RURAL WAR ROOM

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Member Since: 2/9/2006
Band Website: ruralwarroom.blogspot.com/
Band Members:

RURAL WAR ROOM is a duo: Byron Werner and Donavan Suitt. Listed alone (in upper case) this name refers to the world's first cyber band, in that we record online with members in other countries.
This name has franchised into a radio show, broadcasting rare, lost vinyl records and imports from international artists and a record label to distribute lost recordings and unusual artists who would otherwise never have music distribution. Also, the words "records" and "recordings" are interchangeable. Most releases are on CD only. Keep reading...
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Donavan Suitt Download free mp3s of past Rural War Room Radio Shows, as well as past Hour of Slack and Bob's Slacktime Funhouse broadcasts featuring RWR at Radio4all.net
Past RWR Radio Shows are syndicated on many other stations as well. A portion of the calendar listings to the right are for re-broadcasts of the RWR Radio Show. Re-broadcasts say "syndicated" in the listing.
New live radio broadcasts every Tuesday, as well as live events for RURAL WAR ROOM (all caps) the cyber band are marked * on our calendar –
New releases from our label, RWR Records, are marked ** on our calendar –

RURAL WAR ROOM has been dubbed Slacktivists by group member Jami Kath. There is no better way to describe the seemingly slackfull way RWR produces such a great number of products.
RWR is proud to be part of the global Songcast family - bringing new music to a creatively starved planet.
– Find RWR at Songcast International here.
– Buy RWR music on iTunes here.
– Buy RWR music on Amazon here.

– Buy RWR products at Cafe Press here.
Scroll down to buy the new Limited Edition DEVO Tribute CD NNBBM Vol 7!



• TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14TH, catch our weekly online radio broadcast, Rural War Room Radio –linked here– on KABF 88.3 FM / kabf883.com, Little Rock, Arkansas from 10pm to 12am midnight (CST). Two hours every Tuesday night is all you need to find a new favorite song. Next up, THE FOOD AND DRINK SHOW features great cuts about two of our favorite subjects in an array of styles - DJ Food, Louis Prima, Mr. Santa and a slew of old ads will make for yet another memorable show! Tune in to hear all kinds of Sub-and-Spud shocks! Our broadcast happens in every Tuesday night right here on kabf883.com!
• It is a pleasure to save lost vinyl and sift through imports never available in the USA to make sure that you can hear the most interesting sounds that music has to offer. Our radio show has just celebrated a 3 year anniversary on KABF883.COM. It is a great pleasure to bring you the most diverse internet radio available. Please send song requests, comments, or ideas to this page. We enjoy the communication.
• Click here for the KABF 88.3 Live Stream. There are NO pop-ups, banner-ads, or bullshit like other online radio - really! Just select your speed, save to your desktop, then open the download by clicking the orange and white VLC traffic cone and the player pops up! Listen to KABF 24 hours a day but especially on Tuesday nights! Read our calendar to the right for details on future radio shows as well as syndicated radio and other upcoming events. Read our blogs here for full details.
• Tune in every Tuesday night! October 14, 21, 28, November 4, 11, 18, 25, December 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and so on in '09. Two hours every Tuesday 10pm-12am CST (8-10 PST, 11-1 EST)
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• SHIPPING NOW - The annual DEVO tribute CD, Not Necessarily Beautiful But Mutated Volume 7 (2008). RURAL WAR ROOM, the world's first cyber band, is excited to be covering two DEVO songs ("Auto Modown" and "Mechanical Man" from Elevator Records 1978). Previews on this page. Other featured artists include Occupant, Humanoides, The Minordian, PEVO, Margoo, GLOBO, The Transistors the one-and-only Blowfly even submitted a track, "Suck It (Extended Remix)" by RWR's Donavan Suitt, as well as RWR Records artist Johnny Future 7 , a favorite of DEVO frontman Mothersbaugh.
• N.N.B.B.M. Vol 7 is a limited pressing with artwork by Byron Werner on the disc itself and cover art by Krk Ryden. Never before has such an International group come together to record DEVO tribute songs, ranging from Japan to Italy and back to the US. This CD is a must have... before they are gone!
• To obtain this very limited edition CD - of 250 to be exact - for the bargain price of $15 USD postage paid through Paypal shipping 08/30/08 - CLICK THE KRK RYDEN ART BELOW (Italian Promo Poster layout by ErMan) TO GET IT NOW!

• Byron Werner also transformed and donated a DEVO dome for the Joko-Dome-O Project featured here as part of a charity event to raise funds to help dear Saint Mary with legal fees. Click the link for more. We wear the Byron Dome in our profile photo, as does Johnny Future. Click the dome for more.

