News

7/3/09

Steve Ignorant of Crass interviewed!

6/26/09

Best news EVER! (Ok really just if you're local to Ypsi). Go to Mark Maynard's blog and check out this article. This has been needed around here for as long as I've lived here in Ypsi. An honest to gosh artisits co-op. I'm giddy as a school girl. I'm not sure I personally need the space, although it would make recording live bands doable again. We'll see. Since I don't have a day job anymore I need to be careful with my money. The really cool thing, though, is this gives a home to everyone else who has no place to jam. People can check each other out, help each other out, and the networking possabilities are endless. I seriously hope James can get this off the ground.

Also, it's Joel's birthday today. Send good vibes his way.

6/24/09

There are a lot of things planned for release by the end of summer. Busy bees are we! In the meantime, Mark Maynard is making Ypsi famous one panty at a time.

3/24/09

John Cougar Mellencamp blasts the music industry. Mariah Carey gets caught in the crossfire.

3/22/09

A quick note as to what's been happening this month. I've been going through some old 4 track tapes and digitizing them. Of course in order to do that I had to find a working 4 track. Thanks to Ian Grey, who introduced me to new friend Patrick, I have one and have been slowly going through all this stuff. I started down this road essentially to remix and remaster Ladder Jak's untitled and unreleased album that I recorded for them along with Steve Goossen. I'm dying to put all the new skills and tools I have now to work on stuff I recorded more than a decade ago.

Then the stumbling block hit me. Those recordings were done on a Tascam 488 not my Tascam Porta 5hs. They are 8 track recordings not 4! ugh. Of course the 4 track I got from Patrick isn't going to waste. I have a stack of tapes to go through and have already found some stuff I didn't know existed (ie a Ladder Jak recording with yours truly on lead guitar!), but what I really wanted to get at I can't. Lo and behold comes the aforementioned Mr/ Grey to my rescue!

He owns a non functioning Tascam 688. So a trip to a local electronics repair shop and... we cross our fingers and hope this guy with the social skills of a 7th grader can fix the damn thing. I'll keep you all posted.

To complete this trip down memory lane I have also taken it upon myself to remix and remaster the Ramshackle record I recorded back in 2000. I've already improved it a great deal with the new mix. The mastering will take it even further.

I also gave Eric Brown, of Physician Heal Thyself, a bunch of tracks for him to play with. I'm hoping that whatever he does with them can make it onto our early summer release calendar.

Anthea and I haven't quite found the time to work together again on what is shaping up to be a great record. Scheduled real world stuff keeps interfering. ugh.

~Edweird

2/28/09

Just had the furnace looked at and now I'm waiting for Andrew to show up with his piano player. We're going to the Saline Middle School to record on a grand piano. I'm a little nervous, since I've never tried to record a real live piano before. Yikes!

2/18/09

I normally don't use this sort of language on this site, but the only word I can come up with to describe how I feel right now is, "Fuck."

1/26/09

Omar from The Mars Volta/At The Drive-Inn is streaming is new solo record on his Myspace page. Just from the first track (which is all I've heard so far as I type) I can tell he's using a fair bit of boutique gear on at least the guitars. Very interesrting tone, that makes me want to start plugging my Dano into the Egon and see what happens.

1/22/09

Here's a link to an article on file sharing that I thought was interesting.

Eddie and Anthea worked on their record again over the MLK holiday. Two songs are now ready to be mixed!

Andrew Nelson is our studio working on his first real release. Things are progressing pretty rapidly and he may be releasing it early spring.

12/30/08

Wow. It's been a long time. The day job took over my life this fall (as well as a few other bumps in the road). Sorry about that. I'm pleased to say things have started to pick back up again.

The Rustbelt Ensemble played a stunning gig at AJ's in Ferndale. If you missed the show, though, it was recorded and may be released in the future. We'll keep you posted.

Over the holiday break, Anthea and Edweird did some recording that was a very good start to a record we hope to release in the spring. Stay tuned!

Sad news today for the Jazz world. Blue Note has lost another great. I plan to pop in Eric Dolphy's "Out to Lunch" today in rememberance. You should too.

9/13/08

Posted Geoffs drums today on Craigslist. I've been meaning to do it for awhile, but was hoping to sell it to someone I knew. No one bit all summer, so here we are. He plans to use the money for a new kit, since it would be cheaper to sell it here and buy a new one than to have this one shipped down.

9/11/08

University of Michigan student takes on Media Sentry. As always read the comments. Theirs some insiteful and sometimes hilarious stuff in there.

9/3/08

We got the following from Geoff yesterday:

Hey there cap'n,
Shanna and I were on vacation, doing a 100 mile bike ride through rural Mississippi when we had to cut it short do to our friend Gustav misbehaving.
We scooted on home, grabbed the cat and the dog and headed out. We are now in Hazen, Arkansas.
It's hard to tell from the national media, but New Orleans is fine, just without power, but the powers that be won't let us back in until Thursday, so I guess our vacation was a little extended. I don't want to be in Arkansas anymore.
Later on,
G

Whew!

