photos by Justina Villanueva

In between sets a bunch of what looked like DudeBros wearing ringer tee's that said Goblin Cock Crew came out and set up equipment. A few minutes later the band pops out of no where in the now famous druid cloaks.

Basically, the band dresses up not only on stage but in preparation to go on stage. Greatness.

The set was a mix of tracks from the old album, Bagged and Boarded and songs from the new disc, Come with Me If You Want to Live. The only band members face that is visible is Rob Crow's, the rest of the band look like some kind of Anton Levay rejects that do nothing but throw devil horns.

The stage was intermittently lit up by strobe lights and was covered with skulls. The keyboard player actually had black pom-poms that he gave to some chick in the audience,

Did I mention how badass this show was??? [Indie-Verse]

That review came from a the Dallas show earlier on the tour. Last night (2/11) Goblin Cock played Highline Ballroom in NYC with Orphan and Warship. Rob told Wired that he'll be working on Pinback again when this tour is over. More pictures from the NY show, and GC's new video, below...

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DOWNLOAD: Obits - Pine On (MP3)

As previously mentioned, tickets are on sale for a March 27th Obits show at the Bell House with Lycaon Pictus, The Browns, and Rope. The show will celebrate the March 24th Sub Pop release of their new album, I Blame You.

"We're not into innovation as a band," says Froberg, who's already done his fair share of innovating with Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes. "I think innovation is overrated and an overestimated quality. Anything that's going to be original is going to happen without your control. Things that make your band sound like you, are things you wouldn't be able to change anyway. We just go ahead and play the stuff we like, and we don't worry about originality per se, because that takes care of itself."

Produced by Geoff Sanoff, Eli Janney and Obits, I Blame You is the band's debut full-length album.

Download track two, "Pine On" above. Full tracklist below.

Orphan is not playing the Brooklyn show, but they will play the five dates with Obits leading up to that one. Instead you can catch Orphan in NYC this Wedneday (tomorrow, 2/11) when they open for Warship and Goblin Cock at Highline Ballroom. All GC tour dates HERE. All Obits & Orphan dates below...

Continue reading "OBITS - new MP3, 2009 tour dates, some w/ ORPHAN"

"Goblin Cock is a band from beyond time, beyond space, beyond your naive concept of dimension in METAL. Since before your pathetic "god" had supposedly "created" you and your kind, Lord Phallus was hunkered in a cybertimeship/fun dungeon skating the layers of what was considered "true metal"in all societies and in all generations. Eventually His Majesty realized that he really didnt care and launched a full-scale war against bland metal with and emphasis on ACTUALLY HAVING A GOOD TIME! "Bagged and Boarded" is the first assualt on your laughable 5 senses (Lord Phallus and his kind have 32). Expect a future double whammy in the form of "Come With Me if You Want to Live" - a collection of new supercharged action-metal wonderhits, and "Dragonfucker" - the 20+ minute uberpiece with a bside of numerous BRUTAL cover songs (the roaches, the osmonds, and the monkees have been rumored). arrrgghh! -"Total" Dick McThinkseeknowseverything"

As promised, Rob Crow's hooded metal project Goblin Cock are going on tour soon, and that includes a February 9th show in NYC at Highline Ballroom. Tickets are on sale. NY's own Warship ("the crushing new project by From Autumn To Ashes members Francis Mark (vocals/drums) and Rob Lauritsen (guitar/bass)"). open all dates, which are listed below...

Continue reading "Goblin Cock (Rob Crow) & Warship (FATA) - 2009 Tour Dates"

ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, A.C. NEWMAN, NO AGE, GOBLIN COCK, CLUES and DEAR AND THE HEADLIGHTS set to headline Noise Pop 2009. Noise Pop Festival film screenings will include JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON and AGILE MOBILE HOSTILE - A YEAR WITH ANDRE WILLIAMS. The 17th annual Noise Pop Festival will take place February 24 through March 1, 2009 in San Francisco.

Antony and the Johnsons recently played the Apollo Theater in NYC. Read about it HERE. AC Newman just played the Bell House in Brooklyn. Read about that HERE. No Age was just at the Market Hotel. That one is HERE. Clues were supposed to play NYC, but didn't, and Goblin Cock is promising many more tour dates than just this one. More Noise Pop details below...

Continue reading "Noise Pop 2009 - dates & initial lineup (Antony, Goblin Cock, AC Newman, Clues, No Age, more)"

Goblin Cock's latest press release is below...

Continue reading "Goblin Cock - new album details, a promised 2009 tour"

No, Goblin Cock is not coming back to the East Coast yet, but Pinback is - May 9th at Northsix in Brooklyn, and at Irving Plaza on the 10th. All dates for both Rob Crow projects below...

Continue reading "Pinback & Goblin Cock | 2006 Tour Dates"

Goblin Cock (Rob Crow from Pinback's side project) finally released their debut LP, Bagged and Boarded, on Absolutely Kosher records. I haven't heard the album yet, but there's an MP3 and video posted on their website.

"Latest hard hitting album for the prolific Rob Crow (Pinback, Team Sleep, Thingy, Heavy Vegetable). From the caustic, bubbling froth emerges Goblin Cock, monstrous in its potency, grotesque, fully formed, vile and virile in its power. Goblin Cock's debut Bagged and Boarded is the best rock record in years. This is not a side project. This is not ironic. Rob Crow is serious." [Buy it at Insound]

"...Turns out the Josh Homme reference applies to more than just naming tendencies. Crow has a Homme-like proclivity for genre melding songwriting and peculiar melodies and vocalizations. Although the similarity is more in spirit than in sound, Queens of the Stone Age comparisons can be made to several tracks...." [MetalReview]

Previously
Reviews of Goblin Cock from CMJ
CMJ 2005: Goblin Cock

Inspired by Mike Neuman's "Goblin Cock" comment, I'm going to start posting about bands playing CMJ this year. "Goblin Cock" is first.

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"Seeing as how Rob Crow and Armistead Burwell Smith IV, together known as Pinback, are collectively responsible for roughly 352 different bands, there's pretty much a steady stream of news to impart about their respective projects--"

"In the extensive side-project news category, Absolutely Kosher have a few Crow-related projects in the pipeline for 2004. ...Crow's freshly minted metal band, the mellifluously monikered Goblin Cock, will also make their triumphant debut on Absolutely Kosher in 2004." [Pitchfork]

According to Insound, Goblin Cock's "Bagged and Boarded" record comes out on September 13th, 2005. (must have been delayed)

Download Absolutely Kosher Podcasts (MP3s)
June 15th, 2005
May 1st, 2005
April 20th, 2005
April 12th, 2005

And Pinback MP3s And a lot of Rob Crow related sounds.