Take Jeff Clayton Of Antiseen To Work With You...

Trying to figure out what to add to your collection, hell why not add a voodoo doll of Jeff Clayton of the almighty Antiseen. We are hoping that with our copy by adding some gypsy tears, black widow entrails and maybe an extra splash of unicorn blood, we can make a Mini Me of this here action figure.

Order your copy of Jeff Clayton as a Throbblehead (larger photos below) "2012 marks the return of punk legends ANTiSEEN! Switchlight Records released "NEW BLOOD" this week in the US, a compilation of singles from 2008 - 2011 all put together into one kick-ass album. "NEW BLOOD" features 13 tracks including, among others, the collaboration with Joe Buck (Joe Buck yourself, Hank 3) on "Black Eyed Susie", covers of Ramones and The Sonics and also some new tracks including THE MYSTERIOUS GREEN MIST. The CD is limited to 1000 copies and comes in a cool digipack cover. The LP version is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies only, on ORANGE colored vinyl and includes free download code. Jeff Clayton, the chaos-causing creator of ANTiSEEN, has been throbble-ized! Aggronautix, the punk rock toy people, have created this figure capturing Jeff in full-on Destructo mode. It is limited to 500 numbered units, stands at 7 inches tall, and is made of polyresin. While it's labeled a Throbblehead, it's actually Jeff's arm that does all the movement, punishing everything in sight with his signature barbed-wire bat. Get out the way as Jeff stands ready to rock your fucking face off. He's accurately sculpted right down to the flannel shirt, gridly hair, and well-traveled forehead. "I cannot describe the pride and honor I feel being made into a graven image (or voodoo doll, whichever you prefer) by the fine folks at Aggronautix," said Clayton. "It's proof that prayer does work... 'cuz yours have been answered!" Preorder Link: http://aggronautix.com/products.cfm?productid=59 The BOYS FROM BRUTALSVILLE are nothing short of legends. For almost 30 years they have been playing by their own rules not giving a shit about what anybody says. ANTiSEEN started in 1983 with founding members Jeff Clayton and Joe Young. Named as a mis-spelling of the term "anti - scene", meaning, against any scene that has it's own rules, code of conduct, fashion and chain of command by hip scenesters... and as far as they are concerned - "It's only ROCK 'N" ROLL and we LOVE it!!!" The current line up consist of Jeff Clayton,Joe Young, Jon Bowman and Phil Keller.The band has done five full European tours and played all over the USA with well over 50 releases world wide. They backed up now legendary scum lord GG ALLIN on his first post-prison release "MURDER JUNKIES" & also recorded with legendary ALICE COOPER guitarist Michael Bruce. Their live shows is nothing less than spectacular; violent bursts of musical blitzkriegs, an unhealthy dose of pro wrestling influence that features barbed wire wrapped baseball bats or crowns of barbwire that cause REAL bloodshed and the occasional auto self destruct finale that got them labeled "Destructo Rock" early in the group's history. Almost 30 years later the band shows no sign of packing it in or making changes to impress any major labels." PHOTOS Jeff Clayton of Antiseen has been immortalized as a Throbblehead

Winston Smith's Punk Rock Satire

Collage can be an extremely powerful medium when it comes to conveying a multitude of messages. Old ads representing a distinct moment of time,juxtaposed with a thought provoking message can create an interesting form of satire. 

In this particular case you might not know his name but chances are that you have seen his work. Winston Smith has been quite the prolific designer when it comes to iconic imagery and one of those individuals that is a keen observer of pop culture. Have a listen to what makes him tick and check out more of his work.

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Winston Smith collage - Idol

The Mona Lisa as a punk rocker by Winston Smith

Dead Kennedys logo created by Winston Smith

Green Day's, Insomniac collage illustration created by Winston Smith

Tijunana album cover of Contra Revolucion Avenue by Winston Smith

Flat Tires, The Queers And Agent Orange Are Teaming Up...

