tour in 2 weeks

The midwest warriors of wizardry, Hercules are hitting the road two weeks from today. Our tour kickoff show is . . .

Friday, March 5th @ The Hole
712 S 16th ST Omaha, Nebraska
All Ages 7:30pm $5 admission

- HERCULES
- BATTLE!
- BOREALIS
- WORST OF TIMES
- CORDIAL SPEW

Still have a lot to get done but we're making progress. The company pressing Bring Me Power told me we'd get our test presses on the 12th and we still don't have them. So now tomorrow I have to get on the phone and be stern but fair in order to get our records on or before March 5th.

The covers fro Bring Me Power are looking really awesome. Mitch drew them and Aaron is coloring them, real physchadelic. I just finished up the inserts yesterday and our main man Arman is going to put some finishing touches on the amazing picture we took for it. Thanks to Jake Baby J for picture assistance, Lucas and Mitch for the cover help and Keith from Nebraska's own www.crucialchanges.blogspot.com for agreeing to print the inserts for us.

Read often for great stories. I will have up to the minute posts on my twitter @ www.twitter.com/bigcoolscorner then you can come here later for the full story.

cold car doors

Got woken up @ 7:30am today to Kailey asking me to take her to school because her latch on her car door was frozen. Get the baby up, go out to the car, pry open my freezing door...it also won't latch. Currently at Kailey's Dad's house warming my car up in the garage and hoping the WD-40 I sprayed on there will do the trick. Starving, work in 40 minutes. Still not dressed and the baby still not at daycare..shit.

Tour in a month. Follow Hercules on twitter www.twitter.com/herculesne / also check out all of our shit we have coming up on myspace - www.myspace.com/herculesne

7" Cassette Comp Tour

Cool new stuff going on in the Hercules universe:

BRING ME POWER
New 7" being released on Nihilism Records on 3.05.10
www.myspace.com/nihilismrecordsne
4 songs about trippin, witches, spooky islands and a Black Sabbath cover
200 on purple/green split colored vinyl

Side A)
01. Forest Fryer (1:37)
02. Wicked Witch (1:18)
03. Island Of The Eyes (3:03)

Side B)
04. Lord Of This World (5:50)

SKIN TIGHT
Live cassette tape being released on 5nakefork Records on 3.05.10 www.myspace.com/leavenworthks
13 tracks from our first two releases and plenty of jokes

01. The Birth Of Cain
02. Haggard Pits
03. Moon Riders
04. From The Mold
05. Time Wasted
06. You Can' Talk If You Don't Camp
07. Time Wasted
08. Robin Hoodlums
09. Sewer Scum
10. He's Here
11. Left Behind
12. Concrete Wave
13. If You Got The Stash, We Got The Cash


Also our song "If You Got The Stash, We Got The Cash" from MOON RIDERS is available online through THE GHOST IS CLEAR RECORDS "The Mary Janet In Music : Vol 1"

Bring Me Power 7" / Skin Tight live tape / Online Comp

We will have two new releases for our tour in March with Battle from Gainesville, FL. Both will be available at our tour kickoff show Friday, Marc 5th @ The Hole in Omaha, NE w. Battle, Borealis, Cordial Spew and Worst of Times.

BRING ME POWER
7" vinyl record
3.05.10 on Nihilism Records (www.myspace.com/nihilismrecordsne)
Songs about trippin, witches and spooky islands

A SIDE)
01. Forest Fryer
02. Wicked Witch
03. Island Of The Eyes

B SIDE)
04. Lord Of This World (originally by Black Sabbath - 1971)

200 on green / purple split color vinyl

SKIN TIGHT
Live tape
3.05.10 on 5nakefork Records (www.myspace.com/leavenworthks)
Assorted songs from our first two releases and plenty of jokes

