A Thousand Torches (tumblelog)
this THEFAMILY3 homebase has been several years in development... now its finally coming to life! Created by Neesh- contact her for feedback, to help out, contribute ideas via neesh[at]athousandtorches[dot]com
update: thanks to Denizen donations we've been able to begin erecting the News Den and gathering logs for our Campsite!
The Grape and The Grain - “The Dream…again?”
Check out the debut track from Daniel Grimsland’s solo project, The Grape and The Grain! Follow the the twitter and facebook for the latest!
3 released a song off The Ghost You Gave To Me! It’s called “Numbers,” and you can grab a free download of the mp3. Metal Blade has also released several pre-order packages! October 11th is coming fast…
“3” opening for Within Temptation
September 07 - The Sound Academy - Toronto, Canada
September 08 - Métropolis - Montreal, Canada
September 09 - The Palladium - Worchester, MA
September 10 - Terminal 5 - New York, NY
September 12 - Ram’s Head Live - Baltimore, MD
September 13 - Electric Factory - Philadelphia, PA
#TerribleTuesday 06.28.11 video: Josh Eppard and Fred Mascherino playing an acoustic instrumental piece written by Josh- both on guitar!
Catch these guys live this summer on the 2011 Vans Warped Tour! Terrible Things are playing the Ernie Ball Stage all tour long. Josh Eppard is also performing earlier in the day as Weerd Science on the Skullcandy Stage with MC Lars.
Session 606 - “Have You Ever Seen A Dream’s Ghost?”
About a repetitious dream. I always wake and find myself questioning whether or not it was real. Sometimes I dive back into the dream. Have you ever seen a dream’s ghost? Visions of the dream when you close your eyes, or even just a glimpse in your subconscious. This other world beckons me, tortures me, and mesmerizes me.
-AntMas
[download]
(via session606)
MC Lars
“Twenty-Three” Remix featuring Weerd Science
Indie Rocket Science
[Horris Records, 2011]
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This track is one of 18 that make up MC Lars’ Indie Rocket Science mixtape. The songs were distributed this weekend to those who donated to MC Lars’ Kickstarter Campaign for the forthcoming release of his new album, Lars Attacks. The full mixtape will be available at the Vans Warped Tour 2011. Mazeman is also featured on the mixtape as well as KRS-One, Lars’s dad, MC Chris, Akira The Don, Sage Francis, Grieves, and a ton more underground rappers.
>Music Video & Backstory on “Twenty-Three”
>MC Lars vLog: Behind The Scenes of “Twenty-Three”
R.I.P. Corey Kotsel and R.I.P. Anthony Missasi
thefamily3 suffered two incredible losses in the past few months, but thankfully we have the gift of music to get through it. Tony was a great drummer (most recently in The Ricochet), stupendous Drum Technician (for Gartdrumm), and irreplaceable friend.
A memorial concert is being held for Anthony Missasi on Friday, June 17th at Dave’s Coffee and Wine Haus in Saugerties, NY. 3, The Ricochet, and Nightmares For A Week will be performing in celebration of our friend’s life.
#suicidesucks
The four 2011 The City Never Sleeps demos are now available to grab for your own personal listening pleasure!
The Flatline Symphony
“This Year’s Cliché” featuring Josh Roseboro
This is What They Call Surgery
[Oratorium Records, 2011]
Produced by: Will Donnelly
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Hey friends!
Here’s a free treat to everyone who’s stuck by us since the beginning. Our third single off of our May 19th release (THIS IS WHAT THEY CALL SURGERY) is up in our player. Many of you who’ve known us for over a year now know that we posted a demo of this tune a few months into the start of the band. The chorus of this song was the first I’d written [for TFS] and what bought me the ticket into being The Flatline Symphony’s lead singer. It’s called “This Year’s Cliche” and if any of you know what it feels like to be loved and chucked, then this song is for you! Share this song with all of your friends, family, pets, or just random strangers!
Love,
AntMas
P.S. My homie Josh Roseboro from the band A Dream Worth Dying For lent his brutal screams to this tune. ENJOY.
Antenna(Half Mast)
Cross The Vulture
3
“Astroknot”
Paint By Number
[Planet Noise Records, 1999]
Produced by: Michael Birnbaum and Jimmy Eppard
Joey Eppard — vocals + guitar
Christopher John Bittner — Bass guitar
Josh Eppard — Drums, background vocals
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Reblog via damnittumblr:
basically perfect music for this weather
MC Lars + Weerd Science - “How to Be an Indie Rapper”
The first Weerd Science & MC Lars collaboration!!! It features Gangstroph The Baptist (intro) as well as John Glenn and Erik Flora from The City Never Sleeps (chorus). The song was mixed by Chris Bittner aka CJB, and was produced by Dave “Wavis” Parker (also of TCNS - he composed the music too).
Weerd Science - “Therapy Session”
Man, how deep is this shit?
p.s. this song is a free mp3 download! On Bandcamp just click “download” and on Soundcloud- click the downward pointing arrow in the right-hand column of the music player
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It’s the 11th Hour, literally. Right now,
there’s 11 hours remaining to back the Weerd Science campaign on Kickstarter.
