Better late than never: two “new” songs from around the time of my 2005 release Unhappenings now available: In Assembly and Passenger List

I’m also playing with James Joyce (Noot d’ Noot, Sonn Av Krusher) and Joshua Fauver (S.I.D.S., Deerhunter) in a band called Telethon.

1. In Assembly
2. Passenger List

Recorded in 2005 by Retconned in Atlanta. Released 2008.

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1. Tiger Mountain
2. Has Been
3. History Lesson
4. Baby’s On Fire
5. High Speed Dubbing
6. All My Children
7. Home
8. Fist Full of Dollars
9. October 20
10. Santo and Johnny
11. Saucer
12. Here Comes Goodbye
13. White Horse

Forthcoming 2008 Stickfigure Records.

Recorded 2007, 2008 by Retconned in Atlanta.

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Retconned Cover Band (Josh Fauver, James Joyce) Live at The Drunken Unicorn (Atlanta). 01.25.08.
Photo by Leuwam Tesfai.

1. Opposed Thumb
2. The Crusades
3. Boxcar
4. The Interview
5. The Cars That Go Boom
6. Savior

Recorded Live at The Drunken Unicorn in Atlanta on January 25 2008.

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The Retconned cover band featured Josh Fauver (Diet Cola, Deerhunter, S.I.D.S.) on guitar, James Joyce (Sonn Av Krusher, Noot d’ Noot) on drums, Benjamin Lukens (The Forever War) on bass, and Jon Lukens (me, Retconned) on vocals. Josh, James and Ben were kind enough to learn 5 songs from Unhappenings as well as Savior, an Inkwell cover (Joe Myers, Marty Rioux, Mark Lowe, Phillip Dwyer ca. 1995 — That’s Joe Myers from Inkwell stealing the mic at the end of Savior). Fur Elise and Treecreature played as well. The most fun I’ve ever had playing a show.

There is some more information on the show, as well as a photo of me at a bowling alley that I have no recollection of on James Joyce’s website.

1. Opposed Thumb
2. The Interview
3. Survival System Same
4. The Crusades
5. Obvious
6. In The Lines
7. The Cars That Go Boom
8. Bring The Jubilee
9. Public Address
10. Public Image
11. Boxcar
12. Flags

Released in 2007 on Army of Bad Luck and Stickfigure Records.

Recorded by Retconned and Keith Vogelsong at Cinepost, Atlanta. Mastered by J.J. at Golden Mastering. James Joyce added additional percussion to In The Lines and Boxcar.

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1. A Cool Million
2. The Interview
3. Penetration 3
4. Repeat It
5. Volunteers
6. Heaven
7. Expert Witness
8. Snowflake
9. The Color No
10. Bring The Jubilee
11. Flags
12. Home Before The Sky Falls
13. Blue Air
14. Boxcar

Released in 2005 on Stickfigure Records (out of print).

Recorded by Retconned. Mastered by Travis Thatcher.

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I made about 100 of these myself, but destroyed all of the unsold copies. Songs without hyperlinks were rerecorded and included in Unhappenings.

Designed by someone Travis knows.

1. Pupal (Retconned remix)

Remix (with addition of vocals) of Pupal, from the Re Com Pas CD Definition.

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Ret Con Pas

Please note: These average about 30 minutes / 30mb.

1. live 03.14.2004
2. live 03.16.2004 pt.1
3. live 03.16.2004 pt.2
4. live 03.16.2004 pt.3
5. live 03.16.2004 pt.4
6. live 03.23.2004
7. live in Hollywood Florida 03.25.2005

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Ret Con Pas = Retconned and Re Com Pas. Live sets from our 2004 tour of New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Florida. Yes, really; We went on tour of New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Florida. We are booking gurus.

We had some stenciled sleeves for our first demo, but I can’t fine one. This is the cover of a DVD that Ray somehow got a version of Fronterland featured in. It accompanies someone skateboarding.

Know All The Right People

1. The Amverts Know All The Right People
2. Fronteirland
3. Soul On Consignment
4. Zombies

Recorded by J. Ellis in his Basement. J was in a band called Spirit World. They were good.

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The First Demo

1. Satellite
2. The Party

Recorded at our practice space in Brooklyn by the guy who lived downstairs from Ben and Kat. Remixed by J. Ellis.

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NYC 2001 – 2004: Ray Sullivan (Walt Lariat, The Swift and Terrible Race, Racine, Lower 48) played drums. Sean Greathead (wheeljack, The Mascara Aesthetic, Nights) played guitar. Benjamin Lukens (Ultivac, hal al Shedad, Forever War) played bass and sang. I played (some software synthesizers before switching to a Roland JP8000 and finally settling on) an Alesis A6 and sang.

Getting to and from shows in NYC sucks.

Maybe someday a narrative, a chain of anecdotes, live recordings.

1. Capacity
2. Grid
3. Live At The Driverdome
4. Endless Summer
5. At The Border
6. Ask God For Money
7. Tomorrowville
8. Coptography
9. Tshirt
10. Pyramid
11. Untitled
12. Impotential
13. Lead Into Wine
14. Postcard

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Released in 2002 on Stickfigure Records.

Recorded by Retconned in Brooklyn. Mastered by Twerk at Audible Oddities.

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David Ahuja and I made this video for pyramid. He did the heavy lifting.

1. Earth One, Earth Two
2. Crush And Gate
3. Impossible
4. Trash
5. Remix
6. No Results
7. Ecliptic
8. Unloaded
9. Last Minute

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Released by The Buddy System in 2000. Recorded by Ed Rawls at Red Lab in Atlanta. Mastered by I forget at I can’t remember.

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Uncomplete and Infinished (practice tapes).

1. 2X2
2. Track 01
3. Track 02
4. Track 03
5. Track 04
6. Track 05
7. Track 06
8. Track 07
9. Track 08
10. Track 09
11. Track 10
12. Track 11
13. Track 12
14. Track 13
15. Track 14
16. Track 15
17. Track 16
18. Track 17
19. Unloaded demo

Track one, “2X2,” was recorded by Alex LaRoche at Under The Couch (GA Tech, Atlanta). It was supposed to be included on a compilation to benefit Human Rights Watch that was going to be put out by some hardcore label (burning something?) in New Orleans (No Toxin III, though) but was never released. Call me crazy but I think Human Rights Watch would benefit more if you just gave them all of the money it takes to print a thousand CDs than the profits from the 300 CDs that actually sold. I like comps though.

Tracks 2 – 17 recorded live to minidisc 1999 and 2000. I prefer this version of Unloaded to the album version.

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Ultivac was James Joyce (Sonn Av Krusher, Noot d’ Noot) on drums, Benjamin Lukens (The Forever War) on bass, and Jon Lukens (me, Retconned) on vocals and electronics. We were together from 1999 until about 2001. I was living in NYC and James and Ben were in ATL, so band practice, etc. was difficult. We played two shows: one at the old Eyedrum and one at MJQ.

Given some of the (over) reactions to the lyrics of Unhappenings, I shudder to think what sort of nonsense we’d find in our record reviews if the Ultivac cd were released today.

Ultivac at C12 12.30.01. Photo by Nick LaRoche (I think).