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7/24/2008: Trials Of ComiCon Where to start? At the beginning I suppose. I get a text from Avi saying that he has some extra passes for Comicon 2008, a few people have flaked and I should go. I'm really broke, but I technically don't have any plans or work for the next week, so I figure, why not? It's tuesday night and the van is leaving at 8, the text says. So i figure, why the hell not? I've never ever been to Comicon and I've heard it's a blast. So I throw some stuff into my tour duffle and off we go.Little did I know that this would be an epic adventure, with many trials along the way. The first trial of Comicon: How to fit six people and six bikes into a small Chrysler minivan. I'm known to my friends and bandmates as the "Tetris master," having learned from my truck-loading stagehand dad how to fit tons of cargo into a tiny space. I made it work. Don't ask me how, it's kind of like one of those Mary Poppins magic-bag tricks. Six bikes along with Eoin Gridrat, Liz Lemmies, Samantha Marie, Danny Admission, Avi and myself are crammed into the Chrysler. Ten hours later, we are in San Diego, having arrived at the home of our gracious and lovely hostess, Amber Glossine. For some reason she has allowed six smelly punk rockers to take over her living room for a week. We took our bikes because (according to Avi she lives two miles from the convention center and we want to save money and not have to take cabs or deal with parking. Two miles my ass! Which brings us to: The second trial of Comicon: A FIVE mile bicycle ride over some of the hilliest terrain south of San Francisco. You know those exercise bike programs where it gives you different resistance so it feels like you are going up and down hills for twenty minutes? Try that for real in eighty-five degree weather. Ouch. I had to walk up some of those hills, but we made it. We found a place to lock our bikes and sent Avi inside to get the passes. This was Wednesday, the first unofficial day of Comicon, with the only event being a preview day for the "professional" attendees. We were "professional" because we were with Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club. After we got the passes we found a nearby Ralphs supermarket and got a bite to eat. We were all doing this on a budget so we needed to save money any way possible. We needed nourishment because at 6pm we were to face our next trial: The third trial of Comicon: The mad rush for free stuff! All the major comic and motion picture companies give away free stuff to directly market to their fanbase, and it's first come first serve. According to Avi many people pay their admission for next year's Con by selling all the free stuff they get on Ebay. There is a LOT of free stuff. WB was giving away free oversize bags that were the size of a movie poster just to hold it all. Of course, on the side of this movie poster-sized bag was, you guessed it, a movie poster! Some had ads for dvds like Veronica Mars and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, others had Wonder Woman posters on them. I experienced a mad dash for bags when I was trying to get the Wonder Woman bag that made feel feel sad for the human race. I was in a line for bags that was promptly ignored by all the Fanboys clamoring for free shit. Slowly a bigger and bigger crowd gathered, outstretched arms and cries of "over here!" This quickly gave way to pushing and shoving, which turned to arguing and cries of "Hey, stop pushing! Ow! Stop!" I saw grown men pushing aside small girls to get a lousy fucking plastic Wonder Woman bag. Sad. By the time I got up to the end of the line all the bags had been taken by the greedy pushing Fanboys and the crowd was getting seriously out of control, but I couldn't go anywhere because the crowd had me trapped. The WB booth employees looked afraid for their lives, rightfully so, for it looked like they were about to be crushed by the Fanboy throngs pushing against the counter. Finally an announcement came over the PA system for the booth (yes the booth was so huge it has it's own public address system). "Thank you for your interest in Warner Brothers products, we are sorry to announce that our giveaways are over for today." Nice going greedy Fanboys, you fucked it up for everyone. Every once in a while I'm reminded of my hatred for the human race in general. I finally broke free of the whining Fanboy crowd and went to find my friends and further explore the exhibit hall floor. The exhibit hall floor is amazing. Here are a few things you can see there: A giant Castle Greyskull playset . A full size Jabba the Hutt statue. Actual size Transformer hand. Full size Lego sculptures of Batman and Indiana Jones. Actual size evil Iron Man suit from the movie. Actual size, fully detailed interior hover ship from the Watchmen movie. Nerd Herd car. Tons of costumed.....whatever. It's truly amazing, and the Con (as it is affectionatley referred to) hasn't even started yet. I'm about to leave for more adventures right now for the first official day of Comicon 2008. Who konws what trials await? This is Mickie Rat, signing off, saying as I feel I should, "EXCELSIOR!" Stay tuned dear readers, for more adventures await! Labels: Secretions [1 Comments] |
