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Friday, May 01, 2009 

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Friday, May 01, 2009 

Current mood:  voluminous
Category: Pets and Animals


1: Isabel 2: Teenage Suicide 3: Love to Know 4: So Sick 5: Nation Writer
Currently playing:
Mario Kart 64
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 

Current mood:  triumphant

TWO NEW TEEN-BEAT ORIGINALS OUT NOW:


 

UNREST / Twister  [CD reissue]


Unrest's classic one-hour tape featuring recordings that span 1983-1988.

Quite a few non-LP tracks and rarities.


"Somewhat of a milestone indie rock recording." 

~ Skip Jansen, All Music Guide



and


 

MARK ROBINSON / Mark E Superstar  [CD reissue]


An hour long tape of pre-Imperial ffrr 4-track basement

recordings cut with dialogue from the film "The Taking of

Pelham One-Two-Three". Recorded at Teenbeat 97.



$8.99 each

Both come in a deluxe Teen-Beat Original digipak on a Teen-Beat

Archival quality disc and with the original cassette insert.


www.teenbeat.net

Currently reading:
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
By Leonard Shlain
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Unrest-related news frenzy:

COTTON CANDY

April 18: MEDFORD, MA @Outside the Lines
with Chain and the Gang (Ian Svenonius) 
and Hive Dwellers (Calvin Johnson)

May 7: CAMBRIDGE, MA @Toad
with One Happy Island

May 22: CAMBRIDGE, MA @The Plough and Stars
with The In Out

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FLIN FLON / Et Cetera — new 12-song album

Never-before-released songs plus their sibling 'Versions'
(alternate versions and re-mixes). Also includes two
new versions of "Cardigan" from the Dixie album (including
a German version!). Very Flin Flon.

$9.99 
or 99¢ per song a la carté
DOWNLOAD-ONLY 
Available as a download on iTunes and EMusic (and other services)
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MAYBE IT'S RENO (also on myspace myspace.com/maybeitsreno )
All-New American Cartoons






Currently listening:
Leaves In The Gutter
By Superchunk
Release date: 2009-04-07
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Saturday, December 20, 2008 

Current mood:  blessed
Category: Friends

MARK ROBINSON / BLACK CHRISTMAS (1987)


MARK ROBINSON / KINGXMAS (1988)


NEVER BEFORE AVAILABLE!
Mark Robinson's two Christmas albums remastered and available to
the public for the first time evah. These cassettes were
given to friends as holiday gifts and these albums were never
released to the public.


BLACK CHRISTMAS
Originally a one-sided cassette tape with 11 songs recorded in the basement
of 3511 'S' St. NW, Washington, DC on the night of December 22,
1987. 50 cassette copies were made. Includes the hits "Broken Christmas I"
and "O Come All Ye Faithful." Live and rough. Remastered for the Teenbeat Originals series.
running time: 21:00


KINGXMAS
Thirteen Christmas songs recorded at the Tawes Building on the campus of the
University of Maryland. Mark sings and Bridget Cross (Maybe It's Reno,
Unrest, Air Miami) plays piano and trumpet. 69 original cassette copies were made.
Songs include "Nkd Snta", "Merry Little Christmas", and "Saturday Nite Xmas."


Side two is an entire side of the best bits of Mark Robinson's "Graceland"
radio program on WMUC with trusted cohort and co-host Don Smith.
Also featuring the two Bridgets (one of which is Bridget Cross) and
Logan Perkins (from the first Butch Willis album "Of").


Remastered for the Teenbeat Originals series.
running time: 48:47


Each CD comes in a deluxe Teenbeat Original digipak on a Teenbeat
Archival quality disc and with the original cassette insert.


CDs only $8.99 each


Get them here:
www.teenbeat.net

Currently listening:
Boo-Boo
By Flin Flon
Release date: 2000-12-29
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 

some small factual errors, but otherwise a pretty amazing interview published in Vice Magazine.

buy Maybe It's Reno here: http://www.teenbeatrecords.com/bandstore/maybes.htm


HEY, WHERE DID BRIDGET CROSS GO?

Alaska, If You Must Know




INTERVIEW BY ETHAN SWAN


How cool is
Bridget Cross? She was the bassist for Unrest, the king of all
early-90s indie bands, plus she was in Velocity Girl and Air Miami. If
you cared about underground music in the 90s, she’s already one of your
crushes/heroes. Bridget played bass like a brightened translation of
Joy Division. The songs that her bands did were unbelievably catchy,
like the soundtrack to a John Hughes movie filtered through the DC punk
scene. It’s absolutely crazy that Unrest’s final LP, 1995’s Perfect Teeth, is out of print now. It’s one of the best albums of the 1990s.



