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Newsletter No. 25: A BRICK OF RED, A JUG OF GAS AND THOU "We shall exact a brutal revenge for everything." - Marshall Zhukov "FUCK YUO" - Piece of graffito spotted on a New York City subway wall marking the tragic, total, and now complete failure of public education. Jesus Christ. Really. Jesus Christ. I mean they call it Excedrin PM but I maintain that it works just fine in the AM too. Except not if you're writing the newsletter. Except not if you're sitting like we're sitting with tampons of toilet paper jammed up our nostrils to slow the flow of nose fluids. Except not if the government has begun poisoning you with flu viruses because, well just because goddamnit. This is it: The last go around. And as we clutch our eyes like our eyes were our enemies we'll let you know that if you never hear from us again: it wasn't our fault. Whatever you find out about us after we're gone, well, we didn't do it. We promise. And even if we did do it, we didn't mean to do it. At least those first few times. And if it makes you feel any better we felt sort of guilty about it. At least until the next time we did it at which point we forgot all about it until it was over and we were thinking about doing it again. But dig this: OXBOW In the Round PRESENTS a ONE MAN SHOW on the life of HARRY S. TRUMAN featuring all FOUR members of OXBOW in a stunning Tour de Force SEE: Dan Adams as "The Amazing Professor M," Greg Davis as "Dude" aka "Bro," Niko Wenner as "Mr. Percival," and Eugene Robinson as "The Drifter." HEAR: The searing dramatic renditions of true historical monologue as spoken by the Give 'Em Hell Harry President: "I'll trust ANY man, as long as he's not a nigger, kike, or a chink." BELIEVE: In the magical and transformative powers of dinner theater like you've never before seen it.

LIGHTS, CAMERA, VIOLENT OVER-REACTION!!! We told you it was coming. We told you. And you thought we were full of shit. Well MUSIC FOR ADULTS, the OXBOW documentary is finished (see the trailer at http://www.theoxbow.com/oxbow_content/video/video_index.htm#). Director Christian Anthony has flooded film festivals, public TV stations, and the offices of Hollywood sharpies everywhere with DVD copies of this magnum .44 opus and not only will we have it for sale as soon as April rolls around, there's also the possibility of doing regional showings, followed by a Q and A with the filmmaker, Mr. Percival and The Drifter in attendance as well. Depends on what the fuck you want, what our intrepid booking agents can scare up and, as always, parole officers. WANTED: ONE TATTOO ARTIST If you're a tattoo artist and you DON'T SUCK or if you KNOW a tattoo artist that does not suck (and by KNOW we mean you can call them up and say: "hey because you don't suck I figure you'll flow some tattoo work to the impoverished men of OXBOW for something in trade that's NOT cash.") please have them contact us. Note to all of our past tattoo artists: we don't think you suck, we just feel too goddamned guilty sponging work offa youse again. FUCKED BY TECHNOLOGY Eugene Says: "That's it. The goddamned Palm Pilot crashed. No back up. Irreplaceable. Totally irreplaceable. What? Halle Berry's home phone number, that's what. Directions to Evander Holyfield's house. Drug dealers. Contract killers. All gone into the ether." So if you were/are a close personal friend of Eugene's could you please send us your address and phone number if you ever expect to hear from him again. That's right. All three of you. PHYSIOGNOMY OF AN OXBOW "PASS" OXBOW: "Hey, uh, gimme your phone number." YOU: "Why?" OXBOW: "So I can come by your house and fuck you on that orange pilatus ball you have by your front door." YOU: "How'd you know about that?" OXBOW: "What are you?!?! A cop?!?!"

THE DEEVOLUTION OF THE FOURTH ESTATE'S PROMISSORY INVOLVEMENT IN OXBOW'S ATTENDANCE AT THEIR MARCH 12 SHOWCASE IN TEXAS San Francisco's SF Weekly recently approached OXBOW about playing a showcase with two other regional bands who were heading out to play the South by Southwest thing that we're supposed to play. This is apparently a tradition that's missed us the last two years we played but no nevermind. Their insistence that OXBOW must go and represent San Francisco "IN STYLE" (their words) was infectious. And so it was with absolutely and totally not the slightest scintilla of surprise that we greeted the news that the showcase had been cancelled and the SF Weekly was sending us off to Texas with our cocks in our hands (versus the promised cash from the showcase), which, if you've seen our cocks, is probably all the STYLE we need. Oh yeah. They also gave us a free ad. This is what we sent in. www.theoxbow.com Jesus the Drunk spins and twists in a romantic rage of absolutely Greek proportions: take your hands off me! Take your hands OFF me! And the hookers chortle. And the drinks spill and sing sing sing. Off-key. My love is like loss. Never there when you need it. Always there when you don't. Is what it whispers to me. Well that and "you've been good too long." Buy OXBOW's AN EVIL HEAT (NEUROT) and see OXBOW at SXSW, Weds. March 12, Le Privilege, Austin,Texas and April 27 at the Hemlock, San Francisco, California. We're sure this will impress the fuck out of all the gas station attendants on the way to Texas. Impress them enough to get them to give us free gas. QUOTE OF THE MONTH "Don't worry! I'm straight!" - spoken by a Buddy Holly look-a-like with his pants around his ankles and his cock in his hand standing amidst the shelvings at Bachelor Books.

