The Unblinking Ear: The Unblinking Ear Podcast 8/6/15

The Unblinking Ear: The Unblinking Ear Podcast 8/6/15



Check out "Merfuq" by Rathaus



Out now on their latest single

Rathaus at Union Pool 09.01.15

Franks basement 2.0

Tuesday September 1st

Union Pool

Brooklyn, NY 11211

8 PM / $8

Alien trilogy

Feces

Rathaus

Law$uits

.... Reunited at last for one night only 

Cassette Gods: YOUTH PANT “S/T” (BRAINPLAN)

 Cassette Gods: YOUTH PANT “S/T” (BRAINPLAN): "...Great globs of degenerating cartilage! Had one hell of a time deciphering the name of Youth Pant from the cover art / tape text. Once...""

PBPRESENTS: memorial day weekend rock and food!

 http://rathausrathaus.tumblr.com/post/117906963747/pbpresents-memorial-day-weekend-rock-show-and

pbpresents:
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND ROCK SHOW AND COOKOUT!

It’s the unofficial start of the summer and we’ve got a whole bunch of NEW for you to kick it off.

Kerbivore will celebrating the release of their new EP, All Dressed, 5 songs whose melodies are as powerful as the brute force of the band’s instrumental attack. (Yes, that’s stolen from their press release but I wrote it, so it’s OK). Cassettes will be available for purchase at the show. Check it out here: unblinkingearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/all-dressed

Brooklyn noise-niks Rathaus will be making both their Staten Island debut and in all likelihood, an unholy racket. Slam if you want to. Or don’t. They don’t give a flying V. rathaus.bandcamp.com

We’ve also got TWO bands playing their first shows ever. Wheels on Meals comes to you from the mind(s) that brought you Brownwater, Blank Postcards, Muddy Buddies and The Grand Pantrymen. Will likely ditch their name by the time they play next so this may literally be a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Stark Relief is an acoustic project featuring local legend JT (Sleeper/Serpico, Darien/Amber Jets) and local hero Jerrold Kavanaugh. Come see for yourself what Apples and (nickname redacted) have in store for you.

DJs Paul Bruno and Baricuda will spinning all the songs your mother warned you about before, between and after the bands.

And, of course, it wouldn’t be a cookout with food. The menu has yet to be revealed but KC Pugs has definitely got some eats up his sleeve. Hopefully not literally.

This magnificent evening of entertainment begins at 7pm in the opening airiness of Mother Pugs backyard (weather permitting) and will only set you back 6 American dollars.
Saturday, May 23rd
Mother Pugs
1371 Forest Ave, SINY 10302

KERBIVORE
RATHAUS
WHEELS ON MEALS
STARK RELIEF
DJs Paul Bruno & Baricuda

Doors @ 7pm
$6

RATHAUS RATHAUS review on fuckingrecordreviews

Pretty stoked on this, mainly ',cause of that 7-11 reference ... How did they know ??? 👽

Car Phyte / Fail on Tiny Mix Tapes

This has been out for a year, and I just now stumbled upon it. What a solid release!

Special thanks to MUNDOANIMAL for the explosive art!. After revisiting "CROSSWALK" I'm not surprised this is finally catching on:

These dudes are having a pretty sick year so far. We love you Rathaus!

Rathaus and Car Phyte make fuckinrecordreviews best of 2014 list

Thank you to fuckinrecordreviews for awarding Rathaus a top spot on your best of 2014 list! Additional thanks for including us in your 2014 shopping guide.

A special congrats to Car Phyte's DECADE LOST for making the best of 2014 list also! Just think, it only took ten years. You guys will be missed. 

