TAPES 'N TAPES WERE ALL THE RAGE....

Remember that band? Tapes 'N Tapes? They certainly were something. Yea, I have their CDs. So what? You wanna fight now or something? Your CDs are better than my CDs? Is that it? Well I can go toe to toe Mr. Meanstuff. Sure, go ahead. Call me that. I'll just turn my Tapes N Tapes CD up louder and drown you out. Feel the rock.

Tapes n Tapes is also what we got for you!!!! Just in time to sell out of our brick mower/Granny Frost split cassette (put out last December by the Chicago based, Songs on Tape label), comes our newest tape calamity. It's the FLOORS ep, reissued here on cassette through the pride of Pennsylvania, Stumparumper Records.

Each tape is individually spiffed up for your enjoyment. It's like a maddened Security guard at the Crayola factory got hold of our tapes, and had his sensual way with them. They're all hand numbered with love from Pat Kelley, proprietor over at Stumparumper.

You can get them from us at shows or from Pat for just $2.50 at http://www.stumparumper.com/

And just get everything from that label. Seriously, all the releases are fucking awesome. The packaging on everything is SPECTACULAR. It's a shame if you don't own at least half the shit off that label.

Preaching a little? Maybe. Sorry. But, yes. Help support a fantastic DIY label.

Here's 2 shows you should know about coming up!

This one's tonight. If you happen to be reading this right now, cancel your plans. Actually, no wait. 2/3rds of us are mighty sick. Seems brick mower is either stalked by snow storms or colds/vomiting before our shows. So don't cream your pants over this one yet.

Then there's this show, which is next Wednesday. Could you ask for a better show? Ok, maybe if you wanted to see The Velvet Underground open up for Pavement at The Beatles' Shea Stadium concert. But that's impossible anyway. So don't even think such crazy thoughts. Take care, or take car.

Somethin's brewin' in my stomach.

Hmmm, looks like I started posting something a few days ago, which I then erased, but somewhere along the line I hit the publish button. So if you frequent our brick mower blog, all 2 and a half of you have probably just seen "The Future Ain't" posted, with nothing else under it.

What does it mean?

Fuck all if I know.

So, without any further ado, here's some pictures to make up for it.

Our next show is @ The Brighton Bar in Long Branch on July 29th w/ Trinitron. This flyer lies too. Lugrust isn't playing anymore, but is being replaced by another one of Jacko's bands. If you know Jacko, then they're like Lugrust. Hope to see you there!

Check back tomorrow or something for something I maybe meant to post over the weekend. Thanks Frank.

Last Minute show @ Meat Town 7/14

Just found out about this show. With Steve in England and unable to bang the drum, our friend Dave Smilow will sit behind the kit for a show and play a few songs he knows. A nice sweaty way to kill the downtime hangover. Come watch the rusty oldies played without a safety net.


Also, Mountain Dude and Permanent Vacation (from MN) are playing too. Come out, and give $5 to Permanent Vacation, cause they've got a lot more driving to do around the country. Come to see those bands. We'll be there drinking recreationally and playing as well.

7/14
@ Meat Town
$5
6:30 PM (over by 10!!!)

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey....

NO BETTER TIME TO ANNOUNCE THE NEWEST PRESSINGS OF OUR OLD EP THAT AIN'T EVEN THAT OLD!!!

FLOORS!


So what is with this "Floors" EP? Why the rereleaes you ask? Who are we? Aerosmith? Red Hot Chili Peppers? Three Doors Down? None of the above actually.

As reported in an earlier post, "Floors" is being released on Stumparumper Records in cassette format and limited, to I believe, 50 copies. Unfortunately, I don't have the cover art because I think I sent all the copies to Pat Kelley in Pennsylvania leaving me nothing to scan onto my computer but the side of my face or my butt cheeks. If you wanna see that, I'll be happy to accommodate your creepy "office party gone wrong" fantasies. But I'm not too keen on that.

We're also repressing the CD on Viking on Campus! "Floors" came out last October, right as we began playing shows and making this a functiong band. So why the "new version"? Well, we've sold out of the first run (not as impressive as it sounds). However, if you have the copy of the EP, you'll notice you can't read the song names on the back, and the disc art is flat out lame and blurry. So yeah, the new run of these CDs aren't "remastered by Bob Weston" or anything. They just have so me new artwork to look at. If you already own it, it's not worth getting again.

