Left Wing Media DeControl / Updates

According to the stat tracker application that comes with the blogspot/blogger/google info mining mad men, the 2nd most visits to this site are from Russia. Probably has everything to do with vaguely pornographic sounding labels we add to the tag section. Your welcome Rusk, may all your searches be humanitarian.

So we are playing with Tragedy May 1st at the Inner City Youth Center (ICYC) and we couldn't be more excited. It should be obvious they have a massive influence on our band.

Info:
Tragedy
Criminal Code
Avon Ladies
Seas Will Rise
Sacred Followers
ICYC $8 8pm
175 s. 32nd St PHX AZ.

Our next show though, is in Tucson for a 3 day festival called Way Out West Fest. We play on Friday w/ our inlaws Said Gun. Erics mistress band Come On Die Young plays the following day as well. Check out the fest and if your in Arizona come out and get crazy (or something) with us.

http://www.wayoutwestfestaz.com/

We are doing a podcast with Azpunk and a radio show with Into the Void coming in the next coupleweeks, we will post those when they become available.

We also have some mega huge stuff (relatively mega huge, but your interested now right!) potentially coming down the line, and you will be the first to know, loyal shredder!

Merchandise...its keeps us alive

Music is the least respected "art" form yet the most consumed when it comes to capital investment. Only a handful of art thieves in Paris "steal" a sustainable amount of monetary value in regards to "fine art". We (the we as in the peoples of the world) steal the holy living shit out of music. This is known fact. We aren't saying this in the whiny Metallica way, just sayin'.

The dichotomy of "fine art" and musical "art" is interesting/frustrating. Across the whole Internet you can find kickstarters and like websites where people beg you for money to start their movie/video/7" record/art installment/dance routine. And on a whole these things seem pretty successful. And in this day and age the direct "artist" to consumer relationship has become incredibly personal. You get a chance to help the "artist" craft their project, you get semi direct input to the success of the final project. That is pretty cool. 89% of the time it is total ego stroke garbage though. Which is also pretty cool, because if your in any type of creative outlet, its all an ego stroke at some level, if not you would be holed up in a bunker painting the fresco's on the wall then lighting the whole place on fire.

We bring up kickstarter to try and correlate this to the old dinosaur record label. Its apparent the industry is either in its final death throws or in some awkward puberty like transition, either way the cocaine snorting, extra marital affair having corporate titans of industry have seen better days. How does that relate to smaller bands and kick starters? Well...the original kickstarter was the record industry. Only the approach was different then the kickstarter approach. With a record label, they saw an "artist" and saw potential for capital gain. If they invested in this artist, they would in return receive monetary gain by presenting you the consumer with a product they felt would get your feet swaying.

kickstarter is a request for you to give them a chance, a record contract is a calculated gamble that you will want to give this a chance. Same end game, different approach. We speak of this in relation to our recent record. We had every intention of recording this album, but we had no idea how it was going to be released, we threw around the idea of digital only and selling shirts at shows that came with downloads (digital/material sales is another blog, stay tuned if you want more rambling on that). Then along came two record labels from Phoenix AZ, Anxiety Machine and Man in Decline, who felt that this record should be pressed on vinyl and put up the capital to make this happen. This was a coup for Camp Seas will Rise, and also a micro version of kickstarter campaign (if you consider 6 dudes in an alley with 2 of those dudes actually having money and the other 4 being needy, yet broke "artists" a kickstarter like scenario)

So whats the point of all this? Yes, people paid to make your record, yes people pirate music, yes people make kickstarters for horrible projects, but your project is horrible as well so whats the fucking point?

Well...the point is. We understand that the economy sucks, we understand that everyone can't rope record labels into making them records, we understand that with the age of the Internet there are so many bands its impossible to not be constantly inundated with new material, we understand that complaining about people not paying for music is something dickheads do. We get all that, which is why we strived to make this record:

A) as accessible to you the consumer
B) not a complete monetary black hole for the party's involved.

The thing with independent small record labels, is not only are you supporting the people that kickstarted that band you enjoy, but allowing them extra capital to invest into more projects that you may also enjoy. Really a win/win...or a win/lose, but key word is win.

