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Broken to Piano for President is a story of “a noise band caught up in a conspiracy involving fast food moguls and international space programs,” by Patrick Wensink. Well, Deathbomb Arc is releasing Broken to Piano for President as a cassette audiobook with True Neutral performing the accompanying score.

True Neutral is Brain Miller’s new musical project. You may know Miller from his work in drum ‘n’ shout hardcore band foot village, or perhaps from his ambient project Back to the Future the Ride, or maybe from the avantpunk of Gang Wizard. With True Neutral, he is composing scores to audiobooks. Contributing performances to the score are Brian Chippendale (of Lightning Bolt and Black Pus), Ezra Buchla (ex-Gowns), and Christina Gubala (Oedipa Maas and DJ Technical D’s).

The audio book contains an abridged version of Broken to Piano for President on Side A with the score. Side B is just the score without readings, plus the theme song for the novel. This right here is said theme song.

Listen.

Downloadable: Call on the Herd (mp3)

These are the lyrics to Call of the Herd:

Call on the word Reverb
Everything that I spit is to call on the herd
Reverb Reverb Reverb
Call on the word Reverb
We all have been hurt we all have been heard
Reverb Reverb Reverb
Call on the word Absurd
Release all your friends from their unforgivable sins
Reverb Reverb Reverb
Tell all your friends on the beautiful ends
Once they have heard they’ll be hungry again
Once they have heard they’ll be hungry again
Once they have heard they’ll be hungry again

Pre-order Broken to Piano for President now @ Deathbomb Arc (All orders will mail out by April 3rd. There are limited quantities of a package with both the audio book and signed copies of the novel.)

The print version is out now on Lazy Fascist Press. Buy the book @ amazon.com.

True Neutral is on Deathbomb Arc.

 
For your streaming pleasure, here are the latest Friday Night Vids…
 
Streamable: End Times (vimeo) by Weekend

Downloadable: End Times (mp3)

 
 
Streamable: Haunted Castle (vimeo) by Naked Pictures

 
 
Streamable: SATANIC YOUTH BRIGADE (vimeo) by Mickey Mickey Rourke

Downloadable: SATANIC YOUTH BRIGADE (mp3)

 
 
Streamable: Post Physical (vimeo) by Pictureplane

Downloadable: Post Physical (mp3)

Watch an awesome fan-made video for Post-Physical @ http://vimeo.com/25602792

 
 
Streamable: You Might Have A Moustache (vimeo) by The Earth is A Man

 
 
Streamable: I Wanna Get High But I Don’t Want Brain Damage (Feat. Lightning Bolt) (youtube) by The Flaming Lips

 
 
You can always watch more (live) videos @ the GIMMETINNITUSTUBE Channel.

And if you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers (or your local independent record store):

Insound | Amazon MP3 | eMusic | Other Music
 

Steve and Amelia of SHAPERS sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series.

q: What is the last song you (really) heard?

a: I’m pretty sure it was “Island” off the Phil Manzanera 801: Listen Now album … good sushi music

Streamable: Island (youtube)

q: What is your favorite beverage?

a: Coconut water, pineapple flavor

q: What is your favorite band to see live?

s: The band favorite is Lightning Bolt

Downloadable: Dracula Mountain (mp3)

q: What is your favorite venue in NYC (if applicable)?

s: We had really fun shows at the Rock Shop and Pianos last fall.

q: What piece(s) of culture are you really really excited about right now?

a: I am excited by the cultures in this cup of Fage yogurt…

q: Anything we should know about your latest project (whatever that might be)?

a: This latest project–when it is done–is gonna feel like how it feels at the end of a long winter when you finally take your tights off, and your legs feel naked and fleshy and free…and maybe a little hairy.

Downloadables:
Virginia Reel (mp3)
Proboscidean (mp3)
Happy Birthday Polywog (Daytrotter Session) (mp3)

Streamable: SHAPERS “Jar” (vimeo) (as seen)

Tour dates w/ Tobacco & Beans:

WED 4.13 – The Blind Pig, Ann Arbor MI
THU 4.14 – The Strutt, Kalamazoo MI
FRI 4.15 – Lincoln Hall, Chicago IL
SAT 4.16 – High Noon Saloon, Madison WI
SUN 4.17 – Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis MN
MON 4.18 – The Aquarium, Fargo ND
WED 4.20 – Top Hat, Missoula MT *
FRI 4.22 – Chop Suey, Seattle WA
SAT 4.23 – Holocene, Portland OR
MON 4.25 – Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City UT
TUE 4.26 – Larimer Lounge, Denver CO

* w/ The Hood Internet (no Tobacco nor Beans)

And be sure to check out the rest of the q and also a series… here.

