We'd first like to thank the tremendously gracious audience we had last night.

Well for those of you who somehow didn't make it to New Brookland last night, you missed a power outage, a double rainbow, a shortened Yukos set, JuiceBoxing, a lot of nerdy rap, documentary filmings complete with thwarted interviews, release forms, the cameo appearances of Yukos' piano and JuiceBox's keyboard thing in M.C. Frontalot's set, a toast to "local baaands!!", and other angsty wailing. Oh, and the first colossal man-sweat in 13 years. What did YOU do all night?

(Stay tuned for video clips)

--Joshua of Yukos

A great deal has occurred since halloween. We've done a bunch of awesome shows in Columbia with a bunch of awesome bands from all over the place. Additionally, we've done a small amount of recording with some fancy new equipment.

We did a show at the Art Bar following the Singer/Songwriter sessions right after Thanksgiving. A lot of people showed up, and it was great. We pretty much played our entire catalog that night, which may have miffed the guy that was coming up to the side of the stage and giving us the throat- slashing signal towards the end. With the proceeds of that show, we purchased a professional-grade multi-input soundcard, a mic-preamp, and a bunch of cheap microphones. Very little recording has ensued mostly because Musician's Friend doesn't know how to ship things properly. What we have managed to get from it, though, is fairly nice: at least one good demo (Okrakilla) and another live show (which I will get to in a second).

Two months later, we did another show at the Art Bar. Less people showed up, but the other bands were marvelous. At that point, Almost Jason had finally achieved Jason and there was much heralding. THE lowercase THIEVES were fantastic. You can't not love a band that has a song entitled "Fuck the Dutch," especially with Yukos the Crude's history with the much-beloved Adult Swim card that read, "Fuck that Dutch Noise."

One month later, we had a show at New Brookland with SNMNMNM and The Deceased Lactate Product Delivery Personnel. These were two really fucking awesome bands, but all in all things went badly because of poor planning on the venue's part and lack of promotion.

Two weeks later, we had a spectacular show with JuiceBox. There is no way to describe just how much fun that show was. There was a fucking mosh pit. Holy fuck. We got some very good recordings of both JuiceBox's and our performances. Ours may be going up on archive.org soon.

And so, in exactly one week, we will be playing at the Art Bar once again. This time it will be with The Noise Machine, the aforementioned Almost Jason (who have yet to change their name to "Finally Jason" or "We Have Achieved Jason"), and Scary Hand featuring Von Henmon, who was apparently a leader in the Columbia punk scene in the eighties. It should be a lot of fun (as most shows at the Art Bar tend to be). Come see it and enjoy.

We've got a halloween present for you.

Also, we've got a show at the Art Bar in Columbia on November 26th. Yes, we know that's Thanksgiving weekend, but if you're in town, we'd love to see you at the show. By that point during Thanksgiving, most people are tired of turkey and being shut in with their family anyway.

In the past month, we have had two awesome shows with some awesome bands.

Last month on September 22, we played at the Art Bar's Katrina victims benefit with a bunch of very cool bands and artists. The entire benefit raised somewhere around $1,000, which was donated to the Red Cross.

Last night, we played at New Brookland with Kilcoy and one of the best bands in Columbia: The Noise. Much, much fun was had. Much. Many thanks go to The Noise for singing backup in Sweatpants and Richard Dean Anderson and providing a thunderous tribal beat during Leo's. Many more thanks go out to Alex Mabrey for recording the show and John for being a most excellent sound man. And, of course, lots and lots of thanks go out to everyone who came out to see the hours of debauchery in action.

A lot of crazy stuff has happened since last there was an entry on this blasted news page. First off, we've acquired a new drummer: Chuck Tomlinson. Chuck has played with Timmy Orangeburg, Eric Skelton, and other bands that I can't remember. He is also Codename: Juan. Additionally, we cannot go on without mentioning that Chuck is the Chuck of Ground Chuck, which was more of a joke than an actual band, but it contained Chuck and two of the founding members of Yukos.

Secondly, the website has gone through yet another design change. I have no clue how it looks on internet explorer. Could someone with a windows computer email Yukos and let me know how our website looks on IE? Basically, if there is text being covered up by images, tables, or other text, I want to know about it.

With this update, the pictures page has been improved and updated. There are now four new galleries for your perusal. Thanks go out to Sara and Darrell for quite a few of them.

Additionally, we've played two more shows since the last update. Both were at New Brookland and both went very well. We had a show lined up for the Art Bar in Columbia on September 8, but it is being rescheduled on account of Roni Zagoria and the Whole Lotta Man Band besting us with their innate ability to get gigs. This may be some sort of Karmic retribution for besting them in the ability to make interesting sampler covers.

Ground Zero went wonderfully. We'd like to thank the crowd for being great and Pharma Sutra for letting us use their drums and bass rig. Pharma Sutra, Perish42, and Jus Caus were all awesome. It was a most excellent evening.

We've made our first batch of the Rock Salt EP/DVD. It was a run of 20, but we'll make more as needed. Our plans are to eventually have some way to sell it online, but for now we will be selling them at shows and bringing them by Columbia area record shops.

We redesigned the site only to find that it looks like ass in Internet Explorer. Whatever. Get Firefox. IE should be thrown in the recycle bin, as should the recycle bin.

What's happened since our last update? We've had a show at the now-defunct Guitar Bar in Spartanburg. Joshua has completed two new videos: Goddamned Moon and Disclaimer. Tob and Philip have been working on the mix for Closet Nymphomaniac. Philip has lent his trumpet talent to the band JuiceBox, of which Alex Mabrey is (at the time of this post) a member. Alex produced some of our earlier demos a couple years ago.

We are hoping to make our first release, an EP/DVD multimedia extravaganza entitled "Rock Salt" in early 2005.

The band has been rehearsing at Tob's house, and said practices have been very productive. We've even recorded a few more of our really good songs. Our plans are to put out a combination EP/DVD spectacular suitable for distribution at shows. One of our finest works so far for the DVD is the Leo's video. It is a work of art like no other.

The band had a very productive practice at Tob's house last weekend, despite some equipment malfunctions. There are also some very tastefully artsy photos of said practice by Tob's Boy Sara^TM that will hopefully be in the gallery at some point.

There are also some video clips of our first and only show at the New Brookland Tavern.

Joshua and Philip have been working on a ton of new songs lately. There's a good 45 minutes of music sitting around begging to be listened to.

We now have a working photo gallery and a new batch of pictures to go with it.

Our first show at the New Brookland Tavern went well, despite a few technical difficulties.

Here are some pictures from the show!