05 Feb 2008
ON ALBUM #5
Here are the names of some of the songs that might be on the next record. You already know a few of them if you've been paying close attention. And also, and actually, who knows if these will all be on the same record, it doesn't have a title yet but basically the deal is that I wrote a lot of piano rock ballads and thought "hey, man. kids ain't gonna be too stoked on it." and didn't write anything for a while. However, today I realized it's time to embrace that shit. So here are four song titles of songs ya haven't heard yet.
Gang of Four Meets the Stooges But Boring.
9/11 Fever!
Scramblers
Fresh Attitude Young Body
uninteresting, no?
29 Jan 2008
It's been a while since I rapped at ya...
Ever feel like people think that the shit you're up to is more important than it actually is? Well, to keep everyone's feet on the ground, I just moved to Brooklyn and cannot find graphic design work (or any work) to save my life. John and Tom are strugglin' to get consistent audio work and Mike is still working at a deli. So remember kids, YOU TOO CAN BE IN A ROCK BAND!!!
Anyway, we're going on tour soon with our good friendies Pegauses-XL, which is a band I am also in (and two of those guys are also in Bomb the Music Industry! and Mark Dale used to work with me and is like six foot ten.) You can check out the tour dates. Please come to shows, ya'll. It ain't all just free records and gumdrops sometimes. Sometimes it's cold and you drank the last of the coffee and ya gotta replace it and the good fair trade stuff is like $20 at the place you usually go to.
15 Dec 2007
A QUESTION WE HEAR A BIT
How can you have an album that's free and for sale?
Every album is free on the internet anyway. Duh.
15 Dec 2007
EVERYONE HAVE A GOOD TIME IN JERSEY, BOSTON AND CT?
I had a lot of fun. Most fun I've had in a while. Did you guys have fun? Thanks O Pioneers and Sidekicks. It was a lot of fun to have touring friends on our turf. Thanks to everyone for being patient with our drunkenness (jersey), lateness (boston) and surliness (ct). Lots and lots of fun. If you're going to those Anti-Flag, we have a handful of 10"s that are going quickly, so I guess get after it potentially, if ya like vinyl.
23 Nov 2007
THREE MAJOR INFLUENCES ON THE NEXT BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! RECORD
Pulp - This is Hardcore
+/- - Let's Build a Fire
Future of the Left - Curses
just sayin'. workin' on songs. new ones soon.
20 Nov 2007
FUN FACTS!
Some bomb the music industry jams as late as goodbye cool world were recorded using unauthorized plug-ins... for example, listen to "even winning feels bad" every few seconds you can hear small bit of static telling you "hey, wait til you purchase this if you're gonna record anything with it." UH OH!
--jeff
20 Nov 2007
OH YEAH, BY THE WAY
I saw like five hundred cameras in the front row at the fest. It made me and many others really uncomfortable. So why don't you post yr fucking pictures or videos already and make the discomfort worth it already. Even the dude from AP did it.
19 Nov 2007
FUCKIN' ELO!
So while working at Transmetropolitan is Athens, GA I started to get really into Electric Light Orchestra when "Telephone Line" was first played on the jukebox. As far as I know, that CD is still a staff favorite over there, and I have personally been listening to a combination of their two different Greatest Hits CDs (all over the world and essential) way too much in my life. I mean, there's a LOT of new music in the world and for almost a year I haven't been able to stop being amazed by the awesome ridiculousness of ELO.
I've been worried that their Greatest Hits was not a fair representation of their full catalog and I didn't give a shit. But when I saw "Out of the Blue" on sale at Ameoba a few months ago when I was in California, complete with 11 x 24 poster and make-it-yourself-spaceship-mobile-flyer, I figured I had to see what ELO had to offer outside their hits.
I've actually bought a lot of records in the past few months that I haven't been able to listen to due to my current lack of living situation, which is kind of a tough pill to swallow when "rare pressings" of my band's records are selling for about 20 times more than I make off of them. But I digress - and as an avid record freak, I feel I've had a different experience that most collectors. The most I've ever spent on a record was $24.99 to buy Brian Wilson's Smile on vinyl at Virgin Megastore brand new. I've also accidentally ended up with records that are worth $400 that I only spent $4 on. Basically, I look for cheap good finds, and I like looking in record stores in different locations. Granted, touring allows me an easier means to do that, and on these last few tours I managed to score a copy of the full-length Breakfast record (which is fucking OUT OF CONTROL), Tom Waits's Swordfishtrombones for like $5, Billy Bragg's Talking Poetry record for about the same and a sweet Lard record that comes with an extra single for $4. The point is that I haven't been able to listen to any of these rad finds until today, when I am dogsitting for my friends James Brown and Amy while they're in Chicago. I gave them my record player when I moved all my shit into storage because I didn't want it to go to waste, and they unfortunately had no records.
