Bad History Month

uh, that's our new record, we just spent a week recording, it's sounding goood, we're going back in June. we're gonna goonily be selling some sweet demos soon to raise high the roofbeams of cashmoney and pay the sex dungeon for our freedom. stay tooned if you wanna support this thing, thank you thank you.

SHOWS

May 2, amazing show at O'Brien's w/ PILE, UGH GOD, SKIMASK, crazy historical evenin for all.
it's at 9 PM, 6 bux, 21 sux

May 5th Lowell, On Broadway Fest at Dirty Douglass/Ant Cellar, w/ Guerilla Toss, Big Mess, and
many more I presume(best bandname ever!!!)

May 8th, Godly Gardens, breif solo jams with Government Jobs (Illinois), Devil and a Penny, and The Dirty Virgins. Bad History at 9 shart!

May 10 at a location TBD an awesome show we can't play, CGS Power Trip, Rasputin's Secret Police (Philly), Snoozer (Philly), Ponyboy (IN), New England Patriots. All these bands are great, wanna have em play at your house?

May 11th at 6 eleanor allston with Arrington De Dionyso and more

May 21st Freak Flag Benefit at ZuZu in Cambridge

fuller list o shows  is over here
fathistorymonth.bandcamp.com

tootles

Aw, shucks yeah...

Pizza Butt's all up on this Gut.

Couple New York shows tomorrow:
April 16 Death By Audio, 49 South 2nd Street Brooklyn, NY
w/ Arvid Noe, Celestial Shore, Sediment Club
April 17th The Moon 2, 319 Rutledge St. Brooklyn
w/ Arvid Noe, Skimask, Beef
April 18th, bad history month

wanna help us book this thing?


JUNE MIDWEST TOUR
May 30th Boston TBA w/Habitat(New Orleans)
May 31st NYC/Philly TBA
June 1st Morgantown, WV or West PA, wanna help? TBA
June 2 Athens OH Lobsterfest
June 3 Columbus OH TBA
June 4 Louisville TBA w/Dust From 1000 Years
June 5 Nashville TBA w/Dust From 1000 Years
June 6 Carbondale TBA w/Dust From 1000 Years, Guerilla Toss, Sediment Club
June 7 Chicago at CASA DONDE 21st n Kedzie w/ Dust n Guerilla Toss N Sediment Club +
June 8 Chicago TBA w/ Dust
June 9 Bloomington w/Dust
June 10 Cleveland TBA w/Guerilla Toss n Sediment Club
June 11 NYC, Death By Audio, 49 South 2nd Street Brooklyn, NY w/Guerilla Toss, Sediment Club 

Friday The 13th, bigtime

Fucking Badass Review, hot damn, thanks man

Fat History Month – “Fucking Despair” LP – Sophomore Lounge [Album As Art #172]

Fat History Month - "Fucking Despair" LP - Sophomore Lounge

Just as I start bemoaning the absence of Oxes-/Race Car Riot-ish math-rock in today’s conversation I stumble upon Fucking Despair and … well, there you have it: A band – Fat History Month — that has it all. Incisive drumming, guitar riffs that sing and shriek without resorting to distortion, bass that chases it all down and vocals that manage the compositions well, with melody and urgency. They’re never too far off, and you don’t want them to go away. Very sneaky, indeed; audio assassins for hire, shooting to kill with a decent production set-up to boot.

When the guitars meander and spiral through the air with complete precision and control I’m reminded most of Modest Mouse, one band that truly never met an instrumental breakdown it didn’t like. FHM believe just as vehemently, and that’s when they excel — when all concerns melt away and all that’s left is riff and rhythm and spark and smoke. If they were even a hint heavier, they would beShearing Pinx (though SP delve into more open expanses and have about 100 more releases out than Fat; give it time); if they were lighter, they might well be …REO Speedwagon? Shit no, that ain’t right. Maybe Holopaw? No no … wait, I’ve got it: They’d be Chin Up Chin Up, or maybe even Make Believe. HA!

