This Weekend's Gonna Be Tight!

So stoked!

The Czar is blowin' up!

Plus No Way Fest.

More info here and here.

Plus I'm psyched for this:

United Blood and No Way Fest

More info here.

More info here.

Death Pedal Trailer

DEATH PEDAL Trailer by Kareem Shehab from Killa Kareem on Vimeo.
Pretty sweet stuff. More here.

Anatomical Theatre

Spotted on The Trilogy Tapes. Pretty brutal.
More here.

Just thought I'd bring it back..

VICEGRIP

A close friend of mine wrote an awesome review for a mutual and great friend's band, Vicegrip, in the upcoming issue of RVA Magazine. All of the guys are really cool and I totally agree with Chandler, keep your eye on 'em!
Check 'em here and here and sneak-peak the review of their self-titled demo here.

Slaughterama 666!

12 days!
Spotted on the Cutthroats Blog.

I Love Harrisonburg!

I had a killer time in Harrisonburg this weekend for the Shamrock Alleycat on Friday, sponsored by Everyday Bikes!, a community bike project started by some people affiliated with New Community Project, Our Community Place, and others to "promote sustainable transportation, healthy living, and empower low-income people."

Jason and I teamed up against Harrisonburg's best and most colorfully dressed for a night of hills, 20° weather, and a scavenger hunt almost impossible to do drunk, and in the end got some pretty sweet prizes. Not knowing where the hell we were, and with no help from our friend George (jk, thanks Doomwizard!), we got the DFL prize: two Sparks, a mini bottle of whiskey, and a pair of toe straps. Wes got word of my fall, where I rode too close to some railroad tracks, and I was given the Best Crash prize, another Sparks, bottle of whiskey, and a pair of gloves.

Thanks Wes, Jeff, Everyday Bikes!, and everyone else involved in making this weekend so awesome!
Download a flyer for Everyday Bikes! here.

STILL waiting on a flyer or something from you, Wes!

Kids Behaving Badly

More info here.

Macrock Schedule

I'm kind of jealous I'm not going now..

Friday April 3

7:00pm - 12:00am @ Boys and Girls Club

7:00pm - 7:25pm Freedom Hawk
7:40pm - 8:05pm Forensics
8:20pm - 8:45pm InterArma
9:00pm - 9:20pm Music Hates You
9:40pm - 10:10pm A Cosmonaut’s Ruin
10:30pm - 11:00pm The Devil and The Sea
11:20pm - 12:00am Black Tusk

4:50pm - 11:50pm @ Blue Nile

4:50pm - 5:10pm Hail Hydra
5:30pm - 5:50pm Moutheater
6:10pm - 6:30pm Mouthbreather
6:50pm - 7:20pm Tideland
7:40pm - 8:10pm Pygmy Lush
8:30pm - 9:00pm Brainworms
9:20pm - 9:50pm Antlers
10:10pm - 10:50pm My Disco
11:10pm - 11:50pm Young Widows

5:00pm - 11:50pm @ Court Square Theater

5:00pm - 5:20pm Zac Hryciak and the Jungle Beats
5:30pm - 5:50pm American Tourist
6:10pm - 6:30pm Josh Small
6:50pm - 7:20pm Pree
7:40pm - 8:10pm Young Sinclairs
8:30pm - 9:00pm Accordian Death Squad
9:20pm - 9:50pm The Extraordinaires
10:10pm - 10:40pm Des Ark
11:00 - 11:50pm Bowerbirds

5:40pm - 12:00pm @ Clementine

4:50pm - 5:10pm TBA
5:30pm - 5:50pm Black & White Jenkins
6:10pm - 6:30pm The House Floor
6:50pm - 7:20pm New Rock Church of Fire
7:40pm - 8:10pm The Fordists
8:30pm - 9:00pm Edie Segdewick
9:20pm - 9:50pm Liquid Limbs
10:10pm - 10:50pm Fin Fang Foom
11:10pm - 12:00am Medications

8:00pm - 11:00pm @ The Little Grille

8:00pm - 8:30pm Vassar
8:50pm - 9:20pm The Brooms
9:40pm - 10:10pm Red Clay River
10:30pm - 11:00pm Foundations

Saturday, April 4

2:00pm - 6:00pm @ Artful Dodger

2:00pm - 2:20pm Invisible Hand
2:35pm - 2:55pm Whatever Brains
3:10pm - 3:35pm Monument
3:50pm - 4:10pm Pirouette
4:25pm - 5:00pm Algernon Cadwallader
5:20pm - 6:00pm Slingshot Dakota

