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The Taxpayers
Celebrating Goof Punx, DIY Music, Social Awareness, and Jimmy Buffett (Contact and Booking: noah@thetaxpayers.net)
Here we go! A video introduction to the new album.
You can pre-order the CD from us (there is a paypal button for it at the top of this website) - it should be ready by June 15th-ish. The CD version will be a CD-R with handmade packaging and fun little things included. Nothing too fancy, but something physical.
The vinyl record will be super fancy and is currently available for pre-order from Asian Man Records!!! Really Records will have dem vinyls too.
The cassette tape is currently available for pre-order from Plan-It-X Records.
The book (that’s right, an actual physical book!) is currently available for pre-order from Cantankerous Titles!!!
We are in the process of working out a book/album package deal - we’ll keep ya’ll updated!
You can listen to the first track of the album here.
Forever Fucking Stoked,
The Taxpayers
We’re going on tour with The Wild again! We love them people.
Here are the dates, tell yo mama and yo brotha. The Taxpayers are coming to town.
WILD AND TAXPAYERS TOUR!
June 22 - June 24: PIX FEST in Bloomington, IN
Monday, June 25: Chicago, IL
Tuesday, June 26: Flint, MI @ TBA
Wednesday. June 27: Detroit, MI
Thursday, June 28: Columbus, OH
Friday, June 29: Cleveland, OH
Saturday. June 30: Buffalo
Sunday, July 1: Eastern NY / Western Mass / New England
Monday, July 2: Vermont
Tuesday, July 3: New England
Wednesday. July 4: Palmer, MA
Thursday, July 5: Boston, MA
Friday. July 6: NYC / Long Island
Saturday, July 7: NYC / Long Island
Sunday, July 8: Philly
Monday, July 9: New Brunswick, NJ @ TBA
Tuesday, July 10: Baltimore, MD @ Charm City Collecive
Wednesday, July 11: DC @ TBA
Thursday, July 12: Richmond, VA @ TBA
Friday, July 13: <—— SPOOOKY! Raleigh / Greensboro / Chapel Hill
Saturday, July 14: Greenville, SC @ Circle A
Sunday, July 15: Atlanta, GA @ The Coven (89 Wyman St) w/ The Disregardables
JUST TAXPAYERS
Monday, July 16: Chattanooga, TN
Tuesday, July 17: Nashville, TN
Wednesday, July 18: Cincinnati, OH
Thursday, July 19: Chicago, IL
Friday, July 20: Milwaukee, WI
Saturday, July 21: Minneapolis, MN @ TBA
Sunday, July 22: Minneapolis, MN
Monday, July 23: HANG OUT WITH ANDREW’s DAD in BIZMARCK-EEEEEEE
Tuesday, July 24: Minot, ND
Wednesday, July 25: DAY OFF IN MONTANA shootin’ TURDS!
Thursday, July 26: Missoula, MT
Friday, July 27: Spokane, WA
Saturday, July 28: Seattle, WA
Sunday, July 29: Portland, OR
SHOWS WILL BE UPDATED ON OUR UPCOMING SHOWS PAGE.
We’re going on tour with The Wild again! We love them people.
Here are the dates, tell yo mama and yo brotha. The Taxpayers are coming to town.
WILD AND TAXPAYERS TOUR!
June 22 - June 24: PIX FEST in Bloomington, IN
Monday, June 25: Chicago, IL
Tuesday, June 26: Flint, MI @ TBA
Wednesday. June 27: Detroit, MI
Thursday, June 28: Columbus, OH
Friday, June 29: Cleveland, OH
Saturday. June 30: Buffalo
Sunday, July 1: Eastern NY / Western Mass / New England
Monday, July 2: Vermont
Tuesday, July 3: New England
Wednesday. July 4: Palmer, MA
Thursday, July 5: Boston, MA
Friday. July 6: NYC / Long Island
Saturday, July 7: NYC / Long Island
Sunday, July 8: Philly
Monday, July 9: New Brunswick, NJ @ TBA
Tuesday, July 10: Baltimore, MD @ Charm City Collecive
Wednesday, July 11: DC @ TBA
Thursday, July 12: Richmond, VA @ TBA
Friday, July 13: <—— SPOOOKY! Raleigh / Greensboro / Chapel Hill
Saturday, July 14: Greenville, SC @ Circle A
Sunday, July 15: Atlanta, GA @ The Coven (89 Wyman St) w/ The Disregardables
JUST TAXPAYERS
Monday, July 16: Chattanooga, TN
Tuesday, July 17: Nashville, TN
Wednesday, July 18: Cincinnati, OH
Thursday, July 19: Chicago, IL
Friday, July 20: Milwaukee, WI
Saturday, July 21: Minneapolis, MN @ TBA
Sunday, July 22: Minneapolis, MN
Monday, July 23: HANG OUT WITH ANDREW’s DAD in BIZMARCK-EEEEEEE
Tuesday, July 24: Minot, ND
Wednesday, July 25: DAY OFF IN MONTANA shootin’ TURDS!
