Rory Kelly Feature Review In Staf Magazine

Rory Kelly, Feature album review in Staf Magazine

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"Although the debut of this trio of North Carolina came to name Rory Kelly's Triple Threat, now have been only the name of its leader, guitarist and singer. And that the battery we have a veteran like Mike Kelly. Yes, you are correct, his father. Theirs is pure swamp blues-rock and if you get too close you can even bite a crocodile in the swamps of Louisiana. Its current approaches the sound swampy southern rock but that can not prevent certain details or sleazy rock metalheads. In fact Rory was in the scorching Crack County Daredevils. The past year was the most prominent in the South By Spouthwest of Austin, Texas and with a complete sound strange. Sometimes the pace is pure metal. Low is the case in which more raw sound like ZZ Top crossed with heavy blues experiments of Led Zeppelin. The title track (Do not Shake My) Family Tree is also pure cane and southern r'n'r accelerated. We also have some surprises as in Searchin For An Angel with his slow and spectral sound and voice hoarse with Rory makes me remember the last of the Mark Lanegan Band.Sure you live the potion is even more tasty and dangerous!"

Does Your Bike Run On Fumes, How About Personal Fumes?

The Japanese always have interesting ways of creating something new and efficient. Their smaller cars helped to revolutionize the American automobile industry and now Toyota is one of the largest manufacturers on the planet. As a gimmick and a nod to the recyclable mindset, a company by the name of Toto, has taken things a step further and found a hilarious way to show that human excrement can indeed be useful. We thank Toto for our daily moment of zen and the coining of our new term "Poogineer" for their dedication and hard work.

Original article was written up on Wired.com

The Neo, a trike that runs on excrement

"TOTO, a name you might’ve seen on toilets and urinals, has built a motorcycle that runs on excrement. The toilet saddle is just for show, as the actual engine runs on manure and waste water, but you can’t fault the company for trying to make a splash when the Toilet Bike Neo debuted in Japan last week.

The Neo, a product of three years of research, development and design, is based on a 250cc trike, with a built-in toilet for a seat. The rider does not contribute to the fuel supply of purified and compressed livestock waste. So for now, this model’s bio-gas comes from the Shika-oi, in Hokkaido. As an engineer explained, “The waste and household water are converted to methane gas by fermenting, and the methane gas is converted to bio-gas by purifying.” Only the bio-gas ends up in the bike, so there’s no manure on-board. (Insert your own joke about crappy bike riders here).

The trike took a month-long slog from TOTO’s HQ in Kokura to Tokyo this past October, traveling around 870 miles in the process. Now, the bike is touring further afield in Japan to promote TOTO’s environmental efforts. But don’t hold your breath for your own poo-powered three-wheeler – TOTO has no plans to make another model."

Pinterest: The Next Social Frontier for Music, From ReadWriteWeb

Social Media is forever changing and evolving directly in front of us. For a band and we as a label, keeping up with the online trends, is par for course. Little more than a few months ago, SoundCloud is working with Pinterest on letting users embed streaming music within boards. This is indeed a great thing and we have already built a full streaming section into the Rusty Knuckles Pinterest page. 

For more information on what this holds for the future of streaming music within Pinterest, dive in deeper to the article below.

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"Pinterest is steadily growing out of the stereotype that it's just for sharing recipes and planning weddings. The social scrapbook already plays a central role in the social media strategies of visual artists, publishers and certain types of businesses. Now, with the addition of features for pinning music and video, musicians are catching on. 

Just as early-adopter bands and artists flocked to Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram, some are experimenting with visual bookmarking on Pinterest. Conventions are emerging as those brave enough to dive in head-first experiment with different approaches. 

The most obvious way musicians are using Pinterest is as a collection of visual artifacts from across the Web. This includes everything from photos of recent gigs, artists they admire or gear they love playing with to visual art that matches their music. This approach is akin to the way bands have used Tumblr.

Alanis Morissette uses Pinterest both as a promotional vehicle for her own work and as a way to connect with fans in a more meaningful way. That includes not only a scrapbook of personal photos but also a pinboard dedicated to sharing favorite quotes and a board titled "Alanis Recommends" containing mostly self-help books. These features add a personal flavor to her social media presence, something Pinterest is uniquely positioned to help facilitate.  

Beyond Pictures: Sound and Video

Despite its roots, Pinterest is no longer just about imagery. It also happens to be a good way to share sounds and videos, a fact that makes it increasingly appealing to musicians looking to promote their work. Music videos from sources like YouTube, Vimeo and others can be embedded directly into Pinterest pages and, not unlike Twitter or Tumblr, can be "repinned" by others, creating the potential for content to go viral. 

