hey someone was trying to talk to you on facebook the other day when you were...somewhere else...

THIS GUY! HOLY SHIT!



AND THEN THIS MOTHERFUCKER BIT THE HEAD OFF AN OZZY!



AND ALONG CAME HIS EVIL BUDDY....THIS...THIS....THIS OTHER GUY!
AHHHHHHH!!!!!!



I'm literally starting to believe all the Werepyre mythology I've been making up and as a result, I'm terrified of losing my blood to one of these freaks.

WEREPYRE. "LEAVE YOUR BLOOD AT HOME" EP: WE WILL EAT YOUR SOUL WITH THE FURY OF AN OPERA.

WEREPYRE . LEAVE YOUR BLOOD AT HOME






LEAVE YOUR BLOOD AT HOME

I. Werepyres Are Coming Down The Mountain
II. Leave Your Blood At Home
III. We’re Fucking Killing All The Kids In This City, First Born Or Die
IV. Werewolves Really Do Drink Blood…Your Blood
V. Summertime

30 Minutes of psychedelic blood shed by the full moon light from DJ Tom Hanks and The Crack Fox. Enjoy.

WEREPYRE . LEAVE YOUR BLOOD AT HOME

Sorry INTER-TRON, DJ Tom Hanks Has Bigger Fish to Fry

Yes, I know it has been a month since I posted anything on here. And yes, I am horribly apologetic. But as most of you know, I am on my way to becoming a hot shot lawyer that eats cheesesteaks for dinner and souls for breakfast and lunch. But before I can dump hot sauce on purgatory, I have to actually study for exams and whatnot around this time of year. So listen to the new Metric, download a 13th Floor Elevators album, and smoke while doing so.

Although I'm not done til May 11th, I turn 26 on May 7th and you can bet your ass there is gonna be a raucous birthday edition of POUNDTOWN at Footsie's next Wednesday the 6th. Instead of taking a test on my b-day like last year, I'll be half-shitfaced on Chimay by the time the clock strikes May 7th next week. Stay tuned for specifics but save the date...we're going to smoke lightning and stab unicorns at Footsie's next Wednesday. Holla!



To help get ready, download my 26th B-day theme song "Redlights" by Salem. It is just one of several slamming tracks on their "Yes I Smoke Crack EP" out now on Patrick North's Acephale Records

I'd bookmark that page and check back often because our boy North, in addition to being an all-around grizzled motherfucker, has better taste than literally everyone I know. I mean...shit...Salem? Listen to that fucking track up there! Who the fuck knows where to find goth-crunk kids in Echo Park, let alone Traverse City, Michigan? You gotta be kidding me!

But I guess we should have expected the realness from a dude who looks like Tad and posted my first mix before I did. Those of us scoffing at the Burbank police blotter are envious.

DJ Tom Hanks and Camerin P Kelly Present Poundtown at Footsie's

POUNDTOWN IS TONIGHT AT FOOTSIES.
COME GET PSYCHEDELIC WITH US!

any questions?
download Poundtown the Mix

NO POUNDTOWN THIS WEEK

Due to yet another mix up at the Pound City chamber of commerce, the rocket ship to POUNDTOWN will not blast off this Wednesday as previously indicated. Instead, we're chopping up the 1st class section to make way for more masses and rescheduling our maiden ascent. Basically, we're gonna keep hyping the fuck out of the party and push back til the aformentioned third Wednesday of the month. From then on, non stop service to POUNDTOWN will depart from Footsie's every single 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month.
As a consolation, you can catch your favorite Junky Cosmonaut DJ Tom Hanks in action at KXLU 88.9 the next two Tuesday mornings from 6-10 AM. Mysterious Ways indeed. Keep on pounding.

DJ Tom Hanks and Camerin P Kelly Present Poundtown at Footsie's

Sorry about the mix-up: Poundtown is the first and third WEDNESDAY of every month. If the kick-off jammer on Sunday was any indication, this night is gonna go off hard. So join me, DJ Tom Hanks (KXLU, SLU Records, S.T.A.Y.B.A.D.) and Camerin Kelly (Akasa, Trademark Records) as we put it down for the cool kids and music snobs. Holla holla!
And once again, here is a small sample of how we get down.

DJ Tom Hanks and Camerin Kelly- Poundtown: The Mix mediafire

DJ Tom Hanks and Camerin P Kelly Present Poundtown at Footsie's

Yes, our much heralded psych and prog night finally begins at footsie's this weekend. While we are usually throwing down on the first and third thursday of every month, we're having a special "launch party" this sunday for our homies and avid psych heads. I mean, anyone can come but we're expecting what real promoters call a "soft opening." Meaning, our initial fan base will probably draw from the aforementioned groups of people we know and weirdo music aficionados.
Since our design man Cam'Ron was out of town, I had to draw from my minimal photoshop skills to produce the flyers you see here. Plus who the fuck makes flyers that advertise a launch party on a different night than the party itself? Shit, that sentence itself is confusing.



