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forgetters (ex-Jawbreaker) announces NYC show

Posted by brian on Friday, September 4, 2009 at 1:00 PM (EDT)

The new project from former Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil frontman Blake Schwarzenbach and original Against Me! drummer Kevin Mahon, forgetters, have announced a New York City show.

The band will play Manhattan's Lit Lounge on September 18th alongside Golden City, who themselves include ex-Christie Front Drive.

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LinoleumMagazine (September 4, 2009)

Hey Steve, is this really what our taxes are paying for?

http://failblog.org/2009/09/03/colleagues-fail/

and of course for you to fuck around on punknews.

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Scarysmurf (September 4, 2009)

I support Steve's fucking around on the Org to the fullest extent.

baldsteve (September 4, 2009)

Very similar, just never ever solitaire.

ugay (September 4, 2009)

maybe these guys will actually record something

Preston (September 4, 2009)

Same day as Weakerthans. Fudge.

MyStereoHasMono (September 4, 2009)

More excited over the ex-Christie Front Drive band. EPIC!

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baldsteve (September 4, 2009)

Me too.

colin (September 4, 2009)

yes.

spoon_of_grimbo (September 4, 2009)

that golden city mini-album is brilliant! sounds like old jimmy eat world.

how do christie front drive compare? i've not checked them out yet...

baldsteve (September 4, 2009)

If I can get the weekend off, this may be a huge possibility.

Anybody heard Golden City?

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JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

How pissed will you be if you book a hotel, travel, etc., spend all that money, then they cancel the show?

Purely hypothetically speaking, though.

Cheesetits (September 4, 2009)

I smell a bomb threat.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

How can you smell a bomb threat? You can only hear them.

baldsteve (September 4, 2009)

Gas money spent to visit friends in brooklyn and maybe catch a show? I'd say worth it 100%.

Only expense is beer.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

If I run into you on the street, I'll take your beer and slap you across the face.

baldsteve (September 4, 2009)

Nobody touches my beer.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

I'll pretend to take your beer, and then when you get all defensive I'll push you over a hunched-over Chris Bauermeister who's bending over behind you.

kidgotham (September 4, 2009)

No offense Steve, but this would be hilarious. That trick never gets old.

baldsteve (September 4, 2009)

None taken. Chris is a swell dude.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

Oh yeah? Well I've met the President.

TWICE.

I will take your post as explicit permission to do what I proposed.

baldsteve (September 4, 2009)

Yeah? Me too. You know what it gets you? Same thing it gets me. Nothing.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

You speak of things you know nothing of. How do you know what I got from it?

Preston (September 4, 2009)

If you come for this. There will be beers.

baldsteve (September 4, 2009)

Sweet. It will be swell to meet you. I'd like to meet the other scott too.

Fingers crossed.

the_other_scott (September 4, 2009)

i will be out of the city that weekend. otherwise i'd offer up beers ala preston.

Preston (September 4, 2009)

Also, Youth Brigade and OWTH are playing on that Saturday.

deadXlast (September 4, 2009)

I haven't heard them but Christie Front Drive was really good.

spoon_of_grimbo (September 4, 2009)

the golden city record is streaming on this very site. very poppy and kinda laid back, but really really good stuff.

Cheesetits (September 4, 2009)

Neat.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

NOT OK

When will punknews stop paying attention to this attention whore?

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Cheesetits (September 4, 2009)

I laughed.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

I cried! I cry every time there's a Blake Schwarzen. story.

14theroad (September 4, 2009)

By your theory Jawbreaker sucks. However, this is not Jawbreaker but forgetters. So you can stop now. The jokes over. By about 13 years.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

This subject has been covered MANY times. Ask Dante or BS for a synopsis.

And go home.

14theroad (September 4, 2009)

I'm at home. You know who tells me to go home when I'm at home all the time? Lintsay and Gautham. You've been exposed.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

Really?

Do I sound as stupid as either of them? Really?

14theroad (September 4, 2009)

Yes. Especially Gautham.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

Who the hell is Gautham anyway? Batman?

14theroad (September 4, 2009)

Yes. I do call him Batman from time to time. You sure know a lot for someone who doesn't know anything.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

It's almost like I'm secretly a genius, waiting and waiting to be discovered.

baldsteve (September 4, 2009)

The truth is that you are a retarded invalid.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

You always have been a crusader for truth.

