newnewnew releases!

cesspool 04 & 05 are very ready for your consumption!
check em out:

Cesspool 04 HOT MESS MONSTER- All Five of Us
Eight songs overflowing with ripping pop punk energy, pissed off passion, sassy sing alongs, and quite a bit of tuff luv. Translucent ppurple cassette and lyric sheet and cover with rad artwork all over. We're really happy and proud to have this one and hope you'll feel the same.  $4/5ppd
check out: hot mess monster's bandcamp for a lil preview.

Cesspool 05 BAD FOG- Reckoning Hour Demo
Creepy grungy gothy stonery punky rock, somewhere between L7 and the Wipers with maybe a hint of Unwound, add some spooky vocal melodies and a few more abstract descriptors and that's Bad Fog. For $4, you'll get four ladies playing five songs for about 15 min, sprinkled with weird sound clips, cool artwork and a sweet solid pink tape. However you wanna describe it, you'll wanna listen to this tape. hear for yerself: Bad Fog's bandcamp 4/5ppd    

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don't worry ya can still order things by sending us an email, finding us at a show, and hassling us on the street.


take care yall & see ya in the pit (that's what i call the line at the post office)

Label and Distro UPDATE. New releases soon!

Hey hey hey, we've got a lot in the works right now!  CESSPOOL SOUNDS #4 will feature Asheville heroes HOT MESS MONSTER and their debut cassette!  They've been duplicated by our own Cesspool Sound Kreators and are waiting for artwork.  Expect these to be out in the next week or so!

Right on Hot Mess's heels is the demo tape by Asheville's all-lady dark grunge phenoms BAD FOG. Expect engaging and seductive sounds a la Wipers, L7, Siouxsie, Nirvana and Kleenex.  These will be done in time for their Atlanta show at the end of this month!

The SOUNDS FROM THE CESSPOOL comp tapes are almost gone so now may be your last chance to get one.  Act now!  We probably won't repress them.

We went to the BURNT BOOKS show last night and some copies of their AWESOME new record for the distro.  We've got it on LP and cassette and they both come with a download code.

 

I just got back from Austin to see ACCIDENTE play on their recent tour.  Meeting those supremely sweet kids face to face was beyond great and they put on an excellent show.  I jumped up and down and sang along and had a damn good time, even if the crowd was a little on the small side..  If you got to see them on tour, yet missed out on getting a tape, this is the place to get one!  only 5 dollars postage paid in the USA, and just a pittance more for Mexico and Canada.

I guess that's all for now!  See ya in the streets.

Ivan says hey

ACCIDENTE Cassette release and Distro Update!

Greeting!  We've been heck of busy lately with all sorts of bullhonky, but not too busy to drop some fresh news on you.

ITEM ONE.
ACCIDENTE cassettes are HERE and available NOW.  They took months and months to finally come together, but believe us, it was worth the wait.  These things are sweet as hell.  Imprinted and duped on pro-tapes, they sound clear as a digital file, but with that warm fuzzy analog halo!  Lyrics were printed in both Spanish and English for maximum efficiency, and graphics adapted to cassette format by the band themselves.  We can breathe a sigh of relief, because these things are ready just in time for Accidente's Mexico/US tour!  Dates can be found HERE.  Be on the lookout, folks in warmer climes!

Accidente cassettes are $4 / $5 postage paid.  Send us a message.

ITEM TWO:
The distro has been restocked and is itching for your dirty fingers to poke through it.  Most excitingly, we have the brand new SWAMP APE Valhalla tapes!  Swoop em up now!  New additions include: Dropdead, Crudos/Spitboy split, Cola Freaks, Bastard, Warhead, Systematic Death, Templars, Adicts, Sickoids, La Fraction, Citizens Arrest, Assfactor 4, Filth, Totalitar, Burial, Carrie Nations and more!

ITEM THREE:
One third of the Cesspool Sounds organization has been going through some UTTER BULLSHIT, including, but not limited to, a home invasion in which a cracked-out intruder bit a chunk out of our protagonist's arm, a knee-injury that won't stay dormant, oh and he was ran over by a minivan dad in a gas station parking lot and has missed over 2 weeks of work because of the damage to his leg.  The cops in this last incident were nothing short of totally impotent and worthless as they didn't charge the offender with anything, and let him go without breathilizing him.  Long story even longer, Paddy is seeking legal action and we are raising money for his legal expenses, medical bills and the regular ass bills he has been unable to pay because of all this.  A benefit show will be held at the Odditorium on the 12th of September.  Details can be found HERE.  If you can't make it to the show, you can donate via this paypal button at the bottom of this post.  Thanks from all of us in advance for your love and help.  We shall prevail.

CLICK TO DONATE!  any amount helps.

TOXIC NOSTALGIA TAPE RELEASE!

