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1/05/2008: AP Melos'es out Springman Records alumni Tera Melos just posted a neat blog on MySpace where they make interesting observations about Alternative Press Magazine and suck brains out of crawdads. Click Here to reveal it!"Puff, Puff, Give" [HIDE EXTRA TEXT] Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
12/29/2007: Tera Melos - confusing little brothers across America Playing main-support for Finch: Jan 13th - Slim's - San Francisco, CA Jan 14th - Club Underground - Reno, NV Jan 15th - The Boardwalk - Sacramento, CA Jan 16th - El Corazon - Seattle, WA Jan 18th - Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR Jan 19th - The Venue - Boise, ID Jan 21st - Avalon Theatre - Salt Lake City, UT Jan 22nd - Naonapolis @ Jillian's - Las Vegas, NV Jan 23rd - The Marquee - Tempe, AZ Jan 24th - Soma - San Diego, CA Without Finch: Feb 2nd - 924 Gilman Street - Berkeley, CA Mar 15th - SXSW - Austin, TX - Sargent House Official Show Mar 16th - SXSW - Austin, TX - Day Show details TBA Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
8/20/2007: It! Has! Begun! Good-news: New Nothing Nice! [Click for full-comic] Bad-news: We will not be distributing Tera Melos' "Drugs To The Dear Youth" CD to stores as originally planned. Sorry about that, it is outside of our control. It might eventually be distributed by Sargent House, the management company the Melos' just joined up with. We still have a few available for mail-order. And check out Danny Secretion singing with Ashtray!  Come back tomorrow for a major update with headlining tour dates from The Phenomenauts and Big D And The Kids Table! Labels: Ashtray, Nothing Nice To Say, Secretions, Tera Melos [1 Comments] |
8/09/2007: Tera Melos - Drugs on CD! On CD for the first time, Drugs To The Dear Youth! Self released by Tera Melos and available by mail-order right here in a really pretty digi-pack with extra artwork. The Melos has shows coming up with The Fall Of Troy and Horse The Band, check out their MySpace page for details. Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
8/02/2007: And... We're back! +Our website works again!+The Phenomenauts 2x10" Re-Entry LPs are shipping now. +Big D And The Kids Table's 2x12" Strictly Rude LP has been pushed back to Aug 21 due to a printing mistake. Sorry about that. Check out Big D playing acoustic songs on the Alternative Press radio-show! +Tera Melos has a fucking sick new song on their myspace page, When Worms Learn To Fly, it has vocals and dance-beats. They're touring again with The Fall Of Troy. Pre-order the "Drugs" record on CD! +The Teenage Harlets are playing with the fucking Murder Junkies. Yes Colin, that is G.G. Allen's old band. The Teenage Harlets did not break up. +The River City Rebels new record will blow your mind. They'll be touring this September and October. +The Secretions are almost home from tour. Big home-coming party coming up with a dunk-tank. Thank you for being so nice to them across this big country! Their new CD fucking rips. +New stuff is coming up from Mitch Clem. +An epic blog-post about ComicCon is still being written. I forced one of my heroes, Warren Ellis, to drink SPARKS for the first time. +We're two weeks behind on mail-order, but have everything back in stock. All orders will be sent out by Friday. Thanks for your patience and for being awesome.  Labels: Big D And The Kids Table, River City Rebels, Secretions, Tera Melos, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
4/15/2007: Hella Tour-Dates and Adventure  Photo: nadja.robot The Phenomenauts will be spending the next few weeks blasting across the north-eastern states and Canada with The Slackers! The Hyper-Cadet Sonic-Division is presently locked away at a classified location fine-tuning some new audio-recordings... [+/- CLICK HERE FOR TOUR-DATES]
 Photo: lady baglady Tera Melos are getting ready to record their next full-length. My eyeballs hurt trying to follow Vince's drumming on Friday at Sacramento's Fools Foundation. Their new material continues to push the envelope right into the shredder.  Photo: ElectrikCandyland San Francisco danger-rockers The Teenage Harlets will be terrorizing the western states through Texas next month with our buddies The River City Rebels! This will be The Rebel's first tour in quite a while, bring some pads and a flask. [+/- CLICK HERE FOR TOUR DATES]
