Props to Republic of Austin for posting this on the Facebooks. We here at the Justice office are laughing our behinds off!

PUMPKIN DANCE!!1!

Bobbie Nelson was interviewed by the Panama City News Herald's Entertainer. Check it out. Click here to read the story.

Check out Trail of Dead's Fuel TV performance....

Nelo gets featured on "on," a weekly Web show put on by OSU's student newspaper, The Daily O'Collegian. Check it out!

“on.” episode five – Nelo

September 16, 2009 by npoppe

Reid Umstattd, lead singer of the Austin sextet, belted acoustic ballads “Ordinary Scene” and “Two Years Ago” with guitarist Matt Ragland in the Student Union Ballroom while rolling a chunk of bubblegum around in his mouth. Read the full "on" episode 5 here.

This video was filled at Ian Moore's recent stop in Houston, TX. He plays a short tour starting in November. Check the blog for tour dates!

Get ready to pimp out your Halloween costumes, because Justice Records created a whole list of Halloween parties for you to check out throughout the week!

WEDNESDAY, 10/28

FLIP SCENE'S HOLLYWOOD BASH 2009

Cost: $10 Advance/$12 Door. Advance tickets on sale at Front Gate Tickets.
Where: Mohawk
Time: 8 pm - 2 am

Lineup With Special Guest Host - Zeale
8 PM - Learning Secrets
9 PM - The Bright Light Social Hour
10 PM - The Black and White Years
11:30 PM - L.A.X.
12:30 PM - Neiliyo
1:15 PM - DJ Markus (w/ a K)
Costume Contest Prizes:
* A year's worth of free haircuts to Birds Barbershop
* $100 gift certificate to Wish
* $40 gift certificate to Birds Barbershop
* VIP wristbands to the party
* Complimentary tickets to future Flip Scene shows

THURSDAY, 10/29

PLAYING IN TRAFFIC AT ANTONE'S

Cost: RSVP at the Do512 for $5 entry
Where: Antone's
Time: 8 pm - 2 am

Playing in Traffic Presents 4 great Texas rock bands
MoTel Aviv 8:45
Burning Hotels 9:30
SPEAK 10:30
The Steps 11:30

With Adi Anand spinning indie rock all night

Trevor Ray Thompson's famed photo booth.

FRIDAY, 10/30

FREAK SHOW @ THE MIXX

Cost: $5

Where: Mixx
Time: 9pm

*Costume Contest with prizes from local Austin vendors
*King/Queen contest who will dance to a song solo and bloody
*Free punch and jello shots!
*Photo booth
*Screen Printing

Bands inside:
Butcher Bear, Scorpio Rising, Art Versus Industry, MAU & Cold Electric, POSR, Young American
DJ's outside:
DJ Czech One, DJ Scorpio, Vice Device, DJ Dey One, DJ Billy Q

FRIDAYS @ THE FIFTH

Cost: FREE
Where: The Fifth Gallery
Time: 9 pm - 2 am

Austin art gallery/boutique THE FIFTH and Beat Imprint present: Fridays at The Fifth - a BYOB Open Jam from 9pm-12am. MC's welcome, beatmakers welcome, dj's welcome, and art lovers welcome....FREE

SUSTAINABLE WAVES ZOMBIE BALL

Cost: $14 in advance/ $20 at the door. Advance tickets on sale at Front gate Tickets.
Where: 4715 East 5th Austin TX
Time: 8 pm - 2 am

Come as you like but a Zombie you will become. Make up stations located at the entrance and a staff to dress the life out of you. The Zombie Ball is a two day event that will be the premier Halloween Event in Austin, TX. A haunted house filled with costuming, fire arts, live music and participatory dance. The event will feature three stages of music. The Haunted Ballroom will host the latest in Haunte’d Couture from Jennifer Ayers and the Zombie Caberet.

Artists include: Spoonfed Tribe, PONG, Killa Dilla, Moving Matter, BoomBox, T Bird and the Breaks, Narcissia Dhial, FM campers, Princess Slay-ah & more special guests.

