Tin Armor @ Circus
December 9, 2011

Mates of State

Tin Armor

Flotation Walls

Other Lives

Mates of State

Tin Armor

Flotation Walls

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Mates of State & Other Lives @ Newport Music Hall
Tin Armor @ 83 Gallery
Flotation Walls @ Carabar

These photos include Flotation Walls, Swimsuit Edition, TK Webb, Kyle Sowashes, Andrew Graham, Nick Tolford, You’re so Bossy, Bird & Flower, Chris McCoy, The Bygones, Tin Armor, The Lindsay, Saintseneca, Tree of Snakes and Bigfoot.

Tree of Snakes

Nick Tolford & Co.

Flotation Walls

Swimsuit Edition

TK Webb

Andrew Graham

Nick Tolford & Co.

You’re So Bossy

Bird & Flower

Chris McCoy

The Bygones

Tin Armor

The Lindsey

Saintsenceca

Tree of Snakes

Bigfoot

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Columbus band Tin Armor is about to embark on a month long tour with Andy Cook & the Wanderloons. Go support our friends at these shows as well as a Columbus Record Release party at Zenos! on July 14th!

7/3 Grand Rapids, MI @ Mulligans
7/4 Louisville, KY @ 4th of July Cookout
7/5 Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop
7/7 St. Louis, MO @ The Heavy Anchor
7/9 Chicago, IL @ Volcano Room (Bottom Lounge Upstairs)
7/12 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop

7/14 Columbus, OH @ Zeno’s Bar (Basement)
Life of Abundance Record Release Party

7/15 Berea, OH @ Berea Fest
7/16 Cincinnati, OH @ Arlin’s
7/17 Memphis, TN @ Court House Co-op
7/18 Tuscaloosa, AL @ Egan’s Bar
7/19 New Orleans, LA @ Siberia
7/20 Gainesville, FL @ Wayward Council
7/21 Tampa, FL @ Transitions Art Gallery
7/24 Atlanta, GA @ Wonder Root
7/26 Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
7/27 Richmond, VA @ Sprout
7/29 West Chester, PA @ HOUSE SHOW
7/30 Brooklyn, NY @ Pete’s Candy Store
7/31 Brooklyn, NY @ Lulu’s

You can also name your own price to download their new album to make sure you know all the words for your show!

Tin Armor

Alwood Sisters

City of Brass

Alwood Sisters

City of Brass

Tin Armor

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James “Jimi” Payne

For the past three years I have lived in the Monster House, a DIY punk house in Columbus, Ohio. I co-founded the Monster House with Pat Crann, Austin Eilbeck, Ryan Eilbeck, Jeff Love, Kristina Markey, Matt O’Conke, Joe Scarbro, Dylan Taylor-Lehman, and Nick Wong. A few weeks ago the last three original roommates – besides me – left. And, as of this week, I’m moving out as well. A group of our friends still living at the Monster plan to continue hosting shows and events. On October 8th, Apache Dropout, Landlord, Reverse The Curse, and Cody Troyan are performing there.

After “the jump” is a list of every performer who occasioned the “stage” at the Monster House in the last three years. 400 different performers have played over 150 shows booked by over 20 promoters. The list is representative of the Columbus punk scene as well as the national DIY touring circuit from 2007-10.

More than 30 people paid rent at the house during this time span.

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A Drum And An Open Window
Absolute Magnitude
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Alex And The Imaginary Friends
Algernon Cadwallader
Amazing Hawkline Band, The
Amelia
American War
Andrew Graham And Swarming Branch

Andrew Jackson Jihad

Andy Gardner
Anna Ranger
Annabel
Antilles
Arkansas?
Arlo And The Otter
Arrah And The Ferns
Artillery Breath
Asinine
August Moon

