The Parking Lot Movie @ SXSW

The entire Rudyland staff is thrilled to announce that The Parking Lot Movie will have its world premiere this Sunday 3/14 (5PM) at the Alamo Ritz in Austin, TX as part of the South by Southwest Film Festival. Check out The PLM site for more info on the film.

The Parking Lot Movie Soundtrack features my score as well as tracks from Colin Langenus (ex-USA Is A Monster) TeenBeat sensations True Love Always, parking lot attendant Mark Shotinger, and the debut of attendant/rhyme spittin trio Rikka Rikka. Soundtrack will be available on iTunes, listen to "Ashpalt Heart" below.



In other Rudyland news, the Petitioners have been reborn in the urban fantasyland of Brooklyn, NY.

"Some Kind of Corretja" documentary

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of Corretja's "New Brutalism" sessions, we are proud to present this thrilling documentary chronicling the band inside the studio. Death to bass..long live bass!

Wayne Clark "32 Angels"

Mike 'Flash' Clark of Unwonted fame recently helped his father with a life long dream as they entered the studio to cut an album. The first single "32 Angels" is Wayne's gripping tribute to the victims of the Va Tech massacre. (featuring a hot pickin' solo by Flash!)

Rita Burrita "Shot to the Pants"

The band finds unlikely inspiration for their next hit. You can't TAME them!

Nooria "Swingin"

Nooria "Bassinet Sound System"

Bauji and Family "Jenga"

Jenga is a great way to pass the time when awaiting childbirth.

The Defenders "Lep In Tha Hood"

Check out Charmicarmicat's 'Season of the Lep' feature this week, for all of your Warwick Davis needs. If you still can't get your fill, here's the Defenders with "Lep In Tha Hood."

Tres Petitioner meets Thor in SF

Getting his Thor poster signed...dreams really do come true.

The Unwonted "Comar Basement Tape"

Here's the complete session. Unsurpassed Waynesboro thrash circa 1991. Features band originals "What?" "Lazy Daze" "Hypertox" and "Mort De Suicide," as well as covers of Slayer's "Mandatory Suicide," Vio-lence's "Officier Nice," and Nuclear Assault's "Surgery."

(wow, must've been a fun place to grow up!)

The Defenders "Defender"

After blowing away Charlottesville, VA with their rowdy brand of rock n roll hi-jinks, The Vitamen relocated to NYC/Hoboken, NJ as a Whitney-less power trio. (as documented on the Metal Party '97" demo.)

In less than a year, the band was down to just Ben and Sam, and in a desperate attempt to hang on to their dilapidated rehearsal room they dubbed themselves the Little Lovers (during an intense AC/DC phase) and got to work. The Little Lovers immediately switched their name to The Defenders after they plugged in and ripped this epic 12 minute cover of Manowar's "Defender."

(PS. drag that picture down to your desktop to get a better look at Don Knotts and the exploding beer foam.)

Rita Burrita suits up for Iron Maiden at the Great Western Forum

Mob Rulz "Primal Urges" demo tape

As per the request of Dave 'Swollen Goat' Denton, we have unearthed the demo tape from Greene County, VA metal legends Mob Rulz. The Unwonted frequently opened for MB at the turn of the 90s at the Back Door in Cville, now known as the Outback Lodge.

Enjoy such timeless classics as Spiderwoman, Anti-Love, and Fire in Heaven.. right here!

Seared Flesh covering Dust!

Here's a serious banger from the halcyon days of late-90s Richmond. Check out OOTK/Nudibranch death metal side project Seared Flesh ripping an amazing cover of Rudyland favorite "Suicide" by the otherwise not so note worthy Dust.

Tell your friends not to call!

Ron Revog "Verb" video

The videos just keep on comin' from these guys. Watch them hit a new height of self indulgence!

Order of the Keys "Melodia" preview

Rudyland Records is pleased to announce that we have signed Raleigh, NC act Order of the Keys to an exclusive research and development deal. This band truly fits Rudyland's virtual band model as it features an NC vocalist and a drummer that currently resides in Germany. These two have been holding it down since their days helming VA kult act Nudibranch.

"Melodia" was recorded at the famous Tool & Die Studios in Richmond, VA by Dave Branch, who many of you may remember as the genius behind the original Vitamen demo.

Listen to two tracks here.

Ron Revog "CEO" video

We'd like to thank the makers of Guitar Hero III for putting our song in the game. Download Belly Flop from iTunes today!!

Bauji "Thinking Outside of the Blob"

Watts Passage "Soft Rock Town" Video

Watts Pasage delivers some hard hitting bubblegum doom for the end of 2007 with "I Don't Want to Live...(In a Soft Rock Town)" the first single from 2008's NEW TRANSMISSION album. Rudyland's A/V club has sliced together footage from Jeff Krulik's "Neil Diamond Parking Lot" to bring you an exclusive music video. Long live the Boro, deth to Cville!