The 11-minutes-plus jaunt “You Can Pick Your Nose…” instills that old giddy, just-comin’-up-on-Drive Like Jehu-and-Death Cab For Cutie-and-Pinback vibe. Very basic, very Appleseed Cast taken down a notch, very fiery when it gets its dander up … You’ve never heard strictly clean guitars ratchet up intensity this effortlessly (even Slint used to scratch their shit up, especially in the early years) track-in, track-out, nor have you heard many singers that can hold their own when compositions this complex and shift-prone present themselves (I can say that I, personally, in almost 21 years of serious jamming, have never played with a single vocalist that can handle math-rock in any way, shape or form).

Fat History Month make it sound easy, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy for the listener. Dynamics shift wildly, sandcastles of sound are built and flooded, then rebuilt and double-flooded before another eventual rebuild and flood-flood-floody … Such a wide-eyed and enthusiastic presentation won’t be ignored for long, folks. When these white kids put down their KAOS PADS “WHOO” and pick up guitars again, it’ll be groups like FHM that will have been in on the joke long before it’s widely told. I’d put this record up against 90 percent of the music I’ve heard over the last few years, if not more. I have a special LP shelf space reserved for records I revisit too constantly to chance to the mega MINDFUK that is my collection overall; I’m not yet sure if Fucking Despair will quite make it to this shelf (only folks like Sun Ra, Joe Meek, Vincent Gallo, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Zach Hill, Duster and John Phillips [solo] do), but it’s definitely earned the right to be part of the conversation.

http://gumshoegrove.com/2012/04/04/fat-history-month-fucking-despair-lp-sophomore-lounge-album-as-art-172/

Friday the 13th show at O'Brien's, and June Midwest Tour w. Dust

 BIGTIMEBIGTIME

 JUNE TOUR, wanna help book it, or want us to come to your town?
 get in touch
lovingdadmakes@gmail.com


JUNE MIDWEST TOUR
May 30th Boston TBA w/Habitat(New Orleans)
May 31st NYC TBA
June 1st Philly/Baltimore TBA
June 2 Athens OH Lobsterfest
June 3 Columbus OH TBA
June 4 Louisville TBA w/Dust From 1000 Years
June 5 Nashville TBA w/Dust From 1000 Years
June 6 Carbondale TBA w/Dust From 1000 Years, Guerilla Toss
June 7 Chicago TBA w/ Dust n Guerilly
June 8 Chicago TBA w/ Dust
June 9 Bloomington w/Dust
June 10 Cleveland TBA w/Guerilla Toss
June 11 Morgantown WV TBA
June 12 Philly TBa

Damn that felt good, let's do it again in June

Where the hell's Bobby? He's above the frame, bout to land in my arms. Duh.

Best week of our lives.  Met and played for and with a lot of amazing people. Thanks everybody who booked shows for us, and Pile for being so fucking cooool. So good to meet good people all over. Coming Soon, nasty tour movie.
We're coming back in June, see you soon.

Going on Offense, starting 3.22. State Champion's on tour now, My Bro's got an Art Show in ChicaGo, Whoa

http://pencapchew.org/

 March Tour With Pile

Mar. 22 Northampton Sierra Grille w/Speedy Ortiz

Mar. 23 Buffalo Jungle Gym 357 Breckenridge

Mar. 24 Detroit Garden Bowl

Mar. 25 Chicago Casa Donde, 21ST + KEDZIE

Mar. 26 Bloomington House Bar 813 N. Walnut

Mar. 27 Columbus, OH Carabar

Mar. 28 Athens, OH The Union

Mar. 29 Philly, Kung Fu Necktie w/UGH n RSP dawgz

Mar. 30 New Paltz, NY Rt. 32 Fest

Mar. 31 Bosston, Wacky Castle, Lower Asstowne,

w/ State Champion(chi), Grass is Green, Speedy Ortiz

We're playing first 8pm. be there or be elsewhere.