Bail Bondsmen
Band Name
Banditas
Banner Pilot
Batrider (New Zealand)
Ben Bennett
Ben Bennett And Ryan Jewell
Best Friends
Best Friends Forever
Beyond Dark Hills
Biff Boff Barf
Bird And Flower
Birth Screams
Black Love
Black Phantom Thousands
Black Wine
Blake Skidmore
Bob Carlton
Body Rot
Bohemian Grove
Bomb The Music Industry
Bong Ripper
Boogdish
Brainworms
Branta
Bridge And Tunnel
Broke As A Joke
Busman’s Holiday
Bust!
Butt Bats, The
By The Horns

Call It Radar
Canadian Rifle
Casey Rochateau
Cati (Argentina)
Cedar Fist
Cerebral Bore
Chad Channing (Nirvana cover band)
Cheap Girls
Cheap Time
Cheater Slicks, The
Chin Up Meriwether
Chris’s Puppet Show (Performance)
Chris Yang
Christ
Christians And Lions
Chromakid
Churches Burn
Closet Fairies
Cola Freaks (Denmark)
Cold White North
Completely Smitten
Constance Taylor
Cop Hugger
Copyrights, The
Couch Forts
Creatures, The
Credentials, The
Cringe
Cult Ritual
Cytosis Ingestion

Dan Webb And The Spiders
Dane Terry
Dangerous Ponies
Dark Circles
Dave House (United Kingdom)
Dead Friends
Dead North
Dead Uncles
Deadwood Floats
Dean Dirg (Germany)
Dear Landlord
Defective Males
Diet Coke Heads, The
Delay
Demon Horse
Diamond Mines
Diente Perro
Disnihl
DJ Detox
DJ Ethan Frederick
Domino Theory
Drums Like Machine Guns
Doomhawk
Dopamines, The
Dustin And The Furniture

Emma N. Young (Poetry)
Envelope
Environmental Youth Crunch
Ergs!, The
Eric Ayotte
Erin Tobey
Exploding Hearts (Exploding Hearts cover band)

Failures Union
Fellow Project
Fifey
Fighting Tarantula
Fischer
Floating Verses
Fops And Dandys
For Science
For Serious This Time
Forever
Free Clinic
Friendly Fire
Frozen Teens
Future Kings Of Nowhere

Gadabout Film Festival (Film)
Gateway District, The
Gay Lazer
Gerd Dembowski
Ghost Mice
Ghost Town Trio
Gigantopithecus
Ginger Fetus
Girlfriends
Gnarwhale And The Rose’s Thorn
Goat Bucket
Golden Tuxedo
Good Luck
Gordon Gano’s Army (United Kingdom)
Grass Widow
Greg Mullen
Griffin
Gut Bugs, The

Halo Fauna
Heath Deadger
Heathers
Hellbath
Hello Shark
Hello Shitty People
Helper T-cells
Henry Boy
Hip Cops
Homostupids
Hooker Spit Windex
Hop Along Queen Ansleis
Horrible Creeps
Hot Graves
Hot Iron
Human Boys
Human Host
Hunchback

I Am The Sky
I Woke Up, I Did The Same Thing
Ian MacChrist (Fugazi, Minor Threat, and Embrace cover band)
Ignorant Motherfucker
Imperial Cans
Infernal Stronghold

Jail
James Payne (Poetry)
Jason
Jason Clackley and The Exquisites
Jazmine Wolff
Jelly Hearts, The
Jeremy Ruggles
Jetty Boys, The
Joe Camerlengo
Joe Mangum
Johnny Bodacious And The Bad Seeds
Jordan Castro (Poetry)
Jordan O’Jordan
Josh Kleinberg (Poetry)
Josh Walden
Julie Karr

KBrutal
Kepi Ghoulie
Kingsli
Kitten Forever
Klessa
Knifey Spoony
Knockdowns, The
Kurt Russell
Kyle Sowashes, The

La Armada
Laserhead
Laura Stevenson And The Cans
Le Vansona
Leftovers, The
Lemming
Lemuria
Leslie Perrine (Reading)
Letters
Letters To The Moon

