Henry & Glenn Forever Book Release Party!

Henry & Glenn Forever Book Release Party!

THIS FRIDAY! April 30th, 2010

Henry and Glenn Forever is the ridiculous idea born out of a night of too many beers shared by a group of artists who sometimes call themselves Igloo Tornado. On that night Gin Stevens said "There should be a Tom of Finland book, but with Henry and Glenn..." and Tom Neely and Scot Nobles replied: "Yes! And we're going to do it!" This bold idea (or is it a bad idea?) became a small zine that grew into a notorious legend that has now become a nice little book published by Cantankerous Titles!

Come to the book release party at

The Secret Headquarters Comic Book Shop

In Silverlake- 3817 W. Sunset Blvd, LA, CA.

8-10 pm

Get the book - it's only $4!

See the original art - also cheap!

Meet the Igloo Tornado!

Listen to soft-rock love songs!

Drink some drinks!

FRIDAY! FRIDAY! FRIDAY!

Win A Chance to See Austerity Program Play in Your Living Room + Other Prizes!

From The Austerity Program:

To celebrate the 5.4.10 release of our EP, Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn, we are running a contest.

What you can do (options)

1. Take a picture that illustrates a lyric from an AP song. Keep in mind that while we may be able to interpret you sitting sad in a chair as conceptually related (maybe), BIG POINTS will go to the person blowing disease into an American Legion convention.

2. Remix a song. Specifically, HH is hosting the files for Song 18 from our last record that let you mess with the bass, guitar, vocals and drums. Chop it up, mash it up, remix, add your own instruments, make it crazy. Download the song files here: www.austerityprogram.com/contest/song.htm

3. Make something else that's somehow related to what we're doing. A Youtube video of a song, or a cover of a song, or that makes fun of one of our videos? Excellent. A sonnet that’s also a palindrome? Fantastic. A .pdf of a police report from when you got arrested as some conceptual performance art that’s related to the Terra Nova EP? Uhh ... okay! Great!

Who decides?

-We have a panel of judges made up of the two of us and our friend Brian. Keep in mind that Brian is wildly creative but NOT a metal cretin so obvious stuff won’t work.

-We will only ask that you allow us to post the results on our website to share with the world. We want to reward people who are willing to do creative stuff. We’ve had a bunch of fun making this record and want you to have fun making something, too.

How do you enter?

Contest entries must be received before 12AM, June 5th (one month after the record release). Winners will be announced a few days later. Links/attachments to all entries must be sent to: contest | @ | austerityprogram | dot | com (typed in standard e-mail address).

What can you win?

- Third Prize (5): AP Merch Pack – A CD of the new record and t-shirt.

- Second Prize (3) : AP Poster Pack – Four posters - Jay Ryan, Jessica Crosby (2) and the VERY FIRST AP show. All handmade.

- First Prize (Away from NYC) (2) AP Song Access – Access to a download page with links to pretty much every AP song. Includes unreleased stuff and

demos. We send you the time and the page link, you have one hour to download whatever you want. Then the link dies.

- First Prize (NYC Area) (1) : AP Show at Your Home – If you live within 100 miles of NYC, we will come to your home and play a show. Since we have a drum machine and there’s only two of us, this can be very quiet – even some lousy apartment’s kitchen can work. We just won’t bring the full setup (unless you want to get evicted, which is fine with us).

- Grand Daddy Prize (1): Cover Song – We’ll cover whatever song you want us to as best we can, taking your general instructions into account. Delivery by November 1, 2010.

Fine print!

-First, no one who’s specifically thanked (by name or direct association) on the CD is eligible for entry.

-Second, we came up with the contest and all decisions about to who and how the prizes are allocated are up to us entirely. We’ll do our best to be fair, but those with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement are being warned to stay cool. -Third, we will not give any contact information about anyone to anyone - but we will probably add you to our e-mail list if you enter (unless you ask us not to).

-Fourth, please do not submit something that makes us have to apologize to our friend that he agreed to help us - stuff that is meanspirited or hateful. Finally, no more than one prize per person. Like that’s gonna be a problem. Oh, and we may find reading all this later that we screwed something up, so we reserve the right to change things. We’ll keep things current on our website.

Good luck and have fun!

Download remix files here! * Email contest@austerityprogram.com to enter!

Harvey Milk: Pre Orders Are Up And Running!

If your the kind of consumer that has fully committed to the service that itunes provides.. we've got something special lined up for you this time around... Pre-Order A Small Turn of Human Kindness HERE and receive a bonus track with download on release date!