Please visit http://www.zombieball.com/ for more info

SATURDAY 10/31

SONNY'S HALLOWEEN BALL

Cost: $5 at door/$3 with costume

Where: Antone's Records, Tom's Tabooleu, Sonny's Vintage
Time: 3pm-12am






WHITE GHOST SHIVERS HALLOWEEN BALL OF FANTASY


Cost: Advance Tickets $15. Advance tickets sold at Front Gate Tickets.
Where: Mohawk
Time: 8 pm - 2 am

Join the Demons, Hobbits, Goblins, Warriors, Gnomes, Creatures, Witches, Warlocks, Fairies, Sprites, Knights, Maidens and Wizards for an Austin Halloween night tradition. Get inspired with Heavy Metal, Willow, Legend, Dark Crystal, Wizards, or Labyrinth. Costumes, as always, a must! Enter the gates from the flowing Red River on the wings of a Dragon or galloping steadfast on a shimmering Unicorn. Stare into the Lion's eyes and witness the Labyrinth of Delights that is The White Ghost Shivers Halloween Ball of... FANTASY~

SOUTH AUSTIN MONSTER MASH

Where: Jovita's
Time: 8pm

Join Nakia & His Southern Cousins as they host their 1st Annual South Austin Halloween Monster Mash at Jovita's on S. 1st Street. This is a full-on costume party folks with prizes for most original, most outrageous, celebrity look-a-like, and for the first time ever - Best Fresh Up Girl(s) prize too!!

Free parking, large dance floor, authentic Mexican food with the friendliest staff on the planet!

LUCY THE POODLE PRODUCTIONS HALLOWEEN PARTY
Cost: $5 (21 and up only)
Where: Beauty Bar
Time: 9 pm - 2 am

Lineup:
Maneja Beto
Planet Rye Co.

Lucy's Noche de Los Muertos is a costume party of the highest order and a chance to display your most outlandish, freakishly bizarre attire, makeup artistry, elaborate masks and unique bodily adornment. Traditional style Day of the Dead face painting, costumes and props are encouraged. As per usual, dancing, imbibing and interaction is on the agenda and conducive to a night of maddeningly insane fun. Be sure to arrive early for Lucy treats, giveaways, face painting and more! Anyone dressed like Frida Kahlo or a Mariachi gets in free!



HALLOWEEN AT THE INDEPENDENT

Cost: Free
Where: The Independent
Time: 9:00 pm
DJ AV (Dallas, TX) and NickNack will start the dance party around 11PM playing everything from hip-hop to soul/funk and disco. Costumes are encouraged. Screening of Nosferatu, The Evil Dead and Dawn of the Dead on our 30 foot projector! Come out and have a blast with us!
(9PM to 11PM) is the kick off of "The Cut Up" scratch session. The Cut Up is here to fill the void in the current downtown scene with a relaxed house party type of vibe that focuses on networking, building skills and most of all having FUN! Turntablists bring your needles and records, we got loops, turntables and mixer





ZOMBIE PROM
Cost:$10
Where: The Highball
Time: 9:30 pm

Zombie video backdrops, a photo booth to help you cherish all of your undead memories, a costume contest, human brains on special from the kitchen, and as always, more surprises than we can tell you about here. Tickets to the Zombie Prom are $10, or you can save a couple of bucks and complete your night out by starting at the Alamo South Lamar's screening of DANCE OF THE DEAD and grabbing a double feature ticket. Reservations will be available for booths and tables for an additional fee, and we'll have bottle service and set ups ready for your partying pleasure as well.

A NIGHT OF MONSTERS AND MUSES
Cost: $5 21 and up/ $7 minors

Where: United States Art Authority
Time: 9:30 pm

ALL AGES!! The United States Art Authority is located at 2906 Fruth Street, next to Spider House Cafe.

Bands, DJs, Performance artists, visuals and more...
*subNatural - 2009 Winner Best Industrial/Goth Band in the Austin Chronicle Music Awards.
*Death is not a joyride. - 2009 Winner Best Experimental Band in the Austin Chronicle Music Awards.
*DJ Mike Sims and DJ Cryptic (NY)
*live art provided by Revo Industries (CA) and visuals by Nat of The Holocaust Humanity.
*COSTUME CONTEST with prizes for the best male and female costume!

SKARAOKE

Cost: $5
Where: Opal Divines
Time: 9 pm - 12 am








LATE NIGHT HALLOWEEN DANCE PARTY ON THE BRIDGE
Cost: FREE
Where: Lamar Pedestrian Bridge
Time: 12:30 am - 5:30 am

MONSTROUS late-night dance party on the Lamar Street Pedestrian Bridge. Expect to hear ghoulishly funky house music and banshee-like disco diva vocals reverberating out over the water of Lady Bird Lake by Acid Abe, DJB, and Sweet DJG. Wear a costume, bring some drink, and be ready to have some out of control fun. Whatever you're doing earlier in the night, this is where you want to end up once the clock strikes midnight:30 until the sun rises and your costume magically disappears leaving you drunk, naked, and confused.