Kickstarter [kik-stahrt-er] : an online project fundraising platform launched in 2009, utilized mainly for all types of creative ventures. The project organizer sets a monetary goal and time period to allocate enough pledges to reach that goal. If the predetermined goal is not reached by the conclusion of the set time period, the organizer does not receive any funding.
Weerd Science [weerd sahy-uhns] : the hip-hop pseudonym of American rock musician, Josh Eppard. Eppard is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his drumming in the genre-defining “New Prog” band, Coheed and Cambria (3 RIAA Gold certifications: 2 albums, 1 DVD). Founding drummer of 3, Mours and currently drumming in Terrible Things.
Sick Kids [sik kids] : the second full-length album from Weerd Science. Production spanned 2007-2011. Features guest musicians: Chris Bittner, Joey Eppard, Matt The Knife, Dirty Ern, Mazeman, Majestic, Gangstrophogus, Dave Parker and Michael “Clip” Payne of the Parliament Funkadelic. About an individual’s rise, fall, crippling addiction, sex life, and view on the world around him. Will be released May 17, 2011 on Horris Records.
Backer [bak-er] : a beautiful individual who aids in a Kickstarter campaign by making a pledge.
A super cool feature of Kickstarter is the different pledging tiers. Project organizers offer cool things in exchange for levels of pledge amounts.
In the case of Weerd Science’s campaign, the cool things backers will receive range from a single high-quality MP3 song download ($1) to a private concert in your home / a song recorded & produced immediately following the performance / autographed copies of the Sick Kids album for you and your friends / posters for you and your friends / limited edition t-shirt / limited edition hoodie sweatshirt / a USB pill featuring every single Weerd Science song / a special thanks in Weerd Science’s Video Blog. The latter was originally offered for $1K, but has been
cut in half to $500 in these last few hours
of this month-long fundraising crusade.
There is only one of these packages left.
Fortunately, fellow fans of Weerd Science’s heartwork believe in this cause (and want their damn copy of Sick Kids already) so much that the original goal - set for $4,000 - was reached in about 5 days. Currently, 214% of that goal has been pledged.
The money raised is going into the costs of physically producing the CD, t-shirts, hoodies, USB drives, the first music video from Sick Kids, as well as tour support while Josh is out with MC Lars in the UK in May + Warped Tour all summer.
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“Leaving After All”
Paint By Number
[Planet Noise Records, 1999]
Produced by: Michael Birnbaum and Jimmy Eppard
(Reblog via ghosthost)
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15-02-2011 - Kayo Dot, Vortex, London UK
Gone is that lithe riffing machine, Kayo Dot are now relentlessly and almost symphonically austere and long-form. Really enjoyable, but quite draining- though to be fair they held us for about 100 minutes, which is about 82 1/2 minutes longer than my ideal punk gig. Of course, this is far away from punk, in spite of sharing the same uncompromisingness and attitude, though with a vastly greater scope, ambition and darkness.
The first 40 minutes comprised 4 pieces with the unspeakably hot frontman/composer Toby Driver on 5-string bass, a quite astonishing player with a heavy tone and a lithe tricksiness: at one point he was 2-hand tapping (hear me out ppl) playing massive low notes along to the drummer and tapping the top notes of the fretboard in unison with the horns. The whole chorus-drenched mid- and thick tone works really well against the horns and the crazy fucking drumming and synth drones. I think they must be heavily influenced by Scott Walker, which might help to explain why they’re becoming uncategorizable - they make the same use of tonal clusters droning with punctuating dots of rhythm section motifs (if that makes sense). Imagine your fridge going mad while your neighbour sings a flatted fifth every time the clock has a 3 in it.
For the 2nd half they all swapped instruments and the hot one played guitar and, while there was a good amount of metal growl in his vocals, there were also long stretches of Jeff Buckley style high register singing; man has an astonishing voice. This 35-min 2nd set didnt feature the horns anything like as extensively, with more of the interplay occurring between 2 guitars, live piano and treatments and whatever the fuck they were doing.
Their 17-minute encore was kind of a cross between the two halves of their set, and then went into a repeating moment of 4 punctuating notes led by a nod from Driver (whose bandleading style was very conspicuous; he was definitely calling the shots all throughout), and finally lots of feedback and everyone banging out polyrhythms on 2 buckets and some esoteric percussion. It was a fairly comprehensive journey. Because I don’t know anything about metal I can only speculate that it was kinda like Harvey Milk with horn arrangements nicked off of Bitches Brew, all heavily seasoned with a bit of Scott Walker & mastiff-metal, with a bit o Jeff Buckley al dente. Can we have a bit more chorus on the bass? THANKS THATS GREAT.
You can find the studio version of this track streaming at: http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2010/04/20/test-pressing-an-exclusive-stream-of-kayo-dots-coyote-lp/ and their most recent LP via google shopping at: http://bit.ly/gemZH8
Selection, live download: http://pleasurebridles.com/mp3/20110215-KayoDot-Vortex-IV-AbyssHinge2-TheShrinkingArmature.mp3 (13mins, 30mb)