If your not an Itunes kinda guy (and you prefer the act drinking liquid out of cups) we also have something special for you! Check it...

Hydra Head's best mug to date if you ask me... Pre-Order the record and or the mug HERE!

Kayo Dot: "Coyote" CD Available Now!

Release and Stream New Album, "Coyote," Today on Hydra Head!



Stream "Coyote" exclusively @ Self-Titled's new website!

Coyote, Kayo Dot's fourth studio album out today on Hydra Head, is a single, narrative-driven, long-form composition written with story and text provided by a close, terminally-ill friend of the band, Yuko Sueta, in the final stage of her life. Coyote was once again engineered by Randall Dunn (Sunn 0)), Earth, Six Organs of Admittance) in Seattle, Washington, forging a new genre of "goth fusion" which combines elements of early Cure, Faith And The Muse, and Bauhaus with Herbie Hancock's psychedelic album, Sextant, and Scott Walker's recent album, The Drift.The lyrics and story were constructed with deliberate melodrama to pay homage as well to the intended gothic vibe, expressing the protagonist's loneliness and longing to be in a better place, and her journey through her own personal looking-glass through a hallucinatory world of fear and wonder.

The musical objective this time around was to create a piece of music that uses the sonic aesthetic of this specific era of gothic art-rock integrated with a more modern-classical approach to form and architecture. To achieve this, Kayo Dot has put together a new instrumentation, which features trumpet (provided by former Candiria trumpet player Tim Byrnes) and alto saxophone at the lead, backed up by violin, keyboards, piano, organ, bass guitar, percussion, and a pronounced lack of guitar across the album. This album also marks the return of former Kayo Dotmember, Terran Olson, whose contributions were heard on the band's 2003 debut, Choirs of the Eye, as well as with Kayo Dot's alter-ego, Maudlin of the Well. The music is also more rhythmically-driven than any previous Kayo Dot work, and being a performance-oriented composition, it was recorded mostly live (similar to 2006's Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue).Coyote also brings back some of the aggression absent from 2008's Blue Lambency Downward.

Purchase the new album here!

Pyramids: Limited 5 Cassette Boxset Available Now!!!

Pyramids (hydra head records) provided each of the 52 artists participating in the project four different audio clips – not so much a song, but four separate, cooperating textures. each artist was asked to create an entirely new piece of music incorporating what they wished from the provided sounds, whatever techniques they wanted to employ,and whatever additions they wished to make. wvndrkmmer contains 52 tracks from 52 different artists on 5 cassettes with a total run time over 6 hours. the total edition is 300 copies – 100 copies of the ‘red’ edition and 200 of the ‘black’ edition. the ‘red’ copies will go to the first 100 preorders.

Pre-Order it Here!

Vacation Vinyl: Record Store Day Special Items!!!

1. HARVEY MILK, KHANATE, ISIS coaster sets (free with purchase, while supplies last)

2. JODIS "Secret House" 2xLP (includes bonus track "The Stain of Strain and Sorrow")

3. MELVINS "A Senile Animal" 4xLP Orange Box Set (Silkscreened numbered box set limited to 35 w/ Black vinyl 4xLP (ltd to 100), 'Your Disease Spread Quick' Comic signed by creator Tom Neely, Melvins belt buckle)

Knut: Announce New Album, "Wonder," Out June 29th on Hydra Head

There is simply too much music in the world these days, and little of it seems to embody what could be described as passion or even soul. Rarer still are the bands who have stuck around long enough to be considered consistent institutions of musical integrity and ingenuity. All but extinct are the bands that embody/possess the qualities above, and who have continued to produce, evolve and thrive despite deficient attention from the music buying public. While artists like THE MELVINS, NEUROSIS, CONVERGE and ENSLAVED have managed to plumb the depths of the various caverns of heavy metal/hardcore/loud rock and emerged atop mountains of accolades (while simultaneously making careers of their craft), KNUT have long labored in relative obscurity, churning out some of the finest all-enveloping-mathsludge- metal-pummelry known this (or that) side of the Atlantic. 16 years and 12 + releases into their existence KNUT have managed once again to top themselves and shame their peers with the creation of WONDER. A commentary on the human capacity for creative thought and numinous experience in the face of a violent and oppressive global-market ethos, WONDER stands as a testament to our will for survival and defiance in times of adversity and crippling doubt... and, yeah, it's proof-positive that CELTIC FROST and Swatch ain't the only Swiss exports from which we may all reap unending benefits.