MORE SHOWS

April 13 Obrien's Pub w/ Big Mess, Fat Creeps, Onslo

Couple o New York shows

April 16 Death By Audio, 49 South 2nd Street  Brooklyn, NY

 w/ Arvid Noe, Celestial Shore, Sediment Club

April 17th Clay's House 319 Rutledge St. Brooklyn

w/ Arvid Noe, Skimask, Beef

April 18th, bad history month

May 2nd O'briens w/Ugh God, Pile, Skimask

And This Too:

If you ever saw the stuff we put out when we were younger men, 

you saw my brother Dave's art on the cover. 

He's doing an art show at The Peanut Gallery in Chicago in April.

Here's the new jams:

This shit is crazy, made from a bunch of razors in the wall:

 

And then there's this guy:

Here's the details, 

SOLO SHOW AT PEANUT GALLERY
SUNDAY APRIL 1ST
5 TO 9 PM
1000 N CALIFORNIA AVE
(CORNER OF AUGUSTA)
CHICAGO IL

and more of his stuff is here:

davidsprecher.org

Also, 

STATE CHAMPION 

is on tour right now if you wanna go see them in one of these places:

 State Champion's on tour right now: here's there dates
SAT (3/17) THE LEMP, ST. LOUIS, MO (3301 LEMP AVE.)
SUN (3/18) FIRHOUSE PUB, NORMAL, IL (107 E. BEAUFORT ST.)
WED (3/21) MURMUR STUDIOS, MASON CITY, IA (109 1ST ST. NE) W/ MONHEIM
THUR (3/22) MEDUSA, MINNEAPOLIS, MN (1154 HENNEPIN AVE.)
FRI (3/23) THE SPACE, CEDAR FALLS, IA (109 E. 2ND ST.)
SAT (3/24) SITUATIONS, CHICAGO, IL (!@#$%^&*) W/ CHRISTMAS BRIDE + LIFE PARTNER
SUN (3/25) DAY SHOW/HOUSE PARTY, CHICAGO, IL (!@#$%^&*) W/ PILE + FAT HISTORY MONTH + ANIMAL CITY
SUN (3/25) NIGHT SHOW (WE MAY OR MAY NOT PLAY, BUT COME ANYWAY), CASA DONDE, CHICAGO, IL (21ST + KEDZIE) W/ PILE + FAT HISTORY MONTH + BRETT SOVA + THE NEW DIET
MON (3/26) A.J. ROCCO’S, CLEVELAND, OH (816 HURON RD.) W/ FILMSTRIP
TUE (3/27) HOUSE SHOW, ROCHESTER, NY (1214 S. PLYMOUTH AVE.)
WED (3/28) MONKEY HOUSE, WINOOSKI, VT (30 MAIN ST.) W/ HELLO SHARK + SMALL HOUSES
THUR (3/29) THE RED DOOR, PORTSMOUTH, NH (107 STATE ST.)
FRI (3/30) HARLOW’S PUB, PETERBOROUGH, NH (1 SCHOOL ST.) W/ BUNNY’S A SWINE
SAT (3/31) WACKY CASTLE, ALLSTON, MA (!@#$%^&*) W/ PILE + FAT HISTORY MONTH + GRASS IS GREEN
SUN (4/1) CAKE SHOP, NEW YORK, NY (152 LUDLOW ST.) W/ BALL OF FLAME SHOOT FIRE
MON (4/2) DEATH BY AUDIO, BROOKLYN, NY (49 S. 2ND ST.) W/ MAIL THE HORSE + STREET GNAR
TUE (4/3) TBA, PHILADELPHIA, PA
WED (4/4) TBA, RICHMOND, VA
THUR (4/5) TBA, CHAPEL HILL, NC
FRI (4/6) STAR BAR, ATLANTA, GA (437 MORELAND AVE.)
SAT (4/7) PHOENIX TAPROOM/INFINTESMAL BBQ, JACKSONVILLE, FL (325 W. FORSYTH ST.)
SUN (4/8) NOBBY’S, ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (10 ANASTASIA BLVD.)
WED (4/11) TBA, LOUISVILLE, KY W/ 200 YEARS
!@#$%^&* E-MAIL SOPHOMORELOUNGE AT GMAIL DOT COM FOR SPECIFICS
MORE DATES/DETAILS COMING SOON!