THRILLHOUSE RECORDS FEST IN THE BAY!!!

THe Thrillhouse Records store and label is sponsoring a festival the same weekend as the
Prank Records anniversary/ ken prank birthday show. They have a full slate of shows and activities for the entire weekend, including a cool hardcore show at Thrillhouse right before the prank show at Annie's :

Thrillfest Day #1
Wednesday Aug 20th @Thrillhouse Records 5pm
The Reaction
Banner Pilot
Robocop 3
Future Adults
Bored and Ashamed
Hey Three Eyes

Thrillfest Day #2
Thursday Aug 21st @ Golden gate Park(at the horseshoe pits, by the entrance of the park) @4pm
No School Friday
Gunner
Crimewave
and a shit load of other bands
(everyone who wants to play is invited to just show up with guitars and drum symbols and play the show, each bands gets 3 songs. Once everyone has had a chance to play, we'll start over again. Mayhem guaranteed)

Thursday Aug 21st @ Kimo's 9pm
Fucking Buckaroos
Farticus
Manville
Done Bin Had
Fun Blood

Thrillfest Day #3
Friday Aug 22nd @ Thrillhouse 5pm
Toys That Kill
Tiltwheel
Off with Their Heads
Pterodacdudes
Jehovah's Fitness

Friday Aug 22nd @ Knockout 9pm
Underground Railroad to Candyland
Four Eyes
Banner Pilot
People People

Thrillfest Day #4
Saturday Aug 23rd @ Thrillhouse 5pm
Surrender
Acts of Sedition
Lozen
Megazilla
( this is the record release show for the Surrender LP and thrillhouse's #100th show!)

Saturday Aug 23rd @ Knockout 9pm
Tiltwheel
Dan Padilla
Songs For Moms
$2.00 Out the Door
Sunnyside

Thrillfest Day #5
Sunday Aug 24th
Baseball game @ Jackson Park @ 3pm
(everyone is invited to come out and play baseball, no matter how bad/hungover/drunk you are)

Sunday Aug 24th @ Thee Parkside 7pm
Underground Railroad To Candyland
Toys That Kill
Nothington
Yankee Kamikaze
Blonde Ambition
Whiskey Sunday


Prank is going to completely stock up the Thrillhouse store for the weekend with Prank Releases. Also be sure to stop by 1-2-3-4 go! in Oakland!

AVSKUM " UPPROR UNDERIFRAN" LP/CD

AVSKUM " UPPROR UNDERIFRAN" LP/CD

SHIPPING FRIDAY AUGUST 15th. OUT FROM DISTROS AUGUST 18th.In Stores AUGUST 25th.

Blasting an unrelenting wall of D-beat hardcore, Resonating with vitality, "Uppror Underifran" ( translated loosely "Uproar from the Underground") by Swedish Legends AVSKUM is stunningly, their most severe record in the band's 26 year history. An overkill attack of smashing drums and guitar riffage, This Fourth Lp hearkens back to their 1982 origins , with a heavy DISCHARGE bent ala' ANTI-CIMEX mired with the incomprehensibily raw, blunt and brutal song structures found in the original era of Swedish hardcore punk . The MOTORHEAD-ish rock overdrive of their previous Prank LP's is still cranked with the curt economy of masters at the top of their game, capped with AVSKUM's inventive song structures and always great, trademark harsh vocals, all captured in a exceptional recording from Gothenburg's EVIL GRILL studio and slapped in a cool sleeve by Swedish artist CRASH MANGE . Taking a four year break since their last LP,"Punkista", the band took time writing "Uppror Underifran" to deliver 16 incredibly rock solid tracks that transition from their previous recordings to now have largely entirely Swedish lyrics, but still take relevant aim at U.S. War Policy, Capitalism and Mass consumption. Stunningly one of the band's best outings yet that demands to be Played loud! No... Louder! Louder! Louder!

Ordering info is up at our handy Yahoo Group We use to send out new release info.

THis record is so killer. Can't stress that enough.So head banging wothy It should come with a neck brace!

PRANK 13th Anniversary Show August 23rd, 2008

Prank Records will host a 13th Anniversary show on August 23rd at Annie's Social Club 917 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94107.
WITH
WORLD BURNS TO DEATHfrom Austin, Texas. They are flying in for this one show, maybe their only West Coast appearance this year.

IRON LUNGfrom Seattle, Washington. Also flying to play their only Bay Area show of the summer.

DESOLATION from Oakland/ San Francisco.

with Special Guests: NEEDLES from Oakland/ San Francisco.

