On the Lower Frequencies

BLACK RAINBOW LIVE FROM CLARION ALLEY BLOCK PARTY ON MONDOVISION!

ericklyle — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:24:56 +0000

The installment #3 of MondoVision, the Bay Area’s only online punk video zine is out now and it includes footage of Black Rainbow’s first show with new bassist, Greg Harvester, at the 11th Annual Clarion Block Party on 10/25/08. You can check it out here. This episode also includes footage of our friends Surrender and Airfix Kits. Good shit!

TWO NEW BLACK RAINBOW RECORDS OUT NOW!

ericklyle — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:16:02 +0000

Black Rainbow is lucky to have found two fine labels to put out 7″’s for us this summer. Thrillhouse Records of San Francisco put out the first one in time for our summer tour. This record has three songs and comes with a 28-page booklet with information about the Diggers of San Francisco, the Alemany Farm, the Tenderloin National Forest, and former journeyman major-leaguer, Jim Walewander , as well as some art work from Sy Loady, Caroline Paquita, and Joey Alone. You can order it from Thrillhouse here.

The second one came out in time for the 11th Annual Clarion Alley Block Party here in SF on Oakland’s Left Off The Dial records (who put out one of the old Allergic To Bullshit 7″’s). This one is called We Radiate and has 5 songs. You can order it from Dan at Left Off The Dial here.

YE OLDE BUTTFUCK SHOW IN CHATTANOOGA OFFICIALY ON!

ericklyle — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:05:01 +0000

YOB will be playing Friday December 5th in Chattanooga at Anarchtica with The Hidden Spots around 10:00 PM. Earlier in the night, Mitchell and I will be appearing at Ziggy’s down the street. I will read and Mitchell’s film, “I’m Like This Every Day” will make its debut in the Region. This show starts at 7:00.

SCAM RETURNS TO MIAMI IN DECEMBER (w/ Cristy Road) and other parts of Florida!

ericklyle — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:58:23 +0000

Fittingly, my very last events promoting this book will take place back in my home state of Florida and in my old city of Miami. I’m looking forward to cafe cubano and cheap black beans and rice and swimming in the ocean at midnight in December — some of the best things about Miami. In Miami, I’m happy to have come home to a show at the venerable indy bookstore, Books and Books. I will also be joined at Miami’s only DIY infoshop, The Firefly, by returning Miami native, Cristy Road, who also has a new book out on Soft Skull, called “Bad Habits: A Love Story“. Here are the dates:

December 11 at New College Sarasota, FL

December 14 at Alachua County Public Library Gainesville, FL

December 17 at Books and Books Miami, FL

December 18 at The Firefly Miami, FL (w/ Cristy Road)

NEW SOUTHERN TOUR DATES IN DECEMBER w/ documentary “I’m Like This Everyday”

ericklyle — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:51:25 +0000

I’m excited to announce some new dates back home in The Region. I’ll be reading in Chattanooga, TN and Asheville, NC on December 5 and 6 on tour with old friend and band member, Mitchell Powers, and his new short documentary film, “I’m Like This Everyday”. The 20-minute film, a selection at this year’s San Francisco Indy Documentary Film Fest and the Hot Springs Documentary Film Fest, is about the life of Dalton, GA’s legendary underground musician, Peter Stubb and his walk on the line between art and mental illness. You can read the short piece I wrote about Mitchell’s film in the San Francisco Bay Guardian here.

As of this writing, it looks, too, like our old band, Ye Olde Buttfuck, will play a rare reunion at the Chattanooga show. We had our first show eight long years ago on the night after the 2000 election when they were still counting — or not counting — the votes. That night we proudly debuted what we announced was “the first anti-President George W. Bush song by any punk band in America”, our hastily written song, “Double Fuck W.” In December 2008, we hope to get some of the shit off our backs and close the door on this long, doomed era with one more show! You can listen to our 2003 song “Sirens” here, or listen to our “cover” of former Attorney General, John Ashcroft’s song, “Let The Eagle Soar” from a live show at Gilman Street in Berkeley in January 2004 here.

