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history teacher

messin wit my hed (DEMOOOO)

antibiotics in the water
they’ve poisoned someone else’s ’s daughter
slaughterhouse floors painted of the boys blood
look what you’ve done
seems like they’ve won

(chorus)
beaten up, fallen and blue
your eyes deceive you
swollen shut
i don’t love you any more 
peel yourself up off the floor
stop tearing into my skin
i won’t let you in x2

defibrillate me
shine a light into my eyes
see if i’m still alive
or am i just a walking corpse in disguise 

(chorus)
beaten up, fallen and blue
your eyes deceive you
swollen shut
i don’t love you any more 
peel yourself up off the floor
stop tearing into my skin
i won’t let you in x2

Antibiotics Demo

The Casket Girls
True Love Kills the Fairy Tale
Out 2.11.14
pre-order the colored vinyl, cd or cassette here: www.graveface.com/graveface-catalog.html

So many pieces of Savannah, GA three-piece The Casket Girls seemed to happen by accident. From their beginning - when electronic sound-shaper Ryan Graveface (Graveface Records, Dreamend, Black Moth Super Rainbow) found sisters Phaedra and Elsa Greene under a tree in one of Savannah's many squares, playing Autoharp and singing bizarre songs - to the night they composed their sophomore album, True Love Kills the Fairy Tale, under circumstances that fall somewhere between séance and dream state, nearly everything about The Casket Girls seems to have been inspired by some kind of spooky happenstance. But then again, the Greene sisters don't believe in accidents.

"I dropped off a shit ton of songs to the girls to work on one night," Graveface says of the genesis of True Love, the follow up to Casket Girls' critically acclaimed 2012 debut. "I went back to check on their progress, because they weren't answering their phones. I don't know if they dropped acid or what, but I walked in and Elsa was sobbing and reciting poetry while Phaedra was just staring straight ahead writing it all down, like catatonic. The next day they dropped off a CD and said, 'We don't even know what's on this. You can throw it in the garbage if you want.' I sat down and listened all the way through and cried. I was like, 'Holy shit! They actually wrote a record like that!' I booked studio time and had them re-record every note just as it was on the demo. They really didn't remember any of it. Had to learn the songs as if someone else had written them entirely. Very bizarre."

Phaedra and Elsa had filled the disc with lilting, almost whimsical melodies about chemical hazes and love gone sour like a couple of fucked up Shangri-las, to which Graveface added a bevy of grinding, multi-dimensional psych-rock keys that will be familiar to anyone with a Graveface LP in their collection. The title track speaks like an unknown voice in a lucid dream - perhaps the one that conveyed these songs through the veil in the first place -beckoning, "True love kills the fairy tale... until heart and lungs fail." It's this twisted and comforting charm, which set in motion the Graveface-Greene love affair in the first place, that relieves us from fear.

The Casket Girls have gained momentum and a substantial cult following due to the unflagging catchiness of their songwriting and the compelling development of their live stage show. They spent the last year and a half touring in support of BMSR and the Faint before growing into headliners in their own right. Last year, they released a self-titled EP on Record Store Day, and a "cassingle" cassette store day.

The trio will hit the road for a slew of US dates, followed by a sojourn through Europe. Visit casketgirls.org to for tour date developments, new-music nuggets and more.

GRAVEFACE ROADSHOW 2014
featuring The Casket Girls, The Stargazer Lilies, Dreamend & Dott (Dott joins us from Seattle to SXSW)

A bunch of dates to be added. Local and regional Graveface bands to be announced. Please help spread the word. Much love.

2/14/2014 Atlanta GA 529

2/15/2014 Charlotte, NC Snug Harbor (snugharbor.tunestub.com/show.cfm?id=1…5584&cart)

2/16/2014 Washington DC DC9 w/ Creepoid! (www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/431977)

2/17/2014 Brooklyn @ Shea Stadium w/ Creepoid (www.brownpapertickets.com/event/553633)

2/18/2014 New York NY Mercury Lounge (No Dreamend) (www.ticketmaster.com/the-casket-gir…=mercurylounge)

2/19/2014 Philadelphia PA Johnny Brenda's (www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/4…tm_medium=459899)

2/20/2014 Allston MA Great Scott w/ TW Walsh!! (www.ticketmaster.com/event/01004B76…FC_BUYAT_97249)

2/21/2014 Montreal QC Casa Del Popolo (www.liftticketsystem.com/tickets/grav…casket-girls﻿-stargazer-lilies﻿-dreamend﻿)