Last week, the site officially integrated with SoundCloud, a partnership that makes Pinterest an even more natural fit for bands and musicians. Until now, the most effective way to share a song on Pinterest was to pin a YouTube video containing the track. This new feature simplifies things a bit and provides an additional avenue for distributing audio files. 

Yoko Ono was quick to take advantage of SoundCloud support. The artist and wife of the late John Lennon uses the feature to embed new songs as well as audio clips from radio appearances. The "SoundCloud" board on Ono's account includes everything from music recorded with her late husband to a recent episode of a radio program on which Ono appeared with her son Sean Lennon. Her Pinterest account also serves as a home to past visual art projects, writings and activism-related links. 

Music outlets like The Fader, HypeBot, VH1 and MTV have also jumped on the Pinterest stage.Record labels are also using the service to promote artists and new releases. Many labels create boards specific to popular artists in their roster, effectively giving those artists a semi-official presence on the site without requiring them to manage it. This approach offers less opportunity for deep engagement with fans, but it's a start. 

Success Is Hard to Measure

As popular as Pinterest is becoming generally, for musicians it's still a realm of early adopters. Relatively few artists have official accounts on the site. Even Amanda Palmer, who is often noted for effective use of Twitter and other social platforms, hasn't pinned anything. 

How can an artist know whether Pinterest is paying off? Success can be difficult to gauge. Certainly, artists with a large following on Pinterest should expect to see an increase in video views, listens and click-throughs to related media and articles. For smaller acts, the payoff may not be as dramatic at first. In either case, metrics don't exist that would help artists and managers determine the effectiveness of a particular strategy. Did pinning those new tracks from SoundCloud help get them heard by more people? Maybe, but neither SoundCloud nor Pinterest offers analytics granular enough to know for sure. 

Pinterest doesn't yet have a huge community of bands and musicians, but features like SoundCloud integration will likely encourage more to take advantage of the service. What it does have is a sizable - and growing - user base, something artists would be wise to tap into early." 

Still Thinking About Getting A Tattoo Of Your Favorite Band?

Still Thinking About Getting A Tattoo Of Your Favorite Band? Every now and then you see some tattoos that send you shaking your head and wonder who is more at fault. Is it the customer wanting to be the über fan or the tattoo artist that maybe isn't quite up to snuff. Needless to say, choose your imagery wisely along with the individual that is inking you up permanently.

Loudwire's display of horrible tattoos

Really? Earth Crisis on the face? Did that Firestorm of Ink Purify? 

Green Day never looked so rough. Poor ol' Billie Joe and his BJ pose, damn that's rough

And Tattoo Justice For All

Slayer fan that was tatted up by a six year old apprentice prodigy

Dimebag Darrell is equally shocked by his depction in a style reminiscent of the Squidbillies

Gotta love the drop shadow those letters have, Kid Rock looks like he is hiding a huge dome in the pimp hat

Salad Days: The Birth of Punk Rock in the Nation's Capital

The legendary punk scene that emanated from Washington DC is still being felt today. Many of those band members went on to create bigger projects and represented the birth of a new movement within punk rock. For that, we cannot thank them enough as it helped to shape our punk and hardcore musical influence.

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"A documentary film about the legendary (and often misunderstood) Washington, DC punk scene in the 1980s.

ABOUT THE MOVIE

SALAD DAYS is a documentary-in-progress that examines the fertile Washington, DC punk scene of the 1980s. This was a particularly important time in the evolution of punk and independent music, with DC based bands like Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Black Market Baby, the Faith, the Slickee Boys, Void, Government Issue, Marginal Man, Dag Nasty, 9353, Gray Matter, Beefeater, Scream, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, Shudder to Think, Nation of Ulysses, Jawbox and others defining the DC aesthetic. Local record labels like Dischord, Fountain of Youth, Teen Beat, and Simple Machines would become standard-bearers for the DIY revolution.

WHY NOW

Much has been written about the pre-Nirvana period of American punk rock, but there's never been an examination of DC's contribution. We've spent the last year interviewing dozens of the participants who helped create the local music scene in the 1980s— musicians, photographers, DJs, activists, and writers—to tell the story of one of the most inspiring (and misunderstood) decades in independent music. We've also sorted through hundreds of photos, live videos, flyers and zines for inclusion in the film.

