NYC

SJ are playing New York City on Saturday April 19 at The Acheron w/ Lumpy and the Dumpers, Varix and Creeping Dose! Late show, 11 PM, $10. Part of New York's Alright Festival with many amazing bands. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1406831389561342/

Image by T-Boz. Respect the fly shit.

Concrete Asylum "Social Anxiety" EP out now!

Concrete Asylum is a band from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Their record "Social Anxiety" has five tracks of fast, raw, crude, furious, and unique hardcore PUNK. Their noise is reminiscent of Rudimentary Peni, The Fix, Heresy or Jerrys Kids. But who cares! Just like punk itself, there is more to this unit than a list of old bands we all love. Recorded in 2012 and originally released as the band's second tape to high praises, this session is now mastered and released on vinyl, complete with jaw dropping double-sided 11x17 sleeve by artist and member Adam Kindred.

MRR: "This is the epitome of fast and chaotic hardcore. This could have been generic and unmemorable, but instead it fucking rips! Interesting rhythm and vocal hooks and creative riffs are their strengths. It's their second demo and is recommended for fans of shit like Heresy and Electro Hippies."

 1 copy is $7.50 in Canada, $9.00 in the USA, $12.50 elsewhere.

Paypal: badvibrationsrecords@gmail.com

For wholesale or multiple copies, contact: badvibrationsrecords@gmail.com

Kremlin 12"s, Bad Skin "We're Dogs" 7"s and School Jerks LPs still available!!

 

FUNDRAISER FOR FEAR OF PUNK//FEAR OF ART THIS SUNDAY AT THE 460, 9pm! Hassler, Absolüt and Spearhead! T-Shirts for sale designed by Matthew McGarry and Tara Bursey, plus zines and other stuff for sale. Hot night, cold beer, fun times. Proceeds go towards making back the costs of this crazy undertaking. Big, big thanks to the bands for playing! Don't miss out.

FEAR OF PUNK // FEAR OF ART !!!

Getting the word out about a punk art show I've been putting together with (School Jerks' artist) Tara Bursey. The show is happening in Toronto the first weekend of August and features the work of some of the best punk artist from around the world! Get into it!!!
-Ben

 










FEAR OF PUNK / FEAR OF ART

Alex Ratcharge (France)
Alexander Heir (NYC)
Emma Maatman (LA)
Erick Lyle (NYC)
Heather Benjamin (NYC)
Jill Pucciarelli (NYC)
Leah Wishnia (NYC)
Matthew McGarry (Rochester)
Nathan Gattis (Chicago)
Paul D'Elia (LA)
Sam Ryser (NYC)
Shiva Addanki (NYC)
Spoiler (Montreal)
Tara Bursey (Toronto)
Weird Luke (NYC)
Yecatl Peña (Mexico)
Dustin McChesney (Minneapolis)
and more.

Curated by Ben Needham and Tara Bursey

August 2-4, 2013
Communication Art Gallery
209 Harbord Street, Toronto
http://www.communicationgallery.net
Opening Party:  Friday, August 2, 2013.  7-10 pm

Presented as part of Zine Dream 6, an annual small press art fair
http://zinedream.com

Punk is everywhere.  From malls to museums, the influence and imagery of punk’s past has largely been absorbed into mass culture.  Despite this, contemporary DIY punk rock sits firmly outside of the mainstream, and at both regional and global levels is stronger than ever.  The visual culture that surrounds it is variably dark, threatening, chaotic, smart, funny, mysterious and questioning.

Fear of Punk / Fear of Art highlights the creative output of current punk artists, bringing their work out of its usual context while exploring intersections between punk rock, art and print culture.  The purpose of the exhibition is to celebrate contemporary punk art while sharing it with a broader audience.  The exhibition includes drawing, sculpture and printed matter that draws inspiration from horror, the occult, sex, despair, popular culture, art history and urban life.

For more information, contact ben.t.needham@gmail.com or tara@tarabursey.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/267288286747509/

Images, from left to right: Alexander Heir, solo exhibition poster design; Alex Ratcharge, Maximumrocknroll t-shirt design; Leah Wishnia, Garden of Earthly Delights screenprint; Heather Benjamin, Shut Up t-shirt design.

