To celebrate our ongoing obsession with the winter holidays, I give you “XMAS IV and… Hanukkah!” a free MP3 holiday EP from ‘09 Kindercore groups Grape Soda (with members of The Buddy System and two whole songs about something called Hanukkah!) and The Young Sinclairs plus an absolutely amazing song from Deidre of the Sad Cobras with the Magic Twig Family Band (members of The Young Sinclairs, SUNKING!, Sad Cobras and Boys Lie)!

Please to enjoy:

1: The Sad Cobras + The Magic Twig Family - Wrap Me Up on X-Mas

2: Grape Soda - Rock of Ages (Traditional)

3: Grape Soda - All Walls Fall

4: The Young Sinclairs - It\’s Christmas Time All Over Again (Tom Petty)

Also you can still buy last year’s XMAS 3: The War on Christmas from iTunes iTunes (it includes the comic book!) or order the CD only from the Kindercore Shop.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS Internet, we love you!!

Ryan & Dan Kindercore.

Posted by ryan on 22 Dec 2008 at 01:57 pm

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Ruby Isle and The Buddy System will be representing Kindercore at this year’s Athens Popfest. Check out the just announced line-up!

Full Festival Schedule
www.Athenspopfest.com

CINE 8.12.08
8:00 - Fish Schticks
8:35 - Bob Hay & the Jolly Beggars
9:10 - Allison Weiss
9:45 - Titans of Filth

LITTLE KINGS 8.13.08
2:00 - Boy Genius
2:35 - the Hotwalls
3:15 - Amo Joy!
4:00 - Afternoon Naps
4:45 - Nervous Systems (not confirmed yet)
5:30 - Oh Sanders
(Break time!)
8:00 - Supercluster
8:35 - Blondie-Grunt
9:10 - Nana Grizol
9:45 - Hot Pants Romance
10:20 - the Coathangers
11:00 - Whistling School for Boys
11:30 - Judi Chicago
12:00 - Spring Tigers
12:35 - the Selmanaires
1:15 - We Versus the Shark

LITTLE KINGS 8.14.08
2:00 - That’s My Daughter
2:40 - Little Birds
3:20 - A Faulty Chromosome
4:00 - Panda Riot
4:45 - Averkiou

FLICKER 8.14.08
6:00 - Night Driving in Small Towns
6:45 - Good Graces
7:30 - Mary O Harrison

CALEDONIA 8.14.08
8:30 - the Ocelots
9:30 - the Besties
10:30 - Twin Tigers
11:30 - Dead Confederate

40 WATT CLUB 8.14.08
8:00 - Patience Please
8:30 - Velcro Stars
9:00 - Bunnygrunt
9:30 - Cars Can Be Blue
10:15 - Great Lakes
11:00 - the Love Letter Band
11:45 - Dark Meat
12:30 - Roky Erickson & the Explosives

LITTLE KINGS 8.15.08
2:00 - Railcars
2:40 - Tendaberry
3:20 - One Happy Island
4:00 - Hat Company
4:30 - Fat Planet

FLICKER 8.15.08
6:00 - Oh Fortuna
6:45 - Noisycrane
7:30 - Gospel Gossip

CALEDONIA 8.15.08
8:30 - Laminated Cat
9:30 - Ham 1
10:30 - My Teenage Stride
11:30 - Violet Vector & the Lovely Lovelies

40 WATT 8.15.08
8:00 - Cryptacize
8:30 - Secret History
9:00 - the Faintest Ideas
9:30 - Ruby Isle
10:00 - the Buddy System
10:30 - the Lolligags
11:00 - Fishboy
11:30 - the Apes
12:15 - Boyracer
1:00 - TBA

LITTLE KINGS 8.16.08
2:00 - Lognhalsmottagningen
2:15 - Bad Animal
3:00 - the Young Untold
3:30 - Bright Lights
4:15 - American Cheeseburger

FLICKER 8.16.08
6:00 - Oh Fortuna
6:45 - Marc with a C
7:30 - Hot Lava

CALEDONIA 8.16.08
8:30 - Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned
9:30 - Thrushes
10:30 - the Sterns
11:30 - Man Factory

40 WATT 8.16.08
8:00 - the Smittens
8:30 - Big Fresh
9:00 - Thee American Revolution
9:30 - Pipes You See Pipes You Don’t
10:00 - Andy from Denver
10:30 - Casper & the Cookies
11:00 - Circulatory System
12:00 - Elf Power
1:00 - the Music Tapes

Tickets available HERE.

Posted by ryan on 10 Jun 2008 at 01:20 pm

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being into music isn’t just an interest…it’s a fucking full time job for some folks.

