A Slight Detour with the Bag Heads

So right in-between a couple of Exhumed tours, the boys in the bags had a coupla gigs lined up. One lined up for like more than a year. The now infamous C.Y. Fest. It was supposed to be a great fest, a great pay out, and if you don’t know what happened, look it up. It’s too much for me to go into but bad people got into bad things and near every band, including us, dropped out. But lo came a savior, and their name was the Subhumans, who generously let us join their pick up bill at the 1720 in Los Angeles! So, we repacked our bags for Los Angeles.

That was an amazing gig. Totally sold out. Line around the block. And we know some people on staff who hooked us up with amazing home made salsa! The crowd was bananas, but one guy was a rotten apple.

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Tankcrimes Takes Over 924 Gilman

On Friday, February 13th, Tankcrimes head honcho Scotty Karate took his magic touch to grace the historic 924 Gilman punk club. Scotty put on an epic show featuring bands with releases on Tankcrimes. It’s the first time in my own recent memory that Gilman hosted a sold out show. And I made a poster for it.

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Of course this poster is for sale, here

To say the show was a success is an understatement. Punks ages 8-80 (literally) came out to be a part of the festivities. Connoisseur, Brainoil, Born/Dead, The Shrine, and of courpse, Ghoul… it was a line-up so heavy, it had its own orbit.

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Occupy 924 Gilman: Ghoul show report

Last week I finished up a poster for the Ghoul show on January 8th (on sale now in my webstore). That was the easy part. As it turned out the show itself was the real ordeal.

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924 Gilman is a historic punk club situated in an industrial neighborhood of Berkeley. It’s helped give rise to (for better or for worse) bands such as Green Day, Primus, Mr. Bungle, Rancid, No Doubt, and the Offspring. Tankcrimes Records decided to put on a label showcase there featuring Ghoul, A.N.S., Kicker, and Fucktard.

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