― bob snoom, Friday, 27 September 2002 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Saturday, 28 September 2002 22:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
'let me be a woman' came out in 1997 or 1995 (can't remember which)... 'an evil heat' is their second release since that album.
sx
― stevie, Monday, 30 September 2002 12:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Monday, 30 September 2002 18:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― larssen (larssen), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 23 June 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Saturday, 24 June 2006 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link
The rest, vaguely avant garde metal. OK, respected it, liked it even, but never went back.
― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Sunday, 25 June 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link
sonically? so is your mother.
cheers, Eugene
ps....hahahahah....sorry. that was too easy to pass up.
"sonically ordinary"? hahahahah...oh man....if you've heard a better record than The Narcotic Story this year well I'd like to listen to it...so please feel free to recommend...
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― oxbow, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
The Battles record is better. But that's it.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
^ lololololol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Seek:
Serenade in Red An Evil Heat Narcotic Story
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
how not to be a pussy, by eugene oxbow!
http://www.amazon.com/Fight-Everything-Wanted-Ass-Kicking-Afraid/dp/0061189227
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 30 August 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
http://a937.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/76/l_091c0cf815fe16f37b95727118159440.jpg
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 2 May 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Listening to Let Me Be A Woman right now.
― unperson, Friday, 27 March 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
always a good decision.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 27 March 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
That Fight books is pretty great. I wish that the Travel Channel would have a Dhani Travels The Globe And Plays Sports-stylee show with Eugene Robinson Travelling The Globes And Starts Fights With People.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 27 March 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
russell crowe got there first.
http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/southpark2.jpg
― m the g, Friday, 27 March 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
tbf eugene would wreck russell crowe
― call all destroyer, Friday, 27 March 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
indeed. and I'd pay handsomely to see it.
― m the g, Friday, 27 March 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
listening to a live clip of theirs on youtube and can't help but think it's a Shred vid.
― jaxon, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anyone read Robinson's second book? It's some Crews/Spillane/Leonard hardboiled caper affair.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, Oxbow came here! And was cool about it.
― Mark G, Friday, 19 February 2010 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Eugene should post here on the reg
― Originoo Golf Clappaz (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 February 2010 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I love An Evil Heat
― is breads of india still tite (admrl), Sunday, 18 July 2010 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Giving Fuckfest a spin after seeing it mentioned in another thread earlier..feeling it.
― Darren Huckerby (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 11 November 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
― jaxon, Monday, August 3, 2009 10:37 PM
^^
― frogman henry rollins (am0n), Thursday, 11 November 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
chuck dukowski of blag flag and eugene have a new band!
http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/08/03/chuck-dukowski-from-black-flag-has-a-new-band-with-eugene-robinson/
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
Eugene's new Lando Calrissian look is awesome.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
haha yeah i thought that too
i got up the courage to introduce myself once after seeing oxbow, he was really nice and personable even after being super intimidating onstage for an hour+
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
they're playing here next month (oxbow not black face)
― big triffid in my backyard (Edward III), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
But alas Black Face has broken up.
Meantime Eugene has a duet with Lydia Lunch on the new Strings of Consciousness album, "Home is Where the Hurt Is." It is appropriately evil, melodramatic and threatening sounding.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, make that "Hurt Is Where the Home is."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
eugene's having an online sale of stuff
http://theconnextion.com/oxbow/garagesale/
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link
I was just listening to "12 Galaxies" the acoustic live record a couple of days ago, so good. I am always a bit surprised how effectively they are able to convey heaviness and menace in an acoustic setting.
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
The Thin Black Duke being mastered today. This album has been 'coming soon' for ages now but maybe this time we're finally getting somewhere.
