VACATION

CLEVELAND CONFIDENTIAL BOOK TOUR

CLEVELAND CONFIDENTIAL BOOK TOUR

With Special Guets: The Grill 'Em All Truck

Readings by:
Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys)
Mike Hudson (The Pagans) and Bob Pfeifer (Human Switchboard)

TOMORROW
1/24/11

@ Vacation Vinyl

7:00 pm

Cleveland Confidential Book Tour is Cheetah Chrome (Rocket From The Tombs, Dead Boys, Batusis with Sylvain Sylvain), Mike Hudson (The Pagans) and Bob Pfeifer (Human Switchboard, Tabby Chinos, former Senior Vice President A&R/Epic/Sony Records and President of Hollywood Records).

Book tour is based on panel curated by rock journalist RJ Smith (Spin, New York Times) for the Experience Music Project Pop Conference at UCLA.

Together they have made and lost more money than most, and will reveal strategies for doing both with flair. (RJ Smith)

Cheetah Chrome - A Dead Boy's Tale From The Front Lines Of Punk Rock is the no-holds-barred autobiography of Cheetah Chrome, lead guitarist of the Dead Boys, one of the greatest punk bands ever. It’s a tale of success and excess—amazing music, legendary antics, epic drug use, and eventual resurrection—that only a true rock and roller could deliver. As a songwriter Chrome's work has been covered by artists such as Guns n Roses, Pearl Jam and the Beastie Boys. He still performs and records with Rocket From The Tombs and Batusis (with Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls).

Mike Hudson will read from Jetsam and Diary of a Punk. The 32 short pieces that make up Jetsam were written and published between 1977 and 2009. His lean and unsentimental prose style is apparent in even the earliest entries here. Diary of A Punk is Hudson's autobiography. He is the founder of the seminal American punk rock group, the Pagans, formed in 1977. His work has appeared in Hustler, the Associated Press, Master Detective, Field & Stream and many other publications here and abroad. He is currently the founding editor and CEO of the Niagara Falls Reporter, a New York tabloid specializing in politics and organized crime.

University of Strangers is Bob Pfeifer's first novel. In a sensational case that made headlines all over the globe, the American student Amanda Knox was convicted of the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher, in what Italian authorities described as a sadistic sexual encounter. Pfeifer's novel details the efforts of a secret society, comprised of famous contemporary figures from the worlds of literature, show business and politics, to clear the girl's name. A unique blend of fact and fiction the book is a spellbinding account of the violence, corruption and celebrity worship that characterize much of 21st century life. Pfeifer was Senior Vice President A&R/Epic/Sony Records and President of Hollywood Records. Artists he's worked with include Alice Cooper, Ornette Coleman, The Screaming Trees, also soundtracks like the Crow: City of Angels and Lion King. He is a founding member/songwriter of Human Switchboard and Tabby Chinos.

CLEVELAND CONFIDENTIAL BOOK TOUR

With Special Guets: The Grill 'Em All Truck

Readings by: Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys)
Mike Hudson (The Pagans) and Bob Pfeifer (Human Switchboard)

TOMORROW

2/24/11

@ Vacation Vinyl

7:00 pm

ALERT! TONETTA @ SHOWCAVE

KING DUDE + CHELSEA WOLFE in-store

KING DUDE

Free In-Store @ Vacation
Friday February 11th. 6:00pm
King Dude is the pseudonym for Seattle artist and musician TJ Cowgill (Teen Cthulhu, Book of Black Earth, Cross, Actual Pain). Formed from the void of spiritual, Satanic folk music in our current age, Cowgill as King Dude has quickly carved his own niche in the world's underground music scene. Comparisons to Death in June, Current 93, and Of the Wand and the Moon (whom released a split 7" with King Dude) run amok, along with comparisons to Guthrie, Dylan, and Leonard Cohen. But there is no direct rip off going on here. "I was writing these songs," says Cowgill, " and I ended up playing them for a friend of mine, who said I reminded her of Current 93, that's when I started listening to bands like that." Truly this music is natural in its inception and form, and speaks of world of Luciferian Light, knowledge and spirituality beyond the confides of otherwise strict monotheistic reasoning. "My music is the music of the world, of nature, of the devil, of love and destruction. I think it speaks to everyone equally no matter who they are or what they believe because the light bringer is in us all, awake or waiting to be awakened." Whatever is going on, King Dude's brand of psych folk has a tendency to evoke a quiet calm that is at once soothing and disheartening.
MY BELOVED GHOST VIDEO

BLACK TRIANGLE VIDEO

CHELSEA WOLFE
Free In-Store @ Vacation
Friday February 11th. 6:00pm

Creating a unique mix of goth-folk, experimental rock and spiritual realm doom music, Chelsea Wolfe is one of dark music’s greatest new discoveries. A solo artist with eponymous full band out of Los Angeles, California, Wolfe has been writing music since she was 9 years old. Her influences range from the creative minds of Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch, to soviets, death, and the end of the world, and her songs conjure sparkling visions in the listener’s mind of other dimensions, a claustrophobic echo-room or a parking garage cathedral.

