"Boiling Breakfast Early" Cassette/Online Exclusive

(DEAD FORMAT/FISTOLO RECORDS)

Seekers of the first Mischief Brew demo ("Mirth") and lovers of raw scratchy cassette recordings unite.  The long-talked-about "demo discography" is finally available.  From both ends of the spectrum, of course: a physical version available on cassette only from Dead Format (a cassette-only label from Bethlehem, PA), and an online exclusive version available from Fistolo Records and Downloadpunk.com.  Both versions will have an extra bonus track, exclusive to each release.  The "Mirth" demo is included in its entirety, along with songs from both WKDU sets, "Don't Spoil Yer Supper!", old compilations...and a few never-before-heard songs.  An important chapter in the Mischief Brew story...

To order the tape, go to www.myspace.com/deadformat.  Or paypal $5 (post-paid) to square_of_opposition[at]hotmail.com.

Online version available exclusively at www.downloadpunk.com/fistolo.

Songs:

1. Victory Dance of the Outlanders

2. One Stone Cast

3. A Liquor Never Brewed

4. Anti-Lullaby

5. Barratry Call

6. The Master is a Drunkard

7. The Stone Worker

8. Weapons

9. Liberty Unmasked

10. No Followers

11. The Lowly Carpenter

12. Boycott Me!

13. The Gambler

14. Devil's Toast

15. A Rebel's Romance

16. The Reinvention of the Printing Press (first acoustic demo - EXCLUSIVE TAPE BONUS TRACK)

16. One Stone Cast (practice session - EXCLUSIVE ONLINE BONUS TRACK)

Profane Existence #54 - featuring Mischief Brew interview/song

(PROFANE EXISTENCE RECORDS)

Brand new issue of Profane Existence which not only features interviews with the bands Inhaste and Human Error.; an artist feature on Fly, vegan recipes from Maygun, and Rob from Meisce's amazing rant about stupid fucking kids that don't know what 7" records are.... but also an interview with Erik from Mischief Brew.  It also comes with a compilation CD, featuring the MB song "Tell Me A Story."  We have some copies to sell...thanks to Dan and PE for the whole beautiful package!

$5 post-paid in the U.S.

"Songs From Under the Sink" LP (CD out of stock)

(FISTOLO RECORDS)

The follow-up to 2005's "Smash the Windows," here we have a collection of songs written between 1997-2002.  As opposed to the gypsy-punk epics on "Smash," the songs on "Sink" are more stripped down, returning to Mischief Brew's roots with percussive acoustic guitar-abuse, mandolins, and junk percussion.  The lyrics are twice as vicious, covering topics such as the Iraq War, the death penalty, police brutality, prisons...and of course alcohol and pyromania.  Previously performed solely at basement shows, punk bars, and protests...and now on Mr. Yuk-green vinyl once and for all (500 green/500 black).  The LP version also wields a unique rendition of "A Rebel's Romance" that will not be on the CD.

$10 LP post-paid in the U.S. (No CDs at the moment...repressing coming soon)

Also available for download through iTunes, eMusic, and Downloadpunk.

Songs:

1. Thanks, Bastards!

2. Tell Me A Story

3. Gimme Coffee, or Death

4. Children Play With Matches

5. Save a City...

6. Gratitude and Thanks

7. Solidarity Interlude

8. Love and Rage

9. All Our Comrades

10. Coffee, God, and Cigarettes

11. A Rebel's Romance (LP and CD have different versions)

12. The Dreams of the Morning

13. How Did I Get Out Alive?

14. The Midnight Special 2002

"Loved But Unrespected" split 7" with Bread & Roses

(FISTOLO RECORDS)

 Bread & Roses are a Boston-based folk punk orchestra of sorts that has managed to spread countless demos here and there over the years...and we're excited to have put out their first official release, a split 7" with Mischief Brew.  Each band contributes one original song and one traditional labor song (with Bread & Roses spicing up the Wobbly anthem "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back" and Mischief Brew arranging/rearranging Joe Hill's "The Preacher and The Slave").  Originals?  MB delivers a unique acoustic version of "Nomads Revolt" while B&R play an original song that The Pogues wish they could have written.  Yes, I'll stand by that even as I'm getting pummeled by a mob of paddy punks.  The title is a salute to the great Utah Phillips who defined the versions of both of the aforementioned labor songs.

****CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE****

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Songs:

1. The Preacher and the Slave (erik)

2. Nomads Revolt II

3. Let the Wind and the Sea Be My Grave (B&R)

4. Dump the Bosses Off Your Back

"Smash the Windows" CD/LP

(FISTOLO RECORDS)

"Smash The Windows" is an experiment in insanity, an attempt to blow the folk-punk template to pieces! Instrumental cameos include accordion, clarinet, marimba, and various metal objects clanged/banged upon. Guest appearances by members of World/Inferno, Guignol, Evil Robot Us', and Leftover Crack.  The "Bakenal" EP set the stage: here, we have more tales of jaded drunkards, anarchist witches, and revolting nomads.  Recorded at Vibromonk in Brooklyn (which has produced such acts as Gogol Bordello, Balkan Beat Box, Firewater, Big Lazy.

CD: $10 post-paid in the U.S.

LP: $12 post-paid (German import)

Also available for download through iTunes, eMusic, and Downloadpunk.

