Every Show I booked in 2014

Excluding Rain Fest and any DJ / monthly sort of events I hosted this is every show I booked in 2014 including a couple I collaborated on.

1/12 @ Highline // SHORE, SO ADULT, SEMINARS

1/20 @ The Bomb Shelter // SIDETRACKED, DIE TIME, BLANK BOYS, VIOLENT OCCURRENCE

2/7 @ Fusion Cafe // cancer benefit w/ BREAG NAOFA, LOSING SKIN, SAFE & SOUND, SHADOWBOXING

2/14 @ The Cut // NWHC Valentines Day Ball w/ SOJOURNER, GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, SAFE AND SOUND, THEORIES, SINGLED OUT, BLANK BOYS, NEW GODS, BELIEVER

3/26 @ Quesadilla Factory // CRUEL HAND, ILL INTENT, BENT LIFE, MALFUNCTION, RAT PATH

4/11 @ New Frontier Lounge // CULT LEADER, YAUTJA, CZAR, DEATHBED CONFESSIONS

4/11 @ Aurora House // LOMA PRIETA, FUCKIN INVINCIBLE, MERCY TIES, BURIAL SUIT, VIOLENT OCCURRENCE

4/12 @ Acme Grub Cage // BROTHERS OF THE SONIC CLOTH, ARGONAUT, OLD IRON

4/12 @ The Dwell Hole // HUMMINGBIRD OF DEATH, THE HELM, A GOD OR AN OTHER, SIDETRACKED

4/12 @ Fifth Dimension // LOZEN, HAZZARD’S CURE, DON PEYOTE

4/13 @ 2^nd Cycle // EARTH CONTROL, REIVERS, BLANK BOYS

4/13 @ New Frontier Lounge // EX-GODS, KRAMER, NEW GODS

4/13 @ Aurora House // TACOS!, AGATHA, MANSON’S GIRLS, GHETTO BLASTER

5/16 @ Vera Project // XIBALBA, MALICE, CROOKS TO KINGS, RAT PATH, COLD TRUTH

5/22 @ Vera Project // SEAWEED, COMEBACK KID, MAKE DO AND MEND, SHORE, RED SCARE

5/23 @ Black Lodge // DANGERS, THE EXQUISITES, BRAIN SLUG, COLUMN, BRICKLAYER

5/25 @ Highline // BL’AST!, TOETAG, HEIRESS, DEADKILL

6/12 @ Aurora House // SIDETRACKED, VIOLENT OPPOSITION, LIFE OF REFUSAL, NEW GODS, BURIAL SUIT

6/14 @ Vera Project // Sam “Pepperoni” Silverstein Memorial Show w/ POWER, SABERTOOTH ZOMBIE, GAG, WRECK, JASON CLACKLEY, DCOI, BIRDKILLER, ODD MAN OUT, BADGER

6/21 @ New Frontier Lounge // THE THERMALS, BIG EYES, THE WHEELIES

7/1 @ 2^nd Cycle // WARSONG (spain), KOHOSH, THE CUTWINKLES, MANSON’S GIRLS

7/10 @ Black Lodge // ANGEL DU$T, FORCED ORDER, GROWING STRONGER, SINGLED OUT, RED SCARE

7/21 @ Aurora House // BAUS, CULT EVADERS, BOD, EMPTY VESSELS

8/1 @ 2^nd Cycle // BROKEN WATER, DESERT CENTER, PORCELAIN GOD, BIRDKILLER

8/2 @ New Frontier Lounge // C AVERAGE, CONSTANT LOVERS, NEGATIVE PRESS

8/5 @ New Frontier Lounge // PLEBIAN GRANDSTAND (france), REPROACHER, EARTH CONTROL, CZAR

8/9 @ New Frontier Lounge // FELL TO LOW, LO’ THERE DO I SEE MY BROTHER, NEW GODS

8/21 @ New Frontier Lounge // VOLVER (guatemala), WATER RATS (brazil), LOFI (brazil), ENEMY COMBATANTS

