TOURS!

Some bands are on tour right now that we like.
Here's the dates:

END OF A YEAR
05/25: Tijuana, MX @ Bar 1979
05/26: Canoga Park, CA @ Cobalt Cafe
05/27: Ojai, CA @ Ojai Womens Club
05/28: Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman
05/29: Tacoma, WA @ Rainfest @ The Viaduct
05/30: Tacoma, WA @ Rainfest @ The Viaduct
06/02: Kansas City, MO @ Scion Lab
06/03: Omaha, NE @ Ghost House
06/04: Minneapolis, MN @ Eclipse Records
06/05: Bay City, MI @ Snuggly Mug
06/06: Cleveland, OH @ Tower 2012
06/07: Kingston, PA @ Black Lodge
06/09: Brooklyn, NY @ Party Expo
06/10: Amityville, NY @ Long Island Fest 2010 At Broadway
06/11: Syracuse, NY @ Westcott Center
06/12: Burlington, VT @ 242 Main
06/13: Albany, NY @ Valentines


ENGINEER
May 26 - Rochester, NY @ Monty's Krown w/ Ken Mode
May 27 - Toronto, ON @ Sneaky Dees w/ Ken Mode, Buried Inside, & Titan (431 College Street)
May 28 - Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool w/ Ken Mode (484 Union Ave)
May 29 - Philadelphia, PA @ Broad Street Ministries w/ Ken Mode (315 South Broad Street)
May 30 - Richmond, VA @ The Triple w/ Ken Mode (3306 W. Broad Street)
May 31 - Greensboro, NC @ Legitimate Business w/ Ken Mode & Low Sky (1317 Grove Street)
June 1 - Morgantown, WV @ 123 Pleasant St w/ Anchient Shores & Passage Between
June 2 - Western MD @ TBA w/ Anchient Shores & Passage Between
June 3 - Baltimore, MD @ Charm City Art Space w/ Anchient Shores & Passage Between
June 4 - Doylestown, PA @ a church w/ Passage Between & Rosetta

TRANSLATE ZINE #4 NOW AVAILABLE!

Lots of cutting and pasting and drawing and photoshopping and writing and so forth have cumulated in a new issue of Translate zine, the print organ of the Hex empire (which, basically, offers little to no propaganda about Hex Records at all). Personally, I think it came out pretty cool.
The fourth installment of zine nerdom packed into 32 pages and wrapped in a fancy-shmancy color cover. The upsides of cross-country travel in the name of punk rock and over-the-hill show going interspersed with the gut-churning lows of becoming a grumpy old bastard consumed with morality and death. Plane flights, stage dives, a last will and testament and, coincidentally enough, an interview with Brooklyn post-punkers Obits. Storytelling and cheap comics. Deal.

Get it in the webstore

HOWDY, BOREDOM.

I think I'll start re-creating some Hex Records covers here and there with funny stuff instead. Let's take, for instance, a recent excursion in my kitchen in which a pizza stone resembled a very well-known record cover that I released. Well, here you go...
ED GEIN, "It's a Shame That a Pizza Can Be Torn Apart By Something As Simple As a Bunch Of Toothpicks"

Check back soon for more fun shit.

NEW OAK & BONE SPLIT 7"!!!

So check it: OAK & BONE have a new split 7" (with the mighty LIKE WOLVES) dropping imminently on the extra-squishy Barbarossa Records. Get yourself an extra face because this will rock the first one off.
The Boners drop two new jams, as do the Wolfs (that's right). We at Hex wholeheartedly endorse this event or product and will more than likely be carrying a few of these in the webstore when the time arrives. Expected date for this to come out is around the end of May. But feel free to pre-order it now from Barbarossa here

OAK AND BONE LIVE VIDEO!

So a couple weeks ago OAK AND BONE played a killer house show with the equally awesome Urchins Of the Night. Some live video was caught of "Momentum" (the closer on the 7"), along with the gargantuan outro that you'll probably catch them do if you ever see them live.
So check it out one time if you will. Follow the link:
Blasting your face off