Bintang Kertas
Novel | Bahasa | Photocopied

Daring, thought-provoking takes on life, love, punkrock and freedom by Penny G. Samsa @ Friend Of Dorothy.

Raw unedited photocopies is available only at RM4 each by hand and RM5 by post. For more info: diyfemmefest at gmail dot com or release_thehostage at yahoo dot com

Another series of benefit for DIY Femme Fest 2008.

To sample some of Penny G. Samsa @ Friend Of Dorothy writings:
http://bintangkertas.blogspot.com

AVAILABLE AT THE RICECOOKER SHOP | RM4

The only one stopover before AOA’s Euro Tour. Agents of Abhorrence is from Australia and features Ben Andrews of My Disco on guitar, Max Kohane (of Cut Sick / ABC Weapons) on drums, Grant Johns on vocals and no bass.

Hpw do they sound like? Go to their myspace page and be floored by the intensity and power. Modern intricate grindcore suggesting Dichordance Axis doing power-violence with angular guitars. Awesome.

myspace.com/agentsofabhorrence

We got a lot of new shit to list out but here are the ones which have just got into the door in the last few days. We’ll keep updating it as it goes.

IRON CAGE
Nature Isn’t Mute, Modern Man Is Deaf | CD

Dutch HC delivered thrashing, dissonant with chaotic, crunching power. This one rips a new one for the European scene. Their previous release was recently hailed in Short, Fast & Loud as a “masterpiece”. I’m gonna spend a lot of time with this. A very good release by Pissed Off Records, Melaka!!

RM12

MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL
#304 September 2008 | Fanzine

- features interviews with John Stabb of Government Issue, The Press, Simply Saucer, XYX, Measure [sa], Cola Freaks, Kulturekampf, and Andy T. It also features an interview with artist Raymond Pettibon (who did the Black Flag graphics back in the day).

Price: RM18

DEADHEAD
#4 | Fanzine

Very thick (96-pages/A4) Malaysian metal zine, features interviews with Impetigo, Headhunter DC, Rabbath Ammon, Levifer, Transgressor, Metal Savage, Nocturnal Vomit & Inside. Special interview with Azmi, the mainman of Black Fire, which goes back to stories about the band beginning from 1982!

RM15

TERLARANG
Manusia Sistem Keparat | CD-R

Six tracks from Kuala Kangsar, Perak. Pissed-off noisy mix of grind, blastcore and all that is annoying to those who like it preen and proper. Imagine early Disorder meets grind speed and blast beats with an equally hateful vocals.

RM5

BENCHMARX
Greatest Hits | CD

A clean and proper hard-rock version of Ben’s Bitches maybe? Rather humorous take on all things “Malaysian” written from the view points of a cynical expat maybe? Musically fitting for some top pub rocking round town. 12 songs of crisp production and a singer that sounds like he could be in Deep Purple Mark XIV. Those who like Zubira should take note.

RM15

RANJAU DI JALANAN
#01 Ogos 2008 | Fanzine - A5 - 60 pages

A new collectively-written zine in Bahasa based in Kulai, Johor. Features interviews with Mohd Jen, Nizang & Din Akar. Tonnes of articles & poems.

RM2

RAZORCAKE
#45 | Fanzine

Another very good issue of Razorcake featuring a memorial on Rich Kids on LSD (RKL), pointers on how to start an infoshop and more of the usual columns, reviews and stuff. Personally, this is issue is a MUST HAVE due to the long overdue interview with my personal hero Frankie Stubbs (Leatherface).

RM20 | Very Limited!

CUTSICK
Cutsick | CD=R

The Malaysian release of Cutsick’s blistering 7-tracker. The band was here recently but I missed the show and I’m regretting it badly. Those who are harking for the old Australian HC sound from the mid-80s should grab this pronto!

