February 2012
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January 2012
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Ladyfest in the Phoenix
Liz Pelly interviewed the organizers, Amy Klein of Hilly Eye, and Ben. Read it all here.
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Playing a show and bowling in Brooklyn tonight
at The Gutter w/ Four Eyes, Parquet Courts, and Swearin’ for $5!
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Ladyfest Boston Comp + Send More Shorts Shots
Click this link to hear a great comp featuring bands playing at Ladyfest Boston in just a few weeks. We contributed “Big Machines” and there are offerings from local pals like Thick Shakes and Cotton Candy as well as out-of-staters like This Is My Fist, Tunabunny, and even Alice Bag. Hot shit! 2012 is looking pretty solid so far.
ALSO we still need pictures of your shorts for an...
December 2011
5 posts
FREE DOWNLOAD of "Big Machines" on Gimme Tinnitus
Click below to read our snappy answers to some insightful questions and to nab a free mp3 of one of the new tracks we put up for streaming yesterday, “Big Machines”
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NEW RECORDINGS: "Nothing Nice To Say"
Seasons Greetings, ladies and germs, We are VERY excited to share 4 NEW recordings, collectively called “Nothing Nice To Say”. They are streaming on our Bandcamp so why dontcha just cruuuuuise on over there, yeah?! Girlfriends - Nothing Nice To Say
Many many thanks to Erik and Emeen for their help in making this happen! Happy Holidays! -Andy
In the Boston Herald,
talking about cassettes some more along with our friends in Earthquake Party.
November 2011
3 posts
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w/ Crystal Stilts, Tanks Amigo, Leisure @ Great...
Hope everyone had a good holiday! Some of us ate too much, some of us drank too much, and Ben got engaged once and almost died twice. Decent long weekend all around.
We are finishing up some recordings right now, which will hopefully be released sooner than later. Until then, we are playing and planning some fun shows, starting tonight at Great Scott. You’ll be able to see us with fellow...
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w/ Scratch Acid tonight at the Paradise
Last-minute show! We’ll be opening for Scratch Acid at the Paradise tonight.
Info on the rest of their reunion tour here: http://pitchfork.com/news/43871-scratch-acid-announces-reunion-tour-the-jesus-lizard-announces-live-lp/
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All photos by Mary Lewey
October 2011
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Vote for us in the Boston Music Awards, or come...
Girlfriends has been nominated for Best Pop Rock Artist of the Year in the Boston Music Awards. To, visit www.bostonmusicawards2011.com
Also, Andy + Ben will join Zoe + Amer of Whir and their friend Laura for a Flatmates cover band at the Ladyfest Boston Riot Grrrl Halloween show. It’s happening Halloween night, Oct 31, at Charlie’s Kitchen and it’s only $5 (all proceeds go to...
Help Supriya get back to playing the bass!
You guys may have noticed that we’re taking a little break from shows for the time being. That’s because our bassist, Supriya, recently had a giant cell tumor removed from her left palm. She is lucky to be insured (go Massachusetts!), but between huge copays and the unpaid time off she needs to recuperate, she’s ended up in a financial rut. We’re trying to help her raise...
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South Shore Plaza tomorrow, Charlie's Monday,...
Sooo tomorrow we’re playing a FREE, all-ages show at the Braintree Newbury Comics in the South Shore Plaza as part of their “Nevermind” 20th Anniversary celebration. Seriously. Mark Lind (ex-Ducky Boys) will be playing a bunch of Nirvana songs with the Unloved right after us, too. Someone call 12-year-old me and let him know I finally made it!
On MONDAY we’ll be at...
September 2011
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Tonight w/ Vivian Girls + Widowspeak
At Great Scott! Doors are at 8 and we’re on first, so y’know, chop chop
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Tonight w/ You, Me, & Us, Aye Nako, Four Eyes,...
The show tonight at STARLAB is still happening: YOU, ME, & US are on tour from CA, AYE NAKO are coming up from NYC, and our local pals FOUR EYES and new pals FREE PIZZA are playing as well. 5 bucks, starts at 8—we’ll be finishing off the evening, wrapping up in time for you to catch the T. Come out and support this all-ages, DIY venue and these awesome touring bands!
