We get it. You are the 99% Big banks sucks.. They got bailed out, you got sold out.. blah blah blah blah... Los Angeles - 5 Million... NYC - 17 million Oakland 3.7 million Boston 1.5 million the list goes on... ZERO TANGIBLE RESULTS. Please , Stop. Just stop.
Portland, OR's The Taxpayers will be embarking on a west coast tour for the month of December before Rob Taxpayer heads off to grad school to become a pre-school teacher. Dates with The Wild and The Disregardables will follow in Janurary. We'll keep you updated on those dates once they surface. A special tour-only EP will be available throughout the tour featuring unreleased Taxpayers material and b-sides. The Taxpayers last released To Risk So Much for One Damn Meal in 2011.
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Q + A MTV Yes, MTV still plays music videos, so let's just get that joke out of the way right now. Cool? OK, great. The multimedia's latest foray into the indie world is 'Weird Vibes,' a 30-minute program that features interviews and videos from some of today's best bands. The show, which premiered today (Aug. 11) via our friends at MTV Hive , is produced [...]
This is my Fist Three give-me-all-the-bacon-and-eggs -you-have reasons to put on your punk rock pants and promenade over to Panchos tonight… 1. This Is My Fist seems to bounce between Chicago and the Bay area quite often. Matters of location aside, the band, featuring guitarist and vocalist Annie Strong, plays fast-paced punk rock reminiscent of 90s rockers Jawbreaker. What makes This is My Fist notable is Strong's smoky, yet scratchy and strained vocals. Brody Dalle eat your heart out. [...]
Remember our previous meditation about how sometimes thing work out just like they should? NEW TAXPAYERS RECORD, pepples. You've heard me blowing Gabriel's horn over them a time or two , and To Risk So Much For One Damn Meal is another blow-worthy, gorgeous slab of giving a shit. They're punk enough to play country songs at 924 Gilman, so you know they won't shy away from harmonicas, horns, pianner, and whatever it takes to get the songs across. They're hopping genres as [...]
I'm 5000, G, Portland-bound. See you next Friday. SFers can appreciate one of my favorite Portland bands, MEAN JEANS , when they play Thee Parkside tomorrow. PDXers can see my very favorite Portland band, THE FRIGGIN TAXPAYERS , on the day I leave. I have to plan these things a little better, smooches. See ya.
Getting 10 or 12 four-minute songs ready for pressing is like getting 10 or 12 four-year-olds ready for a party — it takes what feels like forever. So when local pop powerhouse five-piece TAXPAYER... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
As I mentioned in my list of favorite full-lengths released last year, there were so many that came from bands based here in the Boston-area that I thought I'd spotlight them in their very own post. To be completely clear, though: This is far from some lesser-category of local releases, but a list of 10 albums that sit proudly alongside my other favorite 20 - the fact that they originate from
Cheers to old friends and friendships that stretch continents. This week's show still went on even though I spent a good majority being lazy and eating yummy food with some of my favorite people. This weeks show has been fueled by pizza and soda. I think I have the voiceover quality figured out as well so it should be sounding pretty good and consistent from here on. 17 songs totaling over an hour of music + IP rants and HD TV talk.
It's a new year. I'm glad to be here. The Taxpayers at 924 Gilman, 12/27 Cheers to The Taxpayers for braving the California wilds twice in one month, including playing a benefit for 924 Gilman . Great band, sweet people. More photos in my Flickr set . Look at em while listening to this recording of them playing Duckett's in Portland on 8/14/09: X at Slim's, 12/30 As a way of balancing the scales after [...]
A few Sundays back I once again had the honor of DJing the annual Bazaar Bizarre Boston, a massively multi-vendor crafy-fair that I'd attended many times before I was invited to actually show up and share a personal playlist. For me, it only starts feeling like the holiday season after I've spent an early-December afternoon there, and the fact that I get to provide the shopping soundtrack for a
It's year-end best-ofs time, and there are hundreds of lists (themselves listed at Largehearted Boy ) out there for the mining. This year's themes seems to be: working hard to convince yourself there are better albums than Merriweather Post Pavilion , just so you don't appear to be following the crowd taking the Decemberists and Andrew Bird for granted either pretending you discovered The xx or saying you still love them despite their ubiquity and popularity (their debut album is two months old) You can always [...]
Going out / New Material! Friday Night, 10/30/09 The Scene: TT the Bears in Cambridge Boston's Taxpayer Having won the hearts of fans and critics alike for their addictive breakout single,' When They Were Young ,' Taxpayer (Jared Marsh, Maclaine Diemer, Michael Jones, Rob Adams and Tim Peters) worked find themselves again ready to take the center stage with a [...]
This Friday, October 30th, a local Boston outfit called Taxpayer are playing T.T. The Bear's Place in support of their upcoming CD, Don't Steal My Night Vision (great title by the way). Their gritty moody rock sound clings to the bands clear stance on the current state of our country. If you're looking to chant [...]
Review: The Taxpayers "A Rhythm in the Cages" The Taxpayers caught my attention when they mentioned a free album download over at Quote Unquote Records. I must admit, largely haunted by the plethora of myspace requests from half-baked ear-and-eye-raping bands who think autotune is the shit, I rarely pause to give unheard-of bands the time of day until they surface in forums, PRs, label mailing lists and blogs (plus not living in the US is a disadvantage because shows are the [...]
I don't know what they're putting in the beer and bocce balls in Portland, but it's caused to sprout the finest punk-rock record I've heard in years. A Rhythm In The Cages by the Taxpayers has got the goods, I promise - in all shades of rock, country, and baritone fucking sax . Plus, they're there for me when I need them: There is not always an easy escape route in life, and sometimes you've gotta figure out how to live gracefully under pressure until an exit sign emerges. [...]
I came home this evening feeling that I've been fucked one too many times for my liking this week. It's something that wouldn't be wise to openly discuss in a public forum, but giving you the gist is an appropriate introduction for this entry. I did something a few years ago I swore I'd never do again, I sold my soul in a sense and now the heat of Purgatory is becoming a bit uncomfortable. Enough said. Bands like Portland's The Taxpayers restore [...]
1. Taxpayer, "We Have Arrived" (mp3) 2. Eli "Paperboy" Reed, "I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can" 3. Winterpills, "Take Away the Words" 4. Fly Upright Kite, "Across the Ocean" 5. Chester French,... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
Portland trio the Taxpayers has a group of friends/fans that sings along to nearly every word of every song in the band's repertoire, and it's not hard to see why on a track like "All Conflict, All the Time." Not only does frontman (and I say "frontman" in the most punk sense of the word, I assure you) Rob Taxpayer possess a voice that pops like a scratchy old 33 played at 45, his phrasing takes its rightful place as the band's fourth instrument, dancing circles around and snare hit like a plane with one wing. The kid [...]
And now... some items that I wanted to post about this year, BUT I never got around to it. This is not a best of list (that's coming). This is the end of the year dump (of good stuff). 1. "4x4" (ysi mp3) by Wives 2. This video by Low : "Pissing (Live)" (mp3) 3. "The Woods/The Rain" (youtube) by The Stabs [...]
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