The Lame Drivers Flexi-Book EP is a book that you can play on your turntable. 7 new songs across 5 thin sound sheets, with original artwork by Mayuko Fujino, Sarah Hotchkiss, Keenan Marshall Keller, Caroline Teagle and Umman Turkoglu. Recorded by Lame Drivers @ Rad_Town, Matt Tong (Matthew C H Tong / Bloc Party) at Exploded Drawing in Bed-Stuy, and JZ Barrell.

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300 Flexi-Books arrived from Pirates Press this week. We hand-tested, stenciled, stickered, bagged and shipped out the first batch of pre-orders…

We’re bringing the rest on our tour with The Woolen Men, May 19-June 6th.

May 19 (sun) NYC - Brooklyn @ Shea Stadium w/ Hippy & Shark? **FLEXI-BOOKs ARE HERE**
May 20 (mon) NJ – Woolen Men tape @ WFMU followed by a New Brunswick house show
May 21 (tues) Boston MA @ O’Brien’s w/ Bent Shapes, Half Sour
May 22 (wed) Philadelphia PA @ Johnny Brenda’s w/ Literature, Pet Milk
May 23 (thurs) Cleveland OH @ Now That’s Class w/ Chomp
May 24 (fri) Chicago  IL @ Permanent Records (6pm) + late show at Coles
May 25 (sat) Bloomington IN @ The Ream w/ Thee Open Sex
May 26 (sun) Nashville  TN @ The End w/ Deluxin & R Stevie Moore
May 27 (mon) Memphis TN @ The Lamplighter
May 28 (tues) Little Rock AR @ Professor Bowl / 8bit Tap Room
May 29 (wed) Austin TX @ Beerland  w/ Simple Circuit, Zoltars, Shinta
May 30 (thur) New Orleans LA @ AllWays Lounge w/ SS Boombox
May 31 (fri) Athens GA @ Farm 255 w/ Eureka CA, Dead Dog (tour kickoff), Little Gold
June 1 (sat) Atlanta GA @ 529 w/ This House, Starfighter
June 2 (sun) Charlotte NC @ Yauhaus (BBQ) + Late Show TBA
June 3 (mon) Durham NC @ Fellowship Hall w/ Fruit, Stems (fb)
June 4 (tue) Washington DC @ CD Cellar w/ Foul Swoops
June 5 (wed) Baltimore @ Ottobar Upstairs w/ Crimson Wave, Expert Alterations
June 6 (thur) - NYC @ Cake Shop w/ Darlings + Future Punx ** Lame Drivers / Woolen Men SGG split 7″ Release Party **
June 7 (fri) – Brooklyn @ Silent Barn (Woolen Men only)

All of these shows are with The Woolen Men, our PDX tour buds and a fellow 3-piece. Their new tour tape, Dog Years LP, and debut for Woodsist all rule. These guys just keep getting better and we’re not only looking forward to getting in the van with ‘em, but we’re also very excited about our split 7″ on Sleeping Giant Glossolalia…more on that soon!

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A group of imaginative 2nd-6th graders wrote, directed and starred in this video for “Frozen Egg,” one of the songs off the Flexi-Book EP. It was a project of the Inventgenuity after-school program in Brooklyn, where Jeff is a teacher. They have amazing workshops where young people solder circuits for DIY light and sound gadgets, create their own video games & custom controllers, learn carpentry with power tools, stop-motion animation, physical computing with Arduino, printmaking, building boogie boards, praxinoscopes, puppets, alarm clocks and more…kids these days are pretty amazing! The storyline that Cougar, Max, Amelia, Gigi, Warren and Isabel came up with includes time travel, zombies, procreation, and apocalypse. East Village Radio picked it up and we wanted to post it here, too!

Artwork: “Youth” by Umman Turkoglu
Recorded by Matt Tong at Exploded Drawing

This is a track from our forthcoming Flexi-Disc EP. Originally we’d planned five flexi postcards, but our Kickstarter exceeded the goal so we’re realizing our dream of a Flexi-Book that you can play on your turntable like this:

The Flexi-Book format is inspired by a National Geographic guide to bird sounds, and it sounds fantastic—we’ve had the Group Flex from Castle Face on heavy rotation. We’ve been working on extra songs, more handmade artwork, and enough copies to distribute around the world. We’re at the mastering stage and they should be ready within the next month.

