BIRTH

...and some final reviews.

2011-10-08T14:18:00.000-07:00

Review of the last show back in August with the Men
"...Birth kind of stole the show by reigning in their sound and then also destroying all of their equipment on stage in a final, defining act for their band."

from loudlooppress:
BIRTH
Birth sound exactly like a loud band from Chicago, and I mean that as the highest form of complement–this trio would be right at home on a bill with Shellac or Jesus Lizard. However, come next week, Birth will be playing even fewer shows than either of the other two aforementioned bands. After this show on Friday, Birth pack it in and their singer/bassist moves to LA for the most LA of reasons (a PhD in Sociology), and then you’ll have missed your chance to have your brain rocked to sufficient levels. So make your way to Water Works and watch the triumphant death of a band that you should have been loving all along, and in five or ten years when all the new post-hardcore bands cite Birth as their number one influence, you can say you were there. (Andy Kondrat).

Final Show + Tour Leftovers

2011-07-07T17:48:00.000-07:00

Last show:
August 12th @ Waterworks in Chicago - The Men, Raw Nerve, Birth, + more

We also have about 10 "Double Reggae" Tour cassette tapes leftover from tour. They'll be available at this show, Permanent Records (Chicago), and Mind Cure Records (Pittsburgh). In the meantime, you can dig on this track from the tape:
Birth - Sex Hooker (No Credit) by 100yrOldEgg

DOUBLE REGGAE TOUR 2011 & NEW CASSETTE

2011-06-29T19:09:00.000-07:00

Double Reggae Tour

June 30th - Madison, WI - Madison Project Lodge w/ White Suns

July 1st - St. Louis, MO - Apop Records - w/Shaved Women,Autonomy

July 2nd - Carbondale, IL - w/ Shaved Women

July 3rd - Columbus, OH - Bat Chapters

July 4th - Cleveland - Now Thats Class

July 5th - Pittsburgh, PA - Gooski's w/ Microwaves & Free Clinic

DOUBLE REGGAE TOUR CASSETTE
5 songs recorded earlier this month at Reuben's Palace featuring blistering guitar shredding by guest musician Todd Rittman of Dead Rider & U.S. Maple and some percussion from James Lechocki of Great Society Mind Destroyers. It's limited to 40, so be sure to pick one up at a show near you. They look like this

One of the Best things in Chicago apparently.

2011-06-25T12:45:00.000-07:00

True to form in a world in which the commodity form has colonized all of lived human experience, the Chicago Reader has dubbed Birth and our friends Den as the two bands in the city that have the "best band-on-band synergy". While we typically leave the biz speak terms such as "synergy" and "co-branding" to the jobbers pimping their wares to the horny and strung-out, we here at Birth/Den Inc, LLC are thrilled to have received a nod from the Reader. Long live the free market or whatever.

3rd Eye Live @ the Painted lady

2011-05-31T13:32:00.000-07:00

June Shows

2011-05-24T19:25:00.000-07:00

We haven't played a show in Chicago since March and haven't played since mid-April on account of our drummer Ian being on a super sweet tour opening for Kawabata Makoto & Pikacyu. Now that he's back, we'll be playing a lot this Summer until our final two shows in mid-August. That's right, the death of Birth is nigh as Josh has finally saved up enough to become a full time latrine examiner and Michael is moving out west to pursue a doctorate in bullshit. So as Birth says its final fuck you to Chicago it's finally safe to return to the usual limp-dick garage rock, early aughties indie leftovers, people from fucking Iowa or Nebraska, and mall-level psychedelia in the Second City.

Local Shows in Chicago

June 7th Mortville w/Harco,Geffika

June 22nd Waterworks w/Milk Music,Population, Socially Retarded

June 29th Panchos w/White Suns, Lechugillas

Video of Milwaukee Show

2011-04-25T19:40:00.001-07:00

Birth at The Borg Ward (4/14/11) from Bullart. on Vimeo.

"sinter eardrums with a rock that does not calculate anything and smile of contentment"

2011-04-22T12:30:00.000-07:00

Review of the LP on Perteefracas, it's in French

Pretty removed from Chicago

2011-04-19T09:38:00.000-07:00

Built On a Weak Spot Review of the Birth LP
"I know often times Chicago casts a bit of a generalization of what the music is going to sound like, but I will stop you right there and let it be known that Birth are pretty far removed from most of that. This is a simplistic bash of noise-rock that has far more to do with bands like Brainbombs, The New Flesh, etc. A song like “Mineral Rights” even kind of resembles the Melvins to some degree. Filthy, bluesy, and a bit sludgy…the record mixes it up fairly nicely while being played in a loose punk smashed to shit sort of way. It’s backed up convincingly by vocals that hop back and forth between a strung out drug addled howl to indecipherable short yelps."

Rustbelt Weekend Notes

2011-04-19T07:38:00.000-07:00

1) "If you can get laid while wearing cargo shorts, you've got mad game"
2) Sometimes you have to flood the engine to start
3) If a yinzer in Pittsburgh talks to you about the drum talents of Bill Bruford, he might like your band.
4) Sros Lords
5) Why is there not a Spak Bros equivalent in Chicago?
6) Birth does not fit on a black metal show

Though previously opposed to skull tshirts...

