Bomb the Music Industry!

CRAP! TOUR! UPDATE THE WEBSITE!

Hey... have any of you guys seen the movie Dig? Jeez... if you're a fan of watching a fuckin' rock and roll train wreck, you need to see this movie. I know it's been out for like two years, but whatever. And how about Against Me! signing to a major label? And the uproar of the masses with computers in college dorm rooms. WHA HA HA. It's already been a super 2006. Come on guys, go out and do something instead of bitching (I say as I sit watching DVDs and updating my website).

So, yeah. 2005 happened. Wasn't it shitty? I'm psyched that I had Bomb the Music Industry! as a way to do something that didn't totally suck this year. What are you guys and gals doing that don't have bands? Fuck! Go do something!!!

OK... so it has been a while without an update, and there are some important matters at hand. First off, Sire turned down our offer for a record label as well while CBGB's welcomed our reunion/benefit show. What else, oh yeah, there have been some debates on message boards about how I should stop saying how punk rock and DIY I am. Funny, I always thought the words were about being depressed. Well, to each their own interpretations I suppose.

ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT... NEWS... REAL NEWS... ALL SHIT TALKING ASIDE, the NEW Bomb the Music Industry! album is in the process of being written and recorded. It is called CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY SHUT THE FUCK UP. That title was stolen from my friend Sierra. Sorry, Si. It's taking a little while because there's a lot of piano on this one and I have no idea how to play the piano. Anyway the songs on it will include -

Old And Unprofessional
My Love Letter To Minneapolis Part I - Hate Letter
Even Winning Feels Bad
Side Projects Are Never Successful
5 Funerals
My Response To An Article In Last Month's Alternative Press
Where There's Smoke There's Kids Dancing
Tired Of Eating Shit?
Rock Horns vs. Rock With Horns
Go Fuck Myself
My Love Letter To Minneapolis Part II - OK Hangover

...the attempt to curtail the use of long song titles is not going so well. I'm wordy I guess. Okay, okay, moving forward -

BENEFIT BENEFIT BENEFIT BENEFIT BENEFIT BENEFIT BENEFIT

So, it's already been posted online for a while but the Rick Johsnon Rock-N-Roll Machine/Bomb The Music Industry! 7" is currently at the pressing plant. It'll be out on Presidents' Day in honor of Presidents' Day, NOT Christmas. Now that it's all done I can honestly say these are the best sounding songs so far, Rick's side is amazing, and the keyboards are all played LIVE! WOW! Yeah, it's on Asbestos Records. They were kind enough to agree to put this record out with 100% of the profits going to our friend Dan Lang-Gunn's family to help pay for his medical bills. I urge everyone to buy one, two, three and when a friend of you and yours falls on hard times you hope that people do the same.

TOURING TOURING TOURING TOURING TOURING TOURING TOURING

IN HONOR of this 7" there is a tour a-brewin' with Rick Johson Rock and Roll Machine and Bomb the Music Industry! The words "glass heads" and "sound activated lights" have been thrown away. Usually I try to tour in the winter to get away from the cold, but New York hasn't been TOO cold so I have no excuse. This tour will be with Rick, me and a computer playing a extra long set of both bands materials. This is an attempt to do something DIFFERENT that we don't usually see most musicians do as a whole tour which is to collaborate for an entire set. The tour dates are up on our myspace, will be up on our tour page soon so I'll just mention the area's we are hitting as one word and that word is...

PROCCAMSPAMBONG

The shows will be held on school nights, in dangerous areas and will be 30+ only. Rick and I will not be able to attend any shows.

Well, that's it everyone. Thanks for the past year. We've played with some amazing bands, we've played with some egotisical arrogant bands. We've dealt with some amazing people who put together shows, we've dealt with assholes who have fucked us over because we opt to stay away from contracts. We have played shows to 8 people, we have played shows to 8,000 people. We have possibly spent a year digging ourselves into a situation that will permanently pigeonhole us. We have done our best at making sure everything is honest, and regardless of what decisions come in the future, we will ALWAYS be honest about everything we do. That should give you real good message board fodder for when we start selling records.

SEE YA IN PROCCAMSPAMBONG!

posted by Jeff at 8:45 PM

BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! HAS CALLED IT QUITS...

