haha!

oh the memories.. Commit Suicide

Back in the day, my band had the honor of touring with these dudes. They were a blast and they play some damn good brutal metal. I recommend seeking out their shit.
Commit Suicide -Willowtip
-pcm

Warhorse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you don't have "As Heaven Turns to Ash", go find it. Super heavy and brutal, but memorable. I heard somewhere that dude used a Crate amp too... sick

...put this together so i can listen to it...

-bass-
old ass upright through this nasty Orange Cab...

 

-drums-
that is some major old timey shit right there, we'll get some weird looking marching band kid to hit a huge ass bass drum along with you.

-lead-
ah!  lap steel.  fuck yes.  play it good too!

and one of those Arp Synths that herbie hancock could rock the shit out of.  make it sound like space and chicken nuggets.

and to top it off, an ugly electric violin.
yer gonna need some pedals too.  wah, distortion and delay.

-rhythm-
don't even act like we can find someone to play this.  not even possible.
but you'll do it anyway, and some regular guitars too.

 

so yeah, faithful readers of the POTAH blog, please assemble this band and let me know when i can come see you perform.
i don't know what the hell your band name is supposed to be, so surprise me!

you shall not be defined by limits, genres or and labeling of musical styles.
you do, however, need to play these songs (any which way you like, obviously).

1.  "My Name is Jonas" as inspired by Weezer
2.  the theme song from the Nintendo Original 8-Bit video game 'The Legend of Zelda'
3.  "Brown Sugar" as inspired by The Rolling Stones
4.  "Mean Street" as inspired by Van Halen
5.  a medley of television themes including, but not limited too: 'Charles in Charge,' 'King of Queens,' 'Dallas,' Ren & Stimpy,' 'Three's Company,' 'G.I. Joe,' 'Space Ghost Coast to Coast,' 'The A-Team,' & 'Night Court'
6.  "Trapped Under Ice" as inspired by Metallica
7.  "Wooly Bully" as inspired by Sam Sham and the Pharoahs
8.  the Monday Night Football theme from 1993
9.  "Pinball Number Count" from muther fucking Sesame Street, lyrics should be sung in unison.  (see viddy below)
10.  "Fever Dog" as inspired by Stillwater
11.  "Stroker Ace" as inspired by WEEN
12.  A Super Mario Medley (all consoles since 1986 to please be included)
13.  "Time of the Season" as inspired by The Zombies
14.  "50/50" as inspired by Frank Zappa
15.  "King of the Road" as inspired by Fu Manchu

- worm

No presents for you!

Hibernation

Worm's 2010 top ten!

I'm not gonna say that this was a bad year for music.

quite the contrary, actually.

the quality of what i took the time to actually saturate myself with, was far better than past years.

most years, i have a list of 30-50 to whittle down to my top ten.

this year, it was pretty easy as i only considered about 15..

Best of 2010

 1.  Cathedral/The Guessing Game

 2.  Devo/Something for Everybody

 3.  Robert Plant/Band of Joy

 4.  High on Fire/Snakes for the Divine

 5.  Peter Gabriel/Scratch my Back

 6.  Karma to Burn/Appalachian Incantation

 7.  Gorillaz/Plastic Beach

 8.  Apostle of Solitude/Last Sunrise

 9.  Melvins/Bride Screamed Murder

10. Coffinworm/When All Became None

in the US, we cannot get:

Ghost/Opus Eponymous or Electric Wizard/Black Masses as Metal Blades pressings until 2011, so you bet they will be top 5 for next year instead of making this'.  - worm

whats the point of a blog if you can't pimp your own stuff???

http://bulletwolf.bandcamp.com/

one song off our upcoming album. more to come soon.

this has nothing to do with the above information, its just classic internet:

COUNTDOWN TO SXSW

83 days and counting. 

Here is the third wave of artists being showcased at this year's SXSW Music Festival. 

