Indie bands dive into Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim

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- Indie bands dive into Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim
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- … System f A Down & More: Metal File – News Story | Music…
- Band on the run: Rock in a hard place

Indie bands dive into Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim
Denver Post – Nov 2, 2007
com both Colorado dates are sold out. As Trail of Dead and Dethklok play their own 12-campus rock tour hip-hopper Ghostface Killah of Wu Tang fame headlined his own 12-campus Adult Swim-sponsored tour in ctober. It shows the breadth of music covered by the Adult Swim crew – from hip-hop to indie rock to death metal. And it doesn’t stop there. From old-school rapper Schooly D’s theme song for “Aqua Teen” to the music-filled website. com the programming block has carved out its own niche.

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Washington Post – Nov 2, 2007
nce a movie theater in a. This is meat without potatoes with appropriately massive sound and light systems. The club also has the most colorful and entertaining Web site of any local venue. Check out the site’s "Calendar" page… The new kid on the new block (the H Street NE entertainment corridor) is proving to be quite adventurous booking up-and-coming indie acts (and a few well-known ones) from here there and everywhere. Housed in a former funeral home the upstairs features a lounge bar and several quirkily themed rooms that wouldn’t be out of place at "Deadwood’s" Gem Saloon. The downstairs music room holds about 400 though not always comfortably. The cramped stage at the end of the narrow room is barely elevated and standing-room-only sightlines are poor. Acoustics are erratic and bartenders can ruin the quieter or acoustic-oriented shows. This is still a club in progress. STATE THEATRE220 N.

… System f A Down & More: Metal File – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Nov 2, 2007
According to the band’s publicist it’s still unknown whether Decapitated will make the tour considering two of their members are still in the hospital after sustaining serious head injuries during a car accident in Russia. The band hasn’t been officially removed from the bill as of yet. Himsa also have a pair of music videos that are making the rounds online — one for “Unleash Carnage” which features a faux heated tennis match inspired by Wes Anderson’s 2001 film “The Royal Tenenbaums” and another for “Big Timber” which also has an interesting concept. “We’re all sasquatches and we’re playing these instruments in the forest” Pettibone explained. “A friend of ours made it using puppets. In the video we have to cut down this tree to make the instruments and the tree seeks revenge on us… Frontman Helmuth started writing the album in May 2006 and on November 9 the band plans to begin recording the disc’s nine songs with producer Andy Classen at Stage ne Studios in Kassel Germany. The yet-untitled disc will be tracked in three sessions before being mastered in mid-January. “I’m so motivated and it feels extremely good to be creative again” Helmuth said in a statement. “This album is the next logical chapter for the band’s development.

Band on the run: Rock in a hard place
The Independent – Independent – Nov 2, 2007
As the rest of the country grappled with the Iran-Iraq war in the Eighties and then the Gulf War of the early Nineties they would scrabble around on the streets of Baghdad trying to track down the latest bootleg records from heavy-metal giants such as Metallica Slipknot and Slayer. “We would buy whatever rock we could lay our hands on and devour it” Reyad recalls. “thers were into pop music but it was all about love and slushy stuff and we didn’t have time for all that stuff. I had to help my family as the economy was so bad and heavy metal spoke to me more directly. “In the two years between the band forming and the fall of Saddam Acrassicauda managed three gigs including one at the concert hall usually reserved for the Iraqi National rchestra. Instead of Baghdad’s suave and sophisticated elite flocking for a evening of musical entertainment more than 500 metal nuts slam-danced the night away. After the US-led invasion in 2003 the band were to play another three sets but attendance dropped off and venues became more low-key as violence escalated; roadblocks power cuts and curfew all took their toll; and religious militants gained greater prominence condemning all things American… Photos from a gig in 2004 show a curious mix of fans. There are the polo-neck crowd sitting politely on the sort of grey polyester chairs found in a draughty parish hall. Then there are the crazy metal aficionados sporting gothic black T-shirts with images of the Grim Reaper and slogans like “Gore Fest” wrestling on the floor under the psychedelic yellow blue and pink lights. By 2005 things were getting more precarious. Playing in a Baghdad hotel one night the sound of mortar bombs came ominously close. “That’s when you decide you’re not going to perform any more not just for your sake but for the sake of your audience” Reyad said. And before long even rehearsing in their usual Baghdad basement had become too dangerous.