Thursday, September 22, 2011
Deserters vs Wavers
Scorching outta the Southwest, the state of things being what it is...Lenguas Largas are living like men should live. We join them along with Criminal Code, on high alert for backward cap overages in the U-District on Saturday, October 1st at Galway Arms. Bring your love for punk and potatoes.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Selfish Dictator Dreams
Free show this Sunday in Seattle at B-Side Music. Come on down. All Ages. 8pm. Playing with our good friends Dreamdecay, Same Sex Dictator and Self Com.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Mission Accompliced
Well...we did it--Criminal Code and Big Crux got a ball-tingler of a tour outta the "Big Weekend." Friends of both bands were super helpful. Thank you very goddamn much. Hosts were generous and kind. Venues and the peeps who played and watched the shows were dope. We traveled safe and sound, without a hitch.
Specific thanks are owed to many and it may take multiple posts to be comprehensive. For now let's just say...you know who you are. But a special show of gratitude was earned by Criminal Code for being mystifyingly cool travel mates and also to White Wards for making it all possible by letting us rent their ghostly van. Andrew's mind will be forever haunted.
Here's a taste of how brilliant Criminal Code were on this tour--and this is their first gig of the jaunt!:
We wrapped things up in PDX and here's what a big chunk of that looked like:
If pressed for high points, would have to say:
1. "Rocknroll lifestyle...1, 2, 3, 4...stay high...no parents allowed forever." (Making Love @ Phantom City Records - Olympia, WA 8/31/11)
2. Chickens wear boots and you gotta believe Taiga. (Jawsh's house - Reno, NV 9/1/11)
3. What came out of singer of Elephant Rifle's mouth about his butt. (Lincoln Lounge - Reno, NV 9/1/11)
4. Our faces are Permanently Ruined. (The Church - Oakland, CA 9/2/11)
5. Shangri-La, without The Kinks. (House of the Dead Rat - San Jose, CA 9/3/11)
6. "Does it smell bad in there?" (Matt Average in some doorway on Pine Street - San Francisco, CA 9/3/11)
7. Sinking D's battleship! (Cemetery Gates Cafe - Portland, OR 9/4/11)
Specific thanks are owed to many and it may take multiple posts to be comprehensive. For now let's just say...you know who you are. But a special show of gratitude was earned by Criminal Code for being mystifyingly cool travel mates and also to White Wards for making it all possible by letting us rent their ghostly van. Andrew's mind will be forever haunted.
Here's a taste of how brilliant Criminal Code were on this tour--and this is their first gig of the jaunt!:
We wrapped things up in PDX and here's what a big chunk of that looked like:
If pressed for high points, would have to say:
1. "Rocknroll lifestyle...1, 2, 3, 4...stay high...no parents allowed forever." (Making Love @ Phantom City Records - Olympia, WA 8/31/11)
2. Chickens wear boots and you gotta believe Taiga. (Jawsh's house - Reno, NV 9/1/11)
3. What came out of singer of Elephant Rifle's mouth about his butt. (Lincoln Lounge - Reno, NV 9/1/11)
4. Our faces are Permanently Ruined. (The Church - Oakland, CA 9/2/11)
5. Shangri-La, without The Kinks. (House of the Dead Rat - San Jose, CA 9/3/11)
6. "Does it smell bad in there?" (Matt Average in some doorway on Pine Street - San Francisco, CA 9/3/11)
7. Sinking D's battleship! (Cemetery Gates Cafe - Portland, OR 9/4/11)
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Yeah...uh...moshi moshi to you, too...
Big Crux and Criminal Code are "set to pop" for the Big Weekend...
...also these forays into local spots (pre and post Big Weekend), supporting friends from all around...supernumerary as some of these 21+ dates may be (sorry kiddies):
8/17 - The Funhouse w/ The Arrivals (Chicago), Underground RR to Candyland (San Pedro), Demerit (Beijing) and The Unemployables
8/20 - The Josephine w/ The Men (NYC), Milk Music (Oly) and Cold Lake
10/02 - The Comet (matinee show) w/ Lenguas Largas (Tucson)
10/14 - Rendezvous Theater w/ Police Teeth, Victory and Associates (Oakland/SF)
...also these forays into local spots (pre and post Big Weekend), supporting friends from all around...supernumerary as some of these 21+ dates may be (sorry kiddies):
8/17 - The Funhouse w/ The Arrivals (Chicago), Underground RR to Candyland (San Pedro), Demerit (Beijing) and The Unemployables
8/20 - The Josephine w/ The Men (NYC), Milk Music (Oly) and Cold Lake
10/14 - Rendezvous Theater w/ Police Teeth, Victory and Associates (Oakland/SF)
Monday, July 25, 2011
Cool Reviews!
