PUNK RECORD STORE EXPLOSION IN THE BAY AREA!

It's been a few years since THRILLHOUSE records opened in San Francisco- it's still the cheapest place in town to pick up the latest stuff distributed by Ebullition and No Idea, and in carrying up the smelly torch dropped by Mission Records, throws cool shows pretty often in it's basement and has spawned it's own cool THRILLHOUSE label ..

Now the East bay also has it's own punk record shop from the label 1-2-3-4 Go Records . It's a very "tokyo" styled shop-small, well organized and with a good mix of new and old stuff and I've already picked up a bunch of great stuff there ( including that Lost and Found government Issue 7" pictured on their site!). Was there Friday and it was packed with shoppers already! Both of these places have a full stock of Prank records titles.

I've still yet to be at/ find Bill Jackson's ( strung Up, Instant asshole, Born/Dead's) shop somewhere in Oakland that's reported;y a combination of Weekend Skate ramp, skeezy Used VHS tapes and Punk Records- (bill assured me they were doing the shop with everything Record wise at low, punk rock prices), but soon I promise soon I will dust off my Gibson Zorlac and head over.

GEARHEAD Records has a Storeabout two years old in Woodland, not too far from Sacramento that stocks a lot of awesome garage rock, Prank titles and also has nice vintage style clothes and accessories. Woodland is chock full of Killer thrift stores, so it would be a great day excursion from the Bay or Sacto.

Accross from AMOEBA on Haight Street, a DJ store has morphed into SHAXUL RECORDS which features a solid selection of Heavy metal and some punk-including Prank Releases-but an impressive array of Metal shirts and accessories, The store seems like it's still expanding, so drop in when you're up on Haight Street and See what's new.

As always there's the classics- AMOEBA ( now with an expanded "punk" section), STREET LIGHT, RED DEVIL, TIME TUNNEL TOYS and other places in the Bay area to pick up new and used punk. Check Prank records's guide to the bay area which I promise I'll fix the HTML on shortly....

CHAOS IN TEJAS 2008 FINALIZED LINE UP

Chaos in Tejas for 2008.
May 15th,16th and 17th at Emo's
The confirmed line up now stands at:

Thursday May 15th (outside)
Roky Erickson and the Explosives
The Strange Boys ( Texas)
Pink Reason

Thursday May 15th (inside)
Hard Skin (England)
World Burns To Death ( Texas)
Fy, Fan (Sweden)
Under Pressure (Canada)
No Fucker ( Utica, New York)
Iron Age ( Texas)

Friday May 16th (outside)
Dillinger Four
Leatherface (England)
The Marked Men (Texas)
Straight Jacket Nation (Australia)
Iron Lung ( Seattle, Wa)
Hatred Surge ( Texas)
Brain Handle
Sacred Shock ( Texas)

Saturday May 17th at Beerland(early day show)
Social Circkle
and more T.B.A.

Saturday May 17th (outside)
Los Crudos ( reunion, for a benefit cause, stoked)
Crude ( Japan)
Tragedy ( Portland, Oregon)
Inmates ( Ohio)
Invasion ( Spain)
Repercussions ( members of Deathreat, Pedestrians, Cold Sweat, Signal Lost, Army Of Jesus)
Deskonocidos ( Texas)

after hours show on the lamar pedestrian bridg.
Inmates
Repercussions
2 a.m.(when emo's end's)

You have to pay for both shows on thursday.they will be checking at the door that connects the 2 rooms.. Timmy says "sorry guys.roky ain't cheap."

And for what it's worth- on May 17th, unrelated to the fest there's a NEW BOMB TURKS reunion with the QUADRAJETS ( another fine export from Lee County, Alabama, Like Prank Itself) and SPACE COOKIE in emo's small room. You also have to buy a seperate ticket for this.

tickets are on sale now at www.emosaustin.com
Timmy also says "they ( tickets) are selling pretty fast.i would say at least thursday and sat will sell out."

AVSKUM " Uppror Underifrån" LP RECORDED!

Avskumhttp://www.avskum.com/ have now recorded 16 new songs, for their forthcoming record- "Uppror Underifrån on Prank , at Evil Grill studio We're hoping for a June release, so the gig in Munkedal 27/6 at Punk Illegal fest 3 , will be their record release show. I've yet to hear but a few of the rough mixes which wailed....but they claim it's their most experimental record yet, but still at the same time sounding like raw, early 80's swedish D-beat. stoked!

In other Avskum news, look for a long delayed vinyl re-press of "Punkista" shortly.

CHAOS IN TEJAS 2008 FINALIZED LINE UP!!

