NEWS

Thursday, March 6, 2003

NEW POSTERS MADE!!
SILKSCREENED AND DESIGNED BY WONDERFUL KIDS AT SERIPOP
DIM MAK WILL HAVE 37 POSTERS FOR SALE/ COLD CRUSH WILL ALSO HAVE 37 POSTERS FOR SALE ON COLDCRUSHRECORDS.COM
Specs: 18x24 Posters Obnoxiously Bright and Amazing! for the SXSW Dim Mak/ Cold Crush/ Insound Show w/ Pretty Girls Make Graves, Dance Disaster Movement, Hint Hint, Cobra High, Spectral Assembly, Muscle Beach and Entrance at Club Deville March 14th 2-7PM. The posters will be $6 each. I will be going with Pretty Girls Make Graves to SXSW and Derek and I will be selling the posters at the PGMG, Hint Hint, Cobra High shows to Austin. Those will go out first.

If you live in the Bay Area please support the League of Filipino Students benefit show called "Ring the Alarm" on March 28. From Monument To Masses and others are scheduled to play.

Good Shit: Hangin with Ruben from Pearlene at my house/ Playing music with my sister Devon/ Escorting Jason Von Bondies and his new wife through LA/ Anticipating Japan with The Kills

It's the Dim Mak winter sale at Insound! Get 15% off any Dim Mak title when you use the coupon code below during checkout:
Coupon code: dimmakwinter03
shop at insound

I'll be Djing at 3 of Clubs in Hollywood. this MONDAY February 10th with Dance Disaster Movement. Show should start around 10:30am.... If you want to fuck around come out to this show...

First off, Bucky who used to buy/work for the record store Soundwaves in Houston, TX was laid off. The fucking bastards let go of one of their biggest assets to Houston TX. Support Bucky, if you know him, then you know how fucking cool this guy is. Email him at bucky@handsuphouston.com and show your support to people that keep the independent scene alive! If you live in Houston, help Bucky out find a location so he can open up a better store than his previous.

Onward to other news: Release #44 - Dim Mak "I'm Like a Stepping Razor Don't You Watch My Size" 2002/2003 Roster Posters have come in. They look amazing. They are all hand numbered to 300 and if you order one make sure to include your full name as these will hand picked to each person who gets one. Seripop from Canada did the amazing job screening these and Nathan Gossip/Die Monitr Batss kicked ass on the design. I'm really excited about these. take a look.

Soledad Brothers LPs and CDs are in now and the LPs are awesome. 300 on white vinyl. We've already sold a ton through pre-orders and Soledad Brothers should have a bunch of white vinyl for their tour through the East Coast. Go see em!!

Miracle Chosuke CD is coming out. No longer going to be a vinyl release but expect some unreleased songs. This is slated for May. We'll see. If you want to hear two songs from their definitive album go to mp3.com and type in Miracle Chosuke. You can hear some songs off their MP3 page.

Photo Gallery will constantly be updated EVERY week, sometimes with three sections like this week. I put up Gossip/Kills in NYC at the LUXX show, This Machine Kills last show pictures as well as an assortment of old and new of TMK, Paradise Island shot, Dance Disaster Movement pics and Bluebird and From Monument To Masses pics are going up next... Bluebird just played a sold out show with Apes and Gogogoairheart at the Smell. I heard it was a rockstorm... Fuck yeah.

FIRM April Release Dates:
Panthers "Lets Get Serious" 12"/CD
Die Monitr Batss "Spread Your Legs Release the Bats" 7"
Paradise Island "Getup" 7"/Cdsingle
Tokyo Sex Destruction "Le Red Soul Communitte" CD
Dim Mak Sampler "I'm like a Stepping Razor Don't You Watch My Size Im Dangerous"
CD The samplers by the way are $4ppd but if you order more than $10 you get it free... That's right free. It's got songs from releases as early as Nov 2002 to July 2003. Oh yeah, Gossip 7" still coming out for those that asked... Sometime in the summer. More info later on that.....

Tuesday, January 28, 2003

FRIDAY MARCH 14TH SXSW PARTY!!!!! INSOUND, DIM MAK AND COLD CRUSH RECORDS SHOWCASE CLUBE DEVILLE
900 Red River St
2-7pm
$2 for unlimited beer and rock.

featuring:
PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
DANCE DISASTER MOVEMENT
HINT HINT
COBRA HIGH
MUSCLE BEACH
A SPECTRAL ASSEMBLY

"We're dealing with real human beings who are suffering and dying, tortured and starving because of policies we are involved in; of what we as citizens, of a democratic society are directly involved in and responsible for. What the media are doing is insuring that we do not act on our responsibilities that the interests of power that's served are not in the needs of the suffering." Noam Chomsky taken from an upcoming From Monument To Masses LP/CD later this spring.... That song is fucking amazing! I can't wait for people to hear it.

