DEFFECT DEFFECT / OPT OUT / NATURAL LAW / NIGHT BIRDS / NEO CONS in Brooklyn This weekend. WHITE LUNG next Friday!

So I'm supper busy this week, working a ton, still sore from the Tear It Up gig and I need to get ready for my trip out west. Haven't be out to the Left Coast in a while.

Tomorrow our good friend Robert Collins and his new band Opt-Out will be playing at Stolen Sleeves, I am bummed i will miss them but that doesn't mean you have to. His other band Vacuum will be playing later this summer.

No booze/No drugs in the apartment (STOLEN SLEEVES), please respect their place.

Thursday March 31st - 8pm - $5 - All Ages

OPT OUT (on tour from SF, dont miss em, ex-carnal knowledge, what happens next, artimus pyle, deconditioned)
DEATH FIRST (will DEFINITELY have the new 7" by this show)
NOMAD (unrelenting raw punx, as good as it gets)
ZOMBIE DOGS (punx is ladies)
SANDY & THE RATS (new doowoppy punk from BK)

@ The Stolen Sleeves Collective
538 Johnson, Apt #203
Brooklyn NY

Then on Saturday...

Saturday, April 2nd - 8pm - $5 - All Ages

Neo Cons (Bay Area punk kinda like Zero Boys. Ex-86 Mentality on Deranged Records)
Libyans (Liz-fronted punk rock from Liztown)
Hoax (Western Mass hardcore with a fondness for suicide)
Concrete Cross (NYC hardcore that rarely plays, so don't miss out!)

@ The Stolen Sleeves Collective
538 Johnson, Apt #203
Brooklyn NY



Oh yeah and mikey and Defect Defect will be here sunday, Night Birds are playing as well.

Sunday April 3rd - 7pm

UNDEAD GIG VOL. 32

DEFECT DEFECT (Portland) http://www.myspace.com/defectdefect
NIGHT BIRDS http://www.myspace.com/nghtbrds
TEARDROPS http://www.myspace.com/teardropsnyc

@ The Stolen Sleeves Collective
538 Johnson, Apt #203
Brooklyn NY


Then next Friday I will be back from California and I have a show at The Acheronbooked with WHITE LUNG from Vancouver.

HARDCORE GIG VOLUME # 151

POLLUTION - Brooklyn
WHITE LUNG - on tour from Vancouver, New LP On Deranged Records.
RATIONAL ANIMALS - Hardcore Punk from Upstate.
NATURAL LAW - Great Hardcore band, with a killer 7" on Katorga Works Records
KICKING SPIT - Hardcore Punk from New Brunswick

Friday, April 8th - 8pm - All Ages
@ Acheron
57 Waterbury St
Brooklyn, NY
http://theacheronbk.blogspot.com

TEAR IT UP / LAST IN LINE / CELL MATES THIS FRIDAY PLUS WASTE MANAGEMENT & MORE!!!

I still can't believe TEAR IT UP is playing on Friday. Not to be all nostalgic, but the former band Dead Nation then the Later Tear It Up played a giant roll in me getting into DIY hardcore punk. Totally different band but most of the same people. Regardless pretty stoked about Friday. It will be great to see all the faces I haven't seen in a while. Oh yeah and Last In Line is getting back together for a few shows.

There are till some tickets left for the show on Friday at Europa in Brooklyn. I believe that there may be some walk up tickets for the show on Saturday in NJ, but no more then 10 of them, if you want to see TEAR IT UP buy a ticket here for the show on Friday, because I doubt anyone else is getting into the show in NJ

So Friday TEAR IT UP will be playing with their original line up (nothing to nothing) Paul, Andy, Doug, Matt & Dave. I haven't personally seen Doug in like 4 years so this should be fun. Dave from Six Feet Under records is re-releasing the Nothing To Nothing LP you can pre order it here or just pick it up at the gig. This was originally released by Jon at Dead Alive Records. Also playing will be the great Western Massholes that are LAST IN LINE. Around the same time TIU was playing LAST IN LINE was ripping up Western Massachusetts. Killer hardcore punk, followed by a bunch of crazy weirdos from MASS. This band played many great shows with TEAR IT UP years back (CBGB's w/ THE CASUALTIES, BRICK VFW w/ VOORHEES & COPS AND ROBBERS, and of course the 97A gig w/ SHARK ATTACK). I figured it would be cool to have them play together one more time. Opening the show is a new band from Darick and Mike from DEEP SLEEP called CELL MATES, Really catch hardcore punk. The 7" they put out on Wallride Records is killer.

