Chaos in Tejas 2012 (& the one time only reunion of Moss Icon)

So unless you don't have a facebook or tumblr, or reach out to other forums (cmhwak thread), then you haven't seen this:

Moss Icon is in there somewhere, actually right by Best Coast (oh hell yeah), click the picture and it'll enlarge. So what does this mean? It means that Moss Icon is reuniting at Chaos in Tejas 2012 for a supposed one time deal. If you thought American Nightmare reuniting was totally cool, then get bent man, Moss Icon is back (for one day/night only).

More info at the Chaos in Tejas website and facebook.

**Also, considering Ryan Gosling made an appearance at the American Nightmare shows, who do you think will show up the Moss Icon/Chaos in Tejas 2012 experience?

MOTHS - MOTHS

MOTHS from Texas needs some of your help.

We're having a difficult time getting our donation page to work, but until then you can donate any amount to our bandcamp and receive a digital copy of our album. Anything helps, and thanks for supporting us

MOTHS - Bandcamp
http://moths.bandcamp.com/

Be nice CMHWAK international, lend some of your skreamo friends a helping hand.

Here's a link to the facebook page containing their tour dates.
http://www.facebook.com/events/249500151772490/

News: Canada's Ghost Throats DIY Fest Lineup Announced

GHOST THROATS DIY FESTIVAL 2011
Inspired by the Cry Me A River Festival in Germany and Dudefest in Indiana, this annual festival held in the spring in Edmonton, Alberta provides three full days of DIY community, discussion, activities, hangouts, and performances by the finest “DIY”, “hardcore” and “post-hardcore” bands from Western Canada and beyond.
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Tickets are available NOW at Blackbyrd Myoozik.
Facebook Event Here
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FRIDAY:
6pm - DOORS
7pm-11pm - MUSIC featuring:

News: pg.99 to reunite and perform "document #8" in its entirety

From VLV:



Sterling, Virginia punk rock band pg.99 is returning for a live performance at this summer's Best Friends Day in Richmond, Virginia. Also known as pageninetynine, the influential group is reuniting after an 8 year absence of activity to perform their seminal album "document #8" in its entirety.

On Jayson Green, "skramz", and getting soft

I have no idea who the kid who sent this is, but this is just some food for thought.  If you're reading this blog, are twelve years old, and use the word "skramz" with complete sincerity, you really need to get off the internet and take some advice from Usurp Synapse:

And if you make videos of yourself doing vocal covers of Saetia songs, this is especially true.



Can we just stop this shit in 2011? Please?

Yours,
CMHWAK

Merry Christmas from CMHWAK

Click the gift below to get your very own special surprise from CMHWAK.

What happened to After School Knife Fight?

This is brief history of what happened to After School Knife Fight. But really, it's mostly about two people (Brandon Velestuk and Kevin Smart) since they moved to my city after Kamloops. My impressions indicate that both are pretty embarrassed about the band.

Jacen Beers has probably disappeared but I remember a VLV thread about fixed gear bikes that linked to something he posted.

Brandon Velestuk was in an awesome band called the Dirt On (suggested "Swan Dive") and has since been not too active with music. The band had a lot of interesting guitar work and was sort of mathy and different. He does lots of design work (Gigposters) and has done work for Metropol.

Kevin Smart has been the most musically active and his projects include:

Pay the Pipers

We've been busy but keep checking this page. And support Brent Eyestone who runs Magic Bullet which has been in better bands than you and put out better releases (ie. Pg. 99, Majority Rule) than your two-release tape label.

Pay the Pipers.



Brent entered a Budweiser contest and is riding on us to keep his joke "band" in the contest, who have found themselves in the big finals against only a handful of others in the country. To quote the man himself

Basically, go tick "LIKE" at http://www.bandofbuds.com/market/washington-dc 
Then go add this profile: http://www.facebook.com/roddypipers and we'll keep you updated with actual content in real time

And expect something fun from CMHWAK for Christmas.

CMHWAK Launch Contest Results

The results are in.  I copied the member list to a text file and used http://random.org to randomize it using atmospheric noise.  #1 means winner, so that makes the winner user "h_crescenzo".  I've sent you a message to get your shipping details, etc.  I hope you don't live somewhere crazy because your name makes it sound like you do.  But I guess I can't be picky.  Everyone else, you can see how close you were to winning in the screenshot.  Sorry that it cuts off partway through, I didn't want to bother making multiple screenshots.  This contest was fun and I'd love to do more.

Revisit: Jupiter Lander - S/T

So I was browsing through my totally OOP record collection (or something) the other day and then I stumbled across this little piece of wonder.

Jupiter Lander is an "old fashioned" emo-band from Leeds, England. I don't know how big and famous they are out there, but whoever hasn't heard them yet really really should. Unfortunately they disbanded in September 2008, but they managed to release a 7" and an EP before their death.
Their music is more towards the "happy" sound, somewhat The Pine-ish. They build up towards a climax, breaks it down into twinkly guitar parts with desperate singing which then builds up towards the end and every instruments just fits perfectly in every tone until they hit the last one. You know, the usual! I love this stuff, and I'd advise everyone who can to buy their 7" if they get the opportunity. It has some sweet artwork as well.

This is their myspace, and check my blog for downloading.