Here's a genuine outtake from the Coast Garde sessions. We recorded two versions of this song. The "Sweethearts of the Rodeo" version made the record, but here's the "Notorious Byrd Brothers" version for your curiosity and enjoyment.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
The Parties - live in Berkeley 11/2010
Not much new to report, so here's a video of us playing in Berkeley last November.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
THE PARTIES CD Release Week! Show 4 - The Hemlock Tavern
OK, OK, so record release week has gone on a little longer than seven days. Well, what can we say? We're still excited about our new record! Come on down to the Hemlock this Friday and help us celebrate. We're playing with two of our favorite bands, Trevor Childs and the Beholders, and The Love Dimension. We'll also be celebrating someone's birthday so the level of excitement is sure to be higher than normal.
Also, there's a piece about us and the show in this week's SF Weekly. Click here to check it out!
November 19, 9PM
The Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk Street, SF
with Trevor Childs and the Beholders
and The Love Dimension
Also, there's a piece about us and the show in this week's SF Weekly. Click here to check it out!
November 19, 9PM
The Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk Street, SF
with Trevor Childs and the Beholders
and The Love Dimension
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
THE PARTIES CD Release Week! Show 2 - The Make Out Room
Our new record officially drops today so help us celebrate the release this Wednesday at the Make Out Room! We'll have copies for sale and there are some great bands playing with us.
Penny Arcade w/ host Raul Sanchez
THESE HILLS OF GOLD
THE PARTIES
REDEYE (France)
HANSI (solo)
http://www.makeoutroom.com/
Penny Arcade w/ host Raul Sanchez
THESE HILLS OF GOLD
THE PARTIES
REDEYE (France)
HANSI (solo)
http://www.makeoutroom.com/
Friday, October 29, 2010
THE PARTIES CD Release Week! Show 1 - Halloween at Hemlock Tavern
The Parties CD Release Week
starts on Halloween
at Hemlock Tavern!!!
This Sunday, October 31, we will be playing as a mysterious 60's band...who could it be?
We'll be joined by the fabulous Lotus Moons and The Crazies Will Destroy You.
9:15pm - The Lotus Moons
10:15pm - THE PARTIES
11:15pm - The Crazies Will Destroy You
$7 cover, 21 and over
The Hemlock Tavern
9:15pm - The Lotus Moons
10:15pm - THE PARTIES
11:15pm - The Crazies Will Destroy You
$7 cover, 21 and over
The Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA
This is the first event of three to celebrate and promote our new Rainbow Quartz release "Coast Garde". As an added bonus, if you show up to all three shows this week you'll receive a free copy of the new record!!!
Oct 31 - Halloween Party @ Hemlock Tavern, SF
This is the first event of three to celebrate and promote our new Rainbow Quartz release "Coast Garde". As an added bonus, if you show up to all three shows this week you'll receive a free copy of the new record!!!
Oct 31 - Halloween Party @ Hemlock Tavern, SF
Nov 3 - Penny Arcade Showcase @ Makeout Room, SF
Nov 7 - Lennypalooza @ Starry Plough, Berkeley ALL AGES!!!
Cheers,
THE PARTIES
Nov 7 - Lennypalooza @ Starry Plough, Berkeley ALL AGES!!!
Cheers,
THE PARTIES
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Mister Suave's Mod Mod Interview
The Parties were interviewed a couple months ago for Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World, a great podcast with a lot of great music. We talk with Rob Suave about what we're listening to, making the new record, and Billy Squier's second album. You can listen to the interview here.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Parties New Record, CMJ, and Halloween!!!
Hello There, lots of stuff to report!
The Parties new record COAST GARDE drops on Tuesday, November 2 - available on iTunes, Amazon, and finer record stores everywhere!
We have posted two brand new tunes on the website for your listening pleasure - go to http://www.thepartiesrock.com to check’em out.
To celebrate the release of COAST GARDE we are proud to announce PARTIES CD RELEASE WEEK!!!
