In anticipation of The Narcotic Story, which will be unleashed on the public later on in 2007, Oxbow will be at the following locations on these specified dates..

Jan 15th 2007 - Oakland,CA - The Uptown Club
Oxbow Acoustic w/ Blood And Time

Feb 22nd 2007 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah
w/ Isis and Jesu

Feb 23rd 2007 - Tempe, AZ - The Clubhouse
w/ Isis and Jesu

Feb 24th 2007 - Albuquerque, NM - The Launchpad
w/ Isis and Jesu

Mar 15th 2007: Austin, TX - SXSW Hydrahead Showcase


www.theoxbow.com
www.myspace.com/theoxbow

New Hampshire. The Green Mountain State. Important state for Presidential Election Primaries. The Inverted Vermont. Former home of The Old Man on the Mountain. Current home of the indefinitely-on-hiatus collective Scissorfight. You see folks, this is how these men work. Every couple of years they'll pop up with a transcending new beast, like they did with this years "Jaggernaut", they'll play the states (this year with long time mates Orange Goblin) and the UK, and then they scatter through the Great Northeast to hibernate for a wee bit. In the meantime, while the faithful sit and wonder how long hibernation will last, we offer a glimpse of hope shining like a beacon through the feet upon feet of snow throughout the Granite State this holiday season. We've been slowly but surely piecing together what will be Scissorfight's first DVD release. Their Stone Church, NH show earlier this spring was shot with multiple cameras, and recorded with deluxe multi-track sounds. Longtime producer Andrew Schnieder mixed it all up on the audio front (its so good we 're thinking of adding a bonus live CD to the release) and our old friend Mike Gill has been putting footage together into a wonderfully edited live set. At the risk of bumming out those who've busted ass working on the DVD (us included!), the real gem of the final product just might be the plethora of old and unseen footage throughout the years. For those in the know you'll get what we mean...Hempfest footage in front of 75,000 people from the early 2000's, live footage from 1995 at the Middle East Upstairs right at the time Guaranteed Kill came out, live footage from even earlier up in NH back when the then un-moniker-ed Ironlung was cropped tight and bleached right, live footage from the Paradise in 1996, from Axis in 2000, you get the idea. Supposedly footage from Mama Kin in 1998 is being dug up as well. Most of it is single camera work with below average audio, but fuck it, its the fact that it even exist that we dig so much. Which reminds us, if you have any footage of the band from over the years, drop us a line at info@tortugarecordings.com and let us know you got. We're especially looking for shit from the mid to late 90's, especially any Elvis Room shows from back in the day...

In related news Jarvis and Fortin, both a bit antsy with Scissorfight down time, did what they've always said they should do to ease the beast within...they started a new band! Mess With the Bull!! Pete Knipfing, a Boston Rock vet at this point, from Lamont steps up on guitar and vocals with a new recruit Benjamin swinging the planks. As you might imagine its sounds like, well, alot like a mix between Scissorfight and Lamont. Totally slamming rock. They've got tracks posted at their myspace page for downloads, and have a bunch of shows in the works (one tonight in fact with our boys Octave Museum and Clouds!) Give 'em some love.

In other Scissorfight related news, drummer Kevin Strongbow is playing in Stephen Brodsky's Octave Museum as well as several other projects. Their debut came out, where else, on Hydra Head this past November and they're heading to the UK with Clouds for a week of dates in February.

There is now a blog for official news regarding Xasthur at xasthurnews.blogspot.com. In addition more info can be found at www.xasthur.mercurous.net.

Dates have been announced for a spring tour that will feature ISIS and Jesu with Zozobra and Torche opening things up at different points along the way. note: Jesu will not be playing the 3/16 date in Cambridge.

