05-24-2006
1) We are playing a show with FLIPPER! In SF at the Elbo Room on Saturday June 10th, 9pm. Opening will be So so Many White White Tigers. Get tickets!
2) New Live Album out now on Ecstatic Yod and available at your local record store (ask!) or online at Yod.com
3) We are playing at the End Times II Festival in St. Paul MN. Also playing are Bordoms, Borbetomagus, Flying Luttenbachers, Burning Star Core, Death Sentence: PAnda!, Murder Murder, Nate Denver's Neck, Magic MArkers, Oxbow, xbxrx, Smegma, d.yellow Swans, and a ton more. June 23rd, 24th, 25th! All details and tickets here: End Times II Festival
4) Bob is moving to NYC.
5) We have new recordings that hopfully will be put out some day! 6) We sold out and have a lame myspace page hosted by foxnews owner rupurt murdoch who is a nazi racist devil baby killer. Join the fun at http://myspace.com/totalshutdown
11-3-2005
Monday November 7th 2005 9pm
TOTAL SHUTDOWN
YIKES (John Dwyer's new)
HOUNDSTOOTH AND THE WOLFHOUNDS (ex-NAM)
NO BOSS (Bauer)
Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco, CA $6, Arrive on time, possible sell out!!!
6-20-2005
Monday June 27th 2005
Load Records proudly presents:
TOTAL SHUTDOWN (release of our new Live album on Ecstatic Yod will be available!!!)
COUGHS (chicago)
WHITE MICE (providence)
OCTIS (608C)
12 GALAXIES (on mission street between 22nd and 21st)
ALL AGES!!!
9PM $7
5-24-2005
TOTAL SHUTDOWN / XBXRX Split 2x5" released on ROCK IS HELL RECORDS from Austria/Europe. the TOTAL SHUTDOWN 5" is pressed on blue wax, the XBXRX 5" is pressed on red wax. the pressing is limited to 612 copies. the 6"x30" stencil printed 3-times fold-out cover has been made by DENNIS TYFUS from belgium.Total Shutdown Live album on Ecstatic Yod will be out in late June (most likely).
2-22222-2005
Thank you all for the Hemlock show, we had an unbelievable time and it was quite a welcoming for our first SF show in such a long time. Check out photos of the performance by Mike Costuros.
Upcoming shows
April 2nd 2005
Lobot Gallery, Oakland with:
Kid606, Gold Chains, Eats Tapes and Electrocute
$8, All Ages, show time.
April 9th, 2005 Elbo Room, San Francisco with:
Numbers, No Doctors, Coolies (New Zealand!), Vice Cooler & Miya
$? show time.
all of the above photos by Mike Costuros.
1-19-2005
February 11th 2005
Total Shutdown
Feather Gong
Perform a live performance, performing at the Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco, California, United States, 10pm.
00120-006-200400
YES! we are still a band, we still exist and we have not broken up, not even for 20 seconds!!! Here is a quick update on the slowest moving band in showbiz.
7-13-2004
TOTAL SHUTDOWN WILL NOT PLAY THE SHOW AT ELBO ROOM!!!!
NEW LINE UP...
July 14th 2004
At the Elbo Room in SF, $6 21+ 9:30pm
July 10th 2004
At the Knitting Factory in LA. $13 in the big room. ???
July 14th 2004
At the Elbo Room in SF, $6 21+ 9:30pm
Our live album on Ecstatic Peace/Yod should be out this summer!
20 second comp on toyo records has been delayed.
We still have copies of the Burn My Eye! DVD, "The Album" on CD and LP, Size Med. and Large t-shirts, and some other comps and stuff that you can find on the 'merch' page of our website.
Other projects:
Pete Nguyen has just finished a west coast tour with his other project called eE, and Pete the Genius broke up with himself and is now involved in a new project called Saint Peter and Paul.
Bob Linder is teaching at the SF Art Institute and painting gold leaf on stuff in the south bay, he also has a new dog named Chikka.
Paul Costuros had be playing in other projects such as Zeek Sheck, Murder Murder, XBXRX, and Death Sentence: PANDA! all of which have releases available. He has also started a CDR label called Special Lord Records.
Nate Denver has just finished a European tour with Nate Denver's Neck. He has a new CD full length called "No One is Coming To Help You" that is available through himself where you can also get his first CD. ndenver@hotmail.com
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Special Lord Records
Murder Murder
Nate Denver's Neck
Zeek Sheck
XBXRX
12-3-2003
The Toyo Records 20 Second compilation is coming out this month! 2 or 3 CD's filled to the brim with all your favorite bands playing 20 second songs!
I am pleased to invite you all to our studio-warming party this Saturday, Dec 6th.
It's an early party, starting at 6:30. Bands should start around 7 or so, and go until 10 or so, or until they get tired of playing. Although I imagine if you show up later than that we just may still be there.
Musical acts (in order of appearance):
Total Shutdown
Dynasty
Some conglomeration of John Finkbeiner and a few other fantastic musicians playing various forms of music centered around our pride and joy, the Lowery organ.
It all happens at:
New, Improved Recording
960 Arlington St, Oakland
Free admission. Limited free beer and snacks, althou h if you come late you'd better BYOB.
Directions can be found here:
http://www.newimprovedrecording.com/Directions.html More information can be found on the other pages at
www.newimprovedrecording.com
although I'm really not finished with it yet. Look at it in about 2 weeks, it'll be much better then.
Hope to see you there,
Eli and John
10-6-2003
Club Verdi
2424 Mariposa (between Potero Ave. and Bryant) San Francisco
BANDS AGAINST BUSH!!!