So onto the details
Disease is our refrain is available on colored vinyl w/ digital download from:
Anxiety Machine Records on "concrete" colored vinyl for $13 + S/h
Man in Decline Records on "bone" colored vinyl for $13 + s/h
From US on "Rust" colored vinyl for $13 + s/h

Not into buying vinyl/ More into instant gratification its available online from
itunes, amazon, mp3.com...essentially all the digital outlet stores.

AND additionally...in case you hate paying full price, you hate having your mp3 seamlessly integrate into your music player and or hate high marked up Ipads made in sweat shops, it is available at AUDIOSIEGE Media an imprint of Moshpit tragedy at a name your own price (as low as $3.99...as close to free as we can get it)

A quick site note about buying from these labels:
By purchasing it from Anxiety Machine you help a label that has released records by hardcore act gay kiss and poppy indie rock dudes ROAR so you can see where your investment is going, eclectic, DIY music across the board.

Man In decline is home of the melodic punk band Come On Die Young as well as a Raw Nerves/Acts of Sedition split if that paints a picture of the type of tunes you would be "kickstarting"

Audiosiege and moshpit tragedy have a full plate of aggressive music you can check out here

You buy from us you support our ability to record again, potentially drive to you and play you songs, or fix our broken gear.

So incredibly long story short, you have options, you have a price structure, hopefully we have given you enough choices to be content with your purchase decision or fodder to say fuck this jerks and steal this record. its all up to you, we don't judge...we only hope to facilitate.

Thanks.

Arizona Everywhere

We saw a lot of familiar faces and faces we have never scene but already knew. Arizona ex-patriots are in abundance from Portland down to LA and it was a pleasure meeting all of you, but above that, people that seemingly understand that pointless things can help make things seem better, emotionally, physically, sexually(?).

People hyped on the release of energy/anger/frustration/a shitty day/a shitty life or people just hyped to bang thy heads. We aren't shocked about this, we know you are out there, it was just nice to meet you. Share a moment in time with you, and salute you.

We kept a diary of sorts about the food we ate, but we could have easily done one about the coffee we drank, the trees we saw, the people we shared bread with or the talks we had as a band, just know whatever it is we did, we do in communion with you...so thank you.

Our little trip was awesome thank you to everyone who gave us a place to stay, an ear to bend and a good time to have: : Larry Brough and Yayo Tacos, Gavin Hoffman Raunch Records, The Wax House, Jonathan (raw nerves) Brad Boatright Sesar and Teeph, Courtney Drant, Loren and Austin Candela, Daniel Trovillion, Corey Dieckman, the north hole, the know, death machine, old city, pageripper, Honduran, force hounds and the people of Chico, Idols Plaque for pounding the streets, heist for the same, Jesust , our families back home, Dominic Prime and Mark for putting out this record. Everyone else we forgot or fell in the margins, your not alone, we forget alot of things.

see you all soon.

We on a food tour #8

LA CA

Astro Burger

So we made it thru the endless slaughter houses and piles of shit that is the central California I - 5 stretch that randomly takes you thru magic mountain. How lame of a pay out is that? And we ventured into the belly of the beast. First and foremost, LA gets alot of shit, alot of people dislike it, and those people are right. Sure, we have a lot of friends and know alot of decent people, we like moderate coastal climats, we like the ocean and errr other stuff....ROLLER COASTERS we like roller coasters. But essentially everything else about your over crowded dirty town sucks. We say that as nice as we can, because we consider you, a fellow modern car based city in arms and want to spend more time with you, learn to love you like you love yourself, but man you make it so hard.

So here is some sucky food

Chads Hamburger

Coreys Vegan Chili Fries and veggie pepperoni sandwich

Well its been fun, hope you enjoyed the food pics and my train of thought

Stay Pissed poseurs

We on a food tour #7

Chico California

Drank too much ate dominos, eat shit.

Sacramento CA

Chad had the best Rueben had EVER HAD. We had grilled cheese that was decent and drank alot of beers that were expensive.

The shining jewel of Sacramento is Insight Coffee. KISS: Keep it simple stupid. The menu has 5 items, its great coffee, roasted beans in house, don't want to bag on stumptown, but this place was hands down the best coffee on this trip. Plus you can buy beans by the OZ, not just the lbs. So like yeah, very cool.

Sacramento is a very cool town, very reminiscent of our native salt river valley in its a capital, its got big buildings, and its got decent solid people.