8/22 @ Chop Suey // DROP DEAD, FULL OF HELL, NOISEM, THEORIES, EARTH CONTROL

9/13 @ Vera Project // CODE ORANGE, TWITCHING TONGUES, WAR HUNGRY, POWER, BURIAL SUIT

9/17 @ New Frontier Lounge // THE HELM, OLD IRON, EX-GODS, HEATHEN WASHINGTON

9/29 @ The Fifth Dimension // NEGATIVE STANDARDS, NO FUTURE, SISTER ACT

10/11 @ Black Coffee Co-op // CRAIG LEWIS, GREG BENNICK

10/24 @ Highline // OBLITERATIONS, BAPTISTS, TORCH RUNNER, BONE SICKNESS

10/31 @ Vera Project // NWHC HALLOWEEN w/ CROSS ME, VULGAR DISPLAY, PARADISE + cover sets

11/8 @ New Frontier Lounge // BOD, BURNING PALMS, JARVIS CLAYTON, DJ BS-SYSTEM

11/13 @ New Frontier Lounge // EARTH CONTROL, OLD LINES, SISTER ACT

11/14 @ Vera Project // SOUL SEARCH, FURY, POWER, SOJOURNER, THE CREW

11/19 @ Black Lodge // RUN WITH THE HUNTED, HOLLOW EARTH, (TRIAL), SHADOWBOXING, RED SCARE

We Are All Leaders

Before police and vigilante men opened fire on the wobblies aboard the steamship Verona in Everett, the Sheriff yelled "Who is your leader?" and from the deck of the ship came a resounding chorus, "We are all leaders!" To which a 10 minute barrage of gunfire was unleashed killing several wobblies and police who were shot in the back by their own guns. That was less than 100 years ago on the docks of Everett, WA. The wobblies had boarded a steamship leaving Seattle to go stand on the picket line with some shingle workers involved in a bitter strike.

Workers possess all the power in the world when they organize. In those moments of true revolution and resistance magic happens. Ordinary folks rise to the occasion and solidarity develops naturally, born out of collective struggle. When the smoke has cleared the workers recognize their own strength and claim dignity and power for themselves. There is a weird thing that keeps happening though with very few exceptions. Workers keep organizing themselves vertically and power is given over to a few within the ranks; the magic is lost. The revolution gives way to the prevailing societal structure and status quo returns, if just a little bit better than before.

The Labor movement does not need a new kind of leadership. It needs a new kind of rank and filer. It needs ordinary workers who take initiative, who lead on and off the job without official title or office. Regular folks who engage their communities, other workers and help build a culture of activism, solidarity, empowerment and political consciousness everywhere they go. Unions did not solely rise out of a desire for wages, benefits and working conditions. They were a direct challenge to the employing capitalist class. Now we live in an era where they just represent collaboration between the capitalists and the union workforce over the duration of a contract, and the average worker can't see beyond Friday when they go to pick up their paycheck.

The working class is the most powerful force on earth, but simply existing within capitalism is not enough. The true fire of American workers has been lying dormant, burning under ground since WW2. We gotta dig it up before the democrats, the union bureaucrats, the AFL-CIO business unionists and the bosses snuff it out. If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

8/2 @ New Frontier Lounge

DIG Part 2: e.p. thompson's warrens

DIG! DIG DEEP! beneath the bottoms of our feet

we must warren ourselves as the rabbits of the earth

gnawing and gnashing at the roots

wriggling and pushing through the dirt

We can no longer be castrated by that unforgivable malarkey

that all good things come from above,

“Power concedes nothing without a demand… it never did and it never will.”