9/1/08

Everybody send happy thoughts to Geoff Dailey. New Orleans has been evacuated.

8/10/08

This is going to be so cool.

8/2/08

Cock rock metal gets all Web 2.0 and manages to look like retards! BTW the "Too Drunk" song on their Myspace Page is indicitive of what I hate most about these kind of bands. I think my IQ dropped 10 points just after hearing the first refrain.

7/28/08

Cops trash an outdoor event in northern Michigan because they don't like the music. If you want to complain about this you can e-mail all of these people:

PORT SANILAC VILLAGE COUNCIL:
Robert A. Fabian-President 135 N. Ridge Street. Port Sanilac, MI 48469 (810)-622-0558 villagepresident@airadv.net
Jenny L. Sroka-Clerk 302 South Lake Street Port Sanilac, MI 48469 (810) 622-9963 psanilac@airadv.net
Laurie Messing-Treasurer 56 N. Ridge Street Port Sanilac, MI 48469 (810) 622-9963
Gale Travis-Trustee/Deputy Treasurer 135 S. Ridge Street Port Sanilac, MI 48469 (810) 622-8557
Marsha Sue Jacobs-Trustee 7236 Erie Street Port Sanilac, MI 48469 (810) 622-9068
Raymond J. Emond-Trustee 215 S. Ridge Street Port Sanilac, MI 48469 (810) 622-8320 rjemond@hotmail.com
Robert Ryan-Trustee 79 Casey Drive Port Sanilac, MI 48469 (810) 622-0633 ryan5159@sbcglobal.net
Arthur Birdsall-Trustee 137 S. Lake Street Port Sanilac, MI 48469 (810) 622-9707 aabirdsall@aol.com
Ruth Ann Pries-Trustee 54 Martin Street Port Sanilac, MI 48469 (810) 622-8905

PORT SANILAC POLICE DEPARTMENT: Rod Jaskowski-Chief 56 North Ridge St PO Box 502 Port Sanilac, Michigan 48469 Non-emergency: (810)622-9131 Fax: (810)622-0381

7/25/08

Another reason Digital Rights Management (DRM) sucks. We are glad to release everything under a Creative Commons non-commercial license without DRM (except the first AYTBN record "Full Circle" which we hope to rectify). With free non-DRM'd downloads, we can reach a ton more people in weird and far off places. AYTBN's current album "Keep Me Safe" has been downloaded over 6,000 times (and they would like to thank their new fans in Turkey, as well as those returning fans from Japan). That's some serious exposure. Would we like to turn a profit? Sure, but that's the hard part and this is all done in our spare time (day jobs, mortgages, pets and/or children, etc.) Pissing people off by taking their money and then running away with the goods isn't the way to get people to come back to you, though.

7/14/08

MC Trashpedal was interviewed for Mlive recently. You can see it here. I particularly like his approach to noise. Most of what we have put out with the last As Yet To Be Named and the two Edweird records follow the "melodic noise" principle.

Anthea and Edweird have begun working on an album together. No idea on a release date, but things are starting to move along now. Also Edweird is going to be working on another solo effort in the near future. This will have more of a "live" feel to it if all the gear complies with his needs.

6/29/08

Steve Toth has posted more music at Amie Street.

4/3/08

Steve Toth's Grrb Records has posted songs from the new Grrb Sampler at Amie Street. You can go check them out here. In case you're interested there is at least one Zug Island Quartet song on this sampler so you should go grab it.

3/14/08

Local luminary Mark Maynard and his friend Melissa are doing good things with severed unicorn heads. Very cool stuff. Also the Tunenami page for As Yet To Be Named has updated with the new album finally. I think I'll spam later.

2/1/08

Jim Frye's new band Mass Solo Revolt has a new video out. You can see it here. I think it's pretty awsome. You can buy their records here.

1/23/08

ArsTechnica has a great article up on the changing face of the music industry. You can read it here. Btw whoever got us the subscription to Electronic Music thank you very much. It came with the new Tape Op yesterday and is one of the few major magazines out there that has something more useful in it than advertisements and specualtion on new products.

1/22/08

AYTBN's new album is still not posting at Tunenami. They are in the midst of a server makeover, so I'm posting a download directly from us of the album with cover artwork. Go to the Store page and right-click on the Download link and "Save Target as..."

Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience.

1/7/08

From Delilah Dewylde's blog. Seriously, stealing someone's gear while they're out on the road is simply the lowest thing someone can do. I'm not sure who's paying attention to us out there, but if you run across any of the listed items give these guys a shout out, please.

In other news, due to technical difficulties As Yet To Be Named's new album did not post. It will be up there soon and I will again spam the mailing list when everything is working properly. In the meantime, Edweird's new EP is up and running fine. Grab that now as the appetizer for your eventual main course.