As of this writing, the Chattanooga punks are still looking for a place to hold the show. Location TBA.

On The Lower Frequencies/I’m Like This Everyday Tour

December 5 Chattanooga, TN w/ Eric Nelson acoustic at Ziggy’s 7:00 PM. (Ye Olde Buttfuck and Hidden Spots play up the street at Anarchtica at 10:00 PM!)

December 6 Asheville, NC at Bookworks w/ Blaire Menace and Josh Mayfield

NEW BOOK TOUR DATES IN MIDWEST AND CANADA ADDED FOR ON THE LOWER FREQUENCIES

ericklyle — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:15:29 +0000

Here are the final dates for the Midwest/Canada Tour

August 11 Chicago Quimby’s

August 12 Milwaukee, WI Cream City Collective

August 13 Madison, WI Rainbow Bookstore Co-op

August 14 Minneapolis, MN Arise! Bookstore
August 17 Ann Arbor, MI Midnight Vault Comics (part of Ann Arbor Punk Week!)

and in Canada with Jeff Miller of Ghost PIne zine from Montreal.,.

August 19 Toronto, ON This Ain’t The Rosedale Library

August 20 Ottawa, ON Invisible Cinema Gallery 319 Lisgar Street

August 21 Montreal, QC Greasy Goose Salon (part of St. Laurent Streetfair 4295 Boulevard St. Laurent)

Come check it OAT!

And one more… back in the States…

August 28 Brooklyn, NY 123 Tompkins Community Space w/ Josh Macphee

BLACK RAINBOW TOUR DATES FOR JULY AND AUGUST!

ericklyle — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:12:12 +0000

We got to get fully rocked by Pierced Arrows last night in SF and now we are ready to head out on the Black Rainbow summer tour in a couple hours… Here’s all the info I have right now, which mostly, at least, inclukdes the actual CITIES we are supposed to appear in. Keep in touch for more info!

FRI JULY 18 San Pedro, CA w/ KILLER DREAMER
SAT JULY 19 Yaqui Indian Reservation Coolidge, AZ 8:00 PM
SUN JULY 20 Las Cruces, NM 5:00 PM @ Rad Shack w/ UH OH(WI), DYNAMITE KEGS
MON JULY 21 Austin, TX@ Trailer Space Records 8:00 PM w/ DIRTYARD (MN) and PARTY GARBAGE
TUE JULY 22 New Orleans, LA
WED JULY 23 Pensacola, FL @ Sluggo’s
THU JULY 24 IDA Farm in E. Tennessee
FRI JULY 25 Atlanta, GA
SAT JULY 26 Chattanooga, TN w/ WHAT IF, PARASITES GO (CA), JACK PALANCE BAND
SUN JULY 27 Asheville, NC @ Weaver Park 5:00 PM w/ ENDLESS BUMMER, PRINCESS THUNDERSTORM
MON JULY 28 Richmond, VA @ Riot House 8:00 PM
TUE JULY 29 Brooklyn, NY @ Lulu’s w/ TERRIBLES (MA), DEAD DOG (NY)
WED JULY 30 Worcester, MA
THU JULY 31 Belfast, ME
FRI AUG 1 Providence, RI
SAT AUG 2 (1st show) @ ABC NO RIO 4:00 PM
(2nd Show) @ 131 Tompkins w/ VENA CAVA (San Diego)
SUN AUG 3 Buffalo, NY w/ VENA CAVA, DEAD DOG
MON AUG 4 Pittsburgh, PA on a boat on Alleghany River w/ DEAD DOG, BRAIN HANDLE !
TUE AUG 5 Columbus, OH generator show
WED AUG 6 Milwaukee, WI @ THE VAULT 5:00 PM w/ HUNCHBACK, THE ERGS, DEAD DOG, SEX ADVICE
THU AUG 7 Appleton, WI @ BFG House w/ TENAMENT, HUSSY, SEX ADVICE
FRI AUG 8 Chicago, IL @ the Beat Kitchen Mauled By Tigers Fest w/ SHELLSHAG (NY), BAD BLOOD (NY), LANDLORD (IN), CHINESE TELEPHONES