Our small pockets of resistance must dig and tunnel and burrow

we have to dig and dig and dig till the ground gives way

til the load of what is -- becomes to great for the hollow earth below

til the haughty foundations of society fall in on themselves

til those monuments to the greatness of humankind topple and fall

til our tiny seed sprouts and takes root, punctures the stone

and guts the pavement of flesh and bone

we have to dig to one another

connect our struggles through a network of tunnels

from a birds eye...

a patchwork quilt of crisscrossing radical currents

The interconnectedness of everything

It is in their honor that we dig…

those who hurled themselves on the bayonets of the robber barons caste

those who were dashed to pieces on the reefs and shoals of an intransigent past

in the ground where their tattered bodies finally rest

we will plant our seeds.

we will form the basis for our new world in the still smoldering, burned out carapace of the old.

DIG Part 1: connecting the dots

We have been scattered to the wind as seed sewn to a godless winter

set against each other to compete for a meager life found wanting

driven to madness at a breakneck pace

fighting to keep a foothold, embattled against the cold

while every possible institution and authority tries to beat us down and stamp us out

we isolate ourselves and plot against one another

our egos deny nature while doffing hats to Darwin's central tenets

longing to be together we are forced to be alone 

shuttered in behind locked doors

suffering with dignity

fealty to the status quo

anchored to our our traditions, our guilt, our homes

day dreaming of a world we couldn’t possibly know

a world of freedom, without suffering, a world with genuine community,

a world of equality and harmony with one another and the earth

and without ever missing a beat

a resounding crack shakes us from our momentary stupors

If we had more

or maybe if we had it all

we could transcend this horrible fate

we could take a seat around that lofty table with those who have never wanted or needed anything

so we fence off our homes, (that benign tumor of private property)

and we heap our treasures upward to the sky

stepping upon each other in an endless quest to touch heaven

for all of us struggling to find meaning in this desperate and terrible world

wrestling with the maddening futility of all we have accomplished

we must concede that the machinery of our lives was set in motion long before we were born 

and it can no longer be our aim, to hurl our bodies upon the apparatus to seize and bind it’s gears

but to dig beneath the very foundation itself and erode the ground that bears it’s weight.

DIG.

A Longshore workers response to a new automated terminal in Brisbane.

An eerie picture of an automated port with computer driven semi tractors. What is missing? The workers.

This post is in response to this article about a new automated container terminal in Brisbane.

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When our daily toil is replaced by robots and human hands no longer drip with blood and sweat the capitalists will have won. Never be fooled into thinking this benefits anybody other than the boss. The great multitudes of working people, chasing the carrot on the stick for a meager portion of the wealth they produce will never reap the rewards of labor saving technology. If the bosses have a monopoly on production, and workers have been rendered obsolete with the implementation of new technology, there will be no point from which to leverage our frustrations... unless of course we chop off the employers heads and rest from them the means to secure our futures.

We can not stop automation. It is here. But the cargo still has to get to the docks. WE as dockers have to lead the charge and follow the cargo back through the supply chain and organize workers every where we go. We need an alliance of all transportation workers. Teamsters, Longshore. WE NEED TO ORGANIZE THE OVER THE ROAD TRUCKERS. We need to be reminded that the W in ILWU has a rich and vibrant history with one of the most intense, successful organizing efforts in American Labor history and that it represents union activity away from the docks. They can replace us all with robots on the docks but it will be a moot point if we control the ability to move cargo in and out of the terminals.

The world needs tried and true old school unionism. Organize the unorganized. Build strong alliances. Give dignity back to working people and challenge the rich and powerful who claim dominion over us all. It's time for a new militancy from all working people, more reflective of the roots of American Labor.

How many years til these terminals are up and running in every corner of the globe? We know they are tracking data from crane operators movements. We know in other parts of the world they twin pick 40 ft containers. We know they have developed equipment to remove cones. On log ships they have implemented labor saving quick release technology. This is nothing new, but we as longshore workers have to be ten steps ahead and not just wait for another blow.

All power to the workers who produce all wealth. Fuck your boss.

SHORE - record release shows

Shore - Little Deaths 7" is out now! Come get one at one of these shows.

Listen to the album here:

http://paintermanrecords.bandcamp.com/