Category: The Gospel Truth

Sweet Talk, The Gospel Truth on Tour

Sweet Talk on tour

Wednesday 6/5 Beerland, Austin TX ( w/ Gospel Truth,Pharaohs, Loteria)
Thursday 6/6 Rubber Gloves, Denton TX ( w/ World of Pleasure (formerly The Novice) and Pink Smoke)
Friday 6/7 Yeti, Tulsa OK ( w/ Creature Features and RAADTUNG)
Saturday 6/8 Lost Cross House, Carbondale IL ( w/ Blast Radius, Shit for Brains, and more TBA)
Sunday 6/9 The Hexagon, Minneapolis MN ( w/ Cozy, Mystery Date)
Monday 6/10 Quarters, Milwaukee WI ( w/ New Swears, Boys, Ramma Lamma)
Tuesday 6/11 Permanent Records, Chicago IL ( In-store performance, free starts at 6:00 PM sharp)
Tuesday 6/11 1376 W Grand Ave. 3rd Floor, Chicago IL ( Early rooftop show/BBQ w/ The Wet and Hollow Mountain, starts at 8:00 PM sharp)
Wednesday 6/12 Brass Rail, Fort Wayne IN ( w/ Thunderhawk, Heaven’s Gateway Drugs)
Thursday 6/13 PJ’s Lagerhouse, Detroit MI ( w/ TBA)
Friday 6/14 Grog Shop, Cleveland OH ( w/ Little Bighorn The Lawton Bros)
Saturday 6/15 Death By Audio, Brooklyn NY ( w/ King Prom and Violent Past)
Sunday 6/16 Cake Shop, NY NY ( w /Pop Zeus,
A Rex & J Rex, Future Punx, and DJ Jeremy Thompson of Sing Sing Records Doors at 8pm)
Tuesday 6/18 Kung Fu Necktie, Philadelphia PA ( w/ TBA)
Thursday 6/20 Star Bar, Atlanta GA ( w/ Resons, Onchi )
Friday 6/21 Stone Fox, Nashville TN ( w/Western Medication)
Saturday 6/22 Lamar Lounge, Oxford MS ( w/ Unwed Teenage Mothers)
Thursday 6/27 Mohawk, Austin TX (w/Mikal Cronin, Shannon and the Clams, A Giant Dog)

THE GOSPEL TRUTH in traveling mode

June 5 – Austin TX – Beerland (w/ Sweet Talk, Loteria, Pharaohs)
June 13 – Austin TX – Hotel Vegas (w/ Quin Galavis, John Wesley Coleman, Loteria, Hidden Ritual)
June 19th – Oxford – The Lamar Lounge
June 20th – Louisville – Zanzibar (with Madame Machine, Temple Of The Golden Dawn
June 21st – Columbus – Café Bourbon
June 22nd – Cleveland – NTC
June 23rd – Detroit – Garden Bowl
June 24th – Chicago – Permanent Records instore, The Burlington June 25th – Milwaukee – Quarters w Ultrathin
June 26th – Madison – Mickey’s Tavern with The Burnt Ones
June 27th – Minneapolis – Hexagon Bar

Coming June 18 : The Gospel Truth – ‘A Lonely Man Does Foolish Things’ LP (12XU 054-1)

(photography by Alison Eden Copeland l-r : David Petro, Patrick Travis, Mark Tonucci, Brandon Bennett Crowe)

Over the past 4 years, you could make a case for the start and ongoing middle of what feels like a new golden age for Austin rock’n’roll. I could drop a bunch of names, some of whom you’d recognize, some of whom you wouldn’t. A few have recorded for this label. But that’s not really the point. The standard trajectory from initial rehearsal to first recordings to moment of global exposure is usually in the 6-24 month range. Not in this case.

As you’ll see below, it’s taken The Gospel Truth a little longer to become a fully realized thing. And that’s not to say they’re presently all about cool precision, either. Right now, they’re alternately brooding & explosive in manner that runs contrary to this city’s party vibe and have emerged as one of the town’s top live bands in the process. Not only is it hard to come up with a regional precedent for The Gospel Truth, it’s almost as tough to ID an album as out of time as ‘A Lonely Man Does Foolish Things’. The Flesh Eaters’ ‘A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die’ and the Toiling Midgets’ ‘Sea Of Unrest’ come to mind, but that pair stood out wildly in ’81 and ’82, too. The tie that binds all 3 full-lengths is a purposeful, unusually deft ensemble fronted by a singer who comes out of his shell in the boldest way when you put a microphone in his hand (more on him later)

Continue reading Coming June 18 : The Gospel Truth – ‘A Lonely Man Does Foolish Things’ LP (12XU 054-1)

Upcoming Shows – January 2013 edition

 

Chris Brokaw 
1/16 – Naked Lounge, Sacramento CA (with Jennifer O’Connor)
1/17 – Woodside Grill, Anderson CA (with Jennifer O’Connor)
1/18 – Red Bluff Art Gallery, Red Bluff CA (with Jennifer O’Connor)
1/19 – Sam Bond’s Garage, Eugene OR (with Jennifer O’Connor)
1/20 – Mississippi Studios, Portland OR (with Jennifer O’Connor)
  