SEE LIVE VIDEO OF ERICK LYLE/BUCKY SINISTER/GRETA SNIDER LIVE AT NEEDLES AND PENS

ericklyle — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:09:18 +0000

Bucky, Greta and I rolled out our unofficial tribute to Hunt’s Donuts on July 10th at Needles and Pens. There were free donuts and we both read our Hunt’s pieces. Bucky was amazing — so funny. I was honored to be on the bill with him. He read a great piece at the end about Frankie Glitter Doll and Frank’s Depression Poetry — two of Bucky’s dead friends who were around when I first moved to San Francisco. Greta passed out 3D glasses for her 3D portrait show and everyone had them on the whole time I was reading to them. Pretty eery to look out to the sea of impassive, blue and red eyed faces! Walking home after the show, Bucky and I came across a “Glitter Doll” tag written in the sidewalk cement on 16th street — a sweet ending to a great night of remembering old Mission District stories. Andrew from Needles and Pens documented the show and you can check out live video of Bucky and I reading and photos of the audience here…

www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1179&Itemid=63

TOUR IS OVER — IF YOU WANT IT

ericklyle — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:54:14 +0000

I have finally wrapped up my east and west coast tours and all my local events in San Francisco for the book — just in time to go on tour with my band, BLACK RAINBOW. Yes, its a pretty hectic year. Reading tour turned out to be one of the most fun things I’ve ever done. It was great to be on tour with Cindy Crabb of Doris out east and a real nice change of pace in my life: we only had to do ONE THING every single day for almost two weeks! So great! We just listened to The Ramones the whole time! Besides Cindy, I also got to read with some cool folks on tour. In Portland, I got to do a show at Reading Frenzy with the amazing Moe Bowstern of XTra Tuff zine and in Brattleboro, VT, Dahlia of Open 24 Hours zine read with us, too. Tour highlights:

1. The post reading punk show at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn w/ TULSA, STUPID PARTY, ONION FLAVORED RINGS, and SHELL SHAG. The rock was desperately needed by Cindy and I by this point and the show delivered. John Paul, TULSA’s drummer, had broken his bass drum foot on tour but was playing with his LEFT FOOT instead and it still was amazing. SHELL SHAG did a beautiful, sweet and sad acappella cover of Lemonheads’ “My Drug Buddy” and changed all the references to the Mission in SF. Perfect.

2. Cindy’s “Father’s Day Poem” in Brooklyn: simply shouting “Fuck you Dad!’

3. Olympia Public Library show. The Oly public library is staffed by rad punk ladies! Its some kind of utopia where the librarians not only read your book and promote the show, but they write reviews of the book for the daily newspaper and get the library to pay you! No shit. There was a great crowd of young and old folks, including an oldtimer who asked me, “What I want to know is, what time of day do you think all this stuff UP?”

4. Lake swimming with 40 punks in Seattle after the Elliot Bay Books show, and then driving down to Portland afterward to make it to Punk Donut Night at the new Voodoo Donuts

5. Getting to check out great collective spaces like Red Emmas (Baltimore), Food For Thought Books and (Amherst), Tinder Box (Brattleboro) and, of course, Blue Stockings (NYC) Thanks everyone!

Some new midwest and maybe Canada dates to follow, but tour is, thankfully, done!

WEST COAST TOUR BEGINS!

ericklyle — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:19:37 +0000

The On The Lower Frequencies book tour continues on the West Coast this week with the following shows…

The On The Lower Frequencies book tour continues on the West Coast this week with the following shows.

JUNE 26 PORTLAND, OR @ READING FRENZY
JUNE 27 SEATTTLE, WA @ LEFT BANK BOOKS
JUNE 28 OLYMPIA, WA @ OLYMPIA PUBLIC LIBRARY 3:00 PM
JUNE 29 SEATTLE @ ELLIOTT BAY BOOKS 2:00 PM
JUNE 30 PORTLAND @ POWELL’S on Hawthorne

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to see me and Cindy Crabb read back east!