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SUNY Purchase (Purchase, NY)

Art schools always have interesting funny useless things sitting around.

The Monkey Fart Sandwich

A good way to save money is to buy some eggs and toast and hope your friend’s house has some mayo. Then you can make some Monkey Fart Sandwiches as Eric Lehning of The Non-Commissioned Officers calls them.

MMMMM…

Luigi’s Pizza (Asbury Park, NJ)

Get a good look and don’t forget it.
You must go here if you’re ever in Asbury Park, NJ and you give one ounce of a crap about pizza.

The fried eggplant and ricotta pizza is incredible.
It might be the best pizza on the planet.

The guy that runs this place (Luigi??) was born and raised in Italy where his father taught him how to make pizza from the time he was a kid. He said he’s been making pizza for over 30 years.

Toughen Up

Matt was trying to avoid a blister on his index finger so he switched his grip for the set. He pretty quickly developed this gash of a blister and wouldn’t stop complaining between songs that his hand was stinging. Pussy.

Home of the Original Buffalo Wing

Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY is the “home of the original Buffalo Wing.”
One of their signs boasts that they’ve served 246.8 million wings. We’re pretty sure their counting drum sticks so that equals 61.7 million chickens.

A creepy statue inside.

Their hot wings aren’t really that hot but they’re fucking delicious.

Turbo Beer Bong

We made a Turbo Beer bong at a hardware store for our beer chugging needs. We’re thinking about making more of them and selling them at the shows… Any takers??

Jonas shows us how it’s done…

Matt and Marcos gave it a run as well…

Tour Dates!! (Europe / US / Canada)

We’ll be posting a few more dates to this list soon as well as bands we’re playing with. Keep checking back!

05-18 London, UK – Flowerpot
05-19 Newcastle, UK – Offshore 44
05-20 Liverpool, UK – Liverpool Sound City
05-21 Stockton-On-Tees, UK – Ku Bar
05-22 Glasgow, UK – Stag & Dagger Festival
05-24 Brussels, Belgium – TBA
05-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
05-26 Bern, Switzerland – ISC Club
05-27 Milan, Italy – La Casa 139
05-28 Torino, Italy – Spazio 211
05-29 Rome, Italy – Dimmi
06-01 Munich, Germany – Atomic Cafe
06-02 Berlin, Germany – Comet
06-03 Cologne, Germany – Gebaude 9
06-04 Paris, France – Point Ephemere
06-05 Hamburg, Germany – Molotow
06-06 Munster, Germany – Gleis 22
06-07 Heidelberg, Germany – Karlstorbahnhof

06-26 Chicago, IL – Schuba’s Tavern
06-27 Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock
06-28 Fargo, ND – The Aquarium
06-30 Calgary, AB – Sled Island Festival
07-01 Calgary, AB – Sled Island Festival
07-02 Calgary, AB – Sled Island Festival
07-03 Calgary, AB – Sled Island Festival
07-05 Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret**
07-06 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile***
07-07 Portland, OR – East End***
07-08 Boise, ID – Visual Arts Collective
07-09 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court****
07-10 Denver, CO – Hi Dive****
07-11 Lawrence, KS – Replay Lounge
07-12 Columbia, MO – Mojo’s

The Party Never Stops

…and sometimes you just have to give up and sleep in the back of the van so you can any sleep at all. Still better than a 9-5er.

Turbostache Competition (Week 8)

We know we’ve been slacking on the stache pictures but we did some research the other night while we were partying with some moustache enthusiasts in Ithaca, NY.

According to the American Mustache Institute Dave and Jonas are sporting “chevron” mustaches and Hearn has a “horseshoe.”

Also, we saw some vinyl in a window in Fort Wayne, IN and decided to take photos in front of our power/spirits animals… or something like that.

Northwest (Idaho, Montana, North Dakota)

Driving across the Northwest is at first one of the most beautiful parts of tour but quickly becomes a “perpetuity” of boredom and nothingness, to use the words of NBC.

It’s like this for about 20 hrs straight…

Turbo Go-Karts

We got an itch for some go-kart racing when the weather got good in Southern California.

Adventure Park in Visalia, CA.

After getting our first taste of some 40 mph go-karts we decided to spend all our money and go to a K1 Racetrack in Seattle.
Fucking awesome.

Here’s Dave, Jonas and Brian (Surfer Blood) battling it out on the track.

Dave kicked everyone’s ass the 1st round and reminded us “If you ain’t first, yer last.”

