December 11, 2009

Rocks into Diamonds

Big! Show! Tonight! Live! Hoboken! New! Jersey! Stop! By!

If you don't make it, here's what you'll be missing:



(if you don't see the youtube video, click on "view original post")

You'll also be missing some teeth next time we see you!

December 4, 2009

One week from today...

...we'll be playing a holiday show at our Hoboken practice space with lots and lots of special guests.

Warming things up is our good friend Andy Fuckin' Meagher. He's in town for his final senior recital before officially becoming a Doctor of Organs (pipe organs, that is), and will be showing off some of skills for us. If we're good boys and girls, we'll get to hear a good mix of classical tunes, holiday music, and gangsta rap!

Next up is the funniest man not in show business, the best music critic in history, and the greatest criminal mind of our time, Mark Prindle. He's bringing his wife Brenda, and drummer Jimmy Laakso and assist with the fancy rock stylings and nimble jump kicks. Just like the Rockettes!

Then it's the 1-2 punch from the most hated bands in Hudson County, Plowing Mud Forever and Torrential Downpour. Actually it will less of a 1-2 punch and more of a 3/4 or 7/8 time signature. Because we're outlaws!

Also performing all night will be BEER! Drink it! Norm's doing the lights so you can see the BEER! Here's a flyer! IT'S SO EXTREME THAT IT'S MORE THAN WORDS!!!!!!!!

November 12, 2009

PMF Barnbuster

There is going to be an awesome PMF show coming up in 4 weeks. Many, many special guests. Details will be announced soon.

This won't not be one to not miss!

October 31, 2009

The Kirk Report

EPISODE X. - The story of "The Night Report."
Sponsored by Jazzermeister (but not Frank Turner).

October 25, 2009

Poo Shoe Dork

Kirk's wife recorded the footage of PMF playing their Babyhole show, and Kirk refused to hand the footage over to Rollie and his beard. Instead, Kirk and his beardless face decided to record and edit their own episode of Albumbling. An in-depth discussion of the band's performance, with visual aids, takes place. In your face.

October 21, 2009

I'm a Driver, I'm a Winner

We played our second Babyhole Comedy Show last night at the Lamp Post in Jersey City. Melissa Surach, the usual host, was allegedly out of the country (possibly just stalking Councilman Steven Fulop) so PMF Superfan Ralph Santiago took over emceeing duties. Our best performances seem to always be hometown shows, and we are very appreciative that Melissa keeps asking us back to Babyhole. I think I'm getting a little teary eyed.

Anyway, after a long night of playing, driving, and unloading equipment, I reflected on the night in yet another PMF Albumbling episode:



Once the Howle Productions Team comes up with show footage, we'll make with it.

October 15, 2009

I Think That I Can Learn

We're pretty weird when the camera is on. We're even weirder when we don't realize we're being recorded. Episode 7 is what happened when PMF gets drunk and forgets to turn off the tape recorder after rehearsal. Most of the footage is stuff that didn't fit in any other episodes, so that makes it even more special. Yes, that kind of special.



IT'S ALL ON TAPE!

October 7, 2009

It's Magic!

This PMF Albumbling Episode is so awesome that Sony bought ad space for it!



(Ok, not really. I put some music in the video owned by Sony that they automatically detected which gives them the right to throw ads all around the video... oh well. Fair trade, I guess.)

Stay tuned for more bullshit about another new song.

October 2, 2009

EPISODE 5!

Partially closed captioned in Spanish!

September 30, 2009

Beating a Dead Dog

PMF is a democratic band in a lot of respects, but when it comes to the songwriting craft, it becomes more difficult to maintain that. All three of us write words and music, so we typically take turns introducing home-recorded songs to the rest of the band. Sometimes parts for other instruments are already written and sometimes there are just rough guidelines. Other times it's as open as "play what you want and we'll see what happens." There's really no formula for us, so occasionally we will run into a section of a song where we have three completely different perspectives. So who gets the final say?