2/22/2014 Toronto ON The Garrison

2/23/2014 Grand Rapids MI Founders Brewery, Co. *FREE*

2/24/2014 Chicago IL Empty Bottle *FREE*

2/25/2014 Minneapolis MN Triple Rock Social Club w/ Gramma's Boyfriend! (www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/4…8A3B355D65CF85C0)

2/26/2014 Fargo ND The Aquarium

2/28/2014 Missoula MT VFW (www.etix.com/ticket/online/perf…cobrand=tickets300)

3/1/2014 Seattle WA The Vera Project (www.etix.com/ticket/online/perf…ormance_id=1775346)

3/2/2014 Portland OR Holocene (portland.strangertickets.com/events/110…t-dreamend)

3/4/2014 San Francisco CA Bottom of the Hill (www.stubmatic.com/bottomofthehill/event/8155)

3/5/2014 Santa Cruz The Crepe Place

3/6/2014 Los Angeles CA The Echo (www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/4…tm_medium=459899)

3/7/2014 San Diego CA The Void

3/8/2014 Tucson TBA

3/9/2014 Phoeniz AZ Crescent Ballroom with Dum Dum Girls & Blouse - NO DREAMEND, Stargazer Lilies or Dott (www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/4…tm_medium=459899)

3/12/2014 Austin TX SXSW

3/13/2014 Austin TX SXSW

3/14/2014 Austin TX SXSW (GRAVEFACE MEGASHOW. FEATURING DOSH, DOTT, HOSPITAL SHIPS, DREAMEND, CASKET GIRLS, STARGAZER LILIES, CREEPOID & GRAMMA'S BOYFRIEND)

3/17/2014 New Orleans LA The Circle Bar

3/19/2014 Tampa FL Crowbar

3/20/2014 Miami FL Churchills

3/21/2014 Orlando FL Will's Pub (www.thesocial.org/event/466639-gra…-casket-orlando/)

3/22/2014 Savannah GA Dollhouse GRAVEFACE FEST 2 (www.facebook.com/events/699034450114959)

The Casket Girls - Day To Day

So You Know - from the upcoming album "Interrupt" out February 25, 2014 (Kanine).

Where did you go / So you know / I’m alone / Now you know / I’m all alone / Didn’t you know / I’ve been here before / Doesn’t it show / Why can’t you see / I’m all alone / You take me down / Can’t believe / You break me down / Don’t you see / What you say / What you do / I can’t sleep / Days are weeks / Here I am I will wait for you / I can’t sleep / Days are weeks / I’ll stay up for you

PreOrder Album

Bleeding Rainbow - So You Know

Puppy Love

Frankie Cosmos :: Owen

English Oceans (ATO Records)

US Release date: March 4, 2014
European release date: March 3, 2014

English Oceans, the 12th release by Athens, Georgia's Drive-By Truckers, is an elegantly balanced and deeply engaged new effort that finds the group refreshed and firing on all cylinders.

All but one of the collection's 13 new songs, written by singer-guitarists and co-founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, were recorded during 13 days of sessions in August 2013 with longtime producer David Barbe.

Six of the songs were the result of a burst of writing activity by Cooley.

"I had time to write," Cooley says. "After we came off the road last time, we decided we were going to let it rest for a while. So I had time to really focus. I kind of had to re-learn how to write, because I didn't write as many songs as I'd wanted on the last couple of records. I was happy with these songs, and thrilled to go in and record so many that I felt real strongly about."

Hood notes, "I don't think we've ever had a record where Cooley was as deeply involved in every aspect of the making of it as he was this time. With Cooley's writing, there's almost no precedent for it in our catalog. He came in with this stunning bunch of songs, full of this beautiful imagery."

Writing independently, Cooley and Hood penned songs that dovetailed brilliantly with each other. Hood says, "Every song on this record connects with another song. I noticed Cooley's got a line in 'Primer Coat' about 'apron strings,' and I have the exact same image in one of my songs, 'Hanging On.' It goes on and on and on like that on this record, and that's a pretty good sign for things, particularly given how different our temperaments are and our styles of writing are."

Cooley and Hood's brace of character-based songs depict a neatly interlocking gallery of relationships, often in dissolution and discord. The last song written and recorded for the album, Hood's rave-up "Pauline Hawkins," was based on a new novel by Willy Vlautin and penned after another of his compositions was scrapped.