here is all the info:

HARDCORE GIG VOLUME # 149

TEAR IT UP - Reunion, Nothing To Nothing line up
LAST IN LINE - Hardcore Punk Western Massholes, Reunion
CELL MATES - New Hardcore band from Maryland, Members of Deep Sleep

Friday March 25th, 6:30pm - $10 Adv/ $12 At the door - All Ages
@ Europa
98 Meserole Ave @ Manhattan
Brooklyn, NY
http://www.europalive.net/
Tickets: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3406485

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TEAR IT UP - Reunion, first shows since 11/1/2003
FULL SPEED AHEAD - A Rare Appearance From NJ's Finest
NIGHT BIRDS - NJ / Bklyn Surf Punks, Singles Collection CD release show
LOOSE ENDS - NJ's Newest Premiere Rock n' Roll Act

Saturday, March 26th, 7pm - $10 Adv/ $12 At the door - All Ages
@ The Irish
95 Kearny Ave
Kearny, NJ

But wait, after the TEAR IT UP show on FRIDAY the fine residents of 538 Johnson have put together and killer after party. TEAR IT UP IS NOT THE SPECIAL GUEST!

WASTE MANAGEMENT - Carms sings the hits!
HOAX - New Western Mass hardcore band
CREEM - New band, Members of Nomos
+SPECIAL GUEST

Friday March 25th 11pm-sih $6pm
@ 538 Johnson Ave, #201
Brooklyn, NY

BOSTON STRANGLER canceled. Sorry. Yes i know that sucks!

SLICES / RATIONAL ANIMALS TODAY & DEEP SLEEP / DEATH FIRST / FOSTER CARE TOMORROW

Slices feature my boy Mike Ovens from Brain Handel and are sick noisey hardcore. I have like Rational Animals for a while but have never seen them so i am stoked to see them. The Men are playing and so are Marsh Hens and Shards.

Make sure you come back on Sunday across the hall to see Deep Sleep, they have a brand new LP out. Brooklyn's own Death First and Foster Care will be playing as well. Show starts at 6pm.

Today

THE MEN (new lp out soon on sacred bones)
SLICES (pittsburgh, cruisin)
RATIONAL ANIMALS (did you miss the rollins spoken word at joes pub?)
MARSH HENS (brooklyn)
SHARDS (north carolina)

Saturday March 12th - 8pm - All Ages!
@ 538 Johnson Ave, # 201
Brooklyn, NY

Tomorrow
HARDCORE GIG VOLUME # 152

DEEP SLEEP - Baltimore, New LP out now!
DEATH FIRST - Brooklyn Hardcore
FOSTER CARE - Hardcore punk, members of Ex-Humans

Sunday, March 13th - 6pm - All Ages
@ 538 Johnson Ave, #210
Brooklyn, NY

You will most likely get handed these flyers at both gigs!

"I CRUSHED YOUR NACHOS"

Prieceless banter by Jack from World Burns To Death.

Go see Weekend Nachos in New Brunswick on March 19th.

So one of the following bands must be bigger then jesus: PAINT IN BLACK, PUNCH, IRON CHIC or VACCINE...Maybe ZOMBIE DOGS

So the Death By Audio show is still sold out.

but...

We set up an early show at Bruar Falls 3 blocks away at 5:30pm with PAINT IT BLACK and PUNCH will be playing an All Ages show before the gig at Death By Audio. $7 at the door, no tickets. Only 2 bands playing this show. Please be curtious to the fine people who work at the Bruar they don't do Hardcore Shows very often and they were very nice to let me do this show there.

Hardcore Gig Volume # 153

PAINT IT BLACK - From Philly, bring me Lazaro's pizza!
PUNCH - From the Bay Area, fresh from JFK airport via Dan Fuckin'O

Friday March 4th - 5:30pm - $7 All Ages / 21+ To Drink w/ ID
@ Bruar Falls
245 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY
http://www.bruarfalls.com

So yeah.

also next sunday check out this show! Deep Sleep have a new record and are doing a short weekend of the coast.

HARDCORE GIG VOLUME # 152

DEEP SLEEP - Baltimore, New LP out now!
DEATH FIRST - Brooklyn Hardcore
FOSTER CARE - Hardcore punk, members of Ex-Humans

Sunday, March 13th - 6pm - All Ages
@ 538 Johnson Ave, #210
Brooklyn, NY