 Photo Credit: karma17 Jason Webley is in Boston right now working on some songs with Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls! To hold you over until then, Webley's own Eleven Records presents his latest Super-Seven-Inch, a collaboration with Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Two Bottles Of Wine Artichoke. Order the limited-edition vinyl and download some samples right here! Jason has a major ass-ton of tour-dates coming up, including the west-coast and Mexico. Pack some fresh vegetables. [+/- CLICK HERE FOR TOUR DATES] April 19 - Richland, WA - Ray's Golden Lion April 20 - Spokane, WA - Catarina April 21 - Missoula, MT - The Loft April 22 - Helena, MT - The Staggering Ox April 23 - Twin Falls, ID - Woody's (on the porch) April 24 - Boise, ID - The Reef April 25 - Salt Lake City, UT - Burt's Tiki Lounge April 30 - Phoenix, AZ - Trunk Space May 1 - San Diego, CA - Vinbladh's May 2 - Echo Park (Los Angeles), CA - Echo Curio May 3 - Los Angeles - Safari Sams May 4 - Santa Cruz, CA - Cayuga Vault May 5 - Berkeley, CA - Gilman St Project May 6 - Davis, CA - Varsity Theater May 7 - San Francsico, CA - 12 Galaxies May 8 -Arcata, CA - Muddy's Hot Cup May 9 - Ashland, OR - The Black Sheep May 10 - Portland, OR - Red and Black Cafe May 11 - Eugene, OR - Sam Bond's Garage May 12 - Seattle, WA - The Vera Project May 13 - Bellingham, WA - WWU Viking Union Labels: Jason Webley, Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos, The Phenomenauts [3 Comments] |
2/16/2007: Weekend Update School has been nuts, sorry for the lack of week-day updates.This past week has included LOTS of mail-order (THANK YOU!), we just started sending out the Big D / Brain Failure splits (they will start arriving shortly after the Feb 20 "street-date"). Tera Melos is almost done with their Fall Of Troy tour, and about to join up with my neighbors in The Brilliant Red Lights, who just called me to ask that I break into their apartment and eat the soy corn-dog that Evan left in the microwave this morning. Labels: Big D And The Kids Table, Tera Melos [1 Comments] |
1/31/2007: Some updates, some class School started this week so I've been behind on website updates, but not on mail-order! The post office is getting sick of seeing me every day and has been making me put stamps on all the packages by hand.The Tera Melos pre-orders have been sent but may take up to a week since most of you ordered with "Media Mail" shipping. It took a week to send them all since they're very securely wrapped in cardboard to avoid damage, sorry to keep you waiting but this one will be worth it! E-mail the address listed up on the top of this website if you have any questions on that. Some quick updates: The Springman Records showcase in Sacramento on Friday was a huge success and lots of fun, thank you all for coming out! I especially enjoyed handing out cupcakes and shark-themed 3D glasses to everyone before The Phenomenauts' set, even though the 3D glasses had nothing to do with anything. The Shecretions built some AMAZING games out of cardboard that we didn't get to use since it was so crowded and I was on crutches, but I saved them in my closet and will bring them out to future events so you can throw the red rocket in the black hole and blast Skelator! Hopefully they'll also be into setting up the Kissing-Booth... Tera Melos is on tour with The Fall Of Troy and running out of merch. Big D And The Kids Table's pre-order for the Brain Failure split starts in.. Shit, 15 minutes, I better set that up, check back in an hour. The Phenomenauts, Teenage Harlets, Groovie Ghoulies and Epoxies have something epic up their sleeve that I'll tell you about later. Jason Webley is in Europe. And get comfortable with the idea of your favorite record of 2007 being called Huge Black Man just so this doesn't catch you off-guard once it finally drops. Labels: Big D And The Kids Table, Secretions, Tera Melos, The Epoxies, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
1/24/2007: Interviews, PBS, and some nerdy shit I just found some fun interviews with a whole bunch of our bands over at Sound Scene Revolution. For your listening pleasure and entertainment, listen to their chats with The Phenomenauts, Tera Melos and Jason Webley. Their other interviews are pretty kick-ass too with a ton of my favorite bands, this website will keep me from being at all productive for the rest of this week== I talked to someone at PBS months ago about YouTube. It looks like they just pulled a quote from that conversation for a blog post about the future of the music industry on their "MediaShift" website. Not terribly exciting, but my parents will be happy to see my name on PBS. == This isn't punk rock at all, but my favorite book series of recent memory, the Song Of Ice And Fire cycle by George RR Martin, is being turned into a TV series by HBO and I am way super excited in the nerdy'est way possible. Read that shit if you want something way better than that Lord Of The Rings total bullshit. Start with "A Game Of Thrones" which is $3.99 on Amazon.com and everywhere else with the latest printing. Labels: Jason Webley, Tera Melos, The Phenomenauts [1 Comments] |
1/20/2007: Free Tera Melos, Ghoulies European Invasion! Want to download the new Tera Melos record for free? Since streaming it at punknews.org obviously isn't good enough for you greedy fucks, ask these guys. I guess Tera Melos is post-punk? They posted it before we even picked up the vinyl, so I'm guessing it's a rip of the punknews.org stream, but have no idea really. Thanks Samantha!== The Groovie Ghoulies are invading Europe this summer! [+/-] Click to show/hide the town-listing! Jan 26 2007 7:00P Gilman Street Berkeley, California Feb 10 2007 9:00P Alex's Bar Long Beach, California Aug 8 2007 8:00P TBA - Koln, Germany Koln Aug 9 2007 8:00P TBA - Kopenhagen, Denmark Kopenhagen Aug 10 2007 8:00P TBA - Oslo, Norway Oslo Aug 11 2007 8:00P TBA - Goteborg, Norway Goteborg Aug 12 2007 8:00P TBA - Oskarhamn, Sweden Oskarhamn Aug 13 2007 8:00P TBA - Svendborg, Sweden Svendborg Aug 14 2007 8:00P TBA - Berlin, Germany Berlin Aug 15 2007 8:00P TBA - Cottbus, Germany Cottbus Aug 16 2007 8:00P TBA - Oberhausen, Germany Oberhausen Aug 17 2007 8:00P TBA - Gemert, Belgium Gemert Aug 18 2007 8:00P TBA - Paris, France Paris And the new HANTS record comes out April 17th on Kepi Ghoulie's own Green Door Records! More info on that soon too! Labels: Groovie Ghoulies, Tera Melos [1 Comments] |