Flat Tires, The Queers and Agent Orange are teamintg up for some tour dates this summer. Get out to the show and watch the Juke Joint Rock N' Rollers in the Flat Tires kick all sorts of new ass on the road.


Aug 9th- Baltimore, MD @ SONAR
Aug 10th- Pittsburgh, PA @ The Ironworks
Aug 11th- Cleveland, OH @ The Grog Shop
Aug 12th- Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place
Aug 13th- TBA
Aug 14th- Burlington, VT @ Metronome
Aug 15th- Pittsfield, MA @ Chameleons
Aug 16th- Dover, NH @ Dover Brickhouse*
Aug 17th- Boston, MA @ Rock On Concert Cruise
Aug 18th- New York, NY @ Rock's Off Concert Cruise

The Queers, Agent Orange and the Flat Tires on Tour August 2012

ANTiSEEN's Falls Count Anywhere Will Debut At The Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse On July 28th

Did you ever consider to think that it was no coincidence, that we were putting on the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse and that the mighty ANTiSEEN could be puting out a release centered around a wrestling theme? Well dear friends, you are the first to see it in the here and now. Below is the cover and track listing for one of the best batch of songs from the fellas and damn if they aren't firing on all cylinders. Just have a look at this track listing and the cover. 

Falls Count Anywhere will be coming out on July 10th worldwide and most of all through Rusty Knuckles Music. Be prepared for the best ring music to ever take over the squared circle.

Get your copy of Falls Count Anywhere now

Also, below the album cover, get all the info for the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse. Click on the ad link to the right to get your tickets now, before they sell out.

1.EXPLODING BARBED WIRE DEATH MATCH - A tribute to the over the top hard core style of Japanese Wrestling.
2. INVADER ONE MUST DIE - a cover of a tune from long time pals COCKNOOSE about Jose Gonzalez who murdered wrestling great BRUISER BRODY in Puerto Rico.
3. The MYSTERIOUS GREEN MIST - a tribute to the Great Kabuki & The Great Muta and their secret weapon of choice!!!!
4. FROM PARTS UNKNOWN - a tribute to the masked men of Professional Wrestling.
5. SABU - a tribute to the suicidal, homicidal, genocidal, human highlight reel!
6. FUNK U - a tribute to the hardcore icon, the living legend, TERRY FUNK!
7. DEAR ABBY - a tribute to the Madamn from the Sudan, ABDULLAH THE BUTCHER!
8. CACTUS JACK - a tribute to the man who's name is synonymous with HARDCORE...before the socks and tie dye shirts...MICK FOLEY
9.BABY FACE KILLER - a tribute to ALL wrestling HEELS!!!!
10.* BADSTREET USA - Not a tribute to Atlanta, GA but to it's favorite sons THE FABULOUS FREEBIRDS with a cover of the song made famous by the leader of the greatest triple tag team in Wrestling history!!!!

ANTiSEEN - Falls Count Anywhere, A collection of Wrestling Songs. Available July 10th

For months now we have been working on the details for a new type of showcase with a few of the bands we work with. It all started to come to shape with the new collection of songs being put together for the first time by the legendary ANTiSEEN. This collection puts all of their wrestling songs onto one amazing cd entitled Falls Count Anywhere.

Knowing the amount of interest the album was going to have, the one and only Jeff Clayton and I came together to work on ideas to help promote the album due out on July 10th world wide. One of the biggest ideas we had was to put on one hell of a show and due it in the right way to show bad ass these songs were going to be in one collection. After making the rounds, checking our rolodexes and looking at tour schedules we decided to put on one of the baddest Rock N' Rassle events that we could think of.

Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse will take place on July 28th at the Tremont in Charlotte, NC. Below is a link to buy tickets and be prepared hombre's as the assault is about to begin. Prepare for videos, matches and indepth interviews with the rassler's and bands taking part of this soon to be legendary event.

Get your tickets now, before they sell out!

Rusty Knuckles Presents: Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse Featuring ANTiSEEN, Necro Butcher and more....

