04/09/2007
Yes. There's a pulse. We booked a show so like the great Jay-Z, we're
back.
All the typical things that come with being in a band has slowed us
down a bit.
Line-up changes, new jobs, big debt and writing new songs. All things
still are still in effect but hey, it's time to start getting dirty
right?
And so, we start our reign of terror in Long Beach, California at an
amazing Punk Rock Circus branded show.
Check out the details in our cleverly titled "Death
Kids Unite" page of our website.
GET INTO IT.
MORE NEWS COMING SOON.
Love,
Grave For The Fireflies
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01/17/2007
Just a quick update friends.
We finally got our newest t-shirt design up on our webstore! We like
to call it the "Black Flag-Camo". Basically, because we stole
the Black Flag "bars" in the most scummy way and we're calling
it our own via said t-shirt.
We're thinking you should buy it because wearing the thing is like killing
2 birds with 1 stone. Not only do you give props to us (the future of
punk/hardcore, says us) but you give a nod to Black Flag (the founders
of So. Cal. punk/hardcore, says us as well).
You'll most likely be viewed by your peers as some sort of GOD, which
is always a good thing.
Check it out at www.merchlackey.com/graveforthefireflies
or just the "Buy Or Die" button up top and it'll take you
straight there.
That's all the news we have for you today. We know we've been mum for
the last few weeks, but there's not really anything we can report at
the moment. We have a few fucking amazing things going on but we'd be
shit house to report them so soon.
So we'll wait, and you're going to have to keep it in your pants for
now.
Cum sesh coming soon. Don't worry. We know.
Love,
Grave For The Fireflies
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01/03/2007
Happy New Year's everyone.
We updated the site a bit just on the passed shows portion of it. Check
it out if that interests you.
As far as upcoming shows, we don't really have anything coming up because
we're still writing for some upcoming recordings. We're not exactly
sure what we're going to do with the recordings, but we're thinking
maybe 2 separate EP's and maybe even a split with another band. We're
kind of taking it all one step at a time. The plan is to record a total
of 8 tracks. Some of the titles are "Crusades", "Jordan
Needs A Life Raft Because His Ship Is Sinking", "Dame Tu Cuerpo",
"Bad Seeds", "California Hearts" and "Membership
Dues For The Hellfire Club". We're still working on 2 more so as
soon as those puppies are solid, we're going to book a couple different
recording dates.
We were supposed to have a new t-shirt design up on our online store
but we have a bit of a lag that we can't really help on our end. It'll
be up soon hopefully so keep your eyes peeled for it. It's a camoflauge
Black Flag inspired t-shirt you may have seen at some of our shows.
We just reprinted a bunch and sent them to Merch Lackey (our online
retailer), so it should be up any day now.
One our last update we mentioned a label called Against The Blade was
going to release our 7 inch/CDEP. It looks like the dudes running that
label REALLY didn't know what they were doing so they already went belly
up and shut their doors. The record business is tough friends, and when
you're shitty dudes like those guys, it's even tougher.
Hopefully we'll have some more solid news to report in the next couple
of weeks.
Thanks for reading and heads up for 2007.
We're going to fucking take over.
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11/01/2006
Hello friends.
We're back with another update and believe it or not, a year didn't
pass by. This update is actually happening almost a month from our last
one, which is probably some kind of record for us.
First off, check out the "Pictures" and "Art Gallery"
portions of this website, as we've added some live pictures from our
Juke Joint show and a couple of flyers from our past shows, which are
worth taking a gander at.
Also, we'll be having some new merch shortly on our official online
store. Some of you may have seen the "camoflauge Black Flag bars
rip-off" t-shirt on our last tour, or at some local shows. We just
printed a few more, so all sizes are available at the moment. The shirts
should be online and ready to order sometime next week. You'll definitely
hear about it as we're sketchy scumbags at heart, and will be spreading
the word around the world wide web like there's no tomorrow. Everyone
will know when those puppies are ready to sell.
We also have another design coming out which is pretty rad, but we actually
haven't heard from the graphic designer dude who's doing it. It's been
like 2 weeks since we've heard from him, so we should probably figure
out what's going on with that design.
On our last update, we mentioned doing a limited 7 inch vinyl /cd-ep
release sometime very shortly. We have more info regarding that. It
looks like the label who will be releasing that is this small new label
called Against The Blade Records. Check out what they're all about at
www.myspace.com/againsttheblade.
