Attica! Attica!

MUSIC MONDAY!

If you didn’t catch it last week, I wrote up a few recommendations for If You Make It’s Music Mondays series.  Check it out! 

I got home from the East Coast and was greeted with a package of these most excellent vinyl discs!  If you want to mailorder your copy, you should do so from ShopRadioCast.  If you want to grab one in person, you can do so from one of my shows.  I have the usual Portland shows in the near future, as well as some shows around NY/NJ.  So order your copy or come out to the show to skip the shipping charge!

- Aaron

I’m playing Brooklyn this Sunday!  You should come hang out.  More details here.

This is ridiculous.  We can all agree on that.  If you want to even try to understand this picture (in which I am jacked, sporting a full head of hair, and getting owned on the mat), go to my Punknews interview with Rob Sullivan, the singer of the now-defunct Ruiner.  We interviewed each other.  Things were said.  Then he sat on me and pulled my head up by the neck.  Good times.

- Aaron

Stream my new cover of Propagandhi’s “The State Lottery” on Ruiner’s Punknews page!  Pre-order it on ShopRadioCast.

Here’s a pretty cool drawing by Su Liu, whose pencil stylings you might recognize from the cover art from Napalm & Nitrogen.  I don’t have much else to share this week, except that my essay on sexism was reprinted on a very cool website called XY Online.  It’s a site that archives articles on all sorts of topics relating to masculinity and gender politics.  Take a peek!

- Aaron

Pre-Order time!  My split 7” for Suburban Home’s Under the Influence series can be ordered now.  I cover Propagandhi’s “The State Lottery” and Ruiner covers Oasis’ “Morning Glory.”  Pre-orders come with a coupon for the immediate download of the digital files.  This is the first 7” that I’ve ever had music on, so I’m super stoked!  You can get it in sky blue or opaque red vinyl (or both!).  Suburban Home is a great independent label that, like many small labels, could really use your support.  Go get your copy!

mattxgauck:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1696910694/next-stop-adventure-5-alaska

I’m gonna do a 21 day bike tour in Alaska. If you wanna help out, that’d be super rad. Mostly you’ll just get a zine or 5 out of the deal, so if you want something to read in August, here’s your opportunity. Thanks!

My buddy Matt is pretty much the raddest person ever.  I think this video demonstrates that suitably.

This austere-looking gentleman is my friend Chris, the brains behind Sakes Alive!!  He and I are friends because we have a mutual affinity for exclamatory punctuation in our respective band names.  And he’s a pretty cool guy.  He recently suggested that Sakes Alive!! and Attica! Attica! join forces for one of his new tracks, to which I enthusiastically exclaimed, “Yes!!”  (Actually, it was more like “Yes! Yes!”, but whatever.)  Something Chris (and you, dear reader) may not have realized is that being a featured performer is my absolute dream job.  I’m not kidding.  I want to get that call, the call from the studio where a producer has me on speed-dial and says, “Aaron, we’ve got this killer track but it’s missing that extra something, and I think that something is you.  You gotta fly down here and lay down the hook on this thing and make it a hit!!”  Yeah, it’s ridiculous, but it’s my dream.  If T-Pain can make a living doing basically nothing except wearing hats, showing up on boats, and singing for 20 seconds here and there, so can I.

I think I’m getting away from the point here.  Chris from Sakes Alive!! has a new track!!  It’s called Day Jobs.  I sang the hook on it.  Nate Dogg would be proud.  Go listen to it here.