Free Download of "The Miss Factory, Volume 1" !!!

You can now download the whole "Miss Factory, Vol.1" album for FREE at

www.tamurrecords.org

head on over there now and download that shit!

Many thanks to Ray from Le Rug (www.myspace.com/lerug) at Tamur Records for putting that up there for us!

In other news, we still got some shows coming up this Summer:

TONIGHT!!! Wednesday, July 29th @ The Delancey, NYC 8 PM SHARP

be there or be an asshole.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!

Oh, look out all you rock and rollers! This here page is undergoing some changes at the moment, and soon it's gonna be all tricked out and shit (just like my Chevrolet, WOOT WOOT!)

As you can see I already added that fine-ass video player over there, and that half-ass music player, and some links and shit. Check back soon to see the real deal Sally Field!

Michael Jackson's Dead

Now get over it.

Summer of rock continues....

Saturday, July 11th at All Asia Cafe, (Cambridge, MA) 8 PM

Thursday, July 16th at Bar Nine (807 9th Ave), 7 PM--B-Day Hootenanny featuring Boss Tweed, Lifeguard Nights, Hrny Wrms & much more! All for FREE

Hot Fun In My Ass!

Swimmers,

Summer is officially here! I mean technically it is...the weather is still fucking rainy or cloudy every day, but is that going to stop us from having a damn good time? Hell no. We've got a plethora of wild happy fun shows coming up:

Sunday, June 28th at The Annex (Asbury Park, NJ) at 8 PM--with HRNY WRMS!

Tuesday, June 30th at Tommy's Tavern (Greenpoint), 8 PM--with LA Velvet!

Saturday, July 4th in Schwenksville, PA--Outdoor BBQ All Day/Nite w/Si Senorita!

Saturday, July 11th at All Asia Cafe, (Cambridge, MA) 8 PM

Thursday, July 16th at Bar Nine (807 9th Ave), 7 PM--B-Day Hootenanny featuring Boss Tweed, Lifeguard Nights, Hrny Wrms & much more! All for FREE

Wednesday, July 29th at The Delancey (168 Delancey), 8 PM

All of these shows are going to be spectacular. Go to them.

"The Miss Factory" OUT NOW!

Finally, after months of tweaking, pruning, caressing, and some inappropriate fondling, "The Miss Factory" Volumes 1 and 2 are now up on iTunes for your downloading pleasure! Just in time for Summer!





If you actually download it, please let us know what you think!

The Miss Factory, Volume 2 & BEYOND!!!

Hi everybody,

So I finally finished up The Miss Factory, Volume 2, and it is officially a passport to wild times. As with Volume 1, a number of special guests joined me on these tunes, including Boris Veysman on bass licks, Drew Brady on keys and vocals, Brad Clymer on trumpet and groaning, Sarah Rose on keys and Gerard Egan on Slash lead guitar. They all kicked ass and I can't thank them enough for their time and effort. The tracklist for Volume 2 is as follows:


1. Open Season
2. Down And Out
3. Sorry
4. Hide And Seek
5. Keep Trying
6. Bury Me
7. In My Head
8. Bits And Pieces
9. Trash
10. Magazine
11. Circles
12. Road To Nowhere
13. Do The Stranglehold

Right now we're still trying to determine the best way to release "The Miss Factory," since getting double-albums made up is apparently rather costly, and coupled with the fact that nobody buys cds anymore, that's not awesome. But the alternative is risking having this gem lounge in obscurity (which it probably will anyway) and we can't take that chance. Once we figure out the game plan, we'll let you know. Whether or not we get physical copies made up, REST ASSURED the album(s) will be up on iTunes soon. If it's one thing I hate, it's you not resting assured. So please, rest away.

As for THE FUTURE (and boy do I love the future! In the future I'm a space-cop!), a few of us have been practicing regularly (like a real live band, how about that!) and have been working on some even newer material, which I think is going to shock and delight your pants off. It's a whole new sound, more electric and rocking and fun. These songs may end up part of my vague plan to attempt another concept album, called "Lifeboat For Fatty" or they may end up turning into something else. Who knows? I sure the fuck don't, but I'm pretty psyched about it. We'll be debuting some of these new gems at our upcoming shows, which are:

May 24th at the Mullet Convention BBQ in Guttenberg NJ
May 27th at Bar 9 in NYC with Little Embers (8 PM)
June 15th at Pianos in NYC (9 PM)

COME CHECK THAT SHIT OUT FOOL.