Last night, Kirk heard something he wanted tweaked in "Dog Milk" that Ryan and I never really had issues with in the past. We had been playing a part of the song the same way for probably close to a year, but we weren't playing it exactly the same way. For one of us to add or subtract a single beat felt unnatural. For Kirk, it was important that Ryan and I were tight and synchronized. Sure, we outnumbered him, but we still owed the songwriter his vision (or at least his vision of PMF's vision), so we descended into an obsessive half-hour of counting madness over a two-second part of the song that never shows up again. The final tally was 3 beats followed by 5 beats and a lot of bruises.

Was it worth it? Sources say yes, but only Captain Kirk knows for sure. The funny thing is that he didn't even write the part in the first place! When the band played the song for the first time, I wasn't present, but I received recordings of the practice the next day. One of the takes featured either Wally or Ryan (I'll have to do some digging) playing a sped-up part at the end of one of the measures in the intro. It may have been an accident for all I know, but it was unique and worth learning for the next practice. We finally played it together, but I was the only one doing the part. The rest of the guys threw rocks at me until I was unconscious. When I woke up, Kirk decided the part could stay, under one condition: we must fight about it in a year's time and post it on YouTube. We shook on it.

Now please allow this close-up of my giant beard-garden to continue the story (I assure you there are finally other faces in this episode):

September 29, 2009

Victim of the Tiger

Same car, different striped polo.

Here is some more bumbling on about a Ryan Stevens-penned track that we will be recording for The New Album, and it's relationship to click tracks and "Eye of the Tiger":



Because it was raining, and there wasn't any low-speed traffic in the tunnel, I was more preoccupied with my driving this time, so if I was too distracted to make any intelligent points, here are my intended conclusions:

  • "Eye of the Tiger" is an awesome song with a off-beat, quirky intro.
  • "Victim, Himself, No Problem" is an awesome song that will have an on-beat, quirky intro and second verse.
  • Time is like a clock in my heart.
  • Pop into Pop-Up Video
Next episode: Someone else talking.

September 25, 2009

The Rabies of Oz

The recording adventure continues...

One thing we're trying to accomplish during pre-production is tightening up our songs by using a click track. It's the first time we've done the metronome thing as a band, so we spent some time last week experimenting with the logistics of it. We tried hooking up a clicking drum machine to Ryan's headphones, but it wasn't loud enough. Then we gave the headphones to Kirk and let Ryan play along with the bass that was playing along with the click in yet another set of headphones. This convoluted setup wasn't effective either. Then I recorded a guitar track with a click on the 8 track for Ryan to listen to while he played drums, but it ended up being too slow. We wouldn't be able to vary the speed without recording it several times, which was unrealistic.

Finally, Mike Moebius, Master of Moonlight Mile Studios said "Why don't you just play it through the PA, dummies?" So we did, and it worked pretty damn well. After playing each song two or three times, we got the hang of it and zeroed in on the exact tempos we wanted to the songs to be. The final breakthrough was changing the click sound itself to a much more exhilarating midrange snare beat. From then on it was fucking Dance Party PMF.

Here's a shortened, vocal-less version of "Rabies First Battle" that ended our Thursday night:

September 24, 2009

PMF - Albumbling

Ok, here is Episode 1 of the PMF new album adventure. More tomorrow.

September 23, 2009

Not Taking it EZ

PMF will be laying off the shows for a while in order to prep for album season. We may pop up onstage here and there in the next few months, but priority numero uno is completing a recording. There have been a million changes to this (dis)organization since its inception so we want to make sure we do this right.

And rather than keep this painful/fun experience completely to ourselves, we want to share it with youse. I know I've been making big promises all year about making PMF videos and photos and crap like that all year, and then never actually doing it. Hopefully, I won't be bullshitting us all again. The camera is fully charged and ready to capture candid moments of the recording process, both pivotal and pretarded.

