PUBLICIST (Trans Am / Weird War) will have a new EP on Discotexas on May 13th.Today he starts an european tour and we also launch a remix contest.PublicistSebastian Thomson is PUBLICIST. He's also a drummer. An excellent one! He loves making music with his friends but he also loves to make music on his own. And when he's not recording or touring with Trans Am (or even Weird War) he's working on

Every one of Stalin's houses had its own private cinema, and in his last years, the cinema became not only his favourite entertainment but also a source of political inspiration. It was one of the venues from which he ruled the Soviet Empire: this was cinematocracy - rule by cinema. Stalin loved movies, but he was much more than a movie-buff. The new Communist Party archives in Moscow, and the recently opened personal papers of Stalin, reveal that he fancied himself a super-movie-producer/director/ screenwriter as well as supreme censor, suggesting titles, ideas and stories, working on scripts and [...]

Calvin Johnson, former Beat Happening front man and K Records head honcho, is going on tour with his brand new band, The Hive Dwellers. The tour will kick off on April 14 with K newbies Chain and the Gang, featuring Ian Svenious (Nation of Ulysses, the Make-Up, Weird War, etc.) Interestingly, aside from the front men, the two groups will consist of the same members — Bret Lyman (Bad Thoughts), Brian Weber (Dub Narcotic Sound System), Sarah Pedal, and Fred Thomas (Saturday Looks Good to Me, City Center). - Jon Lorenz [...]
The Cassettes are one of the most appropriately named bands playing today, for a number of reasons. First off, their reference to the classic analogue medium certainly highlights a fascination with anachronism. A trait evident when watching some of the short videos on their site and their last album, 'Neath the Pale Moon. But it's [...]
Enjoy their performance below. Visit Weird War on MySpace. MP3 at bottom. MP3: Weird War - Burgers & Fries

If you've seen my house by daylight lately, you've seen my lawn. An ersatz swampland of grass and dandelions, and some sort of wildflowers not yet classified by modern science. A celebration of all that is wild and unruly. A rock'n'roll lawn. But no more, dear friends, no more. The trouble began, as trouble always does, on Saturday. "What are we going to do about the lawn?" Nicole asked. We've never owned a lawnmower, having lived in apartment buildings back in Regina. And even if we had, I don't think we would have brought one with us. A quick [...]