The good news: the new Tiltwheel is out on CD. It's sounds great and the packaging looks amazing. Now the bad news: Due to forces out of our control we had to delay the release of the vinyl. Not to fear though, a new release date will soon be announced. Most of you have been waiting for over 10 years so what's a few more weeks. If it's just killing you and you can't wait then pick up the CD version.
TILTWHEEL "The High Hate Us" CD/LP
A virgin, a clown legacy, and a land surveyor walk into a bar...
The power of myths is that they couldn't have happened, but did. Charlton Heston, in Planet of the Apes, parted a sea, found New York destroyed, then cried. In Goonies, those kids found out that the true pirate treasure was the gold in one another's hearts. In Gremlins, if you eat and drink after midnight, you get cranky and tend to blackout after something's been smashed up-like a liver, a table, or a relationship. With Christmas, a fat man you don’t know but is awful friendly gives you a present you'd been praying for.
Some said it couldn't be done. That it’d never happen. It's been the better part of a decade since the last Tiltwheel full-length. If Dillinger Four had their Civil War, Tiltwheel was fighting their own personal Vietnam.
Go look in a mirror and point a finger at that. Is your shit ultra-tight? Is everything in order and makes sense? No fucking way. So why should anyone demand a group of dudes to perform on your tight-ass, time-as-cancer schedule?
Don't yell at glaciers to hurry up. Don't expect life to be anything less than full of injustice, bad decisions, bad health, unfairness, inequalities, and the death of friends.
Take time to savor a clear and honest DIY goodness. Eleven songs of pure dynamite, the type of dynamite that cleared the way for the Hoover Dam. And that's still generating power seventy-five years later.
RIYL: A world that without cops, whiskey in drinking fountains, twelve pack cartons used as slippers, Battalion Of Saints, Tanner, David Allan Coe, insomnia, the sound of laughter when asked "When's the next record coming out?", mowing a lawn when it doesn't need it, but your parents love that wheel pattern it leaves in the grass, when "socialism" means that Propagandhi's beer is everyone's beer, clowns doing cannon balls.
SHANGHAI RIVER, Binary Code Will Enslave All of Humankind: LP
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Wisdom has been passed over centuries from generation to generation using different devices. The ancient Sumerians wrote on papayas. The Romans used Claymation. Steve Guttenberg invented the first moveable type bible. Later that month, punk rockers made zines, where one sticks X-acto blades and rubber cement into a photocopier, then swears at it. Enter sage punk rocker Ben Snakepit: zinester, manager of the second largest video store in America, and now, for the very first time, lead singer/guitarist of his own band: Shanghai River. Roll out this tanning bed of knowledge, take off your clothes, and bask in Ben's good, old-fashioned stick-pin tattoo-style advice to live by: "If you don't make your own gasoline, that's not punk"; "Stop drinking when blood comes out of your butt"; and "No body wants to fuck you when you get too fat." The Socrates of the now-punks? Only time-and the beard growth-will tell.
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Previous/current bands: The Sword, Bloodbath And Beyond, J Church, Chicken Catchatory, Ghost Knife, Party Garbage
For fans of: Swiz, J.Church, Leatherface, TV Carnage, tattered, heart-felt vocals
Madison Bloodbath: Invert WWII propaganda into the woes of personal
relationships. Torpedoes sink battleships. of love. Loose lips reveal to the
enemy. er. ex-girlfriends who leak your secret infiltration plans,
dismantling your current boner. Madison Bloodbath are the exact middle
between having a righteous rainbow-filled tree air-freshener tattooed above
directly above one's butt and having a real job with benefits and paid
vacation time.
Sunnyside: Contemplate what to do with their lives after it's too late to
die young. After surviving the accidents and the surgical dismantling of
their lives called "their twenties in DIY punk bands," these San Diegans
negotiate legitimate mental illness and doing one's best to navigate through
the thorns and flat tires of life: The voices in your head that won't shut
up and the perfect poisons, prescribed and otherwise. Is your life
backfiring so bad the back of the muffler of all your ideals has blown off,
but you still believe in something. Sunnyside's smiling at you through that
haze.
For fans of: Low self esteem, pointing a bazooka of bad ideas at one own's
foot, but still not blowing one's foot off, dogged resilience, people with
tattoos that, if you squint, really tight look like it says "dumb,"
Tiltwheel, and continents where no one wears shirts or drinks light beer.
First Pressing - 500 pressed (250 purple 250 maroon)
The daves recorded 11 new songs at Atomic Audio in Tampa in May. The recordings will be the bulk of a new 13 song CD/LP titled "Weekend At Daves". The first 6 songs are posted on the bands facebook page of you want to check them out: DAVES SONGS
OTHER NEWS
STYMIE and UNFUN have recorded their tracks for an upcoming split seven inch. Look for that one to be out sometime in the fall. DUDE JAMS is finishing up a 10 song LP which almost took as long as the TILTWHEEL record to record. Also, somewhere out there Jesse Thorson is compiling all his greatest hits, and a few unreleased numbers, for the final anthology of THE FALLING ANGELS.
OUT NOW
SHANGHAI RIVER "Binary Code Will Enslave All Of Human Kind" LP
MADISON BLOODBATH / SUNNYSIDE split 7"
THE ANCHOR CD
TOO MANY DAVES / DUDE JAMS split 7"
TURKISH TECHNO / THE ANCHOR split 7"
THE DUKES OF HILLSBOROUGH "Generation Tinnitus" CD/LP
COMING SOON
TILTWHEEL "The High Hate Us" CD/LP
STYMIE / UNFUN split 7"
DUDE JAMS "How To Abuse Everything" LP
THE ANCHOR LP
PRETTY BOY THORSON "Let's Go Home" CD
