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[27 Dec 2008|11:39pm] |
"[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
- Pat Robertson
I must have missed that day at the Feminism Military Academy.
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| dyke riot |
[18 Dec 2008|02:15am] |
I just applied to be a part of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) dyke_riot and I have been instructed to spread the word about its glorious existence. Girls do it better!
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[14 Dec 2008|06:49pm] |
Uh, hi.
Seems I forgot we had an LJ. I'll do my best to post here again whenever there is news.
Currently, we are working on the second album and should be sending out demos to labels very very soon. Our goal is to get a US re-release of the first album and/or a release of the second album. Any combination thereof would be awesome. We've had a few questions about whether or not Fatal will release our second album (the label that released the first). Hanin dissolved the label a few years ago when she moved to Tahiti and so, even though we had a "first refusal" clause in our contract, the contract was nullified by the dissolution of the label. I'm afraid it's like the first time all over again.
No worries, however!
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| unlikely bedfellows |
[10 Nov 2007|09:13am] |
An instantly recognizeable name to fans of Fifth Colvmn records [RIP], To Live and Shave in LA has created some wonderfully chaotic mashups of new PUA tracks and songs by Pete Doherty's Babyshambles. Click here to grab the whole thing for free!
[.rar archive, 4 tracks, 7 minutes total]
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| NEW FREE PUA EP! |
[06 Nov 2007|11:26am] |
Phallus Über Alles
"Les Femmes De La Guerre"
DTRASH99/SI026
OUT NOW!
Three new songs, including our shout-along live anthem "fuck the radio". Three awesome remixes of "brawl at the boys & girls club", from breakcore to spaced-out dub to downtempo distorted-beat. An absurd radio edit of said anthem that illustrates the futility of trying to censor a song that manages to average one instance of "fuck" about every two seconds. Cheeky artwork in a feminist-propaganda-by-way-of-communist-russia vein. All free to download right here. You can also d/l the entire .zip from Rapidshare and Megaupload.
Special Thanks to D-Trash Records and Schizoid for releasing it, and to Hansel and Robad Pills for turning in such great remixes. Grab it now!!!
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[28 May 2007|07:17pm] |
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I'm sorry, I just have to post this, it was just too funny not to:
This kid doesn't like us.
The review is in the second half of the post. I hate to make an example of someone and to call attention to something so negative but it bears addressing for the simple fact that, as criticisms go, this is the most common one we get. I recognize that we're not for everyone, and I definitely don't want to be, but I find it pretty painful to learn that a band's merit lies almost solely in their attractiveness. I hate that, in the estimation of the average music listener, the listening isn't what comes first. I hate that, to them, you're dismissed without further investigation if you don't look pretty or if you aren't thin. Even people who presumably know better, people who pride themselves in bucking systems, in being rebels, in having brains, pander to the they're-not-hot-enough game.
I get really frustrated when we go to shows and bands parade an attractive, young woman in something revealing before the crowd but I understand that that's often the only way to get someone to listen. How sad and shallow is the average music "fan" that their ears will only open when all the blood rushes to their dick.
As I said, I recognize that we're not for everyone. We know full well that we have a lot of strikes against us when we take the stage, particularly when its with bands that don't come from the same place musically. We're leftists and feminists and that turns people off. We scream and that turns people off. We're old and fat and that turns people off. We don't have a drum kit and that turns people off. We don't have a guitar or bass live and that turns people off. We don't have a light and fog show or evil backing video and that turns people off.
I can't help but recall after we played the Toronto Digital Hardcore fest reading a review of Hansel in which some kid, not unlike the one who posted his criticism of us last night, complained that the band members wore a straw hat, jeans, sneakers and track pants instead of something a digital hardcore band "should" wear. As if the underground has some kind of a uniform.
We're not angry at what that kid said, it's true. Every time we get a comment like that or we get some kind of a criticism that sparks our fury or gives us pause, we write a song about it. So, my little narrow-minded friend, the next one's for you.
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| IMF II - recap |
[28 May 2007|03:22pm] |
All-in-all, IMF II was a good show. Everything ran smoothly, everyone was pleasant and friendly, the audience was responsive. And the sound guy for once didn't give us shit for having an all electronic setup. We, sadly, couldn't compete with DJ? Acucrack playing upstairs at the same time but that's just the way things go.
