Happy New Year! We're Moving!

Swimmers!

Happy New Year! It is with a hint of sadness and a hint of excitement that I tell you that the blog is moving 

HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cause it's easier  to use and doesn't look like George R. R. Martin's in charge of it.

So go there for updates and whatnot, please.

This site will remain here for posterity. 

Thank you for your continued support of the team, and safe swimming,

Vincent and Lifeguard Nights

Mercury Lounge Xmas Show 2014 Promo!

Land HO HO HO!

"BEASTMASTER"

Swimmers,

Years in the making, "Beastmaster" is finally here. Featuring the mighty talents of Steve Honoshowsky, Boris Veysman, Tim Dempsey, Paulie Donofrio and Pat Calvert, with Ben Ross and Brian Powell participating in the last track's freakout jammy. Cover art by Steve Honoshowsky and design by Dave Biskup. I could talk about it for hours, but who would care? Just listen to it:

BlowUpRadio.com Benefit is actually THIS weekend!

Swimmers,

We're proud to be participating in the Banding Together: A Benefit Webathon for the Spondylitis Association of America on BlowUpRadio.com with a ton of other great bands for a good cause. Check out SPEAK INTO MY GOOD EYE for more info and the schedule and everything. We contributed a live set from our show at Arlene's Grocery on 8/19/14, and also contributed a brand new unreleased track to a compilation that they will also be airing.  Fun stuff that you won't be hearing anywhere else, so tune in and donate!

Newness

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Hope you all enjoyed your Summer! We are sad to see it go. We here at Lifeguard Nights headquarters basically had the best Summer ever, girlfriend. No shit. In case you missed it, I started a little bidness called I MAKE YOU MUSIC (where I'll write you a personalized hit freakin' song for a small price--check it out) and also released a new Ballroom album "Genital Hospital" featuring Steve Honoshowsky on the drums and Mike Biskup on the keys and guitar, and I just finished recording a bunch of music for a great documentary called "Offset" about an amazing photographer named Brian Nice, a traumatic brain injury survivor who goes on a road trip across the country taking photographs as a means of therapy. Check out his photos, they're awesome. Very excited about that project. I am also wrapping up the long-in-the-making Lifeguard Nights "Beastmaster" LP which is completely insane. Craziest Lifeguard Nights album yet, it may blow your mind lil bit. Couple tracks below:





I also started work on a solo album which is made up of songs I wrote on my recent road trip out west with lifeguard wife. You can check out a couple tracks I posted here at MY PERSONAL BANDCAMP PAGE. There's also a few more Lifeguard Nights albums in the works as well that I'm pretty excited about.  The hits just keep on coming.

In other exciting news, this Saturday we're playing EXTRAVADANSA, an annual party in Stockholm NJ with a bunch of great bands including our sister band Hello, Boat returning to the stage for the first time in a long time. We're psyched to have Steve Dans on the kit for this one. Gonna be some oldies and some rarities and good times. If you wanna come, lemme know and I'll get you the details.

That's all for now. Bye bye, and safe swimming,

Vincent & Lifeguard Nights

New Hope Setlist/Thanks

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Good times and John and Peter's yesterday. Back to the studio to work on more hits. We'll be in touch.

Arlene's Thanks/Setlist

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Thanks to all ye (Morgan and friends) who came to Arlene's the other night. Sorry to the dudes who wanted some Bruce. I wanted to give it to you but sometimes you just have to stick to the game plan, although we didn't have much of a game plan. Anywho, we did these hits:

Country Roads
Overtired
Cruel and Usual Punishment
Tribute
Lonely Drive
Lonely Hwy
New Family
No Mistakes
The Red Eye
Fork You
Dire Straits

Next up: John and Peter's in New Hope on Saturday, August 30th at 3 PM with our pals the Laundrymen featuring our very own Dr.Ew Brady. Come on out for a fun free matinee!

Mercury Lounge Thanks/Setlist/The Future

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Thanks to all ye wonderful people who came out the Mercury Lounge this past Thursday, including my guards for rocking their asses off, and Vic Thrill for blowing my mind as always. It was truly a special evening for me. 