6/30/2008: Secretions - First Day Of Summer It's a Screeching Weasel cover, from when the Secretions played Sacramento's Concert In The Park a few weeks ago! Labels: Secretions [0 Comments] |
6/11/2008: Friday the 13th - Secretions Take Over Sacramento  The Secretions will be adding another stop to their MEDIA BLITZ TOUR this Friday! They will be special guests on the inaugural return show for PUNK ROCK ACADEMY on KWOD 106.5 FM this Friday at noon.Let's reiterate:  7am... MY58 TV Morning Show (cable channel 4) - between 7am and 9am, they're going to play like 45 seconds of a song each time the program cuts to commercial. I can't wait to see the uncomfortable looks on the poor anchor people's faces when they realize what they've gotten themselves into. noon... KWOD 106.5 FM - I don't know if they're playing or just interviewing, but I know they'll have consumed enough caffeine by this time that at least two of them will be squirming in their seats trying not to shit their pants.2pm... KXJZ 90.9 FM - I honestly have NO FUCKING IDEA what the FUCK is happening with this one. I've tried to find them on a schedule or flyer or ANYTHING and can't find anything. This schedule (if I'm even looking at the right website) says that 2pm on Friday is devoted to "A daily, in-depth interview program hosted by KXJZ's Jeffrey Callison, providing context and background to the issues that face our region." Hmmm...doesn't sound very - uh - Secretiony. I also heard a rumor that my landlord, ex-Sacramento Bee local music writer, is going to be the one interviewing them, but have found no evidence to back that up. WTF?  5pm... Concert In The Park - This is going to be HUGE. Roach (former Groovie Ghoulie) has started a new band called Baby! with former Riff Randall, Kortnee, and Scampi (also former Ghoulie).Tom H, Jessi Ramone, Skott, and Cary Rodda has combined their superpowers into one band, the No Goodniks. I caught the end of them at the BFD and they're like Queensbury Rules, now with 30% more ROCKNROLL. And who could forget Final Summation? Last Saturday hey had the release show for the brand new bitchin' album, A New Approach, and they will be selling it at the park show for $10. If you can, bring $20 instead so you can donate $10 to the production of a documentary about their experiences on tour. If you've picked up the latest Alive & Kicking, you know just how "juicey" those experiences can be. I don't know for certain, but I heard a rumor that the Secretions will be performing a cover by some band called...oh, what was it? Something like "Screaming Ferret" or "Squeaking Walrus" or something. Anyway, I also heard tell of a certain former Knockoff joining them onstage. [+/-] show/hide the rest of this post Don't forget to bring a little bit of extra cash so you can purchase something from Deranged Designs, should you see something that suits your fancy...which you probably will.  If you miss this show, I give you permission to just go ahead and end your own life. No one will think less of you for it.9pm...Old Ironsides - Everyone is going to be delirious, wasted, and hallucinating by this time. If you are over 21, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you haul your cookies down 10th street after the park show to Old Ironisdes. If you're already drunk and/or lazy, you can call Yellow Cab at (916) 444-2222 and get to Old I for like $6 or so, less if you carpool and split the fare. And when you get there, they have $2 PBRs. What more do you need in life? Nothing. Like I said last time I wrote about this, Danny is going to get emotional and overwhelmed by around 10:30 or so and start hugging people. If they day went really well, he might even cry a little, or at least slobber on your neck when he hugs you (some of you might remember being slobbered on at the SOS BBQ last June).  If you aren't 21 yet, just do what the early Secretins used to do...have a picnic. We'd order a pizza, bring some twelve packs of soda, and some blankets and listen to the show from outside. Sometimes we'd play spin the bottle or Truth or Dare to entertain ourselves. Actually, that's how we met Little Ian. We groped him on a dare. The band members would come out and hang out with us a little, as well as a lot of our 21+ friends. Even though we couldn't SEE the show, we still always had a fucking blast. Sometimes the bouncers would even let us use the bathroom (but not always and there is nowhere open nearby, so bring some toilet paper and be prepared to squat in the parking lot) or open the door for a few minutes so we could hear better. As long as you pick up all the trash you bring with you and don't cause problems, they won't give you trouble.WAYS TO GET IN TROUBLE: try to sneak in, arrive drunk, try to drink out front, harass the bouncers, fight, pester people, cause problems with traffic. Don't do any of these, or I'll hit you. In short, wear comfortable shoes and drink lots of water (or Jolt). It's going to be a LOOOOOOONG fucking day. - Xtal Case Labels: Secretions [2 Comments] |
