Oxbow: Tour-Only LP + Crime Novel

Muscular Noise Band Announces New Songs For the French album and European Tour; Eugene S. Robinson Publishes First Novel.

By Blurt Staff

Well, we have a ton of Oxbow news to report. First up: the band will be doing a huge UK and Euro tour staring Nov. 6 in France and running until the end of the month. Tour dates can be found  at their official website (www.theoxbow.com) or at their label Hydra Head's site (www.hydrahead.com).

Speaking of touring... there is a new vinyl-only album, New Songs For the French, the band has pressed up to be sold on tour. In typically impressionistic Oxbow fashion, they are describing it thusly: "A highly conscious effort to do things exactly as we ourselves would never do them in order to create a compelling bridgework between THE NARCOTIC STORY of yesterday and THE THIN BLACK DUKE of tomorrow. Lyrically, musically, thematically this march into intuitive mind has been Russian rouletted into existence, with Oxbow ceding control where control has never been ceded."

Ah - right. The tracklisting is as follows:

Side: HERE

Oxbow + Philippe Thiphaine
1.2 P.M.
2.Coalking
3.Well-Dressed Man

Side: THERE

Oxbow [live recordings]: Europe 2008
4.Frankly Frank [London]
5.La Luna [London]
6.The Duke: A Gentleman's Gentleman [London, Extempore]
7.Yoke [Rotterdam]

And finally, the band's Eugene S. Robinson has just published his first novel (and second book, the followup to 2007's Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked For Asking). It's titled A Long Slow Screw and it is described as "a two-fisted hardboiled crime saga set in 1970s New York that closely follows a diamond heist gone right and then murderously wrong. Featuring a passel of punks, tough broads, shysters and homicidal homos, it draws heavily on Robinson's real life involvement with elements partially detailed in Fight, weaving a fictional story of the chaotic pre-9/11 world of New York City.... It reads like a travelogue to the business end of a bunch of very, very bad things."

Go to Robinson's publisher Robotic Boot (www.roboticboot.com ) or to Robinson's website (www.eugenesrobinson.com ) for details on how to order. Tell ‘em BLURT sent ya...