All Teeth and Knuckles - Club Hits To Hit The Clubs With
Written by Aaron Cynic
(Lujo Records CD)
If I was slightly hipper, had better hair, wore tighter pants, or did coke - I'd probably be more into All Teeth and Knuckles than I am. Club Hits To Hit The Clubs With is a non stop hipster dance party, with plenty of inside jokes about San Fransisco and the electro dance scene I can't begin to pretend I understand.
Work sucks. We sell pieces of our lives away in order to get by in the world. Lee spends 10 hours a day doing some kind of mind numbing labor, dealing with idiot bosses, ridiculous company motivational seminars, weird co-workers, and crappy hours. Some people like to throw wrenches into the gears of work, some people just generally *are* wrenches. Lee is a wrench in the gears that keep the wheels of capitalism grinding.
You love going to shows, but you've realized that there just aren't enough in your city. There's not enough venues, not enough bands, not enough kids, the current venues that people use suck, the bands suck, the kids suck, whatever. There's always something wrong with anyone's local music "scene." Chances are, yours is no different than mine. What should you do about it aside from complain on message boards and in zines? If you're adventurous enough, you might consider throwing your own hat into the ring.
Throwing a show in any music scene (be it hardcore, punk, frat rock, hip hop, metal, folk, or a mixture of all of the above) is an arduous task. Each music genre can present its own specific pitfalls. I've been booking and promoting shows on again/off again for the better part of 12 years now. Most of the shows I've thrown have been punk, hardcore, or metal shows, but I'm going to try to make this as general as possible.
Keep in mind that many of these things will happen concurrently and you're going to have many things to manage. I'm going to try to break things down as step by step as possible, but chances are you're going to be juggling dates, bands, and venues at the same time. Write everything down! Make sure you've got phone numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, a calendar, and anything else you think is useful handy. Write down potential dates, venues, bands, helpful friends, and anything else you might think will be helpful.
Someday, I'll compile the greatest book about touring locations off the beaten path, simply by reprinting zines like this. Geneva13 isn't really a zine about what you'll find if you visit Geneva (Geneva New York, that is), but instead about the varied authors views from inside the city of Geneva. To borrow from the opening piece, this zine is about each contributor's "local."
Uncle Sam really wants to get to get to know today's kids. Millennials (or Generation Y, the Internet Generation, etc) are an "alien life force," according to a recent PowerPoint presentation delivered at the Navy's Annual Workforce Research and Analysis Conference. While the presentation delivers plenty of ironic comedy, it also does a great job of showing just how out of touch generations are with each other and with the world at large.
Written by Alexis Stewart (Rhododendron Reader) on October 1, 2007
There?s a magical moment once a year in West Virginia, a holiday where the world is at peace and children dance and unicorns swoop out of the sky with free candy. This happiest of days celebrates the return of our poet laureate Hank III.
Hank III loves West Virginia, and while it?s definitely a source of pride, it?s also a bit confusing. After all, we did kill his grandpa (who, rumor has it, was pretty fond of the state himself). Not only that, but he also lovingly regards our wackiest internationally known family the Boone Country Whites. Doesn?t ring a bell? What about the Dancing Outlaw? Ah, now I?ve got your attention.
Went back to revisit Pressed Between the Pages #2 as I'm working on the upcoming third issue. Found I still really connected with some of the pieces in there and decided to read the opening piece, "the neverending story", on video for my friend Melissa.
SKA House meets the Green Fairy
Written by Alexis Stewart (Rhododendron Reader) on July 26, 2007
SKA House was gearing up for its St. Patty’s Day kegger. Okay, technically it wasn’t a kegger, since (A) we didn’t have enough people we’d actually want to spend an evening with to constitute buying a single keg, let alone several (B) none of us really liked beer. Instead, to make the evening more magical, Sluggy and I decided to make absinthe.
Lack of rain in Southeast affects crops, Paris Hilton.
Less rain means fewer peaches from Georgia and it is very possible Paris Hilton will have to pay more for peach jam this coming fall. Not that Paris Hilton needs to shop for food or even has to spread jam all by herself on the toast, but we will follow this story closely as it develops.
Hurricane Season Expected "To be highly active"
A couple of weather experts and storm watchers predict that the 2007 hurricane season will be "really interesting" with lots of destroyed homes, downed trees and footage of the ever popular "boat-tossed-by-storm-onto-the-highway." There will be a couple of deaths, a story of a dog or cat which miraculously survived and several stories of people too stupid to know any better hoping to "rebuild their community even stronger than before."
So it will be pretty much like an evening with Paris Hilton.
