NYC EVENTS

Tony Tee Pee and myself will be DJn the TITAN // PHANTOM HALO show on Friday in Greenpointe and the Emerica Party with TITAN // PHANTOM HALO in Soho on Saturday. Monday, Lovepump will be hosting HEALTH at the Knitting Factory. HAPPY TIMES! See ya'll there.

MARCH 26 'HAIRBRAIN' W// ANCESTORS

Cold Sweat Records and Tee Pee Records Present:

H A I R B R A I N

A free event taking place the last Wednesday of every month. Featuring live performances and resident/guest DJs all night long.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 26TH

'ANCESTORS'

For those unfamiliar, Ancestors weave a textured and heavy sound not unlike Mogwai, Mono and the sonic bliss of later era Neurosis. They have just recently released their critically applauded debut "Neptune With Fire" on Tee Pee/North Atlantic Sound Records.

at LA CITA
336 S. HILL ST.
LA, CA

FREE // 21+ // 10pm-2am

dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip

UK rabble rousing sensations dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip embark on their 1st string of US dates including an extended stop off at the 2008 SXSW festival. The duo will return to US soil in mid April for a performance at this year’s Coachella Music Festival in Indio, CA as well. Cold Sweat will be digitally releasing their new single during their US tour. Stay tuned for exact release date. Listen to their twisted genius here: http://www.myspace.com/lesacvspip

March 11 The Mercury Lounge //New York, NY
March 12 Empty Bottle //Chicago, IL
March 13 Wave Rooftop-NME Show //Austin, TX
March 14 Rob Da Bank Showcase //Austin, TX
March 15 Mojo Mag BBQ-Mean Eyed Cat //Austin, TX
March 16 Café Du Nord //San Francisco, CA
March 17 The Roxy //Los Angeles, CA
April 25 Coachella Music Festival //Indio, CA

COLD SWEAT'N with ANCESTORS

Ladies and Gents, Yours truly will be singing some songs with members of Ancestors tomorrow night at the Mountain Bar in part of the "Ancestors Record Release" party. Both floors of the bar will be filled with audio and visual delights. Tony Tee Pee will be spinning records in between. Its free and the drinks are cheap. Come on down. We should be on stage bout 11:30pm.

475 Gin Ling Way (and Hill St.)
Los Angeles, CA 90012-1712
Phone: (213) 625-7500


-Sam James Velde
Cold Sweat Records

HAIRBRAIN ARTICLE

Cool little article about HAIRBRAIN here:

http://www.la2day.com/nightlife/hairbrain_the_music_event_you_dont_know_about


or read it here:

Hairbrain - The Music Event You Don't Know About

In a city where media brings in $38 billion annually to the economy, it almost seems strange to find people creating it out of sheer love. Anyone who made it to the Hairbrain event last month can attest profits weren’t the priority, and nobody would have dared to find something better to do with their time.

Hairbrain is a new, FREE, monthly event taking place on the last Wednesday of every month. Organized by Cold Sweat Records and TeePee Records, it provides a free rock show, a variety of DJs, and all the cheap drinks you would ever want to hold down. Currently held at La Cita in Downtown Los Angeles, the venue could be one of the most diverse in the city where hipsters and Latinos equally share the dance floor throughout the week, whether it be the experimental sounds erupting from the turntables of a DJ, or the mariachi music spilling out of the jukebox.

Set up underneath flashing Christmas lights between a couple red leather booths, local favorites Tweak Bird brought their bass-y driven blend of rapid tempo rock and roll to last month’s event. Without a raised “above-the-masses” stage at La Cita, Hairbrain provides a much more intimate experience for seeing some of the most unique bands coming out of Los Angeles—February brings the swaggering sounds of The Icarus Line for a rare performance.

Sam Velde, captain of Cold Sweat Records, says the event was inspired by a no-bullshit concept of fun. While spinning records with Buddyhead co-founder Travis Keller at the Scene Bar in Glendale a few years back, the two had too good of a time to not provide more people with an outlet for music fitting outside the mainstream. After teaming up with TeePee, Velde hopes to showcase more bands and DJs from regions outside of Los Angeles.

