webstore update for you ... but first, some quick news:
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This will be NIGHT BIRDS' last live performance of the year, so tune in
and check it out! The set will be followed by an interview. You can
check out the full info at
has been officially announced! The fest
will take place once again in WASHINGTON DC next April. First round of
announced bands include INFEST, BOSTON STRANGLER, RIVAL MOB, BLOODKROW
BUTCHER, COKE BUST, CULO, VIOLENT REACTION, BARGE, MERCY KILLINGS, POST
TEENS, CLEAR, and More! There will be a few more to be announced, so
check out the
NEW WEBSTORE TITLES FOR 11.01.13:
HOAX "S/T" LP (HOAX)
"After a slew of well-regarded EPs, here's the debut LP from Hoax. Given
the meticulous presentation of their singles, it's unsurprising that
the band have taken the utmost care with every aspect of this record.
It's an LP in every sense of the word... fully-realized, subtly
expanding their sound while giving you everything you want from a Hoax
record. The recording is also probably the band's most powerful. Throw
in some amazingly complex packaging, including numerous full-sized
poster inserts by some of the best and most famous artists in punk, and
you have a serious contender for LP of the year. If you have any
interest in Hoax at all, then I highly suggest picking up this LP. " -
sorrystaterecords.com
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6294
RADIOACTIVITY "S/T" LP (DIRTNAP)
Radioactivity is a continuation of The Novice, Jeff Burke's band while
living in Japan. Jeff has since moved back to Texas, and out of respect
to the Japanese lineup of the band, has changed the name to
Radioactivity. Some of these songs are re-purposed Novice tracks, while
others are brand new. Jeff is one of the most distinctive songwriters in
the punk rock underground, and these songs will sound instantly
familiar to any fans of The Marked Men or Potential Johns. Band members
include Jeff Burke, Mark Ryan, and Gregory Rutherford, whose credits
read like an all-star lineup of Texas punk and garage rock royalty,
including members of The Marked Men, Mind Spiders, Bad Sports, Wax
Museums, The Reds, VIDEO, and The Novice.
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6293
BAD SPORTS "BRAS" LP (DIRTNAP)
Produced by the Marked Men's Mark Ryan and Jeff Burke, Bras is a major
departure from the '77 pop/punk feel of 2011's terrific Kings of the
Weekend. This time the band brings a tougher, harder-edged sound and
takes on a wider variety of musical styles. While still very much in the
classic vein of Texan garage/punk, Bad Sports are also bringing to mind
the heyday of New York City punk. With hints of Dead Boys snarl,
Dictators thump, and even some artier Lou Reed/Television leanings, this
record finds the trio refining its songwriting chops and rocking harder
than ever. The album's got a little bit of everything - from booming
Cheap Trick style power pop to straight-up catchy garage punk to grimy
proto-punk not far removed from Orville's other band OBN IIIs. And while
Bras builds on the foundation of previous records, quite frankly it
blows away anything else the band has done to date. Scorching tracks
like "Washed Up" and "Race To The Bottom" beg to be played at
obnoxiously loud volumes, while "Nothing In This World" might be the
best pop song you hear this year. Elsewhere, "Get You" and "Terrible
Place" manage to satisfy the fan base even as they push the band's sound
to the next level. Lots of bands pay lip service to the idea of
duplicating the energy of their live shows on record. Bad Sports have
gone out and done it! Turn it up!
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6292
MIND SPIDERS "INHUMANISTIC" LP (DIRTNAP)
Mind Spiders are back with their 3rd album in 3 years! Featuring a
streamlined lineup of Mark Ryan on vox/guitar/synth, Mike Throneberry on
drums, Daniel Fried on bass, Peter Salisbury on synth, Inhumanistic
finds the band going in a slightly more stripped down direction than
previous efforts. The album was written while messing around with
different drum machines, and while there is live drumming as well, drum
machines play a prominent role as well, which is partly why the record
is called Inhumanistic. The recording is very tight, direct, and almost
claustrophobic. Influences for this record include Devo's Freedom Of
Choice, Wall Of Voodoo and old horror movies (the songs Electric Things
is about the movie From Beyond, for example. Inhumantistic is Mind
Spiders catchiest, most direct and rockin' (although they also slow it
down a couple times, to great affect!) release yet! We've been cranking
out Mark Ryan related releases for almost a decade now, and have no
plans to slow down anytime soon!
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6291
RULETA RUSA "NO AQUI ES" LP (SORRY STATE)
Debut 12" from this San Francisco punk band that first caught my ear on
their split 7" with Mexico's Los Monjo. Like Los Monjo (and like singer
Jose's old band, Peligro Social), Ruleta Rusa take the big, anthemic
riffs of old Spanish punk like Eskorbuto and inject them with the wild
energy of 80s US hardcore, sealing the deal with a sprinkling of
infectious, rocked-out lead guitar. Whether they're bashing out an
upbeat singalong like "La Ley" or a darker, more downbeat song like the
title track, Ruleta Rusa fill every moment with maximum power and
energy. Recommended for punks who like punk.