Ugggmmmmm.....well. Thats it

We on a food tour #5

Portland Oregon
Sizzle Pie
Voodoo Donuts
Stumptown Coffee

First and foremost, Portland is an incredible place of endless bars and awesome restaurants. The US Geological survey needs to do something about making it not so damn far north, Perhaps move it to Reno, just pick up the rivers and trees and old dirty town and drop it on top of Reno, I think all citizens of the United States would benefit greatly from this. Newt, if your reading, you can still take this election if you run on this platform...just throwing it out there.

So, pizza. Sizzle Pie Uber Alles. Good goddamn jesus christ on a cross dripping pools of marinara sauce from his open stigmata wounds onto a buttery crust of delicious pizza.

Eating at this place made me want to put the owners of every single other pizza place in a headlock and ram there foreheads into the side of a brick building. How hard is it to order veggie faux meat options and have a vegan, veggie and meat menu...apparently not very at all. So why don't you EVERY ONE ELSE!!!

Pussys thats why. Death to false pizza!

the Steve Caballero (vegan pepperoni, seitan spicy sausage, onions, cheese, green peppers cheese)

Rainbow Donuts, we heard was all hype, nope, its all delicious donuts and David will fight any one that says other wise. We didn't even mean to go there, but it called to us from a far


Stumptown coffee was weak and burnt tasting, maybe it was a shitty barista (ask tyler king about the per capita of barristas and dish washers in Portland) We were going to take you on the road with us, stumptown, but we were priced out of your coffee beans ($60 Peaberry infused chocolate or something LBS was enticing)

We also had some tofu Vietnamese sammies and some other stuff, but we entered a food coma Chad has yet to recover from and are currently deciding if we should pull the plug or not, so gotta run

We on a food tour #4 (aka end me in portland)

Portland Oregon
Los Gorditos
Tiger Something
Tecmo Bowl Burrito

We are short on time, so lets just say this. Portland, you are amazing. Why in the world does every restaurant have a vegan option, because your awesome. Seriously, what the fuck...Thank you!

Oh and chad wants to know why there is such a high up charge on guacamole in Portland, is it because the distance the avocado has to travel? Is it because Portland has no sales tax, thus the taco industry is trying to get there's some how? Or is it because he ordered two burritos when he was trying to just add quac to an existing burrito? The world might never know.

Fajita Fury Burrito

Soyrizo burrito
Rueben

We on a food tour #3

Salt Lake City Utah

Vertical Diner (again)

This place is so incredible good it has to be eaten twice, or so I am told. A real test of a place for me is breakfast. I consider myself the Master of Breakfast, so a good breakfast place really has to knock my socks off. Other then being the most important meal of the day, it is the best, you can go anyway and not fail with breakfast. Greek...yep, southwestern, yep, simple, sure, complex and over the top...of course. Breakfast flat out rules the food world.

Chad tore into Tofu scramble, cali garden paddy, horizontal chili, biscuits and gravy. Shining example of the versatility of breakfast, fucking chilli makes an appearance. I have never been hyped on a tofu scramble not made by myself, so hopefully this place comes correct, which I have a feeling they do.

david expanded his waste with biscuits and gravy, hashbrowns, tofu scramble, portebello mushrooms, red anti green salsa (?) and the best tap water he ever had. If you are reading this and from Phoenix and never been ANY where else, some places have legit tap water. Imagine that!

Eric ordered Same as davey only with a sausage biscuit.
I need to get to SLC to try this place, as do we all!

One of the most exciting times in random restaurant going to for me was in Inglewood California (home of the Great Western Forum, Fuck the Lakers) Went to some random diner next to a Nation of Islam church or masque or whatever the shit they call them and a southern baptist church. Thank you 5% for your weird juxtapose of ancient text and random traditional African practices, because this diner did not serve pork, but instead used morning star veggie sausage Patty's. Same with the gravy, this place was off the proverbial hook. And I went in expecting to eat a shitty waffle and be pissed the lakers won so many championships in the zip code I was in.

