S C R E A M I N G F E M A L E S

Cell phone saga

2012-01-23T22:25:00.006-05:00

My junky phone has a dinky little camera in it that's practically useless, but I've saved all of the cruddy photographs I've snapped from the road for the past seven years. Here are a few winners.

-Marissa

Long Live Dry Feet

2012-01-18T22:28:00.002-05:00

Who looks better in front of this backdrop?!

Long Live Dry Feet

New Album Is Called UGLY & We Are Releasing A New 7 Inch in Feb & Going On A Mostly Free Tour

2012-01-17T11:26:00.006-05:00

photo by: Christopher Patrick Ernst

Hello!

So excited for today! NPR has posted our Tiny Desk Session. Watch it below.

As NPR mentions in the writeup, - http://www.npr.org/event/music/145097524/screaming-females-tiny-desk-concert?ps=mh_frhdl3 - we have announced a bunch of details for our new album.

SCREAMING FEMALES
UGLY
April 3rd, 2012
DON GIOVANNI RECORDS
1. It All Means Nothing
2. Rotten Apple
3. Extinction
4. Red Hand
5. 5 High
6. Expire
7. Crow's Nest
8. Tell Me No
9. Leave It All Up to Me
10. Doom 84
11. Help Me
12. Something Ugly
13. Slow Birth
14. It's Nice

ALSO!!!

We are going to be releasing the album's first single, 'It All Means Nothing', on Feb 11, 2012 at the Don Giovanni Records Showcase @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY). The b-side of the 7 inch will be a live version of 'A New Kid' from our session at WFMU. Following the showcase we are doing a week of free shows at record stores (and a bookstore). The only place to get the new single will be from us at one of these shows. Most will be free!

RECORD STORE TOUR DATES
2/11 Brooklyn, NY - Don Giovanni Records Showcase @ Music Hall of Williamsburg - BUY TICKETS
2/12 - Manhattan, NY - Generation Records
2/13 - Cambridge, MA - Lorem Ipsum Books
2/14 - Northampton, MA - Feeding Tube Records
2/15 - Philadelphia, PA - Long In The Tooth Records
2/16 - Richmond, VA - Steady Sounds
2/17 - Asheville, NC - Harvest Records
2/18 - Nashville, TN - Grimey's New and Preloved Music
2/19 - Chicago, IL - Permanent Records

Love you all! See you soon.

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OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

SCREAMING FEMALES ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, UGLY, DUE APRIL 3RD

WATCH A VERY RARE STRIPPED-DOWN TINY DESK CONCERT W/ A NEW SONG

BAND REVEALS 7in RECORD STORE TOUR IN FEBRUARY

Screaming Females' seven years as a band, four full-length albums and 700 globe-spanning live shows has made them difficult to miss. Through it all, the New Brunswick, New Jersey trio have continued to exude a frenetic energy which is built upon the zeitgeist of America's punk and indie underground yet has always remained forward-looking. Fittingly, for Screaming Females' 5th album Ugly, the band enlisted legendary recording engineer Steve Albini, famed for his unique ability to capture the ferociousness of a live performance while delivering gorgeous sonic clarity. The album's 14 tracks reaffirm the touchstones of the band; they can still shred and front-woman Marissa Paternoster can still unleash a powerful howl. But it doesn't end there. The album ushers in new explorations for the band, a truly remarkable feat considering their already prolific output. Ugly has the perfect combination of raw energy and honed musicianship that produces the type of rock & roll which is still a force to be reckoned with.

As a lead up to Ugly, Screaming Females will release the album's first single, 'It All Means Nothing', on February 11, 2012 at the Don Giovanni Records Showcase in Brooklyn, NY. The 7" record will be backed with a live version of 'A New Kid' from a session recorded at the fabled independent radio station, WFMU. The showcase will be followed by a weeklong tour of free shows at record stores (and a bookstore). The new single will be exclusively available for purchase from the band during this run of shows.

RECORD STORE TOUR
2/11 Brooklyn, NY - Don Giovanni Records Showcase @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
2/12 - Manhattan, NY - Generation Records
2/13 - Cambridge, MA - Lorem Ipsum Books
2/14 - Northampton, MA - Feeding Tube Records
2/15 - Philadelphia, PA - Long In The Tooth Records
2/16 - Richmond, VA - Steady Sounds
2/17 - Asheville, NC - Harvest Records
2/18 - Nashville, TN - Grimey's New and Preloved Music
2/19 - Chicago, IL - Permanent Records

SCREAMING FEMALES
UGLY
APRIL 3rd, 2012
DON GIOVANNI RECORDS
1. It All Means Nothing
2. Rotten Apple
3. Extinction
4. Red Hand
5. 5 High
6. Expire
7. Crow's Nest
8. Tell Me No
9. Leave It All Up to Me
10. Doom 84
11. Help Me
12. Something Ugly
13. Slow Birth
14. It's Nice

Drums

2012-01-08T21:09:00.004-05:00

I started playing drums at the age of nine. Being that I just turned 28 that means I'm coming up on two decades of drumming. I have been playing fairly continuously ever since I started. The only real break in my playing came in my freshman and sophomore years of college. The following year I jumped right back in, first learning to play the Bodhran while I lived in Ireland and then moving into a house back in New Brunswick with a drum set.

The first nine years of my drumming I studied percussion with the best teacher I've ever had (of any variety). Taking percussion lessons had a profound effect on my life and I highly suggest that all musicians study with a teacher at some point. The reason that my lessons were so meaningful to me was because they taught me how to teach myself. At some point I would love to take lessons again but for the most part I feel confident with my abilities to analyze what I want to learn and figure out how to get there. This attribute is what brought me to a recent epiphany. I was playing my drums way too fucking low!

I've always liked keeping my drums super tight together and low to the floor. I'm not exactly sure why I started doing this but I've never really questioned it. Well, now I'm definitely questioning it.

My whole percussion training was based around German grip. I still warm up on a practice pad before every show we play. During these warm ups, I use German grip. On our last show of the year at the TLA in Philly, I suddenly realized that while playing drumset I was using French grip! What the hell have I been doing?! Why have I trained myself for nearly 20 years with German grip and then play every show with a grip that I don't totally understand. After realizing the situation I came to the conclusion that if I raised my snare, hi-hat, and floor tom, I would force myself into German grip (actually, really it is more of an American grip, but close enough). Thus I have made the first major change to my drum setup in well over 5 years!

Along with realizing all this, I decided that I needed to spend more time with the practice pad, metronome, and classic drum books. Right now I'm spending a lot of time with 'Stick Control for the Snare Drummer' by George Lawrence Stone. This book was published in the 1930s and is still really annoying (I mean, a great workout).

-JD

Tour w/ Thursday!

2011-12-25T12:54:00.004-05:00

Our tour with Thursday starts tomorrow!

See you there!
Dec 26 - Starland Ballroom - Sayreville, NJ
Dec 27 - 9:30 - Washington, DC
Dec 28 - Toad's Place - New Haven, CT
Dec 29 - Royale Boston - Boston, MA
Dec 30 - TLA - Philadelphia, PA

Also, if you have not seen the movie Troll 2, you need to watch it right now! Best movie of all time. See the clip below.

-JD

Thoughts

2011-12-24T11:20:00.003-05:00

Things I have thought about today before noon (EST). This is significant because there are often days when I don't get out of bed before noon.*

-Debt: The First 500 Years by David Graeber
-Murray Bookchin
-Situationist International
-post-anarchy (here) and (here)
-post-structuralism
-Magrudergrind
-Cardamom Coffee
-Max Stirner
-vermicomposting
-Emma Goldman
-Alfredo Bonanno
-Irritable Bowel Syndrome

-JD

* - This is hyperbole. Most often I get up around 10:30 am EST.

I try to work and I keep thinking of World War 3!

2011-12-16T13:02:00.003-05:00

I have always felt a little apprehensive about inserting my political (I’m using that term in a broad sense) beliefs into Screaming Females’ output. This isn’t to say that I’ve made a point to ignore them either. The continued mentions of DIY, basement shows, community run spaces, vegetarianism, gay visibility, etc are obviously motivated by political positions and are meant to disseminate concepts that we identify with. At the same time, I think all three of us have a sense that we want Screaming Females to first and foremost be about the music. It is always hard to toe that line between conscious and preachy. We’ve always hoped that our actions would speak more loudly to our beliefs than too many tiresome sermons.

Because of this I haven’t been blogging, tweeting, facebooking, etc much lately. I look to these bands that tweet multiple times a day with their humorous quips about music, food, movies, and beer and it just doesn’t resonate with me. Starting last spring I have purposefully dug myself into books dealing with history, anarchism, feminism, racism, environmentalism, economic inequality, and a host of other difficult issues. I felt isolated. I felt like I was living on an island of thought. Looking to peers, it seemed like I was the only one who wasn’t having an easy time ignoring these blatant issues that surround our existence. I didn’t want to blanket our twitter and blog with messages of the coming failure of Capital or the growing fascism of the US government or the now unavoidably catastrophic impact of climate change. I felt like D Boon yelling, “I try to work and I keep thinking of World War 3/ I got a mile of numbers and a ton of stats/ Paranoid, stuck on overdrive/ Paranoid, scared shitless.” Then suddenly up pops Occupy Wall Street. It felt great to not be alone anymore.

There has been an overload of discussion about what Occupy stands for, if it is actually having any serious effect, and if it is addressing the right issues. While it seems far too daunting of a task to add to that conversation right now, I can say this. Occupy has changed me. It has helped me learn and it has helped me not to feel alone.

Here are some books I’ve read lately that I would highly suggest that you all read as well:
W.E.B. Du Bois – The Souls of Black Folks
Daniel Guerin – No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism
bell hooks – Outlaw Culture
Chris Hedges – The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
David Graeber – Debt: The First 5000 Years

Also, we just finished recording our 5th album with Steve Albini. It will be out in April 2012.

-Jarrett D

Audiotree Live Video

2011-11-07T01:55:00.001-05:00

Screaming Females : Audiotree Live : Complete from Audiotree Live 2 on Vimeo.

Cuddle Puddle

2011-10-12T12:50:00.001-04:00

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Droppin' a blog

2011-10-10T18:36:00.001-04:00

Gum Drop Tour 2011

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Reissue Pre-Orders Up and European Tour!

2011-09-07T13:35:00.004-04:00

Hey!!!!

So psyched today. Don Giovanni Records has put up pre-orders for the vinyl reissues of our first two albums ('Baby Teeth' and 'What If Someone Is Watching Their T.V.?'). If you pre-order both records you get a free, limited live 7". So go get them!

http://dongiovannirecords.com/store/

EUROPEAN TOUR 2011
Sep 8 - Suffragettes Not Dead - Brussels, BE
Sep 9 - The Lexington - London, UK
Sep 10 - Islington Mill - Manchester, UK
Sep 11 - The Croft - Bristol, UK
Sep 12 - Brudenell Social Club - Leeds, UK
Sep 13 - Norwich Arts Centre - Norwich, UK
Sep 14 - Espace B - Paris, FR
Sep 15 - Incubate Festival - Tilburg, NL
Sep 16 - Leffingeleuren Festival - Oostende, BE
Sep 17 - Merleyn - Nijmegen, NL
Sep 18 - Tsunami - Koeln, DE
Sep 19 - Westgermany - Berlin, DE
Sep 20 - Cafe Kulturalna - Warsaw, PL
Sep 21 - Piekny Pies - Krakow, PL
Sep 22 - Arena - Vienna, AT
Sep 23 - Tvornica - Zagreb, HR
Sep 24 - Steirischer Herbst - Graz, AT

DREAM LIFE

2011-08-04T17:47:00.004-04:00

Dear Diary,

Last weekend the best thing happened. Look:

YES, it's THE Shirley Manson from GARBAGE.

When I was fourteen, Garbage was my favorite alternative rock band!!!
This is me when I was fourteen(ish):

I'M SO GRUNGE!!! I couldn't have done it without Garbage. Now that I've got Shirley on my side, maybe she can force Billy Corgan to tweet at me. I LOVE THE INTERNET!!!!

I leave you all with my favorite Garbage single (if I were forced to choose!):

Love,
Marissa P.

US Fall Tour and Vinyl Reissues

2011-08-01T15:15:00.005-04:00

Hello!!!

Cool stuff!

We announced the initial dates of our fall tour today! Most dates are with Underground Railroad to Candyland (San Pedro, CA - Recess Records). If you don't know about URTC or Todd C or Recess Records, you should!!! These guys are life long punk rockers and over the last few years have made some of our favorite albums with URTC and Stoned At Heart.