5/13/2008: The Sacramento Grid Rats  Our very own GRID RATS, featuring Eoin Nobody and Mickie Rat, tour by bicycle. Labels: Secretions [0 Comments] |
4/15/2008: Viva La Lucha Libre! Secretions + Chikara! Like beer and waffles, our very own Secretions go so well with wrestling that taking Darwin seriously becomes increasingly difficult.While we can never quite figure out the relationship between Danny Secretion and El Flaco Loco, once of Incredibly Strange Wrestling and now of Supreme Pro Wrestling, the band has performed live at PunkSlam Pro Wrestling in 2007, and even got thrown around a little at a North American Wrestling event, earning a shot the NAW Myspace Championship as seen in this ridiculous video right here: The Secretions are at it once again, and will be working with CHIKARA, a prominent Philadelphia-based pro wrestling promotion known for ignoring the laws of gravity and physics with wrestling moves no Cirque du Soleil performer would ever consider attempting, as their song "Viva La Lucha Libre" will be the theme to the huge "Rey de Voladores" show scheduled for this summer. Check out the world premiere of the trailer, just posted on YouYube.com moments ago: The Secretions will also be recording a theme song specifically for this company, and will be working with various wrestlers in coming up with personalized entrance themes! You may even see the band making its way to the city of brotherly love to unleash some Lucha-Mania! Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available. Viva La Lucha Libre can be heard on the Secretions latest album, Faster Than The Speed Of Drunk! Labels: Secretions [0 Comments] |
3/31/2008: Tour update from Danny Secretion! Danny Secretion's solo tour is just wrapping up with a big homecoming show in Sacramento TONIGHT at The Javalounge!Here is a tour update from Danny by way of Crystal at the Secretin Life Line: Stories from the Road
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3/09/2008: Danny Secretion Solo Tour! Danny Secretion, drummer and co-vocalist of the Secretions, is going on a solo acoustic tour!As anyone from Sacramento can attest, when it's Danny Secretion, "Acoustic" isn't a code-word for "pussy." Check him out playing Secretions songs and some original solo material, as can be heard on his MySpace page!  Since the tour includes a number of 21+ bar shows, Danny promised to make himself available to fans of all ages, saying: If I'm playing a bar show and you're under 21, please get in touch with me and I'll be more than willing to play a renegade set in the parking lot too JUST FOR YOU!!!! Labels: Secretions [0 Comments] |
2/14/2008: Fuck Valentines Day  [Let Crystal Secretin be your internet girlfriend]   Labels: Secretions, Wednesday [2 Comments] |
1/16/2008: Cloned Secretions?  The upcoming Secretions video for "That Kind Of Girl" features the band performing live on the Ed Sullivan show in the 1960's, with Danny Secretion on drums and Danny Secretion jumping around up front on lead vocals, all in the same shots! Digital affects wizard Aaron Lane has posted some fascinating blog-posts showing how he does it along with sample video-clips. Stay tuned for the official video premier! Labels: Secretions [2 Comments] |
1/05/2008: Storm! Smash! Sorry for the slow updates, we don't have much electricity or internet right now with this crazy storm. Check out this tree that demolished Mickie Ratt from the Secretions' backyard! Photo credit: Crystal His yard isn't really that big, it just looks that way with all the fences knocked over. Labels: Secretions [0 Comments] |
12/26/2007: Nice Orange Juice, Asshole! We're back! Hopefully you had an awesome holiday whatever.Here's a video of the Secretions playing Freaks Like Us in Mickie's basement during the video shoot for Faster Than The Speed Of Drunk! With guest-vocals from yours truly, Eoin, Final Summation, and some 30,000 of our friends. There's more where that came from! Check out the friggen rad new Secretions Blog for regular updates and pictures and stuffs! Labels: Secretions, Video [1 Comments] |
11/15/2007: We can kill ANYTHING with this THING "Hey! Eoin again!" "Wait who the fuck is Eoin?" Now that we got that out of the way, Sometime in between paranormal investigations, Indiana Jones marathons, god awful pancakes, chocolate churches, peanut butter n jelly stir fry, and creepy stalkers in the last 2 days we've managed to get about 300 mail-orders out. Thanks to Adam and Danny admission for being adorable and doing special guest love notes, be expecting some saucy, kafkaesk notes from a few underage boys, oh la la! The WWHRD? And IT! HAS BEGUN! Shirts arrived and got packed, don't worry! its gona be ok! If you weren't at Danny Secretions lame ass birthday bash, congratulations, you just let the terrorists win asshole. Me, Avi, Vince, and Liz all made peanut butter n jelly samiches and handed 'em out to all the hungry hungry hipsters and punk rockers to gobble on. We are gona try and do that at most shows we make it to with bands on SS and even shows we have no business at. The idea of the show was The Helper Monkeys, The Knockoffs, Ashtray, Final Summation and The Secretions (featuring Kepi) covered songs by The Descendents, The Sex Pistols, Operation Ivy, The Clash and The Ramones. Yea, neat I know! Neater still we recorded the entire show (and will tell you why when you're older) Thanks to Liz and Samantha Marie for taking PICTURES!           Yabba Dabba! -Eoin Out- Labels: Ashtray, Secretions [2 Comments] |