We don't have much info on the release, other than the pressing is going
to consist of 100 limited edition 7 inches and 100 limited edition CDEP's.
No word on if the 7 inches are going to be colored, but you know we'll
be pushing for it.
As far as the content on the release, we'd like to have 5 to 6 songs
on the 7 inch version and 4 to 5 songs on the CD version. Recordingwise,
we have a specific dude in mind to do it, but since we have about 2
and a half songs left to write and learn, we're not sure if the dude
we want is going to be available to record us, so we're going to wait
and announce that when we have a set date.
In not-so-band-related news, our very own Deadend Jordan and former
Grave For The Fireflies Inc. guitar player/heartbreaker Annia C., will
be launching a new clothing line they created in the next couple of
weeks called GRAND UNION. They're excited to show the world their debut
collection, so keep a look out for that as the designs are pretty damn
cool and very wearable. Website, launch party and myspace page ALL coming
within the next 2 weeks! Get stoked.
In our last bit of news, there is no shows on the horizon until December,
and that will be in San Diego. Check the "Death Kids Unite"
portion of the site for details on that puppy. Unfortunately we have
NO SHOWS for November, but we're sort of half-assedly (is that a real
word) working on getting something. Right now though, it's not looking
too good.
What IS looking good is a 2 week tour on the horizon for spring (we're
hoping). We're not saying where yet, because we don't want to jinx it,
but if it happens we're going to lose our minds and most likely empty
our bank accounts. Awesome.
So that's it for now.
Thanks for reading. Over and out.
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09/23/2006
Wow. So it's almost been a year since we updated our "official
website" (the site you're on now, dummy). We're not sure why we've
been so lazy. It might have to do with the fact that our myspace page
is just so easy to update and quick. We can run it ourselves and not
bug our incredible web designer Kaytee for a retarded update.
So lots have happened since the last update. We're assuming most interested
people have been keeping tabs on us through our myspace page, so if
you have, just skip all of this.
If you haven't kept tabs on us, we'll try to remember all that's happened
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LINE-UP CHANGES:
Yeah, we know. We're always changing personnel over here at Grave For
The Fireflies Inc. Especially drummers. But this time we had a major
overhaul and really mixed things up. We know, we know. Line-up changes
doesn't look good from the outside (like A&R people and record label
execs look down on such things) but we can really care less. Sometimes
things
just don't work out. So, in that spirit, here's what's going on as far
as
our line-up.
The band now consists of Richie Verdugo (still on guitar and backing
vocals), Deadend Jordan (solely on vocals), Colby Benbow (on bass guitar)
and Colin Strahm (on drums and backing vocals).
On our last update, we announced Dave Hidalgo (of Bullet Treatment/The
Drips/Los Villains plus tons more bands) joining our band. Unfortunately
Dave is/was involved in a ton of more projects and had to jump ship
because he just got way too busy. So right around the time he went on
a European tour with The Drips (featuring members of The Bronx, Dave's
brother Vinnie and Tony from The Distillers/CHECK THEM OUT) we enlisted
another drummer by the name of Otis Manning.
Otis was in the band for a few months and actually went out on our "NO
SLEEP FROM CALI: North West Tour". Things ended up not working
out with him eventually, and so we moved on.
Back peddling a little bit in our story here, before we left for the
"NO SLEEP FROM CALI TOUR" our incredibly gorgeous guitar player
Annia, decided to end her tour of duty with the Grave For The Fireflies
Inc. Although she'll sorely be missed, you can spot her MOST OF THE
TIME at our shows selling merch for us or just hanging out. Why'd she
quit you ask? Mainly because she wanted to concentrate more on her day
job (which she makes way more money in, than hanging out with us scumbags).
Being a 3 piece was never really something we wanted. So we made a collective
decision to change the line-up a bit. As most of you probably don't
know, we've been writing new songs since "Bitten" came out
(last October) and the songs are a little more complicated and let's
just say, pretty much harder to play and sing. Deadend Jordan never
really thought he
was a great bass player and since he sings the most in the songs, the
idea to get a new bass player to cover for him and have him just solely
sing came up.
That's when bass player Colby Benbow comes in. Colby, already a friend
of the band (and former bass player for Jet Black Halo) was looking
for a band, and interested in touring so it was the perfect match as
we were about to leave for tour.
So, the tour happened and it was the most successful one we've had to
date.
Everything went smoothly and we pretty much ruled the North West of
The United States Of America, spreading the gospel of the Death Kids.
