NEW TOM WAITS!

Go to hell if you are scratching your head.


Out October 25th this year! So stoked, what great news.

The legendary Tom Waits has released the first single from his forthcoming album, Bad As Me. Due out October 25, 2011, the record is his first collection of original material in seven years. The standard record will feature 13 songs and a deluxe version will include three bonus tracks and a 40 page book of lyrics and photos taken by Waits himself. It will also be available on 180 gram vinyl which will include the LP and CD, plus full-size 12-page book.

Pageninetynine Reunion

Here is the full live set from Best Friends Day in Richmond.

As Friends Rust... Recording?

Speaking of Damien Moyal, apparently his criminally underrated band As Friends Rust apparently has recorded some new songs. My jaw literally dropped when I heard this.

On Bodies...

Talk about a who's who of South Florida hardcore (minus a few other notable individuals), On Bodies is a new band that marks the return of the enigmatic and incredibly prolific Damien Moyal (As Friends Rust, Morning Again, Culture, Bird Of Ill Omen, Shai Hulud, Bridgeburne R, and a ton of others) back to the vocal fore of a hardcore band. The band is rounded out as well by Rich Thurston (Culture, Terror, and another whole batch of bands), Chad Kishick (Know The Score, Shai Hulud) and Julio Marin (Glasseater, Destro, Dance Floor Justice) and Chip Wahlbert (Where Fear And Weapons Meet, Destro, Dance Floor Justice, etc.).

Check out two of the 6 songs from their forthcoming EP below.

Planning For Burial Live Video

Planning For Burial played with Chelsea Wolfe and Cult of Youth this past Wednesday... Here is video from it.

Planning for Burial - Golden from (((unartig))) on Vimeo.

Check Out Sleep In

I was introduced to Sleep In via Enemies List last year, and seriously, this is awesome. Take a listen, and if you are so moved... download the album and throw him some money to keep making music.

Flowers Of St. Francis Volume I...

...is now up for order (the subscriptions to the series are all gone, but EL is offering all 5 individually). The brain child of Tim Macuga (Have A Nice Life), Flowers of ST Francis is another animal entirely apart from his other musical force.

Sprawling, claustrophobic, expansive, distorted, mangled, droning, recorded on an 8-track with an analog synth and a creaking old piano, Macuga has managed to craft a series of moving, intimate compositions that seem to crawl from the speakers.

This is music for music's sake - music made for those who truly appreciate and wish to experience music in its pure form. In other words, it ain't party music - it's the closest thing to classical we've ever released, if you can call stream-of-consciousness dronescapes and crackling, echoey organs, choirs, and disembodied fuzz classical. We can, and do. This shit is an experience like no other. I have literally never heard anything like this, and neither have you.

Part of a Super-limited series of 5 E.Ps. Cassette only. Features original artwork from illustrator Caralai Fitzgibbon. Check out more of her work here.

Order the cassette here