State, Plastic Boyz, Amoebas 3-26-10

This went down at the painted lady, where the Blatz was flowing freely. I got there a bit late, but I wasn't too late to see the Statetotally rip it up. They played some songs off the new 7" called Excommunicated which I'm happy to say is just as ripping as anything from their recent releases. Cripes, this is like the third seven inch I've gotten my hands on from these veteran hardcore punks in the last six months or so. Hopefully they keep churning out the angry little slabs of wax. Kind of a shitty turn out, come on Detroit punks and hardcore kids WTF? The State is not something you should miss. So the Plastic Boyz were supposed to play last, but during the State's set their singer managed to break a glass on the ground, land on it and put a five inch long gash up his arm. More blood than I've ever seen at a show before. So the rest of those Plastic Boys soldiered on and tried to wing it through a set of mostly covers, which was sweet since they had help from the crowd. This really young kid someone told me is in a band called Spookswas snotting it up into the mic for some of it, so I'm going to try to check that band out now. I stuck around for this messy punk Karaoke for a little while, but it wore on my attention span quickly so I went to play D&D. Plastic Boyz had a demo and some totally sweet looking half ass patches i forgot to pick up. oops. Amoebas had a bunch of cool shirts and a 7", kinda bummed I missed them. I'll have to check them out soon.

Deathrats, Death In Custody, Deathskin Razors and Live to Kill 3-21-10

Live To Kill went on first with some grind inspired crusty vocals and a mess of feedback. They did a chinese fire drill and switched instruments twice. Good set, kinda long... cause, ya know, no attention span. Deathrats from D.C. came on next with a brutal and short punk as fuck set. Right amount of feedback for noisy hardcore but still threw in memorable killer riffs and vocals with a ton of energy. Death in custody played next and had the kids throwing themselves around and running into each other with their fast palm muted riffs and whatnot. i had a ton of fun playing our (deathskin razors') set. Oh and this totally didn't actually happen bt there were rumors of a ladder match being organized to get Death In Custody merch. A chicken fight actually did go down though.

jrugs album

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haven't updated this fucker in like a year. Who cares? I've been too busy not updating the Splattercat Records blog. Check that shit out here SPLATERCAT RECORDS TUMBLR. Or theres the splattercat records bandcamp. its where you can hear shit music(more to come). fuck.

March 7th War, Druid Perfume at Painted Lady

Druid Perfume
I really need to get a better camera. Warn Defever played one of the coolest noise sets ever as "war." He passed out tambourines and other shakey noise makers to the crowd before playing some chirpy, weirdo noise stuff that built into a loud crescendo then went back into a semi musical bit by way of an electric harmonica or something. Druid Perfume was next. I have to see them more. It was awesome. Musically it's- almost blues rock-y with a saxophone, but wilder than that. If George Thorogood and the Destroyers took a shit load of acid and other drugs then got possessed and had a psychedelic freak out it would look like this. There was a lot of crowd surfing and weird dancing. Their singer Jamie Easter got slammed into the stage a bunch of times. At one point he grabbed someone, pinned him on stage, started yelling about how he was sick and needed to take his medicine then got all uncomfortably close to him. Then at some other point he ditched his mic in favor of yelling into one of the stage lights he ripped off the ceiling. go see these guys it's awesome.

Bill Bondsmen March 6 '09

So, last night I saw the other band I wanted to see at the Hamtramck Blowout, the Bill Bondsmen. Last time I tried to see them at the blowout totally fucking sucked. Until they finally let us in for free. Still, I vowed never to pay for one of those goddamn wristbands. Oops. So the Bondsmen played a pretty good fucking set. Their guitar player Amado totally jumped up on the bar and pissed off the venue. I'd have a shitty camera phone picture of that if hadn't been too busy laughing. The sound at Jeans totally sucked. I think they played new stuff, but between shitty sound and JOOSE premium malt beverage it kinda blurred.

March 5th '09 Blowout w/ Boywife and UFO Factory w/ Wolf Eyes

I got to the Painted Lady to see one of maybe 3 or 4 bands playing the Hamtramck Blowout that I actually give a shit about. I'm not talking shit, there are just a lot of bands there that I don't know and most of them play the type of music I couldn't care less about... ok maybe I'm talking shit a little. Boywife plays a catchy, kind of poppy garage punk indie rock- if I knew a bit more about Indie Rock bands maybe I'd have some bands to compare them to. But they play some good rock, sometimes there's yelling, sometimes they're playing a catchy hook and sometimes they're shredding on guitar. It's good. But I got to the Painted Lady to see them to find a group of kids hanging out front. Yep, the owner or whoever hadn't shown up to let them in. Nice. So I went back home, ate a bowl of cereal, then went back to enjoy the show. Everything was good by the time I got back.
Boywife played a really good set. Not too long to where it dragged on, not too short to where I couldn't get wholly into it. More local bands need to follow their example and play perfect length sets.
Left after Boywife to go see Wolf Eyes. Wolf Eyes rule, man, so I was excited. Plus I've never been to the UFO Factory before, so I was pumped to see that. Yep, It was all nice and shiny-silver in a loft or something in Eastern Market. Great venue! I forget the name of the first band that played, it was pretty good though. Aaron Dilloway played next. His set started out with some loud waves of sound, then went into a quieter repeating croak, then back into a total explosion of crazed loudness. That thing he's got in his mouth? It's fucking cool!
Then Wolf Eyes played and it was totally sweet. Guitar, some sort of home-made guitar, crazy ass horns, and suit cases full of weird re-wired shit made for one sweet set. If you don't like Wolf Eyes there's probably nothing I can say in a review to make you change your mind. After that I returned to Hamtramck to check some random bands out. Wound up at the THC seeing this band called Sex Ghost. It was some girl and guy singing, and maybe free style rapping while dicking around on a huge table full of samples and mixers. It was pretty funny, they probably put on a good show when their shit is more together. Plus they handed out charm bracelet charms. This hipster girl give me a Pin from her band Public Pubes that had opened. It sounds similar to Sex Ghost, lots of weird beats, samples, and a guy and a girl saying dirty things. That's totally cute. Both from Lansing, apparently there is a scene there for this weirdness. Probably one in Detroit too that I don't know about. While I was watching that I missed Timmy's Organism. Oops.