Check out this documentary to get caught up!

Recess Records from Mike Plante on Vimeo.

Fall Tour 2011

Oct 6 - Black Cat Backstage - Washington, DC*
Oct 7 - The Barbary - Philadelphia, PA*
Oct 8 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY*
Oct 11 - SPACE Gallery - Portland, ME*
Oct 12 - Middle East (Upstairs) - Cambridge, MA*
Oct 13 - Flywheel - Easthampton, MA*
Oct 14 - Mohawk Place - Buffalo, NY*
Oct 16 - Beachland Tavern - Cleveland, OH*
Oct 18 - DAAC - Grand Rapids, MI*
Oct 19 - Schubas Tavern - Chicago, IL*
Oct 20 - Linneman's Riverwest Inn - Milwaukee, WI*
Oct 21 - Triple Rock - Minneapolis, MN*
Oct 24 - The Bishop - Bloomington, IN*
Oct 25 - Hangar 9 - Carbondale, IL*
Oct 26 - The End - Nashville, TN*
Oct 27 - JJ's Bohemia - Chattanooga, TN*
Oct 29 - The Fest 10 @ 8 Seconds - Gainesville, FL
Oct 31 - Nightlight - Chapel Hill, NC
Nov 2 - Blue Nile - Harrisonburg, VA
Nov 3 - Golden West - Baltimore, MD
Nov 6 - Court Tavern (early) - New Brunswick, NJ
Nov 6 - Court Tavern (late) - New Brunswick, NJ
* = w/ Underground Railroad to Candyland

ALSO!!! On Oct 4 Don Giovanni Records will be reissuing vinyl of our first 2 full lengths Baby Teeth and What If Someone Is Watching Their T.V.? These have been long out of print and I guess we just got tired of people asking us where they could find them. Here is the pro blurb about the reissues.

It's been 6 years since guitarist/vocalist Marissa Paternoster and bassist Michael Abbate crammed into drummer Jarrett Dougherty's attic to write and record their earliest collaborations as Screaming Females. The band was young (Michael was still in high school) yet already focused. Rather than placing those recordings on a CD-R demo or waiting for a label to approach them, Screaming Females opted to self-release a real album with real packaging. The record was Baby Teeth, their aptly titled debut. This was just the tip of the iceberg for the trio, who quickly discovered and jumped headfirst into a national DIY punk network. After numerous basement shows around their home state of New Jersey and a few short tours, Marissa, Michael and Jarrett decided their next effort needed a proper studio. The band decided not to utilize normal studio wizardry and instead opted to simply set up their gear and play. Many songs were recorded in a single take and the record saw few overdubs. Through these raw recordings the band attempted to capture a true representation of the louder and faster sound they had developed. Creating this new, deafening punk soon had its consequence. During one practice an irate police officer issued the band a noise violation and insisted they had to consider neighbors who could be trying to watch television. Befittingly, the next album was titled What If Someone Is Watching Their T.V.? To celebrate the release of this second album the trio embarked on a 70-day national tour, beginning their reputation as one of the hardest-working bands in North America.

Their dedication hasn't gone unnoticed. This past year has brought their television debut, sold out headlining shows and tour dates with legendary names such as Ted Leo and Against Me! As a way to thank the fans, Screaming Females are reissuing vinyl of their first two albums, which until now were only available at early shows.

Baby Teeth and What If Someone Is Watching Their T.V.? out October 4 on Don Giovanni Records.

And last, but not least, if you pre-order both vinyl reissues you will get a FREE live Screaming Females 7 inch. There will be a very limited number of these. More info on the pre-orders coming soon!

ALL TOUR DATES:

Aug 18 - The Bike Lot (Best Friends Day) - Richmond, VA w/ Zero Boys, Ceremony

Europe
Sep 8 - Suffragettes Not Dead - Brussels, BE
Sep 9 - The Lexington - London, UK
Sep 10 - Islington Mill - Manchester, UK
Sep 11 - The Croft - Bristol, UK
Sep 12 - Brudenell Social Club - Leeds, UK
Sep 13 - Norwich Arts Centre - Norwich, UK
Sep 15 - Incubate Festival - Tilburg, NL
Sep 16 - Leffingeleuren Festival - Oostende, BE
Sep 17 - Merleyn - Nijmegen, NL
Sep 18 - Tsunami - Koeln, DE
Sep 19 - Westgermany - Berlin, DE
Sep 20 - Cafe Kulturalna - Warsaw, PL
Sep 21 - Piekny Pies - Krakow, PL
Sep 22 - Arena - Vienna, AT
Sep 23 - Tvornica - Zagreb, HR
Sep 24 - Steirischer Herbst - Graz, AT

Fall US Tour
Oct 6 - Black Cat Backstage - Washington, DC*
Oct 7 - The Barbary - Philadelphia, PA*
Oct 8 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY*
Oct 11 - SPACE Gallery - Portland, ME*
Oct 12 - Middle East (Upstairs) - Cambridge, MA*
Oct 13 - Flywheel - Easthampton, MA*
Oct 14 - Mohawk Place - Buffalo, NY*
Oct 16 - Beachland Tavern - Cleveland, OH*
Oct 18 - DAAC - Grand Rapids, MI*
Oct 19 - Schubas Tavern - Chicago, IL*
Oct 20 - Linneman's Riverwest Inn - Milwaukee, WI*
Oct 21 - Triple Rock - Minneapolis, MN*
Oct 24 - The Bishop - Bloomington, IN*
Oct 25 - Hangar 9 - Carbondale, IL*
Oct 26 - The End - Nashville, TN*
Oct 27 - JJ's Bohemia - Chattanooga, TN*
Oct 29 - The Fest 10 @ 8 Seconds - Gainesville, FL
Oct 31 - Nightlight - Chapel Hill, NC
Nov 2 - Blue Nile - Harrisonburg, VA
Nov 3 - Golden West - Baltimore, MD
Nov 6 - Court Tavern (early) - New Brunswick, NJ
Nov 6 - Court Tavern (late) - New Brunswick, NJ
* = w/ Underground Railroad to Candyland

RIP Meat Town(e)

2011-07-18T14:27:00.004-04:00

Between touring with Against Me!, European festival shows, moving in and moving out of apartments, I haven't had the time to really think about the loss of Meat Town USA.

Meat Town USA was a show house in New Brunswick, NJ that lasted from June 2008 through May 2011. Three years is a long run for a show house and during that time Meat Town hosted literally hundreds of artists from around the world. Though Meat Town didn't have the ideal physical setup (low ceilings, no backyard), its method of running shows was about as good as it gets. Shows started early and ended at a reasonable hour. The residents had excellent working relationships with their non-college-kid neighbors and local, independent businesses. The neighbors were able to talk to the people at Meat Town if the shows ever got too numerous or too loud. Ta-Ta's (the pizza place across the street) loved show days and were always interested in the house's plans. The house was a haven for NJ residents, particularly disenfranchised Rutgers students, who were positive life had more important things to offer other than the neighborhood's most finely manicured lawn and the company's biggest paycheck. While not always being perfect, Meat Town was a pretty damn good model for inclusion and self-policing. The price was always cheap but no one was ever turned away for lack of funds. The stage (floor) was open to anyone, seemingly regardless of talent and genre. Those who abused this space were talked to and either changed or were removed. A number of people were taught the importance of having a good time while not getting so intoxicated that you are a liability to others or a danger to yourself. The actions of sexist/bigoted bands or attendees were pointed out and dealt with by the community. Meat Town was featured on National Public Radio and NBC television and hosted punk rock legends such as Blake Schwarzenback and Ted Leo. But most importantly it was a fun place to go.

I had the pleasure of living at Meat Town USA in its inaugural year. Regardless of how hard I think about it I cannot for the life of me remember the entire first show at the house. I do clearly remember the first band to ever play Meat Town. It was Sick Jump from Philadelphia, PA. The basement had yet to be decorated with banners, art, and beer bottles. In fact, its only source of light was a single bare bulb hanging from the ceiling. Despite these odds Sick Jump put on a hell of a set. Check them out.

http://www.myspace.com/sickjump

fun drawing party

2011-07-12T22:44:00.000-04:00

Doodledrag: Joyrider from ynlynlynl on Vimeo.

More details!

-Marissa

Noun video

2011-07-09T09:36:00.001-04:00

Here is a video for the Noun song "Black Lamb"
Check it out:

-Marissa

Nervous Energies

2011-06-21T18:39:00.001-04:00

Twitter

2011-06-15T22:30:00.001-04:00

We are tweeting. The world is coming to an end. Follow us or something.

http://twitter.com/Screamales

-jd

European Store!

2011-06-14T23:26:00.001-04:00

Hey y'all!

We now have a much more affordable European store with t-shirts and our albums. Check it out and buy something!

http://www.frocksteady.com/shop/bands/screaming-females.html

-Jarrett D

Tour pics!

2011-06-14T16:35:00.006-04:00

Against Me! Tour

2011-06-06T12:37:00.004-04:00

We are on tour with Against Me! & Lemuria

New Video!!!

2011-06-02T18:12:00.003-04:00

We have a new video! It is for the song "Laura & Marty." Our buddy Eddie Austin shot a bunch of Super 8 footage over the course of winter and spring of this year. Check it out!

Tour!

2011-05-31T07:53:00.002-04:00

Tour starts today! Come on out! (Ian and Perry are going to be there!)

May 31 Mr. Smalls* Millvale, PA
Jun 1 Trocadero* Philadelphia, PA
Jun 2 Black Cat* Washington, DC
Jun 3 Recher Theatre* Towson, MD
Jun 4 Crocodile Rock* Allentown, PA
Jun 5 Music Hall of Williamsburg* Brooklyn, NY
Jun 7 Webster Hall* New York, NY
Jun 8 Toad's Place* New Haven, CT
Jun 9 Paradise* Boston, MA
Jun 10 Higher Ground* South Burlington, VT
Jun 11 Pearl Street* Northampton, MA
Jun 12 Water Street Music Hall* Rochester, NY
Jun 13 First House Allegany, NY
Jun 14 House of Blues* Cleveland, OH
Jun 15 St Andrews Hall* Detroit, MI
Jun 16 The Intersection* Grand Rapids, MI
Jun 17 Metro* Chicago, IL
Jun 18 The Rave* Milwaukee, WI
Jun 19 The BFG Appleton, WI
Jun 20 The Venue* Fargo, ND
Jun 21 First Avenue* Minneapolis, MN
July 1 Fusion Festival Larz, DE
July 3 Roskilde Festival Roskilde, DK
Aug 18-Aug 21 Best Friends Day Richmond, VA
Oct 29 FEST 10 Gainesville, FL

* = w/ Against Me! and Lemuria

Local Show and New Song!

2011-05-18T17:55:00.002-04:00

Hey y'all,

We have an NJ show tomorrow. It is our last show before we head out on tour with Against Me! and Lemuria at the end of the month.

5/19/2011
@ The Stanhope House (45 Main Street, Stanhope, NJ 07874)
Screaming Females
Melissa & Paul
Les Trois Chaud
$10 All Ages!!
8:00

Facebook event (if you're into that kinda thing) - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=207608322597879

Also!!! If you didn't have time to listen to the entire WFMU live session we did, you can check out a new, untitled song from the session streaming here - http://thenjunderground.com/blog/2011/5/18/screaming-females-performed-new-songs-on-wfmu-stream.html

-JD

WFMU and a new interview

2011-05-16T12:13:00.004-04:00

Hey!

We recently did a live session for the world famous radio station WFMU. We played a few brand new songs and had some psychedelic jams. Stream or download it here http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/40328. We start around 1:58:00. Thanks to DJ Keili (http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/KH) and the engineer Ernie (http://www.erdataudio.com).

I recently did an interview where the interviewer actually took the time to do some research before interviewing me. Amazing! The first thing he said when we started talking was, "I'm not going to ask who your influences are because that has obviously been covered before." Thank god! Check it out if you care what I've been thinking about lately. http://www.blistering.com/fastpage/fpengine.php/templateid/22596/menuid/3/tempidx/5/link/1

-Jarrett D

Carson III

2011-04-30T13:20:00.000-04:00

Doodledrag video for "Wild"

2011-04-28T19:42:00.002-04:00

Check it out! The video was made by Tiffany C. and Mike T.!

"Wild" by Screaming Females --DoodleDrag Edition from dar deardo on Vimeo.

More about Doodledrag here and here.

Carson Again!, WFMU, and upcoming dates

2011-04-28T15:40:00.004-04:00

(edit: New air date for WFMU)
Hello!