Also, Stumparumper Records will have a table at the annual Punk Rock Flea Market in Philadelphia on Sunday, July 25th. It's located @ 461 N. 9th St. and it's only $3 to get in. Stop by and say hi to Pat Kelley himself(mastermind behind Stumparumper Records). We too will be walking around, fingering our way through the record bins and getting into scuffles with local law enforcement.



Finally, a week tour may be in the works for October w/ Period Girls. Anyone have a van or a '4 X '8 trailer they wanna get rid of? We have money or a shit load of mid-80s baseball cards to give you.


Seriously, any leads on acceptable transportation is appreciated. Thanks a bunch.


....A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?

Fire Works for Everyone, but Us

Happy 4th of July, 2006 everybody.

Only about 4 or 5 people, excluding me, may understand that. Man, there's nothing I hate more than an inside joke.

So what if it's July 2nd, 2010? Shoot me with a firework if you'd like, but I'll wave my freedom flag in your face and whistle Yankee Doodle Dandy all the way to the freedom bank.

Ok, so brick mower is the band we are in. That is Kit, Steve, and myself. But as reported in the last blog, Steve is now in England studying abroad or a broad. I don't know where one's wandering eye may go. So yea, Steve is off eating fish and chips and watching football. (Translation: Eating fried cod and freedom fries and watching soccer). So, we are a little inactive right now in the public appearance department.





That is not Steve, but only what I imagine Steve doing right now.

So, daydreams aside, when Steve's back, we have shows lined up at The Brighton Bar w/ Trinitron, Asbury Lanes w/ Natural Child, Full of Fancy, and RSO, and a show at Buddies w/ Black Wine and The Break Evens. Plus, we're working out a weekend tour with Period Girls that'll take us up to Massachusetts. Hope it all pans out.

Finally, after months of fiddling in the Suburban Ranch Home Compound (srXhc), and at Eric Gieg's house, we're finally on to the mixing process for 8 songs that are gonna be scattered over 7''s and comps. for the next year or so. You can listen to a very rough mix we did of a Sebadoh song, "Ride the Darker Wave," off of their "Gimme Indie Rock" 7''. We tried, but not sure if we did it justice. Enjoy for now.

brick mower: "Ride the Darker Wave" [Sebadoh cover]


And for those who might have missed it, here's the super secret track from the old band Kit and I were in, Network of Halos. This was the last song on the "CYFOFT" album. A hit to some. To most, no. Take care.

"American Man [bonus track]" from Network of Halos "Conquering Your Fear of Small Towns" [2007] DON'T FUCK WITH MAISY!

OUR BLOG ISN'T DEAD!

So, I went to blog after our show last Monday night at The Court Tavern w/ Rapid Cities, Kicking Spit, Reaching Away, and Perfect Future. Quite the show! A lot of fun as well, in case you wanna know if I had fun. So I went to sign on Tuesday night, and I was denied access. Hmmm. "Oh well," I thought, "I'll try tomorrow," cause I was about 2 and a half sheets to the wind. So, Wednesday, same shit. Thursday, the same. I'm pressing buttons to get passwords sent to my email, all this boring tech bologna. Then, blogger's tech suggestion is "Maybe you're signed into the wrong email?" Oh, yeah. Whatever blogger. Like I don't know my own login name.


Turns out I had the wrong login name. For 4 days I sat at the computer angry and hopeless, punching keys and cursing. I'm becoming my grandfather, which is scary because he's been dead for years.

But anyway, crisis averted and I sturdy kick to my own ass. Hope y'alls summer is doing swell.
We had 2 good shows last week, one with The Timid Roosevelts down in Ewing, the other with all the great bands mentioned above.

Here's some actions shots!



So how 'bout those action shots taken by Colleen from Period Girls? Nice, huh? That's Steve in the man-t on drums.

SO, SPEAKING OF STEVE, he will be away for a month in England learning shit. Some call it studying abroad. I call it partying abroad 2000 and 0 '10 (girls gone wild UK edition, pub crawling, football lovin, rotten teeth flappin good ol' times). That's a stupid fucking name actually for anything. So basically, we won't be playing for a month while Steve's away. Maybe our buddy Dave can play a show or two but who knows.