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Thursday, 17 December 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
https://youtu.be/VBLgUgyMcW0
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Thursday, 18 February 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 6 May 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah this record rules
― adam, Monday, 8 May 2017 15:04 (seven years ago) link
can't wait to hear itthought this was interesting, them using such a big-time producer for such strange music (wish more underground bands valued production this much)
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/producer-joe-chiccarelli-isnt-just-a-legend-hes-also-the-connection-between-morrissey-u2-and-oxbow
― I got da Midas touch as you fucking were LG x (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 May 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
I was going to wait to listen it until my lp arrived but I couldn't wait and streamed it this wknd, a great record.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 8 May 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
The impression I got from the new Quietus interview is Chiccarelli wasn't their first choice, they wanted Visconti
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 8 May 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
Said interview:
http://thequietus.com/articles/22360-oxbow-interview-eugene-s-robinson
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 May 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link
I do love this bit:
Eugene S Robinson: I’ve been kinda thinking about this idea that records made early in the careers of people who make music, a lot of the time and especially in the idiom in which we’re working, they’re a product of hysteria. They’re largely akin to somebody rushing in and screaming, ‘Your apartment’s on fire!’ or ‘Your car’s on fire!’ or some variation thereof. Most of the time, if you live life beyond the initial records, in your actual lives, you could functionally say, ‘Take it easy. Things are going to be OK.’ And then they go on to the next record where they try to duplicate that experience of hysteria from the first record. The difference is that if you look at 30 years of record-making, eventually you evolve into a non-hysterical orientation about life – but it’s no less crucial… because it all ends the same fucking way. I don’t find that joyful at all. I don’t find the prospect of it, just because it happens to everybody else – I’d like to recall Yossarian from Catch-22 – how can that possibly make a difference, that it happens to everybody else?
An announcement (via Eugene's FB account):
As promised: a THIN BLACK BOOK announcement.The plan was this: extremely LIMITED edition of a companion volume to THIN BLACK DUKE, an 80-plus page deep dive treatise. A third would be sold to the people who most immediately backed it, a third would be sold during the European tour and the remaining third would be sold at our soon-to-be announced American shows.BUT we undersold in countries where English is not the primary language AND we now realize that because of the way we have to tour America (Friday-Saturday-Sunday fly-out jaunts until we cover the entire country), we'd have to warehouse the remainder, which is something specifically WE DO NOT want to do.SO....the 67 books we have? We will sell. PayPal $25 to Pinko95014 at yahoo dot com ($20 more if you live outside of America).Orders that actually have shipping addresses? Will get shipped first. And orders will be shipped weekly.This offer is only good until July 1st, 2017. If the books all sell before then, your money will be refunded. And if you hate PayPal hidden cash, checks and money orders can be sent to CFY, PO Box 19271, Stanford, Ca. 94309.No stupid questions. Now tell the world.
The plan was this: extremely LIMITED edition of a companion volume to THIN BLACK DUKE, an 80-plus page deep dive treatise. A third would be sold to the people who most immediately backed it, a third would be sold during the European tour and the remaining third would be sold at our soon-to-be announced American shows.
BUT we undersold in countries where English is not the primary language AND we now realize that because of the way we have to tour America (Friday-Saturday-Sunday fly-out jaunts until we cover the entire country), we'd have to warehouse the remainder, which is something specifically WE DO NOT want to do.
SO....the 67 books we have? We will sell. PayPal $25 to Pinko95014 at yahoo dot com ($20 more if you live outside of America).
Orders that actually have shipping addresses? Will get shipped first. And orders will be shipped weekly.
This offer is only good until July 1st, 2017. If the books all sell before then, your money will be refunded. And if you hate PayPal hidden cash, checks and money orders can be sent to CFY, PO Box 19271, Stanford, Ca. 94309.
No stupid questions. Now tell the world.
The book is fantastic; I highly recommend buying one
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 01:06 (seven years ago) link
I just sent in $25... Hope I make the cut!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 05:40 (seven years ago) link
Yeah the book is very cool. I am glad that in this era of ephemeral digital collections that Oxbow really went all out making a physical artifact.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link
this album is really something i hope ppl pay attention to it
― I got da Midas touch as you fucking were LG x (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 May 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
next in line to say this album fucking rules.
I just missed them play in London cos I was away. They're playing Supersonic in Birmingham in June it seems, but I can't see anyone is gonna put them on again in London then. That can't be right, surely.
