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turbonegro in the usa!

Before I go on about the impending Turbonegro tour in the USA, I just want to say that while typing out this post's title my fingers misstapped and created the word "turbonegroin". I'm not sure how that would be defined by Oxford English Dictionary standards, but I like it. I like it a lot. But not as much as I like the fact that Turbonegro is about to drench the USA in bloody good music. Check the dates and places below to see if you're geographically desirable to rendezvous with their anus:

• Saturday, May 18 - Irving Plaza, New York City, NY (with Dirty Fences)
• Sunday, May 19 - Double Door, Chicago, IL (with Mount Carmel)
• Monday, May 20 - Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO (with The Dwarves)
• Wednesday, May 22 - Ace of Spades, Sacramento, CA (with Torche)
• Thursday, May 23 - The Observatory, Santa Ana, CA (with Torche)
• Friday, May 24 - House of Blues, San Diego, CA (with Torche) 
• Saturday, May 25 - El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA (with Tweak Bird)
• Sunday, May 26 - Punk Rock Bowling, Las Vegas, NV (with Devo, The Damned, The Weirdos, Flag and more)

music video: "she won't a young nigga" by young nigga

There are landmark achievements in life and then there are landmark achievements. I don't know what that means exactly, but goddamn it sound dramatic and shit, don't it? Anyway, we've had our fair share of triumphs in the world of entertainment—you know, bringing things like "The Poocano" and "Butt X-Ray" to big screens in cinemas all throughout the world—and with Loiter Squad's Young Nigga I'd like to think Dickhouse done busted good again. I mean, a llama? a rocket launcher? a Young Nigga's young nigga Jack? Word. Mad love and respect to these props!

Catch all-new episodes of Loiter Squad on Sunday nights at midnight or go rape, pillage, and plunder the booty over on adultswim.com!

turbonegro announces usa concert tour dates

Calling all sailors! You, too, can rendezvous with anus this May, when the legendary sonic wall of pure awesome that is Turbonegro washes up stateside in a storm of feces. We were huge fans of theirs in the '90s, and even more so in the '00s after we hooked up with them grizzly-style under a bridge in Downtown LA and then got wildery—so wildery—in The Age Of Pamparius, so be sure to check 'em out and tell Happy Tom* we sent you!

May 18: Irving Plaza, New York City; NY (w/ Dirty Fences)

May 19: Metro, Chicago, IL (w/ Mount Carmel)

May 20: Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO (w/ The Bronx)

May 22: Ace Of Spades, Sacramento, CA (w/ Torche)

May 23: The Observatory, Santa Ana, CA (w/ Torche)

May 24: House Of Blues, San Diego, CA (w/ Torche)

May 25: El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Tweak Bird)

May 26: Punk Rock Bowling, Las Vegas, NV

* A quick check of ye olde hanky code reveals... fisting!

(Photo by Raymond Mosken)

songs about my dick

Once upon a time I came into possession of an MP3 of Johnny Knoxville doing a karaoke-ish cover version of "Everything She Wants" by Wham! I'm guessing it was around 2002 when this ghastly, laughable track first embedded itself into my bloated iTunes library, but it only ever comes up once in a blue moon on shuffle. I only say this because it damn near scares the poop out of me every time it does. Allegedly, he'd recorded it way back in his high school glory days, and while Knoxville couldn't have carried a tune to save the lives of any children in a burning orphanage then, the accompanying vocals by a friend of his are the things that make you want to stuff an artichoke up your ass just to take the pain away from what's happening to your ears. I would love to share this uniquely horrifying experience with the world one day, but until then check out these songs about my dick: http://mydickband.bandcamp.com

P.S. Thanks to everyone who tuned in and tweeted along to the jackass flick re-runs on MTV's "Mancation" this past weekend. Always a treat seeing Chris Pontius's definition of uncomfortable televised, isn't it? By the way, please be advised that any burning sensation while urinating is completely normal and to check out the updated selection of jackass shirts and other soft goods over at: www.popfanatics.com/search/jackass

(Photo by Sean Cliver; Burbank, California 2010)

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new release: "southbound train" by roger alan wade

We're proud to announce that Roger Alan Wade's latest album Southbound Train is now available! "Thirteen tracks of good times, hard times, redemption," as Roger noted on his Facebook page yesterday, "From the stompin' grounds to the gallows and down the tracks. No smoke and mirrors. This one is cool as the shade, quick as a switchblade and built to last." Word on the hot steel rails has it that Southbound Train also came in at the #1 slot yesterday on the Amazon Alt/Country chart. Way to go, Rog! Now go on... skit, scat, and click your way on over to purchase Southbound Train:

iTunes: Southbound Train, by Roger Alan Wade

Amazon: Southbound Train, by Roger Alan Wade

the new deadly syndrome release is released!