10/26/2007: Pumpkin Carving Contest! Make your best Silver Sprocket related Jack O'Lantern and win some candy! Seriously, it's against the post-office rules to send sweets by mail AND WE DON'T EVEN CARE!Here's a Phenomenauts pumpkin from Erica Henderson, with real Morse code!  Speaking of Halloween, check out the Secretions looking all dead like The Ramones from their recent trip to Portland!  There's more coming up where that came from:  Labels: Secretions, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
10/20/2007: Hard Fucking Core Our distributor is closing their Sacramento warehouse, which left us having to find a new home for 30,000+ CDs. On a break from loading boxes into my car, Mickie from the Secretions taught Eoin and Vince how to break 12" LPs on their faces.It's hard to see the pieces falling on the Youtube video, but they shatter. [+/-] More pictures and video from this epic dumpster!    Don't try it with a picture disc, they are way to strong and flexible Coming soon: The "I Want My Kitchen Back" sale! Labels: Secretions, Video [2 Comments] |
10/03/2007: Punk For Teacher Danny Secretion is all over today's Sacramento press for being a punk-as-fuck fourth-grade teacher! Link: Danny Secretion in Prosper Link: Danny Secretion in The State Hornet The Secretions hosted Punk Slam, a music + wrestling event, last night on the Sac State campus. Completely ridiculous pictures and video coming soon! Labels: Secretions [2 Comments] |
9/02/2007: What the fuck is this??? The Secretions get into it for the last few minutes!! Labels: Secretions, Video [0 Comments] |
8/20/2007: It! Has! Begun! Good-news: New Nothing Nice! [Click for full-comic] Bad-news: We will not be distributing Tera Melos' "Drugs To The Dear Youth" CD to stores as originally planned. Sorry about that, it is outside of our control. It might eventually be distributed by Sargent House, the management company the Melos' just joined up with. We still have a few available for mail-order. And check out Danny Secretion singing with Ashtray!  Come back tomorrow for a major update with headlining tour dates from The Phenomenauts and Big D And The Kids Table! Labels: Ashtray, Nothing Nice To Say, Secretions, Tera Melos [1 Comments] |
8/14/2007: Mickie gets down!  Photo: www.nicholasaveyphoto.com Labels: Secretions [0 Comments] |
8/10/2007: Secretions almost take a bath! The Secretions new album, Faster Than The Speed Of Drunk, got into stores this Tuesday! We celebrated with a party over at the local Dimple Records with a DUNK-TANK!!! The water turned to a brown sludge pretty quick, click here to reveal more pictures! Faster Than The Speed Of Drunk is available now at finer independent record stores, including Dimple, Amoeba, Rasputin, Streetlight, Graywhale, and Newbury Comics, plus just about all the download services including iTunes and eMusic! Or right here from Springman mail-order.          Photo's hosted by Flickr Labels: Secretions [0 Comments] |
8/02/2007: And... We're back! +Our website works again!+The Phenomenauts 2x10" Re-Entry LPs are shipping now. +Big D And The Kids Table's 2x12" Strictly Rude LP has been pushed back to Aug 21 due to a printing mistake. Sorry about that. Check out Big D playing acoustic songs on the Alternative Press radio-show! +Tera Melos has a fucking sick new song on their myspace page, When Worms Learn To Fly, it has vocals and dance-beats. They're touring again with The Fall Of Troy. Pre-order the "Drugs" record on CD! +The Teenage Harlets are playing with the fucking Murder Junkies. Yes Colin, that is G.G. Allen's old band. The Teenage Harlets did not break up. +The River City Rebels new record will blow your mind. They'll be touring this September and October. +The Secretions are almost home from tour. Big home-coming party coming up with a dunk-tank. Thank you for being so nice to them across this big country! Their new CD fucking rips. +New stuff is coming up from Mitch Clem. +An epic blog-post about ComicCon is still being written. I forced one of my heroes, Warren Ellis, to drink SPARKS for the first time. +We're two weeks behind on mail-order, but have everything back in stock. All orders will be sent out by Friday. Thanks for your patience and for being awesome.  Labels: Big D And The Kids Table, River City Rebels, Secretions, Tera Melos, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
