We were pretty excited

when we saw this: http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=11009

If you go down toward the bottom where the hosts of the Local Bands Show on WPLR list their albums of the year, we're mentioned. Nice!

Also, PunkRockReview.org just posted a free download compilation including one of our songs. There are a lot of good bands on this thing. Specifically, check out the Stolen Bikes Ride Faster track. They're like Italy's answer to Lifetime.

Dear Snow,

Why do you gotta be so lame all the time? Now instead of going on our three-day tour-ish weekend I'm sitting in a basement with snow covering the windows downing Johnny Walker and reading stupid punk message boards. Man, message boards are a terrible idea. Have I said that before?

Sincerely,
Chris

Hey! I got a joke!

Q. What's George W. Bush's favorite punk album?

A. "So Long and Thanks for all the Shoes"

Hey, Connecticut

This Friday is our first show back in CT in months. It's the only in-state show we have booked for a while. So if you live in CT and you're looking to party, be here:

Dec. 12, 2008
Lil Tommy J’s Home for Lost Boys
20 Shelly St. Waterbury, CT
$DONATE$
With: Yes Please, The Screw Up's and Play it Faster

Blacklisted

This is great. Just wanted to share with any other people who are in bands out there.

http://www.punknews.org/article/31528

Mick Jones On Britney Spears

Speaking of The Clash:

If you're not sure what's going on, ask the person next to you

Here's a flyer for our next Boston show. It's a Joe Strummer tribute show so we'll be playing a few Clash/Mescaleros songs. If you're in the area, you should definitely check it out.

Hey, Philly

New date added to our weekend trek in December:

December 21
9:00pm. - $5
The Model Home (1009 N. Marshall St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Good grief

Just some food for thought:

This is product placement

I just realized we're almost out of all the copies of our acoustic cassette tape, "This is Propaganda." I think we're down to about a dozen in our box and we won't be doing another pressing. So if you want one, you best come out to one of the shows we have lined up in December:

12/12/08 - 6pm.
Lil' Tommy J's Home For Lost Boys (20 Shelby St. Waterbury, CT)
With the Screw Ups, Yes Please and Play it Faster

12/19/08 - 6pm.
Democracy Center (Harvard Square. Cambridge, MA)
Joe Strummer Tribute/Benefit for Socialist Alternative with Labor Power and 78 Revolutions

12/20/08 - 6pm.
Fox's (Reynoldsville, PA)
With Full Swing, 40$Boner, and more

Coincidentally, anyone between Connecticut and Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania wanna help us find a show in your town on 12/21? Pwease?

Try this out...

Trust me. Go to Youtube.com, search "Wiggles Puppets." Click the first video, turn the lights off and just stare at your computer screen.
If you want to experience a bad acid trip without doing acid, you should definitely try this. Maybe it's just the Red Breast, but I'm freaking out over this. Terrifying.

"There was blood..."

This is important...

I guess there's no need in saying it. Everyone knows how big today is. It's the end of a terrible, terrible era and a true turning point in our nation's history.

Of course, I'm talking about the series finale of MTV's Total Request Live (TRL). After having brought us the best music journalism every weekday afternoon for the past 10 years, the show will go off the air on November 16th. It will be missed.

Just kidding...

But really, this is fucking HUGE. Obviously, Obama will need some severe nudging from us to make sure he follows through on these promises, but we finally have a president who seems sincere when he talks about universal healthcare insurance and helping out people who aren't millionaires. Fuck, he's the first anti-war presidential candidate to be elected during a war! Not to mention the fact that after well over 200 years, we actually have a black president. 'Bout fucking time!

And by the way, MTV can swing from my fucking nuts.

Don't be a douche. Vote.

It'll all be over soon. Just go out tomorrow and vote (for the black guy).

Radio, Radio

Looking for something to listen to Tuesdays from 4:30pm to 6:00pm? Yea? Well, peep this.
I have a radio show on my school's station WRTC. You can listen to it on 89.3 FM if you're in the Hartford area or stream it at http://www.wrtcfm.com/ from anywhere else.