"ATE" Now Available Online!

Swimmers,

After many months collecting dust on the shelf, "ATE" is finally available on iTunes and various other digital outlets for your downloading pleasure. Recorded in the Summer/Fall of 2008, "ATE" is my 8th (see what I did there? BAM!) Lifeguard Nights home-recorded album. It's a little weird, I'm not going to lie to you. After the more polished (relatively) and deliberately constructed (sorta) "Following The Hollowing" album, I wanted to do something different, something a little more raw and off-the-cuff. Most of the songs on "ATE" were written and recorded in the same day, without too much hemming and hawing over the lyrics and instrumentation and whatnot. I just banged 'em out.

Musically, there is some pretty catchy stuff on here, but there's also some more far-out stuff as well, like "Smoke Signals" featuring a distorted vocal solo over a hypnotic banjo melody and castanets. "Right At Home" features slide guitar and some good ol' fashioned knee-slapping, and "The Loser Parade" features me on Charlie Brown sad (bad) trumpet. It's a pretty wild ride.

Lyrically, the album is pretty bitter and antagonistic, but hey, that's what I was feeling at the time and I felt I should "keep it real," as the kids say. Writing music is the only way I know how to get my frustration out. Cheaper than a shrink, and more fun, I imagine.

I sketched out the cover one day at the office:



Then one night after sucking down a Rotisserie chicken and a few baked potatoes, I had Eve take this photo of my gut, and Dave Biskup photoshopped the beautiful cover:



VOILA! A masterpiece was born...or a minorpiece....depends on your perspective I guess. It's a piece of some kind, I assure you. "of shit?" you ask. Why I oughta....don't make me come over there, buddy! I'll do it.

"ATE" Track Listing:

1. Let's Start Over
2. Good Riddance
3. Geeks On Dates
4. Hidden Torture
5. Imbecile Reign
6. Smoke Signals
7. Bloody City
8. Right At Home
9. Joy Boy Army
10. The Voice of Treason
11. Walking Through A Bad Dream
12. Thanks For Not Coming
13. The Loser Parade

In This Light

After getting hitched back in September, Eve and I took off for Vegas to lounge around in the dry heat and piss our money away. That got old fast and so we decided to head to La Jolla, CA for a couple days. While there, we stopped by my favorite place in the world, the Torrey Pines cliffs. I started writing a song and Eve helped out and "In This Light" was born. We decided to compile the footage from that day and make a little video out of it. Here it is:




The rest of the honeymoon video will be available soon on various adult websites. Kidding, ma, kidding.

Hangin' On E Street with Lifeguard Nights

Inspired by the recent "Hangin' Out On E Street" series on The Boss's website(www.brucespringsteen.net/new/hanginout.html), I decided to shoot my own video detailing how the Boss has influenced my life, musically and otherwise. Enjoy!

Note: This video was not commissioned by The Boss or his people, I just have a lot of free time on my hands. I hope The Boss and his people don't mind that I did this.

Take Back Lifeguard Nights!

Inspired by the recent Take Back NYU protest, I decided to stage a little sit-in rebellion of my own.





Unfortunately, it was short lived.

The Miss Factory, Volume 1 Tracklist

Hi imaginary friends, I hope 2009 is treating you all well so far! It's treating me wonderfully. I have done nothing except write and record music every night, with the occasional exceptions of going to shows and making sweet love to my beautiful wife. The result of all this hard work is The Miss Factory, a double-album split into 2 volumes (13 songs each) that is quickly nearing completion and is hands down the best thing I've ever done in my life. Far better than that time I stripped butt naked right before nailing the winning shot in beer pong at Jess's house, and slightly better than that 3 foot long turd I dropped last week that snaked around a couple times and poked it's head out of the water. Needless to say, it's a great album. This is how excited I am about it:



A number of very special guests have lent their talents to the album, including Boris Veysman on the the bass, Dr.Ew Brady on keys, accordion and vocals, Katy Cunningham on vocals, John Dorocki on kalimba and harmonium, Brad Clymer on the trumpet, Sara Jacovino on trombone, Sarah Rose on viola and Gerard Egan on lead guitar. More guests are scheduled to record soon and hopefully the whole she-bang will be released this Spring. The tracklist for Volume 1 is as follows...

