All Tomorrow's Parties, April Edition

Dear Fan,

April is a great month in Boston. The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, the sun comes out sometimes, and despite the balmy weather, garbage day still doesn't smell so bad.

Therefore, there is absolutely no excuse for you to miss one of our upcoming shows. We're playing all over town this month, so if you can't get off your lazy butthole and make it out for a single show, well, we're gonna call your mom. We're gonna tell her how much booze you've been drinking, that you haven't cut your hair in sixty months, AND that you refuse to wear the deodorant she sent you. She even went out of her way to get the Tom's of Maine because she heard hippies like it. Do you really want us to make your momma cry?

Don't be angry. We do this because we love you, and we wanna give you a good time. We're also playing with AMAZING lineups. Here they be:

FRIDAY, APRIL 20 (that's 4/20 maaan): @ PA's with Tough Shits (Philly, on Burger Records, and incredible), White Pages (serious punk rock nuggetmakers), and Explanets. $8, 8:30, 21+. RSVP

SUNDAY, APRIL 22: @ What We Talk About (Allston DIY space, ask a punk) with all our friends!!!! Bozmo (tour kickoff!), Gary B & the Notions (Baltimore), and Dirty Virgins (they gotta new 7" out). 8pm, $?, any age'll do. RSVP

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25: **Rock v Wade: Planned Parenthood Benefit** @ Emerson College Cabaret with Slutever (Philly) and Pineries. $5-10 donations, 9pm sharp, any age'll do. RSVP.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26: @ Lorem Ipsum Books (aka best bookstore in Boston) with Slutever, Gushers, and Tropical Punk (TN). $5-10 donation, any age'll do, 9pm. Bring extra ca$h for book$.

Some say this is too many local shows for one week. We say, MYOB!

"you'll have to go through me to get to her"

Knocked Up and Knocked Out

Dear Readers,

I'd like to say I'm sorry we got knocked outta the Rumble, but I'm not. WHY? Cuz we made some amazing friends, saw some awesome bands, and people who had never even heard of us were practically forced to watch us. Plus, I was birthed from an evil RobotMom on stage. The people who got it, got it. The people who didn't looked confused. It's only when you're hated that you know you're truly loved.

Read about our exploits here and here and a trifle here. Congrats to our buddies Motherboar, Cask Mouse, The Rationales, and Thick Shakes for advancing! Streight Angular - glad to be on the same Freak Page.

"sayonara, shitheads!"

2012 Rock N Roll Rumble

TOMORROW NIGHT! Thursday @ TTs we are playing Night #4 of ye olde Rock 'N' Roll Rumble with Cask Mouse, Never Got Caught and Parlour Bells.  

The whole night should resemble something like this...

We got on at 11:45ish, but come early becausssseeeee OTHER BANDS ARE COOL

annnnnddd we got tapes!

Thanks to Stimulation Addict Records, Volumes 1 + 2 are now on one convenient tape.  Choose from 3 colors!  Come early cause these suckers are gonna fly.  

Or you could just go use the internet to get your very own. HERE

SEE YOU AT TTs TOMORROW NIGHT. FAGETTES, PRIVATE EYE. WE HAVE SURPRISES.

Springtime for Fagettes

Ryan's back from SF and we're celebrating BIG TIME. Birthday parties, campfires, dancing to Harry Nilsson, time travel, Emeen Zarookian, all the beers. I know five livers that were real cranky today! 

Good times ahead, including a slot in the 33rd Annual Rock n' Roll Rumble - follow on Facetome. We'll be competing on Thursday, April 4 at TT's with Cask Mouse, Never Got Caught, and Parlour Bells. RSVP here, tickets here.

We're gonna go wild. 

Somebody put something in my drink

Video: When I'm With You

We have here, for your viewing pleasure, a video of nostalgic proportions.

 

The Fagettes - When I'm With You

16mm color, 2012

thefagettes.bandcamp.com/

In the summer of 2011, The Fagettes toured the west coast of the USA with Rotten Apples in a 6.5 ton military truck dubbed "The Deuce and a Half". The film, shot with a Bolex Rex-4, captures these ruffians from Los Angles to San Francisco to Portland to Olympia to everywhere in between and back again.

True Allston Rock N' Roll Romance at its best.

"The sunny montages on top of the cheery “ah, ah, ah-ah” refrain suck even the non-romantics in a whirlwind of nostalgia." says The DIG!

"a lovely, Hipstamatic/Instagram looking thing that wasn’t shot with either of those modern conveniences" says Boston Band Crush.

Thanks, web dudes!

Things are Happening

Hope y'all are "swelve" in twenty-twelve.  In case ya didn't know, we Fagettes are on a live-show-hiatus til Ryan returns from SF in March. If you're hanging around the hills of San Fran, make sure to pay him a visit. Remind him of all the East Coast bad-itude awaiting him on yonder shore.