So we didn't get to play the New Brunswick, NJ show the other night because the cops showed up. Luckily all the amazing touring bands did have a chance to play and see how rad the NJ DIY community can be. Screaming Females haven't played a proper New Brunswick show since 5/12/2010. It breaks my heart! Check out the bands if you haven't.
Broken Water (Olympia, WA)
Songs for Moms (Oakland, CA)
Grass Widow (San Francisco, CA)

Screaming Females is going to be on "Last Call with Carson Daly" again tonight! New footage, different songs. Check it out on NBC at 1:30 am eastern and pacific/ 12:30 am central and mountain. I believe they are showing "A New Kid" and "Boss."

We recorded a set at the world famous NJ based radio station WFMU yesterday. It will air on the show "Beastin' The Airwaves! with Keili " on Sunday May 15 at 6am eastern USA time. Early!!! You can also listen to the set at the archives (here - www.wfmu.org/playlists/KH) after it airs. We debuted a new song during the session. I think it is a hit!

The rest of the Against Me!/ Screaming Females/ Lemuria dates have been announced. Check out our full upcoming itinerary below, including a few NJ shows that won't get broken up by cops.

May 6 Kearny Irish Club Kearny, NJ
May 19 Stanhope House Stanhope, NJ
May 31 Mr. Smalls* Millvale, PA
Jun 1 Trocadero* Philadelphia, PA
Jun 2 Black Cat* Washington, DC
Jun 3 Recher Theatre* Towson, MD
Jun 4 Crocodile Rock* Allentown, PA
Jun 5 Music Hall of Williamsburg* Brooklyn, NY
Jun 7 Webster Hall* New York, NY
Jun 8 Toad's Place* New Haven, CT
Jun 9 Paradise* Boston, MA
Jun 10 Higher Ground* South Burlington, VT
Jun 11 Pearl Street* Northampton, MA
Jun 12 Water Street Music Hall* Rochester, NY
Jun 14 House of Blues* Cleveland, OH
Jun 15 St Andrews Hall* Detroit, MI
Jun 16 The Intersection* Grand Rapids, MI
Jun 17 Metro* Chicago, IL
Jun 18 The Rave* Milwaukee, WI
Jun 20 The Venue* Fargo, ND
Jun 21 First Avenue* Minneapolis, MN
Jun 30-July 3 Roskilde Festival Roskilde, DK
Aug 18-Aug 21 Best Friends Day Richmond, VA
Oct 28-Oct 30 FEST 10 Gainesville, FL
* = w/ Against Me! and Lemuria

Fun Fact

2011-04-27T13:43:00.009-04:00

Fun fact: Marissa P. from Screaming Females really likes framed glossy photographs of Stuffed Bears Doing Things. Here is a sneak peak into her (my) private collection:
(P.S. - Sorry in advance that my photography skills are seriously lacking, I ought to hire a professional to photograph these masterpieces)

My first acquisition: "Jogging Bear". A real classic, a beauty. I've seen this one replicated on a smaller scale.

"Bernice Burning Calories"
I think I got this one earlier this year. Can't remember when or how much money I paid for it. Some curmudgeons might say I spent too much, but I think it's priceless.

Bernice and Jarrett. Quality time.

My personal favorite, "Baby Power Bear". This little rascal got loose in the bathroom and anarchy reigned supreme. What a crazy little twerp.

"Bear Popcorn"
This little furball made a bit too much popcorn and has seemingly lost control of his snack food. I love him.

"Bear Ice Cream"
Someone is going to have a tummy-ache later. Seriously.

So concludes my fun fact blog. I hope you enjoyed it. Please feel free to contact me if you come across any framed glossy (or matte) photographs of Stuffed Bears Doing Things. Money is not an object.

xoxo
Marissa Paternoster

Today

2011-04-26T12:29:00.002-04:00

Rutgersfest baby

2011-04-23T13:59:00.001-04:00

Often times when Screaming Females travel, people tend to ask us, "Is New Jersey really like..that?" The answer is a resounding yes.

Behold the madness:

Cool Ddrag Article

2011-04-22T09:42:00.001-04:00

Read it n' weep

Festivals, Worm Castings, Contemporary Literature, etc

2011-04-18T20:12:00.009-04:00

We have some festival dates for summer and fall I wanted to share.

Roskilde Festival - Roskilde, Denmark - June 30-July 3
http://roskilde-festival.dk/uk/
Best Friends Day - Richmond, VA - August 18-21
http://www.bestfriendsdayrva.com/
FEST 10 - Gainesville, FL - Oct 28-30
http://www.thefestfl.com/
More info to come for all of these and more fests to come as well (most likely).

So there are a few things you might not know about me!

Worm Castings
Do you know that in your own home you can make some of the best compost available? I do it! With a box of worms, some newspaper, and your leftover food scraps you can turn your trash into worm castings (aka vermicompost). This is a great option for people who live in apartments were they don't have access to a outdoor area for a compost pile. Even if you don't use the worm castings to fertilize a garden it is still a good idea to compost. Food scraps which normally end up in the garbage often do not properly decompose in garbage dumps because the environment becomes anaerobic (no oxygen). This means the food scraps either don't decompose properly or at all! Composting is the most effective form of recycling but almost no municipalities in the USA collect food scraps for public composting. So ya got to do it yourself (DIY)!

Leftover food scraps chopped up

Worm bin

Worm bin with the scraps

A store selling stuff I make at home for free

The end product! This is what I pulled out of the worm bin and put in my front yard after letting it build up over winter.

I also brew my own beer sometimes and make my own bread. For the bread I keep a sourdough culture alive in my refrigerator. Using living organisms to make food and drinks is cool. Anybody else got weird DIY home projects?

Contemporary Literature
The other day we were interviewed for CMJ TV. They were asking us about our favorite books. I started talking about how with both music and literature I think it is important to explore current artists and output. With literature I feel as though many well read fans of writing do not explore current and up-and-coming authors. With literature there are hundreds of years of "classics" to catch up on. You could easily spend a lifetime just reading classics. But I think that exploring new literature is really fun, important, and worthwhile. It is a lot like going to punk shows in that even if every band you see at a particular show (or everything you read it a particular lit mag) sucks, at least you expanded your understanding of the state of current output. Here are some fairly new books I've been reading.

I highly recommend Deb Olin Unferth. Her novel Vacation and her new memoir Revolution are both amazing. The other two books are Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt and The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen. Any contemporary writers that you absolutely love?

-Jarrett D

Art show

2011-04-11T22:31:00.001-04:00

Some original Screaming Females fliers will be showing at this event. Should be cool, check it out if you're in NYC:

Doodledrag.

2011-04-11T10:13:00.000-04:00

READ THIS

Exciting News!

2011-04-05T21:06:00.003-04:00

Here is the exciting news.

We're going to be on tour with Against Me! and Lemuria through most of June.
May 31 Mr. Smalls* Millvale, PA
Jun 1 Trocadero* Philadelphia, PA
Jun 2 Black Cat* Washington, DC
Jun 3 Recher Theatre* Towson, MD
Jun 4 Crocodile Rock* Allentown, PA
Jun 7 Webster Hall* New York, NY
Jun 8 Toad's Place* New Haven, CT
Jun 9 Paradise* Boston, MA
Jun 10 Higher Ground* South Burlington, VT
Jun 11 Pearl Street* Northampton, MA
Jun 12 Water Street Music Hall* Rochester, NY
Jun 20 The Venue* Fargo, ND
More to come!

Postponing some shows

2011-03-30T12:48:00.000-04:00

Hey Everybody. We had to make the very tough decision to postpone a bunch of shows in late May and June, including our trip to Europe. This was not an easy decision. Our greatest apologies to all of the promoters, bands, venues, and fans that were planning to help make these shows happen for us. We hope they forgive us! We will have some new and exciting news coming soon!
-Jarrett D

Shows!

2011-03-29T00:34:00.003-04:00

We got shows this week!

We are super excited for Maxwell's! It is going to be a way different experience than any show we've ever done. Check out the trailer!

Doodledrag: Jamming Lights Out from ynlynlynl on Vimeo.

3/30/11
Maxwell's
1039 Washington Street
Hoboken, NJ
all ages
$12
w/ Black Wine and Brick Mower

On Wednesday March 30th the rock’n’roll band Screaming Females plan to play a cool rock show at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ. Since Screaming females would like to provide their audience with an immersive experience (LOL) we are gonna Doodledrag the night.

►►††† The idea:

We have asked about 14 artists and friends to illustrate one song each from the night’s playlist, plus we asked anyone interested to submit drawings for the song “Lights out”, we got submissions from all over even Australia and Korea. nice.

We now have compiled the whole thing into a massive slide show that will be projected behind Screaming Females during their set at the Maxwell’s show.

††† Yes it will be fucking awesome.

BUY TICKETS HERE: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/30203/

††† The Artists:

*Tiffany Cheng / *Reid Bingham / *Colin Challender / *Perry Shall / *Jamie Bruno / *Alexander Conner / *Delia kovac / *Jen Park / *Kristina Centaur / *Lny / *Michael Topley / * Christina Entcheva * / *Rachel Hays / *Renae Jacquelyn Moore / and tons of others from all over.

3/31/11

Santos' Party House
96 Lafayette St
New York, NY
18+
$10adv/ $12dos
w/ JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD, JUICEBOXXX, TEEN WITCH, DJ THANKSGIVING BROWN
It is gonna rock... duh.

Also!
4/1/11 - MACROCK @ Clementine Cafe - Harrisonburg, VA
4/2/11 - Tea Bazaar - Charlottesville, VA

Friends

2011-03-28T09:37:00.009-04:00

Delicious microphone

2011-03-23T17:32:00.004-04:00

Fancy video from SXSW:

While we were away we were on Carson again...(note the lower right hand corner reads: WOMEN WHO ROCK, oh boy):

Also, we were interviewed for a music show that MARK HOPPUS has on the Fuse network! We didn't get to meet Mark Hoppus :-( But we saw P. Diddy bust out of the V.I.P. area at the Mess with Texas festival with a crew of police officers! DIDDY!

Us @ SXSW

2011-03-14T22:15:00.002-04:00

Upper Left Corner

2011-03-11T00:35:00.002-05:00

SUBMIT!

2011-03-08T22:47:00.003-05:00

There's a little over a week left until the deadline for submissions for the Lights Out drawing project!
If you don't know anything about it, check it out HERE.
You can check out some of the other submissions HERE.
See who else is participating at the Facebook event HERE.

Deadline for submissions is March 18th! Get drawin'!

Thanks,
Marissa

BLIZZARD

2011-03-02T00:00:00.003-05:00

The Session Tape: Screaming Females Trailer from A Shoestring Production LLC on Vimeo.

THIS IS SO INTENSE

Reggae Music

2011-03-01T18:02:00.003-05:00

Hey y'all,

I haven't written any sort of personal entry on this blog in a long time. There are a variety of reasons for this, the main ones being that people often misinterpret/ have nasty stuff to say about things I say on the internet (example) and I also spend pretty much all day on the computer with SF stuff (mostly emails) so I usually run away from the laptop as soon as I am done. But regardless of that, I still think blogs are cool and think about updating this blog all the time. Twitter and Facebook have some redeeming qualities but for the most part I think that reducing communication to 1 or 2 sentences is pretty depressing. This blog was the first Screaming Females internet site.

I end up in discussions about punk rock/ indie rock/ the music blog world/ the importance of twitter in music/ merits of music publicity/ shittiness of the latest hype bands/ and so on, almost on a daily basis these days. It gets tiring! But, thankfully, the other day I had a moment of clarity. I realized that for years I didn't really give a shit about rock music! Don't get me wrong, the rock radio, MTV, and SPIN magazine of the 1990s will always be my major musical foundation but for a few years in high school and right when I got to college the majority of what I listened to was hip hop, jazz, world music, funk/r&b and reggae.

So after my realization, I went to the always lovely Princeton Record Exchange and completely skipped the rock/ pop bins and headed to the back. That's where they keep the hip hop and reggae records. I came home with these AMAZING albums.

Black Uhuru - Anthem
I got the CD of this at some point in High School. While not generally seen as Black Uhuru's best album it WAS the first album to win 'Best Reggae Recording' at the Grammy's in 1985, thus solidifying its place in reggae history. This record is MAD '80s. When I first got it I couldn't stand the '80s production but after repeated listens, I got really into it. The Sly and Robbie rhythms help! Check out that cover pic!!! They look like they are straight out of MAD MAX 2.