Both Cold Sweat and TeePee are independent labels providing the base for a variety of bands Mtv will never be hip to. Cold Sweat produces records for the critically acclaimed prog-rockers Battles, as well as the impossibly aggressive and loud Lords and Coliseum. Some psychedelia slips through on their roster as well with the excellent Starlite Desperation.

TeePee may best be known for hosting The Brian Jonestown Massacre in the past, but the label has since added LA's The Warlocks, and some of the gloomiest metal and fuzz-rock you can shake your long-haired freak flag to in bands like Earthless and Witch.

Again, Hairbrain at La Cita may be the one event in your busy, Hollywood lives worth setting some time aside for. For a gasp of fresh air and affordable drinks, I can’t think of another place I’d rather be. Doors open at 9:00 pm.

LA RECORD

The fine folks at LA RECORD have given HAIRBRAIN a nice shout out today. Read the article and more here: http://larecord.com/prevs/2008/02/27/wed-feb-27-hairbrain-la-cita/


or peep it here:

WED., FEB. 27: HAIRBRAIN @ LA CITA
Presented by Cold Sweat, the label that had Lavender Diamond on vinyl before anyone and that gave Wives a full album, and also presented by Tee Pee, the label that delivers nourishing electric loudness to headache sufferers worldwide: Hairbrain, a new heavy sounds monthly at downtown’s flourishing La Cita. DJs tonight are Cold Sweat’s Sam James, Dante Adrian once of Starlite Desperation (who will be debuting his new band Spirit Army later this week) and boss Tee Pee Tony, sucked in by the inescapable gravity of combined playlists. Also up is a live set by Icarus Line, detailed further in here.

— Rob Battin

GET DOWN TO GO OFF-----HAIRBRAIN!

BENEFIT THE CRUNK

Thursday, February 21st

Icarus Line
Darker My Love
Hit Me Back
Tweak Bird
Crystal Antlers

+Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks) & Sam James Velde (Cold Sweat Records) will spin the jamz all night long!

@ the Echo

1822 Sunset Blvd, LA CA
All Ages / 7:30pm / $10

This is a benefit for Matt Crunk of Qui to help fund medical bills & to help rebuild Manny Neito recording studio. Two amazing people, both of which have played a huge role in the Los Angeles music scene. Please help spread the word.

DAN LE SAC vs. SCROOBIUS PIP

Ladies and Gents, look out for our 1st ever "Digital Only" release coming soon by DAN LE SAC vs. SCROOBIUS PIP!

Release date to be determined, but check them out here until then:

www.myspace.com/lesacvspip

You can see them in America this April on day one of the Coachella Festival!...along side Cold Sweat alums BATTLES!

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip are the musicians behind the 2007 song "Thou Shalt Always Kill". They are a two-piece band based either side of London.

-COLD SWEAT

AS ABOVE WILL BE BELOW

YA HA WO 13 - 'PENETRATION' CD !OUT NOW!

Were pleased to announce the long awaited re-issue of the classic Ya Ho Wa 13 recording "Penetration" is out now on Cold Sweat Records.

For those unfamiliar, Easily one of Ya Ho Wha's heaviest offerings, "Penetration, An Aquarian Symphony" is arguably revered as their best -- one of the finest sacred, psychedelic death trips of all time, for sure. Djin's tripped out guitar work coupled with Zinuru's soundscapes and Father Yod's bellowing moans and chants create some of the most intensely spiritual and epic passages put to tape.

It was 1972, time of the cult-occult-commune explosion. By day, the Source Family served organic cuisine to John Lennon, Julie Christie, Frank Zappa and others at the famed Source restaurant. By night, in a mansion in Hollywood Hills, they explored the cosmos through the channeled wisdom of their charismatic leader, Father Yod. Father was an outlandish figure who had 14 "spiritual wives," drove a Rolls-Royce, and fronted the rock band Ya Ho Wa 13, now considered by collectors to be one of the most singular psychedelic bands of all time.

