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Monday, November 3, 2008

Clutch and Weathermaker Ready "Full Fathom Five" DVD+CD!

Clutch & Weathermaker Team Up w/ MVD * New CD/DVD in stores Nov. 11th * Band To Appear on Hard Rock Hell Festival, Saw V Soundtrack, US Dates w/ Russian Circles and More!

For the past 8 weeks, Clutch's first ever DVD "Full Fathom Five, Video Field Recordings," and accompanying CD have been available at the band's legendary live shows, through Merch.com and in about 150 select US, Canadian and UK independent retail outlets chosen by the band's owned and self distributed Weathermaker Music label. This will increase ten-fold, as Weathermaker has teamed up with the MVD Entertainment Group to expand the reach of the "Full Fathom Five" project.

On November 11th, the acclaimed live Clutch DVD and accompanying "Full Fathom Five-Audio Field Recordings" CD will be available in over 1500 new retail outlets such as FYE, Best Buy, Coconuts, Fry's, Hastings and Barnes & Noble.

"This is a fantastic progression for us after only three months as an active label." states Weathermaker Music Label Manager Jon Nardachone. "Originally, our intention was to handle all CD and DVD sales directly through Weathermaker, but having the MVD Distribution team on board for the "Full Fathom Five" project ensures many ecstatic Clutch fans this holiday season."

In other Clutch related news, some of the incredible footage from the "Full Fathom Five" DVD will be featured on Comcast Cable's On Demand "Concert TV" channel starting December 15th, along with classic rock icons Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, Black Crowes, Deep Purple, Santana, U2 & Motorhead.

Clutch's live concert footage was produced and directed by Agent Ogden (Primus, Jon Comer, Music With Altitude) in Pittsburgh, Sayerville, Denver and Sydney Austrailia on the band's 2007/2008 "From Beale Street to Oblivion" world tour. The track "Power Player" from that release, as well as "Full Fathom Five," is featured on the Saw V Motion Picture Soundtrack released last week.

* Clutch will end 2008 the same way they began it, on the road. The band is confirmed along with Thin Lizzy, Black Label Society and Hawkwind to play the Hard Rock Hell Festival on December 6th in North Wales. Upon returning home, they will headline a short run with Viking Skull and Russian Circles as support.

Clutch Live!
Dec 6 Hard Rock Hell Festival North Wales UK w/ Thin Lizzy, Orange Goblin, Cancer Bats, Black Label Society and more!

USA w/ Russian Circles
Dec 27 Starland Ballroom Sayerville, New Jersey
Dec 28 Webster Theater Hartford, Connecticut
Dec 29 9:30 Club Wash DC, Washington DC
Dec 30 Newport Music Hall Columbus, Ohio
Dec 31 The Orbit Room Grand Rapids, Michigan

* Look for Weathermaker to announce a major distribution deal for future releases very soon.

For more information, visit:
www.pro-rock.com
www.weathermakermusic.com
www.myspace.com/weathermakermusic

Pitchfork Talks Debut Clues Album (ex-Unicorns / Arcade Fire) on Constellation Records!

huge thanks to Amy Phillips, Matthew Solarski, and the entire Pitchfork staff!

Ex-Arcade Fire/Unicorns Members Prep Debut as Clues

That Metric/Tokyo Police Club/Dears/Sebastien Grainger tour not enough Canada for you? Try Clues, a new band formed by ex-Arcade Fire man Brendan Reed and ex-Unicorn Alden Penner, along with a few of their Montreal pals.

Clues have been simmering in their hometown for a minute, playing here and there and starting a music-hocking website, but they are ready to make their full-length debut with an album scheduled to come out via Constellation Records in April. No word on a title or tracklist yet, but you can sample a tune called "Perfect Fit" in MP3 form below.

Clues also have a short East Coast tour kicking off in New York City on election night. Excellent timing, ya Canadians!

Clues:
11-04 New York, NY - Exit Art (election night party)
11-05 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY - SMOG (Bard College)
11-06 Burlington, VT - TBA
11-07 Hanover, NH - Fuel (Dartmouth College)
11-08 Bennington, VT - The Student Center (Bennington College)
11-29 Utrecht, Netherlands - Tivoli

Download "Perfect Fit" here!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Kaiju Big Battel in LA and San Francisco w/ Busdriver!

