Some new Ear Bleed stuff on the way, including a new Cryptids tape , plus a reissued version of “Veil” with new & improved sound and artwork. New radio podcast coming soon, too.

-Ian Earbleed

The greatest mutant prog band in existence. There’s lots more videos floating around on the youtube, but this should give you healthy dose of stratospheric vocals, heavy beards and Christian Vander’s cyborg drumming.

Ear Bleed has moved to Madison, Wisconsin. More releases and gigs soon once we’re settled…

Ear Bleed is back in town, lots of new and old stuff headed your way soon.

Here’s a couple out of print cd-rs from Andy Crash:

Fedral Reserve

easy street ep

Andy’s newest album “Waiting for Nothing” is still available from Ear Bleed for $5. Did we mention it’s amazing and contains a bunch of Hank Williams covers? And comes with an awesome color mini-poster drawn by Andy himself?

New Cryptids CD-r out on Layaway Butch/Ear Bleed Records:

Cryptids- Kosmische Cryptids (Layaway Butch/Ear Bleed)
A collection of assorted Cryptids works from the vaults, 2007 to present. Shimmering drones, heavy tribal freakouts and a whole lot of blissed-out cosmic kraut music from the wrong place and time. Email earbleedrecords at gmail.com about how to get one of these. Only two copies of “Mabuse” left, so order these fast.

Some pictures from the Yellow Crystal Star/Child Bride/To-Night Golden Curls/Cryptids gig:

Yellow Crystal Star

Child Bride

To-Night Golden Curls

Cryptids

@ Robinwood Concert House, Toledo.

Two new cassettes from Ear Bleed:

Cryptids- Mabuse (EBR18)

If the last couple Cryptids releases were a little too droney or mellow for you, don’t worry, this one’s about as mellow as an icepick to the earlobe. Mountains of misanthropic churning violin ultraviolence, drugged synths melting in the sun and tortured screams coming out of the air vents populate the landscape of this tape. “Der Spieler”/”1000 Eyes”.

Andy Crash- Waiting for Nothing

Andy Crash is one of NW Ohio’s most original and unique musicians, and we’re very happy to be able to put out a tape by him. Inspired by tales of the hobos, yeggs and drifters that used to ride the rails, Andy brings together originals, covers, and timeless folk & country songs together in his unique style. Somehow Andy links the songs of Hank Williams, Flatt & Scruggs, the Velvet Underground and Snoop Dogg into a unique vision of American loner folk music. Comes with an awesome color poster by Andy Crash himself. Probably the coolest thing we’ve put out.

Both of these are $5 each, if you buy both of them you’ll also get a ton of other Ear Bleed stuff. Better do it soon, though, because I will be going on permanent vacation in mid-May. Send paypal money or an email to earbleedrecords@gmail.com.

Still have a few copies of the following:

Cryptids- Veil

Ripped Krampus II- Mothbleed: Death’s Gonna Die CD-r

Father Yodorowsky & the Spirit of 666- El Dopo

$5 each, send an email to earbleedrecords@gmail.com to snag one before they’re gone.

New tapes coming very soon.

Last night I went up to Woodchucks in Toledo to see Burning Star Core. I’ve seen C. Spencer Yeh play in various combos before, but never as BxC, so I was excited for this show. Never been to Woodchucks, either; it’s a tiny hole in the wall, which is usually a good thing for noise shows in bars. Darger opened with some extremely loud duo guitar drone stuff. Wasteland Jazz Unit was up next and slayed, their sax and bass clarinet making some intense feedback and bongslobber skronk noise that woke my tired ass up. After that was BxC, Robert Beatty playing space echo synth and Yeh manipulating samples. They started off with an off-kilter kosmische drone that oozed and gurgled around for a bit like the best moments of early Tangerine Dream stuck in a blender. Then the second jam started off with a drum machine doing a Tony Conrad & Faust beat, with Yeh playing drone violin and the sax player from WJU joining in halfway through for a trip to krautrock country. All in all a good night of music in Toledo set up by Toledo Bellows, check out their site for more great experimental shows coming up in Toledo.