1/6/08

Well it happened, kids! We released our two newest records into the wild!! We hope you enjoy them. You can find them from our Store page. As Yet To Be Named's "Keep Me Safe" is a lush and beautiful swirl of guitars and synths and Edweird's "The Lonely Road ep" is a headphone ready chill record. We are proud to release both of them for your enjoyment. Thank you all very much for listening.

Oh, one more thing. Darin Rajabian sent me a link to four songs from his new group "Tonight!" and they are beautiful. You can hear a couple of them at the link. Go check them out.

1/2/08

Happy New Year from Soiled Utilities Productions! Hope everyone had a fun and safe time at the close of 2007. I stumbled across this article today and figured I'd share. Just one more reason to avoid signing a contract with a major label.

12/25/07

The album covers are done and you can get a look at the front of each by visiting our Store page. Man I can't wait to release these.

12/17/07

Both the new As Yet To Be Named album and the new Edweird EP have been mixed! Now on to mastering and layout.

12/9/07

As Yet To Be Named have set a date for mixing of the new record: December 15th! This one is going to be much gentler than the last one, but won't lack any of the bite. More lush than the last one. The album cover is almost complete as well, so expect this to be available sometime around the new year!

Also there will be an Edweird ep coming soon. 5 pieces of ambient noise music from the weird one! Joy!!!

8/22/07

I just found out that Karl Alvarez had a heart attack recently. Karl is the bassist in one of the most influental bands of my life The Descendents. Unfortunately, like many musicians Karl has no health insurance. You can donate here.

In case anyone is wondering, things are mostly on schedule for the next As Yet To Be Named record. The studio is going on hiatus for a month or so, but never fear. This record is going to be a good one.

Also, Steve Goossen has been posting music at Tunenami and you should go download it.

6/4/07

Our second spring release is now available! Edweird's first ever solo effort "Weights and Measures" is now available in its entirety from Tunenami. The album is based around sonic experiments with a home built analog synth crammed into a 1950's era geiger counter called The Egon. Further dynamics and atmospheric tones were layered in using bass, drum machine, and theremin. This is technically speaking a "noise" record, but it's certainly not as harsh or as unaccessable as some of that genre would be to the average listener. There is even one track at least that may make you want to dance! Weird indeed. This album is for fans of Throbbing Gristle, Merzbow, KK Null, and Z'ev.

5/18/07

It's finally here and ready for consumption. The Rusbelt Unsembles new album "Leaps and Bounds" is ready for your downloading pleasure! You can listen to all four tracks on the Tunenami page but remember that you will need a Bittorrent client to download the tracks to your computer. You can also download the album artwork and make your own CD. Now you ask, "How much does it cost?" Absolutely nothing. It's free. So what are you waiting for. You go now!

*Correction* You do not need a Bittorrent client to use Tunenami. You can download directly from the site with out signing up. Awesome!

4/26/07

*Big announcement* We will be distributing music from both The Rustbelt Unsemble and Steve Goossen. The first thing we will be releasing is a live Rustbelt Unsemble record called Leaps and Bounds. We are very happy to be working with them and theirs to bring you these fine slices of audio. We'll be posting band pages for each as soon as we can get them together.

4/23/07

Yes it has been awhile. Things are in the works, though. As Yet To Be Named has begun work on the follow up to last years "We are all just trash to the average Neocon." This time around the group is using found sound samples and Foley techniques as a leaping off point. They are also trying to lighten the mood a little this time around. The last one was generally very angry (as it should've been considering the topic). For those in the know, The Chef has left the state, but not the group. He is currently residing in New Orleans and is doing pretty well so far. He will be refered to as The Unemployed Chef until he is otherwise employed. There are also two new additions to the group for this album: Student the Younger will be helping in the recording and mixing process and will play some guitar and sample creation. The Mortgage Banker will be playing a miriad of instruments as well as doing some sample creation.

2/8/07

I occasionally like to lurk forums. I post at only two: Thereminworld and TapeOp. Electrical Audio has a great forum, though. Steve Albini occasionally posts himself and as always, has genuine insight into the music industry, as do a bunch of other kind souls who inhabit his space. Check out this thread. A cautionary tale on why major labels are evil.

Addendum: If you haven't read this already, then do so. It fills the gaps in the forum posting.

