Coliseum joins Temporary Residence and readies new record

Greetings all! We’ve been hiding out for many months working on our third long-player and putting plans into place for 2010. I’m happy to announce that the record is complete and our friends at Temporary Residence will be releasing it this summer! We couldn’t be happier about working with Temporary Residence, they’re one of the greatest labels out there, with strong Louisville roots and hearts that are in the right place. Our years working with Relapse were incredible and we have nothing but great things to say about everyone there, but we felt that it was time for a change. It’s an entirely amicable move on all sides and joining Brooklyn-based Temporary Residence, who began in Louisville and have grown to be one of the biggest and best indie labels in the world, is very exciting for us. Read the rest of this entry »

Endpoint reunion show tickets & venue

Tickets for the Endpoint reunion show/benefit for Jason Noble will go on sale this Friday (2/26/2010) at 10AM. Get down to Ear X-Tacy or jump on Ticketweb while you can. As Headliner’s has been settled on, this will almost definitely sell out. Tickets are reportedly $15 advance, $18 day of show, but I’ll be shocked if you can get ’em that day. As Mr. Bailey points out the Ear X tickets will be cash only, but you’ll save $6-$8 on ticket “convenience” fees by paying cash.

Ear X-Tacy will supposedly have 400 tickets, Ticketweb will have 375, and wild and Wooly will have 25. Get them as quick as you can.

Ear X-Tacy | Ticketweb | Wild & Wooly

Endpoint - Headliner's 2010Stay up to date w/ info from Production Simple.

New shirts finally on the way

A number of you have been asking me about Louisville Hardcore shirts for the past… 3-4 years. And some of you don’t care, and fuck you. I said I would finally get down to it in November 2009, and didn’t. Well, your fashion sensibilities can rejoice because at March’s First Saturday show at Skull Alley, new shirts should be available for $10. Proceeds will go to paying the hosting cost for the site as well as hopefully buying (non)dead hookers for Adam Rains. All shirts printed by Skull Alley on labor-friendly shirts and do not contain sequins or recycled bible pages. For that matter, they will not fit inside a toaster. They will help mop up spilt coffee, but I don’t make any claim of their ability to turn you invisible.

This will be the initial run of LHxC shirts in these colors and may be limited to just this run, we’ll see. I’ll look to trying to keep these in stock for now on either way. But if you aren’t into the straight typography thing, and you still would like to either have something that says “Louisville” or support this site, I’m announcing that over the Summer and Fall, there will be low-run shirts by some of Louisville’s punk/hardcore artists. The first two shirts will be coming in around May/July and will feature Justin Kamerer (aka Angryblue) and Stan Doll (aka CSDIV). There will be 2 more artists announced later. I’m likely going to get them to do 2-color shirts and those will probably go for around $12 apiece, or you can sacrifice your first born. These shirts will also debut at a First Saturday show, then available later on at Skull Alley or on the online Louisville Hardcore shop. Thanks for reading this and (not) posting follow up photos of Goatse.

A note from Ear X-Tacy

Ear X-Tacy

Ear X-Tacy

From today’s Ear X-Tacy newsletter:
“Dear friends, fans and lovers of ear X-tacy.

Thank you for dropping the LOVE BOMB on us. All of us at ear X-tacy have been TOTALLY blown away by your outpouring of support, well-wishes, ideas, suggestions and comments. We really had no idea just how much this meant to the Louisville community, not to mention other cities around the country through their online support. This past weekend, we saw business like we haven’t seen in years, and we can’t thank you enough for coming in and shopping, or making an online purchase. We were absolutely NOT prepared for your support. We are working to restock the store with everything you want that we may be out of today. Hang in there with us. We are going to do whatever it takes to keep ear X-tacy alive. You have show that you really do care, and all we can ask is that you continue to support local independent businesses wherever you may live. Trust me, this problem is not just ear X-tacy’s. ALL small businesses need you now more than ever. Please continue to spread the word about ear X-tacy. Sign up for our weekly e-mail if you haven’t already. Come to the store if you never have.

This store truly belongs to the community, both here in Louisville, and nationwide.

We thank ALL of you, and we send out extra special love to Becca Barhorst who took it upon herself to start the “Save ear X-tacy” Facebook initiative. Send her some love!

Stay tuned.. there’s a LOT more to come.
John Timmons and the entire ear X-tacy family”

Mountain Asleep 3yr anniversary show changed

Jake of Mountain Asleep getting a friendly whoopin'

Jake getting a friendly whoopin'

Mountain Asleep has had to cancel their 3 year anniversary show scheduled for February 27th at the House Of Wax. Max’s mom is getting married that day, and kinda can’t play the show. Soooo… the rest of the show is now off as well.

MA should now be celebrating the anniversary a week later at the March First Saturday show w/ ALGERNON CADWALLADER (philly) and Wise Blood (1st show, louisville band). Bring balloons and throw a pie into Jake Snider’s face (and/or weiner).