But come through if you like weirdo rock music from the sixties and seventies...than a big jump to today. While Ron is a purist and will probably only play old shit, I'm not opposed to hyphenating newer music that gets spacey. Basically, that means I'm playing new stuff and old stuff. Holla at me for some more instances of what we're trying to bring to the music snobs first...than the masses. And check my mix again, dammit!

DJ Tom Hanks- Poundtown: The Mix mediafire

jerusalem "primitive man"
king crimson "easy money"
arzachel "queen st gang"
black mt "modern music"
gravy train "ballad of a peaceful man"
parts and labor "little ones"
joseph "stoned age man"
iota "love comes wicked"
jd blackfoot "cycles"
caverns "this are syntax"
headband "goodbye mother nature"

DJ Tom Hanks: KXLU 2/17 @ 2AM

So...
Awesometown was dope last week and I kind of killed it. I mean, I didn't break new ground in terms of selection but I had the entire crowd dancing their asses off. And then everyone stopped dancing when I finished. I don't know why, but it is true. I brought a bunch of friends to Shortstop but literally none of them danced because they're cynical assbags. So yeah: DJ Tom Hanks makes all the girlies shake it shake it. And the dudes love it too. Check out Shadowscene's pictures from the night at Shadowscene.com.
And as a result, Terrel the boss man from Shortstop and Footsie's finalized my psych night. On March 1st, we will be having a launch party for Poundtown at Footsie's. Then Camerin and I will be doing every other Thursday night psych style. When we have the flyer/invite, it'll be here for your amusement.
Oh and one more thing:
KXLU TONIGHT/TOMORROW! 2AM-6AM
I'm not supposed to play too many of my own songs at first in favor of what they have at the station but hopefully, they will have a bunch of good albums for me to choose from.
I'm not posting any mp3 right now but check this: follow me at blip.fm and I'll be posting tracks all day.

DJ Tom Hanks: Tear da Club Up at Awesometown, 2/11/09

Yes, the rumors are true: DJ Tom Hanks will be crashing Anne Lee and Shadowscene's Shortstop jump-off tomorrow (2/11/09). In 24 hours, your boy Sir Hanks-a-Lot will be bumping up the population in Awesometown and getting ready to rampage all over some Dodger memorabilia. Why do I keep referring to myself in the third person? Ha, Sir Hanks-a-Lot...that is friggin dope.
Anyway, I'm not sure what I'm going to play yet because I haven't been to A town in a minute but rest assured: I will go the fuck off. As we say over here in Rage City: I'm going to go on (get it? so far off I'm on again? I know, Psycho Matt...).
So definitely come through for a minute because there will be A) cute girls (sorry ladies, the dude clientele is kinda hurt), B) cheap beers, C) a sweaty dance floor, and D) a psycho, red haired Rape Valley Records ALL STAR dropping sick mid-Atlantic club music. Damn, I've already said too much.
But yo: download a mix from the list to the right in case ya'll wanna know what I'm about. Oh and stay tuned for my brand new Glasnost remix on Rape Valley Records in a day or two.
Psychotown....
Shortstop Bar, 2/11/09
10-2 Echo Park

Mack Winston and the Reflections at Bardot Saturday/White Arrows at Temporary Spaces Friday

Alright, I just saw Diplo rip shit up at Dance Right and it reminded me that I gotta work on my DJ game before next week at Awesometown for real. So I'm not gonna go on about Mack this time because I've devoted enough djtomhanks.com jibba jabba to those dudes already. But, you should go to the show on Saturday night because A) they rule, B) I'll be there raging, C) it is free.




Also, you guys can catch Casper Adams in action at Temporary Spaces Friday night playing with White Arrows. Funny, if I was still doing first Fridays there the same band would be there. The scene is way too small sometimes. And it isn't just LA; it's everywhere. The same kids just batting each other back and forth. Whatever. See you at the rock party. Holla!

Yeah, I Don't Want to Bury Poundtown the Mix So Soon. DJ Tom Hanks at His Most Progressively Psychedelic

"Poundtown: The Mix" on mediafire. By DJ Tom Hanks w/ Camerin Kelly
Oh and this mix is brought to you by the good people at...




Poundtown: The Mix

Jerusalem "Primitive Man"
king crimson "easy money"
arzachel "queen st gang"
black mt "modern music"
gravy train "ballad of a peaceful man"
parts and labor "little ones"
joseph "stoned age man"
iota "love comes wicked"
jd blackfoot "cycles"
caverns "this are syntax"
headband "goodbye mother nature"

DJ Tom Hanks at Awesometown 2/11/09

Alright, Anne finally put me on for Awesometown. It is the Wednesday after next and I'm planning on killing it. You could probably say I'm gonna go the fuck off.

Meanwhile, Tom is doing a Monday night party at Footsie's now too so check that out. Lord knows I'm not trying to promote any more of my own Monday night parties any time soon. And you know what, dude still owes me money from last time I DJ-ed his party. But here is his flyer. Go.