The Rathaus cassette is SOLD OUT. But stayed tuned for some new releases from them in early 2015

Car Phyte Decade lost is available for sale above, limited to 100 copies only

Car Phyte / Fail Review

Sick review for Car Phyte's Fail 

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Car Phyte / Decade Lost release

It's taken a few years, but we are proud to announce the final installment in the Car Phyte legacy. After a decade of working together, the last and final work in their trilogy of cassettes seems appropriately bitter- sweet. This tape will be available for sale in your favorite local NYC and Austin record stores by mid - December. Available for sale online in about a week. Thanks for the ten years of tunes! Once again, incredible art work by Mundoanimal

fuckinrecordreviews in PRINT check out Rathaus in the latest edition

	fuckinrecordreviews mentioned you in a post!

	fuckinrecordreviews  fuckinrecordreviews Hey there. Yea, it’s November 2014 and the tactile engagement of Fuckin’ Record Reviews #1: The Print Edition - originally advertised for October 2014 - remains confined to the digital realm. Confusion and delay? Worry not Sir Topham Hatt, we are working feverishly to complete this thing and print it on 100% recycled paper before the 2016 election. In fact, we are 64% done (up from 61% last Tuesday), but just like everyone else, we occasionally get stuck between the buttons of procrastination and daydream nation and consequently…it’s proceeding a bit more slowly than hoped. Things done to periodically knock my eye off the prize include… posting Stretch Heads pix at Now Paying rewatching the BBC Synth Brittania doc on YouTube (this has been mentioned previously) making out with my pillow firing off daily missives at this here FRR tumblr enjoying vidz of Mike Wolf’s dog DOMINATING in the park(by the way she’s real, and she’s spectacular) Pampers like 72 times since September…2014 USA tour starts next week sorting hand sanitizer bottles by color omg - rathausrathaus​ and brainplan records! fancying it possible be au courant rehearsing the perfect personal intro to belakoe at Anyway Records Night last month devouring the Popwatch zines Leslie Gaffney sent (thanx!) saying "Alan Licht" out loud more times in a row than any other human for the world record organizing Lee Noble selections from best to bestest reshuffling our guesses for super secret guest entires into theDeath By Audio lottery concocting several non alignment pacts Best Reasons To Write A Fuckin’ Record Review Today ever-never-records how many people are in the Gizmos anyway? Thomas Storck at WFMU….real or unreal? writing this post… Several changes have taken place that render the  advertisement above obsolete.  As you might’ve heard, our brother Tony Rettman got signed by Monument Records to annotate the lost recordings of Barefoot Jerry and we wish him well. He may visit with us in FRR #1: TPE, but we hope to see him return to his Hardcore in Silhouette status by 2015.  Since we last wrote, New York Observer’s Vicky Wheelerhas dedicated her life to figuring out how to be the sixth member of Wussy, and of course we wish her well. Maybe we’ll see more of her in 2015. We begged her to don’t leave us now, but who can complete with Chuck & Lisa? GOOD NEWS: In the stead of those now gone, we’ve trickedurbankill's Matt T to write like 40-60 fuckin’ record reviews!Jay Hinman called Matt one of the curators of our time, and we are delighted to offer Matt a platform to sink or swim. He’s submitted a dozen or so reviews so far and they really cut the rug.  We’ve also employed Bela Koe-Krompecher of belakoekrompecher’s blog to write fuckin’ record reviews! Yea, we’re pretty impressed with our networking power too. The aforementioned Jay Hinman, recently returned from Norway, has contributed a piece to help us with commuting… So…see you soon! In the mean time, dynamitehemorrhage#2 should be out soon and try reading it while listening tocyanidetooth's The Whole Tooth & Nothing But …(ever/never - 201 4) …fuckinrecordreviews: WHY THE FUCK we would create more tangible stuff in the future, namely FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS #1: The Print Edition? Because…VIVE LA RÉSISTANCE! Svenonius: "In the sleek Apple future, our ‘outdated’ possessions are turned into symbols of poverty…We’re encouraged to lose our possessions… Meanwhile, those who have hung onto possessions are castigated, jeered at, and painted as fools…This is fine for the cyber elite; they can live as they wish. But why is their ideology impressed on all of us through this shame-based propaganda? Why is the “hoarder” so loathed by the Apple authorities? Because she is feared. The record collection or magazine or newspaper might reveal some clue to a social movement or trend or fashion or sensibility that defies their moronic stranglehold on consciousness. A burp of resistance. A clue to a way out. A signal that life doesn’t actually depend on high-speed internet access.”  ALL POWER TO THE PACK RATS by Ian Svenonius Jacobin / a magazine of culture and polemic (July 2014) We don’t love everything Svenonius belches forth with Chain And The Gang, Cupid Car Club, Felt Letters, Make-Up, Nation Of Ulysses,  Scene Creamers and Weird War, but now and again we can get down. We are aligned, however, with Svenonius on many matters of thought and we found the linked article All Power To The Pack Rats to be a very worthwhile justification for keeping stuff. It also helped us clarify why we would create more stuff in the future, namely FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS #1: The Print Edition -  because we’re fighting the powers that be! Of course, we recognize Fuckin’ Record Reviews utilizes the internet in an obvious fashion, but if our print version - which, by the way, we will not be posting to the tumblr (for the most part) -  offers one burp of resistance, then good on us and our collaborators.   Why do it?  Now you know. Now we know. HEY! HO! LET’S GO! fuckinrecordreviews: Announcing our second year of Fuckin’ Record Reviews with… FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS #1  Print Edition -  numbered, Rettman-kissed copies many, many pages eye popping grafix might be a total wreck…but it *will* be! OCTOBER 2014  (you only have yourselves to blame) #Fuckin' Record Reviews #Fuckin' Record Reviews 1 The Print Edition #2014 #confusion and delay 50 notes
	We couldn't be prouder to be apart of such an amazing / groundbreaking / badass collective of musical know -it - alls in the best way possible. Extra thanks to Matt at #urbankills #80-81 #fuckinrecordreviews and Tony, master of possibility.

