LA MALDICION EP in the SAN DIEGO READER JAM SESSION Blog:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/jam-session/2012/sep/25/batwings-la-maldicion-ep/

San Diego Reader's Jam Session Blog, on Batwings:

 http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/jam-session/2011/may/11/batwings-flap-new-lineup/

["San Diego via El Centro screamers Batwings will be debuting their new line up at the Ruby Room on May 20. Singer/keys/bassist Robbie Lopez left the band and is currently making music with Boo Report, Cub and Pony, and Giraffe Ears. Bass duties are being resumed by guitarist Larry Stage's brother Scott (SnailS!) and Mexicali native Carlos Quintero (Lipstick Terror, Chrome Eye) has joined on vocals.

The Ruby Room show will also be the premiere of guitar/vox Bryan Oczkowski's Pure Data Machine, a homemade noise generator which runs off Pure Data, an open source visual programming language created by UCSD professor Miller Puckett. (EDIT: It turns out this is a lie. The PDM will rear its head in a few months.)

The band expects to release an album, recorded at UCSD's Conrad Prebys Music Center, in the next few months."]

Rad! Bryan will not be debuting his pure data machine quite just yet. However, he does have a few other tricks up his sleeve!

  

Friday's Show in the San Diego Reader:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/may/18/club-crawler-want-be-hardcore/

["Ruby Room fills a kill bill of art-punk locals, featuring Ghetto Blaster, Batwings, and Innerds. From Chad’s rap on our new Jam Session blog (sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/jam-session/ — look at me shilling for The Man!), Batwings have got some new dudes and a record in the works, and the gig’ll be “the premiere of guitar/vox Bryan Oczkowski’s Pure Data Machine, a homemade noise generator that runs off a visual programming language created by UCSD professor Miller Puckett.” I know, wicked smaht...."]

"Helpful Information for Rocking The Ruby Room":

http://www.icontact-archive.com/LkUkbsv_PFCY_6nOTgcrIYwwHiPi8za5?w=2

From MONSTERPUSSY.WORDPRESS.COM:

["Batwings are originally from El Centro, California but currently reside in America’s finest city, San Diego. These guys are some of my favorite people around. Freshest to the Batwings flock is Carlos Quintero (Lipstick Terror & Chrome Eye) as well as Scott Stage on Bass; this will be their debut performance with the band. Bryan Oczkowski will also unveil new digital inventions, contraptions and tricks as a guitarist/computer-ist."]

http://monsterpussy.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/3562/

Bobby Bray + Bryan Oczkowski = Pure Data Machine

Bobby Bray of The Locust talks about his new band Innerds and the Pure Data machine that he and Batwings guitarist Bryan Oczkowski built:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/feb/23/blurt-innerds/

[“We decided we wanted something that doesn’t exist,” Bobby Bray (The Locust), a student of interdisciplinary computing and the arts at UCSD, says at the Camel’s Breath Inn in Mission Valley. “So we rolled up our sleeves and made it ourselves.”

The Pure Data Machine, a collaboration with Bryan Oczkowski of Batwings, is a customizable effects controller based on an open-source program called Pure Data. The box of knobs, switches, lights, photocells, and a joystick runs off of a thumb drive, so data is easily exchanged and modified. The apparatus was recently unveiled during the Experimental Guitar Show at Soda Bar.

“It can be argued that sound and timbre metaphorically symbolize thoughts and feelings that cannot be explained otherwise via language,” Bray says. “If you believe that to be true, then you are going to become reliant upon effect companies to define what you can communicate.”]

Read the rest of the article here

- Western Spaghettification by Chad Deal

Originally published in the San Diego Reader. February 23rd, 2011.

Photo by Dennis Bersales

Back-When Desert-Punk

From this week's San Diego Reader - Club Crawler Section:

"Coupla clever ones Monday night as that back-when desert-punk band Batwings flutter into Tin Can Ale House, where they’ll pop the tops offa K-Holes and Stickers...."

hahaha.