This past Friday was my last day of work at my job of almost 14 years. I started there as an intern back in the year 2000, a couple months after The South Jersey Seashore Lifeguard Convention Band was born. For pretty much as long as I've been recording music, I've been at that job, a job which gave me a lot of freedom over the years to pursue my dream of making music on the side. However, since our move to New Jersey 3 1/2 years ago, I found myself with less and less time to do the very thing I came here to do: make music in my studio. The 4 hour per day commute was draining me in every way, and though I've managed to release 5 or 6 albums and some EPs and singles over the past three years, there is so much more that I haven't had time to finish up, and so much more that I would like to do, musically and otherwise.

One of those endeavors is the personalized songwriting business (in the same vein as our own Dr. Ew Brady and Kato Cunningham Veysman's old venture Songshop NY) that I have just started called I MAKE YOU MUSIC which I really hope you will check out. As long as I've been writing songs, I've been writing songs about friends and people I know, even going back to high school before I even played any instruments or knew how to sing. Over the years, everyone I've ever written a song for or about loves their song, because everyone loves a song that is unique to them and their life and whatever it is they want to celebrate or commemorate. I truly believe in this idea, and while I'm sure a lot of musicians or bands will think this is cheesy or "selling out" I do not give one hoot.  I think this business will bring a lot of joy to a lot of people (myself included), and give the world a lot more music which is always a good thing. So please, check out I MAKE YOU MUSIC and get in touch if you'd like me to whip you up your very own hit song.  

I'm also looking to get into making music for TV/Film/Commercials/Interwebs/anything, so if you need a jingle for your business, or need a score for your movie or tv show or web video, or anything like that, hit me up at info@imakeyoumusic.com. I'm also available for live performances, either as Lifeguard Nights, Uncle Vin, whatever, wherever, playing originals or covers or whatever you want. I just want to make music and play music as much as possible. 

Alright, enough of the sales-pitching/begging….. 

These are exciting times. Slightly nerve-wracking times, yes, but I'm confident this is the right move for me and I have to take this chance. If I fail miserably and have to go back to a 9-5, so be it. In the meantime, there will be a shit ton of music coming your way soon. So stay tuned, take care, and safe swimming,

Vincent & Lifeguard Nights

PS. Merc Lounge setlist and photo by my lovely wife Eve below.

VICTORY!

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Exciting news, apparently we won The Music Building's "Expose Yourself" competition (because of course I will sign up for any competition that involves exposing yourself) and will be interviewed in The Deli Mag! Check it out!

LIFEGUARD NIGHTS WIN THE MUSIC BUILDING'S "EXPOSE YOURSELF" CONTEST

We've never won anything before and I must say it feels prettay, prettay good. Come celebrate with us at the Mercury Lounge tonight!


Vincent & Lifeguard Nights

Mercury Lounge July 10th w/Vic Thrill

Swimmers!

Happy Summer! Exciting news! After nearly 14 years at my job I am stepping down in a couple weeks to pursue music and writing and some other creative endeavors. Primarily I will be focusing on my personalized songwriting business called I Make You Music. Please go check out that site and get in touch if you'd like a song. Hits for all, for cheap!

To commemorate all this excitement, and my birthday (which happens to fall the first day of this new chapter of my life,) we're playing at The Mercury Lounge on Thursday, July 10th, and will be joined by our longtime pal, the legendary Vic Thrill. It's gonna be great. It's also gonna be a hot ticket so get yours now HERE

Hope to see you there, safe swimming,

Vincent & Lifeguard Nights

"Bruetown" Featured on The Owl

Swimmers!

Some nice words about "Bruetown"

http://www.theowlmag.com/discovery/hear-this-lifeguard-nights/

Sweet. More news soon. Safe swimming,

Vincent & Lifeguard Nights

Do Rock

Swimmers,

Today is John Dorocki's birthday and we've been working on a bunch of songs for our oldest pal, teacher, and everything the man was that can't be put into words, but we've tried our best to put into music. I couldn't pick up a guitar for a long time after John passed. I couldn't even look at one. It hurt more than I can say. Then one day John came to me and told me stop being such a pussy and to pick up the guitar and get back to doing what we did best. As he said on his 21st birthday 14 years ago today, "Fuck the Beatles. We're better than the fucking Beatles." He immediately fell face down on his driveway after that declaration, but whatever, I believed him.

