by Bitterboxcar
Download: Exclaim - "The Weight" [MP3]
Download: Exclaim - "Throw Into Disorder" [MP3]
Today I have an appointment with a dentist. I am not a dentist fan. I'm not even a fan of a dentist fan, so to ease my nerves I've turned up a little band called Exclaim. These dudes actually calm me down, believe it or not, and maybe that's because I know the dentist won't be a brutally fast thrashcore band that's screaming distortion and machine gun blast beats into my eye sockets while stripping enamel from my molars. Or it could end up being Steve Martin singing into my face while taking complete pleasure in my total discomfort.
I hate the dentist.
Exclaim - "Pressure":
Showing posts with label Bullets with Bitterboxcar. Show all posts
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July 15, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar - They Call Me Round Eye.
July 2, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar - The West Coast
by Bitterboxcar
Download: Baader Brains - "Year Zero" [MP3]
Travelin' lets you take in a lot of 'neato' stuff, as well as some 'not so neato' stuff, and then you have your days where you just wanna lay around and do nothing, which turns out to be pretty neato. It was on one of these days that I was shown the mighty power of the Baader Brains. They are comprised of a bunch of duders that have been in some super rocking bands from the west coast, but since I am on vacation, I am gonna go the lazy route and not give you names. Ahh, boo.
Now back to loungin'.
Baader Brains - "Body of the King":
June 25, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar - Falittos
by Bitterboxcar
Download: Cut The Shit - "Pushed Too Far" [MP3]
Download: Cut The Shit - "No Way Out" [MP3]
Falafel's are to New York City as burritos are to Southern California.
Too bad Cut The Shit was from Boston.
No, wait. I meant that it's too bad they cannot play in the metaphor I just wrote in the above line cuz they are from Boston.
There's nothing wrong with Boston.......
Well, mostly nothing.....
Well.....
[What the HELL are you talking about? -Ed.]
Cut The Shit - Live:
June 17, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar - A Little Dancing
by Bitterboxcar
Download: - The Skatalites "Lee Harvey Oswald" [MP3]
Download: - The Skatalites "Welcome Back Home" [MP3]
Sat outside of a show a long ways back in the town of Santa Barbara and watched one of my many bosses at the time show me how to pick up girls. I hadn't asked him to show me, nor did I really care if was going to anyways. I was shy and truly just into drinking and pills at the time, but I humored him anyways. He just stood up and pointed at a girl and said "Hey, that's my belt." She looked at him like a crazy, and of course replied, "No it's not," and the conversation began.
I really wish the Vicodin I had taken hadn't kicked in so powerfully at that moment so I could tell you what happened after that, but I can tell you that The Skatalites were fucking amazing that night. And we aren't talking third wave crap ska from the 90's (which I am guilty of liking for a few months... I have the balls to admit my faults). No, we are talking GOOOOOOD. Mid 60's, foot stompin, horn trumpin' good! So good in fact that I can't even think of a witty metaphor to throw in this sentence. Take that!
I also literally ran in to Lloyd Brevett by accident at that show too and thought I broke him. Don't feel no pain when in the veins. (yeah, I made that up.)
Skatalites - Live:
Lloyd Brevett talking about Ska:
June 10, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar - Andrew Culligan
by Bitterboxcar
Download: Wire "Field Day for the Sundays" [MP3]
Download: Wire "Mannequin" [MP3]
I was 18 at the time, hanging out at Surfers Point around 10pm, smoking a cigarette and laughing with three other friends about something or sum-such, when this guy, around of the age of 40, walks up to us and asks us to call the police in 20 minutes to let them know there will be a body on the beach. He is wearing a Culligan work shirt with the name tag 'Andrew' stitched above the left side pocket. He then proceeds to walk down towards the water, which is about 30 yards away.
We sit there wondering if he is just a local crazy, watching him slowly walk towards the water's edge, when a lady comes up to us to ask if we had seen a man walk by in a Culligan work shirt. We point towards Andrew, and she sets off after him, at a bit of a brisk pace. As Andrew reaches the water's edge, the lady reaches him and they start to yell at each other. It appears that the argument is getting more heated by the second, so we all get up and walk over to make sure the lady is okay, and that Andrew won't hurt himself either.
All in all here are some good videos by the British band Wire. They began back in '76 and their newest album Object 47 is slated to be out early July. They are said to have influenced more people than peer pressure. I'm sure Andrew would like this band.
