In Brief: Our Unannounced Hiatus

Hey there, Squeamies!  This has pretty much been our longest break without a post, but we have been disgustingly busy uprooting our headquarters from the Roxborough location where we started to our new, more spacious digs down here on the East Falls/Germantown border.  So, sorry that we abandoned y'all without a the courtesy of a simple note to let you know where we were going, but we are back.  We have a inspired story that we are working on that will be posted in the next couple of days--it's one of our most super favorite ever!  Plus, we are going to add a whole buttload of events to the calander--lots of things coming up that you should check out.  Keep your eyes peeled and click on that bookmark this weekend. 

In the meanwhile, we have a show for you kids to attend that we shamefully just became aware of this morning.  Direct Hit!, those unhinged pop punksters from Milwaukee (Algonquin for "the Good Land" and the only major American city to elect three socialist mayors) are playing the Cracker Factory here in Philly, Tuesday the 9th.  Come and help them celebrate the release of Domesplitter, their first full length.  Made up of re-recorded versions of their extensive demos, Hit! is back as a streamlined trio (with guests on some tracks).  The Cracker Factory is a house show, so you have email the fine folks at Dead Industry to get the addy.  If you can't make it out to the performance to purchase it in person, do yourself a favor and pick up the record from Kind of Like Records for only 10 bucks, or you can download it using the name your price option.  Have fun and be safe if you are venturing out to the Cracker Factory!  We love you!
Fuck you!  Get Pumped!
 

Dead Industry
Direct Hit!
Direct Hit!  Bandcamp (for download)
the Cracker Factory  
Kind of Like Records

In Brief: Night Birds

We are pleased to introduce a new feature here at I Hope You're not Squeamish. "In Brief" will cover items that, while we may not go into as much detail as our normal features, deserve more than a link on the right. So, without further ado...

Those handsome and fearless gentlemen in Night Birds have been kind enough to release a track from their upcoming debut full length record. Fresh off the heels of the popular Draw the Night Birds Naked Contest, "Landfill Land" is one hot tamale. Clocking in a less than two minutes, it's a crash course in hardcore surf punk and is probably pretty representative of their expected-sooner-rather-than-later album the Other Side of Darkness. Keep your eyes peeled for it in the not too distant future on Grave Mistake Records. Also, these lunatics have decided to play a show at the Asbury Lanes and do the new record front to back, along with several other Jersey bands that are going to do the same thing. This is all ages at a bowling alley, so you definitely want to be there. For those of you not in the Jersey/Philly/NYC triangle, you too are in luck 'cause the Birds are out there sleazing it up on the Escape From New York tour, so check that shit out. We can't get off Night Birds' jock these days, but Fuck You, Surf Rules.



Night Birds
Grave Mistake Records
the Asbury Lanes