01. The Birth Of Cain
02. Haggard Pits
03. Moon Riders
04. From The Mold
05. Time Wasted
06. You Can' Talk If You Don't Camp
07. Time Wasted
08. Robin Hoodlums
09. Sewer Scum
10. He's Here
11. Left Behind
12. Concrete Wave
13. If You Got The Stash, We Got The Cash

Also our song "If You Got The Stash, We Got The Cash" from MOON RIDERS is available online through THE GHOST IS CLEAR RECORDS "The Mary Janet In Music : Vol 1"



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1. Bleeding Kansas - Lucky 03:57
2. Canyons - Nate Jameson 04:00
3. Doubt - Quick Mouth 02:01
4. Hammers - Snow 03:14
5. Foreign Theaters - Cycles 01:54
6. The Pick Up - The Amazing Hoax 03:01
7. Recession - Manifest Destiny 02:08
8. Illustrations - Violence 03:36
9. Lord Green - Higher Than God 04:45
10. Prize Country - I Could Be A Knife 03:52
11. Ghost Town Electric - Atomic Temple 03:25
12. Across Tundras - Weary Travellers Rest (Exclusive Demo Version) 05:01
13. Hercules - If you've got the Stash we've got the Ca$h 02:22
14. Isolation - Brazen Bull 04:26
15. Creeper - Brannigan 02:04
16. Cower - Here Comes the Sunn 02:39
17. Jument - Branches Above 03:10
18. Cloud Mouth - Flex Yr Head (Live @ WHPK) 02:59
19. The Farley Overdose - Buzzard Gut 03:06
20. Bone Dance - Nom De Guerre 02:15
21. Benoit - Alone I Dream 02:07
22. Fight Pretty - Nightwalkers 03:23
23. Altered State - Guillotine Proof 06:10
24. Badmouth - Nostrildamus 01:16
25. The Burden - Swastika 02:33
26. Dead Heroes - Heartache 03:57
27. CTL - Forever 02:08
28. Burn Idols - Mindfuck 01:25
29. Girls of Porn - Bong Rips / Big Tits 06:44
30. Casting Curses - Hey Disbeliever 03:08
31. Anxiety Attack - Planet Piss 02:16
32. The Love Below - Serious Delerium 01:07
33. Tragic Ends - Broken Fingers 01:10
34. Capsize - Nothing Changes 04:30
35. No Discretion - Cold World 01:43

Our Midwest / Canada / West Coast tour with BATTLE starts Friday, March 5th @ THE HOLE in Omaha, NE w. Borealis, Cordial Spew & Worst Of Times

TOUR DATES POSTED ON OUR MYSPACE PAGE:
www.myspace.com/herculesne

Recording Day 2

We had a wild enough time getting over to Suitcase Recordings today. Had a guy come straight for us on a one way street, got stuck turning onto 43rd and slid backwards down a hill when we were literally 30 feet from our turn. After the winnefaygo finally made the trek to Suitcase it was time to start some vocals. Tyler was up first and laid then down 1-2-3-4 without any big mishaps. Next we did our individual backups, then made some scary noises then group vocals were last. Things are going really good so far. A sample we were going to use from Stranger Than Fiction ended up not working out due to too much background noise. Right now we're watching some extreme sports on tv waiting for a hockey game to come on while Marc mixes everything we recorded. Hoping to get everything done tonight so we can send out the final mix tomorrow to start the process of getting it pressed. Hopefully we can have it out by March 5th for our tour kickoff show...

Friday, March 5th, 2010
@ The Hole (16th and Leavenworth Omaha, NE under convicted skate shop)
All Ages 7pm $5
- Hercules
- Battle
- Borealis
- Worst Of Times
- Cordial Spew

come out.