When we got back home, we realized things weren't working out with Otis,
and started looking for a new drummer.
So, at that point our buddy Colin Strahm, who at the time was just finishing
his stint in the band Jet Black Halo also (he's also currently a member
of Kill Fast Casino) joined the band. Colin's actually been a member
of the band before. He joined for a short period right after the "Dead
Eyes" demo came out and left because he got a little too busy for
us. Colin's a great drummer, hilarious dude and an awesome friend, so
we're stoked to have him in the line-up.
That's it. The end. Grave For The Fireflies 2006 is heading forward,
fully intact.
WHAT ELSE HAS HAPPENED SINCE THE LAST UPDATE?:
- THE MUSIC VIDEO: We got the chance to film a music video we're incredibly
proud of with the talented director, Mario F. (we don't remember his
last name because it's long and Cuban. Plus we checked on his official
site and he doesn't have his last name ANYWHERE!). The video is a dual
video, much like the Green Day "Jaded/Brain Stew" video off
of the album "Nimrod". The songs we do the video for are "Eyeliner"
and "You In A Body Bag Would Teach Me How To Smile", starring
Riverside, CA booking-master, Party Marty along with Adrian, one of
the many members of the infamous punk band, Bullet Treatment.
The video is amazing, and the line-up featured on it is Deadend Jordan
(bass, vocals), Richie Verdugo (guitar, vocals), Annia Castano (guitar)
and Otis Manning (drums). If you look closely, you'll see future GFTFF
Inc. alumni Colin Strahm (dude with the mohawk) and Colby Benbow (dude
with the amazing Treadwell t-shirt) in the damn video. The future was
told in this fucking video. Amazing? We think so.
You can view it over at the "VISUAL" page of this beloved
website, at somepicnic.com, YouTube or on our myspace account (www.myspace/gftff.com)
- SHOWS: Lots of shows
happened between the last update. Some highlights were - Before we bailed
for tour, we were asked to play a show with The Bronx at Spaceland in
Los Angeles. It was the debut of Deadend Jordan just singing, and a
quick one-shot return of Dave Hidalgo filling in on drums again (Otis
couldn't make it to the show on time, so Dave re-learned the songs before
the show). It was incredible and a great way to debut the new line-up
(sorta).
Other mentionable worthy shows were probably EVERY show on the "No
Sleep From
Cali" tour. To get detailed info on that, log onto our myspace
account and
read the blogs. We get pretty into it there.
- RADIO SHOW: On October
25th, Nitro Records A&R dude Sean Ziebarth invited us to play a
live set on his KUCI radio show titled "Play It As It Lays".
We had a good time and it was a bit surreal, but unfortunately we don't
have much to show for it. Although they did record our live performance
on the show, the finished product came out terrible. The levels are
just way fucked. It's all vocal, bass and drums. You can't really hear
any guitar. You know shit's bad when the back-up vocals are louder than
the leads. Bummer. We'll probably release the whole set on something
someday, but for now, we'll keep it hidden in the vault. As a side note,
the interview conducted wasn't recorded either. Apparently their equipment
for the night was going haywire. So if you tuned in that night, you
heard that and lucked out at hearing us freaking out to questions on
the air.
IN THE WORKS: So that takes us to the present. Right now we're working
on some new songs and have already incorporated a few to our live set
"Dame Tu Cuerpo" and "Bad Seeds". The goal right
now is to write a solid 5 or 6 songs total, and release them
on vinyl and/or as a CDEP. We're not sure who's going to release it
yet. We have a few people in mind to record it with, but nothing's set
in stone as of now. We did announce something similar to this last October
(we were going to record with Joby Ford of The Bronx/The Drips fame)
but the dude released an incredible album, the 2nd Bronx record, and
is touring like an animal well into next year.
So yeah. We spoke too soon and hopefully we'll get to do some tracks
with him in the near future. You know we'll keep you all updated with
this. Recording should happen sometime in October.
Shows shows shows. We've
got a few coming. All deemed to be excellent sights. We recommend going
to the "DEATH KIDS UNITE" page of this here site to find out
about our upcoming happenings. Everything from an amazing Doll Hot show
in Anaheim with a SUPER SPECIAL SECRET HEADLINING GUEST to playing in
Las Vegas at the incredible Doubledown Saloon. Crazy.
Check out our PHOTO GALLERY
section as we've posted pictures from our "NO SLEEP FROM CALI"
tour along with some new press pictures of our new scumbaggy line-up.
