Tour Diary: NOLA, KY
Eric waxes poetic about New Orleans, and the perils/rewards of touring out of a cramped Honda Accord, and neglects to mention Hurricane Katrina, Trent Reznor, Lil Wayne, and Anne Rice.
We in the Midwest: New music from Midnight Conspiracy, Mic Terror, and British Knights
British Knights and Midnight Conspiracy get all Euro on Chromeo and Little Boots’ asses. Mic Terror drops a new video. People rejoice. There’s dancing in the streets.
We in the Midwest: Juke and House mixes from Starfoxxx
In which our hero tortures a metaphor comparing DJ teams to 80s cartoon superheroes, and gives away other people’s music for free like a juke-era Robin Hood.
Video Party: Sandwiches
I was going to throw a NSFW tag up in the title, but fuck it. Even the G-rated parts of this website are NSFW. It’s pictures of people at parties and shit, and if your bosses see you looking at it, they probably won’t like it.
This video is a tribute to ealy John Waters: it’s got a bad ass soul cut running throughout. There’s partial nudity, full-on nudity, bad acting, cannibalism, and ultraviolence. Everything I love.
GlitterGuts x Fat Rabbit photoshoot
So far, the best party of the year wasn’t really a party. It was a malt-liquor fueled photoshoot at a vintage boutique on a Tuesday. Check out some of the pictures here.
We in the Midwest: Hey Champ’s new mixtape
Only one-tenth of this post is about the HIT SINGLE (!) “Cold Dust Girl”
We in the Midwest: New Music From Jams Dean and Jaja Galliano
Haven’t I seen you somewhere before? Cool new music from people I kinda sorta know. Songs about hipster girls and plastic boys.
See a Pure Magical Love show on LiveStream
Have you ever watched videos of, say, Klaus Nomi or the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo or Suckdog or any number of groups from the art punk scenes in NYC or LA or Chicago or Montreal or Berlin or France or wherever in any one of the last four or five decades and thought to yourself, “I’m not having as much fun as I should be”? You’re probably right.
BBU’s finally shooting a video for Chi Don’t Dance. Get up in that shit!
Be a part of one of your favorite songs.
We in the Midwest: New mixtapes from Midnight Conspiracy and DJ LA Jesus
New mixes from DJ LA Jesus and Midnight Conspiracy! Plus frank conversations on the nature of masked djs, internet porn, and stereos that go up to eleven.
We in the Midwest: New mixtapes from John Twatters, Only Children, and the Hood Internet
How good do your mash-ups have to be for anyone to give a shit? Does a retro soul mix made for a queer-oriented dance party sound any different than a soul mix made for a non-sexual-identity-specified dance party? And if you say the word ‘disco’, and I say the word ‘disco’ and a dj says the word ‘disco’, what are the odds we’re talking about the same thing?
These questions and more answered in another edition of WE IN THE MIDWEST!
Other People’s Parties: The Punk Rockers are Taking Acid Again
Al Scorch runs by with a pitcher of Blatz raised in the air, yelling, “Look what we did! Look what the punks did for this place!”
We in the Midwest: New mixtape from Skyler Mendoza and Rehab
Rehab Mondays drop a new blog and a new mixtape!
We In the Midwest: mixtapes and mixtapes and mixtapes from Chrissy Murderbot
Our friend Murderbot drops a mixtape a week for one year. Weirdness/goodness ensues.
We in the Midwest: New Mixtape from British Knights
British Knights drops a mini mix of 1980s punk refixes…..
Overheard at the Afterparty: Making Friends
Sometimes making friends is really easy. Booze helps. Drugs too.
Upcoming shows: Southside Shakedown with Ghetto Division
It’s time for another installment of the Southside Shakedown, this time featuring Brooklyn’s KINGDOM…..
We in the Midwest: Artifacts from the Rave Scene 1993-2009
Milwaukee’s Juiceboxxx just posted a link on twitter to some scans he put up on RaverGeek.com of the legendary Milwaukee rave zine Massive. In all, there are four complete issues of the magazine, spanning five of its six-year lifespan. It’s an important six years too. 1993-1999.
This was the time when a good chunk of the world thought that electronic music wasn’t just the next big thing, but the future of music (for better or worse) and magazines like Spin, Mojo, and Rolling Stone were asking question’s like “Is the Age of the Guitar Over?”. From any objective viewpoint, you could see the parallels between rave culture and hippie culture. Would 1997 surpass 1967 as a time of peace, love, music and drug-fueled social change? Would Generations X and Y finally shut the Baby Boomers up by doing it better, with new technology and a totally alien form of pop?
Puppets and Indie Kids Have All the Fun: An Epic Rambling Diatribe About Bad Ass Kids Television featuring Gratuitous Swearing and Youtube Videos
Sometimes I feel like some sort of hipster Andy Rooney, but…. you know what really pisses me off?
How good fucking children have it these days, without even knowing it. I could complain about the toys, the phones, the videogames, the earlier and earlier ages with which children engage in sex and the casualer and casualer attitudes about blowjobs, but I’m sure others have voiced all that more eloquently already.
What I want to complain about is all the fucking indie rock children’s shows that are popping up on cable,with sexy chicks, trippy visuals, and great music that aren’t intended for me, because I’m not a kid (and probably won’t be again), I’m not a parent (and hopefully never will be), and I don’t smoke pot anymore.
Upcoming Parties: California [flyers]
Here’s some of what we’ve got going on while we’re in LA in October. Hit me up if you want us to throw down at any parties or events you’re doing.
Upcoming shows: Halloweekend with Dragonette and Leslie & the Lys
So glitterguts is on the road right now, but we’re gonna be back in town just in time for Halloween. We’ve got a couple club shows and at least one house party shaping up right now, and we’re really excited to be working with two of our favorite acts: Iowa’s Leslie & the Ly’s and Toronto’s Dragonette.
BBU in the Chicago Reader!
Our friends BBU are gettin some love in this week’s Sharp Darts column. They’ve been kicking ass all over the place this year and it’s good to see them gettin some love….
Road Trip: LA pt 1
After four days of driving, ten hours of This American Life and a thousand songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival and Blue Oyster Cult, arguments with about 12 different sleazebag motel managers, and some of the most breathtakingly beautiful/mind numbingly boring Southwestern landscapes, we touched down in LA.
Road Trip: KC pt 2
Chicago is full of Kansas City expats right now. I’m not sure if it’s always been this way but it seems like droves ofskinny, artsy cats with a kinda crisp punk rock aesthetic have been flooding the city from KC. So when I decided to make KC, a place I’d never been to before, the [...]