2011 Showcasing artists

Balmorhea (Austin TX)
The Baseball Project (Portland OR)
The Bears of Blue River (Chicago IL)
Beats Antique (San Francisco CA)
James Blake (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bliss N Eso (Albert Park AUSTRALIA)
British India (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Murphy Brown (Santa Cruz CA)
Brownout (Austin TX)
Canteca de Macao (Madrid SPAIN)
Chateau Marmont (Paris FRANCE)
The Chevelles (North Fremantle WA)
Shawn Chrystopher (Inglewood CA)
Constantina (Belo Horizonte BRAZIL)
Corrosion of Conformity (Raleigh NC)
Cousins (Halifax CANADA)
Graham Coxon (London UK-ENGLAND)
DAM (Lyd PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, OCCUPIED)
Daniel Lioneye (Helsinki FINLAND)
Das Racist (Brooklyn NY)
Taelor Deatcher / Felix Cartal (Vancouver CANADA)
De Juepuchas (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Delhi 2 Dublin (Vancouver CANADA)
Kiko Dinucci (Guarulhos BRAZIL)
Dreaming in Stereo (Miami Beach FL)
Duzheknew (Halifax CANADA)
Echoes (Caracas VENEZUELA)
Egyptrixx (Toronto CANADA)
Elephant Stone (Montreal CANADA)
EMMURE (Queens NY)
Experimental Aircraft (Austin TX)
FAT PIMP (Houston TX)
Forro in the Dark (New York NY)
Glambilly (San Antonio TX)
Gobble Gobble (Edmonton CANADA)
Go Chic (Taipei TAIWAN)
God-Des & She (Austin TX)
Grieves with Budo (Seattle WA)
Grupo Fantasma (Austin TX)
DARREN HANLON (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Herencia de Timbiqui (Cali COLOMBIA)
Hey Rosetta! (St John's CANADA)
Homeboy Sandman (Queens NY)
Imaginary Cities (Winnipeg CANADA)
Intimate Stranger (Santiago CHILE)
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit (Muscle Shoals AL)
The Jefferson (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
The Joy Formidable (Mold UK-WALES)
juice (London UK-ENGLAND)
Takashi Kamide (Nara JAPAN)
Kill It Kid (Bath UK-ENGLAND)
Las Robertas (San Jose COSTA RICA)
Lazaro Valiente (Ascidvwlig MEXICO)
Sondre Lerche (Bergen NORWAY)
Les Jupes (Winnipeg CANADA)
Les Shelleys (Los Angeles CA)
Long Long Long (Halifax Upper Harbour CANADA)
Los Lonely Boys (San Angelo TX)
Menomena (Portland OR)
Fernando Milagros (Santiago CHILE)
MONARETA (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Mustard Pimp (Melun FRANCE)
Natccu (Tokyo JAPAN)
Naurea (Aracaju BRAZIL)
Nexcyx (Bridgetown BARBADOS)
Novembers Doom (Chicago IL)
Nubla (Barcelona SPAIN)
Oh Susanna (Toronto CANADA)
Operator Please (Gold Coast AUSTRALIA)
Overflow (Koprivnica CROATIA)
Norman Palm (Berlin GERMANY)
Polock (Valencia SPAIN)
Profetas (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Gabriel Prokofiev (London UK-ENGLAND)
Protistas (Santiago CHILE)
Random Recipe (Montreal CANADA)
Resplandor (Lima PERU)
REVOLVER (Paris FRANCE)
Nana Rizinni (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Royal Canoe (Winnipeg CANADA)
Rupa & the April Fishes (San Francisco CA)
Russian Red (Madrid SPAIN)
Said The Whale (Vancouver CANADA)
Scala & Kolacny Brothers (Aarschot BELGIUM)
Shelley Short (Portland OR)
69 Nombres (Bogotá COLOMBIA)
Smiler (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sahara Smith (Wimberly TX)
Leeroy Stagger (Lethbridge CANADA)
STICK TO YOUR GUNS (Orange County CA)
Symphonic Kinky (Austin TX)
TELEPHUNKEN (Madrid SPAIN)
THE BOXER REBELLION (London UK-ENGLAND)
TURZI Electronic Experience (Paris FRANCE)
VALLEYS (Montreal CANADA)
Violens (New York NY)
WEINLAND (Portland OR)
Paris Wells (Melbourne CANADA)
Gary Wilson (San Diego CA)
Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Yearbook Committee (Terre Haute IN)
Za! (Barcelona SPAIN)
Zion I & The Grouch (Oakland CA)
ZOOBOMBS (Tokyo JAPAN)
Zoroaster (Atlanta GA)