They're shockingly and pretty embarrassing. Annia being in the band
really did level out the ugly factor. Now we're visually doomed and
are going to exploit it Ramones style. Ugly Kids Unite?
Under our PRAISES/THREATS section, we've posted a few slow poke media
outlets who finally got around to reviewing our album "Bitten".
Check them all out. There's more good reviews than bad, which is pretty
damn cool.
And finally, we have the ART GALLERY where we'll be posting up flyers
and other GFTFF Inc. inspired artworks. Should be sweet for the art
nerd in all of us.
Some new merch is on the horizon as well. Keep your eyes peeled for
that and buy it. We're poor.
Other than that, that's all we have going on at the moment. We made
an oath to keep this thing more updated, so we'll try our best to stick
to that. If all else fails, check are damn myspace page. We're on that
thing like 24/7. Totally nutz.
See you at the shows.
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10/05/2005
So, it's been a couple of months since we've updated the site and a
lot of things have been going on. Before we get into band shit we should
address our complete condolences, hopeful thoughts and blessings to
everyone in the South who was directly effected by the hurricanes. As
you may or may not know we have friends who are part of The Guild Of
Thieves And Assassins who live in Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana who
were directly in harms way. Fortunately all of them and their families
are okay but that isn't the case for a lot of other fellow Americans.
If you have money to spare and haven't already, please donate. Every
little bit counts. We recommend donating to a legit cause like the American
Red Cross. Watch out for those celebrity telethons. They're fucking
as sketchy as our lazy President. To this day no one knows what happened
to the "9/11 Celebrity Telethon" money so really watch out
for who you hand your hard earned money to. We recommend donating here
(we stole this link from myspace.com by the way).
Okay, now to band updates. We have to remind you that our debut full
length album "Bitten," being released by the wonderful people
at Basement Records and The Pirate Record Company, is coming out later
this month, on October 25th, NATIONWIDE. You can get the cd RIGHT NOW
though, before the actual release date, 4 different ways:
Way #1: Go to our shows. We have plenty of shows coming up in October,
November and December and will have some new merchandise along with
our cd's in hand. Click here
to view our upcoming shows. Also, we most likely will have copies of
the new Basement Records compilation "Radio Disaster: Volume 9"
that we'll be giving out for free to anyone who buys anything from us
at said shows. You should care for the "Radio Disaster" compilation
as it features songs from amazing bands like Smoke Or Fire, Outbreak,
Bullet Treatment, The Deadly, The Soviettes, Bleeder Resistor, Teenage
Bottlerocket, No Use For A Name, Broken Bones and an unreleased song
by The Drips. Also, yours truly has a song on it called "Eyeliner"
that talks trash on shitty scene kids who enjoy Revlon masacara. It’s
rad.
Way #2: You can order the cd from THIS SITE, dummy! If you order it
through us before October 25th, you'll get a FREE Grave For The Fireflies/Pirate
Record Company Sticker & Button Pack! We love giving out free shit
friends. Here's a link to get to our OFFICIAL
online store because we know you're lazy like us.
Way #3: You can go to the amazing online punk rock record store known
as www.Interpunk.com
. They have the cd for sale at the super punk rock price of $7.25! Holy
shit. Perfect for you gutter punks. Wait a minute....gutter punks shouldn't
have credit cards right? Whatever. Poor kids unite! Get it right here.
Way #4: Hot Topic will be carrying the cd also. We're not sure how much
they'll be selling the cd for or if they'll actually be selling it early,
but if you buy it from there and mail the receipt here and include a
return address, we'll send you a Grave For The Fireflies/Pirate Record
Company Sticker Pack and that Basement Records compilation "Radio
Disaster: Volume 9" we just talked about, FREE. That's 30 punk
rock tracks FREE plus other rad stuff! You won't even have to pay for
shipping! Holy shit, we just turned into car salesmen.
Okay, on to other things. So, Rich (our guitar player/singer) was in
this band called Cut Shallow along with our drummer Danny. Well, Rich
decided to quit Cut Shallow and do Grave For The Fireflies full time
and Danny decided to do Cut Shallow full time so we have a new AMAZING
drummer by the name of David Hidalgo Jr. The guy is truly amazing, and
we're glad he's part of the Death Kids family.
