There has been piles of great press and reviews coming in for Khylst's debut (The Sranger, Underground Review, Hard Rock Haven, Outside Left, Smother), but they all seem to say the same thing...that James Plotkin is playing bass. Its not a huge deal by any stretch, but we feel we should clear things up just a bit...James plays guitar (and drums, and gong, believe it or not) on the new record "Chaos is My Name". For those of you that are going to be in NYC on Thursday, come and see for yourselves that he is, in fact, playing guitar. Khlyst's debut performance, and likely their only one for a while, is Thursday November 2nd at Sin-e in NYC as part of the Vice/HHR show with the totally odd pairing of Stephen Brodsky's Octave Museum, 120 Days, Panthers, Favourite Sons and Chromeo.

Hymie gets tickled. Like, alot. He loves every second of the attention but pretends he hates it. On today's installment make special note of Hymies trademarked high pitch scream followed by several floorpunch type swings he likely learned in the pits of DC. Here's the first of many future installments of...The Daily Tickle!!!

The big guy over here has an album coming out tomorrow, so why not celebrate by buying a once coveted part of his bandmate's fashion ensemble?! Bryant Clifford Meyer's shoes are going for mere pennies now, but keeping in mind what celebrity does to old articles of clothing, you should invest now before you never again have a chance to get your hands on such a precious pair of kicks Make the expenditure now, because these will likely go for thousands at auction in a few years. All proceeds go to a plate of vegan cuisine at Green Leaves. oh, and go to the Cha Cha tonite cause its gonna be a mufuckin' party...

Daughters will be kicking off their Euro tour tomorrow. dates are as follows...
10/27 - Brussels, Belgium @ Recyclart
10/28 - Coventry, UK @ The Jailhouse
10/29 - Southampton, UK @ Joiners
10/30 - Manchester, UK @ Satans Hollow
10/31 - Hull, UK @ Adelphi
11/01 - London, UK @ Islington Bar Academy
11/02 - Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
11/03 - Tillburg, NL @ 013 Club
11/04 - Saarbrucken, Germany @ Garage
11/05 - Dresden, Germany @ AZ Conni
11/06 - Vienna, Austria @ Arena
11/07 - Linz, Austria @ Stadtwerkstatt
11/09 - Munich, Germany @ Feierwerk
11/10 - Berlin, Germany @ Maria am Ostbahnhof
11/11 - Prague, CZ @ 007 Klub
11/13 - Stuttgart, Germany @ Club Shocken
11/14 - Paris, France @ Instants Chavires
11/17 - Aarschot, Belgium @ De Klinker
11/18 - Arnheim, NL @ Goudvishal
11/19 - Rotterdam, NL @ Worm

www.wearedaughters.com

a few more videos to check out, both of which feature some older Pelican songs as the soundtrack...

Pelican contributed "Sirius" to Xvivo's demo reel. They specialize in providing amazing animation for medical schools across the country. "As a band, this was a cool choice because we feel that medical animation is likely to reduce the use of animals in labs for testing, so it was neat to contribute a song to a company that likely helps that goal." to view the video click on the link that says animation towards the bottom of their site and the video will play. CLICK to view

this one features the track 'GW' from Australasia as its soundtrack. the images in the video are a collage of footage from 1960 about Joseph Kittinger, a man who in that year took a giant helium balloon up to 102,800 feet and then jumped, setting records for highest ascent, highest jump, longest freefall and fastest fall. The video was put together by Temmi Okkerse, who is a part of the Smallcities art collective in Holland. CLICK to view

Check out several live videos that have been posted...

Xasthur with Nachtmystium.

Daughters live and interview.

the videos were shot by Kenneth Thomas and more of his work can be found HERE

Red Cross Benefit show at Water Street Restaurant and Lounge in Brooklyn, NYC on November 11th. The lineup is CHORD (members of Pelican), The Austerity Program, and Growing. This is a benefit for a great cause. For more info head HERE

Starting today, and running up until the November 7th release date, you can pre-order the new Stephen Brodsky album "Octave Museum" along with your choice of a limited edition t-shirt. Your entire order will ship the week of November 7th*. The shirt will be available to order for just one week, until October 25th, and will be printed on fancy pants Apparel Agent brand t-shirts.

Track Listing:
1. Voice Electric
2. Sentimental Case
3. Kid Defender
4. Prove Myself
5. Bluebell
6. Red Headed Butterflies
7. Kill The Queen
8. Swingin in the Sky
9. Spirals in Her Eyes
10. Ploo

CLICK HERE to order

In addition there will be a record release show on November 15th in Allston, MA to be proceeded by the following other dates which include a number of solo performances by Stephen...