Dim Mak/Cold Crush/ Insound Showcase at SXSW
March 14th Friday from 2-7pm
possible $2 door charge
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Dance Disaster Movement
Hint Hint
Cobra High + 2 more Tigerstyle artists
if you live in Austin and can help us put up posters or help put up fliers Please email me at dimmak@dimmak.com... Thanks!

New Records Coming Out, No March Releases
Since there are no March releases April will be a real busy month. Pre-orders on all these start in March, Do Not Preorder Before March. Preorders get colored vinyl or limited deals... Each record Will come with limited run of colored vinyl.

January 21, 2003
Dance Disaster Movement "We are from Nowhere" LP/CD
Pretty Girls Make Graves "Speakers Push The Air" 7" (Re-release through ADA)

February 4, 2003
Soledad Brothers "Live" CD
Hint Hint "Sex is Everything" LP/CD (www.coldcrushrecords.com)

February 18, 2003
Soledad Brothers "Live" LP (300 on white vinyl- mailorder)
Phantom Pregnancies "The Compilation that Could Have Been a Contender" LP (300 on pink vinyl- mailorder)
The Hookers "The Hookers" LP/CD (www.coldcrushrecords.com)

April 2003
The Gossip Live LP/CD
Die Monitr Batss 7"
Die Monitr Batss CD
Panthers 12"/CD
Pearlene LP/CD
Tokyo Sex Destruction CD
Paradise Island 7"
Dim Mak Sampler "I'm a Stepping Razor Don't You Watch My Size I'm Dangerous" CD

AVAILABLE SHIRTS UPDATED!
(There will be a Shirt Section in the Store to view the image of the shirt and more info later on but for now it'll be here)

Dim Mak Records "Boombox" T-Shirt (2002) - Front: boombox image on front// Back: list of all Dim Mak bands with record player :: - Black Shirt/Pink Ink & Grey Shirt/Blue Ink :: Sizes: YL,S,M,L

Dim Mak Records "'68 Olympics" T-Shirt (2001) - Front: image of John Carlos winning '68 Olympics/ Back: Dim Mak Party Program Political Manifesto :: - Black Shirt/White Ink :: Sizes: YL,S,M,L

Dim Mak Records "Free All Political Prisoners" T-Shirt (2000) - Front: Angela Davis w/ Free All Political Prisoners Back: All Power To the People and Dim Mak Statement - Black Shirt/ White Ink & White Shirt/ Black Ink :: Size: YL,S,M,L

The Kills T-Shirt (2002) - Front: image of a flier with The Kills on it - White Shirt w/ Black Ink :: Sizes YL,S,M,L Dance Disaster Movement T-Shirt (2002) - Front: image of dancing feet :: - White Shirt/Pink Ink & Black Shirt/White Ink :: Size: YL,S,M,L

This Machine Kills Japan 2002 Tour Shirt (2002) - Front: TMK "No Sleep Til Jacuzzi Pants" - Red Shirt/ Yellow and Black Ink :: Sizes: YL,S,M

This Machine Kills US 2001 Tour Shirt (2001) - Front: Silhouette Drawing of Black Panthers - Black Shirt/White Ink :: Size: S,M

Kill Sadie "Experiments In Expectation" T-Shirt (2001) - Front: Kill Sadie "Experiments in Expecation" Back: DMR Logo - Black Shirt/Orange and Grey Ink :: Size: S,M

The Fire Next Time "Off Pigs" West Coast 2001 T-Shirt (2001) Front: The Fire Next Time "Off Pigs" with cop -Black Shirt/Pink Ink :: Sizes: M,L The Fire Next Time "Bobby Hutton" Shirt (2000) Front: Image of Bobby Hutton (Black Panther) - Red Shirt/ Black Ink :: Sizes: M,L,XL

ALL SHIRTS ARE $12PPD.

