Go For the Map!

Huge Relief b/w Bring it Back

these are demos for an imaginary 7″

Lame Drivers – “Memorial Day”

::: HACKAMORE BRICK :::
* “the first band known to cite the Velvet Underground as a source of inspiration…eerily anticipating the minimalist charm of Jonathan Richman…an embryonic Television” (AllMusic)

* Chick Newman and Tommy Moonlight backed by WFMU’s John Allen and Evan ‘Funk’ Davies for this one-off performance, playing hits off their classic album — listen! “Oh! Those_Sweet_Bananas” (mp3)

::: LAME DRIVERS :::

Lame Drivers will be joined by special guests like Thomas “Bunker Pop” Storck, playing some Cruisin’ Classics plus never before heard songs like this one by the Lame Drivers’ side-project 2nightmayorezzz (mp3)

::: HARPOON FOREVER :::
Rutherford NJ’s finest!

::: HENRY HYNES :::

<<< DJ DANIEL DIMAGGIO (HOME BLITZ) >>>

+++ SECRET GUESTS !?!?!

@ Cake Shop 152 Ludlow St NYC

We also made it to SXSW and I’m gonna tell you all about the 5 (or maybe more like 4 and a half) shows that we played in the next post, but first I just wanted to share this with you:

it’s a Creative Commons-licensed video of some cute dogs playing (looks like they’re gonna eat each other!) made with the olde Lame Drivers song “Excess” as part of the soundtrack. “Excess” featured Matt LeMay on drums channeling Ride, and I’m pretty sure that Joe Posner played bass, there’s some Kevin Sparks guitar in there. It’s a Cruisin’ Classic circa 2006. “Excess” had just gone up on the Free Music Archive along with a few other tracks off of our Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA)-licensed Cruisin’ Classics 2003-2010 retrospective, and it’s so cool that somebody found it and made this video the very next day!

We hope to see/hear Lame Drivers music soundtracking many more puppy videos, as well as kitty videos, snake videos, and human baby videos.

“Lame Drivers are an interesting band.  No doubt, they are good.  Their live show is tight, concise, and churns out alt rock that would make Robert Pollard smile…It’s almost as if they came along ten years too late.  I can only imagine that if this were 1995 they’d have a pretty big record deal and be getting interviewed by Matt Pinfield on MTV. I really feel that they have not received the recognition they deserve from the Internet.. ” (New York Rock Market)

ya hear that, Internet? You stoopid fugkin intanet!

Anyway, thanks for the kind words New York Rock Market, and most importantely for taking lots of great pics documenting the show we put together at The Delancey last Thursday Jan 13th! We booked it from scratch just like last time, so we once again got to see + hear some of our favorite music acts: Eola (Edwin of Tonstartssbandht), Harpoon Forever, Cool World, plus killa DJ sets by Rock N Roll James (Violet Times) + DJ The-Glide (Friendship Bracelet).

Despite the fun times and free vodka… Let us NEVER FORGET how the show ended: with VIOLENCE when our gracefully moshing friend Jared was thrown out and beaten by a security guard!

Last Call For Violence

Ringin’ in the new year! Lots of new music to come in 2011, but first let’s take a listen back through the secret history of lame drivers with….

Lame Drivers – Cruisin’ Classics 2003-2010 (.zip download, 27 tracks)

a sequenced, anti-chronological sampling of music from our official discography plus rarities, side projects, demos, and reversed tape-manipulated demos. Here, hear a few:

Train_of_Thought (as The Blood Lemons feat. Raf of Eggy Records / Polyps / Woolen Men) [2006, Songs of Sevastopol]

Sharks & Minnows [Let Them Eat Tape, 2008]

Demonzblood [Demoverse, 2010]

Lemme Get Those #s Down [Captain Amazing EP, 2004]

Go For The Map (Sammy Bananas Mix) [Demoverse, 2010]

Excess [Let Them Eat Tape, 2008]

that’s Senator R Stevie Moore

Butts from Seattle

Tonstartssbandht best bandht around, a preview:

Black Feelings from MTL

and Lame Drivers open…around 9!

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Show is $10. We’re located at 915 Wyckoff Ave in Ridgewood NY. L or M train to Myrtle-Wyckoff. Yes, that’s our front door. I know it looks abandoned. It’s not. Come inside.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156728201011557

gr8 show comin’ up on Thursday @ The Delancey, it’s gonna be like Muppets Take Manhattan with 3 of Brooklyn’s finest plus Lame Drivers, it’s gonna be like Lame Drivers on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, it’s gonna be…like… click on the flyer!

8:00 pm doors

>> DJ Lemon Dots one of the 2 best DJ’s around

8:30 Easter Vomit

new band from JW who was the true genius behind The Beets and was also in Gutsies the band that could’ve been bigger than the Beatles

9:30 The Surprisers

Supergroup includes former Oxford Collapse & Cause CoMotion-ers, current McD0nald5 & German Measles, and, on vocals, Abe, who I will never look at the same ever again after being blown away by the raw Gun Club Over The Edge-ness of their live show. “a little like Elvis if he went insane.” …BEAR WITNESS!

>> 10pm DJ Daniel “Home Blitz” DiMaggio (Giants of Jazz) AND Free Margaritas Begin!!

10:30 My Teenage Stride

Brooklyn’s legendary Indie-Pop band, led by Jedediah Smith, “one of the best songwriters in the country”. And this song‘s been called “one of the best songs of the decade”…but I think these songs are even better and they’re brand spankin’ new!

11:30 LAME DRIVERS

fcuk justin bieber

…stick around!

2 great shows coming up!

Oct 14 @ The Delancey with My Teenage Stride and 2 more secret bands and FREE MARGARITAS

Oct 22 @ Silent Barn (9-15 Wyckoff in Ridgewood, Queens which is basically Bushwick) with Senator R Stevie Moore and Butts from Seattle WA

…more on both these shows soon! In the meantime, here’s a super rough demo of our funk jam

: funking jamz

and here’s another fuggin s-hittee jam we did! raw material for future lame drivers to resuscitate

: 20100914 212840

get to know!