May 2012
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April 2012
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March 2012
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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? ...
February 2012
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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...
October 2011
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RISE OF FUTURE DOGS. COMING SATURDAY, OCTOBER...
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,...
September 2011
3 posts
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...
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Useless State Records: Andrew Link's "Impromptu... →
useless-state:
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…
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Winter tour in the works
Well guess fuggin what? We’re going on tour down to the warm South this winter again. Snow birds 4lyfe!
This tour will be in preparation and celebration of some of us moving to New Orleans for school. We will be bringing along our last album To Risk So Much For One Damn Meal on VINYL! and a limited-run tour exclusive EP.
There will be a lot of updates, check the PIX board here.
The...
August 2011
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Useless State on tumblr
Well, shoot. Useless State started a tumblr account!
You should stop on by and say hi. Here is the link: http://useless-state.tumblr.com/
Keep updated to find out what the hell we’re doing with our spare time. The tumblr will let you know of upcoming Useless State releases, mp3 downloads, upcoming shows/tours, and poorly written blog posts. We shoot for the stars here at Useless State
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July 2011
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June 2011
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WatchIntroducing BONNIE FRENCH, the Useless State Records intern, who will be in charge of Useless State while the Taxpayers are on tour. She assures us that absolutely nothing will go wrong, and that she is fully competent to handle her duties. Buy some shit and send her to work, or just drop her a “Hello there, you’re doing a great job, Bonnie!” over at uselessstate@gmail.com
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CAT BAT PRINCESS
Well, Richmond Elementary had it’s last day of classes today. It’s kind of both scary, sad, and exciting when that happens, for both the teachers and the students, because yeah, you’re getting out for the summer (!), but you’re also turning a page…you’re never going to see the same group of kids in the same capacity ever again, and…well, what the hell are...
May 2011
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Hello? Is that you Darby Splash??
Holy crap you guys!! In 2 days, we’ve already reached 125% on Kickstarter! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I think y’all made me cry last night…
There are still a bunch of ridiculous prizes available and we have a bunch of gratuitous energy to spend. We also have a few new AMAZING prizes, including adopting a tour-fish to be in care of The Taxpayers. We’re naming him Darby...
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WHO KILLED TONYA HARDING!?
Hello interwebz!!!!
How are you on this most excellent day? It’s so nice out right now! Guess what we did last night? Go ahead, guess! ….. We made a Kickstarter page!
Why you ask? Cause someone killed Tonya Harding! No, NOT that Tonya Harding, the big beautiful boxey metallic one that sits on the road in front of our house. Our van! Simply put, Tonya is super sick and we...
April 2011
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JUNE TOUR!!!
We’re going on tour this June!!! We will probably come up with a pretty stupid name for the tour in a couple days. You can count on it!!! So we’re going to Plan-It-X Fest with OUR FULL BAND(finally)! All 7 of us our coming. Here are the dates:
Wed, June 15 - OLY / Seattle
Thurs, June 16 - Spokane
Fri, June 17 - Missoula
Sat, June 18 - Bismarck (Day Off) <—-...
March 2011
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A GOOF PUNK MANIFESTO
Hello friends! On the eve of the first annual Gathering of the Goof Punx, I was asked some very pertinent questions by a handful of the attendees. It went something like this: “Uh, so…what exactly is a Goof Punk?” “Yeah, is it, like, a goofy lookin’ punk kid?” “Wait, so am I a Goof Punk?” After talking it over with some friends, we realized that the...
The RECORDS are IN!!!
Here they are! Fresh in the mail. They are pretty (black/grey marble) and totally awesome. I am pretty damn excited about them.
Here are some photos of the record taken from my phone, the photos are pretty lo-res, but what can you do?
And if you wanna buy it for $10 through Plan-It-X, here is the link!: http://www.plan-it-x.org/release/the-taxpayers/lp-version-of/
February 2011
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New videos posted!