Starlab was robbed! Please repost.
PLEASE REPOST: Hey friends, Starlab was broken into last night. Both of Stephen Konrads’s guitars were stolen (a fireglo Rickenbacker 360 and a brown Fender Telecaster ‘69 Thinline with a pearl pickguard) along with both of Wayne’s basses (a sunburst Fender Jazz Bass with pick-up covers and a natural finish Rickenbacker 4003). Also, Chris Duggan’s black Gibson Les Paul and...
August 2011
7 posts
Tonight w/ Male Bonding, Love Inks
at Brighton Music Hall. I think it’s going to be great.
This Has Been A Disaster - Thanks For Having Us:... →
thishasbeenadisaster:
EPISODE THREE (MP3 DOWNLOAD LINK)
Episode Three is a wonder of messy topics and narrow escapes from various pickles. Chris Brokaw talks to us about foreign policy, tiger balm, and pancakes with GG Allin. Happy Birthday is sung. Ben Potrykus shares the heartwarming tale of punk…
In case you missed Ben talking at This Has Been a Disaster, Thanks for Having Us #3!
Weekend of 1,000 (three) Shows: Brooklyn,...
The w33k3nd cometh:
Tonight (8/5) we’ll be at Fort Useless in Brooklyn w/ Gospel Gossip from MN and Clouder.
Then tomorrow (8/6) we’ll be driving back to Boston to play StarlabFest ‘11 with Movers & Shakers, Spirit Kid, Ramming Speed, Fedavees, Earthquake Party, and more. It’s cheap and they’ll be FREE BEER + BBQ. Hard to fuck with that.
Directly after that...
July 2011
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Ben at Toad in Cambridge tonight for This Has Been...
Thanks for Having Us. He will be talking about “some or all of the following: methed-out rappers, drug dealers named Sonic, strippers with braces, Crack Owl, fighting mallcore by making out with punk dudes, and kicking holes through walls.”
Also discussing their tour disasters with Steve Almond and Ryan Walsh will be Chris Brokaw and Amy Correia. Orion Rigel Dommisse is the musical...
@ The Pill (Great Scott) tomorrow night, Ben...
Hey hey,
We will be hitting the Pill tomorrow night at Great Scott. Ken and Michael V DJing Britpop and modern indie, cool drinks, $5 cover. Should be pretttttty fun.
Also, Ben will be speaking between Chris Brokaw and Amy Correia at the third installment of This Has Been a Disaster, Thanks for Having Us, a live show and podcast recorded at Toad in Porter Sq.
That’s all for now!
Silent Barn got robbed! DONATE plz halp
Silent Barn got robbed! $15k worth of gear gone, the whole place wrecked. This is a great space w/ cool shit going on + an unpretentious attitude (Rare, OOP). They have been super welcoming to us + other Boston folks + they’re going to need a lot of help to get back on their feet. I highly recommend giving what you can.
Click here to go to their Kickstarter page.
Shows Added: Hilly Eye, The Pill, StarlabFest,...
Put some real good shows on the show page.
Later this month we’ll be at Matchless in Brooklyn w/ Hilly Eye (Amy Klein of Titus Andronicus) and Mail the Horse, then we’ll be back in Boston for legendary dance nite The Pillllllllllllllllll.
Early next month, we have a marathon saturday the 6th, playing the Starlabfest BBQ (w/ Movers & Shakers, Spirit Kid, Ramming Speed, etc etc)...
June 2011
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Andy on drums for Colleen Green tonight, only June...
Andy’s playing drums for Colleen Green tonight at this (clicky). Heavy Cream and Nikki Romanzce are also playing—should be awesome.
Also, Girlfriends is playing its only show this whole month at Death By Audio this Thursday with Tall Firs and The House Floor. There will also be three short plays. Details here.
Seeee yooooo latrrrrr
May 2011
4 posts
Silent Barn in Brooklyn tonight, Great Scott on...