Today only, get New Tales To Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets for $3.99 at Amazon.com (that's 26 songs for four bucks!).

Click the banner....

Let's face it: Few things make you get up and shake your moneymaker like Latin music. This weekend, there are two music festivals and celebrations that put Latin music in the forefront. Xemumba Fest is happening on the east side, at the venue Kenny Dorham's Backyard (the lot next to Victory Grill on 11th). See the poster for details. Then there's Viva La Vida Fest happening downtown. It's the Mexic-Arte Museum's official Dia De Los Muertos celebration and it features live music by many bands, including local Latin favorites Charanga Cakewalk. Read about both of those events at AustinVida.com.

Be on the lookout for Trail of Dead on Fuel TV's "The Daily Habit" this Friday October 23. Pro-Skater Kerry Getz will also be a guest on the show. In the meantime here are some photos from the filming to hold you over til Friday!

MMMM! Thanks to Ajay's boo, Dianne, the cookie monster at Justice was unleashed. This girl hooked Ajay up with chocolate chip cookies, M&M cookies, Oatmeal & Raisin cookies, and just when we thought we couldn't eat any more...Deana sniffed out the Snicker-doodles at the very bottom. Poor Ajay didn't get any...we sent him to the store for some milk and when he came back they were gone. Thanks Dianne for the cookies!!

Check it...Austin Asian American Film Festival is going to be off da chain! The AAAFF is a four day film fest (Nov 12-15), and it's going to be even better than '08. If your a big fan of Asian films then here is your chance to win a 4 day All Access Badge. All you have to do is become a fan on their Facebook page, take their quiz, and you will be entered in a drawing to win an All Access Badge. This badge gets you in to over 40 film screenings, awesome parties at KTV Silhouette, Malverde and Music Gym, and a concert by underground Philipino Hip Hop singer JenRo.

Click here for more info.

The Philadelphia Daily News gave New Tales To Tell a four-star rating in their In Tune music section. Awesome!

Check it out...

Thanks to all you who helped us get a pizza party here at Justice Records. We met our goal for last month, and even though there came a time when we thought we would not make it we kept going. All of us here work very hard on the Justice Records blog to keep you informed and entertained, and we hope you enjoy it! Thanks again to all of our readers!

Houston Press did a great interview with Christopher Minister, producer of New Tales to Tell. Christopher talks about the idea and creation of the Love and Rockets tribute album.

Twice Told Tales
How Houston's Justice Records came to release a spooky, sexy Love & Rockets tribute album.

By: Chris Gray

"Break out the black fingernail polish. Just in time for Halloween, Noise has been curling up with New Tales to Tell, a tribute album to goth-pop figureheads Love and Rockets that — believe it or not — issues from right here in Houston. Sort of."

Read Full Article

10/22/09 Fort Collins, CO @ Avogadro's Number ($15, 21+)

10/23/09 Keamey, NE @ The Garage ($10, 21+)

11/07/09 Memphis, TN @ Rhodes College Bryan Campus Life Center (FREE, All Ages)

11/18/09 St. Louis, MO @ Old Rock House ($10, 18+)

11/19/09 Oklahoma City, OK @ Wormy Dog Saloon ($6, 21+)

So here's what's up! Music Gym will be having a party this Saturday, October 17th! For those of you who know about Music Gym then you already know how they do it. For the Music Gym first timers, get ready! A $5 cover charge gets you free booze, food, and live music from Betaplayer and Zeta Brown. Special guest DJ Cauze One will be throwing down some beats before and after the bands.

Betaplayer just hit #7 on ReverbNation Hip Hop Charts for Austin, and is scheduled to play at Fun Fun Fun Fest this year. Zeta Brown is a Hip Hop side project of Latin fusion band Este Vato, and DJ Cauze One spins for some of the hottest spots downtown.
Party starts at 9pm. Bands start at 10 pm.

Click to RSVP

I am so jealous of Deana! All day long she has been talking about David Cross at the office. She was fortunate enough to get a ticket to see him tonight. Here is a video I found of one of Cross's infamous impressions. By the way, Deana wanted me to tell you she will be in the Orchestra section, Row N if you need to find her, but don't bother her, because she'll be too busy lizzing*.



*A combination of laughing ang whizzing according to Elizabeth Lemon of 30 Rockefeller.

It's getting close to the end of ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Fall Tour. This week they will be rocking out Canada, and then will end the fall tour with a bang in Oklahoma.