This year has been a roller coaster ride for the band after plans to complete their sci-fi epic CONQUEST TODAY were put on hold indefinitely. NEW TRANSMISSION will surely satisfy the band's core demographic with a heavy dose of blue ridge blugdeoning.

Ron Revog "Belly Flop" video

Two years in the making, finally the video for the title track appears..

Rita Burrita "Alex Van Halen"

Rita Burrita has recently reunited after taking the better part of 06-07 off to pursue various endeavors. Check out Fred Z. performing a very special tribute to Alex Van Halen!

Corretja "New Brutalism" released!

Write to samretzer at gmail dot com for your copy of this amazing album which is sure to be on the best of 2007 lists of most pencil pushing rock scribes! Hear three songs on Corretja's Myspace page.

Goth Jones "All About G' music video

Filmed on location at the Westwood Arcade. "All About G" is available on the new album LET IT POUND, available on GJ's myspace page and on iTunes.

Bedbugs invade SoCal!!

The Bedbugs are making their presence known all over Southern Cali! Watch for them performing "Be My Lover" in a bed near you!

Sam Justice "Action"

I guess I've watched Thor perform it so many times that I had to stumble through the first half of it myself.

Ron Revog "Tuberculosis"

An ode to the misunderstood vacationer Andrew Speaker.

A side. Tuberculosis

B side. Supply-side Rock & Roll
(a raw look at the Ron Revog philosophy and song writing process)

Rita Burrita "Old Money"

After an unspeakably long abscene, Rita Burrita returns with "Old Money" the follow up to "You Can't Tame." Talk about having a chip on your shoulder...but what a rockin', party startin' chip it is! The full length album, "Just When You Thought It Was Over" is scheduled for a fall 2011 release.

Fast cars, fine cigars
Credit cards and Georgetown bars
Blue blood and private schools
When you got cash, you make the rules.

Old Money!
That’s the name of the game!
Cause new money just ain’t the same!

I play lacrosse, I’m my own boss.
It don’t even matter if I take a loss.
Sippin’ scotch on the family yacht.
Don’t you wish ya had what I got?

Old Money!
That’s the name of the game!
Cause new money just ain’t the same!

I’m a man of wealth and taste.
Spend my summers in the Cape.
Won’t catch me at laguna beach.
I ain’t no Nouveau riche!

Exclusive Ron Revog Interview

After the avalanche of support for the new "Belly Flop" album, the band's creative force has come out of seclusion to answer a few questions about the group's unorthodox style of collaboration.

Ron Revog tribute to Linkin Park

Culled from the sessions for next year's tentatively titled "Alphabetical Order" LP, check out this intimate tribute to one of RR's greatest inspirations. Because "In The End" it doesn't really matter.

Corretja "I Am Quaid" the video!

Filmed on location at the Rudyland soundstage in Rancho Park, CA. All low lit sequences provide appropriate mood and atmosphere for the scene and have nothing to do with firewire transfer issues or You Tube quicktime conversions. Features touring bassist "Sal" and his supercharged Mustang.

For those of you not familiar with "gray metal" vocal stylings, please refer to this to help decipher the lyrics.

The Petitioners: "Pumpin Problem"

In February of 2004, the Petitioners produced their most deranged session ever in the form of the "Pumpin Problem" album. (recorded straight to handheld cassette recorder)

The title track is a cover of David Ball's "Thinkin Problem" and is sung from the perspective of Lou Ferigno, Franco Columbu, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the three principle characters from the "Pumping Iron" documentary.

Next up is the intergalactic epic "Pump Wars" , followed by a hyper charged rendition of Bobby Goldsboro's "Little Things" (as covered by Billy Gilman).

If these tunes don't produce a full moral collapse, please check out their MySpace page for the Buddy Rich version of "Over 30 (Need Not Apply)" also taken from these sessions.

Corretja records "New Brutalism" 4 song EP!

Goth Jones live 4/21

GJ hits the stage tomorrow night with Terramoto and Blue Night Haze in downtown LA at The Cocaine.

The doom boyz are also proud to announce a soon to be iTunes exclusive bonus track from their upcoming "Let It Pound" album. Feast your ears on: "Unhidden Track"

Introducing: Shotgun Revelation!

Watts Passage wunderkind Chris Cook recently tracked the SR demo with his big bro-in-law in Waynesboro. "Pittsburgh Nelly" is the mighty sound of the Little Giants circa 2007!

Corretja to record in LA next weekend.

Flash Clark live on WUVT.

Former Unwonted guitarist Mike "Flash" Clark will be performing live on WUVT tomorrow night (4/11) at 7pm EST.

