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!