UPDATED BUTTONS
(There will be a Button Section in the Store to view the image of the shirt and more info later on but for now it'll be here)

Pretty Girls Make Graves (2 Designs), The Kills (2 Designs), From Monument To Masses (3 Designs), Radar (1 Design), This Machine Kills (2 Designs), Dance Disaster Movement (2 Designs), Dim Mak Records (3 Designs), Kill Sadie (1 Design), Envy (1 Design), JR Ewing (1 Design), Soledad Brothers (1 Design), Planes Mistaken For Stars (1 Design), Bluebird (1 Design), Monochrome (1 Design)

ALL BUTTONS ARE $1PPD or FREE BY REQUEST with ORDER

Any questions on these releases email Dim Mak at dimmak@dimmak.com

New Dim Mak "Labor of Love" Employees Thank you to Brian Roettinger for layout, art direction for covers and print, Dan Sena and Alex Benowitz for press transcriptions, Sam Velde for retail marketing, and Tristin Laughter- the Dim Mak Press Publicist from here on out! So excited about 2003.

Paradise Island, Dance Disaster Movement, Gravy Train show at Bottom of the Hill was awesome! It was worth the ten hours of driving Brian and I did. Mikey was supposed to come but something happened to his phone because he never answered it that day.

Dim Mak "I'm Like a Stepping Razor Don't You Watch My Size I'm Dangerous" 2003 Posters designed by Nathan of Gossip/Die Monitr Batss and silkscreened by Seripop will be available for mailorder January 21, 2003. 300 have been made. Pink, yellow and black ink on white paper- 18x24. I'm giving some out to people that have been good to us and the rest will be for sale for $4ppd. You can pre-order yours now. Just so you know, when I put up on the site that the Pretty Girls Make Graves posters me and Mikey made a while back, we sold out of em in a matter of 2 months. And still after over 6 months I still get asked if we have posters left. Posters go fast. Don't miss your chance if you want one.

The Kills
The Kills finished off their UK dates with Primal Scream in December. Soon after finished off their full length set for release through Rough Trade. I've heard most of the songs when I was on tour with them in the US and they are more sassy, snarling, rough, and dirty... It's so fucking good! "Fuck the People" will be the sung in the streets after every show. This full length will be the BEST RELEASE OF 2003. Hands down! They will be touring Japan at the end of February and soon after US dates in support of their full length. Keep checking the tour dates, they'll be up as soon as I get em.

Paradise Island
So Dim Mak will be doing the Paradise Island 7" and LP/CD in the next coming months. The songs, all of them range from folk coal mining traditional American 1920's ukulele-esque sound to Suicide to Fred Frith noisey guitar ambience... Paradise Island is Jenny from Erase Errata's alter ego. The 7" will be coming out in April and the LP/CD soon after. Amazing amazing amazing amazing stuff!

Dance Disaster Movement
They just got back from their first west coast tour by themselves. In July they hit the road with The Kills and went south to Houston, this time they went up to Canada. Ended up playing shows with Secret Mommy (Andy from Red Light Sting's band), Hint Hint and Cobra High in Seattle, Paradise Island and Gravy Train in San Fran., Headphone in Olympia. So I guess the tour kicked ass from what they said other than the weather almost fucked some of their dates up since Matt's truck seems to be on its last legs. Next tour will be to go down to the SXSW showcase March 14th. If you can help out with dates around that time in Phoenix, El Paso, Houston, Tucson, San Diego, or anywhere in between Long Beach and Austin, email ddm@dimmak.com. Their LP/CD will be out in a week. It looks great. I designed a West Coast tour CD limited to 30. If you got one your lucky. Maybe it will sell on Ebay for $160 like the Pretty Girls Make Graves Boxsets that Mikey, Brian and I made awhile back. If you want to preorder the LP or CD you can do it now. I've already got a shit load of preorders for vinyl. All mailorder gets colored vinyl if we have any. I'm pretty sure white vinyl was made but I'll have to check.

The Gossip
The Gossip just came back from a bunch of tours, dates with Har Mar Superstar, and dates alone. They just finished recording their full length on KRS. And the record on Dim Mak is a live LP and CD. The LP will come with an 18x24 B/W poster. Their will be a limited 300 on pink vinyl that come with a button set exclusive to the 300 records as well. They will ONLY be available from The Gossip on tour and from Dim Mak mailorder. These will go fast, I guarantee it! Do Not Pre-order until March. I'll post when preorders will be available. The recording is raw and unbelievable. This record kicks ass!

Die Monitr Batss
As I was telling someone before, Die Monitr Batss wrote one of the best songs I've ever heard and its on this record. I'm so fucking psyched to release these songs. The 7" will come out the first release date of April and the CD discography will come out the second release date. Think Teenage Jesus and the Jerks or Mars without China Burg. The band rules. DMB fucking rule! The record will be a split release with H3.

