OH SHIT WE ARE COMING TO JAPAN FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!!! FINALLY!!! DEATH ROSENSTOCK HELLMODE 日本 TOUR 2024!!! I AM SO EXCITED IF YOU ARE IN TOKYO OR OSAKA OR ANYWHERE ELSE IN JAPAN COME OUT TO ALL OF THESE SHOWS PLEASE!!
TIX ON SALE 8月19日17:00 VIA
@KILIKILIVILLA
YESS!!!!!!
Meeting your girlfriends father for the first time while staying at their home for a week and also you’re a vegan and also your job is “punk musician” is playing life on Expert level.
10 years ago bomb the music industry played our last show. I remember being very sad the most fun time in my life was coming to an end but also very excited for what lied ahead as I knew we would be recording what would become We Cool soon after.
A man at work today asked me how come if my band is playing gigs all around the world consistently that he's never heard of it? It's hard to explain to people that some bands are not rich & famous, they're just working. Like regular people. Making regular money. WHAT A MIND FUCK!
Congrats to
@puptheband
for completing a tour with no canceled shows due to COVID. True champions of health and music. I’ll tell you what, I ran the NYC marathon and I’ve completed a North American tour without getting COVID. Guess which one was way harder to do.
Spotify adding the “tip the artist” function is the same energy as the government telling you to start a go fund me when you can’t pay your medical bills.
saw a few folks in the replies yesterday who seemingly got confused during career day in high school when trying to go to the COPS table and ended up in the MUSIC BIZ table instead. Not too late y’all, you can still wear those boots you currently lick.
My favorite Van Halen song is about an ice cream man, who is also David Lee Roth, who seemingly fucks all the women on his ice cream route and possibly sells ice cream and while this is slightly entertaining I’m not sure it’s “required reading” for teens these days.
I think I’m gonna start treating everyone else’s career like they treat musicians re: fame/success whatnot. “Oh you’re a lawyer? Like the OJ lawyers? Are your cases on tv? No? Oh that’s too bad. That’s probably a fun hobby though. Ever think about going back to school?”
Watching people start clapping along to
@laurastevenson
songs and her immediately and fearfully saying “no” during the song is the Laura Stevenson performance I came for.
I think it’s good that the otherwise extremely fragile business of being a professional musician is still heavily being effected by Covid while the rest of earth has decided to just not care anymore in basically all aspects. This is good.
If a music venue going vaxx only is bumming you out, & you’re somehow not a lunatic, it’s not only a health risk for everyone involved w/ non vaxx being there, 1 positive Covid tour member literally can shut the entire tour down for weeks canceling jobs for 100’s to many 1000’s
We continue to not have COVID despite Americas best efforts, & not for nothing, the venues down in FL & TX have been way better with staff mask wearing then some other “liberal” states. So before you clown on the South, myself included, remember its not everyone being dumb dumbs
I truly hope I’m just being overcautious but there are so many fucking clowns out in town right now at bars drinking and smoking like life is normal again. Live it up pricks. This is why I won’t get to go to work for YEARS. hope you like zoom concerts assholes... for forever
If your reaction to seeing a movie or hearing a record you don't like is to harass the artist/actor/creators on the internet like a cowardly child, I hope you are eaten by a shark while your family is forced to helplessly watch you die. Yeah that's excessive but fuck you
Playing the guitar is very fun. Y'all should learn how to do it. Its honestly not very hard at all. Here are things that are harder IMO:
1. Remembering anyones name
2. Following a recipe exactly
3. Exercising
4. All other instruments
5. Writing in cursive legibly
6. Backflips
Cell reception was awful so couldn’t post during the day and it took two hours to get home due to various factors. But here’s
@jeffrosenstock
killing it for a 4 pm set at
@RiotFest
At the
@puptheband
show tonight they played the end of one of their songs in the style of "ska" and my immediate reaction was to look up from the bar in the other room, interrupt the person talking to me and scream "NO! BOOOOOO!"
I watched the bomb doc for the 1st time in a while tonight. My takeaways are:
1. I’m glad I handled the bottle situation with humor & not screaming
2. Im glad I’m working on being nicer to my friends now in my old age
3. Im glad I talk less on stage
4. I wish I wore a tiara more
Without fail whenever I talk to an older gentleman about bass playing they always say something like “I’m not even going to insult you but Obviously you don’t play with a pick of course” & like yes motherfucker sometimes I play with a pick. This shit is fast & it sounds better!
here comes a long not fun one:
so last night during our very fun show one of my friends was straight up groped during our performance . usually id just be very upset but since this is my friend now I’m doubly upset...
I’ve almost gotten into physical altercations (which I surely would have been killed during) with security at venues because of their piss poor effort to keep our crowd safe so it was so EXTRA sick to see Warsaw security kill it all 8 days AND crowd surfing tonight.