1/19/2007: Tera Melos Tour Kickoff
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1/08/2007: NO MORE DRUGS We pre-sold 125 of Tera Melos' new 12" EP, Drugs To The Dear Youth. This is 25 more than we meant to sell, so you last 25 people got extra lucky squeaking in while I took a nap!If you snoozed too, your only way to get it is from Tera Melos on their upcoming tour with The Fall Of Troy. If they somehow manage to not sell out of the remaining 375, there is a chance we might have more later, but there's really no way they'll have any left after this tour. THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO PRE-ORDERED!!! We have lots more limited edition vinyl projects coming out this year. I don't want to give to much away just yet, but projects are in the works with some very exciting bands from the East Bay (pig-latin for "The Beast"), North Bay and Sacramento. Big D And The Kids Table and Brain Failure's new split-LP, From Beijing To Boston, will be available for pre-order starting February 1st. Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
1/04/2007: Phenomenauts tour dates The Phenomenauts have just a few shows left before they head back into training for their next epic voyage for this Spring and Summer. Sectors being visited this last time around include Petaluma, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, New York City and Oakland:[+/-] Click here to show/hide the tour-dates Sat Jan 20 mobile command presents... A Benefit for Jessica The Phenomenauts Teenage Harlets Maldroid DJ Issac Owen Money Teenage Harlets All Ages $10 doors 7 show 7:30pm CLUB RETRO 6521 Hazel Ave Orangevale, CA (916) 988-6606 ______________________ Sat Jan 27 PETALUMA, CA THE PHOENIX THEATRE mobile command presents... The Phenomenauts The Secretions Left Alone Calavera Union 13 (lobby) All Ages $10 doors 7:30 show 8pm THE PHOENIX THEATRE 201 Washington St Petaluma, CA 94952 ________________________ FEB 2007 Tues Feb 6 NEW YORK CITY CHEALSEA PIERS private event ______________________ Fri Feb 16 SANTA CRUZ, CA THE BLUE LAGOON The Phenomenauts Los Dryheavers White Barons 21+ $5 doors 8:30 show 9:30pm THE BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave Santa Cruz, CA (831) 423-7117 _____________________ MARCH/APRIL 2007 San Francisco, CA PLASTIC!!! In other news, 79 Tera Melos pre-orders so far, only 21 left! We won't have more, the other 400 will only be available at shows, and may run out during their upcoming tour with The Fall Of Troy. Labels: Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
1/02/2007: Pre-Order the new Tera Melos record!  Drugs to the Dear Youth (12" EP) Tera Melos says: there are 100 copies of our new e.p. "Drugs To The Dear Youth" available for pre-order. So just clik on the link. Don't be weirded out by the picture that you see, that is a painting that serves as the cover. Nick worked really hard on it, so just act like it is a totally normal piece of artwork--much like your (and my) parents acted when you brought home a shitty fingerpainting from kindergarten and acted all stoked on it. It is just like that but with colored discs inside that play music. Beat that, stupid little kids. And who are you to judge those creatures? They are in love, so leave them alone. They are about to finger-bang each other and you should be o.k. with that. It is their right. Why does their love freak you out so much? But seriously, as the title suggests, it is all about the Hurry up and pre-order before they're all gone and you're left crying like a big sad baby. UPDATE 1/3/07: We have less than 30 left! Thanks to the 70+ of you that ordered over the past 24 hours, this one won't last much longer... Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
1/01/2007: Happy New Years!!! We will be a day late getting the Tera Melos pre-order link up, so swing back around here Tuesday night to make sure you get one.Speaking of, Tera Melos played with two more of my favorite bay area bands this weekend, Desa and Judgment Day. The show sold out early and was fucking incredible. One of my favorite parts was Jeff in the back of the room heckling, being hilariously obnoxious and getting dirty looks from people who didn't recognize him as their old guitar player. You NEED to be familiar with all three of these bands, here is the video-flier from that show below. JD will be playing 924 Gilman St on January 12 with bands that any Phenomenauts' Command Center regular should know and love; Arnocorps, Cookie Mongoloid and The Boweltones. Link: Judgment Day on MySpace.com And, HAPPY NEW YEARS!! We had a super fun party at Springman HQ in Cupertino, major props to all the secret bands for playing. I broke my foot around 4am while attempting some Micahel Jackson dance-moves and am now cant walk, crawling up my steps after getting X-Rays was totally lame. But here are some pictures, I'll post more as I find them!   Photo's by Karl Dotter Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
