Big thanks to our videographer, Peter Korolov, for the insanely fast turnaround on these. What and incredible night! Hope you were here for this one. Hearts were on sleeves last night.

Next up is Bubba's birthday show at Just Be Cause (1013 W. State St., Ithaca, NY) with The Bulletproof Tiger, All of them Witches, Grady Stiles, Mouth To Mouth To Mouth with a special appearance of Gulab of Cattle Drums on guitar. See you then!



Cattle Drums


Cattle Drums


Vasudeva


Gulfer


Del Paxton

Ithaca youth hardcore punk trio King Sized Pegasus (great name!!) have their first studio effort streaming now for free/pay-what-you-want on bandcamp.


Recorded live by Nick Bullock at his studio in Ithaca, NY in collaboration with Angry Mom Records.

Hiroshima Vacation did back to back Ithaca/Syracuse gigs this past weekend and Bubba snagged a bit of video of both shows. More after the break...


Fucking Invincible (members of Daughters/Soul Control)


Chaos Came to Be "Snuffy"


Night Terror


Temuchin

Keep your mind-altering weekend going this Sunday as we a technically and creatively diverse line-up to The Haunt - 6PM | $7 | All Ages

Lazer/Wulf join us for the first time from Georgia - though their inner Zruda and ex-Gaylord bandmates are no new-commers to The Haunt stage. It's thrash, it's indie rock, it's jazz fusion, crust punk, and doom sludge and funk in 7/8... and just plain good music.



Georgia brethrens MANRAY also will hit Ithaca for this first time on Sunday. Imagine a beautiful exhale of math-rock, punk, hardcore, and metal into one seamless breath and you're getting there.
http://www.hellosirrecords.com/manray.html


Locals BRIAN! will kick things off at 6:30PM with their CD release of their first album as a trio. Tracks are streaming now:


Don't miss out... 3 touring bands and a local release show in one for just $7.

The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850 - Sunday, April 21st 6PM 

On Monday, March 4th at The Haunt, KEN Mode return to Ithaca for the first time in 10 years on the eve of their tour with Today Is The Day and Black Tusk (both of whom have also past through in recent years). Their latest "Entrench" hits March 19th via Season Of Mist:


We've got a killer line-up of metallic hardcore, sludge punk, noise-rock, and blistering grindcore/powerviolence. Get familiar with the bands and be there at 7PM for the first act!


FIGHT AMP:
Sludgy, genre-bending punk/noise-rock from Jersey.


LOFTS:
Local blown-out noise rock duo.

Hiroshima Vacation (with Bubba Crumrine)

Local grindcore/powerviolence duo expands to a trio with Ithaca Underground president, Bubba Crumrine on electronics.


Monday, March 4th @ The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850
7PM Start | $10 | All Ages

Hopefully the next BIG DAY IN coming on May 4th, 2013 is kicking up dreams of merriment in your little noggin at the moment, but right now we're going back in time with some solid HD video from Cerce, Old Wounds, Vaura, and Porches up now via the IU YouTube channel.



Cerce - "Weary" and more


Old Wounds


Vaura


Porches

In case you missed our fundraiser show back in February, here's some fantastic, multi-angle footage courtesy of Lanny Huang (who also recently did the Ithaca Is Underground documentary). Footage from The Gunpoets set will be released soon!









 Footage by Lanny Huang and Chris Knight

Thanks to everyone who came out to the space on a Monday night!!  Re-solidified my love for Rosetta as one of the most powerful live bands we bring through.  Great sets from Restorations and locals Phorke and Crown of Oak too.  Stoked we finally got a chance to witness Restorations. Footage below! Apologies for only one Restorations video... FLIP spazzed out and lost it.


Rosetta

Hey all! Here's footage from bands we met over the weekend + Monday.   Our new Brooklyn pals Living Room who performed on Monday up at Risley Hall on Cornell Campus, footage from one-man-crazy-pants Globsters (KY) and the new Syracuse trio Dirty Humans pulled from Sunday night's gig at Badlands, and some nice dark footage from Xerxes set on Friday's IU / Odyssey event - far better footage from that should be in our hands soon.

