super showzen @ mccarren park & pool

22 07 2008

i just dropped yogurt IN my keyboard.

okay, these things need to be mentioned.

the limewire music blog is pretty flippin’ awesome (esp. since jens from the giraffes writes for it!) — they have events and reviews and pix going up all the time..

here’s their take on the giraffes @ mccarren park for the brooklyn kickball league tournament on 7/12! we were there.. of course. they attracted a pretty sweet crowd, too! biggest of the afternoon, i think. someone should also attest to the fact that really old men AND little mexican girls were diggin’ the giraffes. HARDCORE. they just wandered over and didn’t leave. who needs a record label?

AND check out the always awesome todd kancar’s pix in the giraffes’ photo albums on myspace.. ya gotta log in to see ‘em.. just do it! we know you have one! tool.

we unfortunately missed most of goes cube‘s set after getting hung up on beers and free hot dogs (!!!!!!!!!) at the turkey tavern down the block (or whatever the fuck it was called).. but we stayed for freshkills then called it an afternoon.

the next day we rolled out of bed at almost 1 (har, kim deal busted us when she told the audience she was up at 10 AM! while the rest of us had probably rolled out of bed at 12 and walked over hahaha) and sauntered on over to the same neighborhood for THE BREEDERS show @ mccarren park pool on 7/13, a jellyNYC pool party, apparently. very, very fucking awesome. seriously, cheers to jellyNYC. i’ve never been to something like that in the city — which either makes the pool party particularly awesome, or me particularly lame for not going out to more free city events. i’m leaning towards both. ANYWAY.

ONWARD! »»





HOLY NEW ALBUM, BATMAN!: electric six

21 07 2008

holy shit! breaking fucking news.. ELECTRIC SIX ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM!

it's a FIRE BREATHING WINGED AIRPLANE THROTTLE OCTOPUS TAILED BLACK CAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! genius.

GENIUS.

from their myspace:

Electric Six Announces the Impending Release of “Flashy”

Electric Six, in conjunction with Metropolis Records, is proud to officially announce the North American release of our fifth record, entitled “Flashy”, on Oct. 21 of this year. Release dates in other territories will follow.

“Flashy” was recorded at the Colonel’s very own Hamtramck Sound Machine studios.

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Gay Bar Part Two
2. Formula 409
3. We Were Witchy Witchy White Women
4. Dirty Ball
5. Lovers Beware
6. Your Heat is Rising
7. Face Cuts
8. Heavy Woman
9. Flashy Man
10. Watching Evil Empires Fall Apart
11. Graphic Designer
12. Transatlantic Flight
13. Making Progress

A music video for “Formula 409″ was recently shot in Detroit, Michigan and should be made available for consumption within a couple weeks.

For now, you can hear the entire record, all 13 songs at once, on our myspace page. And we are delighted to preview one track, “Transatlantic Flight” by its lonesome. This is a very important song.

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so THAT’S why “flashy” sounds like a zillion songs being played at once! oh, you trixy electric six. ;D and wait a minute.. did they just say “GAY BAR PART TWO”!??!?!??! fuck yes..?!?!??!! and “face cuts” just sounds delicious.

anyway.. CHECK IT OUT! they’ll also be on a ROCKS OFF boat cah-roozing around NYC in a matter of weeks! WEEKS! -grabs computer monitor and shakes it-

okay yeah, so.. hopefully we’ll be writing more soon.. ahem, captain ;D the giraffes @ mccarren park were fucking brilliant/hilarious as usual, by the way, and we actually managed to get into THE BREEDERS show at mccarren park pool — they were AWESOME, but i think the second opening act stole my heart.. MATT & KIM! more on that with links to pix & video soon. oh, and we were also around for the snoop dogg/311 (?!) show in coney island.. on the outside, that is. HAR.

rock steady,

- da leopard

SAVE CONEY ISLAND!





ohio isn’t just for bad emo songs

2 05 2008

we came, we saw.. we ate chick-fil-a (why oh why aren’t you in NYC?!), and now we’re fatter for it. we just got back from ohio and life is WAY TOO BUSY FOR US TO HANDLE RIGHT NOW. we’re being swallowed by long hours of commuting and dentistry and show-seeing and interviewing and paper writing and commuting some more.. and GTA4? har har.

we shall be back, all in due time. we had an adventure! and now we’re tired.

since we’ve been gone:

b-52′s new album “funplex”! goldfinger new album “hello destiny”! we don’t have either of them because we suck! and we sure as hell don’t have MSI’s new release either. i know, we’re lame.

NOT. in the weeks to come..

THE GIRAFFES at bowery ballroom june 12!

GOLDFINGER at roseland ballroom june 26!

and all the way at the end of the summer.. ELECTRIC SIX ROCKS OFF CONCERT CRUISE AUGUST 14!

sweet jesus.

hopefully we’ll survive until then.. but just so you know, we’re not dead. zombified, maybe, but not dead.

we’ve got more rants to do and music to write about, oh yeah.

but first. LIFE. ugh.

;D

rock steady,

- audrey

edit/

haha, now that i look back on it, both of us got pretty sick after that giraffes show. mm, germs.

AND..

New York University (Unit #80411)
www.chick-fil-a.com/nyu

Licensed Location
Weinstein Food Court
New York, NY 10003
212/995-3057

figures the only chick-fil-a within 15 miles of me would be in NYU! FAGS! DON’T YOU HAVE ENOUGH?!?

-weeps-

ok i’m done. ;D