Pictures from The Tree House 9/11/09

Photos by: Daniel/Thelatentimage

Video: Batwings - The Ghost that Sleeps in the A.M.

Created and Edited by Sean Burdeaux and his cell phone.
Footage taken from the Tree House Show on 09/11/09.

Also available at YouTube

Pictures from 7" Record Release Party @ The Casbah. August 17th, 2009.

Photos by: Bobby Bray

Photos from The Tree House 9/11/09 by Alex Kacha

Photos by Alex Kacha

http://alexandrakacha.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/treehouse-show/

2UP, Batwings, Vaginals, Fkenal @ The Tree House. Friday 9/11!

2UP (Japan), Batwings, Vaginals, Fkenal. Live @ The Tree House. Friday, Sept. 11th!

Record Release Show @ The Casbah!

US TWO RECORDS album update:

US TWO RECORDS ‘02' BATWINGS / WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH - "Dr. Ohm vs. The Exploding Amp" / "Houston Voice"

US TWO RECORDS second split vinyl release "02" brings together San Diego's BATWINGS and Austin's WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH. Run in a limited batch of 500 copies (300 transparent red with black bleed & silver splatter and 200 black with silver splatter), this technique was a first for Pirate's Press and also their "Record of the Week" ending on July 17th, 2009.

Batwings showcases the track "Dr. Ohm vs. The Exploding Amp" which highlights their spastic hardcore sound influenced from early 2000 SoCal underground acts such as The Locust, Holy Molar and Le Shok. "Dr. Ohm vs. The Exploding Amp" was recorded by Batwings: Robert Lopez - Bass/Keys/Vox, Bryan Oczkowski - Guitar/Vox, Larry Stage - Guitar and Sebastian Ulloa -Drums. As a favor to "US", the track was mastered by Dana Fehr ; danarebel@gmail.com.

Austin mini-grunge orchestra, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, recorded their track "Houston Voice" as a seven piece, but are currently touring as a 4, sometimes 5 piece. They have been featured on a Cardboard Records compilation; an experimental noise and lo-fi electronic label run by Dan Friel and B.J. Warshaw of Parts & Labor. "Houston Voice" was engineered by Chico Jones at OHM Recording Facility in Austin, TX and mixed by Chico and dinos. The band: cory, marc, nate, george, brandon, jeff, and jesse.

BATWINGS and WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH will be performing together at THE CASBAH in San Diego on August 17th, 2009.

Records will be available this Friday from When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, who are playing Parade of Flesh's birthday on July 24th with Pterodactyl and Church of the Snake.
Edicion Especial: Parade of Flesh took the first 100 copies of vinyl (50 red and 50 black) and added a gun metal metallic paper sleeve with velum liner notes attached by a satin ribbon on a hand-numbered tag. All hand assembled and designed by girl wonder: Margarita Buenaventura.
Contact/links
Alan Cook - myspace.com/ustworecords - Alan@ustworecords.com

John Is - paradeofflesh.com - johnis@paradeofflesh.com
Batwings: batwingsband.blogspot.com/
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth: lildinos.wordpress.com/
Thanks,

US TWO RECORDS

All Leather to Remix Batwings

Our friends All Leather (members of The Locust, Some Girls, Maniqui Lazer, etc.) will be remixing an upcoming track that we are currently recording in the studio. The track will be part of Justin Pearson and Nathan Joyner's Leg Lifters project. We'll keep you posted on this as it moves along. Stoked!

(Additionally Us Two Records will be having a Remix done sometime in the future for the track "Dr. Ohm Vs. The Exploding Amp" that is featured on the upcoming 7" split with When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth.)

Pirate Press record of the week: Batwings/When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth 7"

From the Pirate Press Myspace Blog:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=7546744

Record Update

News from the Us Two Records site:

"At last the Batwings/When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth split is in production. Apologies for the delay but after job lay offs and house floods money has been tight. This is a very good split and the record itself is going to look really cool. Thanks for everyone's patience because it's way past due."

The Casbah, August 17th, w/ When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth & Fever Sleeves!

We are playing with When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth from Austin, TX @ The Casbah on August 17th. The 7" split we did with them has had a few setbacks but should be coming out this summer, and will hopefully be available at this show. Our good friends Fever Sleeves will be joining us as well!

Additionally, we are currently writing and recording in the studio after a long break of taking it easy on the music front for a while. In the past couple of months we've had a lot of stuff happen like apartments burning down, getting engaged, moving, finishing school, etc. Things have been a little crazy, but we are excited to get back to work and make some sweet noise.

Batwings, Fkenal, Halloween Swim Team, Knives! @ King Music. Saturday 05/02/09

Yeah! We're playing with our good friends Fkenal!

Saturday May 2nd 2009.

EP Review from City Beat

It's not quite the "Extra Special Good" recognition we got in the same issue two years ago, but it's a good laugh.


Too much time in El Centro will make anyone a little crazy. Instead of shooting highway signs or cooking bathtub meth, Batwings turned their tumbleweed ennui into experimental post-punk cacophony. There are moments of fractured inspiration here, but a loose interpretation of the line between noise-as-music and noise-as-migraine suggests the band should worry less about remembering to “save” and more about knowing when to hit “delete.” MS/batwingskillyou.

—Nathan Dinsdale

Chavelas album out now!

Chavelas, has a new album out called "Chicano Shuffle (EP)". It is available for purchase & download here. Robert does all the instruments and vocals on the album and produced it himself.


Thanks for supporting our other musical habits!

New song up on Us Two Records myspace page

Us Two Records has posted our new song "Dr. Ohm Vs The Exploding Amp" on their myspace page. You can also check out "Houston Voice" by When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, which will be on the other side of the album. This split 7" we are doing with them is going to be awesome and will be out very shortly!

Downloads now available

We finally have an online store for our music. You can now easily pay and download Batwings through our SoundStation account located here on our blog, and on our myspace page.

Open Door Sessions X1FM Network video clip

All Leather, Chaz, Batwings, The Beat-Less @ King Music (02/26/09)

We will be playing with All Leather again on Thursday, February 26th. Also playing will be local homies Chaz who wound up promoting this show on the local TV channel KUSI the morning of Super Bowl Sunday.

*Update* The Beat-Less have just been added! Sam McPheeters will not be doing this show. He will be in town a different date instead.

The Open Door Sessions photos 1/30/09.

The Open Door Sessions went pretty well last Friday. It sort of reminded me of the whole Fox Rox thing that was going on a few years back. Everyone that worked there treated us very very well and everything was really professional. It was a bit of a weird experience having all those video cameras roaming around us but it was actually pretty fun. Robert was late and didn't make it into the interview part but he did show up in time however to drink and subsequently rock out. The show has every band that comes in do an art piece for their studio, so I included a picture of that in here as well. As you can see, Bryan once again continues to be Seb's source of inspiration in his art. When we get the video clip from the show, we will post it up so you can see some highlights.

Chris Woo photos from the Che Cafe 1/09/09.

Here are the rest of the awesome photos from Chris Woo. The show this night was way rad, probably one of our best ones recently. It was All Leather's first show, which was badass, but their set had to be cut short due to technical difficulties. One of the guitarist's pedals was malfunctioning...which we empathized with completely. Our own pedals have caused us several headaches & bad shows of our own over the years. Local punks Braiins! opened up the show while Hawnay Troof (Vice Cooler of XBXRX) closed with an energetic set that made the night feel like the party was just getting started. Thanks again to Justin Pearson from All Leather for inviting us. We're playing with them again in late Februrary at King Music.