2.22.07 San Diego, CA @ Casbah
2.23.07 Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse
2.24.07 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad

with Torche
2.26.07 Oklahoma City, OK @ The Conservatory
2.27.07 Ft. Worth, TX @ Ridglea Theater
2.28.07 Austin, TX @ Emo's
3.01.07 Houston, TX @ Numbers
3.02.07 Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
3.03.07 Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree Lounge
3.05.07 Orlando, FL @ The Social
3.08.07 Athens, GA @ 40 Watt
3.09.07 Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall
3.10.07 Richmond, VA @ Alley Katz
3.11.07 Washington DC @ 930 Club
3.13.07 Philadelphia, PA @ TLA
3.14.07 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
3.16.07 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East w/ Versoma

with Zozobra
3.17.07 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East
3.18.07 Montreal, CAN @ Theatre National
3.19.07 Ottawa, CAN @ Barrymore's
3.20.07 Toronto, CAN @ Opera House
3.22.07 Chicago, IL @ Metro
3.25.07 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social
3.26.07 Iowa City, IA @ The Picador
3.27.07 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre
3.28.07 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
3.30.07 Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
4.03.07 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's
4.06.07 San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's
4.08.07 Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theatre

www.isistheband.com
www.avalancheinc.co.uk/jesu
www.myspace.com/zozobra505

Here's the latest updates and news from Pelican...

Today's Temperature in Chicago: Eight Below with Windchill Factor "It's the end of a fucked up year, there's another one coming." - Embrace

And I realize that there is some danger of that being the only viable conversation exchanged with the family during the upcoming holiday vacation/break/disaster, so why not pepper a few of your interactions with a variety of tidbits about Pelican? This newsletter is designed with this very purpose in mind. Let us begin:

1) NEW ALBUM IN 2007! Five days from now we will ensconce ourselves in Chicago's Electrical Audio Studios for 11 days of intense concentration and furious rocking. The album will be engineered by none other than Andrew Schneider, the villain behind this years' prime offender Hell Songs by the Daughters, last years' jaw dropper Perfect Pitch Black by Cave In, and the previous years' Summer bar fight soundtrack Subject to Change Without Notice by fellow Midwesterners Keelhaul. In other words, Andrew's credentials are apparently unsullied (yet) and the album is predicted to have a throttling impact worthy of the ragers we've constructed for it.

People who made it out to see us on our West Coast/Canadian jaunt with Daughters had the opportunity to preview four of the new tunes, "City of Echoes", "Bliss in Concrete", "Dead Between the Walls", and "Spaceship Broken - Parts Needed". The good news is that these songs only began to scratch the surface - there's a whole six more songs in the reserves that hadn't yet made it to the live performance stage. On a whole the songs are more concise and more aggressive than our prior work. Relentless repetition has taken a backseat to intensity and a desire to pack as many riffs as possible into each tune.

The album is currently slated for a May release on Hydrahead Records. People can, of course, expect us to tour before and after that time.

2) SO MANY LIVE PERFORMANCES - Those of you who live in or around Chicago will have two opportunities to see us before the years' end. On December 22nd at 9pm we will rock Subterranean with Lichens (ex-90 Day Men, on Kranky Records) and Suicide Note. The next day we will work our way North to the Beat Kitchen for a 7:30pm show with Young Widows (ex-Breather Resist, Jade Tree Records) and Suicide Note. The capacity at both of these clubs is smaller than the last several
Chicago shows we've played, so buying tickets in advance (both shows are available at www.ticketweb.com) or showing up early is advised as the shows may sell out.

There will then be a short break while we mix our record and gather our druthers for a year spent touring. March will see us traveling to Austin, Texas for the annual South By Southwest Music Festival (dates to and from the event will be posted in our upcoming shows section when they are confirmed). In April we'll be crossing the pond to play Holland's Roadburn Festival (along with the Melvins, Neurosis, Blue Cheer, OM, Red Sparowes, Growing, Thrones, and several others; see www.roadburn.com for more details). We'll be doing a few weeks of dates preceding the fest, including dates in Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, and the UK. Again, dates will be posted as soon as they are available.

There will be other tours in 2007, including full fledged tours of the US, UK, Europe, and potentially Japan. We'll let you know when things are confirmed. I promise.