1/19/07

A cautionary tale taken from Slashdot:

"Re:Confusing
(Score:5, Informative)
by pod_sixer_jay (1044818) on Thursday January 18, @06:38PM (#17673336)
I am an artist on a number of recordings published by various RIAA members. I don't hold the copyright on that performance; the publisher does. As part of the deal to distribute my work, I had to sign over my copyright to them. I have no standing to enjoin against illegal use of that recording, nor to license others to use it.
To make matters worse, one of those recordings is a modest artistic success. But the publisher (in his infinite wisdom) has decided that it's no longer financially viable to distribute it. So when people ask where they can get a copy of it, I have to tell them they can't. I can't legally make them a copy of my own performance, and they can't buy it from the publisher.
I have asked the publisher repeatedly to sell me back the rights to my own work so that I can distribute it myself, but so far they have not budged. Needless to say I do not record for them anymore. So much for my big break.
A lot of the proposals for dealing with the RIAA presume that the business model centers largely around selling physical or downloaded copies of the recordings themselves. That's not quite the business model.
Selling discs (or even legal MP3s) requires a capital outlay for production, promotion, and distribution. Those costs are relatively fixed. They vary somewhat depending on the number of items produced, and vary considerably depending on the mode of distribution. But they do represent a substantial, inflexible cost. Retail prices are also relatively fixed by market forces. So you have a relatively inflexible margin. Thus it all depends on whether you sell enough discs to cover your costs. With a fixed capital outlay and unpredictable revenue, you risk losing money.
Instead consider licensing fees. Activity not allowed under Fair Use requires a license from the copyright holder, and there is no limit imposed on how much the copyright holder can charge in licensing fees. He can essentially charge as much as he thinks the licensee is willing to pay. And since granting a license requires almost no actual work and no capital outlay from the copyright holder, a license fee is pure profit. There is essentially no business risk associated with holding on to out-of-print material in hopes of licensing it. Therefore it's considered a valuable revenue stream.
Remixes constitute derived works that are not generally allowed under Fair Use. So in this case the RIAA is likely trying to recover license fees. If the derived work is expected to be successful, the copyright holder will typically charge a higher license fee. So the fact that this particular DJ is very popular actually works against him because the RIAA is missing out on higher license fees. They have a greater incentive to go after him than to let him do his thing in peace. But you can see why the RIAA is not placated by the notion that remixes help sales. They'd much rather have the license fee.
Make no mistake. If you sign over your intellectual property to a distributor, he will treat it simply as a commodity to be bought, sold, and manipulated in any way he can in order to make money, whether or not your side interests are served in the process. The fact that the commodity is something in which you have an intellectual and emotional stake, and which represents something to which you may wish your name to remain attached, does not even enter into their thinking."

So before you kids go signing away your publishing rights...

1/14/07

As Yet To Be Named's first record Full Circle is available for download from PayPlay.fm. How that is is a mystery to us. I will have to to do some checking on this. Apperently it's a top seller, yet we've not been sent a check.

Addition: They got it through CD Baby. They are collecting up the dough until there is enough to make it worth sending a check.

12/15/06

Just added three tracks from The Ghost Shirt Society, Steve Toth's newest band. You can check them out at our Media page.

10/20/06

As Yet To Be Named's new album is done and ready for consumption. This is a bit different from Full Circle (their first record). It is a fiercely anti-war statement. Sometimes a bit abstract and at other times very pointed and direct, it is the culmination of the groups collective feelings about the last six years of terror we Americans have all lived with under the Bush administration (whether we know it or not). It certainly is much angrier than the previous album. The group and I consider this an act of patriotism. We love the Constitution, apparently more than those in power do.

The fine people at Tunenami have been kind enough to help host the package. It can be found here.
You'll need to understand the finer points of using a Bittorrent client, but you can thank us for that later. It's really the best way to distribute whole albums.

For those of you not inclined to go there, we have it up as well. You can get it here.

Please feel free to share this with your friends and family. We consider this album a civic duty.

8/28/06

"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
~The Pledge of Allegiance of The United States of America as it was originally written. Notice that god isn't mentioned.

8/27/06

"Like lemmings crossing a very tall threshold, we have now joined the throngs of bands with MySpace accounts. Please be our friend.
Also, the new album is nearing completion just in time for the fall elections. (hint hint) And we've also added a new member to our collective."
-As Yet To Be Named

Just click here to join. Click here to see the site.

8/15/06

It's been awhile since the last update and before my life becomes to convoluted,...well it seemed like the right time.

To begin with, all the tracks for the forthcoming As Yet To Be Named record are done. On to the mix-down. A big special thanks to The Student for finishing the last track for us. Look for her to take a bigger roll in future projects. Over the next few weeks, I'm going to try and clean this sight up a bit and make sure everything works. If you're checking in with some regularity (more than I do that is) be patient. The first page I am updating will be the links page and should be active by the time you read this.

We will also be taking the lemming road and setting up a MySpace account for As Yet To Be Named. Expect to be linked back here for music until I have time to read the EULA.

Steve Goossen call me. Please?

~Edweird

6/30/06

The As Yet To Be Named record is almost complete. I'll be adding some MP3's mid to late next month. In the meantime, I've beeen perusing MySpace listening to stuff at random. Matt Wixson is from Shelby Township and has some really cool folk ska. Check out the song Uranus. It's better than 80% of what you'll find on MySpace.