Israel Vibration - The Same Song
This is such a cool find. I've actually been looking for a vinyl copy of this album for a while and when I finally found one... it is an original Jamaican pressing! Rad. The three dudes that make up the core of Israel Vibration were all afflicted with polio and met at some sort of polio clinic. The singing, melodies, and song writing on this record are amazingly uplifting and spiritual (even if you don't believe in Jah). I bought this CD after my sophomore year of college because I read a description of it that said something along the lines of, 'when Israel Vibration sing about the fall of Babylon, not only do you believe it is real but you feel joyous about it.' Amen to that!

Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
Of my three purchases this is the only one I didn't already own in another format. This is Bunny Wailer's first solo record and it is regularly acclaimed as one of the greatest roots reggae albums of all time. Bunny was one of the three core members of The Wailers (with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh). The first two (international) Wailers records were credited as THE WAILERS until after they split, when they were re-branded as Bob Marley & the Wailers. Bunny left first because he got tired of touring and being away from Jamaica (rumor has it that he quit the first time he saw snow Europe). Peter Tosh left soon after (famously declaring that he was not put on the Earth to be backup singer to Bob Marley). This record brings the original trio back together for one track. I haven't seen official mention of it but this may have been the last time that the three core Wailers appeared on record together.

What are your favorite non-punk/indie/rock/etc albums? Reggae suggestions are much appreciated!

ALSO!!!! We are still looking for submissions for our Maxwells show w/ Doodle Drag Art Collective. Draw something, anything! It doesn't have to be great, we just want to get people involved. See the whole run down here - http://screamingfemales.blogspot.com/2011/02/open-call.html
Please send either Doodle Drag, Screaming Females, or Marissa an email if you plan to participate!

-Jarrett D

not enuff blawgging

2011-02-26T13:08:00.007-05:00

DINO POSE

EDDIE has been taking a lot of pictures of us, amongst other things. All pix below by Eddie!

OPEN CALL!!!!

2011-02-13T15:56:00.010-05:00

As a couple of you may know, my pal Lenny and I (I'm Marissa, by the way) organized a New Jersey based artist collective we affectionately dubbed "Doodle Drag". Doodle Drag members get together every now and again in any old space and make goofy drawings together for fun. Doodle Drag was not born to make revolutionary work, but to encourage absolutely everyone to draw for the hell of it, as it has brought so much joy to our lives. So here is your chance to get involved in our very first open call for work! Check it out!
--------------------------------------------On Wednesday, March 30th the rock’n’roll band Screaming Females plan to play a cool rock show at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ. Since Screaming Females would like to provide their audience with an immersive experience (LOL) we humbly request your artistic assistance.

THE PROPOSITION:
We would like YOU to take a listen to “Lights Out” and then visually illustrate the song with your drawings, photos, collage, etc, (but we love drawing.) Be creative! You may illustrate the song however you see fit - create a narrative, create abstractions, or interpret the lyrics literally. Surprise us and most of all have fun with it! We ask that you provide us with a maximum of five drawings.

After submitting the images, they will be compiled into a slide show that will be projected behind Screaming Females during their set at the Maxwell’s show, and it will be super cool.

a couple of requirements:
- provide us with your full name and tell us where you are from so we can credit you!

- Send us high-res images of your drawings, photos, whatevers. If you don't have a scanner and need to use snail mail - that's okay too - let us know what you're plans for submission are.

- For the lyrics to "Lights Out" and a live video, check out this LINK!

- Send your submissions & questions to doodledrag@gmail.com

- Be awesome.

DEADLINE: March 18th, 2011

Carrrsooonnnn!!!

2011-02-03T13:22:00.001-05:00

TRL

2011-01-31T19:32:00.006-05:00

Do you guys remember Carson Daly?

(You're required to give Carson a lap dance if you're on the program)
Do you guys remember Mya?

("My eyes is sore from being a senator" - ODB)

On Wednesday, 2/2, we're going to be on Last Call with Carson Daly. Lol. It's on NBC at 1:35 am!

We didn't meet Carson. Or Mya. :-(

Also, the Don Giovanni Showcase is soon:

Buy some tickets, 'cause it might sell out!

OH YEAH hollywood YEAH

2011-01-19T18:16:00.003-05:00

EDDIE AUSTIN

Boss

2011-01-16T00:49:00.001-05:00

Pretty rad version of Boss from Lincoln Hall in Chicago, IL.

-JD

Wild Video!

2011-01-10T13:49:00.001-05:00

2011-01-08T10:41:00.002-05:00

Don Giovanni Showcase Shows & 5.5 Year Anniversary Show!

2011-01-04T18:37:00.006-05:00

Hey Everybody!!!

A bunch of rad stuff for the New Year!

Our label and best buds Don Giovanni Records are doing their annual showcase in February. They have so much going on they are doing two shows. We are headlining the second night. Here is the info.

Friday, February 11, 2011
Death By Audio
The Steinways - New Singles Collection
The Measure (SA)
Black Wine - new 7 inch
Full of Fancy
Big Eyes - new 7 inch
7:00 $7
tickets from DG - http://www.dongiovannirecords.com/

Saturday, February 12, 2011
Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Screaming Females
Laura Stevenson & The Cans
Shellshag
Lemuria
Byrds of Paradise
7:00 $10/$12
16+
tickets - http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004587BF7D6474?artistid=1532622&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60

Also!!!
We are celebrating 5.5 years as a band and the 5 year anniversary of the release of our first album, Baby Teeth! We are going to play 4 sets, all of our full length albums in their entirety! (Baby Teeth, What If Someone Is Watching Their TV?, Power Move, and Castle Talk). Silent Way will play a set in the middle to give us a chance to breath.

We are asking for donations at this show to help pay for a box of merch we had shipped to Europe for our tour which UPS destroyed!!! Between shipping and contents it cost us almost $1000!!! Help us out and come have fun watching us play songs we can't remember.

Our first New Brunswick, NJ show since 5/12/10. Damn!

Jan 21 2011
SCREAMING FEMALES
Silent Way
6 PM $5
All Ages
@ Ask A Punk
New Brunswick, NJ

-jd

This Is Very Important

2011-01-04T00:40:00.000-05:00

happy holidays

2010-12-24T16:06:00.001-05:00

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Castletalk lyrics

2010-12-18T12:01:00.001-05:00

LAURA + MARTY

When I want to feed
But I don’t know why
When I want to feel
I’m not talking
Or corner cropping
Send pound for pound
I’ll use my know-how

Got a list of lips
Twisted tongues and tips
Fancier than church
Instead, install
Cold hands, hot heart
Burning black cloud
I’ll use my know-how

Laura and Marty went to a party
And they hard-lined
I’ve no intention
Not to mention
That you hard-lined

So you’ve lost your touch
Limp and losing sleep
If you don’t have fun
Crowd turned panic
Destroyed, damaged
Born to a ghost town
I’ll use my know-how

I DON’T MIND IT

I might lift the curse and
Fight you all the time
I might pinch the ends and
Throw you back in line
It’s easy and generic
So I can mute the beat
And the only one left in
Is gonna be me

‘cause I don’t mind it

I don’t wanna miss you
It’s tight I can’t unwind
I’ll be blown to bits but
I don’t really want to die
And you do me great service
When you call my bluff
I’ll stay home for hours
But it’s just never enough

I might beg your pardon
When the road is rude
And I might count the hours
And bend the wire to tune
Dissect drawing circles
Or spinning in my seat
When the coach is yelling
Running through the streets

‘cause I don’t mind it

I don’t wanna miss you
It’s tight I can’t unwind
I’ll be blown to bits but
I don’t really want to die
And you do me great service
When you call my bluff
I’ll stay home for hours
But it’s just never enough

BOSS

Who will you meet the morning of
You change skins, you sleep
And call your baby
Who will you meet when you’re in love
A fish to catch
A friend to shove

‘Cause I could cut the cord with you
Any-day
I don’t need you to remind me who’s the boss
‘Cause I could be the boss of you
Any-day
If I tried
Really hard

When you pray your hands go raw
When you kneel you sink and rupture reason
And when the bandages fall off
We are inside out again

‘Cause I could cut the cord with you
Any-day
I don’t need you to remind me who’s the boss
‘Cause I could be the boss of you
Any-day
If I tried
Really hard

NORMAL

I’ll keep you
My fashion friend
You’re upside-down
With arrogance
You touch your toes
And stick your nose in the air

Eye to eye
What you wanna see
Eye to eye
Make you proud of me

I wouldn’t be surprised
If no one wants to waste their time with me
I’m joyfully employed
I’m Normal
I wouldn’t be surprised
If no one wants to waste their time with me
I’m joyfully employed
I’m Normal

Mister hands my new attire
You bury my rings and make me dig
I am disgraced and got no soul
When you’re around

Eye to eye
What you wanna see
Eye to eye
Make you proud of me

I wouldn’t be surprised
If no one wants to waste their time with me
I’m joyfully employed
I’m Normal
I wouldn’t be surprised
If no one wants to waste their time with me
I’m joyfully employed
I’m Normal

A NEW KID

If I invite you over
Can you look me in the eye
Because your head is a cavern
And I wanna crawl inside
I put some speakers in your ears
And I stuff up where you speak
You gotta whole lotta nerve
To think that you can fool me

‘Cause there’s a new kid on my street
And he’s called the new elite

Let me shovel out your brains
Hang my image in your skull
So I can be the vision
In your nightmares from now on
You put me in my place
And I gotta be real mean
You gotta whole lotta nerve
To think that you can fool me

‘Cause there’s a new kid on my street
And he’s called the new elite

There’s a new kinda high
When they find a pill to try
And you can coax me politely
But I’m not gonna lie
I need a brief inspection
And a judge up on the seat
You gotta whole lotta nerve
To think that you can fool me

FALL ASLEEP

If you hold me to my word
Then I will never speak
‘Cause I’m forgotten
I’ve forgot
Everything I need
I pass the boss the phone
But who’s on to receive
It’s a loss
I can’t decide
Which cold call I need

I want you
To fall asleep
And die with me
The level gets too deep
And it dies with me

I have secret eyes
That glue me to my seat
‘Cause I’m forgotten
I’ve forgot
Exactly what I need
It’s classic if it’s kitsch
I’m nude as I was born
But I’m at loss
I can’t decide
Which hat should be worn

I want you
To fall asleep
And die with me
The level gets too deep
And it dies with me

You stammer on your crutch
‘Cause no one likes you much
You skunk the town
And who’s around
To place you in the bunch
I’m nesting in a void
And living in a hole
It can’t be said
I’ll burn the bed
To warm you in the cold

I want you
To fall asleep
And die with me
The level gets too deep
And it dies with me

WILD

I realize in record time
I know I can’t change
You’ve bent my blood
And that’s enough
I know I can’t change

But that’s why
I need you to know
It’s wild and cured

I still hear you
Up in my room
You echo up the stairs
You claw the door
And leave a mark
And then you’re not there

But that’s why
I need you to know
I’m trying
It’s wild but they found a cure

Hold your hand
On my head
You can watch me hold the bed
And I’ll pretend to me asleep
You may claim me your gold
But I’m not yours to have or hold
You take all that’s left of me

But that’s why
I need you to know
I’m trying
It’s wild but they found a cure

In a plume of smoke
A family ghost
Shows me all her teeth
The brightest white
Like heaven’s light
Planting all it’s seeds

I am walking through our home

NOTHING AT ALL

I’ve been walking backwards
Listening to your word of mouth
Your secret’s wide open
And mine has slithered out

Make your bed or nothing at all

Excess, you sit sideways
And you dance a crooked dance
Excess, you are evil
Dressed for church and holding hands

Make your bed or nothing at all

I wanna be your late-night crisis line
I wanna give you all a piece of mind
I wanna be your late-night crisis line
I wanna give you all a piece of mind

I’ve been walking backwards
Listening to your word of mouth
Your secret’s wide open
And mine has slithered out

Make your bed or nothing at all

SHEEP

I will be there Saturday night
Sucking up the trails of white light
I haunt you
Miss you like a snake in the grass
Four sore winters have passed
I’ll haunt you

You’d count sheep with anyone
Anyone would do
You’d count sheep with anyone
Anyone would do

I will be the corner and cast
Meant for men, I’m loaded with plans
I’m cleaning clocks and hustling for time
I’m Ivy League, I know that you’re mine

You’d count sheep with anyone
Anyone would do
You’d count sheep with anyone
Anyone would do

DELUXE

Take on your new jaw for challenge
Grit teeth in your sleep
Powder pile by your pillow
Dusting all your dreams

But it’s not like I planned
The teeth don’t make the man
And he locks where I sit
He sinks into my wrist

Better living with some new chops
Three square meals a day
He can’t hold down this new job
He blows his bonus pay

‘Cause it’s not like I planned
The teeth don’t make the man
And he locks where I sit
He sinks into my wrist

GHOST SOLO

I took a back road with this guy
I needed you so I could hide
‘Cause what they said was something I could not repeat

They went dancing
It was planned and I –
I was thrust into my own nightmare

This is it
It’s the last time
Please is this it
It’s the last time
You set me up

I took a back seat driver’s mind
His brains are night trains running blind
He talked between the lines and
I could trust his speed

They were midnight rats
Chasing cabs for cash
You are young and not meant for that seen

This is it
It’s the last time
Please is this it
It’s the last time
You set me up

I got a feeling you’re all wrong
You gave us all the slip
I’ve got this feeling you’re all wrong
I’m begging you
To loosen up your grip

Statements are nameless
It’s romance
By means, I do not need this
This is the last time
I mean it

This is it
It’s the last time
Please is this it
It’s the last time
You set me up

I got a feeling you’re all wrong
You gave us all the slip
I’ve got this feeling you’re all wrong
I’m begging you
To loosen up your grip

My 2010 List

2010-12-08T13:01:00.003-05:00

Hey!