Levi Funk
Lightningyingyang
Like Bats
Liturgy
Lose The Tude
Lovely Eggs, The (United Kingdom)
Lydia Loveless

Mad Ones, The
Madeline Ava
Make It Fit
Manix
Manners
Manson Family Picnic
Maps And Atlases
March Of The Carpenter Ants
Mark C. And The Aqueous Three
Maryn Jones
Maska Blaska
Mat At some Musk
Matt Horseshit
Mattress
Mayday
Max Levine Ensemble, The
Measure [SA], The
Meneguar
Merkurs, The
Michael From Skylab
Missoula Oblongata
MMP
Monikers
Moondrones, The
Motovirus
Mouthbreather
Movers And Shakers
My Bicycle Emergency

Native
Nautical Hyperblast
Ned (France)
Needy Visions
Nervous Sex
New Creases
Nick Tolford And Company
Night Beat
No Target Audience
Noise Noise Noise
Nordic Waste
North Highlands
North Lincoln
Northwest Ordinance
Nothing Is Over
Nuclear Dawn

Off With Their Heads
Ohio
Ok Ikumi
One Hundred
Openboat
Operation America
Our Cat Phillip
Outclassed
Outerspacists
Over Sea Under Stone
Over The Cardboard Sea
Overground
Overground Percussion Group
Overrated

P.S. Eliot
Pancreatectomie
Panty Hearst
Pat Bond
Paul Baribeau
Pencil Dive
Pharmacy
Pheramones
Pink Houses
Pink Razors
Pirate
Plates
Point Break
Polka Dot Dot Dot
Project: Citizen
Prosantcus Inferi
Punk-O-Matic All-Stars

Rad Company
Rage Against The Cage
Rager
Rat Attack
Read, The
Redbear
Rest Assured
Reverse The Curse
Richard Wehrenburg (Poetry)
Richard Wehrenwolf
Ringers, The
River City Rebels, The
Ryan J.
Ryan Newall
Ryan Starinsky
Saintseneca
Sass Dragons
Seascapes
Seditious Libel
Seizure Fist
SevereSexy Crimes
Shannon And The Clams
Shredder Lettuce
Shreds
Sidekicks, The
Signals Midwest
Sinkane
Six Gallery
Slingshot Dakota
Slugging Percentage
Smart Girls
Sok!
Sons Of An Illustrious Father
SpooktoberSpraynard
St. Dad
State Lottery
State School
State Song
Steve Ciolek
Straight As
Stupid Party
Super Bobby
Stymie
Submarine Spaceship
Super Desserts
Super Famicom
Sword Heaven

Tacocat
Tanner Jones
Tax Payers, The
Team Robespierre
Team Smile And Nod
Tenement
The Boy Who Could Fly
The Boy With The Broken Jaw
The Ground Is Lava
This Is My Suitcase
This Is Smoke, This Is Signals
Thread And Butter
Til Plains
Tiny Lungs
Time And Temperature
Times New Viking
Tin Armor
Toby Foster
Totally Michael
Trains Across The Sea
Truthdealer
Two Hand Fools

Uh-Oh
Unarmed
Underdogs Of Nipomo
Undesirables
Unicorn Basement
Universe
Unwelcome Guests

Vacation
Vialka (France)
Vietnam Werewolf
Vikesh Kapoor
Vile Gash
Virgins
Vocal/Vocal
Vug

WabashWarm Hands
Warning Shot
Weedsteeler
Weezer (Weezer cover band)
Welcome Home
Welcome To Concrete
What Gives
What If ?
What’s Wrong With Us?
Wheels On Fire
White York
Whitehaus Family Revue
Wingnut Dishwasher’s Union
Winslows, The
Witches
Woodrow Wilsons, The

Y Lime?
Yea Big And Kid Static
Yikes!
Yoni Gordon And The Goods
You, Me, And The Atom Bomb
You’ll Get Yours
Young Hearts
Young People
You’re A Brace Soul Alaska
You’re So Bossy

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London-based DIY rockers Male Bonding have been signed to Sup Pop for over a year now. If you’ve heard them, then I bet you’re looking forward to their return to Columbus next week. If you haven’t, consider this your fair warning to work in multiple listens to their record Nothing Hurts (clocking in just under thirty minutes) before then.

