A true story.

Fucking lil shit cunt kids suckertheft me while i was at work makin burgers for fat kids at Mcdonalds.

This was up for a good week at work before it was taken down.

Art Is Visual Masturbation Vol 1.

So millions and gazillions of people have been asking about the drawing on top...well, just a few people infact but anyways incase you are curious, its from yours truly.


Yes folks that freaky drawing up the top is my creation.I like drawing.I'll draw freaky stuff, wacky stuff, more sensible stuff and alot more.Someday i would like to write a graphic novel but i don't even know where to start, in terms of publishing and stuff.


Anywhom here is a small gallery of my drawings.I usually put stuff up on my deviant art gallery or on my personal page.I'll keep updating this as I go but i need photoshop...a graphic tablet would be great aswell...man i hate bein broke.


I have worked with others including a collaboration with my little brother a logo for some defunct christain jerking dance group (wtf is jerking?), my good pals Mclovin and currently making a design for We Caught The Kraken.enjoy.

Mr Sterile Assembly

Um yeah so its been a while.....and I've got nothing for it.no excuses just didn't have anything to write about.Well whatever i got something now so SHUSH!

Mr Sterile Assembly are a experimental bass and drum duo that hails from our lovingly neighbours New Zealand.Can't really put them in on genre.Too funky to be punk? Too punky to be alt? Too alt to be funky? (Contrary to the popular belief, Indie is NOT a real genre, but its too late I suppose) But isn't that the best kind of music though? In any case it different, its unique and it rules.

I had the pleasure of seeing them last Friday at Blackwire Records, i kinda forced myself to go because I was just getting lazy around the house and i needed to get out.The lineup also features some local bands including Yes I'm Leaving (abrasive, loud and yet simple indie rock trio), Crouching 80's Hidden Acronym (Winner of Best Band Name Of The Month.feel good hip-core.) and Ya Aha (chilled instrumental stuff).

When i first sussed out the band and checked out the album cover for Transit, the first thing i thought was "Nice album cover"…but went i got there I'd never ever think that it was their stage outfit.MIND=BLOWN.

 

So yeh as it turns out. They really do dress up like that.But only when they're playing live mind you….well, they went back to normal clothes on Friday but who knows what happens in NZ?

I don't think I've even seen a band that admits they talk a lot because they don't have that many songs to play (I later found out that may be because some of their songs have guitar, sax, etc and it was just the two of them).Is that a bad thing? Not for these fellas.They are such a delight live, seeing MSA was so much fun.The highlight had to be "Whyte" when they starting speaking some sort of syncopated gibberish before a lone bass lines creeps in and Chrissie starts singing and the tap-drumming on cymbals slides in jumping round all over the place like a tub of bouncing balls that just toppled over.I just stood there soaking it in and it felt like i was going unsane, but in a good way.Their stage antics and dressup are really awesome aswell, At one point, Mr Sterile (im talking these names from the CD liner notes) got up off his kit and started shaking everyones hands, including mine, before jumping back on and starting playing again.Awesome.They will get you dancing awkwardly and even think about what they're actually singing about.If they ever play a gig near  you, you are a fool to miss out.

                                

The new album "Transit", which is now available off the Tenzenmen label, is also pretty frickin amazing! The colourful notes, unorthodox beats and stern words just jump around everywhere smacking the clouds of your imagination, and yet they're in perfect sync with each other.There is actually a lot of variety here with a few upbeat tunes, few more steadier and some denser and wackier tunes, never a dull moment, it all works.The aerobic drums in this are awe-inspiring and its in a healthy relationship with the more settled bass notes and chords.And their nonchalant yet astounding political lyrics sung by the distinctively duo vocals are in a league of its own.Its actually somewhat very melodic for a rhythm driven album and the guitar and horns here are more of a supplement so that's a nice change.Its hard to choose some of the standout tracks as they are all brilliant but some really really really awesome tracks are "Hibakusha", "Jesus Heals The Blind", "Drought" and "Whyte".I should add that it's also mixed really well.The CD come in a neat package with some extra art and stuff in the booklets.

It's hard to say what other similar bands sound like MSA but i read somewhere about similarities to Mr.Bungle, Primus, The Mother Of Inventions, etc, which wouldn't be wrong I suppose but maybe a little more than that.Someone said they are the Anti White Stripes which i think its a lot more fitting.There's really nothing like it you know, if i really wanted to try to explain it i'd say its funky post-punk with the wackiness of Mr.Bungle, the  polarising pop feel of Devo but with the the dark political abstract of Rudimentary Peni.

In all honestly I can't really explain the music itself, it's just so diverse.Yeah its DIVERSE-CORE lololololol…*cough* well I've been listening to this album all week and I am dumbfounded about how good it is.I INSIST YOU CHECK THEM OUT! They are the best Band to come out of New Zealand since....since..uh, come to think of it, I don't really know any other NZ bands out there.Oh there is that Antagonist A.D but I couldn't care less.

Live Photos credited to Shaun Tenzenmen

Oh and a shoutout to Shaun Tenzenmen.One of the best when it comes to DIY and distro music.He introduced me to some really awesome Asian indie bands like Artless Note and The Mornings and even saved me a rare OOP Robotosaurus Sayra Bahk Vol 1 and 2 EP on tape.Suss it out.


p.s Click on the Tenzenmen link to buy the CD and shirts.