Suck it, Kraken, there's a new release in town. A happy release. A full release! But not from a comely Asian woman named Pepsi. No, this release comes from the musical yout's that comprise The Deadly Syndrome, and it is named All In Time. Best of all, guess what? You—yes, you!—can purchase All In Time right here. Or here! It can actually be ordered via any word I want it to be. Nipple! Perineum! Hopscotch bitchslap shitfarm foie gras! Prefer your music etched onto antique frisbees? You can even pre-order one of those, too. And, should you need a visual stimulant to push you over the cliff and into the great aural beyond, say no more, mon frere... 

The Deadly Syndrome - Whatever Comes Our Way from The Deadly Syndrome on Vimeo.

rest in peace, dennis flemion

I used to think, "Twitter, huh, yeah, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing." Then I'd say it again just for good measure. Nowadays though my tune has changed. It's actually a source for good, free, fun-size bites of comedy—Albert Brooks, Garry Shandling, Jeffrey Ross, Alec Sulkin, Tom Green, Rob Delaney, Sarah Silverman, Seth MacFarlane, Rupert Murdoch, just to name a few—and random burps of news that I otherwise would have missed. Though the example is tragic and sad, I never would have known about the recent passing of Dennis Flemion, keyboardist and one-half of the creative force behind The Frogs (shown next to Dimitry above at photo left), had it not been for a tweet from the AV Club. Apparently Dennis went missing on July 7th while swimming during a family boating trip on Wind Lake in Racine, Wisconsin. His body was recovered late last night. He was 57-years-old.

We the people of Dickhouse are tremendous fans of The Frogs and were ever so fortunate to have them perform live at our wrap party for the jackass television series in 2001. That same week we also caught their show at Spaceland, where I believe Ryan Dunn truly fell in love with them as well ("Reelin' & Rockin' #2" was his most favorite and oft quoted). We tried to squeeze "Homos" onto the jackass the movie soundtrack, but unfortunately were not able to do so because the chosen segment didn't make the final cut. However, in the process, we were successful in infecting several other minds with the music of The Frogs and before long Derek Freda had them as his ringtone for all inappropriate occasions.

Our sincere condolences to Dennis's family and friends—especially his brother Jimmy with whom he created over three decades of wonderfully offensive and absurd music that will live on forever in aural infamy.

music video: "worldwide construction"

Every so often I like to get jiggy on the blog and today is one of those days when the mix becomes the master of the house. So at the request of Dimitry Elyashkevich, we're pointing your eyes and ears in the direction of his friend Yeti Beats and a new track featuring Kool Keith, Aceyalone, and Fatlip, the last of whom you might remember from an escalator side of long ago and "L.A. Girl".

Would you buy that for a dollar? Want to know more? Do you verstehen Verhoeven? The video was animated by Johnerick Lawson and directed by Isaac Gabaeff, while "Worldwide Construction" comes rip-riding off the album This Is Not A Hotel by Yeti Beats (available on iTunes).

P.S. If you thought earth girls were easy then you've got another thing coming on the Death Star.

music video premiere: "you give me worms" by turbonegro

Ich bin ein Turbojugend! Yes, it is with great pleasure, a proud bulge, and a socket full of eyeliner that today we are a global partner in the online music video premiere of "You Give Me Worms", the hot shit single off Turbonegro's forthcoming album* Sexual Harassment (available June 13 on Volcom Entertainment).

You too can become a devout denim disciple in the Turbojugend ranks. Simply click and stroke them at turbonegro.com, fluff them on Facebook, rock against their ass on Twitter, and download "You Give Me Worms" today! Or tomorrow. Whenever your fucking face feels like it, you know?