Wow! We're happy to share these very nice words people [we don't personally know] have said about our 7" EP and band....from two top punk music connoisseurs, Razorcake fanzine out of Los Angeles and Maximum Rock N Roll out of San Francisco...much obliged! Peep:
By Daryl GussinSunday, May 29 2011 (7" of the month)
Razorcake fanzine
From the most blasting, blurring hardcore to the eeriest, most mechanical dirge from down under, Iron Lung Records has been steadily releasing records packed with intent and a daunting execution. Both aesthetically engaging and musically intriguing, their records really make you feel like they’re part of a larger message.
One of their newest releases is from Seattle’s Big Crux. The songs seem to bounce around with vibrant enthusiasm, taking cues from punk rock’s finest and most forward thinkers. If this debut EP is just the first taste, it’s pretty obvious that Big Crux are not in it to lose.
BIG CRUX:
Big Funk: 7”
Razorcake Fanzine
Give me half an hour and I wouldn’t be anywhere close to telling you how fantastic the Big Boys were. Big Crux hold the Big Boys in the same high esteem. Funk punk is such a double diamond-dangerous slippery slope into a world where people wear Cat in the Hat hats and wiggle glow sticks above their heads. Big Crux have got the chops and the heart to make me fondly remember the Big Boys, much like Giant Haystacks did for the Minutemen. Not a rip. Not a photocopy. An homage, a new take, and songs that stand on their own if you’ve never hear of the Big Boys. Tim Kerr did the fantastic cover art. –Todd Taylor
BIG CRUX - "Big Crux is a Big Funk" EP (August Maximum Rock n' Roll fanzine #339)
A total winner! The three tracks on this EP have MINUTEMEN and BIG BOYS influence seeping out here and there, but the inspiration derived from those bands only serves as a backdrop to an otherwise unique sound. Listening to this record conjures up an image of a few musicians who totally appreciate old R&B and rock'n'roll and original punk just jamming together for hours in a musty basement. The songs are minimalistic but clean, and the killer funk bass lines are prominent but not too funky or obnoxious slap bass shit. The lyrics, occasionally in Spanish but mostly in English, are meaningful but not obvious. The guitar licks are fantastic, and they work so well because of the solid drum fills and beats holding it all together. My hands are getting tired from flipping this thing over and over again. Top ten for sure. (Bob Goldie)
By Daryl GussinSunday, May 29 2011 (7" of the month)
Razorcake fanzine
From the most blasting, blurring hardcore to the eeriest, most mechanical dirge from down under, Iron Lung Records has been steadily releasing records packed with intent and a daunting execution. Both aesthetically engaging and musically intriguing, their records really make you feel like they’re part of a larger message.
One of their newest releases is from Seattle’s Big Crux. The songs seem to bounce around with vibrant enthusiasm, taking cues from punk rock’s finest and most forward thinkers. If this debut EP is just the first taste, it’s pretty obvious that Big Crux are not in it to lose.
BIG CRUX:
Big Funk: 7”
Razorcake Fanzine
Give me half an hour and I wouldn’t be anywhere close to telling you how fantastic the Big Boys were. Big Crux hold the Big Boys in the same high esteem. Funk punk is such a double diamond-dangerous slippery slope into a world where people wear Cat in the Hat hats and wiggle glow sticks above their heads. Big Crux have got the chops and the heart to make me fondly remember the Big Boys, much like Giant Haystacks did for the Minutemen. Not a rip. Not a photocopy. An homage, a new take, and songs that stand on their own if you’ve never hear of the Big Boys. Tim Kerr did the fantastic cover art. –Todd Taylor
BIG CRUX - "Big Crux is a Big Funk" EP (August Maximum Rock n' Roll fanzine #339)
A total winner! The three tracks on this EP have MINUTEMEN and BIG BOYS influence seeping out here and there, but the inspiration derived from those bands only serves as a backdrop to an otherwise unique sound. Listening to this record conjures up an image of a few musicians who totally appreciate old R&B and rock'n'roll and original punk just jamming together for hours in a musty basement. The songs are minimalistic but clean, and the killer funk bass lines are prominent but not too funky or obnoxious slap bass shit. The lyrics, occasionally in Spanish but mostly in English, are meaningful but not obvious. The guitar licks are fantastic, and they work so well because of the solid drum fills and beats holding it all together. My hands are getting tired from flipping this thing over and over again. Top ten for sure. (Bob Goldie)
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Men, Milk and a Growing Crux: Is this an Ice Age for Pleasure Boaters?