10/19/06 - N.E.S.T. Festival @ P.A.'s Lounge in Somerville, MA

11/1/06 - @ ICC Church
557 Cambridge St./30 Gordon St.
Allston, MA
w/ Jacob's Stories, Retrosleeper,
Josh English (formerly of 6 Going on 7)

11/2/06 - CMJ Festival, NYC
Solid PR party and Vice show

11/4/06 - Snitch
59 West 21st St.
NYC, NY
w/Jacob's Stories, The Kin, Leave Calmer

11/5/06 - Relative Theory Records
271 Granby St., 2nd Floor
Norfolk, VA 23510
w/Jacob's Stories, Matterlink, Elmapi


The Octave Museum Myspace

Seattle, Washington: The Showbox. June 15, 2002. Botch's final live performance. Possibly the tightest, hottest, sweetest show ever. All your favorite jams (fourteen in all); all those unstoppable riffs, all that blood, sweat and fear. See it for the first time all over again, under the white-hot blaze of the worklights, complete with pant-pissing bonus commentary and an audio CD of the complete performance. Plus a video for "St. Matthew Returns to the Womb." Plus a bunch of other cool shit that you'll have to discover for yourself.

out 12.05.06

House Of Low Culture (Isis related project) will be playing a show in LA this weekend on Sunday, Oct 22nd at the Mountain Bar. also playing will be fellow travel Kevin Micka aka Animal Hospital. There will be solo sets by both House Of Low Culture and Animal Hospital as well as a collaborative set between the two (with some special guests). bring your self, bring a friend, let's travel the cosmos together...

Hydraheadshop.com are offering a pre-order on the new Khylst CD, "Chaos is My Name". Pre-order the CD now and have it shipped the week of October 24th. We are also making a limited edition t-shirt also available for purchase. The shirt will only be available until October 9th, at which point we will stop accepting orders for the "CD/Shirt" combo (the CD will continue to be available up to the release date). As usual this is a deluxe shirt, printed on black Apparel Agent brand t-shirts. The shirt was designed in house at Hydra Head by James O'Mara using elements from the CD layout.

The artwork for this release was done by Stephen Kasner. more on his artwork and other projects can be found at www.stephenkasner.com

Invoking an aesthetic amalgam of black echoes, night sweats, and necromancy, Khanate bassist James Plotkin (Phantomsmasher, ex-O.L.D.) and vocalist Runhild Gammelsæter (ex-Sunn O))),Thorr’s Hammer) set forth on a bleak journey beset with incubi, death convulsions, and abject hopelessness. Alternately harsh and beguiling, Chaos Is My Name is like waking up in the basement hospital of Jacob’s Ladder only to realize that the permanently disfiguring abuse you’re about to endure has already taken place. The rest of your brief, excruciating life will be spent as a hideously deformed flesh puppet, flailing helplessly under the high-pitched whine of various torture devices and experimental dental equipment, while seraphim sing in the distance, never once offering you their hand.

Track Listing:
1. I (2:44)
2. II (7:50)
3. III (1:45)
4. IV (2:00)
5. V (3:53)
6. VI (7:13)
7. VII (6:16)
8. VIII (4:53)

available at www.hydraheadshop.com

This years CMJ festival will include a VICE/Hydra Head Records showcase on November 2nd at Sin-e in NYC. Khlyst and Stephen Brodsky's Octave Museum will both be taking part, More info to come...

For those of you in the Boston area, The Octave Museum which includes one Stephen Brodsky of the infamous Cave In, will be playing a show tommorrow evening at P.A.'s Lounge in Somerville. More on the show as well as several tracks from their upcoming self-titled release can be found on their myspace page

Hi everyone,
the venue for the 10/12 Ottawa show has changed from Babylon to Mavericks. As well the doors / show times have changed from 5pm doors / 5:30 pm show to the far more humane 7pm doors / 7:30 pm show with Pelican hitting the stage approx 10:15 pm. Please let everyone know!!!

It came as absolutely no surprise that Oxbow has been nominated for a prestigious SF Weekly Music Award....they clearly have some good taste. The way we see it is that a win for Oxbow is a win for us all. They'll be in good spirits post win and we'll be able to turn up the evil heat to get them to finish the album they are calling "The Narcotic Story"...you can vote for Oxbow here.

Justin K Broadrick will be performing with Sunn 0))) on their current U.K and Eire tour, here are the dates -

Fri 13th Oct 06 London - Hippodrome[Frieze]
Sun 15th Oct 06 Glasgow - ABC2
Mon 16th Oct 06 Belfast - Black Box
Tue 17th Oct 06 Dublin - Crawdaddy
Thu 19th Oct 06 Galway - Richards Bar
Fri 20th Oct 06 Cork - Cypress Avenue

Justin will also be performing as Final in England ; a one off headline on Nov 3rd 06 at The Cooler in Bristol, and supporting MONO [Japan] at The Corporation in Sheffield on Nov 7th 06.

Above is the front sleeve of the Jesu Aurora Borealis ltd 12" vinyl release - 'Sun Down' / 'Sun Rise', sleeve by Seldon Hunt. This is going to the manufacturers shortly, hopefully for an end of 2006 release.

The Jesu half of the split 12" with Eluvium on both Hydra Head and Temporary Residence is complete.

Also in the process is another Jesu split with Battle Of Mice to be released on Robotic Empire on limited 12" vinyl and limited CDep.

Justin in the Final guise is currently remixing [utilising guitar and processing only] Fear Falls Burning a project from Vidna Obmana for a vinyl box set remix release.

Daughters frontman, Alexis Stephen Francis Marshall, was run out of LA's Knitting Factory last week after showing off his “stuff” at their appearance with Pelican. Once being informed the police had arrived at the venue to take him into custody for indecent exposure, Alexis, aka Lex, reportedly cut the Daughters set short, jumped off stage, and hid at the nearest local bar until the dust settled, upon which time the band headed north to perform in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, and have safely arrived in Canada where they will continue their tour of North America.

more can be found HERE