Wire - "Heartbeat" (1979):
Wire - "Kidney Bingos" (1988):
Wire - "In the Art of Stopping" (2003):
June 3, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar - Morning
by Bitterboxcar
I was awakened on a rainy Tuesday morning-- 5:21 AM to be exact-- to a fight outside my window. Two gentlemen, whom appeared to be in their late teens/early twenties, were wrestling into the fences that so lovingly protect the concrete patios of my neighborhood. One was just screamin' "I could lake your life motherfucker, I could take your life motherfucker," whilst choking the other, and they seemed to do this dance up and down the street for about an hour.
I was waiting for someone to either run, fall down, shoot, or just stop all together, but the wrestling, yelling, fence noises, yelling, pitter-patter of feet on wet concrete, gurgle from choking, fence noises, yelling, etc. etc. continued. It became this weird operatic noise piece that lulled me back to sleep, kinda like Mike Patton's solo stuff, but not as kitchenette.
Anyways, when I finally awoke at 7:30 to begin my day, the first song that popped up on the ol' iTunes was by Twelve Hour Turn, a band hailing from the Sunshine State of Florida that has links to billions (might be a bit of an exaggeration) of other bands throughout the No Idea family.
They aren't around anymore, but make the jump for some goodies to get your mouth all salivaty and drooly.
Download: Mike Patton - "Bombe a Mano" [MP3]
Download: Twelve Hour Turn - "No Tomorrow" [MP3]
Twelve Hour Turn - "New Snake" (1999):
May 27, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar - Oh Canaduh
by Bitterboxcar
So, before all the youtubery, I went looking for a band outta Canaduh called Ruination. Blisteringly fast hardcore. I believe they were around for about a year back in 2000 or 2001, but I'm shaky on the exact dates. You can find a 7" on No Idea.
Download: Ruination - "Hero/Suspect" [MP3]
Download: Ruination - "Got Myself a System" [MP3]
As I looked and looked, I couldn't seem to find anything on them, but did stumble headfirst into a different band outta New York of the same name. I suggest you don't click that link, but if you have too, click the second song on their MySpace player and remember what some douche tried to play off as metal in the late 90's while driving around in their '98 Nissan Sentra probably looking like this guy, and who will most likely go into banking once graduating for "Ki Sigma Douche" and then probably move onto some other cookie cutter American way of existence.
Anywho, certain members of Ruination went onto other bands, most notably Fucked Up and Cursed. I have yet to "get into" Fucked Up, but they are a huge buzz band as of late and kids love 'em. Cursed just broke up, and I'm kinda bummed on that. They where pretty damned brutal.
Download: Cursed - "Another Day" [MP3]
Download: Cursed - "Clocked In Punched Out" [MP3]
So, here's some videos!!!!! YAY!!!!!
Cursed - "Fatalist":
Cursed - Live at Chain Reaction (2005):
Fucked Up - Live in Texas (2006):
May 13, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar: Monkeys and Bricks
by Bitterboxcar
While I have certain political views that I believe should be incorporated into everything and everyone (like the typical social health care, work union reform, and no meat), I also realize that most people are self-involved, ego-related douches and that nothing within the veins of socialism can survive in a throat cutting environment (I know, call me pussy cause I like helping people).
Hell, I'm not even talking about the big political system. I can just jump into a smaller sphere of reality, like your apartment and roommates. Are the dishes washed? Does the bathroom get cleaned? These seem like trivial questions when the world is more fucked than your ookie sock (or "dildo" for the ladies), but these make a simple point. If you help out, and they help out, everything works. Simple.
I just reread what I wrote and I don't really think I made a good point. There is a point in there, I just don't have the proper brain fires at the moment to formulate a better...... er...... what's it called? Point?
Anyways, I trolled the internet looking for a video of Submission Hold, a Vancouver-based agit-prop band, and came up with nothing, so I will supplement this post with videos of Propagandhi (Potemkin City Limits is a motherfucking good album), whose label, G7 Welcoming Committee, put out the latest Submission Hold album, What Holds Back the Elephant, back in 2004.
Download: Submission Hold - "Final Coup Of The Last Millennium" [MP3]
Download: Submission Hold - "My Belief" [MP3]
Also a heaping supply of Fugazi clips because Submission Hold is often compared to them via the DIY ethic, experimentation with different styles of music, and just cause there are a shit-ton of good Fugazi clips out there and I couldn't stop myself.
And all these bands like socialistic ideals. +1.
Suck it douchees! (imagine arms crossing over your groin area when saying that phrase out loud.)
Propagandhi - "A Speculative Fiction" (2007):
Fugazi - "Great Cop" (1997):
Fugazi - "Suggestion" (1991):
Fugazi - "Bad Mouth" & "Song 1" (1988):
April 21, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar: Savannah, Georgia
by Bitterboxcar
The Slippery Slope of the South (three times fast):
Begin tour story: So, lucky me, I went on a little road trip with The Fucking Wrath and Ox Vs. Thunderbird back in August of '07. They like me, I like them. It's a mutual love, kinda like sex.