I mean, did we actually think these clowns were gonna play by the rules this time? AM I TALKING ABOUT THE IMPEACHMENT AM I TALKING ABOUT THE DISCREPANCIES IN VOTES IN IOWA IS IT POSSIBLY BOTH THE GOP & DEMS SHOULD BE THROWN INTO THE OCEAN & TORPEDOES SHOT AT THEM? Yes. Yes it is
This was the first album I recorded on Where I was like dang! This is good it sounds good it’s just good! it was a cool feeling. I’m glad people still enjoy it And holy cow I’m old
Bomb the Music Industry!'s final album 'Vacation' turns 10 today. It was a milestone in both Jeff Rosenstock's career and for the DIY indie-punk scene overall. We looked back on it:
Even the coolest mother fuckers in the world are suffering from depression so maybe pay some mind to your old homie on the Facebook. Or not yell at a barista today. Be a reason people keep trying. Also we'd be lucky to live a 10th of the life Anthony Bourdain did. Sad sad stuff
You know when hardcore bands have a song where it like breaks down & the drummer just hits the China cymbal & the singer goes “this is your last chance” or whatevs & then it gets brutal? I saw a band once where the singer said “treat everyone like shit” & I think about that a lot
Hayley built a little at house for the outdoor cat we feed to stay warm over the winter. I put a little security camera on it to see if they use it. We’ll, It is indeed being used by the cat as well as 2 others cats, a bird a raccoon and a possum.
I can’t believe I played a rock show. It was Very fun & I felt every minute of the 3 years we hadn’t played in the 1st 5 songs but dang I feel like I just dropped like a bag of bricks I’ve been holding for 2 years. It’s wild when you get to do the thing You love after a minute
Hayleys been playing animal crossing since Friday so this song has been stuck in my head since Friday so now maybe it’ll get stuck in yours cuz it’s kinda nice and don’t we fucking deserve a nice thing? I sure fucking do. Well enjoy...
Hey everyone, new record NO DREAM out now! Free/donation download on Quote Unquote. Pre-order from Polyvinyl or us. Stream it on all the shit. Here's a mega link to all those things:
Stoked to share this with ya. Love y’all, miss y’all. <3
For a little over a year I've been working on another project off and on: transcribing the entire Antarctigo Vespucci (
@chrisfarren
&
@jeffrosenstock
) discography for bass.
Instead of making our rider more elaborate as the show budgets grow over the years we instead just add more chips and salsa until we spend it all. We’re up to like 50 bags of chips and 60 bottles of salsa. I’m not going to lie, it was a bad decision to do this.
Bomb the music industry used to do $5 per diems at the beginning and our band friends would say “whadya expect, you don’t sell anything that’s all you’re ever gonna be able to do” well, jokes on y’all. You’re all in the band with no Merch & free music now.
While it’s been a wild and eventful day on the internet I do hope the Takeaway that merch cuts are criminal and evil and UNAVOIDABLE currently in many of our touring lives stays front and center and how it ultimately hurts both fans AND musicians.
Today is my birthday. I’m going to work. If you asked me last year what do I want for my birthday I would of said to go to work. Be careful what you wish for. Also, don’t get this old. Wrap it up by like 32 y’all. ok happy birthday to me bye bye.
-The average American salary is $56,000
-there are 261 work days on average in a year
-therefore, On average an American makes $215 a day
-current unemployment rate 6.7%
So, 9 months to “negotiate” just about 3 days pay. These clowns all need to be thrown in jail for forever
If you spent $100 on MCR tickets today, good job! I bet you’ll have a great time. If you spent $300 on MCR tickets, good job! I bet you’ll have a great time. If you spent over $500 on MCR tickets, GOOD JOB! I bet you’ll have a good time! Go enjoy the thing you like!
Record labels set to enforce new rules that prevent artists from re-recording their projects from 10-30 years following the success of ‘Taylor's Version.’ (via Billboard)
I want to start a Taylor swift cover band where we just play her songs louder. Like a lot louder. Not punk or faster really. Just louder. I’ve also drank a bottle of wine. What else would you like to know
Heres a bunch of hot takes each hotter than the next:
1. The Catholic Church doesn't need anyones money. Its doing fine
2. You can still think its sad a beautiful building burnt down & not like Catholicism
3. You can still think the 2nd thing while being sad about other things
Fuck it, I'll be the president
Policy
#1
no more winter
Policy
#2
sour patch kids for every meal
Policy
#3
naps are mandatory
I look forward to your Support
As a person who played guitar with y’alls as well in the year 2000 of our lord and savior Jesus Christ, I do think
@GreenDay
it would be very cool for you to help Randy out. Also I’ll play guitar for you as well at the citi field show in August if this helps Randy out at all.
Hello
@GreenDay
, it’s Randy. In 2004 I got on stage and played bass for you in your time of need. Today I tried to buy tix to see you in Nashville and unfortunately I am not a rich man. So now, in my time of need, I am asking for 4 floor tix. I’ll even play again if needed.
My old roommate
@mygiantrobot
at the show tonight was yelling at people to put masks on AND giving them masks when they didn’t have any. THIS IS THE ENERGY Y’ALL NEED TO BE BRINGING TO SHOWS IN 2021.
Eric Clapton says the Covid vaccine has impaired his guitar playing. Just for the record, he has already said nerve damage has impaired his guitar playing. Next he’ll be saying it was fear of the vaccine that made him racist in 1976.
Normal sized gig tonight in Chicago
@saltshedchicago
. Biggest show we’ve ever headlined. The vibes, immaculate all night from the security to the stage crew to the bookers to the catering angels. A perfect night celebrated by all on this perfect tour filled with great friends. 🩷
Saw a couple this afternoon playing acoustic guitar and singing in the target parking lot this afternoon and it’s wild how I can miss live music so much but Yet hate it so much all at once.