12/08/2006: Wax Tracks A quick reminder before I start this update:Check out our holiday deals! Lots of music is listed to the right, including special low-prices for compilation and Phenomenauts related packages. Our prices are low, the music awesome, and mail-order is getting sent out three times a week, so hurry up and purchase your friend's love for the new year! On to the news: Check out Big D And The Kids Table's website for studio updates as they record their upcoming full-length for our friends at Side One Dummy! The demo's for their new songs are incredible, come March or April when that record comes out, we will all be in for quite a treat. To hold us over until then, their split CD with Brain Failure (from China!) will be released on February 20th on Bad News Records. We are pleased to announce that the vinyl version will be on Springman with a limited pressing of 1,000 on colored wax! More info on that one soon. Thanks to everyone who gave "five-star" ratings to The Phenomenauts music video for "Mission" over at MySpace.com, putting us on their front-page for a week and getting over 110,000 full video views!!! I still can't believe that happened, and would like to welcome all the brand new cadets to this here lovely website. The Phenomenauts have just a few shows booked right now that we will be announcing very soon, but will be back with a very triumphant return in March or April with loads of new material and effects! And hey, with all these new songs, you never know whats just around the space-corner... The Teenage Harlets will be doing a little west-coast tour in January with our idols in The Rock And Roll Adventure Kids! Also in the works is a series of super-sweet split 7"'s that we'll be telling you more about going into 2007. Tera Melos is doing a shit-load of shows all over the country with The Fall Of Troy! They just got out of the studio too, and if we can get our shit together on time for this tour, well, I'll tell you later, just be excited. Be very excited. And finally, thank you to TUK Shoes for hooking up The Phenomenauts, Big D And The Kids Table and The River City Rebels! When you see us looking all bad-ass and tall, its TUK's fault. I just got these pretty red ones:   OK Happy Holidays everyone. I will now go back to filling your mail-orders and finishing my homework (The semester is almost over! I have 60 more pages to write!) -- OH, and if you live in Sacramento and happen to be coming out for KWOD's "Twisted Christmas" concert at the Arco Arena later today (Friday), I will personally be dressed up like that guy from My Chemical Romance and doing some WWE shit that would make Andy Kaufman proud up on stage during The Secretions' set! They play first, so get there early! We will be bringing the real Black Parade. If you don't have $35, don't worry, we'll post it on YouTube. I'm excited about seeing Gnarles Barkley and MCR. Labels: Big D And The Kids Table, Secretions, Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
11/06/2006: TeraNakedMelos I just got back from visiting Tera Melos in the studio where they are recording for a brand new CD. Nick and Nathan were naked for some reason, and Nick refused to take off his wizard mask. I think Vince was doing his best to ignore them. The new songs shred. Be excited. Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
11/02/2006: News Dump!!! I hope you had a safe and fun Halloween. Things at Springman HQ are BONKERS! Thank you for coming here for your Holiday shopping needs, we have lots of great cheap CDs and we appreciate your keeping our mail-order department super busy.Here is a band-by-band update! The Phenomenauts just announced another round of dates with The Toasters coming up this month! Visit their MySpace page for the details, and check back next week for EVEN MORE shows. The Phenomenauts' Annual Zombie Party was incredible as usual this year, with a surprise appearance by The Teenage HarNuts:  Those with a good memory may remember The PhenomeNuts from last-year:  Big D And The Kids Table just played two epic Halloween parties in Boston at The Avalon! If you have pictures or video from either show, please post it online for us to share! Big D just got done playing a bunch of shows with The Toasters, I like how they play with our bands on both coasts. Check out Big D on tour with Rancid in December! Visit Big D on Myspace for tour updates. The Groovie Ghoulies are almost done with their own Cramps tour, including their own Halloween show at The Fillmore in San Francisco! Check back soon for LOTS AND LOTS of shows all over California and more Ghoulie news... Updates on their MySpace page. Tera Melos just got back from an epic tour with The Fall Of Troy! There is no rest for the