For those of you not on MySpace, this message was passed along by Jubilee:
A message from Evan Weiss
“Hey All,
Evan here. I’m just writing to let you know that the timeframe for which I’d committed myself to playing with Jubilee has now reached it’s end. This has been a completely amicable decision, with the split having been agreed upon for quite some time now. It was clear from the beginning, that at a certain point, I was going to go focus the majority of my time elsewhere on a few different things. One of those is a new band which I’ve had on the brain about getting started for awhile now. I’ve also had my time consumed with a new record label I’ve began that has just gotten rolling, not to mention continuing my work with Wires On Fire. I wish nothing but the best for my friends and former band mates. I’m sure I’ll see you all again soon out on the road. Until then, take care of yourselves.
Yours truly,
ELW”
Yes. James Brown is dead, so Evan Weiss is now officially the hardest working man in show business. The first thing he’s got comin’ down the pike is a release on his new record label, Psychedelic Judaism. Make sure to check that all out here:
Psychedelic Judaism
On top of that, he has indeed started yet another band called Slang Chickens. I hear a whole lotta dirty country and blues being fused together here, resulting in a sound that is kinda like if The Gun Club, CCR, Meat Puppets, and Neil Young were all involved in a 4-way car accident, and then all their blood flowed together, forming one stream headed down into the sewer, to then sprinkle atop some eggs in a grimy underground hen’s nest… And the resulting baby chickens?… Yeah, you guessed it, Slang Chickens!
Slang Chickens
So yes… We wish our friend well on these endeavors, and we’ll all forever have etched deep into our collective memory… Ziggy, the German bus driver for Jubilee’s first tour in the UK… Stealing everybody’s weed, and then blasting German death metal as he flies across the English countryside at breakneck speeds, only to arrive in the next town completely lost, with the first words out of his mouth always being, “And NOW?!”. Here’s to the good times behind us, and even more ahead for us all.
- Jubilee
May 8th, 2008
Categories: Jubilee, News . Author: morgan . Comments: 1 Comment
Want a free Buddyhead CD? Each week starting today, NS will hold a contest giving away CDs of Buddyhead bands. This week’s CD is Wires on Fire’s Homewrecker EP. This CD includes the following songs:
1. Learn to Drown
2. Daisy
3. Hot Hands
4. Desert Sun/ Desert Moon
5. Consciously Unconscious
6. Hate That Breeds Love
To win this CD, simply answer this question: What was the band’s name before they became Wires on Fire?
Send your answer to morgan.viera@gmail.com. You have until next Wednesday (say, 11am US Pacific) to send in your answer. At that time, one winner will be randomly chosen from all correct submissions.
Stay tuned next Wednesday for round two!
May 7th, 2008
Categories: Contests . Author: morgan . Comments: No Comments
Well, do you?
If you do, grab your camera and start taking photos of you, your friends, your buddy’s drunken girlfriend, anything related to beer, and send them off to the dudes at poundbeers.com.
If you don’t pound beers, well, still send in that embarrassing photo of your roommate after partying too hard, then go rate everyone else’s submissions.
May 6th, 2008
Categories: Random . Author: morgan . Comments: 3 Comments
What’s more fun than giving your own ego a boost by believing that all your friends want to know what you’re doing at this very moment? Or maybe you get off on receiving updates from the toilet? If you’re not on Twitter yet, what the hell are you waiting for? Buddyhead? Well then go follow them at http://twitter.com/buddyhead!
No stalkers. (As per Travis. Good luck.)
April 28th, 2008
Categories: Buddyhead . Author: morgan . Comments: 1 Comment
There’s this interview with Jubilee that lorealdallas found, but it’s completely in Japanese, and running it through Babel Fish just results in the usual nonsensical gibberish. As in, “they are the droppings it is coming to the point of seeing.” (Droppings? What??)
I’m putting out a call to anyone out there who may be able to do a decent (and coherent) translation of the interview. If you’re up to the task and you do a good job, you’ll can have some Buddyhead swag like CDs, stickers, and maybe a poster or two … if I can find them.
So if you’re pretty handy with Japanese, go check out that interview and let me know if you wanna give translating a try.
April 18th, 2008
Categories: Jubilee, Articles . Author: morgan . Comments: 5 Comments
Mkay, I took the link down ‘coz the video’s not yet ready.
In the meantime, you can still check out this bonus photo!
April 15th, 2008
Categories: Jubilee, Photos & Video . Author: morgan . Comments: 5 Comments
Welp. No one really has been bugging me about when any new SoD comics would be posted. But in my dreamworld, I get nagging emails, comments, and a mermaid tail.
Anyway, I do regret to say that there’s no new comic finished or near finished yet. But since there hasn’t been a Squires update here in a while, I thought I’d at least post some sort of filler doodle of Squire North. Before the three of you shake your fists at me for being cheap, I want to let you in on the fun part - you get to caption it yourself! Erm…in the comments!
Squire North sure looks like he’s thinking long and hard about something and he needs YOUR help…to remember what it is he’s thinking about. Something G-rated, I’m sure.
April 13th, 2008
Categories: Random, Squires of Dimness . Author: Anne Tai . Comments: 15 Comments
I know there’s a bunch of you out there who’ve been jockeyin’ to help out at Buddyhead, and now is your chance! They’re looking for a new intern to do what interns normally do … which, at the ‘Head, could mean anything from posting a MySpace bulletin to picking up a sandwich for Travis. You’ll also probably be asked to Poke people on Facebook and look for cool videos on YouTube. Here’s what their current intern, Chris, had to say on MySpace:
Ok chumps… Let’s cut to the chase… Buddyhead needs a fuckin’ intern!
Yo. so here is the deal. I’m Chris J. Ekstedt and I’ve been helping Travis & Aaron with Buddyhead for a while now. I’m kind of like an intern but I have a wife, kid, house and way more cool shit than you do. Long-story-short… I’ve been going off a little too hard now for a couple of years, which resulted in me attending rehab recently. Anyhoo, now that I’m all clean, sober and buff I don’t have as much time to do all of the little things here and there as I used to when i was lit 24-7 and slept way less…. Here’s where you come in….
Do you wanna be intern for the intern? It’s gonna be rad!
Here’s what I need.
1) Someone i can count on. Travis hasn’t been able to count on me for a while so one of us has got to be able to perform and it’s gonna be you not me.
2) You need to have access to the internet and be competent. That means you know how to use youtube, facebook and myspace. Basically you must have the skills that most 9 years olds possess.
Yeeeeeeap that’s it. For all your work you will be paid just as much as I do… which is nothing. But the perks are killer. I give great verbal praise and Travis will prolly give you a few cd or two.
Interested? Wanna do cool shit? You know you do! Email me at intern@buddyhead.com
April 11th, 2008
Categories: Buddyhead . Author: morgan . Comments: 2 Comments
OK, so here in the U.S. it’s technically not the 22nd yet, but somewhere else it is and I’m guessing some of you in Europe are already celebrating the momentous occasion 29 years ago when Mama North gave birth to a wee little boy and named him Aaron.
March 21st, 2008
Categories: Random . Author: morgan . Comments: 19 Comments
Over at The NIN Hotline, Pelle gives the lowdown on the tracks on Pearls to Pigs Vol. 2 while Alessandro admits to snagging some of Aaron’s equipment and the pros and cons of not being bound to a record label.
The interview’s chock full of nifty Modwheelmood information, including a mention of Pearls to Pigs Vol. 3. And did they just mention a show in the near future?!
The NIN Hotline chats with Modwheelmood.
March 19th, 2008
Categories: Articles, Music, Buddyhead . Author: Anne Tai . Comments: 1 Comment