Rory Kelly Will Be Rockin' A Strip Club

Rock N' Roll and strippers go hand in hand like a smooth pour of tonic water into some gin. Rory Kelly will be making all sorts of things melt when they invade the Trophy Club in Greeneville, SC on June 30th. We highly encourage you to find some sort of excuse to get out to this show, as if you really need an excuse. Here is the scenario to envision, scantily clad women, loud rock n' roll of the purest kind and cold booze, any questions. Also joining them will be Chicago's badassery of The Last Vegas.


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Rory Kelly and The Last Vegas rockin' a strip club on June 30th

Billy Don Burns - It Would Kill Mama

Billy Don Burns new album, Nights When I'm Sober... Portrait Of A Honky Tonk Singer, will be coming out July 10th and we are damn proud to be putting out this album. The song writing is a master class in how to write a story and the production is well beyond good. This is the type of record that will be around for a long time to come and Billy Don Burns is already hitting the road in force, so go out and see him live.


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Custom Gas Can Banjo created for Billy Don Burns

Gas Can Banjo #10 created for Billy Don Burns

Ever think about using those forks from Waffle House for something else?

Detail on the neck and top of gas can

Jack White Releases Balloons With Flexi Disc Album

Jack White gets the big picture when it comes to music and promoting his ideas. Rather than just sit in idle and wait for fans to find out what he is up to next, he brings the action to them. His unorthodox approach in releasing flexi discs attached to balloons is creative and down right awesome. The biggest thing he is making fans do is to seek out the flexi discs and go on the hunt to find them. Most of all he is challenging the norm when it comes to ways to get his music to the masses, bravo!

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Jack White's, Third Man Records releasing flexi disc vinyl record by balloon

Three weeks prior to the April 24 release of his debut album Blunderbuss (Third Man Records/Columbia), Third Man Records has premiered the as yet unreleased Jack White album track "Freedom at 21" exclusively via 1000 flexi-disc records attached to helium balloons launched from the label headquarters in Nashville on April 1st, 2012.

Jack White's, Third Man Records releasing flexi disc vinyl record by balloon

Jack White's, Third Man Records employees inflating balloons with attached flexi disc vinyl record

Envisioned as an experiment exploring non-traditional forms of record distribution and a way to get records in the hands of people who don't visit record shops, the label was sure to use biodegradable latex balloons and all-natural twine in the process.

Accompanying the balloons were custom postcards with instructions for the finders to submit photos, discovery location and the date on which the record was found, all of which will be viewable on the map below.

Statistics for similar balloon launches show a recovery rate of approximately 10% so it's quite possible that less than 100 of the 1000 records launched will ever be discovered. Whatever the numbers, the "Freedom at 21" flexi-disc will surely be a highly sought-after collectible for years to come.

Jack White inflating balloons to be releasing flexi disc vinyl record

Where Will They Go Down

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How To Fail Miserably In A Band

Word on the street is that you have set out to fail miserably in the ever so promising music career, for which you are dreaming of champagne baths with celebutantes. What, you don't like being called out for asinine things being done, that will hinder your promising career? How dare we call attention to this.

Here is the skinny folks, don't be an idiot when it comes to stage and band etiquette. Case in point, we recently watched a band go about and ruin a show when they wouldn't leave the stage and kept trying to do encores, while also knowing two national acts were waiting to take the stage. This was one of the most amateur things we have seen in a long time. But then of course they only get half the blame, the venue or sound man should have cut them off. The worst part was that the band happened to be playing mostly covers, damn poseurs.

If you stick around long enough or have been around many a band, surely you have seen things go down in which you just have to shake your head and laugh. With that being said, read on below to the great write up posted on Dying Scene. It outlines quite a few key points that any rookie should use as lesson 101 for being in a band.

Here is also a major rule from our end, you meet the same folks on the way up as you do on the way down. Be out going and friendly as most folks in the music industry are lifers and have the memory of elephants. If you act like an dick you will always be remembered for that. When it then becomes time to be remembered for future gigs, in the famous words from the greatest super spy ever, Austin Powers, "that plane has sailed."

