Saturday 06/26/10 – THE NORTHSIDE FESTIVAL

Kurt Leegee on guitar, and Sarah Mucho on vocals!

Music Is the Drug - Zeitgeist 4/28/10

  9pm - Wounded Buffalo Theory  www.woundedbuffalotheory.com

DIRECTIONS:  Take the F train to Delancey or the J/M train to Essex.  Walk east on Delancey 1 1/2 blocks.  The club is on the north side of Delancey just past Clinton, where the Williamsburg Bridge begins.  MAP


Check out Wounded Buffalo Theory on Ameros Radio tonight at 11pm!  Jesse Calhoun interviews the band on the new album, new sounds, and more...LIVE TONIGHT!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amerosradio

Call-in Number: (646) 727-3385

and don't forget our free show at the Delancy (NYC) this Wednesday! 

The Sometime Boys 7pm

Bergs 8pm

Wounded Buffalo Theory (featuring Kurt Leege and Sarah Mucho)9pm

Dolly Trolly 10pm

$3 PBR's all night, no cover!

First: We're making our official full band 2010 debut on April 28th at one of our favorite jaunts in NYC, The Delancy as part of a great bill featuring our friends The Sometime Boys and more!  7pm start time for one of the sweetest venues in town.

Second: We're happy as hell to be playing the lengedary BITTER END for the first time in our careers on May 14th, at 11:30pm.  We'll have our bff's Dolly Trolly along with us, so it should be a good ole party.  Both of these shows will feature a TON of new songs from the upcoming album, which may or may not be called "Explosar" at this point in time:).  Additionally, both will feature Kurt Leege joining us on guitar.

Third: A few songs from our 2008 release, It's Alright is Not Alright, are currently being featured on a compilation called Original Sounds of Rock: Totally Twisted, produced by Halfway House Studios.  It's a GREAT disc...some of the other bands are amazing (check out Wrekcreation..NOW).  You can purchase it at Amazon, and lots of other places.  Definitely a nice rock disc featuring your favorite neighborhood WBT and some of our best rock tracks.

Fourth: Work on "Explosar" (tentative title!) continues unabated.  We're busy mixing, and finishing the vocals on one more track that we ended up re-taking.  We should have a second single out soon, although we're pretty thrilled by the initial reaction to our first single, Jerk/Empirical Evidence and may just ride that wave for a little bit!  After mixing is done, we'll have to master, but we're still crossing fingers for a May/June 2010 release.  To whet your appetite, have a free EXPLOSAR B-side Instrumental EP!  These are tracks that didn't make the cut for the upcoming release, but fall in the same vein of production that the album has employed.  They also happen to have no words.   Also, there's a Malko remix of Mark Wise's (our former axe-man, currently playing with the Avenues down in Nashville) "Fake Husband" that is not to be missed.

Check em out here and on our music page!  Enjoy responsibly.

2-Bit Bums

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Fake Husband (Malko Remix)

We've been recording at Malko's abode since August on this album, but it's pretty close to finished.  We've been focusing on composition, and lyrics, and so this album is an experimental exercise in production, moreso than a representation of what we're usually like on stage.  Following that vague ethos, we worked a lot with looped drum samples, and got a little dancy on some of the stuff.  "Jerk/Empirical Evidence" is a good two-part representation of that end of the album.  We'll release another track or two before the release of the album in late Spring, along with some B-sides and remixes, but for now enjoy the first new single!

Listen to JERK

Listen to EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

Also, we're gonna be at The Delancy in NYC on April 28th!  Come check out some of the new songs at one of our favorite venues, 9pm start time.  More gig announcements coming soon.

In our first of many installments spreading the word on some of our favorite artists and musicians, we hit up house-master Basso, who podcasts his show every sunday night.  We've played many a show with Basso and the OssoTerro crew, and no doubt you'll be dancing your ass off on this mix.  Check it out, and enjoy responsibly!

The weather is cold and damp and cold, your car is packed with gear and humans and barely making it over the Manhattan Bridge, the club doesn't have a sign on the front door, not to mention any sign of people remotely interested in free-jazz inspired prog/post rock.  You're a band dealing with identity issues at best, and basic philosophical musical disagreements at worst, and knee deep in a period of time (Winter 2008) where regaining the momentum of an adventurous Cabinfest/Fall gig schedule was proving difficult, and even more so with the production of It's Alright is Not Alright sitting in the background like a grimacing evil troll with a shotgun in his hand.

And so it came to be that on 12/6/08, the 4 gentlemen of Wounded Buffalo Theory staggered uneasily into the OS Arthouse (nearly impenetrably located in the basement of another bar called the John St. Grill), where by far the best thing about the place was a solitary "BUCK HUNTER: BIG GAME EDITION" in the outer hall.  The venue area itself has almost no light whatsoever; this proved to be a major factor when setting up, since the hip hop act that opened the night got into a fight with an audience member near the end of their set, and spilled what seemed like at least 3 drinks in the process on the stage and power units.  Since we couldn't really see where the drinks had spilled, we had some fun predicting which guitar player would get electrocuted first.  As it turns out, the fight cleared out a whole bunch of people, and so we took the stage to a massive cheering crowd of 4 (unbelievably dedicated and wonderful) people.

All that said, sometimes it's these moments that prove to be your creative catalysts in the long years spent together as a working band.  Without any reason to find musical consensus, for whatever reason, the band seemed to find ways of bringing pieces together in a fiery, angry blend of sounds, and in some ways, constructs the best sounding, most experimental show of that season, and maybe the entire year.

Not every track included here is dark and furious, although the opening "Pledge" and "Gutenberg" salvos that take up the first 30 minutes certainly lean more towards the band's harder inspirations, and the rest of the set certainly echoes that ethos.  "Killer Klowns", still a relatively new track at the time, brims with alienation and a beautifully uncomfortable middle section, and "Lay Me Down", rarely played at shows with larger, more dance-orientated audiences, seethes through its intro while building a fierce peak into its closing section.

Again, the softer tones still exist; "Bodies II," the closing section of "Gutenberg," and the intro of "The Boer," (a song off of Red that hadn't been played in nearly 2 years before this show) showcase a more textured dynamic, but retain a sharp focus highlighted throughout the show.  These sections may be quieter, but again, for whatever reason, whatever was pissing us off that night made for some very tight playing, crisp segues, and experimental playing that colored much of what we did in the months following the show.  Without question, some credit must go to visualist Justin Wood, who, as you can see by the videos we've included below, went above and beyond and was able to give us something to vibe off and work with.

So, for the first time, we're releasing a good portion of this show for free download, on our music page and on the various links scattered around this post:)  We couldn't include all the songs, due to sound problems, but this cross section is the real meat of the show.  So get angry, and help yourself to some WBT therapy music...take all your anger out on us today:).  Music To Murder By: Live at the OS Arthouse 12/6/08.

Additionally, we're calling on our fans and friends to help us get to Camp Bisco, and no we're not looking for your extra, brah...  This year, the folks who put on Camp are looking for your suggestions for bands you want to see rip it up.  Just CLICK HERE and fill out the form and help get WBT to Camp.  Plus 20 heady points.

See you on the 20th!