awesome, Tera Melos will be recording for an EP CD this weekend. Three songs, it will be about 30 minutes, I guess that's an EP? They played almost all new songs on this Fall Of Troy tour, if you caught any of the sets, you ARE EXTREMELY EXCITED about these upcoming recordings. Stay tuned to Tera Melos' myspace page for more news and tour updates. The Secretions are in the running to play the "Twisted Christmas" show at the Arco Arena in Sacramento! This would be the hugest show they have ever played, and our boys would get to make total asses of My Chemical Romance and Papa Roach. They won't make fun of Gnarls Barkley though. PLEASE!!!! Click here to vote. You have to register with KWOD first, it only takes a minute and if you click the box, they won't send you any annoying e-mails or ever bug you ever again. Lots of Secretions shows coming up all over CA (and even Reno), visit them on MySpace for show listings and other news updates, and word on Danny Secretions new radio show! Jason Webley just got back from tour Australia with The Dresden Dolls! Check him out this November touring the West Coast with a full band, including Jherek of The Dead Science and Xiu Xiu. If you attend one of the shows, please draw a unicorn for Jherek and tell him it's from me (Avi). This year's big Seattle show will be on November 11 instead of the usual Halloween! Tour dates and other updates are on Jason's website. The Teenage Harlets are laying low, having started a big fight with The Phenomenauts over their "Free Angel Nova" t-shirt.. Just kidding! See them on tour all January and February, including a bunch of dates with our secret crushes in The Rock And Roll Adventure Kids! Add them on MySpace if you're fifteen years old. The River City Rebels just got back from a very strange national fly-away tour of free shows paid for by a big evil cigarette company. I know lots of hippies who smoke, but none smoke independently made cigarettes, so eat a dick. It was a great tour, and debuted a bunch of The Rebels fucking incredible new songs! Stay tuned for more news on that. Listen on their MySpace page! The Rum Diary has been laying low, but has a brand new drummer and will start playing again next month! Stay tuned for news on that too. And check out their limited edition four-way-split 7" with The Jade Shader, Facing New York, and Years Around The Sun!!! Visit them too on MySpace. And check out Daniel's almost finished solo-project, Identical Homes, its panty-dropping music. *PHEW* I think that’s it for now. Our records are still in heavy rotation at the Sacramento post office down-town. PEACE Labels: Big D And The Kids Table, Groovie Ghoulies, Jason Webley, River City Rebels, Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos, The Phenomenauts, The Rum Diary [0 Comments] |
9/08/2006: Jeff Worms leaves Tera Melos In a myspace.com blog-post, guitarist Jeff Worms has announced his parting ways with Tera Melos. "We are all still friends," said Worms. "The guys made it clear that I could come back whenever (don't hold your breath), which is very sweet of them."The remaining members will continue touring in support their untitled debut CD, and have some really fucking exciting things coming up that I can't tell you about just yet. There are no plans to actively search for a new guitar player, but the band is open to getting a new member if the chemistry fits. We've all had a blast hanging out and working with Jeff and wish him the best. Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
8/24/2006: HELLA TIGHT Get your pre-order on!!! HELLA TIGHT will be shipping NEXT WEEK! $5 including postage.Nine-way split CD featuring hella tight exclusive recordings from some of my favorite local bands: Bridges, Identical Homes, Calling All Monsters, Shinobu, Brilliant Red Lights, Teenage Harlets, Pteradon (ex November Trials), Tera Melos, and Worker Bee. Limited hand-numbered pressing of 1,000. Labels: Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos, The Rum Diary [0 Comments] |
8/17/2006: Coming this September: HELLA TIGHT!   Nine-way split CD featuring hella tight exclusive recordings from some of my favorite local bands: Bridges, Identical Homes, Calling All Monsters, Shinobu, Brilliant Red Lights, Teenage Harlets, Pteradon (ex November Trials), Tera Melos, Worker Bee Limited pressing of 1,000. Killer artwork by the epic Zach Trover. Available exclusively at shows or for $5 including postage while supplies last. Stay tuned for more information and mail-order instructions. Labels: Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
8/10/2006: A Mystery What do the following totally fucking amazing local bands have in common?{{{Bridges, Identical Homes, Calling All Monsters, Shinobu, Brilliant Red Lights, Teenage Harlets, Pteradon, Tera Melos, Worker Bee}} Other than being bands you absolutely need to know.. Well, I'll tell you next week. It's going to blow your pants right off! Labels: Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