It was definitely a pleasure to meet Rabbit Junk (as well as all the other bands) and to hear them say that they love us and our music. RJ are incredibly nice people and it's incredibly flattering to have their endorsement.
We also got the chance to reminisce with Jason Prost from Mind Flux Funeral about the Body Hammer festival we threw (as part of Slave Indvstries) in August 2000 in Bloomington, IN. We loved getting to talk to him again, to catch up and to remember what it was like for bands like MFF, Monstrum Sepsis, end.user and us way back when (although that was only 7 years ago...it seems like an eternity!).
Once again, we heard the repeated comments that we're more energetic than anyone that person has seen and that we don't sound like anyone else out there. I think that kind of feedback is enlightening and serves as a great barometer for how we're doing in terms of performance and song-writing but it can also be frustrating because we constantly feel that we don't fit, that we have to "win over" the audience that came to see the industrial bands or the punk bands or the rock bands. If I can take a moment to bemoan the difficulty of being different, I'd just like to say that playing a show where people don't know what to make of you can be disheartening. What makes it all worthwhile for us is the one person or two people after the show who come up to us and tell us that they've never heard anything like us and that they love it.
Thanks very much to everyone who did just that last night, who gave us hugs, bought our merch and told us that we're doing a good job. Those kinds of things mean the world to us.
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| May shows, bitches! |
[01 May 2007|11:17pm] |
Two upcoming shows you should know about:
Thursday night, May 3/4th at 1 am in the fucking morning, PUA will be ripping up CAID (Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit) on Rosa Parks Blvd. You must come...we might wear red.
Then, during the DEMF weekend, PUA is playing the Industrial Movement II event on Sunday, May 27th, at St. Andrew's Hall with Meat Beat Manifesto, Daniel Ash (DJing), Final Cut, Newlydeads, DJ? Acucrack, Crud, Rabbit Junk, Cyanotic, Omegaman (DJ), Manufraqture, and Kero. Live video will be provided by Ben Stokes.
Things are still up in the air for that weekend so it's possible the line-up will change and the time that we're supposed to go on will also change but I'll try to keep up with it on here somewhere. It's possible we might even get to play more than once that weekend since there is also a show on Saturday (I mean, we're on the flyer for Saturday but I'm not sure we're actually playing).
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| gaze into your nipples of the future |
[19 Apr 2007|11:47am] |
First off, while it's not that pretty, the PUA LJ is fixed and actually legible to anyone other than our friends list again! It's been broken a long time, too. Sorry about that. We also updated our bio, which was... erm, shamefully out of date.
Anyways, the below is being re-posted here at Diesel's request! I had originally written it elsewhere on the intarwebs. To sum it up, we played a last-minute extra show on April 4th w/ Hobert Europe, Mike Bison, and others. ;)
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Thanks to those clever scientists, ever sciencing away in scienceland [I had once been slated to join them], we all enjoy the luxury of cheap, affordable time travel. Hard to believe that it once was the subject of so much speculation and controversy. Nowadays, it's just one more monthly bill we happily pay, along with Netflix subscriptions and broadband internet. And uselessly bloated cell phone packages. And Tivo. And mafia protection money.
In any case, fire up your flux capacitors, and set the date for April 04, 2007, around 11:00pm. The location should be set to Club Bart's in Ferndale. We're going to a PUA show!
[I would not suggest setting your chrono triggers back any further during that night, though. All you're going to see is me trying to wolf down a ridiculously overstuffed BLT sandwich before our set, and no one needs to see that. No one.]
It was Hobert Europe's birthday party celebration. Nights earlier, at our Friday night show in Hamtramck, the band Mike Bison was speaking to the man himself about tacking us onto the bill. Before we knew it [and it took until Wednesday afternoon to really sink in], we had been added to a bill of festivites that included sets by MB, Bionic Chronic [under another name], HE [possibly under the name SAUCE!], 4FR [really, that's the artist name], and 1964 [the group; or, the entire year decided to show up and party. not sure]. The odd little venue that was Bart's featured an elevated 5?-foot stage BEHIND the bar, so that the top-shelf liquors were even with the front of the performance area. How we all managed to avoid breaking anything is beyond me. We played a hard and fast set of almost all new material, made some new friends, and gained some new fans.