Timmy Has finally confirmed the shows for this year's "Chaos In Tejas", Prank is hoping to have a bunch of new releases out in time for the fest including the new World Burns to Death, Paintbox LP's and the U.S. LP issue of the new GAUZE record. We will also bring copies of the upcoming Christ on Parade Live record and other gear.
Here's the show info:

Thursday May 15th at Emo's
Hard Skin (England)
Fy, Fan (Sweden)
World Burns To Death ( Texas)
Under Pressure (Canada)
Iron Lung ( Seattle, Wa)
Hatred Surge ( Texas)

Friday May 16th at Emo's
Dillinger Four
Leatherface (England)
The Marked Men (Texas)
Straight Jacket Nation (Australia)
Brain Handle
Sacred Shock ( Texas)

after party w/ Social Cirkle at broken neck

Saturday May 17th at Emo's
Los Crudos ( reunion, for a benefit cause, stoked)
Crude
Tragedy
Inmates
Invasion
Repercussions
Deskonocidos ( Texas)

ACURSED " TUNNLEN I LJUSETS SLUT" LYRICS

Anton From SME and ACURSED wanted me to share what he could remember of the lyrics to "Tunneln I Ljusets Slut". I guess an LP with NO SONG TITLES and NO LYRICS was too much of an enigma... so people have been trying to figure it out. Lyrics have been bouncing around Swedish Message boards and were wrong, so he wanted to set the record straight, Some of this you will need a nearby Swede or at least a babelfish type translation!

"I don't remember any of the titles of the songs though, except one...

track2
Intoxicated pissing blood manufactured reality life´s dull I'll never be
back again
could just as well end this now I won't be missed anyway when it comes down
to it
I'm just a waste of space I'm just a waste of space could just as well end
this now I won't be missed anyway

track3
the wait still unconscious hope to be there soon nothing accomplished here
burden of reality
I don't belong the wait still unconscious these are my last thoughts never
to be reveal burden of reality I don't belong

track4
ligger o stirrar in i min vägg samma föreställning inget nytt
livet gav mig inget så ja ger inget tillbaks dömmer gärna mig själv dränker
min oro i sprit livet gav mig inget

track5 (Destruction/Disorder)
the world in ruins sky is falling destruction disorder death from above sky
is falling destruction disorder

track6
reflection of lost sympathy saturating designed to suffer cold and empty
beyond every wildest dream is this
a blur of thoughts and visions condemn reality roaming areas none should see
hatred awakens as i close my eyes

track8
corroding compassion mind goes blank blind hatred hunt down stupid bastards
your mere existence makes me sick

track9
med röda ögon o ingen moral stöter jag bort dem sista vänner jag har vaknar
i mina egna spyor idag imorgon o i morgon igen
har aldrig vetat var gränsen går försöker få grepp om gårdagen vaknar i mina
egna spyor idag i morgon o i morgon igen

track10
utspelad och bortglömd utskämd och förnedrad viljan att leva tynar sakta
bort ångest attack ser ni inte det är jag ångest attack

track11
kommer aldrig bli mig själv så skåda mitt tragiska liv ett helvetes liv
tillbakadragen ensam o stumm smärta o paranoid ett helvetes liv

track12
mina vingar har brunnit upp för länge sen sprider hat och ondska vänd dig
inte om mina vingar har brunnit upp för länge sen vänd dig inte om
vadar i tårar vänd dig inte om

track13
paralyzed by darkness love has lost its cause haunted by memories unrevealed
feeding on the weakness of every true desire haunted by memories unrevealed
bringer of silence and pain

track15
cut myself to see if I bleed hate myself to see if anyone cares torn apart
by self contempt
"

STOKED!!!

Taking WORLD BURNS TO DEATH" Grave yard of Utopia" to mastering today. Both Austin Jacks ( Vocalist, Control and Master of Silkscreen, Is The Barfield Were hard at work on the cover this weekend)

AVSKUM are recording their new LP, with the basic tracking done and Vocals this next weekend. From demos I have, I have no doubt THis is going to be the BEST Avskum record yet.

Picking up the CHRIST ON PARADE live record today. Should be out for Japanese tour.

CROW " live at Gilman" DVD's go on sale next wednesday.

and been stupid busy Blowing out Used records on Vivalavinyl in anticipation of a short vacation coming up.

Oh and top of that FLIPPER actually sounded good at Amoeba. the same weekend I got to meet comics Legend Marv Wolfman at my Favorite comic book store Isotope.

And anyone who's emailed me directly gets back a weird message about "medical Problems"- I've been having issues with my Right arm and shoulder, Physical therapy has a relieved most of the constant pain- ten days ago I couldn't do ANYTHING, so On the mend! Thanks everyone for your concern.

IRON LUNG TOUR WITH MUNICIPAL WASTE!?!

IRON LUNG, hot on the Heels of their new "Sexless//No Sex" Lp are touring across the Southeast and Texas with MUNICIPAL WASTE in march including an appearance at SXSW?!?
here are the dates and I'll update with more info shortly.
"Sexless/No Sex" reviews have started to come in check some Out here:
Punk News
Scene Point Blank
Direct Hit 'Zine
Collective 'zine UK

March
7 Volume 11 Raleigh, North Carolina
8 The Hideway Johnson City, Tennessee
10 Meridian Red Room Houston, Texas
11 Red 7 Austin, Texas
12 Red Blood Club Dallas, Texas
13 Emo's Annex - SXSW Austin, Texas
14 SXSW Austin, Texas @ Broken Neck Warehouse
15 SXSW Austin, Texas @ The Crossing
16 The Crossing San Antonio, Texas
18 Sluggo’s Pensacola, Florida
19 State Theater St Petersburg, Florida With Torche
20 Common Grounds Gainesville, Florida
21 The Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, Georgia
22 Richmond, VAS W/ collesium