PERMANENT RECORDS 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY WEEKEND !!!

PERMANENT RECORDS is having its 5th BIRTHDAY PARTY THIS WEEKEND......and you need to join in the festivities, well at least if you live anywhere near chicago........

they're throwing three shows and hosting an in-store to celebrate the occasion......

SATURDAY.....
@PERMANENT RECORDS - GRIMBLE GRUMBLE
         and the BED WETTIN BAD BOYS
         5 PM and free
@HIDEOUT -  ROYAL HEADACHE
       BED WETTIN BAD BOYS w/ DAYLIGHT ROBBERY
       9 PM and $8

SUNDAY...
@EMPTY BOTTLE - CHEVEU w/ RUNNING and E+
      7 PM and $8

MONDAY...
@EMPTY BOTTLE - BAD DRUGS, MAYOR DALEY
       and HIGH CASTLE
       9 PM and free

SO SEE YOU THERE................ALL THESE BANDS ARE FUCKING AWESOME and so is PERMANENT, so let's all drink and rock n roll............

royal headache - s/t lp

maybe i'm fixated on the australia garage/punk scene right now, but everyday i hear about some new awesome band from there.....and HOLY SHIT all these bands are touring their way through chicago to GONER FEST......  KITCHENS FLOOR, STRAIGHT ARROWS, DEAF WISH and ROYAL HEADACHE.....

ROYAL HEADACHE just released their debut full length on RIP SOCIETY records and it just might be one of the most catchy soulful garage punk lps i've heard since the Dirtbombs released Ultraglide in Black......

parts 60s soul, 80s college rock/post punk and lots of garage jangle and punk chaos......ROYAL HEADACHE sounds like MISSION OF BURMA, the REPLACEMENTS, JAY REATARD, the THERMALS and the BUZZCOCKS all rolled in to one fun band...........   highly recommended!



click here to grab the s/t ROYAL HEADACHE lp

see them on tour...........

Thu Sept 8th NYC @ Death By Audio Brooklyn w/ Cheveu (FR) and Family Curse
Sat Sept 10th NYC @ Ding Dong Lounge Manhattan w/ Home Blitz
Sun Sept 11th Baltimore MD @ Golden West* w/ Royal Baths (SF)
Wed Sept 14th Phillidephia PA @ Kung Fu Necktie* w/ Cousin Brian
Thu Sept 15th Cleveland OH @ Now That?s Class* w/ Neighbourhood Brats 
Fri Sept 16th Kalamazoo MI @ Louie?s Trophy House* w/ The Amoebas 
Sat Sept 17th Chicago IL @ The Hideout* w/ Daylight Robbery 
           (PERMANENT RECORDS 5th ANNIVERSARY PARTY)
Sun Sept 18th Minneapolis MN @ Triple Rock Club* w/ Cozy and Juvie
Thu 22nd Sept Memphis TN @ Hi-Tone GONERFEST
Thu 29th Sept Sacramento CA 
Fri 30th Sept Oakland CA 
Sat 1st Oct San Francisco CA @ Hemlock Tavern w/ The Wrong Words and The Paper Bags
Sun 2nd Oct Los Angeles CA @ Permanent Records
       * dates with Bed Wettin' Bad Boys (also from AUSTRALIA and awesome)

and watch em live below.....

royal baths in chicago august 29th

THE ROYAL BATHS are dark droned out psych garage rock from san fran.

hypnotic like the early the oh sees records.   and like the crystal stilts, they're the flipside to the sunny AM radio optimism of much of the neo-garage scene......

and they've listened to as many psych records as the night beats, so the royal baths know how to make you swoon with a eerie druggy haze.........

"Royal Baths haven't had it easy. In a city where garage rock reigns supreme and new bands form and fade away with the blink of an eye, it's tough to get noticed unless your songs can satisfy punk rock attention spans. But with four- to six-minute tracks and slow, methodical drum beats, Royal Baths have won their way into the hearts of even the most raucous audiences--a testament to both the ability that San Franciscans have to recognize talent when they see it, and also to the incredible music and spectacle that the Royal Baths have created. "The band has its obvious influences--The Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3--but to define them by these comparisons would be to vastly oversimplify their sound. Songwriters Jeremy Cox and Jigmae Baer draw from psychedelic soundscapes; dark, personal, and esoteric subject matter; and a bit of punk's apathetic humor and exigency. They conjure up haunting, reverb-heavy hymns to the degenerate and the broken." --Emily Rose Epstein (SF Weekly, Thrasher Magazine, drummer for Ty Segall)

so you ought to go see ROYAL BATHS in chicago @ the HIDEOUT August 29th.......


and watch out for their double 7 inch split with ty segall coming out on hozac records in the near future.......


(their debut on woodsist "litanies" is also worth looking out for)


rock n roll below.....

Mondo Drag at Psych Fest 2.....

tomorrow is WELCOME TO THE VOID: CHICAGO PSYCH FEST 2 @ the hideout..... Mondo Drag headlines and I can't wait to see their psyched out romp tomorrow.....

here's what the chicago reader has to say " It's easy to want to root for a thick and nasty psychedelic rock band coming out of somewhere like Davenport, Iowa, just because it seems so improbable. But MONDO DRAG have a lot more to offer than an underdog backstory—they've got a tendency to sound like they're streaming live via satellite from the DayGlo cosmic spacescape of a Dr. Strange black-light poster. Last year's New Rituals (Alive) is a pileup of tricks and techniques pilfered from the halls of psych-rock history: the quintet has Blue Cheer's sonic heft, Hawkwind's disregard for radio-friendly running times, the Stooges' way of exploding a three-chord garage stomp into a howling lysergic freak-out, and Spacemen 3's ability to push guitar tones right up to the edge of pure noise. The fact that it sounds like the whole mess is held together by nothing but hair grease and pot resin is one of the things I like most about it......"

TOMORROW NIGHT'S SHOW, first of two nights of Psych Fest is filled out with Catacombz, the Great Society Mind Destroyers, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Dead Luke, and El Is a Sound of Joy. 8 PM, yes at the Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, 773-227-4433 or 877-435-9849, $10, $15 two-day festival pass.

saturday should be fun as well, but friday is the night you don't want to miss.....

check out a taste of mondo drag.....

and click here to grab their long player from 2010 on ALIVE RECORDS.....

peter brotzmann & hamid drake

tonight is all jazz in chicago. first a stop off to see some organ jazz at the venerable green mill. then off to the hideout to see peter brotzmann play a set backed by hamid drake....

wish you all could be here.......listen below......

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