Bawston

The Joe Strummer tribute that was supposed to happen in December got rescheduled to this Friday (Feb. 6th). It's at the same place (Democracy Center in Cambridge) with all the same bands (Labor Power, 45 Revolutions and us). You know what, I'll just post the flyer...


So if you're in the Boston area, come on out. I promise it will be wicked good.

January 30

If you want to come to this, send us (or any of the other bands I would imagine) an email or myspace message or whatever and we'll/they'll give you the address.

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.