FROM PITCHFORK MAGAZINE:
Hey hey! There's a new Os Mutantes tribute album out today! Jardim Elétrico: A Tribute to Os Mutantes features fifteen different artists tackling tracks from all over the catalog of the highly-influential, stupendously great Brazilian psych-pop experimentalists.
You'll likely get quite a kick out of contributions by the Earlies, Jennifer Gentle, Residual Echoes, and Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto), as well as White Flag's take on "Mysterious White Roses," a Mutantes gem that never made it to a proper album but did show up in a 1968 film. The disc features an insert poster drawn by Mutant Arnaldo Baptista, which we'd wager might look pretty cool under a blacklight. All this can be yours from Italian label Madcap Collective.
There's also a clause in this here press release suggesting this album was made available at all Os Mutantes tour dates. Since those suckers have, for the time being, come and gone, you may already own this album. If not, get to searchin'!
01 Stop the Wheel: "Top Top"
02 Jennifer Gentle: "Panis et Circenses"
03 Father Murphy: "Ave Lucifer"
04 Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda: "Trem Fantasma"
05 White Flag: "Mysterious White Roses"
06 Tater Toz: "Bat Macumba"
07 Littlebrown: "Senhor F."
08 Residual Echoes: "A Minha Menina"
09 Wondermints: "Arnaldo Said"
10 Pillars and Tongues: "Magica"
11 Oswald: "Dois Mil e Um"
12 Gomma Workshop: "O Relogio"
13 Franklin Delano/GRES Unidos Do Berimbau: "Adeus, Maria Fulo"
14 The Earlies: "Ave Gengis Khan"
15 Fabio Recco & Bia Mendes: "Tecnicolor (Beto Salmon Remix)"
NEW GIG! Dec 13th Wed Orange County House of Blues with Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Pat Fear, Jello B. Afro, Mike Mess and Trace Element will rock the OC!
Novemebr 10 2006 update. The 1984 "Third Strike" lp WF lineup of Pat Fear, Trace Element, Jello B. Afro and...wait for it..... AL BUM (in a wheelchair!) will be rocking hard core for a one time only cameo reunion set on Saturday, December 9th 2006, at The Knittng Factory, Hollywood. This is a memorial/benefit show for the late Sandy West, drummer for the groundbreaking legendary band, The Runaways.
The night's festivities will also feature sets by The Donnas, The Adolescents, Cherie Currie doing a Runaways set, and many surprise guests. White Flag is only doing a 15 minute set (as are most of the bands), though the surprise headliner is probably playing a full set.
Any bands or artists interested in participating in the event please contact
The Knitting Factory:
Bruce Duff 323-463-0204 Extension 121.
Check out the book "Recording the Beatles" by Kevin Ryan and WF affiliate Brian Kehew (played keyboards on some of the last WF CD, worked with RK and produced a Muffs lp, is half of The Moog Cookbook, and now is touring keyboardist for The WHO!)
HOT
NEWS! Pat Smear, of the recently reunited legendary band THE GERMS,
(and late of Nirvana and Foo Fighters), has autographed a guitar
he used on Foo Fighters' tours and recordings, and has given it
to his "namesake", White Flag's guitarist Pat FEAR,
to take on White Flag's Tour of Italy, which begins in Rome on
February 5th.
Pat FEAR has also signed the guitar, and will play it in Italy,
and then GIVE IT AWAY on stage to whomever he thinks qualifies
as "the biggest White Flag and Germs fan in Italy".
Pats Smear and Pat Fear have known each other since the seminal
days of 1977 Los Angeles punk, and Pat Smear played guitar as
a guest on White Flag's most recent CD, "Eternally Undone".
Germs' drummer Don Bolles also co wrote a song and did guest vocals
on the CD, along with Rancid's Tim Armstrong and Hole's Eric Erlandson.
The two "Pats" have also released several records in
a side project "Tater Totz" which also featured members
of Redd Kross, Frightwig, The Runaways, and Danny Bonaduce of
The Partridge Family.
Pat Fear is also working as a technical advisor ( along with the
three original Germs) on the currently in production Germs bio
pic, "What We Do Is Secret".
Q:IS
WHITE FLAG THE CENTER OF THE ROCK N ROLL UNIVERSE?
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NEW
CONTEST IN ADDITION TO THE VIDEO CONTEST!
