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Download We Make it Good Vol. 11: Salem (Click Here)

Salem is a band you’ll probably be hearing a lot more about in the coming year. They released to challenging EPs in 2008 and followed those up with two 7″ this year “Ohk/Sweat” and “Frost/Legend”. They are of  a small group of bands really pushing where Goth, Noise and Electronic boundaries can meet and mingle.

Pink socks, a dirty mattress, wallpaper peeling off the walls, empty cough syrup bottles, and soiled wall to wall carpeting all come to mind after repeated listens to this new Salem mix. It’s either the perfect accompaniment to the fall/winter blues or soundtrack to scrawling your name on your bedroom wall in blood, it’s up to you.

They just got together with The Fader and We Make it Good for a ridiculously fantastic dark narcotic of a mix. Imagine DJ screw went way Goth for a minute and there you go! Peep the tracklist below:

1. Psycho Drama – Alkuholiks
2. Salem – Pig Fucker
3. Skeeter Davis – The End of the World (Drag Remix)
4. oOoOoo – Seaw
5. AIDS 3D – Party Animal Dirge
6. Salem feat. Gucci Mane – Round One (SalemRemix)
7. Salem – Hoodrych
8. The Beach Boys – Whispering Winds (Drag Remix)
9. Sinistas – SZXZ
10. oOoOoo – Mumbia
11. Salem – Water
12. Twista – Hey Lover Boy
13. Tha Pope – Track 41
14. Light Asylum – Shallow Tears (Drag Remix)

Revelation – For the Sake of No One (2009) [Shadow King] // Grade: A-

A little history first… Revelation started up in the late 80s in Baltimore, Maryland releasing what is widely considered their debut album, Salvation’s Answer in 1991. They would put out albums until 1995 culminating with the fantastic …Yet So Far. Already merely a cult band in the 90s, after their original demise Revelation just slunk further and further into obscurity. You rarely if ever hear their name mentioned alongside 90s Doom and Stoner greats like Sleep, The Melvins, Kyuss or probably more accurately, Saint Vitus. Revelation definitely had a hand in paving the way for much of today’s expanding Doom/Stoner & Sludge scene, even if they don’t get much credit for it.

In 2007, the band reformed to play Baltimore’s Doom or be Doomed festival prompting the band to consider going back into the studio and work on new material. That year saw reissues of their earlier studio albums along with releases of two live concert albums (one from the 80s and one form the 90s). This would then all culminate in Release, the band’s first new studio album in eleven years eleven. By 2008, the Doom scene was hardly a fledgling little creature looking for a strong fanbase, it was a burgeoning monster that was swelling almost out of control. Release was sent out into the world with as much power and passion as the band’s earlier material to compete with a host of newer bands, most of whom weather they knew it or not, owed a heavy debt to Revelation’s 90′s material. In that same year, the band also released what was their shelved S/T debut from 1988.

Phew! Now that you’re all caught up lets get to their new album, For the Sake of No One. What can I say? over two decades since they formed these guys still fucking have it and For the Sake of No One rocks right up their with the likes of …Yet So Far. These guys are masters of the Sabbath and Trouble school of slow stewing Doom focusing a lot on pentatonic blues based riffage rather than the sustained single note drawl that’s become the norm in modern Doom. The guitar sound on the album is particularly amazing. The riffs are simple and contained but regularly open up into open chord flourishes that not only accent how monolithic the preceding riffs were, but give each track and the album breath. The sound is akin to trying to run through a forest at dawn that’s covered in a fresh and heavy snowfall. Sun glaring down, fresh air, still and serene scenery  all around you while your movement is slow trying to trudge through the clean snow… absolutely amazing. It’s a has a very 70′s style of playing that while a throwback is unbelievably refreshing to hear in 2009, especially when executed with such mastery. John Brenner’s vocals are another reason why this album is just as fresh as it is. Brenner has always been more of a vocalist than your usual doom metal singers and his high and nasally voice just sweeps through the music carrying effortless and crisp melodies, particularly on the expansive “Canyons”.

If you actually head over to the Bland Hand Records site (which is run by the band I believe) you’ll find the entire Revelation discography available for download as high quality mp3s. The downloads are on a donation based system and I strongly encourage any Doom metal fan who hasn’t heard this album yet, or even of the band just yet to go over there throw the band a few dollars and enjoy!

It’s always cool when our fans get a little more conceptual with their Мишка themed tattoos. Take Skateboard Jay from South Florida for example… Screw a Keep Watch, Bear Mop, Simon or Death Adder! Jay went right for our tag-line of “Engineered to Destroy” in a sleek script right across his collarbone. Now that’s fucking badass right there.

Jay joins Eddie Diaz in our legion built only for destruction! Do you have a Мишка themed tattoo also? Well send it in to us!

Home for Thanksgiving, pretty sweet so far.  First off let me say that I am Jewish, so there is no Christmas for my family…and Hanukkah ain’t what it used to be…so Thanksgiving is a pretty big deal for us.

I got home and got my first Thanksgiving present: Party Rats!  That’s right.  They are little plastic rats that strap onto your fingers and then light up different colors.  OK, simple enough premise, but the here is what it is advertised for:

Whether you’re dancing at a rave with a few hundred of your closest friends, or plugged in for some night blogging, Party Rats are the fun way to have fun.