Be sure to check out the latest from Flash's current one man "Black Metal/Acoustic/Death Metal" project Agent Omega, and keep your eyes peeled for an upcoming Unwonted "tribute" page.

Watts Passage on Rhapsody & iTunes!

WP's first two albums, "Megasaurus" and "The Return of the Hill People" are now available for download at Rhapsody and iTunes. Check em out and write a review..

Heaven's Gate: 10th Anniversary

Celebrate this momentous occasion with the Petitioners!

Modulok "The Reckoning"

Here's another blast from the days when we had free reign over a swanky studio on Greene Street, back in them gay '90s. Listen to Mike "Steiny", Sam, and hardcore legend Brian Smith rip it up...or at least play through a song they just spent an hour writing. Smith...it's '07, where you at?

Boken Boys "Small Lawn Gnome"

"Small Lawn Gnome" is a cult classic from our late 90's vaults, featuring Slag Battery bassist BK bellowing the tale of a lonesome statuette and a rude dog.

Watts Passage continues to rock, hair continues to grow!

From Saturday night's show at Durty Nelly's.

Goth Jones gets psyched as new album approaches!!

Goth Jones' upcoming twelve song masterpiece, "Let It Pound" has recently been mastered by mastering master John Golden, and will be hitting digital and analog mailboxes nationwide in the coming months.

Meanwhile, work continues for album number FIVE and the doom boyz were kind enough to offer a sneak peek into their rehearsal space for a preview. Check out the brutality of "Another Day, Another Dollar"'s capitalist paranoia, and the musicality of Handi's latest pop nugget "The Lyricist."

Also, for the first time ever, the inner workings of Black Blood Records' financial strategists. No wonder Rudyland bought out this fledgling label!

Order of the Keys

Proving once again that all good things are connected to Waynesboro, VA, former Kate Collins badger and Nudibranch vocalist Jared Lambert introduces his newest project: Order of the Keys.

One upping the Petitioners' bicoastal power trio, OOTK is currently stationed in Germany and North Carolina, convening annually to lay down tracks at fabled Tool and Die studios in Richmond, VA. Look for rare Vitamen demos to be released from the T&D vaults in the future. (hint, hint)

Ron Revog's "Belly Flop" now available on iTunes and Rhapsody!

Feast your ears on Poolyard and go check out the album!

Tappahannock to Waynesboro to Dublin

Tim and I with Chris Brown on Monday's "Stomp The Yard" premiere in Hollywood. More to come...

Best of 2006

In no particular order, here are my "hot picks" for the year of 2006. Please post your "hot picks" in the comments section.

Watts Passage "Magnetic Demonstration"

Rib Bib "My Ioyey Ist Fuyuy"

Krisiun "Assassination"

Earl Greyhound “SOS” (song)

M1 "Confidential"

Justice "Waters of Nazareth"

Nas "Hip Hip Is Dead" (even though it's kinda bad)

Dragonforce "Inhuman Rampage" (even though 'Sonic Firestorm' is better)

Love is All "Nine Times That Same Song"

Belle & Sebastian "The Life Pursuit"

Decapitated "Organic Hallucinosis" (thanks Handi)

Order/Ultra Dolphins split 7” (thanks Westberg)

Buckcherry "15" (thanks, but no thanks, Fred)

Like what I've heard so far, waiting for Amazon to deliver the discs:

Ecstatic Sunshine "Freckle Wars," Destroyer "Destroyer’s Rubies," Enslaved "Ruun"

Live: Dead Prez at the Key Club, Jason Ajemian and Josephine Foster at Arthurball, Dragonforce at the Wiltern, although it didn't sound so great on the back row.

Book: the Psychic Soviet by Ian Svenonius

Best Band Name: Poser Disposer (songs are good too, haven't purchased the album, so I guess I can't "vote" for it)

Non 2006 enjoyables:

Uli Jon Roth era Scorpions, Orange Juice, Kiss, Immortal Technique, Pulp, New Pornographers, New Order

(pictured: Uli Jon Roth, present)

HTCGD engages in art craft.

If you're in Houston between now and 1/20, check out Jonathan Durham's "Where Is Thy Sting?" show at the Lawndale Art Center.

Enjoy "Ms. Gasman" as HTCGD enjoys its current hiatus.

the Bedbugs "Death of a Ladies Man"

Here are the Bedbugs with a loving tribute to the much loathed Leonard Cohen/ Phil Spector collaboration.

Last stanza will hopefully be sampled for upcoming Watts Passage sci-fi epic "Conquest Today."

What A Holiday...

Ron Revog "Lungs" E.P.

The band is still waiting for iTunes to upload the "Belly Flop" album, and would like to thank all the fans for their patience and understanding during this is difficult ordeal. In the meantime, celebrate the holiday season with this 3 song EP recorded in LA this week (in 2 hours), exclusively for you.