Anyways, I got picked up by the dudes in "Richmond, VA" (sing it like the Avail song), and we made our merry little way down the east coast to the humid south - enter Savannah - a merry little place. I remember walking around and seeing all kinds of moss in the trees. I was told that if there was moss in the trees, it dictated that the area was a little rundown. I can't truly say if this statement is fact, but I can say that Savannah has some damn good bands coming from it, and that's what you are all reading this crap for, right?
So, to start off, we all know how much crustcake loves to gargle the metal man goo, and Baroness is definitely up on the wall of late night booty calls, but at this juncture I want to dive into some lesser known bands. Tooth is actually from Durham, North Carolina, but since I saw them play in Savannah, and they got friends there, I have co-opted them to the state of Georgia, and the state of drunkenness we all enjoyed.
Now, I wish I could find more things to post for you to check out besides their MySpace page, but 'Tooth' is a bitch of a band name to Google, and I think you could show some gumption and look it up yourselves for once. You're not babies. Babies don't listen to metal, unless their parents are rad, and only then does it give the little shit factories any cred besides being shit factories.
Next, there is Black Tusk. We stayed at the Black Tusk Manor one night. It was a freakin' awesome old Victorian house with a wrap-around porch, but does it really matter where they live? Nope. It matters that they blow doors off and melt babies just by staring. Basically, all you have to do is click one of the many videos we have provided to see that I just can't tell a lie, unless the lie just happens, or it gets me outta trouble, or if it sounds like fun. Yeah, so, I lie sometimes.
Happy side note, let's not forget Kylesa. It's their turf too. Who remembers Tuff Turf? Anyone? Come on...
Black Tusk - "Triumph of the Wolves":
Ox Vs. Thunderbird - "Divine Right of Kings":
The Fucking Wrath - "The Defeater":
April 15, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar: S.T.R.E.E.T.S. - "Blackout"
by Bitterboxcar
Ah, good punk/metal/thrash/Maiden isn't something you just happen upon, like a pile of dog shit somebody didn't clean-up in front of your building. It's more like a pile of vomit the new kid threw-up outside the bar their first night being 21; you just had to be there at the right time, the right moment.
Or maybe you had an older sibling that let you in on it, or a friend that had an older sibling, or maybe somebody had a show at their house and you just happened to go that night. Or you just like drinking beer with metalheads and during the sesh it popped into the stereo, or maybe you just typed "thrash" in a search engine and waded though the dozens upon dozens upon dozens of shit bands till you were floored.
I could go on I guess, but let's be sensible. Here are S.T.R.E.E.T.S. from Canada. If you can spell out what their name means (i.e. all those periods mean it's an acronym), you'll win a signed handjob from Crustcake himself!
S.T.R.E.E.T.S. - "Blackout":
April 8, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar - Big Business Family Tree
by Bitterboxcar
I guess I'm on a Seattle kick. A bit of a 'family tree,' if you will, about the origins of Big Business. If I knew any more I would write it. I'm kinda hung over. At work. My legs hurt cause I'm dehydrated. It's windy and I got blown... over on my bike. Wah-wah.
Karp - Live (1996):
Download: Karp - "Bacon Industry" [MP3]
Tight Bros From Way Back When - Live (2001):
The Whip - Live (2002):
Big Business - "Focus Pocus" (live 2006):
Download: Big Business - "Grounds for Divorce" [MP3]
April 1, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar: Glass and Ashes
by Bitterboxcar
There once was a band that said "we put the 'end' in 'friendship,'" and I pondered that notion for a long time. Then I thought, "that's not very positive." Then I went out to say hi to some friends on tour, and got bummed when I realized I didn't have a vagina for them to pontificate upon. I also realize that that last sentence I wrote isn't very positive, nor PC, nor anything I hold dear to my heart as being true to everyone I meet and hold towards furthering the idea that we are all the same damn things living on this shithole, racist, sexist, call it what you will, planet.
Then I came true to myself as being everything that last sentence dissed. Then I realized I just wanted those friends to just ask how I was doing and actually be friends. Then I remembered the selfishness of human kind (that I am guilty of just as the rest of us are), and got bummed again. Then I thought "fuck it," and now I'm back to what I have become. A hater. Hate hate hate, whine a ton, complain.
Balls.
What a waste of time.
There is positivity out there, you just gotta dig for it.
Here's a band from Cali called Glass and Ashes. They are good. Check it.
