Critically-lauded band to be supported on U.S. trek by A.A. Bondy, Deer tick.

By Blurt Staff

After tearing up the festival circuit this year--Outside Lands, Bonnaroo, All Points West, Langerado, The Newport Folk Festival, Mountain Jam--The Felice Brothers will embark on a 37-date headlining tour. The jaunt begins September 4 in Burlington, VT and ends November 2 in New York City. A.A. Bondy and Deer Tick will support the band--except one stop in Kentucky, where the Felice Brothers open for Old Crow Medicine Show. The tour comes just as the band is slathered in all kinds of slobbery praise from the press (you know, about that great-ass album on Team Love Records). Complete dates are below.

The band is also proud of its spanking new video for "Frankie's Gun," filmed live at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY. Check it out.

* = w/ A.A. Bondy
# = w/ Deer Tick
% = opening for Old Crow Medicine Show

SEPTEMBER 2008
04 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
05 - Northampton, MA - Iron Horse
06 - Cambridge, MA - Club Passim
07 - Great Barrington, MA - Club Helsinki
11 - Albany, NY - Linda Norris Auditorium*
12 - Ithaca, NY - Castaways*
13 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's*
14 - Alexandria, VA - The Birchmere Bandstand*
16 - Atlanta, GA - Smith's Olde Bar*
18 - Nashville, TN - Exit / In*
19 - Lexington, KY - Christ the King Oktoberfest*
20 - Chicago, IL - Abbey Pub*
21 - Iowa City, IA - The Mill*
23 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room*
24 - St. Louis, MO - Billiken Club at St. Louis University (Open to the Public)*
25 - Notre Dame, IN - Legends of Notre Dame (Student's Only)*
26 - Cincinnati, OH - Midpoint Music Festival at the Know Theater*
27 - Rutland, OH - Reclaim Festival*
29 - Knoxville, TN - Barley's Taproom*
30 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506*

OCTOBER 2008
02 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church*
09 - Princeton, NJ - Terrace F. Club (Princeton U - Student's Only)#
10 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Café#
11 - Louisville, KY - Palace Theatre%
13 - Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone Café#
15 - Oxford, MS - Proud Larry's#
16 - Birmingham, AL - Workplay Theater#
17 - New Orleans, LA - Maple Leaf#
18 - Alexandria, LA - Alexandria Music Project#
22 - West Hollywood, CA - The Troubadour#
23 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall#
24 - Portland, OR - Mission Theatre#
25 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey#
27 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Paladium#
28 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre & Café#

NOVEMBER 2008
02 - New York, NY - Spiegeltent#

New album Only By the Night due in stores September 23.

By Blurt Staff

Anyone for a little sex on fire? The video for the new single from Kings of Leon’s new record Only By the Night is up and ready on MySpaceTV. The clip, directed by Sophie Muller, was filmed in LA and shows the band writhing, tearing up books, eating something that looks like chicken, and bleching black smoke. It's--urp!--pretty cool.

Pop country superstar thinks he knows how Johnny Cash would vote; Roseanne Cash sets him straight.

By Randy Harward

Perez Hilton reports that John Rich (of pop--make that pap--country duo Big & Rich)  publicly declared that Johnny Cash would vote for John McCain--and the Man In Black's daughter (you know, Roseanne) is pissed.

Here's what Rich had to say:

"Somebody’s got to walk the line in the country. They’ve got to walk it unapologetically. And I’m sure Johnny Cash would have been a John McCain supporter if he was still around."

Hee-haw! The jackass even used Cash's words. Roseanne's rebuttal:

"It is appalling to me that people still want to invoke my father's name, five years after his death, to ascribe beliefs, ideals, values and loyalties to him that cannot possibly be determined, and to try to further their own agendas by doing so. ... This is especially dangerous in the case of political affiliation."

Way to go, Roseanne. Who Johnny Cash would support isn't worth discussion, because it would all be conjecture. You might say his Jesussy side would tip him toward McCain, but there's also a strong case to be made, based on the man's songs, character and actions, for an Obama vote. Or at least Ron Paul. There's just no way to know how Cash would vote, and pretending you do know is stupid and self-serving. Even Cash's own daughter--one more qualified to speak for him, if it mattered-- knows that.

We don't know how Rich took that measured, intelligent response, but it's fun to imagine what that mouthbreathin' a-hole will say.

 - Aw, look at the little liberal, with her big idears and rich vocab-... Vocab... Shit, she should just shut the hell up buh-fore I dig up her daddy's boot and send it up her butt.

 - If she finds what I said so appealing, why don't she gimme a call? I'm just outta the shower, all ascribed up and smellin' good. (Hell, I prolly taste awright, too!)

 - I'll show her a furry agenda.

As promised, an exclusive full-song clip from the Toadies on this, the day of No Deliverance.

By Randy Harward

Here you have it, folks: an exclusive music video for the title track of the Toadies' kickass third album, No Deliverance (which comes out today)! And boy, what a taste: the clip is composed of studio and live performance footage, backstage frolicking and shots of two sexy Toadies groupies all gussied up in nurse outfits. Enjoy!

Here you have it, folks: an exclusive music video for the title track of the Toadies' kickass third album, No Deliverance (which comes out today)! And boy, what a taste: the clip is composed of studio and live performance footage, backstage frolicking and shots of two sexy Toadies groupies all gussied up in nurse outfits. Enjoy!