-kj

...fuzzrock fun from the far east...

band - Eternal Elysium

album - Spiritualized

FIND THIS CD and rock the hell out of it.

i got on a big Japanese band kick a couple years ago.

that got started with a Boris and Church of Misery infatuation.

but thanks to the stonerrock.com boards (R.I.P.), i got turned on to this band.

windows down, 80 degrees cruise music.
alas, winter is among us.  pretend time!

and if you are a fan of Cathedral, this will really toot your horn. -worm

 

 

...Fu Manchu/In Search Of...

Fu Manchu will be playing their awesome-as-fuck album 'In Search of...' in it's entirety in Europe.

man, it would be great if this came here!

seriously, one of the best albums, by one of the best bands of all time.

fly the staff of POTAH to France so we can see it, and we'll give YOU unlimited access to the Disney Vaults.

- worm

Get the Horse Out

well actually, get them IN the playoffs... We won't post much sports stuff on POTAH, but we are all big Colts fans. They need to win out. GO COLTS! I've got Maurice Jones-Drew on my fantasy team... i don't care if he runs for 2 yards and fumbles 5 times Sunday as long as we still win. -pcm

i cannot stop listening to this band...

I heard the King had surgery....

damn, i want to go ride...

These are taken from the Sugar Bear Choppers site.. I've always dug his bikes and just thought these pics are cool as hell. For those who don't know who Sugar Bear is, google them shits.  His front ends are so badass..He's famous for making rideable long bikes.  Here is a 40 over from from 1978.

haha, 60 over!

-pcm

The artwork is stupid, but the metal is good.

Are those bowling balls or lawn orbs on the moon? While far from being one of my favorite bands, this album is one of the greatest technical death metal albums ever. This album is a nearly perfect album to me. It has it all. Its fast, brutal and its technical. The thing that makes it good though is that these are SONGS. Good songs. So many death metal bands just go for brutality or technicality and forget that if you don't write a decent song, its shit. Monstrosity has some other release that are decent, I suppose, but this is the only one I care about and still listen to. I don't listen to a ton of death metal these days, but when in the mood, this is one of my "go to" albums. I suggest you check it out.


not my doing, but peep this here

soggy bottom boys

check it, one of my favourite spots in indy, El Rodeo.
i like the one on High School Rd, just north of Crawfordsville.
there are a ton of these places i guess, all over the nation.
maybe it is a chain, maybe it is not a very original or unique name for a Mexican Eatery.
...whatever...there are at least 10 in Indy,
but i like the West Side one, so i doubt i will seek out the "others" that may be out there in the vast reaches of the greater Indianapolis area.

i don't menu gaze at places, unless it is the first time i go.
once i find a dish i like, i usually stick with it.
if i wanna try something else, i'll just go to another place.
sure, on subsequent visits to a place, i will sit there and make it look like i am going through the menu for some hidden gem, but what i am really waiting on is for my wife to pick something to fit her pallette, while i try not to gorge on chips and salsa.

well, Nachos el Carbon, at the afformentioned El Rodeo RULES!
grilled chicken, steak and shrimp hanging out in a melty white cheese lake
with some lettuce (i prefer salsa and the green sauce on the tables to the pico they default with it)
all neslted with a hefty portion of tortilla chips.
the bonus of additional chips already on the table to use as a utensil just adds to the already awesomeness.
one of the best parts, i call, "Soggy Bottom Boys."
these are found all the way at the bottom of this plate-of-delight.
the bottom-most chips, that have been saturated witht he melty cheese.
you almost feel sorry for them, they have lost all rigidness and crisp that once proud, almighy tortilla chips posses and have traded it in for a soft, flexible, tasty little cheese spoon to help scoop up that last bit of grilled meat you left on purpose.
mmm...good ol' soggy bottom boy.

