Mike from VITW posted this youtube video to promote the upcoming VITW reunion show, check it!
Don’t forget you can still order a copy if the “Signals in Transmission” LP here: at the Underground Communique Store
SATURDAY MARCH 31ST 2012
WESTBORO BASTARD CHURCH, PITTSBURGH, PA
VOICE IN THE WIRE
NONE MORE BLACK
WORLD’S SCARIEST POLICE CHASES
HALO OF SNAKES
thanks everyone,
-justin.
On the Tuesday 24th January 2012, the US Senate will vote on the internet censorship bill.
Whilst it is an American law, it has far reaching repurcusions for the web as a whole.
There are many companies against SOPA, such as Google, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and today I am lending my weight to the argument by taking my site down for the day.
If you think SOPA doesn’t affect you, please think again. Watch the video below, or use the form below to force politicians to take notice.
Thank you
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
Dan, Gina & Jim, aka Eastland Disater
Photo by the (amazing) Katie Hovland
Hey folks,
I wanted to announce that we’ll be releasing the debut 7″ for Chicago’s Eastland Disaster this spring. The band is comprised of Dan and Gina Knapik & Jim Farn, all of whom have been busy bodies over the years and have spent time in countless bands, like Not Rebecca, Venom Lords, the Black Sheep Band, Duress, Kamikaze Eyes, Textbook, Scotia Widows…just to name a few. They’re three of the nicest folks you’d ever want to meet and a really great band on top of that. I’m honored to be working with such amazing people and I hope you’ll enjoy their EP as well, you can hear 3/4 songs that will appear on it HERE, and read an interview with them OVER HERE.
They’re playing this Friday in Chicago at the Beat Kitchen with Dan Vapid and the Cheats, About the Mess and the Heat Tape. Please come out to the show if you’re around town, though it is a 21+ show…
the Methadones “Not Economically Viable” pre-orders are up (the orders will ship this weekend). There’s also an option to buy all four UCR Meth’s releases in a single “unboxed set” and save a few bucks.
(Don’t forget, we have the Meth’s final songs/compilation LP and the Gary Glitter 7″ in the store as well!)
Please explore our back catalog of releases too, we’re pushing 50 releases now, so there’s plenty to pick from, aside from the ever growing distro! We have the all you can buy shipping option of $4.99(US customers only), so this is a win=win situation to take advantage of!!
Additionally, effective immediately through Friday at midnight, anyone that buys any UCR Methadones release will get put into a drawing to win a Not Economically Viable test pressing!!
The 2 distro exclusive colors for www.Interpunk.com (white) and www.ShopRadioCast.com (clear with black smoke), will be available later today.
visit our store now at: http://undercomm.storenvy.com
I’m sure everyone is a little fatigued on spending money…I know I am…
Moving forward: (for all US orders only) I’ve decided to transition the distro to a $4.99 flat rate on shipping. So no matter how much you order, the shipping will be no more than that. Unless the USPS shipping rate jump in January 2012 make this financially detrimental, this will be the standard price for the next year, at least.
Please visit our store today and pick up a UCR release…or one of the many distro’d items!
http://undercomm.storenvy.com/
Are any of our albums or EPs released this year making your year end lists?
In 2011, we released these…
(wow, writing this out, it was a busy year…)
7″s and CDs:
the last 4 of the 6 Ska is Dead Series 1 7″s:
–> Vic Ruggiero feat. Maddie Ruthless / the Forthrights 7″
–> Sonic Boom Six / the Nix 86 7″
–> Slackers / Bomb the Music Industry 7″
–> Reel Big Fish / Tip the Van 7″
- the Outsiders “Untitled” CDEP
-the Magnificent “Bad Lucky” Tour CDr
-O Pioneers / Andrew Jackson Jihad “split” cassette
-Roundhouse “the Complete Discography” CDr
the LPs:
-Mexican Cheerleader “Genghis Puss” LP
-Tension Generation “Rid the World” LP
-Vacation Bible School “Ruined the Scene” LP
-Capital “Givers Takers” LP
-Cutman “Universal Laws” LP
-Rudiments / the Suicide Machines “Skank For Brains” 2xLP
…and coming up in January will be the Methadones “Not Economically Viable” LP (the re-issue got pushed back a few weeks…just waiting on the covers now, which should be shipping either this week or next!!!!)
2012 already has something absurd like 17 more releases planned…
The Heat Tape from Makanda, IL has signed on with Underground Communiqué Records for the release of their new eponymous 7”! This new four song single will be the bands follow up to their debut album, ‘Raccoon Valley Recordings’ which was released earlier this year on Red Scare.