Video contest is still going strong, and some songs are still
up for grabs! Read the details and write!
NEW CONTEST:
BE A SOURCE FOR A NEW WHITE FLAG RECORDING!
This is a punk rock scavenger hunt, we need ANY recording,
live or otherwise, of the late 70's UK punk band THE RUTS
doing a song called "Eat Your Heart Out"
They never did an official studio recording release of this
song, but did it live a lot, and White Flag wants to cover
it for a Ruts tribute LP! Please contact us and put RUTS in
the subject line of any email, thanks! Special rare White
Flag surprise for whomever finds us a tape of this first!
WHITE
FLAG VIDEO CONTEST!
Like the band? Hate
the band? Have some sort of ability (not necessarily talent...)
to make a video?
WELCOME TO THE FIRST WHITE FLAG "Make a video at your
own expense to one of our songs and maybe get it on our Japanese
DVD" contest!MORE INFO HERE.
We
here at White Flag have just been informed of the sad news of
the recent passing on Thursday of last week of: Randy "Biscuit"
Turner Former lead singer of groundbreaking Texas "skate
punk" band The Big Boys.
Details are unknown to us at this time to we here at the site,
but we will update with any relevant information including where
condolences or charity donations may be sent, if one has indeed
been established.
White Flag had the good fortune of sharing the stage with The
Big Boys once in the very early 1980's, at the terrifyingly
dangerous East L.A. club The Vex. It was, to this day, one of
the most exciting and memorable shows of our 20 some year career,
entirely due to Biscuit and his cohorts' indescribably great
performance.
Our condolences to Randy's family, and his fellow Big Boys.
His like will most likely not be seen again in our lifetimes.
Download
Tabs & Lyrics! Fans
are encouraged to learn these songs if they would like to
sing or play with us on stage. [ MAC
| PC ]
R IS FOR ROCKET!
The LOST 1982 Sessions
Finally on CD AND Vinyl, the re-issue of the lost first album
R IS FOR ROCKET coupled with outtakes never
released from those sessions AND the original band's ENTIRE
first live gig EVER and more, on one CD entitled: R
IS FOR ROCKET, U IS FOR UNRELEASED. Deluxe CD from
Artifx Records out soon, for info got to
their site www.artifixrecords.com
AND there will be a very limited vinyl edition from ITALY
on Rave-Up Records email them at raveup@tiscalinet.it
for info!
AND if that wasn't enough! ACME RECORDS of Boston
is reissuing WILD KINGDOM on CD for the first time
ever with LOTS of bonus tracks and great intense packaging!
Contact them at jevicci@juno.com
for release info!
HOTTER
THAN HECK!
Pat
Fear contributed a photo and is quoted in the "Kiss
Alive Forever" book - www.kissaliveforever.com
White Police Story and Black "Peace Sign"
logo shirt is 9 dollars plus shipping
and postage, see below.
Button of black shirt's logo is one dollar postage paid
R IS FOR
ROCKET, U IS FOR UNRELEASED.
Deluxe CD from Artifix
Records
T
is for 20 Soundflat Records - vinyl
order a copy email order@soundflat.de
WHITE
FLAG POST 2000:
Pat Fear from White Flag has co-written a song with Charlotte Caffey and Kathy
Valentine for The
Go-Go's new CD. The song is ONLY on the Japanese version
of the CD "God Bless the Go-Go's". It's called
"King of Confusion"
Pat Fear also co-wrote a song with Jeff McDonald
on the forthcoming Ze
Malibu Kids CD "Sound it Out," entitled
"Maybe It's the Wrong Time Now."
Huge White Flag interviews can be found in the current
issues of prestigious German fanzines "Ox"
and "Trust", and in the next issues, as the
interviews were so in depth that they had to be split in to
two parts! The picture of Pat singing for Black Flag
is worth having even if you can't read German! OX comes
with a CD featuring a new White Flag song "Forever
Changes", available nowhere else.
TRUST fanzine may be contacted athttp://www.trust-zine.de OX fanzine writer who conducted the interview may be
contacted at hq@killer-release.de for English version of the interview. Also get information
on the forthcoming rarities collection, titled "T is
for 20", it will be on Ox fanzine's label Soundflat
Records on vinyl. to order a copy email order@soundflat.de.
Watch
the video for SUICIDE KING