1. I Think It's Time You Moved to Florida
2. Melt Away
3. Frustrated
4. Lost
5. Andonandon
6. CLR
7. In This Light
8. Sex in the Morning
9. My Chevrolet
10. All Out Of...
11. Holy Now
12. Sunrise
13. This is a Demonstration

The tracklist for Volume 2 will be released soon. Not that it really matters. I'm only doing this so I remember what order to put the songs in on the album.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Swimmers,

Hope you all enjoyed the holidays! 2009 is gearing up to be a big year for Lifeguard Nights. All systems go. Pedal to the metal. Balls to the wall. Skeet Skeet Skeet Skeet. As of today I've got 21 songs close to completion on "The Miss Factory", the 9th Lifeguard Nights home-recorded album, which just might end up a double album if the hits keep on coming. I've also got 11 tracks all sketched out for "The Way of the Hen", the first Lifeguard Nights collaboration with stupor-producer Mike Gallina.

In addition we've got a few gigs lined up at the end of the month. On Thursday January 29th we'll be performing with the band formerly known as but still at the moment known as Death mask, at The Goldhawk in Hoboken. We played a brief set there a couple months ago and it's a great room! The following night, Friday January 30th, we're performing with HRNY WRMS at Bar 9, for Eve's birthday! It was her idea, I swear. It's going to be awesome. Finally, the night after that, we're heading up to Cambridge, MA for a gig at All-Asia Cafe at 9 PM. 3 states, 3 nights, 3 shows, 3 hangovers. Actually February 1st is Superbowl Sunday, so let's just call it a bender.

Lastly, we are honored to have been invited back to the Willow Oak Farm Fest in Madison, GA on Memorial Day Weekend, and we'll be planning a little two week tour around this event, perhaps hitting up some places along the East Coast, the South and Midwest. If you have any suggestions for venues or know anybody in these areas (including yourself--if you know yourself) who could potentially help out in some way, let us know! The goodness will come back around to ya someday.

That's all for now. peace in the middle east,

Vincent

Little Timmy's Wish List and Other Exciting Shit!

If you haven't bought your tickets for this show yet, you are a goddamn moron.

In other news, I'm currently working on 2 massive albums at the same time. One of these albums ("The Miss Factory") will be in my usual home-recording style, but with a little help from my lifeguard friends, various special guests AND real (fake) drums. The evolution continues! I've already got 14 rough tracks sketched out and ready to go, and I love them all deeply. The second album ("The Way of the Hen") is going to be a bit of a departure, in that I'm working with a very talented and mentally disturbed producer (I like to call him Dong Johnson) who is going to take my songs and add his own (ric) flair to them. We're close to completion on one track already and the results are beautifully unique. It's going to be a Lifeguard Nights album unlike any you've heard before. I'm psyched.

Onwards and upwards! Happy holidays, swimmers,

Vincent

Mercury Lounge 12/12 and End-of-the-Year Roundup!

Hi everybody,

Hope you're all enjoying yourselves doing whatever it is that you do exactly! 2008 is quickly coming to a close, and I'm glad because I'm pretty sure 2008 has been trying to kill me. If you could charge a year with attempted murder, I'd have filed a police report months ago. It's been a heck of a roller-coaster ride these past 11 months and I'm willing to blow God himself if he lets up in 2009. Blasphemy probably isn't helping my cause, I realize, but between the Giants winning the Superbowl, getting deathly ill for a few weeks, getting engaged, having an old friend try to steal 1200 bucks from me, getting married, wacky private detective adventures, work drama, band drama, baby mama drama (just kidding, mom), I need a freakin break. Granted, getting married and having the Giants win the Superbowl in the same year is pretty freakin' awesome, so I figure the universe decided to pay me back by having other other aspect of my life suck balls.