-COLD SWEAT

HAIRBRAIN

Wednesday February 27 2008

Cold Sweat Records & Tee Pee Records Present:

"H A I R B R A I N"

Featuring the unpredictably wicked and wild sounds of LA's "THE ICARUS LINE"

Guest DJn by Dante Adrian (of The Starlite Desperation/Spirit Army), Sam James (Cold Sweat), and Tony TP (Tee Pee).

FREE.
21+.
9PM-2AM

at LA CITA
336 S. Hill Street
LA, CA

HAIRBRAIN is a free, monthly event featuring live music and DJs...playing everything under the moon from pysch, garage, goth, heavy rock, hardcor, pop, freak folk and punk. Its free....and it goes off!

www.myspace.com/theicarusline
www.myspace.com/hairbrainclub

LITTLE RADIO

We had the pleasure of DJ'n Little Radio last nite on the "DJ Short Shorts" show.

You can download the set here.....and be tuned in and turned on to a cavalcade of freak flag flying tunes!

http://www.littleradio.com/feeds/podcasts/view/3284

Other related links:
http://www.myspace.com/vxxxn
http://www.myspace.com/littleradio

-Cold Sweat

SET LIST:

Silver Apples of the Moon – Morton Subotnick
Light Show 2 – John Webster Johns
Puffy Cheek Town – John Webster Johns
Flagwavers – Swarm of Angels
Cuts – Peter Murphy
The Light Pours Out Of Me – The Magazine
To Fix The Gash In Your Head – A Place To Bury Strangers
Thinkin' Bout Chu – The Bambi Slam
Rocket Machine – Opal
Bringing It Back From Mexico – Mistress
Set It On Fire – The Scientists
God Out West – Link Wray
Tell Me When It's Over – The Dream Syndicate
1984 – The Records
1,000 Nights – The Hunt
Yo – Ya Ho Wa 13
Eternal Thirst – MU
Triceratops – Health
Morning Excuse – Amon Duul II
Pressure – Celebration
Oxygene Pt. 6 – Jean Michel Jarre
Bull in the Bell – Andrew Douglas Rothbard
Big City – Spacemen 3
Run into Flowers – M83

LOUISVILLE

Phantom Family Halo are back on the road supporting "The Legend Of Black Six" on Cold Sweat Records. Some of the guys also play in Dead Child. Cold Sweat released an EP last year, the boys just recorded their debut full length for Touch and Go. Busy times for the Louisville gang. Speaking of Louisville, looks like well be repressing the LORDS "Swords" LP in time for their touring onslaught beginning in April!

Come out and see Phantom Family Halo...an experience NOT to be missed:

1.22.08 DENVER ,CO@THREE KINGS W/ LA OTRACINA
1.23.08 SALT LAKE CITY@RED LIGHT BOOKS W/ LA OTRCINA
1.24.08 BOISE,ID@ NEROLUX W/ LA OTRACINA
1.25.08 PORTLAND OREGON@EAST END BAR W/ LA OTRACINA
1.26.08 SEATTLE WASHINGTON@JULES MAE W/ LA OTRACINA
1.27.08 EUREKA CALIFORNIA@ TBA W/ LA OTRACINA
1.28.08 SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA@ TBA W/ LA OTRACINA
1.29.08 SAN FRANCISCO@THE HEMLOCK TAVERN W/ LA OTRACINA
1.31.08 OAKLAND CALIFORNIA @MAXWELL’S W/LA OTRACINA
2.01.08 BIG SUR@TBA W/ LA OTRACINA
2.02.08 LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA@ECHO CURIO W/ LA OTRACINA
2.03.08 SAN DIEGO@THE CASBAH W/ LA OTRACINA
2.04.08 PHOENIX ARIZONA @MODIFIED W/ LA OTRACINA
2.06.08 DENVER CO.@THREE KINGS W/LA OTRACINA
2.07.08 LAWRENCE KANSAS@REPLAY LOUNGE W/ LA OTRACINA
2.08.08 BLOOMINGTON.IND@BEARS PLACE W/ LA OTRACINA
2.09.08 CHICAGO ILL@TBA W/ LA OTRCINA

CLASSY SAN DIEGO

COLD SWEAT RECORDS AND TEE PEE RECORDS SHOWCASE

In association with EMERICA and ALTAMONT....