BTW, I'm going to get more serious about posting here from now on. At least once a week. Even if I just end up sending you to more MySpace stuff. Still wrestling with whether we should set up a MySpace. A big part of me stilll says no, but then Billy Bragg has one. What do you think? Is anyone even paying attention

3/24/06

Well, most everything is moved over, but the studio is far from being done. It is getting closer, though. In the meantime, Geoff's new band The Fallow Farm Quartet did a little demo that you can find here. Enjoy!

2/14/06

We're moving! If you're on the mailing list you know this already. The contact info has changed to reflect the move, and you can keep an eye on how things at the new home/studio/office/theater are shaping up here, here, and here.

I personallly am very exhausted, but the house is really starting to shape up. The studio, on the other hand, may take awhile to get up to full steam. I may have to learn how to install circuit breakers myself.

1/05/06

Happy New Year!

A quick word on the Oceanfront demo. Because of the break up of Andrew's longtime band Subgenius (who were scheduled to record with us over the holiday's), he has had to quit Oceanfront. The good news is that Eric, Sam, and Mike are auditioning vocalists and may be close to a replacement. We decided to wait until things calm down before posting any music.

We also have some very big changes coming soon, but we want to wait until all the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed before we say anything. If you've signed up for the mailing list you'll be getting the news before it's posted here.

11/19/05

OceanFront recorded a three song demo recently here at our studio. Updated the Photos page to reflect it. Go check 'em out. We hope to have MP3's of the sessions here soon.

10/6/05

Bad news. I drank some beers with Geoff tonight and it seems his new band, culled from the ashes of Shi-nai, is dead before even getting off the ground. It seems someone in the group couldn't figure out how to use a telephone so they could call the other members with a lame excuse for not showing up for practice. Sad.

9/29/05

Wow! It's been nearly a month since our last post. Gotta get on the ball. Got an e-mail from William Shostak today with an interesting set-up that I thought I would post for all of you people who are paying attention. Here it is:

I am starting an internet music distribution service, but with a few differences from most, instead of selling music to listeners we promote the artist with their music to build fan base to sell the music to advertisers for licensing and sponsorship. Of course their are other advantages to increasing the fan base, performances, merchandise ... We also help in those areas by gathering data of where you music is being downloaded so the artist knows where to play shows, an on line store for selling merchandise (we are also setting up contracts with manufactures to make that merchandise).
I feel that the internet should be used to level the playing field for music, instead of a few artist (and of course labels) making all the money. I think most good artist should be able to make a living at music. That is what I am trying to accomplish.

You can check out the test site here.

For those of you that don't know who William is he and I used to be in an industrial group together in the early 90's called Interface 7.

Also in As Yet To Be Named news, the new album is coming along slowly. We're waiting on a certain Disc Jockey to come into the studio. Hopefully soon. We will be uploading an MP3 single up really soon to wet your appetites. It won't be on the album so the web-site will be the only place to hear it.

8/30/05

Just added an MP3 of a rain storm I recorded a few weeks ago. It's 20 minutes long and is guaranteed to frighten cats. You can get it here. Just so you know, it's 16mb, which won't be a pleasant download from dial-up. You've been warned.

7/27/05

Porkfist is here! Check out the Store page. We will have all three of our records at the She-nei shows so come on out.

7/3/05

Porkfist went out for press yesterday! We are now officially broke. Buy our records. :-)

There are two MP3's on the Media page from the album for you to download and listen too.

Shi-nei will be playing a pair of shows in August. One at the Bad Idea and one at the Elbow Room. Hit the Shows page for more information.

6/11/05

Porkfist is very close to being ready to press. The track listing needs too be tightened up a little bit and then the package needs to be assembled to go off to Diskfaktory. We will be putting up two high quality MP3's this week and then spam the mailing list.
As Yet to Be Named's next record is in the works, as well. We will likely have an MP3 by them sometime over the summer. So far it's sounding pretty good, although very different from Full Circle.

4/26/05

We just signed up As Yet To Be Named's Full Circle to be placed on iTunes through CD Baby. Watch for it. For you listeners in parts other than the United States all I can say is hang on. We're trying to research foreign sales so we can get disks in your hands. The album is available through Tower Records and that may be a way for you to purchase it. Check it out. The She-ney record will be availble in all these formats soon.

In Porkfist news, final mastering will happen this weekend! Once we have the funds available we will press!!!

4/1/05

This is not an April Fool's joke. As Yet To Be Named's first record, Full Circle, is now available on-line thru CD Baby!

3/28/04

Just wanted to mention some changes to this site. If you look at the link bar below the header you'll notice that I gave Photos it's own link. It's been seperated from the Media page for clarity. Media is still home to Audio and Video. They are just on the same page now. Less searching is involved to get to either of them now (not that we have any video to show you...yet). Also, for those of you at the school, I will have copies of both CD's in my office available for purchase for $10 each.
In Porkfist news, I am almost ready to master this record (again). Seems the first time I did it, the songs didn't gel together very well. We are still on track to have it pressed sometime around late May or early June. I will spam when we have it in stock.
And speaking of spam, if you want on the mailing list just e-mail either Geoff or I and we'll put you on.