NYC band and their label, Barsuk Records, asking fans to produce clips to "Weightless," band to play MoveOn.org event at Democratic National Convention.

By Randy Harward

Nada Surf and Barsuk Records are asking fans to produce videos for "Weightless," from the band's brilliant fifth album, Lucky. The clips will be uploaded to YouTube, and the winner--chosen by a panel of judges--will receive $3,000 cash. Second and third place winners get copies of Nada Surf's upcoming vinyl box set, collecting all five of their albums along with a book of poster art, lyrics and liner notes, as well as T-shirts, CDs and other swag. From the press release:

Nada Surf is looking for a video for "Weightless", the third single off their current release Lucky. Aspiring and/or already-established auteurs need only check out the song (available for streaming at <http://www.myspace.com/nadasurf> ), shoot and edit a video, and upload it to <http://www.youtube.com/group/nadasurfweightless> before the contest entry deadline of September 19th, 2008.
    For full contest details, restrictions and other information, visit <http://www.youtube.com/group/nadasurfweightless>

The band will also take part in the Barack Obama-themed "Manifest Hope Art Gallery" at the Democratic National Convention later this month. Artist Shepard Fairey, MoveOn.org, Evolutionary Media Group and Upper Playground are sponsoring the event, which will run from August 24-28. Nada Surf will play on August 27 as part of "Unconventional '08," hosted by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Silversun Pickups, Cold War Kids, DJ Z-Trip and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will also perform. Tickets are free but limited. You can pick them up at the Manifest Hope Gallery in Denver.

There will also be a separate, invitation-only VIP songwriters-in-the-round performance with Nada Surf's Matthew Caws, Jenny Lewis, Zooey Deschanel, Jonathan Rice and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard. Naturally, there are no hints as to how you can become a VIP. But that'd just take the fun out of it, huh?

Fattening up the playlist on the Blurt player--including exclusives from the Toadies and The Feelings Mutual.

By Blurt Staff

Check out the Blurt player for just-added clips from Black Mountain ("Wucan"), sBACH ("Track 02")and Lee Scratch Perry ("Pum Pum"), plus the premiere of "Ring Me Out" from San Diego's The Feelings Mutual and the second exclusive teaser from the Toadies!

Wexler helmed classic recordings by Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Aretha Franklin, and coined the term “rhythm and blues.”

By Blurt Staff

The Associated Press reports that legendary producer and record label man Jerry Wexler died Friday at 3:45 a.m. in a Sarasota, Fla. Hospice.

Wexler made myriad contributions to music, producing records by Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and Willie Nelson, co-running Atlantic Records with Ahmet Ertegun from 1953 to 1967 and championing Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Percy Sledge. He also famously coined the term “rhythm and blues,” replacing the offensive term “race records.”

For more on the story, click here.

(Photo: AP Photo/DP)

Black Mountain's "Wucan," from their highly praised second album, In the Future. The aptly trippy clip--filmed in by the band the desert--shows the band (wait for it) rocking in the desert in between pretty pictures and funky visuals.

Here's the legendary Lee Scratch Perry in the video for his new single, "Pum Pum."

The video for "Track 02" from the eponymous debut of sBACH (Spencer Seim of Hella and The Advantage).

In our second exclusive clip, Vaden Todd Lewis and Mark "Rez" Reznicek talk.

By Randy Harward

Here you have it, folks: the second exclusive video teaser from the Toadies, who are releasing their long-awaited third album, No Deliverance (Kirtland Records) this Tuesday.

This one's all talk--that is, interview, no music. Singer-guitarist Vaden Todd Lewis, with drummer Mark Reznicek looking on, talks about the significance of the album title and whether his parents listen to his records.

Watch it here or on the Blurt player. And look for an exclusive full-song performance on Tuesday!

Here ye have it: Toadies Teaser #2. Look for an exclusive full-song performance when No Deliverance is released on Tuesday!

Quasi-cryptic MySpace posts and emails speak of imminent new album.

By Randy Harward

Publicity stunts are publicity stunts, but some are just welcome enough, like the email that hit Blurt's inbox a few minutes ago from one of the few truly great emo bands: The Jealous Sound. It says, "Got Friends coming soon, as in REAL soon. Stay tuned."

The same is posted on the band's MySpace page, and that of their label, The Militia Group. Both are accompanied the ostensible album cover. The album title may allude to the band finally getting their standard MySpace page converted to a music page--on June 1, 2006.

That was the last time an update came from the band about its status. The last news item on www.jealoussound.com was posted on November 28, 2005, and rumors abounded that the band broke up. Welcome back, guys. Lookin' forward to the new songs.

Tim Easton, Leeroy Stagger and Evan Phillips--ESP--release One for the Ditch.

By Randy Harward

This week in supergroups: Americana singer-songwriters Tim Easton, Leeroy Stagger and The Whipsaws' Evan Phillips have come together as ESP, releasing the all-acoustic One for the Ditch on Rebeltone Records this week.

The collaboration started while Easton and Stagger were touring as support for The Whipsaws' CD release tour in Alaska this past January. Most of One for the Ditch was recording during a three-day session at a cabin in snowy Girdwood. It was completed in March at Easton's cabin studio in Joshua Tree and Victoria Williams' Chapparal Studios.

From their official bio: ...Stagger says "we keep each other together and in check, which makes it a very easy and fulfilling band to be in." Evan Phillips added, "We are also big fans of each other so that helps." Easton agrees that "this is a natural fit. We travel well as a trio and we are not afraid to push each other to do better work. There's a ton of songwriters out rambling about, and I feel lucky to have crossed paths with these two."