THURS. JAN. 24 FREE
9pm - midnight

Performances By:

Earthless
Ancestors
Tweakbird
The Goat (featuring Andrew Reynolds)


at Bar Pink Elephant
3829 30th St.
North Park, SAN DIEGO

FREE!
21+ w/ ID
Agenda Show VIPs: free drinks w/ wristband

HAIRBRAIN

COLD SWEAT RECORDS & TEE PEE RECORDS PRESENT:

"HAIRBRAIN" ( A Monthly Free Event)


FEATURING LIVE PERFORMANCE BY: TWEAKBIRD

RESIDENT AND GUEST DJs. THRU OUT THE NIGHT.

JANUARY 30TH- FREE
10PM
AT LA CITA
336 SOUTH HILL STREET (Between 3rd & 4th)
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES

DJn TWEAK BIRD

Hey Ya'll-

I will be DJing (Along with Luda Dahlberg from International Noise Conspiracy)

.......the TWEAKBIRD / ANCESTORS / TSK TSK show

This Friday (1/11) at 'Dave Youngs Warehouse' on 6th Street @ Alameda. (Downtown Los Angeles).

It's free, and theres a bar. Doors at 9pm. All Ages!!

Hope to see you all there.
-Sam ColdSweat

TAPE DONT LIE

Clevo rabble rousers THIS MOMENT IN BLACK HISTORY are set to take the West Coast this Winter. Catch one of their always intense shows if you can. Also, pick up their Cold Sweat release 'IT TAKES A NATION OF ASSHOLES TO HOLD US BACK' in stores now!

Dec 8 2007 8:00P
The Scene Glendale, California
Dec 9 2007 9:00P
The Smell Los Angeles, California
Dec 10 2007 9:00P
Spaceland Los Angeles, California
Dec 12 2007 9:00P
Hemlock Tavern San Francisco, California
Dec 13 2007 8:00P
The Vista Eureka, California
Dec 14 2007 9:00P
Slabtown Portland, Oregon
Dec 15 2007 9:00P
Jules Maes Saloon Seattle, Washington
Dec 16 2007 8:00P
Greenhouse Seattle, Washington

GOOD FOR YOU

The long overdue HEALTH LP will see the light of day next month! This limited edition (500), hand screened ditty will hits stores officially on Dec. 4 2007. Just in time for the holidays!

The band will have copies for their west coast tour in January 2008.

You'll need to contact your local store and make sure they're on order or head out to one of the shows to obtain this first pressing. Love Pump United will have some as well.

Thanks for your patience. Worth the wait!
We've posted an MP3 from the LP, come on by and give a listen.

"Healthy servings of tribal percussion, asymmetrical instrumentation, and animalistic curvatures make this band's noisy aggression effective, without the need for intelligible lyrics. The near-innocuous opening track of HEALTH's self-titled album, "Heaven," segues into the 36-second neurotic dissonance of "Girl Attorney," which picks up tempo on its transition into "Triceratops" -- a thrashing scourge of screeches, feedback, and gratuitous clanging reminiscent of Liars laced with a relief of a Deerhunter meditation. Not even six minutes into the album, and you are drawn into a mind-numbing sonic overload only sauntered by HEALTH's noisy predecessors." -SPIN.COM

-Cold Sweat Records

HAIRBRAIN

Cold Sweat Records and Tee Pee Records Present..

-HAIRBRAIN-

A monthly event taking place the last Wednesday of every month. Featuring live performances as well as resident and guest DJs. 21+. FREE!!! @La Cita (336 S. Hill St. Between 3rd & 4th--Downtown Los Angeles, CA)

KICKING OFF NOVEMBER 28TH 2007 WITH LIVE PERFORMANCE BY: THE MOON UPSTAIRS

AS ABOVE SO BELOW

~~ SOURCE FAMILY EVENTS AND BOOK SIGNINGS ~~

LOS ANGELES AREA

There should be around 30 original Source Family members in LA during the week of the events. Different Family members will be appearing and speaking at each event, so each event will be unique. We will offer a Meditation at 5:00am SHARP on the 15th of November with all who are sincerely moved to sing the Sacred Name of God. Please call (808) 443-8868, (661) 313-3639 or (808) 936-3046 for more information.

