from aaron via the latest fancy giraffes email blast..
“The Giraffes will be releasing our long awaited full length PRIME
MOTIVATOR nationwide on 11/11/08 thanks to Crustacean Records.
We will be performing the entire album from front to back
along with party hits and classics at our NYC CD Release show:
Saturday 11/15/08
Mercury Lounge
w/ Goes Cube & Ribs”
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end transmission.
you hurrrddd me. CHECK IT!
in other news:
sarah palin is a dildo.
CHEERS!
- da leopard
ps
and also..
amazing. ©the giraffes
PRIME MOTIVATOR is COMINNNGGG.. all over your face.
11/11/08 on CRUSTACEAN RECORDS! thank youuu, wisconsin. ;D
and BE THERE @ MERCURY LOUNGE 11/15 to celebrate the release.. this album is seriously worth celebrating — no bullshit whatsoever. sick riffs, vox, lyrics, and DIVERSE styles integrated into their already thunderous & melodic amalgamation of rock, surf, punk, & metal — including 2 gorgeous slower songs, an epic instrumental, and aaron screaming over a fucking ACCORDION on one track! .. you canNOT pin them down as the average rock band. the sheer VARIETY and ingenuity of the sounds these guys can twist out of their brains — seriously amazing.
i’ll spread the good word of the giraffes till my face turns blue.. ;D
pps
wordpress works like SHIT on a PC! JKAHDSjkahdjkaDhak.
AND.. check our spankin’ new madd official URL! www.sugarnthunder.com !!
i owe captain the butt because he paid for it. whatevs.
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.
oh man. i think i’m going to be obsessed with this girl soon.. she can sing, oh man can she SING!
ladies and gents, introducing nicole atkins & the sea. they’re playing a free show at the socrates sculpture park in LIC on june 17th, which is why i’ve been seeing her everywhere. i finally took the time to listen to the band this morning and loved the sound — after which, i was totally floored seeing them perform on david letterman awhile back. WATCH THIS. it sounds strange to say, but i literally got chills watching her sing. i think it was because her voice just soars on CD (or on the myspace tracks, rather), and then to just watch her belting it out and sounding just as great live.. just wow. and i LOVE the artwork she uses for her album, “neptune city” — it totally reminds me of old coney island. girlcrush much! more on nicole.
in other news, THE GIRAFFES ARE COMING.. !!! bowery ballroom june 12th, baby! AND.. the texas firehouse in LIC rocks. there’s really nothing like listening to live music on a ROOF and having no one bitch at you about it. in addition to humor, awesome art, and just an all around good vibe.. i even left my cell phone in the bathroom, panicked when i went back in and it wasn’t there and thought someone had definitely stolen it.. only to find the DJ had it. SWEET. more about this later ;D
oh and ps KEEP YOUR EYES ON LOLA STAAR! her dreamland roller rink NEEDS YOUR HELP and there are TWO benefits (june 13th and 15th) planned for NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!!! they should be totally fun, and helping the dreamland roller rink reopen is a GREAT cause.. pps anyone notice the “reithoffer’s playland” that just went up in coney island in the space where the go carts and batting cages used to be?! awesome surprise the other night — good to see more amusements and less empty lots. fuck that shit!
rock steady!
- audrey
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
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
