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5/10/04 We've got lots of new stuff in the works. A covers album will be out very very soon on Underadar with artwork by Brent from Magic Bullet. We've also got a collection of ALL of our early stuff from 1995 - 1997 or 1998 that will be put on a double-disc set. That will also be out soon, but not quite as soon as the covers album. Save up and buy them from us. 4/29/04 Here's a story from Tradd about being a catcher in a baseball league when he was little. If you don't think this is funny, then we have nothing to discuss. Don't EVER come back to this site. Tradd
the Catcher The story goes like this: Coach relieved Micheal from catching duty for reasons unbeknownst to me. Michael walks towards the dugout and the coach tells me to get out there. Right before I left he goes "Wait! Are you wearing a cup?" I said "No". So he tells Michael to give me his. Michael then stuck his hand down his pants and emerged with a sweaty, white, plastic cup. He handed it to me, and I reluctantly took it. As Momma taught me, I should never sit down on a public toilet seat without making a wreath for fear of catching a venerial disease. So I sure as hell wasn't about to stick a USED sweaty cup on top of my parts. I stuck the cup in my baggy baseball pants on TOP of my underwear. As long as I was in the crouching position it was fine. But the pitcher started going haywire effectively forcing me to run around. The cup started to slide down my leg. After a bit I called time out and told the ump I had to run to the bathroom. I was embarrassed that the cup had slid down my leg, but didn't want anyone to notice. As I started to discreetly walk towards the bathroom my coach yells out to the umpire "What's going on?". The ump yells back "Your catcher's cup fell out!". It was a Saturday a.m. game which meant the stands were as full as they were ever gonna get. Everyone knew what was up. That day sucked. It happened like 20 years ago and I still remember it like yesterday. 4/29/04 Current
playlists: 3/24/04 Hehehehehehehe. This is only appropriate, cuz this is the way i would describe Black Dice. Except I would also mention about how the Black Dice paid their publicist to talk about what a violent and crazy live show they have (which they absolutely DO NOT-they fucking stand there, twiddling knobs). But I digress.... What goes around comes around, right? Current
playlists: Dude, it's starting to look like we're media victims, judging by our tastes. 3/11/04 After some serious deliberation, I have decided that the new Liars album IS fucking bad ass. And shit, BAD WIZARD are still the fucking kings. That's some real deal shit right there. Recently they've been playing some new songs that fucking kill. If every band was as bad ass as them, there would be nothing to worry about, ever. Everybody listen up: I need a new job. I live in NYC, and my co. got sued by Microsoft, so now I'm fucked. My unemployment doesn't even cover my rent each month, so I'm about to hit panic mode.I seriously DO NOT want to wait tables, so if you have any other ideas, email me. I am a web designer by trade, but I'm willing to do just about anything. Don't be fooled by this site, cuz Tradd and I made this shit like 4 years ago. Hook me up! 2/28/04 2/3/04 Want
a funny story to go with your fat ass? Here's one: Tradd and Danny came
up to NYC two weeks ago to see Iron Maiden. Before the show, we go to
hang up a couple of fliers for the NYC show at CBGB's. That place is such
a shit hole, and you can't find any fucking space to hang even the smallest
flier. Then we see it--the hot spot right next to the front door. And
no one had even hung a flier or anything! Danny grabs the staple gun,
and just as he's about to nail the poster to the wall, you hear the door
girl shriek, "NOT ON JOEY'S FACE !!!!!" -- Danny was about to
nail a CAB flier over this big ass poster of Joey Ramone’s ugly
face. Right there in CBGB's. Sacrilege!! It was so unintended, and so
rude. We were fucking laughing our asses off. Ah, Danny, what won't you
do next? 1/9/04 Anyways, I looked down at her arm, and she had a tattoo of cherries, and underneath, in cursive writing, it said "bite me." This girl went from bad to worse, to worst of all. All within 30 seconds. 12/30/03 New interview up here. Type-o's compliments of Danny. Shows in February up and down the East Coast, as well as your ass. Anodyne, the Locust, Your Enemies Friends, Dillinger Escape Plan, etc. will be at select shows (at our discretion, of course). 10/13/03 Well, that's great, Bill. At least you got a copy. Maybe next time the bass player can get one, too. It's like pulling teeth! Anyways, I'm putting my grudge aside and going down to record yet another new e.p. this week. Underadar is putting it out, so god bless them. We will also be playing 3 shows. You miss them, you die. We're going to have all 7 members with us. Leave extra blood at the door. You'll need it when you leave. Check the here for info. 8/29/03 The split cd with Kylesa is going to be released on vinyl. 500 are going to pressed initially on gold vinyl. At A Loss Recordings will be doing the US version — we'll keep you posted on who is putting out the European version. Upcoming shows in October with Mastodon, Kylesa and Jucifer. Lovely. 08/03/03 Since
