On Thursday, February 25, we’re stoked to be playing a show with one of my pals from law school, Erin Rodgers, and her band, Kennedy Bakery. Also on the bill is Christian Staehely, who I’d never heard of, but who turns out to be kind of interesting: he’s a Princeton graduate who was also a 39th-round draft pick in the 2008 MLB draft. Now he plays minor-league ball for the Seattle Mariners. The above link to is for his Myspace, so you should check out his tunes. Fair warning: one of them is a dead ringer for Weezer’s “Say It Ain’t So.”

Details:

2/25 | Rudyard’s Pub | 10 PM | $5 cover | 21+

 
Final note: I’ve updated our show listing. We’ve got two shows at Rudz in March, including an exciting opening gig with the dude from Beulah.

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Hey!

We’re playing on Friday. With Fired for Walking. And Mr. Gnome. Show is at Rudyard’s Pub (map). We’re the first band, and we go on around 10 pm.

And later that night, we hear there’s potential for snow.

There’s nothing quite like the tradition of leaving the house all bundled up to see the Bright Men of Learning, and then the next morning…snow covers the earth like a warm blanket of rock ‘n’ roll goodness. You tip toe downstairs, reach deep in your stocking, and grab two asprin before sitting down in a soft chair to remember the previous night’s catchy-as-hell musics.

Tags: fired for walking, rudz, shows

This Sunday evening, we’re playing a set at the Westheimer Block Party. Our time slot is 5:50 to 6:20 at Helios (the upstairs stage), 411 Westheimer. Apparently 250 other bands are playing both days this weekend. So there will be other things to see and do. But make a little bit of time for us this weekend.

Also, thanks to the Houston Press for featuring us in their blog today. We did a bit on our parents’ favorite music, and I think it turned out pretty well.

Here’s the full schedule for this weekend’s festivities.

Yep. We’re playing twice this coming weekend.

Saturday, November 7th, we’re opening a set at Rudz for two bands that generally rock a lot harder than we do—Ghost Town Electric and 500 Megatons of Boogie. To match their intensity, we’re planning to play a set with a bit more giddy up than you’re probably used to seeing from us, so definitely come out for less kind and gentle BMOL.

Cover is $5 and the show starts at 10:30. We’re the first band, so don’t dawdle.

Ah, but what if that’s too late? Then check us out at Big Star Bar the next day. One of Jman’s friends is having a party there and inviting all her friends to hang out. She also invited us to be the entertainment. This being a public place, you’re invited, too. At this second show, we’re planning to give listeners a preview of our upcoming record. We’ll probably play all but one or two of the 14 songs we’ve recorded. Because we’re the only band we might actually play a couple of sets. And our pal ADR is going to be spinning records, too.

Thankfully, the Sunday show should start in the early evening. Doors open at 4 pm, and admission is free.

FInally, I should note that if you miss us this weekend, you can catch us at the Westheimer Block Party on Sunday, November 15. We’re scheduled to play the 5:50 pm slot at Helios upstairs.

Tags: big star bar, rudz, shows

The other night, Ben and I separately ventured out to see Woozyhelmet and Young Mammals rock out at Mango’s. The show was to have been headlined by Thee Oh Sees, but they cancelled due to illness. Given the last minute loss, the show price was quickly reduced to zero. Given that price, I resolved that I would still attend.

Unfortunately, two other bands were also added to the bill, which wouldn’t have been so bad if I wasn’t 35 years old and could stay awake past midnight. Woozyhelmet didn’t go on until 11:45, so I wasn’t able to stick around and watch Young Mammals.

Lucky for me, I was still able to read about the show and see some choice photos thanks to our pal Ramon Medina and his review at 29-95.com.

Here’s me in the Polo cap and GNR shirt (Ramon called a “fucking hipster”! in the caption).

And here’s Jay Crossley from Woozyhelmet (left) with another pal of ours, Mr. Dunnock. Notice anything interesting about Jay’s shirt?

Mango’s was awesome, by the way. I hadn’t been there in six or seven years, but I was very pleased to see the considerable improvements. I can’t wait to play there.

Since I’m in a rock band, my dreams might very well come true quite soon.

Tags: mango's, shows, woozyhelmet, young mammals

If you’re reading this in your feed reader or on Myspace/Facebook, you can’t really see it. But we’ve redesigned this place to merge our old site with our Blogger blog into this brand-new, Wordpress-powered wonderland. If you were a subscriber to our old blog, you won’t have to change a thing. The feed remains the same. We’ve also imported all the posts from the old blog.

Everything else is new, including our swell new banner and logo (good job, Chris!). This comes only a few days after our guitar genius, Ben Murphy, gave our Myspace page a good scrubbing and added some new jams. Because we’ve recorded a ton of new music and started playing more shows, we figured it was high-time we treated ourselves a facelift.

Finally, we’ve confirmed two new shows on back-to-back weekends in early November. You can get those details on the new Shows page.

As always, we hope to see you there.

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Thanks to c:\ for the design expertise.

Tags: posters, rudz

It’s been a long time since we’ve played a show. It’s been an even longer time since we released any music. This Friday, we plan to end both droughts with a show at Rudyard’s celebrating the release of our new Champion Sound EP. This is what it will look like.

As for what it will sound like, well, it was recorded live to 8-track with my former roommate and recording savant, John Sears. So it’s going to sound like three lo-fi, classic-rock jams. Two of which we’ve never, ever played during a show.

And speaking of the show, we’re pleased to be playing with some good friends: The Jonx and Al Hendrix’s new band Side Arms. Plus, our pal ADR will be supplying jams before the show and between sets. You must attend this show, right?

What’s all this gonna cost? Well the EP is $2. The show is $3. For $5 you get the full BMOL experience. Can you do any less?

I look forward to seeing you there.

Note: The above mentioned EP does not include any of the 14 tracks we recently wrapped up recording in Austin. That will come early next year. We hope.

Tags: EP, new music, releases, shows

Yesterday we spent much of the day recording three new songs with our good pal, John Sears. Since he was my roommate when I was in law school, I’m pretty familiar with his methods / madness. Basically, in exchange for a six pack (and nothing else), Mr. Sears will come to a place of your choosing and record your band on his digital 8-track machine.

He usually records between three and six songs. Later, he’ll spend half an hour mixing it down before burning it to CD, which he will hand off to you at a local bar. Where everyone will enjoy a few more beers.

Having just recorded our songs yesterday, we haven’t yet heard the final product. But we’re totally excited to share the songs with you.

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In other news, we’re trying to get our act together with respect to our various social network profiles. We’re on quite a few different sites, and we’d like to once again use these powers for good.

If you are on the Twitter | Facebook | Blogger etc., you should shake our virtual hand. I promise I’ll be updating these places a lot more often with news of our goings on. If nothing’s going on (highly likely) maybe I’ll just share a few stray observations. Rest assured, you’ll want to know about it.

See you around.

Tags: internet, John Sears, recording

That’s not necessarily true, but it’s a great title for Ben Murphy’s new cassette-only label. The Houston Press, who (lucky for us) seem to adore all things BDM-related have the scoop on our guitarist’s new side project.

Tags: bdm, Houston Press