Living Room


Living Room

Dirty Humans

Globsters

Globsters

Xerxes

That’s right! Ithaca, Syracuse, and Binghamton are combining forces for this righteous (wrongteous?) mini-tour.   Bubba from BRIAN!, Kevin from Dance-A-Tron, and Greg from Blunt Guts have been working to strengthen the ties between the CNY cities for some time now and what better way to take the next step than to do a big ol’ weekend together?



For the uninitiated, BRIAN! takes an their unconventional instrumentation of bassoon, guitar/bass, electronics, voice, drum kit, and metallic percussion, fuses with influences of prog, Rock-in-Opposition, math-rock, classical, and noise to spin dark, complex compositions.



Blut Guts from Syracuse take the fast and furious approach fusing white-hot grind, hardcore, and powerviolence into 50-60 second seconds of pure scathing intensity.



Dance-A-Tron are no stranger to Ithaca, having performed in our fair city with the likes of Fuck The Facts, Kylesa, Intronaut, the inaugural May BIG DAY IN, and more. Thunderous power-trio of hardcore from Binghamton.

Check below for dates, times, locations, and additional acts.

In case you haven’t heard, in partnership with our pals at Odyssey Booking we've added Kentucky hardcore quintet XERXES to the BRIAN!/Blunt Guts/Dance-A-Tron weekend kick off gig. Be sure and check them out. Bring some friends to pack the room as we’re finishing up footage for the IU Documentary short at this show!



Feb 24th: XERXES (No Sleep Records)
+ BRIAN!, Dance-A-Tron, Blunt Guts - weekend tour kickoff
@ The Space, 700 W Buffalo St - 8PM $5

Band Name: Blunt Guts

Location: Syracuse

Formed: Fall 2010

Members: Greg, Bill, Tyler, Armando

Releases: 
- Hug Machine demo cassette, limited to 100, recorded at More Sound in Syracuse, released June 2011.
- Split with Fukk Bar Culture (Indonesia) TBA release date, on CDR and possibly 7”, recorded by our buddy Trevor.  Our side is up for streaming/download.
- Track on “Prime Eggsampler Vol. 1” released by online label Prime Eggsample Records.
            *Download the Prime Eggsampler for free here:
            Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?3dz49fzvytbvdtk
            Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?klx9b3vkveuprbq

Blunt Guts and a wide variety of punk, noise, sludge, grindcore releases on Prime Eggsample Records’ Bandcamp. Check it out here: http://primeeggsamplerecords.bandcamp.com/

Both of our releases are on our bandcamp for free download: http://bluntguts315.bandcamp.com/

Future releases:
- Track on comp released by DIY NOISE, set to be released early-mid Spring 2012.

Plans:
Since all of our shows are in Syracuse, we can’t wait to leave for a mini-tour with BRIAN! and Dance-a-tron.  The Syracuse scene is small but intact, we’d probably love for your band to come out and play a show at Badlands.

Purpose of the band:
To deceive you as a bunch of stoners yet mindfuck you with the seemingly contradictory hyper-speed riffage and non-weed-relative subject matter.


Catch Blunt Guts on the road with BRIAN! and Dance-A-Tron at the following locations
- Feb 24:  The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca, NY  with Xerxes (No Sleep Records : Louisville, KY)
- Feb 25:  Beagle Pub, 85 CFJ Blvd., Johnson City, NY 13790 with Revoked
- Feb 26:  Badlands, 1007 East Fayette Street, Syracuse, NY with Globsters and Dirty Humans

Footage from our Friday the 13th show with Burn Everything, These Machines, and Among Dead Men!



Burn Everything - They Don't Advertise Killers"

It's been 11 months since SIRS graced Ithaca with their presence and we're ultra ready for another dose. Since then, they've put some more miles under their belts, made their Topshelf Records debut - another split, this time in collaboration with the UK's run, WALK! and their mates, Holy Roar Records - and have even more new material in the works.  They guys are in good spirits and amped for Big Day In. Below, Ithaca Underground's Bubba Crumrine catches up with Justin, Kyle, Mike and Hart - who is no stranger to this day-fest, having performed last December in Zona Mexicana.