• RWR was interviewed about these projects (supposedly) by an Dry Core Radio Cleveland, Ohio at 12am 8/27/08. This very strange interview is a must-hear! Download an mp3 for FREE of the Dry Core Radio Cleveland interview with RWR about the DEVO tribute here!
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- MORE NEWS ural War Room Records, is currently in production for numerous projects. We carry unusual artists who are more than committed to their vision... whether anyone understands it or not. On RWR Records, you will find what most call outsider artists and oddities found nowhere else.
• Also get the newly uncovered original pressings of past annual DEVOtribute CDs Not Necessarily Beautiful But Mutated Volume 5 and the equally brilliant Volume 6; the past two releases in an annual collection of DEVO cover songs by artists all over the world. These last two releases were thought to be sold out, but the Spud gods have smiled down and made them available to YOU for only $15 USD each - postage paid. Don't miss these very limited edition (no kidding) CDs. Shipping now. Paypal click below.

• Byron Werner is featured in the new Raymond Scott documentary On To Something. For those who think they don't know who Scott is - you do. His music is everywhere. This is a monumental film. Click here to see the trailer.

• RWR Records is proud to announce the newly restored recordings of Little Rock, Arkansas' finest musical transplant to Venice Beach, CA, the one and only Elton and Betty White! Please befriend the new page! This material is remastered from the original recordings, thanks to our good friend Jerry Colburn. This is the first time these recordings have ever been heard outside the studio. Suitt has cataloged then entire collection - 260 songs in all. The first CD, Elton and Betty White - Hard Deep Sex Explosion (1989/2008) will be available this fall. It is a pity that it has taken so long for the world to have access to the couple's recordings. Though Betty is no longer with us, Elton deserves much more than the world has given him. It is time for him to get something back. This is a labor of love. Profits from this release go directly to Elton.
• Current RWR Records releases include the politically incorrect self-titled cult hit Johnny Future ; Little Rock comedy veterans, Red Octopus Theater ; foul-mouthed holiday icon, Mr. Santa - Live and Studio! plus the two CDs playing now by the cyber band RURAL WAR ROOM.
• RWR Records also looks forward to releasing lost artists like southern darling Tammy Loretta Judd , outsider Omo the Hobo, Little Rock's own psychedelic Christian group from '69, Rayburn, tone-challenged lounge couple The Real Jonzes, and the original shock-jock from late-'70s black radio, Chicago's own white guy-with-band, Bob Wall and the Wall-Notes. Also watch for debut releases from other lost Little Rock, AR acts like war veteran Jack Pardon, and the ever-elderly CC and the Fossiles, alongside the politically incorrect fair of The UBAF. RWR Records will also be releasing The New World of Stainless Steel, and many lost recordings and ultra-obscure vinyl - burlesque humor, female impersonators, high-school bands, one-shot religious recordings and more - digitized for the very first time. Watch for the new website coming soon. Please tell your friends...

• Rural War Room Radio premiered the new album by The Transistors (Rome, Italy) here in the US this past March 4th, and in Italy, April 3rd. Modern Landscape (2008 Funky Juice) is a must have! Click here to listen to the RWR guys premiere of "Spiral Waltz" on Italian internet radio.

• The voices of RWR are featured with The Transistors on tour! Intros for songs and full music videos, including the first song "Last Train" will accompany performances on this European tour. Click here to see The Transistors live introduced by RWR. Also watch for RWR multilingual interviews with the band about their new album Modern Landscape (2008 Funky Juice).
• Word about Byron Werner living in Little Rock finally got around. His art is selling from LR, AR to LA, CA. Click here to watch Byron Werner on ABC Television's Daybreak from Saturday, March 1st, 2008. Click here for the rest of that broadcast. Thanks for tuning in.

• View the artwork of Byron Werner here.
• View more of Werner's work here.
• Read the Arkansas Democrat Gazette interview with Byron Werner.

• To visit us outside of myspace land, bookmark us at ruralwarroom.blogspot.com
• Finally online! RWR's Donavan Suitt and Byron Werner produced and directed the new music video for Italian lounge supergroup The Transistors' new song "Last Train" featuring special guests GARBO on vocal with guitars by Giuseppe "Elfacia" Cirillo.
• Watch The Transistors video by RWR on Youtube.

• Visit the RWR Fan Club here on Ourstage.
• Request us here on XM Satellite Radio.

• Byron Werner is featured in the winter 2008 edition of CA Modern Magazine with Jeff Kaliss. For those who don't know, Werner is the one who revived the careers of Juan Esquivel and Raymond Scott from oblivion. He also coined the phrase "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" which was the title of the first big re-issue of an Esquivel collection. In fact, read the liner notes. They say, "If you enjoy the music of Juan Esquivel - Thank Byron Werner..." Thanks. Read the CA Mag article Esquivel In Orbit by Jeff Kaliss.