We're also about ready to write some new songs with Dave for a recording
we'll be doing by the end of the year, which will be recorded and produced
by Joby Ford of The Bronx, at his new studio. We should be recording
that sometime in November, but the date is not a for sure thing. The
recording will most likely be 4 to 5 songs and be released as a CDEP
or a vinyl only 7 inch. Not sure yet on specific details (like who's
going to put it out or what it's going to be called) but we'll keep
you updated. All we can tell you is that we have some amazing ideas
for it from the music to the artwork.
If you live in the Orange County/Los Angeles area, you may want to keep
your eyes peeled for Grave For The Fireflies show flyers as they're
bound to be collector's items. Although it's going to be a hard task
to keep up because it has been so far, for every one of our shows we're
having a specific artist work on flyers for us. We basically want all
the flyers to look amazing and want them to be a special thing so look
out for them. So far we've worked with Sean Rosenthal (former member
of Adamantium and Farside and current member of Rebel Fever) on a few
flyers, along with Luciano Rodriguez. We have a wish list of people
we want to work with so keep your eyes peeled. Some amazing artwork
is going to be out there for free. There's going to be a "Propaganda/Flyer
Art" page added to this here site but nothing will be on it yet.
We'll let you know when it's updated. Also, Chuck Dietrich (owner of
Basement Records) designed 6 limited edition Grave For The Fireflies
"Bitten" posters that'll be at record stores all over Southern
California. Look out for those as they are truly amazing. We’ll
be selling a poster set for a good price very soon on the online store.
We'll keep you all updated on that as they'll be limited.
For those of you who in live in Orange County, we'll be playing a live
set over the radio waves on October 25th (the night our cd comes out)
on the KUCI radio show "Play It As It Lays" with host Sean
Ziebarth at 10PM. That's 88.9 FM on the radio dial. I'm not sure if
we're going to be interviewed but you should check it out anyway. Shit's
going to be dangerous, gnarly and messy.
Also, if you haven't already, check out the newest issue of AMP Magazine
(West Coast Edition) issue # 37 (September 2005) with Boys Night Out
on the cover. If you check in the reviews section and look under the
letter "G," you'll see a very appreciated and positive review
of our album "Bitten." Rad. Pick it up at your local record
stores and venues friends. It's FREE! To read the interview without
getting inky zine fingertips, click here. We also added a good review
from the infamous Ginger Coyote of PunkGlobe.com
fame to said page.
If you haven't already, you should really make a www.myspace.com
account (it's free) and you should definitely add us to your account.
Let's be electronic internet friends. It's rad and is the best way to
get the latest updates on our band in small doses rather than these
large news updates such as this. Check out our profile at www.myspace.com/gftff
and befriend our asses. Also, we post songs up to stream (and sometimes
even for free download) every now and then exclusively on our myspace
page. So, if you're already a friend you'll be stoked to know that every
other week up until when our cd comes out, we'll be posting a song to
stream off our upcoming album "Bitten." So eventually, you'll
be able to hear every single song at one point, exclusively on our myspace
account! Amazing. So if you’re our friend already
you're stoked. Otherwise, get on it and join!
BE AWARE: You may notice a video camera following us at shows, while
we pass out flyers or when we're wheat pasting our logos on public property
all over Orange County. Don't be afraid friends, as we're going to be
shooting a lot of footage for a DVD/Documentary to be released someday
in the distant future. Say hi to the camera if you see it as your grill
may be featured on a DVD seen by the masses.
So as you can see, we have lots of things going on and even more in
the works. Look out for another update here with information on how
to be an official “DEATH KID”,
a new GUILD tattoo campaign/page (we'll get into that later), new band
pictures and much more exciting things.
If you read this far, we surely thank you.
See ya next time and be safe.
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08/04/2005
Lots of new things going on right now. We'll bring you up to speed on
some of the things that we mentioned on our last update first. So, like
we mentioned before instead of releasing a 7 inch with Nervous Breakdown
Records, we ended up releasing a full length with Basement Records because
a tour opportunity came up (a whopping 1 date on the Warped Tour along
with a West Coast tour through California, Washington and Oregon) and
we thought it would be better to do a cd rather than a record because
kids are shittier than ever nowadays and don't buy records so yeah,
cd'ss are the way to go. That, and Nervous Breakdown Records weren't
able to have the 7 inches out in time for the tour anyway, so yeah,
we went with Basement Records because they were willing to do it all
(have a cd out by the time the tour started). We kind of ate crow with
the whole situation though because yeah, the cd's ended up not coming
in from the manufacturer in time. So we went on our first tour without
any kind of music whatsoever to sell. Yes, we deserved it but hey, we
still fucking went. By the way, we should mention that the cd's not
coming in on time had nothing to do with our record label. Chuck at
Basement Records has been super fucking cool with us and did his end
of the bargain by getting shit to the pressing plant on time. We ended
up recording a week later than we should have and turned in the artwork
later than we should have. All in all, we fucked ourselves but hey,
we got the cd’s NOW and they sound and look great.