IU: How has the band been since we saw you guys back in January?

Justin: Pretty great actually. January was when we really started to figure out how we wanted to sound.  When our first guitarist left to form another band, Mike joined pretty much the next day, and as soon as that happened we started to write songs that we really liked and we haven't stopped since.  Mike's a team player and an all around swell guy.

IU: Have you been hitting the road a lot?

Justin: We try to tour whenever we get the chance. This past summer we did a 20 something day tour around the eastern half of the U.S. but, our unreliable van (RIP Gladys) made the trip pretty nerve wracking.  Before that we did a couple shorter tours last summer and winter.  We've got some ideas for this winter and hopefully the summer, but we really have our sights set on next fall when we can hit up some other colleges besides our own.

IU: How did SIRS come to be?

Last official IU show of the year before BIG DAY IN! (aka the show of the two word band names).

It's time to pull out all the stops, bring the ruckus, make the sweat, do the thing with the stuff, and so on, so forth. If this one doesn't end in a big pile of everything, I'm going home. But, enough with the nonsense.

Let's meet our first out of state guests of honor... There's DOPE BODY, who hail from Baltimore (love that place) and whom we unfortunately missed on their summer tour with Liturgy and Hume. Their latest LP "Nupping" hit a few months back over the summer and their latest beast (pictured above) is a screenprinted split with tourmates CHILD BITE from Detroit.  The DB crew wield a solid mix of crunch, math-spazz, and rock holler (who have an apparent affinity for Rage Against The Machine of all things) and CB are a keyboard-happy ball of avant-punk.  The CB camp recently performed as Nine Inch Nails for their hometown Halloween show. Guess you could say we've got two killer, high-energy bands on tour together with an affinity for 90s big shots, doing things that present-day fans of those bands would probably hate. I digress. Check these out!


100 MILE /// DOPE BODY from Theo Anthony on Vimeo.


CHILD BITE "ODD INN" from KATIE BARKEL on Vimeo.

Closing out the night will be our good friends from Rochester, Hex Record's own LIKE WOLVES. These guys have been slugging it for over 3 years with a high-energy hardcore punk influenced by angular goodies like Hot Snakes & Drive Like Jehu. First time back in Ithaca since Dec '10. Check out tracks of their latest 12" here and footage from their Big Day In performance below!


Like Wolves - Big Day In at The Haunt - Ithaca, NY - 12/4/10 from Chris Knight on Vimeo.

Last but first, our pals Womyn Boiz will be kicking things off. Gnarly garage punk with plenty of samples from Binghamton/NYC. Check out their tunes here.  

So, the order is Womyn Boiz, Child Bite, Dope Body, and Like Wolves.  8PM $5 ALL AGES >>>
The Space @ GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca, NY 14850
- easy to get to from the corner of N. Fulton & Court St by the railroad tracks but if you want to take Buffalo St - take the alley across from GreenStar Coop between Enterprise and Kalzonies... drive down the alley a bit until Corks & More is on your left - The Space is on your right (the yellow & purple bldg withing the fencing).  Makes more sense when you're there I swear.  See you then!

They day we've all been waiting for this fall is nearly upon us... Melt-Banana's return to Ithaca!  Japanese noise-punk-pop-wtf quartet sync up with California math-pop cult-favs Tera Melos (who have been on tour with Boris/Coliseum until today) in Cleveland on Saturday then its time to show the world how Ithaca gets down. Oneonta's own Cattle Drums will kick the show off around 7:30. You may remember them from Big Day In, Dec 2010 or from their summer tour with Dan Drake... you may also recognize their vocalist as non other than Moster Machismo drum wizard Sam Judd. Holla.

Presale tickets are still available if you want to save $4 here: http://ithacaunderground.ticketleap.com/melt-banana-japan-tera-melos-cattle-drums-at-the-haunt/

Tickets will be sold at the door as well. Check out the vids and links below!