RM10

PHOBIA
Grind Your Fucking Head | Cassette

17-tracks of uber-grindcore, the tape version of the Deep Six release. “This is pure violence with a beat. It is unadulterated vehemence spewed through a Marshall stack. It is chaos captured in the studio. Rarely have PHOBIA sounded so over-the-top* and that, my friend, is saying something. Each of the 17 tracks on this puppy are threats to the seismic stability of the Earth’s crust,” said Jeb Branin for In Music We Trust

MORGENMUFFEL
#15 Oct 2006 | Fanzine - A5 - 28 pages

A comic-zine from Brighton, UK featuring pages upon pages of cleanly-drawn tales on travelling, meeting people, hanging out and more. Very cool, breezy read. A Ricecooker Shop reproduction via Mat Nor of Scenery is Free zine.

RM2

SCENERY IS FREE
#2 | Fanzine - A5 54 pages

Our good friend Mat Nor’s tales of travelling and living life as a freewheeling Malaysian kid jumping borders and seeing the world on his very own terms. The second re-printing by Ricecooker Shop. Very popular!

RM4

TORTURE INCIDENT / AGATHOCLES
Split-CD | CD

26-tracks, value for money! Belgian mincecore mainstays Agathocles meeting with Kuala Lumpur’s very own Torture Incident, fellow mince-meat grinders. Bllleuuurrgghhhh!

RM13

AMARAH
Scream of Silence | CD

Self-described as “melodic metalcore”. Debut CDEP featuring 7 songs released by OneSevenTwo Records. Apparently inspired by Caliban, Heaven Shall Burn, Asidia & Dead To Fall.

RM17

KIAS FANSURI
Dua Tahun Pertama | CD - Digipack

A 10-track collection of early stuff, previously hard-to-get recordings. Emo-violence feat members of Utarid, Kids On The Move, Before She Die, Endthrowphy. This one has been out for a while but finally we got it in stock!

RM12

more info: indiependentfest.blogspot.com

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revulsionrecords.blogspot.com | myspace.com/revulsionrecords

AVAILABLE AT THE RICECOOKER SHOP | RM6

This one goes to all my absent friends from the joyous Section 17, PJ and the Brickfields days of sharing a pack of 50 sen nasi lemak with three friends and tap water as dessert:

Voi Vod is alive and well! And wait for it!! With original bassist Blacky back in the fold too!

But hang on? Isn’t Piggy dead?

Well, the clip above is an amateur shot taken from Voi Vod’s well-received set at the Montreal’s Heavy MTL Festival on June 22nd this year. Away is still on drums, Snake on vocals, Blacky’s back on bass (after 17 years!!!) and Dan Mongrain from Quebec band Martyr, “a good friend of the band”, on guitar.

It’s been 5 years since the band played a show, and hardcore fans like me has been thinking Voi Vod is no more, especially when the hugely important part of the band, guitarist Piggy dead from colon cancer in 2005.

Judging from the clip tho’, the new guitarist is fitting Piggy’s shoes pretty well (apart from his kinda silly hair-twirling antics that is). That job’s not gonna be easy as Piggy was one of those weird, one-of-a-kind experimenter of string-wrangling. But Mongrain’s doing alright, even the guitar sound is the same old Die Kruezen-esque!

Voi Vod is playing with Testament & Forbidden (both veteran thrashers) in Japan soon. The dates, 20th & 21st September 2008; the venue here. Hopefully by that date, Mongrain would unlearn enough to throw away that bog-standard metal licks and go for the skronk like Piggy always did.

more videos & interviews at the fest: here

BTW, this time the band is revisiting songs from the first four albums (their best era) and here’s their version of Pink Floyd’s Astonomy Domine from the same show:

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from Ateng:

Smile Party Kolektif presents :-
Merdekakah Kita?
30hb 8 2008
2pm
rm10 + 1st soft drink
gudang noisy, ampang

with :-

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Program MALAM PESTA JIWA diadakan adalah bertujuan untuk memartabatkan nilai seni dan budaya sastera ke suatu arah yang positif dengan misi yang merakyat. Program kesenian yang bersifat independent (indie) ini lebih mengutamakan kualiti seni yang tulen, mengutamakan isi berbanding kulit dan bersifat menghibur di samping mendidik pendengar dan masyarakat ke arah satu visi yang lebih menyegarkan aroma dan rasa.

