Clint Weiler
Encyclopedia
Clinton S. Weiler is a Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
-based music publicist. A native to Birdsboro, PA and a 2001 graduate of Kutztown University, he's best known for his publicity work with past and present punk
legends. He is founder of Clint Weiler Publicity & Public Relations and works for MVD Entertainment Group. His company Aggronautix sells bobbleheads (aka throbbleheads) representing punk frontmen such as G. G. Allin, Milo Aukerman
of the Descendents
and Joey Keithley of D.O.A.
.
. He graduated from Kutztown University in May 2001 with a degree in writing and public relations. While at University in 1998 he served as sports writer for student newspaper The Keystone and founded Universal Warning Records
with two fellow students.
Through this company, he's done work for Alive Naturalsound Records, AK Press
, Prophase Music and Film, mimobot
, Stereo Killer, and Sudden Death Records
, which is run by Joey "Shithead" Keithley, frontman of hardcore punk
band D.O.A.
. Weiler has publicized books Grunge is Dead http://www.ecwpress.com/book/grunge-dead by author Greg Prato and The History of Independent Cinema
by author Phil Hall
. He's also worked on Tesco Vee
's book Touch and Go: the Complete Hardcore Punk Fanzine 1979-83.
producer as a label and distributor for Music DVDs. They've released over 1500 titles since 1999. In 2006 the company formed MVD Audio, a division Weiler often works with to publicize CDs. MVD has distributed concert movies and music videos for artists such as Sublime
, The Pixies, Bad Brains
, Devo
, The New York Dolls, Iggy Pop
, the MC5
, Dead Kennedys
, Danzig
, Marillion
, Ween
, Shane MacGowan
, Stryper
, and Johnny Winter
. Labels they have worked with include Metal Mind Productions
, Megalith Records
and Cherry Red
.
MVD clients
In August 2002 he also helped promote comedian Jim Breuer
's DVD Heavy Metal Comedy. The concert movie deputed at the Tampa Bay Film Festival, and the DVD was released on Eclectic DVD Distribution, a subdivision of MVD. Weiler has also worked with projects such as the July 2009 release of the DVD/CD set Bob Dylan 1978-1989: Both Ends of the Rainbow. He's also worked with Style Wars
, Southlander
, All You Need is Love by Tony Palmer
, Bad Brains: Live at CBGB 1982, All Dolled Up featuring The New York Dolls, and Rockers
.
Through MVD he has also contributed over 65 official plot summaries for titles on IMDB.
, Weiler uses the company to market bobbleheads based on well-known punk frontmen. His first throbblehead was for the late musician GG Allin
, known for his extreme stage antics. All 2,000 first-edition Allin bobbleheads quickly sold out. Since then the company has produced bobbleheads representing Andrew W.K.
, Wendy O. Williams
of the Plasmatics
, Keith Morris
, Dwarves
, Tesco Vee
of The Meatmen
, and Milo Aukerman
of the Descendents
. One of the most recent is for Vancouver
punk Joey "Shithead" Keithley
of D.O.A.
, the man who originally coined the term "hardcore
".
Like Weiler's public relations company, Aggronautix is based in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Phoenixville is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States, northwest of Philadelphia, at the junction of French Creek with the Schuylkill River. The population is 16,440 as of the 2010 Census.- History :...
-based music publicist. A native to Birdsboro, PA and a 2001 graduate of Kutztown University, he's best known for his publicity work with past and present punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
legends. He is founder of Clint Weiler Publicity & Public Relations and works for MVD Entertainment Group. His company Aggronautix sells bobbleheads (aka throbbleheads) representing punk frontmen such as G. G. Allin, Milo Aukerman
Milo Aukerman
Milo Aukerman is an American singer, songwriter and research biochemist. Aukerman is perhaps most widely known for being the lead singer of the early Los Angeles area punk rock band the Descendents, a group widely considered to be pioneers of modern "pop punk"...
of the Descendents
Descendents (band)
The Descendents are an American punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California. As of 2011, they have released six studio albums, three live albums, three compilation albums and three EPs. The Descendents broke up and reformed several times over the years, sometimes with different musicians...
and Joey Keithley of D.O.A.