Last week I caught up with singer/guitarist John Webb, who discussed the record, the band’s recent collaboration with Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo and life as Male Bonding.

Everyone has influences when they start making music, but what kind of bands/artists continue to inspire you guys when coming up with new material?
Well, we recently recorded a song with Rivers Cuomo from Weezer. He got in contact with us a few months back and asked if we wanted to have a songwriting session when he was in London for the Reading Festival. We love Weezer, so we jumped at the chance. Anyway, watching Rivers work was very inspiring. That guy is a songwriting machine. He’s the king of melody. That whole experience was a dream come true.

When and how did the three of you get together and start making music?
Me and Kev played in a band together, and worked in the same second hand record shop. Then Robin started working at a different branch, and we would all go to the same gigs. Then me and Robin moved in together, then Kev kinda moved in as well, then we thought we might as well start a band.

Is making music in London a continuous stream of inspiration because of the historic and current music culture at your fingertips? Or do you find it hard to separate yourselves from the pack because of all of the bands vying for a chance to be heard?
We literally just do our own thing now. We’re lucky because we are in the position where we can really do whatever we want, as long as Sup Pop are behind us. I personally don’t feel any pressure from London bands – I used to, but now I just like to shut it out and write songs without having to think about what’s happening down the road, or across the street.

It seems you guys are an integral component to London’s DIY scene (more specifically the Dalston scene). DIY culture in Columbus is strong, but it seems that most involved work “normal” jobs full time as well. How difficult is it to maintain being a full time band and live in such an expensive city?
It’s really, really tough. We all still work when we can. I had to give up a great job I had at Rough Trade, so I could commit to touring. They still have me back when I’m around. Kevin still holds down a full time job, and Robin works when he can. It’s really hard, and going from full time employment into this weird musical wasteland of peaks and troughs is kinda mentally draining.

You were signed to Sup Pop back in July of 09. How has life changed for the band since?
We have the most amazing network of people behind us now. It’s amazing. We’re so lucky. It’s given us 100% freedom to think solely about writing music.

Nothing Hurts was released back in May. How would you describe it in one sentence?
I really just see Nothing Hurts as our debut album.

Though music is so accessible to the public these days, it still can be very difficult to distribute one’s music. How does it feel when people in places you never thought you’d tour to have heard your record?
This is kinda a slow process- We played a show in the Czech Republic. The show was great, but people there can’t get our record. That’s why the internet rules. Financially you’re taking a hit, but I think it’s worth it in the long run.

You supported Smith Westerns back in the spring and are getting ready to hit the road with Best Coast. Any plans for making an American tour more interesting (or bearable) a second time around?
Well, this tour is purposely a lot shorter. Our last US tour was 2 months long. That was a very, very long journey. This trip is 20 days- It’s gonna seem like a long weekend away compared to the last tour.

If Male Bonding could make a 5 song EP for their time spent in America, what would it include?
A compilation?
The New Radicals – “Don’t Give Up”
Idlewild – “When I Argue I See Shapes”
The Smiths – “Reel Around The Fountain”
The Connells – “7475″
Void – “Organised Sports”

I follow your blog RELAX. MALE BONDING CRAP SHOOT and it’s brilliant. Band news, videos and photos, fan appreciation and random shit. Keep up the good work.

Male Bonding (along with Tin Armor) will be supporting Best Coast next Wednesday, September 22nd for a Benco show at The Summit in Columbus.

(Full disclosure: I work for Benco. But… this band is rad and I sincerely am looking forward to the show.)

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