[STL] 9/4 - Last LEFT ARM show...as the Ramones!

HEY HO LET'S GO!

So, you missed our last show at The Fox Hole a couple weeks back? Here's your chance to experience one last bit of LEFT ARM magic. We'll be taking the center slot in a fun night of STL bands covering their favorite bands in An Under Cover Weekend at Firebird this Friday night. It's Adios Amigos for us baby! Brad done shipped himself off to law school so Morgan Nusbaum from The 75s will helping us rip through some of our favorite Ramones tunes.

Check out the deets and the bands the other bands are covering:

Friday, September 4, 2009

Science Hill as 311 (11:20-11:50)
Via Dove as The Rolling Stones (10:30-11:00)
Left Arm's FINAL SHOW as The Ramones (9:40-10:10)
The Orbz as The Pixies (8:50-9:20)
Echo Bravo as Nirvana (8:00-8:30)

- $10 +3ms | Doors: 7:00pm | Show: 8:00pm | 18+

[STL] Sat 8/15 at The Fox Hole - last Left Arm (originals) show

Left Arm - 01/16/03 at Creepy Crawl (l-r: Jason, Jeff, Jim)

Well, kinda. But mostly true. What started 7 years ago comes to an end this Saturday night. Come out and send Left Arm to the grave at The Fox Hole (at Atomic Cowboy).

True, we have one more show after this one, but we'll be playing all covers at that one (An Under Cover Weekend at Firebird 9/4). And instead of Beat On The Brad (whose last show with us will be this Saturday) we'll be joined by badassmofozer Morgan Nusbaum (of The 75s fame) on guitar! Yeah, that thing I just said is true!


Left Arm - 08/01/09 at Deluxe (l-r: Jim, Jason, Brad)

This Saturday (our last *originals* show), instead of our normal "Guess what assholes, you have 20 minutes to play cuz we're an hour behind schedule already and you better not want to use any microphones you talentless fucks!" themed set, we'll be stretching out and playing whateverthehell we want/can play within no boundries of embarrassment. Plus also, our old buddy Scott Walus (of Pat Boone's Farm fame and guitarist on the back half of our Dissatisoul CD) will be coming in to town to join us on a handful of jams.

We were going to try and find a replacement guitar player, but quite honestly I've about had it for a little while with all the BS and let downs and just don't have the energy. So, if you've liked us in the past, happen to like us in the present, or just want to try and choke me out one more time for slinging beer or your girlfriend this is your last chance to catch us! We'll be having a t-shirt clearinghouse and we'll definitely have the "Electric Babies" 7" on hand if you don't have that yet.

Summarize!

Saturday August 15th
at The Fox Hole (Atomic Cowboy)
w/ Morgan Nusbaum (solo acoustic)
Lethal Enforcer (sponsored by FleshLight)

Friday September 4th
An Under Cover Weekend
at Firebird
w/ Science Hill, Heroes of The Kingdom, The Monads, and The Orbz

[STL] 7/29 - Davila 666 (PR) / Left Arm / The Nevermores at Off Broadway

Wednesday, June 29
@ Off Broadway

Davila 666 (from Puerto Rico)
Left Arm
The Nevermores

3511 Lemp Ave
St Louis, MO 63118
(314) 773-3363

[STL] 5/29 - The Safes / Left Arm / The Argonauts

Friday, May 29
@ Atomic Cowboy

The Safes
Left Arm
The Argonauts

4140 Manchester Ave
St Louis, MO 63110
(314) 775-0775

Friday night! 7" Release party! Vintage Vinyl Free!

Just a reminder, come out Friday night 5/15 and pick up our new 7" on TIRC Records, "Electric Babies." We start making racket at 8pm. Oh yeah - it's a freeee show!