Beginning on HALLOWEEN…
Sunday, October 31 at Hemlock Tavern in SF we’ll be playing as a surprise 60’s band…mmm who could it be??? We’ll also play a bunch of tunes from the new record. Joining us on the bill are our friends THE LOTUS MOONS and THE CRAZIES WILL DESTROY YOU.
Wednesday, November 3 at Makeout Room, we’ll be playing The Penny Arcade Showcase hosted by Raul Sanchez with THESE HILLS OF GOLD, REDEYE (France), & HANSI (solo).
And finally,
Sunday, November 7 at The Starry Plough we’ll be playing a very special benefit show for Lenny Gill simply entitled LENNYPALOOZA!!! This is an all day, all ages fest featuring The Titan-Ups, Tippy Canoe & The Paddlemen, The Midway Delta, Loretta Lynch, The Parties, East Bay Grease, Pancho-San, and Adam’s new side project - I Love My Label (A Tribute To Stiff Records).
THE PARTIES AT CMJ
We’re playing CMJ in New York City this Saturday, October 23 at Local 269 at 10:15pm. If you have friends in NYC spread the word! If you live there come on down!
Local 269
269 E Houston St.
New York, NY
Thank you all for your support!!!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
The Parties Update / Free Show at The Crescent Hotel, SF Oct 16 / New Record / CMJ
THE PARTIES
Lots of stuff going on in the next few months with The Parties!
FREE SHOW - OCT 16
First, we'll be playing a Free Show on Saturday, October 16 at The Burrit Room in the Crescent Hotel! This is a fairly new live music venue near Union Square in San Francisco. There will be dj's, cocktails, & dancing as well as Live 60's Rock n' Roll.
Crescent Hotel
417 Stockton Street, near the tunnel and Union Square
NEW RECORD
Our new full-length album "COAST GARDE" will be released on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 on Rainbow Quartz. We are preparing a special website with tracks from the new album that you can preview before it comes out. Stay tuned.
CMJ MUSIC MARATHON - NYC
The Parties are heading to New York City for CMJ. We play on Saturday, October 23 (venue and time TBA). The CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival, is one of the world’s most important platforms for the discovery of new music and cutting-edge films and will take over New York City from October 19-23, 2010. http://cmj2010.com/
SHINDIG!
The Parties tune "Kensington Avenue" is featured on the latest Shindig Compilation free with this month's issue - Shindig! 18 Sept-Oct 2010, Out Now!
http://www.shindig-magazine.com/index.html
That's it for now,
The Parties
visit us at - thepartiesrock.com
Monday, September 13, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Spinner interview
Jeremy had a conversation with Tara Lacey from Spinner recently. You can read the interview here. Any factual errors are courtesy of AT&T's wonderful cell phone service. (For instance, Rob is from San Jose not Santa Fe!)
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Acoustic set on KALX - January 8, 2010
We had fun hanging out with Rubberband Girl a couple weeks ago on her great radio program. Here's a 17 minute clip where we played a few songs, chatted a bit, and goofed off (per usual).
Monday, August 3, 2009
Summer Mini-Tour Recap
Wow, what a fun trip! We kicked things off at the Blue Lamp in Sacramento. This is a great little place to play and Roger, who put the bill together is a super cool dude. The mysteriously monikered Musical Charis opened the show, and were great. A real talented bunch of kids. We went on second and perhaps did our best show of the week, which is all the more remarkable since it was Rob's first with us. He did an amazing job at all the shows. For this tour, Blue Skies For Black Hearts opened their sets with an acoustic number which they would perform from the bar. This worked especially well at the Blue Lamp, really getting a potentially apathetic audience involved in the music. Afterward, Rex, Rob and their entourage headed back to the city, while Jeremy and I stayed with our pal James, the consummate host as always.
