The Redscroll Podcast
Jake & Drew from PulsR stopped by! We talk about music! We talk about PulsR. We talk about other bands they're in. We talk about various venues in CT including their adopted home base, the Shop in Hamden. We stay pretty on topic with music and the band (and their other projects/bands). What a treat! Links: Music on this episode: Open: Pulsr "Rhode" A View Of Everything (Self-Released) Josh: Sandwell District "Hidden" End Beginnings (Point of Departure) Rick: Muslimgauze "Red Crescent (Pt.1)" United States of Islam (Extreme, Kontakt Audio) Paul Schutze "The Mutant...
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Jay Holmes and Kyle Holmes are brothers and 2 out of 3 of the owner/operators of Ritual Pizza Co. in Cheshire, CT (operating out of the Counter Weight Brewing space). Ken (the other owner/operator) couldn't make it for fatherly reasons. We talk about what we're listening to. We talk about how deeply ingrained the music they listen to is to their business and how it informs what they do from the visual design aspects to just how they vibe while cooking and how they want to incorporate what they do into events at the brewery and beyond that. We talk about the beginnings of the operation...
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Tyler and Jen of the Neu Body collective who put on the frequent Heatsync parties and have now released a 12" EP including 4 tracks from as many members of the crew. Tyler has been shopping at the store since he was a pre-teen! We talk about his brief brush with hype beast fame and general musical trajectory. Jen's musical trajectory is discussed and her painful dismissal from a college indie/punk band and how that possibly directed her towards DJing and electronic music and its production. Conversation moves on from there. We get into all things Neu Body and about talk...
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This month we talk to Videodome (Rebecca, Tobey, Keenan, & Killian)! We talk about what we're listening to. We talk about the formation of the band and the direction that band has taken and where it may go. Some reminiscing on less recent CT bands occurs. Conversation veers off here and there. It's a good time. Check it out! Music on this episode: Intro Music: Videodome "Peter Lorre" The Incidental Homosexual... Or, A Hate Crime in My Bedroom (Self-Released) Rick Picks: Legowelt "In a Blaze of Fame" A Field Guide to the Void (Clone Jack For Daze) V/Z "Tobu" It’s Cold In Baltimore...
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Redscroll & Friends Favorites of 2024 We have our (Rick & Josh’s) favorites of the year as usual. We have the Redscroll employee favorites also as usual. We’ve expanded beyond that even! Favorites from some folks in bands on our record label and folks we closely associate and collaborate on the regular! Friends! Most of those folks have recorded their own list and introduced themselves plus there’s a few that have submitted a list that we’ve creatively included. You can go on the web post to peruse their lists (redscroll records dot com) as well. They’ve all but a couple...
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Ben Levesque joins us at the shop to talk shop about shows, concerts, gigs and such! Ben has been with Manic Presents for about as long as we've had the store now (over 17 years!), but recently made a huge jump from working essentially 2 full time jobs to dedicating all his time to Manic Presents in a yet to be named position. When it comes to running and booking shows he's a jack of all trades. We talk about some inside baseball - the inner workings of things without blowing up any spots. Ben of Manic Presents We talk about music in general and we push out in all directions pertaining...
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Nick & Tim helm a relatively new project called Disfigure. So far, they have just one tape release though they are working on more. Nick worked on many of the songs in relative isolation while living in New Hampshire and then recorded them with Tim once back in CT. We start as usual talking about what we're listening to. We recorded in October which lent itself to some opening talk about horror movies and bake off. We quickly veer into how the band started and what inspired it to happen; how they were inspired by Godflesh, d-beat and black metal to create their sound....
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We are joined by a man, Byron Coley, who has more stories than we could fit into every past episode of our podcast and we surely packed as much as we could into a single sit down. We start off with some talk about what we're listening to as usual and we move on to record fair talk (don't forget about our featuring Byron selling upstairs!). Byron tells tales of driving John Fahey around looking for classical records, his process for listening to 10 new records everyday, writing for weekly publications and magazines like the Wire, Forced Exposure, Spin and on and on. We talk about the...