Stoked.
About the West Coast tour. We had a rad time and would definitely consider
it as a great first experience of touring, especially considering that
we played the Warped Tour our first time out. Unfortunately our lead
guitarist Richie and our drummer Danny couldn't make it on the tour,
as they were touring the US with their other band Cut Shallow (we've
mentioned this before but being redundant is rad sometimes). So we got
Harris Eshan to fill in on lead guitar and Andrew Marks to fill in on
drums. Both of them used to be in this Newport Beach metal/hardcore
band called Hurry Up And Kill Yourself but now are in this instrumental
band called Palais Royale. Check them both out. It was a crazy time
though, considering we only practiced for a week before we hit the road.
We wonder if we're the only touring band ever to have a 15 to 20 minute
set? Yes, we're idiots but hey we had fun. Harris and Andrew are both
really fucking good musicians and we salute them, (along with their
buddy Eddie who roadied). We appreciate them for coming out and destroying
shit from state to state. It was good times. We never thought we'd get
to see some white dudes from Newport buy crank off a black vagrant on
the streets of Portland but hey, you guys filled that dream for us.
Thumbs up dudes. By the way, the shows were fun and Warped Tour was
weird, but amazing at the same time. And yes, backstage, hours AFTER
his band played, Gerard from My Chemical Romance did still wear his
stage make-up and his bullet proof vest. Dude thinks he's 50 Cent or
something. By the way, in Cottage Grove, Oregon we played at The Crow's
Nest and more than half the crowd were employees of a near by carnival
that was in town. Dude, you know you're punk rock when you look out
and carni's are moshing to your shit. It brought a tear to all of our
eyes.
Time to go into scummy salesman mode. So now, let us tell you about
our new record. Well, it's going to be out NATIONWIDE on October 25th
(that includes all Best Buy and West Coast Hot Topic locations). But
check this out, you can buy the record and have it in your hands NOW.
There's 3 ways.
#1 - If you know a member of the band, just ask and they’ll
be able to sell you a copy.
#2 - Go to our shows (we’re taking a break from shows
now, but will be up and running again in late September) or
#3 - Buy the fucker on our secure online store by clicking here. If
you buy the cd through our online store before October 25th, you’ll
get a FREE Grave For The Fireflies/Pirate Record Company sticker and
button pack. Rad shit. Now do it. T-Shirts and zip-up hooded sweatshirts
are also available at the online store.
Last thing, you'll notice some new pages and most pages on the menu
list have been updated with new information. Check it out when you get
a chance. There's also 2 free MP3's you can listen to and download off
the "Bitten" album under the "Documents" page. There's
also some new pictures under the "Evidence" page, and a rad
record review by AMP Magazine under the new "Threats/Praises"
page among other things.
So while we're on our break, we'll be booking a slew of October shows
in celebration of our new albums release. We have some good ones coming
up so keep your eyes peeled. Also, in a few months we'll be recording
3 new songs. We have some rad details about it but it's not all for
sure so we can't share it just yet. But if things go as planned, we'll
have a 3 song EP or a 7 inch for an early 2006 release and a rad producer
who's going to work with us on recording it. As soon as shits for sure,
we'll update this right away and let you know.
And for more current info on the band, always check our myspace
page.
If you read this far, we thank you.
-GRAVE FOR THE FIREFLIES
DEATH KIDS UNITE.
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06/16/2005
Summer's here, and TONS of shit is going on over in the world of The
Fireflies. First off, on our last update we previously reported that
we had signed with Nervous Breakdown Records, a new Orange County punk
hardcore label (which is an imprint of the street punk label Pelado
Records). Well, last minute we ended up withdrawing from our agreement
with the label, and decided to go ahead and release our debut with Basement
Records (they've released amazing music by Bullet Treatment, a side
project of The Bronx along with a band called Cut Shallow and Bleeder
Resistor. We recommend you check out all said bands on that last sentence
there).