D.O.A. (band)
D.O.A. is a hardcore punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are often referred to as the "founders" of hardcore punk, along with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Teen Idles, and Minor Threat. Their second album Hardcore '81 was thought by many to have been the first actual reference to...
.
Early Life / Education
Weiler is a native to Birdsboro, PennsylvaniaBirdsboro, Pennsylvania
Birdsboro is a borough along the Schuylkill River in Berks County, Pennsylvania, eight miles southeast of Reading. In the past, Birdsboro was noted for its large foundries and machine shops, none of which remain in operation today.-History:...
. He graduated from Kutztown University in May 2001 with a degree in writing and public relations. While at University in 1998 he served as sports writer for student newspaper The Keystone and founded Universal Warning Records
Universal Warning Records
-Profile:Universal Warning Records is a record label located in the greater Philadelphia area. They produce and release independent music from local and national bands, as well as produce music video's and live concerts for dvd - primarily from the Indie, Punk, and Hardcore genres.-History:The...
with two fellow students.
Clint Weiler Publicity & Public Relations
Weiler founded Clint Weiler PR in 2005. Their headquarters are located at 370 Washington Avenue in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.Through this company, he's done work for Alive Naturalsound Records, AK Press
AK Press
AK Press is a worker-managed independent publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical left and anarchist literature. It is collectively owned and operated.-History:...
, Prophase Music and Film, mimobot
Mimobot
MIMOBOT flash drives are a line of collectible designer toy USB flash drives launched in 2005 by Mimoco, Inc., headed by Evan Blaustein. Designed by contemporary character artists, preloaded with original media content like music, video, animations, or games, and produced in limited runs of usually...
, Stereo Killer, and Sudden Death Records
Sudden Death Records
Sudden Death Records is a Vancouver, British Columbia based record label run by Joe "Shithead" Keithley.Sudden Death Records arrived in Canada's burgeoning punk scene in 1978. It was only a part-time label until 1998, when they began to expand further into punk rock music...
, which is run by Joey "Shithead" Keithley, frontman of hardcore punk
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...
band D.O.A.
D.O.A. (band)
D.O.A. is a hardcore punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are often referred to as the "founders" of hardcore punk, along with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Teen Idles, and Minor Threat. Their second album Hardcore '81 was thought by many to have been the first actual reference to...
. Weiler has publicized books Grunge is Dead http://www.ecwpress.com/book/grunge-dead by author Greg Prato and The History of Independent Cinema
The History of Independent Cinema
The History of Independent Cinema is a book by film historian Phil Hall that traces the development of the U.S. independent film sector from the early days of the silent films to the current digital video environment. The book also focuses on specific independent film genres including documentary...
by author Phil Hall
Phil Hall (US writer)
Phil Hall is an American writer. He is a contributing editor for the online magazine Film Threat.-Writing:Hall works as an editor for Zackin Publications, editing a monthly mortgage-banking magazine called Secondary Marketing Executive....
. He's also worked on Tesco Vee
Tesco Vee
Tesco Vee is a Michigan-based punk rock musician and co-founder of Touch and Go Records zine. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he is a former elementary school teacher and the founding member, and front man, of punk bands The Meatmen, Tesco Vee's Hate Police, Blight, and Dutch Hercules.-History:In...
's book Touch and Go: the Complete Hardcore Punk Fanzine 1979-83.
MVD Entertainment Group
Weiler does a significant amount of publicity work for MVD Entertainment Group, a 1987-formed company which in 2007 was the second largest AmericanUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
producer as a label and distributor for Music DVDs. They've released over 1500 titles since 1999. In 2006 the company formed MVD Audio, a division Weiler often works with to publicize CDs. MVD has distributed concert movies and music videos for artists such as Sublime
Sublime (band)
Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band's line-up, unchanged until their breakup, consisted of Bradley Nowell , Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh . Michael "Miguel" Happoldt also contributed on a few Sublime songs, such as "New Thrash." Lou Dog, Nowell's...