SHOW ME YOURS MARCH 12, LE PRIVILEGE, AUSTIN, TEXAS, SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST. 10 PM SHARP. With 12AX7 (Austin TX),SWARM of ANGELS (Houston TX), Todd (London UK), ST 37 (Austin TX), and Rusted Shut (Houston TX) OXBOW UNPLUGGED SHOWS: APRIL 10, O.O.F., Torino, Italy APRIL 11, BLOOM, Milano, Italy APRIL 12, INIT, Roma, Italy APRIL 13, SLOVENLY, Napoli, Italy APRIL 19, SHADY BRADY'S, ROSEVILLE/SACRAMENTO with Logicseed, Uberkunst, and Condition. APRIL 27, HEMLOCK with SUBARACHNOID SPACE MAY 20, BOTTOM OF THE HILL, San Francisco with Porch and Caesura. ALL OF JUNE, ASSORTED WEST COAST SHOWS with JUCIFER FESTIVALS END OF JUNE 27/28, rock dans tous ces etats - evreux july 3/4 scopitone - nantes july 4/5/6 eurockeennes - belfort july ??? LONDON, BUSY LONDON july 10/11/12/13 dour festival - dour/belgium

WHAT THE DRUNKEN. ANGRY MAILDUDE BROUGHT Skip this right quick if mewling, trembling, wet-lipped, angry and outraged fan mail is not your bag of tea because this section is fucking heavily laden with it. Viva La France!!! hi,i saw you last year. Live in marseille.and i was very impress by the power of the show.few times later i bought the evil heart. in the same time i worked in a piece of william shakespeare,king lear. it's a free adaptation with dance,theatre,music and painting. we made orignal materials but we included 5 minutes of "shine" cos it's exactly what we need. the trance of the music with the torture of the voice give us a very special support for our frenetic danse. yesterday,we gave our only representation in a small theatre near marseille and after the reaction of the audience, we decided to follow the experience and organise a tour in france.it's important to us to ask you if we can use your song for that. thanks and good continuation. - patrice debenedetti OXBOW: Whatever. The Shiteaters at the SF Weekly Will Sue Us NOW Eugene my friend -- The showcase has been cancelled. Basically, we got on it a bit too late - -many of the bands that we wanted to play weren't able to for one reason or another and we had a pretty large room to fill over there @ Studio Z. Not that Oxbow alone wouldn't have packed the place - but with the limited window of time we gave ourselves to work with (not my fault if ya want the truth) - it was better to say no go than do it half-assed. - S.W., San Francisco JETROCK is a BLOWJOB ok so everything is kosher for the show, booking lineup etc. jetrock had some concerns with you guys playing second to last because he didn't want their fans to leave before you played, so i guess you guys are playing second. That's all for now. - Bryan, Sacramento OXBOW: bullshit. nobody no matter how stupid they are, which covers just about everybody in Sacto, leaves after only seeing two bands. his "concerns" are about his band not playing second. WE don't give a shit one way or another.... we're going to go on when we want, play when we want and play however long we want, but tell this "Jetrock" fuck that he is a walking talking Blowjob. bands that squabble over position on the bill are the worst fucking excuses for human beings that we've ever seen. keep him away from me. SHE WANTS THE COCK Seattle, you need a Seattle gig where you actually get the money and get to play. Although no one will come with me to your shows anymore - "the Oxbow flu" is what we call it - the head pounding, nausea, post-show insomnia. But I'll come. If only to see Eugene scantily clad. Which is why how many people show up? - S.P., Seattle, Washington OXBOW V. LEEDS alright ewan here. put on that gig at the 1in12 and in leeds. someone showed me that tour diary. made me laugh even though loads of it was wrong. our singers took the Abbott and Costello comment as a compliment. how could you not find chris stumbling up drunk with marker pen mimicking your tattoos funny? liked the way you spelt 'jesus'. made it sound just like chris. you seemed to be pretty annoyed with most of the gigs. i think you should have a word with whoever booked the tour because everyone put you on at the last minute (in my case the day before), no one had heard of you, there was no press etc etc etc still can't quite understand why the 1in12 gig bothered you so much but nevermind. cheers ewan www.infinitemonkey666.co.uk

WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY YELLING? MORE WORD ON THE LARGE SAC'D AND EIGHTH WONDER OF THE FUCKING MODERN WORLD: OXBOW'S AN EVIL HEAT 'An evil heat' by Oxbow (Neurot Recordings CD NR017) By Ian Simmons Hmmm, these guys are very angry indeed. If they spoke to you in the pub you'd be wise to edge away, a placatory smile on your face, if their music is anything to go by. Around since 1990, when they released their first album Fuckfest, Oxbow have not been mellowed by time. They describe themselves as "The last aural will and testament of failed humanity" and articulate their angst through condensed violent metal. Now, in general, I can't say I am particularly fond of metal, or at least its most prominent public manifestations. From its Seventies roots (with Deep Purple's Spinal Tap-esque pretension and Robert Plant's self-indulgent masturbatory squeal), through ludicrous Eighties drug-addled poodle rock - horrible fret-wanking guitar solos, everyone pulling faces like chimps with their genitals caught in high powered industrial vacuum cleaners - and up to today's nu-metal corporate-sponsored rebellion, with oh-so-perfect production, I'd rather pass, thank you. But there is another side to metal; the MC5 and Stooges were considered metal in their day, then there were the Pink Fairies, Motorhead and - today - High Rise, Merzbow and Fushitusha. All wonderful stuff. No airs and graces, just a dedication to epic, steamroller noise. Much more like it! Oxbow belong to the latter strand of metal, and An Evil Heat is a fine addition to the canon. It brews up a solid block of intense, rough-edged noise which Eugene Robinson complements with hoarse, panicked, screaming vocals. The sound they achieve has resonances of early Swans, and indeed Jarbow of the Swans appears here, joining a distinguished guest list, which over their career has encompassed Lydia Lunch, Marianne Faithful and Klaus Fluoride, among others. It also brings to mind late Seventies No Waver's like Lunch's 13:13 and in places comes over like The Butthole Surfers might have done had they been heavily influenced by The Pop Group. The nine tracks here are a powerful and somewhat exhausting listen (at least for someone of my venerable years), raw and psychologically menacing, culminating in Shine(Glimmer), over 32 minutes of monomaniac minimal riffing and sludgy rumble. This is a dense leaden clump of anger (although I haven't quite worked out what they're angry about yet), and about as brutal a collection of music as you are likely to get these days. And all the better for it. http://www.nthposition.com/reviews_oxbow.html after years of waiting i finally got to see the band oxbow live. they were, quite frankly, incredible. eugene robinson paces the stage screaming and crying out with such furious pain that the audience cannot help but stare; rubberneck might be a more accurate phrase. it¹s like watching a dynamic mental breakdown set to music. he strips down to his underwear, he weeps, he drools, he grimaces, he stares daggers, he, ahem, plays with himself. this man is a maniacal genius fuck machine. but is this self indulgent performance therapy session? or avant garde audio wank? is it fuck. oxbow create sounds of blistering disordered rock and roll madness unequalled in scope, variety and pure, balls-out (often literally) honesty. buy their latest album 'an evil heat', buy all their records, listen, listen and learn. http://www.macrophonies.co.uk/UNSONG_blog.htm THE TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2002 1 Original Pirate Material - The Streets (Locked On / 679) 2 Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - Flaming Lips (Warner Bros) 3 Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age (Interscope) 8 B.R.M.C. - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Virgin) 9 Chat And Business - Ikara Colt (Fantastic Plastic) 10 Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol (Matador) 11 () - Sigur Ros (Fat Cat) 18 Yanqui U.X.O. - Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Constellation) 19 Up The Bracket - The Libertines (Rough Trade) 26 Murray Street - Sonic Youth (Geffen) 38 They Threw Us Into A Trench And Built A Monument On Top - Liars (Blast First) 39 Resigned To Life - Minuteman (Ignition) 47 An Evil Heat - Oxbow (Neurot) 50 In Search Of - N*E*R*D* (Virgin) http://www.playlouder.com/feature/1174readerspoll/ THE BIG TAKEOVER Oxbow: An Evil Heat CD Oh, the ugliness that is Oxbow and oh, what a beautiful ugliness it is. The band--featuring ex-Whipping Boy Eugene Robinson on vox--inhabit a world where cultural icons like under-age porn queen Traci Lords and mass murderer Richard Speck are laudable visionaries and the feedback outro to Slayer¹s ³Criminally Insane² is the thematic musical hook for the movie they¹re about to be cast in. Here, drugs are passé and modern psychology is din. Rather, nervous breakdowns are the new crack and it expected that you have at least one every four hours in order to gain proper insight into your psyche. An Evil Heat is an broken promise in a world gone horribly wrong that¹s about to get even worse. Whether you like it or not, they mean it, man! By the way: every song begins with the letter S. How indelibly heavy is that?‹Bryan Swirsky ALARM MAGAZINE #14 JAN/MAR '03 Ah, Neurot is up to their old tricks again, with the band Oxbow mysteriously sharing an album title with Primal Scream, a mere one letter away in the alphabet. So obviously it's the same band, or a coincidence. I suppose Occam's Razor tells me it's a coincidence, so we'll go with that, since Primal Scream has only a bit more of a chance than New Found Glory at releasing something on Neurot. Anyway, this CD is very odd, and it kind of creeps me out in parts. It basically sounds like the Melvins and Swans hanging out with a bunch of child molesters making music about their diabolical exploits. Or maybe not child molesters, but definitely someone sinister, maybe even Dr. Doom. I suppose that's why the word "evil" appears in the title. If you need a good, puzzling and heavy listening a bit left of center, look no further than Oxbow. (GJ) Oxbow Let me be a woman 2002 - Ruminance La musique d¹Oxbow est une souffrance. Il n¹y réside qu¹une lumière infime et spongieuse, contenue dans quelques notes mineures d¹orgue, éparses et perdues dans un océan de guitares bruitistes et percluses de désirs rythmiques fracturés. Enregistré par son Altesse Steve Albini (P.J. harvey, Thugs, Pixies), « Let me be a woman » est un disque dur et âpre (« Sunday »), une illustration du désespoir. Les rythmiques d¹Oxbow insufflent lentement mais sûrement leur venin, pour systématiquement réintroduire ces guitares crasseuses et brutes (« Gal ») que firent jaillir des aînés aussi illustres que regrettés : on n¹ose point, mais on se risque à dire qu¹il y a du Jesus Lizard là-dessous, sans que jamais la parenté ne soit assumée ni revendiquée par Oxbow. Mais au-delà de la dépression, il y a une force en ce groupe, une énergie qui ne le quitte jamais. Les moments les pires sont aussi ceux durant lesquels, au prix de l¹exutoire, le groupe se livre aux prouesses les plus évidentes. Audacieux et hors clivage, le rock déjanté d¹Oxbow n¹est jamais hors cadre. Entier, il imprime sa marque, indélébile. Un disque superbe.

THE AMAZING PROFESSOR M SPEAKS DFR: How in the name of Hades did you create such an original sound ???> Dan Adams: Like anyone making sound, one starts with an internal conception - an imagined or viscerally conceived sense of a sound or sound quality. You make the sound, and if it didn't do what you wanted, you change it to try to achieve your goals. DFR: After more them what seems like a 10 yr stay in the very underground. What got you hooked up with Neurot??? DA: The same thing that got us hooked up with Pathological, Brinkman, Crippled Dick Hot Wax, SST, Unchained, Wallace, Splatter Promotions, and so on - the realization that there is something interesting to be gained from the joint effort. I'm not sure we are any more or less under ground than we have been in the past. However, Neurot has been a good label for this last record and they are good folks. DFR: how was it working with Steve albini? I've heard so much about him both good and bad??? What's your story?? DA: Steve is a great technician and it was a pleasure to see him apply his craft to our recording process. DFR: What can we look forward to in 2003 with Oxbow?? DA: Pestilence, blight, famine, plague, etc. NEXT ISSUE: WE EXPRESS OUR EXTREME DISAPPOINTMENT THAT UNLIKE THE FIRST TIME, THIS LAST TIME, NO ONE SENT US ANY DRUGS. IF THAT'S REALLY THE CASE IT SEEMS THAT THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON. SAD. VERY SAD. [ Newsletter ]