Visit www.myspace.com/eastonstaggerphillips to hear tracks.

"Ring Me Out," from the eponymous debut EP (on Ares Records) of San Diego's The Feelings Mutual.

Late comedian posthumously releases third album, Do You Believe in Gosh?

By Randy Harward

Comedy Central Records will relase Do You Believe in Gosh?, the third album by the late, beloved comedian Mitch Hedberg on September 9.  Hedberg recorded the album two months before his death. It will include all-new, unreleased material as well as never-before-seen photos and unpublished excerpts from his private journals. Comedy Central says the show was intimate and loose, with "a large amount of audience interaction."

Responding to industry blogger’s comments, rap-rocker lets the CAPS, exclamation points, f-bombs, fellatio denial n’ shit fly.

By Randy Harward

No one ever accused Kid Rock of being a Pulitzer Prize-winning author or even a Publisher’s Clearinghouse prizewinner, but the trailer park rock star’s response to a recent edition of The Lefsetz Letter [Note: circulated via email tonight, but yet to appear on the LL site] is borderline ILLiterate, and ILLogical.

Lefsetz pondered whether or not Kid Rock is selling 100,000 CDs per week is because his record is unavailable via iTunes. He also contemplates whether Jay-Z’s decision to offer American Gangster only as a full-album download on Apple’s music service, as opposed to allowing buyers to choose individual tracks, killed its sales—and whether the only reason Katy Perry has done so well is that her album is available in piecemeal so people can scarf up her calorie-light single with the ripped-off title and theme. Lefsetz also conjectures that Kid Rock’s sales may be due to his older crowd, status as a career artist, and capability of making an album that is “good.”

Rock’s rejoinder is mostly about sucking dick and how he, just like his musical, ideological and personal antithesis James McMurtry, doesn’t do that. In an expletive- and exclamation point-laden rant that begins (all quotes verbatim, with formatting left as-is)…

GET OFF MY DICK"!!!    ......that was gonna be my email, hahahaha, but were buddies now, so ill be serious!!

…and probably passes for a graduate thesis around Rock’s doublewide tour bus, he laments that artists no longer connect with their audiences.

I really believe its about a connection to the artist and the "lack of" that plays a big part in this. When I would hear a Bob Seger or Run DMC record as a  kid, I really believed they WERE the songs, and that they were who they sang and wrote about. I think that connection, especially in pop music has been missing for sometime. Shit, I dont think kids even believe in half the rappers are who they claim to be anymore.

Yes, we’re all devastated when we find out a public figure—especially a rapper—is frontin’. But is he saying he’s not putting on a show? Well, mayhap he isn’t—er, ain’t. One thing you can say about Kid Rock is that his shit-talkin’ trailer trash trucker countenance is intact (like he tells Lefsetz: you ll never beat word of mouth on a good product!), even if his logic and syntax sometimes are not.

Here’s another verse from his Lefsetz epistle, this time about why radio sucks the dick and, surprisingly, how McMurtry’s song “Cheney’s Toy” is a hit (pretty surprising, coming from Bush supporter).

On another note, the radio has fucked so much of it up, for instance, that James Mcmurty song is a pop hit, but they know he wont suck thier dick so they say fuck him and as a result kids lose out on hearing a great song and pop music suffers. Now obviously i dont suck dick either, but i know how to put my arm around em and make em feel good, maybe tickle thier balls a little if it means more people will hear my music. BUT NO DICK SUCKING!! Programmers are not the fucking stars, artists are, but if they would rather party with brittney or mariah rather than folks like me, thier missing one hell of a party!! I mean ,I wanna be friends with radio and have met some good folks in it, but overall they make it very difficult with the politics and bullshit, and the record companys share in that as well. (shit, sometimes us artists do too)

And this biggest thing is, you ll never beat word of mouth on a good product! And when people love something, theyll do whatever it takes to get it. Itunes is convienient, but so is Mcdonalds, but....... a lotta people still wait in line and make reservations to eat elsewhere!! Sometimes when you believe in yourself and your product, NO is the best answer. Thiers plenty of ways to have big sales without itunes (or conventional wisdom), i just proved it! (dont mean to toot my own horn but BEEP FUCKING BEEP!!!! haha)

Whuuuuh? He’s the upscale alternative to McSpears and McCarey? He’s a pop artist just like them. And he is—or at least was—friends with radio. Maybe that’s why he’s a little prick…ly. The industry is changing even for him, and when CDs go away, if Kid Rock doesn’t embrace iTunes, et al, he and his luddite fanbase may have a problem. So yeah, dude, don’t suck off the programmers—you should be blowin’ the online music services. You know, after the marketing tricks cease to be effective. There’s some conventional wisdom for ya.

bottom line, lets bring some creativity back into this buisness and make it fun again,lifes too short, thats where im at with things.

A one-note trick like Kid Rock is gonna breathe life into a dying… business? Music is art, asshole. That’s the difference between you and guys like Neil Young.

and ps, Mellencamp has credability oozing out of his hit makin ass!!

Yeah, he does. Probably a convoy of new Chevy Silverados, too. And of course you’d be the guy to understand selling out.

ps (i know my typing and shit sux)

tReU dAt!!!!

BLURT has exclusive still photo from the film Mars, showing Howe Gelb as Dr. Fortunato.

