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Drag City will be reissuing Champs III on May 26th!! Dbl vinyl gatefold and digital special 26th anniversary edition. Limited quantities. Pre-order here: /products/iiitfc

VILE CHERUBS WEDNESDAY I love everything about this photo—courtesy of the wonderful @elliemoran23 and taken at our lone Back Alley show, 1987. Tim, the solidbody Silvertone, the candy-stripe guitar case, the duct-taped distortion pedal, the thrift-store shoes and the Camel clock we set up on stage (why?). Just everything. Sadly not visible in the photo: @acmeverb in drag. Love always, Seth . . . . . #dischord #dischordrecords #dcpunk #dchardcorepunk #dchardcore #punkwriting #punkrecording #punkmemoir #vilecherubs #vilecherubsband #thevilecherubs

Howlin Rain - Lost at Sea: Rarities, Outtakes and Other Tales from the Deep Long time coming to its official release friends! Whew ~ doozy and glad to have this one hitting the boards finally! Managed to get a couple more epics on here since the 2020 sneak peek too! Lost at Sea will be released November 29th on @silvercurrent . Howlin Rain’s grand 3xLP archival statement and untold story, was written over nearly two decades in invisible ink between the lines. Features never before heard songs from The Russian Wilds, The Dharma Wheel, The Alligator Bride, Mansion Songs, Live Rain and the lost Ethan Miller Band sessions. Lost at Sea boasts a broad cast of musical characters including Rick Rubin (Producer/American Records), Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), Scarlet Rivera (Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue), Joel Robinow, Raj Ojha and Eli Eckert (Once and Future Band), Isaiah Mitchell (Earthless), Tim Green (Producer, engineer) and many more. The album includes songs by The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Leon Russell and Neil Merryweather. “I wanted to compile the record so it would have impact like our grandest, wildest, most unabashed studio album. I left out home demos, and songs from quiet corners, sketches, etc, in favor of fully formed, fully finished, studio level tracks from front to back. Lost at Sea is intended to be something that you can pour yourself into and get swept away in.” —Ethan Miller (Founder, bandleader) Listen and download the first single and Russian Wilds outtake “Down a Drain” now and preorder on limited edition 3xLP, 2xCD and digital at: howlinrain.bandcamp.com Link in Bio Legendary legendary cover art by @arikroper Thank you @louderstudios for all the work on this (over the last 15 years!) Immaculate and spirited as ever🎻🏹

Circus Lupus!! Recorded in 1990 by Eli Janney, mixed & mastered here at Louder. Guest vocals from Alec Mackaye. One of the greatest bands of the last 40 years. Thomson gave me a cassette of this in late 90/early 91 and I listened to it non stop for years! Stoked to finally turn up the guitar. 😁

VILE CHERUBS IN THE WASHINGTON POST Hey, how cool is this? WaPo’s King of Pop (sorry, Michael) @chris___richards penned a beautiful feature on L.G.Records and their incredible series of D.C. reissues. And extra-chuffed a chunk of my liner notes made it into the piece: “It’s hard to explain just how different it was back then. Downtown Washington, D.C. was roached. After the torrential rain storms that broke like water balloons over your head, you could literally smell the decay wafting up from the abandoned buildings. The city was falling apart in real time, but it was also our playground: Chinese takeouts; wig shops; pay phones; liquor stores that sold to anyone. And d.c. space.” If you’re interested in D.C. music history or the forgotten corners of the punk scene, check out the L.G. catalog (available through @dischordrecords ). You won’t be sorry! Super-extra thanks to @designcordero for taking one of my fave photos of Tim and Ben at the old 9:30…. Love always, Seth . . . . . #dchardcorepunk #dchardcore #punkwriting #punkmemoir #dischord #dischordrecords #innerearstudios #dcpunk #930club #old930club #punkwriting #punkrecording #circuslupus #nationofulysses #vilecherubs #vilecherubsband #plasticland #dcscene #8ts6tsscenes #dcscene

BEHIND THE PAISLEY CURTAIN Ever since the Vile Cherubs album project was announced, t̶h̶o̶u̶s̶a̶n̶d̶s̶ ̶h̶u̶n̶d̶r̶e̶d̶s̶ ̶d̶o̶z̶e̶n̶s̶ none of you have asked: “What was it like being back in the studio with your high school band?” Here’s the merest snippet of Tim dialing in the feedback sweeps in “Flower Garden,” our unabashed attempt to channel Plasticland. I’d have more behind-the-scenes footage to share, but tragically, certain pharmacological choices made filming challenging. To the many of you who’ve already purchased copies of “Lysergic Lamenations”: Thank you SO MUCH for making this project such a success. it is—no exaggeration—a huge gift to us to be able to share this time capsule with the world, and for it to be received so lovingly. Love always, Seth . . . . . #dchardcorepunk #dchardcore #punkwriting #punkmemoir #dischord #dischordrecords #innerearstudios #dcpunk #930club #old930club #punkwriting #punkrecording #circuslupus #nationofulysses #vilecherubs #vilecherubsband #plasticland #dcscene #8ts6tsscenes #dcscene

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WHAT IS WRONG WITH MODERN YOUTH? Did we get in a wee bit of trouble for this one? It’s possible. Ironically, we didn’t even make the flyer; I certainly wouldn’t have had the guts to. It was Gordon (Gordon) Ornelas, noted D.C. scene antihero (W.D.C. Period et al) who made the original. I’m not sure if it was the image of swimsuit-clad Natalie Woods that was the issue, or the cheeky reference to her then-recent death by drowning (“Bobby, let’s go swimming”). In retrospect, posting the flyers at post NW D.C. high schools was asking for trouble, and minor trouble in fact ensued. But getting scolded by high school admins was all part of the game, and for a while there we ran a pretty good one. I remember little about the show itself, which is too bad: It was our first time opening for a “real” out of town band, and I could feel us changing as we came into our own. Rick Didjit was, true to form, sneering and unimpressed. But after loadout at the very end of the night, as the Didjits sauntered back to their tour van and we to our collection of battered passenger cars, Doug Evans turned out. “Hey!” he said. “You guys were cool!” Thank you, Doug. That’s one I’ll take to the bank. Love always, Seth . . . . . #dchardcorepunk #dchardcore #punkwriting #punkmemoir #dischord #dischordrecords #innerearstudios #dcpunk #930club #old930club #punkwriting #punkrecording #circuslupus #nationofulysses #vilecherubs #vilecherubsband #dcscene #8ts6tsscenes #dcscene #dcspace #thedidjits #didjits

A few years ago my good friend, Ben Milner @thedizzyage , used his 3D printer to make a part I'm missing from my echoplex. It didn't end up working, but it sure was nice of him to try. Thanks Ben! ❤️

Makin some repairs at The Red House in Olympia circa 1993. Most likely listening to Dead Moon. Photo by Sara Lund, maybe?

Jammin with @6organs and others while recording the second Comets on Fire album. Photo by Ethan @silvercurrent

Soma Free Institute out now!! /album/exit-signal?label=1736451783