Thursday, October 02, 2008
Tour dates have been posted to the Shows page. This tour will be to support Jersey Shores, and we will be playing the album in it's entirety every night. We will have the CD with us for sale, vinyl will be out later.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Just so you all know, the street date (yesterday) of Jersey Shores (new album) has been delayed (obviously, since its not in any stores) until later (Oct 30th). We're sorry (sincerety) and hope this doesn't cause you any heart ache (insincerety). Luckily we do have CDs in our posession (no vinyl though) and can proceed with the release show (this saturday). The CDs are plentiful and will be available from us (and only from us (unless you're an asshole and download it)) on the October tour (this October).
With love, (<-- a lie)
Akimbo (featuring members of Akimbo)
Monday, September 15, 2008
Goodbye buddy. We're gonna miss you.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Thanks for coming out to the block party and putting up with my berating jerk commentary. You people are effing angels.
Monday, July 14, 2008
TICKETS FOR THE AKIMBO 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY AND RELEASE FOR JERSEY SHORES SHOW ARE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE. BUY THEM HERE.
We are thrilled to finally announce, after weeks and weeks of all kinds of fickle bullshit that would give the devil a migraine, that our goddamn record release show for Jersey Shores will be happening on Saturday, Sept 27th at King Cobra on Capitol Hill.
The release of our newest album also just so happens to coincide (within a matter of days) with the first show that Nat and I ever played as Akimbo back in 1998, and I can't think of a better way to make merry than by combining the album release show with a TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY party. Yeah. Ten. Stupid but true.
Joining us on this evening will be a few special guests that are actually special, not just other bands that fit the monicker because of tardiness. HELMS ALEE will open, featuring long time flannel-wearing, beard having bro Ben Verellen of Harkonnen. They are one of our favorite bands in Seattle as of late and we're hoping we have many shows together to come. Also playing will be HARVESTMAN, the solo project of one Mr. Steve Von Till, guitar player in Neurosis and label benefactor of Neurot Recordings. To say the least, we think you'll be pleased with the opening bands.
Akimbo will be performing Jersey Shores in it's entirety. Every succulent note from start to finish. The album comes out on Sept 23rd, or you can buy it from us at the show. Both vinyl and CD will be available.
So depsite being jaded road hogs full of spite and mirth, we somehow accumulated a crew of friends through our travels. A decade will do that. The people at King Cobra were kind enough to buckle to our unsightly demands and grant us an enormous guest list, because asking your friends to pay to come to a party you're throwing for them is straight up backwards of the ass kind. The upside of that is we're hoping this is just as much a celebration with good friends as it is a show. The downside is that it minimizes the amount of tickets we have available to the public. We've never been the type of band to sell out clubs, but I say this now to anyone interested in coming: get your tickets early! We've invited a shit load of people and the available spots should be considered "effing limited bro". You've been warned.
BUY TICKETS
An enthusiastic nod to our sponsors who actually played a big part in our convincing King Cobra that over half of their capacity walking in for free was a good idea:
90.3 KEXP
SOUND MAGAZINE
NEUROT RECORDINGS
PANACHE BOOKING
SOLID PR
THREE IMAGINARY GIRLS
Lastly, to our friends all over the world, the invites are on the way. If you don't get one in the next few weeks but think you probably should have, please don't be shy. We are total assholes with huge egos and we gave up your spot to shallow jerks who don't actually like us. Get in touch and yell at us. We deserve it.
Monday, June 30, 2008
"Great White Bull" off of the new record has just been thrown up on our myspace page if anyone cares to check it out. The entire album plays from start to finish as a cohesive piece of music. All individual "songs" connect to eachother seamlessly or with the aid of connecting pieces that we played live (in the studio). This is the first time we've done anything like this on a record. "Great White Bull" is an inclusive track that ties into the overall theme of the album, but also easily stands alone as it's own song. We sincerely hope you all enjoy it and can't wait for everyone to listen to the entire piece from start to finish. We've been babying this shit for a long time now and it's painful to be this close to the release!
Quick thanks to the Alternative Tentacles crew, the Great American Music Hall, and especially Jello Biafra for having us down for the Biafra 5-0. It was an honor and a blast and despite the outrageous gas prices, pummeling heat, and long long effing long hours in the van, we'd do it again in a second.
Listen to Boston. That's what you do in the summertime.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Updated the SHOWS page with details for our three day saunter down to San Francisco to play Jello Biafra's 50th birthday. We're very excited to be a part of the show. If the me of right now could go back in time to the 13 year old me listening to Dead Kennedys for the first time, and I told that me that Jello would want future me to play at his birthday party, I would have punched me in the face. The rest of our shows through Summer and into Fall have also been posted. Crazies will not be granted entrance.
Jersey Shores is still coming together. Layout is near completion and it sounds like one of the tracks got posted somewhere. See if you can find it before we officially post that shit. Your prize? Sweet golden riffs.