It's my birthday and I can make year end lists if I want to!

What did I forget?!

01. Shellshag - Rumors in Disguise (Don Giovanni Records)
02. Prizzy Prizzy Please - Chroma Cannon (Joyful Noise Recordings)
03. Stoned At Heart - Party Tracks Vol. 1 (Recess Records)
04. Grass Widow - Past Time (Kill Rock Stars)
05. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks (Matador Records)
06. Natural Child - Dog Bite 7" (Infinity Cat)
07. Pujol - Live at Third Man (Third Man Records)
08. Heavy Cream - Danny (Infinity Cat)
09. Noun - Holy Hell (Don GIovanni Records)
10. Big Eyes - s/t 7" (Evil Weevil Records)
11. Wavves - King of the Beach (Fat Possom Records)

(Also, I am almost positive that the Natural Child 7" came out in 2009 but the back of the record says 2010 so I guess they can be on here).

-Jarrett D

fudd does europe

2010-12-01T14:52:00.006-05:00

Castle Talk Tour Stats

2010-12-01T10:51:00.003-05:00

Castle Talk Tour 2010
Dates: Aug 13, 2010 - Nov 28. 2010
Total Number of Days: 108
Total Number of Shows: 88
Shows in New Brunswick, NJ: 0
Number of States Played: 31 (+DC)
Number of Countries Played: 16
Number of Fests/Festivals: 6
Fests with the Word 'Fuck' in the Name: 2
Fests with the Word 'Awesome' in the Name: 2
Number of Vans Driven: 4
Number Van Break Downs: 2
Number of Shows Missed: 0
Number of Shows Opening for New Jersey Artists: 8 (Ted Leo and Rx, Titus Andronicus, Yo La Tengo)
Number of Bactrian Camels sighted on the side of the Road in UK: 1
Number of Times I actually Thought I Was going to Die in the Van: 2 (both in Norway)
City Played Most Times: NYC (5)
Most Days Off In A Row: 9 (Oct 1 - Oct 9)

USA

2010-11-30T12:52:00.005-05:00

We are home. Here are some cool vids from Vienna.

THEY SHOOT MUSIC DON'T THEY

On a completely unrelated note, I LOVE TINA TURNER
....complimentary legs:

...More to come.
-Marissa

tour update!

2010-11-09T14:59:00.001-05:00

we have a new van that runs and the shows are still going well.

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Broken down in France

2010-11-03T18:47:00.001-04:00

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CULTURE SHOK

2010-10-28T14:50:00.004-04:00

We are in Europe. It's cold and wet. Here are some pixxx:

safe arrival in amsterdam

2010-10-25T12:52:00.001-04:00

We made it to Europe. Who'da thought the wifi password would be "cannabis"

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lady gaga

2010-10-24T11:08:00.001-04:00

Europe, here we come

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Oh, and also....

2010-10-20T17:58:00.003-04:00

(Actually written by Marissa with approval from King Mike ^)

I HAVE IT

2010-10-20T10:58:00.005-04:00

I kind of wish we actually sounded like this:

Please excuse the five seconds to ten seconds I spent assessing a technical fault. I'm sitting on my couch watching a Norwegian yo-yo tour DVD (Thanks Dave) but will turn it off shortly to watching some lurid HBO dramas on Netflix. I have also been spending quite a bit of time on this lovely website:

http://vampirewebsite.net/howknowifavampire.html

....I'm experiencing symptoms.

au revoir!
Marissa

1 Week Until We Leave for Europe!

2010-10-19T11:25:00.004-04:00

Hey!

Here is a flyer for our last three shows before we leave for Europe. Maybe our last three USA shows of the year! Come see us play.

Today = FREE!

10/21 - tickets - http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0000450CEB7680DF?artistid=1481354&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1&camefrom=CFC_BUYAT_myspacemusic&lid=myspace_UserViewProfile_80416701

10/23 - tickets - http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/15541

Tour is Hell for Pants

2010-10-18T21:32:00.006-04:00

I know there are others of you out there. I'm talking to you, the gal or guy that wears pretty much the same pair of pants everyday. Don't get me wrong, I have more than one pair of pants. I just get kind of attached to a particular pair and wear them most of the time. Well, this blog is in memoriam of my last pair of Levi's which today went to the curb. These pants were a particular favorite and lasted through well over 200 shows (even though I tore a hole in the right knee the very same week I bought them when I was hit by a car while riding my bike). But on our latest tour with Ted Leo both knees ripped in a crippling manner and the back pocket wore out all the in course of a few days. I will always remember you.

(RIP 2009-2010)

(be glad you can't smell these things over the internet)

But, as they say, with every ending there is a new beginning and thus...

...and my butt...

-Jarrett D

The L Magazine

2010-10-14T11:54:00.002-04:00

http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/the-hardest-working-band-in-new-york-happens-to-be-from-new-jersey/Content?oid=1774954

exquisite corpse

2010-10-11T22:07:00.001-04:00

By Marissa, Mike, and Kristina

Follow me on twitter @KingMikeStinks
Tour updates, pics, haikus, random musings, etc.

<3
Mike

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we are making a video!!!

2010-10-09T22:57:00.001-04:00

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GOOFBALLZ

2010-10-05T10:31:00.003-04:00

From CMJ last year in front of Mercury Lounge (I think?). My belly makes a stunning appearance whilst Mike reveal the truth about the genesis of Screaming Females:

+ we're playing CMJ this year:

Thursday, October 21, 2010
Brooklyn Vegan CMJ Showcase
w/ Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Blow, Yuck, Young Man

-Marissa

V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N

2010-09-21T17:47:00.007-04:00

We are on a four day break! Woot woot!

Ciggypoo:

Napping angels:

Fucking fuck Fest

2010-09-17T18:15:00.002-04:00

We've been discussing bringing Keith into the inner Screaming Females circle to play percussion. Kinda like this:

You guys ever hear of Slipknot? I think our album came out on the same day as the new Maroon 5 and Weezer's Hurley. Screaming Females: in the company of the greats! Music for a generation to live and die to. Sometimes the bar is set so high I just think about giving up entirely. Thanks a lot, Maroon 5. We listened to the new Weezer album, it wasn't as good as Ratitude but we'll try again.

If you want to watch us play a show from the comfort of your own bean bag, here ya go.

Watch live streaming video from knittingfactory at livestream.com

Love
Marissa "Clown" Paternoster

Castle Talk Release!!

2010-09-13T13:56:00.003-04:00

Hey!

I'm at The Grit in Athens, Ga. Excellent veggie restaurant if you ever happen through Athens.

Castle Talk officially comes out tomorrow! It has been quite an adventure to get this record out into the world and I hope that everyone picks up a copy.

To celebrate the record we are having a release party at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn on Weds 9/15/10. The flyer is below. Please come out and have fun with us.

Order tickets here - http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/13227

-JD

Festin'

2010-09-07T03:10:00.005-04:00

I saw Janeane Garafalo at the lunch buffet at FYF fest two days ago. It was awesome.

We drove overnight from San Francisco to make it to LA on time for our load-in at FYF (Eleven AM). Consequently, Jarrett fell asleep under the stage while 7 Seconds played their set. It was a sweaty, silly day.

By Never Cool in School / Leslie Kalohi

By sleepydoll/Debi Del Grande

On this tour we played three festivals. The first festival was called "Fucking Awesome Fest" in Detroit, MI. The second festival was called "Fuck Yeah Fest" in Los Angeles, CA. The third festival was called "Awesome Fest" in San Diego, CA.

This is my public appeal for festival organizers to make earnest efforts to not use the words "Fucking" or "Awesome" whilst titling their festival. Perhaps "Fuzzy Fest" or "Tickle me Pink" festival. These are just some suggestions, off-the-cuff.

Have a happy day and a night full of love,
Marissa "Menstrual Stain" Paternoster

T O U R R R

2010-09-02T03:48:00.004-04:00

Sleepy in Oregon!
We discovered some really cool new bands in the past couple of days. Check them out:

JOHN E. COMBAT & THE JUNGLE FUCKS / Boise

PONY TIME / Seattle

FINN RIGGINS / Boise

All is well on the tour front.
I'm gonna go watch Rosanne.
Goodnight!

-Marissa

Mike finally lost it

2010-08-29T20:24:00.002-04:00

Oh hey

2010-08-25T15:42:00.003-04:00

Photo property of Daytrotter and great clip art public domain, property on the internet. combination of these two elements property of screaming femalez

Hello
We're on tour, doin' laundry in Carbondale, IL. Yesterday we did this neat thing called Daytrotter in Rock Island, IL. Then we went to a cafe to catch a wave on the world wide web. Mike and Keith met a nice guy outside who bought one our LPs even though he had no idea who we were or saw us play. Some other townsfolk were attempting yo-yo tricks outside. Mike taught them a thing or two.

We recorded three songs and they're gonna put 'em up on their website soon http://www.daytrotter.com/.

'I Don't Mind It' Video and 'Castle Talk' Pre-Orders!

2010-08-16T11:31:00.005-04:00

Hey Everybody!

I'm really excited to share the 'I Don't Mind It' video with everyone. Make sure to blow it up to full size! It is an amazingly intricate video conceived and created by Mr. Pillis. See his explanation of the video at the end of this post.

Also! The Castle Talk Pre-Orders are up exclusively through Insound. I hear if you order the LP or CD you get instant access to a download of the album. Also! For $7 more you can order an exclusive Castle Talk t-shirt designed by Marissa P.

Scroll through this page to see all the options - PRE-ORDERS - http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?query=SCREAMING+FEMALES+CASTLE+TALK

Mr. Pillis' Artist Statement

I was reading a theoretical work on narratology discussing cinderella as a story structure that precludes numerous versions and variants as a byproduct of its cultural dissemination and decided to use a chevorlet-made interpretation called "a coach for cinderella" as the material for the music video.

So, in Chevorlet's version, the dwarves create an organic vehicle for Cinderella out of pumpkins and spiderweb. Then, suddenly- through the magic of "the modernizer" machine, they transform this organic object into an industrial machine, a brand new chevorelet. Using the same processes as the gnomes, I tore apart the hand drawn animation digitally and reconstructed it as a cartoon-graphic novel, the structure of the original animation getting a bricolage treatment by re-compiling the fragments into new animation sequences.

Overlaid on top of this are the hand drawn cut out puppets made by the lead singer of the band, Marissa Paternoster. These figures, playing out a cartoonish game of cat and mouse while trying to capture marissa's mouth, are perpetually on the verge of collapse as they assemble themselves while chasing speech.

As the cartoon plays, cut up in the background, the forms of these figures disassemble into chaos and re-combine as a multi-sexual ganesha character influenced by hindu philosophy. Female figures, nude dance in movements which were motion captured from Beyonce's "all the single ladies" music video. The horse was animated on top of a re-constructed animation of the first cinematic experiment of a horse galluping, therefore making a nod at the origin of time based media to supplement the trans-historical patterns. We're trying to eliminate our natural smell, that's all.

DREAMS DO COME TRUE!!!

2010-08-10T09:31:00.000-04:00

I found this on the internet! YES!!! Someone made a skate video with one of our songs! This is better than tabulature!!! YES YES YES!!!!

-Marissa

Tour Poster and live vid!

2010-08-09T18:00:00.003-04:00

Castle Talk Release/ No U-Haul Tour Summer-Fall 2010

Appleton, WI; SLC, UT; and Portland, OR are still TBA but we will hopefully have all that info this week!

