12.9.10

So everyone like the x-mas mix huh? i bet max does he loves his xxx-mas tunes. for real. so we've been doing so much i got tires on the van this week. lemme tell ya vans need tires. i don't care what you people say you have to put rubber wheels on those things. otherwise they are just gonna sit there. then guess what you have? a giant metal tent with the rolling stones logo painted in rainbow colors on it. i bet you think that seems pretty sweet. but no way. the best thing about tents is the zipper doors. and you lose that with some plain old boring "metal" doors.

anyways the 7" is done recording and now we mix. we did six songs. here is a picture of us and Zabby who's putting out the record on Big Action Records for us singing together

also this Friday we play for the BNLX ep release show and here is another poster by the very talented Brian David Downs for the show.

oh and before i forget. listen to this band called Sonic Avenues. i got a frantic message from Jon telling me i need to hear them. NOW. and they are great. SONIC AVENEUES!!!!! also another amazing Canadian band is Mother's Children. Looks like they toured with Paul Collins too. It came out on one of my favorite labels DERANGED RECORDS. Also this guy Ben Cook has this band called Marvelous Darlings. Who really should put out an LP of all these singles he's been putting out.

that's it. now we're going to go see Nightosaur

A Holiday Playlist From Those Lovely Lads in Voytek

It's that time of year again.  The time of year when Max walks around Voytek Manor in his Santa Claus hat, snapping his fingers and singing Christmas songs.  "You look like you could use some holiday cheer!" he says constantly.  The nativity set that he has displayed over his bed is quite the lady magnet and the mistletoe above the toilet lets people know, "oh, this is where Max makes out with ladies and hums Christmas songs."  Here is a Christmas mix that Max would shit his pants over, because of how amazing it is:

Download here:  A Christmas with Voytek

Like BIG NEWS....

So this week we were voted to a tie for 9th place on the annual city pages Picked to Click poll. Pretty sweet huh? Read our interview here. Also tonite you got this show at the hex happening.

also we have a youtube channel Voytek

Heeeeeyyyyyy 9.29.10 Mix

So yes here is another mix that I made today, well actually a few days ago.
Also a few shows happening this october. First is October 9th at the 501 with Total Fucking Blood, Impaler, Zombie Season this will be part of the Zombie Pub Crawl. Next will be October 23rd at the Hex with Cadette, Capricorn Vertical Slums and Protector the War Pony. And of course Halloween at the Triple Rock, where we'll do the New York Dolls.


Paul Collins Beat-C'mon Let's Go
Dinosaur Jr.-Metal Guru
Millencolin-No Cigar
Superchunk-My Gap Feels Weird
Regulations-Baghdad Beach Party
Masshysteri-Dom Kan Inte Hora Musiken
White Wires-Goodbye Girl
The Thermals-I Don't Believe You
Kiss-Shandi
Western Curses-The Sails
The Stitches-Throw It Away
The Undead-When The Evening Comes
The Biters-Electric Nights
Nobunny-Gone For Good
Phil Lynott-Tattoo(Giving It All Up For Love)
White Wires-Is Everything Square
Compulsive Gamblers-Stop and Think It Over
The Undertones-Teenage Kicks
Bad Sports-Nothing But Agitation
GG Allin-I Need Adventure
The Reigning Sound-So Bored With You
The Misfits-Bullet

9.29.10

Happy Saturday Night!

Play them all at the same time.

9.13.10 The Stones

So I got new glasses today. Very exciting, so here are the GREATEST ROCK N ROLL band of all time

9.6.10

So it's been awhile. Yeah just like that Staind song. But some important things we are playing this Thursday at the Hexagon. With some of my personal favorites locally. Teenage Moods, The Blind Shake, and the wonderful U.V. Race. Who come here all the way from Australia and just released a new 7" on sweet label Fashionable Idiots.

also we got some kind words from Mr. Ward's Blog.

Oh also Voytek Manor is in full effect. plus I graduated from college last week. sweeeeeeet

-sam 

This is a Test....er.

Sam and I were talking about being able to put up mixes or songs or sounds or whatever without making people download them.  Here's me testing to see if this mixpod thing is annoying or cool.

If it works, the song you'll hear is me taking our song 'Saturday Night Again' and making it more suitable to fall asleep to.  I get bored a lot, so more of these may be coming in the future.

Here goes nothing.

Jon

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Sammy Lipps Mix 8.11.10

So after spending my early evening at the Target that Jon says is filled with babes. I left empty handed, except for my 30 pack of toilet paper and Lean Cuisine microwave dinners. I got in my car and listened to this mix I made awhile back. I now bestow it onto you the public for your listening pleasure.