Friday evening we high-tailed it to Fresno to play Audie's Olympic. This club (formerly Club Fred) really surpassed our expectations. Cool vibe, and an amazing sound system that rivals many of the clubs here in SF. We arrived just in time to see our friends the Bye Bye Blackbirds open the show. They were super solid as always. Our set got off to a rough start with some technical problems, but went OK. Fresno is freaking hot. I think it was the first show we've played without jackets. Ever! Blue Skies totally threw down the gauntlet that night. They were obviously blown away by the supreme awe inspiring wonderment that is The Parties in Sacramento so they retooled their set Friday in an effort to compete with us. I would say of the four shows of the tour that one was their best. Great energy and songs and the club's magic PA made them sound even more fantastic. Jeremy and Rex said these guys were good, but they're always blowing smoke up my ass so I was genuinely surprised that these boys had it in them. If it wasn't for our technical problems, I'm sure we would have handily taken the prize that night, but I gotta give it to Blue Skies. After the show the three bands had a nice 3AM tailgate party in the back of La Quinta, fulfilling Ian's (from the BBB) recent urge to drink beer in a parking lot.
The next day on the way down to LA, we made an attempt to record a song in the car using the 4 Track app on my iPhone. I think we got a little ambitious. We decided to take a crack at the Who's "So Sad About Us" and in typical Parties fashion, we had to over-arrange the vocals. At one point we decided to do all the vocals live to one track which sounded great while we were recording but sucked royally on the playback. Rob, expressed it best when he said, "While you guys were singing I thought to myself, 'Wow, I'm part of something really special right now', but...(shakes head in pity)".
Saturday was our night at the International Pop Overthrow festival. We were excited to play the Knitting Factory for the first time, but I had no idea it was right in the thick of glitzy downtown Hollywood. So bizarre. I'm used to the NYC Knitting Factory which rests comfortably on a nice quiet block in SoHo, but this one might as well be situated in Disneyland. The sound (in the Front Room) was pretty terrible and once again we were plagued by technical problems. One thing the Parties do to compensate for an off night is to ramp up the excitement, so Saturday night Jeremy and I were jumping around like idiots. BSfBH once again turned in a nice solid set so I'm going to have to give that night to them too. After us was our pals the Waking Hours who cranked the enery level beyond the red. Holy living fuck. Things culminated in a frenzy with Tommy ripping bass strings off with his teeth and cracking the body of his Rick 330 completely in half. I had stepped outside during that part of the set and when I came back in, my bandmates were as white as a sheet and Jeremy showed me a photo of the destruction. I once read an article about Eric Rudolph, the dude who set off a bomb at the 1996 Olympics and lived in the Appalacian wilderness as a fugitive for five years. At one point, during Rudolph's self-imposed exile, his brother, in an act of protest against the government's ongoing pursuit of his sibling, cut off his own hand with a table saw and mailed it to the FBI. I got the same chill down my spine when I first read that part of the article as I did when I looked at Jeremy's photo of Tommy and his destroyed guitar. The look of detached mania in Tommy's eyes is something that will haunt me for years to come. But they sounded great and were totally badass!! The highlight of the evening for me was hanging out (albeit breifly) with my friend Paul who I've known since first grade and hadn't seen in 10 years. He heard about the show like a 1/2 hour before our set time and cruised over. Paul rules!
Sunday morning we took Jeremy's friend Ray - who kindly put the four of us up - out to brunch, then headed down to Long Beach for our final night in SoCal. We hooked up with the BSfBH boys at the Yardhouse and had some tasty beers. Afterwards, Jeremy and I dropped Rex and Rob off at the motel for a nap and headed over to a BBQ where The Commotions were scheduled to play. The Commotions feature our friend Marriane who is soon to be married to our other friend Shawn from the New Fidelity. Shawn, Dan and Billy from New Fi were all there and we had a lovely old time hanging with them. Unfortunately, we had to leave before the Commotions set to load in at the Que Sera where we were scheduled to play that night. We put them on the guest list and were delighted that they all showed up for our show later on.