...read the headline on punknews.org, downloadpunk.com and a bunch of other websites. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Well, OK. Saying that Bomb the Music Industry! was a group of bears that rollerskate through time in order to drench our galaxy in the golden nectar that is bear semen would be even further from the truth. That's one example.

So, we didn't break up. We broke even. That means we didn't lose any money on our tour. That was like a month ago. I guess I should have made this update after we heard that news instead of waiting a month. Oh, well. Fuck the fans.

All webzines and blogs have yet to post the following TRUE news about Bomb the Music Industry!:

1) I had an idea for a Christmas song, so I texted Rick Johnson (Mustard Plug) to see if he wanted to do a split 7" for Christmas. He noted that in order to do so we would have to record the songs and have all the artwork done in like a day. Then one of us dared the other one to do a Presidents' Day split. And then the one who didn't dare accepted the dare. We asked Flood at Asbestos if he would put the record out and give all the profit to our friend Dan Lang-Gunn who has been in the hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest last fall. Dan started Kill Normal Records with a few other really cool dudes and put out a few records by my old band. After time, Dan became one of my best friends and when any friend is in trouble you do everything you can to help him out. The Rick Johson Rock And Roll Machine are amazing thusfar and include a cover of "Funcoland vs. The Southern Electorate." I like our songs a lot. We have a cover of Rick Johson's "4 Inches" on our side. It's gonna have 6 songs and be on colored vinyl. Out early next year!!!

2) Also in Dan Lang-Gunn Benefit/Asbestos/Bomb The Music Industry!/Covers/Music WIth Guitars related news, we're covering Infamous Jake and the Pinstripe Mafia's "If Assholes Got Awards, I'd Have A Trophy Case" for a benefit comp. Case closed.

3) We are also recording a song called "Tell My Boss 'I Hate You'" for the third installment of the legendary Long Island Ska Compilation. That song is also gonna be the first song on the tentatively titled "Clap Your Hands Say Shut The Fuck Up" which is almost done being written, and will be recorded shortly.

4) We were gonna have a section where we would have people vote on whether or not we should make t-shirts and sell them online so people who don't live where we tour can get them. Then we realized we don't care what anyone else thinks we should do ever.

5) It is really weird referring to myself as we.

Have a merry holiday.

posted by Jeff at 9:32 PM

WE HAVE BONED AMERICA.

Hey, everyone. We've gotten quite a bit of flack from a lot of friends, family members, other bands and oddly enough several religious denominations on how we run things in Bomb The Music Industry!... no "merchandise", having everything available for free, making shirts and burning CDs and asking for donations if people would like us to continue to do stuff this way.

Well, we broke even. Again. That's the second time.

And yes, we didn't get FOOD every now and then. And sure we had to get drunk on our own money. But we did it pretty much.

I would like to claim that the reason we did it was 'cause we're so fucking good, but we're not so fucking good. It's because we had help from a lot of way too nice people. So big thanks to: SANAWON, IAN FROM ONE FAN BAND, JOSH IN CINCINNATI (AND WHOEVER'S DAD RAN THE BURRITO DISTRIBUTOR), PATRICK CADAVER, RICK JOHNSON AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO LIVES IN HIS HOUSE, MATT KURZ, KAREN FROM THE DAAC, SARAH @ NANCI RAYGUN, TIFFANY AND NEIGHBORHOOD FRIENDLY, GREGG & DAVE FROM JOHNSTOWN, THE VICARS, MAX FROM THE SKATASTROPHES, AD-HD, THE BARTENDER AT WACKADOOS, CASE UNIVERSITY'S MUSIC DORM FOR LETTING US SLEEP UNDER YOUR POOL TABLE, JAMES BROWN, CARS, CECIL OTTER, KENNY FROM SLAUGHTERHOUSE 6 AND HIS HOUSE, MATT FROM WE ARE THE UNION, STU PARNES, MATT WIXSON, THE NO-TALENT SHOW and NEIL CALLAGHAN. We'd also like to say hi to CINEMECHANICA while we're here and tell them their new record is good.

And of course, if you came to the basement show in Chicago that was set up on two days notice, the unattended show at the triple rock that was set up on a month's notice or anything outside or in between, thanks. hope you didn't feel ripped off.

