A few things of note:

We’re playing in Brick City on Saturday Sept 20th; it’s a fund raiser dance party to send our favorite photographer Colleen Gutwein to Cambodia. We’ll be kicking it nasty with the Frozen Gentlemen and Stephen Dressler is gonna DJ the dance party.  It goes down at Kilkenny, and it’s $7 to get in.

We’re playing in Brooklyn on Friday Sept 26th; we need to keep playing at Matchless, the show last month was an absolute blast.  This is a free show.  

Thanks again to Zelda Pinwheel for coming and playing their last show with us, Frozen Gents for rocking the party, and The Black Clouds for opening up with some righteous rock and roll.

All show info is here on the website, so get out of your RSS reader and click over!

Also, we’ve been busy with the blog, which we moved off the front page. We’ve been posting radical leftist literature and bedroom demos of new things, and this will likely snowball as we get closer to the election, and to recording.

We’re planning to put out a split 7″ with the Frozen Gents on Tank Crash! later this year, and to start tracking a new full-length which we will also probably release on Tank Crash!, and then in March we’re going to SXSW whether they want us there or not, and then eventually we’ll get signed to ANTI- and live happily ever after.  

I hear you can just “manifest” things to make them happen, so I’m working on that.  

I should mention that we’re reviving the Tank Crash! label, and we’re going to start putting out other artists’ work on it again as we did in the past.  We just needed to take a break for a little while.  

We’re playing -==Matchless==- in Brooklyn this Saturday, Aug 23rd.  And it happens to be with some awesome bands (because we booked them!)

Frozen Gentlemen play hot disco rock.  It’s funkier than your father.  I triple-dog-dare you not to dance.

Zelda Pinwheel will be doing a mind-altering, orgasm in pants inducing set.  And I’d say as usual, but this is sadly the last ZP show, so I’m honored that when we finally get to play with them, this is the show.  I’ve kept up with these guys for a long time and they’re simply amazing.

The Black Clouds are a bad-ass grunge rock band from the Jersey Shore.  Don’t lie, you were into it, and these guys will fill that void with which we entered the adult world, horns in the air.

21+, FREE, starts at 8, Clouds, Zelda, Gents and Melts at 11pm.

Matchless: Driggs and Manhattan, Brooklyn NY 11222

Here’s a special treat for our blog readers. We were very inspired on 08/08/08 and worked on new songs. Since we record pretty much every practice session, I figure it’s high time we start sharing some interesting new stuff.

ARIZONA
Another song about terror! This minute-long clip is cut out of an extended jam we had over the middle part.

RICHARD
Sentimental! Lead in by interesting practice banter from Gerry. I spoke of it briefly over at my personal blog, and I brought it over to the other guys who managed to whip up a healthy racket for it.

If you’ve visited our website today, you may have noticed that something is different. I spent all night sprucing it up. The point overall was simplification. You’ll find that the main page here is a lot less cluttered, and only displays news items on the left that have been given the magic category “Main”.

For those of you who still wish to be inundated with our views on politics and Internet Memes, do not fear, you can click the link for “Blog” up there on the right and all of our blogsome goodness will come pouring hither. Those of you following us via RSS should see no difference, except perhaps a short blip in your RSS client because of something I had to do on the back end to get RSS to cooperate again.

If you find anything wrong, any blips, please let us know at band@themeltdowns.com and we’ll get to it.

This review by Jim Testa in Jersey Beat could make me cry.  I was a huge Dismemberment Plan fan.

Yes, it’s an anagram, almost worse than a pun, and all too typical of this band’s self-deprecating sense of humor. But don’t believe the title of this 4-song EP for a second. Far from a letdown, these tunes actually mark the first time that the Meltdowns have managed to capture all the manic live energy of their stage show on disc. More than that, these four tunes showcase the range of talent that this young Brooklyn quartet musters – a freaky, frenetic funk workout, a post-psychedelic wah-wah fest with guitar and bass solos that absolutely shred, and to top it all off, a bouncy pop tune with a strutting temp and tongue-in-cheek lyrics. The humor, the funk, and the musicianship can’t help but bring to mind the Dismemberment Plan, another band that existed outside of any scene other than its own eclectic awesomeness. Bands today don’t show off and they don’t get down often enough; the Meltdowns do. And I haven’t even mentioned the choreography yet. You’re going to have to wait for the live show for that; in the meantime, download this now and have yourself a party.

You can download the whole EP for free over here.

We just found out about this mostly-positive review of our first EP, No Authority, Direction, or Control, over at AbsolutePunk.net:

The Meltdowns will be someone to look out for in the future. With a bit more organization in some songs, and more honing of some of their instrumental crafts that shine on “Club Sedition” and “For Tomorrow,” No Authority, Direction, or Control is the club you’ve been hearing about, and should check out if you have the time.