We are incredibly happy to announce the release of our second tape.  TOXIC NOSTALGIA has been ripping it up here in Asheville for the last several months, and now, those unfortunate enough to have not witnessed them in action can enjoy the pulverizing qualities of their debut cassette.  I ain't callin this one a demo, because it sounds just so damn good.  The production is raw, yet clear, and I still haven't been able to get over how ferocious Lauren's vocals are on this recording.  Get ye with it, while you still can, cuz half the band is Austin, TX bound next month, but don't you fret...the remaining members will be tearing it up with new projects before you can say "move back to Asheville, Skylar and Lauren and Ryan and Justin, you traitorous fucks...we just love you too much!"  Anyhow, if you are in Asheville tonight, the place to be is Static Age Records.  Toxic Nostalgia will be getting down alongside of the fantastic SIDE EFFECTS from the Bay and DIVULGENCE from SC.  We can dry each others' tears because apparently living here means our souls are doomed to an eternity in the FIRES OF HELL.  Oh well, can't win em all.

check out the beautifully screened tape cover by Ryan!

OUR FIRST RELEASE!

The Sounds from the Cesspool tapes are here!  44 bands, just under 90 minutes.  Amazing art by B. Menace, Madd Maxx, Sarah Cav, Ryan Deloach and even our own Paddy Jones.   We are damn proud of these things and recommend that you buy one

If you live in Asheville, they are $4
If you were in a band on the tape they are only $2 (and ya get a special purple tape)
If you live outside of Asheville they are $6 postage paid.
If you wanna buy some distro stuff and a tape, we'd think you were real cool and will combine postage.
We can do wholesale too, just send us a message.

ordering and questions: cesspoolsounds@gmail.com

Don't know if you're in a band or not?  well here's the friggin list:  Dead Things, The Budget, Pox Americana, Something's Wrong, Blood Summer, Negative Feedback, Tent City Rollers, The Bite, Grouch, Princess Thunderstorm, Kakistocracy, Descolada, Nasty Ponies, Resurrectum, Sunshine SS, Bomb Threat, Flies Around It, Gut Wrenching Terror, Weapons of Masturbation, The DiMarcos, Ataxia, Party Grave, Endless Bummer, PC Penis, Killing Solves Everything, Excessive Defiance, Drunk In A Dumpster, B.A.C., Autarch, Ents, Jacuzzi Suicide, Just Die!, Black Lung Brass Band, Bill Maltba Experience, Megahurtz, Babies, Angry Tribe, Raccoon Party, Wartorn Babies, Lucrative Offer, Reagan's Bones, Studz, The Treatment and Common Visions.

Also!

ACCIDENTE tapes are just around the corner, I'm gonna guess they are less than two weeks away from release! 

We are gonna release TOXIC NOSTALGIA's debut tape as well!  tapes are ordered and I'd guess these are also less than two weeks away from release!

New Asheville band BAD FOG has been mesmerizing us with their dark, grungy, riffy sounds and has provided a much needed injection of ladydom, and we'll be releasing their first tape!  This one should be out in August!

Keep your ears open.  Exciting Times Ahead!

bad electricity

check out my new music blog, bad electricity! i'm a pretty big freakin nerd and i take immense pleasure in sharing music with people...the blog will feature mostly (but not exclusively) punk and mostly stuff that's out of print, cuz i feel weird about sharing music if you can still buy it from the people who made it...i'm not sure how much energy i've got to put towards the thing and these music blogs get shut down pretty frequently, so get on it while it's alive!

BAD ELECTRICITY 

p.s. the Sounds from the Cesspool tape will be out real damn soon.  If you were in a band on the tape, you can have it for $2, $4 for the rest of ya, and we're going to have a release show where you can get it for a one-night-only price of $3.  keep your ears open.

-chris

ACADrunkB

Finally, something to tell you all!

We've added just way too much stuff to the distro to list it all here, just go check it out.  I will mention that we just got some copies of the inaugural issue of THRASHEVILLE.  It rules, if you haven't seen it yet.  You've probably seen Eron at shows over the past few months and you've probably had a conversation with him, cuz the guy talks to everybody, which is great...but yeah, this zine is the result of his immersion into our town's DIY music scene, and it's impressive to say the least.  I dig his very quirky and tongue-in-cheek writing style and his coverage is quite in depth, and there's tons of photos. There's really no reason not to read this if you live here...you like reading about yourselves, right?

Aside from that, we're just waiting on the Sounds from the Cesspool comp tapes to arrive in the mailbox, and we're finishing up the inserts right now, so expect it to be released really really soon.  The Accidente tapes are going to look and sound freaking amazing and should be done within a month...and I'm hoping to take a trip to Austin to hand deliver them to the band when they play there in September.   We also have gotten our handy dandy cesspool tape duplicators of sound fixed and running, and we've manufactured tapes for Night Dogs of Chicago who are playing a couple of shows in town this weekend, so go to those shows and pick up a locally manufactured free range organic cassette punk music tape...check out the Asheville punk rock community networking machine over in the links on the right for details of those shows. 

