Shepard Fairey has designed a silkscreen print of Darryl Jenifer, bassist of legendary hardcore band, Bad Brains. A limited edition of 175 signed copies is now available at the Bad Brains Official Store.
Fairey’s homage to Darryl comes on the heels of Jenifer’s first solo album “In Search of Black Judas”, which was released to critical acclaim a few months back. This is the second print Fairey has designed of the band, who the cult street artist states is “one of [his] favorite punk/hardcore groups of all time”.
This 15×23 silkscreened print based on a photograph by Atiba Jefferson is now available exclusively at the Bad Brains Official Store. 175 of the prints are signed by both Darryl Jenifer and Shepard Fairey and each print also comes with a digital download of an unreleased Darryl Jenifer track. Limited to one per customer.
Bad Brains will be releasing “Lost Riffs and Dubs”, a collection of unreleased live recordings from their classic years, on ROIR later this year.
Classic hardcore 7″ will once again be available on vinyl on April 16.
Limited edition colored vinyl also available: 250 red & 250 green pressed!
This limited Record Store Day release brings “Pay to Cum” back with original artwork and lyrics sheet insert. The 7″ will be readily available on black vinyl, but ROIR has also issued a limited number on colored vinyl (250 red & 250 green copies pressed). Red and green vinyl are exclusively available atthe Bad Brains Official Store at http://badbrainsofficialstore.com. There are also a handful of gold 7 inches available from a limited European pressing.
Bad Brains are also offering a FREE 320kbps MP3 download of the single until the end of Record Store Day weekend to save you audiophiles time ripping your 45 on your USB turntable… all exclusively from the Bad Brains Store!
Also be on the lookout for some spectacular live recordings of the Bad Brains from the early 80’s… Bad Brains “Lost Riffs and Dubs” will be out on ROIR later this year!
Get the Pay to Cum 7″ on Record Store Day Find your nearest participating record store here.
Duff McKagan (yeah you heard me) on ESPN (uh huh) talks Bad Brains and says Pay to Cum is ”maybe the world’s only perfect song”. That might clue you in to some rad news we have coming next week!
Read more on what the Guns ‘n’ Roses, Velvet Revolver and Jane’s Addiction had to say about the ‘Brains over at ESPN.
Bad Brains have also released a couple of new tour dates:
April 20 – Greek Theater, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Slightly Stoopid & Barrington Levy)
April 21 – House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV
April 22 – Summit Music Hall, Denver, CO
June 16 – West Coast Riot, Gothenburg, SWEDEN
June 18 – Hell/Heaven Fest, Clisson, FRANCE
June 24 – Azkena Rock Fest, Vitoria Gasteiz, SPAIN
We just got in some new shirts that we think you guys would really dig. Essential for the rock ‘n’ roller! They’re on sale now… check them out here.
Unfortunately it’s still winter (if you’re in New York, you know what we mean!). We want you guys to be warm, so we also put our cold weather gear ON SALE!
Select one of our six Valentine’s Day Card designs and on February 14 (EST), we’ll send your Valentine an email with your chosen image and a link to download the ROIR Valentine’s Day mix!
Our Valentine’s Day Mix features 10 tracks from the ROIR vaults and includes artists like New York Dolls, Skatalites, Bad Brains, Martin Rev, 10 Ft. Ganja Plant, Bush Tetras and more… don’t worry we’ll also send you a copy! Everyone can use a little self love.
Can you think of a better way to say “I La-la-love you”? Actually… we very well may have. Just check out our Valentine’s Day Gift Guide below and don’t tell us that giving your special someone a GG Allin bobblehead or a Suicide tee doesn’t just say it all?
Even though our Bad Brains album isn’t an unofficial bootleg and we certainly don’t consider it a “Lost” album, we’re pretty stoked to read Dave Grohl talk about the Bad Brains S/T on NME’s 100 Great Lost Albums!
The Bad Brains studio albums are great, but for me ‘ROIR’, this unofficial bootleg, comes closest to capturing their live sound on tape. I was living in DC in the early ’80S and got into the hardcore scene, but nobody else blew me away as much as Bad Brains. I’ll say it now, I have never ever, ever, ever, ever seen a band do anything even close to what Bad Brains used to do live. Seeing them live was, without a doubt, always one of the most intense, powerful experiences you could ever have. They were just… Oh God, words fail me… incredible. They were connected in a way I’d never seen before.
They made me absolutely determined to become a musician, they basically changed my life, and changed the lives of everyone who saw them. Rage Against The Machine are about the only band who get near to them, but even they aren’t in the same league.
Bad Brains are one of those bands where everyone who’s ever heard them live has come away with a real extreme reaction, one of either love or hate. I loved ‘em. The fact that there were four black guys coming on to a predominately white scene that they then just surpassed and absolutely destroyed with everything they did, just staggered you.
This is as close as I’ve heard to a record capturing that.
Get Bad Brains’ “Bad Brains” on CD, LP, cassette or picture disc vinyl here.
Winter is upon us… and will be for the next 3 months, UGH. I don’t know about you, but I’m already sick of it. The only thing you can really do is do your best to keep warm. We at ROIR have resolved to help you out with this, with our winter gear sale!
Not only do we have new Bad Brains beanies, we also brought in three new Bad Brains tees. The first is based on the Pay to Cum 7″ sleeve, and also the Bad Brains’ signature Rasta Lion in Yellow & Black. ROIR also now carries women’s tees! The classic Capitol Building shirt is available in the womens’ medium in both black & yellow, as is our new Pay to Cum design.
I know we’re kvetching about the cold, but our friends in the Great White North have it worse! It’s at least 10 degrees colder there, oooh wee! To make the winter cold a little easier for our Canadian friends, we’re offering FREE SHIPPING to CANADA until January 24.
The bass player for pioneering hardcore band Bad Brains, Daryl Jenifer fuses his old bands gritty, grinding approach with electronic rhythms and disembodied vocal snatches for his first solo outing, In Search of Black Judas. That it pulls from reggae, too, is no surprise: Bad Brains always had a healthy amount of Rasta in their punk, the only difference is that, on Black Judas, that influence is more pronounced. The record is conceptual: the songs bleed together, most of them build from sinewy, searching bass lines, topped with patches of static and sporadic LED blips. Jenifer’s voice is low and mysterious, and in the end, Black Judas feels more like a sonic collage than a proper rock record, each song sliding into the next, burbling like the Dagobah swamp. It’s a strange, fascinating journey – no pop, no style, just strictly roots.
Bad Brains bassist Darryl Jenifer’s debut solo album “In Search of Black Judas” will be in all good record stores this Tuesday. But you can pre-order it now at the Bad Brains Official Store!
It’s available on CD, LP & MP3… and it’s on SALE!
Darryl recently talked to Alternative Press about his upcoming album “In Search of Black Judas” and the state of music today. Read the interview here.