3/15/05

Well it has been awhile hasn't it. The first two new records are in and they look sweet! Go to the new and improved Store page now! What are you waiting for? Go!!!

1/26/05

Sorry I haven't been updating here. I've spent more time over here lately, and I apologise. I'll be posting here more frequently, since Geoff and I are about to drop a few records on the world. I'll be spamming the e-mail list as well.
A few things have been going on:
1) I've been recording The Melody Makers. Corey Brown of Offset/In-Effect fame plays bass for these guys. All the music tracks are done. Jeff just needs to do his vocals, which are slated for Sunday. Check out the pictures from the sessions on the Photo page. We used Geoff's 1950 Gibson amplifier for the guitar tracks and it sounds killer!
2) As Yet To Be Named and She-Nei's full length albums will be available mid-February, if everything goes well. I just need to do some last minute touch up on the cover art and then we can send out to press. We will press 100 copies of each.
3) Porkfist's posthumous album, entitled Plastic, is in final mix downs and testing. I'm hoping to have this ready for sale no later than April. It's sounding really good thus far.
4)Some of the boys from The Makeshift have a new project calle Covington. I urge you to go buy this record. I'm listening to it right now and it's amazing!
5) Gentle Breeze is still on hold, but not for much longer. I think we need to find a practice space away from our office's (my home). Any useful suggestions would be helpful. Hit the Contact page and e-mail me if you do.

11/30/04

Yeah I know, I've been quiet. So if you're paying attention here it is.
1. No more Middle School Shows for the immediate future. It would take a lot for Geoff and I to want to do another. The headache far out weighs the rewards at this point. Sorry kids, but that's how it goes. It's unfortunate for you kids who came to the shows consistently.
2. Soiled Utilities Productions the band is making a name change. It makes sense. Nuff said.
3. Porkfist's posthumous full length record has seen a few snags in the mixing department, but they are being smoothed out. Santi will be in town to re-record a couple vocals and then all should be good to go. The album cover looks pretty good so far.
4. The Shi-nei record is two steps away from being pressed. That should be out by early next year along with Full Circle.
5. Geoff and Eddie's new band Gentle Breeze is on hold until all other projects are out the door and in your hot little hands.

11/10/04

Just in case anyone's paying attention to this, Skapocalypse is playing at The Copeland with a bunch of other bands tomorrow night in Dexter. Go check it out. Show starts at 7pm. No idea on cover, but it shouldn't cost much more than $5 or $6.

10/29/04

Tomorrow night (Devil's Nite!) is the Middle School show in Saline. Dopey's band Room 4 Doubt is opening the show at 7pm, followed by the guys and girl of Famous Last Words, Dexter ska band and all around swell guys Skapocalypse, former Offset guys plus one In-Effect, and touring funk metal band Coonn. Doors open at 6:30 and the price is just $6. Costumes are not manadatory but are strongly encouraged. Come out and have a good time.

10/26/04

The site is now up and up to date.

10/3/04

Coonn has been added to the Middle School show bill. Now if I can find some time to send out an e-mail...

9/22/04

In Porkfist news, Josh Sanchez recorded our gig at The Bad Idea and is selling them. We were fairly anebriated that evening and stumbled a couple times, but what I've heard so far sounds good. I will be putting up one or two cuts from it here on the web-site as soon as I've heard the whole thing. I may also repackage it and press it in the distant future as well. For now, if you want a copy you need to go to The Bad Idea on North Main (near Summit). They also have a lot of other shows recorded, as well. She-nei has two. Go support the scene kids. Now!

9/20/04

Ok, so according to Sophie Famous Last Words wants a gig. They have it. Some people really need to get their business together, though. ;-)
Anyhow, that leaves one slot open, which I'm hoping to fill really soon. I may have to spend time in a bowling alley to finalize the deal, though. Coonn!

Update: Arun called me later to confirm Famous Last Words part in the show.

9/18/04

Room 4 Doubt have been added to the Middle School show. Still looking for two more bands to fill the bill. Anyone? Anyone?

9/6/04

In-Effect has been added to the Middle School show bill. In-Effect is the former Offset fellas with a singer by the name of Ian added. We're still looking for three more bands to round out the bill.

8/28/04

The next Middle School show has been set! It will be on Devil's Nite Saturday October 30th. Since it's essentially a Halloween show we may do something special for the occasion. Any ideas you all may have would be appreciated. So far I have Skapocalypse booked for the show and that's it. I really want to get this bill finalized by the second or third week of September so I can really advertise.