Regardless, you'll be happy to hear we've been working our dirty buttholes off mixing our next two Top-40 hits!!! These are gonna be good. Trust me. I have a blog.

Also, Peaches is near completion on the first ever FAGETTES MUSIC VIDEOOOO. Featuring: men in dresses, women with armpit hair, grease, booze, and a 6.5 ton military truck.

Keep your ear to the ground and your eye on the ball and your head in the game. See ya soon.

New Years Roundups

Well, lots of stuff has happened so far this year...

We drank, we smoked, we played, we partied, we had our car busted into, our stuff stolen, etc.  The usual New Years shenanigans.

Some New Years Roundups:

Piecing Together New Year's Eve at O'Brien's Pub from The Phoenix

The Morning After: Weekend Hangover Edition from Dig Boston

And lastly an awesome review of our Volume 2 from Impose Magazine

Post Script, We are pretty much all done recording some new jams, so be on the lookout in the future for some 2012 Fagettes Jamz.

Finishing up we have a new song called Moonshine Fever that we finished right before the show

Hello, 2012

2011, we will kill you if we see you again.

Photos, Mick Murray

A NEW YEAR, NEW THINGS

FELLOW HUMANS!

The END is NIGH

Tomorrow night at O'Briens, we're ringing in the new year with Earthquake Party, New Highway Hymnal, and a DJ set by Liz Pelly.

Expect surprises.  Expect dancing.  Expect cosmic afterbirth.

Show starts at 9pm.  Here is a fancy Facebook thing.

And on ANOTHER note, we are on Facebook for the third (until we get kicked off again) time.

MAD MAX USA in Allston this Saturday

This crazy ol' country just keeps getting more nutty! Poor Alabamans with no access to fresh water? Tourist "chokeslammed" by cops for dancing in the Jefferson Memorial? How about this doozy: authorities will soon be given the right to break into your home and detain you indefinitely without charge or trial!

Anyways, Constitution, Schmonstitution. That ol' rag - let's just toss the whole deal and settle into MAD MAX USA on Highgate St this Saturday night. We'll sharpen our knives, we'll tan our leathers, we'll go hogwild dancing to the tunes of  The Connection , us (duh), and one more TBA! 

For as long as our amps get power, let's stick it to this shit show, k?

photo courtesy of RAINBOWBOMB by M. Bernier, R. Riehle, and B. Waters.

Allston Pudding, Thrash n' Bang Indicate Rise in Fagettes' Yeast

Allston Pudding did us a great huge big ol' act of kindness by including us in their Late Fall 2011 Mix Tape. This collection highlights some serious talent coming out of Allston and surrounding hoods. "Like" the puddin' peeps on Thee Tome of Faces and get the download! Free!

Features: Viva Viva, Carousel, Johnny Appleseed, Bodega Girls, Old Abram Brown, Fat History Month, Magic Man, Secret Jones, Young Adults, Dean Swift, The Fagettes, Faces on Film, Streight Angular, Renzo, Oldjack, Pajama People, PONCHOS, Movers & Shakers

In other news, local punk/metal purveyors Thrash n' Bang published a review of Volume 1 and 2. A review so kind, in fact, I have doubts about its legitimacy. Kidding. We love you dudes. We just need to learn how to love ourselves. 

Two shows this weekend

I've been gearing up to play a show in Worchester since my early days as a teenage punk rat. I'd ride out of Connecticut with anyone old enough to have a license and head east to the Palladium. I'd swoon over the most important bands of my 14-year-old world: The Dedication, There Were Wires, Motorhead, whatever. I'd flirt with guys waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too old for me. I'd mosh and get my head stepped on. It was exciting, uncomfortable, sweaty, stimulating, lusty, naive, and the best thing ever. 

So you can imagine how pumped I am to finally play this "metropolis" of my younger years. It's at an awesome venue, it's with really cool bands, and it's gonna be rowdy. 

Friday December 2nd at Ralph's Diner with The Jitters Radio Control Cooling Towers 

RSVP 

But wait, there's more! In another first for us, we're playing Precinct this Saturday. Union Square is really killing it these days, so make it down.

Saturday December 3rd at Precinct with Hands and Knees Diamond Mines Yoni Gordon

RSVP

photos by David Peaches Goodrich

Thanksgot a new album out today. Thanksget to a cool show.

Our live set from WMBR's Pipeline! is now an album and it's out. OUT. OUT. All the old standards you know and maybe like done in live raucous glory, plus some new(er) songs and a cover!

ALSO! this Sunday at Church: playing a show with our brothers and sisters in youthful garage rebel sounds, the New Highway Hymnal and the Dirty Virgins! Come be part of the family you don't have to hide your drinking problem from. Facebook.

Don't ever say no to her

Radio, photos from Daykamp

Dear Daykamp, thanks for loving us more than our mothers.

Love, 

The Fagettes

More photos from Daykamp Music at the link above