Artist: Revolting Cocks

A Brief History of Controversy-Courting Band Names

Sep 25, 2012, 3:00pm Flavorwire

Tomorrow marks the release of Strapped , the new album by Californian noiseniks The Soft Pack. (You can stream the record at Spin right now, if you're so inclined.) For those not familiar with the band's history, they used to be known as The Muslims, a name that caused them all sorts of predictable problems and was eventually ditched in favor of their current moniker circa 2009. So, to celebrate The Soft Pack's new record, we thought we'd look at some of music's other great controversy-courting band names. Warning: naughty words [...]

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Celebrating Independence with… Wax Trax!

Jul 4, 2012, 5:09pm KEXP Blog

In honor of Independence Day, KEXP is saluting some of our favorite indie record labels who's DIY-spirit helped revolutionize the music industry. As an independent radio station ourselves, KEXP is thrilled to give a 13-gun salute to these pioneers with a series of label spotlights through the Fourth of July. By Mel Trejo Before eventually evolving into a seminal label within the industrial genre, Wax Trax! had its beginnings as a record store. Business and life partners, Jim Nash [...]

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Cock sues baller

Jun 22, 2012, 6:16am No Rock And Roll Fun

Mark Durante - who was briefly in the Revolting Cocks - is Kevin Durant, a basketball player over a terrible nickname: According to the suit, filed Wednesday in federal court for the Northern District of Illinois, Durante has repeatedly demanded that the Oklahoma City Thunder's three-time NBA All Star stop using the nickname. He's also suing Nike, which he says has begun using a superhero version of Durant named "Durantula" as part of a shoe campaign, and Panini Authentic, which is selling photographs and basketballs with the Durantula inscription. The real sting is not that the [...]

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ENJOY NACHTMYSTIUM “AS MADE”

May 2, 2012, 10:30am MetalSucks

Nachtmystium will release a new 73 called As Made later this month, and Invisible Oranges is now streaming the title track. (The other cut on the album will be a cover of Joy Division's "The Eternal" featuring guest vocals by Chris Connelly of Ministry/Revolting Cocks fame.) I've listened to the song three times now, and... it's definitely something new [...]

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Beavis & Butthead: Tastemakers

Jan 1, 2012, 11:08pm Lost In The Sound

With Beavis and Butthead back on the air after nearly a decade-and-a-half hiatus, I thought I'd take a moment to offer my belated thanks to these two badly-drawn boys for turning me on to a couple of bands that otherwise would have escaped my attention. Even before MTV got out of the music video business, Beavis and Butthead were airing videos that would never have gotten any airplay via mainstream channels. Presumably channeling Mike Judge's musical tastes, Beavis and Butthead provided US viewers with the first glimpses of several well-below-the-radar bands including the Dead Milkmen, the Cramps, Daisy [...]

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Music Review: Chris Connelly - Artificial Madness

Nov 8, 2011, 5:13pm Music @ Blogcritics.org

The ex-Ministry screamer revives his solo career with a masterpiece.

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Stream The High Confessions debut album right now

Jul 28, 2010, 4:02pm loudloop

Photo Credit: Anna Maria Cerniglia As we reported back in February , Chicago metal heroes Sanford Park (Minsk, Nachtmystium, Twilight) and Jeremy Lemos (White/Light) have united with Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley and Ministry/Revolting Cocks vocalist Chris Connelly to form the group High Confessions . The noise-rocker’s debut album Turning Lead Into Gold with the High Confessions is now available for streaming via Stereogum.com . Per Stereogum: The 5-song/50-minute collection’s a slow-release patchwork of dark clattering tones, drum rolls, drone, [...]

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New Release Round Up, 4/13/10 – 35 Instant Album Reviews

Apr 16, 2010, 6:43pm Spinning Platters

Sorry to everyone who expected to see this last week. Due to some unexpected laziness I only listened to new releases and didn't review them. There was general outrage and I won't do it again. Leave Your Sleep by Natalie Merchant - Sounds like Natalie really loves her some Sting. So much so [...]

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Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley In New Psyche Supergroup

Feb 24, 2010, 1:27pm The Lime Wire Blog

Steve Shelley, the widely esteemed drummer of Sonic Youth and founding member of the Crucifucks , has a new side project rolling out this summer. The High Confessions will find Shelley joined by Chris Connelly, a former member of the Revolting Cocks , Ministry and Pigface . Intrigued? Wait, there's more. Their debut Turning Lead Into Gold with the High Confessions will be released this summer by Relapse Records .  Among the label's heavy roster of underground metal bands is trippy doom act Minsk , whose bass [...]

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TOP 5: SONGS ABOUT YOUR STATE:

Feb 24, 2010, 12:02pm Nine Bullets

While I feel that some of you are at a disadvantage on this one, not being from or living in Texas, this week's top 5 is "Songs About Your State". I left it kinda' open so you can pick the state you where you were born, where you live, or where you have lived. Being from Texas I am all sorts of proud to be a Texan and all that but I do realize that the 49 lesser states have history, color, tradition, and even songs written about them so I figured that we'd try this one out and see [...]

