http://www.airraidlive.net/blog AIR RAID BLOG Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:17:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the steamy weather just around the corner, here are some summer tracks making the rounds around here. From hardcore to hip-hop, songs that make you lose it to baby-making music, this Ultimate Summer Mix Tape will most definitely get the party started. Don’t worry, you can thank us later. Bill’s ... http://www.airraidlive.net/blog/2008/06/10/airraid-ultimate-summer-mix-tape/ Joe and myself went down to Austin, TX a couple weeks ago to see Chaos in Tejas, one of the most amazing punk rock festivals around. I took well over 600 pictures during the weekend, these are some of the cream of the crop. Each band I saw ... http://www.airraidlive.net/blog/2008/05/28/chaos-in-tejas-pictures/ In my adventures today I have listened to four albums. They are as follows. Cleveland Bound Death Sentence - Self Titled (walking to class) Pinhead Gunpowder - Jump Salty (eating lunch) Crimpshrine - Duct Tape Soup (riding the bus to work) Sweet Baby - It's A Girl (riding the ... http://www.airraidlive.net/blog/2008/04/17/find-the-common-theme-here/   Yeah, you read that right.  This weekend I scratched one more thing off of my list of "things I must do" and finally went to a record fair.  In previous years this was a benefit for WLUW, a community station that I volunteered at for six quick months in 2004.  ... http://www.airraidlive.net/blog/2008/04/14/my-first-ever-visit-to-a-record-fair/ Yeah. It was. I wrote this way back then thinking that it would be on the site at some point but things changed and it didn't. I figure since I spent so much time writing it it might as well get posted somewhere.  I don't remember if ... http://www.airraidlive.net/blog/2008/04/14/riot-fest-wasnt-that-five-months-ago/ Alright, so this weekend I went to see the best pop punk band of this decade, Teenage Bottlerocket, again. As they generally are apt to do, they delivered the goods and I came out five pounds lighter and with a hoarse voice. On this tour they were promising ... http://www.airraidlive.net/blog/2008/03/31/for-the-love-of-god-do-not-stack-your-records/ Yup, once again the title says it all. I went to this show on Saturday night. I'm only posting the flyer because it's one of my favorite in recent memory and I stole one from the wall of the Beat Kitchen to hang up on my wall. All the ... http://www.airraidlive.net/blog/2008/03/24/i-spent-too-much-money-on-records-this-weekend/ Within the last few years it seems that every single band on the planet has fallen prey to the "Deluxe Re-issue" phenomenon. Even worse, there are people out there that will re-buy records that they already own because of the promise of better sound quality, expanded liner notes, and ... http://www.airraidlive.net/blog/2008/03/17/i-am-a-huge-dork/ The first batch of pictures have started to trickle in from our fearless leader, Kevin DeLury. These are camera phone images but don't fret, it's just a taste of things to come. I just got off the phone with him and he's dead drunk at 3 PM CST. ... http://www.airraidlive.net/blog/2008/03/14/photographs-steal-souls/ Believe it or not, AirRaid was not pooped out by a god in its current form.  An insane amount of work has gone into getting the site up and running, and even more insane work will go in in the following weeks.  Even though it's a ton of work I'm ... http://www.airraidlive.net/blog/2008/03/13/behind-the-scenes/