I live in the cesspool, NYC, I can't be down south for most of the good
times the other boys always have. One thing I miss is being the roadie
for our friends in the Motley Crue cover band, Dr. Feelgood. Most of team
cream are the "Crue Crew" (roadies). Here's what Derek had to
say about the last Dr. Feelgood show: 07/14/03 Ian just had a birthday. If you didn't get him drinks or drugs then you are lame. If you did, he probably just puked them up later anyway, so don't sweat it. 06/13/03 Shows for June cancelled. See below. If you haven't seen us yet, you lose. 06/12/03 06/11/03 In the mean time, the newest split with Teen Cthulu is being mastered and art will be done soon. Then you can get your hot little hands on one. 05/09/03 Remeber that bullshit war thing last month? Yeah, that one. The one where our president decided that we should blast the shit out of some country that he intends to ruin for personal reasons. Hopefully you joined a protest march against it, wrote your president/ senator/ congressional rep. some letters or called them, or at least signed some petions showing your dissent for it. In the wake of all the trauma, we are witnessing a hail-storm of assaults on our civil and environmental rights, blah blah blah. You've all heard this before, but the shit is happening for real. Keep your ears pricked, b/c our president's push is moving way past John Ashcroft-privacy invasion and is now in the process of turning back civil rights even futher. Don't believe the media hype that disagreeing with our top politicians is unpatriotic -- it is probably the most pro-American thing you can do. Check this link, sign the petition. Tell your reps. you aren't down with bigotry and treating small sections of the US population as second class citizens. Do it for you gay uncle. 05/04/03 Playboy
is asking you to vote for the sexiest indie rock chick. Choose from Amber
Valentine (Jucifer), Ida No (Glass Candy), Michelle Mae (Make-Up, Scene
Creamers), Chan Marshall (Cat Power), and more. My fave is Ida No, but
if anyone remembers digging through their dad's (or mom's) Playboys when
they were little, they will probably vote for W.I.T. because they got
the look and it will give you sexual recall. 04/23/03 Danny
asked me if I liked the Fischerspooner show I saw the other night, so
here is my response to someone else who also asked me the same question.
This just confirms what David and Sandy (who live in NYC) have been saying
all along. If
you ever meet some cool electro kid that tries to pump their live shit,
punch him/her in the face b/c you know the truth. They suck. The singer
(read: lip syncher) was naked and posing his muscles off at the end of
the show. Sooo bad. This shit is trying to ape Cher or Madonna and failing
miserably. Underground my ass, this shit is low-budget mainstream knock-off
shit.>> 04/07/03 We also have our split release with Teen Cthulu coming out soon on Hyperrealist. This shit's gonna rule. You should stay tuned, because my bass refuses to. I saw the Scene Creamers Friday night. That's a fucking band! They did this one song, and Ian Svenonius had some bullshit talking like "you paid twice tonight -- once with your money, and second with your time. Because they say time is money." You know how that fool gets going. Anyways, throughout that song, he kept checking his watch, like he had to be somewhere. My shit was rolling on the floor cuz it was so funny. Later the band busted into the song "session man". It's about being a session musician, so Ian starts ranting and at one point he says some shit like "I got room for you on track 24." Random as fuck. That dude had me in tears. I was laughing so hard. Pluse he had all the dance moves. And his hair was bigger than my apartment. So big. I love that dude. 04/02/03 We all have our own versions of what happened. Mine goes like this:I punched the shit out of Little Mark when he wouldn't stop fucking with me. I bruised his head and left a knot. Then I fell off the stage and hit some poor dude with the butt of my bass really fucking hard. I also stepped on everyone's fingers that were in the front. Fuck em. They shouldn't even own fingers. Throughout both shows, I did manage to keep my undies intact, thank you. My goggles were lost, though. Derek was bleeding so bad by the end of the set Friday, his chest looked like GG Allin. Come to think of it, Derek looks a lot like GG Allin all the time. What a lame ass. I don't condone public bleeding at all, but at least Derek is responsible with his blood. He always uses a fresh, unshared needle when shooting up. God bless him. He also works for the Republican party of Florida. God help him. After the show Friday, we went to Danny and Sandra's and freaked out partying. Kylesa's roadie, Peter, fell asleep on Danny's floor and got "morning wood" before the party was