Here's last week's playlist to whet your appetite:

Ringers/Dialtones/Ringers-Ampere Split
Avail/Order/4 AM Friday
Radon/Facial Disobedience/We Bare All
Off With Their Heads/Call the Cops/All is Not Well
Paint it Black/Missionary Position/New Lexicon
Wrangler Brutes/Unmentionables/Zulu
Russian Circles/Campaign/Station
The Weakerthans/Civil Twilight/Reunion Tour
Dillinger Four/MINIMUM WAGE IS A GATEWAY DRUG/C I V I L W A R
The Ergs!/Man of Infirmity/Jersey's Best Prancers
Mission of Burma/That's When I Reach for My Revolver/Signals, Calls and Marches
Mogwai/Acid Food/Mr. Beast
October Days/Don't Give Yourself Away/West Coast
The Replacements/Shiftless When Idle/Sorry Ma...
The Cute Lepers/The Day After the End of the World/Can't Stand Modern Music
CSS/Left Behind/Donkey
Cloak/Dagger/Runways/We Are
Cheeky/Bad Mood/Choke on a Cheeseburger
Bright Eyes/The City Has Sex/Letting Off the Happiness
Sundowner/My Boatless Booze Cruise/Four One Five Two
The Falcon/La-Z Boy 500/Unicornography
Against Me!/Cavalier Eternal/As the Eternal Cowboy
Clairmel/Mealhog/Clairmel-Hot Water Music Split
Sex Vid/Dead Ends/Demo
Born Against/Well Fed Fuck/Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children
Refused/New Noise/The Shape of Punk to Come

Happy Halloweener

Weird Internets

Goddammit. Message boards have to be the worst thing to happen to music since Rod Stewart. Seriously, get the fuck off these things and just go to shows.

Ch-ch-check it out...

The good people at the Punk or Nothing webzine in the U.K. did a killer review of "Post Rock" and an interview with us a few weeks ago. Check the links below:
Review: http://punkornothing.com/postrock.html
Interview: http://punkornothing.com/angleworm_chris.html

Check the main site for interviews with bands like The Ergs! and people like Mitch Clem. Fucking cool, I know.

Fuck

Man, we should update this more.

By the way

How good is the new Fucked Up?

Reviewz

From www.PunkRockReview.org:

Angleworm - "Post Rock"

Angleworm - "Post Rock" - I’ve been talking about Angleworm for sometime now and still haven’t been able to understand why they haven’t taken the punk rock community by the proverbial horns yet. It’s not often that a band comes out of nowhere and blows you away with their level of talent and passion like Angleworm has done for me. Their newest release “Post Rock” is a well rounded example of what these guys have to offer. Specializing in the kind of scratchy voiced Berkley styled street punk that was to the masses by Operation Ivy, Angleworm creates a memorable punk rock anthem. Their obvious enthusiasm and talent make this album stand above many of the other punk rock offerings that have come out this year. Songs like “Debt or Glory“ and ““are simple songs that have the feel of pop punk and street punk at the same time. All while deep seeded personal feelings towards the failure of our government and society are felt in great songs such as “Steal this song” & “The Kids Are Getting Dumber”. Anyway you say, “Post Rock” provides a fine cornucopia of punk noise to stimulate your ears and your mind. Angleworm has deep street punk political view, but come across with more intelligence and well thought out lyrics than the typical Right-Wing elitist. Their delivery really makes their song stand out above all others who are currently trying to pull this sound off. The difference is that Angleworm puts so much passion and instrumental talent into every song that you can not only feel what they’re singing, but envision the words as they enter your ears. They definitely realize that it takes a certain amount of seriousness crossed with personal self awareness to put across great songs that transcend the snobbiness of the punk rock genre. Angleworm’s singer (Christopher Clark, *I think*), really puts his all in the vocals, ending up somewhere between Jesse Michaels (of Operation Ivy) and Ian McKay (of Minor Threat). The guitar/ bass interplay adds the little personal touches that gives Angleworm’s music the depth it needs, ‘a ‘la, Operation Ivy and/or early day Rancid. With all of these comparisons, it may seem as though Angleworm is unoriginal or just another decent band. Luckily, Punk Rock provides itself bands such as Angleworm, and they throw enough of their own personality into the music to give it their own individual stamp that can be recognized immediately. Overall this album is a fantastic DIY digital release that has buttloads of potential, but just hasn’t had the opportunity to prove itself to the punk rock community. I can’t wait until the day when to world is in love with Angleworm and I can sit back and say “I told you so!”

Oh yeah this album is available for free download on their myspace page!

www.myspace.com/angleworm

Posted by Jonny Taint on August 18, 2008 12:58 PM | Permalink

POST ROCK

Green Light Festival 2008

http://www.myspace.com/thegreenlightfestival

2 days, 15(ish) bands a day, outdoor music & arts festival.
All profits will go towards Co-Op America's Green Movement, and the top voted environment-based charity by the attendees!

We're playing on the 2nd day.



