Life is tough. You're on food stamps. Your roommates are on food stamps. Your girlfriend/boyfriend and their respective roommates are all on food stamps. All your money goes to American Spirits and PBR sixers. How can I expect you to waste your dough on something as frivolous as music -- which everyone knows is free now anyway?
Well, I'm tough, but I'm fair, so I'll tell you what. How 'bout I give you a discount?
Of course, these prices only apply if you purchase the full albums or EPs. The tracks alone are still the regular 99 cents (although I'm working to try to get the track prices dropped to 69 cents for The Very Best and No-No's -- I guess it takes longer to adjust track prices than album prices).
Also, if you already have all the old stuff, I've posted some new free mp3s (with accompanying music videos) from our new album Fustercluck!!! for you to enjoy:
The acts playing our CD release show at Brooklyn Tea Party are now confirmed:
You will enjoy music from Kurt Cobain's younger brother (spiritually, anyway) Thomas Patrick Maguire, traditional-/anti-folk banjoist Debe Dalton, and cuddle-punk duo Schwervon!.
As you may have noticed, all these folks make guest appearances on Fustercluck!!!. Many of the other guest stars from album will be performing during Elastic No-No Band's set. It will be a good time.
--Justin
A message from Santa Claus, MacGyver, and Dr. Sam Beckett - November 19, 2009
CD release party date set - November 12, 2009
The date has been set for the CD release party for our new double-album Fustercluck!!!.
"Hey 2-Eyes" included on new compilation - November 2, 2009
"Hey 2-Eyes," the collaboration with Dave End from our upcoming, nearly-released, almost-available double-CD Fustercluck!!! is now available as part of a compilation called Kitty Licks, Vol. 4, along with tracks by the likes of R. Stevie Moore, Schwervon!, and Vincent Nifigance.
Pre-order our new 2-CD album FUSTERCLUCK!!! now! - October 8, 2009
I've decided to try out something new in the marketing of this album. I just set up a PayPal account, and I will be accepting pre-orders for Fustercluck!!!.
If you pre-order the album, you will get it at least one month early (it is currently due out in January 2010, but you'll get it in December -- in time for holiday gift-giving). Plus I will include an exclusive FREE bootleg CD of outtakes and alternate versions. PLUS I will include any other Elastic No-No Band CD you want FREE (if you don't specify in your order, I will just pick one at random).
Pre-order now! $20 including shipping:
Anticomp Folkilation available as free download - August 31, 2009
The Anticomp Folkilation which features 30+ songs by your favorite antifolk acts --including Kimya Dawson, Jeffrey Lewis, Toby Goodshank, Brook Pridemore, and THAT'S RIGHT, Elastic No-No Band -- is now available as a free download from Gimme Sound at this link: http://www.gimmesound.com/AnticompFolkilation/
New info about our upcoming album - August 13, 2009
Elvis ready, Manboobs scrapped - December 17, 2008
Every Elvis Has His Impersonators: 7 Homemade Remade Elvis Costello Song is now available for download from iTunes, Amazon.com and CD Baby.
And work on our next album Fustercluck!!! is going so well that I think the album might be done this summer. For that reason, I've decided to scrap plans for the Manboobs EP -- which was meant to be a chance to release some of the most excellent songs from the album early.
Since the album should be done relatively quickly, it seems better to wait and release those songs for the first time on Fustercluck!!! instead.
Makes sense, right?
--Justin
Late/early news - November 4, 2008
Man, I am not good at updating this news page.
For some reason, when I have news, my first instinct is to post about it on Elastic No-No Band's Myspace blog. You can go there now to catch up on all the things I keep forgetting to tell you here.
For instance, I should have told you ages ago that the EP, The Meow Bits is now available for download from iTunes, and Amazon.com, and (most inexpensively) from CD Baby.
Also, while our producer Major Matt Mason USA has been on a European tour, I've been creating home-recordings of Elvis Costello songs for another download-only EP, tentatively titled Every Elvis Has His Impersonators. It was also feature 2 existing EC covers that are currently on this site, which I will remove once the EP is available, so get your free illicit downloads now while they're still here!
The tracklist for Impersonators will be:
1. Pump It Up
2. You Belong To Me
3. Monkey To Man
4. Battered Old Bird
5. Toledo
6. High Fidelity
7. I Want You
Not really his all-time most popular tunes, granted, but the early reaction about the EP, from folks I trust, has been pretty enthusiastic. I might even put one or two of these tunes on our next album, Fustercluck!!!. I expect this EP will be ready for download by the end of the month, or early in December.