10 out of 10 stars everytime.
i would go every day if i could.

and yes, you just read a review for a plate of nachos.
basically the easiest plate of food to pull off.
i mean, really, how can you fuck this up?!?!

there would be a pic posted of said dish, but we haven't made enough money off this blog yet to afford a really nice picture taking machine.
and any picture i google of this sort of food just doesn't do it justice and makes me so hungry i want to punch things.


-worm

goats 'n fro's

well, they are sheep i guess, but whatever. one of the coolest songs and vids ever...

a shovel i came across...

i saw this on the shovelhead.us forum. Belongs to a JQ66. Hope you don't mind me stealin' the pics for our enjoyment! the bike is hella pretty. and i mean pretty in a badass kind of way.  -pcm

Latvian metal rules!

This is Skyforger from Latvia. They rule. My grandparents, mom, and a bunch of my aunts and uncles are from Latvia; therefore, I am Latvian. I am going to post about Latvia stuff sometimes so please enjoy the Baltic Pagan Rituals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, i drank a couple bottles of this Latvia beer over the weekend. Check it out if you see it in a store which will likely be rare but doable. It is pretty good though.  - pcm

Countdown to SXSW!!!

This year the SXSW music festival will begin on March 16, 2011 and will continue until March 20, 2011.  That's a mere 106 days from today!  We at Planet of the Ape Hangers are counting down the days before we board the plane for Austin, TX and experience one of the biggest music events in the country.  Since I'm guessing this will be a once in a lifetime event for us (because of the sheer cost), I'm going to venture to say that this will be the biggest music event of our lives.

This year SXSW is celebrating their 25^th Anniversary and although many of the details about the event are yet to been released, they have released two impressive lists of invited acts.  The sheer amount of bands that will be crammed into the five day festival is intimidating.  No doubt we will leave Austin with heads ringing and ears bleeding. 

In addition to the music, the festival also includes workshops, unofficial shows, parties, a trade show, and a BBQ/softball game.(i am going to eat so much texas bbq!! to hell with the music!! - pcm)

As the countdown continues, we will be reporting on the details of the festival, particularly the names of all the bands that will be performing.  Attached are the first two lists of bands that have been released.  For more information, feel free to visit the website at http://sxsw.com/home.