Sunday night, as we had hoped and anticipated, was a complete blast. Blue Skies and The Parties were scheduled to play with a local band, that never showed up, giving us ample time to set up and check the sound and ultimately dick around on stage! We got Mike from Blue Skies to join us on "Breaking Hearts" and took a stab at "Radio" with Pat and Paul. We even got the New Fi to help us with a couple Who covers. Complete drunken chaos but fun as shit. Wayne Everett from Lassie Foundation and Terry from Greater California were also in attendance. Next time, we'll have to get those guys up on stage.
It was at the end of that night that we parted ways with BSfBH who were headed down to San Diego for one last show before heading back up north to Portland. I can't adequately convey how much fun we had with these dudes. I met them all not a week ago and they already seem like brothers.
Thanks to everyone who came out to our shows over the past four days. We all had a ton of fun playing music for, and hanging with y'all. We're all totally excited to head down that way again soon.
Friday evening we high-tailed it to Fresno to play Audie's Olympic. This club (formerly Club Fred) really surpassed our expectations. Cool vibe, and an amazing sound system that rivals many of the clubs here in SF. We arrived just in time to see our friends the Bye Bye Blackbirds open the show. They were super solid as always. Our set got off to a rough start with some technical problems, but went OK. Fresno is freaking hot. I think it was the first show we've played without jackets. Ever! Blue Skies totally threw down the gauntlet that night. They were obviously blown away by the supreme awe inspiring wonderment that is The Parties in Sacramento so they retooled their set Friday in an effort to compete with us. I would say of the four shows of the tour that one was their best. Great energy and songs and the club's magic PA made them sound even more fantastic. Jeremy and Rex said these guys were good, but they're always blowing smoke up my ass so I was genuinely surprised that these boys had it in them. If it wasn't for our technical problems, I'm sure we would have handily taken the prize that night, but I gotta give it to Blue Skies. After the show the three bands had a nice 3AM tailgate party in the back of La Quinta, fulfilling Ian's (from the BBB) recent urge to drink beer in a parking lot.
The next day on the way down to LA, we made an attempt to record a song in the car using the 4 Track app on my iPhone. I think we got a little ambitious. We decided to take a crack at the Who's "So Sad About Us" and in typical Parties fashion, we had to over-arrange the vocals. At one point we decided to do all the vocals live to one track which sounded great while we were recording but sucked royally on the playback. Rob, expressed it best when he said, "While you guys were singing I thought to myself, 'Wow, I'm part of something really special right now', but...(shakes head in pity)".
Saturday was our night at the International Pop Overthrow festival. We were excited to play the Knitting Factory for the first time, but I had no idea it was right in the thick of glitzy downtown Hollywood. So bizarre. I'm used to the NYC Knitting Factory which rests comfortably on a nice quiet block in SoHo, but this one might as well be situated in Disneyland. The sound (in the Front Room) was pretty terrible and once again we were plagued by technical problems. One thing the Parties do to compensate for an off night is to ramp up the excitement, so Saturday night Jeremy and I were jumping around like idiots. BSfBH once again turned in a nice solid set so I'm going to have to give that night to them too. After us was our pals the Waking Hours who cranked the enery level beyond the red. Holy living fuck. Things culminated in a frenzy with Tommy ripping bass strings off with his teeth and cracking the body of his Rick 330 completely in half. I had stepped outside during that part of the set and when I came back in, my bandmates were as white as a sheet and Jeremy showed me a photo of the destruction. I once read an article about Eric Rudolph, the dude who set off a bomb at the 1996 Olympics and lived in the Appalacian wilderness as a fugitive for five years. At one point, during Rudolph's self-imposed exile, his brother, in an act of protest against the government's ongoing pursuit of his sibling, cut off his own hand with a table saw and mailed it to the FBI. I got the same chill down my spine when I first read that part of the article as I did when I looked at Jeremy's photo of Tommy and his destroyed guitar. The look of detached mania in Tommy's eyes is something that will haunt me for years to come. But they sounded great and were totally badass!! The highlight of the evening for me was hanging out (albeit breifly) with my friend Paul who I've known since first grade and hadn't seen in 10 years. He heard about the show like a 1/2 hour before our set time and cruised over. Paul rules!