However, ball-sucking usually leads to better song-writing, so that's good. I only recorded two solo albums this year, "Following the Hollowing" and "Ate" but I think they're my best and I'm pretty proud of them. Plus there was "Punch Sky", our second full band album which I also think is our finest collaborative effort to date. So while we might still be completely obscure, at least we're getting better in our obscurity. Onwards and upwards to nowhere! To round out the year, we've got the 2nd Annual X-Mas Spectacular coming up on December 12th at the Mercury Lounge. Check out the poster below!



I'm pretty psyched about this show for a number of reasons. It's always fun to play with our friends Wormburner and Knockout Drops, and especially at our favorite club in the city, the Mercury Lounge. Plus, there's the Yule Dogs all-star christmas-classics jam session which will blow your mind There's no better way to get in the holiday spirit than that, I guarantee you. In addition to all that awesomeness, I've assembled a great team for the show, featuring a couple of fresh faces (Jeff on drums, Sarah on viola) and a great set-list, featuring a wide variety of new and old songs, and a very special christmas cover song by my favorite band of all time, which I'll be performing solo. Barring any natural disasters/technical difficulties, I'm confident this will be our finest show to date. We do have a couple gigs after that before the New Year is up, (including a Bogmen after-party show at Bar 9), so check the myspace page for details on those!

Alrighty, I'm down to suck off a turkey! I mean, off to suck down a turkey. Same difference. Peace.

Vincent and Lifeguard Nights

"Punch Sky" and other brilliance!

Ladies and gentlemen, I am back! Not that I really went anywhere, I just haven't posted anything in, oh, about 8 months. And it's not like anyone visits this page anyway, but has society's complete indifference to my artistic endeavors ever stopped me in the past? I THINK NOT.

Firstly, we are thrilled to announce that Headshop Records will be releasing our 2nd full-band studio album, "PUNCH SKY" on September 16th! Even though that's a week away, the album is up on iTunes NOW so stop reading this, go buy it, and then head back here to read the rest of this wonderful blog.

Recording this album was an incredible experience from start to finish. First we went into Retromedia Studios and laid down bass and drums on 11 tracks in 3 hours with our good buddy engineer Adam Vaccarelli. A couple of the songs ("Whore" and "Oh No") we pretty much learned on the spot, and they came out great.











After that we recorded most of the overdubs at my apartment, with everyone coming in on different days and laying their parts down. It was a truly collaborative experience and watching the songs grow and take shape was amazing. It was easily the best experience I've ever had making an album, personally, creatively, and financially. Here are some of the highlights of the recording sessions.



After the tracking was done we went back to Retromedia Studios for an intense mixing session with John Noll and came out with a gem of an album. Next we needed an album cover, so everyone decided to shoot me out of a cannon.



The landing kinda hurt, but I'm glad we got the shot! Special thanks to Dave Biskup for his fine photography skills. I owe you a handy, Dave.

Anyhow, overall I think this is our finest work to date, and possibly the first album I've ever produced that I'm 100% proud of! I honestly believe you will love it, no matter what type of music you like, so if you have a chance, give it a listen and let us know what you think!

In other news, I finished up my 7th Lifeguard Nights "solo" album, "Following the Hollowing", and much like "Punch Sky", I think it's hands-down, start-to-finish the best album I've ever created. Recording-wise, songwriting-wise, everything. It's a big album, with 13 fully-realized tracks in the tradition of "After the Disasters" and I can't wait to get it out there.

In even more recent news, I'm almost finished with my 8th Lifeguard Nights solo album, titled "Ate", featuring a plethora of indie-pop songs hovering around the 2 minute mark, with a couple of interesting and unusual detours thrown in for good measure.

Finally, within a couple months the ENTIRE Lifeguard Nights (including the two new albums just mentioned) and South Jersey Seashore Lifeguard Convention Band catalogs should be up on iTunes! I'm pretty excited about this, and the possibilities it opens up for the future. No longer will I have to wait to be able to afford duplication for every album, I can simply release albums digitally once they're completed! From my apartment to your ears in mere weeks! Everybody wins!

