Black Tango is playing the Hideout tonight, going on at about 9:30.  Doors open at 9:00. Followed by Die So Fluid and The Dreaming.

The Hideout
3519 El Cajon Blvd
San Diego

Black Tango is playing the Soda Bar on at about 9:30.  Doors open at 8:00. Talk in Tongues opens and Deluka is the headliner.

Black Tango joined the bill at the last minute for a show this Saturday at the Shakedown bar, opening for the Heathen Apostles.

The March Violets are coming to San Diego on their 2014 Into the Sun tour, and Black Tango will open the show at the Soda Bar on June 28. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 9.

After dusting off the best of their early 1980s songs for the Casbah show in January, Black Tango has been working on a few new ones to throw into the mix at this show.

Black Tango‘s 7-song album, Maggots in the Icing, is now available through Amazon’s CD on demand service (in addition to the earlier release on most digital services).

There are two ways to purchase the CD from Amazon:

• The main Amazon site using your Amazon account.
• Amazon’s subsidiary, Createspace. On this site you can use discount code ARCH5V3L to save $5 off the list price.

See the album’s page (Maggots in the Icing) for more information and full sample tracks.

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The first Normal Heights Records project is a re-issue of the 1986 cassette-only release of Black Tango‘s 7-song album, Maggots in the Icing. If all goes well, the album will be available via all the digital outlets (iTunes, AmazonMP3, etc.) and Amazon CD On-Demand in mid-April 2013.

The tracks were recorded at Normal Heights Studios from January through March, 1986. A Tascam 38 half-inch 8-track recorder was used, mixed on a Studiomaster 12-2c mixing desk, with a few external effects — delay, reverb and compression. The DX drums were synced on one track and recorded direct to the stereo cassette master.

Analog to digital conversion was performed using the original stereo cassette master. Other than typical normalization, no changes were made to the overall sound.

Nearly all the original cassette sleeve artwork will be incorporated into the new CD sleeve design, with the addition of a few photos from the period.

Normal Heights Records is a new record label based in San Diego. The focus is on the post-punk era in this region, roughly 1979 to 1989. The aim is to get currently unavailable material out via streaming, downloads, and CD on-demand.