5:00pm - 11:50pm @ Court Square Theater

5:00pm - 5:20pm Wild Animal Party
5:30pm - 5:50pm Moon High
6:10pm - 6:30pm The Cinnamon Band
6:50pm - 7:20pm Cinemasophia
7:40pm - 8:10pm MTSTMTN
8:30pm - 9:00pm Gifts From Enola
9:20pm - 9:50pm Power Pill Fist
10:10pm - 10:40pm Pattern is Movement
11:00pm - 11:50pm Cast Spells

3:30pm - 12:00am @ Blue Nile

3:30pm - 3:50pm Nervous Habits
4:05pm - 4:25pm Constrictor
4:40pm - 5:00pm Just Die!
5:15pm - 5:35pm Shards
5:50pm - 6:10pm The Guilt
6:25pm - 6:45pm No Excuses
7:00pm - 7:30pm Magrudergrind
7:45pm - 8:15pm Kingshead
8:30pm - 9:00pm Savage Land
9:15pm - 9:45pm Revenge Therapy
10:00pm - 10:30pm Black Teeth
10:45pm - 11:15pm Spanish Bombs
11:30pm - 12:00am End of a Year

4:50pm - 11:50pm @ Clementine

4:50pm - 5:10pm Elephant Child
5:30pm - 5:50pm Face Paint
6:10pm - 6:30pm Eternal Summers
6:50pm - 7:20pm The Super Vacations
7:40pm - 8:10pm Mas y Mas
8:30pm - 9:00pm Snack Truck
9:20pm - 9:50pm Ancient Sky
10:10pm - 10:40pm The Points
11:00pm - 11:50pm Obits

8:00pm - 11:00pm @ The Little Grille

8:00pm - 8:30pm The Great White Jenkins
8:50pm - 9:20pm Mild Winter
9:40pm - 10:10pm Little Ocean Boy (Nelly Kate)
10:30pm - 11:00pm Ô Paon (Geneviève Castrée)

More info here.

And for the Twitterers..?

Psyched!

Should be expecting this cutie from Pops (our mailman) sometime this week!

SW▲MPDONKEY on Flickr

Found this dude while searching for artists similar to Neck Face for a paper. Don't get me wrong, I love Neck Face as much as the next guy, but once I saw SWAMPDONKEY's stuff, I was pretty impressed. Not only is he a great graff artist, but I was blown away by some of the shots he gets with his whatever-the-hell medium format he has with him while train hopping from city to city. You know.. the life.




Flickr Photostream here and site here.

Macrock 2009!

Even though I'm not going because of the unfortunate overlap on the same weekend with Slaughterama, here's the (unofficial) line up for Macrock '09, Friday and Saturday, April 3rd and 4th!

Algernon Cadwallader
Ancient Sky
Antlers
Black Teeth
Black Tusk
Bowerbirds
Brainworms
Cast Spells (Dave of Maps and Atlases)
Des Ark
The Devil and The Sea
Edie Sedgwick
End of a Year
The Extraordinaires
Fin Fang Foom
Josh Small
Liquid Limbs
Medications
Music Hates You
My Disco
Obits
Pattern Is Movement
Power Pill Fist
The Points
Pygmy Lush
Rob Huddleston (of Ann Beretta)w/ the Foundation Band
Slingshot Dakota
Spanish Bombs
Tideland
Young Widows

More info here.

Amenra

Fucking awesome doom/sludge from Belgium.
Listen here and here. Download Mass III-II and Mass IIII here.

Thanks No Gods No Vegetables!

OMFGZBFDOCHO

More info here.

3 Weeks and Counting!

Psyched!

And don't forget!

Matt and Kim
Modern Bummer
Cubscount and the Rhinoceros
Andy and the Kid

Nothing for the Scavenger Hunters..?

Cyclus Bike Shop

Speaking of LBSs, check out Suzy and Brett's Cyclus Bike Shop, the only bike shop in Church Hill.
2709 East Marshall Street RVA
804 612 0968

More info here and here.

Bunny Hop!

..has got some sticker design winners!

Sage 1st

James Callahan 2nd

Owen Weeks 3rd

Congrats fellas!

DEATH BY BIKE FEST

Spotted (again) on the Cutthroats Blog.

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Schedule finally out!

Friday April 3 - Scavenger Hunt/Art Show Palletdrome

Saturday April 4 - Cycle Slaughterama Extravaganza Party

Sunday April 5 - Bike Polo Tournament

..with times and locations still TBA.

Spotted on the Cutthroats Blog.

Bad Acid

Just found these guys surfing the net looking for new music. Pretty cool stuff.

More info slash buy here.

What's Spring full of?

FUCKING SPRINTS AND ALLEYCATS!











..and still waiting on more info on the Harrisonburg Alleycat next weekend!

Delivery

A book called Delivery by Christopher Dilts of some sweet portraits from the 2008 North American Cycle Courier Championship.

Preview the book here.