― kraudive, Saturday, 20 May 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Philly show in July! Woo!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 20 May 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
agreed, this record is fantastic - had a really good listen this afternoon. friend was saying that live suffered from a lack of the album horns and strings (which obv wasn't a problem for the previous albums).
― Fizzles, Friday, 2 June 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
Saw them live and finally bought the vinyl
This is so amazing sounding
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 September 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
Okay, this live album with Peter Brotzmann is phenomenal.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
really looking forward to listening to this. i’ve been caning the narcotic story recently. amazing album.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
As a big Oxbow & Brotz fan I am amazed that it is even better than I expected (now if only the physical copies would ship...)
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
(now if only the physical copies would ship...)
I've emailed the label twice and gotten no response. I'm getting cranky.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
Huh, I ordered the CD along with a few other albums through the Trost bandcamp on October 31st and got it about a week or so ago.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I didn't order it from Trost, unfortunately — they said Sleeping Giant Glossolalia was putting out a US CD version, so I ordered that one.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 1 December 2022 00:10 (one year ago) link
― Fizzles, Sunday, 1 January 2023 13:38 (one year ago) link
Long story short I finally got my lp copy last night and it sounds great, still kind of can't believe it exists
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
"Love's Holiday" out in July https://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com/album/loves-holiday-out-7-21-23
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link
New single out today, "Icy White & Crystalline." Sounds like a forgotten DGC band from the 90s. Love it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxz6RrzuR9w
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
Nice, super excited for this.
As a side note, I went to go pre-order this from Ipecac's bandcamp page and thought I'd also grab that Dave Lombardo album. It's sold out on every format already, LP, CD, everything. It came out May 5th - that seems insanely fast. It appears I can get it from Amazon, so whatever, but I'd rather than money go to the label than Bezos. Anyway, I'm seeing that a lot more frequently lately that labels are selling out of things really quickly. The new Blood Ceremony being another example - just released on May 5th and every format (LP and CD) completely sold out on Rise Above's website. Are that many labels just doing miniscule runs these days? Just seems a bad look for a hyped new album to be completely sold out from the source less that two weeks post release.
I guess just a good reminder to make sure you snag something the instant you see a pre-order pop up.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
This happens a lot! It’s frustrating.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
you gotta preorder before the band even forms
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link
It is super frustrating. I get things like the exclusive, limited vinyl colors getting snatched up right away, but I'm seeing it way too often for literally every physical format. Oh you wanted a copy of that album that came out last week? Too late, you missed it!
I can only imagine how frustrating it has to be for a band...
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
had a great first listen to Love’s Holiday just now, after prepping by going back through their albums this week (v rewarding). Dead Ahead is a great opener/single, and it’s an amusing approach how after the first two tracks they move p much exclusively into their slow, stygian power mode. i like the continuing move into melodic ballad trappings, even if a couple of times i had a fleeting sense of more recent nick cave (not a fan). but choral and keyboard set off the muscular torment and pent-up force. it *sounds* great. the group are in v good form and looking forward to seeing them in september.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 22 July 2023 10:32 (nine months ago) link
I love the new album, it is Numinous and Forbidding in all the best ways
― imago, Saturday, 22 July 2023 10:33 (nine months ago) link
yep agreed.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 22 July 2023 10:34 (nine months ago) link
also the track titles are some of the best I've seen in a while. how has no band begun an album with 'Dead Ahead' before
― imago, Saturday, 22 July 2023 10:35 (nine months ago) link
thankfully the song does that title justice
― imago, Saturday, 22 July 2023 10:36 (nine months ago) link
as a means of saying sorry to Fizzles I am getting into their earlier stuff
King Of The Jews is fantastic. Angel is one of the great rock songs maybe
― imago, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 10:44 (four months ago) link
Eugene pls log back into ILX btw, that was fun
― imago, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 10:46 (four months ago) link
King of the Jews is I think my favourite.
― Fizzles, Friday, 19 January 2024 11:23 (four months ago) link
you know when they describe a modern album as fire and brimstone because it's kind of noisy, yet kind of trad, and kind of fearsome? yeah well those albums aren't fire and brimstone, this is
― imago, Friday, 19 January 2024 12:47 (four months ago) link