NIGHT BLOGGING?  You gotta be fucking kidding me.  But I just want you to know that from now on when you see a post of mine you better BELIEVE that I will have these on my fingers.

Anyway, enough about Party Rats, how is YOUR Thanksgiving?  Getting pretty psyched over here.

Madvillain – All Caps

Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain – Mr. Clean

MF DOOM – My Favorite Ladies

MF DOOM – I Hear Voices

K.M.D. – Peach Fuzz

Happy Thanksgiving, to all the Mishkateers out there who are looking at the Bloglin on Thanksgiving. It is important that you spend this holiday with your family and Mishka is the only family you will ever need. We are setting up a compound in upstate New York and you should come by and check it out sometime for the rest of your life. We will starve and brainwash you and for every month you spend with us you’ll get a T-shirt exclusive to the Mishka inner-circle. We are worshipping the return of Sean Stussy or something like that. Long story short, I need this helmet.

It’s a helmet that someone lovingly applied Budweiser labels and resin to and it has a detachabe bubble that snaps onto the front. I am envisioning myself bicycling around in this thing, being safe but also clambaking hard inside my trouble bubble. If I owned this thing I could smoke in the shower without my cigarettes getting wetted out. Also I fall down a lot so this would help for that.

If you would like to buy this helmet for me it is currently going for $9.99. Get it for me and I will trade you a drawing or something. Lemme know. You can take it out in trade. Let’s make a deal, but hurry, there are only five days left.

After waiting an entire season in anticipation for the big payback, we got a Mexican stand-off – without the Mayans – zing! Kurt Sutter and Dave Erickson’s script delivered another curve with the arrest of Polly, Zobelle, and Weston; making the Sons’ revenge against LOAN a bit more complicated than just putting one in the back of Zobelle’s head in the cigar shoppe. Unser seems prepared to let SAMCRO wipe Charming’s ass with LOAN once and for all, which is awesome because Hale has been a pain in the dick lately.

“No. That’s assault.” – With those words and the right hook to Margaret’s face, Tara went full SAMCRO and embraced the methodology Jax has been working all season to extinguish. Granted, the reveal of Gemma’s rape has given Jax’s conscious carte blanche, but Tara can no longer act as his anchor after that assault. The show has done an incredible job of existing in this gray moral area (much like The Shield), and losing Jax and Tara to the violent side flips the entire show into the fatalistic affirmation that “violence begets violence” and that’s all there is. SOA has always been more than that, but this particular episode just seemed to ignore the moral complexities of previous episodes. I’m not bashing it, I care about Charming and am always rooting for SAMCRO, but after Tara socks Margaret, who’s left with the gray hat on? When we saw SAMCRO going to the mattresses and bringing in all their children and spouses for protection, that at least reaffirmed what all this is for.

Show of hands, who smiled when Lem showed up? We got plenty of Dutch last season, so the brief cameo of another Shield regular was really cool.

Next week is the “90 minute” finale!!! We’re not saps, FX. We know that actually means 55 minutes. Set those DVRs and skip the ridiculously extended commercial breaks!!!

The prominent song this episode was a cover of CCR’s “Someday Never Comes,” a personal favorite of mine. Like this episode, it also has this sort of fatalist attitude.

Yesterday, Wiz Khalifa’s new album debuted at #1 on iTunes Hip Hop chart… Pretty big deal if you ask me. Later that evening however Wiz had his Deal or No Deal album release party here in New York.

When I got to the line it was damn long!  There were people from all over the tri-state, but Huntington, New Jersey was definitely in the building. A few people got kicked out of the line… I guess cause they couldn’t handle their alcohol and were acting up… Haha.  If the line wasn’t already bad enough, Highline was jam packed! I ran into Miguel and Ease while inside, grabbed some drinks and settled in to enjoy the show.

I was a little late, and missed Ninjasonik’s performance but still ran into Telli and Jah-Jah later anyways.

Trouble Andrew was on stage with some big ass skull mascot, looked pretty bad-ass.  I thought he gave a good performance..  I liked the sound and style of his music, although I’m not normally into that stuff.

I ran into Gill and her friend.  She was enjoying the show waiting to see Wiz perform.

Before Wiz hit the stage, Jasmine Solano (She’s a hottie) came on and performed with Ninjasonik’s Telli Michaels. And then after they finished, what everyone was anticipating… Wiz Khalifa!

He came out and the crowd got crazy!  Hands were in the air, drinks in the air, girls yellin, snappin pics, blunts were lit, it was epic.

During his performance, Wiz pulled some kid out of the audience who said he knew his freestyle lyrics and gave him the mic to sing them haha.  There were some dude and girls trying to get on stage, but security quickly booted them and basically threw them back into the crowd. I thought that was pretty funny. Overall it was a good night.  I had a few drinks and most definitely enjoyed the show.  Wiz gave one hell of a performance yet again & there was a lot of Мишка gear in the building too, which is always good to see.

Old Dogs will be Old Dogz or else they’ll be Old Dogz but if they are really old they could even be Olde Dawgzzz. I know where I’ll be come Thanksgiving evening with a big ole tub of popcorn! Big shoutz to Jim Heckler for the inspiration on this one.