KING DUDE
+
CHELSEA WOLFE
Free In-Store

@ Vacation

Friday February 11th. 6:00pm

American Hardcore: A Panel Discussion Sat Jan 29th

AMERICAN HARDCORE
"The Process Of Weeding Out: American Hardcore
and the Rise of Stoner Rock"
PANEL DISCUSSION
@ Vacation Vinyl Sat Jan 29th at 4pm

with Steven Blush
Also, Brant Bjork (Kyuss), Chuck Dukowski (Black Flag),
Mario Lalli (Fatso Jetson), Pete Stahl (Scream) and
Greg Anderson (Sunn O))), Southern Lord Records)

Also, Limited Edition Silk-screened Prints
of the above image will be available!

HARASSOR Fri Jan 28th @ The BLVD

ALERT!

GRAF ORLOCK in-store Jan 14th 7pm

GRAF ORLOCK

Free In-Store
Record Release show for their new LP/CD
'Doombox'
@ Vacation
Friday Jan 14th 7:00pm

In late 2003 Graf Orlock formed as an answer to monotony of “heart felt” lyrics and “sincere” prose. By pushing the envelope of the “cinema-grind” genre, Graf Orlock balance on the illusory edge of relevance and complete absurdity, longing for the heyday of late 80s and early 90s action movies, and the artistry of thematic creativity contained therein. Exploring issues as wide spread as terrorism, cybernetic revolution, inter-planetary colonialism, and psychotic delusion, Graf Orlock investigate the nether regions of the human condition. Through the medium of film, they articulate an increasingly radical view of the world around them, forming a brutal social commentary of the dwindling present, and a speculatively pessimistic outlook of the future ahead.

GRAF ORLOCK
Free In-Store
Record Release show for their new LP/CD
'Doombox'
@ Vacation Friday Jan 14th 7:00pm

COMPLICATED DANCE STEPS Free In-Store Showcase

SON FISH

Shrouded enigma,
Kaoscillator wizard
Commands his machines

SNEAKY SNAKE
Theirs is the voice of
The forest when trees fall in
Morning light, alone

TEN STAIRS
The subtlest and most
Dignified use of trombone
Layering we know

COMPLICATED DANCE STEPS

Free In-Store Showcase
and Tape Release Party @ Vacation

Friday December 17th. 7:00pm

OFF! Free In-Store!

OFF!

Free In-Store
@ Vacation
TOMORROW!!! 7:00pm
(space is limited. Guaranteed access for those
who pre-order FIRST FOUR EPs)

Limited edition box set with cover designed by Raymond Pettibon contains four 7"s, each with an exclusive Raymond Pettibon designed sleeve, as well as a 12 page booklet with an introduction by Pettibon, exclusive photos and artwork celebrating the band and their individual legacies.

WILDILDLIFE Free In-Store and Give In To Live LP Release Party @ Vacation Friday December 10th.

WILDILDLIFE IN-STORE

WILDILDLIFE

The three members of Wildildlife (just pronounced Wildlife) are no strangers to the sensation of ridiculously overloaded senses and, as such, they have crafted an album that is evocative of such an experience for their latest full - length, Give In To Live.
Expansive melodies, epically dirgey sludge, rave ups and a huge heaping helping of good ol' brain -bending psychedelia characterize the eight songs on Give In To Live, all while not completely obfuscating the overall hum-ability or pop sensibilities of this wildly experimental rock band. Wildildlife has been tagged with many genres - Heavy Metal, Shoegaze, Stoner, Doom, Drone, Noise - those can only hint at the greater aesthetic they have developed. Their genre traversing efforts are most assuredly studied amalgams showcasing the band's multi-instrumental training with each band member's individual and broad tastes.

WILDILDLIFE

Free In-Store

and Give In To Live LP Release Party

@ Vacation

Friday December 10th. 7:00pm