We’ve got two shows bookending this holiday weekend in NYC and Boston, and we’re pretty excited for both.
First, we’ll be heading to Brooklyn tonight to play Silent Barn as part of Shark?’s record release show. The Sleepies will also be playing, and there will be sets by DJs Meryl Street, Francis Ferguson, and Jodie Foster. Sounds good to me! More event info here (and on...
Show tonight! Whir, Gold-Bears (Slumberland),...
WHIR is on at 9! GOLD-BEARS’ record came out on Slumberland Records yesterday! REPORTS are awesome! Don’t sleep!
How Was Canada? / Milky Way Tonight
Too lazy to update this week, but we had such a good time in Canada that I couldn’t get right into tonight without mentioning it.
On the way up, we saw a bunch of flooding that came right up to the roadside.
In Ottawa we played with RAT TALES, who were awesome. We also saw skateboarding in the kitchen,
Once music started, the fog machine did too,
along with silly string, beer, and...
April 2011
5 posts
Heading North for the Spring: Ottawa and Montreal...
Girlfriends’ You Don’t Know Her, She’s From Canada MicroTour kicks off tomorrow:
Saturday the 30th we’ll be in OTTAWA, hanging out with members of the Canadian GIRLFRIENDS (RIP). It’s been a long time coming, but we are real excited to be playing with Nigel and friends as they debut their new band, RAT TALES at the #1 FLORA (RIP) eviction kegger:
Then on Sunday,...
Interview in the Weekly Dig this week, 7" release...
Hilary at The Weekly Dig was nice enough to interview us for this week’s issue. Paper copies are all over Boston, or you can read online at DigBoston.com
Aaaaaand TONIGHT is the night our new 7” officially comes out. We’ll have copies of both the black and limited green vinyl editions over at the Middle East, where Whir, NYC UFOs, and Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion...
THIS WEEK: 7" release show, Record Store Day Black...
Firstly, thanks to Aimee and everyone at WHRB/Record Hospital for having us over at the Democracy Center this weekend. I hope you guys all got RHF CDs, posters, etc and donated some money to the relief efforts in Japan!
We have a busy week ahead. THURSDAY, 4/14 we’ll be at The Middle East Upstairs, celebrating the release of our new 7” with our friends in Whir (Aurora7 pals), NYC...
Record Hospital Fest Tonight & Tomorrow
We play tomorrow with our friends in Weed Hounds, Four Eyes, and many more!
March 2011
9 posts
We Made It Back!
Where’d I leave off? I was writing from Plano, TX, where some of Jen’s relatives put us up in their cozy house and fed us and let us sleep in beds. We visited a Polish deli the next day that we found accidentally. Their smaks were legendarny. We played at this place called the Wherehouse in Fort Worth that night, before heading to Austin. The Wherehouse was really something. It was...
Made it to Texas!
We’ve been having a great time rolling down the East Coast, (hitting Queens, DC, Asheville, and Memphis in the process) but those 8-10 hour drives don’t leave much time for full-length blog posts. Now that we’re officially in the Lone Star State, I figured I’d pause for a second to recap.
Every show has been a lot of fun, and we’ve played with some excellent bands...
New 7" out now on Black Bell Records
Hey friends,
SURPRISE! We’ve got a new 7” out now on Black Bell Records. It’s got two songs: “Cave Kids” b/w “Eat Around the Bad Parts” and you can buy it on translucent green or black vinyl at the BBR webstore. You can also stream it on our BandCamp page and read Ayad’s post about it on the label blog. Many thanks to Ayad, Ben C, Jerry, and Coco...
First SXSW show announced (Klub Krucial w/ DOM,...
The Boston Phoenix/Great Scott/Pirate Promotions just announced their “First Contact” showcase, happening at Klub Krucial the Wednesday of SXSW. Show starts at noon and we’ll be playing alongside DOM and Eugene Mirman, among others. It’s FREE, but you have to RSVP here: http://firstcontact.eventbrite.com/ More SXSW events TBA!
