June 6 - Atomic Butter Babes

Atomic Butter Babes are playing a show this Friday and it is going to be oh so glorious. Joining us will be Diabolic Octopus, on tour from North Dakota. They play surf rock with punk influence. Not bad. Also playing are The Rot Aways, who just moved to Portland from Seattle and I am stoked. I played with them last year at Grapedrink? with The Taxpayers and it was a lot of fun. Those dudes are pretty punk, I remember drunkenly slam dancing with them and they spat a lot during their set. I'm pretty glad they are in Portland now. Anyways, its their first show as PDXresidents and the Butter Babes are playing with them again in July. Also, our good buddies The Hand That Bleeds with be there as well as The Rot Away's buddies The Bi-Marks.

Atomic Butter Babes Designs

Atomic Butter Babes, as well as The Taxpayers, will be putting together some merch to sell along the tour. Today I came up with a few designs for Atomic Butter Babes, one is a t-shirt and the other is a pin. I will be making up Taxpayers designs over the weekend.

t-shirt:


pin:

I'm open to criticism and suggestions.

The Taxpayers and the sort

So, lets talk about Taxpayers. We're a three piece DIY folk-punk band: Rob, Nate, and myself. I like The Taxpayers, a lot. Probably because I'm in the band, but I think it has potential and we write honest, genuine, and good music. We've (the 3 of us) been together for about a year now, Rob started the project in Cleveland already and released an album solo-ish on Big Record Label. Its pretty good too, some of the songs from it are goin to be rehashed on The Taxpayers next album. Which will be recorded sometime soon after we return from tour. Oh yeah, The Taxpayers are goin on tour with The Atomic Butter Babes and Hugh Downer (both projects I am involved with) too. Its goin to happen in April and will be about 2 1/2 weeks long. Got the new van and everything for it too!! w00t!!

Since I will be updating this blog regularly, I will be posting things such as tour dates, new song updates, merch design, and other rando taxpayer related photos. This time, I will only be leaving you with a link where you can download The Taxpayers album, "Exhilarating News", for free. Also, the Atomic Butter Babes valentines EP, "Songs to Walk the Plank To".

I hope you enjoy both, I do.

The Taxpayers: Exhilarating News
[side a:] http://www.archive.org/details/ExhilaratingNews-TheTaxpayerssideA
[side b:] http://www.archive.org/details/ExhilaratingNews-TheTaxpayerssideB

Atomic Butter Babes: Songs to Walk The Plank To
http://www.archive.org/details/SongsToWalkThePlankTo