So as I'm sitting here bobbin' my head to some Electric Light Orchestra jams I've never heard before (therefore NEW) all I gotta say is EVERY ELO SONG IS GREAT and I think I got some more record hunting to do.
19 Nov 2007
THE OTHER DILLINGER
Dillinger Escape Plan put a record out this past week and it's pretty fucking good. For some reason a great band that consistently releases rad records releasing another great record took me by surprise. New drummer is really good, lots of fun instrumentation and really really fucking good. I also realized that a lot of good records have come out this year. Way to go, 2007.
16 Nov 2007
SOMEONE WENT A-GOOGLIN'
There's a shit ton of new reviews and an interview or two in the press section. Most of these have reached one consensus - Get Warmer is pretty good, but just not good enough to be reviewed by allmusic.com and pitchfork. COME ON, PITCHFORK. I DARE YA.
28 Aug 2007
BLAH BLAH BLAH PT. BLAH
We did an interview with our new friends at Sound Scene Revolution when we were in California a few weeks ago. We didn't really answer any of their questions, we talked A LOT and since we were making our first impression on Mike and Skylar at Asian Man, well, I'd say we made a pretty shitty one. Also, I think you can win a picture disc or some shit. Where CAN'T you win a picture disc from these days? Anyway.
git after it
21 Aug 2007
BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY HAS COVERED THE ENTIRE ALBUM NEW WAVE.
and we plan a tour with ben lee in the fall.
15 Aug 2007
AND!
I miss Q and Not U
15 Aug 2007
RE: THE WEAKERTHANS
I've been waiting for the Weakerthans to put out a new record for three or four years now.
Reunion Tour comes out on September 25, 2007. That's a month and a half from now. It has been made known to me by a friend at Warner Bros. and a friend in a band called Cheap Girls that this record has leaked and is available for free on the internet.
I am currently existing in the middle of an odd dichotomy. I have been giving records away for free for a while, which has given me the luxury of determining exactly when the record comes out. We hadn't done press lead up time, promo copies, advances, whatever EVER. The reason for this is that the second the records had been done we've put them up online. NOW (and I will do my best to be as transparent about our motives as possible), in order to both be a part of a group of artists that we all admire (asian man records) and make a record available to people who don't have the internet, we needed to have a physical release. This means that I couldn't just finish a record and give it to the world potentially. It meant that I couldn't put off the release for a day because I wanted to go see the eels for free at South Street Seaport.
We lost a lot of control of the immediacy because we had to in order to have other things we wanted more. It was really weird to have a maybe mastered maybe not copy of Get Warmer in the van on an ipod for the three weeks we were touring and other people NOT having it. The few hours between our decision to delay the album because distro got pushed back and our decision to say "fuck it" were really confusing.
Asian Man and Quote Unquote eventually tried to coordinate everything as closely as possible. A lot of people had Get Warmer a week before I did, but we did our best to have our free download up the same time as the CD hit mailboxes. The free download was up a little bit later and it struck me as really odd/fucked-up-maybe? that it leaked about twelve hours before we had the chance to put it out ourselves.
***alright... i need to interrupt myself... i am currently dogsitting, i went out for a little while had a couple of beers and rode a single gear bike home uphill, so maybe i'm out of it***
When I was a kid I was really into CD release dates, recycling cans and saving up change to buy Insomniac on October 10th, 1995, etc. But who the fuck am I to complain about people downloading music? Yeah, it's the industry's fault for embracing this ridiculous business model that does not relate to the current marketplace or fucking whatever blah blah but I download advance records all the time! Who WASN'T talking shit on that Against Me! record a month before it hit the shelves? Who DIDN'T think that "Wolf Like Me" and "Playhouses" by TV on the Radio were the same song for a few months?
People say people don't buy records, but that isn't really true. We just have a way easier way to shit filter music now. I still buy everything I can when I know it's good. But that isn't very risky, is it? I know it took me quite a few spins before FYP or Pinkerton stuck. Is that era gone now? Are we just embracing the disposable punk band?
I don't know. I'm glad we put our records up for free. We beat people to the punch and we get to share our music to anyone who wants to listen. I'm glad we pretty much get to determine WHEN people will hear a record. I still think that the records that I've waited and waited for have had more of a long lasting effect than records that after days of searching for on Soulseek I finally found a shitty version of.
That said, we'll be on tour on September 25th... I think in Chicago. And even though it's gonna be tough, I'm gonna be stoked to wake up at 10 AM, drive to a record store while everyone's sleeping and hear the new Weakerthans record for the first time.
Does that make me a better person? No no no no no. But regardless, I'm gonna listen to "Night Windows" as much as possible for now.