Until I start actually doing that, you can check this out the PMF video bar, newly updated with old videos. I don't know how I forgot to post the video clips from that Zac made of our infamous July Groove on Grove show, but now they're there, so there. The clips up are "Dog Milk" and our WJ & the Sweet Sacrifice/Faith No More/Tim & Eric/etc. mashup, "It's It." There's also an accompanying write-up in the JC Independent where you are free to leave comments, hint-hint. Don't worry, we're not getting invited back next summer.

September 10, 2009

PMF w/OD do it for the TTs.

PMF will officially be kicking off the 1st Annual Toasting to the Ta-Ta's Bar Crawl 2pm this Saturday at the Iron Monkey in Jersey City. Please note the venue change--Iron Monkey is adjacent to the original site, Automata Chino. Wristbands are $15 ($10 if you wear pink) and have magical powers.

Joining us on the bill is Overflowing Dumper, a noise-rock project featuring former members of Kilbacca and Invisible Creepo. Yeah, really. Please join us in JC for this good cause. Good 'cause it's good.

Here is the entire day's schedule of events:

2-4 pm: Iron Monkey/Automato Chino
* 97 Greene St, Jersey City, NJ
* Live performances!

4-6 pm: O'Connells
* 111 Montgomery St, Jersey City, NJ

6-8 pm: Barrow Street Bar
* 292 Barrow St, Jersey City, NJ
* $2 burgers and $1 dogs in the courtyard...weather permitting

8-10 pm: Porto Lounge
* 286 First Street, Jersey City, NJ

10pm-????: Lucky 7s Tavern
* 322 2nd St, Jersey City NJ

August 27, 2009

Connoisseurs of Mammary Glands

I can't say this definitively yet, but it's looks like Plowing Mud Forever will probably be playing an afternoon show on Saturday, September 12th, quite possibly at Automata Chino in Jersey City, and if this happens it will most likely be part of a benefit to raise money for the American Breast Cancer Foundation. When we have official confirmation we will give the rest of the details.

I can say with 100% confidence that Plowing Mud Forever will be playing this Saturday night at Ace of Club, in NYC.

Ace of Clubs - 9 Great Jones St. NYC - doors at 7pm - 21+ - $10

8pm - Open Denile
9pm- Plowing Mud Forever
10pm - Scalera
11pm - Knife the Glitter
12am - Torrential Downpour

August 20, 2009

PMF EXCLUSIVE LYRICS

Here are some of the words to Plowing Mud Forever songs that you may or may not hear at the Ace of Clubs show next Saturday:

"Salesman" - ass, hell, crap
"Mesmerado" - you, me, OK, baby, yeah
"Victim, Himself, No Problem" - alacrity, aaaaaagghhhhhhhh
"Rabies First Battle" - babies' first rattle
"Teen Steam Dream Queen" - My Little Pony
"Sitcom" - fuck, die
"Dog Milk" - white, warm, hot, juice
"Bottleneck" - vernacular, Large Marge
"Especially Heinous" - Ice-T, Port-a-Potty
"Serpentor's Love"
- snakes, flames, broads
"Modus Operandi" - Katharine Hepburn

If you are going to sing along with our songs, only sing those words over and over again as loud as possible while spinning around like a tornado and urinating on everyone in the vicinity. You'll thank us later.

August 3, 2009

Thing-Things

It's vacation time for most of this hemisphere, so Plowing Mud Forever has(s)holed themselves up in the studio with a colony of termites to continue working on new songs and brushing up on old new songs. Coming down the pike we've got:

"The Night Report" - The sequel to "Sitcom." In this song, Kirk is actually sent back in time to protect you, not kill you. It is also revealed that Ryan is your father and Rollie will finally defeat Apollo Creed. Does that Smeel Mainly? Musically, I can't even begin to describe what is happening in this song. What if Mastodon eats a Jesus Lizard that is snacking on a Blue Oyster? Cult hit? You betcha!

"The Cliff" - A haunting little ditty that could end up being the simplest, pussiest PMF song ever! It's only got 4 different parts! And no screaming! What if Jimmy Eats the World? Would he Hum? Yeah Yeah Yeah!