Sunday morning we took Jeremy's friend Ray - who kindly put the four of us up - out to brunch, then headed down to Long Beach for our final night in SoCal. We hooked up with the BSfBH boys at the Yardhouse and had some tasty beers. Afterwards, Jeremy and I dropped Rex and Rob off at the motel for a nap and headed over to a BBQ where The Commotions were scheduled to play. The Commotions feature our friend Marriane who is soon to be married to our other friend Shawn from the New Fidelity. Shawn, Dan and Billy from New Fi were all there and we had a lovely old time hanging with them. Unfortunately, we had to leave before the Commotions set to load in at the Que Sera where we were scheduled to play that night. We put them on the guest list and were delighted that they all showed up for our show later on.
Sunday night, as we had hoped and anticipated, was a complete blast. Blue Skies and The Parties were scheduled to play with a local band, that never showed up, giving us ample time to set up and check the sound and ultimately dick around on stage! We got Mike from Blue Skies to join us on "Breaking Hearts" and took a stab at "Radio" with Pat and Paul. We even got the New Fi to help us with a couple Who covers. Complete drunken chaos but fun as shit. Wayne Everett from Lassie Foundation and Terry from Greater California were also in attendance. Next time, we'll have to get those guys up on stage.
It was at the end of that night that we parted ways with BSfBH who were headed down to San Diego for one last show before heading back up north to Portland. I can't adequately convey how much fun we had with these dudes. I met them all not a week ago and they already seem like brothers.
Thanks to everyone who came out to our shows over the past four days. We all had a ton of fun playing music for, and hanging with y'all. We're all totally excited to head down that way again soon.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Summer Mini-tour 2009
The Parties are heading down to LA with our friends from Portland, Blue Skies For Black Hearts to play the International Pop Overthrow Festival as well as a few dates along the way. If we're rolling through your town, come out and see us! There are a couple pending dates not on the list (SF and another one in LA), so check the Parties Facebook or MySpace pages for updates.
Jul 30 - Sacramento, The Blue Lamp
Jul 31 - Fresno, Audie's Olympic
Aug 1 - L.A., The Knitting Factory
Aug 2 - San Diego, The Soda Bar
Some of you are probably wondering, "Who's playing drums?" Well, we're currently working on Rob from Rex's other band Sugar Spun to join us, otherwise Paul from Blue Skies will fill in.
Rock!
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
SXSW 2009 recap
We spent a few days in Austin, TX where we played a couple shows and saw a ton of great bands. We also drank a ton of cheap and often free beer.
DAY 1
Props to Paul Tyler for the sniper rifle Telecaster transportation method.
A mural in the Austin airport letting visitors know that giant women are always welcome here.
First stop, the Spin magazine party. Hot Leg brought it big time. The drummer Darby was quite a nice chap!
Glasvegas. We respect your courage guys, but I don't think American hipsters are ready to embrace the nipple shirt. Maybe next year.
The High Life was free all day... except during the headliner.
Echo and the Bunnymen sounded great!
E&TB had their own private makeshift rum and coke bar where the roadie would make drinks for the band. Definitely going in the Parties rider for next time.
I don't know how they managed to get Dylan to play rhythm guitar for them.
This is what the festival is all about, Will Sargent's guitars hanging out with Metallica's. Heartwarming.
Cover of new solo record titled 'Adam's Next'
Brisket at the Ironworks. Tasty!!
Little Steven about to introduce the High Dials, "Trevor, you boys put on a good show. If you go over 17 minutes, I'll break your legs."
Outrageous Cherry. Second female drummer of the day with a two-piece kit.