Since the heyday of her indie-rock life, Bridget has moved to Alaska,
climbed mountains, worked on glaciers, and spent time in the clink
after leading the cops on a high-speed chase with her ex-boyfriend, who
had just stabbed someone. Punk rock!



In 2005, Unrest reunited for one single solitary show. Bridget was
inspired enough by that to complete something she had been considering
for years: a solo record. The other two Unrest members, Mark Robinson
and Phil Krauth, began taking turns recording parts for Bridget’s new
band, Maybe It’s Reno, and after a final session in Texas with members
of soul-punk group Basin Street the songs were finally ready.



The new record is awesome. Bridget’s voice is so distinct and full of
magic, and it never feels like a lost Unrest record. These are songs
for right now!



Bridget doesn’t have a computer or a cell phone so I stayed up late and
called her at her home in Alaska, which might as well be all the way in
Alaska. She picked up the receiver halfway through her
answering-machine greeting (it plays the theme music from The A-Team) and we had the following conversation.





Vice: You were just a teenager when you first played in Velocity Girl, right? How did you get started playing music?



Bridget Cross: Well,
my whole family is super-musical. One of my sisters is a professional
oboe and English-horn player in the Army Field Band. I played trumpet
but I didn’t like it. When I got to high school I wanted to play bass
but I didn’t get one until I was like 17 or 18 because my parents were
like, “Hell no, you’re going to play trumpet and like it. You’re not
going to be in some rock-and-roll fantasy!” I remember arguments like
that with my family. I was like, “But no, really, I’m going to New York
and playing a real show!” and they were just, “You are not taking the
car!”



There was a time when you were so busy with
Unrest and then Air Miami, but suddenly you vanished. It was shocking
and also a little bit confusing.


My memory’s kind of
fuzzy about what happened that made me behave in the way I behaved. I
know that I was pissed off all the time, and there was lots of weird
drugs and freaking out. I sold everything and went to the desert one
time. It was when the Hale-Bopp comet was coming toward the earth. Do
you remember that? Those people in the Nikes killed themselves and
thought they were going to meet the spaceship that was in the tail of
the comet?



Totally.



I went out there and I didn’t even know there was a comet. I was just
this freaked-out person for many years, I think. I went to South
Africa, but I ended up in Alaska. I thought I would leave Alaska, but
it didn’t happen. I forget what the question was now.



You still live in Alaska?



In Juneau.



Can you see the Northern Lights there?



I actually saw them last night for the first time in a long while. It’s
incredible, I’ve seen all kinds of colors bursting into flames, like
purple and red and green. You can feel it, and sometimes you can hear
it. That’s the thing I realized about why I had to come here. Although
I lived in the city for 30 years, I always wanted to be somewhere
beautiful. I remember walking around DC year after year thinking, this
is beautiful, but I want to be somewhere really beautiful.



Do your new Alaskan friends know you play music?



Kind of, but it’s still just this weird thing. It’s a tough situation
to be in, to have this identity as a music person—even though it wasn’t
a huge identity. In the small circle I was in, however, I was legit. Up
here when I say that I used to play music, people say, “Oh cool, you
want to come to the bluegrass festival and jam?” I ended up in a
Christian rock band briefly and they were all, “Yeah, God gave me this
guitar solo!” They ended up kicking me out, of course.





Unrest in 1993. Photo by Pat Graham





Rumors abound that you went to prison in Alaska because of your boyfriend. Did that really happen?



Yeah,
I did get in trouble and I did go to prison. But I didn’t do anything
that bad. It was a huge learning experience. I mean everybody knows
that cops lie and that prison is corrupt and the system is poisonous
but it’s another thing to actually experience it firsthand.



What happened?



After my dad died I kind of flipped out. I ended up with a South
African man on this crazy string of adventures. We were living in
Skagway, Alaska, which has maybe 700 people. And the South African
ended up completely losing his mind and having a meltdown from being a
brown man in this town. He became very frustrated and he ended up
stabbing somebody in a bar. And nobody saw it, which apparently is
pretty common with stabbings.



Really?