• JJ Grey & Mofro - On Palastine
• John Anderson - Seminole Wind
• Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom Special
• Mofro - Florida
• Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, James Cotton & Pinetop Perkins - Deep Down In Florida
• Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers And Queers (Drop Your Britches Mix)

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Artist:	JJ Grey & Mofro
Title:	On Palastine
Link Text:	Mofro - On Palestine
File Name:	Mofro_-_On_Palastine.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Year:	2007

Artist:	John Anderson
Title:	Seminole Wind
Link Text:	John Anderson - Seminole Wind
File Name:	john_anderson_-_seminole_wind. mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Year:	1996

Artist:	Johnny Cash
Title:	Orange Blossom Special
Link Text:	Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom Special
File Name:	Johnny_Cash_-_Orange_Blossom_S pecial.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Year:	1965

Artist:	Mofro
Title:	Florida
Link Text:	Mofro - Florida
File Name:	Mofro_-_Florida.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Year:	2001

Artist:	Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, James Cotton & Pinetop Perkins
Title:	Deep Down In Florida
Link Text:	Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, James Cotton  Pinetop Perkins - Deep Down in Florida
File Name:	Muddy_Waters,_Johnny_Winter,_J ames_Cotton_and_Pinetop_Perkin s_-_Deep_Down_In_Florida.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps

Artist:	Revolting Cocks
Title:	Beers, Steers And Queers (Drop Your Britches Mix)
Link Text:	Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers and Queers
File Name:	Revolting_Cocks_-_Beers_Steers _And_Queers.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Year:	2006

Sonic Youth drummer forms new band with Minsk’s Sanford Parker and White/Light’s Jeremy Lemos

Feb 23, 2010, 5:39pm loudloop

According to Pitchfork.com , Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley has formed a new band called The High Confessions with industrial rocker Chris Connelly, well known for his work in both the Revolting Cocks and Ministry , Sanford Parker of Chicago metal group Minsk and Jeremy Lemos, who is not only a member of Chicago experimental, psychedelic outfit White/Light but has worked as an engineer along side Bill Callahan and Jim O'Rourke. The band recently signed to Relapse Records [...]

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Remembering Wax Trax!

Jan 21, 2010, 11:41pm All the Young Punks

Dannie Flesher, co-founder of Chicago industrial record label Wax Trax!, died last week of pneumonia at age 58. While the label has been gone for awhile (it filed for bankruptcy in 1992), its influence continues today . Wax Trax! artists include Ministry , Front 242 , Revolting Cocks and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult . After starting out in Denver, Flesher and partner Jim Nash opened the Wax Trax record store in Lincoln Park in 1978. The label was started in the early '80s. Nash died in 1995 [...]

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SO WHO STILL THINKS AL JOURGENSEN IS SANE?

Dec 14, 2009, 11:00am MetalSucks

We just received the following press release here at the MetalSucks Mansion. I don't usually like to just cut and paste press releases, but in this instance I feel like I need to do so in order to make my point. So: Ministry's Uncle Al Jourgensen is apparently in the Christmas spirit, having created a Christmas [...]

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Revolting Cocks – Bang a Gong (Get it On) (Live)

Dec 3, 2009, 3:01am The Sound Of Indie

RevCo was one of Al Jourgenson's many (and uniformly excellent) Wax Trax! collaborative side projects that kept him entertained when not devoting time to his major label behemoth, Ministry . Of all of his side projects, RevCo , with its lurid tales of lecherous rednecks, motorcycles thieves, and perhaps most famously, for raising hackles on high profile goats via cheeky covers ( Olivia Newton John and Rod Stewart ), is far and away his longest running non- Ministry related concern. This go around, Al has passed the reigns to [...]

• Revolting Cocks - Bang A Gong

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Artist:	Revolting Cocks
Title:	Bang A Gong
Link Text:	Revolting Cocks - Bang a Gong (Get it On) (Live)
File Name:	RevCo-BangAGong.mp3
Bitrate:	256 kbps
Year:	2009

CRUSTCAKE PICKS - ATX SHOWS 10/30 - 11/1

Oct 29, 2009, 9:00am crustcake

by Van Damned (ATX)I'll keep this short and sweet: basically, we got a nice three-day lineup to transition into November, which could end up going down as THE single best month for metal this town has seen in a whole minute. Stay tuned. This weekend though, we got some classic industrial metal, some classic deranged, psychedelic alt-rock and some classic instrumental post-metal. Plus, time falls

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RevCo, Blownload, and Jim Rose get cocky in Charlotte, NC (10/24)

Oct 26, 2009, 3:35pm Consequence Of Sound

The fall here in Charlotte has become a true season for the freaks; with Insane Clown Posse properly decimating Amos' SouthEnd much to the chagrin of certain flamers and Halloween fast approaching, we now greet a true act of carnival-style darkness know as LuBriCaTour 2009.  Who else would properly fit the bill of this Al Jourgenson-branded "mindfuckery" but Revolting Cocks emceed by the infamous Jim Rose? The answer is no one, and with California cock-rock a la Blownload tacked on there was no doubt that Tremont Music Hall would indeed see its converted warehouse walls shake in fear [...]