Lightning Bolt
Total Shutdown
Noxagt (Norway)
USA is a Monster
Japanese Kareoke Afterlife Experiment
w/ DJ Megaweapon, DJ ABBY and DJ Le Kim
$7 ALL AGES! 9PM
Our new record, Total Shutdown - The Album, will be out Oct 20th, Tigerbeat6 is releasing the CD and Load Records is releasing the Vinyl.
We are on the new Burn My Eye DVD release along with our friends The Lowdown, The Locust, The Coachwhips, The Extreme Elvis, Deerfhoof and Numbers.
We have two songs from our upcoming album available on three different compilations. Two have been released by Tigerbeat6, the first one is called Open up and say ...@>%_|^[!] meow075, and the other is called Tigerbeat6 Paws Across the World 2003 meow094. The third compilation is is a double CD called Frisco Styles and is all bands from the bay area put together by local artist and musician Chris Johanson. All of these are fantastic comps and all can be purchased from Midheaven Mailorder, just do a search for "Total Shutdown" or "frisco styles".
7-1-2003
Total Shutdown would like to announce that we are planning our next album release in October 2003. The CD will be on Tigerbeat6 Records and the Vinyl will be on Load Records. We are so much happy about this. Right after this release we plan to have available our split 7" with XBXRX, a live album for Ecstatic Peace, a split 7" with Friends Forever, tours, and a newly designed button.
Our next show is tentitively the Tigerbeat6 showcase at Bottom of the Hill on Aug. 30th 2003.
Our old contact email address (costuros@yahoo.com) has been out of commission since early June 2003. Our new contact address is charlieshavers@yahoo.com. Sorry if we have not responded to you because of this.
10-19-2002
Updates were made on the tour dates below!
OCTOBER
From here on out, all dates are with Total Shutdown
NOVEMBER
Check out this Cartoon that is animated to go along with the TS song "One". It was created by e*rock from Collective Jyrk -->Click Here<--
Our next show is on Oct 15th with Thrones, Nigel Peppercock at Cherries, which is the old CW Saloon.
We are going on a US tour this Oct/Nov!!! The first portion of the tour are not with Total Shutdown but with Pete the Genius (Paul and Pete from TS) and Nate Denver's Neck (Nate Denver's of TS). Here are the dates so far:
08-06-2002
Total Shutdown are playing this Thursday August 8th at 8pm at Kimo's.
Total Shutdown
Friends Forever (CO)
Canaries Kept Quiet Kill
Nervous and the Kid (PDX)
Friends Forever two guys who are the amazing and come from Denver Colorado. They drive around in a VW Bus and pull up to the front of the club and when it is time for them to perform they slide open the van door, which is filled with a drum set, smoke machine, light show, and all sorts of electronics. They then proceed to play an onslaught of 'PCP ROCK' in which they go beserker and have included with the smoke and lights, jumping in and out of van windows like dolphins and on the roof are pyro-technics, fireworks, fake blood streaming out the side of the windows, total armegeddon stuff. This is the first time they have been in SF in years and it is their only bay area show. Oh yeah, and there is a feature length documentary made about them about a year ago that is the mega.
This show starts early at 8pm and should be over in time for everyone to run over and see Caroliner down the street. All 4 bands play about 15 min.
We have a new mailing list, to subscribe email here: totalshittown-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
or go to the homepage: Total Shutdown Mailing List home
07-01-2002
Total Shutdown will appear in the upcoming episode of San Francisco Cable Access show BURN MY EYE (cable channel 29). It includes live footage of our show at Bottom of the Hill and some other footage of us acting like jerks. It airs this (7/3) Wed at Midnight. Also appearing in this episode will be the Lo-Fi Neisans. See below for SF debut viewing party...
To purchase a copy email info@burnmyeye.com Also, we will have copies too.
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Also.... Come to Kimo's this next Wednesday night (7/3/02) and watch Burn My Eye! #3 Lo-Fi Neisans / Total Shutdown air on cable 29 at midnight!!!! Free admission (downstairs), budweiser in BOTTLES, no monkeys allowed! I have fashioned a blow-up doll in the image of Weasel Walter and we will all take turns making out with it in the bathroom afterwards.
xo,
virgil
http://www.rawk.org - photos
http://www.burnmyeye.com - television
Check out this upcoming show!!!
July 7th
Pete the Genius, Growing, Panama at Kimo's 9pm, $5.
Growing is 1000AD and Black Man White Man Dead Man combined! Features Joe Denardo of Thin the Herd Records fame. Panama has members of MeMe America and The Need. Both bands are from Olympia.
06-14-2002
The new 5RC compilation "If the twenty-first century didn't exist it would be necessary to invent it" is out this month, we just recieved our copies and it's mega awesome. Buy it here.
Features:
Pink and Brown, Wolf Eyes, Young People, Orthrelm, Quintron, Lightning Bolt, Sharon Cheslow, Deerhoof, Vaz, and many others!
05-13-2002
Our 7" EP with Life is Abuse just came in so it is now available for mailorder, and it will be available soon in local record stores! Local SF shops (Aquarius, Open Mind Music and Ameoba) have some in stock, as well as George Chen's Nomadic Spockmorgue Distro. To purchase, choose one of the following:
Mail Order
Credit Card
REFLECTIONS is nearly out of print, so get one now while you still can!
03-20-2002
Total Shutdown's long in the making One sided 12" vinyl record album EP is now available!!!Click here for info.
Also...
Our 7" with Life is Abuse Records out in late April
03-04-02
New photo's of our most recent show by David Gregory added to media section.
02-27-02
Check out a recent live review written by Mike McGuirk in this weeks SF Bay Guardian.
01-29-2002
LA show was much fun, many people were asking for the TS/Boxleiter Split, which we no longer have copies of. for a list, click here!.
11-14-2001
We were featured as Band of the Month at Double Dare Press. Check out our interview there.