Hey y’all! We’re in the van on our way to Nashville to play at the Little Hamilton Collective with Chicken Little and the Devin Robinson Band! Woo!
Our friends in Macon, Savannah, and Atlanta were able to get some videos! The playlist is posted in the photos/videos section. Thanks much Dakota and Chris!!!
January 2011
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So... Sarasota
Our proposed plan at the start of tour was:
Use our shows to fund our way across the country
Be very grateful for food stamps
Arrive in Florida
Form a Jimmy Buffett tribute band to make money
Drive around awhile, see some friends
Live in a storage unit! Yeah! (?)
Make friends to set up shows, have fun, etc…
Record in Orlando
Tour home
So far, everything has gone swimmingly! ...
Site redesign!
Hey everyone! We’re working with the themes to make the site better offer it’s content. It’s a little barebones, and if you run into any issues let us know, but you should be able to stream our albums from the Music! section, and get a clearer view of the tour schedule from the Tour! tab. Woo!
Expect more content to be flowing in, and more updates as we begin to start...
Hey Y'all, want our new album?
Check check it! The fabulous folks at Quote Unquote Records have posted our new album “To Risk So Much for One Damn Meal” for free (or donation, if you feel!) download right here. If you really dig it, check out the Zine/CD combo, the Plan-it-X digipack now, or get your hands on a tape (!) or vinyl really soon.
We’re always looking for more places to play during our stay here...
December 2010
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Da Plans for Florida!!!
Here is how things look for us right now!!
We are probably going to live in Orlando for Jan and then record an EP with our friend Trevor. Orlando is pretty cheap compared to the rest of Florida and there is a Harry Potter World. Excellent.
The 12” vinyl should be available very soon!
The cassette tape should be available very soon!
We are putting together the last shows for the last...
Florida! Here we come!!!
Helloooooo Floridians!!! We’re being snowbirds this winter and we’re moving to Florida for Jan and Feb!!! We plan on playing a bunch of shows while there and we need a bunch of help setting them up! Right now we’re trying really hard to fill up the last dates for December! And TWO of them are gonna be banger of shows! Especially Dec 31 and Jan 1st! Can you help us out?...
Best photos of tour so far!
This was spotted on Hollywood BLVD right next to Frank Sinatra. I had no clue the Atomic Butter Babes were so famous!
This guy was spotted at our Santa Cruz show. I HAD to have my photo taken with him. We tried to trade shirts with him, he wasn’t into it. Completely understood.
Califuckyeah!
To start things off, here is a photo of Rob (Kabob) taking down a croissant that is big as his head. It’s ridiculously over-sized. YUM! WELCOME TO SANTA BARBARA!!!!
Okay, I haven’t updated this in a few days. California has been constant running around and this is our first day off in a week. No show in LA, no biggie. I am gonna finally clean my dirty undies. My mother...
November 2010
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October 2010
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WatchMy homeboy Chris Hackett edited together a bunch of Super 8 home videos of our friend Dusty’s family. Kinda neat… kinda weird, I hope they don’t mind.
There is another video of Dig Too Deep on there, too. <—- CHRIS: THIS IS HOW TO SPELL “TOO” IN THIS INSTANCE. :P
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New Album Deets
GOOD NEWS! We have a new full-length record coming out on 12” vinyl through Plan-It-X, cassette through Tiger Force Ultra, and CD/Zine through our own label Useless State.
It’s called “TO RISK SO MUCH FOR ONE DAMN MEAL”. We’re really excited about it. There are a lot of horns.
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A Rhythm In The Cages (FREE/DONATIONS DOWNLOAD) →
HEY! Check it out! It’s a FREE/DONATIONS download of our 2008 release of A Rhythm In The Cages available through Quote Unquote Records!
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WatchHey! Check it out, it’s a video of us playing our CaliFUCKyeah tour kickoff at the Black Rose Infoshop. HOLY CRAP! Filmed by Chris Hackett.
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