JANUARY 22

We're playing a house show in Urbana with some midwestern noise. E-mail duderanchdiy@gmail.com for directions.

year end lists jh

hear we r again...
top thirteen in njo particular order
(cept 4 the last one)
Barn Owl ancestral star
Earth a bueaucratic desire for extra-capsular extraction (not really a reissue but sorta)
Grinderman 2
U.S.X. run thick in the night
Dungen skit I allt
Swans my father will guide me a rope up to the sky
Queen Victoria there will come soft rains
Gonjasufi a sufi and a killer
Aerial Pink before today
Seijaku mail from fushitsusha
Sabbath Assembly restored to one
Dead C patience
Sparkling Wide Pressure nowhere time/cruising reflections

and the best: Beach House teen dream

obsession nursed: The Verve

Reissue: Jim Sullivan UFO (thank you NPR)

My Radio Volume 23

A mix of new favorites, old standbys and some odd songs that I cant get out of my head. Weirdo pop, Garage ish Rock, noisy and dramatic, and some strange finds mostly from the web. -Posted by Brody

http://www.mediafire.com/?ktkga4kc5awihh8

what?

AUGUST 14

AUGUST 7

Morse Orchid

Although this is a home for evil eye hOneytree. No information has been given about them. Until now..........They started out with Joel Madigan on Drums, Jeff Hyde Bass and vocals, Brody Maag Guitar and vocals. A few years later they invited Nathaniel Lucas to join. He has since made noise and melody with various toys. Another year or so passed and Joel moved on. Chris Wheeler was invited to play Drums. At the same time Dave Moe was asked to come along to add more guitar flavor. They are almost finished with the recording of the current song list with this line up.

..but recently they finished the release with the original line up. The songs that were played the first 2 years. Since they still hadn't released it when Nate started, they made him contribute... sorta like a hazing.


http://www.mediafire.com/download/a8taf1hvqbe6e3e/evil_eye_hOneytree_-_Morse_Orchid.zip

Dark Nerd on Youtube

This is part 1 of 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OusEz9fpo68

Dark Nerd Initial Tracks Complete

Dark Nerd has finished.
The recording is complete.
Join the party Saturday June 26th.
The Red Barn will be full of
merriment and song.

Live at The Red Barn

Dark Nerd Returns

13 Years since the first,last and only show.
Dark Nerd has risen again. After 2 practices
Dark Nerd has started recording the record
that should of happened a long time ago. Two
sessions have been completed only one more
to go before they will have beat, strummed and
sang all that is deserved. Dark Nerd is currently
swimming in the fountain of youth reliving the
speed and the triumph of days gone by. Nine
songs will soon be finished and available for
listening pleasures. Dark Nerd feels very lucky
to be able to make this happen. They will
celebrate with a single performance on
June 26th at the Red Barn. Sharing this night
of achievement with Ghosts of Old Giants,
Joel Madigan and who ever is lucky enough to
pass through the door.

MAY 15 2010 - BRASS RAIL - PEORIA

All photos courtesy of Derrick Hart.

Pretentious Artist #9

"When asked about the draw to Montana Star Rock
I find myself explaining Pretentious Artist #9.
It all started from these songs. These songs are
the building blocks. "Patients" supplied me with
the means to see beyond my own want and existence.
Not so much what a man needs to survive but what
mankind needs to move forward. With "A Year's Supply
of Oxygen" I realized that I was not alone.I was driven
upward out of my own recluse to join with my brothers
to envision the tools needed for any future."

Rudy Montana
199?-199?

This is a little departure from the theme here but, just a step away... like a cousin to the evil eye. Jeremy Kerner made these amazing tapes in the mid 90's, precursor to Montana Star Rock. Pretentious Artist #9 was one of the more amazing acts to come outta North St., the castle of creativity and dreams.

Currently he is living in California making music with Solar Wimp. Memory also places Jeremy in Soul Sister Birgade, Three Boyfriends, Fast Food Revolution, Mirandis and the Solar Wimp Trio.