Weird Wives

Weird Wives is a Surfer Blood side-project with guitarist Thomas Fekete, bassist Brian Black, drummer Marcos Marchesani and non-Surfer Blooder and singer Nick Klein. They played together as Weird Wives before Surfer Blood’s JP and TJ asked them to join to fill out the band.

We got to watch them record 2 tracks in San Francisco at SIR.
It’s some fucking explosive, heavy ass-kickin rock n roll.
Definitely keep your ears pealed for a release from Weird Wives (most likely on a 7″ split vinyl).

San Francisco

San Francisco is fucking beautiful.

At the end of our set at Bottom of the Hill Jonas did a drum dive on Hearn and cut himself up.

Avocado Farm near Santa Barbara

A friend of ours let us stay at his avocado farm while we we’re near Santa Barbara.

An avocado tree.

Casualties of War

1 – bass pedal plate
2 – ride cymbals
6 – drum heads (3 snare, 2 toms, 1 bass drum)
? – drum sticks
2 – guitar pedals (tuner & distortion)
8 – guitar cables
50 – guitar strings
1 – power supply
3 – amp fuses
1 – bass cabinet
1 – bass head
3 – pairs of shoes
1 – jump rope
? – clothing
2 – van wheel studs
3 – pipes

Costa Mesa, CA

As soon as we got into town we hit the beach. The sand’s pretty full of glass and trash but it was great to hear some waves and see the Pacific.

We saw Leonardo and Donatello in their matching gear down the street from the beach.
Motorcycle Fashion WIN.

At Detroit Bar Surfer Blood’s set was filmed for the Carson Daly show. NBC had a sign out front covering their asses in case someone didn’t want themselves broadcast “throughout the world in perpetuity.”

Turbostache Competition (Week 6)

Brian and Jonas get Most Improved.

Guest appearance by faux-moustachian, JP of Surfer Blood.

Candy Makes You Dandy

We’re big fans of the medical programs in California.
Here’s some edibles.

Giant Baby in Pheonix

WTF??

In N Out Burger

We were on a mission of get some In-N-Out Burger.

Double-Double with Fries, both Animal Style.

Buffalo Trace Whiskey

The fine people over at Buffalo Trace in Kentucky sent us some bottles of their whiskey while we were in Arizona.

The guys in Surfer Blood taught us a game back in February called Buffalo. If you’re caught holding a drink with your right hand and someone calls “buffalo” then you have to finish the drink.
Dave got buffaloed holding Buffalo Trace one too many times before our show in Tuscon.

Jonas decided to warm up his arms before the show…

Sonoran Dogs (Tuscon, AZ)

A hot dog wrapped in bacon with beans, grilled and raw onions, tomatoes, mayo, mustard and jalapeno sauce, all in an oversided bun. Fucking delicious.

Tuscon Casino

Dave and Jonas have been talking about hitting up a casino since we toured with The Datsuns last July. When we had some down time in Tuscon we went straight for a casino.

Dave and Jonas walked in with $40 each and both doubled their money and walked out.

Dzrrrt (West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona)

We were really in the middle of nowhere.

We stopped and had some amazing Mexican food at Chuy’s in the middle of the desert. Chuy’s is entertainingly the John Madden hall of fame since he comes there every year and has helped promote the little desert restaurant.

Jonas picked a button off a cactus hoping for some opiates and spent the next hour picking microscopic needles out of his fingers.

Austin BBQ

Austiners don’t mess around with their Barbecue. We were told part of a man’s status in Texas is in the quality of his barbecue. This sandwich was like no bbq sandwich you’ll ever get in Nashville. Sorry Whitt’s.

The Tears of Joy Hot Sauce Shop in Austin has some dangerously hot stuff.

We tried out some hot sauces and Jonas went for some of the crazy hot ones.

SXSW

We played 17 shows in 6 days at SXSW. We played inside, outside, day, night, for 15 min, 45 min, as early as 1pm and as late as 1am, for 25 people and for a 500+ crowd. Awesome but truely exhausting.

Cheap Time played after us at Spiderhouse. They were one of the few bands we actually had time to watch since we were hauling ass all over Austin the whole week.

Before our official SXSW showcase at Mohawk on Saturday we got to do an interview with John Norris (formerly of MTV).

Earlier in the week we stopped by KLBJ 93.7 FM Austin to do an interview with B-Doe.

Dave Gets Raw Dogged (Columbia, MO)

Dave was black out drunk and at 3am this 135 lb Great Dane decided he had to get a piece of Dave’s fine ass. The dog’s owner told us 5 min before this happened that the dog never humps people. Dave’s apparently irresistable.

TurboStache Competition (Week 4)

Who’s winning??