even over. His cock was sticking out of his pants right there on the ground. Everyone saw it. He also had a pink SLAYER shirt. That dude fucking rules. He should move up to NYC with me, and show these clowns up here how it's done. We happened to play both nights with excellent bands: such a rarity in any scene. Friday saw the return of Spirex, this time with our very own J-Piece rocking drums. Those two shits (Jason and Glen) are loud as fuck, and have been sorely missed over the past four years. Kylesa killed the clubs both nights. Goatwhore's singer mesmerized with his fingers, Circle Takes the Square blew the speakers. Shit was right on. If anyone bitches that there are no good bands anymore, they probably live in NYC, where no good bands exist anyways. Well, no good bands besides LIARS and BAD WIZARD. The rest suck. All the good bands are from down south. 03/11/03 I just finished reading a book ("Tales of a Go-Nowhere Punk Band", or something like that) by John Resh, who used to be in that band SPOKE. The book was okay, meaning that if you've been in a punk band in similar circumstances, you would like it. Otherwise, don't bother. One chapter was solely about Tommy Hamilton. He's the guy who recorded our first few releases. The book described how great of a guy Tommy was for being such an easy guy to record with. I concur. If anyone knows Tommy, read that chapter in the book. Shit was funny as fuck. Tommy rules. New CD is out. Shows at the end of the month will be jammin', rasta. 01/08/03 Laying low isn't exactly right. We have been working on the band. We had to re-do and re-define our split with Kylesa. Any day now, that shit will be out like Tradd in 1997. Speaking of Tradd, he's been putting the finishing touches on the B-side of our new 7" to be released by Hyperrealist. Pat was gracious and gave us the money, so we're doing our part to give him our finest quality music. I'm sure you will all be pleased. Creative
Loafing listed their top shows in Atlanta for 2002. CAB was in the list
along with Dolly Parton. This is what they said: By the way, we never told you how much fun we had playing with Melt Banana around the South way back in November. Those ladies and gents are fine creatures, and showed us a swell time. One of the best live bands around, easily. Although they didn't drink and drug with us quite as much as we would've hoped, they blew the shit outta the clubs every night, so we don't hold it against them. Plus, they had funny stories about Buzzo. 10/17/02
09/18/02
Tradd sent me copies of the new 3-1-G comp. The Flash cover by the Locust fucking RULES. On an unrelated note, I'm craving sweet tea, so if anyone has a way to ship SONNY'S sweet tea by mail, while maintaining the freshness, then get in touch with me. I'm in trouble here. Thank you. 09/10/02
If I hear any of you punk rock dumb fucks talking shit about "hope it happens again this year", I'm going to rip out your throat. You've got no brain, and it shows. I'll beat your stupid ass for talking shit. Go tell a dead man's kid that they got what they deserved you insensitive asshole. Go buy yourself a heart with all of your fucking money, you spoiled suburban brat. 08/29/02
Oh
yeah, a new interview is up with Danny at BreakingBoundaries.net 08/27/02
We made WKDU's top 10 for the first half of 2002. Go here to see the list. Cool new shit (for me anyway) I've been listening to: Milemarker "Satanic Versus" e.p., The Blood Brothers singles comp, a Q and Not U e.p., the Cursive "Burst and Bloom" e.p., Love Life, Party of Helicopters "Mt. Forever", and a really cool Lush singles/b-sides comp put out only in Canada. The new Bright Eyes is pretty good, but not as good as "Fevers and Mirrors". Derek probably agrees with me on that one, don't you Derek? I decided Andrew W.K. sounds exactly like Meatloaf mixed with Twisted Sister but with Def Leppard "Hysteria" production tricks. The Locust's version of "Flash's Theme" on the 31G comp fucking kills it - I play it for my coworkers everyday. They love it. I tried to get the new Gogogo Airheart from No Idea mailorder, but that shit was sold out. Good thing they didn't fucking send me some Black Dice shit as a replacement - I would've killed them. Did anyone get the new Weird War album yet? 08/15/02 I turned around at one point while we were playing CBGB's. Derek is hanging from the rafters. It looked funny, cuz Derek is all crazy and shit. Next thing I know, he's standing on his amp, rocking the scene. Actually it was a backline amp with his head on it that he was standing on. A second later the keyboard cuts out. I figure it's par for the course with our band. You know, thrashed gear always cutting out. But, when I turned around, I saw Derek still playing, and his amp (their amp) was destroyed and knocked over. Looked like a Nirvana show or something. The best part was later when I was talking to somebody at the merch table. She was like "yeah, you're keyboard player is pretty crazy, knocking over his amps like that, going crazy. That was pretty punk." So I tell Derek what the girl said and he