10/14/09 Vancouver, BC @ The Venue
10/16/09 Edmonton, AB @ The Starlite Room
10/17/09 Calgary, AB @ The Warehouse
10/19/09 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
10/20/09 Denver Colorado, @ Bluebird Theater
10/23/09 Oklahoma City, OK @ Conservatory



Nelo will be playing in Fort Worth, Texas this week before they head out to Colorado. They will be back in Texas on the 31st to steal all the women's hearts in Lubbock.

10/15/09 Fort Worth, TX @ The Aardvark
10/21/09 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
10/24/09 Steamboat, CO @ Ghost Ranch Saloon
10/25/09 Evergreen, CO @ Little Bear Saloon
10/31/09 Lubbock, TX @ Red Raider Outfitter

This past Sunday I was blown away with A Place To Bury Strangers a.k.a APTBS! They played two great shows, and I made it a point to see both shows.

Dubbed as New York City's "Loudest Band," I couldn't wait to see them. The first show was at Waterloo for an in-store performance and I got a chance to talk with guitarist and lead singer Olivier Ackermann about New Tales To Tell. (Their interpretation of Love and Rockets' song "The Light" is UH-MAZING!) Olivier was excited about being on the tribute album, and said "The Light" was APTBS number one selling song on iTunes for a couple of weeks.

Then they rocked out the house at Mohawk, with unique guitar effects, awesome projector graphics, fast pulsating drum beats, and never ending energy! Unfortunately, I could only take so many pictures with my point and click, but APTBS fans...enjoy! Thanks Ollie for the New Tales To Tell Shout Out!!

Listen to A Place To Bury Strangers: The Light from the New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love and Rockets album

If you missed ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead at ACL, here's your chance to see them play a special performance on November 8th! Trail of Dead will be playing a Fun Fun Fun Fest after show on Sunday, November 8th at Mohawk with Dark Meat and An Albatross. They will be on the outside stage and will start at 9:30.

Check out the whole list of after shows HERE

“I think the full length is

kind of dead, really I like the

perfect three minute pop song.”

Daniel Ash

by Aaron Andrews

AUXILIARY october 2009

Daniel Ash, reluctant goth icon, motorcycle enthusiast, DJ, and man of fashion, certainly has an infamous name and reputation in alternative music. The recent release of a Love and Rockets tribute album is evidence of that. Ash started out playing in cover bands with the Haskins brothers before all three joined with acquaintance Peter Murphy to form Bauhaus. At the end of that iconic band, he went on to front Tones on Tail and its follow up Love and Rockets with one and then both of the Haskins brothers. It’s an impressive list of bands and an impressive body of work. Despite having a ton to get a swelled head about, Daniel Ash has to be one of the most pleasant people I’ve ever talked to. He’s forthcoming, friendly and gracious. Talking to him over the phone was like chatting with a new friend, and he made it seem like he’d love to talk about music or motorcycles whether there was a project to promote or not.

However, he is currently doing press for New Tales to Tell the aforementioned tribute album, put together by friend Christopher “The Minister”. Christopher is a DJ for Sirius XM radio, a fact that escaped me for a few seconds as Daniel repeated over and over to me that he was a “serious” DJ and I thought, “of course, why do it if you’re not serious?” Of course, it dawned on me what he meant and I, still kind of shy, meekly suggested, “the satellite?” With the misunderstanding resolved, we moved on to the album itself that Ash had no hand in but evidently his friend The Minister has made a pet project.

There are quite a few different artists represented, including fantastic names like The Flaming Lips, Frank Black, and Maynard James Keenan’s Puscifer. Ash seemed genuinely pleased to have Black as a fan, and, when asked to pick a favorite, he expressed his preference for Dubfire’s version of “I Feel Speed”. While he had quite a few nice things to say about contributors, he seemed a little disappointed that Tom Jones didn’t appear with a cover of “So Alive”. The Welshman played the song in his Vegas show and Ash “kept hearing his version was coming out, but it didn’t make it.”

Daniel Ash isn’t really the kind of person to sit around waiting to be adored and have his songs covered. He’s still interested in making his own music. In fact, I happened to call on one of the days that final mastering was going on for an EP’s worth of new material to be sold on iTunes. Previews are available on his Myspace page: www.myspace.com/therealdanielash. The press notes I’d received said this EP is due in the fall to be followed by a full length in the new year, a fact Mr. Ash corrected, “No full length. The full length album is really kind of dead.” I was surprised to hear an artist who’s come up through years of making albums to declare them obsolete and not even be wistful about it. “What about the concept album?” I asked. “Concept albums are awful,” he answered. “I guess I liked Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of The Moon as a concept album; it was very good. But like Yes albums, they’re just awful.” Resistant at first, he explained that he’s come to see the digital music revolution as an exciting turn for the better. Ash mentions a love of the “perfect three minute pop song” a few times, and the new tracks are definitely just that: five three-minute tracks that are all distinctly his, some sexy and quiet with a few guitar driven rock songs.