Announces LA and San Francisco Battels w/ Special Musical Guest Busdriver!

The West Coast is under attack!
The Kaiju Commissioner has announced a growing KAIJU threat has emerged on the West Coast, and to combat this will be staging two KAIJU BIG BATTELS to tamp down monster aggression.

KAIJU BIG BATTEL invades San Francisco FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER at the Grand Ballroom, Wednesday, November 19th. This engagement is immediately followed by KAIJU'S TRIUMPHANT RETURN to Los Angeles, November 20th at the Mayan Theater!

To aid in the monster crushing destruction, special musical guest and seminal emcee BUSDRIVER and DJ team ROCTAPUSSY will also perform!

What: Kaiju Big Battel with Busdriver and Rocktapussy
Musical Guest: Busdriver and Rocktapussy
Where: The Grand Ballroom 1290 Sutter St San Francisco
When: Wednesday, November 19th, 8pm
Tickets: $20. Ticketmaster. All Ages.

What: Kaiju Big Battel
Musical Guest: Busdriver and Rocktapussy
Where: Mayan Theater 1038 S Hill Street, Los Angeles
When: Thursday November 20th 6:00PM Doors. 7:00PM Show.
Tickets: $23. Ticketmaster. All Ages.

About Kaiju Big Battel
Kaiju Big Battel is a modern conflict of epic proportions. Planet Earth is under threat: scattered throughout the galaxy is a monstrous mob of maniacal villains, menacing alien beasts, and giant, city-crushing monsters that are waging war against one another. Presiding over this mayhem is the Kaiju Commissioner, an enigmatic human-arbiter appointed by a clandestine cadre of world leaders to regulate Kaiju rage. If the Kaiju Commissioner doesn’t do his job perfectly the entire world could get caught in the crossfire.

Currently, the Kaiju Universe maintains an active roster of approximately 50 monsters, including a factory-worker-turned-soup-can called Kung-Fu Chicken Noodle, a dirty hare-sage dubbed Dusto Bunny, a loser sea beast known as Call-Me-Kevin, and a despicable, square-headed mad scientist known as Dr. Cube. In addition to the Kaiju Commissioner, a few privileged humans also get a piece of the action, including Referee Jingi, a mustachioed official who enforces fairness and civility in the ring, Davio Salbino, an urban renewal expert who reconstructs crumbled cityscapes between Battels, and one tuxedo-wearing, mouth-running MC, Louden Noxious.

About Studio Kaiju
Studio Kaiju, an independent Boston-based performance and media group, is the creator of Kaiju Big Battel, the world's only live monster mayhem spectacle. Producer of consistently sold-out events, Studio Kaiju is best known for its live tournament-style performances, which are a character driven, tongue-in-cheek hybrid of American pro-wrestling, Japanese monster-movies, and lowbrow pop culture.

These multi-media events, complete with video installations, monster movie props, a towering "Danger Cage", and crushable miniature cityscape, can also be enjoyed from a safe distance thanks to "Kaiju Big Battel: A Practical Guide to Giant City-Crushing Monsters" from Hyperion Books and the Kaiju Big Battel DVD series.

To fund its live event series, monster creations and metropolitan destruction, Studio Kaiju produces and distributes its own line of merchandise including Tshirts, "real" monster meat, magnets and a whole catalogue of other cool but useless, limited-edition designer collectibles. The world of Kaiju Big Battel is also supported by the fun-fun website, kaiju.com, which hosts Big Battel news, monster profiles, live event videos, arcade-style games, comics, and the most commercial online mall ever.

For more information, visit:
www.kaiju.com

Friday, October 31, 2008

Pitchfork Interviews Lustmord for Halloween Installment of "Show No Mercy!"

huge thanks to Brandon Stosuy and the entire Pitchfork staff for their support!

Column: Show No Mercy

Dark ambient progenitor and Crow and Underworld soundtracker Brian Williams, aka Lustmord, released [ O T H E R ] on Hydra Head a couple months ago, but its creepy twists and turns are a more fitting autumn listen, so I decided to ask the Los Angeles-based Welshman a few questions about its 80 minutes of eerie haunted house creaks and drones.

(((Click here to read the interview!)))