Glass and Ashes - Live:
March 25, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar - Don't Go Drinking Down By the Docks
by Bitterboxcar
Yup. Murder City Devils. Seattle. I remember writing that I was gonna stick with LA, but I also remember that I'm a liar and, well, this is what liars do. I saw the Murder City Devils on their last tour before they first broke up, and remember the singer Spencer just repeating the same line over and over again through a version of "Press Gang." I believe he was drunk. Botch played that same show. They were, as Norcal people say, "hella" good.
Hella yes.
Murder City Devils - "Someone Else's Baby":
Murder City Devils - "18 Wheels":
Botch - Live:
March 21, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar: Find Him and Kill Him, Ampere
by Bitterboxcar
Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. San Diego. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Amherst. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick. Fast. Quick.
Find Him and Kill Him - Live:
Ampere - Live:
March 18, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar: TSOL - "Sounds of Laughter"
by Bitterboxcar
L.A. It's known for a lot of things, depending on which wavelength you choose to tune into. Since I'm on the music participation side of this site, I dug up a video of TSOL (short for True Sounds of Liberty), a band I liked when I was just getting into punk back when I was 13. I'll be spitting out a bunch of early L.A. bands in upcoming visits cause that's the kick I'm on right now.
I once saw these fellows play in a community center in San Luis Obispo circa Y2K after they had gotten back together, and I have to say it was one of the most violent shows I had been to in a long time. I won't get into how many violent shows I've been at, nor why, just take my word for it. SLO has its fucking share of redneck, conservative, de-evolved fucksticks, and this was one of those nights to see it happen. Ah, the central coast of Cali. It'd be like rural Pennsylvania if you're an easty person, but with some Long Island flare thrown in for good measure. Oh, they also had kids get up on stage to give out beer cause they couldn't do it, it's against the law to provide minors beer.
TSOL - "Sounds of Laughter":
March 17, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar: Tiny Hawks - "Tornado Children"
by Bitterboxcar
Providence, Rhode Island. I don't know shit about it. It's east coasty. I once walked around the downtown area meeting homeless people and looking for something veggie to eat. My friend Nick is from there, but now is in RVA (where I met him) and he plays in a band called Landmines, but I digress. Providence beget the band Tiny Hawks. Yes! Tiny Hawks' Fingers Become Bridges is one of my top album picks of ever, ever. Ever. (notice the punctuation when reading this out loud)
Tiny Hawks - "Tornado Children":
March 13, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar: Douchebags
by Bitterboxcar
I was walking around D.C. one night, noticing that Georgetown was full of investment banker kids planning on buying their new "beach home" by the time they were 21, and possibly having Mom or Dad "help" them out with it. All their investments and plans were gonna reap them so much respect and money that Mom and Dad would have to help them out. I mean, they already helped them out buying their apartments for school so they wouldn't have to worry about the scandalous landlords, and the European villas so they wouldn't have to sleep in the poor marked hostels or dirty dirty hotels of third world countries like, let's say, Spain. Why not a beach place somewhere in the Keys? St. Martin. Micronesia.
I hate douchebags.
Embrace - "Money" (1986):
Fugazi - "Reclamation" (1997):
March 11, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar: Scholastic Deth, Machine Gun Romantics
by Bitterboxcar
I have never known what to call a genre of music when it's is already in a genre, but doesn't really fit in that genre, but it could be argued that it does, but somebody will come along and tell you you're wrong and then rename it. This here band was from the SF bay area. They were called Scholastic Deth. They make me happy. So here's some "fast guitars with yelling and most of the songs clock under a minute."
Scholastic Deth - Live:
This other band is "fast with high pitched screams and god damn if that drummin' ain't fast" kinda sound. They were from Texas. They were called Machine Gun Romantics. You can find the members in Insect Warfare and Hatred Surge. Power-violence? I could just put Spazz up here, but they sucked live.
Machine Gun Romantics - Live at Detonation Fest (2005):
March 7, 2008
Bullets with Bitterboxcar: Yellow Machinegun - "Heartache"
by Bitterboxcar
Well, here it is, the first, the beginning, the intro, a slice of the cake, a piece of the pie, a shave and a hair cut, group sex, prostate exam, and a bowl of ramen. For a bit of info on me, I am an ex-spurt of my pop's Rolling Stones and my mom's Bob Seger, so music is in my blood. It actually has me on dialysis at times, and it's at those times I just want to break out and sing... but not here. Ever.
I was walking along an imaginary road trying to figure out how not to force this column, when I came to a fork. It was silver, and looked like a good fit for the bowl of ramen, so now I shall bring to you, the viewer, and in honor of Boris, Yellow Machinegun. (totally saw them at Gilman St. 6 years ago)
Yellow Machinegun - "Heartache":
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