Am I missing anything? Put it in the comments.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ytun333dzww


http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?cjg0o2kwiyo

The Peoria Theater June 5th 2010

by Nate Lucas

Montana Star Rock

Lost in a sour hallucinogenic desert, three men fight their
way through disillusions of mortal confusion and fear.

Jeremy Kerner stepped out of the room that spawned
Pretentious Artist #9 to join with Jeff Hyde. Jeff was fresh from
his escapades in The Norms with some songs of his own.
They teamed up with Brody Maag and his frightened
stumble of a drunk beat. Individually they took on a new
persona, a new name. Names that would bring them
closer to the enlightenment for which hearts often yearn.

Not jumping because they thought they could fly. They knew
that their weightlessness was an inevitable expense to bring your
ears with them. Fast through a hazy residue of loss and despair,
these notes resonated a path to the future. Only few took their way
along this dizzying adventure hoping to find enlightenment,
solace, or even rescue from the troubles of living and faith.

Bound to the rules constricting around them, like a step away from
the being beyond a mortal death. Rudy Montana, Carmen Star, and
Mod Rock were found dead, floating in a pool representing an
amniotic sack of life surround. In leaving us with this small gift of
history, these three men have invited us to go with them.
………To be reborn

Honest and welcoming, such an embrace should not be ignored.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ym14wtwgjju

the End o' Men

end o' men - 1996

Name taken from the early Nora Hate song End Of Man.
A brotherhood bound by the apocalyptic actions of the common stooge. The garbage, the killing, lying, cheating, the things people do, the effects that keep building. Loud reflections of the time they where living. An audio image of the shit that they were seeing. They found it hard to slow down, so hard to sit still. A God Damn Vibration!
Chad Trone worked Drums, Chris Cowgill abused bass, Brody Maag took guitar and sang on this unfinished batch of disgust and complaint.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?kml0zmmaxom

Dark Nerd

"I’ve got a prayer for you... and it’s right here."



1998 was a rock n’ roll ghetto: while “Moons” Pix and Safari weighed heavy on sighs, “A Thousand Leaves” introduced Sonic Youth to the Bonnaroo generation and nu-metal became the elephant in the middle of the room. Dark Nerd’s decision to sign with Merge records in June of that year is no stranger than the labels’ insistence on beating the indie rock world over the head with the insipid “Aeroplane Over the Sea,” penned by a band who would proceed to break up immediately from the shame, to the detriment of better makers. Word has it that Stephin Merritt actually begged for a delayed release of “69 Love Songs” after hearing Dark Nerd’s magnum opus. He got his wish. While clearly smitten and juiced about the buzz, Merge had no intention of putting any love into this beast of an album from the armpit of the Midwest.



Early reviews of the pre-release were dismal. Mojo called it “primal-one note drivel,” their shortest review in over five years (the prior consisting of: “I want to fuck Kim Deal” per “Last Splash’s” singular appeal). Just the name of the band became a subject of partisan debate. By Fall of 98, the plaid-wearing populace seemed to be split down the middle about the merits of Dark Nerd and their place in the universe. Divisive to be sure, but the believers did so with a ferocity unparalleled in those days. Their lone live recording is a testament to the incendiary breadth of the ardour with which they were worshipped. Sent to Merge offices hot on the heels of “The Basement Demo” in late summer of 98, “The Pizza Party” was a scorched earth affair in a plain brown wrapper. Heads were scratched in Chapel Hill for months. Merge balked on the contracted recording details and agreed to a cassette only release of the Basement Demos (June 98), and Pizza Party (July 98; *subsequently bootlegged under various guises in attempts to keep it in print, each version is slightly different. Brian Gould has stated that the 98 cassette release is a completely different recording than the copies circulated around Lollapalooza in 2000 (a fact disputed by their almost undeniable non-existence); certainly, the audio on the later boots is improved and the tracklisting pared down to the raw essentials, a decision referred to by none other than Julian Cope as “the greatest fucking assfuck in all of rock-fucking history”).