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6289
JOINT D "SATAN IS REAL AGAIN, AGAIN" LP (SORRY STATE)
The new album from North Carolina's Joint D≠. This time around you can
expect the same virtuosic punk you got on their first record, but a
better recording (courtesy of Ryan Bell from Bukkake Boys) and a
particularly impressive vocal performance from Nick means the intensity
level is dialed up several notches. Few other modern punk bands can so
successfully combine the fury of raw hardcore and the subtle melodies of
more progressive punk bands, but Joint D≠ have done it again.
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6290
SWARM, THE "PARASITIC SKIES" LP (NO IDEA)
"Take LEFT FOR DEAD and ACRID and put them in a dependable blender. Set
on "Frappe". Total hardcore destruction! Straight Edge Power Violence
for the whole family!" THE SWARM is a raging maelstrom of total hardcore
destruction! Straight Edge Power Violence for the whole family! Formed
from the ashes of LEFT FOR DEAD and ACRID, Chis Colohan (vocals)
continued on with RUINATION, CURSED, and now BURNING LOVE.
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6288
CLEVELAND BOUND DEATH SENTENCE "S/T" LP (NO IDEA)
"Bands are like romances: when you first get together you don’t know if
it will last years or just one night. What seems like a great prospect
may prove to be a total disaster, and what begins as a messy mistake may
end up with a mortgage and kids.That was the scene in the summer of ’97
when I called up Paddy to see if he’d be interested in starting
something new. A mutual fondness had developed between us on trips I’d
done with his band, Dillinger Four. I’d roadied for them and played in a
band they were touring with. But Paddy and I hadn’t made music
together—yet. Cleveland Bound Death Sentence was plagued by annoying
tags like “recording project” or “supergroup” right out the gate. Sure,
all the members carried baggage as well as influences from the people
we’d been with before (among them: Pinhead Gunpowder, Oswald Armageddon,
and the Salteens). But why dwell in the past—or predict what might come
from a fresh start? CBDS began organically, with songs and friends,
like everything good does, and we took it from there. Paddy was borrowed
and I was blue, so we brought in Spitball (old) and Emily (new). The
songs were the same mix: some that had been kicking around for years and
others we pulled out of thin air. We sweated and screamed every night
in the basement, and Spitball recorded it all on his broken 8-track.
When we were done, THD Records offered to release the results as a 7”.
We split up and went our separate ways, but the next spring we were
making noise again, and THD released a second EP.What it might have led
to, I can’t say. Perhaps our passion was spent, or maybe another reunion
was imminent. Before we had a chance, Spitball was sent up the river on
a Federal drug charge. Calling his studio “the Methlab” might have been
a bad idea after all. He’s been in prison ever since—eleven years!
Lookout Records released a posthumous Cleveland Bound Death Sentence CD,
but it soon went out of print, as did the original 7”s. Now finally the
band’s complete recordings will be available again— on vinyl, and on No
Idea, where they belong. Hopefully in a few years CBDS will be playing
again. In the meantime, Spitball sits in the pen with a radio tuned to
the college station a hundred miles away. Every once in a while a
familiar song comes on. “Hey guys,” he says, “that’s my band!” Thanks
for listening." —Aaron Cometbus
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6287
SPINE / THE REPOS - SPLIT 7" (BAD TEETH)
It's finally here. Straight from the Kansas City Barbecue Society is
SPINE on the A side, Chicago legends from the nuthouse THE REPOS on Side
B. This is the record of the summer you've all been waiting for...both
bands bust out some of their best material on this slab and it fucking
kills. Not your average boring split record with a few minutes of
throwaway material that didn't make it onto a better album. This is an
album in itself and you need it.
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6284
HARD SKIN "WE ARE THE WANKERS" 7" (1234 GO)
A fresh bit of dross and a some old toss from the UK's number one band!
Featuring "We Are The Wankers", "Two Bob Cunt" (previously unheard
alternate version) and "Fuck It" (previously unreleased). Oi! Oi!
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6286
THE #1's "SHARON" 7" (SORRY STATE)
Second single from Dublin, Ireland's mighty The #1s. Power-pop is a
genre plagued by weak bar bands trying to cross-market their shlock to
punks and/or hacks who couldn't write a great hook to save their lives,
but The #1s pull off the near-impossible feat of combining explosive
punk energy with the catchiest choruses this side of your local golden
oldies radio station. You could file this next to your Protex,
Undertones, and Exploding Hearts records (yes, it really is that good),
but why file it at all when you could just let this glorious slice of
pop perfection live on your turntable for the foreseeable future?
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6285
TENEMENT / SCREAMING FEMALES - SPLIT 7" (RECESS)
We met Screamales a long time ago during their first trip to California.