Is that video out of sync for everybody else too?!

-jd

New Don Giovanni Records Store!

2010-08-06T16:49:00.002-04:00

Hey!

Just wanted to let everyone know that our label, Don Giovanni Records, has a new webstore up. They have been excited about getting this done and it looks good. You can get our stuff and records/cds/tshirts/etc from some other great bands too. Check it out.

http://www.dongiovannirecords.com/store/

I went to see Natural Child play at The Ox last night in my new home of Philadelphia, PA. It was a blast. Kids mosh hard down here. Can't wait to play The Ox in Sept. See ya there!

-jd

My school uniform

2010-08-03T10:11:00.001-04:00

I wrote something for this website called IMPOSE. It's kinda about my dress.

read it here:

HERE HERE HERE HERE

Okay byeeee!

-Marissa

Posting Dates

2010-08-02T18:00:00.002-04:00

Anyone who has ever posted dates for their band on the internet knows what a pain in the butt it is. Today I began to wonder how many hours I've spent posting our dates. Myspace goddamn you! I want that time back!

new dates @ http://www.myspace.com/screamingfemales

-jd

Maxwell's NJ Tour Kick Off

2010-07-30T17:05:00.003-04:00

Just thought I would share the link to tickets for Maxwell's

http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/12443

Just like the flyer says this will be the first place to buy our new record Castle Talk. So get psyched dammit!

Also I would like to share a piece of advice. I've lived in communal houses and apartments for years now. This is a nugget of wisdom that I think everyone can somehow institute into their lives.

You can get 90% of the work done in 10% of the time.

This mainly has to do with cleaning things but I feel like it applies to so many areas of my life. Here is the example from today. Our shower was leaking into the downstairs apartment. So some guys came over to repair it and left a muddy mess in the bathtub. At first I think, "Damn, I need to clean that up." But once I realize that the tiled walls could use a good scrub and the same goes for the sink, floor, and toilet the job seems to become to large to bother with. I start to think, "I should probably block out an hour to clean this bathroom later today or tomorrow." I know all too well that once I begin to work under the assumption that I will clean it later that it becomes very unlikely that I will ever get to it. So instead of worrying about getting out the cleaning sprays and the scrub brush I just grabbed a sponge and went to work. It took me 5 minutes to wipe down the tub, sink, and toilet. Hey, I know it still needs a good scrub one of these days but for now it looks 90% better and it only took me 5 minutes. Next time we will talk about rinsing your dishes so that stuff doesn't dry to them making it impossible to clean them later.

Ciao!
-JD

Blog about Siren

2010-07-20T13:42:00.001-04:00

Hey Y'all!

Check out my blog about Siren over here!

http://thealternateside.org/news/2010/jul/20/siren-festival-2010-screaming-females-blog-about-t/

-jd

LA Vid

2010-07-18T16:51:00.002-04:00

Download "I Don't Mind It" Now!

2010-07-14T18:25:00.003-04:00

Hey Everybody,

We are so excited to let you all have the first taste of our new record, "Castle Talk", which is out Sept 14 on Don Giovanni Records. Download the 1st mp3, "I Don't Mind It", at BrooklynVegan - http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/07/new_screaming_f.html

We also have a bunch of new US and European tour dates with more to come soon! The US 'Castle Talk' release tour is before the official release date but we WILL have the new record at all dates starting at Maxwell's on Aug 13.

Also we are playing Siren Fest in Coney Island this weekend. Free show with some great bands. Free sunburn too.

ALSO we are playing FYF Fest 2010 in LA, CA on Sept 4. This one day fest is going to be awesome. Check out the flyer below for more details. We are also playing Awesome Fest 4 in San Diego the following day which is equally or maybe more amazing!

Screaming Females - 2010 Tour Dates
7/17 - Siren Fest - Brooklyn, NY
8/13 - Maxwell's - Hoboken, NJ
8/15 - Golden West Cafe - Baltimore, MD
8/16 - Gallery Five - Richmond, VA
8/17 - JJ's Bohemia - Chattanooga, TN
8/18 - Exit/ In - Nashville, TN
8/19 - The Bishop - Bloomington, IN
8/20 - Fucking Awesome Fest (Magic Stick) - Detroit, MI
8/29 - Red Room - Boise, ID
9/2 - Rainshadow Space - Reno, NV
9/3 - Thee Parkside - San Francisco, CA
9/4 - FYF Fest 2010 - Los Angeles, CA
9/5 - Awesome Fest 4 - San Diego, CA
9/6 - Trunk Space - Phoenix, AZ
9/8 - Mohawk - Austin, TX
9/9 - Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Theater - New Orleans, LA
9/10 - The Farside - Tallahassee, FL
9/11 - The Atlantic - Gainesville, FL
9/12 - Secret Squirrel - Athens, GA
9/13 - Static Age Records - Asheville, NC
9/14 - Black Cat - Washington, DC
9/16 - The Ox - Philadelphia, PA
9/19 - Brew Not Bombs (Portage Theater) - Chicago, IL
10/27 - The Luminaire - London (United Kingdom)
10/28 - Captain's Rest - Glasgow (United Kingdom)
10/29 - Stereo - York (United Kingdom)
10/30 - Islington Mill - Manchester (United Kingdom)
10/31 - Freebutt - Brighton (United Kingdom)
11/4 - Le Sonic - Lyon (France)
11/5 - GRIM - Marseille (France)
11/7 - Channel Zero - Ljubljana (Slovenia)
11/9 - Rhiz - Vienna (Austria)
11/10 - PMK - Innsbruck (Austria)
11/11 - Bad Bonn - Duedingen (Switzerland)
11/12 - Hirscheneck - Basel (Switzerland)
11/13 - The Great Räng Teng Teng - Freiburg (Germany)
11/15 - Final Club - Prague (Czech Republic)
11/16 - Kafe Kult - Muenchen (Germany)
11/17 - Sonic Ballroom - Koeln (Germany)
11/18 - Astrastube - Hamburg (Germany)
11/20 - Fritz's Corner @ Debaser - Stockholm (Sweden)
11/22 - Charlies - Kristiansand (Norway)
11/23 - Landmark - Bergen (Norway)
11/24 - Revolver - Oslo (Norway)

2010-07-06T14:55:00.003-04:00

Hi the Noun album came out today it's called "Holy Hell". It has ten songs on it. You can get it at Screaming Females shows or at neat record stores. King Mike, Jarrett, Miranda (from Black Wine, Hunchback, and Full of Fancy), and Angie (from Cheeky & Little Lungs) play on it too.

You can listen to the titular (great word) track here:
www.myspace.com/noun

Thanks
marissa

NEW BRUNSWICK SHOWW

2010-07-03T10:29:00.003-04:00

$$$ DONATIONS $$$

NICKY BERGER & LUKE RAMANO - Acoustic pals kicking off the shindig -

LOST WEEKEND (NB) - If Tobi Vail and Kurt Cobain got married and had babies it would sound like this -

YELLOW FEVER (TX) - http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/07/yellowfevers_je.html

MATTRESS (NB) - DESTINED FOR THE COVER OF TIGER BEAT -

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Please come! You know where it is!

-Marissa

$$ MORE ARRT 4 SALE $$

2010-07-01T20:11:00.032-04:00

HEY!!

All of these drawings/paintings are for sale. 110% of whatever money made goes towards a new Screaming Females van - if that serves as any incentive to make a purchase - as always, these prices are negotiable! If you buy a drawing I'll do my best to throw some other fun stuff in there for you too. Thanks to everyone who purchased drawings the last time I posted 'em up - Marissa

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DIMENSIONS AND PRICES ARE BENEATH THE IMAGE!!!!!
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REMEMBER: If you have questions or requests just email me. Marissapaternoster@gmail.com

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Original "Baby Teeth" sketches. Ink on paper, 9 x 12. Neither of these drawings are in very good condition, as they have been tossed about in my bag for the past four years. Price - BEST OFFER - email me - marissapaternoster@gmail.com

9 x 12 Ink on paper - $15

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Aprox. 3 x 5 Ink on paper - $10

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9 x 12 Ink on paper - $25

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9 x 12 Ink on paper - $15

This is tiny - 4 x 2, maybe - Ink on paper - $10 (or whatever).

12 x 9 - Ink on paper- $15

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5 x 10 - Ink on paper - $15

Another tiny one! 4 x 6 - Ink on paper - $10 (or whatever)

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A great gift for the ham-lover in your life. Aprox. 7 x 10 - Ink on paper - $ 15

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Aprox. 5 x 7 - Ballpoint pen on paper - $15

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Aprox. 4 x 6 - Ink on paper - $15

Aprox. 8 x 10 - Ballpoint pen on paper - $15

9 x 12 - Ink on paper - $20

8 x 10 - Ink on paper - $20

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9 x 12 - Ink & watercolor on paper - $35

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Rejected "What if Someone is Watching Their T.V.? Sketch - Aprox. 3 x 5 - Ink & watercolor on paper - $20

9 x 12 - Ink on paper - $20

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Aprox. 5 x 8 - Ink on paper - $15

PAINTINGS!!!!!!!!!!!

Robert & Marsha are both acrylic on wood. Robert can be shipped to you but he will cost a pretty penny because the wood is quite heavy. Marsha cannot be shipped because she is very fragile - you will have to pick her up from me. Email me an offer for either and we will work it out! - Marissapaternoster@gmail.com ! ! !

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Acrylic on cardboard - $25

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Acrylic & varnish - carved into wood - this cannot be shipped. It's too damn big & fragile. $75

Never stop!

2010-06-17T16:25:00.001-04:00
We are definitely still on for all the New England and Canada dates w/ Ted Leo and the Rx! See you there!
Jun 18 - Milford, CT
Jun 19 - Portland, ME
Jun 20 - Burlington, VT
Jun 21 - Quebec City, Quebec
Jun 22 - Montreal, Quebec
Jun 24 - Ottawa, ON
Jun 26 - Toronto, ON
Jun 27 - Buffalo, NY

check http://www.myspace.com/screamingfemales for the details

If you wanted to know why the rest of tour was canceled....

2010-06-15T20:47:00.017-04:00
...Here you go. This is really long. Sorry. I didn't really proof read it SO beware: POOR GRAMMAR

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The day began in Phoenix, Arizona. The four of us, Jarrett, Mike, Brian, and myself (Marissa) woke up in an apartment complex. Two kids from the Phoenix show, Nick and Gabe, let us sleep at their place. We woke up early and hopped in our van. We had the day off and needed to conquer more than half of the drive en route to our show in Austin, Texas. We had intended to drive 1200 miles within the next two days. It was sweltering outside, even in the early hours of the day. Once we cruised into the heart of the desert, however, the heat seemed unbearable. Mike drove for about six or seven hours until we pulled over in Las Cruces, New Mexico, to eat some lunch. After we ate, we got back into the van and pulled onto I-40. About one hour into our drive, the van sputtered, clunked, and stalled on the side of the interstate. Jarrett and Mike got out of the van and almost immediately told me to call AAA. The heat was blistering and there was no shade. Tractor-trailers whipped by our van going an excess of 70 mph. We did our best to pinpoint our location, gave AAA our information, and got back into the van.

AAA arrived within a bit over an hour. A stocky bald fellow named Chuy hopped out of his tow and asked us what had happened. Jarrett explained our situation to Chuy immediately: it was already late in the day, we were in a band, we still had a twelve hour drive ahead of us, and we were desperate to have our van fixed by the morning so that we could make it to Austin. Chuy said that his nephew could diagnose our van tonight and that he was a very good mechanic. Chuy took a brief peek under the hood, linked the van up to the tow, and hoisted it up onto his truck. Chuy then drove us to Walker Towing, a tiny mechanic shop running parallel to some train tracks in Las Cruces. The back lot of Walker Towing was littered with clunkers covered in desert sand. A huge slobbering guard dog (Mike pointed out how much this dog looked like the mutt from the Sandlot) grimaced and drooled behind our parked van. The heat was overwhelming. Chuy dislodged our van from the tow and Fernando, his nephew, popped the hood and took a look. He pinpointed our problem almost immediately – we needed a new fuel pump. Fernando was handsome. He seemed earnest and he was charming. He promised us that once he received the part in Las Cruces, we would be back on the road by 9 am. Tired, sweaty, but confident that we’d be leaving the next morning; Chuy drove us to a nearby motel.

