Minor Bird Records

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Fun times with Bird's Mile Home and label update

When Bird's Mile Home went out on tour years ago this was the aftermath of a night in Longview Washington. Friend JED almost blew himself and everyone else up while trying to light a fire with a can of gas and later got hit in the face with a hotdog going faster than the speed of light. Right in the eyeball for a matter of fact.

Smorgasbord of rock at Zoo City Apparel

Monday November 26 at Zoo City Apparel

EDHOCHULI

BENT LEFT

SHRAMANA

BUDDY JACKSON

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a long way from Montana but a good friend of our moved to Missoula from the town of steel. Edhochuli were his friends and are coming back for a second go around if you missed them the last time.Fans of WantageUSA here in Missoula should check out the video below. These dudes seriously kill it. Video posted by Razorcake Gorsky Press. Local heavy hitters Shramana have been added to the bill to accompany Edhochuli and with Duane Raider now playing bass these guys are fully shredding it around Missoula.

Stonefly and Minor Bird got one

Missoula may be Montana's mecca for music currently. There are a bunch of good folks putting on shows around town and we are glad to have our first co promotion with Stonefly productions.

Saturday November 17th at the VFW

YARDS

Burn Burn Burn!

Winter's Forest

Buddy Jackson

Portland Oregon's Yards featuring Krist Krueger of the band Southerly brings to Missoula a composition in rock. Driving ambiance Yards will sooth the soul if I did not expect them to be so loud that words cannot be heard. Burke Jam, formerly of Church Mouse and A Process of a Still Life, is longtime friends of Krist and will deafen the carets of ears when he takes the stage under the new moniker Winters Forest. Winter's Forest is a dark and ambient assault on the senses with beauty blaring forth in waves of loud guitar layers. Key word here is LOUD!

Missoula melts after Tragedy

After getting back from Portland. A recent purchase of a used His Hero is Gone cd spurred a hunt for footage. This past May Missoula was visited by Portlands' Tragedy. Here is some footage. We were more than glad at MBR to help with passing out handbills and putting up fliers. ENJOY!

SATURDAY NOVENBER 3RD
WHITE MYSTERY

@Zoo City Apparel
139 E Main St.

White Mystery "Rapid Overdrive" from Penelope Helen Gazin on Vimeo.

Mor recurdzzz

Hey everyone!
Joey's got the keys to this runaway tugboat now!

Minor Bird's got some real neat-o releases to be filling your earholes with glory and aural intoxication going to press this month, refined to such a point that if taken internally, may cause heart attacks, and/or priapism.

Anyway,

"What is this splendor?" you may be asking.
Well, that's for us to know and you to find out!

What does Missoula have in common with Garbage and Dinosaur Jr?

Answer: Screaming Females

Monday September 24th

@ The Palace Lounge
with

Warm Soda

Needle Craft

The Juveniles

Oll Breds
18+ show

On their way to Seattle to head out on a tour with Garbage ( yes indeed this is the band you are thinking of) and play a few dates with Dinosaur Jr. Screaming Females will be playing a date at The Palace Lounge. It's been a while since these folk played Missoula. The hype behind this band is for a reason. Crediting Husker Du as one of their major influences this band will not disappoint. Their list of bands opening for is quite impressive and may soon be the ones other bands are crediting having opened up for.

Cheap Girls, Al Scorch, and more..more..more..

Wednesday September 12th Missoula Events and MBR

Present

The Cheap Girls @ The Palace Lounge

mike watt + the missingmen 2nd heapin’ helpin’ u.s. tour 2012

Wantage Usa and Minor Bird Records team up to bring you:

Mike Watt + the missing men

MONDAY OCTOBER 1ST @ ZOO CITY APPAREL

139 E MAIN ST MISSOULA, MT

ALL AGES

$10 in adv/ $13 at the door

tix available at Ear Candy Music and Zoo City Apparel

with locals: Bird's Mile Home

Mike Watt's a name up there with folks like D. Boon, Keith Morris, and Kira Roessler, Robo and... uh, you know, people one gets a ticket to see regardless when they're coming to town. Watt was an original member of the Minutemen, legendary 80s funk-punk group whose "econo"/DIY/friends-before-careerism approach to music and shows helped re-define and invigorate underground music for generations. He: used to dress like Fidel Castro at shows, and wrote music on a crop of records that sits high atop the Western punk canon with other stuff like Black Flag, the Meat Puppets, Dead Kennedys, Germs and Red Kross. And the stuff continues to stand the test of time, with songs like the Minutemen's Corona offering the soundtrack to Johnny Knoxville's Jackass show, and everybody and their brother having a well-worn copy of Double Nickels on the Dime.

A few years ago, well, maybe 7 or 8, We Jam Econo, the Story Of the Minutemen was released. It's on Youtube for free here: http://youtu.be/HmKGusadv08

Watt's touring these days with the Missing Men, who're San Pedro punks and who rage full on. We expect greatness.

We are teaming up with Wantage USA to bring you this one Econo.

Total Fest survivors...feed your hunger for more ROCK!

As though we could not get enough this August- Missoula keeps serving up more. Total Fest is over and not many people seem to be out and about. Some are broke, some are still hung over and some are just plum worn out. Well rest up because Missoula is not quitting yet.

TOTAL FEST alumni Muhamadali are coming back. Last time here they played The Missoula Art Museum with Japanther and blew many the minds. Give 'em a listen!

This will be going down at Zoo City Apparel at 139 E Main St
this Friday at 9pm. Locals Buddy Jackson, My Two Dads, and Abe Coley add a variety of punk and noise flavorings to this ravenous serving of rock and roll.

The Best Saturday Ever in Missoula!

This Saturday August 11th! Missoula Montana! Skate @Noon! Rock@7pm!

On the docket for the night: Mordecai, The Damage Done, Cruddy, Bird's Mile Home, Margy Pepper, Jefferson Death Star, Brother Nature, Fuck Detector, Genevieve Smith, Petunia

Wantage Usa is bringing forth their newest release featuring Butte's Mordecai. The young lads have been playing together for quite some time now. It is only just that they piqued the interest of the Wantage crew. This Saturday Butte will crawl out of the Super fund and present "Waste" to the masses

Total Fest: bekons

King Elephant coast-to-coast 2012!

King Elephant's hitting the road in a week to support our soon-to-be unveiled LP.
Here's our route:

Thursday June 14th at ZooCity Apparel

So our friends in Tacocat got in touch with us and told us about a couple RAD! bands that were looking to come to Missoula. It is happening this Thursday (amended to TONIGHT!) at Zoo City Apparel ( 139 E Main St) with Seattles' Pony Time and Stickers. Olympia's SharkPact who played Total Fest X last year at Zoo City with Japanther, also were looking for a date and this worked. Along with newly formed purveyors of Missoula's independent rock scene, Skin Flowers, this is sure to be an event to remember.

Poster image by Anneke Ayers. Keep posted for an art opening with silk screens of prints for sale by this AMAZING artist this August including a special screen unveiling for a show this fall......