was like "yeah, that was a total accident." The next night was the quintessential defining moment for our band. We played in West Virginia at a fucking ROLLER SKATING RINK! We actually played in the laser tag room. Team Cream got free skate rentals all night, so before and after we played, we were tearing up the skating rink. The Kid was by far the best skater out of all of us. He was rocking the dance floor beats with style. Awesome. The best part was at the end of the night, when all the little kids are skating around wearing our t-shirts with the "rivers of blood, years of darkness" or "do you fear for your child" slogans. These kids were like 9 and 10 years old. They did the final "speed skate" portion of the night with Cream blaring. It was by far the finest moment this band has ever had. When we got back to TLH, we recorded the new shit with Billy Anderson. He is fucking awesome. Top notch. He's the first guy we've ever recorded with who doesn't complain about the volume. I mixed the Cream side of the Mira split with Tommy and Little Mark from Mira in between the session with Mr. Anderson. Kudos to them for the help and pulling it all together. The 7" is out now, clear vinyl. If you catch Mira (they're on tour right now), you can get your hands on one. Also, the Kylesa / CAB split is being mastered as we speak at West West Side. It will be out in time for the upcoming Kylesa tour. It is the best shit we've done, and the unmastered shit sounds far superior to our Mastered shit in the past. Shows with Melt Banana coming up soon. Stay tuned. 07/03/02 Here's what good ole Tradd had to say:"Joshua, congrats on the TV. Derek and The Kid will no doubt be the golfers at your new country club, while Derek and I can go pose and flex and admire each other by the pool. David would do well to go bathe in that tanning booth. We've all seen how ghastly white NYC has made him. Or maybe Ian would like to go in it, and he and I can re-enact the scene from I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER when the killer tries to kill Jennifer Luv by trapping her in the tanning machine and turning in up on high. Didn't he know that sorority girls already have killer tans and that baking them more merely adds to the orange glow they so covet? What a douche bag." 07/01/02 06/26/02 Just got off a few days touring with the Cutthroats 9. It ruled, and we'd like to give a personal thanks to Mr. Chris Spencer for the Wet N' Wild tickets. He's down... Also, at a show in Birmingham, AL with Mastodon and High on Fire, Matt from High on FIre was a supreme being and went to bat on behalf of our band. The shithead promoter was dicking CAB around, not paying us, etc., and Matt took matters into his own hands and hooked us up. He's fucking awesome and so is his band. Thank you Matt. We are recording our new songs with Mr. Billy Anderson July 15-18. Billy has decided to be magnanimous with his time and record our lame shit. The songs will be used on a split with Kylesa, a 7" for Hyperrealist (pat from Passive Fist's new label), and the Mira split 7". With Billy at the helm, you know this will sound good. One funny tour story: We were at a "Tallahassee" party where occurences like throwing kegs around in the kitchen and people shitting in the bathtub are commonplace. I (David) was flipping around on a trompoline in the backyard, wasted, mind you. Next thing I know, I was flipping and see the grass coming at my face. I looked up a second later, and everyone is standing over me with horror looks. Fools said it looked like I broke my neck. Apparently I knocked out a few fools on the way down. Shit was like that Simpsons episode where they get the trampoline, and next thing you know, every kid in the neighborhood is tweaked and broken. Who else wants some.... 05/29/02 We've
played with Fukrot before, and they rule. Our version of Born Annoying
might annoy some who are looking for a straight up cover, but that's your
problem. We think it rules. If you don't like it, you're probably into
the Black Dice,and you can eat shit. 05/18/02 05/15/02 04/28/02 Notes from David's Underground: I missed the Black Dice and Rapture show the other night. I missed it on purpose, mind you. Rapture are cool, and they wear pointy shoes, so you know I'm down. But the fucking Black Dice were playing, and I'm not down for espousing crap like that. "Crazy live show" my ass. They stand there and tweak their pedals. Lame city. Fucking practice is what I would call it. And it's like watching practice for a shitty band, at that. If you like Black Dice, then you bought the lie: hook, line, and sinker. You're a pussy with no taste. Here's Tradd's discourse on indie rock, found on the bio page. If you don't think this is funny, then you're not a fucking Sanderson: I wrote this for my mom after she quoted Belle and Sebastian in an email to me. I called her the indie rock mom of the year and she asked what an indie rocker is. Right now, you may be asking yourself if you are on fucking Minty Fresh's website or something, what with all this cute random discourse. But I assure you, you aren't. By the way, my mom is a high school french teacher who once played The Make-Up's "Save Yourself" album for her students b/c she dug "I Am Pentagon". Quoth