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This month Paul and Will joined us on the podcast. Paul sings and Will plays guitar in Dissolve. We just released their latest record, and absolutely were honored and stoked to do so. Dissolve has been around since 1991 and released records with wide time gaps between them. They endure and we talk about how that works with their band and how those releases have progressed to the most recent record, Burnt. Dissolve's Paul & Will We talk about the bands they played with and other bands they were in. We talk briefly about Paul's writing career (a book of short stories called...
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New London's Michael Slyne joins us on the podcast this month. We talk about his hometown a bunch and the changes that have happened to the landscape of downtown and the town in general recently and over the years. We talk about Michael's many projects / bands including most prominently Slyne & The Family Stoned. We talk about Michael's show on (check it out!) and self-releasing records and his hopes for future releases and his recent trip to the UK. We talk about what we're listening to and branch out in all directions. Give it a listen! Links: ...
info_outlineAnonymity reigns within the dark realm of black metal. We interviewed an entity known to us here as Ajna. Ajna healms Forest Thrall and plays in Vengeance Sorcery, Cerberus, Sravana, Cemetery Lights and likely more currently active and some that are at this time conceptual acts.
We talk about the Vengeance Sorcery experience of playing Nuclear War Now Fest in Tijuana, Mexico. Ajna goes into depth on the musical paths taken in listening and in playing and gives a short anecdote about how a member of Dokken presented as a sort of missed connection on a tow truck route. We talk about nature and the scourge of the litterer! We veer off on 108 mystic and odd directions and of course we talk about the music we're listening to!
Links:
https://www.instagram.com/forest.thrall.108/
https://linktr.ee/AJNA108 (this has links to Bandcamp pages as well)
Opening:
Cerberus "Chaos Altar" Unrelenting Chaos
Rick:
Natural Wonder Beauty Concept "Natural Wonder Beauty Concept" Natural Wonder Beauty Concept (Mexican Summer)
Water Damage "Fuck That: Reel 13" 2 Songs (12XU)
Cranes "La Cérémonie" La Tragédie D'Oreste Et Électre (Dedicated / Music On Vinyl)[additional note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oresteia_in_the_arts_and_popular_culture]
Spectral Voice "Craving Final Impasse" split with Undergang (Dark Descent Records)
Qrixkuor "Zoetrope" Zoetrope (Invictus Productions / Dark Descent Records)
Josh:
Syndrome 81 "Dans Les Rues De Brest" Prisons Imaginaires (Black Water)
Conservative Military Image "Shirt Tucked Aggression" Casual Violence (Lionheart Records)
Secret Stairways "What Lies Beyond the Door" Enchantment Of The Ring (Dungeons Deep Records)
Wraith Knight "With The Great Ancestral Sword" Deep In The Dungeons Of The Dragonlord (Dungeons Deep Records)
Aphex Twin "in a room7 F760" Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room F760 (Warp)
Ajna:
Runespell "Mirrors Of The Dead" Shores Of Náströnd (Iron Bonehead)
Albionic Hermeticism "The Devil in a Conical Flask (Or His Unholy Formula)" Nova Nativitas Mundi (Amor Fati / The Hermetic Order of Ytene)
Sravana "Tri" Som [note: midway through interview]
Closing:
Forest Thrall "Of Rifle Axe and Steel" Amidst Pines (Death Prayer Records)
The Redscroll Podcast is a monthly show (new episodes on the first of the month) that works as a companion to what we do at Redscroll Records in Wallingford, CT USA. We are a record store that has a heavy emphasis on the left of center / underground music of the world. Whether it be underappreciated or just has a niche audience, marginalized or just off the radar it’s all of interest to us. With the show we’ll generally have a localized focus. We’ll discuss what is in our personal rotation at the moment. We’ll talk to guests who have to do with all of the above. And we’ll talk about specific dealings with the store. If you have input you’re welcome to contact us through email ([email protected]). Oh, and please do subscribe! New episodes on the first of every month! (Subscribe on Android)(Subscribe elsewhere just by searching for us please!