- kj

2011 Showcasing Acts

SXSW 2011 First Round of Invited Acts (all subject to change.)
A Place To Bury Strangers (Brooklyn, NY)
Alcoholic Faith Mission (Copenhagen, DENMARK)
Ancestors (Los Angeles, CA)
Apex Manor (Pasadena, CA)
The Appleseed Cast (Lawrence, KS)
Art vs Science (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
Asobi Seksu (Brooklyn, NY)
Babe Rainbow (Vancouver, CANADA)
The Bees (Ventnor, ENGLAND)
Beni (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
Black Math Horseman (Los Angeles, CA)
Black Spiders (Sheffield, ENGLAND)
Bombay Bicycle Club (London ENGLAND)
Braids (Montreal, CANADA)
Brandt Brauer Frick (Berlin, GERMANY)
Brother (Slough, UK)
The Cabriolets (Madrid, SPAIN)
Calder Quartet (Los Angeles, CA)
Candy Claws (Ft. Collins, CO)
Capsula (Bilbao, SPAIN)
Cast (Liverpool, ENGLAND)
Chapel Club (London ENGLAND)
Chico Trujillo (Quilpue, CHILE)
Chikita Violenta (Mexico City, MEXICO)
Clock Opera (London ENGLAND)
Cloud Nothings (Cleveland, OH)
Coliseum (Louisville, KY)
Coolrunnings (Knoxville, TN)
Dam Mantle (Glasgow, SCOTLAND)
Designer Drugs (New York, NY)
Doctor Krapula (Bogota, Colombia)
Dredg (San Francisco, CA)
Ebony Bones! (London ENGLAND)
Ed Harcourt (London ENGLAND)
El Hijo de La Cumbia (Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA)
Erland & The Carnival (London ENGLAND)
Erykah Badu (Dallas, TX)
FM Belfast (Reykjavik, ICELAND)
Frankie and the Heartstrings (Sunderland, ENGLAND)
Fujiya & Miyagi (Brighton, ENGLAND)
Get People (London ENGLAND)
Giana Factory (Copenhagen, DENMARK)
Givers (Lafayette, LA)
Go Back To The Zoo (Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS)
Gypsyblood (Chicago, IL)
The Head and the Heart (Seattle, WA)
High Rankin (Brighton, ENGLAND)
The Holidays (Zetland, AUSTRALIA)
In Fear And Faith (San Diego, CA)
Iron Age (Austin, TX)
The Jezabels (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
John Vanderslice (San Francisco, CA)
Jon Fratelli (Glasgow, SCOTLAND)
Jonquil (Oxford, ENGLAND)
Kamp! (Lodz, POLAND)
Kids of 88 (Trenchtown NEW ZEALAND)
Klaxons (London ENGLAND)
L.Stadt
Le Butcherettes (Mexico City, MEXICO)
Lia Ices (New York, NY)
Liam Finn (Auckland, NEW ZEALAND)
Light Pollution (Chicago, IL)
The Luyas (Montreal, CANADA)
The Main Street Gospel (Columbus, OH)
Marcus Foster (London ENGLAND)
Mark Eitzel (San Francisco, CA)
Miami Horror (Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)
Micachu and The Shapes (London ENGLAND)
Miss May I (Troy, CA)
MSTRKRFT
Mujeres (Barcelona, SPAIN)
Mustard Pimp (Melun, FRANCE)
Naam (Brooklyn, NY)
The Naked and Famous (Auckland, NEW ZEALAND)
Nite Jewel (Los Angeles, CA)
Parts & Labor (Brooklyn, NY)
Plan B (London ENGLAND)
PS I Love You (Kingston, CANADA)
Pulled Apart By Horses (Leeds, ENGLAND)
Reset! (Milan, ITALY)
Rosie and Me (Curitiba, BRAZIL)
Scars On 45 (Leeds, ENGLAND)
Schlachthofbronx (Munich GERMANY)
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers (Brooklyn, NY)
Small Black (Brooklyn, NY)
Sol Pereyra (Cordoba, ARGENTINA)
Spleen United (Copenhagen, DENMARK)
Starfucker (Portland, OR)
Steve Mason (Fife, SCOTLAND)
Sun Airway (Philadelphia, PA)
Superlitio (Cali, COLOMBIA)
Suuns (Montreal, CANADA)
The Swiss (Adelaide, AUSTRALIA)
Tego Calderon (Carolina, PUERTO RICO)
Telekinesis (Seattle, WA)
Thiago Pethit (Sao Paulo, BRAZIL)
Those Dancing Days (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Tiê (Sao Paulo, BRAZIL)
Toro y Moi (Columbia, SC)
Veronica Falls (London ENGLAND)
Vicente Gayo (Mexico City, MEXICO)
The War on Drugs (Philadelphia, PA)
WhoMadeWho (Copenhagen, DENMARK)
Wild Flag (Portland, OR)
Wye Oak (Baltimore, MD)
Young Legionnaire (London, ENGLAND)
Yuck (London ENGLAND)

