FRIDAY AUGUST 1ST

WEEKEND NACHOS from Chicago


PARASITES GO! from N. California


SLOW THOUGHT

THE FISTERS


THEN ON THURSDAY AUG 7th and FRIDAY AUG 8th
IT'S THE FIRST EVER GO NOWHERE FEST

DAY ONE (aug 7th)
THIS RUNS ON BLOOD from Flagstaff, AZ


VANISH TWIN


TRANSIENT from Portland, Oregon

LIMBLESS TORSO


and then DAY TWO (aug 8th)
NOBUNNY RETURNS


JANIS JOPLIN CRAP N VOMIT from PHX


YUMA TERRITORIAL PRISON GUARDS


BECKY LEE AND DRUNKFOOT


LOS RUDOS from Nogales

FRIDAY JULY 25th

STARTS AT 9PM not 8(but we'll be there by 8 and you can come round and shoot the breeze as you will)

THE VENERABLE MONTH OF REAPING AND THE SICKLE

August 1st
Parasites Go!
http://www.myspace.com/parasitesgo
Weekend Nachos
http://www.myspace.com/weekendnachos
The Fisters
http://www.myspace.com/pityfister
Slow Thought
http://www.myspace.com/slowthought

Aug 7th
GOING NOWHERE FEST 1 DAY ONE
THIS RUNS ON BLOOD
http://www.myspace.com/thisrunsonblood
VANISH TWIN
TRANSIENT
http://www.myspace.com/transientbrutality
LIMBLESS TORSO
http://tammies.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1973216%3ABlogPost%3A6321

Aug 8th
GOING NOWHERE FEST 1 DAY TWO
NOBUNNY
http://www.myspace.com/nobunnylovesyou
LOS RUDOS
more tba

Aug 12th
STANDARD DEVIANCE
http://www.myspace.com/lookforpunx
GUILTY FACE
GOD OF THE SEA

Aug 20th
CHOW YUN FAT
MURDER PRACTICE
http://www.myspace.com/murderpractice
FULL BLOWN AIDS

Aug 27th
WITCH HATS
http://www.myspace.com/witchhats
ULTRAMAROON
http://www.myspace.com/mikeanddick
MC TRACHIOTOMY
http://www.myspace.com/mctrachiotomy

Aug 29th
DEVON DISASTER
http://www.myspace.com/devonandthedisaster
THE SHUDDERS
http://www.myspace.com/theshudders
WINELORD
http://www.myspace.com/winelord

here's a video of our friends in Flagstaff

NEXT COUPLE OF SHOWS

THURSDAY JULY 17TH
ULTRAMAROON

THE CHEATfrom Knoxville, Tennessee


from metropulse.com
You Can Quote me on That...
The Cheat is better than ever, again
By Kevin Crowe
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

“Memphis was kick-ass,” says Julia Hungerford, the drummer for local sultans of misplaced surf rock, The Cheat.

It was October, Friday the 13th. “Everyone was drunk and rowdy,” says muscleman/guitarist Fletcher Stewart, a guy who’s not shy about going shirtless for a photo op in the brisk November air. “A guy lost his grill,” Stewart goes on. “His grill got George Formaned.”

In the corner, some toasted kid was snorting his own loogie, a weird attempt to impress the ladies. It failed, but the kid was nothing if not persistent. And he kept on snorting. The Cheat, impressed by the fetid offering, gave him a free T-shirt.

“He was trying to get more free stuff out of it,” says Harold Heffner (guitar, keys and vox). That same night, in a whiskey-soaked agreement, Ian Lawrence (bass and keys), bought a bass guitar for $20 bucks off of some snot-nose band.

“Rocktober,” Lawrence says. “Don’t quote me on that. It’s like something you’d see on one of those cheesy mail-order guitar companies. ‘Rocktober savings!’”

You’ll hear similar stories about most cities The Cheat visited that week. Lexington ruled. Louisville was cool. Same for Anytown, U.S.A. When this quartet is on stage, crowds are usually rowdy. You already know this if you were at Host Clothing in the Old City on Nov. 3, when a beery crowd turned Bedlam. Beer foam flew threw the air. Stewart’s guitar got drenched. Overhead, a platter of carrots, cauliflower and other freshly cut vegetables spiraled off a giant plastic saucer, thrown like a Frisbee.

“Everything is more better,” Stewart says. “The lyrics aren’t just love-song shit anymore.”

“We all get along better,” Hungerford says, “and that makes it easier. We get along more better.”

“More better again!” Stewart goes on. “I can see the headline now, 'The Cheat are more better—dot, dot, dot—again.'” He pauses, in intense contemplation, then asks: “How come the Metro Pulse never runs transcripted interviews? You’d win the Pulitzer. Think of how much of a better read it would be if it was just a straight-up transcript, instead of The Cheat are a band from Knoxville, Tennessee, who used to be called The Cuts.”

We’re sharing some beers, not really talking music anymore. Just killing time, basically. I’ve learned that their sound has, in fact, matured since the band's early days back in 2003. There’s a new album coming out, sometime before their next tour in March. They’ll be playing with the Black Lips and Cheap Time this Friday, both crazy bands that’ll potentially tear the Grotto apart. So, let’s talk. What’s it like being on tour?

“It’s basically living homeless,” Hungerford says.

“You realize how much the same everywhere is,” Lawrence adds.

“You can go places,” comes Heffner, “and see weird parallels of your friends.”