We know what you're thinking, "why didn't the shit work out with
Nervous Breakdown", right? If you don't care what happened, please
scroll down to paragraph #3, conveniently numbered for you. If you want
to know what happened, read on...
Here's what happened. Basically, the deal with Nervous Breakdown Records
was that they offered to release a 7 inch with us this Summer (around
August) and a full length sometime before 2006, which was great news
to us at the time. Then a few weeks came along and we were invited to
play the Warped Tour this Summer in July, so we thought "Shit!
We're going on Warped Tour and we don't have any releases out. We need
to get some kind of music out quick so the masses can rock out to us
at home (and buy our shit on tour)".
So as you know, we're starving musicians and can't just pay for a release
ourselves, so we hit up our then label Nervous Breakdown Records. They
couldn't do it because it wasn't in their release schedule, and it was
too short of notice, which is all definitely understandable. We were
crazy to ask and we knew it. We thought we should ask around anyway,
incase another label had the balls and was crazy enough like us, to
try to pull this project off. That's where Basement Records stepped
in.
#3 - Basement Records offered to do a full length with us, and promised
to have them ready for us for our July tour on Warped (and other cities
in the Oregon/Washington area). So of course we said yes, and got cracking
at it. As of today, there's approximately 3 weeks before we leave for
tour, and the record hasn't been recorded. Yes I confirm, we are fucking
crazy and are definitely playing with fire here.
Tonight the artwork will be almost all completed by the honorable Paul
Miner (ex-bass player of Death By Stereo who's worked on amazing cd
layouts like The Distillers "Sing Sing Death House" record
among others) who will be working off of some of John LaCroix's existing
artwork/cd layout he did with us in the past. Side note: Mr. John LaCroix
is the former guitar player of Boston Straight Edge heroes Ten Yard
Fight, founder of Swindle Magazine and the director of The Explosion's
music video for "Here I Am". Yes, he is a badass. Another
thing about Mr. Paul Miner that we forgot to tell you is, he'll be mastering
our record too. Yeah, he's some kind of wizard or some shit. He can
do it all. Recording, mixing and producing the record, which happens
next week at the beautiful Maple Studios in Santa Ana, California (where
Eighteen Visions and Social Distortion recorded their last albums at),
will be Sergio Chavez, who's more recent work has been with Underminded,
Motorhead, Velvet Revolver, Tsunami Bomb, Death By Stereo, Limp Bizkit
and shit loads more. The man is going to be famous.
So yeah, the album is on it's way and it's going to be 11 songs of desperate,
pissed off punk hardcore. We named our baby "Bitten". Although
the band will have copies of the cd on tour in the first week of July,
the official release date of it won't be until October 25th, 2005. A
perfect time for a birth, as Halloween will be creeping up. You know
we're going to have some fun shows lined up in honor of all hallows,
right?
So, that's the deal with our new upcoming full length album "Bitten",
brought to you by Basement Records and co-released by our very own small/almost
non-existent record label, The Pirate Record Company. REMEMBER: October
will spawn a fucking monster of an album. Keep your eyes and ears peeled
for "Bitten".
In other news friends, we're gearing up for our tour but we're telling
you now, weird shit is going to happen. First off, half the band is
in another band and won't be touring with us. Sad but true. They'll
be on their own tour. Therefore, Grave For The Fireflies will have a
touring band Nine Inch Nails style, which will now be referred to (amongst
ourselves of course) as Grave For The Fireflies version 5.0. Deadend
Jordan and Ms. Annia Castano will be with 2 strangers, bringing the
dark punk rock sound of The Guild Of Thieves And Assassins all up the
West Coast. We are rehearsing for said tour NOW. Shit will be sloppy,
shit will be pissed off, but the shit will be real and rock and roll.
The 2 mystery members names will be announced shortly. Keep it in your
pants children.
In website news, you'll see that we added a few bands, labels and other
interesting sites to the "More Guilty Parties" page. We should
also note, that the new front page of the site was designed by Mr. Sean
Rosenthal, for Within
A Dream (an art company). Check them out. The man does amazing things.
Also, in our show section which we like to call "Death Kids Unite",
you'll notice there isn't any shows posted. There's a reason for that.
Dates and general info for our upcoming tour are changing everyday,
so to keep said things more current and updated, please check out our
myspace page which is approximate, and the most accurate to the moment
source regarding our little band. And while you're at it, if you're
not already, ask us to be your friend on myspace. Check out the page
here.