Panthers
I was just out in New York visiting family over the break and I got a rough mix of the record from Jay while I was out there hanging with Jared Leno- aka Steve Hahnel (a cross between a young Jay Leno and Jared Leto). He's decided to change his website to poormansjaredleno.com not poormansjaredleto.com. Ask him about it. Anyways, the record is fucking awesome. It sounds really different from Are You Down? But still the same Panthers signature angular guitars, loud crashy drums and bass, vocals are political and gritty, fucking awesome. This record is much more raw and loud than I thought it would come out! Production sounds big but not overdone. It's awesome. Steve Revitte (produced Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) did an amazing job to say the least! 12"/CD slated to be released in April.

Mr. David Viner
In the Act Records, run by Jason Stollsteimer of The Von Bondies, and Dim Mak will gang up to push Mr. David Viner in the US.Here's the mysterious story of Mr. David Viner. He toured with The Von Bondies and The Kills just a few months ago. While on tour, he constantly played his acoustic guitar when he wasn't selling Von Bondies records. During the middle of the tour, he started opening up the shows with a 20 minute set of his instrumentalist blues, incredible traditional New Orleans style blues. The past month he was on tour doing merch for Soledad Brothers in Europe and ended up playing second guitar with them throughout the second half of the tour. He just recorded an EP that is set to come out in May. Hotel from The Kills plays drums, Johnny Walker of Soledad Brothers played harmonica and second guitar, and Jason from The Von Bondies will be doing some back up vocals. The truest blues musician from London, UK.

From Monument To Masses
So I'm sitting here writing this update constantly repeating the mp3 that Francis, drummer from From Monument To Masses, emailed me today of a new song that they just recorded to come out on the Dim Mak 2003 Sampler "Stepping Razor" and later on their full length set to release sometime before summer. Not sure the date yet. But fuck is it amazing. This is leaps and bounds beyond their last full length. And their debut full length blew me away and still does. Still in the same fashion, with cleverly fused samples from political and radical thinkers discussing very apparent and modern day politics and agenda. So they've been chilling out from shows and in February they will be recording with Tim Green of the Fucking Champs, Nation of Ulysses for their sophomore release that is more than anticipated at this point. I'll put up mp3s once they let me.

Bluebird
Bluebird are set to tour the world this year. They just got back from their US tour in support for Hot Blood and now they are going up the coast with The Apes from DC. After that they are confirmed on a few dates in London and a possible Peel Session appearance. Japan and Australia are being discussed with labels interested now and all tour dates will be posted as I get them. From what Sam has said, they already have another full length of material that will hopefully come out by the end of the year. Fast fucking writers! And we are in the middle of discussing the re-appearance and release of The Two on CD with all their 7" songs they have. Different artwork. The LP of Hot Blood is coming out but they will be limited to 300 and the covers will be silkscreened by Bluebird and myself. More details later.... For now go see em at the Shakedown in LA if you live out here.

Pretty Girls Make Graves
Their UK dates with Your Enemies Friends was a success again. Their shows with Les Savy Fav and Hint Hint around the Northwest were great too. Now they are in Seattle for the next few months finishing their next full length album. The songs that I have heard so far are unbelievable, totally fucking anthemic. Serious ballads. Their shit's always firm. Nathan and Aska are having a baby, but that's old news to most people. Congratulations to them! And they are set to tour down to SXSW with Hint Hint and Cobra High.... Tour dates will be posted. The Pretty Girls Make Graves poster I'm making will be done soon. When it's done I'll post it on the site on how you can get one.

Tokyo Sex Destruction
Spain's answer to the MC5. I swear to God. Comparable. Political and radical as fuck, referencing and championing the Black Power Movement led by the Panthers and revolutionary discourse bleeds through their rock'n roll ballads. They plan on touring the US,hopefully with Soledad Brothers, as they both rocked together in Spain on SB's Europe tour, this will be after the record is released in the States, in March. I'm going to be putting up MP3's as soon as I can.

Soledad Brothers
They just got back from their Europe tour and are finishing up some songs they are recording. I just got the test pressings of the "Live" LP/CD in today and they kick ass in true Soledad Brothers form. Very raw blues all recorded at the infamous Gold Dollar in Detroit. You can hear Carrie from the Von Bondies heckling them if you listen close. The record comes out in Feb. Rolling Stones to Robert Johnson fans will love this. Unreleased songs and some of their hits on one record. 300 on white vinyl, get it through mailorder.