--jeff

posted by Jeff at 9:39 AM

THANKS FOR FUCKING US IN THE ASS!
I don't wanna get all political, but I just thought this is a fun article that anyone who thinks that things are the way we see them on TV and read them in the news initially. I just gotta say that it's a good thing those gas prices rose, or else gas companies wouldn't have been able to profit billions of dollars by pissing on the graves of the tens of thousands of lives that were ruined by the hurricane. Who else but the oil industry! Hahahaha! Hee hee! See ya later, nerds.

posted by Jeff at 10:48 PM

NEW ASS SHIT
Hey, everyone. I hope this message finds you well. It's 3 in the morning, and I just got done sending my five millionth batch of e-mails. Booking a tour is a pain in the ass. Hope you like the new website more than I like booking a tour. Hope you like the inconvenient links at the bottom of the page which might be funny upon first read. Hope you enjoy the non-resizeable window. Hope you like the lack of contact information. Hope you like the inconsistent link colors and tacky html markup. Hope you like the new mini-album "To Leave Or Die In Long Island" which is a term I jacked from Cinemechanica. Hope you're coming to one or more of the shows on this tour, and if you are and you wanna rock out read the tour rules to learn how you can play our instruments (well, there's not that much more to it than that). Hope you want to give us some food and donations in exchange for our crappy business model. In case you haven't noticed, booking your first tour is fun. I'll make a better update when I drink something. This will be the tour diary while we're on tour. Seacrest out!

posted by Jeff at 3:04 AM

UNNECESSARY CLARIFICATION

I've been receiving a lot of nice questions from people who support Bomb the Music Industry! Thanks, but this wasn't a reach out for approval kind of thing. The clarification is regarding the fact that the post I made a few nights ago was supposed to allow people who talk shit behind my back to talk shit to my face. I've gotten no responses like that yet. I would like to clarify that those people are pussies. Or maybe they don't have the internet 'cause it's not D.I.Y.

posted by Jeff at 9:30 AM

SO HERE'S THE DEAL...

I've had enough of this "not punk enough" "not D.I.Y. enough" shit. I was at a friend's birthday party tonight and I started hearing all this shit from him about how these kids in this "D.I.Y" place out east on Long Island (where, if I'm not mistaken is a generally wealthy area.... yes. it is a generally wealthy area) think it's "lame" that I'm doing "Bomb the Music Industry!" now, and that I'm trying to be D.I.Y.

Since I was in like seventh grade I've had kids call me a poseur or not punk enough. At that point it made me unable to hang out with a few friends, one of whom later joined Taking Back Sunday and Straylight Run. One of whom I don't see anymore, and the other one who I saw the other day on my way to a carnival up the block with his kid. Because I wasn't allowed to be a "punk", I started a band because I didn't care what anyone thought. That band later got successful because I didn't care what anyone thought. And it really didn't even get THAT successful.

So this is it. I'm done with this shit. I'm not fighting anyone with words or fists. This is where the discussion starts. I know that there are some kids who think it's bullshit that I would like to continue to write songs and share them with people. I know where they hang out/live/who they hang out with. I'm sure they know who they are too. So let's go, ya'll. Here's the rules:

- You e-mail me a question. jeff.rosenstock@gmail.com

- If I don't respond with an answer that is deemed reasonable by a random expert who will be determined later, I will STOP doing this. Bomb the Music Industry! will cease to exist, your exclusionary D.I.Y. scene will keep on doing whatever it's doing (where, if i'm not mistakes, bomb the music industry! has not really made anything harder for your D.I.Y. scene... no. it has not made anything harder for your D.I.Y. scene) and that's that.

- If I win, I win. That's it. You don't have to give me a guarantee or anything. You don't have to even say you're sorry. All you really have to do is remember that if there's a little kid who comes to your shows and listens to yellowcard, don't tell him he's an idiot. Just let him WHY yellowcard does what they do and WHY it is wrong. So please stay tuned to responses to these questions. Once again, that e-mail is jeff.rosenstock@gmail.com. NO QUESTIONS ARE OFF-LIMITS. Come on D.I.Y. kids. Let's REALLY solve this problem.

(p.s. please check out bottle rocket and latterman. this is not sarcasm. bottle rocket is an amazing band with amazing people. latterman has been trying to help people record things on their own and sound GREAT doing it for years. both are long island bands, which makes it really special 'cause it's tough to not be a jerk out here. and both are d.i.y. but not jerks about it.)

posted by Jeff at 10:25 PM