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Hey all,

This Saturday, we kick off of an eight-day run of extended awesomeness with our friends Ponderosa. The dates have changed a bit – Philly and Milledgeville are out, but Chicago and Lexington are in. Here’s the updated itinerary:

Sat 9/19 – Athens, GA @ Tasty World
Sun 9/20 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In (with the Bridges as well)
Mon 9/21 – Lexington, KY @ The Green Lantern
Tues 9/22 – Chicago, IL @ Schuba’s
Thurs 9/24 – Brooklyn, NY @ Matchless
Fri 9/25 – New York, NY @ Piano’s
Sat 9/26 – Washington, D.C. @ The Red and the Black

This is like a Biblical prophesy – think of it as Manifest Destiny in shit-kickers.

See you there.

Steve

J Roddy Walston and the Business Daytrotter Session

hey good people of the rock world.
we come with good tidings of winter joy.
as the northeast is sleeping under a tranquil blanket of snow
we want you to be warmed by the power of live music and tape.
daytrotter has posted our session from september late.
be blessed with four free downloads.
im going out(unreleased)
full growing man(unreleased)
rock and roll the 2nd(hail mega boys)
and used to did(hail mega boys)
download them suckers.
and leave a comment let sean and all the daytrotter boys know you love what they do.

also we are playing two double headers this month
hoboken march 13th at maxwells
nyc march 14th at bowery ballroom

baltimore march 28th ottobar
baltimore march 29th recher theatre (with the holdsteady)

let’s keep it to strange to sleep

j roddy

Hey hey hey hey,

Only eight days ’til tour starts! We’re losing our minds about this one because we’re headed out with Murder by Death and William Elliott Whitmore for four-and-a-half freaking weeks of awesomeness that we probably just don’t deserve. (But we’re sure as hell going anyway!) We just added a kick-off date at Snug Harbor in Charlotte, NC on next Wednesday evening, the 22nd. I think that means we are officially hitting everywhere between Austin, Texas and Burlington, Vermont, and several places even our GPS can’t find. No matter where you live on this side of the Mississippi, we’re playing within 100 miles of you – put on your driving gloves and let’s make a night of it, shall we?

In the meantime, we’ve got some good stuff happening for us while we’re still sitting at home, yelling out all the answers to Jeopardy! before everyone can read the question. For starters, we have officially declared war on flabby triceps – Paste Magazine just named “Stop Rip and Roll” it’s 1 Fist Pump Anthem of 2008, and “Go For It” made number 19 on the same list. AWESOME! We’re the only band represented twice – now there’s no excuse for coming out and keeping your hands to yourself…b’lee dat!

Secondly, on our Myspace page (link at the top), you’ll see that the good folks at Baltimore’s Red Star KGB guerilla film crew came out and shot our homecoming show at the Ottobar last month, and we’ve got some tasty clips from that posted in “Sounds like” section. The fellas did an incredible job – I live with Zach for months at a time, and now even I’m frightened of him, thanks to their extreme close-ups. Does he really do that every night? Ye Gads! We’ve got the entire set filmed so maybe, if we get an injection of gumption, this will end up on a DVD in the future…?

The Red Star fellas are also hard at work shining up a video we shot for “Used to Did,” that should be available here real soon. Its gonna be something else – we’re talking green screens, spurs, death-defying hair flips and even a few Baltimore landmarks. It’ll be epic.

Lastly, we’ll have two dazzling new t-shirt designs on this tour, courtesy of B-more design house Squidfire, as well as some spiffy buttons and a new, honest-to-God repressing of “Hail Mega Boys.” We’ve been selling copies carved by our own toil and shaped by our own eight hands for the last few tours, but it was time to let the Big Boys do a proper version of it. If you’ve bought the album in the last year, the artwork is virtually unchanged. If you haven’t bought the album in a year or you downloaded it, then you’re just seriously missing out on the best artwork mankind has ever concieved, thanks to our friend Alex Fine.

Check out the tour dates and come on out and say hi. Or knit us some scarves because it is sure to be COLD in Michigan in late-November.

Over and out…

Steve

Big thanks to everyone who came out to support the band in the past couple weeks.

We’ve got brand new shirts and a new edition of Hail Megaboys with awesome new cover art by Alex Fine.

Check them out in the gimmickwear.com.

Here’s our man J Roddy on the cover of this morning’s perezhilton.com, playing the role of “lovable street urchin” with his good bud Jennifer Garner in Central Park over the weekend. One commenter questioned whether he was actually Sean Lennon, while another noted his striking resemblance to Peter Jackson (director of Lord of the Rings).

Heck, why don’t you pay a visit and leave your own comment? Check it – http://perezhilton.com/?p=7820#respond

the new record is at sound garden in fells point.
this is great news for those of you in baltimore
and one more reason to hate this town if you are not
be excellent to one another
j roddy

Hey all,

Welcome to the new jroddy.net! We’re still working out the bugs, but before too long this place will hopefully pretty effin’ sweet. For now, check out info on the upcoming shows, sign up for mailing list, and most importantly – BUY HAIL MEGABOYS! (Just click on the “Emporium” link above.)

We’ve got some awesome shows coming up: First up, we’re playing with the Hint at Fletcher’s on March 23rd, along with Adelphi. The club is expecting a sell-out as early as next week, but we’ve got tickets for sale for $7, so drop us a line if you’d like one. On the 29th of this month, we’ll be at the Comet in Cincinnati with our good friends The Sheds (www.myspace.com/theshedsmusic) On the 30th, we’re playing an all-ages show in Cleveland, TN with Ballroom Dancing, that we hope will satisfy the folks who are put out by the Chattanooga age restrictions at shows. And on the 31st, we’re headed back to Chattanooga for a big blow-out at Rhythm and Brews. We’ll have CDs in hand for all these shows, along with t-shirts and beards (beards not for sale).

Steve

Tracklisting I’ll Tell You What Nineteen-aught-Four Rock n’ Roll II I Used to Did Times Are a’ Staying Go For It Generic In Love Picnics n’ Kisses Sally’s Bangs Mommy Bomb Stop Rip and Roll Go Malachi

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