Nuclear Bubble Wrap

Baron Dave Romm gave us a nice review on his website after picking up some of our CDs at MarsCon. Check it out!

Our Green Day parody, “Know Your Power Chords” went up on The FuMP last week. For some reason I neglected to mention it here.

So yeah, if you’re so inclined, visit the site and download it!

We’ve made “ScientLOLojyuuichi,” our ode to Tom Cruise and Scientology, a downloadable single on iTunes so people can find it easier. (Oddly enough, nobody can spell “scientlolojyuuichi” for some reason.) The song is also piggybacked with “Bad Spell” (our dirty Harry Potter/Bloodhound Gang parody from Advanced at Nothing) and an all-new exclusive song called “Insult to Evan.”

To download it, just clicky clicky right here!

And if you haven’t seen the two-year old music video then seriously, what’s wrong with you?

Hey guys, we’re playing two shows this weekend! If you live in the Nashville area, you should like, come see us and stuff!

First one is this Saturday the 27th at YEAH! Venue (14 S. Maple St. Murfreesboro, TN) at 7:30 pm. Second one is Sunday the 28th at The Muse (835 4th Avenue South, Nashville, TN). Doors to that one open at 4:00. Costs are $5 and $8, respectively.

Speaking of shows, it also looks like we’ll be playing Con on the Cob this October. That’s in Hudson, Ohio. We’ll be a part of the comedy music extravagasm, of course. Yeah!

So, if anyone wants to read Jace’s long-ass detailed Marscon report, here ya go:

http://weirdojace.livejournal.com/97818.html

Thanks to everyone who came and made that weekend the amazing weekend that it was! And thanks to Luke Ski for putting everything together and inviting us. We shall be back!!!

At MarsCon, we’re selling an exclusive CD entitled “$N.BW.” It’s mainly so we have something to sell that has our new songs on it, even though the new album isn’t out yet.

But, to ensure that people who buy this don’t feel ripped off when the album comes out, this CD also contains never-before-released outtakes and demos! Cool, huh? Here’s the tracklist:

1. Off to the Lions
2. Fan Fiction
3. ScientLOLojyuuichi
4. The Environment
5. Birdfucker
6. Draining the Lizard on a Dead Gay Wizard
7. Lesbian
8. Know Your Power Chords
9. Raichu a Song
10. In Space No One Can Hear You Scream
11. Bare Facts
12. Mr. Me
13. Lazyhead and Sleepybones
14. Dick
15. Gladozoid
16. Burning Chrome
17. Holes in the Fort (Demo)
18. In Space No One Can Hear You Scream (Demo)
19. Creepy
20. Bee of the Bird of the Moth
21. Dead

Make sure to pick up your copy! It’s limited!

Well, according to this here playlist, “Bare Facts” was played on the Dr. Demento Show this weekend! Please request him to play it again by filling out this form. If he gets enough requests, the song will show up in the top 10! Wouldn’t that be nifty?

Hey guys… NEXT WEEK IS MARSCON!!!

We’ll be playing as part of the Dementia Track on Saturday afternoon. You should come. And stuff. Check the Marscon Dementia site for details.

Potato’s brings up a good question… Remember that music video we talked about earlier?

potato’s asks: what happened to the “know your powercords” music video?

It was filmed… and it turned out crappy. We have to reshoot it next month. Don’t worry though, it will happen! Man, I told myself I’d never put eyeliner on again…

Here’s a new batch of questions we got for Ask NBW. To ask a question, just click the “Ask NBW” link at the top!

RattMice asks: Why did you write “Draining the Lizard on a Dead Gay Wizard” exactly? It sounds like the song is about pissing on a dead, fictional wizard’s grave for because it is later revealed that he’s gay. Is that what the song is about, and if so do your band have some kind of negative stance on homosexuality?

I’ll start off by saying that no, we don’t have any negative stance on it and we’re very supportive of homosexuality and gay rights. It’s unfortunate that the song is being taken the wrong way, because we had no intentions of making it sound like that and I’m sorry that people are misinterpreting it. Basically, my friend ShoEboX and I were discussing Wizard Rock (a genre of music in which bands sing about the Harry Potter books) and how Harry Potter fans tend to take the series very seriously. So we thought it’d be funny to openly mock one of the most beloved characters in the series and of course, piss on his grave. Mentioning him being gay was in there just to educate people who perhaps didn’t know he was, to avoid confusion at the “dead gay wizard” line. That said, it was merely meant to be a song ridden with pee jokes and not much else.

Fox asks: What’s the chord your playings to unlock the Easter egg scene?

That’s for you to figure out. Hint: There’s two chords, and the notes in each chord spell out a word.

Adam Montasser asks: Are you guys a big fan of “They Might Be Giants”?

Oh, you know it. They’ve been a huge influence on our music and lyrics and are one of our favorite bands. Who knows, maybe one day we can be as lucky as Jonathan Coulton and get to open for them! All you gotta do is cover one of their albums in its entirety, right?