The Morning Stream
Stream Higgins’ upcoming LP Straight A’s which will be out 5.1 on Serious Business.
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the unsacred hearts (feat. jaymay) Don’t Disappear from The Honor Bar
Travis Harrison and Brian Kantor double drumming at the last Serious Business Rock and Roll Revue. (thanks Pascal for the photo!)
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stop dragging my heart around…from the rehearsals for the Serious Business Rock and Roll Revue coming this Saturday Jan 28 at Littlefield in Gowanus, Brooklyn. #WilburyNight!
THE SERIOUS BUSINESS ROCK AND ROLL REVUE.
Benji Cossa. Higgins. Rocketship Park. The Unsacred Hearts.
What does this mean?
The four acts performing here don’t play out enough and that’s not cool so we’re trying to remedy that by doing it all together. It’s not like we’re all taking turns playing on the same bill like a normal rock show. We’re concocting a seamless platter of show-business fun-times with no set breaks, no “thanks-for-coming-out-tonight-stick-around-for-the-next-band-they’re-great,” none of that noise. Hey this is show business isn’t it? We’re our own house band. You have to come to hear our imaginary hits. THE SERIOUS BUSINESS ROCK AND ROLL REVUE! FRI OCT 28 / THE ROCK SHOP / BROOKLYN / 249 4TH AVE
The good folks at the free music blog Bolachas had the following to say about Benji Cossa’s new Bandcamp page.
Benji Cossa, one of the greatest, has just put a load of albums up on his Bandcamp for pay-what-you-want download. We’ve posted about him quite some times in the last couple of years – along with other artists from the beautiful Serious Business Records – but if you’re new to him, go grab all that stuff. I suggest you start with Benji Cossa and the Tightens, streamable below. It’s also one of the most beautiful vinyl packages I own.
The Reutrn of the UNSACRED HEARTS: Sat Aug 27. Fort Useless. Brookyln.
It’s been two years since our pal Jeremiah started a DIY event space in Brooklyn (36 Ditmars Street, one block from the Myrtle Avenue/Broadway stop on the JMZ trains) and named it FORT USELESS. This was flattering to us since our first LP was called In Defense of Fort Useless and was exciting since we knew Jeremiah to be a great guy and a keen rock lover. But hence, around that time, the Unsacred Hearts’ activity as a live entity began to dwindle, what with our regular bass-man Andy Bean becoming fully ensconced in his mission to fill the world with two-man-music, Joe and I making babies, all of us getting married, Dave working on his doctorate, Joe becoming a lawyer, etc etc boo hoo. But all this time we were slowly broiling our greatest achievement which is the album called THE HONOR BAR. Now that it is done, we have resolved to resuscitate our always visceral rock-show which at its peak has been known to melt faces, break hearts and build beery bridges of sweaty communal love for the-rock-and-roll. For this show, Dave and Joe and I are lucky enough to play with Misters Chris Buckridge (bass), Brian Kantor (percussion) and Josh Kaufman (musical genius). That’s six Hearts. We are gonna sound GOOD.
So come to this celebration on Saturday Night August 27th at Fort Useless. It’s the space’s 2nd birthday. I’m not certain exactly what time the Hearts hit the stage but it doesn’t matter because the mighty GOLD STREETS and the incredible SHARK? need to be seen and heard by your eyes and ears respectively. Don’t slack. Get with us 8PM at FORT USELESS. There will be beer.
-Travis
Unsacred Hearts’ Debut EP on WFMU’s Free Music Archive @freemusicarchiv
Hello team. I just put the first Unsacred Hearts EP up on WFMU’s Free Music Archive. Take it. Enjoy it. This is SBR01, Serious Business’ first release. Enjoy.
The year was 2003. It was getting cold outside. We never forgot that because the tiny one room rehearsal shack we’d rented from a friend in Long Island City didn’t really have heat. We had it all set up to record in there and we’d get together a couple times a week, never without warm coats or cold Bud tall boys, to make music. Thankfully Joe Willie was on the mic for the first time and we loved it. Since mid ‘95 he’d been writing lyrics for our several underachieving backyard rock partnerships, all of which Dave and I loudly and proudly rocked for. His words, always honest and poetic, had taken on a new urgency, especially since what it seemed like he was writing about, in some way, was our lives as underachieving rock-band-dudes. Somehow he endowed our continuing musical pursuits with dignity and purpose, and we were genuinely fired up about it. We’d been dosing ourselves with very inspiring sounds, specifically Richard Hell’s Blank Generation, lots of Mitch Ryder, Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, all the bands in Michael Azzerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life. During this period we all lived in Joe’s house in Hoboken at the same time and we played our very first shows.-Travis
Take it. Love it. Buy it. Play it. Eat it. Digest it. Live it. Touch it. Thank you.
SBR48: ROCKETSHIP PARK: Cakes and Cookies. Hi. This record is sweet. You need to hear it to understand. Just download it. It’s free. You’ll share it if you love it. If you really love it you’ll buy the ridiculous physical manifestation we’ve concocted or you’ll pay some $ on iTunes or Amazon or Bandcamp to support this sweetness. Please. Thank you!
