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Watch: Razak Solar System’s final show at the old Grog Shop
We’d been through a lot in eighteen months. We were like King Crimson for latchkey kids. Yes for thrash addicts. Now it was time to bow out.
“Speak In Tongues on the Eastside”: Oblongata, Razak Solar System & Beckett take the Grog Shop
Could we create a Speak In Tongues package show and tour it around our hometown? I’m happy to tell you it worked!
Razak Solar System goes green for the Green Party at Speak In Tongues in 2000
The Green Party Of Ohio asked Razak Solar System, Viva Caramel, Brian Straw & a band aptly named “Bullshit” to play a Ralph Nader benefit…
Men’s Recovery Project with Razak Solar System, Mind No Mind & more at Speak In Tongues
Our idol Sam McPheeters played & we went all-out with a new venue in the basement (‘The Ashtray’) & a 12-page program—see it here!
Rare video! Lightning Bolt, Numbskull, Razak Solar System at Speak In Tongues
Lightning Bolt & Numbskull were bands that we understood and got us as well. And the crowd—so generous & excellent!
Banging our heads on the keyboard of life: Razak Solar System at the Beachland Ballroom, circa Y2K
Razak Solar System were Speak In Tongues refugees on the wrong side of town, playing to an empty room in the year 2000…
Go behind the curtain of Razak Solar System’s ultimate Speak In Tongues performance
Post-Grunge audiences hungered for shock, you see. But only lard-butted, hard rock laggards trashed their instruments in the year 2000…
9 Shocks Terror’s SoCal tour with Tony Erba & Jim Konya changed my life
Twenty years ago I roadied for perhaps the greatest thrash / hardcore band this planet has ever known, 9 Shocks Terror…
An oral history of Junking Theory, one of 1999’s greatest bands
In this debut “Noise Rock Nugget” we examine a classic Speak In Tongues band featuring Bobby, Raphi, Danny and Dave…
Two decades ago Speak In Tongues closed; here’s SIX years of photos, clippings & stories from my collection in remembrance
The legendary Cleveland D.I.Y. venue was a crossroads for great musicians & artists—see artifacts that have never been online until now!
Sean Carnage Monday Nights complete show list
Guns ‘n Broses, Pehrspace, August 2010.
Monday Nights & related shows
Start: July 25, 2005
End: March 27, 2016
Series du…
I was the Easter Bunny for GSMF & the craziest Speak In Tongues show ever
Easter Sunday, April 23, 2000, will live in punk rock infamy. Now revised for 2021 with more photos & scandalous details…
Capturing the Cleveland scene: An interview with Ryedood
Meet Ryan “Rye” Kennedy—he was at all the rad Cleveland underground concerts with his video camera. Watch his videos and read his story…
Internet premiere! 9 Shocks Terror video EP & “Cleveland Thrash Salad”
Step into the Wayback Machine, Mr. Peabody, we’re emptying the video vaults & making some classic Cleveland thrash available online for the first time…
“You Are The Yeti”: 9 Shocks Terror at the Euclid Tavern, 1999
Cleveland Punk Fest was THE summer concert for Cleveland counterculture types like myself. So let’s go back there, shall we?
About
Hey I’m Sean. I was “born to go” and have been creating and making things ever since I was a little dude. Along the way I’ve been blessed…
Cleveland in Los Angeles photos! Duvalby Bros. with members of Biblical Proof Of UFOs at Cafe NELA
It’s always a thrill seeing old friends bring the house down in L.A. the way only Buzz Boron and the Duvalby Bros. can do!
Press
SEAN CARNAGE: NOISY AND GAY RIGHT FROM THE START
L.A. Record
July 5th, 2009
by Drew Denny
Photo: la-underground.net
Sean Carna…
COLEY & MOORE’S BULL TONGUE NAMES 40 BANDS 80 MINUTES! BEST OF 2006!!!
Underground music mavens Thurston Moore and Byron Coley have picked 40 BANDS 80 MINUTES! as the BEST of 2006. Wow!
Here’s what they wr…
RULIN’ YULE 2006 HOLIDAY PARTY AT IL CORRAL WITH COCKWIND, ATTRACTIVE & POPULAR AND OOUH!!!
Thank you to everyone who came to my “Monday on a Wednesday” holiday party at Il Corral! It was great to see so many friends. Sadly, Aaro…
Under the bridge, Cleveland-style, with Brian Straw at Hart Crane Park; Or, how I learned to let loose in the middle of the Zika epidemic
This was a special event—an unsanctioned outdoor concert in a public space. I’m all for that kind of shit. NOW, STAY AWAY BUGS!
Baptized as a bondage bottom by Misty Martinez at Pat’s In The Flats
This was THE disruptive, change-your-thinking concert no one—least of all me—ever expected it to be. Photos never before online!
Weird times at the old Grog Shop: A Festival of Seans, one Black Key & Har Mar Superstar
Sean Tillmann, the Black Keys’ Pat Carney, Robert “The Kid Stays In The Picture” Evans, Ron Jeremy—they’re all in this tale of Sean-sanity!
The second to last Speak In Tongues show was the best Christmas of all time
One week before Cleveland’s beloved DIY collective ceased to exist we had the ultimate party with a wild cast of characters old and new…
White knuckle shroomin’, The Basketball & Speak In Tongues, 1999
It was nearing the close of 1999 and I had yet to party. You know, really party. Magic mushroom therapy had to be the solution!
Experimental folk singer Brian Straw talks new music, sobriety & Speak In Tongues
Brian Straw’s revelatory “Baby Stars / Dead Languages” channels the rebellion and slop of youth into a spare and supernatural new form.
Electroclash in the Flats: The Foreign Exchange Students with The Cassettes at Pat’s
I was feeling suffocated by the gnarly dude-wall of folded arms at every fucking show. Enough! I needed to live. And dance.
Dig my new look: Chargers Street Gang at Pat’s In The Flats
Due to the addition of Matt Fish on drums, the Chargers fulfilled their destiny as one of Cleveland, Ohio’s greatest rock ‘n roll bands…
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