Peta 2 are giving away one of Liam Wilson’s bass guitars (also autographed) in a contest that ends April 19 (with winners announced April 22). For those who don’t actually win, 10 runners up will also win a Dillinger Escape Plan guitar pick. Go here for full details.
Dillinger Escape Plan’s Twitter account was listed in Rock Sound’s Top 50 artists of interest on Twitter article, which you can read here.
And, while I’m on this topic, here’s a list of other DEP-related people you might be interested in following, too, if you’re on Twitter:
Bonnaroo have announced some additional artists for their festival, and Dillinger is one of them. Other notable acts also confirmed include Public Enemy and High on Fire. Thanks to Maria Burks for the heads up.
Liam Wilson of The Dillinger Escape Plan played with Frodus the other day. Sorry for not posting about it, it completely slipped my mind. Fortunately, there’s a shit load of footage from their performances, which I’ve added below (originally taken from Frodus’ blog):
frodus sxsw from corey bounds on Vimeo.
Frodus (esc. plan) 3/18/09 – Part 1 from Michael D’Angelo on Vimeo.
“Awesome Machine” @ Murky Coffee 2009
“Cha-Chi” @ Murky Coffee 2009
“Explosions” @ Murky Coffee, 2009
And here’s a video interview with Liam and one of the dudes from Frodus as well:
SXSW#5 Frodus/Lovitt first day in Austin from Denman C Anderson on Vimeo.
And lastly, although I’m unsure as to whether or not they’ll update it again, there is also a Frodus Escape Plan Twitter account you can follow as well.
As posted by the Dillinger Merch dude over at the SMN Forums:
Greg is better at typing out random long winded posts that you guys all eat up like drones so I won’t try and do that. Basically we want you guys to send us pictures of you in your Limited Edition shirts so we can fill up an album on the Dillinger myspace. You can either email them to me or post it in this thread. Don’t send it to Greg or the band myspace because if I’m not in charge it won’t happen until the Mayan calendar runs out.
Greg Puciato has remixed a track by Prong, which is being featured in an upcoming remix compilation of their’s called Power of The Damn MiXXXer. Here are the full details from their MySpace page:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 10, 2009 (LOS ANGELES) – 13th Planet Records readies Power of The Damn MiXXXer remix compilation in follow-up to the 2007 Prong release Power of The Damager. The release date is slated for May 12, 2009. Prong will support the release with European festival and club tour dates through the summer, beginning May through June 2009.
Additionally, week of street date, Prong is set to perform at Tucson’s Suicidal Metalfest May 9th, the festival to be hosted by 13th Planet Records chief henchman, Ministry’s Al Jourgensen. The following evening, May 10th, Prong headlines a local Tucson club show before packing up and heading to Europe for a 25-city tour.
From the beginning Prong’s front man Tommy Victor has penned traditional rock song-structures merged with simple steel bar riffs, atonalism, art-rock atmospheres, all culminating in a crushing sound – songs curiously pleasing to the ears while they liquefy the listener’s brain.
Every time Prong has been ignored by the mainstream whilst being revered by the underground, or worse still ripped off by lesser, spineless musicians without a creative pot of their own to piss in, Victor would allow a little more grudge, a little more sludge, a little more mudge and a fair few vials of distilled, frustrated, blood-and-bile infused anger to seep into the mix.
Dissonant, dark, dirty and at times rather deranged, Tommy Victor always did swing his D’s low, hard and squarely at your skull. Power of The Damager is an angry record. It’s a real record.
Its remixed counterpart Power of The Damn MiXXXer equally conjures the same dissonant, dark, dirty, and deranged emotions and brings them to a boil. This isn’t some half-baked feel good remix record aimed at dance floor DJ’s. It’s always better to get the scoop straight from the man himself and Tommy V. offers up the following, “We are really excited about this remix compilation of ‘Power of The Damager’ material. We feel the LP was overlooked and in some cases ignored. But the added elements provided by the great remixers, producers, and deejays infused with all the tracks make Power of The Damn MiXXXer’ an interesting yet enjoyable listening experience.”
‘Power of The Damn MiXXXer’ Track Listing:
1. Worst of It (Worst of The Worst Mix) – Remixed by Jon Clayden of Pitchshifter
2. Can’t Stop The Bleeding (SMack! Mix) – Remixed by Xris FLAM
3. The Banishment (Wolfzilla & The Angry Moon Mix) – Remixed by Rob Caggiano of Anthrax
4. Power of The Damager (Fabrication Mix) – Remixed by Brian Harrah & Roman Marisak of Professional Murder Music
5. 3rd Option (Naked In The Cadillac Mix) – Remixed by Kourtney Klien
6. Pure Ether – (Big Riddim Mix) Remixed by AK1200 & GENR8
7. Message Inside of Me (Chicxulub Impactor Mix) – Remixed by Seismologist
8. No Justice (Crackmix) – Remixed by DJ? Acucrack
9. Looking For Them (Contagious Mix) – Remixed by Virus of Dope
10. Spirit Guide (Reality’s Edge Mix) – Remixed by John Bechdel of False Icons
11. Changing Ending Troubling Times (Abandoned Structures Mix) – Remixed by Ampedelic
12. The Banishment (Bitter Harvest Mix) – Remixed by Clayton Worbeck of Revolting Cocks
13. Bad Fall (Smile on Your Face Mix) – Remixed by Greg Puciato of Dillinger Escape PlanSelected remixer comments:
“I was psyched that I had the opportunity to do a remix for Prong. It was pretty intense, and an honor, to have worked on this pioneering band’s music, especially knowing the influence it has had on Dope, and many others.” –Virus, Dope“Prong has always been one of those bands that no matter what album or song you hear, you always know it’s them. They have their own identity because of it. There’s integrity and respect for a band like that in a music world that tends to be filled with fakes.” -Brian Harrah, Professional Murder Music
OK, I’m a bit slow in reporting this, but Relapse Records have an awesome buy 1 get 1 free sale on at the moment for any orders on the Relapse label. All orders come with a free poster, orders over $100 entitle you to a free shirt and random orders will be getting free stuff like records, shirts or posters.