School Jerks Western Canada Shows

ATTN: Canadians, bloggers, raw punks, cyber punks, crusties and the animals that love them, tumblr addicts, old guys, drunk people, adventure hippies, chulckefucks and anyone else:

School Jerks are heading out west for a mini-tour very soon:

July 15th - Vancouver at Iron Road Studios w/ Needles, Manipulation
July 16th - Kamloops at The Grind w/ Tremor, Only Child  
July 17th - Calgary at Olympic Billiards w/ Flaccid, Chlorinator, Strangled, Exotic Functions
July 18th - Regina at The Mercury
July 19th - Winnipeg at All The Way House
July 20th - Edmonton at Allendale Hall w/ No Problem, Exotic Functions, Strangled

KREMLIN and BAD SKIN records out now on BAD VIBRATIONS!

Flyer from the release show

Get the records here

Bad Vibrations Update/Kremlin Tour

Lots of stuff happening and on the horizon for the adventure punks...

School Jerks played a couple shows a few weeks ago; one in Hamilton, ON and one in Toronto as part of the Not Dead Yet Muscular HC Festival. The shows were a good time and it was nice to have the 'tude in town for a few days. No plans right now for any SJ shows/tours but we'll definitely get some things in the works in the new year.
The12 inch has sold out of the first press (1,000) but there should still be copies floating around stores/distros and we also have a few copies here and in Rochester. Grave Mistake has done a 2nd press of 300 and those are now available through GM and from the band. Check out a review of the record on the awesome art4punks blog
Last week we were honoured to record an interview with living legend and longtime underground punk champion/guru Stephe Perry of Equalizing Distort at 89.5 CIUT, expect the interview to air or EXD and/or appear in print in an industry rag in the future. Interviews can be really weird but this one was a blast. We were all a little groggy from ol' I-balls 13th birthday the night before, hopefully we made sense...

Kremlin have emerged from the Gulag with an awesome recording that is at the pressing plant right now! The record will be the 4th Bad Vibrations release, it will be a 10 song 12 inch and will be a split release with Beach Impediment Records, expect the record out early next year.
In the meantime Kremlin will head out on a mid-west/east coast tour next week starting with a "kick-off" show at Luke's house (the "grunge pit"...) 10 Fee Place Dec. 14

here are the tour dates:
December 15th - Chicago - Albion House w/ Wild Child
December 16th - Cleveland - Now That's Class w/ Bad Noids
December 17th - Pittsburgh - Kopec's w/ Napalm Donut, Drug Lust
December 18th - Richmond - Green Room w/ Manic, Blind Ignorance, Devil's Hand
December 19th - Philadelphia - Green Tea House w/ Backslider, Bastard Deciever
December 20th - 285 Kent Street w/ Dawn of Humans, Creem, La Misma

Check songs from the upcoming record here

Before the Kremlin record though Bad Vibrations will be releasing BAD-03 which will be a Bad Skin 7 inch. This project has been a long time coming and we're excited to be so close to having it finally reach the light of day. We've got test presses for this one so expect it out very soon. Anyone interested in HC punk in Toronto should be familiar with Bad Skin and know what to expect... the rest of the world prepare to meet Bad Skin
Listen to a Bad Skin here

SCHOOL JERKS LP OUT NOW!

Urggh!...The record is available to order from Grave Mistake and starts shipping the week of Aug 28th! We'll have copies with us on our upcoming mini-tour (see last post) and in Toronto there are copies at Hits & Misses. If you're interested in ordering copies from the band/Bad Vibrations contact badvibrationsrecords@gmail.com although we won't be able to get anything off until we get back from tour the first week of Sept

Jerks Update

...Well, once again its been a long time since we've posted anything on here...but rest assured we've been working hard in the inner world of the jerks trying to make some cool ass shit happen!