And, if you’re really lucky, Lawrence will try to piss in a water bottle. “I don’t understand why this is such an unnatural thing,” Lawrence says. Hungerford rejoins: “There’s gonna be dribble!”

“I’m not peeing on you for sexual fulfillment,” Lawrence continues. “I mean, what’s the trouble?”

Best interview yet, going straight into the gutter where we’re all more comfortable. There’s still some lingering talk about the tour in March, which is going to be huge, if things go according to plan. On the other side of the room Stewart and Heffner are playing with a plastic orca and a couple of Mexican wrestling masks.

“I already got four shows booked,” Hungerford says, “and this is for March. It’s only November…. Up the West coast, play a few shows, ’cause I think we can get all the way to San Fran.”

“I think we can get to Seattle, too,” Lawrence adds. “Fuck it.”

Then Stewart jumps in, going off on a tangent: “We recorded on the machine that ‘Back in Black’ was recorded on.” Oh yeah? Really? “Then the idiot at the fucking soundboard erased it,” Lawrence says.

But that doesn’t matter, because there’s still a bright light, a reason The Cheat is so eager to get back on the road and head west. In L.A. there’s another group called The Cheat. “We’re going to L.A. specifically to beat them up,” Lawrence confesses. “You can quote me on that—” It’s all theater:

Stewart: “To take what’s rightfully ours.”

Heffner: “Have you been threatening them online yet?”

Hungerford: “No, we need to get on that.”

Heffner: “If they didn’t suck so bad, there wouldn’t be a problem.”

Hungerford: “If it was our bad, and we were like, ‘Hey, we didn’t know you guys were that cool,’ then we might be dignified and back down.”

Lawrence: “Actually, fuck dignity. You can quote me on that.”

THE BASEMENT APARTMENTS

new band made up of some people from Invisible City, the Pajamas nad others...good stuff...they open so get there in time
7:30pm all ages $5
1250 s 4th ave #138

then Friday July 25th

SHARK PANTS


CANADIAN RIFLE from Chicago


from Razorcake

CANADIAN RIFLE:
Self-titled: 7” EP
A bit of a surprise here, as nothing about the simple packaging or the lyrics hints at how fuggin’ good this is. At turns deceptively intimate in sound and anthemic without going out of the way to sound as such, all four tracks on here are top notch—mid-tempo, gruff-yet-sung vocals and just sick with hooks, landing them somewhere in the gray area between the Effigies and Naked Raygun. I can easily see these kids blowing up huge in short order. –Jimmy Alvarado (Criminal IQ)

SOLID DECLINE from Germany

Solid Decline (EX Y members) blend a modern hardcore sound with a harsh style and feel like that of Die Kreuzen or CCM. Each track punishes with little time to think or react with amazingly violent vocals that makes Solid Decline one of the best bands to come from Germany in recent memory.

Maximum RocknRoll zine review:
"Obliterating speedfest. Ten tracks of hyper-pitched hardcore from Germany, fueled with inventive guitar leads and marked with DEFORMED CONSCIENCE-styled ram-charging harshness and similar growl-grunt blunt vocals. More precise than their debut, catching you off guard with stop-on-a-dime delivery and curious breaks -- akin to members' previous band Y, but never reaching Y's extreme blast-beat pitch. 750 copies in a silk screened sleeve. Ace." (MRR No. 280)

Suburban Voice Review:
10 songs spread over two 7”s and packaged in a triple panel foldout for this German band’s latest release. Three of the guys from Solid Decline used to be in Y and I like this band a lot more. The band’s speed is better controlled and there are some killer melodic guitar lines to go along with the burn. The 80s-era German band Inferno used to do something similar—aggression but also managing to add, for want of a better term, a tuneful sting. In any case, it’s impressive.

from goodbadmusic.com
I was fairly surprised when I put on SOLID DECLINE! The band was formerly known as Y and was quite a steamroller in its early days and the band’s first 7″ is definitely worth a listen. «Besides diverse other sources they´re paying homage to 80ies American HC, but not necessarily to the early Boston, DC or LA scenes that have become revivaled to death these days. It´s rather bands like early Hüsker Dü, Christ On Parade, Die Kreuzen etc. whose legacy you can sense when you listen with an open mind», is what the label has to say about SOLID DECLINE. Apart from the obvious influences such as INFEST or RORSCHACH, SOLID DECLINE make me think of the way Italian HC of the mid 80s had filtered the original american HC, rather than american HC itself. Songs like “Wahrheit” or “Elephant Walk” are perfect examples for this. Fucking great, metalfree post-Hardcore with enough power and aggression and a feeling of urgency you don’t hear too often anymore.

FULL BLOWN AIDS

and MARLA SINGER open
8pm all ages $6
1250 s 4th ave #138

and if you missed the show saturday night at Vaudeville you'se a big dummy

here's a sample

Scenesters

So this is a new thing I'm working on, so we'll see how it works out.
At the beggining of every month I will be posting the grumpus scenester of the month. Just to show that we appreciate everyone's support towards "the scene".
Will I keep up with it every month? Probably not, so I'll probably end up calling it something else like. . .the when i get to it post about some dude/chick that I've seen hanging out a lot at the grumpus at almost every show and always pays at the door and supports the bands and we dont have to chase down or yell at because they want to get all their friends and family in the show for free, or some shit like that.
You think you got what it takes? You better be there at every show then. I already got a couple of people in mind.
I'll start next month.
Here's a pretty picture for your enjoyment.