For you skeptics out there, and you luddites out there without Time Travel service, here's some evidence of the event: portrait of the flyer as minimalist statement [of a young man]. Apologies to anyone that missed out, but there was absolutely no time to advertise this show. That, and you should KNOW by now that we're the masters of last-minute guerilla throwdowns. ;P
As for the nipples of the future reference in the title, yes. Really.
- Remy Brecht
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[21 Mar 2007|12:49pm] |
Oh people, people, people...it's been so long!
First, a show:
Friday, March 30, 2007
Mephisto's
2764 Florian (btwn Holbrook & Caniff)
Hamtramck
Doors at 9pm
$5 cover
21+
mike bison
phallus uber alles
hand me downs
tba
Second, news about the music:
Remy and I have been working on a lot of material! First, we have songs that we used to perform live and songs that didn't make it on Iron Woman that are being reworked and pumped up for an album release. Then, we're working on brand new material, some of which we've been performing live for a few months now, that we're hoping to gather together into an album release. And then we're hoping to release those remixes from a million years ago on a few EPs with new/unreleased material.
In addition, we're working out some new merchandise (bracelets, new stickers, new shirt designs, etc.) that will breathe some new life into the PUA catalog.
We're planning on starting up a PUA fan club in conjunction with our next release that will give members special merchandise, a periodical comic book (that we'd originally planned to release in the remix album before that idea was scrapped), and access to limited and advance material.
See? We've been silent but we've been BUSY!
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[04 Nov 2006|01:24am] |
This evening, Remy and I ventured out from our little cave to go to the Lady Sovereign show at St. Andrews.
A few things:
1. We should have been an opening band. Most definitely we would have fit with her much better than the band that was touring with her who, inexplicably, used a total of four different guitars during their 30 minute performance. One guitar that had a high silver polish to it was used solely for the song that had the refrain, "shine, shine, shine!" Asinine.
2. St. Andrews blows. Actually, all venues and their sound guys blow. They just don't know how to run sound for an electronic band, particularly if that band also uses organic instruments. The monitor mix is a constant source of consternation for us which was just such the case this evening for her, causing LS to pitch an enormous fit and storm off the stage after two songs. We have that problem always, particularly here in Detroit that is accustomed to dealing with garage rock bands. Our most recent show, for instance, where we sent in a detailed tech rider in advance and had an extensive sound check the night before were all for nothing the night of the show when all I could hear through the monitors was my own voice. It's infuriating BUT that brings me to:
3. Lady Sov is an enormous cry baby. Literally, actually, because after she disappeared from stage she returned, wiping the tears from her eyes and saying that she was only a human being. You know what? No, you're not. For those few minutes that you're up on stage, you're a performer, you exist only for the enjoyment of your audience and you will suck it up regardless of what kind of crappy set-up some meat-headed chode has saddled you with and you will put on a fucking show. What I do in those instances, I get down on the fucking floor. If you can't hear your monitors, you can definitely hear the mix coming out of the PA and the audience is going to love you a million times more if you do something like that rather than scream and cry like an enormous puss.
I'm just saying, throwing fits is not hardcore. And neither is using four guitars.
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[12 Sep 2006|02:02pm] |
The show with Larvae on Saturday was faboo. They're wonderful musicians and great guys, they're a pleasure to play with. They're on tour for the next week or so, playing all west coast gigs (SLC, Phoenix, LA, SF) but if you're in any of those places, you should really see them. They've done this video to correspond with their set that is phenominal and clever.
As for us, I lost my voice from screaming toward the end of the set. We played two new songs and vowed to finish other new material before the Toronto gig. We've finished a third new one but haven't had the chance to practice it with Emma and didn't want to surprise her with it on Saturday. I swear our best sets are 15 minutes or less.
By way of a general update on the band, everything is going alright. Things have been incredibly busy for us outside of the band and it seems as though we've woken up and found that 9 months have magically passed. It's alarming, actually.
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| PUA show cancelled...and added! |
[03 Sep 2006|07:37pm] |
Our show on Sept. 9 in NY at the Pyramid Club has been cancelled. Something about the venue and confirmation, I don't really know. So very sad to not be playing NY but we're holding out hope for Sept. 29th in Brooklyn.
About as quickly as we lost the NY show on the 9th, we added a show in Detroit that same day!
Larvae, Ad Noiseam recording artist, in the Eastern Market of Detroit on the first leg of their national tour. Accompanied by local electronic / industrial acts Metria, Life Toward Twilight, Blaerg and now Phallus Uber Alles (thanks Daniel!).
