Hey! Ho! Let's Sew! Punk Crafting Meet-Up at Dreadful Sounds

Dreadful Sounds is excited to announce our first punk crafting get together: Hey! Ho! Let's Sew! on August 5th from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.  Check out the facebook group here and invite yourself to the "official event" here.  BYOB and bring your projects and some records you'd like to hear too.  We're planning to make it a regular weekly occurrence.  

Records.  Booze.  Bitches.  Stitches. 

Catching Up with Lydia Loveless

About seven years ago I met three sisters who were in this band Carson Drew.  Since that fateful night at Bernie's they have each become very dear friends of mine.  The youngest sister, Lydia, later became our first intern here at Dreadful Sounds before she got, like, famous and blew up.  Recently I had time for coffee and a catch up with Lydia while she was on a day off from crisscrossing the nation by van with her husband/bass player, Ben.  We hung out, and I emailed her some questions later that night.

Be sure to catch Lydia at her next Columbus performance on August 2nd at Columbus Commons!

Disconnections: Punk Singles-Mingle forum and DJ night with Scotty Niemet on 8/17

Brace yourselves, we've started a forum, and all so we can tell you about this new quarterly event we're planning!  

Starting on Friday August 17th from 7:30 - 9:30, Dreadful Sounds will be hosting Disconnections VOL. 1: Punk Singles-Mingle DJ Night featuring Scotty Niemet four times a year!  Chat in the forum before that about the cute person with good taste in music you saw at the shop last week or at an in-store recently, then come on the 17th to meet people, listen to all your post punk and goth favorites, and buy some cheap records together!  Moodier lighting, wine, and good music to converse about all provided free of charge. 

 Facebook event to follow once we get the flyer finished.  In the meantime, go sign up for our awesome new forum and help make this new resource a success!          

The Girls!

Sunday night of Comfest was closed by The Girls! on the Offramp Stage this year, and it was exactly the kind of performance that you always hope you'll catch at Comfest, but rarely ever seem to get to.  The band's energy was intoxicating and it pulled people together in just the "everybody hangs out with everybody even if they don't know each other" kind of way that is precisely Comfest.  No surprise then that The Girls! performance caught other people's attention too (see Alive's 10 Best Bands from Comfest 2012).  Please check out this video so you know what you missed, and you won't make that mistake the next time they play (Columbus Rocks the Cure 2012 at Skully's).  Also, I have it on good authority that you can expect a bit of a hiatus after the Skully's show for The Girls! for summer vacation.  Look for their 7" to be released in the next month or so, and stay tuned for details about the record release party we're cooking up for you guys!

G.G. Allin: Cubed grilled hammerhead shark, KY jelly, chunky peanut butter, stale tortilla.