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edit: You can upload photos, add video links, or write recollections about the LAVA house here. The collective also has a posthumous website now up at http://www.lavahouse.org/

Louisville, KY – The Kentucky Exposition Center will never be the same once the Derby City Rollergirls break down the doors to unleash the 2008 season upon the great city of Louisville. Saturday February 2nd will find DCRG waging roller derby war against Evansville’s Rollergirls of Southern Indiana.

And taking them on in the big band department is another Duncan Cherry band, alternatively known as ??? or Super Stoker. They played their first a few weeks back and will be crushing with a dual vocalist attack.

I could probably do an entire report just about Duncan.... he's in another new band with Ella Lumpkins called Idle Heroes who will be playing their first show at Skull Mountain this coming weekend. His other other band, Head Above Water, just replaced drummer Matt "Party Man" O'Connel with art historian Cullen Clark, who plays too fast for old creaky man Eagle Barber. AND... Nice People is recording for a new demo and a 7", when they aren't busy parodying the Endpoint "My Friends Suck" t-shirts.

Jamie Prott's new all-ages venue will hopefully be opening in the next couple of months. Named Skull Alley, it will live on in the memory of Dylan Prott. It will also be the new home of Alley Kat Screenprinting (who I recommend for vegan inks and union-made shirts). Expect an explosion of new bands and exciting new goings on when his landlord finishes the building upgrades.

Coliseum is finally back from Europe. Welcome back boys.

OUT. simulacrum (Greg Livingston, Dave Bird, Tony Bailey, Matt Odenweller)
TYRONE (reunion)
THE TEETH
MINNOW

Tyrone will also be releasing their previously unreleased second album that night, "Get the Spirit Before the Spirit Gets You." On Noise Pollution, natch. The OUT. simulacrum will be performing songs from their old band OUT. with Dave Bird assuming vocal duties.

Many months in the making, Marion Dries at WFPK is beginning her new series "Louisville Punks: A Radio History" this very Thursday at 8pm. This is a 3-part series on the local '78-84 heydays. This should be pretty cool & in depth, with lots of interviews and tons of music not on the Bold Beginnings disk. Just the sort of thing WFPK should have been doing 25 years ago but wasn't.

December 6 - No Fun and The Babylon Dance Band with interviews from Tara Key, Tim Harris and Chip Nold.

December 13 - The Blinders, The Endtables, The Monsters and Skull Of Glee with interviews from Sandy "Fret Hondo" Campbell, Steve "Chili" Rigot and Wink O'Bannon.

December 20 - The Dickbrains, Orange Orange, Your Food, Strict-9 and interviews with Doug Maxson, Bryan Hurst, Jeff Jobson and the producers of the Bold Beginnings CD.

The final band listing will be announced soon. You can pre-order tickets on the message board or by getting ahold of Jamie Miller. You don't want to miss this.

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THE OLYMPIA THREE Selftitled 10 Song CD [DR02]
"Mixing folk rock and bluegrass is what The Olympia Three do best on their debut full length CD. Frantic mandolin playing soars over catchy 2-step bass lines, as a warm acoustic guitar lays the foundation. While catchy vocal melodies compliment the instrumental music, The Olympia Three's Selftitled CD on Dunkenstein Records is sure to entertain fans of folk rock, roots, and bluegrass genres."

"We've just posted "Mrs. Satan LIVE" from the freshly new split brown 10" vinyl "the Glasspack/Muddy Nasty River" out on Sleeping Village Records in Detroit, MI on our myspace, http://www.myspace.com/kentuckymotherfuckers .......