Funk-infused, Crust-Punkin’, Math-rockin’, emotional-Hardcore (Holy-Hell!)

Put another way: Punk Rock with outsider-art sensibilities.

PRE-SAVE our classic E.P. ‘Imitating Life Through Art’ on Spotify! Coming VERY SOON! 🤩😍⬇️ here
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/dontshootimwithgod/imitating-life-through-art-ep 

The music collective known as ‘Don’t Shoot… I’m With God’ (or D.S.I.W.G., for brevity’s sake) arose from the ashes of a few different lauded, local bands (‘Blue Owl Circus’, ‘Slater’, and ‘The Ninjas’), to become the beautifully-ugly, raw-yet-oddly-mesmerizing, funky-bastard-step-child of the South Bend Punk Rock/ DIY scene. 

Not content to follow the nearly religious laws of traditional punk-rock-genre-parameters, the members of D.S.I.W.G. (Nate Trimboli, Dusty “Dontshoot” Philipson, Paul Vellner, Mark Onyx, Phil G., Shaggy and a few other key collaborators) forged their own path and left many stunned, & wondering what Holy Hell they just witnessed. 

With a live show that, at times, included multi-media elements, weird-spontaneous-dancing & an-almost-harrowing emotional gusto... to see the band play live was a unique-&-rapturous experience all it’s own. 

The band’s sound? A hodge-podge of influences: 
funk infused, BIG MUFF’d-bass riffs; death metal screeching, Holy Ghost chanting, and emo-core chorus vocals; 
progressive drumbeats; 
weird tape loops and keyboard noodling… 
... all this with out a single six-string guitar in sight! 

The band’s initial run was from 2000 to 2003; however, the haunting-yet-joyous legacy they left behind is undeniable.

Now begins an archival-project of ‘Don’t Shoot’s’ history (a project that also gives a candid overview of the then-thriving South Bend, IN - DIY Music Scene in the late 90s/ early ‘00s).

"It's kind of a dark solution story, but it's also a spiritual analogy. Basically this future world is poisoned, and a human boy is dying because of it. He finds an android woman who wants to save him. The only way she can do so is by transforming him into an machine like herself. I think it's my futuristic paranoia that machines will either be the death of us all, or our saviors!" -Rodney Sellars
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Icons of Andria is a recording project, a studio collaboration between Rodney Sellars of The Year Zero and Ken Negrete & Fabiola Sanchez of Familiar Trees on a Sci-fi concept album.

Original concept & artwork by Rodney Sellars. Guitar & Lyrics by Rodney Sellars. Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Ken Negrete. Midi/Synthesizers/Piano by Ken Negrete. Vocals by Fabiola Sanchez & Rodney Sellars. Bass by Joel O'Neill.

Contact: iconsofandria@gmail.com

Raw, impulsive, improvisational, oscillating between a disorienting cacophony of sonic violence into menthol smooth funk grooves
and melodies the Wrecked Wrens weave decades of rock & roll genres into a Technicolor feverdream coat--dripping om veteran
ontman, Dustin P’s darkly charismatic, cult-of-personality leader style stage presence which invokes the uneasy tension of the

sacred and profaine. His masterfully controlled range of ripsaw bellicose howls and harmonizations are tempered by vocalist/drum-
mer Katie C, who’s melodic presence and sonorous range helps to cohere the Wren’s funky shimmering keys, brooding basslines,

and live-wire intensity. The Wrens’ are local to the South Bend / Elkhart area in north central Indiana, and have played Martha’s
Midway Tavern, Witches Brew, Rockie Button, Lang Lab, and the Well venues. In July of 2025 they performed at the Audio Feed
music festival’s Bloodline Stage in Champaign, Illinois. Their first Album, “Titled by Self ”, releases September 3rd, 2025.

The Podcast "Heart of a Heartless World" of the Religion and Socialism Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America.

The definitive and prolific Twin Peaks: The Return podcast that's brewed strong and poured deep for our fellow Twin Peaks conspiracy theorists and aficionados around this beautiful and horrific spinning world. Join two Twin Peaks, David Lynch fanatics (Murph and Hawk) as they attempt a feat few other Peaks re-cappers dare: try to understand what in the f*ck is going on. *Spoilers *Explicit Language *Some Nudity *Extreme Violence

Mark Onyx is an artist, cartoonist, drummer/musician based in Portland, OR. 

I'm currently seeking either a really skilled bassist/guitarist or baritone sax player to improv and make avant-garde, experimental free-jazz, post-punk and poly-rhythmic music.  I'm also into dub, afro beat and middle eastern stuff.  Along the lines of Liquid Liquid, Mombu or Zu, or Bill Laswell type shit, like Material or Massacre.

Here are some of the projects that I've played drums in for the past twenty years.  I'll be posting rare tracks, often live recordings, so bare with the quality of sound, for most are recorded on a boombox or 4-track.  Some of the recordings have never been posted on the web and only exist on cassette tape or vinyl. 
All songs copyright by each respected artist or group.
Thanks for listening!

Smoke Rings- (2012-current)
Tim Iserman: Bass 
Mark Onyx: Drums 
Lilian Void: Guitar 
Noelle Magia: Vocals
http://smokeringspdx.bandcamp.com/

Law Of Falling Bodies (2012*)
Dylan Walter: Bass 
Mark Onyx: Drums 
Lilian Void: Guitar 
Noelle Magia: Vocals
http://lawoffallingbodies.bandcamp.com/
(*Currently re-named SMOKE RINGS)

DINNER & THE MAINCOURSE (2007-09)
Teysha G.=vocals, sax
Dylan Walter=bass, guitar
TJ Walter=guitar, bass
Mark Onyx=drums
http://www.myspace.com/dinnerpdx

ASTROLOGY (2009-2010)
Charles Byron Salas-Humara: Vocals, Guitar
Marius Libman: Bass
Mark Onyx: Drums
http://us.myspace.com/astrologymusic

Don't Shoot...I'm With God (2000-02)
Dustin: Vocals
Nate: Bass, Vocals
Mark: Drums
Paul: Keys, Theremin
http://www.last.fm/music/Don't+Shoot...+I'm+With+God?ac=dont%20shoot...

 BLENDER (1994-97)
ALVA: Guitar, Vocals
Mark: Drums
Aaron: Bass



ism is more than music

J.P. Wheeler ## machines, strings & other things

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