Hey peoples on tumblerrr! Did you know that Microcosm repressed the long out-of-print Henry Turner record and book? We have about 100 copies, so if ya want one, hit us up at the link above here!
Do you think Pitchfork will like it?
Fandeth - Spring Tour
Fandeth (Jake from Potsie and Andrew Link’s other other band) is going on tour this month down to New Orleans, where the band will be residing for some time. Andrew will be making it back, don’t worry.
You should check out Fandeth and see them on tour. They’re really, really, really great. Like for real.
Here are the dates:
(locations are kinda unknown to me, they’re hella punx and don’t have an FB)
3/24 - Oakland Ca
3/25 - Oakland/sf CA
3/26 - SLO.CA @ Frankie Teardrops.w/ freak vibe
3/27 - LA Puente. CA. @ Bridgetown DIY w/ Hemmingway.
3/28 - Pomona CA. @ Characters
3/29 - Phoenix AZ
3/30 - Tuscon AZ
3/31 - Las Cruces NM
4/1 - San Antonio TX @ Bottom Bracket Social Club w/ Bill Junior
4/2 - Baton Rouge LA
4/3 - New Orleans LA.
4/4 - New Orleans LA.
Cause tumblr loves this type of shit.
This is a song about rebellion
This is the fucking opus of a unique subculture
You got a lot of nerve showing your face around here
Not even ironically oblivious to this groundbreaking shit
No table manners
No bedtimes
No fucking flossing, punk rock or die
And we’re gonna smoke weed every fucking day
We’re gonna smoke weed every fucking day
We’re gonna smoke weed every fucking day
We’re gonna smoke weed every fucking day
And well, you got a lot of nerve showing your face around here
I bet you’ve never even read Steven Blush’s American Hardcore
Shitty Weekend (Andrew and Noah’s new band) has a new album out. Dig it.
Available for pay-what-you-will download.
Cold Hearted Town by The Taxpayers 12” vinyl is now in the Useless State store. Get these fresh as dope records or be late to the cheese bus.
Get them here. <———— Webstore
TOUR UPDATES!!!
For more info and FB nonesense:
https://www.facebook.com/events/258811187593980/
6/15 - Portland, OR @ Food For Thought (gathering of the goofpunx)
http://gatheringofthegoofpunx.tumblr.com/schedule
6/21 - New Orleans, LA @ TBA
6/22 - Tallahassee, FL @ The Shark Tank (ask a punk)
6/23 - Tampa Bay, FL @ Epic Problem (4215 E Columbus Ave)
6/24 - Orlando, FL @ Uncle Lou’s (1016 N Mills Ave) w/ Jr. Meowzer, Gnarly Whales, Dead Yetis, and Lob Law.
6/25 - St Augustine, FL @ Nobby’s (18+, sorry the only one on tour) (10 Anastasia Blvd) w/ Dead Yetis, Critter, and Dildozer
6/26 - Savannah, GA @ 501 E Anderson St
6/27 - Greenville, SC @ Garaj Mahal (ask a punk) w/ Werewolves, The Great Repression, Numb Luck, and Shelby Dawson.
6/28 - Charlotte, NC @ Area 15 (512, 15th street) w/ Dollar Signs and Mineral Girls.
6/29 - Richmond, VA @ Church of Abraham (ask a punk) w/ Pedals on Our Pirate Ships, Jake Mayday, and Harrison Four
6/30 - Virginia Beach, VA @ PARTY AT THE BEACH!!!! Come get fried dough and soda pops with us.
TOUR STARTS WITH RAMSHACKLE GLORY!!!
AND DANIELLE JOINS THE FUN!!!!
7/1 - Washington DC @ Black Cat (1811 14th st NW)
7/2 - Baltimore, MD @ 2640 space w/ matt pless and the cotterpins & Adventure Adventure.