3) AFTER THE CEILING CRACKED DVD - We announced this a while back, but if you don't remember (or never heard) we've been working on this DVD for the past
year. It's centerpiece is a performance captured in London in December of 2005
with live and DVD audio mix by none other than Justin Broadrick (Jesu, Godflesh,
Ice, Techno Animal, Final, etc.). The DVD also includes excerpts of several archived live performances from throughout the years as well as a photo gallery that documents much of our history as a band. It was slated for a January release, but has been pushed back due to numerous technical difficulties. News on the status of this project should be forthcoming shortly.

4) WHAT ABOUT PELICAN MERCH FOR THE HOLIDAYS? - I know, I know... you
want to share the love this holiday season. A new shirt design by our close buddies at Delicious Design League was just posted at the Hydrahead Webstore (www.hydraheadshop.com). There you can also find copies of our CDs, the brand new-ish double LP version of The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw, posters from recent tours, and most anything else you might imagine. If none of this appeals to you we'd like to take the opportunity to suggest the DVD release of a film we lent a song to, The Run Up, a documentary detailing the lives and work of many artists working in the field of fine, graffiti, and street art. More information about this film can be found here.

5) THAT PART OF THE NEWSLETTER WHERE WE WRAP THINGS UP BY DISCUSSING OTHER BANDS WE ARE AFFILIATED WITH - I'd like to start by thanking everyone who came out to the Chord show in Brooklyn and extend
gratitude to Growing, the Austerity Program, and the the Water Street Lounge for making the show possible. It was 14 months since the last time Chord had met (and 28 months since our last show), so it's hard to say precisely when the next time we'll perform/record/etc. will be. Chances are that mention will be made of it on our "website" at www.atomicmouserecordings.com/chord. I think Phil posted a "ringdrone" up there that people are intended to put on the cell phones. Uh, weird.

People have been writing to ask why Larry wasn't present at recent Lair of the Minotaur shows. He's not currently playing with the band since he lives in California. But those guys definitely have plans to play together again. There was a lot of time conflicts between Pelican and LOTM's touring schedules. LOTM had opportunities and needed to tour more so they needed a drummer that is more available. Larry wishes them the absolute best.

Trevor's band Teith just released a CD-R EP via migration media (www.migrationmedia.com). News about the group and MP3's can be found at their MySpace site: www.myspace.com/teith.

6) THAT'S ALL FOLKS - But seriously, it is. I can't think of anything else that we need to share with you. Hope to see you at our upcoming shows and have safe and happy holidays!

After the massive US mind-fuckery of a tour w/ rock legends The Melvins, Seattle's (check, now LA's) heaviest hitters BIG BUSINESS are headed to the UK to blow some minds, and eardrums, but not before they tease us a bit more, this time by leaking the track "Grounds for Divorce," off their upcoming March 6, 2007 release of "Here Come The Water Works" on Hydra Head... check the track out on the myspace page here.

Dec 9 2006 Somerset @ ATP Nightmare Before Christmas
Dec 10 2006 Cardiff @ The Point
Dec 11 2006 London @ Scala
Dec 12 2006 Oxford @ TBA
Dec 13 2006 Manchester @ Acadamy 2
Dec 14 2006 Glasgow @ Garage
Dec 15 2006 Galway @ Ireland Roisin Dubh
Dec 17 2006 Dublin @ The Village
Dec 30 2006 Portland, OR @ the Roseland Theater
Dec 31 2006 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox

upon returning, the band plans to tour south to this year's annual SXSW festival in Austin where they can be found at the sure to be earth-shattering Hydra Head Showcase (performing alongside label-mates CLOUDS, OXBOW, DAUGHTERS, STEPHEN BRODSKY'S OCTAVE MUSEUM, PELICAN, and more!)... more on that soon.

Pelican have donated a track to the dvd release "The Run Up". it's a double dvd set about some of todays modern artists in the fields of graffiti, photography, tattoo, design, comics, etc. the dvd contains interviews and music. "We were asked to donate a song for the film and provided the acoustic song from "fire..." lp. we're glad we had the opportunity to be part of this great project."
here's some links and info:

film website

check out a short trailer here

to order a copy