First off the School Jerks 12 inch will be available any day now, although small a amount of copies with a limited cover were sold at our show last Monday in Toronto with Neo-Cons and Direct Approach
The 12 inch is a split release between Grave Mistake records and our new label Bad Vibrations (so far we've put out the Naughty Girls debut "Bad Habits" 7 inch and next up after the Jerks record is an E.P. by Toronto's legendary Bad Skin)

In other news we'll be heading down to the states in a couple weeks for a small tour, and we will have copies of the new record with us!

Here are the dates:

AUG  25 Pittsburgh - Skull Fest (Night show at Howler's)
          26 Chicago - Albion House w/ Sucked Dry, Dirty Work
          27 Detroit- CAID w/ No Tomorrow, Oiltanker, SCUM
          28 Cleveland - Now Thats Class w/ Lucha Eterna, Smooth Brain
          29 Philadelphia - Cloud City w/ Dopestroke
          30 Boston - Orphan Gallery w/ Males Nurses, Twerps
          31 Brooklyn - Kent Street w /Inservibles, Defomity, Perdition


Oh yeah, the music section/Mp3 links have been taken down since the links were all dead anyways! We'll try to figure something out...

12 inch

Alright, it's been a while since we've posted any news from the Jerks, but we just sent off the master for the SJ 12 inch...so expect the record out this spring!

KremlinKremlinKremlin

Kremlin is SJ's drummer's new band with two crusties. Kremlin played their first show July 17th, have played a handful of shows in Toronto since, and have put out two tapes in as many months

the first demo is up at:

kremlinpunk.bandcamp.com 

and the second one is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97jLdsdeh7M

Kremlin play fast hc punk with the occasional mid tempo stomper and the tapes have great raw (but not blown out) 4 track production.

"truly core, fear of punk, etc."  - M. Aldred

contact:

kremlinpunk@gmail.com 

New School Jerks Record in the Works

It'll be a 12", maybe out late this year? we're working on it

School Jerks in Accept the Darkness #6

A School Jerks interview appears in Accept the Darkness # 6 which actually came out in June but I'm only getting around to posting this now
Accept the Darkness is an awesome zine, Shiva writes about punk in 2011 covering bands like Culo, Crazy Spirit, Omegas and all the Raw Punk you can handle
check it out: acceptthedarkness.blogspot.com

Bridge Over Troubled Waters Part. 4

Friday July, 29

TOTAL TRASH
DIRECT APPROACH

10:00 at the bridge (email suckonmygundmscrew@gmail.com for directions)

under the bridge July 2nd

Pt. 3 - July 7th

Bridge Over Troubled Waters Part 2

Saturday, July 2nd

School Jerks

Go Die Scum

at the bridge (email schooljerks@gmail.com for directions)

(Gunnar Hansen at the bridge 10/6/11)

Bridge Over Troubled Waters 2011 Part 1

Friday, June 10th

Gunnar Hansen
Minimum Wage

10:30 at the bridge (email suckonmygundmscrew@gmail.com for directions)

Jerks in U.S.A.

School Jerks will playing a handful of shows in late May playing with Montreal's Omegas on the first half of their U.S. tour (before they head down to Burningman/Gathering of the Juggalos) Elgin HC gods Culo will also be playing a few of these dates

May 27th - Toronto at Rancho Relaxo w/ Omegas, Subliminal Decay
May 28th - Rochester at MK No Cars w/ Omegas, Narcs
May 29th - Columbus at The Legion of Doom w/ Omegas, Culo, Nukkehammer
May 30th - Chicago at Treasure Town w/ Omegas, Culo, Repos
May 31st - St. Louis at Cranky Yellow w/ Cardiac Arrest, Omegas, Culo, Sweet Tooth
June 1st - Kansas City at Studded Bird w/ Omegas, Raw Nerve, No Class

Naughty Girls debut 7" out now

Naughty Girls debut 7 inch "Bad Habits" is out now on School Jerk Luke "Weiner's" new Bad Vibrations label - great timeless snotty loose mid tempo punk, reminicent of Sick Pleasure or Chickenhead...pick it up

at the garage April 16

Photo: Daniel Vella