in case the headline confused you, we’ll be on tour this summer with our pals Social Junk.  The plan is to go just about everywhere we can in six weeks.  the dates are still being confirmed, but here is our likely schedule:

Weds Jun 25 Oakland, CA
Thurs Jun 26 San Fran, CA
Fri Jun 27 Davis/Sacremento, CA
Sat Jun 28 Portland, OR
Sun June 29 Seattle, WA
Mon June 30 Boise, ID
Tues July 1 Salt Lake City, UT
Weds July 2 Denver, CO
Thurs July 3 Kansas City/Lawrence, KS
Fri July 4 Lincoln, NE
Sat July 5 Iowa City, IA
Sun July 6 Minneapolis, MN
Mon July 7 Madison, WI
Tues July 8 Chicago, IL
Weds July 9 Bloomington, IN
Thurs July 10 Columbus, OH
Fri July 11 Morgantown, WV
Sat July 12 Pittsburgh, PA
Sun July 13 Cleveland/Akron, OH 
Mon July 14 Rochester, NY
Tues July 15 Northhampton/Amherst, MA
Weds July 16 Boston, MA
Thurs July 17 Providence, RI 
Fri July 18 New York, NY
Sat July 19 New Brunswick, NJ
Sun July 20 Philadelphia, PA 
Mon July 21 Baltimore, MD 
Tues July 22 Richmond, VA
Weds July 23 Greenville/Chapel Hill,NC
Thurs July 24 Charleston, SC
Fri July 25 Atlanta, GA
Sat July 26 Birmingham, AL 
Sun July 27 Nashville, TN
Mon July 28 Lexington, KY
Tues July 29 Cincinnati, OH
Weds July 30 St. Louis, MO
Thurs July 31 Tulsa, OK
Fri Aug 1 Denton, TX
Sat Aug 2 Albequerque, NM 
Sun Aug 3 Phoenix, AZ
Mon Aug 4 Los Angeles, CA 
Tues Aug 5 Los Angeles, CA

more info as it comes in

stay excited

hey whatta ya know, it all (sorta) worked out in the end.  how nice. 

the dates are on the page.  check em there, dude.

summer 08': nationwide tour.  stay tuned, get in touch now. 

"The World Will End Yesterday"
HAT CITY INTUITIVE/LA OTRACINA/BIG NURSE 3-way split CD-R Colour Sounds Recordings 028

This is the LAST HURRAH, just look around you, The World will end/has ended/won't stop ending, better dig in while you can! It is with this realization of both joy and exhiliration that Colour Sounds presents this offering of collaborative sonic wonder, pushing the density of sound to it's limit and errupting with the most raw of pure tones imaginable. "The World Will End Yesterday" features fearless and immediate sounds from three groups of the noise underground each in pursuance of freedom in a different direction, but all arriving at the same point, TOTALITY!

HAT CITY INTUITIVE have been kicking around the underground of lost musics since 1991, releasing their first LP "Happiness Is A One Trick Pony/Crying Is Shaped Like A Seahorse" on Matt Valentine's Superlux label in 1995, the "They Must be Clapping For...Me" CD on Crank Automotive in 2000, and more
recently two self-isued full lengths "Narrow Miss On The Chamber Pot" and "/....//../..// (grey goose & a whole lotta hydro)". Featuring a large
rotating cast of musicians spread across various North Easters states, this
collective explores the various methods pioneered by AMM, ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO, AMON DUUL, etc, into a flux of cult-laden psychedelic-skronk,  multi-directional noise, free-rock, and revolutionary jazz. The three slices  of time they've devoted to this compilation sound like what would happen if Ayler performed at one of Kesey's Acid Tests...blasted!

LA OTRACINA is the psychedelic/prog vision of freak-drummer Adam Kriney (of  OWL XOUNDS/BLIZZARDS) and since 2003 his collective has explored everything  from the most complex-Crimson-esque arrangements, to complete  psychedelic-free-improv ala FUSHITSUSHA and GURU GURU, and the cast of  members/collaborators has included everthing from stoner/acid-rockers to  jazz/fusion headz to some of NYC's finest/fiercest free-improvisors. The  single track found on this compilation is a massive slab of  drone-layered/warped-freakout/acid-trip/sound collage action, comprised of  various live recordings taken from their 2006 "Elliptical Envelopment" tour  as the duo of Adam Kriney and Matt Lavallee.

BIG NURSE are a destroying hardcore/noise unit based out of
Nashville/Murfreesboro, TN whose menacing riffs and relentlessly pounding  drums are full of devastation ala the crustiest hardcore punk, mixed with a  nod to blown-out anti-rock, and layers of overloaded BLACK movement! Their  two tracks on this compilation explore both the seeking-improvisational confused/chaos momentum of free-music's liberation as well as a tightness of  song explosions on top of it, blazing out and away!