Friday, November 9 – 7 pm
SKYLIGHT BOOKS -- Slideshow, reading, signing, and discussion of The Source Family and their activities during the "Mother House" days living in the Chandler Mansion in Los Feliz. This is what some Family Members refer to as the "golden era" of the Source Family ~ With Isis, Electricity, and Om-Ne Aquarian, Magus, Electra and Orbit & others.
1818 N. Vermont Avenue, LA – skylightbooks.com

Sunday, November 11 – 1 pm
FREAK BEAT RECORDS -- Book signing and CD listening party ~ With Isis and E Aquarian, Ya Ho Wa 13 original members & others. 13616 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks - freakbeatrecords.com

Sunday, November 11 – 7 pm
BHODI TREE -- Reading and discussion on The Source Family and the rise of mysticism and the occult in Los Angeles in the early 70's ~ With Isis, E, and Om-Ne Aquarian, and Louis Sahagun (author of: Master of the Mysteries: The Life of Manly Palmer Hall (Process Books, spring 2008), and Source editor Jodi Wille. 8585 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood - bodhitree.com

Thursday, November 15 – 8 pm
THE SILENT MOVIE THEATER -- (this place is WONDERFUL - it has shown ONLY silent movies since 1942 ! It looks like it was decorated by us) Process Media presents: An Evening with the Source Family. Members of Los Angeles' legendary Source Family re-unite in a program composed of slides, home movies and the first musical performance in 30 years by the legendary band, Ya Ho Wa 13 !!! Process Media's great volume on the storied SoCal Family, The Source: The Untold Story, will be signed on site. We welcome the authors & Members of the Family ! An audio-visual survey of this '60s/'70s seminal countercultural force in LA and their famous restaurant, The Source ~ with Isis, Electricity, Magus, Om-Ne & others & cult/commune scholar Timothy Miller and Source editor Jodi Wille. 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, LA – silentmovietheatre.com

Friday, November 16 – 8 pm
THE ECHOPLEX & Process books, Cold Sweat and Flaunt Magazine present: The Return of Ya Ho Wa 13...w/ One Aquarian, Sky Saxon and The Seeds, the band Entrance & others & a Source Family slide show by Isis Aquarian, film projections by Fred Kiko ! Source Family attire is encouraged. 1820 Sunset Blvd., LA – attheecho.com

SAN FRANCISCO AREA

Saturday, November 17
OTHER CINEMA – 8:30 PM with a POSSIBLE additional late show - Mystical History ~ ERIK DAVIS + ISIS AQUARIAN ON FATHER YOD AND THE SOURCE FAMILY. From their website..."Process Media's fascinating volume on the storied SoCal commune, The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and The Source Family . . . we welcome authors Isis and Electricity Aquarian, editor Jodi Wille, and Members of the Family in the flesh ! They offer a 2 hr. audio-visual survey of the life and times of this seminal ‘60s/‘70s countercultural force in Los Angeles and San Francisco spirituality, music, and lifestyle (and their famous restaurant, The Source). Many slides, several Family home movies, and numerous Ya Ho Wa 13 musical selections serve as springboards for anecdotes, discussion, and Q&A. The famous Erik Davis, who wrote the book’s introduction, opens the show with preparatory remarks, framing the Family’s activity within his Visionary State cosmology.~ With Isis, E, Om-Ne, and others. 250 Page St., San Francisco

Sunday, November 18 – 1 pm
AQUARIUS RECORDS -- Book signing and listening party ~ With Isis and E Aquarian and original members of Ya Ho Wa 13 in the flesh: Octavius, Djin, and Sunflower!!!! 1055 Valencia St, San Francisco - aquariusrecords.org

Sunday, November 18 – 8 pm
CAFE DU NORD -- The Return of Ya Ho Wa 13 ! Featuring the original “Ya Ho Wa 13” with “Sky Saxon of The Seeds” and the band “Entrance”. 2174 Market St, San Francisco - cafedunord.com