Second round of 2011 Showcasing Acts!
*added 11/23/2010. all subject to change. more announcements still to come.
Alberta Cross (Brooklyn NY)
AM (New Orleans LA)
Asking Alexandria (York UK-ENGLAND)
Bajzel (Poznan POLAND)
Bare Wires (San Francisco CA)
The Bellrays (Los Angeles CA)
Benjamin Francis Leftwich (York UK-ENGLAND)
Beta Wolf (Los Angeles CA)
Bituaya (Caracas VENEZUELA)
Black Gandhi (Barcelona SPAIN)
Bleu Edmondson (New Braunfels TX)
Blue King Brown (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Bowling For Soup (Denton TX)
Carter Twins (Nashville TN)
Casiokids (Bergen NORWAY)
Chetes (Monterrey MEXICO)
City and Colour (Toronto ON)
Colleen Green (Los Angeles CA)
Curry & Coco (Lille FRANCE)
Dame 55 (Los Angeles CA)
Dawn of Ashes (Los Angeles CA)
Dax Riggs (Austin TX)
The Dears (Montreal QC)
Demon's Claws (Montreal CANADA)
DeVotchKa (Denver CO)
Eliza Doolittle (London UK-ENGLAND)
Elizabeth & the Catapult (Brooklyn NY)
Endless Hallway (Los Angeles CA)
Fergus & Geronimo (Brooklyn NY)
Francis and the Lights (New York NY)
Frazey Ford (Vancouver BC)
Gary Wilson (San Diego CA)
Gepe (Santiago CHILE)
Grass Widow (San Francisco CA)
Grieves with Budo (Seattle WA)
The Happy Hollows (Los Angeles CA)
Harrys Gym (Oslo NORWAY)
Heavy Cream (Nashville TN)
Hell & Lula (Los Angeles CA)
Hey Rosetta! (St John's NL)
HORSE the band (Los Angeles CA)
Ice Black Birds (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
J Mascis (Amherst MA)
Janka Nabay (SIERRA LEONE)
JEFF The Brotherhood (Nashville TN)
Joan of Arc (Chicago IL)
Jukebox the Ghost (Washington DC)
Kina Grannis (Mission Viejo CA)
Kopecky Family Band (Nashville TN)
La Sera (Los Angeles CA)
Locos Por Juana (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Maps & Atlases (Chicago IL)
Mexican Institute of Sound (Mexico City MEXICO)
Middle Class Rut (Sacramento CA)
Morning Teleportation (Portland OR)
Murfila (Barcelona SPAIN)
MURS (Los Angeles CA)
Noah and The Whale (London UK-ENGLAND)
North Mississippi Allstars (Hernando CO)
O'Death (New York NY)
Onra (Paris FRANCE)
Parlor Mob (Red Bank NJ)
Paul Cary (Chicago IL)
Pedropiedra (Santiago CHILE)
Pernett (Cali COLOMBIA)
Prince Rama (Brooklyn NY)
Professor Green (London UK-ENGLAND)
Protistas (Santiago CHILE)
Pterodactyl (Brooklyn NY)
Pujol (Nashville TN)
Quintron and Miss Pussycat (New Orleans LA)
Rey Pila (Mexico City MEXICO)
Rosie and Me (Curitiba BRAZIL)
The Secret Handshake (Dallas TX)
Shuttle (Boston MA)
Skrillex (Los Angeles CA)
Slim Cessna's Auto Club (Denver CO)
Some Community (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (Springfield MO)
Sounds Under Radio (Austin TX)
The Strange Boys (Austin TX)
Stephen Kellogg (Northampton MA)
Summer Camp (London UK-ENGLAND)
Suzanna Choffel (Austin TX)
Teen Daze (Vancouver CANADA)
Thee Oh Sees (San Francisco CA)
Tôg (Stavanger NORWAY)
Turbo Fruits (Nashville TN)
Ty Segall (San Francisco CA)
The Vaccines (London UK-ENGLAND)
Voxhaul Broadcast (Los Angeles CA)
Wagons (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
War From A Harlots Mouth (Berlin GERMANY)
Whitechapel (Knoxville TN)
The Woggles (Atlanta GA)