Leah Shapiro and Peter Hayes have been doing a few long form interviews in podcast form, check out this one with Sent to Destroy!
Chris sits down with Leah Shapiro and Peter Hayes – two thirds of the rock trio Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. For those not already familiar with the band, BRMC has been cranking out dark, gritty, authentic rock and roll for over 20 years. If you’re a fan of the band and you ever wanted to hang and really get to know the incredible musicians behind the music this is your day. It was a great conversation.
‘Don’t give yourselves to brutes. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate. Only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural’ C.C.~
New Vacant Lots track remix by Robert Levon Been (BRMC) Via Louder Than War:
Blending proto-punk and psych as effortlessly as you’d expect from a Vacant Lots release, the Departure remix sees throbbing Nightclubbing-esque electronics interlaced with distorted, hard-hitting guitars and vocals that are just as snarling as they are detached. First conceived when The Vacant Lots were writing their 2014 Departure LP but left unreleased and having now evolved over the years since, the song became a staple of the band’s visceral live performances and is now set for a long-overdue vinyl release in the form of a 7” with an etched B-side that’s limited to 500 copies.
Talking about the Departure remix – mastered by Maurizio Baggio (Boy Harsher, The Soft Moon, Merchandise) and housed in stark, minimalistic artwork by longtime visual collaborator Ivan Liechti – The Vacant Lots’ Jared Artaud, says: “In order to translate our recorded songs into our live set we continually have to reinterpret our music and transform them, since there are only two of us. However, with this remix, Robert has done the reverse and brought the live spirit of this song back into the recorded one. It’s something only he can do. He added some sounds that truly make it more dynamic and powerful. It’s an honour to collaborate with someone from one of my favorite bands of all time.”
The first issue of the Heartworm Reader, a new literary journal, featuring 100 poems by 25 different contributors.
The late Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Alan Vega grace the covers.
First 500 orders come with a Heartworm bookmark.
Contributor List: Kaveh Akbar – Sarah Jean Alexander – Jared Artaud – Genesis Breyer P- Orridge – Alfred Brown – Lee Bullitt – George Clarke – Pablo Conejero López – Lucien Edwards – Wesley Eisold – Ross Farrar – Bibbe Hansen – Peter Hayes – Kevin Howley – Mark Lanegan – Amy Lee – Violetta Leigh – Zachary Lipez – Alexis Marshall – Kyle Opheim – Eric Paul – Sam Pink – Charles Rowell – Mathias Svalina – Alan Vega
The demand was there and now UK, European and Rest of the World fans can order their own BRMC mask!
BRMC masks are available in our US & European merch stores. All proceeds will be donated to help provide better healthcare services to underserved communities affected by COVID-19. Grab yours here —> https://linktr.ee/BRMC1
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club “Piston Skull” design printed on a black face covering.
Disclaimer: These masks are 100% 2-ply cotton. They are not N95 nor anti-microbial. Please use them responsibly. There are guidelines on the CDC website on how to properly utilize fabric masks. Please follow them.
Preorder runs from 8.26.2020 – 9.8.2020.
***This item is a pre-order item with an intended release date of September 22nd 2020. Your order will ship on or before this date but due to plant delivery times this date may change. If you’d like other items to deliver sooner, please make two separate orders.***
Many years ago, Nick Jago appeared in this PSA to vote:
BRMC’s social media channels have picked up on this for the latest election:
One of the most important things you can do right now is VOTE. 23 states have elections this month. You have the power to create lasting change. Verify your voter registration, get vote-by-mail info, know your ballot: headcount.org
Verify your voter registration, get vote-by-mail info, know your ballot: headcount.org
Why this counts: boomers and older generations made up 43% of eligible voters in 2016, but cast 49% of ballots. The young electorate is growing. Are you ready to use your voice? Get ready to vote with HeadCount. Register to vote, check your status, and get your mail-in ballot at headcount.org
Posted on Psycho Las Vegas’s Facebook Event page a few days ago:
Attention current and future ticket holders:
Gambling is in our blood but we can’t roll the dice on this one–Psycho Swim and Psycho Las Vegas have been rescheduled to August 19-22, 2021. Nearly all bands have signed on for the new dates but we are awaiting confirmation from one final artist before presenting our updated lineup. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience.
Once our updated lineup is announced, refunds will be available for anyone who can’t join us in 2021, and hotel rooms purchased through the Fan Block will be automatically refunded. For more information, please visit our Festival FAQ.
Fremmand from Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, who previously worked with Peter Hayes (BRMC) playing guitar and co-produced the song “Holding on to Love” and supported BRMC on tour in Germany June 2018, has recently released a new song featuring Peter Hayes:
Topping the bill are three metal giants: New Jersey’s Danzig, scheduled to perform 1990 album Danzig II: Lucifuge in its entirety; Denmark’s Mercyful Fate; and Norway’s Emperor—the latter two making their only U.S. appearances of the year.
The festival’s fifth Vegas edition will take place August 14-16 at venues across Mandalay Bay including the Events Center, House of Blues and Mandalay Bay Beach, with the annual Psycho Swim party kicking things off one night earlier at Daylight Beach Club.
Danzig also headlined Psycho Las Vegas in 2018, playing 1992 album Danzig III: How the Gods Kill (and frontman Glenn Danzig returned to headline the fest as a member of The Original Misfits last year), and Mercyful Fate vocalist King Diamond headlined Psycho Las Vegas in 2017.
Among others added to the bill are alternative rock veterans The Flaming Lips; metal supergroup Down, fronted by ex-Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo; garage-rock outfit Black Rebel Motorcycle Club; Scandinavian metal bands Satyricon and Katatonia; and recently reunited Las Vegas mathcore favorites Curl Up and Die.
They join a list of previously revealed artists including Blue Öyster Cult, Ty Segall, Warpaint, Blonde Redhead, Watain, Ulver, At the Gates, Poison the Well, Thursday, Pinback, Boris, Windhand, Cursive and Brutus.
Passes for Psycho Las Vegas are on sale now for $229 plus fees and taxes at vivapsycho.com and axs.com, along with tickets to Psycho Swim ($55 plus fees and taxes).
Preparations for Psycho Las Vegas 2020 are moving forward as scheduled, with no current plans to postpone. We’re hunkered down in our doomsday bunker (the same one we’ve been occupying since 2013) using this time in isolation to hammer out production, merch designs, set times, and every little thing that goes into making Psycho Las Vegas America’s greatest rock n’ roll festival.
We’ve always been somewhat of an oasis; a musical gathering that exists in a surreal plane of existence where time stands still one weekend a year for us Psychos. The whole world feels like it exists on that plane right now, and we’re all on this wild ride together. It’s not just live entertainment or your local concert venue that is affected by this; we all are, and coming out of this healthy and stronger than we were before is the Psycho way.
