After four years with House Call Entertainment, talent buyer Darren Olsen has left to work in-house for Subterranean and Beat Kitchen—two venues where House Call has been booking for years. Olsen plans to open them up to other promoters and bookers alongside House Call. “It’s kind of a grand experiment,” he says.
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Since 2010 local powerviolence band Sea of Shit has been barfing minute-long chunks of hate and punishment into our ears, but Gossip Wolf hesitates to call them “songs”; they’re more like brutally concise musical temper tantrums. Their new 15-song self-titled ten-inch (on Chicago label Diseased Audio) flails, grinds, and blasts like Infest or Crossed Out—imagine an entire shelf of hardcore records crushed into a brilliant, diamond-hard punk turd. Sea of Shit play a release show Thu 11/14; e-mail diseasedaudio@yahoo.com for venue info.
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