By Randy Harward

Last month BLURT reported that Howe Gelb will star in the upcoming animated feature, Mars. Today filmmaker Geoff Marslett sent us this exclusive still from the film, showing Gelb as the villain Dr. Fortunato. Check him out in all his hi-def, rotoscopic, animated glory!

Watch BLURT for more on Mars.

Dean Ween debuts online fishing show.

By Randy Harward

Ween fans know that Deaner likes to fish—now they can accompany him on his angling adventures through an online fishing show, Brownie Troop F.S. This, from the press release:

“[Deaner] began discussing his passion on the Ween website several years ago and started getting thousands of invitations from fans around the world to come and wet some line. On this past world tour… , he fished with fans—some of them very serious anglers indeed—everywhere from the Great Lakes to Australia and took a camera along for filming.”

So far there are five episodes, the latest being an expedition with the Butthole Surfers off Asbury Park, NJ. Visit www.brownietroopfs.com to view the eps.

My Morning Jacket, REM, Pearl Jam, Dr. John, Boots Riley and more ask McCain and Obama to step up support for Louisiana’s Gulf Coast.

By BLURT Staff

"We are asking that the future President of the United States direct the resources and attention necessary to restore coastal Louisiana and secure the future of Louisiana's communities." So reads a letter

[ http://www.healthygulf.org/Candidates_Coastal_letter.pdf ]

to Barack Obama and John McCain signed by more than 90 artists and industry people. It asks that whomever wins the election pay special attention to the needs of Louisiana’s Gulf Coast and its residents.

The entreaty comes nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina, many of whose victims still seek assistance in rebuilding their homes and lives. The idea is that, no matter the outcome of the election, something will finally be done. 

Those signing the letter include My Morning Jacket, Dr. John, Trent Reznor, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, the Coup’s Boots Riley, Indigo Girls, Hubert Sumlin, Allen Toussaint and Galactic. They not only ask the candidates to use the presidency to help Katrina victioms but also attend a presidential forum September 18 n New Orleans, where they may present their plans for “leading the Gulf Coast's recovery.”

Texas rockers return with No Deliverance and BLURT has a special sneak peek!

By BLURT Staff

The Toadies’ new album No Deliverance is due August 19 on the Kirtland Records label, and it’s a BLURT-approved scorcher. We’ve got a nifty video peek here of the band rehearsing, with another one to follow next week, and then a full song the week after that.

Check it out:

The Toadies’ new album No Deliverance is due August 19 on the Kirtland Records label, and it’s a BLURT-approved scorcher. We’ve got a nifty video peek here of the band rehearsing, with another one to follow next week, and then a full song the week after that.

Rage Against the Machine, Steve Earle, Atmosphere, Billy Bragg, Mos Def and others to play protest shows during Republication National Convention.

By Blurt Staff

They played Metallica, Van Halen and the Clash to annoy Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega in 1989-90, and he surrendered—so why not try the same thing on the wannabe dictators at the Republican National Convention?

On September 1, the first day of the RNC, the SEIU Take Back Labor Day Festival will take place at Harriet Island Regional Park in St. Paul, Minnesota. The event, backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), goes from noon until 7 p.m. and will feature performances by Steve Earle, Atmosphere, Billy Bragg, Mos Def, Allison Moorer, Lupe Fiasco and “Tom Morello & Friends.” For more information, visit www.takebacklaborday.com.

We’re guessing “and Friends” means Rage Against the Machine, as the band will play Minneapolis’ Target Center on September 3.

Despite pledging “I’m not going to Salt Lake City,” Blag Dahlia and company did it anyway.

Blag Dahlia’s not the president, so it’s no big deal if he goes back on his word. Like last weekend, when Dahlia and his band—the notorious Dwarves—spent three days in Salt Lake City, a town Dahlia hated so much he wrote a song about it.

There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you

Except the one thing that you want me to

We went across the mighty Rio Grande and

saw Disneyland and

the sea

you and me

But there's one thing I'll never do not even for you

I'm not going to Salt Lake City

There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you

except to walk among the Osmond crew

I know you're planning for a latter day and

 you can't betray

what you know

in Provo

But there's one less town on the globe and

if you must go there you're going alone

I'm not going to Salt Lake City

even if they tell me I can stay

Even if they resurrect my brain

I don't wanna go there

I don't wanna go insane

I'm not pure and I'm not pretty and

I'm not going to Salt Lake City

I'm not living in Hello Kitty and

I'm not going to Salt Lake City

The band played Saturday night at SLC’s Bar Deluxe and then Dahlia and the Dwarves’ masked guitarist HeWhoCannotBeNamed played a 50-minute in-store at The Heavy Metal Shop. Word among the locals is the band partied its collective ass off—and, as they say, all night long—after the Bar Deluxe show, and Dahlia actually appeared to have a good time at the in-store, smiling and cracking jokes, a few of them at the expense of the city’s conservative reputation. But although he played a song that made fun of the hip hippie city of Seattle, he did not play “Salt Lake City.”

At the in-store, anyway. Blurt’s sources say they did indeed play the song at the Bar Deluxe show, but—curiously, given Dahlia’s outspoken nature—without rubbing it in.

Blurt planned to ask about the visit after the in-store performance, but Dahlia—who during the Heavy Metal Shop performance mentioned a near-miss hook-up the night before—had a gaggle of Salt Lake City babes waiting for him to say “Hello, kitty.” And clearly, he was very happy about that. Y’all come back now, y’hear?