The Show is $10. 21+ ( sorry kids, need the high bar door take to cover the flights) This Also happens to be Ken Prank's Birthday! So Come say Hi! Yay!

SF: PELIGRO SOCIAL SHOW TOMORROW NIGHT MOVED!

Ran into Nathan guitarist of Peligro Social ( and new Bay Area transplant Smashley! Welcome!) and he said that their Homecoming show tomorrow Night has been moved a few blocks over from it's original venue of Balazo to a space at 16th and Valencia by the Pork Store in San Francisco. "Just look for all the punks"
Also on the show
TV Evangelists
Follow Blindly
(who just put out a Probably way limited 7" onLoud, Fat rules)
US Kings
Duck And Cover
It's been a long break for Peligro , Stoked to see them back in action!

And if You're from outside the bay, be sure to check Peligro's awesome Debut LP on great bay area labels Tankcrimes and No Options

RAYMOND PETTIBON MRR COVER!

MRR Reports that" their new September issue of MRR (#304) is about to go to press. This issue includes all the usual reviews, columns, etc, plus interviews with John Stabb of Government Issue , The Press, Simply Saucer, XYX, Measure [sa], Cola Freaks, Kulturekampf, and Andy T. It also features an interview with artist Raymond Pettibon, best known in the Punk world for his Covers for SST records and BLACK FLAG:

He's been kind enough to let them use some of his artwork for the cover of the issue, and as gift to(and as an incentive to become a)subscribers to maximumrocknroll will receive a version of the issue with a limited 2-color silkscreen cover. There will only be 800 of these covers printed so it's on a first-come, first-serve basis....So if you've been thinking about subscribing to MRR, now's a good time to! You can subscribe right off their home page hitting "Subscriptions" in the left-hand column.

CAPITOL PUNISHMENT "IN THE BEGINNING " CD

CAPITOL PUNISHMENT has always been one of My Favorite 80's Punk bands ,mainly because like the flyer pictured, they played some of the first hardcore and punk shows I went to ( as well as ILL REPUTE, STALAG 13, etc and many other bands that would stop and play at the Basement of the San Luis Obispo Vets hall, later the site of a Police riot at a DEAD KENNEDYS show the year after I moved back to Alabama). Their "When Putsch Comes To Shove" is one of the great underrated hardcore records of the 1980's, a total Stormer of great songs, huge production and on the original pressing, monsterous mastering by George Horn, who also has done most of Prank's releases.



Anyway I was excited to see Dale from CAPITOL PUNISHMENT has just self-released a new CD of Live and rehearsal tracks and interviews that precede their vinyl releases on their Stagedive label they've had since the 80's. These feature their original vocalist that predated any of their vinyl releases, and while maybe date from a little less of a PC era of punk and are less blistering thrash of their later stuff, they also are brimful of Fun energy and rawness often missing from bands that followed later..and are a stripped down version of the cool songwriting of Later CP.. While maybe not the best place to start with CAPITOL PUNISHMENT, it's a good treat for fans...At the end their are interviews with various Fresno bands ( including the admittedly contraversal " NBJ" who are on MRR"s " Not so quiet on the Western Front" ) but mixed with miscellaneous and ambient noise, police and party noises, makes for a fun listen. " we want to roll in the mud and say "that is art!"

Dale had also re-released the awesome Fresno 1984 Cassette compilation on CD awhile back which has lots of great tracks by Central California 80's bands and is well worth the $10.

You can order both these CD's here ASSUALT,MERE MORTALS and other bands played a lot of the Vets Hall shows I saw, and the bassist of MERE MORTALS was a pal from High school...but the CD has a great quality of different bands just guessing, making up and defining their approach to punk and having fun with it, so there's a good and interesting variety of sounds.

PRANK NEW RELEASES- GAUZE, WB2D, PAINTBOX

Prank has not updated it's website with the new stuff yet because We sold out of the new Gauze 12" in record time on the basis of sending out a message on our Yahoo group ( where new prank releases are always announced first in a bulk email) and a few internet posts. There are still copies at NO IDEA, Havoc, PAINKILLER, Moo Cow Records 16oh, Sorry State, Sound Idea Brickwall, Velted regnub and more. La Vida Es Musin London Will have these shortly. This record is currently being re-pressed.


WORLD BURNS TO DEATH " The Graveyard Of Utopia" is also currently sold out at Prank, but available at all of those places and more. WB2D thank everyone who showed up at their Shows in Europe, and we're now working on both a japanese and european version of their new LP.

PAINTBOX colored vinyl is still available through prank direct. Write for details. AVSKUM "Uppror Underifran" Lp/CD should be done any day.