P.S. - we are also the backup plan on Monday according to CityBeat's
"If I were U" Section

Batwings in the San Diego Reader

Check out the article on Batwings in this week's San Diego Reader. Pick up a copy or read the article here:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/nov/17/blurt2/

Originally published in the San Diego Reader. Nov. 17, 2010.

[“That whole Chilean-miner story was weird for me,” Batwings singer/keys/bassist Robert Lopez relates in the band’s Mission Valley practice space. “It’s this feeling of being stuck and told you can’t get out. A lot of our lyrics in the past have revolved around El Centro desert and being kinda stuck.”]

Read the rest of the article HERE

Batwings Rejuvenated - by Chad Deal

Photo by Chris Woo

2007 Press

2007 Press

The great Demo review in City Beat 3/28/07 for our January '07 demo "At the Mercy of Technology"

[Got all the hardcore you can handle? Well, make room in the boiling pot of pissed for one more dash of fuck-all, cuz here come Batwings. Dubbing themselves as "experimental post indie hardcore," they are that glorious, unrealized country between Minor Threat and Fugazi, Black Flag and Rollins Band. The opener, "Knives," starts expectedly with a speedy riff and a space-monkey wail but then segues into a proggy, paranoid crawl. "We Don't Have the Answers" and "Carbon Based Dream" sound like what we all wish The Liars and Fugazi still sounded like. The rest plays out similarly-spastic and abrasive one minute, intricate and melodic the next. Let's hope they don't take their album title too seriously, 'cause if we can get these guys in with Justin Pearson behind the knobs, their white heat will only sound better.]

"Cultural Hasteland: Why San Diego's Music Scene is Better Than Yours"

[9. We're legendary Ask a music snob in Portland what he thinks of the San Diego scene, and you'll be surprised how often you get a story about how a Rocket From the Crypt, Three Mile Pilot or Drive Like Jehu show changed their life. More than pop-punk or beach bums with guitars, San Diego is legendary for its hardcore scene. And like L.A. and D.C. back in the day, our past and current scene is influencing aspiring screamers the world over. Best of all, there's more to come (see Batwings, Sirhan Sirhan, Waco Fuck, etc.).] City Beat 3/28/07 (2)

We made the City Beat "If I Were You" 6/23/07 section a few times, some of them came with the following captions:

Monday 1/22 The Long and Short of It, Sirhan Sirhan, Batwings, Bumbklaatt @ The Casbah. Four of San Diego's better thrash/hardcore/punk bands. Bring ear plugs and some issues.Friday 5/25 Batwings, The Evening Episode, Red Host @ Scolari's Office. Punk fans need to get into San Diego's Batwings-sloppy, paranoid, compelling. Support comes from San Francisco: The Evening Episode, who will make Mazzy Star fans swoon, and impressive chick-punk band Red Host.Saturday 6/23 The North Atlantic, Batwings @ The Ken Club. Two of San Diego's best punk bands. One you can sing along with (North Atlantic) and one you can tremble before (Batwings).

The Daily Aztec mislabeled a picture of Todd. Also, here's the subsequent article about Anti Monday League at the Casbah that doesn't mention us or The Long and Short of It, ha!


Cat Dirt Sez - "i liked what i heard last night... they reminded me most directly of fugazi, although generically i would categorize them as having a lot of the mid/late 90's dc sound. the band itself mentioned unwound and brainiac- which i think are both appropriate reference points. the singing def. reminded me of fugazi... i think probably the 31G/plot to blow up the eiffel tower crowd might dig this- might be a good band for a C.H.O.B. or Che show."

Dirtbag's Delight - "one of the more exciting new punk/noise bands in San Diego. I think they're like Sonic Youth if Sonic Youth were constantly on the edge of a violent, shrieking nervous breakdown. If you know what I like, you know that that's one of the higher compliments I'll pay a band."

A Coat of Red Paint in Hell - "their brand of post-punk swagger and Jehu-esque sound is really rad to behold."