I'm off to celebrate. Peace.

NEWS 1/25/08

Happy New Year, swimmers! "Lucky '07" lived up to the hype, as Lifeguard Nights had the best (and only) year we've ever had! We recorded 7 albums, got signed to Headshop Records, toured the West Coast, grew to an impressive 11 members (if everybody shows up), and finished off the year opening for our friends Wormburner and The Knockout Drops at the Bowery Ballroom! It was awesome...

...but now "Great '08" is here and it's already shaping up to be even better! We kicked off the year with what I thought was our best show ever, at Maxwell's in Hoboken. I was actually a little intimidated beforehand, much more so than at Bowery Ballroom, because of all the great shows I've seen there. But once we got up there it was the most fun I've ever had playing a show. The sound (at least from where I was) was awesome, the crowd was pretty lubed up and there was plenty of energy on stage. Unfortunately, Sean's car was vandalized by some punks who destroyed his ignition, and the Hoboken cops don't seem to have any promising leads. They even took the tape deck AND the Creedence. Fuckers.

In happier news, you can now download ALL SIX home-recorded Lifeguard Nights albums at www.thelifeguardband.com (thanks Dave Biskup). That's So Low, Doing Harm on Easy Street, After The Disasters, M, Calm Down, Chief! and So Lower, all available for FREE! So head on over there and download em, each one's better than the last!

PLUS, we're heading into the studio next week to lay down basic tracks on our 2ND STUDIO ALBUM! Yes, it deserves all caps. It's that exciting. We're thrilled to be recording at Retromedia in Red Bank again, and working with our favorite little buddy Adam Vaccarelli! We'll be approaching this album a little differently than the last one, which was mostly recorded live in the studio in one day. We're gonna take a little more time on this one, to really produce it and give it a much bigger sound. If all goes well, it'll have the charm of our home recordings mixed with the professional sound of the studio, and I can't wait to hear the results. I'll keep updating this site with pictures and videos and reports from the recording sessions as they happen, so check back often.

Finally, we've got a bunch of gigs in the Tri-State area booked in the coming months, and are hoping to make a journey through some southern states this spring, and head over to Europe in the late Summer/Fall. To keep up to date on all Lifeguard-related activity, head over to www.myspace.com/lifeguardnights and drop us a line so we know you're out there, all two of you. Thanks, safe swimming for now,

Vincent

Lifeguard Nights on Lifeguard Nights: Lifeguards

Vincent Brue's "Medal of Valor" Acceptance Speech at the 2006 Lifeguard Awards.

West Coast Tour Blog, Day 10

Yes, the tour may have come to an end as far as rocking was concerned, but the party was still going strong. We Team A-holes had to return our Mercury Mariner (www.mercurymariner.com) to the airport at noon, but our flight wasn't until 9:15 PM. Team D-bag were all on earlier flights so we said farewell to them and headed straight for the bar.



That face pretty much says it all. It's hard to tell if Steve looks afraid of what is to come, if he's annoyed about what is to come, or if he's warning me to not do what is to come. Steve should have known better. After a couple hours, it was highway to the danger zone. I made some friends while watching football, one of whom, Herbert G. Farber, was a lawyer and offered to help me out if I ever got arrested in Seattle. If he had stuck around a little longer, and had I drank any more, his services might have been required in Las Vegas. Steve shot this video on his phone, while I was on a break from the bar.



Soon the Giants/Eagles game came on, and by that point I was sucking down scotch like the apocalypse was nigh. The Giants were dominating and I was pretty fired up, prompting three female Eagles fans to tell me to shut up. That didn't help the situation, and for the rest of the game I was screaming in their faces, as we sacked Donovan McNabb 13 times. I tried to get everyone to give Strahan a standing ovation when he broke L.T.'s sack record, but nobody seemed to care that much. I started smoking cigarettes in the bathroom after Super Dave (our bartender) told me it was cool. I'm pretty sure it wasn't cool. The next thing I know, I'm puking on the airplane at 6 in the morning as we're landing in New York. I can't quite recall boarding the flight in Vegas, or transferring flights in Denver, or many other things. Apparently I was slapping Steve around in the airport bar, and he didn't like that too much. But Team A stuck together and remained triumphant through it all.