And the 3rd pre-Fustercluck!!! EP, the newly-retitled Manboobs EP (which will feature the full band and not just yours truly), should hopefully be ready for you to download in February.
This is all for now.
--Justin
Coming soon: "The Meow Bits" - August 31, 2008
Sometime in September, I am going to unveil a new mostly solo EP called The Meow Bits. It's going to be download-only because of royalties issues, since -- goodness! -- this is going to be the first Elastic No-No Band release with legit covers on it.
Toby Goodshank performs the Beach Boys' "I'd Love Just Once To See You" with me, and for some reason (I'm not quite sure why myself) I do a solo acoustic version of The Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand."
There's also 3 originals.
Some, but probably not all, of these tunes will wind up on our eventual next album, the perpetually forthcoming Fustercluck!!!
I'll tell you more later, and keep an eye out for the full-band EP "The Shame About Manboobs" and other songs about how you look and how you feel hopefully available for you before the end of the year.
--Justin
New things for you to buy - August 19, 2008
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After a bit of delay, we are finally selling the Klaus Kinski T-shirts from my solo tour back in April/May online. You can pick them up from our good friends at Olive Juice Music.
Sizes Small to 2XL, although we're down to one shirt apiece in sizes S, M, and 2X. So order now.
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Also, the documentary I just finished, Making Lovers & Dollars, is now available on official bootleg DVD-R, featuring not only the 50-minute main film, but also 47 minutes of bonus features -- including an animated music video and live performance footage.
For info on owning a copy of the DVD, email me at justin@elasticnonoband.com.
--Justin
Music documentary directed by ENB's Justin will screen in NY Aug. 15 - July 27, 2008
Work continues on new ENB recorded material, and as it does, I am putting finishing touches on the DVD for a documentary I made about the recording of my friend Frank Hoier's new album, Lovers & Dollars.
The movie, simply enough, is titled Making Lovers & Dollars. It runs a little under an hour and features 8 full songs from the album. I like to think of it as Dont Look Back meets The Last Waltz, but with people you might not recognize.
The flick will premiere Friday, August 15, at 6:30pm sharp, kicking off the Friday night festivities of the 2008 Summer Antifolk Fest at the Sidewalk Cafe (click on that link for more info and directions).
DVDs unfortunately won't be done in time for the premiere screening, but they should be done in late August or September 2008.
Clips from Making Lovers & Dollars are up, along with some of my older short films, on my new filmmaker Myspace profile: http://www.myspace.com/weemaykmovies
Back to the grindstone.
--Justin
New EP and album in the works - June 8, 2008
I've been recording new bits and pieces, in fits and starts, since the release of My 3 Addictions last October, with an eye toward eventually putting out a massive new album called Fustercluck!!!. It will be a full-band album, a Justin solo album, an album of collaborations with friends, a rock album, a stripped-down folk album, a more serious collection of songs, a tossed-off collection of junk; it will be all-new material, it will be a covers album. It will be long, and take a while to finish.
So... I've decided to make a more concerted effort to crank out 6 of the songs intended for Fustercluck!!! this summer, to have a stopgap (probably download-only) EP to put out before the end of the year. The EP's focus will be mostly on full-band songs, with a couple of guest appearances. The EP's tentative title is "The Shame About Manboobs" and other songs about how you look and how we feel.
--Justin
Justin's solo tour over. Read all about it! - May 25, 2008
I went on a 24-city, 25-show that went from the end of March to the start of May. I wrote a number of interesting, picture- and video- and music-filled blog entries on Elastic No-No Band's Myspace blog.
If you didn't read it while I was on the road, please enjoy.
--Justin
Elastic No-No Band on the radio - March 1, 2008
This past Valentine's Day, Elastic No-No Band played a very delightful show on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM. And we did it without even taking a trip to the Boston area.
How? you might ask. Well, we were featured on the show Phoning It In, where performers play into a phone and it gets broadcast live on the radio.
And in this TiVo age, you can expect there to be an archive of it, which you can find at this link right here.
The Phoning It In archive features the dozens of previous shows from both the Cambridge, MA, and Providence, RI, editions of the radio show. There's a lot of great gems in the archive; you should check it out.
--Justin
New music video - February 4, 2008
So I got a new computer with a built-in webcam, so I knew this was too good of a chance not to immediately make a cheapo music video. So within minutes of setting the computer up, I shot a video for "Run-DMC".
It looks essentially like I made a fan video for my own work. You can now enjoy it on our Video Clips page.