Pearlene
New band from Cincinatti, OH, Covington, KY and Detroit, MI formed from Brian Olive and Johnny Walker of Soledad Brothers, Ruben Glaser responsible for the making the Soledad Brothers sophomore release sound the way it should have, and bassist mastermind Jesse. So these four have gotten together and recorded 11 songs to be released sometime in March. They have also written enough songs for a full length on Sympathy due around the same time. Amazingly written songs that are somewhere between Captain Beefheart and John Lee Hooker. These song are timeless and will outlive even my life. Tour plans are still yet undecided. Will be posting if they play out anytime soon.

The Phantom Pregnancies
Yes! It's finally coming out, after all these years. Even Marc McClean of Sick Lipstick's been waiting for five years for this fucking thing to happen. I'm so honored to have released this record. It's 27 songs in 30 minutes, not 40 minutes,,,, sorry Stuart... February 18, 2003. Get your pink vinyl through mailorder limited to 300. It's Karen from Huggy Bear and Delia from Mambo Taxi, Sean from Watt Tyler, Stuart Dog Pigeon for Shit's Sake. The cult band from the UK playing five minute sets in their pajamas, doing a split record with Beck, I mean come on, this is some serious shit!

Huggy Bear Tribute
Yeah, we are still taking submissions. Send at your own will. But make reservations to be considered by February the latest. We've gotten 20 confirmed bands so far so its definitely close to being filled up. This is a split release with Wakusei in the UK. He'll be puttin out this record in the UK.

New updates to the site and new ones to come
Store: will feature a section on shirts, buttons, posters, non Dim Mak shit, including old indie/hardcore records that will simultaneously be on Ebay....
Hearts and Minds section: featuring all Dim Mak celebrated authors, theorists, activists, people from Huey P. Newton, bell hooks, Judith Butler, Angela Davis, Gloria Anzaldua, Third World Gay Liberation Front, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, and more... The Hearts and Minds section, I can't fucking wait til Ron and I get that up.... A little history on the Hearts and Minds. The seventh release back in 1998 was the Planes Mistaken For Stars 7". I started thinking of ideas of how to incorporate a political aspect to the label that would create more awareness on critical thinkers that have inspired me either through their writings, action, and/or dialogue. I graduated from UCSB in 2000 with a Women Studies and Soc. Degrees, with a primary focus on theory and issues that affect people of color in America. I got the name Hearts and Minds for the series after watching a film called Hearts and Minds about the Vietnam War in a politically oriented meeting that I went to 1997, spring sophomore year in college. Hearts and Minds, the film, showed the devastating side of the war, the bloodshed, the mass murders, the idiocy, sadness, and tyranny of how capitalism was the primary concern of the war for America, to hold claim on land that was fresh with resources, much like what is going on today. Fuck the war! Stop the war! In any case, that movie has stuck with me, as with the name, so I called the series Hearts and Minds. The series is to provide awareness on these critical thinkers that have shaped my understandings on identity, race, class, gender, sexuality, religion and non religion, culture, privilege. The first person who I celebrated was Huey P. Newton of the Black Panther Party. And from Huey it went to Bruce Lee, the Black Panther Party, Third World Gay Liberation, Eldridge Cleaver, Gloria Anzaldua, Che Guevara, Leonard Peltier, Angela Davis, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Big Mountain Resistance, bell hooks, Fred Hampton, Judith Butler. It will continue on. For the Hearts and Minds section- there will be a page dedicated to each of these critical thinkers and future ones that will be celebrated with the insert or poster that I made and links to find out more information on them. I can't wait for this to come up.
Photo Gallery: New photos from Pretty Girls Make Graves/ JR Ewing Europe tour, This Machine Kills/Envy/Yaphet Kotto Japan tour, Pretty Girls Make Graves/Your Enemies Friends US tour, The Kills/The Von Bondies US tour, Soledad Brothers, This Machine Kills, The Kills, Tokyo Sex Destruction, Envy and more photos of our bands up soon....
Band Pages: This will be mainly used as an archive for press on bands and brief information on them. If you're part of magazine and need high res. Images please email tristin@dimmak.com and dimmak@dimmak.com and we'll make sure we get it to you.
Release Pages: It's updated and viewable this time.
MP3 pages: Same with this page, it's easier to view and download.
Reviews Section: This section is in collaboration with the Asian American Magazine YELL! We will be posting all the record, book, film reviews sent to YELL! on the Dim Mak site as well. YELL! Magazine can be purchased from Dim Mak for $1ppd through the mail. More info on YELL! soon!

If you want a FREE catalog from us, just email me your address and one will be sent out to you. The news section will be updated monthly at the very latest. Always check up around the first week of every month for more DM juice.

NEWS ARCHIVE
December 2, 2002

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