, The Pixies, Bad Brains
Bad Brains
Bad Brains is an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C., in 1977. They are widely regarded as among the pioneers of hardcore punk, though the band's members objected to this term to describe their music. They are also an adept reggae band, while later recordings featured elements of...
, Devo
Devo
Devo is an American band formed in 1973 consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio. The classic line-up of the band includes two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs and the Casales . The band had a #14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It", and has maintained a cult...
, The New York Dolls, Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
, the MC5
MC5
The MC5 is an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan and originally active from 1964 to 1972. The original band line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson...
, Dead Kennedys
Dead Kennedys
Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1978. The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s. They gained a large underground fanbase in the international punk music scene....
, Danzig
Danzig (band)
Danzig is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for the singer/songwriter Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands The Misfits and Samhain...
, Marillion
Marillion
Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, England in 1979. Their recorded studio output comprises sixteen albums generally regarded in two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original vocalist & frontman Fish in late 1988, and the subsequent arrival of replacement Steve...
, Ween
Ween
Ween is an American alternative rock group. They formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when central members Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class. Ween has a large cult underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in American pop music...
, Shane MacGowan
Shane MacGowan
Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan is an Irish musician and singer, best known as the original singer and songwriter of The Pogues.-History:...
, Stryper
Stryper
Stryper is a Christian glam metal band from Orange County, California. The group's lineup consists of Michael Sweet , Oz Fox , Tim Gaines , and Robert Sweet...
, and Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter
John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III is an American blues guitarist, singer, and producer. Best known for his late 1960s and 1970s high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances, Winter also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues legend Muddy Waters...
. Labels they have worked with include Metal Mind Productions
Metal Mind Productions
Metal Mind Productions is a Polish record label founded in 1987. Currently it is one of the lead independent labels in Poland with over 1000 of licences and over 10 million of data mediums sold. The label focuses mainly on rock and heavy metal genres...
, Megalith Records
Megalith Records
Megalith Records is a ska record label founded on August 22, 2002 and located in Norman, Oklahoma. It is owned by Robert "Bucket" Hingley of The Toasters and the defunct label Moon Ska Records, and managed by Jeremy Patton, current webmaster and graphic artist for the Toasters...
and Cherry Red
Cherry Red
Cherry Red is a London-based independent record label formed in 1978.-History:Cherry Red grew from the rock promotion company founded in 1971 to promote rock concerts at the Malvern Winter Gardens...
.
MVD clients
In August 2002 he also helped promote comedian Jim Breuer
Jim Breuer
Jim Breuer is an American stand-up comedian, actor and radio host. He is most noted for his time as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and starring in the 1998 cult "stoner comedy" Half Baked, alongside Dave Chappelle....
's DVD Heavy Metal Comedy. The concert movie deputed at the Tampa Bay Film Festival, and the DVD was released on Eclectic DVD Distribution, a subdivision of MVD. Weiler has also worked with projects such as the July 2009 release of the DVD/CD set Bob Dylan 1978-1989: Both Ends of the Rainbow. He's also worked with Style Wars
Style Wars
Style Wars is a 1983 documentary on hip hop culture, directed by Tony Silver and produced by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant. The film has an emphasis on graffiti, although bboying and rapping are covered to a lesser extent...
, Southlander
Southlander
Southlander is an American independent film by Steve Hanft and Ross Harris.Originally titled Recycler after the Los Angeles magazine of the same name, the filmwriters changed the name of the movie—and a central plot device—to Southlander to avoid trademark issues.- Plot :Down-and-out...
, All You Need is Love by Tony Palmer
Tony Palmer
Tony Palmer is an American football guard in the National Football League who is currently a free agent. The former University of Missouri guard who was selected by the St. Louis Rams. He was signed by the Green Bay Packers after being cut in the 2006 preseason by St. Louis...