7/13/2006: The Secretions finally win something! Danny Secretion must have been going all-out in the oral-treats department while hanging out at the Sac News And Review office, as his band has finally won a Sammie award for "Best Sacramento Punk Band!"The Secretions have been nominated for the past fifty straight years without winning once, we were seriously ready to burn the SN&R offices to the ground. We are actually kind of bummed that we don't get to use all these nifty explosives, but congratulations to the Secretions for finally winning what we knew they should have had all along, and to the Sac News And Review for getting it right! Tera Melos were also nominated in the contest for "Best Metal Band" (yea we know they aren't metal, but since the Melos doesn't really fit in anywhere, its all cool). Nobody called me to say if Tera Melos won anything, but if they did, I'll let you know and we'll have a big taco-party. And don't forget, THESE BANDS ARE ON TOUR: (clicky clicky click click for dates on their myspace pages since our website is still broken) The Teenage Harlets Secretions Big D And The Kids Table The Phenomenauts Jason Webley Groovie Ghoulies (and Haints!) Labels: Secretions, Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
5/22/2006: Its time for a Springman website update! *I'm on tour with The Phenomenauts and The Epoxies! This tour will run until June 18th all over the country, so come visit me at the merch table.*Big D And The Kids Table will be out with Catch 22 co-headlining the Summer Of Ska Tour! *Tera Melos has some west-coast shows lined up, then guitarist Nick will be making a movie over this summer. *The Teenage Harlets are going on tour this summer all over the country too, including a bunch of dates with The Secretions! The new Teenage Harlets CD, Up The Fixx comes out July 25th! *Jason Webley is always playing shows everywhere, and has a brand new limited edition "Super 7 Inch" project coming out on 11/11 that you can read more about on his website! *We are re-printing Pain's Jabberjaw CD with all new artwork, look out for it next month! *The Secretion's new CD, Coming To Save The World, along with the latest Pain re-issue, Full Speed Ahead, will be in stores on 6/6/06! Mail-order update: Springman Mail-order is on hold until June 21st, so for now, visit www.interpunk.com or your favorite online mail-order, and send us an e-mail if there is anything you can't find. We have been a bit slow with mail-order since moving to Sacramento earlier this year, so we are going to make sure it is back to being a well oiled super-fast machine before we bring it back. If you are still waiting on an order for anything other than Pain's Jabberjaw CD, PLEASE send me an e-mail so we can take care of that (and if you're waiting on the Pain disc, we will have them back in stock soon!) Lots more exciting things are in the works, stay tuned for updates. Come back over the next few days for everyone's updated summer tour dates. And thanks again for all your support! XOXO Avi / Springman Records Labels: Jason Webley, Secretions, Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos, The Epoxies, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
4/15/2006: More Free Tera Melos Live MP3s! From the beautiful Tera Melos website;oh man you're so stoked. here is a live set from april 4th at the boardwalk with Isis.lots of new songs. lots of strange noises. lots of phil anselmo. 40 rods to the hog's head no longer long (or crazy) self-titled melody 2 cools with a side of weird (melody 5) song for flowers (melody 7) Upcoming Tera Melos shows: 4.22.06: San Jose, CA: nickle city arcade w/sides, brilliant red dicks, and more 5.8.06: Orangevale (Sacramento), CA: the boardwalk w/boy sets fire, versus the mirror and the fully down 6.3.06: Redding, CA: the dip w/by the end of tonight, brilliant red pussy and snowman plan 6.8.06: San Diego, CA: black box studio w/sleeping people, by the end of tonight and more Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
3/15/2006: Free Tera Melos Live MP3s! Tera Melos just posted an MP3 of a full live set from last summer. Download it here: [LINK, 9.6 Meg MP3]The show was on June 23rd at The Boardwalk in Orangevale, CA (right outside of Sacramento), opening for Planes Mistaken For Stars. They just got back from an epic tour of the Western USA! Check out their home-coming shows March 19th at 924 Gilman St (Berkeley), and March 25th at Bottom Of The Hill (San Francisco)! Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
3/02/2006: Tera Melos on PunkNews.org Check out the Tera Melos interview up now at PunkNews.org! [LINK]Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
2/18/2006: Melos Out Tera Melos, being an instrumental band, usually doesn't need very long sound-checks. Two night ago at Junta, the show was being recorded, so they took a good half hour making sure all the levels were just right. Then thirty seconds into the first song, the neck on Nate's guitar snapped right off.Pictures and video coming soon... See Tera Melos in your town, they are on tour right now. Updated dates are on their MySpace. Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