Finally, our friend Eric Gieg is helping us finish up some tracks I played drums on back in Feb./March. 8 songs sat in the vaults and now we're rounding them out for future 7'' and comp. tracks.

That's all our boring shit for now. Where's yours?
Take care and pay your fare.

Maximum Rocknroll, likes us???

Hmmm, hey all. And you know who you are. Give yourself a bow and pat on the back. Do it. I dare ya. Pat yourself on the back right now. Ahhh, doesn't that feel good. It's a little weird, you patting yourself on the back in your own room, or "family computer room." Fun, isn't it. And no one gets hurt.

Ok, I'm gonna shut the f(bleep)uck up and continue on with a bunch of cool facts that exist in the world that some how involves this band and our interests. Okay, so first off, I got a text from John Terry of Rapid Cities glory, informing me Maximum Rocknroll reviewed us in their June 2010 issue. So this is what they had to say. "Turn back the clock to 1988 for what was called 'college rock'- now known as 'indie.' Six college rock songs in the DINOSAUR JR. and GUIDED BY VOICES vein [they put it in CAPS, not I]. A little flat-sounding but still a nice change of pace."-MRR [in fact, Ray Lujan of MRR reviews!]


Hmmm, so okay. Nice to see the review and it seems generally positive. I'm assuming the flat sounding mean's production wise, being that's been my every-band's recording mantra in life. Or maybe we are just flat. Although 2 out of the 3 of us aren't flat, and I remind you that I am boy. This issue also featured an interview with Kamikaze Dan from MD's Lotus Fucker. We got to play with Lotus Fucker on our first day of tour last March and stayed at Dan's apartment where we were wowed with wry jokes and obscure anime box-sets.

In other news, please lend a hand if you can to the Kickstarter project for Love/Hate Records, run by the John's. No, not They Might Be Giants, but John Terry and John Cole. Love/Hate Records is trying to fund their 1st compilation and they need your help. We're due to have an unreleased track out on this compilation as well, as will Rapid Cities (they're they are again!). So, any kind of pledge can help them out. TIMES QUICKLY RUNNING OUT. Click on the link to help out the Johns. You shall be thanked by many.
http://www.kickstarter.com/e/Lm5P9/projects/lovehaterecords/love-hate-records-compilation-vol-1

AND.... Period Girls have some songs up on their myspace. Kit Gogan, brick mower bass extraordinaire, plays drums in that band. Our friend's, Kelli and Colleen are also in the band, kicking ass and forgetting names. They're equal parts catchy, grimy, vulgar, and sincere at the same time. And that's not some bullshit description. It's actually true, and that's a pretty fucking amazing thing to be. It's like getting bubble gum stuck to your sneaker on a 97 degree day, and having the wherewithal to snack on, and enjoy it later. Check it out.

(PPPPPEEERRRRRRIODD GRRRLS!!!)

Finally, we're playing in Ewing, NJ this Friday, the 11th w/ The Timid Roosevelts @ The All Call Inn. 21+ ya' travelin' punks. Thanks a bunch.

Last Nugget of Fun at the Litterbox

This past Sunday we had the honor of playing the last show at The Litterbox, formerly known as Courtlandt Land. As mentioned earlier, we played our first show here last year so it was great to come in some sort of full-circle fashion and play the place we started out. I guess it's not full-circle because it wasn't our last show, unless I blow up or something before Saturday's show. Thanks to all the friends who came out, everyone that watched, and participated in this delectably fun, yet very very sad day in of local DIY-ness.

Thanks also to The Timid Roosevelts for driving up from Bordentown to play. My friend Cory was able to recommend them for the show and they were really fucking great, and super nice people too. Stefan and Old Snake shared yelps and drummers, and it was so ugly and beautiful. Jalopy struck the last ever chord in the basement, although not one you'll find in a "Learning Guitar for Dummies" book, so they were even better than the first time I saw them. And hats off to Period Girls, who opened the show with a 9 minute set of distorted garage punk, and expressed precisely why they don't want to go to rodeos with specific people.












Kelli and Kate of Litterbox fame have just moved in with the Mattress boys over at Meat Town. Fantastic. More Period Girls shows to come!

Finally, we're playing at The Court Tavern this Saturday. We go on at 9:30. Doors are at 9. Hope to see you there. Yes, you too.