Songs:

1. The Reinvention of the Printing Press

2. Citizens Drive

3. Lightning Knock the Power Out

4. Nomads Revolt

5. The Lowly Carpenter

6. Ten Thousand Fleas

7. Swing Against the Nazis

8. From the Rooftops

9. The Gypsy, the Punk, and the Fool (A Tale)

10. Roll Me Through the Gates of Hell

11. Ain't It the Life?

12. A Liquor Never Brewed (with Guignol)

13. Departure Arrival

"Two Boxcars" split 7" with David Dondero

(FISTOLO RECORDS)

Love songs, rage songs, and everything in between on this split EP by two artists who are good friends. David Dondero plays twangy drunken ballads, telling stories collecting from tours and travels. Meanwhile, Erik belts out two anti-war, anti-folk, anarcho-acoustic anthems. Altogether, it's four stories with something for everyone.

$4 post-paid in the U.S.

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Songs:

1. The Brownsville Revival (david)

2. The Stars Are My Chandelier

3. Against (erik)

4. Goodbye Under God

"Bellingham & Philadelphia" LP/CD

(ART OF THE UNDERGROUND RECORDS)

The Pacific Northwest meets the city of brotherly love on this classic (can we say that yet?) split record between Bellingham's folk bard Robert Blake and Philly anarcho-bard Erik Petersen (dropping the MB moniker for once).  Emotion and politics go hand in hand here, with the songs often relating to the songwriter's home.  Robert sings of direct action on a street corner in his hometown, whilst Erik sings of boycotts, gentrification, and whiskey.  Essential old school stuff.

LP: $10

CD: $9 post-paid in the U.S.

Songs:

1. Every Town Will Celebrate (erik)

2. Olde Tyme Mem'ry

3. Boycott Me!

4. Dirty Pennies

5. Liberty Unmasked

6. Fare Well, Good Fellows

7. Marching (robert)

8. Philadelphia

9. Railroad and Holly

10. On the Coast

11. Didn't We

12. A Culture of Resisitance

"Live in Ray's Basement" LTD. edition cassette (reissue)

(DEAD FORMAT/SQUARE OF OPPOSITION RECORDS)

Before the split LP, there was a split tape...and this is about as raw as it gets.  The very night Robert and Erik met, in fact...a show moved from a cafe in Bethlehem to a basement, all at the last minute.  While embarrassing at times, it is nice to hear the songs at an early stage.  Other songs on it will never be played live again.  I'm not convincing you to get this, am I?  Well, maybe it's for true fans only...but maybe not.  It's remastered from the old tapes, with some extra songs salvaged.  Robert covers Phil Ochs, Erik covers the Levellers.  How's that, better?

CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR MAILORDER.

Songs:

1. A Liquor Never Brewed

2. Every Town Will Celebrate

3. Victory Dance of the Outlanders

4. What Reason Have They to Dance?

5. Together All the Way

6. Boycott Me!
7. For an Old Kentucky Anarchist

8. The Master is a Drunkard

9. Renaissance/Weapons

10. Anti-Lullaby

"Raise the Youth" CD Discography

(FISTOLO RECORDS)

Before there was Mischief Brew, Erik sang/screamed for PA punk troupe The Orphans, based out of West Chester (Rock City?).  Most of the stuff was recorded '95-'96...it was released on a 7" ("Anthems For Doomed Youth"), a few comps, and a cassette full-length. Now, it has been unearthed, remixed, and re-mastered, and put on one concise CD once and for all. It also includes some live stuff, demo stuff, bonus commentary by Erik's parents, and four new acoustic recordings of old songs (including an official recording of "Kentucky Anarchist"!). More angry youthful rebel-core than you can shake a skateboard at.

$10 post-paid in the U.S.

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Songs:

1. Virus One

2. Way of Life

3. The Government Stole My Germs CD

4. Your Customers

5. Buy Your Logic

6. Plastic Threat

7. Anorexic Mind

8. The Anthem for a Doomed Public

9. Out!

10. Elbow Problem

11. They

12. Outwitted

13. Waste of Breath (subhumans)

14. Molding Our Son

15. Big Brother, Bigger Mother

16. What Reason Have They to Dance?

17. For An Old Kentucky Anarchist

18. Business to Attend to

19. While You Were Out

20. Raise the Youth

21. No More Government!

"Art of the Underground Single Series Year 1"

(ART OF THE UNDERGROUND RECORDS)

For those of you that didn't get the "Oh Sweet Misery" 7" before it sold out, here's another chance: Art of the Underground has released the entire 7" box set.  The Mischief Brew single is one of them, among 7"s by Kitty Little, The Only Children, Robert Blake, Skate Corpse, and The Failures' Union.  This box set is limited to 250 copies and we only have a handful of them, they'll never be repressed, etc etc...

SOLD OUT.  You may be able to order this from Art of the Underground.

Mischief Brew Songs:

1. Oh Sweet Misery

2. All About the Class War

"Bakenal" CDep

(FISTOLO RECORDS)

This was the first official Mischief Brew EP, only five tracks yet longer than most early Bad Religion albums. This set the stage for all releases to follow: at one point a tango, at others a demonic jitterbug, and others straight up anarcho-folk.  More essential old school stuff.

****OUT OF PRINT****

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