Thursday, July 26: Missoula, MT
Friday, July 27: Spokane, WA
Saturday, July 28: Seattle, WA
Sunday, July 29: Portland, OR
SHOWS WILL BE UPDATED ON OUR UPCOMING SHOWS PAGE.
Documentary filmmaker extraordinaire (and our good pal) Clarke Howell has been working on a movie about our last Florida tour with the Wild. And here’s the trailer for it! He’s been showing me some clips from it and it is pretty ridiculous. Expect lots of beach-hanging, punk shows, Wu Tang Clan, swimming with dolphins, more punk shows, and so forth. Gonna be fun! Thanks Clarke!
Also: Clarke made this amazing documentary about the porcupine races held every year in a small town in Idaho - you should try to talk him into showing it to you! Here is his facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=801078628 Bug him about it!
Anthony, I’ll never forget the time you pooped your pants in the van to teach us a lesson when we wouldn’t stop for a bathroom break. You were the only person to beat Noah in a wrestling match, you drank an unreasonable amount of soda, and you made such an enormous impact on so many people. You were a friend to anybody that needed a friend and had an encyclopedic knowledge of horror movies and mid-90’s hardcore. You were so very kind and very brave and you will be very much missed by so very many folks. You made the world much stronger and better than it was before you. Punk is lucky to have had you.
Anthony Poynter (Novermber 1st 1979 - March 30th 2012)
A GOOF PUNK FEST!
The Gathering Of The Goofpunx is a celebration of DIY-Punk culture in Portland, OR. The weekend will feature all-ages punk shows, a parade, a spelling bee, a punk rock carnival, a late night screening of Weird Al’s classic “UHF”, and a bunch of other weird/fun shit. If DIY-punk culture was only about music, it would be fucking boring.
What’s the Goof Punk movement?
Here’s a link to help better explain.
Come join a group of amazing, friendly, accepting, and above all fun people and party with us in April!
HOSTED BY USELESS STATE RECORDS.
For questions or concerns e-mail:
noah [at] thetaxpayers [dot] net
FREE HEALTHCARE, DAMMIT!
Hey guys! We started a list of free/low cost health and dental care clinics:
http://thetaxpayers.net/healthcare
Life can seem overwhelming when you’ve got serious health issues and no way to pay for it. However, there are services available - you’ve just gotta know where to look. Right now this is a short list that’s related to our own experiences, but we’d like to eventually be able to add a free clinic for every state.
If you have more to add, please get in contact!
RISE OF FUTURE DOGS. COMING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15th.
In the year 6000 humans are dead. Cats have risen to power using the cold calculations of mathematics. Dogs can’t do math, and are being slowly eradicated by the evil cat tyrants. But a pack of brave rebel dogs and their penguin friend have set out to change the course of history…
On Saturday, October 15th (Saturday!), the Taxpayers will be performing their 3-act play, “RISE OF FUTURE DOGS” during three consecutive shows. The 1st Act will take place at Red and Black cafe (400 SE 12th) at 6 pm. The 2nd Act will take place a few blocks away at Laughing Horse Books (12 NE 12th) at 9 pm. Intermission (and possibly an extra SECRET act) will take place at the Andrew Jackson Jihad show at the Hawthorne Theater. The final 3rd Act will take place at the Jurassic Park House (5516 N. Mississippi) at midnight.
Come join us for an evening of musical theater, presented to you by Useless State Records. Appropriate attire required.
You guys! The Wild is coming on tour with us!
HOLY ASSING SHIT YOU GUYS! A bunch of big news.
First off, THE WILD has joined the Taxpayers for the entire Florida leg of tour! This is incredible news! The Wild are one of our favorite bands around, and probably one of yours too. If you haven’t heard them, they inevitably will be after you click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ5NVviEEAg
Secondly, we are approaching the Useless State Records WEEKEND SHITSPLOSION OF FUCK!
That’s right, this weekend, there’s two amazing things happening. The first is on Friday, September 30th at the Fail House (110 N. Failing) for MIX IT UP FUCK IT UP II! http://pc-pdx.com/show-detail/46716
The second is on Saturday, October 1st at the Sea Shanty (2419 N. Russet st.) for Andrew Link’s cassette release party! THE TAXPAYERS are playing their first show in forever, WALTER MITTY and his MAKESHIFT ORCHESTRA are playing their first show in Portland, SWORD OF A BAD SPELLER is gonna drop CRAZY ASS RHYMES, and we’re gonna party all night long. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=249109951797331
Bring your pina coladas, tell your Momz that you’re gonna be up late, and get ready to play Shoe Game until the early morn’!
Useless State Records: Andrew Link's "Impromptu Insanity" on Bandcamp
Well, isn’t it your fucking lucky day! Why you ask? Because Andrew (fucking) Link put his newest album (soon to be out on Useless State!) up on Bandcamp for streaming!!!
Feast your ears on this little biscuit. Click there to listen, fool!
HOLY CRAP! For reals, we have been excited…