Band name/location: We are Praetura, from Brooklyn NY.

Members: J stallings on drums and M.Paradis on guitar.

Formed: We've been playing together since I (Morgan) moved to Brooklyn in 2008, but we've been gathering a bit of steam since early 2011.

Releases: In January 2011 we recorded 7 songs with Colin Marston at the Caves of Menegroth that we recently self-released as a CD. Expect more to come!

Tell us about yourselves!
I like to think that Praetura is a mix of all the musical things that both of us hold dear: careful songwriting, attention to detail, maybe a nod to subtlety; but still maintains that chaotic feeling, where you think maybe the song is just going to fall apart when you listen to it. What the fuck are these people doing? But you find it strangely compelling...

As far as influences, I can tell you what we have on pretty much constant rotation. We are both old punkers, so, we still like to listen to Subhumans and MDC and relive our glory days. Old school American and Swedish death metal, grind, hardcore, jazz, all kinds of instrumental music.

Looking forward to playing in Ithaca for the first time on the 16th, and we're playing in Brooklyn on October 9th at Acheron with Canadian grinders Wake!

Don't miss Praetura live with Hiroshima Vacation, These Machines, and Among Dead Men at the Community School of Music & Art, 3rd Floor Auditorium, 330 E State / MLK Jr St, Ithaca, NY 14850 - 8PM | $5 | ALL AGES

Band Name: These Machines

Location: Binghamton NY

Formed: December 2008

Sound: Heavy and chaotic tech/death metal meets Neurosis and Today is the Day

Members: 
Tom Doud::Guitar/Vocals (2010-present)
Paul Ghilardi: Bass/Vocals (2008-present)
Mike Emm Drums/Vocals (2009-present)

Past members: Derek Lindow, Rick Barto, Brandon O'neal, Dustin Schoelier

Releases: Month (Jan 2009), Pharmakon (September 2011)

About The Band: We basicly take the chaos and brutality of technical death metal, combine it with super heavy sludge metal riffs, and then add some Melvins/Today is the Day influenced weirdness to keep it interesting for ourselves.

Mike Emm is an absolute beast of a drummer, an experienced Marijuana Connoisseur and blast machine. I don't even know how he comes up with half the drum parts he does. He keeps the tradition of tough dude Binghamton extreme metal drummers alive and well, with his large biceps and a devestating right hook.

Paul Ghilardi is simply one of the smartest dudes I know. He's super creative and listens to a huge variety of music. He writes a lot of the songs and riffs. Totally inspiring musician to play with. He also has a sexy beard. Something that I can not grow even at the age of 28. So, Paul is also more of a man than I am.

As for me, I rip off Steve Austin of Today is The Day pretty badly.

The New Record: Pharmakon is completely finished and is currently being mastered. It was recorded by Kyle Serlington (Bass player for The Dirty Slits) so it obviously has a huge meaty sound. It's a loose concept record but we won't bore you with explaining it. We're just happy with it as a band and hope that some of you enjoy it as much as we do.

Band Influences: We love all kinds of different genres of music and listen to tons of bands, but as far as our sound I hear a lot of: Ed Gein, Today is The Day, death metal (Malavolent Creation, Nile), Mastodon, Converge, Cephalic Carnage.

Lastly, I want to thank all you excellent people in Ithaca for being beyond awesome as usual. We can't wait to make our Ithaca debut Sept 16th!!!

Another great IU show at The Space! Thanks to everyone who came out to this one. Solid footage from NYC's Meek is Murder and Tiger Flowers, more clips of Crime Pays including a new song, and one of CNY's newest metal acts, the uniquely ambient instrumental metal Paralysis at Dawn. Get on... Q&A with three of the four posted elsewhere on FREE!.


Meek Is Murder - (null)


Meek is Murder


Meek is Murder - foo/Garbage Collector


Tiger Flowers


Tiger Flowers


Crime Pays (incl new song)


Crime Pays


Paralysis at Dawn


Paralysis at Dawn