Music Snobbery is something that most people of a certain demographic will take part in from their late teens well into their early 30s. for most music snobs it was likely that during college they would spend some time working for the local college radio station or at a record store honing their craft…or maybe even starting a band to help out in the endless cycle of trying to be cool and get laid…..or if they were really lucky and had some rich parents or a trust fund they might even put out a record or two on their own label..this is the Mortal Kombat finishing move of Music Snobbery. this is essentially what happens to people who didn’t like sports or weren’t good enough to make their highschool baseball team. and this goes on and on until they stop caring as much about music because they either:
a)have a kid and have less time to devote to finding out about cool music or
b) get burnt out on trying to one up their friends and retire from music snobbery content with the knowledge that they have excellent taste and can no longer learn anything of true value.

back in the olden days before the Internets it was a very difficult thing to be a music snob, you had to read magazine articles and books about underground rock n roll to hear about new bands or “important” older bands and then you had to devote lots of time and money into traveling to out of the way independent record stores or ordering things through the mail without ever hearing it first. this made for some interesting discoveries (raincoats, wipers, vaselines….aka anything kurt cobain listed as a major influence) or it could result in some really crappy cds that you couldn’t sell at the used cd shop (free kitten, gumball!). and back in these happy times it really meant something to be able to namedrop some bands on other music snobs  to let them know you were in the know and not a total poseur.

then something terrible happened: THE INTERNET. and everything went to shit and it was as easy as clicking on your mouse and downloading a song by some obscure band from scotland that only had 2 eps and you could suddenly claim you’d heard them way before anyone else or whatever. the effort was now totally gone. but even though it has become much much easier to know about cool music, it’s still important to be into the right cool music…especially if you are a person younger than 23 who is talking about music to a person older than 29. there are certain bands that you must be aware of if you are to ever shed the label of young poseur. post punk as a genre is really a cottage industry for a good name dropper to verse themselves in. liking the Cure and The Smiths don’t count.

the top 25 bands to name drop if you are worried peope think you are a poseur

1. Sonic Youth (although very popular at one time, you must always list them as one of your favorite bands)
2. The Nation Of Ulysses
3. Nick Cave (Bad Seeds/Birthday Party)
4. Gang Of Four (it’s important to understand that all dance punk bands are gang of four clones)
5. The Jesus And Mary Chain (it’s important to call bands out for ripping off the JMC)
6. Modern Lovers
7. ESG (also good to play their songs at dance parties to impress certain people)
8. Pere Ubu/Rocket From The Tombs
9. Mission Of Burma
10. The Fall/Wire (UK punk bands that stayed aroud forever and everyone likes to list as an influence)
11. Joy Division/New Order
12. The Clean/The Bats/The Verlaines (any indie band from new zealand as this is the birth of indie pop and that’s what the Shins are)
13. Can/Faust (or any krautrock band really, you can’t go wrong)
14. James Chance
15. The Stone Roses (unless you are british…then it’s like listing Nirvana as your favorite band)
16. The Replacements
17. The Gun Club/X/The Zeroes (other early LA punk bands as they are less popular than New York and London bands)
18. Suicide/New York Dolls/Television (70s new york city punk that isn’t the Ramones or Blondie)
19. Swell Maps (important to note they influenced Pavement)
20. Captain Beefheart (although i don’t know anyone who actually listens to them who isn’t 40)
21. Pylon (unless you live in athens…then it’s not big deal)
22. The Sonics/the Monks (garage punk pioneers)
23. Neu!
24. Drive Like Jehu/Jesus Lizard/Big Black (thinking man’s dude rock)
25. The Wipers/Raincoats/Vaselines (aka the Kurt Cobain obsessions)

posted here from my new blog http://makinglists.blogspot.com

Posted by justin on 16 Feb 2008 at 04:42 pm

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Hey Kidz!!

It has only been a day or two since I told you about The Buddy System but we have been hard at work on songs for our upcoming show on December 8th at the Caledonia and we have posted a new demo for our show opener “Rap Music” on our MySpace page. Check it out, let us know what you think. Just wait until we unveil the animation at the show - seriously, you have been warned!

Posted by ryan on 30 Nov 2007 at 02:40 pm

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what’s more arty than trying to destroy art? that’s a question and a central theme posed in the book Rip It Up And Start Again by Simon Reynolds, by far the most interesting thing i’ve read in a long time. it tells the story of the postpunk/DIY era from 1978-1984 (aka the greatest music ever made that noone fucking ever talks about in the established music media except when lazy, dickhead music journalists try to compare shitty douchebag cockgobblins to Joy Division or Gang Of Four). this book is as essential as Please Kill Me for fans of underground rock and roll or for people who are interested in the political and social climates of early ’80s England and America (a time that is not unlike the one we are living in now…but instead of the Right selling us the fear of the Reds nuking us all to hell we get Islamic extremists shoved up our asses like a big fucking broomstick of neu-boogie man). anyways do yourself a favor if you can pull yourself out from behind your Harry Potter book (you big fucking nerd) and check out this awesome study of the music scene that really saved rock and roll from itself. if this book has done anything, besides kill a sunday afternoon for me it’s made me wanna give a shit about music again and go out and fucking make some of it…now if only i could sucker a couple of assholes into making some racket with me.

after you read this book, of course you are gonna need to go out and stock up your record collection with some killer jams.

 here’s a rough breakdown of some essential records from the era that every fan/poseur should own.
gang of four-entertainment!
joy division-unknown pleasures
PiL-metal box/second edition
james chance & the contortions-buy
wire-chairs missing
pere ubu-the modern dance
the birthday party-prayers on fire
slits-cut
the fall-live at the witch trials
the raincoats- the raincoats
devo- Q: are we not men? A: we are devo
the pop group- y
suicide- suicide
No New York
magazine- real life
swell maps- internation rescue
throbbing gristle- 20 jazz funk greats
television personalities- and don’t the kids just love it?

 there are endless more i could name…but that’s a good list to start with.

Posted by justin on 11 Aug 2007 at 02:06 pm

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