So I picked up the guitar a few months back and "Tribute" shot out of me like a baby crying upon arrival into a new world. I don't like this new world but I'll never forget the old one and these songs are my way of holding onto that, and to John. Through music we meet again and again and I have John himself to thank for that.

These songs are still quite rough and there are many more in the works that he has inspired. There would be a lot less music in the world without John Dorocki, and music is the best, so thank you John for everything, everything that means anything.

Happy birthday friend.

Morristown Thanks/Setlist/Pics/Vids

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Thanks to all ye who came out to the Bike Walk Town party at Sona13 in Morristown last night, was wonderful to see so many old pals. Thanks to Christian and Bike Walk Town for having us. We had a wonderful time. We played the following:

The Sweet Charade
A New Family
Country Roads
Overtired
Cruel and Usual Punishment
The Break
Babyshine
Tribute
Lonely Hwy
The Red Eye
No Mistakes

Video of Babyshine and Tribute. Thanks to Lifeguard Wife for shooting.

See you this Summer, safe swimming,

Vincent & Lifeguard Nights

Show Tomorrow Night in Morristown!

Swimmers!

Happy officially-but-sure-as-hell-doesn't-feel-like-it-yet Spring! We've been holed up in the studio recording one billion new songs, but we're taking a break to venture out into society tomorrow night in Morristown for a special event. We'll be playing at 7 PM SHARP! Get your tickets here:

http://bikesbandbeer.brownpapertickets.com

Hope to see you there! Safe swimming,

Vincent & Lifeguard Nights

"Bruetown" EP Out Now

Stone Pony Setlist/Thanks/The Future

Swimmers!

Thanks to all ye who came out to the Stone Pony last night. We had fun. Now we're going back into hibernation to finish up some albums which we'll be releasing soon. They're awesome. Stay tuned. Setlist from last night below and thanks to Virginia Kamenitzer for the awesome pics!

Country Roads
New Family
Cruel and Usual Punishment
Overtired
Driveway Dreams
Dire Straits
Sea of Death
Lonely Hwy
The Red Eye
No Mistakes

Stone Pony Tomorrow w/Daughter Vision - ALL AGES EARLY SHOW

Swimmers,

Once more we hop upon that mighty steed, The Stone Pony, tomorrow Sunday February 16th, and our good pals Daughter Vision are opening up for us. It's an all ages early show so bring the whole family.


Daughter Vision at 6
Lifeguard Nights at 7

$10 advance, $12 at the door. We have advance tickets so let me know if you'd like to save a couple bucks.

This will be our last show for a while as we get back to work on finishing up some hot new albums. See you there,

Vincent & Lifeguard Nights

Knitting Factory Thanks/Setlist/Gigs

Swimmers!

Good times at the Knitting Factory last night. Played a bunch of songs we haven't played in ages, with old guards and new, and it went swimmingly. Real proud of my team and very grateful to have them on board this fun rock and roll train to nowhere. Here's the setlist:

The Kids Ain't Alright
Allie Says
Whore
Dire Straits
Driveway Dreams
Some Kind of Animal
The Gun Show
Lonely Hwy
Mexico
Batten Down the Hatches
The Red Eye

Thanks KKOD for the pic:

NEXT UP is a very special stripped down living-room show in Califon, NJ this Saturday at 8 PM which will be recorded live and shot on some real fancy video cameras for posterity. It's gonna be great. Let me know if you'd like to attend and I'll get all you the details.

AFTER THAT we'll be returning to the legendary Stone Pony in Asbury Park on Sunday February 16th of President's Day Weekend (so you may have Monday off). Either way it's an early show, we go on at 7 PM and it's all ages, so bring the whole family. Hope to see you there!

Safe swimming,
Vincent & Lifeguard Nights

Knitting Factory this Wednesday!

Swimmers!


We were just invited to play the Knitting Factory on Wednesday, February 5th, and you know my RSVP policy, so of course we're gonna come.

Special guest and lifeguard legend Steve Dans on the kit.
Special guest and lifeguard legend Brad Clymer on the trumpet.

The rest of us are special and legendary too.

We'll be playing the hits, which are all of them.

The Pluto Moons play after us. Check them out. It's fun stuff.

theplutomoons.bandcamp.com

8 PM
$10

Come on out. It's gonna be just like old times, except in Brooklyn.

RSVP!!!!!!!!!!