( Pissed sound guys! Creepy hair donation requests! Cheap heat! Nipples! Kuma's! Underage drinking! Fire code violations! ROCK AND FUCKING ROLL! It's all here! )

Oh hai! Remember how we used to do show and tour reports? Now that we have a swank new website that can be updated easier than the last one, i'm gonna try to get back on that again.

So this weekend we officially began selling our new full-length, Fame By Proxy, via a pair of shows in Milwaukee and Madison. The first, on Friday, was at the ( Read more... )

It always seems to throw people when i tell them that i still get nervous before shows sometimes. "Really?" they ask? Yep--i, who is generally pretty damn comfortable on stage and has been doing this for years, still get nervous before certain shows sometimes. And for some reason, this all-ages show at the Beat Kitchen had butterflies churning in ( Read more... )

We have played a few shows this month, and we have been sorely remiss in writing about them. In an effort to get us back into the swing of things on that tip, i will now post some brief summaries of these shows we have played. These will not be as detailed as they would have been had we stayed on our game and posted about them as they happened, but ( Read more... )

Pics from 2/2/08, Manitowoc.

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I am getting awfully bad about updating this shit on time, especially considering all the free time i have lately. Fortunately, i have a Statement of Purpose to put off writing, so...hai!

( 11/2 at the Borg Ward )

Last night's show with the mighty Captured! By Robots reinforced for me an important lesson in playing on stage: fessing up to a bad set on stage is very tricky business. If you joke about it a few times, it's maybe seen as self-deprecating and the audience may not get that you really mean it. If you let it affect the overall show, though, it runs ( Read more... )

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O Hai.

At some point, i'm sure there will be recaps of our four shows this weekend with Oakland, CA's Replicator, our best friends in the rock 'n' roll world. Until then, i invite you to read Replicator guitarist (and sometimes HiFi guitarist--twice equals a trend, Neutron) Conan Neutron's tour journals on Superstarcastic.comAlready posted are his ( Read more... )

I am totally going to do one of these ( Read more... )