Like countless others, I discovered punk rock as a kid. Growing up in the Washington, DC area I was so taken with what I was witnessing that I started a fanzine and began to document the local scene. Almost 30 years later, I wanted to revisit the people and places that have informed my life and so many others. It's been a hell of a journey so far—but we're not done yet.

WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP

As we finish up the pre-production phase, we need your help. Your donations will offset the upcoming costs of editing, animation, graphics, mastering, color correction, sound editing, travel and more. We have a daunting task ahead of us—and yet we’re so passionate about telling this story that we’re anxious to share it with the world as soon as we can. We hope SALAD DAYS will see a Q3 2013 release and we have high hopes for its festival run. Thanks in advance for your support—we can’t do it without you!

With Ian Mackaye during his interview for SALAD DAYS.

With Dave Grohl during the filming of SALAD DAYS

WHO WE ARE

An August 1985 Washington City Paper article on Crawford entitled "Punktrepeneur"...

SALAD DAYS Director/writer SCOTT CRAWFORD is a music journalist, musician and graphic designer. As a teenager in the DC suburbs, he started a fanzine called Metrozine that documented much of what was happening in the DC hardcore punk scene in the 1980s. In 1985, Metrozine (and WGNS) released a 7" compilation called "Alive & Kicking" that featured unreleased tracks by DC area bands Gray Matter, United Mutation, Marginal Man, Beefeater, Cereal Killer and Mission Impossible (featuring a 16 year old Dave Grohl). He was quoted in both Dance of Days and Banned in DC—the two most definitive books on the early DC punk scene. In 2001, he launched Harp magazine and served as its Editor-in-Chief for over 7 years. Crawford also launched the online music portal Blurt (blurt-online.com) in 2009.

Serving as Director of Photography for SALAD DAYS, Jim Saah (jimsaah.com) is a native of Washington, DC who has worked professionally in photography and video for over 25 years. He has shot for a variety of publications and websites ranging from the Washington Post to Rolling Stone.
He's also an experienced videographer whose credits range from union organizing films to music documentaries. Recent films he has worked on include movies about the bands Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie and Eddie Vedder.

HOW KICKSTARTER WORKS

Kickstarter is an amazing funding platform for creative projects like ours. However, it's an all or nothing process—if we don't reach our goal, we lose EVERYTHING. We've given ourselves 30 days to fund this project. Please help us in any way you can. We have something for everyone—regardless of how much you give.

CAN WE EXCEED OUR GOAL?

Absolutely! Every penny we receive is going towards making the best film we can possibly make. Therefore, anything we can make beyond or goal can be put towards covering all of the many unexpected costs that will no doubt occur along the way."

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Scott Crawford
Director/writer SALAD DAYS
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Interviews include:

• Ian Mackaye (Minor Threat, Embrace, Fugazi, Evens, Dischord)
• Henry Rollins (SOA, Black Flag, Rollins Band)
• Dave Grohl (Scream, Nirvana, Foo FIghters)
• John Stabb (Government Issue)
• Pete & Franz Stahl (Scream, Wool)
• HR (Bad Brains)
• Joe Lally (Fugazi)
• Kenny Inouye (Marginal Man)
• Dante Ferrando (Iron Cross, Gray Matter, Ignition)
• Jeff Nelson (Minor Threat, 3, Dischord)
• Mary Timony (Helium, Wild Flag)
• Alec Mackaye (the Faith, Ignition, the Warmers)
• Fred Armisen (SNL, Portlandia)
• Dave Smalley (DYS, Dag Nasty, All, Down By Law)
• Steve Niles (Gray Matter, 3)
• Monica Richards (Strange Boutique)
• Bruce Miles Hellington (9353)
• Jon Wurster (Superchunk, Mountain Goats)
• Jenny Toomey (Tsunami, Simple Machines)
• Boyd Farrell (Black Market Baby)
• Bobby Sullivan (Soulside)
• Jason Farrell (Swiz, Bluetip, Retisonic)
• J. Robbins (Government Issue, Jawbox, Burning Airlines)
• Kevin Seconds (7 Seconds)
• Mark Andersen (Positive Force founder, author of "Dance of Days")
• Mark Sullivan (Kingface)
• Tonie Joy (Moss Icon)
• Shawn Brown (Dag Nasty, Swiz)
• Jim Spellman (High Back Chairs, Velocity Girl)
• Steve Hansgen (Minor Threat, Second Wind)
• Brian Baker (Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Bad Religion)
• Jon Spencer (Pussy Galore, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion)
• Mark Robinson (Unrest, Teen Beat)
• Amy Pickering (Fire Party)
• Skeeter Enoch Thompson (Scream)
• Fred "Freak" Smith (Beefeater, Strange Boutique)

Billy Don Burns Is A Featured Artist On Air Play Direct

So let's get this straight, you are a radio DJ and you want to spin new music compared to the set list that corporate sponsors want you to play. We totally understand your mindset and have just the songwriter and one helluva great individual in Billy Don Burns ready to unleash his music upon the world. All of you folks spinning records world wide, get over to AirPlayDirect.com and download Billy Don's music and get his music to the masses.