Guest appearance in the TurboStache Competition by Craig Mahoney from Terrible Twos and The Mahonies from Detroit. He learned 4 of our songs in about 20 minutes before our Magic Stick show and kicked ass. Craig’s Detroit moustache is probably the most authentic one here.

$1 Coneys in Detroit

Mmmmmm…. Breakfast of Champions.

Upstate New York

We played Geneseo University. It was kind of in the middle of nowhere.

We stayed at a farm house after the show with Surfer Blood.

Niagara Falls

If your heading from Toronto take Highway 420 to Niagara Falls…

Toronto

Bistro 422 in Toronto across from Sneaky Dees sells small pitchers of mix drinks. After getting wimpy mix drinks in Montreal Dave was ready for a real drink. Dave killed his and almost got killed crossing the street.

Canadian Border

The Canadian Border is always a real bitch for us. They don’t fuck around there and they always keep us for an hour or two to interrogate us. I guess we look like some trouble making rock n roll a-holes.

Panarchy at Dartmouth

We partied over at the Panarchy house after our show at Dartmouth.
Panarchy is a giant former fraternity house that has a basement room that looks like it was used by some sort of secret society for rituals back 100 years ago or so. It has concrete seats lining the entire room with names of people and groups and dates engraved in them. In the middle of the room is a box with fake and real bones in it. Awesome but creepy.

TurboStache Competition (Week 3)

This week Marcos and Brian of Surfer Blood joined the TurboStache Competition. Marcos is clearly winning and a blogger in Toronto stated that his moustache alone was worth the price of admission. Hearn is coming in second with his handlebars/prison-break look. Brian, Dave and Jonas are all fighting for third. Only time can tell.

Philly

Thank you, guy from New Jersey.

Market Hotel w/ Surfer Blood

We played Market Hotel last week in Brooklyn and an estimated 900 people came out. Our show with Surfer Blood broke the record for the most people to ever attend the Market Hotel. It was a badass time except that it was about 1000 degrees on stage.

Before….

During…

Photos by Jonathan Lyman (for New York Magazine)

Photo by Emilia Brock (for Nicky Digital)

After…

SXSW Shows

We’re posting all of our SXSW shows HERE.
We’re going to be playing a shit load of shows that week so check back before SXSW to get a full list of venues and times.

Meat Towne (New Brunswick)

Across from the home of the Fat Blunt is Meat Towne, one of the basement show houses that’s hosted bands from all over the country including JEFF the Brotherhood and Screaming Females. You might hit your head on the ceiling but you’ll see the most enthusistic punk rockers you’ve seen in a long time.

Sound check, kind of.

Jersey Shore

This guy has some huge balls.

TurboStache Competition (Week 2)

Baltimore Crab Massacre (round 2)

LP Steamers in Baltimore doesn’t fuck around.

Ben’s Chili Bowl

We had to hit up Ben’s Chili Bowl in DC. They have legendary chili dogs and they’re always playing the funkiest Prince jams when we walk in.

Jonas was running to get his chili dog.

Looks like a deuce but tastes amazing.

Charlotte, NC

Our faceless hosts helped us cross into the next dimension.

Volcano Digital! This couple had every electronic gadget you’d ever want.

Atlanta Traffic Jam

Tallahassee, FL

Dave had one too many 9% Chimays at The Engine Room and passed out mid after party. He sat like this while we partied right next to him for another 3 hours.

Holiday Shore’s kitchen the morning after…

Seaworld

We crashed over at Jordan’s from Tam Tam the Sandwich Man & the Magical Sugar Cookies. His girlfriend works at Seaworld and got us all in for free. Fucking awesome.

Dave, Matt and Dylan went on a roller coaster with a nice Chinese woman.

Hooters Olympics 2010

50 Wings (25 Chickens)
18 Oysters
1 Basket of Fried Pickles
4 Pitchers of Beer

Mardi Gras

Right when we arrived in New Orleans we got a call that the show was cancelled. The City of New Orleans shut The Treehouse’s power off and when a local art gallery owner decided to host the show they got a call warning them not to support The Treehouse. Polical and weird but we’ve heard weirder shit on the road.

We decided to make the best of New Orleans and went first to Frankie & Johnny’s in New Orleans where Jonas ate 3 lbs of crawfish.

Some crazies on Bourban St and a blacked out frat guy.

Matt got crunk…

When we got to Mobile, AL it was Mardi Gras all over again. Some locals told us that Mardi Gras as we know it with floats and all actually started in Mobile. Who knows. May have just been some proud Mobilers making shit up.