Recording Day 1

Today Hercules is recording our 7" that still does not have a name. We got to Suitcase Recordings here in Omaha around 12:30 today. We all ate some lunch and Danny set up his drums. There were some technical difficulties with a microphone cord that delayed us by a few hours. Finally started tracking drums at around 4:30pm. After drums got going they went pretty smooth. It's now 6:30pm and Aaron is in the isolation room getting ready to lay down his bass tracks. Then I'll go last and put down my two guitar tracks and we'll call it a night probably around 10-11 I'm sure. I'm hoping we can catch a late showing of Youth In Revolt at that new theater at Midtown Crossing. Tomorrow we're doing vocals and mixing all day and will wrap up late tomorrow night.

Today has been spent on the internet, drinking Cherry Dr. Pepper, reading assorted copies of Maxim and Rolling Stone, eating too many spicy sweet chili doritos dipped in salsa con queso, dancing, partaking in the herb for some of us, watching true life and jamming tunes. I've been taking a fair amount of pictures and I will post those up for the 7 people who read this sometime tomorrow if I can find the proper cord to do so.

A SIDE)

01. Forest Fryer
02. Wicked Witch

03. Island Of The Eyes

B SIDE)
01. Lord Of This World (Black Sabbath cover)

Aaron is now tracking Lord Of This World. Time to give it a listen.

fear the new year

My last post of 2009 isn't a positive one. All I've seen through out this year is the slow decay of everything I've been working for since I started playing in bands when I was 10 years old. Ever since then music has been a builder of friendships and community. It's opened my eyes to so many amazing ideas and better yet, amazing people. It taught me how to be a good person and not to follow all of the things we get force fed growing up. It gave me my own mind and better yet taught me to stand on my own even when everyone around me was telling me I was wrong.

Now nearly 12 years later all I am seeing is all of that fading away. People growing up and falling off because they never really cared about this anyways. I thought most of the people I knew were different than that. I thought we were all in this together until someone came and ripped it from our dead hands. But now we're getting less and less interested in working to keep this together. Some people are still doing what they can but lately it seems like nothing will work. Omaha stays in Omaha and Lincoln stays in Lincoln.

I could be making mountains out of molehills and maybe over exaggerating one little event, but it's a series of little events that have made this hole in what we cared about so much. Friendships are dying and no one seems to notice. It hurts a lot because when this is dead what are we going to have left? Just empty, destroyed houses with faint reminders of what was once accomplished by a group of poor kids that the world didn't give a fuck about. What are they searching for as they all fall out? A career? Security? In these times I think that we should be more concerned about our happiness and less concerned about our wallets. Just because the world around us is falling apart doesn't mean that we have to.

2010 is looking bleak to me.

Shows - Downloads - Weekends

Hercules is playing 3 shows in December around the midwest! If you live near any of these towns, come out to the show!

Friday, December 18th Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground

with : The Heat Machine (CD RELEASE) Artillery Funk & The Bishops

Saturday, December 19th Cedar Falls, IA @ The 1108 House
with : Agress, Caulfield & Dead Heroes

Sunday, December 20th Sioux Falls, SD @ Middy Mansion

with : Worst Of Times, Caulfield & Dead Heroes

Also you (meaning the 6 people who look at this blog) can download the newest Hercules full length "Moon Riders" (released 06.11.09 on Nihilism Records - www.myspace.com/nihilismrecordsne) for free by going to www.mediafire.com/hercules

tell all of your friends to download it. pass it around if you feel like it!

On a personal note, things are going awesome right now! I am in Omaha today using the internet, eating at my parents then going to the dudes house to soundproof our practice space and have Hercules and Koizumi practice. I am currently on a 3 day weekend from work which is really awesome. This whole Thanksgiving weekend is going to rule. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving 1 in York with my dads family, Thursday is Thanksgiving 2 in York with my moms family (Lyndsi, Kailey and Dani will also be attending!) Friday at midnight is the bar then the casino for Gabes 21st birthday, Saturday is Punxgiving and Touche Amore @ Ghost House and Sunday is Phobia @ Ghost House! What a weekend I have coming up!

Pumped on life. Still have no money but I never do so fuck it!