2011-04-19T07:31:00.000-07:00

Art by Ilth, Layout & Text by Ian Piirtola
Available for $12ppd in S, M, L, XL, & XXL. Send payment and your address
via Paypal to m s i c i l i a n o (at) gmail dot com

April Shows

2011-03-25T15:46:00.000-07:00

April 1st - Chicago @ the Mutiny w/ The Fucking Party, D'artagnan, & DEN

April 14th - Milwaukee, WI @ BorgWard
April 15th - Hamtramck, MI @ The Painted Lady
April 16th - Pittsburgh, PA @ Helter Shelter w/ Slices

Paging Barbera All Juice, Barbera All Juice please come to the front desk

2011-03-07T10:38:00.001-08:00

Review of our LP on Still Single's Tumblr

and a nice write up in the Chicago Reader for the show at the Empty Bottle on March 11th

Leading David Yow Impersonator Decries Noise Rock Resurgence

2011-03-02T21:23:00.000-08:00

Funny, I always thought we were more of a shitty Pissed Jeans with a singer doing a breathier version of Al Johnson's stutter...
Yellow Green Red Review

March

2011-02-19T12:42:00.000-08:00

March 11th - Empty Bottle w/ Human Eye and Drugs Dragons
March 12th - Some place on North Ave near the Handlebar

February Shows

2011-01-31T15:46:00.001-08:00

We are playing two shows in February:

February 4th @ Lucky Gator Loft, 3900-ish W. Grand, Chicago, IL
~~With:~~
~~Dethwarrant~~
~~Red Denizen~~

February 18th @ Empathy Lodge, 1800 S. Peoria Unit #3, Chicago, IL - $5
With:

Population

Staring Problems

Small mention of this show in the Chicago Reader where our guitar player Josh engages in a little position-taking.

Twelve Inch

2011-01-20T21:26:00.000-08:00

Our debut 12" is available for purchase from Deadbeat Records.

Birth - 12" Cover

Deadbeat says this about the record:
"Devastatingly punishing debut here from Chicago dirtbags BIRTH! Bathed in the same filth as Brainbombs, Drunks With Guns, Flipper and Big Black; BIRTH take cro-magnon riffs and shred 'em to bits as the sky collapses around 'em and they're buried in a pile of smoldering barbed wire. Think heavy, sludgey as fuck, proto punk that sounds like the Electric Eeels covering the Stooges using Sabbath's gear if it were stolen from a scrap yard and made out of knives. Brutally harsh landscapes where beating the shit out of your instruments is therapy and masochism is fun. Ex Brain Handle. Artwork by Ilth (Daily Void, Functional Blackouts)."

February 4th @ Lucky Gator Loft, Chicago, IL

2011-01-19T12:17:00.002-08:00

We're playing this show. More info soon.

Winter 2011 Tape

2011-01-19T12:17:00.000-08:00

Tape being sold at a few shows or you can download it here. First minute is called "Do you Know Weird Owl?". Totally. Followed by "Mineral Rights" from a forthcoming 12", "Digital Buddz", "Emerging Manhood (extended version)", and "Scotch Tape (dub)"

http://soundcloud.com/100yroldegg/birth-winter2011tape
Birth - Winter2011Tape by 100yrOldEgg

Smoke up.

2011-01-11T20:22:00.000-08:00


Birth - the button

December/January Shows in Chicago & Carbondale

2010-12-11T13:13:00.000-08:00

12/17/10 - Carbondale, IL @ the Hanger with Tweakbird
1/4/10 - Chicago, IL @ the Empty Bottle with Population

November & December Shows + Record

2010-11-07T10:21:00.000-08:00

Chicago:
11/13 @ Crown Liquors with Daily Void & Parlor 9pm, some $
11/24 @ Ball Hall with Sea of Shit, Bad Drugs, +1 more, 9pm, some $

Back from outer space in an Egg

2010-10-25T19:48:00.000-07:00

new songs 02 Mineral Rights by 100yrOldEgg 01 100 Year Old Egg by 100yrOldEgg

oh, hello there. sorry, we were just tuning

2010-06-04T18:35:00.000-07:00

So, after a few months of random shows and two months off we're playing again:
Friday June 11th
Los Tres AAA Bar
2115 S. Wood
Chicago IL 60608

w/ the Daily Void & Population (benny from no slogan and other folks)

$5 / 9pm

wave your freak flag...high.

January Shows

2009-12-28T10:34:00.000-08:00

1/9/2010 - Metal Shaker
1/16/2010 - Cal's Liquors - w/Brain Idea
1/21/2010 - Mortville - w/ Viking Fuck, Cool Memories, Brain Idea

after much debate

2009-12-06T14:05:00.001-08:00

myspace.com/worldbirth

History Trumpets Condemnation...

2009-10-05T20:02:00.000-07:00

Monday November 16th - Ronny's Bar - w/ MICROWAVES (from Pittsburgh, noiserock, no-wavey stuff) and coke rats (from chicago, no idea what their trip is)

goldcoast skinz rockin' the LV and the gumby gold.

After much discussion...

2009-09-02T17:11:00.001-07:00

"Post-Lollapalooza" Show August 8th

2009-07-21T21:34:00.000-07:00

Or so they say. W/ Tweak Bird

FREE @ the Cobra Lounge

Bands start at 11pm. Come say hello around 10pm.

Gold Coast Skins

2009-07-15T19:08:00.000-07:00

Never give up your boots

Shows

2009-07-15T18:56:00.000-07:00

July 18th - 6pm - Plaines Project - Chicago, IL
w/ Mind Eraser, Common Enemy, & Socially Retarded

July 25th - Booby's - Carbondale, IL
w/ Weed Brownie