"Untitled" - Kirk's still going through titles and lyrics on this one, so I don't know what it's going to be about. I can tell you that the intro is long and calm, but then the rest of the song lunges out from the bushes and gnaws on your balls. I think there's a dog singing backup vocals, I'm not sure.

Elsewise, we've got another show with Torrential Downpour in a few weeks, but you already knew that because you've probably added the Plowing Mud Forever Live Calendar to your own Google Calendar. Right?

July 11, 2009

WTF is up Folks?

We played three shows in the past month and I'm now going to give a quick rundown of them in chronological order and because they all will all appear in the context of a single post, run against the reverse-chronological order theme already set forth by the city, county, and state of this blog. I'll attempt to give accurate credito where credito is due.

June 12 - Arts Center - Bayonne, NJ
Never having heard of this venue before, we were amazed at the size of the space. We looked towards the giant stage and saw Norm's ominous traffic cones staring back at us. How did they find us again???!

I don't recall anything particularly unusual about our set--we tore through it like a GIANT SLOAR!


Kirk and Ryan Killing All Humans
photo: Emily Lovesy


Rollie Batman Soprano
photo: Emily Lovesy

Up next was The Midnight Ghost Train from Buffalo, New York. These dudes opened with a bad-ass foot-stomping hymn, then went on to play a solid set of a Clutch/Black Sabbath/Kyuss-type rock. Bassist Odee is originally from Bayonne, so this was an important stop on their cross-country tour.


The Midnight Ghost Train. Next stop, Ohio.
photo: Rachel Meyers

Torrential Downpour then took the stage and broke it over their knee. A third of the way through the set they were told by Huey Lewis that they were "just too darn loud." Ignoring Huey and his News, they continued to turn up until the plug was finally pulled.


Torrential Downpour moments before getting SCHIAVO'D
photo: Me, baby. Me.

The lame part was that as we all packed up our equipment out back, we could still hear the music from the cover band playing downstairs continue to blast out of the windows into the Friday night sky. Your loss, Bayonne.

June 23 - The Delancey - NYC
How would NYC handle The Plow-rential DownTour? Superbly, it turned out. Division of Planes, another awesome Jersey City band, rounded out the slot this time. Zac Clark, Rocker Tycoon was in attendance and he got footage of "Bottleneck" and us fucking up the start of "Modus Operandi" (which you can find embedded within his review of the evening, or on the PMF Video Player, player).


Chia Ryan
photo: Joseph DeBenedictis

There's certainly something to be said about Jersey City fans showing up for Jersey City bands even when it's not in Jersey City-- Jersey City Jersey City Jersey City, Jersey City Jersey City "Jersey City Jersey City Jersey City," Jersey City Jersey City! All right, just back and read Zac's blog. He said it better.

July 8 - Groove on Grove - Jersey City, NJ
Groove on Grove is Downtown Jersey City's free outdoor weekly summer concert series. Every Wednesday two local bands command the Grove St. PATH station's attention from 6-8 PM. Dancing Tony and Downtown Jersey City’s Historic Downtown Special Improvement District (HDSID) get it organiz-ized marvelously.

This show was a shitload of fun and it was exciting to be playing outside in an area with lots of human traffic. Even though our sound and humor is clearly not loved by all (we are honored to have gotten Groove on Grove their first official noise complaint), we still are proud to be a part of the Jersey City local music scene and want to do anything we can to keep it diverse and interesting.

Speaking of the local music scene, we decided to pay homage to our friends in WJ & The Sweet Sacrifice, by covering their tune "Evil of Idle Hands." We started out pretty faithfully, but then quickly interjected Faith No More, Tim & Eric, Conan O'Brien, Temple of the Dog, and "Birthday Sex" to keep it real, PMF-style. We heard there's video of this out there somewhere and we can't wait to see it. Mr. Billy "WJ" Alpha is now threatening to turn "Serpentor's Love" into a country song. Bring it on you Sweet Sacs!


