(PHR-70) DEAD GUM - Fake World C30

Debut release by Dead Gum. Bedroom creativity + sonic shrink confessions. 8 live songs. Handstamped fuzzy J-cards and black tapes. Limited and numbered to 50 copies.

A place to bury rock groups?

When i started this blog, was aware of all the hatred being distributed in the blogsphere and didn't want Phase!mag to be part of it. But then i thought of the above title and it'd be a shame if i hadn't used it.
A Place to Bury Strangers from Brooklyn, NY played tonight in Athens at Rodeo Club. The band was really loud and played great, songs were awesome and the three boys completely shredded. Quite professional set including all the crowd favorites plus loudly harsh moments, all blended well together.
The venue was a drag, though. It was ridiculously crowded, stage was too low and lots -and i mean LOTS- of people couldn't see anything! It also had a couple of block columns in the center of the pit. I don't know, maybe i'm too old for that kind of shit... But wait a minute! On the other hand i can really endorse in packed shows like house shows, basement shows, barn shows or even kitchen shows! Those kinds of shows are thee UNDERGROUND shows. Rodeo shows are NOT UNDERGROUND as they advertise. Not that i didn't know it, an admission fee of 23 euros is NOT UNDERGROUND! For that kind of money people deserve some quality.














Anyway, i'm not bitchin' anymore. APTBS was great! Next time i hope i can catch 'em at Death By Audio or someplace else.

FOOT VILLAGE "REGGAE WARZONE" from Deathbomb Arc on Vimeo.

My pal Brian Miller just sent me some amazing vids by Foot Village. They are totally ripping it on their new album, "Anti-Magic".
Here is a totally worthy edition you should check. Quintessence of feel-good.

Top-13 of 2009

Ducktails - Landscapes (Olde English Spelling Bee)

Opéra Mort - Le Tour De L'Oubli (tanzprocesz)

The Horrors - Primary Colours (XL Recordings)

Ghédalia Tazartès - Repas Froid (tanzprocesz)

Steve Gunn - Boerum Palace (Three Lobed Recordings)

Jeans Wilder - Antiques (Night People)

Rusted Shut - Dead (Load Records)

Amen Dunes - DIA (Locust Music)

Flaming Lips - Embryonic (Warner)

Florida - Icarus / Once Yr In It (Shdwply)
Jeffrey Novak - After The Ball (self released)

Big City Orchestra - Ymir (AghartA Tapes)
Hornet Leg - Ribbon of Fear (K)

In no particular order. Lots of solo projects made the list this year.

Siteless. Feels i have to feel like home, here

These past few months have been really busy. Phase!records have been inactive for a while, but i'm gonna start working again on xmas time when i'll hopefully have some days off work.
I have some really excited new projects to share w/ a tiny percent of the population worldwide. An amazing studio album by "Η Μάνα Σου Είναι Ο Πατέρας Μας" (collab between the suspicious bastards Joe Tanz (Placenta Popeye, Opera Mort), El-g (also of Opera Mort) + John Laux (Slicing Grandpa) going weeeird) housed in an in-house conceptual zine, some synth healings by Lunar Miasma, a Pussy Patrol live destruction and the initiation of my new solo project, Dead Gum on cassette. Seems like the new decade will start off w/ some serious jams!
I've already started clearing of all the old stock. Seems like i've been carrying those forever. Been meaning to come up w/ a bundle offer -so you can have some sexy time on christmas time- but i'm so fucking slow. So anyway, here's a list of which titles are still available, e-mail me for special offer pricing:

OLD FASHIONED DONKEYS - s/t CDR
HOWLIN' GHOST PROLETARIANS - The Singer CDR
PINK BUFFALO - The Transparent Column C44
REVERSE MOUTH - Counting Broken Pieces of Glass 3''CDR
TOWERING HEROIC DUDES - Oceans CDR
SHEIK ANORAK - Week EP C15
CAKES OF LIGHT - Anthem for the People CDR
GANG WIZARD - The Stolen Groceries 3''CDR
SLICING GRANDPA - Lauxapalooza CDR
PLACENTA POPEYE / REVERSE MOUTH - Baby Blues Kids 7''
KATCHMARE - Daath C60
BIG BLOOD - The Grove C46 (last copy!)
SINDRE BJERGA & BEN MORRIS - Auto Immune Drone Syndrome CDR (last copy!)
(((VLUBA))) - Dies Mies Jeschet Boenedoesef Douvema Enitemaus CDR (last copy!)

You can find more info on most of those here

Welcome to a new era

Wow...
Almost feels like floating in space. Phase! has a blog home now. I have the ambition of this blog to be the digital version of the new issues of Phase!mag. So, keep an eye out for boring news, twisted interviews, queer lists, artyfarts and some new digital-only releases, kindly hosted by Archive.org. Plus, we're gonna be in touch more frequently. Like intimate.
We're gonna camp here till the endings collapse.

xxx-love-xxx
p.