Apart from releasing most of the Dillinger catalogue, they have some awesome releases by bands like Mastodon, Nile, Converge, Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Jucifer, Neurosis, Zombi, Don Caballero, Genghis Tron and so on.
Grab yourself a bargain. The sale is on until March 31st.
Carrie Knific announced a little while ago that the winner for the Dillinger Escape Plan streat team has been chosen and today The Dillinger Escape Plan blogged about it on their MySpace page. Here’s what they wrote:
Category: MusicSo a little while ago on our street team myspace page(you can find it in our top friends if you don’t already know) we had a little contest of sorts. The prize was a signed guitar whose soul had been “liberated” onstage in a moment of passion at some point during a DEP show. The entrants had to basically show us the most creative ways that they had put up posters or stickers in their town. The one we felt was the best, gets the guitar. Simple. We do cool shit from time to time over there in street team land, so if you want in on the proceedings, go over there and check out the page and figure out how to get involved. Anyhow, we got some pretty obnoxious/amazing submissions, and one girl even got arrested, so it was hard to pick a winner. Nevertheless….*NAME REMOVED SO THAT HE WON’T GET ARRESTED* FROM GLENDALE CALIFORNIA…COME ON DOWN!!!!! His display of Dillinger vandalization was not only impressive, but hilarious. Especially so because the paper stickers we sent out are VERY hard to peel off once they’re put on something. Next time we do this, I hope to god somebody spray paints an overpass or a city bus or an elephant at the zoo, something like that, cause this kid did some good work. Here are some of his examples of guerilla decorating:
I like that one in particular because lord knows if there’s anything in the world that could possibly lube up the dried up clams of the desperate middle aged Cosmo readers that watch Sex in the City, it’s The Dillinger Escape Plan. If there’s a remedy for their ailment, its certainly us. Not only that but the triangle on the front of Ire Works is far nicer to look at than the Kentucky Derby Winner lookalike that stars in that movie, so the sticker served multiple purposes. This dude really took our stickers and elevated them to a higher purpose, gave them a deeper role in life. Here’s another fine work of art by this California deviant:
That one’s hilarity is pretty self explanatory. He was indeed a man on a mission. Here’s another:
There’s more, but thats enough. You win, for basically turning this contest into your own version of Project Mayhem.
In other news, there are four days and some change left that the Lurch and Sick On Sunday shirts will be available on the front page. They’re up until midnight PST the night of March 15th(Sunday night). After that they are gone into the abyss forever, only to turn up years from now sweat stained and crappy looking on Ebay, so go check ‘em out if you haven’t already.
Video blog from our recent Australia trip is still forthcoming. Keep your beady little eyes peeled. I sorted through the tapes and realized that 80% of the footage that we took on multiple cameras is of a Kangaroo scratching his nether regions, and that is unbelievably more entertaining than any other footage we have, so its proving hard to make a very compelling video out of the rest of the boring stuff. Get back to you guys soon.
On an Australian related note….remember Alice in Chains? We kinda forgot how rad all their stuff was until we had to hear them every single day in Australia, and realized that every single song they played for an hour and a half was killlllllller. We walked around most days going “boop boop!(yeahhhh) boop boop!(yeahhhh)” from that song “Again” that they had, and remembering how awesome it was when they did that Unplugged thing on MTV and Mike Inez had “Friends Don’t Let Friends Get Haircuts” written on his bass because Metallica had just cut their hair off. Seriously if you are young and missed it and don’t know better, you’re excused but now you have no excuses(AIC pun intended)! Go check out “Dirt” and “Jar Of Flies”…..wooooooweeee that shit is good! The songs were so good that it didn’t even matter that their singer is dead and they have some random guy singing for them now. Let me take that back, of course it sucks that he’s dead but the fact is that when you hear those songs they’re so undeniably good, especially after a full day of hair salon babyshit bands, that you wouldn’t care if it was Bobcat Goldthwait singing them, you’re just pumped to hear them!
Ben Weiman has revealed that The Dillinger Escape Plan are working on a new remix EP in a recent Twitter update. No word of a release date so far.
Update: Ben has also revealed that the next EP will come free with the next batch of limited edition t-shirts and so they will be very limited.
2nd Update: Here’s the latest from Twitter:
got some new additions for the remix ep. Pretty stoked. [link]
Possible High on Fire Dates
Ben has recently tweeted that The Dillinger Escape Plan will be doing some shows with High on Fire surrounding Bonnaroo Festival, at which both bands are appearing.