7/12/2007: Secretions: Faster Than The Speed Of Drunk Check out the brand-new SECRETIONS video: Faster Than The Speed Of Drunk!!! With more under-age drinking than prom!!!New album available for mail-order now, from The Secretions' on tour now, and in stores August 7th!!! Each one comes with a real metal bottle-opener right inside the case!!! Listen to the whole album for free right now at PunkNews.org!!! =========== The Spic Sprock Intern-Brigade finished packing all your mail-orders early and decided to put on our extra space-suits and explore Sacramento.  CLICK FOR MORE PICTURES           Labels: Secretions [0 Comments] |
7/02/2007: Silver Sprocket: Big D, Phenomenauts, Secretions pre-order! Pre-order exclusive vinyl from Big D And The Kids Table and The Phenomenauts along with the upcoming Secretions CD over at SilverSprocketLabs.com!!! It is the same mail-order as Springman Records, so feel free to combine your order with things on this here awesome website.This is our new mail-order elf Trina. She will make sure you get your order quick and will also flirt with you over myspace.com:  I can't even tell you who these guys are, but they'll light your face on fire unless you do exactly what we say:  Springman Records is fucking dead. Long live Silver Sprocket. Labels: Big D And The Kids Table, Secretions, The Phenomenauts [1 Comments] |
6/19/2007: Punk Rock Three-Way Hi!Friendly Neighborhood Intern here, hacking the Springman site to tell you about things! things 1. The Secretions, Ashtray, Final Summation Punk Rock Three-Way is freaking amazing. You have no idea. I was stuck in traffic during my gorram lunch break for 45 minutes today, morphing said lunch break into more of lunch chow-down-run-ah-go!, but I wasn't even angry about it 'cause I got to listen to the three-way the whole time. It is amazing. 2. I have three very thick chin hairs growing on my chin. You can't really see them, but I can feel them, so I keep fingering'm. Oh, and I am a girl. So it's like weird. 3. Lolbots.com is freaking hilarious. see also;  4. Fuck the Fantastic Four. 5. Buy Treephort records in mass quantities. Do it not only because it will be enjoyable, but because it will better your outlook on life. Brain Thoughts: "gee, I work hard for not enough pay. I can barely get by financially. But, instead of saving all my money and spending it wisely, I should give said money to people who tried to make a career out of playing music while live grasshopers were glued to their face." That will undoubtedly make you feel better about your financial situation. Scout's honor. The End. Labels: Ashtray, Secretions [0 Comments] |
6/06/2007: We Secrete And You Suck! LOTS going on right now in the world of the Secretions.Paul had his birthday party at The Boardwalk and got completely trashed and forgot how to play all his songs, jumped around with a silly hat on and spit a lot making it a great party fun time! The Secretions just self-released a new record called The Rock-N-Roll Three-way with their friends Final Summation and Last Chance. Three songs from each band, it very seriously rips, on their very own Drool City Records and available through Springman Mail-order RIGHT HERE. Another very big Secretions project is in the works, I'll tell you all about that on Monday... Along with some very exciting news for you collector geeks on The Phenomenauts and Big D And The Kids Table! Speaking of The Phenomenauts, look at what The Slackers did to their van! The Slackers prank The Phenomenauts Labels: Secretions, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
5/18/2007: Whiskey River Rogain Party  The Whiskey River rolled into Sacramento last week, and with it, free Rogaine samples! Featuring the Secretions, River City Rebels, Final Summation, Last Chance and yours-truly. Thanks to the lovely and talented Charity Case for the pictures! For more, check out Charity's blog. Labels: River City Rebels, Secretions [0 Comments] |
4/13/2007: I've got three chords and a FUCK YOU  The Secretions spent this past week at Sacramento's Pus Cavern recording their upcoming alum, Faster Than The Speed Of Drunk, and HOLY SHIT it fucking rocks, this will be their best CD yet. I'm in the mix on the new recording of "Freaks Like Us" yelling "Nice haircut, asshole!" and in a few other places with some gang-vocals. I'll be bothering you a lot more about this over the next few months, the CD will be out this summer to be ready for the band's national tour with Final Summation! Labels: Secretions [0 Comments] |
