TOURMALINE NEWS
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Meatlocker
Our show at the Meatlocker on Saturday night got a really great write-up on thenjunderground.com. You can read about it here. Our next show is Friday at Automatochino in Jersey City. Starts at 9 PM. 21+.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
our band could...
We played a show at Trash Bar in Williamsburg last week. Lemme tell you, it was stupid. Very, very stupid. Trash Bar is a "rock and roll bar" on one of the most gentrified streets in Williamsburg. Williamsburg doesn't even feel "cool" anymore. It feels like walking in a giant urban outfitters. The kids all have nice clothes and last year's scarves and stand around posing and drinking their PBR. It's just stupid.
So we're sitting there in this bar (which has a terrible jukebox, might I add. A good rock n' roll bar, like Maxwell's, will have an excellent jukebox) trying to find something good to listen to and looking out of place because we wear t shirts and jeans and I don't have a short little haircut or whatever. I start thinking about The Minutemen and I start thinking about punk rock and the music I love and I just keep thinking about that line, "our band could be your life" and I just GOT IT right there.
We're punk kids from jersey playing rock n roll songs, or, as Mike Watt once put it, lame guys writing songs. Our band could be your life.
P.S. We have a show at The Meatlocker in Montclair tonight. See below for info.