The line-up as of now is as follows (with more TBA!)

August 9th:
Mixel Pixel
The Mighty Purple
Fire Flies
Backseat Goodbye
Eric Hnatow (ex-HNATIW)
Pattern Diver
The Age of Rockets
Toby Goodshank (of the Moldy Peaches!)
Paper and Sand
Kid Ginseng
Kyle Gilbride
Rachel Browne
Midi & the Modern Dance
Bearries
like nightingales

August 10th:
Marx Revolution
Stressbomb
HKPOE! (Hardcore Karaoke Pile-On Extravaganza)
Angleworm
Rogue Set
Malcolm Tent (from Trash American Style!)
In the Time of Dinosaurs
The Best of the Worst
Yes Please
Dj Eggplant (of RSFW)
Pat King & his Designated Drivers
+4TBA (It's a surprise!)

Along with the music, there will be a variety of vendors selling lots of neat stuff! (Including Traveling Trash American Style for all your vinyl-junkies)
There will be food!
Tickets will be cheap, with a discount if you buy for both days!
Starts at 10AM, ends at sundown! All day moustache fever!

Fucking come to this. I am super-cereal.

New Album is Done

Eleven songs in 23.7 minutes. Free download will be up as soon as we come up with a name and some artwork!

GET SYCHED.

Selling out or buying in?

http://www.punknews.org/article/29314

Wow.

Review Your Scene

Here's a review of our CD that I just stumbled across:

ANGLEWORM-Ruin Your Scene (Triumph of Life, CD)
It’s town vs. gown! These kids are from New Haven and not going to take any more shit from those Yale assholes. Punk, ska and reggae—or is it a punkish take on ska and reggae? Something like that. An anti-authoritarian streak in the lyrics and a desire to escape their surroundings. Who can blame ‘em? I’d go nuts if I lived in Connecticut, too. In any case, while the words express anger, the music comes up lacking in that department as they seem happier operating in a more laid back groove than go-for-the-throat punk burn. (30 Wildem Rd., Berlin, CT 06037, www.myspace.com/triumphofliferecords)

It's from here: http://subvox.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html

Friday!!!

Listen Up

I first encountered Going to Bullfights on ACID!!! at an unattended house show in Massachusetts during their first American tour in 2005. Not much is known about the European punk rock quintet. I was lucky enough to talk with lead singer Adrian after the show. He told me that the band hailed from Sweden. I found this odd because all of the band members spoke with heavy German accents.

The mystery that clouds the band is what made Going to Bullfights on ACID!!! so appealing to me in the first place. I got my hands on one of their tracks via a mixtape trade at a punk rock flea market in Hartford. I was smitten when the first chorus kicked in: “Fashion punx – fashion punx – fashion punx – Fuck off!” They operated with a sense of conviction and urgency that tends to escape most modern hardcore. My life was never the same after Going to Bullfights of ACID!!! How could it be?

I did all in my power to track down every bit of recorded output from the band. I managed to find a couple more songs from various demo tapes and 7” records they had self-released in Europe. Their live show was nothing short of a spectacle. They were already rockstars, even if nobody else recognized it.

The critics loved them, authority figures hated them and the kids loved to hate them. All of the complexities of life—the jubilant moments, the angry ones, depression, joy, hatred—Going to Bullfights on ACID!!! had a song for the occasion. There were there at my darkest hour and they were there at my highest plateau. And, most importantly, they were there when I just plain needed to fuck shit up.

It’s hard to find much information about the band online. Adrian claimed that none of the band members used computers or cellphones; something to do with electric waves distorting the human consciousness. But this could have just been another one of their fabulous facades.

I haven’t discovered any new material from the band in over 3 years. Perhaps they’ve broken up. Perhaps they never existed to begin with. Either way, Going to Bullfights on ACID!!! have saved my life. And if you’re ever lucky enough to come upon an unattended house show with a bunch of weird Swedish dudes lurking in the back, you better listen up because they just might change your life too.

Peace.

Check it out!

Here's a new song that will be on our upcoming album, "The Mark, Tom and Travis Show"
Download it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?oj9whec4xlt

Take that, modern culture!

Compilation

Check it:


V/A "A Wrench In The System" $3.00

25 Tracks Featuring
The Menzingers, Stay Sharp, Jumpercable, Title Fight,Calm In Sight, How Dare You, Crash & Burn Conspiracy, Murder Media, War Pigs, The N.C. Thirteens, Angleworm, Hoodratz, Middle Class Trash, Sinatrah, Hellp and More!!

You can order it here.