* Happy-Tom informed us this album is dedicated to Ryan Dunn and Eivind Hovden (the youngest victim of the Utøya massacre, who at the age of 15 was an active member of Turbojugend).

PHILM: the making of harmonic and "held in light" music video

Do you like Rick Kosick's back? I like Rick Kosick's back. And today I'm going to scratch that back. Maybe even sneak in a tickle or two. That's how much I like Rick Kosick's back. So here's a story Rick Kosick wrote about an all-new video that he directed, edited and produced about the making of PHILM's latest album Harmonic and the "Held In Light" music video.

When I’m not working on jackass getting punched in the balls by Johnny Knoxville and hearing Jeff Tremaine yell at me to film the poop, you can usually find me hanging out in the LA music scene shooing photos or making music videos for some of my friends' bands. Recently I happened to come-up on making this short video about Dave Lombardo’s other rock band PHILM. You see, when Dave’s not touring with Slayer, one of the heaviest metal bands of all time, he’s been working diligently with longtime friend Gerry Nestler, the guitarist and front man of Civil Defiance, and Pancho Tomaselli, a funk bassist from the band War, known for the hit songs “Low Rider" and “The Cisco Kid.”

Click Harmonic to purchase Harmonic by PHILM: Harmonic

Going into making the video I wanted to capture a bit of the process in how this whole album came together and see what it was like for these guys to self-produce their first album, but when the day arrived for the shoot I didn’t realize I had such a short span of time to get everything done. Dave was currently in the studio recording a new album with Slayer, and when I was at the house getting everything set up I received a phone call from him asking if I was ready. He was going to be leaving the studio right away to come straight over to the house. He only two and a half hours to shoot, because he needed to get back into the studio to finish his drum tracks for Slayer. I was like, "Oh, fuck, really? That doesn’t give us much time to shoot." Most videos take all day to film, but I felt I had everything under control and we had to move fast.

When Dave arrived at the house, we knocked it out in three hours—which really isn't that much time, but I still managed to get enough footage for the video. I had some help from Donny Anderson, the Nitro Circus camera operator. We used six of his Go-Pro cameras, and set them all up in this small room where the band holds their rehearsals and recordedHarmonic. Both of us shot as well with Sony EX3 cameras, using a small dolly to get some movement. Dave also had his son David “Yunior” helping out. He mic'ed up all the band gear in the room and did the recording, so what you see and hear on this video is the band actually performing the songs live. Then Dave took off and went straight back into the world of Slayer.

Looking back on that day now, I have think to myself how it all went down because most people couldn't handle that kind of stress, but Dave Lombardo is a true professional in my book. —Rick Kosick

big brother shat black ass scratch: turbonegro

It all began in 1995 with Issue 18 of Big Brother, when Marc McKee came up with the ingenious idea to review the 8 x 10 press kit photos that accompanied the promotional CDs sent to the magazine. So, instead of wasting time listening to potentially crappy music, you simply took one look at the band photo to determine whether or not they sucked at a glance. Hence the origin of the "Suck-at-a-Glance" method of review. It was a real time saver in the end, not to mention it allowed us to trade in our stacks of promo CDs on a more frequent basis for the stuff we really wanted to own and listen to.

Anyway, one of the 8 x 10s reviewed in this first installment just so happened to be that of Turbonegro's. As you can see (and read... you have to read), Marc really had no clue who or what this band was. In fact, if I remember correctly, this may have been one of those crummy promotional packages that came from a label without an accompanying CD, which generally equates to instant trash, but we were all just so smitten with the photo that it still made the column and turned out to be one of the few that definitely did not suck-at-a-glance.

However, due to the lack of a free CD, it would still be a few years off before we actually ever heard Turbonegro's sonic wall of awesomeness. That finally came with the 1998 release of Apocalypse Dudes.

Now I'm not Born Again, nor do I have any plans to See The Light soon, but I'll be damned if hearing the opening chords to "The Age of Pamparius" wasn't like Coming to Jesus. It was a baptism by guitar—many guitars—and I've never listened to music the same way since. By this, I mean whenever I hear Turbonegro I have to strip off my denim jeans, slap a sailor cap on, and twirl my penis around like the rotor of a helicopter until it physically aches to do so anymore ... which is usually right around Track 8 on Apocalypse Dudes, "Prince of the Rodeo". But put it this way: Listening to Turbonegro has added at least a quarter-of-an-inch to my penis. How's that for a blown-out, over-elasticated testimonial?

