Cartographer – Hats, Capes, Dark Arts is out and it rules. Colin from Ovipositor hand-silkscreened the cover with something like seven colors. Damn. Listen.
Ventid – I just finished an EP with them, tracked at Sharkbite. I love it. RIYL Slint, Cursive, prog (the good kind). Hopefully this will see vinyl in the next few months.
(carto pic by Shannon Corr)
1. Rubber horse heads
2. Tape Op
3. Batillus
4. Universal Audio
5. Vintage Ibanez, in its many-stringed forms
6. BaileyWorks sling bag
7. Room mics
8. Couch guitar straps
9. Bandago
10. Ricola honey/herb lozenges
Reaper – My interview with Justin and Christope is in this month’s Tape Op. Good read for music nerds and software nerds.
Tigon have a few splits out with the songs we did this spring. We tracked basics at Sharkbite in Oakland, and did guitar/vox overdubs at good old TTJ. I love this stuff. Dense mathy punk, sludged out heaviness. Listen.
Kowloon Walled City – If you missed it, a few months ago we did a split with Fight Amp and Ladder Devils. We tracked at Sharkbite. Download/buy. (Also, tour was great. Lots of pics.)
Cartographer – I recently finished a full-length with these fine gentlemen, tracked at Mr. Toad’s in San Francisco. This record rules and you should hassle Ben about releasing it promptly. Carto.
Man, busy. Been doing some recording and mixing but nothing new is out yet. I’ve also had a few articles run recently in Tape Op. Neat.
Anyway, couple of Kowloon Walled City happenings…
- We have a new record out. It’s a 3-way split 12″ with Fight Amp and Ladder Devils called Lose/Lose/Lose. Purchase and download info are over there.
- Next week we’re doing a 2-week east coast tour. We don’t tour much — it took nearly a year to work the planets into alignment for these 15 shows — so I am stoked about this. Tour dates are over there.