13 Aug 2007
WAITING IN AN AIRPORT PT. ONE TRILLION
I'm in the Long Beach airport, about to fly back to Brooklyn to dogsit for my friends James Brown and Amy Glickman for a few days. When you spend too much time in airports, getting delayed, waiting on the Tar-Mac you grow to really appreciate taking a whole FIVE minutes to check in, go through security AND use the bathroom. Fuck LAX. Fly to Long Beach. They are now paging someone who left their bananas at security. In English and Spanish. Joel Hatstat also sent me a text at 6:30 AM that said "Mornin'!" Today is a friendly day indeed.
So we played a bunch of CD/12" release shows, some of which we didn't have CD's at, some which we didn't have 12"s at, some of which we didn't have spraypaint, and some of which we were graced by the wonderful Skylar and Mike from Asian Man. Ups, downs, lefts, rights, here are the whats ups.
- Aaron in San Francisco. We stayed on your floor. I'm pretty sure I personally dropped some lettuce in your couch. I know you just moved in and that's kinda fucked up. I should have told ya.
- Buck-O-Nine, we had some spills chills and thrills. Especially Jonas for letting me use your sweet guitar amp and sweet Tube Screamer.
- Chotto Ghetto. I think that kinda goes without saying at this point.
- Rose Candy! I ate just about everything in your freezer! It was a challenge but I went for it! Thanks for letting us eat and swim in your pool (not at the same time!!!)
- Chris Shelakis and I went to a Mexican flea market in downtown Los Angeles, to a tent outside where a mariachi band was playing and bought a little system called the Wii and a less impressive game called Spongebob Squarepants.
- Shinobu! Thanks for letting me use your amp MIKE! And your percussion PTERADON! Phat n' Phunky Phor Liphe!
- Chris Candy and Neil Callaghan, I never met you but I love you.
13 Aug 2007
SOMEONE ALERT JOEL HATSAT!
Apparently there's an Asian Man Records recording budget we aren't aware of!
12 Aug 2007
PICTURE DISCS ARE HERE!!!
Come and get 'em as we play a show at West Side Eclectic which is located conviently in an alleyway between 3rd and 4th St. south of arizona (behind the 3rd st. promenade) in Santa Monica, California with Chotto Ghetto, Shinobu and Pteradon at 6PM sharp. Also, I wrote Alkaline Trio on one of the flyers, so whoever got that flyer, uh, Alkaline Trio isn't playing. Sorry brah.
08 Aug 2007
WAITING IN AN AIRPORT PT. ONE MILLION
Advice for touring bands, don't go on tour without a phone charger or with only 11 minutes remaining on your phone plan. If people are picking you up at an airport especially. Also, in a serendipitous event I managed to side step the flooding of Grand Central Station this morning as well as the NYC subway system. I didn't even know it happened 'til I was already at the airport an hour and a half early for my flight. Some days you just got it I guess. Waiting for my connecting flight in North Carolina, I am officially letting ya'll know that it is very difficult to shit in a public restroom while holding onto an electric guitar and giant backpack. Also, if you're coming to these California shows, pick up a copy of Get Warmer. Mike Park is watching and will be disappointed if you don't. Plus I carried a million pound bag of CDs through the fuckstorm that is Manhattan during rush hour with no subways in 104 degrees. If not... buy the Departed on DVD. I know, I know, you're waiting for it to be previously viewed and cheaper or for the price to break on half.com. Well, guess what, asshole. You're gonna finally crack and realize how ridiculous it is that you hadn't had that movie since April. Fucks.
05 Aug 2007
BEST RECORD OF THE YEAR SO FAR!
The Hot New Mexicans' "Wah" 7"
for real.
04 Aug 2007
FIVE STAR REVIEW #1!
Yeeeah, check it out here. Or don't. We assume that this is the first of many five star reviews, as Rolling Stone, Spin, Blender and the Village Voice have just been houuunding us for interviews. Or not.
03 Aug 2007
NEW SITE
Hey everyone, here's the new Bomb the Music Industry! site. We're gonna be adding stuff, lots and lots of stuff. Get Warmer is out now on Asian Man Records on 12" picture disc and CD. It'll be in stores soon, september 11th to be exact. So while you're trying to decide "kayne or 50? kayne or 50?" remember that you finally have a third choice. Coke and Pepsi have some competition. chocolate rain.
So this is the part where I try to fill this up with something because it's a new site and a new launch and all of that. Well, puhhh. I'm watching Fast Food Nation right now at my parents' house and I think it's kinda shitty that Wilmer Velderahma gets top billing. Also, what the fuck is Avril Lavigne doing in this movie? But on the positive side it does show some pretty fucked up footage of animals getting killed? Is this fake gore? It's gross. I wonder how many people saw this movie and thought "I will never eat meat again." My guess is none. Chrissy from Growing Pains does not have much pull.
Fucked up animal killin' footage though. Go veggie despite what AP says I say.
Good enough? First news post OUT!