1/31/2007: Some updates, some class School started this week so I've been behind on website updates, but not on mail-order! The post office is getting sick of seeing me every day and has been making me put stamps on all the packages by hand.The Tera Melos pre-orders have been sent but may take up to a week since most of you ordered with "Media Mail" shipping. It took a week to send them all since they're very securely wrapped in cardboard to avoid damage, sorry to keep you waiting but this one will be worth it! E-mail the address listed up on the top of this website if you have any questions on that. Some quick updates: The Springman Records showcase in Sacramento on Friday was a huge success and lots of fun, thank you all for coming out! I especially enjoyed handing out cupcakes and shark-themed 3D glasses to everyone before The Phenomenauts' set, even though the 3D glasses had nothing to do with anything. The Shecretions built some AMAZING games out of cardboard that we didn't get to use since it was so crowded and I was on crutches, but I saved them in my closet and will bring them out to future events so you can throw the red rocket in the black hole and blast Skelator! Hopefully they'll also be into setting up the Kissing-Booth... Tera Melos is on tour with The Fall Of Troy and running out of merch. Big D And The Kids Table's pre-order for the Brain Failure split starts in.. Shit, 15 minutes, I better set that up, check back in an hour. The Phenomenauts, Teenage Harlets, Groovie Ghoulies and Epoxies have something epic up their sleeve that I'll tell you about later. Jason Webley is in Europe. And get comfortable with the idea of your favorite record of 2007 being called Huge Black Man just so this doesn't catch you off-guard once it finally drops. Labels: Big D And The Kids Table, Secretions, Tera Melos, The Epoxies, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
1/25/2007: Comments, Northern-California Springman Showcase Seriously guys, over 10,000 people read this website each week. "Unique Visitors" it says. Meaning, only 0.01% of you post comments. And when you do, it's not about the rock-n-roll, its about nerdy fantasy books. Thanks, really, this experiment with comments is going well.== Springman showcase Friday in Sacramento!  With games and prizes! == Saturday in Petaluma!  This will also be a video shoot so wear your Sci-Fi best and drink some Sparks in the parking lot! Labels: Secretions, Teenage Harlets, The Phenomenauts [5 Comments] |
12/08/2006: Wax Tracks A quick reminder before I start this update:Check out our holiday deals! Lots of music is listed to the right, including special low-prices for compilation and Phenomenauts related packages. Our prices are low, the music awesome, and mail-order is getting sent out three times a week, so hurry up and purchase your friend's love for the new year! On to the news: Check out Big D And The Kids Table's website for studio updates as they record their upcoming full-length for our friends at Side One Dummy! The demo's for their new songs are incredible, come March or April when that record comes out, we will all be in for quite a treat. To hold us over until then, their split CD with Brain Failure (from China!) will be released on February 20th on Bad News Records. We are pleased to announce that the vinyl version will be on Springman with a limited pressing of 1,000 on colored wax! More info on that one soon. Thanks to everyone who gave "five-star" ratings to The Phenomenauts music video for "Mission" over at MySpace.com, putting us on their front-page for a week and getting over 110,000 full video views!!! I still can't believe that happened, and would like to welcome all the brand new cadets to this here lovely website. The Phenomenauts have just a few shows booked right now that we will be announcing very soon, but will be back with a very triumphant return in March or April with loads of new material and effects! And hey, with all these new songs, you never know whats just around the space-corner... The Teenage Harlets will be doing a little west-coast tour in January with our idols in The Rock And Roll Adventure Kids! Also in the works is a series of super-sweet split 7"'s that we'll be telling you more about going into 2007. Tera Melos is doing a shit-load of shows all over the country with The Fall Of Troy! They just got out of the studio too, and if we can get our shit together on time for this tour, well, I'll tell you later, just be excited. Be very excited. And finally, thank you to TUK Shoes for hooking up The Phenomenauts, Big D And The Kids Table and The River City Rebels! When you see us looking all bad-ass and tall, its TUK's fault. I just got these pretty red ones:   OK Happy Holidays everyone. I will now go back to filling your mail-orders and finishing my homework (The semester is almost over! I have 60 more pages to write!) -- OH, and if you live in Sacramento and happen to be coming out for KWOD's "Twisted Christmas" concert at the Arco Arena later today (Friday), I will personally be dressed up like that guy from My Chemical Romance and doing some WWE shit that would make Andy Kaufman proud up on stage during The Secretions' set! They play first, so get there early! We will be bringing the real Black Parade. If you don't have $35, don't worry, we'll post it on YouTube. I'm excited about seeing Gnarles Barkley and MCR. Labels: Big D And The Kids Table, Secretions, Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
12/01/2006: Secretions news, Dresden Dolls+Booze, Phenomenuats Tunes 1. Read about The Secretions in the latest Sac News and Review!2. The "Mission Transmission" EP by The Phenomenauts is back in print for a very limited time only! This is the final pressing ever, hand-numbered to 500 on supernova-White-hot Wax. 3. Livin' On A Prayer, as performed by Jason Webley and The Dresden Dolls, with bonus philosophical discussion: *Video starts 35 seconds into it Labels: Jason Webley, Secretions, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