2/12/2006: New Tour Dates We just posted everyone's upcoming tour dates! [CHECK IT]The Phenomenauts are going out with The VooDoo Glow Skulls in March! And then The Epoxies in May and June! Tera Melos is literally hitting up CA, NM, WA, and a bunch of states in that area! Big D And The Kids Table is heading north on the Canadian Frostbite tour with BigWig, Death By Stereo, Musturd Plug, and The Flatliners! Jason Webley is going everywhere! Stay tuned, plenty more on the way. Labels: Tera Melos, The Epoxies [0 Comments] |
1/05/2006: Tera Melos in all the news! Then comes the beautiful mayhem, like the band fell down a long flight of stairs and somehow continued playing.Tera Melos was named by the Associated Press as having released one of the five top overlooked albums of 2005! This article will appear in over 100 newspapers across the country and world over the next few days. Article: [LINK], Google News: [LINK] Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
11/14/2005: Phenomenauts Update! The Phenomenauts are opening for Les Claypool at The Fillmore for New Years! Get your tickets quick, this sells out every year. I find this especially interesting since The Phenomenauts used to play illegal "commando" shows right outside The Fillmore when shows were getting out, and would keep playing until threatened with arrest... As their first foray into the world of children's books, The Phenomenauts appear along-side Weird Al, Blues Traveler, Hootie And The Blowfish and The Spin Doctors in the new book+CD, Dog Train: A Wild Ride on the Rock-and-Roll Side, performing songs by Grammy award winning author Sandra Boynton. The Phenomenauts' contribution to the project is the track (Don't Give Me That) Broccoli. P.S. Tera Melos has a NEW WEBSITE. They are on tour right now, and the big home-coming show will be on December 8th at The Boardwalk (Sacramento/Orangvalle) with The (International) Noise Conspiracy! Labels: Tera Melos, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
11/08/2005: Winter Is Coming First I want to thank everyone who mail-ordered over the past two weeks for their patience. We got robbed recently and the related BS landed us about a week behind on filling mail-orders. Keanu Reeves was right, we are far to dependent on computers.. But the new one just showed up, I've been working for the past sixteen hours straight, and we are once again on-line and all caught up! (Don't worry, we didn't get more than five days behind, and if you don't have your loot yet -- it will be there soon!)Some updates: **TERA MELOS played a kick-head show at a warehouse in ghetto-Sacramento earlier this week! I would say "kick ass," but this time it was "kick head" as my lovely girlfriend Jessica was on the receiving end of Jeff's patented guitar-shredding-cart-wheel and blacked out from it. It was pretty awesome though, and the new Tera Melos songs will blow your mind even more than their album blows your mind already. **BIG D AND THE KIDS TABLE just had the most amazing Halloween show ever with sixteen foot jumps, costumes, a packed house with over 1,500 people.. Wow.. I'm bummed that I missed it, but next year for sure!! With Dave's jumps, Jeff's cartweels, and Danny Secretions - er, top secret, - we really should just start a Springman pro-wrestling league.. **THE PHENOMENAUTS just played a private party in New York City to celebrate the release of a children's book written by this rad Grammy award winning chick. OK it is 4am and I forgot all the details, but my point is that Weird Al was there, along with the Spin Doctors and I think Hootie from that blowfish band, and I guess they're all cadets now? (WTF)  I'll post news about the book in a bit, it is quite awesome and The Phenomenauts are on the CD soundtrack along with all the bands I just mentioned. **THE SECRETIONS celebrated Danny's birthday party with all Sacramento bands doing Sacramento band covers, in an all-girls catholic school auditorium!! It was ridiculous, even an all-star Groovie Ghoulies cover band, with cake and unicorns. **THE RUM DIARY just played some shows with THE APPLE SEED CAST!!! And we finally have their LPs in stock!! They were to ship last week, but we didn't have proper padding for the envelopes to make sure you would get them safe.. but we just got a bunch of FedEx boxes that are the right size and easy to turn inside-out, so your LPs will be there very shortly.. And for making you wait, we are now throwing in MORE LOOT!! Not only do you get a totally awesome 45 minute DVD, but also a copy of The Rum Diary's split CD with The Killowathours (limited pressing of 2,000)!! If you already have it just give it to a friend and share the rock. That's enough for today. Don't forget to vote!! XOXO =AVI= Labels: Groovie Ghoulies, Secretions, Tera Melos, The Rum Diary [0 Comments] |
10/31/2005: TERA FUCKING MELOS  Whatsup Magazine says: "Tera Melos, hailing from Sacramento, Calif., was perhaps the best opening band I have ever seen at the 3B. Flailing and writhing on the floor, doing handstands off their guitars and onto their amps, and delivering some of the most intricate and creative spastic math rock I have witnessed live, they were easily the best band of the night-probably even the month. And they played first." ORDER THEIR NEW ALBUM. VISIT THEIR MYSPACE.COM PAGE FOR TOUR DATES. Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
