ROB OCTOBER 2008 NYC/PHILA MICRO TOUR TOUR, ALL SHOWS WITH WHITE RAINBOW
23rd Union Hall:
http://www.unionhallny.com/events/index.php
LATER AT NIGHT, LOTS OF OTHER BANDS FROM PORTLAND
24th daytime 11 am Knitting Factory:
http://ny.knittingfactory.com/show.php?event_id=115832
PDX IN NYC CMJ FESTI WITH LOTS OF BANDS!
25th daytime Continental Army Plaza (foot of the Williamsburg bridge,
outdoor)
nighttime: Silent Barn w/ Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, City
Center, & Pants Yell
http://www.toddpnyc.com/ (scroll)
26th JC's house(s). 2040 East Dauphin Street Phila PA 19125
ROB TO TOUR NEW YORK, PHILA
rob and friends featured in xlr8r magazine
"It’s a formidable scene–one that also is home to something as awesomely ridiculous as Rob Walmart, an imperfectly perfect, impromptu node of Portland’s posi-vibe crew. The first time I saw this… band (collective? gathering?) was in the parking lot outside a New Year’s Eve indie-rock show headlined by Quasi. I’d heard about Rob before from Forkner, but could never tell how much I was being fucked with. Rob gets spoken of in the third person, always; Rob is concerned about lawsuits and would appreciate Rob details being left out of Willamette Week.
Sometime between 11 and midnight, something started thumping from the lot in back of the now-defunct art space Disjecta. A pale blue minivan with “Rob Walmart” written in soap or paint all over the windows was parked there with all of its doors open. Dudes–Forkner, Audio Dregs honcho Eric Mast (a.k.a. E*Rock), and others–huddled over sound gear, blasting out thick, crunchy off-time beats over mottled skronk and droning loops. Another gentleman, local poet Tom Blood, freestyled verse, almost as though he were rapping, into a microphone. (It should be noted that this display didn’t attract a crowd.)
“[Tom Blood] is like the visionary speaker psychic,” explains Valet’s Honey Owens. “The other guys are like the producers. I feel like Rob Walmart is kind of like the Wu-Tang Clan.”
“One person that’s a part of Rob put it well when they said, ‘Rob has no motivations to ever get better or to ever succeed. Just to stay weird,’” Forkner tells me from his home in Portland, adding, “Pretty much anybody can get in to play if they really want to. But usually Rob is something people try to get as far away as possible from.”
Rob Walmart is ill-defined and fluid–factors that make it one of the most resonant signifiers for a subculture that characterizes itself less by a sound than by a feeling."
TWO NEW ROB WALMART RECORDINGS FROM MARRIAGE
NEW ROB CDS AVAILABLE FROM MARRIAGE RECORDS:
LIVE NEAR KBOO
1. dj intro
2. rob intro/instructions
3. rob in düsseldorf/monkeys
4. andre the giant: listen
5. feelings
6. lionel
7. you are the walrus (a meditational)
8. world poncho
9. waterskiing
10. conscious mind
11. space geese
12. ric flair says chase success
13. grass roots
14. rob, don’t
15. a little of feelings again
16. the rhythm factory
17. dj outro
TIRE IRON 123 MP3+
Previously Unreleased
01 the first tune rob ever transfered to computer
02 check the levels
03 I love candy
04 yo this is rob walmart
05 sedition maga
06 show me your dance powers
07 toad bullfrog
08 whats up yo
09 when I was a boy
10 capo
11 christmas in phila
12 clap your hands say yeah
13 cut dinner
14 happy birthday dear Missy
15 Jeffrey baseball chain link
16 lansdale horns
17 oh i chee
18 rob ride
19 song of present
20 the babbling brook
21 Tom’s Lounge 2
22 white folk
23 yo Helen
“R” or “Vox” from Made in Canada 3xCD
24 solace the carolers
25 what stops our marriage
26 the burned automobile wreckage
27 France 1915
28 Virginia
29 waterskiing in Canada: listen
30 made the made made
31 emotional phone tag
32 rubberband man
33 shesosheenserious
34 Tom’s Lounge
35 my gov’t intros
36 my gov’t
37 rabbit between the bang of sky
38 the huge irreplaceable statue
39 rob walmart
40 getting emotional
“O” or “Ab-Ex” from Made in Canada 3xCD
41 Disney swamp copter
42 sub-hunter
43 sleuth music
44 music for winter rainbows
45 grab it go
46 she’s confined
47 what when you sleep
48 house cats
49 Kenny Galactic
50 c’mon baby we’re birds
51 slow guns
52 Q Foghorn
53 elephant guns
54 sleepover
55 sleepover tomorrow too
56 aborec
57 those boys make me mad
“B” or “Epx” from Made in Canada 3xCD
58 phone jam
59 young Canada’s rise to power
60 train song
Blitzkrieg (limited cd)
61 crystal whale
62 the fax
63 the last sufi
64 filthy
65 born again
66 corvette
67 schratchmastersix
68 America Americans
69 when I’m tape 64
70 live under May
71 thoughts and moves
72 increasing difficulty to enjoy
73 nice jumper
74 interim progress report
75 Montana
76 Robibor
77 messianic tones
78 mobile one
Kamchatka (limited cdr)
79 Rob vacations in Nepal
80 cornflake
81 bathtub
82 Scappoose
83 whirlpool tropicale
84 kooblau
85 waltzing to the sun
86 scary mystery house
87 Missy vs Rob Walmart
88 Dallas
89 thwob
90 the ole brambler
91 the children are turning
92 the king of dumb
93 what Rob does mainly
94 going native
Boats and Pears (limited cdr)
95 Me and Amber
96 El Ron Hubbard
97 footage
98 the healing process
99 yo Mike
100 Native American
101 range ridin’
102 champagne
103 popcorn
104 how much the wires
105 pizicatto 2015
106 Toby’s first night
107 Mr. Walmart your beer
108 visual information
109 way vision
110 thank you
Cakemonster (limited cdr)
111 the rice the world wastes
112 boycott sugar
113 temple house
114 we will wait a lifetime
115 ILWU
116 undergraduate
117 Tom Blood is at the Texaco
118 sac ma bleu
119 they sent out
120 a powerful God
121 getaway cruise
Tracks exclusive to the Yarnlazer release “Includes The Hit Qaterskiing in Canada” cdr
122 Gillian’s
123 silly songs
NEW SHOP
SUPERTAPES HAS A NEW SHOP UP AT THE MARRIAGE SITE: http://www.marriagerecs.com/shop2/588/supertapes
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COSMOS
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