, Bad Brains: Live at CBGB 1982, All Dolled Up featuring The New York Dolls, and Rockers
Rockers
Rockers, leather boys or ton-up boys are a biker subculture that originated in the United Kingdom during the 1950s. It was mainly centered around British cafe racer motorcycles and rock and roll music....
.
Through MVD he has also contributed over 65 official plot summaries for titles on IMDB.
Aggronautix
In 2009 Weiler founded and currently runs the small company Aggronautix: Proprietors of Fine Throbbleheads. A self-termed fan of punk rockPunk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
, Weiler uses the company to market bobbleheads based on well-known punk frontmen. His first throbblehead was for the late musician GG Allin
GG Allin
Kevin Michael "GG" Allin was an American punk rock singer-songwriter, who performed and recorded with many groups during his career. GG Allin is perhaps best remembered for his notorious live performances, which often featured transgressive acts, including coprophagia, self-mutilation, and...
, known for his extreme stage antics. All 2,000 first-edition Allin bobbleheads quickly sold out. Since then the company has produced bobbleheads representing Andrew W.K.
Andrew W.K.
Andrew W.K. is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, and motivational speaker. He is the host of the television series Destroy Build Destroy.-Early life & career:Andrew Wilkes-Krier was born in Stanford, California, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
, Wendy O. Williams
Wendy O. Williams
Wendy Orlean Williams , better known as Wendy O. Williams, was the lead singer for the American punk band the Plasmatics, as well as a solo artist...
of the Plasmatics
Plasmatics
The Plasmatics were an American heavy metal and punk band formed by Yale University art school graduate Rod Swenson with Wendy O. Williams. The band was a controversial group known for wild live shows that broke countless taboos...
, Keith Morris
Keith Morris
Keith Morris is an American singer and songwriter known for his role as frontman of the hardcore punk bands Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and Off! Born and raised in Hermosa Beach, California, he formed Black Flag at the age of 21 with guitarist Greg Ginn and performed on the band's 1978 debut EP...
, Dwarves
Dwarves (band)
Dwarves is an American punk band formed in Chicago, Illinois, as The Suburban Nightmare, in the mid-1980s. They are currently based in San Francisco, California. Formed as a garage punk band, their career subsequently saw them move in a hardcore direction before settling into an eclectic punk rock...
, Tesco Vee
Tesco Vee
Tesco Vee is a Michigan-based punk rock musician and co-founder of Touch and Go Records zine. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he is a former elementary school teacher and the founding member, and front man, of punk bands The Meatmen, Tesco Vee's Hate Police, Blight, and Dutch Hercules.-History:In...
of The Meatmen
The Meatmen
The Meatmen are an American punk band headed by Tesco Vee originally from 1980 to 1997, and reformed in 2008. They are currently still touring and recording.The Meatmen made fun of the hardcore punk scene of the time...
, and Milo Aukerman
Milo Aukerman
Milo Aukerman is an American singer, songwriter and research biochemist. Aukerman is perhaps most widely known for being the lead singer of the early Los Angeles area punk rock band the Descendents, a group widely considered to be pioneers of modern "pop punk"...
of the Descendents
Descendents (band)
The Descendents are an American punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California. As of 2011, they have released six studio albums, three live albums, three compilation albums and three EPs. The Descendents broke up and reformed several times over the years, sometimes with different musicians...
. One of the most recent is for Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
punk Joey "Shithead" Keithley
Joe Keithley
Joey "Shithead" Keithley is a punk musician with the band D.O.A.. He was raised in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, and attended Burnaby North Secondary. At age 11, he began playing drums. He would later take up the guitar and vocals. He owns and operates his own record company, Sudden Death...
of D.O.A.
D.O.A. (band)
D.O.A. is a hardcore punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are often referred to as the "founders" of hardcore punk, along with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Teen Idles, and Minor Threat. Their second album Hardcore '81 was thought by many to have been the first actual reference to...
, the man who originally coined the term "hardcore
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...
".
Like Weiler's public relations company, Aggronautix is based in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.