This week we'll be featuring a few other Turbonegro tidbits from our past, along with the release of the first single/music video off their forthcoming album Sexual Harassment.

P.S. Take particular note of the font used in the review, Futura Condensed Light, which art directin' Jeff Tremaine hated, but us wordy sonofabitchin' writers loved. He often let us get away with it, but sternly drew the line at 0 when it came to the tracking (typically we'd squeeze the type to -4 for maximum penetration).

a deadly syndrome dispatch

Trip out.

Last week, The Deadly Syndrome officially released the single "Spirit of the Stairs", and announced the release date of All in Time. You may recall The Deadly Syndrome from such jackass 3.5 hits as RAW and Young at Heart, or you may just remember them from such late, great jackassworld.rip talk shows as jackassworld live, a/k/a the 4:20-ish show, with host Rick Kosick [posted below for your questionable amount of enjoyment].

To get your very own full-blown digital load of The Deadly Syndrome's latest single "Spirit of the Stairs" in your ear, repeatedly stroke and click the following hot links:

SOUNDCLOUD (a free stream): http://soundcloud.com

iTUNES (99-cents): http://itunes.apple.com

eMUSIC LINK (49-cents): http://www.emusic.com

the smut peddlers are coming to florida this weekend

From "Fuck You (That's Why)" to "Let's Get Fucked Up" and "Invisible Man", we've known the Smut Peddlers for quite some time now—and, as a result, you've known them for quite some time as well*. They're a staple fixture in the South Bay/SoCal punk rock scene since 1993, but this weekend they're trading out Orange County for the Orange State of Florida.

On Friday, April 20th, a/k/a today, they'll be appearing in Miami at Churchill's Pub (5501 NE 2nd Ave.) along with Unit Six, Stay Hitt, The 707s, and Vice City Rackers.

Then, on Saturday, April 21st, a/k/a tomorrow, they'll be swinging up into Tampa to play at The Brass Mug (14811 N. Florida Ave.) with Unit Six, Feral Babies, Jesus and the Gangbang Whores, and Mosquito Teeth.

If they still have them in stock, be sure to pick up a "Fuck you/That's why" T-shirt at the show. They're a real conversation starter, among other things, depending how you like your conversation served up. And if you get a chance to talk to Gish, the bass player of the Smuts, be sure to ask him about the very first time Jeff Tremaine came to one of their shows (it was at Frogs, if that helps his memory at all).

* Should you persist in insisting that you know not of whom we speak, please feast your ignorant eyes and ears on the video above directed by Rick Kosick.

music video: "demons" by the deadly syndrome

I'm no fetishist by any stretch of the latex rubber jockey shorts, but I'll be damned if I don't get off on thumping a good thematical stump. Yesterday we played words by friends, but today it's going to be music by friends—The Deadly Syndrome, to be precise. You may remember bits and pieces and songs of theirs from such jackass fare as the 24-Hour Takeover, jackassworld.rip and Rick Kosick's 4:20-ish live show, a certain sweaty ambiance in jackass 3D, and trampoline tra-la-las in jackass 3.5. How did they wind up in all these sweet spots? Well, two of the members—Crash Richard and Jesse Hoy—have consistently worked on most all of these productions and other Dickhouse joints since 2006-ish and we're all about what's in the pocket. Anyway, because what would a daily post be without such abrupt seque, The Deadly Syndrome has a new album coming out soon entitled All In Time, at which time we'll post up its availability with all pertinent links and such. For now, get aural from "Demons"...

The Deadly Syndrome - Demons from The Deadly Syndrome on Vimeo.

roger alan wade in austin, texas, this weekend

Hey everybody,

Roger Alan Wade will be appearing at SXSW this weekend in Austin, Texas.

He's playing The Saxon Pub at 7:30 tonight, March 16th; The Continental on St. Paddy's Day at 11:40am; and finishing up at The Mean Eyed Cat on Sunday, March 18th at 7:00pm.

He's going to be hotter than a two peckered owl, so if you're in or near Austin go check him out.

Wahoo and love,

Knoxville