Hell yeah, life could be worse, right?

oh yeah, and check out Paddy and Skylar 's button and patch operation Foxtrot Tango Whiskey (FTW)

Immense Distro Times

Well, i can't fit anymore records into my distro crate...so I suppose it's time for you to order some new tunes!  Your life needs it!  I could always just get another box though...Seriously, the distro is packed out with some amazing records...I'm pretty sure most of them are the cheapest copies out there, wink wink.  That's my style, though, I buy em cheap so I can pass the savings on to you!  In the last two weeks we've added records/tapes by:

POISON IDEA, THE COMES, CIRCLE JERKS, SPITBOY, TOWNES VAN ZANDT, THE GITS, DIE KREUZEN, SHELLSHAG, RED THREAD, ECONOCHRIST, AMERICAN CHEESEBURGER, ALL YOU CAN EAT, YOUR MOTHER, CONGA FURY, BAD RELIGION, TOM WAITS and BLACK SABBATH

Don't take any shit and keep your heads up!  Spread love, Ignore hate, The end is nigh!

We Have Zines!

Hey hey!  Distro update for you.

We've split the Distro into two sections because now we have zines! Cometbus, Burn Collector, Simple History (!), Disunderstood, MRR and more.  Give it a look and up the literacy.  More titles to come soon!

There's some new stuff in the Music section, as well.  Most of Family Night Records catalog has been added, and records from ADD/C, Naked Aggression, Men's Recovery Project, and cool tapes from Bad Compilation Tapes featuring a wide array of European punk like Wretched, Funeral Oration, Raw Power, Terveet Kadet, Indigesti, Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers, Gepopel and a ton more.  Why not throw in some GWAR tapes, too?

I guess that's all for now.  Fight the good fight out there!

Exciting and fanciful NEWS!

Hello!  I'm sitting in a coffeeshop, nursing my wounds from last night's incredible house show.  Seriously, it's a rarity when you can have 2 local bands and 2 travelling bands and they are all FANTASTIC.  Check out Welkin Dust from Chicago and Clit Fit from Austin.  They brought it hard.  Freakin Tupac covers and all.  Church Jerks and Toxic Nostalgia are the new Asheville punk style we've all been waiting for.  Things are looking up around here.  I busted out the distro and was delighted by people's positive response to it.  As a result, the Distro page has been updated and is a bit on the light side for the moment. I'll try and fix that as soon as funds and time allow.  Kensey is in the process of ordering a ton of zines, too, so soon we should have an impressive array of literature!

On to the GOOD NEWS!  After a few emails back and forth, it has been decided that we'll be releasing the cassette version of the most fantastic and inspiring debut album by ACCIDENTE from Madrid, Spain.  I love this band.  I could spout forth flowery praise and showers of adoration for at least a long paragraph, but you should really just listen for yourself.   They are touring Mexico and the southwestern US later in the summer, for those lucky to live in those areas. Me, well I might just have to take a trip to Texas and catch a show.  We could not be happier about this release, bringing punks together across entire oceans and continents is why we started this project in the first place, and we are proud and gracious to have the faith and trust of a band as excellent and exciting as Accidente.

Check them out:

accidentepunk.blogspot.com

ALSO!
The "Sounds From the Cesspool" compilation tape is nearing completion.  B. Menace finished the mastering, and we've already collected most of the badass art pieces that will make up the insert, so we hope to send it in for pressing this week.  If things go smoothly, we hope to release it in early April.  We'll let ya know!  Cesspool will strive to keep you out of the dark!

Up the punx and tons of love,
-Chris, Paddy and Kensey

Hello! Hola! Bonjour! Ciao! Hallo! Selamat Sore! Welcome to our label, Cesspool Sounds.  We are a cassette tape label and distro of music, zines and various sundries for your weirdo lifestyle.  The picturesque and smelly mountain berg of Asheville, NC, USA is our home, it's not perfect, but we like it here.  Our aspiration is to support and connect with other dubious and strange artists and musicians on this twisted plane.  Get in touch!  We're nice.

Coming soon! our large and exciting first release:
SOUNDS FROM THE CESSPOOL cassette (vol. 1?) – 43 Asheville bands from 1997-2013 including Dead Things, Kakistocracy, Something’s Wrong, Pox Americana, Sunshine SS, Nasty Ponies, The Budget, Flies Around It, Common Visions, Tent City Rollers, Endless Bummer, Princess Thunderstorm, Excessive Defiance, Autarch, Party Grave, Blood Summer, Grouch, Angry Tribe, Bomb Threat, Resurrectum, Megahurtz and a ton more.  Artwork provided by the incredible B. Menace, Madd Maxx, Sarah C, Lauren Phillips and Casey P.  A visual and aural feast of Asheville DIY!