All anybody saw were these arms locking and then the South African ran
out of the bar and I ran after him and he was like, “We have to get out
of here!” When the cops caught up to us, they had a gun on him and a
gun on me—the whole bit. I said to the cop, “Is that really necessary?”
And he kicked me to the ground and put a gun up to my head. It came up
later in police reports that he said, “It appeared that Ms. Cross
wanted me to shoot her.” I’m pretty lucky to be alive because I was in
the middle of nowhere, flat on the gravel, with a gun to my head that
was held by a fat cop who hated me.



What did they do to you?



I thought I was going to get released but the next thing I know I’m on
a plane headed to Juneau, and they’re like, we’re taking you to Lemon
Creek. I thought, that doesn’t sound so bad. Lemon Creek Correctional
Center, that sounds like it’s warm and lovely. But there’s no lemons
there, I’ll tell you that. It’s a maximum-security prison. And then
9/11 happened and everything kind of shut down. And then Christmas came
and apparently lawyers don’t work during the holidays. I didn’t get out
for five months. I was being held for hindering prosecution in the
first degree because I drove the getaway car that didn’t get away.



Didn’t you want to leave Alaska after you got out?



I kept looking for some reason that this would happen, some higher
reason other than I had just committed a crime and gotten arrested. I
thought maybe it meant I was supposed to be a lawyer, a public
defender. So I got another degree because, being inside, it’s
astonishing the stories you hear. Alaska incarcerates more people per
capita than anywhere else in the country. We’ve only got 600,000 people
living in the state, and there are seven major prisons.



I don’t even know what to say.



I’ve got a record about it. I’m going to write a prison record.



Let’s talk about your new album. Have you wanted to make this record for a long time?



Yeah, but I didn’t know how to do it. And then Unrest had a reunion in
2005. I wanted to figure out some way that we could all play together
again, even though I knew it wouldn’t be possible. So, I thought, well,
I’ll lay tracks down and Mark and Phil can play on it.



Had you been writing songs this whole time?



Some of the lyrics were written as far back as 12 years ago. But I laid
down the majority of the stuff in December of 2005 with Mark, when I
was on the East Coast visiting my family.



What’s next for you?



I have a really big thing that’s coming up. My significant other,
George, he needs a kidney. He had kidney failure in October and it’s
been pretty wild I gotta say. He has this crazy hereditary disease and
it happened a lot sooner than we thought it was going to. So I’m going
to give him a kidney. I’ve already done this insane battery of tests,
like mammograms and pelvic exams and 14 blood tests and two 24-hour
urine tests. And I passed all of that. Now I have to go up to Anchorage
and they’re going to give me a CAT scan where you have to roll around
in that donut-shaped machine for like an hour. Anyway, we’ll be going
through some major surgery and I can’t really think past that. But if
all goes well, George and I have been thinking we want to tour in the
fall.



A band that was made possible by kidneys.



I want to play live and I want to tour and I want to try and make music
into an active part of my life again, whatever way I can. And even
though playing with Mark and Phil is wonderful and so exciting to me,
it’s not going to happen [laughs].
Just logistically and realistically, Phil’s an English teacher, Mark
has his own band and a wife and two young boys and a full-time job, you
know?



But you’re not going to put this record out and then disappear again?



No, I don’t want to disappear. I don’t want to.



Maybe It’s Reno’s self-titled album is out now on Teenbeat Records.
http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n5/htdocs/where-bridget-cross-go.php?source=db


Currently listening:
Maybe It's Reno
By Maybe It's Reno
Release date: 2008-04-22
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Friday, June 06, 2008 

Current mood:  rejuvenated
Category: Friends
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Friday, June 06, 2008 

Current mood:  amused
Category: Food and Restaurants
Currently reading:
Isabel Bishop: Etchings, Engravings and Aquatints
By Isabel Bishop
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 

Current mood:  animated
Category: Friends
Maybe It's Reno (Bridget featuring Phil & Mark)
Gravestones and Christmas Trees
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Saturday, April 05, 2008 

Current mood:  adored
Category: Friends


MAYBE IT’S RENO
The first Bridget Cross solo album.
Bridget was in Velocity Girl, Unrest, and Air Miami and is joined by her Unrest cohorts Mark Robinson and Phil Krautha and Basin Street veterans George Kuhar and Jordan Strudel.
Shipping 4/22, you can PRE-ORDER the CD for $12 total
directly from Teenbeat HERE: Teenbeat Records
mp3 coming soon!!

1 Baby’s Lost in Tracks
2 Days Like Cups
3 Feathers and Wings
4 Gravestones and Christmas Trees
5 Lullaby for Sophie
6 Sugarloaf Mountain
7 Venice Itch
8 Lonestar
9 Drunk Pilot
10 December



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