8/13/04

This is an appropriate day to drop some bad news. Our satellite facilities are gone at the end of September. The house we were all using for rehearsal space, and Geoff and Damian were living in, has been sold. It was put on the market one day, and sold the next for $500,000. A one acre lot, people. $500,000. Grrr. If anyone has any ideas on where to rehearse or a place for Geoff (and possibly Damien) to move into, hit the contact page.
In better news, the Porkfist record is in the mixing stages. Glenn came into the studio and recorded his vocals and Steve Toth is doing the mixing honors. It's sounding really good! Once it's mastered an pressed we'll e-mail the list and then post it here. In the meantime, keep an eye out for an mp3 or two from the sessions on our Audio page as they get finished. Cheers!

7/23/04

I finally received the bill for the last Middle School show. Sometime this weekend I'll figure out what the change was, and let those bands that DID NOT decline pay know what they're getting. In other news, Eddie is extremely lazy.

7/10/04

Yeah, I know it's been awhile. Shut up. Since I was itching to tell the world about my drab life, I had Andrew set up my personal site. It's basically my blog right now, but I'll have a bunch of stuff going up there over the course of the summer. I really need to buy another scanner. Anyhow, nothing new to report about business. Geoff's been in New York with Derrick so the Porkfist stuff hasn't been mixed yet. He should be back by tomorrow at the earliest, though. The group formerly known as She-nei is getting close to having a set put together, but they need another guitarist and a vocalist. Anyone interested should call Geoff. I should get off my lazy ass and mix Soiled Utilities sessions soon too.

Edweird

6/25/04

Rarely do I ever "need" a drink. Tonight was one of those occasions. I've just come back from seeing Fahrenheit 911. I won't go into detail on the movie, but I do need to mention a few things about the experience.
First, the line was long. Those of you who know David Cross will understand the two line syndrome. I waited in line to get my ticket, so I could wait in line (again) to go see the movie at 7pm. Well the line to get the tickets took so long that by the time I got my ticket, they stopped selling for the 7pm show and started selling tickets for the 9pm show. I was the last ticket sold and they were starting to let people in. Evildoer that I am, I milled around with those at the front of the line, and let the herd take me in. I got to take a piss before the show and got a sweet seat too. Choice!
Now on to the actual movie experience. This film was... every emotion I've had over the last 3-4 years over this mess we call a country, rolled up into a couple of hours. I laughed. I cried. I yelled, "Fuck you!" at Britney Spears. And when it was all over, I didn't want to talk to anyone, I didn't want to touch anyone, I just wanted to have a drink. I was stunned.
So as I drink a fingers worth of Dewars, I urge you to see this movie. Take everyone you know.

Edweird

6/22/04

Geoff and I are looking for a guitarist and/or bassist (possibly both). Anyone interested need only get in touch with us. We start writing Monday and Thursday evenings next week. We are looking to expand on the ground we already covered in Porkfist.

Edweird

6/14/04

Ok, so the show didn't go very well. It wasn't that the bands sucked. They all played awesome sets... to 87 people. At the Blind Pig or The Elbow Room this would be a huge crowd. In an auditorium that seats 275 people... let's just say the last two shows had over 200 people in attendence. You'll understand why I'm never going to plan a show for the weekend after school's out. Never. Not gonna happen. The good news is we didn't loose anything. The bad news is the bands likely won't be getting paid. We'll know more once the bill comes from Community Ed, but it looks like we broke even. Thanks to all who came out and had a good time. Next years shows will be better!

On another sad note, RIT Music of Ann Arbor has gone out of business.

6/8/04

More drama has come up. The Makeshift have to bail out of the show this weekend at the Saline Middle Scool. Offset have graciously come out of their brief retirement to help us out, so the show will go on.

5/18/04

She-nei and Porkfist are now defunct. With Kohei moving his family to Japan, Santi going out west (presumably to find himself), and Glenn leaving in August to go to school, it has been decided that neither band should go on. Sorry for the inconvenience. We hope to postumously press albums sometime in the future. Video of each bands final show at our satellite facilities will be posted for your viewing pleasure in the near future. As to future projects, keep watching here.

4/25/04

Santi played a sweet set at the Crazy Wisdom Tea Room on Friday! Those of you who missed it may be able to see some of it, because it was filmed. Hopefully it turned out well enough to put some of it up here.
The bill for the Middle School show on the 12th of June has been set, as well as Kohei's going away party on the 1st of May (next Saturday). Please go to the Shows page for all the details. If all goes according to plan, we will be filming on May 1st as well. If it turns out good, we'll post that video too. We'll make an announcement here if it works.

4/18/04

Just got back from Bad Idea. Saw Glori5, Rome for a Day, and The Book Was Better. Awesome show!!! All four bands rocked hard (the first band I never got their name). Cricket was having fun (as always) and I passed out a lot of fliers for the May 1st show. Don't forget Santi Holley is playing an all free, all ages, gig at the Crazy Wisdom Tea room on Main Street on the 23rd (a Friday). I'm a touch anebriated so I'm gonna crash out now. Peace!