A group of secret society members from New York, known as The Men (notorious for having no more than 538 Johnsons), are being implicated in a tunnel discovery, believed to have been made during a fishing trip they took to Seattle in early 2011. In a lake behind The M-----, where plummeting freshwater temperatures are used to encourage nature cruising in hopes of increasing U.S. and Canadian border crossings, several e-mails may have resulted in what appears to be a subterranean passage extending from Brooklyn to Ballard...and beyond. A list of confirmed entrances and exits is available here.
Vindication from claims of an alleged attempt to "milk" the state capital of its music resources will be sought by these "pug-ugly joy-punk and almost krautrock face-mooshers" at a town meeting scheduled for Saturday, August 20th. The meeting will be moderated by Josephine Baker-Bonaparte and will likely begin around 9 p.m.
Vindication from claims of an alleged attempt to "milk" the state capital of its music resources will be sought by these "pug-ugly joy-punk and almost krautrock face-mooshers" at a town meeting scheduled for Saturday, August 20th. The meeting will be moderated by Josephine Baker-Bonaparte and will likely begin around 9 p.m.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Aloha, from Santa Rosalia.
Pick it up at our June 19th party at the Josephine in Seattle with our friends ANDROID HERO, CRIMINAL CODE, IRON LUNG, and WHITE WARDS! You can hear it here. Available now at Iron Lung Records.
Nice and Friendly, B<X
Monday, May 2, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
"...And within the context of political situation...
...the American People are some dirty motherfuckers."
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[punk music show including theater of the oppressed of sorts...Boal would be proud?]
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
He Ain't Gon' E-mail You!
Monday, April 11, 2011
Olympia heads: Do we need a fucking crossing guard?
Ey dere, ladies and germs. Join us and X's for I's in Olympia for what is sure to be Kaufman's last stand! It may very well result in a band brawl a la Life's Halt and One Man Show Live at the PCH club in 1998!
xoxo,
bxgcrux
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
720 minutes before the work week
Hope to see y'all at this show:
B</x addendum: but also some twang, a touch of R&B, and musings akin to the sworn atheist who dies screaming for Jesús...
Nice and Friendly, Big Crux
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Built Up from Scratch
The Urinals to Big Crux between our sets at The Funhouse:
"You guys remind me of someone [chuckles]...yeah...I think it's...Van Halen!"
And our laughing lungs go Hack! Hack! Hack!
"You guys remind me of someone [chuckles]...yeah...I think it's...Van Halen!"
And our laughing lungs go Hack! Hack! Hack!
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Conciliatory Note of Cruxy Proportions
Villagers:
Found at the base of Number 6's toilet bowl:
No need to be alarmed; nothing a little vacantstarechickenwalking won't quell!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Where Did His Eyes Go?
Gentle People, Gente Buena,
This little band we got called big crux -- which has nothing to do with boy scouts, or murder, rather with the response I got from a 60-year-old Salvadoran refugee grandmother on 3rd and Alvarado in L.A. when asked about the economy; she answered <esos hijueputas son unos big crooks> which I heard as big crux and transcribed phonetically as such...D Boon and Biscuit were there, too -- has a little page in the works where you can listen to our debut EP. Much obliged were you to give a listen! Peep: http://bigcrux.bandcamp.com/ If moved to such an action, it can be purchased here: http://ironlungrecords.bigcartel.com/
Nice and Friendly, Big Crux
This little band we got called big crux -- which has nothing to do with boy scouts, or murder, rather with the response I got from a 60-year-old Salvadoran refugee grandmother on 3rd and Alvarado in L.A. when asked about the economy; she answered <esos hijueputas son unos big crooks> which I heard as big crux and transcribed phonetically as such...D Boon and Biscuit were there, too -- has a little page in the works where you can listen to our debut EP. Much obliged were you to give a listen! Peep: http://bigcrux.bandcamp.com/ If moved to such an action, it can be purchased here: http://ironlungrecords.bigcartel.com/
Nice and Friendly, Big Crux
Saturday, January 22, 2011
The Power of Burns
Is James Burns Strong Bad? And if so, does he use his powers for good...or for awesome? We think "awesome" but read this and see for yourself.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
YOU at The Morgue 1.16.11
Thanks to everyone. And double thanks for buying records and t-shirts. Just look at yourselves getting ready to decide if you like this band live.
The 7" is up for your listening pleasure here. Thanks to Iron Lung Records, Jackson Long and Tim Kerr for bringing these songs to the material world.
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