1. Half Rats-For the Sake of Love
2. Me Vuy Muy Mal-Davila 666
3. Ha Ha Holiday-White Wires
4. Wasted Life-Stiff Little Fingers
5. Wait for You-Marked Men
6. Stay Away-Marked Men
7. Shakin All Over-Poison Arrows
8. The Women's Got Me Drinkin-The Stitches
9. Pretty Girl- White Wires
10. Don't Tell Now-Beat Beat Beat
11. Jam Pusher- Apache
12. I ain't Taking You Out- Personal and the Pizzas
13. Live a Little More-Tranzmitors
14. Monster on the Loose-Customers
15. Throwaway Style- The Exploding Hearts
16. Guest List- Screeching Weasel
17. Hybrid Moments-The Misfits
18. Cool 2 Drive-Mean Jeans
19. Drive- Off With Their Heads
20. Boyfriend-Best Coast
21. Romantic Girl-Bare Wires
22. Like an Idiot-Needles/Pins

8.11.10

The TRV EP II

So finally while at napped at the studio Dusty got the final versions of our EP done. It's got our Ronettes cover on here with vocals from Katie from Whitesand/Badlands. And guest vocals from our friend Julie on Saturday Night Again. So here ya go there are handclaps!

Voytek "II"


Also do not forget we're playing on Off The Record this Friday at 3pm

Then we're playing this Saturday at the Entry with The High Strung, Come Fizzy Dolphin and somebody else. I can't remember, good job Me.

Other Bands: Trofi Wyfe Edition

Trofi's bass-playing skills far outweigh his computer skills, so I won't have any music for y'all. Here's some of the skeletons in MY closet...

xCarebearsx (1999-2000)
All heart. Hella posi straight edge hardcore in the vein of Gorilla Biscuits/Judge/Crucial Youth. This was the first band our singer, Chza had ever been in, and he really didn't know how to sing, even in this band. He was also very passionately PC Straightedge, while the rest of us couldn't really give two shits. I wrote most of the songs, and put in corny ska and hoe-down parts instead of mosh parts just to piss Chza off. He didn't play an instrument, so he couldn't stop us from making a mockery of all of it, so he wrote lyrics that were extra-militant sXe. We would draw symbols on our bellies, and lift our shirts at one point and shout "CAREBEAR STARE" before a mosh part.

The cover of our demo tape was a Carebear with a hoodie and X's on his hands. The first line of the review in Heartattack was "I wish this was a joke..."

I should add, this was by-far the most popular band I've ever been in.  Chza went on to sing in Any Last Words (Havoc records).

Snake Attak (2002-2003)
I found a bass in a dumpster and decided to make a band of it. Me and Ned (later of the Load band Hospitals) wore football helmets with microphones duct taped inside the grill, and hit each other and audience members with our guitars. N8 (also from xCBx) played drums in a Halloween snake costume made for an 8 year old, so you could see his balls. We played with Wolf Eyes once, Thurston Moore thought we were called "Megadesk." We broke up when Ned broke his leg fighting with the audience.

Charles de Gaulle (2004-2009)
We were really good, until our drummer became a lawyer. Sam was our singer once.

Other Bands: Jonny T Edition

Get ready for some truly 'ahead-of-its-time' jams in this edition.  Sorry for the lack of photos, but Sam was a way bigger camera nerd when he was a kid.  Here you go:

None The Less:
When I was 15, my "punk" friends and I heard 'Petitioning the Empty Sky' by Converge for the first time.  I was all, "dudes.  let's start a metalcore band" and they were like, "yeaah!"  My dad owned a haunted carpet store/former hospital in a small town an hour west of Minneapolis.  We practiced in the basement and we recorded our first and only demo on a $20 used 4-track with 1 microphone.  The most amazing part of this recording is when we switch from clean to distortion.  The other guitar player and I played through Metal Zones with the distortion completely dimed, but with the volume set kind of low.  When we were supposed to get bigger, the volume would drop about 4 notches.  Fucking amazing.

None The Less - "Demo" (1997?)

Hero's Drive:
Remember that christian band Sam mentioned in the last post?  Well this is it.  I just wanted to play music and I've never been a person to care about lyrics at all, so I just played guitar and didn't think or care about anything else.  Years later, my friend/roommate-at-the-time Nick (who was also in the next band I'll post) and I were giving each other shit about old bands we were in and he brought up the name of this record.  I had no idea what he was talking about and he said, "'Seriously.  It was called 'End So Near, Flame So Clear'.  I always took that as, 'we're all going to die soon and you're going to hell.'"  I ran to my room and picked up the CD.  Sure enough, that was the name.  I'm sure (hope) it wasn't intended to mean 'GET READY FOR HELL, SINNERS', but it was still pretty hilarious.