Super fans will find a demo version of “Frozen Egg” on the Eureka California tape amidst our digital archive of every recording we have ever made, along with lots of other song ideas that we are developing thanks to your support. We’ve been making the most of our budget by doing some studio recordings with Matt Tong, JZ Barrell, and Sammy Bananas, along with home recording at Rad Town. We have 17 new songs written for our debut LP, a bunch of sessions coming up in January, and we are psyched for what’s to come.

While preparing the Flexi EP and Debut LP, we’re also got our hands full with additional Kickstarter rewards like the Covers EP and the Digital Archive of every recording we have ever made (for Super LD Fans). Meanwhile, there have been some outside distractions beyond the day-to-day: Jason was shipped off to Australia for a Home Blitz tour, he and Jeff have been doing multimedia work for Piehole productions (expect the Mann Ist Mann studio album soon—music by J. Sigal, lyrics by B. Brecht), Joe got engaged (during band practice no less!), and a few of the recording dates Matt Tong had set aside for us between Bloc Party tours were derailed by Hurricane Sandy. We don’t want to compromise the quality of the releases that our backers have made possible, so we hope you’ll appreciate that we’re not going to rush things.

You can order a Lame Drivers Flexi Disc EP here, and they should be ready in early January. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy “Frozen Egg” and feel free to share the mp3!

Happy Labor Day!

Here’s “Working Song,” prod by Sammy Bananas from the 2010 Blackburn Recordings compilation.

It’s a free download also featuring Big Troubles, Cloud Nothings, Sore Eros, Metal Rouge, Cursillistas, many more great bands and tracks, we were psyched to be part of this comp!!

Down-them-all here.

Working Song has been featured on a couple mixes at the Free Music Archive, including this one called “Go To Work You Jerk!” compiled by the awesome Katya-Oddio (Oddio Overplay).

Decoder Magazine just leaked “Other Side,” a new Lame Drivers song rec’d by Matt Tong. Matt’s our good pal and this was a great recording experience. We hope to record some more songs with him if he gets another free moment amidst Bloc Party tours.

Artwork by Sarah Hotchkiss, also a good friend and co-director of the Stairwell’s Gallery in San Francisco. We’re happy to work with such talented artists as we preparing to release our first vinyl LP + Flexi-Disc EP.

With your support, we’ll all get to see this here impossible shape spinnin’ around on a flexi-disc comin soon to your turntable!

We had a blast playing Terre T’s Cherry Blossom Clinic on WFMU, our favorite radio station (although we may be biased) along with Home Blitz.

Thanks to host Terre T, assistant producers Paulie B & Nate the K, engineer Dave Amels, and Yvonne Szymczak & Lizzie Davis for shootin’ video!

The whole set + interview is available to download from the Free Music Archive, embedded below, plus some video of the songs Indian Burn, Frozen Egg and Last Call for Violence. Most of these are new songs that we have yet to release in any form, and they’re in rotation right now on our summer tour w/ the Woolen Men.

We’re gonna be carrying some tapes with new songs on them during our East + West Coast Tours.

1. split w/ our tourmates The Woolen Men (Portland OR) on Eggy Records

2. split w/ our buds Eureka California (Athens GA) on Dirty Pillows Recs

We’ve also got a repress of our 27-track sampler, Cruisin’ Classics 2003-2010, with some different songs in the mix because this is the “Last Summer on Earth” edition.

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We’re playing with two awesome bands from AUSTRALIA plus our cousins Home Blitz on Wednesday at Cake Shop [EVENT]!

ROYAL HEADACHE
(R.I.P Society [AUSTRALIA] / What’s Yr Rupture)

SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING

HOME BLITZ

photo: last time we played Cake Shop…

Lame Drivers are psyched for this show at Death By Audio on May 17th w/ the awesome EULA, Psychic Feline (Portland’s finest minimal psych-garage) and good buds Sloppy Heads. Sample tracks below plus this bonus MP3: Sloppy Heads’ epic cover of “Shirley“ orig by the great 1974 Cleveland band Mirrors.

Whether or not you can make it to the show, you can attend the event on Facebook, unless you’re not on Facebook and just plan to come to the show.

Here’s a test run of the Lame Drivers Virtual Cassingle Pod, a subscription-based podcast that will feature a new and/or rare Lame Drivers mp3 every week.

To start things off, how about this track off our sold-out Demoverse Cassette [Eggy Records 2010] entitled “Kill Me.”

You can subscribe to the LameCast here

and let us know which logo we should use.

Huge Relief b/w Bring it Back

these are demos for an imaginary 7″