7/3 - West Chester, PA @ TBA
7/4 - Philadelphia, PA @ @ The Fire (412 w. Girard) w/ Erik Peterson (acoustic Mischief Brew)
7/5 - New Brunswick, NJ @ Cooler Ranch (ask a punk) LAST SHOW AT THE SPACE!!! w/ Tiny Teeth and Feudalism.
7/6 - Brooklyn, NY @ M(A)’s House (698 Flushing Ave in Bushwick)
7/7 - Providence, RI @ oak and troy w/ Black Wompum and Best Friends.
7/8 - Brattleboro, VT @ The Stone Church
7/9 - Worchester, MA @ The Firehouse (ask a punk) w/ Speaker For The Dead and Tremarche.
7/10 - Boston, MA @ The Middle East Upstairs w/ Poor Jeremy, Fort! the band, The Takeaways all ages $8 advance $10 day of
7/11 - Albany, NY @ TBA
7/12 - Buffalo, NY @ The Crows Nest (ask a punk)
PHIL JOINS TOUR!!!!
7/13 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr Roboto Project (5106 Penn Ave) w/ Endless Mike and the Beagle Club, Douglas Fur, and Overdose on Vitamins.
7/14 - Huntington, WV @ Funky Towne (ask a punk)
7/15 - Columbus, OH @ Ace Of Cups (2619 N High St) w/ Great Thunder and All Dogs.
7/16 - Detroit, MI @ Trumbullplex (4210 Trumbull)
7/17 - Kalamazoo, MI @ Millhouse (ask a punk)
7/18 - Chicago, IL @ Swerp Mansion (ask a punk)
7/19 - Bloomington, IN @ CHAOS FEST
7/20 - Bloomington, IN @ CHAOS FEST
7/21 - Bloomington, IN @ CHAOS FEST at Red Lobster with Ghost Mice and The Wild.
Back to the Rob and Noah and ERIC!!! show:
7/22 - Carbondale, IL @ Lost Cross (ask a punk)
7/23 - Memphis, TN @ Crosstown Arts (422 N Cleveland)
7/24 - Nashville, TN @ TBA?
7/25 - Decatur, AL @ Excalibur (221 Moulton St E)
7/26 - Athens, GA @ TBA
7/27 - Atlanta, GA @ WonderRoot (982 Memorial Dr SE)
7/28 - Birmingham, AL @ HELP!
Summer of Chaos TOUR w/ Ramshackle Glory (for most dates):
Friday, June 21 - New Orleans, LA
Saturday, June 22 - Tallahassee, FL
Sunday, June 23 - Florida, FL
Monday, June 24 - Florida, FL
Tuesday, June 25 - St Augustine, FL
Wednesday, June 26 - South Carolina coast
Thursday, June 27 - Greenville, SC
Friday, June 28 - Charlotte, NC
Saturday, June 29 - Richmond, VA
Sunday, June 30 - Virginia Beach, VA
TOUR STARTS W/ RAMSHACKLE GLORY
Monday, July 1 - Washington DC (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Tuesday, July 2 - Baltimore, MD (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Wednesday, July 3 - Lancaster/Harrisburgh, PA (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Thursday, July 4 - Philadelphia, PA (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Friday, July 5 - New Brunswick, NJ (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Saturday, July 6 - NYC (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Sunday, July 7 - Providence RI (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Monday, July 8 - Brattleboro, VT (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Tuesday, July 9 - Worcester, MA (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Wednesday, July 10 - Boston, MA (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Thursday, July 11 - Albany, NY (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Friday, July 12 - Buffalo, NY (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Saturday, July 13 - Pittsburgh, PA (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Sunday, July 14 - Huntington WV (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Monday, July 15 - Columbus OH (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Tuesday, July 16 - Detroit, MI (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Wednesday, July 17 - Kalamazoo, MI (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Thursday, July 18 - Chicago, IL (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Friday, July 19 - CHAOS FEST in Bloomington, IN
Saturday, July 20 - CHOAS FEST
Sunday, July 21 - COAHS FEST (we’re playing this day with Ramshackle Glory and Ghost Mice at Red Lobster)
BACK TO JUST THE TAXPAYERS
Monday, July 22 - Southern, IL
Tuesday, July 23 - Memphis, TN
Wednesday, July 24 - Nashville, TN
Thursday, July 25 - Decatur, AL
Friday, July 26 - Athens, GA
Saturday, July 27 - Atlanta, GA
Sunday, July 28 - Alabama / Mississippi
Monday, July 29 - New Orleans, LA
Wow, check it out! Razorcake put our dumbasses on the cover! Ever heard of Razorcake? It is definitely our favorite magazine about DIY punk, and is the only magazine about DIY punk that is a 501©3 non-profit organization. Pretty cool, huh?