Hood says, "There was such a balance between Cooley's songs and my songs that taking a song off the record would upset the balance a little bit. I liked the back-and-forth flow, like our shows tend to do. I got an advance copy of Willy's latest book, The Free. I've been a fan of his writing for a while. I read it in about three days. I finished it on Saturday, I wrote the song on Sunday, and then we cut it on Thursday and mastered the record on the following Monday. It sure makes it a better record."

DBT's ever-keen political edge can be seen in two songs on the release. Cooley's "Made Up English Oceans" derives from his interest in the career of Lee Atwater, the Republican operative who was active in the Reagan and Bush campaigns of the '80s. "He was the guy that Karl Rove and all of the modern dirty tricksters looked to – he was one of the granddaddies of it all. That song is from his point of view, fictionally of course. It's him making his pitch, telling what he understands about young, Southern men."

Hood says "The Part of Him" was inspired by the procession of scandals that plague the political world year after year. "It's about political assholery -- there's someone new playing that role every few months," he says. "As soon as we get rid of one of them, someone comes up and starts playing that part again."

Reflecting the renewed high level of collaboration between the band's two principals, English Oceans marks an unprecedented event: the recording of a Hood song, "Til He's Dead or Rises," with Cooley assuming the lead vocal.

Cooley says, "I remember Patterson was getting frustrated trying to sing it. He was doing fine, but it seemed like there was something he wanted to do that wasn't coming. I was in the control room thinking, 'I could probably sing this' -- though it wasn't like I was saying, 'Oh, I can sing this a lot better than that.' I was thinking, 'This sounds like something I could sing.' Right after that, he walks into the control room and says, 'You want to trying singing this? It sounds more like you than me.' I said, 'Yeah, I was just thinking that.'"

"Grand Canyon," the final song on the album, is an emotionally overwhelming elegy for Craig Lieske, a longtime member of DBT's touring family. The former manager of Athens' 40 Watt Club and a key player in the city's experimental music scene, Lieske died suddenly of a heart attack in January 2013 following the first night of the band's three-night homecoming stand in Athens. English Oceans is dedicated to him.

"I probably wrote it in 15 minutes," Hood says. "It wasn't any kind of a conscious thing. It's the most important song of mine on the record. I wrote new songs to go with it. It recalibrated something. It became a totally different record for me than the record I thought we were going to make."

The album was recorded with a compact, retooled lineup. Jay Gonzalez, who joined the band in 2008 as keyboardist, stepped into an expanded role by adding guitar to his duties, while bassist Matt Patton was drafted from the Tuscaloosa group The Dexateens. The unit was road-tested during dates in 2013.

Cooley says, "This lineup is so direct. It can go from this chainsaw rock 'n' roll to very delicate, pretty-sounding stuff. We wrote a lot of those kinds of songs, and this lineup got all of that well."

Hood agrees: "We recorded with a stripped-down lineup that gave things a more primal and immediate feel. It's a more turn-on-a-dime kind of thing, which suits these songs, and us as a band. It's a very tasteful group, and when it needs to be it can be a very big, powerful, over-the-top band, too, and it can go from one to the other seamlessly."

Looking at the accomplishments of English Oceans from the perspective of DBT's nearly three-decade history, both Cooley and Hood decline to hedge their bets on the quality of their latest work.

"You're always hesitant to say, 'Oh, this is the best record we've ever made,'" Cooley says, "because you always want to. And sometimes you say it, and sometimes you're right, and sometimes you think, 'Well, maybe I jumped the gun on that a little bit, I got excited.' But I think this just might be the best record we've ever made."

Hood concurs enthusiastically: "It's my favorite thing that we've ever done. I'm proud of our catalog – we always try to make as good a record as we can make. Sometimes things just work. This time, we made kind of a magical record. I've always felt that Decoration Day was our best record, and this is the first one that I think is a better record than that was. Every piece of the puzzle fit."

"Pauline Hawkins" by Drive-By Truckers

I die
u say hi
"hi"
i think im
stuck to u
glue
u r cute

rnt u gonna take me to the sun?

Crush

coma cinema - monica

the man who played god (sparklehorse/suzanne vega)

Rules
- always a first take
- three covers, one original song
- no vocal guidance
- recorder by one handheld type recorder 
- capturing the sound of the room, no direct recording allowed
- no sound editing
- one person, one instrument and vocal mic only
- partial knowledge of the lyrics (the less the better)
- no thinking, all improvisation
- use your own visuals only
- no genre limitation
- all passion, no technique


The goal is to enjoy the flaws and mistakes, the gems of the first take, no matter how afwul they are. They are real.

Frankie Cosmos :: Owen

Double Double Whammy

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