My opinion about 50 Lions

They used to be good.Their first LP was a seriously awesome hc album. The 2nd LP wasn't too shabby either, but afterwards they just went downhill and their 3rd LP sounds like they're confused about what sort of sound they're making and they end up with a dildo of an LP.Plus they're playing at fucking massive venues now.Whats up with that? First saw em supporting at No Apologies final gig and they were so vibrant and fun.Saw em again at HC10 and they seemed tired and boring yet Blkout was on the same tour and they we're rocking it (even if Total Depravity was a dull turd).

Pretty fly for a hardcore guy.*ugh*

My opinion about Skrillex

Never really dug From First To Last either.


My brother keeps playing his tunes all the time.HATRED!








but...please bear in mind that i dont hate electronic and dance music...really! cant go wrong with Daft Punk,Bloc Party, Justice, Gorillaz, Major Lazer, Deadmau5,Sia, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Vanilla Ice!

Nuclear Summer

So....not sure if people dug my first review but whatever.I want this blog to be more than just a review for demos and music i would like it to be my personal bitchplace where i sulk about things, thought i do that enough on facebook, i would for once like to have a whinge without assholes talking to me about it IRL.Especially about my stance on organized religion but watever.Now without realizing I have already inadvertely had a sulk about sulking on facebook.....AH thought i was gonna say "FML" right? cocks.Plus im not good with words.I hate words.

This post will also have drawings, but i just got a new mac :D so i need to install some programs before i can bring em up here.

Alright nuff of that.

Found this demo at Blackwire, picked it up because it was free.Free stuff is good.Nuclear Summer hails from Brisbane.They've played their first gig in October last year and they seem pretty busy since then.Dont really have more to add, If i'd have seen em in action..but oh well.

I'm a sucker for this sort of post punk hardcore and anyone out there who's a fan of the likes of Touche Amore, La Dispute, Lungs and To The North (another brissy band, they prob know each other), Nuclear Summer will not disappoint.I honestly had my doubts at the start, but it slowly grew on me.I don't know why I didn't get into the tune that is "Pilot Wings" the first time round, but perhaps in comparison to "Do Unto" and "Perfect Agent", it intially wasn't the best opener, I dunno.I dont think the guy can sing very well hahahaa, sorry that was mean.But he really makes that up in a strong vocal delivery that cuts above the melodically well-formed stringed instrumentation and the jazz-tastic (yeh i made that up so sue me) drumming which all makes for some real tight compositions and rather fantastic songwriting wrapped in a more heavier vibe that makes them stick out from the pack.

If you're looking for the addictive emotional melodrama that is just drenched in some of those other bands that i have mention, then you might not get alot from this, it feels like it doesn't have the same energy that gives it the replay value that so many other bands have got nailed, and it's not because its of demo quality either.It personally doesn't bother me though but yeh it's the subtle differences yknow?

That being said I know another band that was in a similar situation that is now one of my favourite bands of all time, can you guess? Anyways my point is that I for one am very hopeful for what N.S has got to offer, I bet they would be alot more solid and awesome with their next release and they will blow everyone's socks off with giant sticks of dynamite.They didn't quite hit bullseye this time, but it was sorta close, a few inches away.They are playing a few gigs round soon so i suggest you suss em out, they sound like a band that will kick butt live!

http://nuclearsummer.wordpress.com/


Oh yeh and no one is going to guess what band i was talking about earlier but it was Fear Before (The March Of Flames).Saw em at their headline gig at Jannali,two words, fucking.brilliant!!!!! bigfoot costumes! Gatherer supported and they scared all the mosh crew scene cunts away with their stochastic-tastic (man i am on a roll with these words today) music!

Now, time to go play some Nintendo 64.

Mclovin - Demo

So i make a small rant on facebook (how sad am i?) and a good buddy of my sez i should review his demo.So why not?

Mclovin hails from around Western Sydney, where apart from the north coast, all the sloppy hamfistmoshdeathgoatsecore is inbredded, so in all honestly I haven't been this satisfied from a band that resides from my birthplace since the days of Corsairs.

The 10-song demo is like a smorgasbord of  all things punk.It's got thrash, 90's metalcore, powerviolence, hardcore,etc.It could've treaded into a confusing mess where they're just cotton picking all their favorite bits and devioding themselves of any identity.But it doesn't. They make their mixed nuts of hardcore their own almost flawlessly.The drums are seriously solid and riffs are...whoa.This is all tied together by Tom's vocals, which are throughout relentless and hostile.

I've listened to this a few times and it still surprises me how at the start you expect a song to go, say, right, but then it takes a fuck-you turn to the left and you find one more thing to appreciate.Heck even the shorter songs will take you by surprise when you least expect it.I don't really have any criticism for this except it's too short! moar plz.

This is on par with any hardcore fans out there that dig the likes of Trash Talk, Pulling Teeth and people that are sick of the plodding shitcore that the west has to offer (Hand Of Mercy? more like Hand Of Wanky! HEY-OOOOO!) and wants something a little more fucking better.

Oh yeah and they are fucking mad live.They destroyed my house for my 18th party and no pillows,ice-cubes,mattresses,chairs,cymbals,microphones,eskies,people,singers,or even my 360 and N64 was safe! And you should buy their outrageous merch, I has pedobear on mine =3.

http://www.facebook.com/McLovinSydney

http://www.mclovin.bigcartel.com/