Friday, January 18, 2013

In Times Of Triage I - Urgence Absolue FREE DOWNLOAD & farewell.

Click here for a free download of our newest album In Times Of Triage I - Urgence Absolue.
Plus everything else we ever released. Thanks for all of the fun times. -TBR

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Lonely Kings, Requiem For The Dead, & The Backup Razor @ The Blue Lagoon Friday 11/16/12


Rock
Sacramento

Live loud rock and roll since 1994!

Audio Porn
Santa Cruz

Punk rock kids at heart with the love and passion for industrial, pop rock, and metal. We do not follow any scene. We write and play because we love doing it...

We sing. We hit guitar and bass strings. We smash drums. We melt faces...

Punk Rock
Santa Cruz, California

923 Pacific Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Show at 9:00

Sunday, August 12, 2012

SOS Needle Exchange Benefit Party w/ Tetherhorse, The Backup Razor, Shiny Mountains, & The Redlight District @ The Church House Saturday 8/18/12





Hey boys and girls, it's time for you all to squeeze your feet into your party shoes like a pair of baby kangaroos groping their way into a mothers pouch and skip on down to ye ol' church house. We, the denizens of this fine and wondrous establishment have decided it is time, HIGH TIME!!! for us to throw another rip roaring fiesta extravaganza. This time, however, you'll all be running wild and insane through our halls like a pack of wild boars whilst simultaneously supporting a good cause! Needle exchange! Yay! Fun Fun Fun!

Our Narcan/Naloxone program:
We do overdose prevention trainings for drug users, their families and friends. We teach people how to recognize and respond to an opiate overdose situation. We teach them about rescue breathing and Narcan (also called naloxone). We distribute take-home overdose rescue kits that contain injectible Narcan – a drug that, if used quickly enough, can reverse an opiate overdose and save a life. It has been used by paramedics and emergency rooms for over thirty years. Our Narcan is prescribed by Dr. Bill Morris (of the Janus Clinic). The intent is to have the Narcan immediately available in an overdose situation, to be administered by a trained friend or family member."

Each rescue kit costs about $30 - pretty cheap to save a life, but we're low on cash.



What is Needle Exchange? Glad you asked! SOS needle Exchange is an organization dedicated to helping prevent the spread of transmittable viral infections contracted through intravenous drug usage. Confused? Read this!


So come one, come, all, to our Benefit party! Entrance fee is $6, which goes 100% to doing good things. You don't like Hep C do you? Then come to our party! This $6 buys you $6 in beer tokens which you can spend at your leisure! In our backyard.

Kegs include:
PBR
Penthouse Ale by Squabble Hollow Brewery (5%)- A hoppy California Pale Ale
Siamese Twin Ale by Uncommon Brewers (8.5%) - An organic double Belgian Ale



Scientists can now block heroin, morphine addiction

Wednesday, 15 August 2012
In a major breakthrough, an international team of scientists has proven that addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, while at the same time increasing pain relief.

The team from the University of Adelaide and University of Colorado has discovered the key mechanism in the body's immune system that amplifies addiction to opioid drugs.

Laboratory studies have shown that the drug (+)-naloxone will selectively block the immune-addiction response.

The results - which could eventually lead to new co-formulated drugs that assist patients with severe pain, as well as helping heroin users to kick the habit - will be published tomorrow in the Journal of Neuroscience.

"Our studies have shown conclusively that we can block addiction via the immune system of the brain, without targeting the brain's wiring," says the lead author of the study, Dr Mark Hutchinson, ARC Research Fellow in the University of Adelaide's School of Medical Sciences.

"Both the central nervous system and the immune system play important roles in creating addiction, but our studies have shown we only need to block the immune response in the brain to prevent cravings for opioid drugs."

The team has focused its research efforts on the immune receptor known as Toll-Like receptor 4 (TLR4).

"Opioid drugs such as morphine and heroin bind to TLR4 in a similar way to the normal immune response to bacteria. The problem is that TLR4 then acts as an amplifier for addiction," Dr Hutchinson says.

"The drug (+)-naloxone automatically shuts down the addiction. It shuts down the need to take opioids, it cuts out behaviours associated with addiction, and the neurochemistry in the brain changes - dopamine, which is the chemical important for providing that sense of 'reward' from the drug, is no longer produced."

Senior author Professor Linda Watkins, from the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder, says: "This work fundamentally changes what we understand about opioids, reward and addiction. We've suspected for some years that TLR4 may be the key to blocking opioid addiction, but now we have the proof.

"The drug that we've used to block addiction, (+)-naloxone, is a non-opioid mirror image drug that was created by Dr Kenner Rice in the 1970s. We believe this will prove extremely useful as a co-formulated drug with morphine, so that patients who require relief for severe pain will not become addicted but still receive pain relief . This has the potential to lead to major advances in patient and palliative care," Professor Watkins says.

The researchers say clinical trials may be possible within the next 18 months.

This study has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in the United States and the Australian Research Council (ARC).

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

TBR SUMMER TOUR



TBR & Vampirates need a little help booking some last minute toue dates. Please let us know if you can get us a house show or venue anywhere near our open dates. All advice is appreciated. 


July 2012

Sunday 1 - Pocatello, Idaho / Salt Lake City, Utah (house show?)