(Photo: Randy Harward)

D.C. indie pop band announces breakup online.

By Blurt Staff

John Davis and Laura Burhenn, more popularly known as D.C. indie pop band Georgie James, have announced they’re splitting to focus on solo projects. The two issued this statement on GeorgieJames.com yesterday:

“After three years, Georgie James is calling it a day. We're proud of the album we made and everything else that we were able to do during our time together. We are both working on our respective solo projects... (John's can be found at www.myspace.com/titletracksdc and Laura's at www.myspace.com/lauraburhenn) and hope to have albums out early next year. Thanks to everyone that helped our band over these past few years. And thanks to those who've listened to the music and come out to the shows. It is greatly appreciated. See you around soon.” - John and Laura/Georgie James

The news comes just as the band’s episode of NPR’s “Project Song” was nominated for an Emmy, and catches everyone by surprise, as the band’s 2007 album Places was almost universally drooled upon. The good news is that the demos of Davis’s project, Title Tracks, appear to carry on the GJ sound—minus, of course, Burhenn’s sweet vox. He hopes to release a TT album early next year. Burhenn will ostensibly continue to perform the atmospheric pop heard on her 2004 solo album Wanderlust.

Band’s gear stolen outside Montreal hotel.

By Blurt Staff

Yesterday morning in Montreal, Iggy and the Stooges’ gear was ripped off outside the Embassy Suites Hotel, according to a notice posted on bass player Mike Watt’s site. “All equipment was in a rented Penske 15-foot yellow truck with U.S. (Michigan) license plate number AC46493, and the theft had to have happened in the morning between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m.”

The band asks that anyone with information about the robbery contact this guy:

Eric Fischer at:
nycentral13@gmail.com
cell phone: +1 646 932 1907

The notice, including a list of missing gear, is here: http://www.hootpage.com/stoogesstolenstuff/stoogesstolenstuff.html

Or you can read it below.

**************

if anyone has information, ANY INFORMATION!
please, please, PLEASE as soon as possible contact
Eric Fischer at:
nycentral13@gmail.com
cell phone: +1 646 932 1907

PLEASE FORWARD AS FAR AND WIDE AND AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE!!!

IGGY AND THE STOOGES
EQUIPMENT STOLEN ON AUGUST 4, 2008
OUTSIDE THE EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL
208 SAINT ANTOINE OUEST,
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA

all equipment was in a rented penske 15 foot yellow truck
with u.s. (michigan) license plate number AC46493
and the theft had to have happened in the morning,
between 6:30 and 7:30 am

there's a web page at:

http://www.hootpage.com/stoogesstolenstuff/stoogesstolenstuff.html

that will soon have pictures and updates to more stuff found missing


Item      Country of Origin   Serial Number

Red roadcase containing:      USA   No serial number
       Red Gibson 1963 EB-3 bass (this is mike watt's bass!)   USA
No serial number

Black roadcase containing:      USA   No serial number
       Reverend Flying V guitar - Volcano black   USA   #08001

Black roadcase containing:      USA   No serial number
       Reverend Orange guitar   USA   03416 ZSL7

Black fibre case containg:      USA   No serial number
       Gibson red SG short scale bass   USA   No serial number

Black roadcase containing:      USA   No serial number
       Marshall Vintage/Modern Amplifier   UK   M-2007-07-0926-2 RoHS

Black roadcase containing:      USA   No serial number
       Marshall Vintage/Modern Amplifier   UK   M-2007-07-0927-2 RoHS

4x Marshall 4x12 Cabinets (with Tuki cover)      UK   #1 Slant:
M-2007-05-0149-0

4x Marshall 4x12 Cabinets (with Tuki cover)      UK   #2 Straight:
M-2006-49-0380-0

4x Marshall 4x12 Cabinets (with Tuki cover)      UK   #3 Slant:
M-2007-05-0150-0

4x Marshall 4x12 Cabinets (with Tuki cover)      UK   #4 Straight:
M-2006-49-0381-0

Orange Calzone road case containing:
       Guitar pedal board and pedals   USA/Japan   No serial number
       Assorted leads    USA/UK   No serial number
       2x mic stands   Germany   No serial number
       Assorted strings and spares   USA   No serial number
    plus:
       2x Boss TU2 Chromatic Tuner
       Boss CH1 Super Chorus
       Fulltone OCD Overdrive
       Crybaby Wah
       Peterson Strobo-Stomp Tuner Pedal
       Whirlwind A/B Boxes
       Whirlwind Cable Tester
       and many many istrument cables
       various tools ( screwdrivers, soldering iron, pliers, etc... )
       tambourine and maracas

Cardboard box containing:
       Assorted replacement drum heads   USA   No serial number

Gretsch Silver Sparkle Catalina drum kit      USA   No serial number
       26" Kick Drum      No serial number
       13" Rack Tom      No serial number
       18" Floor Tom      No serial number
       4x Cymbal Stands      No serial number
       1x Snare Stand      No serial number
       1x Hi Hat Stand      No serial number
       1x Drum Throne      No serial number

Eden D810 Bass cabinet      USA   D810RP4 0703E5001

Eden D810 Bass cabinet      USA   D810RP4 0703E5002

Cardboard box containg:
       Eden VT300 Bass amplifier   USA   0601E5115

Cardboard box containg:
       Eden VT300 Bass amplifier   USA   0507E5033

Floor Fan      CHINA   No serial number

Floor Fan      CHINA   No serial number

Green clamshell suitcase containing:
       Yamaha snare drum   JAPAN   No serial number
       Yahama kick pedal   JAPAN   No serial number
       Zildjian Mega Bell cymbal   USA   No serial number
       Zildjian 15" Hi-Hats   USA   No serial number
       3x Zildjian 18" 19" 20" crash medium cymbals   USA   No serial number

Brown Epiphone guitar case:
       Black Epiphone EB3 short scale bass   KOREA   F300503

Blurt has the skinny, addled scoop.

