World Racketeering Squad Blog

Racketeers!

This is your squadmaster here, writing to announce a couple of exciting pieces of news!

First, WRS will be playing with our good friends You Might Think We're Sharks on Friday, August 6 at Rockin' Tomato.  The show starts at 9pm, and admission is free!  

Come on down and enjoy the pizza, beer and excellent music.

Secondly, we are proud to announce the release of World Racketeering Squad's debut full-length album, "What is nerdwave?" on September 18!

We will be streaming a new song from the album each Monday until the release.  First up is "Looking for Lorelei", which you can listen to right now by heading to our website!

We've worked with a lot of great people on this album, including former Squad member Jonny_Dub, Shark Mike Propst and Phonolux member Dave Novak. We're stoked and/or chuffed about our first album and we can't wait to present it to the world!  

If you like "Looking for Lorelei", please spread the word and share it with your friends.  Thanks!

Friday Aug 6

• WRS and You Might Think We're Sharks at Rockin Tomato
• Rockin' Tomato Pizza Company
• 3003 South Lamar
• Austin, TX 78704
• 9:00pm - 11:30pm FREE
• RSVP:Facebook

Love, Reed, Isaac and Bruce

After years of secrecy concerning his past, Reed has finally come clean about what really happened in that time jokingly referred to a "before now" in his new Bio on this very site!

Excerpt: "... which opened up experiences and joys he never knew existed.  Despite her contagious madness ..."

Check it out now by clicking on Reed Oliver!

So pleased to be able to see more articles in the Guide. Mine stopped receiving and the new version I picked up only allows me to write 140-character comments about things. It also has some sort of stylized fruit on it, rather than "Don't Panic" in large, friendly letters.

Sometimes a movie come along that immediately calls for another movie to come along.

Here is your daily Summer Glau:

Rich Restaino (of Rich & The Obits and The Late Fees) has an extensive music catalogue of 50's doo-wop-meets-70's-punk music and now it's all on sale at his CDBaby store.

The new full-length Rich & The Obits album "We're In This Thing Together" is $4.99 to download, and everything in the back catalogue is $2.99.

You could get the new Obits album plus "The Late Fees" and Rich's solo "Revisionary Man" album all for under $15!

Here's Rich & The Obits playing "The Staying Kind" at Jovita's:

Here is your daily Summer Glau:

Frank Frazetta, one of the premier fantasy illustrators of the 20th Century, has died.  He was not only a terrific painter of classic barbarians, monsters and beautiful princesses, he also did some incredible comics work for EC Comics in the 1950s:

Here's a Lord of the Rings drawing:

He will be missed.

Here is your daily Summer Glau:

Jennifer ellen Cook turned me on to this majesty of musical mayhem. 3-piece punk band, but the lead singer plays hardcore cello and like to climb around and hang from things while playing and singing!