In The Land Of Len Bias

It's still a while off but make your plans now so you can be at this show it's gonna be a good one.

California Dreamin'

I can't say who the special guest is for this show cause they have a bunch of contractual obligations that might cause problems. I can say that you wont want to miss this show. It's gonna be a good time.

"Life's A Bitch

... and then you die. That's why we get high. Cause you never know when your gonna go!"

When AZ sang that chorus I was pretty sure mother fuckers were gonna see a lot more of him. Guess what. It happened. When his debut album "Doe Or Die" came out Mickey Featherstone and I were all about it. Mickey had this AZ Doe Or Die sticker that was 8 1/2" x 11" covering the entire back of his bass guitar and when GEHENNA would play shows people used to always trip. I remember when we first heard "Uncut Raw".It was the sickest shit ever. Anyhow if you understand me, cool. If not got get AZ -Doe Or Die.

This aint about that. This is about Rich Bitch Records, the label that Mickey operates. It's a label that releases all sorts of interesting punk rock and roll jams. I put together a Rich Bitch Sample with some of the stuff from the label.

Check this shit.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=683c905eaa18d301d9d5c56d04dfa8b0295a8247d2d9e82ff88875faa4c6c51e

If you want to check more shit I'll be playing a lot of it on this sunday when I DJ at Laszlo 2526 Mission. San Francisco CA 94110. Come through and grab a drink.

DEVIL "Live Entry" 7"

I wrote DEVIL and told the drug and drink story of our record deal a little while ago (April 7th "Heavy Metal For Satan" posting). After a lot of hard work by our friends at VEDAVU records and some title and artwork changes by BastardDemon and myself the 7" is almost ready to come out. Order info will be up soon. This will be limited to only 41 copies.

Here is a song that will NOT be on the 7".

http://www.mediafire.com/?w4nwmmjgoky

This is the artwork that might be used for a limited T-shirt:



Check out VEDAVU here:

http://vedavu.bigcartel.com/product/records

I suggest you grab anything they release. Music is fucking ace and the packaging is unreal. Total collector pieces.

P.S. The DEVIL 7" is not $.01 that is an error. It's gonna be something like $15. I'll keep you in the loop.

P.P.S. Feel free to leave comments. I noticed that 42 folks downloaded the 1 day GEHENNA track and I only got 1 person who posted a comment. His comment was that he missed the download, and wanted to know if I would repost it. For real, if you download something just post a comment. It only has to be one word. Like "Cool" or "Nice" or "Good" or "Yuck" or "Buffalo", I don't care just post something so I have a little bit of feedback.

Why do I know I'm gonna see 10 comments that say "Buffalo" tomorrow.

Oh yeah...

If your not reading the bikesanbikes blog or the Corduroy Mountain blog you should. They're both great!

GEHENNA - Die High Shirt Series

Now taking pre-orders for the first part of the limited Die High Shirt Series. Pre-orders will end Friday November 6th and all orders will ship Monday November 9th.

Shirts are $15 each or $40 for the set.
For orders outside of the U.S. add $5 for the first shirt and $2 for each additional shirt.

Send paypal payment to:

mike_apocalypse@hotmail.com

Be sure to include size and style number in the comments section.

Example: If you live in Mexico and you want an XL GG shirt and the Belushi shirt you will send $37 and the comments will read

XL 001, 003

Oh yeah... Here is a new GEHENNA called "Get Fucked Up".

I'm pulling it down in a day or so so get it now...

http://www.mediafire.com/?i3nkgm4etjt

Sorry dudes. That download was limited too.

I'll let you know when the record is coming out.

Folk You

In the young part of this decade (i.e. the "wake up 2-early-thousands") I worked for an import music distributor. It was great cause I pretty much chatted on the phone about new releases and re-issued records to store owners all day and got some great promo's. One of them was this VASHTI BUNYAN - Just Another Diamond Day CD. I head it and was so confused by it I hated it but I was selling copies to all of these collector freak record shop dudes. I listened to it a few more times, and still didn't get it. That promo ended up in a stack of stuff to trade in at AARONS records in Hollywood.
Fast forward 6 years to 2007. I was at AQUARIUS records digging in the dollar boxes (the first place to shop in any store) when I saw that odd sounding name VASHTI BUNYAN again. I thought "Fuck it. $1 isn't too much to give this a second chance" and I picked up a promotional copy of "Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind". When I got home I realized that this wasn't the same album I'd had before, but a bunch of singles, b-sides and demos. I listened to it and half way through was completely taken with the rawness and honesty of the sound. While the album i'd heard a few years back had a cleaner, late 60's pop production on a budget feel and sound, the demo material is a much more minimalist. From track 14 on Vashti's haunting voice lies right on top of a steel string acoustic guitar that sounds like it was all part of a one take practice demo. Anyhow check this shit out and if you hate it.... Gimme a minute and I'll post some shit your gonna dig.

http://www.mediafire.com/?g1ijmj5wxmj

P.S.

R.I.P. Don Steele

R.I.P. Grand Master Roc Raida