the raven: "indie rock is a genre of music, like easy listening or
hard rock or classical. Except the tag "indie rock" implies
a disconnection with big corporations. Hence, independent or D.I.Y. So
instead of really describing a sound, it technically describes a band's
placement in the world of the music industry's capitalist structure. Technically
Cream Abdul Babar is an indie band, but we are not considered one in the
colloquial sense of the word b/c we are too heavy. The Make-Up is considered
indie rock. Indie rock's sound is generally low-fidelity, unpolished and
unrefined. Au naturale. And the only people that listen to it are the
hip, skinny, white and mellow underground kids. Do not confuse indie rockers
with art rockers. Indie rockers always look slack, and the art rockers
look like they are from NYC. Soon David will be looking like an art rocker." 04/06/02 Also: CAB is setting up recording dates and recording personnel for our upcoming splits with Mira and Kylesa. We suckered a few skinny white boys into doing some noise/drumnbass/glitch/whatever remixes for us too. Not sure what they will be like, but the people doing them aren't planning on using anything analog, if that helps. "Tijuana Donkey Ride/Attack Ships on Fire" and "Its Hard to Sue When You Are Laughing" will get the royal treatment. If we had a deal with GSL we could make a LAB series remix cd and sell it for $12 a pop. But since we don't, I guess you'll never hear them. Or maybe you will. Check our releases page for MP3s in the future. 03/27/02 Special thanks to Troy Sanders for hooking us up with a bunch of shirts and as usual, going above and beyond the call of the wild to bring you all some rock. Check our shows page for new listings. We got knocked off the Converge/Hatebreed tour b/c of Hatebreed. Fuck them up if you are unfortunate enought to see them. But we do have some shows with Dragbody coming up. As far as recorded music goes, next up is a cover of Mira's "Space". They are gonna cover "Todd Space is My Day Job" by us. Some pals from FL will be releasing it as a split 7". Then we record new songs for an upcoming split with Kylesa on At A Loss Recordings. We'll keep you posted on that one. Plus, there are a couple of comps floating around that I don't know when will come out. Fools is broke apparently. 03/06/01 Oh,
and if you live in Woodbridge, Virginia, print out this flyer
(in JPEG format) compliments of Gary. Then go see Karma Payment Plan's
site at http://listen.to/karmapaymentplan.
Then go to the show. 01/15/02 We have some upcoming shows. End of January/ early February will be a short tour with Dillinger Escape Plan and Darkest Hour. Then the month of March will suck us up the east coast -- to NYC and back. We are racking up reviews, interviews and ads in record numbers. Right. Heartattack, MRR and a few others already have ads for the new album running. Custom Heavy has been oh so polite and given us a good review, as well as an interview showcasing Danny's intellect. The media blitz is on. 12/04/01 11/20/01 I said AFTER YOU buy our new record. Thank you. 11/06/01 9/23/01 "The Catalyst to Ruins" artwork and master cd are en route to the press as we speak. Wait about 6 weeks or so, then go to At A Loss Recordings and order your own copy. Keep posted b/c upcoming live shows with Kylesa and Unpersons await... On a non-related note that you care nothing about: Tight Bros and Cherry Valence tour reviews from Tradd in ATL and David in NYC are in. David=so/so. Tradd=no Karp, but who cares? Tight Bros were FREAKING out. Ian Svenious' and Iggy Pop's spirits were with them that night. And their drummer rocked it like Animal from the Muppets. But Cherry Valence, in all its disjointed glory, stole the show. Good enough for me to plop down 12 clams for their album. Sloppy, hyper and crippled. !Viva la handicap rock! 9/1/01 Next up, the looong overdue new album "The Catalyst to Ruins" will officially be released by our pal Joshua at At A Loss Recordings (home of Meatjack, Damad, Icepick Revival, etc) by mid-Fall 2001. The songs are the best yet, go check out our "music" section here on the site for early versions of some of the songs. The streets will flow with the blood of the non-believers. 7/10/01 Shows have been scarce for the band as of late, but a fall tour should prove to be true. Are u a believer? Check the shows page for latest. A sidenote: have you seen how ugly the mouth of the bass player of the locust is? Do yourself a favor, and never look at it. 4/15/01 The
new album is already recorded, we're just waiting for the dust On
the horizon will be 2 new songs released on an upcoming complilations.
Also,
there will be a something coming out soon as a joint release between There is an interview with us in the latest edition of Big Bully, plus a lot of other interviews, etc. Check it out. |
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