This release is limited to 107 hand-numbered, unique/individual art, hand assembled copies.  It is available for $7ppd US/$10 ppd World, via Colour Sounds Recordings, http://www.vorg.net or colour_sounds@hotmail.com

Big Nurse American Waste, LP
The label name for Big Nurse's American Waste is fittingly named. Aside from the pretty, silk-screened artwork, both sides of this LP were headache-inducing noise. Completely deconstructed, complete musical gibberish, agitated, a stare-into-space-stoned-out-of-your-mind-before-you-kill-someone record. (AJA)

(PUNK PLANET)

Big Nurse- American Waste LP - One big massive track per side. Side A is: Runnin with the Devil which hums, howls, bashes, and thrums over layers of what sounds like harps and gigantic brass angels unhinging their wings. Sorta Dead C lost at sea, adrift and tattered. Side B is: DXM which is loud and hammered suspense like early Sonic Youth that unwinds into a vast grid of planted seeds that rapidly grow into geometric patterns across the landscape in every direction that can only be read from outer space. Side B is a bit more of a bumpy ride; they call it turbulence but it feels like falling for 30 feet and then stopping abruptly enough to spill your drink.

(Dream Magazine)

To kick us off this time, is the war zone noise of Big nurse (www.highdensityheadache.com) whose debut 12 Runnin With The Devil / DXM is the sound of the Butthole Surfers crashing into Acid Mother Temple in a sleazy punk club, everything louder than everything else and all the better for it. A lovely slab of thick black vinyl and well worth owning.  

(Ptolemaic Terrascope, UK.  lead review in 'Rumbles' section.)  

we got a review in the most recent (April 06) issue of Maximumrocknroll for our 7".  I read it at the bookstore but i didn't have the cash to buy it or the balls to rip the page out (come on, i'm on probation!).  it said: the record, though a piece of shit, was at least an original piece of shit, and therfore was excellent.  there was also some metion of the Jesus and Mary Chain cowering in a corner or something.  overall it made my day.  if anyone has that issue, or does have the balls to rip out the page at the bookstore, then send me the review and i'll gladly post it on here. 

that's right.  we're banned.  but we've never played there.  apparently mike grimes is cool enough to stock the fucked up noisy records we all love to buy from his two-bit hack ass, but he won't give a noisy band that less than a million people have heard about about a fighting chance.  here, unabridged are the responses i received from mike grimes when trying to secure a show at the basement:

michael
i checked out myspace and you guys are really doing some incredible shit, the kind of shit i really like to listen to, fuck i saw Acid Mothers Temple in Austin two years ago blow everybodys fuckin mind. however this kind of show is not the kind of show i can do at the basement for a couple of reasons.

1. our tiny pa will blow up within 10 minutes of your show starting.

2. these kinds of shows draw very artsy people who dont have a lot of money and so the bar would not do well.

i will come see you guys wherever you play but i just cant do it here. obviously the springwater would work or possibly 5 spot. sorry.  good luck. 

mike

 okay.  so that's his first response.  after i caught my breath and stopped shaking, i actually thought it was pretty hilarious.  here, you have the owner of the most popular club in town refusing to book a band that he LIKES because the bar won't do well.  well maybe he didn't actually like us, and he just said all that to be nice, i mean, i sure as shit don't expect him to be at any of our shows.  i gave myself a few days to cool out, and wrote him back.  i pointed out, that after around 50 or 60 shows, we'd never blown a p.a. nor had we ever slowed bar patronage.  i also pointed out that by blackballing our band, we were going to be shut off from a huge portion of the Nashville show-going population who never bothered to go to shows anywhere but the basement.  his response:

 guys you are great but the only noise type band i would take a chance on would be a very established national act like merzbow or
Acid mother's. cant you guys get a gig at
any venue in town that you like? the chapel
is supposed to be having amazing shows.
have you checked there?

this time, all i did was laugh.  why he thinks FUCKING MERZBOW (or Acid Mother's Temple for that matter) will NOT blow his p.a. or slow bar patronage at his shithole club, i will never understand.  i haven't checked at the chapel, but i will soon.  thanks mike.  also thanks for all the great press material you've given us.  i'm pretty sure there will be a mike grimes quote on all our flyers now, not to mention in our press kits for all our records, shit maybe in the inserts for our records (yes, you can buy our records at Grimey's, no Mike Grimes does not realize the irony).  shit, i might even keep writing him back just for more material.  probably not though.  i guess you gotta be spineless to be on top.  asshole.