By Randy Harward

BLURT’s moles keep singin' for their supper. By now you know Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson are no longer authoring a theme to the upcoming James Bond film Quantum of Solace, and they've been replaced by Jack White and Alicia Keys. What hasn't been reported—'til now—is that Winehouse was actually planning an entire album of songs inspired by the Bond franchise. We've been slipped some song titles, including Winehouse's notes and lyrics.  

"On Her Majesty's Secret Stash"

'Ow many times 'ave I got to say

Mama's stash is mama's stash

Touch my shit and I'll touch you

Now don't you wanna taste mama's… (NOTE: Find good rhyme for 'stash'. Sumpin' sexy.)

"Quarter-Ounce of Solace"

I'm fuggin' stressed, 'ere, Mark. Come on, now—just a li'l bonger to get through the verse? Please? Wotsa mat'er, luv? You want me to beg? I can do that. I can do it good.

"Octopussy"

No, really. Eight of 'em. In the loo. I swear. Slimy li'l buggers. Don't let 'em eat me!

"A Gram Is Not Enough (To Charge Me With Intent to Distribute)"

That's not my bag, it's his. Bugger off, Mark. Fuggin' cunt, you are.

"Goldlunger"

Well, I may 'ave TB

May 'ave emphysema

May sound like I been livin'

In a trailer from FEMA

But you know, you know

Even my phlegm is gold

I'll hock that shit on the sidewalk

Then the pawn shop

And still be rich as hell

"For Your Veins Only"

Well, it's a love le'er to Blake, innit? I got some bloody good shit I'm savin' for 'im. Oh, fuck it. He'll be gone for two more years and I'll be dead by then. Anyone for a bump?

"You Only Die Once (Bullshit)"

Who the 'ell resuscita'ed me? Fuck!

Supreme Court strikes down D.C. gun ban; Nuge goes ballistic.

By Randy Harward

Following a 5-4 Supreme Court decision calling Washington, D.C.'s 32-year-old ban on owning handguns unconstitutional, classic rocker, carnivore and rifle-toter Ted Nugent still couldn't resist shooting off his mouth. In a statement titled "A "Supreme" Court? I Can Do Better," the Nuge carped that anything less than complete, unfettered access to firearms an outrage and only "asinine," "soul-dead," "low-life scoundrels" would think otherwise.

It gets better--or worse. From the bellicose statement:

"Keep-this means the gun is mine and you can’t have it. This does not mean I will register it with a government agency. The government works for “we the people,” not the other way around, regardless of what Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein or Barack Hussein Obama or 4 supreme justices may try to tell you."

No matter your stance on the issue, you have to wonder if Nuge is too stupid to know when he's won. Anyone with rudimentary counting skills and retaining at least five out of their twenty digits can tell you that five beats four, game goes to Nuge, the NRA and D.C. residents who wish to keep handguns in their homes. True, the Antonin Scalia-written decision doesn't affect the illegality of carrying weapons outside the home, and the guns must still be registered with law enforcement, but is he serious?

Going off half-cocked like this is why it's easy to see some gun enthusiasts--and even easier to view weekend militia-men--as hopelessly bonkers. Here Nuge's side has managed to squash a big part of a gun control bill that stood for more than three decades, but because the decision is a partial victory--not to mention a 5-4 squeaker, it's cause to crank up the dyspeptic rhetoric and air raid sirens? Even NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre realizes the significance--he's using the decision to mobilize efforts to strike down handgun bans in Chicago and San Francisco. And even notoriously dim President Bush sees it's a good thing:

"As a longstanding advocate of the rights of gun owners in America, I applaud the Supreme Court's historic decision today confirming what has always been clear in the Constitution: the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear firearms," Bush said [in a statement].

Uncle Teddy seems to say, to borrow from one of his album titles, that when he licks you, well, why don't you just suck it? (We're pretty sure that infringes on our personal freedom, Unkie.) Ain't it all about compromise? Can we get a little tit for rat-a-tat? That is, in light of your victory, can you shut yer yap for a minute and, I dunno, pause to consider the significance of what has transpired? (Yes, we are setting you up for the delicious irony of hearing you cry about your 1st Amendment rights, you braying jackass. Hee-haw.)

For your entertainment, the unabriged screed:

A “SUPREME” COURT?  I CAN DO BETTER                            

by Ted Nugent

It is glaringly obvious that a critical lesson in history 101 is due in America, for it appears that not only does a lunatic fringe of anti-freedom Americans dismiss our founding fathers’ clear declaration of independence and succinct enumeration of our God-given individual rights, but some Americans have the arrogance and audacity to question whether the right to self-defense is indeed one of these individual rights. Dear God in heaven, who could be this soulless? How about 4 out of the 9 so called “Supreme” justices of the land. God help us all.