Wonder Tracklist
1. LEET (3:20)
2. DAMNED EXTROVERTS (1:55)
3. SUCKERS (2:12)
4. CALAMITY (1:43)
5. ULTRALIGHT BACKPACKING (6:42)
6. SEGUE 1 (1:40)
7. FAST FORWARD BASTARD (3:20)
8. LEMMINGS (1:53)
9. IF WE CAN’T FLY THERE, WE’LL TAKE THE BOAT (6:33)
10. SEGUE 2 (2:12)
11. WONDER/DAILY GRIND (8:28)

Jeff and Ryo: Hydra Highlight #108

It has been quite a while since we posted a new Hydratube clip, mostly because Sugar Bear has trouble keeping up with his actual duties, and refuses to edit these for free in his personal time anymore. Also, neither Jeff or Ryo is at the office anymore, so this is clearly outdated. Also also, Wes has shorter hair and a moustache and his girlfriend will probably give him shit because she is visible in the video. This all went down during the aftermath of the Big Business Karaoke night at Vacation Vinyl, which is why Toshi is nodding along with the conversation.

THE AUSTERITY PROGRAM Premiere New Music off Upcoming "Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn"

Photo Credit Damien Neva

Brooklyn Vegan is premiering a brand new Austerity Program track, so go check it out here. Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn is out May 4th as a 12" EP, CDEP, and Data DVD-R. The Data DVD-R contains separate editable high res tracks of every instrument for every song. Perfect for you remix heads.

And it just so happens you can preorder the CDEP and Data DVD-R here. We also got a brand new AP shirt designed by our very own Andrew Cox available. Here is the glorious aforementioned shirt:

Also be sure to check out Austerity Program on the road:

May 1, 2010 @ O'Briens, Allston MA (Matinee Show) w/ Disappearer, Phantom Glue, Mechane

May 2, 2010 @ Union Pool, Brooklyn NY w/ Disappearer, Phantom Glue

Kayo Dot: nominated for The Deli Magazine's artist of the month

Kayo Dot fans.. Your country needs you! Please navigate o'er to the Deli Magazine's website and vote for Kayo Dot as their band of the month! Look... I know it seems like a lot of work for no fiscal gain... But be aware and motivated by the fact that if you don't navigate o'er to the Deli's website Vampire Weekend will win for the 36th consecutive month! Hopefully that offends you enough to do your civil duty! Do the right thing!

Xasthur: New and Final Full Length CD "Portal of Sorrow" Available Now

"Portal of Sorrow" marks the band's final release, and the first from their own Disharmonic Variations label. The record features vocal contributions from folk singer/songwriter Marissa Nadler.

From Malefic:

This album, "Portal of Sorrow", is the last Xasthur album, period.
The honorable thing to do is to end the band and not hang around too long, like so many metal/black metal bands do. Enough is enough, right?

I'm not able to make it work anymore. I don't want to turn into one of those bands who rely on too many guests and session musicians to make people interested in their music again. Some help is fine but more than some help is very cheap and it becomes others, not the roots of the band that makes the difference and the music work. I don’t want to fall into that pattern. The motivation and inspiration used to be there full time and now it's not there at all, not for doing Xasthur at least. It is a role or persona that I have simply outgrown. I’ve been saying I’m sick and tired of it all for too long... and now, I’m going to back it up. There are or have been literally 18,000 black metal bands; it does not matter if there's one less.

Just like in the nineties, I made a few recent attempts to put a real line-up together and it still failed; another sign that said “give it up already.”

However, I wanted to end on a better note with this 'Portal of Sorrow' album because the album that came before it, 'All reflections drained', was not up to par and I couldn't finish up with an album that I was less than satisfied with. Now, I suppose any or all goals have been reached and there is nothing more I wish to try with Xasthur and it's time to move on...

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* Purchase "Portal of Sorrow" CD here!.. Vinyl Version will be released by Hydra Head in June...

Portal of Sorrow Tracklisting:
01. Portal of Sorrow
02. Broken Glass Christening
03. Shrine of Failure
04. Stream of Subconsciousness
05. Karma/Death
06. Horizon of Plastic Caskets
07. Mesmerized by Misery
08. This Abyss Holds the Mirror
09. Mourning Tomorrow
10. Miscarriage of the Soul
11. Obeyer's of their own Deaths
12. Released from this Earth
13. The Darkest Light
14. hiver de glace

Drowningman: "Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline" on Itunes

So this release came out way before my being employed at Hydra Head and since I've been here I have come across very few physical copies of the thing... so I figured the least we could do was make it available digitally.. and so, as of today, it is so. Enjoy!

Purchase Drowningman "Busy Signal At the Suicide Hotline" @ Itunes Here!!!