We spent the night showering, watching basic cable, and drinking beers from the gas station next door. We all fell asleep around 1:00 am. The next morning, Walker Towing called around 8:00 am asking how many gallons our fuel tank took. Twenty-six or thirty? We weren’t sure. It seemed like a point of interest that Fernando would have been able to ascertain on his own. Turns out we needed a fuel pump for a 30-gallon tank. We would have to wait for the part to arrive from El Paso, which was about one hour away. If our van was fixed by noon, there was a very slight chance that we would still be able to haul ourselves to Austin non-stop, jump on stage, and play our show. We checked out and hoofed it to the nearest restaurant. The heat was blistering, there wasn’t a tree or shrub for miles. The four of us were carrying all of our bags down the edge of the busy highway. Mike and I had to indulge ourselves (yet again) in a volatile dish known as huevos rancheros (which can be done well, but when it’s made poorly it ravages our insides). The clock was ticking and no word from the repair shop. Disheveled and discouraged, we nursed drinks and stared longingly at our cell phones. Finally, we received a call from Fernando. They were coming to pick us up.

Another mechanic picked us up at the restaurant. He was nice, an older portly guy with bloodshot eyes. He was excited because we were a rock band, and he was blasting Theory of a Deadman (A funny you-tube favorite among Screaming Females). When we arrived at Walker Towing, we were told that more work needed to be done on the van. Defeated, we called our Austin promoter to cancel. The four of us retired to the scratchy loveseats in the sweltering waiting room. “Burn Notice” was on the twelve-inch color TV, whilst the mechanic’s tween son slept on the adjacent sofa. A couple hours later we were informed that the van was fixed and we could leave. Excited, we paid the $700-something dollar fee in cash and took off down the desert road. Pulling into the nearest gas station, our van spewed and popped. Stalling out again, Mike cranked the engine back on and took us back to Walker Towing. Yet again, we slouched and settled into the tweed couches in the waiting room, which at high noon was a veritable sweat box. Hours passed. Jarrett’s father suggested that we bring the van to a certified Dodge mechanic at a legitimate dealership. Labor would be more expensive but the quality of work would be better. We asked the men at Walker Towing to take our van to the nearest Dodge dealership. The dumpy fellow measured us up and questioned, “Tell me, when did you loose faith in us?” He seemed upset.

They towed us to the Dodge dealership free of charge. It was late in the afternoon now, and we knew we would have to spend another night in Las Cruces. Only a handful of guys worked at the Dodge dealership. Jarrett and I leaned over the service counter looking for help. Another corpulent fellow popped his head out of a back office. He had a couple piercings and gauged ears, so I thought he might be more sympathetic to our situation than the previous mechanics. We summarized our situation to the new mechanic, Peter, and he told us they’d do their best to get us out of Las Cruces by morning. I told Peter if he could fix our van by the morning, I’d give him our entire discography. We still had hope that we might be able to drive non-stop to our show in Nashville over the course of two days. There were a few motels within walking distance down the highway. We loaded all of our bags out of the van and prepared to walk in the scorching Southwestern heat to another sordid motel. As Mike, Brian, and I waited near our van for Jarrett, Jarrett pulled up in front of us behind the wheel of a white Buick Le Sabre. With a huge grin on his face, Jarrett said that Peter really wanted those records I had spoke of, and he gave us the Buick to get around in until our van was fixed. Giggling maniacally, we squished into the Le Sabre and drove to a motel. One more night in Las Cruces and we could leave. We cranked the air conditioning and sprawled out onto the slippery motel comforters. Desperate for some fresh food, Jarrett looked up the address for a near by brewery with vegetarian options. We drove our Buick to the brewery and relaxed in the bar, eating vegetables for the first time in the past three days. When we got back to the motel, I took a shower and doodled in front of the television set. The boys went to the biker bar attached to our motel. I fell asleep at 10:30 pm.

The next morning we slept in. Our phones weren’t ringing. Once we all got up, we took a ride down to the only halfway decent breakfast spot in town. After we all ate, we took a ride back to the Dodge dealership. Peter shuffled out of the garage. “We’ve run six computers into this already…” he began, “and we can’t figure out what the problem is.” He told us he’d give us a call immediately if they were able to figure out the problem. He said they were bringing in another computer from out of town to attempt to pinpoint our problem. At this point, the completing the rest of our tour seemed improbable. We went back to the café to devise a plan of attack. Our new goal was to leave Las Cruces tonight, with out without the van. Perusing different rental options, we settled on getting a Uhaul truck with a hitch for our van. This way, we wouldn’t have to abandon our broken vehicle and pay for storage or further repairs. We could bring our own van back to New Jersey and have the problem assessed by reliable mechanics and perhaps recoup some costs by selling a functional vehicle. Mike called Uhaul and made a reservation. Once we settled on our plan, we hopped back into the Le Sabre and made way to the nearest Uhaul store. We told them about our reservation and they forwarded us to another building down the highway. The woman behind the desk at Kleine Motor Co. was ghastly, witch-like and burnt to a crisp. She had a broken southern accent and a snarky sense of humor. We told her about our reservations and she looked at us quizzically. My head was in my hands on the desktop. If we couldn’t get out of this goddamn desert by tonight, we’d lose our minds. Surprisingly, she was considerably efficient and made a couple phone calls to find our hitch. Just as Jarrett pulled out our credit card to pay the $1000 + fee for our truck and hitch, Peter called Mike. “I got your van running pretty good,” he said, “come over and have a look at it.” The joy I felt at that moment was immeasurable.

I told the witchy woman behind the Kleine Motor Co. counter that we’d return as quickly as possible, and not to cancel our reservation. Back on the Dodge dealership, Peter said that they had replaced a couple coils and once they got some new sparkplugs in, we’d be on our way. He told us it’d be done in a half hour. I urged him to hurry, as we had a reservation placed on a Uhaul hitch and it was imperative that we leave tonight. It was late in the afternoon and the end of business hours was creeping in. The four of us slinked into the Dodge dealership’s waiting room. We fascinated the car salesmen. “What kind of music do you play?” one of them asked. “Oh…some rock and roll band is playing in El Paso at Wet n’ Wild tonight…have you guys ever heard of Rush?” Sure, sure we said. We’ve heard of Rush. “Actually I don’t think the band is playing…it’s just a laser light show.” Oh, cool. An hour passed. Peter popped out of the hallway and summoned us to the desk. “I need to have a talk with you guys” he said.

“Your van runs like shit. It’s running, but you can’t drive it to Austin. You can definitely get it to Uhaul.” My stomach pulsated and tied itself into a knot. “I know you guys are traveling and are strapped for cash so I’ll give you a deal. We worked on it all day. I’ll charge you for a diagnostic fee and for parts. That’s it.” Despite the fact that the van was immobile, Peter’s gesture was kind. We walked back out to our van and jumped in. Jarrett turned the key, and the van struggled to spark. Another crank, and the engine refused to turn over. It wouldn’t run at all. I called Kleine Motor and urged them to hold our reservation. We’d be back in minutes, I said. Back into the Buick and back to Uhaul. The woman behind the counter entered all of our driver’s license information and had us all sign a contract. Jarrett handed over the credit card the woman handed over the keys. Mike and I got back into our Buick and made way back to the Dodge dealership to wait with the van whilst Brian and Jarrett went over to another rental spot to have the hitch affixed to the Uhaul truck. (Mind you, Uhaul knew the year, make, and model of our van, and approved for us to haul our conversion van on the ascribed hitch.) When Mike and I arrived back at Dodge, we gave Peter a singles CD for his good intentions. We sat in the air-conditioned waiting room while one of the car salesmen blasted our singles CD on the waiting room stereo system. I was in a tizzy, feeling such a cluster-fuck of emotions that I preferred to sit outside in the sauntering heat rather than stick to a leather sofa listening to my own voice blast out of some demo subwoofers.

Peter left at 5:00 pm and one of the round salesmen offered to stay with us until our hitch showed up. Jarrett and Brian arrived with the hitch in roughly 45 minutes. With the hitch on the seventeen-foot Uhaul truck, the vehicle was a genuine monstrosity, and it was about to get even worse. We couldn’t push the van up a knoll in the parking lot, so Jarrett managed to crank the engine and putter the van onto the shoulder of the highway. Directions to load the tow were on the side of the hitch. Two heavy-duty industrial straps would hold the front tires, and two clunky chains would grip our rear and front axles. Jarrett cranked the van into drive again and carefully climbed up onto the hitch. The end of our conversion van hung precariously off the edge of the tow, and we were unable to wrap the straps securely over the driver’s side wheel. Jarrett put the van in neutral while Brian, Mike, and the salesmen pushed our van forward mere inches onto the tow. I stood in front of our van with the signal to stop. The sight of the van creaking back and forth on the hitch made me feel sick. Hot tears welled up into my eyes. We were covered in sweat. Things seemed hopeless.

First night of towing

However, the extra nudge up the tow gave us enough leeway to secure the van. Traffic whizzed by us and the van rocked back and forth on its hitch. We unloaded all of our gear out of the van and into the Uhaul. Once we were confident in its placement, we crammed into the front of the Uhaul truck – suitable for three adults – and took off onto I-40. I couldn’t believe that we were moving, and in a matter of minutes we’d be out of the scalding purgatory that is Las Cruces. We drove until 2:00 am, pulled off of the interstate and checked into another slimy Motel 6. We unloaded our gear from the Uhaul and back into our van’s cage. Then we went to sleep.

The four of us crammed into the three-seater

9:00 am the next day, we unloaded our van and put the equipment back into the Uhaul. Crammed back into the front seat, we stopped for gas. Since we were driving nothing short of a tiny tractor trailer, we were afraid to drop into towns so we made plans to live exclusively off of Subway sandwiches. We were in Texas and the heat was crushing even in the early hours of the day. The Uhaul guzzled gas. I did the math, and if we were to successfully make it home with the van on the hitch, the gas alone would cost an excess of $900. We had to make it across Texas within the day if we hoped to make it home by Monday evening. Sitting in the front seat was difficult. A round, plastic center consol jutted out into the center seat. Brian and Mike’s legs were crushed under the dashboard and Jarrett and I had to assign both of our butt cheeks to the same seat. Our seating arrangements seemed like a recipe for insanity. After seven hours on the road, Mike wanted to take the risk of laying down in our van (on the tow) while Jarrett drove the Uhaul. He was terribly uncomfortable in the seat and tired from driving over seven hours. The van was an oven, but it was better than being caked together in the front row of the Uhaul, unable to even lift your arms. We made another stop and Mike hopped into the van. We drove for another two hours. When we stopped, Mike hopped out of the van, soaked in sweat with his curly hair frayed into a crown atop his skull. He looked insane. “It was terrifying,” he said, “but I stayed back there ‘cause I knew you guys were comfortable.”

We tried this position for a little while but it's what drove Mike to sit in the van

So the four of us were reunited in the front of the Uhaul, zipping down the interstate at a dazzling speed of 65 mph. Around 10:00 pm, we crossed the Texas border into Arkansas. Two hours later, we resigned for the day at another shitty Motel 6. Jarrett stayed up in bed watching soccer while the rest of us passed out in the glow of the television set.

Wow, only 1200 more miles!

