I WANNA GO

Stoked on this right now. Awesome band, awesome people.

octshowber

Distort Fest 8

I recently listened to BLINK 182's first two demos, Flyswatter and Demo #2, respectively, for the very first time. Growing up in the mid-to-late '90s, I was exposed entirely to their MuchMusic era, and consequently associated their name with sickly mall-pop songs, videos of ultra clean mall-punks and the dull beige walled existence that was suburban Kelowna (and the mall). My mom bought me Take Off Your Pants  and Jacket for my 15th birthday and it took me at least 6 months before I got the name.

Then I moved into the Alf House, a crisp September in 2004, and met many amazing, inspiring people, one of whom was Miranda. We went out for breakfast, went cruising at the karaoke bar, started a band and wrote songs about beefing up and commuter cyclists, and at some point she got me back into Blink, and I heard Chesire Cat and Dude Ranch, for if not the first, then the most thorough time.

But the first two demos are pretty unique among it all. I'm not a gushing fan, but it's super shitty basement pop punk, just how I like it. Possibly a bit less drum heavy and more melodic than I likeit. It sounds like a band Miranda and I would  have started. Or any of us from that time in the mid-2000s. The ever arbitrary Golden Days.

I've been out of sorts lately, and I forgot that writing shit out is as much self-indulgence as it is self-care. So this is self-care. I feel like my values are falling away from me and being replaced with a brick foundation of indifference, drinking, smoking, stiff muscles and broken hearts. Dealing has turned into breaking down, talking about it has turned into pursed lip smiles, and being okay with it has turned into getting angry drunk. 

When does it fucking end? After 25 right? My 26th birthday will be a cold shower of clarity and understanding. Right? I fucking hope so.

But yeah, those first two demos are killin' it on my stereo right now.

Flyswatter

Demo #2

xolegs

ps. Come hang out with me on tour!

THURSDAY JULY 26TH 2012

Scream & Writhe

Not so new Vancouver Distro:

http://screamandwrithe.blogspot.ca/


Check it out!

SATURDAY JUNE 16TH 2012

<--HOOPSNAKE is also playing this show

TONIGHT!!!

WILD ASSUMPTIONS
(like CUB but from the Bay Area)
wildassumptions.bandcamp.com

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LOVE CUTS
(a lighter, northwest version of BRILLIANT COLORS)
lovecuts.bandcamp.com

LOOSE TIGHTS
(CUB and BRILLIANT COLORS live in a punk house, and CUB always wakes up first to make the coffee)
loosetights.bandcamp.com

WOOLWORM
(heavy WEAKERTHANS, with an early 2000s punk-alt-indie-triphop-dubstep-power-pop-jungle influence)
woolworm.bandcamp.com

@ THE ART BANK (victoria& powell)
Bands @ 7pm, musics over by 11pm!

THIS SHOW WILL START PROMPTLY AT 7PM. No punk time. If you show up at 10pm, you will miss 3/4 of the bands and I will still make you pay 5 dollars, and you will cry and cry but your teary eyes will meet the cold hardened stare of my unsympathetic face.
By Apple or by Casio, BE ON TIME.

SIREN SONGS

Better recordings up on the old bandcamperoo: http://sirensongs.bandcamp.com/

We are going on tour in August! Help us out if you can! More info here: http://sirensongs604.blogspot.com

MAY 18 360 GLEN

FRIDAY NIGHT

It is suuuuuper dead at work, and I figure I should do more than spend the evening hurling insults at my coworkers and eating muffins. I figured this was like productivity. And like productivity it what I like most.

Tomorrow night, May 4th 2012, HERMETIC  is having their LP release at the Artbank, which is a rad space in Vancouver and I am stoked they are doing shows there (most notably the upcoming WILD ASSUMPTIONS (bay area), LOVE CUTS, LOOSE TIGHTS show on May 31st, save the date!).

CHUNG ANTIQUE from Seattle is playing, along with MOVIELAND who are local, but I ain't heard either of em, show check 'em out and form your own opinion.

(Also, if you are reading this and you aren't from Vancouver, and haven't heard PAINTED YOUTH, you should check them out (pre-Hermetic, early 2000s delightful pop punk)


And if that ain't up your canal, you can swim on over to Iron Road, soak up the cigarette smoke, and have suuuuuper cool conversations. Oh yeah, and see HOOPSNAKE & CHAPEL. There are other bands but I ain't that inna them, but again, form your own, etc. The flyer kind of looks like an all-access pass to Ozzfest or something, but AT LEAST THERE IS A FLYER.




I am gonna try and do both. If anyone wants a show calendar for May and is going to be at either of these shows hit me up!

Up the fucking punks!

wednesday april 25th