Monday 2 - Boise, Idaho @ The Boise Venue (521 Broad Street)

Tuesday 3 - Bend, Oregon @ The Horned Hand (507 Northwest Colorado Avenue)

Wednesday 4 - Eugene, Oregon / Bellingham, Washington

Thursday 5 - Seattle, Washington

Friday 6 - Tacoma / Olympia, Washington

Saturday 7 - Portland, Oregon @ Red Room (2530 Northeast 82nd Avenue)

Sunday 8 - Salem, Oregon (@ Pirate Punk House Show?)

Monday 9 - Redding / Chico, California

Tuesday 10 - Oakland, California @ Stork Club w/ Self Inflicted & tba (2330 Telegraph Avenue)

Wednesday 11 - Santa Cruz, California @ The Blue Lagoon w/ Dun Bin Had (923 Pacific Avenue)

Thursday 12 - Los Angeles, California

https://docs.google.com/document/d/181iakJ2q87u2M5Ac36iNOG8tPgU0c1Q0RIHM3aBjrgY/edit?pli=1

Thank you brogues!



Friday, May 18, 2012

THE BACKUP RAZOR 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY & FREE PUNK SHOW w/ Benedict Arnold, Trashkannon, & Losing Teeth @ The Blue Lagoon Monday 6/11/12


The Backup Razor (thebackuprazor.blogspot.com) will be celebrating their 5-year anniversary with a free show June 11th, at The Blue Lagoon, in Santa Cruz with support from Benedict Arnold (bapunk.com), Trashkännon (reverbnation.com/trashkannon, http://www.blackcat-records.com), and Losing Teeth (https://www.reverbnation.com/losingteethsc). 

The Backup Razor (Santa Cruz, CA) is preparing to enter the studio to record the third installment in their four-album release “In Times of Triage”. April and May saw a tour with Reno, Nevada’s Vampirates (vampirates.org), with more dates planned for June and July.

Benedict Arnold (St. Louis, MO) is on tour in support of their second full-length release “We’re All In”, and also recently finished several Eastern U.S. dates with Vampirates. Catch Vampirates this June:
6/8 Double Down Saloon – Las Vegas, NV
6/10 Doll Hut – Anaheim, CA
6/11 The Blue Lagoon – Santa Cruz, CA
6/14 Shea’s Tavern – Reno, NV
6/20 Ypsilanti Crossroads – Ypsilanti, MI
6/22 Otto’s Shrunken Head – New York, NY
6/23 247 Green – Somersworth, NH

Trashkännon (San Jose, CA) self-produced and released their first LP, “Shit For Brains” in 2010, and the album saw a 2012 vinyl release through Black Cat Records.

Losing Teeth (Watsonville/Santa Cruz, CA) our area's newest punk rock power trio, Losing Teeth (watsonville/santa cruz) opens the show.







Punk Rock
Santa Cruz, California

“With many groups including The Avengers, The Nuns, Mutants, The Offs, and the Dead Kennedys having built thriving careers out of northern California, the Bay Area is no stranger to Punk Rock. Abundant in arts and culture, it makes sense that local geography continues to birth an unstoppable, underground movement abundant in Punk. Included in the mix is Santa Cruz’s “The Backup Razor”, an eclectic group fueled by a love for “what they do” and propelled by a mission to keep the local music scene alive. Front-man Jesse Williams is the voice behind the band, supported by Nick Hardesty on guitar, Jonathan Mumma on drums and Jeff Badagliacca on bass. Driven by a genuine passion for expression, TBR has a resume that would put some of the most tenured bands to shame. Sharing stage with literally hundreds of artists and myriads of venues, the rebel quartet has become an established entity across the region as a member and driver on the local scene…”

Punk Rock
Saint Louis, Missouri

In March of ’03 Rod Night was the only punk rocker in a small town until Floyd Flannigan and Travi Scum arrived. They came from Alaska and wanted to start a band. Benedict Arnold was born. It was Travi on drums, Rod on guitar and Floyd on Bass. They floated around St. Louis playing guitar on the streets and causing mischief. Eventually Benedict Arnold found its way into a punk house and of course wrecked it from basement shows and massive parties. All seemed well until the night of December 1st, ’05. Travi was tragically killed in a car wreck shortly after a Benedict Arnold show.
Rod and Floyd forged the broken pieces. Together with the help of Ricky Retardo, now their drummer, the guys continued to create potent punk rock. News of the band spread to cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Milwaukee. The guys quickly found themselves touring the nation. While rocking out at a dive bar in Southern California Benedict Arnold met Gunn and he had a round of Sailor Jerry waiting for them. Several bottles later it was unanimous that Gunn join the group on six-string. This band is a wild, whirlwind of adrenaline and antics. Keep your eyes and ears open for the menace known as Benedict Arnold

Punk Rock
San Jose, California

We are The Kannon. forged from the scum of the South Bay music scene we vomit tasty licks and spit pure evil into the ear canals of the unwitting masses!

Punk Rock
Santa Cruz, California

we are LOSING TEETH, formed late 2010, 3 old school punkers/metalheads from watsonville/santa cruz, that play a loud raunchy hard hitting hybrid of numerous punk and metal influences shared over the decades. got a gig or party you'd like us to play, let us know.....

923 Pacific Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95060