Terminal Boredom gives Rathaus a thumbs up

 

YOU GUYS! Hell hath frozen over. Terminal Boredom actually LIKED something that we put out. Insane. And there were only two songs on it. 

Check out the full list of cassette reviews here:

terminal boredom cassette reviews 2014 

Last Rathaus singles for sale on 8081 records!!!

huge shout out to http://fuckinrecordreviews.tumblr.com/post/93828219060/best-reason-to-write-a-fuckin-record-review and http://8081records.bigcartel.com/product/rathaus-fks-ecd-cs-brainplan-records-nyc you guys are THE BEST

Cassette Store Day Mystery Release

CASSETTE STORE DAY / ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL>>>>>>Super rare - mystery tape. Including previously unreleased surprise material from the past + present + future. VERY LIMITED quantity; made to order. No two just alike, handmade art. Orders taken now through: 

brainplanrecords@gmail.com

through October first only.

Five Year Anniversary

In celebration of our five year anniversary and cassette store day, we have some weekly sales going on for the entire month of September. Follow us on instagram, @brainplanrecords , for all of the details.

Fuckin' Record Reviews Rathaus Review

WOW. Truly an honor to be mentioned by this rad site:

BEST REASON TO WRITE A FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEW TODAY!  (8/4/14)

RATHAUS FKS​/​ECD cassette (Brain Plan – 2014)

Holy crudidity! “FKS” is 1:48 of panic splatter so rudimentary in its crypto yowl, it makes Pampers sound like the Pastels. Exceptional. The flip is another thing altogether. A hairy eyeballed huckster smoove talks to us wide-eyed worriers ‘bout “Early Childhood Development,” while a menacing choogle creeps underneath. Hints of a siren half moan emerge at several points. Just the thing you hoped was lurking in Brooklyn cellars lying in wait as we eat our artisanal kale. You’ve been warned.

Aug. 4 2014

#Best Reason To Write A Fuckin' Record Review Today! #2014 #Rathause #Brain Plan #artisanal kale

 

 

 

Fuckin' Record Reviews Site 

Thanks to everyone who came to the last Rathaus basement show. We hope to do another one in the Fall

Rathaus single out now!

After debuting at SXSW 2014, the Rathaus single is now available for sale. Limited run of 200 in shrink wrap. $3

Rathaus + Golden Pelicans + Fostercare

Thanks to all who were able to make it to the basement party this past weekend.... A killer night of punk with Rathaus, Golden Pelicans (FL), and Fostercare 

Brainplan in Oakland

Now available in Oakland: Car Phyte / Fail and Youthpant S/T