Hero's Drive - "End So Near, Flame So Clear" (1999?)

*Side note:  I apologize if any members of this band stumble upon this and get pissed.  I think we can all look back and laugh at this record by now.

Tora! Tora! Torrance!:
Say what you will about this band, but my memories during these years are some of my best memories ever and I was also able to travel to 40-some states by the time I was 23.  We had a record contract to sign before we had a name.  When we were trying to quickly think up band names, our old guitarist said, "I know.  We can be called Get Into It."  There was an awkward silence in the van and then he says, "Oh wait.  That's terrible."  We laughed about it and then when we were thinking of album names for our first record, one of us said, "I know.  We should call it 'Get Into It'."  I think we all thought we were joking until we actually went through with it.  Nick Koenigs and I were the only 2 original members by the time the band broke up.  I think we went through 16 or 17 members total.  Were we assholes?  Probably.  I think our old label owns the 2 albums we recorded for them, so I'm not going to post them because I don't enjoy being sued.  Here is everything else I have that we recorded.  Demos, unreleased songs, live recordings, etc.

Tora! Tora! Torrance - 'Demos' (2004)
Tora! Tora! Torrance! - 'Unreleased Final Recording' (2004) - These are a few songs from the last link that actually got finished before we broke up.  Recorded by Neil Weir at the Old Blackberry Way.
Tora! Tora! Torrance! - 'Everything Else' (2001-2004) - This has our first thing we ever recorded in 2001, some live shows, a live radio thing, our song from a split with Swing By Seven and demos and alternate mixes of songs from 'A Cynic's Nightmare'.

Huge Rat Attacks:
I hadn't played music for about a year, so I asked my friends if I could join their band.  I joined and we recorded a record called 'Cougars' in a barn in Mankato.  For some reason, when I joined the band, we were completely unable to write any more songs, so we broke up and Justin moved to Los Angeles.  This band may be doing more stuff in the near future.  Who knows?

Huge Rat Atacks - 'Cougars' (2005)

Other Bands

So we've all been in bands before. Like that's pretty sweet right? Like Jon was in "Christian" band. What a weirdo right? However I once opened up for Tilly and the Wall. They were on some label Connor Oberst ran called Team Love or something like that. Do you think he ever looks down at his wiener and says to it "wow little dude I'm still surprised you're still hanging on."

Ok so here are some mediafire links to stuff I was in the last few years.

Ok first up is Musket. It was me on guitars, bass and vocals and my friend Sam Ness on drums. We both we're obsessed at the time with the bands Nachtmystium and Disfear. So we kinda had a crusty black n roll type of sound. Or a better description was that we were the Metal James Gang. We recorded this demo with Dusty/John Miller at NPRS in Nov. of '09. We played one show at Memory Lanes before promptly breaking up. Like any TRV KVLT band would.

http://www.mediafire.com/?iz2hmmmngnj

Secondly is The Talkers. Which originally was me, Max and Tony Hoff now of taco huffers In Defence. Then later Sam Ness replaced Max after he quit.  I wanted it to be HEAVY. Instead it came out sounding very Am-Rep style. We had a good run for a couple years. Recorded a few demos, changed drummers, played out of town a few times, played with some really good bands like Iron Lung, Big Business and the Melvins. Good times. This demo was recorded at The New Blackberry Way by Neil Weir in the Summer of '07.
http://www.mediafire.com/?7ldt013956v3vdl

And now Teen Eagle. The hip play by his own rules kinda teen. Teen Eagle doesn't listen to ANYBODY. I think this band also coulda been called Fucked-Up Pelican. But that would have brought us all kinds of trouble. If ya know what I mean?!?(I mean lawsuits, yep lawsuits, not law suits. because that woulda been cool, free clothes!!!!) This band consisted of Adam Bubolz and Doug Busson sick punks from the band Charles de Gaulle. Also Donny Lessard from the band Our Midwestern Body. We played a few years. Never really broke up and started playing shows this past summer again. Because Donny was in town from college. But hey we also play our last show tonite at the 7th Street Entry too. cooool.
http://www.mediafire.com/?97sw4yqgmfk1tft

ok thats all for now. I will not be proof reading this. What am I in college? Now I went to Community College we proofread nothing!

-sam

Voytek at Turf Club, St Paul

First Post

Heeeeey we'ze a Voyteks. Here is ah first record and Ep for ya's pleasures.

Voytek Voytek Voytek and EP II