You can get copies of this bad boy from http://www.razorcake.org/subscriptions or from your local record store.
Support those dudes if you get a chance!
There is no Henry Turner. Sorry.
Some folks have probably already concluded as much, but I thought it was time to be frank about it. Henry Turner is a fictional character who was dreamed up around January or February of 2011 when we were living in a storage container in Florida for the winter. One day, I sat outside the storage container to watch the vultures circle overhead, and wrote a song about a schizophrenic guy living on the streets, telling anybody who’ll listen that he used to be a major league pitcher back in the ‘70’s. That song eventually became “Who the Hell Are You?”.
Then, we started writing more songs about that guy. We were gonna make a 7 inch about him. We even recorded the 7 inch while in Florida, but ended up scrapping it because we didn’t like some of the songs. So we wrote more and more, eventually enough to make up a whole album about Henry Turner.
Then, one day while driving from Bloomington to some-small-town-in-Missouri, I decided a book should be written about him. I thought this would be a neat thing to do because 1) it would give the songs greater context, and 2) it would further give flesh and bones to the Turner character. At first I tried to get our friend Keith to write the book, because he is a real writer. But it was just too much for him to take on at the time, so I decided to write it myself.
Somewhere along the line, I started writing the book from the perspective of Turner being a guy that I actually knew in real life. It was exciting. I went to the library and researched some actual historical Turner families from Georgia, and linked the fictional Henry to those families. Strangely, I found out that there was a post civil war senator named Henry Gray Turner who married a woman named Lavinia Calhoun Morton – who, according to the librarian who was helping me, might be loosely related to me. The lineage gets muddy somewhere in early 1800’s New York City, so according to the librarian it’s tough to say for certain, but it was neat to think about.
The plan became this: we would release the album/book as a tribute to Henry Turner, a close friend who had recently died. There were a few reasons for this. First, it would give even more authority and dignity to the Turner character. Second, it would be an experiment in group psychology to see how people reacted to this person. The hope was that feelings would be mixed – some people would appreciate the voice being given to this damaged (but interesting) man, some people would find Turner’s crimes repulsive and unforgivable, others would be critical of my relationship with this homeless man and feel he was being taken advantage of, and so forth.
All these things happened. There was even a recent Maximum Rock and Roll review that demanded the profits (of which there are none, I can assure you – this is DIY punk, after all) be given to Savannah Turner, Henry’s (nonexistent) daughter! Pretty funny.
So that’s how the whole thing came to be. The book had some typos and the songs had some blemishes, but everyone involved with bringing it to life did a great job, I think. If Turner had existed, I don’t know if he would be proud or not. But, for me, at least, he’s part of the inspiration for the fact that the profits from the Gathering of the Goof Punx festival go to organizations (Streetlight/Porchlight Shelters, Sisters of the Road, etc.) that help individuals in similar situations as Turner was during the fictional end of his life.
So that’s that, I guess. Hope you enjoyed the story! If not, we’ll try better next time. Until then, keep looking out for each other!
- Rob
The original introduction video, for some fun context:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58kfYWPpX7I
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