See You in Idaho Falls (again)

The Lakers Suck

We on a food tour #2

Salt Lake City Utah

Vertical Diner

So...the exploratory committee first wave occupational unit (the 3/4th of Seas Will Rise currently out posted somewhere between Salt Lake City and Idaho Falls Idaho) took this food tour blog to a level worthy of a zagats reviewer. If that zagats reviewer was a 30 something unwashed dude fueled by coffee and the call of the wild. What I am getting at here is the level of food that was dispatched to the western front was ridiculous

Incredibly quick pre amble, Vertical Diner got a top ten faux chicken on 2009 from PETA magazine. The restaurant is 100 percent vegetarian and buys local and organic ingredients whenever possible. I can get on board with all of this. And a quick once over of the menu, place looks priced about right. Lets see the goods:

Eric had a jerk Chicken burrito

I am assuming its tasty, the potato's look good. Quick tangent about vegetarian faux meat dishes. At least in my experience, eating faux meat entrees is like a 3 times a month ordeal, vegetarians aren't sitting around wishing they can eat a chicken sandwich everyday. So, like when you have a coca cola (Mexican, cane sugar uber alles) once a month, so when you do drink it, it is amazingly good as opposed to a steady diet of modified high fructose corn syrup all day every day. Same with faux meat, its breaks up the monotony and adds some spice to life, but is not an essential diet staple.

Another quick tangent, look at the cultures that have the "best" vegetarian foods: Hispanic, Asian: Indian/Thai/Chinese. These cultures diets are not focused around the plentifulness of meat. Look at Mexico, traditionally, beef was not available, ever. Sometimes pork was, but mostly chicken, if there was any meat at all. Thus the need to develop making "boring" fruits and veggies taste great. If your diet is mostly corn, beans and tomato, then you best make those ingredients taste amazing. Same flys for the asian cultures only add religious sentiments.

David had the american dinner

According to the menu: Choice of hand cut fries, mashed potatoes or hashbrowns smothered with gravy topped with fried chicken. As a person who never really thought about making gravy, it was always a meat eaters thing, until I recently started making gravy based dishes, I am shitting My pants while simultaneous high fiving the air. This shit sounds tasty and patriotic.

Davey topped it off with this gem. A chocolate peanut butter brownie with homemade chocolate syrup and extra peanut butter. I think that description sums this up.

This is what Chad got, he didn't say what it was but he did say "nom" being he isn't a 13 year old girl or asian anime character I am going to just post a picture and end it at that.

So...moral of the story is, make good food, eat good food, if your an omnivore who choose to eat the meat side of the omni, try some of these type of restaurants out, if your a veggie, frequent places like this, keep them around, especially once that buy local and organic as much as humanly possible, the fate of the world is on your shoulders.

See you in Idaho Falls.

We on a food tour #1

The Seas Will Rise regional food critic and taco enthusiast tactic assault and recovery task force has set off on a sojourn of personal and pallet enlightenment. We bring with us a bias towards awesome tamales, burritos and tacos from our Sonoran desert stronghold. Also 3/4ths of us refrain from eating the brutally acquired flesh of animals (we are ovo-lacto vegetarians, but the pope was a NAZI so no one is perfect right?) The 1/4th who chooses to clog his coronary arteries and pad the wallets of factory farms will not have a deciding vote on this quest for for food, so take heart that all these will be vegetarian dishes. We are in a dodge van traveling up from Arizona thru zion, thru the snake river valley into neverland down the gold coast and back thru the city of angels. We bring forks and empty stomachs (and hearts). The idea of a tour food blog is neither novel or generally exciting, but neither is downtuned hardcore, so either turn back or come along with us.

(editors note, listen to A Tribe Called Quests "Award Tour" and tell us it doesn't sound like they are saying "food tour"...really...well we think it does.)

Las Vegas Nevada

Yayo Tacos

FULL DISCLOSURE: Corey, the author, was not here, and is working off how the food looks from dispatches from the front.

Yayo Taco is apparently in some half empty strip mall that all western US citys are blighted with. I am sure there is a nail salon, a $1 store, maybe a water and ice store. Doesn't matter, good tacos are good tacos, and from the looks of this plate and erics correspondence of "holy fucking shit these tacos were awesome" this place isn't messing around. PLUS they host aggressive music concert events, which is rad. This is the 2nd taco shop Seas Will Rise has played (the first being Tacos Locos in Flagstaff when we were still referring to ourselves as CAGEMATCH) That place was passable to mildly decent, but all food in flagstaff is, sans Primos Hotdogs because that place is off the grid.

If Corey had been on this trip he would have politicked HARD for a capprotis sandwiches stop, which would have probably not been as refreshing and different as the Yayo experience (you know what yayo is? ask E-40 )

Anyhow, see you dorks in Salt Lake.

Stay Hungry.