1353 Division, 1E
Detroit, Mi 48207
Saturday, September 9th
10 pm
$5
Btw, Daniel, do you need the PA for that show?
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[22 Aug 2006|05:45pm] |
Holy cow! I haven't updated in ages and ages! And my page is still broken! And I can't stop using exclamation points!
PUA, despite the silence, has been doing things. September is shaping up to be an awesome month for us. But, first, if you are in Detroit this Friday you must come to this, I command you!
To see her wicked designs, visit her website.
Now, for PUA shows:
September 9
The Pyramid Club
101 Avenue A
New York, NY 10009
With Nuclear Riot Party!!
Doors are maybe 10pm, I suspect 21+
September 22
Toronto Digital Hardcore Fest 2006!!!!!!!!
at Neutral
349a College Street
Toronto, Ontario
19+
Show starts at 8:30
with Schizoid and Hansel (CD release party)!!!!!!!!!
September 29
::TENTATIVE:: (awaiting confirmation)
Trash Bar
256 Grand St.
Brooklyn, NY
With Nuclear Riot Party!!!
No idea about time, also 21+ I suspect
Also! If you want to get your fashion on, I'll be doing a RRR fashion show at
Yeah.
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| Two shows in one week? |
[10 Jul 2006|04:55pm] |
Modern Exchange recap:
For anyone who has never been there and who lives in the area, the Modern Exchange in Southgate is a great all ages venue. It has an incredible stage, a good sound system and all of the right equipment.
As things worked out, we had the first slot in our show with The Brews, The Imp Villains and Defiled Youth but the crowd was fairly good-sized despite the early hour. After a bit of encouragement, they all came forward and really got into the music. Our set was short, only 20 minutes, because of the schedule for the evening but we got the chance to play one of our new songs and afterward had scores of kids approach us to tell us what a great show it was.
As we were loading our stuff into the car, Jared from Defiled Youth came up to us and welcomed us, complimented us on our set. Remy and I both were really taken with him, particularly after we got to see them play at the end of the night. He's a truly charismatic front man and the band gives a really incredible live show. And the shout-out they gave us at the start of their set, comparing us to Crass, really made our week. I still smile when I think about it.
The Brews played after us and gave an amazing performance. We had only talked to them online so we didn't know who they were until they went on stage. They, too, gave us a shout-out, dedicating their song "All Things Aside" to us which also made our week and has me giggling like a school girl almost a week later. After they played, I sought Jared (also named) out and we had a wonderful conversation about politics and touring. I felt like a heel because I didn't think to offer them a place to stay before we left but with my early morning the next day and the cats who would sleep on their faces, they probably wouldn't have wanted to crash with us.
Between the Brews and Defiled Youth, the Imp Villains took stage and also gave a really powerful performance. We unfortunately didn't get to meet them that night but we were incredibly impressed with the fans that they've amassed who playfully pushed one another around and sang along with all of their songs.
By the time we left, we were feeling like it was one of our better shows. The feedback we received was really amazing and we would happily play with any one of those bands again. If you get the chance to check any of them out, I highly recommend it. They're all capital fellows, too.
After a year and a half of struggling to find our niche in Detroit, I think punk is where it's at. They were able to overlook the electronic set-up (though we really should have played guitar and bass for that show) and get into the music and the message.
Loft party recap:
I apologize for not posting about this show, it came together truly at the last minute. Matt and Dave made it out to ME the night of our show but well after we went on and were nice enough to invite us to play a party they were throwing at their loft in Eastern Market on Saturday night. Because I was involved with a tv show shoot all weekend, I wasn't sure exactly what time we would be able to get there and, as one a.m. approached, I thought for sure we wouldn't be able to make it.
I think we arrived somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 o'clock and threw down a 20 minute set which was by far the best performance we have ever had. Ever. We opened with our new song "Fuck the Radio" that the crowd immediately latched on to and then Emma and I got out from behind the table and joined in the pit, getting pushed and jostled with everyone else as we flew through our set. We played all of the best material including another new song called "Beefed Up."n Everyone was jumping around and dancing, pushing and singing. There is no satisfaction like playing a show and having a crowd moving to your music and actually singing along with it. Nothing in life compares to it. I really want to thank Dan, Josh, Eric, Blaerg, Jessica, Matt and Dave and all of the people that came up to us afterward for making it such an amazing experience. If I could play that show every night, I could die happy.
