Rabylon

Upcoming Shows: Sat. April 4th @ Exit 154 Gallery (154 7th St. SF)

Thurs June 18th @ the Eagle Tavern with Jess Roland

Sat. July 25th @ the Hemlock Tavern with the Reaction

Updated

4/1/09:Free RabbleRabble LP Download Check out the Rab’s 2nd LP RabbleRabble for free. Catch the Rabbles live for free on Saturday night, April 4th at our new space Exit 154 Gallery @ 154 7th St. between Mission and Howard, SF. We play at 9:00.

2/6/09: We’ve spent the last six weeks to a month getting building our new practice space/recoding studio at a secret location in SOMA.

1/20/09: Now Available: Plastic Ocean, a zine put together by Marina and including the lyrics to the Rabbles song “Last of the Old Renters”. Click hear to watch a live performance of the song.

12/9/08: Click here to read the live Rabbles review by Liz Barnes at Deli SF. New at Aboriginal Podcasting, Loops Inc. Healing & Spiritual video. New pics up at the Scrapbook.

8/17/08: New Podcast Rabbles Radio #2 Loops Inc. Some experimental tape loops from yours truly and friends. A full length CD with a large cast of contributors from our extended musical family is on the way this fall.

The Rabbles played a couple fun NYC dates. Check out a live clip of our Goodbye Blue Monday show HERE. Thanks to ShellShag, Kyp Malone, Ghst & Guitars, Steve at Goodbye Blue Monday, Stupid Party, Glove Compartment, I Love You Airlines and our friends old and new in attendance.

5/21/08: Many new projects to talk about today. The Rabbles new LP RabbleOn is almost complete and will be available in July along with their second LP RabbleRabble.

We have some rough mixes on our Myspace page. My friend Chris Johanson is putting out a solo LP on his vinyl only label Awesome Vistas called The J.Lee Ching of some of my lost tapes which will be out next February. Come check out a great night of music at the Eagle Tavern on June 5th with our good friends and up & coming bands the Ghost Echoes, Gills and Countless Others. The show starts about 9-9:30. The Rabs play second. In conjunction with Starcleaners Records, the long forgotten Static Faction LP Analog Girl is slotted for release in the next six months or so on vinyl. For those of you still reading this, check out a new noise video called Ampthromorphic here.

4/16/08: New Aboriginal Podcast, AB03.5, Deep Deep Sound Sleep, a Mesmerizing journey into your psyche. Click here to listen.

4/9/08: Lots of music and activities to report on today. We’re playing a free show in North Beach, SF on April 24th with three other exciting bands (SF neo-psych’s Turn Me On Dead Man, sista rockers from LA the Mystery Hangups and the Corrupters). We go on at 9:00. The Rabbles have lined up two NYC shows for July 10th and 13th (see above). NoiseWall is putting together a live date in or around Boston for the previous week.

I have so much new music ready to go that I’ve put together the first edition of the RabblesRadio1 Podcast featuring the Rabbles, This, Ghost Echoes, Bob Noise and more archival goodies from Aerosol Species, Cheapest & Best and NoiseWall. It’s an hour long, so kick back in a relaxed posture and check it out.

Out on ABoriginal Records is noise, music, poetry and social critique from the Upstate NY band THIS (CLICK HERE FOR MOR INFO).

Ghost Echoes have completed basic tracks on their new LP for now called 12 Hours. The LP is being recorded by Aboriginal Mobil Unit team J. & Jesse.

3/7/08: New at Aboriginal Podcasting is the Digital Landfill Series Vol. VII featuring the sonic mayhem of Swarmy (the Swarm Army) and their composition entitled The Factory (Movements I & II).

3/01/08 Now you can add a comment after our podcasts at Aboriginal Records and Rabbles Roundtable. Drop us a line and let us know how we’re doing. If you love something, hate something, felt weird, had a flashback, were inspired, were offended, anything you want to say, here’s you chance to take part in our site. Just click on add a comment at the bottom of each entry.

2/29/08: Happy Leapyear Day! Just a couple things today. First, I’m playing a solo show for my friend Chris Johanson’s art opening at the Jack Hanley Gallery on March 8th and will be dipping into my whole ovre of material from Aerosol Species, Static Faction and the Rabbles, plus some covers. It should be a blow out of a party/”Mission School” family reunion. If you’re in SF you don’t want to miss it.

Also, the same night in China Town, Jamie Rabble’s band the Ghost Echoes will be performing at the Li Po Lounge. Catch them now as their star is rising! The band is gearing up for a new recording with the Aboriginal Mobil Unit

2/23/08 New here at Rabylon I humbly submit J’s Journal, a letter to my cousin Dino about my musical history and other anecdotes from 1970-1993.

2/17/08: NEW! IMPROVED! FREE DOWNLOADS! Thanks to our web tech and former Rab’s drummer Colleen Nagle, you can you can now download the entire first Rabbles LP Rabble Music song by song for FREE! Click here. Also new, our Rabbles Roundtable Swan Plan video has been rotated properly, looks great and is as hilarious and insightful as ever. For those of you noisely inclined, I reefer you to the Digital Landfill Series Vol.IV, Happy Noosphere II by NoiseStar, 45+ minutes of freeform freak out music. Thanks to Jess Rowland for the Hemlock poster.

1/24/07: New From Aboriginal Records we have what I call the Digital Landfill Series where I’ll tap into rare recordings from our vault of live dictaphone bootlegs, band practice tapes of improv psychedelic noise jams, lost demos, interviews and more. It’s a cool process for me to be able to reconnect with some old ideas and lost memories and great for you, the listener of free(k) music to tap into our musical stream of consciousness. Soon it will all be downloadable too. The first installment of the DLS features a long forgotten band practice tape of the band NoiseStar recorded at Starcleaners in July of 1995.

1/17/08: For those of you in SF, the Rabbles will be playing for free at the post-Critical Mass party at CellSpace (Bryant between 18th & 19th) on the 25th of January. There’ll be all kinds of entertainment and good vibes, so take a ride and then come unwind with us. We’ll be playing from 8:30 till a little before 9:30.

Jesse and I have been finishing up guitar and vocal tracks on the new Rabbles LP RabbleON. It’s being recorded on my Teac 4 track reel to reel, so it’s a little more stripped down than it’s predecessors and we’re really digging the results so far. RabbleON will contain three new Marina songs and a Jamie song. We’ll hopefully be done by March. I’ll be posting up some mixes pretty soon.

In other news, Bob Noise and I have begun a cross country music collaboration mining old NoiseWall tapes and starting some new stuff via email. Check myspace and right here for some new soundz.

1/5/08: There’s been a flurry of Rabbles related web activity over the last few months I’d like to make note of. First, Marina Poet Rabbles’ got a new Myspace site chronicling some of her other musical projects, bands and poems. Ghost Echoes is a current SF band with Rabs bassist Jamie on guitar and his brothers from Long Beach Johnny on drums and Franz on bass. They’ve been playing out a bunch and have a new LP project slated for production in early 08. “I don’t even want people to know they’re listening to a band” states Franz of the recording. Finally, J.Lee and Bob “Noise” Bradley got together over the holidaze and put up a new NoiseWall Myspace site. The duo have played together on and off for years and are in the process of making their archives available online. All these sites have loads of free music to download, so load up those iPods with some fresh sounds for 2008!

Aboriginal Record Podcasting New Video: Loops Inc.

Rabble Music Download 1st Rabbles LP

RabbleRabble Download 2nd Rabbles LP

Rabbles Roundtable poetry and rants by local talent