record player in the background.


Bobb Bruno
Bobb ruled as usual. He is starting to become a good mashup dj playing his own jams.(Go Figure)
He went from some dark sludge riffs, to the beautiful and mellow "night lights", to some crunk jams with metal (Bobb) beats.


DARYLALEXANDER
I loved the drummer, but something just didn't feel right about the band in the traditional concert venue.(???)


Magic Lantern
The Lantern absolutely annihilated the show! The sound guy nailed the bands sound and helped them create their kraut/psych rock explosion.
(It was my first time seeing them outside of the Curio in a legit venue)
Go see them when you get a chance!
(Thank you for playing at the mtns and not ending it early! it made the set perfect!!!)




Pocahaunted
First time I have seen the girls in a few months.(its a long time for me)
The ever-changing lineup was Bethany on guitar and Vocals, Amanda on Vocals, Bobb on drums, Britt on guitar #2, and ? on bass.
They started with the usual beautiful phaunt jam,
then Bobb and the bass dude(insert name?) turned it into a punk jam?
(haha [don't believe me, check the video!] )
None the less, I loved it and can't wait to see them again on Friday.


VIDEO CLIP

Pocahaunted Clip 5-20 ECHO
Uploaded by townhag