When they recall the story it's just me watching them play while all
the other show attendees were outside bbq'ing. I'm pretty sure there
were others watching them but I wouldn't know. I ate a special cookie
that day and was zoning in on how many pedals the guitar player was
setting up. Every time I see that happening with a band, whom I don't
know, I always think "Ok they're gonna suck". But the cookie kept me
inside waiting for them to play. Half positivity, half too fuckin
freaked to go outside where anything could happen. Then the band just
exploded into their set. I had to pick my jaw up off the floor, wipe
tears off my face,and ask myself tons of questions before I realized
what was going on. Tenement's "Napalm Dream" album is on heavy rotation
here at Recess. I hate using other bands as references but I wouldn't
be going out on a limb if I said that if you like Superchunk you will
not hate this. But I won't say that. If I do Stevo will call me out on
Punknews or something. If this is considered "pop-punk" then you are
all in luck. You no longer have to listen to our contemporaries shovel
out the watered down red punch that's nothing better than a 5000 times
xeroxed Blink 182. Go ahead and purge! Your hair was in the
toilet...DISGUSTING! Feel better? Ok. There's no pretentiousness with
this band. The real deal is here. It's your choice to climb aboard or
not. You will no longer have an itch to vomit in the back of your mind
no more. Sadly enough if Tenement goes to a city like say, LA, I'll have
fingers leftover when counting the people who'd care. Is that
Tenement's fault? Hell no! That is a big compliment in my book. If
Wisconsin was already a great state, Tenement make it even better! Sorry
for the geography, but it will make you buy this record right? " -Todd
C.
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6283
NUTS ZINE - ISSUE #12
Second NYC-centric newsprint blast from the continually excellent NUTS!
fanzine. This new issue features exclusive interviews with PHARMAKON,
DAWN OF HUMANS, and NOMAD. You also get "NY Rippers '79 punk special"
with Spoiler/Omegas, reviews, full page spreads from several NYC
artists, and quite possibly the best of all, a full-size poster of Emil
from DAWN OF HUMANS. NUTS! #12 might just be the best one yet!
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6277
GENOCIDE PACT - DEMO TAPE
A bushel of discontent slammed into a slow cooker and reduced to a grimy
ooze of repulsive beats and rhythms only before seen in the paradise
that is riff hell. Four tracks of tardy-inspired death metal from DC.
100 cassettes on Malokul. Vinyl pressing in the works for their winter
tour.
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6282
SMARTSAM UTLOSNING - DEMO TAPE
The SMÄRTSAM UTLÖSNING demo is an international effort from members of
Uppsala, Sweden's Agent Attitude and two members of DC's Coke Bust.
These five songs pay homage to the members' favorite past and present
Swedish d-beat hardcore bands a la Herätys, Totalitär, Dismachine and
Mob47 while still maintaining its own flavor. Recorded live in a
practice room with a couple of mics, th production is raw in a way that
compliments the syle and brings out the intensity. The demo includes a
double-sided lyric insert for English-speakers who cannot read the
Swedish text. The creepy, desolate lyrics were too good not to
translate.
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6281
NANCY - DEMO TAPE (EAT THE LIFE)
Here's eight super amazing bangers by NY's NANCY. These are a few dudes
who have great taste in music and it shows through this tape. This tape
is, should we say...perfect? If catchy isn't the word, I don't know what
is because these lyrics and tunes will be on repeat in your head all
day. Lets simply say there is some influence from THE JABBERS here. If I
didn't know they were from here and now, I'd believe this was a
re-issue of some old '77 group. It can't be stressed enough, G E T T H
I S.
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6280
THUMBSUCKERS "BABY IM JUST A THUMBSUCKER" TAPE (EAT THE LIFE)
Some new hardcore punk from the ChiZona. Six tracks that are short and
upbeat. Buzzy and hollow guitar tone, slightly melodic, fucking crazy.
Check these bubuppis out!
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6278
BOX HUNDREDS - DEMO TAPE (EAT THE LIFE)
This is a little off radar compared to the rest of our releases, but
that don't mean shit. BOX HUNDREDS from Albany, NY play a style of music
highly influenced by shoegaze. They kind of remind me of WEED HOUNDS,
but longer songs and cool freakouts. Even though this is a demo, the
recordings are solid. Make this the new soundtrack to your next zine
making project or trip out with your lover.
http://www.gravemistakerecords.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6279
RESTOCKS 11.01.13:
CAREER SUICIDE - CHERRY BEACH 7"
QUANGO - FATALITY 7"
PSYCHED TO DIE - SCATTER BRAINED 7"
SPINE - SUBHUMAN 7"
TWERPS - BLOODSPIT BOYS 7"
IRON LUNG - WHITE GLOVE TEST LP
QUEERS, THE - DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT LP
V/A - SOMEONE GOT THEIR HEAD KICKED IN LP
YOUTH BRIGADE - SOUND AND FURY LP
ATTITUDE ERA - DEMO TAPE
DOWN AND OUT ZINE - ISSUE #26