SHAPERS is on the internet
SHAPERS is on Twitter
SHAPERS is on Facebook
SHAPERS is on Soundcloud
SHAPERS is on Vimeo
SHAPERS is on Myspace
SHAPERS is on Daytrotter
SHAPERS is on Two Thumbs Down
SHAPERS is on Amazon MP3

GDFX is the solo electronics project of Greg Fox who also creates music with Teeth Mountain, Family Of Love, and the transcendentalblackmetal unit Liturgy. Here are his answers to this here q and also a.

q: What is the last song you (really) heard?

a: Living in the Kingdom of Death (lala link) by Daniel Higgs

q: What is your favorite food?

a: Pho #5 and Vietnamese iced coffee from Cong Ly, on Hester and Chrystie in Manhattan. If you go, tell Hai that I sent you.

q: What is your favorite band to see live?

a: I have to say it’s Lightning Bolt. They’ve been my favorite live band since 2003, when I first saw them.

Listen: Colossus (mp3)

q: What is your favorite venue in NYC (if applicable)?

a: Shea Stadium, on Meadow street in Brooklyn. My cousin Adam Reich is one of the people running the place, and he’s also the main sound guy. Strong family vibes in there.

Honorable mentions (if only because I am not related to these people, not for any lesser amount of love): death by audio, silent barn, market hotel, and the meat wallet… Basically my friends’ places. What makes the brooklyn underground music scene so good is its infrastructure, which is largely due to the people who run the venues.

q: OK, President Obama appoints you as the first Secretary of Culture, to whom do you give your first grant?

a: C.S.E.T.I.’s founder, Dr. Steven Greer. (google Disclosure Project for more info)

q: Anything we should know about your latest project (whatever that might be)?

a: There is currently a new GDFX album in the works, which will be my first official release through a record label (the name of which I will not yet divulge) other than my own (Infinite Limbs/INFL). Thematic content inclusive of: collective consciousness, telepathy, the Morgenheutegesternwelt, the use of occult/otherwise esoteric meditation techniques, certain sub- and/or super-liminal resonant frequencies, the use of polyrhythms, drone, etc, states of trance, ecstasy, and what are sometimes referred to as “alternate realities”… Stepping outside of time as we experience it normally, to gain perspective and realize that we are one with all that is, beyond the current limits of our perception. Along the lines of reading a Dr. Bronner’s bottle while you’re in the shower- A soundtrack for the remote viewing of the void, visiting other parts of the galaxy and beyond, communicating with extraterrestrials, etc, if you will. A finger pointing to the moon, so to speak

It’s gonna be a banger.

[The following mp3] is totally in the demo stage- but it should give an idea of what some of this will sound like-

Listen: NEW REX (mp3)

[Here] is an excerpt from my recent live performance on WFMU, featuring collaborators Alexandra Drewchin (of Eartheater, Silver Summit and Lagoon), Ashiq Khondker (of Magnet City Kids), Tyler Dusenbury (of Thick Business, Family Of Love, and Liturgy), Max Eilbacher (of Teeth Mountain and Needle Gun), Mario Maggio (of PC Worship), and Turner Williams (of Ramble Tamble)-

Listen: (live @ WFMU 1/5/2010 part 3) (mp3)

You can download the rest of the recording, riding the tiger: good fortune and great success in 2010 and beyond (live on wfmu) for free @ Free Music Archive.

Upcoming Show:
Feb 20 @ Shea Stadium w/ Mouthus & Sightings

GDFX is on Facebook.
GDFX is on Twitter.
GDFX is on Free Music Archive.
Infinite Limbs is here.
Impose Magazine piece is here.

BONUS: Altered Ego (mp3)

As the first fan of GT on the Facebook, this mini-mix goes out to TSURURADIO. The theme is… bikes.

Downloadables:

Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle (mp3) by Be Your Own Pet

Bicycle (mp3) by Memory Tapes

Day On A Bike (mp3) by Black Moth Super Rainbow

Fall Bicycle (The Album Leaf Remix) (mp3) by Lymbyc Systym

Bizarro Bike (mp3) by Lightning Bolt

Cross Country Atom And His Package Tour Via Bicycle (mp3) by Atom & His Package

BONUS: check out the bicycle themed Contrast Podcast… here.

The Bicycle Coloring Book is available from http://www.bicyclepaintings.com/