11/27/2006: File under "W.T.F." To close this year with a bang, on December 8th The Secretions will be getting kicked out of Sacramento's Arco Arena for fucking with Gnarles Barkley, Papa Roach and My Chemical Romance. The Secretions will also be opening the show. The flier doesn't even mention the other bands. I love it! More info online here. Tickets are $35 so you might have to try and win some or sneak in. Thank you to all the Secretin's that voted, you fucking rock! If the video we shoot doesn't get taken by the cops as evidence, we will be posting it on youtube shortly after the show. Don't tell anyone, but I'm actually kind of excited about getting to see those other bands. If $35 is to much, see The Groovie Ghoulies with The Living End at The Boardwalk that same night! Labels: Groovie Ghoulies, Secretions [0 Comments] |
8/24/2006: Sunshine, rainbows and glitter Kepi from The Groovie Ghoulies will be on NPR Sacramento (88.9FM) today at 2pm pacific time talking about (what else does he know?) punk rock! You can listen online right here.=== The Phenomenauts are on a national tour right now with Left Alone, then The River City Rebels and The Teenage Harlets (tour dates on myspace)! And, Big D And The Kids Table has some shows coming up with Rancid (tour dates on myspace)! === It's rare that I'll ask you to vote for something when its up against bands like Pain or Dillinger Four since both Pain and Dillinger Four are such fucking awesome bands, you have no business being on this website if you don't have their records (unless you are using this website to order the Pain records), but I digress, this request is special. The Teenage Harlets are in the running to be the #1 band this week on PunkRadioCast, a friggen awesome online radio station incase you didn't know. We would GREATLY APPRECIATE if you could click this link below here and then vote for The Teenage Harlets once a day until Sunday. Don't hack it or we get disqualified, just go click it for real. If we win, I'll bring cupcakes to their next bunch of shows, no joke. CLICK HERE TO VOTE And if you live within six hours of San Francisco, come to their CD release show on Friday at Labels: Groovie Ghoulies, Secretions, Teenage Harlets [0 Comments] |
7/13/2006: The Secretions finally win something! Danny Secretion must have been going all-out in the oral-treats department while hanging out at the Sac News And Review office, as his band has finally won a Sammie award for "Best Sacramento Punk Band!"The Secretions have been nominated for the past fifty straight years without winning once, we were seriously ready to burn the SN&R offices to the ground. We are actually kind of bummed that we don't get to use all these nifty explosives, but congratulations to the Secretions for finally winning what we knew they should have had all along, and to the Sac News And Review for getting it right! Tera Melos were also nominated in the contest for "Best Metal Band" (yea we know they aren't metal, but since the Melos doesn't really fit in anywhere, its all cool). Nobody called me to say if Tera Melos won anything, but if they did, I'll let you know and we'll have a big taco-party. And don't forget, THESE BANDS ARE ON TOUR: (clicky clicky click click for dates on their myspace pages since our website is still broken) The Teenage Harlets Secretions Big D And The Kids Table The Phenomenauts Jason Webley Groovie Ghoulies (and Haints!) Labels: Secretions, Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos [0 Comments] |
7/04/2006: Comic Books and Porn The Secretions song Fuckin Zombies can be heard on the AVN Award winning porn Re-Penetrator, which won the award for most outrageous sex scene! Visit the Secretions myspace page for a bunch of tour dates with label-mates The Teenage Harlets.In other news, The Phenomenauts will be hanging out at the San Diego Comic Book Convention this year! If you are going, wear your Phenomenauts shirt, and we will give you an exclusive badge when we see you that you can only get at the convention. The Phenomenauts will also be playing Friday night at the San Diego House Of Blues with The Aquabats and Supernova! Labels: Secretions, Teenage Harlets, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
6/30/2006: News News News The Springman website has been broken for the past few weeks.Major updates are in the works, but for now, visit these myspace pages for lots and lots of tour dates! The Teenage Harlets Secretions Big D And The Kids Table The Phenomenauts Jason Webley (regular website) Also check out the limited edition super 7" from Jason Webley available exclusively on his website, and the upcoming full length Up The Fixx from The Teenage Harlets coming July 25th! Labels: Secretions, Teenage Harlets [0 Comments] |
