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Year-end Kudos for Totally Fatalist

on Thu, 2011-12-22 05:17

In Pittsburgh, Desolation Row is one of a few great record stores that carries a nice selection of indie, jazz, avant vinyl and CDs. Host Skull was fortunate enough to be listed as #13 in their top 25 records of 2012. Check out the full list here: http://desolationrowrecords.blogspot.com/2011/12/best-of-2011.html

Then, you may as well pick up the new edition of Pittsburgh City Paper. WYEP's Cindy Howes gave a shout out to Totally Fatalist as one of the best local releases. 

And if you haven't picked up the release yet, best get over to www.antephonic.com to snag the LP. If you are in Pittsburgh, check for LP and CD versions at Paul's CDs, Mind Cure, and the above-mentioned Desolation Row. If you think you have some opinions on the year's best music, send those thoughts over to Draw Us Lines (http://www.drawuslines.com/homegrown-goodness/dul-super-duper-holiday-giveaway/), and you may win a prize basket full of local music, including a Totally Fatalist LP with a handwritten lyric sheet and drawing. 

Host Skull wants to thank you for your support in 2011!! We have some big, fun plans for 2012. So, we'd also like to pre-thank you for your support in 2012!!

 

Host Skull LP Release Show tonight! + Press

on Thu, 2011-09-22 05:13

As you may have seen me post on Facebook repeatedly or Twitter or some other form of communicative digital format, Host Skull's Totally Fatalist LP is being dispersed to the Pittsburgh public at Brillobox. Feel free to show up at 9PM with a ready five dollars. You can then enjoy a special trio of Jeff Berman/Sue Powers/Colter Harper then the dirty sounds of Raw Blow and then the special 6-piece sounds of Host Skull. We'll have LPs and CDs and download codes. 

Check out some press on the evening at City Paper and Pop City!

And if the evening is too late for you, there are other options. One is to go to Desolation Row in Oakland and pick up a nicely packaged CD or LP. Paul's CDs in Bloomfield provides the same options. In Polish Hill, the great Mind Cure shop also holds the key for you to own your very own LP. 

If you enjoy brunch over nice late(ish) night bar shows, feel free to have brunch with us on Sunday, 9/25, at the Waffle Shop. Dancer Bre Short and I will present a setting of Host Skull's "Fourth River" piece for movement and sound. The event is part of Justin Hopper's Dislocations: A Conversation about Place https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=189900997748607

And if you do not like food or drink, feel free to stop by the Warhol Museum on 9/30 when Host Skull presents a live score to Cecil B. DeMille's The Golden Bed

And if you are sick of hearing about Host Skull, check out guitarist John McLaughlin talking about pirates. http://www.johnmclaughlin.com/news/2011/09/21/pirates/comment-page-1/#comment-5279