Nowhere Band News

I have not ever done this, but god knows there have been lots of times I’ve wanted to.

Also: somehow, I guess this is the 1-year anniversary of Nowhere Band. Huh. It doesn’t seem that long, but that’s pretty cool. Lots of ups, lots of downs (the biggest down being the stretch from about #5 to #10-ish when I was really struggling with a move to a different computer/scanner system). All in all, I guess I’m pretty happy with the way things have moved in the first year, and really it’s probably completely in character that The Awesome Boys have managed not to play a “real” show during that whole time.

Aaaaand speaking of real shows… my band, Derailleur, actually has one! Sept. 12 at the Bedlam Theater in Minneapolis. Details here.

As we often do, Rebecca and I watched another movie we used to like and determined that, well, Tom Hanks is probably happy that people have mostly forgotten his early comedies.

Josh has some worries about the stability of the band. Is he justified? Read and judge for yourself!

Not much in the way of direct liner notes… Intraband relations are always complicated, and the Awesome Boys aren’t any different.

As for the numbering change, yeah, I’m correcting for the a/b/c thing I used to use for extended storylines, which was throwing off the numbers.

Peanuts fan fiction. Jesus fucking Christ, people. Jesus fucking Christ.

I mean, seriously. Kill this shit with fire.

Wow. If you need me, I’ll be in the corner with a bottle of bourbon and a Bowie knife.

One last gasp on the covers discussion. The Boys are wrestling with something I still see a lot of, to my puzzlement and amusement: the Replacements still cast a long, long shadow up here. When I was a music writer a couple of years ago, every local band I interviewed, without fail, would mention the Replacements, even if it was just to say that they see part of their mission as getting the Twin Cities music scene out of the Replacements rut. If one band says something like that, it doesn’t mean much, but when everybody does, it gets kind of interesting. Anyway, the vast majority of Minnesota bands do seem to go through at least a very short phase where they see themselves as the heirs to the ‘Mats, either in sound or in work ethic (IE, “we’re so talented that we don’t need to practice, so let’s get FUCKED UP”).

To be honest, I like the Replacements a lot, but I always kind of preferred Husker Du. And yet nobody compares themselves to them. Weird.