5/22/2006: Its time for a Springman website update! *I'm on tour with The Phenomenauts and The Epoxies! This tour will run until June 18th all over the country, so come visit me at the merch table.*Big D And The Kids Table will be out with Catch 22 co-headlining the Summer Of Ska Tour! *Tera Melos has some west-coast shows lined up, then guitarist Nick will be making a movie over this summer. *The Teenage Harlets are going on tour this summer all over the country too, including a bunch of dates with The Secretions! The new Teenage Harlets CD, Up The Fixx comes out July 25th! *Jason Webley is always playing shows everywhere, and has a brand new limited edition "Super 7 Inch" project coming out on 11/11 that you can read more about on his website! *We are re-printing Pain's Jabberjaw CD with all new artwork, look out for it next month! *The Secretion's new CD, Coming To Save The World, along with the latest Pain re-issue, Full Speed Ahead, will be in stores on 6/6/06! Mail-order update: Springman Mail-order is on hold until June 21st, so for now, visit www.interpunk.com or your favorite online mail-order, and send us an e-mail if there is anything you can't find. We have been a bit slow with mail-order since moving to Sacramento earlier this year, so we are going to make sure it is back to being a well oiled super-fast machine before we bring it back. If you are still waiting on an order for anything other than Pain's Jabberjaw CD, PLEASE send me an e-mail so we can take care of that (and if you're waiting on the Pain disc, we will have them back in stock soon!) Lots more exciting things are in the works, stay tuned for updates. Come back over the next few days for everyone's updated summer tour dates. And thanks again for all your support! XOXO Avi / Springman Records Labels: Jason Webley, Secretions, Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos, The Epoxies, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
4/17/2006: We just signed THE TEENAGE HARLETS!!! You probably know them from their extensive touring with Springman bands like The Groovie Ghoulies, Phenomenauts, Secretions, Jason Webley, and their spot on our Space Station stage on the Warped Tour a few years back.. But just incase, check out their page on MySpace.com or read about them right here:The TEENAGE HARLETS don't play rock & roll -- they play danger. Flying a defiant finger in the face of the San Francisco garage scene since 1999, TEENAGE HARLETS style rock has no tiresome monologs, no politics, no talking, no tuning, no fancy knobs or effects. They play revved up, stripped down, non-stop short attention-span surf-garage-punk-rock-mayhem that will have you singing and dancing while you run for your life. Worried? No need to fear. Thanks to Springman Records and the latest in garage-based recording technology, you can dance along in the relative safety of your own home as the HARLETS tear through 22 songs in 30 minutes on their new record, Up the Fixx, in stores  In other news, This will probably be the ONLY Groovie Ghoulies show this year:  I really don't know what they're thinking letting the Secretions play this family event. AND, We just updated the Tour Dates page, lots of new shows for the entire Springman family. Labels: Groovie Ghoulies, Secretions, Teenage Harlets, The Phenomenauts [0 Comments] |
4/15/2006: Sac Rock City Sacramento Update #1:The Secretions' myspace.com page now has two brand new songs available for your listening pleasure! Jerkin' Off To You from their upcoming three-way-split with Ashtray and Sex Tape Scandal, and Stupid Fuckin' Vegan from the upcoming Queers tribute record being organized by Joe Queer himself. Go listen now, both songs kick the donkey's ass. Sacramento Update #2: Last night, a gigantic drunk gentleman was stumbling around in the street right outside my temporary residence at 23rd and P (the Brilliant Red Lights' apartment). We came out onto the balcony to see if he needed a cab or some water. After some friendly conversation, he tried to kick his way into the apartment, smashing his foot through the door, before falling eight feet off the steps onto his face. He then bled everywhere, and tried to fight off the fire-men who put him onto a stretcher and into an ambulance.    Labels: Secretions [0 Comments] |
4/05/2006: Rock Tease We signed a new band! They shouldn't be new to any of you, since they've been touring for years with just about everyone on our roster including The Phenomenuats, Big D, Jason Webley, The Groovie Ghoulies and even The Secretions... Who is this band? I'll tell you later. But their new album has 22 songs played over 30 minutes, and comes out July 11th.AND, The Secretions just posted a live video on their MySpace for Freaks Like Us! Labels: Secretions [0 Comments] |
1/16/2006: We Secrete, You Suck! We are proud to welcome Paul to The Secretions! Paul Filthy is replacing longtime guitarist Kevin Stockton. We all wish Kevin the best in all future endeavors, including his current training to be an Ultimate Fighter! Check out The Secretions' latest CD, Coming To Save The World, it is really good. Labels: Secretions [0 Comments] |
12/11/2005: No Rest For The Wicked School is out for the holidays and mail order is going |