Who could be so asinine as to believe that a free man has no such right to keep and bear arms for self-defense? What kind of low-life scoundrel would know that courageous heroes of the U.S. Military would volunteer over and over again to sacrifice and die for such self-evident truths, then turn around and spit on their graves by discounting the very freedoms that these brave men and women have died to protect?

Will these supreme legal scholars also affirm an individual right to choose the religion of our individual choice? Do they authorize our individual freedom of speech? Can you imagine? Them is fighting words my friends, and the line drawn in the sand has never been more outrageous.

Recent USA Today and Gallup polls showed a whopping 73% of good Americans know damn well that we are all created equal, and that we each have an individual right to protect our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. What kind of jackass doesn’t know this? Allow the guitar player to translate for the soul-dead among us.

Keep-this means the gun is mine and you can’t have it. This does not mean I will register it with a government agency. The government works for “we the people,” not the other way around, regardless of what Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein or Barack Hussein Obama or 4 supreme justices may try to tell you.

Bear-this means I’ve got it right here, on me, either in my grasp or damn near. This does not mean locked away in a safe, trigger-locked or stored at the local sporting club.

Shall not be infringed-this of course is another way of saying Don’t tread on me, for we will not be your willing crime victims, subjects, servants or slaves, so don’t even think about it.

When the evil King’s gangsters came to collect unfair taxes from Americans, we tossed their tea into the drink. When they came to disarm us into helplessness against their old world tyrannical ways, we met them at Concord Bridge and shot them dead till they quit treading on us. Any questions children? I didn’t think so.

Corrupt men cannot be trusted, hence the right of “the people” to choose the individual church of our choice, to speak our individual ideas and beliefs, to have individual freedom from unwarranted searches and seizures, and ultimately, to exercise our individual right to keep and bear arms so that evildoers cannot do unto us that which we would not do unto them. Get it? I would love to meet the human being who would argue these points with us. We would be looking at a fascist, and of course fascists, by all historical and empirical evidence, must be eliminated.

If you value the American Way, if you believe in the words and spirit of the US Constitution and our sacred Bill of Rights, if you know in your heart that you have the right, the duty, the spiritual obligation to protect yourself and your loved ones from evil in all of its forms, then you had best contact each and every one of your elected officials right away and let them know that you know exactly what the Second Amendment says and stands for. Remind them about the “shall not be infringed” clause.

It will not be the fault of the rotten anti-Americans out there who don’t believe in individual rights that rape and pillage our Constitution, it will be the fault of those who know better but failed to speak up. Now is the time to fortify America, and we better inform the Supreme Court just who truly is the “Supreme” Court of America-We the people. Individual people with individual, God given rights. The real America. Live free or die.

Nine Inch Nails  to offer limited CD/DVD and unlimited vinyl editions of album.

By Blurt Staff

Let's hear it for added value: After offering its latest album, The Slip, as a free download, Nine Inch Nails has prepared two physical releases of the album, both with a price tag.

On July 22 comes a six-panel digipak CD/DVD iteration of The Slip, limited to a scant 250,000 copies (get 'em while they're hot, people) and containing tour rehearsal footage, 24-page booklet--and stickers! Then on August 5, and here's marketing brilliance for ya, they'll unleash an unlimited gatefold 180-gram vinyl version of the album. (Each retails for $24.98.)

Maybe somebody should tell Trent Reznor he has this backwards--or maybe this is just another upside-down, bizarro NIN twist? The mind reels.

Sick and taking no shit, Josh Homme lets a rowdy fan have it—in the face, if he’d had his druthers.

By Randy Harward

Did you hear? You know, that Queens of the Stone Age frontguy Josh Homme read a rowdy fan the XXX version of the riot act in Oslo last weekend? Evidently Homme wasn’t feeling too well and when a fan tossed something at him, he lost his shit—all over the guy. Here’s a sampling of some Homme-spun wisdom:

“Hey, do me one favor, though: don’t throw any shit at me… I’m not so sick that I can’t go down there and beat the fuckin’ shit out, you know what I’m sayin’? I may have a fuckin’ 102 temperature and been pukin’ for three days, but I’ll still butt-fuck you in front of all your friends.”

Homme then unleashed the fuckin’ fury on the “pussy with the black hair,” whom he also called a “chickenshit fuckin’ faggot” and a “pussy motherfucker.” The fan was ejected from the show although Homme, moving toward the stage and holding his guitar out of the way, said he wanted them to lift the fan onstage so he could “kick him in the fuckin’ face.” The Norwegian Wood Festival security simply escorted the fan out of the show.

You know what the funniest thing about Scandinavia is? Its little differences. Here, Homme might’ve gotten his wish. But was this his Michael Richards moment? Some people seem to think he could learn a lesson (in what, taking shit from shitheads?). But BLURT sides with Homme on this one. Tossing anything other than bras or panties or weed or dirty pictures or Carl’s Jr. coupons onstage just ain’t cool. Fuck that guy.

Proceeds generated by scribbled-on instrument to benefit AthFest.

By Randy Harward

R.E.M. is showing some hometown love by auctioning off a signed guitar to benefit AthFest, a non-profit organization that preserves the jangly history of the Athens music and art scene. The Brian Setzer Model Gretsch Nashville hollow-body was donated by Gretsch, which celebrates 125 of years of guitar-making this year. From the press release:

In keeping with AthFest’s mission to educate people about music and arts, our staff is organizing a program that will bring musicians and music business leaders into local schools to make presentations to classes, as well as mentor kids interested in careers in music. Savannah, Ga.-based Gretsch Guitars has a foundation that donates guitars that are decorated by artists or signed by musicians and then sold to raise funds for music and arts education programs.