Poundtown: The Mix is Finally Here

Poundtown: The Mix

Jerusalem "Primitive Man"
king crimson "easy money"
arzachel "queen st gang"
black mt "modern music"
gravy train "ballad of a peaceful man"
parts and labor "little ones"
joseph "stoned age man"
iota "love comes wicked"
jd blackfoot "cycles"
caverns "this are syntax"
headband "goodbye mother nature"


I really don't know why this mix took so long to finish. Me and Camerin picked out the tracks before Christmas and although I've been saying I was waiting for him to get home because we're supposed to be making it together, that's bullshit. It was done and I posted it on mediafire like 2 weeks ago and he said it was fine. I guess I've just been sitting on it thinking that there had to be something wrong with it because it was easier to make than I thought. I'd never really done an all rock mix before so instead of just getting the beats mixed up and eventually fading one out like with drum machine tracks, I had to feel out each transition and find the best way to trade up songs as I went along. At the end of the day, I pretty much used a different effect or two for every song change and I'm happy with the results. And I should be confident: instead of adding effects to the transitions until I found a nice setup, I just threw like 12 or so on the two mixing songs and took them away level by level til I got a decent sound I hadn't used yet. I turned it into the manager at Footsie's tonight too so we should be getting Poundtown Parties at Footsie's underway soon enough. But yeah, listen to the mix at least because it took so damn long.

DJ Tom Hanks with Camerin Kelly "Poundtown: The Mix" mediafire

Caverns

My love affair with Caverns began a few years ago when my Dale took me to see them play at some nondescript meat-head bar in DC. I feel bad saying it but i had pretty low expectations for the show. I mean, Dale was pretty stingy with the praises and the clientele at the bar were certainly not my crowd. I just remember hearing all kinds of conservative rhetoric bandied about while Dale was reiterating that they had just started playing and were getting better.
But goddamn did these dudes rock! When the lights went down, you forgot about the douchey DC guys all over the place and just heard well-trained musicians going off uncontrollably. To this day, I've never heard a band play with this instrumentation: solid rhythm section coupled with heavy metal guitar and of all things, a super clean jazz piano. Simply put: the guitar riffs and the piano meanders, occupying huge swaths of the track at hand. They take turns blasting the melody around and converge at just the right time. Build ups for short attention spans and monumental hooks that aren't over the top or annoyingly dramatic.
They just dropped a sick ep on FARC records that you should pick up ASAP. They're amazing live and the record definitely does a better job than most of capturing this energy on tape. It boils down the aforementioned formula into a perfectly distilled handful of tracks that manage to be approachable and intellectual. Hopefully, I'll be able to convince them to enter the Rape Valley fold and we'll get to hear more from them soon enough.
Since I don't wanna step on any one's toes, I'm only leaking tacks I've seen on other blogs. But don't get me wrong: "This Are Syntax" is one of my favorite Caverns tracks. So buy their records and holla holla at them when they're within a few hundred miles.

Caverns "This Are Syntax" mediafire

They're Rioting in Oakland and I'm Way Too Lazy to Do Anything But Download Full Albums: Featuring Nana Grizol and Titus Andronicus

OK...I was mad lazy over my recent Christmas break. I didn't update this page once and barely even read any blogs on my reader. However, my scheming cousin helped me pick up the slack and showed me where to download the best FULL-LENGTH albums. First of all, are you friggin kidding me? Full length albums? Just google the band's name and mediafire and you'll get a gang of entries...AKA: CHEATING!
Back in my day (last year), we had to go on a blog aggregater and get tracks one at a time. Nowadays, these lazy emo kids throw up whole albums and use my classic excuse "Ahh bro, I go see them live all the time and they get a much bigger cut from that money."
Whatever man, you're a real Robin Hood and shit.

Nana Grizol

Yeah, I'm hating...hating even though I must've downloaded 25 albums from the very same cheatin emo kids over break and I'll certainly be sharing them the old-fashioned way (one track at a time dammit!) when I decide on favorites.

But for now, I'm still lazy. I just hopped on here to bitch about excessive bloggers and join my homey 'Ron in giving the people of Oakland, CA some sincere props. Keep bringing the heat.

Titus Andronicus

Plus I've been shirking my djtomhanks.com mp3-bequeathing responsibilities: there will be plenty of one at a time track postings in the days to come. To get things rolling, here are tracks from Nana Grizol and Titus Andronicus that I DL-ed at the beginning of break and already listened to excessively. In typical Hanks-ian fashion, I'll keep my descriptions minimal: Nana features some of the dudes from Neutral Milk Hotel and they totally have an Elephant 6 circa 2009 feel. Outsider pop...yet waaaaaayy poppy. And Titus, according to said scheming cousin, sounds like "Springsteen meets Bright Eyes only way grungier." These albums come highly recommended by plenty of assholes with more popular blogs than me and if they're not the best tracks on Nana's Love It Love It or Titus's The Airing of Grievances, the albums are even better than I thought.

Titus Andronicus "Joset of Nazareth's Blues" mediafire

Nana Grizol "Circles 'Round the Moon" mediafire