Burnt Skull
1/27 – Museum Of Human Achievement, Austin TX (Farewell Books/Las Cruxes Benefit, with Elvis, Kurraka, Hidden Ritual and more)
1/31 – Beerland, Austin TX (w/ Sweet Talk, Flesh Lights, Nazi Gold)
2/7 – Bernadette’s Bar, Austin TX (w/ Breakout, The Vipers)
2/9 – Swan Dive, Austin TX (w/ Eets Feats, Gory Details)
3/16 – Trailer Space, Austin TX (night show w/ Sweet Talk, G.Green, Obnox, Unholy Two)

G.Green
3/8 – Bar 11, San Diego CA
3/13 – Beerland, Austin TX (day show)
3/16 – Trailer Space, Austin TX (w/ Unholy Two, G.Green, Burnt Skull)
3/19 – The Smell, Los Angeles CA (w/ Wet Illustrated)

The Gospel Truth
2/16 – Beerland, Austin TX

OBN III’s
1/25 – Mohawk, Austin TX (w/ Ty Segall, Ex-Cult)
2/21 – Beerland, Austin TX
2/22 – Depot District Bar
2/23 – Train Yard, Las Cruces NM
2/24 – The District, Tucson AZ (with Destruction Unit, Lenguas Largas)
2/25 – Yucca Tap Room, Tempe AZ (with Destruction Unit)
2/26 – Soda Bar, San Diego CA
2/27 – The Smell, Los Angeles CA (with Audacity, Pangea)
2/28 – The Knockout, San Francisco CA (with Fuzz)
3/1 – 1234 Go! Records, Oakland CA (with Fuzz)
3/2 – The Know, Portland OR
3/3 – Comet Tavern, Seattle WA
3/5 – Holland Project, Reno NV
3/6 – Canvas SLC/Richards, Salt Lake City UT
3/7 – Lion’s Lair, Denver CO
3/8 – Replay Lounge, Lawrence KS
3/9 – 35 Denton Festival, Denton TX
    
Obnox
1/14 – Now That’s Class, Cleveland OH
2/1 – The Flat, Brooklyn, NY (w/ Unholy Two)
2/2 – Death By Audio, Brooklyn NY (w/ Family Curst, Live Fast Die)
3/14 – Beerland, Austin TX (day show w/ Protomartyr, Unholy Two, Spray Paint)
3/16 – Trailer Space, Austin TX (night show w/ Sweet Talk, Unholy Two, G.Green, Burnt Skull)


Sweet Talk 
1/30 – End Of An Ear instore, 6pm
1/31 – Beerland, Austin TX (w/ Flesh Lights, Burnt Skull, Nazi Gold)
2/7 – The Blind Pig, Oxford MI (w/ Unwed Teenage Mothers, YouthFlag)
2/9 – 529, Atlanta GA (w/ Resons, Acids Freaks, Rodney Kings)
2/10 – Soundpony, Tulsa OK  (w/ Glow God, Lizard Police, Creepazoids)
3/16 – Trailer Space, Austin TX (w/ Burnt Skull, G.Green, Unholy Two, Obnox)

Unholy Two 
2/1 – The Flat, Brooklyn, NY (w/ Obnox)
3/14 – Beerland, Austin TX (w/ Obnox, Protomartyr, Spray Paint)
3/16 – Trailer Space, Austin TX (w/ Sweet Talk, Burnt Skull, G.Green, Obnox)

Young Governor
1/17 – The Piston, Toronto

Obnox reissue, New Unholy Two 7″ and some big plans for 2013

2) our reissue of the 2011 Obnox LP, ‘I’m Still Bleeding’ (12XU 039-1), originally released in 2011 by Smog Veil, comes out at the end of August.

3) Rebecca Gates and the Consortium just completed their 2nd batch of US touring in support of ‘The Float’. There’s a great live session taped by OPM Music available for streaming.

4) Cruddy are currently touring the western US and they’ve got an 8 song casstte of new material that you’d better snap up before some label forces an overproduced, overpriced version out of them.

4) The Golden Boys are playing Goner Fest, preceded by Eastern U.S. dates with The Spider Bags and the Limes.

5) Unholy Two’s first recordings as a quartet will be available on a new 12XU 7″ in mid-September.

6) on the horizon : a debut 7″ from Melbourne’s Ratsak, the first first studio offerings from Dustin Pilkington & Anthony Davis’ slaytastic Burnt Skull, the debut album from Austin’s Sweet Talk, the first new recordings from Austin’s The Gospel Truth in way too long, and that oft-promised, but not yet delivered full length from James Arthur’s Manhunt. And some surprises. Please act surprised.

The Golden Boys – “Dirty Fingernails” video

The Golden Boys – “Dirty Fingernails”, from the LP, ‘Dirty Fingernails’ (12XU 033-1). Directed by James Parker and Jeremy Ward.

The Golden Boys are playing a free show for the Austin Chronicle’s Paper Cuts series on Tuesday, May 15. This is terrific news because we’ve been sitting around for weeks wondering what chain of events would have to occur for the band to allowed to play in front of Quiet Company fans. You might even say it’s a lifetime dream come true.

If, however, a promotional event for the local weekly isn’t to your liking, you can see The Golden Boys on June 16 at Austin’s Scottish Rite Theatre, supporting Quintron and Miss Pussycat.

We’ll have news shortly about Chris Brokaw’s forthcoming autumn full-length, along with new albums from Burnt Skull, James Arthur’s Manhunt and a reissue of Obnox’s ‘I’m Bleeding Now’ (Smog Veil, 2011). Early next year, we’re looking forward to new albums from a pair of Austin bands, The Gospel Truth and Sweet Talk.