1. I Can't Dance
(Revog pays tribute to a major influence: Phil Collins-era Genesis.)
2. River of Grass
(Blue Fin Tuna part two??)
3. Rock N Roll Rut
(Let the music speak for itself.)

Mazey launches posthumous fan club.

Find Mazey on MySpace before its impending implosion. In other news, homepage has no updates for over a year. Come on guys, pay tribute to the man's legacy!!

In the mean time, check out this unreleased gem.

Rudyland Goes (even more) Hollywood!

Tim Boland and I are currently sitting in a posh Hollywood studio as our music gets mixed in surround sound. Thanks to our friend Brad Haehnel for manning the flying faders. Look for Stomp The Yard in theaters Jan. 12th!!

Sam Justice live @ the Hotel Cafe.

I will be rocking this thing on Thursday night at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood with with my boy Jay Dog's band Commuter. This may be the only time I'll grace the stage of this club dedicated to tasteful musicianship, blazers, and insightful singer songwriter-isms. We go on at 10.

CBGB's R.I.P.

Check out Ben Sisario's feature in the New York Times on the the demise of New York's finest dive. Long before writing about it, he played it. Here's a rare performance by the Vitamen (mach II) on CB's hallowed stage ripping through "Radiation."

Remastered version of the Vitamen's debut CD...coming soon?

Comments Disabled, NWO Enabled.

Guess we're waiting for Blogger to enable comments again thanks to some Google merger. Thanks to all of the postive feedback on "Belly Flop," sorry that we can't all see it posted here. In other news, Time Warner buys up my Comcast account and Goth Jones album is mixed.

Cathouse 20th Anniversary

Will this guy show up tonight? We can only hope!

Rudyland celebrates Beck and Sean Lennon.

Two sure to be incredible albums by Beck and Sean Lennon were released simultaneously this week. Rudyland pays tribute to these groundbreaking artists with two exclusive tracks from the vaults. Here are the Defenders with an intimate studio take of "Sean Lennon", and the Petitioners, with a vicious work out of "Beck's Balls".

Watts Passage to lay waste to Virginia club.

Watts Passage takes the stage once again Saturday 9/30 at the Outback Lodge in Cville, Virginia, marking the return of Benjy Gray on bass. (Welcome back Sgt. Gray!) Also appearing will be One Eyed Suicide (?), and Soltribe, which features Waynesboro raised Todd "Duck" Hassett on vocals and the guitar shredding of Scott Hensley. (The Away, Sidney Sasquatch)

Watts Passage is currently working on their fourth album, which will feature the Sam Justice collaboration "Bull Doser." (unless his lyrics are rejected for being "too much like Dr. Suess")

Goth Jones introduces Thomas Evans.

Upstart rocker Thomas Evans will be featured as a backup vocalist on "Woopsy Daisy," the lead off track from the upcoming album. His sister Evey can be heard on the track as well. Thomas can also be seen in the Watts Passage music video for "Sun Moon and Stars."

Ron Revog's "Belly Flop" completed!

Ron Revog's new album "Belly Flop" is currently making its way through the bowels of the iTunes bureaucracy for a December release. Check out the title track, and visit their space for 4 more heavy hitters. More details to come..

Sign posted outside of Dragonforce concert at the Wiltern Theatre, LA, 9/8.

Goth Jones on bizarro blog...

GJ bassist Mickey Jones forwarded us this link of a strange podcast featuring 4 songs from the Venice thrashers. Hear the clip here, or...if you haven't seen many humanoid cyber djs recently, knock yourself out! "Even Zombies eat burgers!"

Mazey Gardens footage unearthed!!!

The Gardens Family Foundation is currently using the latest in digital restoration technology to re-release the music video for "Business in the Front, Party in the Back," the lead off single from Mazey's 1988 commercial flop "Neon Cowboy." We'll let you know when it's ready..

Coming to a video store near you!!

This week the Rudyland offices are buzzing with excitement over the release of Sony Pictures "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer." The film features music from the Bedbugs, Goth Jones, and the late Mazey Gardens, as well as a hook welding psychopathic fisherman. Utilizing Hollywood's progressive technique of bypassing traditional movie theaters in order to bring this film straight to the public, "IAKWYDLS" is already grabbing the attention of industry insiders. Releases 8/15, so add it to your Queue today!!

Rib Bib: My Ioyey Ist Fuyuy EP

You heard it here first!! The debut recording of LA's dual bass/cross dressing/drum pad shattering quartet RIB BIB! Recorded in record breaking time at Rudyland Studios, these 6 tracks are guaranteed to waste your face. Features Bret Berg of Anavan on lead bass, Mike Metzger of Sea Org on lead beats, Scarlett on "regular" bass, and Eunice as your vocal host. CHECK IT!