Dante3000 (rich) (September 4, 2009)

When he stops whoring for attention? What that rhetorical? I'm sorry.
-Dante

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

I don't know, most people, they let nostalgia for their band build up in a fan base. Blake Schwarzen., he forces it like he's Kobe Bryant or Ben Roethlisberger.

victim (September 4, 2009)

Whath thath rethorithcal? I'm thwrry

CrankWillDestroy (September 4, 2009)

I got stopped at a border patrol checkpoint in AZ wearing a 'grupo fantasma' shirt, listening to my buddy's band who mostly do songs in Spanish and eating a burrito... Oh and I'm Latino. It was weird.

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MilesQToast (September 4, 2009)

as in you were just driving around in az and they stop you to make sure you are ok to be here? or was this at the actual border?

CrankWillDestroy (September 4, 2009)

Not at the border, just along I-10. check out youtube, there's this guy who puts up videos of him refusing to answer the question if he's a citizen or not because he says it's unconstitutional.

TheLando (September 4, 2009)

We got stopped there also. But we were 7 kids from the midwest who were not of hispanic descent. Oh yeah, and one kid from Tucson, who was indeed hispanic!

Not much of a check though. They are just like. Not carrying any illegals are you? If you answer no, you're free to go!

14theroad (September 4, 2009)

Why is Caroline not mentioned? She was in Bitchin'. An awesome band in their own right.

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MilesQToast (September 4, 2009)

sexistism

Dante3000 (rich) (September 4, 2009)

I didn't know she had actually been IDed. That's rad.
-Dante

badbrain (September 4, 2009)

they're also playing in Philly on September 25th.

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ExtraCheesePizza (September 4, 2009)

You coming up for it?

badbrain (September 4, 2009)

I doubt it, it's on a friday and I'm out of vacation days

Longshot (September 4, 2009)

Wait, what happened to Thorns of Life?
Is this a different band?

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14theroad (September 4, 2009)

Thorns of Life is done for. This is the new band. Although, rumor has it they'll be salvaging some Thorns songs.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

Thorns of Life broke up because Blake is a giant baby! I love when people always bring it up still.

ExtraCheesePizza (September 4, 2009)

I'm mad because now I don't know what Aaron Cometbus is doing. I like every band he's drummed for that I've heard.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

Working with Blake made him so jaded and tired that he's retired from music, at least for the time being. He takes a lot out of you.

ExtraCheesePizza (September 4, 2009)

And that was only a few "secret" house shows. Notice how depressing Cometbus #52 was too.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

Can't say I saw it, actually. Maybe I should go pick it up...

ExtraCheesePizza (September 4, 2009)

Doesn't have anything to do with Thorns of Life. If you like Cometbus, definitely worth checking out. A lot darker tone to it than his usual stuff and a real bummer of an ending.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

OK, maybe I will. It's good for the Schadenfreude.

ExtraCheesePizza (September 4, 2009)

Philly is getting Onion Flavored Rings and Amateur Party as openers. We win.

mroffman (September 4, 2009)

Someone who is going to this, please record it and put it on the interwebs for download.

HeresLookinAtYou (September 4, 2009)

...and I'm there.

crackpotdemagogue (September 4, 2009)

i love how you conformed to the forgetters with 'no uppercase f' as outlined by king blake. heil schwarzenbach!!!

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JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

Yet another member of the Cult blindly adhering to their master's wishes.

BEGONE!

crackpotdemagogue (September 4, 2009)

hahaha, amazing. we all know you secretly love the 'breaker. you're just repressed.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

How could anyone repress themselves like that?

deadXlast (September 4, 2009)

It's like how you try to make up for your two-inch penis by antagonizing people on message boards.

You do a bad job at that, too.

JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

I like how you try to make up for your one-inch penis by antagonizing people who antagonize people on message boards.

You actually do alright.

deadXlast (September 4, 2009)

My one-inch penis gets more ass than your overgrown man-clit because I don't waste every spare minute attempting to troll punknews.

D-Funk (September 4, 2009)

So is Schwarzenbach a jerk or something? Why does he keep forming new bands and then quickly break up? I saw Thorns of Life once in Silverlake. Had potential, I thought...

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JawbreakerSucks (September 4, 2009)

Of course he is. When will you listen? Stop asking questions that have already been answered 1000 times.

baldsteve (September 4, 2009)

Keep forming bands? You mean the one quick lived project that didn't work or the previous bands that were around for years?

xshoutoutx (September 4, 2009)

Will be there!

SickTeen (September 5, 2009)

So did Thorns of Life get anything recorded with J. Robbins ?? I remember that bit of news getting a lot of play on the street. And if the record is recorded or some songs, will we ever hear the tracks ?? And why did Thorns of Life break up ? What's the scoop ?

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