Aires and Graces debut CD-EP "Hope and Fortitude" is available! The six song EP features staples of the Aires and Graces set and exhibits both sonic density and lyrical depth.

"For those who enjoy the sounds and concept of patriot working class protest, pay attention to this band." -- Oi Bastards Webzine

"A number of good band have been appearing years in the United States in the last few years. And one of those bands, is Aires and Graces." -- Watch Your Back Blog

You can get our record at our website airesandgraces.deadendsocialclub.com Or at Deadendsocialclub.com Or Along with other great Dead End Social Club releases at Interpunk.com.

We also have shirts left. We have a few M, L, XL’s. They are available for only 15 dollars. You can email us at info at deadendsocialclub dot com for availability.

You can order our shirts through our website Airesandgraces.deadendsocialclub.com

While you are looking to buy merch. Remember that Dead End Social Club has the “Take it Back” scarves available. Featuring the Crucified Skinhead image, and the phrase “Take it Back”. All sales for this scarf will go directly to helping us out on the Patriot tour!!!

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Second: If you have an issue with Olympian, address The Olympian.

Third: The people administering the web-content of The Olympian are employees doing their job, they are human. Don’t reduce your annoying discourse to dehumanizing remarks on how you perceive their character based on your issues with their (being the companies) forum.

This brings me to this point. Because, at this point as an Olyblogger, it begs to be asked; in all seriousness. Because, frankly things like Olyblog exist, because they don’t want to be like the local media…

Who cares what the Olympian "comments" forum is doing? It is a comment section of a newspaper. What ever happened to addressing concerns with editorial content in writing to the paper? Or is it, that some have nothing better to do with their lives, than cause arguments online about trivial issues.

Here’s a suggestion or two:

A. If you see an error in The Olympian, correct it and mail it to them, they have a section in the paper for errors and omissions.

B. If you don’t like the editorial stance of the paper, write a section editor, or the paper’s parent company.

C. If you don’t like what the City of Olympia, the City Council, or any elected official is doing try writing an editorial, that will get published; go to council meetings and voice concerns; or write said official.

Point is the only people who read the comments section of the online edition of the paper are the same type who post on them ad nauseam and start flame wars about unrelated topics.

Today I went out to give the theif a little message. When I set out it began as not too bad of an evening. But within a minute or two of getting downtown it began to rain. And by the time I began painting it was pouring, and by pouring, I mean buckets. By the time I got back home, I was soaked to the bone and shivering, and to think my plan was to regroup and go out bombing later….

LISTEN, ASSHOLE! IF YOU ARE GOING TO RIP ME OFF, THEN AT LEAST BE DECENT AT IT...

I DON'T LIKE TO FIND KNOCK OFFS OF A PROJECT I HAVE BEEN DOING FOR NEARLY 5 YEARS LOOK THIS BAD.

Compair the shitty, knock off, with one of the birds done a few years ago, hmmm. Well since I have done thousands of these, and have been well documented on the internet, and in the community, perhaps you should try something new. Also, why would a profile view have two eyes???? At least when riping me off, remember I use one x...

If you continue to feel the need to rip me off, at least get some tips from my website

www.timothyradar.com

From the Dead End Social Club single "My Baby's Okay" b/w "Free The Bears" DESC102.

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Taken from Maximum Rock N Roll issue number 293. By Miss Radar (not to be confused with Timothy Radar)

A long time has passed since the halcyon days of the Olympia music scene. The ability to see the town’s top bands in Olympia’s 1000 seat theater one day, and in a 20 person basement show the next seems to be lost in our salad days. There is speculation by some that the era of Olympia’s reign as one of the best all ages music scenes in the country may be over; K Records has a release schedule around two a year these days… And Kill Rock Stars head-honcho Slim Moon has jumped ship to New York to work for the major label Nonesuch.

This isn’t to say that the scene in the rainy-state-capital is not as vital to its inhabitants as it once was. What may be lost in size and attention, may be found in intimacy and die-hard vitality. With the larger, mostly-famous record labels from Olympia shifting units out of town, or focusing on their back catalog, new labels have began to come out of the wood work. Olympia’s folk-punk group The Pasties (who recently were arrested by the Olympia Police Department for give a free concert during the annual lakefair) are just one of a half dozen bands on the collectively ran Na Na Na Na Boo Boo Records; and Dead End Social Club Records (started by the anti-racist skinhead crew of the same name) has just released its third single in a year by British soul group Lucky Soul adding diversity to its catalog of ska and oi singles.

Ten years ago Olympia venues were packed to the gills with touring bands, and there were no shortages of places to play. In the decade since the Capital Theater Backstage barley eeks out a show a quarter, the Arrowspace is now closed, the Yes Yes has become no no-longer, and the Midnight Sun’s constant shifts in management and focus on theater has rendered the venue useless for the most part.

It may be one of the quintessential questions of this generation as we face increasing gentrification and globalization, what do we want our community to look like? This question is also at the center of a stand-off between one of Olympia’s last holdouts of all-ages action and the city that prides itself on its arts community.

Olympia, like much of Thurston County, is a town at a crossroads. Corporate investors and real estate developers are scrambling to cash in on an area with exponential growth while Olympia’s arts community is struggling to keep the “Olympia Spirit” alive.

Proclaimed the “Hippest town in the west” in an August 2000 Time Magazine article, Olympia has forged a national reputation as a home to progressive arts and music. The music scene, built on nearly three generations of youth producing all ages music has produced bands such as Nirvana, Sleater Kenny, Bikini Kill, and even Marcy’s Playground. An essential ingredient in making this happen was involvement from people of all ages, abundant and frequent all ages shows, and an open atmosphere of creativity.

The question begs to be asked, at what point do people stop cashing in and start keeping avenues for youth involvement, creativity and cultural vibrancy alive?

Citing code violations due to their new expansion, the city has put a stop work order on the club. Concerned with not being the next “Rhode Island,” an allusion to the Great White incident that killed 100 people and injured more than 200, the city has required the Manium to add a twenty five thousand dollar sprinkler system despite the club not requiring it in the past. A closer examination puts the city and the club in a game of he said / she said regarding the real issue.

The city has asserted that the club owners are rude, and uncooperative with the cities officials.