- IN OTHER NEWS The Transistors.
• The new video (by RWR) for the song "Last Train" by The Transistors has been called a "time-traveling, spy vs spy, romantic, funny, sexy thriller!" by Larry Hunter of the Little Rock Free Press in the article "Rome's Finest!" Check it! The Transistors are even on the cover of the magazine!
• Thanks to XM Radio for playing us. Visit XM Radio Online to hear Fine Tuning, and other excellent shows produced by Bill Kates.
• Here is a look into the world of RURAL WAR ROOM. Photos by Jami Kath Harrison, Iain Moore and Larry Hunter.

• If it were not for Bob Moog we would not be here doing our thing today. Please support the Bob Moog Foundation Here.

NEW! NEW! NEW! ! ! RWR GEAR!
We now have the shirts below. They come in white. These shirts come directly from RWR. Find other colors/styles and products like RWR g-strings, hoodies, housewares, animal garments and more at Cafe Press.

All shirts are designed to make you look your psychedelic best!
* Hanes® White T-Shirt
* 100% preshrunk cotton
* Durable color-fast inks
* No thick plastic on your fabric!
* Form-fitting and sexy!

Get the classic Ring-A-Ding Orangutan t-shirt. Boggle the minds and eyes of friends with this mandala made from hole-punched gift wrap print by Byron Werner. Only $13 each postage paid! They come in majestic white - don't be afraid. SM, M, L, XL, XXL.

Along with the release of the new RURAL WAR ROOM EP is the new EP T-Shirt featuring the original hole-punched gift wrap mandala print by Byron Werner. Boggle the minds and eyes of friends with this mandala made from hole-punched gift wrap print by Byron Werner. Only $13 each postage paid - Cheaper here than in stores! They come in majestic white. SM, M, L, XL, XXL.

RURAL WAR ROOM has an additional line-up that is minimal yet ever-changing. Featured are the talents of numerous guest artists who are manipulated through mind-control. RURAL WAR ROOM products are quality CDs. Each is unique and collectible.

Thanks to all the fans who have called attention to the debut album, Ring-A-Ding Orangutan by RURAL WAR ROOM and tuned in to the duo's podcast , heard 'round the world, RURAL WAR ROOM RADIO.

CLICK HERE FOR RWR CYBER-EVENT POD JAM 4 LAST YEAR.

To our friends who find themselves in Tokyo, get your music at the non-mail-order store that will satisfy your need for rare items - Visit Shop Mecano Tokyo, Japan!
Influences: Kurt Schwitters, Stump, Raymond Scott, Godfrey Reggio, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Perry and Kingsley, Juan Esquivel, eX-Girl, Col. Bleep, Russ Meyer, George Liberace, Mamie Van Doren.
Sounds Like: My favorite monkey, Flight 273 to Mars, a-choo, the corner of 7th & Bedford, a seance, a hippopotomous in suitcase sauce, Realistic Lab 390, voodoo drum jerks, the money machine, strings in space, air seeping from a yellow balloon, laughing with you, distant fireworks in November, a submarine with Turkish instructions, an orchestra in full swing, grade-school short film narration, a swift kick in the teeth, laser beams from friends, invisible tamborines, sophisticated Arabian military movements, lounging by a furious stream, Fernando Lamas, some yelling from mom, birds chirping through a tube, double-time pornography, slowed and slurred dialog, modern homes, Lawrence of Arabia, a steam wand on high, Tallulah Bankhead, a crank with no work brain, backwards playground wars, a very large gong, an unexpected LSD trip, falling down a flight of stairs, the damned phone in 1975, a 6-month-old jazz singer, the first take-off plan, some spare change, Lilac Park, Japanese pillow factories, my coughing fit in the exam room, Stu Goddard, a hair-band from that sitcom, Pamela Grier, 1960s news clips, synthetic slides up and down the block, a redneck convenience store clerk on the phone, tipsy Tina, fake snoring by an ex-actor, Mr. T, a psycho on the keys, a drill in the crib, fornicating Swaggart, the car finally starting, thunderous applause at a dinner theatre, atonal sax solo, a dog toilet, low-brow opera, 1980s music store promotional music, marching in hell, some beatleson the sidewalk, feedback pie, crossing the Pacific, a hippie's bells tangling around his feet, Tom Bailey, a semitone too flat, heavy coffee drinking in the morning, the deaf talk-show host, LaToya Jackson, a Bulgarian barista, CD skips that stayed in time, a double hand-spring over and over with a dash of dill. A menace.
The sounds and images on this web page are the property of RURAL WAR ROOM (Donavan Suitt and Byron Werner) and may not be used or reproduced without written permission of the owner.

Record Label: Rural War Room Records International Online ASCAP
Type of Label: Indie