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METAL LEGACIES: PAUL RAVEN OF 16VOLT, MINISTRY, REVOLTING COCKS DIED OCTOBER 20, 2007

Oct 20, 2009, 10:00am MetalSucks

Metal Legacies is an ongoing memorial to extreme music pioneers who kicked the proverbial bucket way too soon. [MetalSucks contributor Corey Mitchell managed Eric Powell's band, 16volt, from 1996-1998. He asked Powell to write about his friend and bandmate, Raul Raven, for the Metal Legacies series.] by Eric Powell Life. It goes by too fast and comes at [...]

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Album: Ministry - The Last Dubber

Sep 21, 2009, 4:14am Thrash Hits

Ministry The Last Dubber 13th Planet Records 11 Sept 2009 by Jon Kerr With few exceptions, remix albums are the domain of the die-hard fan and are only ever appreciated in comparison to the original release. In this example, here we have a remix album of the career-ending fanfare that was Ministry 's The Last Sucker , the George W. Bush-themed album Al Jourgensen had intended to abandon the Ministry name with two years ago. [...]

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last days of radio (lost and found)

Sep 19, 2009, 7:00am cowsarejustfood

  ah the hidden treasures, lurking dusty behind shelves and in drawers and cupboards and shinyshinyboxes; in dvd cases, wrong cases, suitcases; used as bookmarks, balancing devices and in one case a stand for muppet toys.  all these lovely treats hidden away for me to find as part of some elaborate logistical orwellian nightmare i call moving house.  you know the book house of leaves ?  you know the movie cube (and it's sequels (but not gleaming the cube))?  that's my spare room.  honest to christ.  still haven't found my ted leo cd.  have [...]

• Bedhead - Haywire
• Belly - Gepetto
• Boom Bip & Nina Nastasia - The Matter (Of Our Discussion)
• Daniel Johnston & Jad Fair - I Did Acid With Caroline
• Edwin Starr - War
• Karate - One Less Blues
• Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
• No Bra - Munchausen
• Revolting Cocks - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
• Smog - Vessel In Vain

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Artist:	Bedhead
Title:	Haywire
Link Text:	haywire
File Name:	bedhead-haywire.mp3
Bitrate:	235 kbps
Year:	1994

Artist:	Belly
Title:	Gepetto
Link Text:	gepetto
File Name:	belly-gepetto.mp3
Bitrate:	216 kbps
Year:	1993

Artist:	Boom Bip & Nina Nastasia
Title:	The Matter (Of Our Discussion)
Link Text:	the matter (of our discussion)
File Name:	boom-bip-nina-nastasia-the-mat ter-of-our-discussion.mp3
Bitrate:	152 kbps
Year:	2005

Artist:	Daniel Johnston & Jad Fair
Title:	I Did Acid With Caroline
Link Text:	i did acid with caroline
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Bitrate:	128 kbps

Artist:	Edwin Starr
Title:	War
Link Text:	war
File Name:	edwin-starr-war.mp3
Bitrate:	169 kbps
Year:	1992

Artist:	Karate
Title:	One Less Blues
Link Text:	one less blues
File Name:	karate-one-less-blues.mp3
Bitrate:	205 kbps
Year:	2000

Artist:	Modern Lovers
Title:	Roadrunner
Link Text:	roadrunner
File Name:	modern-lovers-roadrunner.mp3
Bitrate:	218 kbps
Year:	1976

Artist:	No Bra
Title:	Munchausen
Link Text:	munchausen
File Name:	no-bra-munchausen.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps

Artist:	Revolting Cocks
Title:	Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Link Text:	do ya think im sexy
File Name:	revolting-cocks-da-ya-think-im -sexy.mp3
Bitrate:	130 kbps
Year:	1993

Artist:	Smog
Title:	Vessel In Vain
Link Text:	vessel in vain
File Name:	smog-vessel-in-vain.mp3
Bitrate:	256 kbps
Year:	2004

Revolting Cocks celebrate Sex-O MiXXX-O, tour with Jim Rose

Sep 13, 2009, 12:30pm Consequence Of Sound

"The Cocks are cummin' to your town soon. Hide your daughters," warns industrial metal god Al Jourgensen. All who remember the power of the Revolting Cocks (also called RevCo) as support for Ministry last year will know to take heed. Perversion galore reigns supreme as the industrial madhouse announces a full-fledged headlining tour for 2009, its first ever in North America during its 20-year career. Properly inducting RevCo into the wide, wide world of North American headliners is none other than Jim Rose, who's quite the spectacle himself. Those who witnessed The Jim Rose Circus with NIN during the mid-90s [...]

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