The Magic Christian. How does Cyril Jordan have MORE hair than back in the 70's?
James Iha sitting in with Hanson at Pangea.
DAY TWO:
The Hoa-Hoas at the The Rockin Tomato pizza joint. A charming group of Canadians. For some reason this one photo looks like it's from 1976.
The Disrealis. Our favorite Canadian ski team!
Look, Trevor's OK!
Wavy Gravy sighting.
John talks to original Woodstock organizer Michael Langston about a possible "Partiestock"
Our favorite Kentuckians, The Broadfield Marchers. (Yes, we played with bands not from Canada!)
Justin Hawkins from Hot Leg/The Darkness takes the opportunity to snap a photo with Man Rock pioneer Adam Symons.
1AM and we finally take the stage at the Rainbow Quartz showcase.
The two themes of the weekend were Canadians, and white jeans.
John Morgan's going to sit down at the Rhodes and play a little song for you.
The windows behind us opened up to the street. That dude with the backpack watched the whole set from there. (and by "set" I mean "my ass")
Late night Whataburger. After packing a week's worth of SXSW into just one day, John Morgan is DONE.
DAY 3:
Finally, a nice Mexican style breakfast and a decent bloody mary.
Graffiti from the men's room at the Ginger Man. I have no idea what Austin has against the color spectrum.
In all it was a great trip. Thank you, Austin, you were a wonderful host to the Parties!
DAY 1
Props to Paul Tyler for the sniper rifle Telecaster transportation method.
A mural in the Austin airport letting visitors know that giant women are always welcome here.
First stop, the Spin magazine party. Hot Leg brought it big time. The drummer Darby was quite a nice chap!
Glasvegas. We respect your courage guys, but I don't think American hipsters are ready to embrace the nipple shirt. Maybe next year.
The High Life was free all day... except during the headliner.
Echo and the Bunnymen sounded great!
E&TB had their own private makeshift rum and coke bar where the roadie would make drinks for the band. Definitely going in the Parties rider for next time.
I don't know how they managed to get Dylan to play rhythm guitar for them.
This is what the festival is all about, Will Sargent's guitars hanging out with Metallica's. Heartwarming.
Cover of new solo record titled 'Adam's Next'
Brisket at the Ironworks. Tasty!!
Little Steven about to introduce the High Dials, "Trevor, you boys put on a good show. If you go over 17 minutes, I'll break your legs."
Outrageous Cherry. Second female drummer of the day with a two-piece kit.
The Magic Christian. How does Cyril Jordan have MORE hair than back in the 70's?
James Iha sitting in with Hanson at Pangea.
DAY TWO:
The Hoa-Hoas at the The Rockin Tomato pizza joint. A charming group of Canadians. For some reason this one photo looks like it's from 1976.
The Disrealis. Our favorite Canadian ski team!
Look, Trevor's OK!
Wavy Gravy sighting.
John talks to original Woodstock organizer Michael Langston about a possible "Partiestock"
Our favorite Kentuckians, The Broadfield Marchers. (Yes, we played with bands not from Canada!)
Justin Hawkins from Hot Leg/The Darkness takes the opportunity to snap a photo with Man Rock pioneer Adam Symons.
1AM and we finally take the stage at the Rainbow Quartz showcase.
The two themes of the weekend were Canadians, and white jeans.
John Morgan's going to sit down at the Rhodes and play a little song for you.
The windows behind us opened up to the street. That dude with the backpack watched the whole set from there. (and by "set" I mean "my ass")
Late night Whataburger. After packing a week's worth of SXSW into just one day, John Morgan is DONE.
DAY 3:
Finally, a nice Mexican style breakfast and a decent bloody mary.
Graffiti from the men's room at the Ginger Man. I have no idea what Austin has against the color spectrum.
In all it was a great trip. Thank you, Austin, you were a wonderful host to the Parties!
Monday, March 16, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
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