The next morning we got up earlier, around 7:00, and hopped back into our truck. The boys lined up at another Subway for breakfast but I couldn’t stomach another sub. We filled up the gas tank and drove back onto the interstate. Our goal for the day was 800 miles. At this point in the game, we’d already traveled nearly 1,000 miles, not mention driving across the entirety of Texas in a single day hauling a massive conversion van on a shifty hitch. About 100 miles into our ride, another driver on the interstate flagged us down. We had blown a tire. At this stage in the game, every misfortune seemed inherent – like we were cursed – we poured out of the Uhaul and looked for the burst tire. The rear axle tire on the hitch wasn’t just flat – it was shredded to bits. Tiny fragments of burnt rubber were plastered to the boiling blacktop, acrid steam rose up from the frayed tire edges. Trucks passed us at 70 mph. The heat was incomprehensible. The grass was tall and dry, covered in ants and spiders. There was no shade. Jarrett crawled into our Uhaul to get the number for roadside service. Unable to pinpoint our location in the middle of nowhere, Arkansas, Mike and Jarrett jogged down shoulder of the highway to read a mile marker while Brian and I sat in puddles of insects. When Mike and Jarrett returned, Jarrett was on the phone with Uhaul yelling. Mike told me that the two of them saw a three-foot long snakeskin on the side of the road and that Brian and I should stand by the truck. “We have to get away from this highway,” Jarrett insisted. Uhaul told us to call a cab and that no one would arrive for another hour and a half. Jarrett got on the phone with his father, who guided us through removing our truck from the hitch, so we left the tow on the side of the highway, speeding away from the scene in our Uhaul to get away from danger. The next town over had little to offer – a Waffle House and a couple gas station. We walked into Waffle House to get a table and wait for roadside service. I’ve never had an affinity for Waffle House, and I think it’d be safe for me to speak on behalf of my band mates that we collectively hate the place. Flies were landing on our shoulders, we were covered in sweat, and the collective pungencies of cooking grease and filth made me want to vomit. “It’s funny how this place is the manifestation of how I feel right now” Brian remarked. (Thank god we had him for comic relief!) We got some waters and iced tea and sat down. Jarrett was on the telephone and I had my head in my hands. This was incomprehensible. I never imagined that tour would end this way. We waited for nearly two hours. Roadside service called Jarrett’s phone. They were pissed, claiming that we had abandoned our situation and saying that they were unable to fix it if we did not return immediately. Jarrett calmly tried to sort out the situation and asked if there was anyway they could repair it without us, but they insisted that it was impossible. So we tipped our waiter and left. Back on the side of the highway, we noticed that our tire was already repaired. The two workers were real Bible belt meth-heads. The man was named Larry. His arms were covered in deep, festering lesions and sweat poured off his tanned baldhead in the Arkansas heat. He had a maximum of three teeth. His cohort, a slim woman who looked like a stick of beef jerky, had lips that caved into her cavernous, toothless mouth. It was difficult to understand her. I tried to appeal to their good side and thank them for fixing our tire in the heat, but they seemed uninterested. Mike backed the truck onto the ball of the hitch and Jarrett cranked the hydraulic pump. The roadside workers wrote off some paperwork and we were back on the road. I had to pee and we needed gas, so Mike pulled off at the nearest exit. “It smells like burning rubber,” someone said. Halfway onto the entrance ramp at the Exxon, we noticed that the tire had burst again. Not yet shredded to bits, but flattened completely. We parked the truck exactly where it flattened out, and called the service workers again. We all assumed that Larry and his sidekick had put a new tire on a bent rim, and that the tire popped because the integrity of the rim was compromised. Jarrett was back on the phone with Larry, who said, “Oh, it popped again on ya, huh?”

The four of us meandered back and forth through the air-conditioned rest stop, perusing the candy selection and trying on novelty sunglasses. I told the clerk that we were unable to move the truck and she understood. Jarrett was pacing back and forth furiously beside the Exxon rest stop, wading his way through a chain of Uhaul supervisors to file a complaint. Larry and his toothless cohort arrived shortly. They idled by the fuel pumps, filling the tank of their work truck. We took our records out of the van and put them in some shade. Jarrett spent the next hour on the phone while the two Uhaul workers dilly-dallied, talking on cell phones and entering and exiting the Exxon store. Eventually the toothless wonder ambled over to me in the parking lot and something along the lines of, “There is nothing we can do, you gotta call Uhaul.” I couldn’t believe it. The two workers revved up their white work truck and screamed out of the gas station. It was just the four of us and our broken tow in Brinkley, Arkansas. Jarrett spent another hour on the telephone, demanding assistance and a refund. The negligence of those two roadside workers put our lives in danger, and not only that, they abandoned us at a gas station! It took hours for Uhaul to even agree to send back out someone to repair our rim.

Having a blast at Exxon

We sat for hours at the Exxon, boiling in the early afternoon sun. Our faces were red and our arms were burnt. Plans began to change. Jarrett decided that since things had already gone so awry, it was best to put Brian and I on a bus or plane out of Memphis (which was a mere 70 miles away) and leave the driving to Mike and Jarrett. Once the tire was repaired, Brian and I would get dropped off in Memphis and make our way home while Jarrett and Mike drove our gear back to New Jersey. The thought of leaving the boys was upsetting, but I knew it was best for Brian and I to leave and make their driving experience a bit more comfortable. Finally, the roadside crew arrived at the Exxon.

Jarrett was on the phone with Uhaul when they truck pulled up. It was the same two tweaked out meth-heads, twitchin’ and raring to go. We were in shock, and Jarrett confessed to the Uhaul operator, “I’m sure that you understand why I might be upset that you sent the same two people to assist us…listen, you don’t have to be a robot, I’m sure you understand…” The operator rattled off more pre-programmed Uhaul jargon and hung up. Larry and his lady pulled a junky tire out of their truck and got to work. After another 45 minutes, the tire was repaired and they began to work on another tire on the truck itself that had gone bald. After they finished their work, we handed over the same paperwork and they signed off the mileage and whatnot. Just as Jarrett was getting our contract back, the toothless woman smacked her concave lips and said, “I got some advice for ya, you’ll get better service if ya don’t cuss at folks on the phone”. A nice threat to send us back onto the road with!

At this point, we’re all horrified at the prospect of getting back into the truck because we convinced ourselves that the two meth-heads sabotaged our hitch ‘cause they thought we were rude dope-smokin’ northeastern hippies. Fuck it, we thought, it can’t get any more dangerous than it’s already been! It’s about 5:00 pm now and we only want to make it the 70 some odd miles to Memphis so Brian and I can get on a plane (we looked it up, and a bus ride was 30+ hours and $260+ - not worth the extra $100 it takes to get on a plane). The radio in the truck is off. Brian and I have our eyes locked on the rear tire, checking it for debris. Mike is staring at the road with the utmost intensity. The cab is completely silent. Twenty miles down the highway; Mike tilts his head towards the passenger seat. “There it goes,” he says. Unbelievable. Back on the shoulder of I-40, trucks whizzing by us in excruciating humidity, I was unable to even comprehend my own disbelief. The tire on our hitch was cut right down the center, frayed and deflated. Jarrett was on his cell phone immediately. “We’re going to leave this trailer here,” he told the operator at Uhaul. They threatened to charge us for the abandoned tow but somehow Jarrett convinced them otherwise. I was on the phone with AAA; we were going to have our van towed to Memphis. Some 2 odd hours later, the final character rolled up. Kevin, an employee of White Motor Co. said he got a call for an abandoned hitch. Uhaul called first so he’d have to tow the hitch to Forrest City, about five minutes away, then come back for us for the AAA call. Okay. Kevin loaded the hitch and pulled onto I-40. He returned about an hour later with a different truck, loaded our van, and took off with Mike in the passenger seat. Jarrett, Brian, and I followed in the Uhaul. Seventy miles to Memphis is a $200 tow. Money became a moot point. Getting home safely with our gear was the new priority.

The third tire

When Mike and Kevin arrived at the Dodge dealership AAA had dispatched them to, the dealership was gone. The building was abandoned. AAA looked up another dealership, and we drove across Memphis to drop off the van. The sun was setting and by the time our van was unloaded from the tow it was dark. Kevin was a nice guy, and he tried to get our money back for the extra mileage from AAA but failed. We wrote the dealership a letter explaining ourselves and dropped it in an overnight box along with the key. Back in the Uhaul truck, I made flight reservations for 7:10 am the next morning. Jarrett drove us to the airport and Brian and I grabbed our bags and started walking towards the terminal. Jarrett and Mike took off for home.

I-40 in Arkansas and our sweet tans!

JIMBO a.k.a. KEVIN...our van's final trip

Brian and I couldn’t check in until early the next morning. We were trapped in the cold terminal; the only open storefront was the Hudson News. Custodians coasted by on floor-waxers, female security guards gabbed on walkie-talkies. At 5:00 am, we were able to check in and access the terminal. (I was deemed “unpredictable” through security and had some huge woman pat my belly.) Our flight took off at 7:10, we transferred in Atlanta and left at 11:10 am, then arrived in Philadelphia at 1:17 pm. Two hours later, Brian and I were home.

OH MY GOD we're at the airport WTF

When I got into Meat Town U.S.A. I fell asleep immediately. When we left Philadelphia Mike and Jarrett were a mere 340 miles away from home, so I figured they would be home in five or six hours. They rolled into New Brunswick a bit after six. Jarrett had no voice left and both of the boys were exhausted. I made my way father’s house in Union, New Jersey.

The next morning (today) Jarrett and Mike dropped the gear off at my grandmother’s house. Our van was junked, irreparable. I brought my car in for service this morning, as we have plans to take it up to Canada for Ted Leo tour.

So, in closing, albeit from our experience being among one of the worst I’ve ever had in my little life, I’m glad (and you should be too) that the four of us made it home safely. Hopefully we can get our paws on a new van within the next two months so we can continue playing shows across the country….but not in Arkansas or New Mexico (just kidding).

-Marissa

the icing on the cake

2010-06-09T23:22:00.002-04:00

Today is a landmark in Screaming Females history. On this very day in the year of our good Lord 2010 our van, the "Big Red Pig" died on the side of I-10 eastbound outside of Las Cruces, New Mexico which we affectionately call, "HOLY SHIT THIS IS THE HOTTEST PLACE ON EARTH I WANT TO DIEEEEE!!!!!!"

Sputtering and hauling off the interstate, our van crept to a stop. Orders from the top came, "CALL TRIPLE A MARISSA!!!!" so I did. About one hour later, basking in the arid southwester heat, Screaming Females were miraculously rescued by a bald, bronzed, beautiful man we came to know as CHUY. He hoisted the Big Red Pig up into his tow truck, and we followed suit, cruising back to Las Cruces to have our van looked at by his nephew..."a really good mechanic".

The REALLY GOOD MECHANIC told us our fuel injection pump was F'ed and said he'd fix it for us by 9 am. SOOOO with somethin' like 800 miles to go until Austin, Screaming Females are humbly requesting some pagan prayers that we make it to Austin in time for our gig with Yellow Fever and Cowabunga Babes.

Written by Marissa
Sentiments perpetuated by her beautiful boy-friends

All Ages LA!

2010-05-21T18:16:00.002-04:00
Hey!

People have been asking about this one! It's going to be rad. Can't wait.

Just Added!!!
6/6 Echo Curio (all ages) Los Angeles, CA w/ Stoned At Heart (mem Underground Railroad To Candyland, Toys That Kill)

We are also playing the night before 6/5 @ Spaceland. Get tickets here - http://www.clubspaceland.com/?m=20100605&cat=2

-JD

In The Studio Documentary!

2010-05-19T00:24:00.003-04:00
Hey!

Don Giovanni Records posted an In The Studio Documentary about making our new record Castle Talk. It will be out in September 2010.

-JD

Spring Tour 2010

2010-05-17T13:33:00.002-04:00
Hey Everybody!!!

So psyched to head out on tour tomorrow! It will be our first cross country trip in over a year.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!! I know everybody out there has a blog and a twitter and a facebook, etc. Please RE-blog, RE-tweet and put a link to these tour dates in your facebooks. Post it up on your favorite message board. We don't have any new releases to celebrate on this tour. We are just coming to play because there are a lot of towns we haven't gotten to visit in a while and we want to come see all your pretty faces. So PLEASE post these dates or a link to these dates everywhere you can. It would mean a lot to us!

May 18 Modern Formations Gallery Pittsburgh, PA
May 19 The Summit Columbus, OH
May 20 Majestic Cafe Detroit, MI
May 21 Greek's Pizza Bloomington, IN
May 22 Empty Bottle Chicago, IL
May 23 Ski House Carbondale, IL
May 24 Huckelberry's Pizza Rock Island, IL
May 25 7th St Entry Minneapolis, MN
May 26 Gabe's Oasis Iowa City, IA
May 27 Replay Lounge Lawrence, KS
May 29 Hi Dive Denver, CO
May 30 Visual Arts Collective Boise, ID
Jun 1 The Funhouse Seattle, WA
Jun 2 Backspace Portland, OR
Jun 3 Thee Parkside San Francisco, CA
Jun 4 Hemlock Tavern San Francisco, CA
Jun 5 Spaceland Los Angeles, CA
Jun 6 TBA All Ages Los Angeles, CA
Jun 7 Che Cafe San Diego, CA
Jun 8 The Trunk Space Phoenix, AZ
Jun 10 Emo's Austin, TX
Jun 11 Big Magic Fest @ ACAC Little Rock, AR
Jun 12 Rocketown Nashville, TN
Jun 12 The End Nashville, TN
Jun 13 Secret Squirrel Athens, GA
Jun 14 Local 506 Chapel Hill, NC
Jun 18 Daniel Street Club* Milford, CT
Jun 19 SPACE Gallery* Portland, ME
Jun 20 Higher Ground* S Burlington, VT
Jun 21 Le Cerde* Quebec City, QC
Jun 22 Il Motore* Montreal, QC
Jun 24 Zaphod Beeblebrox* Ottawa, ON
Jun 26 Lee's Palace* Toronto, ON
Jun 27 Mohawk Place* Buffalo, NY
* = w/ Ted Leo and The Pharmacists

-jd