Hopefully by the time you read this, our newest page titled "Past
Shows", will be up. The reason for this page is........Um, I'm
not exactly sure. We saw it on a few other bands' sites and liked it,
so we ripped off the idea. Please note though, that we didn't keep record
of all our shows until the newest incarnation of the band (with Richie
and Danny), so yeah, from when they started playing shows with us and
on, it will all be on the "Past Shows" page.
We'll be posting more information on "Bitten", along with
the album cover, more pictures, merchandise (t-shirts, hoodies etc)
and other rad things soon. Keep your eyes peeled friends.
If you've read this far, we certainly thank you.
Love,
Grave For The Fireflies
DEATH KIDS UNITE.
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Thanks for checking out our website again. We've been lame about updating
this bastard lately but not much was going on until RECENTLY. Look around
the site as we've added new pictures and little touch-up's here and
there. So here's exactly what's up with us....
We'll start with the most exciting and important news of the day. We
are proud to announce that we have been invited (and have excepted)
to join the family of NERVOUS BREAKDOWN RECORDS. We're excited to say
that by the end of 2005, we should have a 7 inch out and a full length
record out. When we get more specifics on that, we'll definitely let
you all know. To learn all about this new Southern California based
punk hardcore label, check out their website at www.nervousbreakdownrecords.com.
They want to do a lot of great things at the label, and we're fucking
losing our minds that they have included us in their plans. A big round
of applause from us to them. "The times they are-a-changing".
In our next piece of news, our NOW former guitar player and back-up
singer (you know, the Freddy Kruegar look-alike with the child molester
eyes) is most definitely out of our band. Was it on bad terms? You bet
your ass. We're not going to lie about it. We're all about sharing our
dirty laundry to those who actually care to hear it. The reasons why
the guy was booted out of this here outfit are infinite and would downright
give you nightmares, but we'll dare to let you all into a little of
The Fireflies crazy world from the past 4 months.
To start off, the poor freak is a pathological liar. The things the
geek fibbed about goes anywhere from the guy claiming he had Arnold
Schwarzennegar's kid (like in that really bad movie "Junior")
to him claiming the he's actually Marilyn Monroe trapped in a man-child's
body. Crazy? Yeah, we think so. It doesn't end there. He claims he had
sex with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt at the same time, which he's
saying is the real reason the two were recently divorced. He claims
to have proof too, as he swears he can identify a line on Brad Pitt's
shaft that he definitely saw during intercourse. He also says that funnyman
Will Ferell (yeah, the dude from "Elf") met up with him one
night at his house (the boilerroom) and autographed a mirror for him
in dust, and in exchange, our ex-guitar player gave him the complete
second season of "Will And Grace" on DVD. Yeah, it's that
bad and horrifying friends. More reasons we gave him the boot you ask?
Here's some more: He quit the band every other month forcing us to cancel
some important shows, cried after practices and probably wets his bed
because he's the only living male virgin in the United States of America
that's 22 years old. Wow. Plus the dude doesn't have a job or go to
any kind of school to boot. Funny? No, crazy is more like it. Take a
deep breath friends. We know it was a scary ride but we survived.
In other news, the freak's replacement on lead guitar and vocals is
the multi-talented Richie Verdugo of Cut Shallow fame. We're glad to
have him as part of the band as he's always been a great friend to us.
The guy can sing. The guy can play some sick guitar. We're in love.
Our drummer Mr. Colin Strahm has also "resigned" from the
band, but this was on the best of terms. We don't have one bad thing
to say about Mr. Colin. He shreds on drums, learns fast, is a handsome
fucking devil and a great friend. Basically, Colin was doing us a big
favor by filling in on drums until we found someone else. Now, he's
drumming full time for his band Jet Black Halo who you should keep you
ear out for. They're out to destroy.
Which leads us to introducing our new drummer, Danny Baeza. Danny is
a badass. Danny hits his drums hard. Danny is a member of Bullet Treatment
and Cut Shallow. Danny's drums are the color of wood and finally, Danny
truly completes Grave For The Fireflies.
We can't wait for everyone to hear the new line-up. We're a lot more
pissed off all around, and have a lot more reasons to destroy shit.
We're booking shows, designing t-shirts, designing hooded sweatshirts,
getting tatooed, buying more equipment and writing new songs for a 7
inch and a full length album all due out sometime 2005. Touring is also
on our brains.
Look out for us friends. We're spreading.
-Grave For The Fireflies.
DEATH KIDS UNITE.
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