Edweird

4/15/04

Kohei's going away party has been moved to May 1st from April 23rd. Please make a note of it. 18 and older please. Glen has finished recording most of his tracks for the forth coming Porkfist cd. He has just three more songs to do and then Santi can start his vocal tracks. Eddie smashed his knee during set up and Geoff and Santi read during takes.

4/9/04

Porkfist played The Elbow Room on Thursday April 8th to four people, the bar crew, and two other bands. Seekonk did not show up, but the fabulous suburb-spawned nature boys of Royal did. Big thanks to Vincebus Eruptum for rocking hard and being super cool!
We finally got the She-nei pictures from Kohei. They are now up on the Photo page. We also put five songs from their full length record up for your downloading pleasure. Also we have a mailing list started. If you would like to be on it e-mail Eddie.

3/28/04

For those of you who missed Porkfist at The Bad Idea house you should go cower in the corner and cry like a little baby. One Inch Punch was amazing! I urge you to go to there web-site and purchase their cd. Porkfist played well and introduced a new song! Pictures where taken at the show, and we will try to get ahold of them and put them up on this site. If you happened to be there and took pictures and would like to share (with credit noted of course) please e-mail us. In the meantime, we have posted some pictures from February's Porkfist recording sessions. Enjoy!

3/21/04

Forgot to mention that we have switched the site over to a more stable server. The site shouldn't be down as frequently. Big thanks to Andrew Beyer for taking care of us!

3/19/04

Sorry it's been so long since my last update. I was sick for a week with strep throat, and my Titanium was in the shop. I updated the Shows page. Porkfist has finished basic tracks for it's forth coming album. Glen is getting his guitar ready so he can start laying his tracks down soon. In the mean time, we've begun writing again and have written one new song already. And remember that Porkfist is playing at Josh's Bad Idea this coming Thursday!

Later,
Edweird

3/4/04

Updated band pages! Check 'em out. Also updated the Shows page.

2/29/04

Leap year! Yippee. Over the weekend we have updated the Shows page and added the last two songs of the Porkfist demo, which can be found on the Audio page, under Media. After some minor technical difficulties, Porkfist begins recording basic tracks for the full length album tomorrow.

2/25/04

Updated shows are now online. Also, the 1st song of the three song Porkfist demo is now available for your downloading pleasure.

2/20/04

New shows have been added. In particular, Santi Holley's acoustic guitar dates and a show at Saline's Middle School auditorium has been added. Any bands interested in playing the Middle School need to see or e-mail Eddie to set up an audition. We have two slots to fill on the bill. Also between band sets, Wldrnss will be showing short films. We will need some adult volunteers to help keep an eye on things as well.

2/19/04

The site is now working properly on all platforms (but it still looks best on a Mac). Thanks to Art Delano for his expertise and considerable patience.

2/17/04

The site is experiencing some schizophrenia. If you're running Safari or IE on a Mac running OS X it looks spectacular. Mozilla on a Windoze box or Konqueror on a Linux box looks good for the most part. IE on a Windoze box looks ill (as in sick, folks). We're aware of the problem and in the process of fixing it. Sorry for any inconvenience.

2/15/04

The Soiled Utilities Productions record Full Circle is now online in it's entirety. Hit the Audio page under the Media link. Enjoy!

2/11/04

So welcome to the site. Let me explain a little about what we do here. This site is a DIY minded clearing house for all my music projects, as well as some of my friends. I plan to update this page every couple of weeks for now, and more frequently as needed.

My main focus at the moment is Soiled Utilities ( a loose knit experimental noise band) and Porkfist ( a math minded hardcore band). I plan to make some low quality MP3's of the two Soiled Utilities records available for free from the Media section of the site, as well as a three song Porkfist demo. If I get enough interest I'll press the SU stuff complete with album art and liner notes. I will also be putting up one-sheets for all the bands, as well as pictures of the recording facilities. Speaking of which, Porkfist will be recording a full length record starting in February. I'll keep you posted here as to its progress.

Also, for you kids out there who know me (or just think you know me) through my work at the High School, soiledutilities.org will eventually be the place for Middle School show information. For those of you who are saying to yourselves, "WTF is he talking about?" here is a brief explanation: I work at Saline High School as a computer tech and I've gotten pretty involved in the HS music scene. These kids are good, but of course they don't really have anywhere to play since their average age is 16. So what I do is try to put on a few shows a year so the kids can play for their friends and families. What I would like to do is eventually have adult bands headline some of these gigs. These kids won't be able to see you at the Elbow Room or Blind Pig and they're starving for live music. If your interested e-mail me . All shows will be $6 at the door.

So that's it for now. I'll have more news as things progress and hopefully add more content as it comes.

Edweird
Lead Custodian
Soiled Utilties Productions