That was that. Somehow we managed to go on tour for 10 days, and nobody got arrested or killed or laid, which was pretty shocking. Okay, it wasn't all that shocking that nobody got laid.

Next tour destination: Europe. Stay tuned.

West Coast Tour Blog, Day 9

Viva Las Vegas. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Vegas, baby, Vegas. And so forth. It wasn't easy mustering up the energy needed to do Vegas right on the last night of our tour. Steve resorted to smoking Red Bull right out of the can.



Along the way we stopped off to visit the Calico ghost town.



We made a bunch of new friends, but you can't see them.



Eventually we made it to Vegas, the Disneyland for delinquents.



We set up at Zia Records and played our final show of the tour. I couldn't bear the thought of donning the Elvis suit again, as it was most likely toxic and a public safety hazard at that point. It was all very anti-climactic. At first, Steve's red-bull-induced sugar rush gave the band lots of energy and had us all rocking pretty hard.



At one point, Steven even stood up and busted out a ten minute drum solo...



...but he crashed soon after.



A 14 year old girl bought our cd, and that made me happy.



Then the show was over, and our tour had come to an end, rock-wise. We all punched the sky and took a bow.



But the tour hadn't come to an end party-wise. We hit the strip and decided to put all the money we had made on tour (roughly $35,000) on black.



Naturally, we lost. I was pretty upset. Beams of light shot out of my head.



I gambled some more, and lost. At everything. Slots. Blackjack. Roulette. Craps. You name it, I lost at it. I lost so much, I didn't even have enough money left to chip in for the hookers and blow, so I went back to our hotel room and fell asleep.

West Coast Tour Blog, Day 8

I Love San Diego, now that's a song I could get behind. We bid farewell to LA and headed on down the 5, but not before a crackhead accused me of trying to steal his (her?) rusty old bike outside a bodega in Santa Monica. Silly crackhead. Who wants a rusty old bike when you've got a MERCURY FUCKING MARINER? (www.mercurymariner.com)

I led the charge from the heart of darkness right into my old summer of 2000 stomping grounds, the whale's vagina.



First order of business, as usual, was downloading porn.



Then it was off to my favorite place in the entire world, the cliffs of La Jolla.



It was pretty awesome.





Some crazy people were hang-gliding over the cliffs, which looks like tons of fun if you have enormous testicles.







We pushed John off the cliff, and he was kind enough to take a photo of Steve and Drew as he went down.



Drew gazed off into the distance, wondering if there might be a glory hole nearby.



Steve and I embraced, happy to have survived the long journey.



Boris and I sat in silence for a while, drinking it all in. There was a lot to drink, and it was delicious, like beer-flavored beer.



I took one last look around and said goodbye to the cliffs, in my inside voice.



We headed downtown and walked along the beach for a while.



Apparently John had landed safely, and managed to find a glory hole.



Naturally, Drew was quite jealous.



We paid a brief visit to our La Jolla branch...



...then stole their Jeep and did a few donuts in the sand. Safely, of course.



Dusk arrived, and it was time for us to go to work.



The gig was at a place called Scolari's Office in downtown San Diego. When we arrived we met another myspace fan/friend, whose name escapes me. He bought us some shots and was definitely looking to party. Also looking to party: a few Navy guys who heckled us a bit at first, but warmed up to us (possibly thanks to "In The Navy Now") and ended up buying us shots as well. It was a pretty fun show and the crowd seemed to be into it. Afterwards, John, Drew (who was channeling Nikki Sixx at this point) and Mike all went out with our myspace buddy to party like the '86 Mets, while Boris, Steve and I went for a nighttime stroll along the beach. It was pleasant and gave us a chance to reflect. The tour was coming to a close and I didn't quite know how to feel about it. It had been awesome, exhausting, inspiring, disappointing, invigorating, depressing, wild, confusing and fun, all at the same time. I was fried. I think we all were.