Friday, May 15
@ Vintage Vinyl
"Electric Babies" 7" release and in-store performance
6610 Delmar Blvd - St Louis, MO 63130 - 8pm



Other good stuff in May:

Saturday, May 23
@ Deluxe
TIRC Records Showcase
& The Nevermores CD release party
plus Left Arm and The 75s

Friday, May 29
@ Atomic Cowboy
The Safes (from Chicago)
plus Left Arm and The Argonauts

RFT Music Awards and Showcase

Exciting news! LEFT ARM has been nominated once again in this year's Riverfront Times music awards. The ballot is up here http://polls.riverfronttimes.com/polls/stl/musicawards2009/ - click on that and find/select us under the "Best Punk/Hardcore" section. While you're at it, I'd love you forever (or at least until you hit submit on the ballot haha) if you would select my other band, Midtown Thieves, under "Best New Band."

Also, we will be playing the showcase on June 7th at Blueberry Hill's Elvis Room at 8pm. A full day of quality tunes for only $5!

Ok, go VOTE!

Electric Babies 7" release party!

Finally! Mark your calendars!

Friday, May 15th
8pm at Vintage Vinyl
LEFT ARM
In-store performance and "Electric Babies" 7" release party.


RoadKat and our new record!

Come out and get our hot new piece of wax (not too hot, it would melt) out on TIRC Records! I'm sure we'll have some general wackiness in store plus new t-shirts, records, and tunes. You'll be able to download 2 of the 3 tracks at troubleinrivercity.com starting next week.

Some more info, courtesy of AtoZ

And if you screw up and miss things this night, we'll definitely have the records the next weekend at the big TIRC Records showcase and Nevermores CD Release party featuring The Nevermores, Left Arm and The 75s - 5/23 at Deluxe in Maplewoood.

Rock N Roll Art Museum

Here's a couple of fun videos I just put up from this past Friday's show at the Kemper Art Museum. It was a blast! Free booze, free food, a gob of nice/interested onlookers, I got to play next to an Alexander Calder sculpture AND we got to play with our pals, The 75s.

2 new songs - "Black and Bluetooth" and "Rock N Roll Stereo."

[STL] 4/17 - The 75s / Left Arm at Kemper Art Museum

Gonna get some college strange!



Friday, April 17th

Kemper Art Museum
2009 Spring Concert Series
at Washington University

The 75s (6pm) and Left Arm (7pm)

Corner of Skinker and Forsyth
All ages | Free | Show 6pm

[STL] 4/4 - Private Dancer / Left Arm / She Got Ugly at The Wedge

This weekend!





Saturday, April 4th
at The Wedge

Private Dancer (St. Paul, MN)
Left Arm
She Got Ugly (ex-The Fear Alert)

442 Bates Street, St. Louis, MO 63111
Doors at 9pm | Show at 10pm | 18+

[STL] 3/28 - Monte Carlos / Left Arm / Midtown Thieves at The Wedge

This weekend!

Saturday, March 28th
at The Wedge

Monte Carlos
Left Arm
Midtown Thieves

442 Bates Street, St. Louis, MO 63111
Doors at 9pm | Show at 10pm | 18+

Howlies!

Awesome band from the ATL coming to the STL Monday night! Firebird's getting remodeled as we speak (fka Bluebird). Come check it out as we help break it in!

Also, Howlies will be doing an in-store at Vintage Vinyl at 7pm Sunday evening if you want twice the Howlies action.



Firebird / 2706 Olive St / St Louis, MO

WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS?

Just a quick batch of updates here ya'll. For starters we had another sweet show in Carbondale last weekend. Thanks to everyone for coming out. It was real real cold, but we did out best to bring the heat. We just love PK's! And it's always good to play with our pals The Dammit Boys.

Also, (with the help of Road Kat - our official 4th member) we'll finally be sending out to have the plates cut for our 7" this week! Yay! No promises yet on when it might be ready to get out to ya'll, but the process is at least started.

Lastly, we have a gob of badass shows coming up in the months ahead! In February, we'll be heading to Columbia, MO (for the first time) to play at Eastside Tavern with our good pals Pat Boone's Farm and Monte Carlos. So that's real exciting. In March we'll be hitting Bloomington/Normal once again to play at IBC with our new friends The Abacinators.

And (last but not least) we'll be playing our new home-away-from-home, The Wedge, once again this Sunday (2/1) with an awesome band from Iowa, Radio Moscow. I think they've been through town once or twice before, but they have a new album coming out in April on Alive Records and this date will be the kick-off date for their tour behind it. So come out and show some love.