Program yang diilhamkan oleh Saudara Meor Khairol Nizam dan Saudara Meor Saiful Nazli ini dibantu oleh Saudara Adha Effendy, Saudara Syed Muhammad Sharif, Saudara Meor Yusof Aziddin Meor Hassan dan Yayasan Kesenian Perak.

Semua seniman yang dicadangkan bergerak secara independent (indie) dan mengetengahkan karya-karya seni yang bersifat rakyat, perjuangan dan isu-isu semasa dan nilai-nilai yang membina. Apa yang lebih membanggakan bahawa seniman yang dicadangkan ini mempersembahkan karya ciptaan sendiri dan berbentuk kerohanian (spiritual) dalam mendidik. Karya-karya mereka mengutamakan kualiti daripada kuantiti.

Karya-karya mereka juga berbentuk memimpin bukan untuk dipimpin.

Tetamu Khas untuk program ini Pak Hishamuddin Rais yang akan memberi sedikit ucapan perihal kesenian.

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Kawaii Records, France | Hidden Value Records, Klang | Scold, Tuaran, Sabah | Venganza, Guatemala

The Malaysian pressing…

againstme.net
myspace.com/againstme
myspace.com/corerockmoondistro

joe’s note: the band’s playing Van’s Warped Tour, guys…

Folks! We have quite a number of Maximum Rock’n'Roll back issues in the shop. Do come and check ‘em out:

MRR #290 - July 2007, #291 - August 2007, #293 - October 2007, #295 - December 2007, #296 - January 2008.

all going for RM15 each.

OTHER ZINES:

Profane Existence - #57 + comp CD (RM25)
Short, Fast & Loud - #18 (RM15)
Give Me Back - #summer 07 (RM10)

Some Vinyls:

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There have been changes going on at the ricecookershop, both in terms of management and the shop itself. First of all we have been rearranging the furniture around, throw out some things and added others. It looks a bit different now, hopefully a lot more efficient in space usage. Our new friend Lena said that it now looks like a proper shop instead of somebody’s living room!

go see the changes:here

On the management side, we have Shammir (Basement Records) coming in as the lord of book-keeping and stocks! Also Wan Hazril (Cactus Records) as the 2nd in command of the unruly CD racks! Helping out regularly, will be Atia acting as the curatorial director of “not too grungy” aesthetics.

The old crew; constant cave-dweller Aiman (FRU/Dum Dum Tak) and me (Joe) will always be there as per usual, while free-agent Bebe Cobra will slot in his presence as long as his new baby boy is safely tucked away.

Thanks to Ahmad (ASAS), Rudy (Blastwork), Pijan (Gasoline Grenade) and many others who have been helping us out. Hopefully once everything is back in order, other currently secret “world domination” plans will be launched on you unsuspecting consumers.

OK! See you at the shop one of these days!

Cheers,

Joe

BTW; anyone of you good with electricity, bulbs and wires? We need an electrician friend to fix some lighting problems. Do drop in!

map: here

Seems like the 3rd Arm crew and friends scored themselves cheap flight tickets! Six local bands playing together in Bandung. Sweet!

Goyang Gosip by Inul Daratista

First Inul was supposed to goyang in Johor. Nope! Cannot one! Banned! Then they shifted the venue to Stadium Bukit Jalil, Nope! Cannot one! Banned again!

The Kuala Lumpur city council (DBKL) said that they are stopping the show because it is a “threat to national security”! Hahahahahaha!

Man, I’m crying my eyes out for the disappointment felt by thousands of Inul’s hardcore fans in UMNO. They must be secretly cursing their luck! Anyway, do check the video up there, hear Inul sings about the finer points of her “goyang”! You should sing-a-long also lah.

On a more serious note:

“As Ms. Daratista sees it, her message aims to inspire listeners, particularly young women, to be true to themselves. “If you live according to the rules of other people you won’t accomplish a thing,” she says.” - read more Hips Don’t Lie - A pop singer and a potentially violent culture war in the world’s biggest Muslim state.