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"When I was a young whippersnapper just starting out in punk bands, I had truly no idea how to be in a band. Oh sure, I knew enough guitar to play punk, and I could sing reasonably on key, but I had no idea the social complexities that were involved in being in a band. These 13 or 14 tips are designed to help those just starting out, but jaded dinosaurs like myself might also find some remedial usefulness as well.

1. Know your role

In any band there are usually one or two people who are in charge of everything. These people handle all of the mundane business/booking/promotion/non-music tasks that need to be handled to keep a band running smoothly. They are indispensable. If this is your role in the band: congratulations. You have accepted a difficult, time consuming and thankless job, and it may well spoil your love of music.

If this isn’t you: the best way to help most of the time is to keep your mouth shut and chip in when the money is needed. If you aren’t helping to book the shows or get the merch printed, the van serviced, and studio time booked, then you have forfeited your right to complain about any of these things. If you don’t like the way it’s being done, pitch in and do it yourself. If you committed to playing a show, then you just need to suck it up and play the show, even if you are on the morning shift at Starbucks the next day. Having to get up early the next day is not a valid excuse to bail at the last minute. Nut up, play the show, drink too much, and be tired and hungover for one lousy day out of your life.

2. Never cancel at the last minute

Sometimes having to cancel a show is unavoidable, but truly unavoidable reasons are usually known well in advance. Sickness and injury are generally not valid last minute reasons to cancel. I’ve seen Fat Mike play a whole set laying down on a couch (threw out his back), and I’ve seen Thrice play Warped acoustically because their drummer threw out his back. (What is it with backs?) They could have canceled the shows and no one would have held it against them, but they didn’t, because they know the rules.

Cancelling shows at the last minute is poison for a smaller, newer band. The calculus works like this: each time the band cancels a show at the last minute, that’s one less promoter who will work with them. Eventually you run out of promoters who will take the chance of booking your band. In my experience it’s the same guy who always bails out on shows that always complains “we never play shows anymore”. Don’t be that guy.

Need more lessons, Jack Black gives plenty in School Of Rock

3. Promote Promote Promote

If you are one of the local bands on the bill, YOU are responsible for getting people out to the show. Do yourself and all the other bands a favor and promote the hell out of the show. You can cash in the accumulated karma the next time you are on the road.

4. Thou shalt not “pay-to-play”. Ever

“Pay to play” (or “ticket sales deal”, as it’s euphemistically called), is a policy most prevalent in the Los Angeles area. This is when the venue requires you to sell a set number of tickets for a certain price in order to play the gig. Usually the money is required to be paid before you are allowed to take the stage. I shouldn’t need to explain why this business model is garbage. Your band already spends enough time and money writing and recording music, touring, rehearsing, and promoting. You shouldn’t also be responsible for keeping venues in business. Any reputable promoter or venue will never ask you to pay-to-play. Don’t worry about the bigger shows for now. Just keep plugging away at the house shows and smaller bars, and eventually you will be asked to support a legitimate larger show at a bigger venue.

You don’t need any gig, and especially not the ones you have to pay for. You aren’t going to get “discovered” by playing that Unwritten Law show that they want you to sell sixty tickets for ten bucks apiece to play. You are in a punk band. Nobody signs punk bands that aren’t already well-known and touring on their own.

5. Show up on time

I admittedly have a tough time with this, but I try to at least be “musician punctual” – within ten minutes of a scheduled time. For rehearsals, punctuality is often overlooked but it is critically important. Nothing breeds resentment like three or four guys who have made the time to rehearse and showed up on time, waiting around for the singer to show up.

Always show up on time to gigs. If load-in is at seven, be there at seven, even if you end up waiting around until eight. NOBODY likes the band that shows up at 9:45pm for their 10pm slot and loads in through the crowd. For that matter, it is also your responsibility, if you don’t have a damned good reason not to, to stay for THE ENTIRE SHOW. You usually won’t get paid if you don’t, and it’s just common courtesy.