Dark Nerd was born into the world kicking and screaming from the ashes of Rugg City and The Norms. Brody Maag and Jeff Hyde had been bashing away at beer-soaked rumblings in their basement, pairing up with just about anyone who could take the verbal abuse and constant atmosphere of dread. The first was Jeremy Kerner, who has received some notoriety in late years as the front-man for the diminutively heliocentric “Solar Wimp.” They tried on an outfit heavily monikered: “Montana Star Rock” and actually played some shows (much to the disbelief of almost everyone in attendance). The two then contacted Jeff’s old band mate Brian Gould, then on hiatus from Atlantic Recording artists “Fast Food Revolution,” and decided to give it a go. Three months and several hundred breakfasts at the Kaffehaus from that auspicious meeting, the recording that now sits in your player was born. It is raw, it is primal. Maag’s drumming is pure caveman and the two axemen chop down redwoods. To use Hyde’s phrase from “Pizza Party:” “we’re not here to change the face of rock n’ roll… but we might.” That about sums it up.

Brian is currently involved with Middle Class Devil Cult in New Zealand.




“The Basement Demo”

“The Pizza Party”

Post #20

All-pay Ef-j

"Headless Man" b/w "Ride the Hippopotamus"


(my man PG is a genius)

Men's Weaphouse- "The Rodeo Clown"

Recorded during an ice storm on 12/18/2008 to 4-track.

The Rodeo Clown

The members of Men’s Weaphouse converged one evening in December 2008 in South Peoria to terrorize some eardrums. Needless to say, they loved the way they looked (it had been guaranteed), these lachrymose chaps had to do something about it. In this incarnation, Men’s Weaphouse consists of Chris Wheeler on bass and drums, Nate Lucas on keys, and Jeff Hyde on guitar and samples. The entire jam was precipitated by the recent purchase of the only new four-track recorder found on the web and a convergent scheduling mishap. It was a bad night to meet anywhere, there was a half-inch of ice covering fuck-all. This jam is improvised, but not live: the Weaphouse creates a ritual that is not a part of everyday life. All performances are culled from the moment, their inception born of an abiding love for all things dark and syrupy. The most remarkable thing about that evening is that no one died in transit.

live footage

"Another Weekend In the Gutter"
January 16, 2010 - Peoria Theater

post #16

jh:

Actual album of the year that both Nate and I would have voted album of the year if it were not for the fact that said album was actually released in late 2008:

True Widow: st

seriously... if you're reading this, you need to hear it. Enjoy. (not our link)

Post #15...end of year lists (cont.)

NL

Top 10 albums of 2009

10. Circle of Ouroborus - Tree of Knowledge
9. Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
8. Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut
7. Night Control - Death Control
6. Liturgy - Renihilation
5. Converge - Axe to Fall
4. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
3. People Under the Stairs - Carried Away
2. Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
1. Portal - Swarth

Performance: Harvey Milk at Scion Fest
Thing From Jeff's List I Should Have Included: Horseback

Post #14...end of year lists

jh:

top 20 albums of 2009

20.bonnie prince billy: beware
19.the flower-corsano duo: the four aims
18.silvester anfang II: untitled
17.mount eerie: wind poem
16.sparklehorse & fennesz: in the fishtank
15.ilyas ahmed: goner
14.yo la tengo: popular songs
13.liturgy: renihilation
12.horseback: the invisible mountain
11.alasdair Roberts: spoiled
10.harvey milk: the singles
9.raekwon: only built 4 cuban linx pt. 2
8.zelionople: give it up
7.robert pollard: elephant jokes
6.circle: hollywood
5.robyn hitchcock & the venus 3: goodnight oslo
4.the laughing windows: ep
3.Philip Jeck & Jacob Kirkegaard: soaked
2.heavy winged: shaking, waking
1.bardo pond: peri

re-issue: big star: keep an eye on the sky (box)
obsession nursed: hüsker dü
anti: caps