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HBO Series TREME Needs Paid Extras for EYEHATEGODs Filming at Southport Hall Here in NOLA on Wed.Feb.15th!!
HBO series TREME needs paid extras for EYEHATEGOD’s filming at Southport Hall here in NOLA on Wed. Feb. 15th!!
Submit photos and contact info to: TREMEEXTRAS@GMAIL.COM
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Mike IX Reading + EyeHateGod Live- NOLA October 28th
Friday, October 28th – Mike IX Williams will be reading from his book ‘Cancer as a Social Activity’ and other previously unpublished writings, at Euclid Records – 3401 Chartres – for their Left of the Dial series, starts at 7:30. Also EYEHATEGOD will play at Siberia – 2227 St. Claude – later that night w/ Impalers, She’s Still Dead + more…!! Halloween Weekend you bastards!!
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EYEHATEGOD Featured in Latest Issue of High Times! Fall Tour Dates Announced!
New Orleans’ hardcore blues-based dirge doers EYEHATEGOD are featured in the November 2011 issue of High Times, on stands now! To get your grubby paws on a copy, point your browser HERE.
Following a Summer of sonic destruction that included the Retox And Nihilism Over Europe Tour alongside Japan’s Church Of Misery and a slot on the sound-barrier breaking Power Of The Riff fest, the Louisiana derelicts will head out for another round of live abrasions this Fall and Winter. Check confirmed dates below:
EYEHATEGOD Tour Dates 2011/2012:
10/28/2011 Siberia – New Orleans, LA
11/04/2011 Rail Club – Ft. Worth, TX
11/05/2011 TBA
11/06/2011 Fun Fun Fun Fest – Austin, TX
01/21/2012 Sonar – Baltimore, MD w/ Integrity 9 (A389 Anniversary Show)
05/24/2012 Maryland Deathfest @ Sonar – Baltimore, MD
In related news, EYEHATEGOD unleashed an official live DVD earlier this year via MVD. Titled Live, the 88-minute production features multi-camera footage from 2009 (Baltimore, MD) and 2010 (Cleveland, OH), with bonus clips from the last show of their 2010 European tour and videos never before released before on DVD. Said Brooklyn Rocks of the production: “While musical trends come and go and numerous bands change their sound over time…EYEHATEGOD will continue to pump out self-loathing Southern sludge for years to come. Both fans of EYEHATEGOD and bands like Down and The Melvins are going to want to pick this release.” Added Cvlt Nation: “…a piece of EYEHATEGOD cinematic history.” A perfect dose of Black Flag meets Black Sabbath in ragged, live glory. Order your copy HERE where you’ll also find a new selections of T-shirts and hoodies.
And in case you missed it, the rad folks at Cvlt Nation recently hosted an entire week of EYEHATEGOD worship. Check out all the killer and much deserved coverage at THIS LOCATION and don’t forget to download Sonic Cathedrals Vol. VIII compilation as curated by Mike IX Williams HERE.
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5 NOPD Officers Guilty in Post-Katrina Danziger Bridge Shootings & Cover-up
A jury this morning convicted all five New Orleans police officers accused in the Danziger Bridge shootings, which took place amid the chaos after Hurricane Katrina and claimed the lives of two civilians, and a cover-up of startling scope that lasted almost five years.
The verdicts were a huge victory for federal prosecutors, who won on virtually every point, save for their contention that the shootings amounted to murder. The jury rejected that notion, finding that the officers violated the victims’ civil rights, but that their actions did not constitute murder.
Sentencing for the five officers, all of them likely facing lengthy prison terms, has been set for Dec. 14 before U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt.
Four of the five officers — Kenneth Bowen, Robert Gisevius, Robert Faulcon and Anthony Villavaso — have been in custody since their arraignment.
The fifth, retired Sgt. Arthur “Archie” Kaufman, who was not involved in the shootings but headed the police investigation into them, remains free on bail.
The landmark civil-rights case — one of four major federal cases involving use of force by New Orleans police to result in indictments so far — has been closely watched around the nation.
Lance Madison was arrested Sept. 4, 2005, after the shootings involving police on the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Two people died and four others were wounded. Because of its sheer magnitude, the Danziger case was the most high-stakes of the nine civil-rights probes into the NOPD the Justice Department has confirmed. Before today’s verdicts, five other former officers, all of whom testified during the six-week trial, had already pleaded guilty to various roles in the shootings and the subsequent cover-up.
The two other cases to go to trial so far — involving the deaths of Henry Glover and Raymond Robair at the hands of police — both resulted in convictions, although two officers accused of different roles in the Glover case were acquitted, and a third officer who was convicted recently had that verdict vacated.
While today’s verdicts close the book on most aspects of the Danziger case, one officer charged in the cover-up still faces charges: retired Sgt. Gerard Dugue, who is set to be tried Sept. 26.
The verdict comes at a pivotal moment for the long-troubled NOPD, which has been and remains under heavy scrutiny from the U.S. Justice Department. Earlier this year, the department’s civil litigation section issued a blistering report about the NOPD that found systemic problems within the agency. City officials are in the midst of working out a consent decree with the department that will aim to make broad changes over several years.