The Slackers

vic gigs MIDWEST Feb
brrr...winter gigs

feb 11 ? Erie PA the BEER MUG (1108 liberty street in Erie pa.)
feb 12 cleveland COMMON GROUND all ages 6pm (THE EARLY SHOW)
feb 12 cleveland SPITFIRE (THE LATE SHOW) 10PM
feb 13 chicago EXIT 9.30PM
feb 14 Rockford, IL KRYPTONITE

northeast:
feb 23 jersey city, nj lucky 7's bar (changed from feb 2nd)

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Whadya know? Once inna blue moon everything just goes to total shit? Or everything works out? Or... ?
The hand of god appears of the scene and...
DEUS MACCHINA!
We are rescued from the sinking ship,
or lifted by our shirt collars and dropped straight in the jailhouse...
And the money is returned to its rightful owner,
The old lady in the shoe of course...
Makes the rent!
The kitties will not freeze!
And the angel grabs out of the very air the arrow
before Abraham Lincoln misses the apple completely
and so sacrafices his fattest lamb instead
To dance about the biblical stripper pole...
st john the baptist... head pleez!
Haha!
But no worries!
she eventually marries a basketball player with a burgeoning rap career...
...well somethin-somethin-happily-ever-somethin' anyway...
...somebody does.
Live that is...
...oil that is...
Black gold...
Jeb is movin on up
To the east side.
Well you can at least be guaranteed a 24 hr marathon of either the honeymooners or the twilite zone...
Aint that the truth....
Blue moon leaves me standing...
Without a dream in my heart...
Save us obama!
Help us baby Jesus new year!
St Anthony find my mind!
The pixies are asking, have they sold their soul?
Will they or not outlive dick Clark?
Dungeon master! Cast the 20 sided die and tell them if they detect magic...
One decade down!
Into the future i say!
Oh captain! My captain!
Dont look back!
They might be gaining on you...

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The Slackers show in Philadelphia has been moved to Monday because of the snow. The Slackers @ The Theater of Living Arts is now Monday!

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Let me start out by saying...thanks for all the support we've received over the year. Its really been an incredible run of gigs for us. Starting out with new years in San Francisco through to our most recent european tour, we really appreciate how people have continued to be there for the band.

We have gotten love, so we want to get it back.

What else can I say? We are here.
We kept gigging. We kept putting out new music.

So as we get ready to finish out the year with a southern trip thru texas, louisiana, and florida followed by east coast dates in Brooklyn and Philly....I just want to say thank you again.

In terms of releases, we began the year with a live DVD, Live at Flamingo Cantina, our favorite watering hole in texas (www.interpunk.com)

We also began a series of downloads of live shows that we are gonna continue on whatevski (www.whatevski.org). So far we have up our boat show from 2009, and 2009 Slackfest at the bowery ballroom.

On the vinyl front, we have put out self medication & afternoon in dub on vinyl (www.interpunk.com) plus just in time for Purim we got out the much delayed 45 of 'dreidel, dreidel.'

On the album front, we put out "Lost & Found" on Special Potato. Lost & Found is a compilation album of lost tracks, rarities, and alternate versions of favorites that we lovingly restored, edited, and polished over the summer.

Its available for mail order on www.interpunk.com (USA/Canada), www.phonocaster.com (europe), and on DISK UNION in Japan. You can also download it at www.whatevski.org
We also have it at our merch table on tour of course. :)

We have also not just been dwelling on the past, but we have been making new music as well. Just a month ago, we spent 4 days in the studio in Berlin and we laid down the basics for 25 tracks that will be culled down to form a new slacker studio album that will be released on Hellcat in 2010. This will be our first Hellcat release in 4 years, so we are looking forward to it.

In terms of touring for the first half of 2010, we have plans for a dc-virginia-north carolina run for january, some east coast dates in febuary, japan in march, california/arizona in april, and europe in may.

So yeah. We got a lot to be thankful for and a lot to look forward to. Thank you all again. See you out there.

Dave

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Hi everyone,

thanks for the support on the recent east coast gigs.

As we get ready for the next round of touring in canada and europe, I wanted to write to everyone about our latest release to be, "Lost & Found."

Lost & Found is a cd that I culled from our archives going back as far 1998. It includes rarities from back in the day, alternative versions of slacker's classics, and "new" songs that we just finished from basic rhythms that were not completed (it took 5 years for us to finish one of these tracks...that's slackin!)

So yeah, its a fun cd, new and old at the same time. But its all tracks that havent seen the light of day until right now! if you want to hear a blow by blow description of the tunes and hear a new mp3 go to www.myspace.com/theslackers

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