10/21/2005: Lots to say 1. Here is some video of Jeff from Tera Melos' face after getting it cut open on Nick's bass: [WMA file, 4.0M]Their CD release show last week was EPIC, 800+ people trying to pack into a tiny coffee-house meant to hold under 100, backflips, jump-kicks, with surprisingly few injuries. We have only EIGHT of their CD's left with the dead-bugs so act quick if you want to be totally disgusting! 2. We're on Downloadpunk.com! Fill your iPod with legally obtained Springman MP3s! Pain has the #8 and #15 most popular album downloads today, congratulations guys!!! Link: [Springman on DownloadPunk.com] Pain's final album, Full Speed Ahead, will be available on Springman around the end of November. 3. The Rum Diary's We're Afraid Of Heights Tonight Limited edition LP (only 100 made!) are finally here!!! We are almost done packing them all up, and will have the pre-orders all sent out by the end of next week. Not only that, but each LP comes with a full-length Rum Diary DVD! This album is the most amazing thing they have ever done, and we only have a few left, so order yours now if you want one! The CD version will be released in early 2006 on Devil In The Woods Records. This LP includes some bonus songs that will not be on the CD. 4. Thrice and Propagandhi both released new albums on my birthday, October 18. Please buy them for me! I am getting old, 23, shit... Thrice is fucking awesome and even played a concert inside the Springman office some years back. 5. If you like Big D And The Kids Table, we have a brand new exclusive-- WHOOPS, I'm not supposed to talk about that until Monday. But go see them on tour this November with The Dropkick Murphies!!! XOXO, =AVI= Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
10/04/2005: New Tera Melos CD in stores TODAY The new TERA MELOS CD is in stores TODAY!! Pick it up, this album fucking rips!! If you pre-ordered it, you have it or will get it very shortly. If you haven't, there are still a few left with DEAD BUGS!!!The CD is available at independent record stores everywhere, please request it if you can't find it! Here are just a few of the places that have it in stock today: Tower, Virgin, Dimple, Rasputins, Streetlight, Newbury Comics, Bull Moose, Homers, Waterloo, Amoeba, Millennium, Arons, Off The Record, Sonic Boom, and select locations for: Borders and Musicland/Sam Goody. You can also download it right now at DownloadPunk! Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
9/19/2005: Sacramento Update! Nathan from Tera Melos broke one of his guitar tuning pegs off on Jeff's face! Jeff had a headache for two whole days! The new Tera Melos CD comes out October 4th, you should pre-order it.Mickie from The Secretions just had a rock-n-roll yard-sale! He sold his roommates old LPs even though they were eaten by termites. Their new CD just came out, you should order it.   The local Safeway (grocery store) has this amazing metal horse out front. I'd have climbed it, but there is a cop standing guard 24/7, to keep me from doing that. And the local dance club, Lipstick, is way to cool for me, but thanks to The Brilliant Red Lights for showing me around!    Labels: Secretions, Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
9/15/2005: Tour Dates and Rumors for Everyone! All tour dates are updated!! Big D touring with The Dropkick Murphys! The Phenomenauts on both coasts! Tera Melos leaving a trail of destruction! Groovie Ghoulies in Europe! Jason Webley in 2 countries and 37 states! The Rum Diary all over one state! Day At The Fair all over the place in 67 states! Go look!!!P.S. Wouldn't it be crazy if Big D And The Kids Table came out with a new CD next month? Keep an eye out for some crazy rumors. and, AND PRE-ORDER THE NEW TERA MELOS CD, to make your life better. The first 100 come with dead bugs and a poster. Labels: Groovie Ghoulies, Tera Melos, The Rum Diary [0 Comments] |
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The Tera Melos CDs are back from the plant. They are FUCKING AWESOME. Pre-order now and get a free poster. The first 100 CDs come with dead bugs. I'm not sure how to explain this but its cool and not as gross as it sounds but still kind of gross. I'll update everyone's tour dates tomorrow, I promise... And some new pictures. Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
8/28/2005: Tera Melos Video Watch this 30 second Tera Melos video. DO IT NOW. TRUST ME.Link: [teratera.wmv]  Then check out their myspace.com page to hear Melody 4 from their upcoming untitled full-length CD, in stores October 4th on Springman! For fans of Cap'n Jazz and Black Flag... Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
8/11/2005: We signed a new band!  And we watch to much Adult Swim. And, I just updated every band's tour dates, including some Big D shows with Anti Flag, Secretions shows with The Queers, Phenomenauts shows with The Aquabats, and well, you get the idea. Labels: Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
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