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Billy Don Burns is a featured artist on AirPlay Direct

Hellbound Glory To Be Featured On NBC's - The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase

Big news in the world of Hellbound Glory folks. As anyone knows who is a fan of underground country, roots and americana music, the fellas in Hellbound have been pounding mile after mile and winning over fans in every club they go into. They are just about to embark on a new endeavor by being featured on NBC's The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase, which is a songwriter showcase in the round. Tickets are available so follow the links below and get yer asses to NYC and join in on the good time.

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Hellbound Glory in neon lights, this is how real country should be.

"NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Sep 17, 2012) - The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase, a nationally syndicated TV show on NBC's digital network, will begin producing live events to complement its televised platform to bring much needed attention to talented up-and-coming musicians. The series will feature three songwriters on stage, each in turn performing a song and talking about the story behind it and its genesis.

Jimmy Lloyd will host the New York City based events and perform and will feature a rotating cast of up-and-coming and well-established songwriters.
The events will be filmed live for incorporation into episodes of The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase.

The inaugural event will kick off on October 11th at Hill Country on 26th street in Manhattan and will feature Leroy Virgil of Hellbound Glory, Sean Walsh from the band National Reserve and Jimmy Lloyd.

"We're thrilled to be partnering with Hill Country Live for this event. Much like our TV show, the folks at Hill Country act as a launch pad for artists on the verge, staging the best songwriters and bands that you will soon be hearing about, and creating multi-media opportunities to catapult them to the next level. Our aim is to make this the premiere songwriting event in New York City," said Jimmy Lloyd.

Seth Rothschild, Assistant Director of Hill Country Live had this to add: "We're excited to be partnering with The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase, and look forward to developing future events together. We are also beyond thrilled to be able to showcase bands like Hellbound Glory at our venue. They are dynamic, honest and soulful. They are right in the center of the bulls-eye of artists whose story we'd like to help tell: 'We've had 'em at our SXSW showcase and playing our NY and DC venues. Now, it's on to the Jimmy Lloyd show!' Hill Country will be very proud to host them in such an intimate setting.""

To attend this event, follow this link: http://jimmylloyd.eventbrite.com/

The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase currently airs in the following US cities: New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Chicago, Dallas, Miami, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

For more information on The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase, please visit jimmylloyd.com

For more information and background on Leroy Virgil and Hellbound Glory, please visit hellboundglory.com

For more information and background on Sean Walsh, please visit, http://www.facebook.com/pages/THE-NATIONAL-RESERVE/116585918356020

For more information on Hill Country Live, please visit, hillcountryny.com
 

Hellbound Glory's, Leroy Virgil will be a featured songwriter on NBC's The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase

Stoked For Ryan Bingham's New Album - Tomorrowland

All we can say is hells yeah when it comes to the new album for Ryan Bingham. Been waiting on this one impatiently, after becoming die hard fans of his last album, Junky Star. Can honestly say, didn't really know his tunes until the work he did in the feature film with Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart, so we might be a bit late to this particular rodeo. Needless to say we hope that he tours out to the east coast sometime soon as we cannot wait to see the live show. 

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Ryan Bingham's - Tomorrowland, featured on New Releases Now

Radio Like You Want, Featuring The Green Lady Killers

The Green Lady Killers were detained for questioning

Blag Dahlia of the Dwarves has a great podcast on Itunes, entitled Radio Like You Want. This new episode features The Green Lady Killers with an amazing interview.

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Radio Like You Want, new podcast episode featuring the Green Lady Killers

Motorcycles And Lovely Ladies

Some things in life need little to no explanation. If you enjoy these images, why not bounce over to Pinterest to see where the real action is. 

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Cowboy boots, long legs and a vintage Harley, life is good

Cafe Racer being straddled by a hot model

We think Rosie The Riveter would be proud of her legacy

We know that Pink can rock a stage and she rides, hells yes!

Ducati Motorcycles and sex appeal

Yamaha motor in a chop and a gorgeous model

Beautiful woman and a bike that could use a bit less chrome

Does this sexy pose add iron to your head?