We stuck around for a bit afterward to hear Matt's set and then ran home to bed. We ran into a surprising number of people that we knew including Kontinuum that we played with in Marquette. I'm really sorry that we missed the other bands that played that night but hopefully we'll get to play there again soon and on a night when we can get there early.
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| music fest, anyone? |
[23 May 2006|05:41am] |
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Unfortunately, we aren't playing any of the DEMF after parties this year but that leaves us free to attend a few! Here is what we know of thus far (thanks much to Josh from the Blunt Brothers/Little Mack for the info!):
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Friday, May 26
The Design Lab
158 W. Congress St.
Downtown Detroit
8-11pm no cover
Opening for Annica Cuppetelli's summer collection "DRESS"
1353 Division - Apt 1E
Eastern Market, Detroit
10pm/$5
Baseck, Adjust, Xanopticon, God & His Bitches, Promotheus Burning, Life Toward Twilight, Impercept, Hive Mind, Cutups, David Anger
The Labyrinth
1701 Cass
Detroit
10pm/$10/18
Hobert Europe, What The Bleep, Coleco, Wafflestomper, Tripsi, Black MF, TS-1, Speed Freak, LSDetroit, Omglo
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Saturday, May 27th
1551 Winder - Apt 208
Eastern Market, Detroit
10pm/$5
C64, Belladonnakillz, Xanopticon, Cutups, Selector Catalogue, Matt Demmon
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Sunday, May 28th
1551 Winder - Apt 208
Eastern Market, Detroit
10pm/$5
Baseck, Xanopticon, Promotheus Burning, Av3rs1on, Blaerg, Split Horizon, Saskrotch, RedRot, The Mourningside Excursion
The Magic Stick
4140 Woodward Ave
Detroit
10pm/$20/18
Modeselektor, Smash TV, Richard Devine, Otto Von Schirach, Kero, Derek Michael, Beau Gangnier, Jeremy Nida, Corbin Davis, Shenanigans, John Hudson, Disassembly, 8 FM aka [A]ppendics Shuffle
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Monday, May 29th
1551 Winder - Apt 208
Eastern Market, Detroit
10pm/$5
The Flashbulb, Aneurysm, Baron Knoxburry, Selector Catalogue, Davincigreen, Little Mack, System Of Adon, Chem7, Saskrotch
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| Detroit Music Festival |
[20 Apr 2006|01:43pm] |
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If you live in the Detriot metro area and you happen to be a PÜA fan, you can vote for us as your favorite Detroit musician/band and get a chance to win tickets to the Detroit Music Awards on May 18. The rules are simple and basically state that you have to be over 18, can't work for one of the local radio stations, and can't lie about it. You can find the ballot here. Deadline is May 16th!
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| pushing and shoving in the id parade |
[13 Apr 2006|03:02pm] |
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I know, I know, I never write here anymore.
I'm feeling more than a little schizophrenic lately with maintaining a blog on the pua site, a blog here, a personal blog, a pua myspace, a personal myspace, and another personal travel blog. I wish that I could just combine them all, as I once had with my old blog but there are difficulties in keeping everything in one place. For one, everyone knows everything about you and I find that incredibly claustrophobic.
This may become a mirror for what I post on the pua blog pretty swiftly now that it has been fixed by the ever-talented-uber-geeky Remy. That may actually mean that I post more often here than I had before but it will be strictly band related and fairly censored. I have a hard time not personalizing the pua lj and I would really like to keep my public life and my personal life rigidly separated.
That decision was precipitated by several factors the least of which is that I will soon be moving on to another job that will be a little more public than my current desk jockeying. Relatedly, I've been increasingly involved in Detroit fashion and music and don't want people that I barely know reading about the more personal aspects of my life.
That's not to say that anyone would actually care, I'm not conceited enough to believe that there is anyone out there in the great wide world who would give me even the remotest of thoughts or would care what I post in the band blog(s) but, for my own personal comfort level, I don't want to be known in that way.
( So for posterity, one last painfully personal post. )
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[14 Mar 2006|12:53pm] |
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Some pimple-faced little shits hacked the SI forums. They are like boils on the ass that grow up to be sexless middle aged men with acne scars and pointless lives, haunting the corner of some cubicle zoo and hitting on their daughter's teenaged friends.
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