He also has an interest in branching out to film, an avenue that seems almost inevitable considering the mood and atmosphere he’s always managed to instill into his guitar sound. Also because for me and my friends our first ideas of what Daniel and his Bauhaus bandmates looked like came from the cameo in 1983’s The Hunger. He contributed guitar parts for several songs in the recent film Repo! The Genetic Opera adding to a list of well-known contributors. This follows up his television experience with 2003’ Keen Eddy, an action comedy that saw one season altogether split between Fox and Bravo. Ash is credited with a few songs for the series on IMDB but when talking suggested he’d written or co-written much more. He seemed very hopeful to branch further into scoring in the future and enthused about a potential project, “with motorcycles coming up that I’m interested in working on, I can’t talk about it much, but I’m hoping it comes my way.”

Motorcycles are not something unfamiliar to him. He’s an incredible lover of British and American bikes, Nortons and Triumphs from the British bike world, and he complemented America on its Harley. From there we struck off on a long tangent on Triumph when I mentioned some childhood memories of my father’s Bonneville. He lit up at the mention of it and took the opportunity to recommend I get myself to a Triumph dealer to see all the newest models. Clearly this was the man’s other love, maybe even his first love.

There is something he sees as more of a hobby though: his DJing career (although, after a quick reflection he decides it is more than just a hobby as, “they are paying gigs.”) When discussing his DJing gigs, it becomes very evident that Ash is interested in other music than alternative rock saying, “I love 70s disco, I think it’s just some of the greatest music.” He also mentions Deep Dish and its side project Dubfire again as personal favorites as well as taking a liking to The Ting Tings, “an excellent British pop band.” His DJing sessions seem to be all about his own personal enjoyment as he has some trouble picking out any more than a few specific artists or sounds he likes just saying, “I just play what I like and it’s a lot of fun. It’s very different than performing live, less pressure and the feedback is instant.” The one thing he’s quite sure about not playing is goth music, “I can’t stand it really. I know it sounds funny since I was in Bauhaus but really we were an art band not a goth band.”

MUSIC

The legacy of Bauhaus is obviously not lost on him and I wanted to find out more about the Love and Rockets moments and feelings. When asked what high points stood out in his memory in regards to the Love and Rockets, he picked a favorite memory, “being number three on the American charts, with Prince at number one and Madonna at number two. We thought we’d be starting all over in America and we were big, playing huge shows.” True to his love of the perfect pop song, he picked “So Alive” and “Ball of Confusion” as stand out tracks for the band. With recent Bauhaus and Love and Rockets reunions still in close memory I wondered if he thought them successful. After a pause he went on, “I think they were very successful. I mean, we toured with Nine Inch Nails and sold out 29 shows. So yeah, that’s successful.

It’s odd doing that, though, especially with Bauhaus because the songs are 30 years old.” A potential Tones on Tail reunion is not looking like it’s on the horizon. But he did say they’d re-recorded “Go!” and marveled at the enormous success that it’s had being used everywhere in both commercials and films.

Looking through pictures of his performances it’s obvious Daniel Ash has always been a fashion conscious man, a fact he didn’t shy away from when asked if fashion or visual appeal matter to music. “It does to me,” he said. “You have to be doing something up there. A lot of bands show up in jeans and tee shirts like the 60s, like hippies you know?” His approach to fashion has changed over the years, “just look at the album covers and see that,” but its importance hasn’t. He emphasized that being involved in the visual aspect of the show and looking the part is essential.

Over 30 years after Bauhaus had its beginnings, Daniel Ash seems to be very content with the path he’s walked. He’s contributed to an excellent sum of music and strived to find originality and new sounds at every opportunity. In all this he’s maintained a jovial attitude and friendly demeanor. The time I spent talking with him felt more like catching up with an old friend than talking to one of my musical heroes. Thanking him for his time he shrugged it off as if the pleasure was equally his and thanked me in return.

31 october 2009 AUXILIARY

download the October issue of Auxiliary Magazine here

Our very own Jan Mirkin-Earley is in the Austin Monthly October Beauty issue. She was chosen along with other amazing women as "The City's Most Beautiful Women!" We're so proud of her!!