Fronted by Brett Hunter from the Copyrights/Dear Landlord, the band continues their lo-fi and primitive-stomp sound that was the benchmark set on the debut. The songs have an effortless air to them and are stacked with infectious hooks that start with a casual, uncontrollable foot tapping along to the beat, quickly progressing to humming the tunes at any idle moment in the day and then into full on “obsesso mode.” These four songs are the perfect EP, there’s an ebb and flow to them and demand repeat listening. We couldn’t be more excited to be releasing this amazing EP!
Track listing:
1. Love and Sweat
2. Freebird
3. Elvis
4. Deaf and Blind
We expect to have these in sometime in early February.
For Fans of: the Marked Men, the Thermals, Scared of Chaka or the Exploding Hearts
The band has plans to get out and tour Europe this year, but in the mean time the only other show they have booked right now is Friday, January 13th in Chicago.
Upcoming Show:
Friday, January 13th
Beat Kitchen, 2100 W. Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL
DAN VAPID AND THE CHEATS
THE HEAT TAPE
EASTLAND DISASTER
ABOUT THE MESS
Doors: 8:30 pm | Show: 9:00 pm Tickets: $10.00 | 17 & Over
In the meantime, stream their debut album at their bandcamp page: http://theheattape.bandcamp.com/
Hey Everyone,
Eric from OP!!! sent me these upcoming tour dates for the final O Pioneers tour. New Bruises, who now make up most of the band in OP now (along with Cam from Senders on third guitar, no, that isn’t a typo) will be tagging along on these dates, so make your plans now to see them before they retire the name and continue on under a new name: “BLACK CLOUDS”.
As the dates get finalized, I’ll try to edit this post to update the information listed below.
-Justin
11.26.11-East Setauket VFW Hall, Long Island, NY
w/ Iron Chic, Fellow Project, Half way to Hell Club, Giant Peach
11.27.11-O’ Brians Pub, Allston, MA
w/The Fake Boys and Building
11.28.11-L’esco, Montreal, QC
w/Tightrope, Laureate
11.29.11-N.C.J.T Records, Toronto, ON
w/Attention
11.30.11-Daddy McFatts, Northumberland, PA
w/Jaw Horse, Thieves in the Night
12.01.11-Maxwells, Hoboken, NJ
w/ Latterman, Fucking Cops
12.02.11-Redwood Arts Space, Wilkes-Barre, PA
w/Tigersjaw
12.03.11-The Crystal Palace, Philidelphia, PA
w/Attention
12.04.11-The House of Abe, Richmond, VA
12.05.11-The Get Down, Ashville, NC
12.06.11- Wonderroot Atalnta, GA
12.07.11-The Farside, Tallahassee, FL
Hey everyone,
We launched a full album stream of the long awaited, re-mixed Methadones album “Not Economically Viable” that we will be releasing this December.
The bands third album overall, the first to feature the bands long running Vapid / Byrne / Mittler / Soucy line-up that would play on every recording through their demise in 2010. “Not Economically Viable” was originally recorded at Sonic Iguana in 2004 by Mass Giorgini & Phillip Hill, and released that year by Thick Records. The album was painstakingly re-mixed from the original masters by Matt Allison at Atlas Studios in Chicago and then re-mastered by Bill Henderson at Azimuth mastering in New Jersey.
The process took a long time, but some things are worth their weight in gold. The work that Matt put into the record is stunning. It sounds like they re-recorded the entire thing…he just dug through the raw tracks and re-built every song from scratch. If you put the CD version up to this it’s night and day, you’ll never be able to listen to the old version again. Additionally, we added a bonus track to the LP that was a song partially recorded during this session that the band went in and finished for this release.
After the band ended up breaking up in 2010, I just put the whole thing on hold for a variety of reasons, but I finally want to get this record out and share it with their fans all across the world, it’s the version their fans deserve to have available.
The album stream can be heard at our bandcamp page (click here)
enjoy and remind yourself of the absolute greatness of this album.
It’s been a long road, but I’m thrilled this record is finally going to happen.
-justin.
Hey folks,
I opened up the pre-order for the Cutman album this morning at the UCR Distro page!
The colors we got in are REALLY crazy…whatever you order is going to look insane…hence the amusing options to pick from:
http://undercomm.storenvy.com/products/162672-cutman-universal-laws-lp
the Cutman album is still streaming at Amp Magazine’s website HERE
There’s also a limited amount of copies of the Magnificent‘s “Bad Lucky” CD I put together so they’d have something to tour on while over here from the UK…they’re also touring down to the Fest with the Bomb. The Mag’s are a great band that tows the line between punk rock, with a almost 50′s rock and roll flair mixed with a few reggae-esque moments. Their album is streaming here at out bandcamp page
AND
Don’t forget we just put out the Outsiders “Untitled” CDEP too! They’re a great punk rock band from New Zealand! Their EP is streaming here at out bandcamp page
I made a list of when and where the UCR bands are playing this year, I’ll have fliers with this info at the Fest Registration Record Fair on Friday as well(at the Holiday Inn, Gainesville), but the list can be found Here at the UCR Facebook page