Check out this Radio Moscow video:

Hey Chicago! Hey St. Louis!

We'll be visiting ya'lls in Chicago again this Friday night!

Friday, December 19th
at Quenchers
w/ The Safes and Ostello

2401 N Western Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647
(773) 276-9730

Let's see each other again.

THEN on Saturday:




Come out and celebrate the release of A Very Bert Dax Christmas Vol. 7 at the Way Out Club in St. Louis!

This will we massively sweet for the following reasons:

* LEFT ARM contributed a cover of Wham's "Last Christmas" to the comp and will no doubt be performing this gem in the flesh.
* LEFT ARM will be celebrating the release of the comp, AND the fact that it's our 100th show!
* The Ottomen and my (Jason) other band, Midtown Thieves, are playing as well.

Saturday, December 20th
at Way Out Club
A Very Bert Dax Christmas Vol. 7 CD release party
w/ Midtown Thieves and The Ottomen

2525 S Jefferson Ave
St Louis, MO 63104
(314) 664-7638

Baby it's cold outside

Update time! Several things going on kiddies. Let's break it down by topic, shall we?



Electric Babies 7" - Ok, this vinyl shit is expensive! After a half-assed attempt at finding a label to help us finance the production of this sucker, I'm finally coming to terms with the fact that we're going to have to put it out ourselves. Oh well, this mostly means it'll be a little bit before we can scrape the cash together to get it rolling. If you run a label (or know someone that does) and want to help to help us out, drop me a line at southbentonjason AT yahoo DOT com.

New songs - Got a big batch of hot new jams in the works. Specifically, "Black Lane," "That's Your Problem," "Black and Bluetooth," and "Praise Me." We've been playing a couple of these live and they're really coming together. Check out these 3 basement 4-track demos:

[MP3] Black and Bluetooth (demo)
[MP3] That's Your problem (demo)
[MP3] Black Lane (demo)

Shows - Damn! We got a lot of them - and good ones too! 2 significant ones next weekend.

Friday, December 19th - We're heading back to Chicago! We're playing at Quenchers with The Safes and Ostello. Should be cold but awesome.

Saturday, December 20th - Saturday we're back home at the Way Out Club for our 100th show! As if that's not enough, we'll be celebrating the release of the Very Bert Dax Christmas CD for which LEFT ARM contributed a track. We'll be celebrating with 2 other contributors: Midtown Thieves (my (Jason) other band) and The Ottomen.

Check our shows page for other upcoming dates

xoxo!

RFT hoo-ha: Vote! Attend!

Hey yous!

The BIG weekend is here! The Riverfront Times all-day music showcase that is! 5 bucks and tons of great bands up and down Delmar.

Please, please, please take a second to vote for us in the "Best Garage Band" category, and then catch us Sunday night at Halo Bar at 10pm with some of the most badassed bands in town.

Here's the schedule for our stage:

7pm - Cardiac Arrest
8pm - Humanoids
9pm - The Blind Eyes
10pm - Left Arm
11pm - Trip Daddys
12pm - 7 Shot Screamers

Vote for Left Arm and your other favs here:
www.riverfronttimes.com/polls/musicawards2008

Check out the complete schedule here:
blogs.riverfronttimes.com/atoz/2008/06/2008_rft_music_showcase_schedu.php

Read about all the bands here:
www.riverfronttimes.com/2008-05-28/music/rft-music-awards-nominees-st-louis-best-and-brightest/full


And if you're still reading, we play again this coming Wednesday night at the Way Out Club with a great band from Milwaukee called Plexi 3 and another super swell band from STL, The Ultraviolents.

Get drunk smash stuff.

LEFT ARM "Dissatisoul" CD Release Party!

It's time! It's time! This Saturday night we will release our new CD, "Dissatisoul" into the wild. We'll be taking the stage on our home turf, our home away from home, The Stagger Inn in Edwardsville,IL. It's coming out on the fledgling TIRC Records. We'll hopefully have them available for purchase online early next week, but in the meantime join us Saturday night and pick yourself up a copy then. We'll be joined by long-time friends The 75s and Pat Boones Farm.