The guitar has been signed by all four original members of R.E.M., including retired drummer Bill Berry, and comes complete with a new deluxe case. The eBay auction will begin on June 18, coinciding with the start of AthFest, and conclude June 27.

By Randy Harward

We all know that “Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nothin’ to fuck wit!,” but although de facto Wu leader the RZA espouses peace and intellectual edification, one would assume they mean to not fuck wit them in the hip-hop game. Not chess. And yet, this:

WuChess.com is the world’s first online chess and hip-hop community letting users play live chess with people from all over the world. WuChess.com lets players get knowledge from real chess masters online, or train in chambers against the computer to refine their skills. At Wuchess.com, subscribers can log on to watch chess clans do battle on and check out exhibition matches with RZA, other Wu-Tang members and stars from across the planet.

Aaaahhhhh! That’s GZA to Ghostface 6, bitch! Check-fuckin’-mate. That’s the Zig-Zag-Zig, right there! Now you gotta smoke this blunt and recite the Supreme Alphabet. That is, if you down. Is you?

Naw, I’m just playin’.

RZA says of WuChess.com, “[it’s] a great platform for the digital world... a whole new world of myth and reality where people can come talk about chess and challenge the Wu members in our chambers." A video game, a comic book and a film are all in development and all mostly focusing on the story of RZA’s alter-ego Bobby Digital, a digital superhero who "transforms into a powerful being that struggles with the good and evil inside himself by saving the lives of others."

Today RZA commences a tour supporting the third Bobby Digital album, Digi Snacks, due June 24 on Koch Records. The jaunt will be his first ever live band tour with backing band Stone Mecca.

Digi Snacks finds RZA fleshing out the Bobby Digital character’s identity and story (in the songs and the apt added-value: a comic book), which parallel RZA’s own. “This is the snack pack, showin’ you some sides of him,” he tells BLURT. “It includes songs that’s life-related; it includes songs that are totally like science fiction.” The line between the two is hard to differentiate, and RZA alludes to his own promiscuity and bad deeds—ostensibly, when he shot that dude in 1993. It’s nothing if not perfect superhero lore.

“[Bobby Digital]’s still strugglin’ with his sex—tryin’ not to be so promiscuous,” he chuckles. “His growth is basically at that point right before I started Wu-Tang Clan. Right before I started Wu-Tang Clan, I was at that point where… I had demons inside myself. And it took a tragedy for me to snap out of it.”

Read more from this interview in the July BLURT.

By Randy Harward

Idiot savant garage rocker Jay Reatard’s gonna drop Singles 06-07, compiling 17 already out-of-print limited-edition singles he recorded for In The Red, Goner, Squoodge, P. Trash and Stained Circles. Reatard played every note (save some geetar on “All Wasted” by Alix Brown of Angry Angels), and did all the knob-twiddlin’, too. The deluxe package also includes a DVD with four live shows: Philadelphia, Las Vegas, New York City and The Netherlands.

According to the press release from In the Red Records, “2006 and 2007 was an insanely prolific time for Jay, as he left behind his many bands and projects (among them The Reatards, The Lost Sounds, Angry Angles, Final Solutions, Bad Times, Terror Visions, etc.) and started recording under his own name, taking musical cues from Wipers, Wire, The Clean, The Adverts and 999. Five singles were released around the time of his breakthrough album Blood Visions, as some of those album's songs first appeared in versions on 7" singles first.”

The package comes one week before Reatard releases the third 7” in his limited-edition Matador singles series (to be compiled on CD this September, preceding a full-length debut on Matador in 2009), and roughly three weeks before a tour that’ll take him from Denmark (Roskilde Festival) to Dallas.

Jay Reatard Tour Dates:

Sunday, July 6: Roskilde, Denmark (Roskilde Festival *with Slayer, Judas Priest, Neil Young*)

Monday, July 14: Philadelphia, PA (Johnny Brendas)

Tuesday, July 15: Brooklyn, NY (Prospect Park Bandshell *with Spoon*)

Thursday, July 17: Providence, RI (Lupo's *with Spoon*)

Saturday, July 19: Chicago, IL (Pitchfork Music Festival *with King Khan & The Shrines, Times New Viking, Dinosaur Jr.*)

Sunday, July 20: Minneapolis, MN (Triple Rock *with Cheap Time*)

Monday, July 21: Fargo, ND (The Aquarium *with Cheap Time*)

Thursday, July 24: Seattle, WA (Capitol Hill Block Party *with Le Savy Fav*)

Friday, July 25: Vancouver, WA (Commodore Ballroom *with Le Savy Fav*)

Saturday, July 26: Portland, OR (Doug Fir *with Cheap Time*)

Monday, July 28: San Francisco, CA (The Independent *with Cheap Time*)

Wednesday, July 30: Los Angeles, CA (The Echo *with Cheap Time*)

Thursday, July 31: San Diego, CA (The Casbah *with Cheap Time*)

Friday, August 1: Mesa, AZ (Hollywood Alley *with Cheap Time*)

Sunday, August 3: Austin, TX (Red 7 *with Cheap Time*)

Monday, August 4: Dallas, TX (Club Dada *with Cheap Time*)