6. Get your shit up on stage and off the stage efficiently

Nothing says “oblivious n00b” like setting up or breaking down the drums on stage. Don’t stand on stage after your set and have a five minute conversation with your friends. Grab a piece of gear and move it off. Be a mensch and grab a piece of the next band’s gear to bring up on stage on your way back. You can cool down / shoot the shit / have that shot after your band’s stuff is stowed backstage. The bar isn’t going to run out of booze.

7. Always leave them wanting more

Keep your set short and to the point. You aren’t the headliner. No one is going to like you more if you play those three extra songs they’ve never heard before and don’t give two shits about. If you haven’t won them over in the first twenty minutes, you aren’t going to in fifty minutes. This is punk rock. Thirty five minutes is more than enough.

7a. NEVER EVER EVER NEVER take an encore if you aren’t the headliner

This is the very apex of douchebaggery. It causes the whole show to run behind and pisses off the other bands, the promoter, and even the bartender. Never piss off the bartender.

8. Never piss off the bartender

If you piss off the bartender, you aren’t playing that venue again, no matter how many heads you brought in. So don’t do it

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side ..." -Hunter S. Thompson

9. Everyone is responsible for moving all the gear

Oh, you’re a singer? Great, you are now also the drum roadie. You’re a guitar player? Now you also get to haul the 4-ton SVTII bass head and 8×10 ampeg cab sometimes. Everyone pitches in. There’s no I in TEAM.

10. Watch at least a few songs of the other bands, and try to remember their names so you can thank them

Especially at less-well attended shows. You will appreciate the courtesy being returned.

11. Tip your bartender

Yes, even if you paid for the drinks with drink tickets. This is America. We tip here. This is also especially important if you ever want to play that venue again.

12. Do an idiot check at the end of the night

Preferably two. The driver/reasonably sober person should do a thorough check to make sure nothing was forgotten. It really sucks to get to Salt Lake City and realize the kick pedal was left at the gig last night in Denver. While everyone should be on the lookout for forgotten gear, each member is ultimately responsible for making sure all his gear made it into the van. So even though the drummer got WASTED and didn’t even help load the van because he was passed out in it, it’s his responsibility to go to the Salt Lake City Guitar Center and buy a new pedal.

13. Touring bands get paid first

They drove the farthest, they spent the most money on gas, and they aren’t sleeping in their own beds tonight. They get paid firstest and mostest, always.

You probably won’t ever make any money with your punk band, but by following these common-sense guidelines, you can at least be a well-respected band that gets asked to play lots of good shows. At the end of the day, that’s what this whole thing is about."

Flat Top Frames With Style For Miles

It's quite enjoyable to see so many bike styles ebb and flow in and out of popularity. The arguments over what is cool and what is the best motor are just par for course. At the end of the day what we care most about is ridability. We couldn't give a rat's ass on whether or not something is period correct or having just the right underground builder signature part and being able to talk on it in the right circles. That is just damn boring, pointless and the shitty effect of the hipsters, that invaded motorcycle culture.


We are all over the maps with the bikes we enjoy riding whether it be dirt bikes, to our long mile marathoner in our Dyna or a race bike, two wheels up is our driving force. A particular bike design that has been really catching on though, is the flat top frame style of the Cafe Racer movement. The frame geometry is helping to morph a style of design and ergonomic riding position that is aimed directly at the rider and experiencing the road. It could be for the highway or the back country twists and turns, but no doubt about it, these bikes are meant to be ridden and yet highly customized.

Shinya Kimura custom Sportster with solid riding setup in mind

Drixton frame created by Marly Drixyl in 1968

Fritz Egli frame with a Honda 750 motor

Fritz Egli frame with a 1952 Norton Vincent Lightning motor

Classified Moto XS750 custom Yamaha

1979 Honda CB650 rebuilt inhouse here at Rusty Knuckles