Also, special thanks to Annie Zaleski from the Riverfront Times for blogging about the CD and show.

The info:

Saturday, November 10th
@ The Stagger Inn
104 E. Vandalia - Edwardsville, IL 62025

w/ The 75s and Pat Boones Farm

21+ - $3 - Show starts 9:30ish

LA in KDHX's local artist spotlight

Exciting news! LEFT ARM will be the artist featured on the "Local Artist Spotlight" on 88.1 FM KDHX in St. Louis. The spots will run twice/day for the two weeks between Oct. 29 and Nov. 11. I went in to record the interview portion of the segment last night. Here's to hoping I don't make myself or the band come of like total dorks! Big ups to Matt Brinkmann for everything.

Also, the CD is in production as we speak...er, write...er, read. So, they'll be here and ready for the CD release party November 10th at the Stagger Inn. Yay!

See ya Halloween night for a night of GORE!!!

Grove Fest 2 - Free LA show this weekend!

Summer vacation is over and LEFT ARM is back on stage where we belong this Saturday evening as part of the second annual Grove Fest. There's tons of great live music, Taste of The Grove – Food Fair, An Artist’s Village, Fashion Shows, Roller Derby Entertainment plus there's no admission and it's all ages.

Check out the complete schedule:

Saturday, 9/15

Miller Lite Stage (Manchester & Kentucky Ave.)

3:00-3:45 - Scott Kay & The Continentals
4:30-5:15 - Kentucky Knife Fight
6:00-6:45 - Left Arm
7:30-8:15 - Bunnygrunt
9:00-9:45 - Gumbohead
10:15-11:00 - Super Fun Yeah Yeah Rocketship

Miller Chill Stage (Manchester & Talmage Ave.)

5:15-6:00 - DJ Akita
6:45-7:30 - Walkie Talkie U.S.A.
8:15-9:00 - Grace Basement
9:45-10:30 - Via Dove
10:30-11:15 - Long John Thomas and the Duffs

Sunday, 9/16

Miller Lite Stage

Noon-12:45 - Kip Loui and Jennifer Jones
1:30-2:15 - Brett Daniels
3:00-3:45 - Museum Mutters
4:30-5:15 - Melody Den

Miller Chill Stage

12:45-1:30 - DJ Doug Morgan
2:15-3:00 - Caleb Travers & The Big City Lights
3:45- 4:30 - Psychotronics
5:15-6:00 - Rough Shop

We gotta place to go after the show

A bunch of exciting things going on in camp LEFT ARM. For starters, the recording process for the new CD is moving along nicely. Drums, fuzzbass, guitars and 90% of the vocals have been tracked. Everything is sounding pretty boss. We have a massive amount of mixing ahead of us, so that's a bit daunting. But, we're gonna keep plowing forward over the course of the summer. The track listing (in no particular order) is looking like this:

1. Lure of the Light
2. After Party
3. No Time for Rock n Roll
4. Gotta Go
5. More Harm Than Good
6. New Kind of Kick
7. Congratulations
8. Forget the Rock, Let's Roll
9. As Seen On TV
10. Gonna Get You
11. Love Blast
12. Damn the Peanut Man

With maybe a bonus track or two thrown in there if we're lucky.

Also, we're trying to solidify our show schedule for the rest of the year. We have GroveFest (the 15th) and a big pre-GonerFest show with CoCoComa and The Hipshakes at the Way Out Club in September (the 24th). In October (the 12th) we're playing the first annual TIRC Show Me Blowout! And that should be one hell of a good time. Plus, it's very possible that we'll be playing a HUGE Halloween show. More details on that soon.

In November and December we'll hopefully be hitting the road. If you live in Louisville, Carbondale, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Memphis, Nashville, or Chicago and you can hook us up with a show, drop us a line at leftarmmusic@yahoo.com.



AND last but not least as they say, the LEFT ARM family welcomes it's newest member, Corinne Sophia Potter. She was born Saturday night, and if I do say so myself she's completely adorable. I breed 'em to replace me when my joints get brittle. Yeah! Ok, thanks for listening.

- Colin Sick