"Shop at Duane Reade"
photo: Irene Sanchez

While we didn't have time to play our new one, "Especially Heinous," we did bust out our Fugazi cover "Facet Squared" for the first time in quite a while. All in all, the songs got a positive crowd response. We even saw a random long-haired dude headbanging for most of the set. That was nothing compared to the slamddancing 4-year olds during No Pasaran's set, but we'll take it.

IN THE BUTT!

June 4, 2009

PMF and GIO and MEAT

The Master Gio was in attendance for PMF's set on Saturday night and squeezed out a review packed with photos on his website. Speaking of squeezing things out, NEVER EAT MEAT LOVERS' PIZZA A HALF HOUR BEFORE PERFORMING ON STAGE!

A lot of rad photos were taken by the rad crowd and they are currently strewn about the intertubes. I recommend you just become a fan of Plowing Mud Forever over on the Facebooky so you can take a looky. The photo over theres was taken by Matt Stewart.

We finally debuted two of our new songs for the Brooklyn crowd--"Mesmerado" and "Salesman." We didn't get attacked by the giant white thing over our heads for the performance, so we got to stick around to watch a completely improvised set by the members of Kill Kill Kill (who were coincidentally playing together for the first time).

The Bayonne show is coming up next Friday. Here are the details:

May 21, 2009

Ba yo yo yo yonne.

It's looking like a show is shaping up for Friday, June 12th. The Midnight Ghost Train is touring through the area so we'll be grabbing a slot on their Bayonne, NJ stop. Details on this sludgy, muddy massacre to follow.

May 16, 2009

PMF Tribute Video to Jon Becker

We can chew bubble gum and kick ass too!



May 15, 2009

All Quiet on the Eastern Front

While PMF is busy this week quietly plotting doom, the glory goes to our friends Dogs of Winter who just released an album entitled From Soil to Shale. If you go to their website you can find information on how to download the album and the artwork for none moneys.*

Like the Digging-est Dog, I'm digging this album. It's got a solid New York post-hardcore sound with strong melodic dual lead vocals. It reminds me of Helmet meets Quicksand (Handsome, if you will) with some Boy Sets Fire thrown in. Lots of natural time changes and exciting harmonies. But you don't have to take my word for it. Da-Dun Dun.

* Or nine monkeys

May 3, 2009

PMF of the month club

So we've got a little calendar thingee over there in the side bar ------>

It's pretty ugly right now, but at least it's got a listing of our shows. You could always click on the PMF Calendar in the "Outsourced" section for a larger version. Better yet, add the calendar to your Google shit. The calendar's public.

We've got another tentative date scheduled Torrential Downpour in August. I just listened to their new album on Friday and out of nowhere, it started raining like a motherfucker. Second time that's happened to me listening to TD. Those boys must have control of the Weather Dominator.

Finalm3nt3, here's a few shots from the Automata Chino gig...

Mutiny of the Fashionistas


Plowing Mud and the Forevers


One of 12 Limited Edition Used Allen Wrenches given out to lucky PMF Fans

April 26, 2009

The PMF

Here is The PMF at the Shades Lounge/Monroe Center in Hoboken. We played a fun, fast, and loud set for the Friday night folks. WJ & the Sweet Sacrifice kicked some ass too, and all the dudes from Ever Reviled Records performed some really cool shit. If you missed this one, we just booked a show at The Delancey on June 23rd and have another in the works for May. More on that to come.

Well, if you haven't figured it out by now, Wally Chung is no longer performing with the band. Along with Kirk, he founded Plowing Mud Forever and we thank him for all the hard work and energy he's put into the band over the years. We wish him well with all his future endeavors. Keep an eye on his website for hot Wally action.

Another website you'd better check out right fucking now is Torrential Downpour's homepage. They just finished up their debut LP. I heard some of it yesterday and it's heavier than a bowling ball on a beetle's back. If you know what's good for you, you'll buy it right now.

See you all at the cemetary gates.

April 21, 2009

PMF Power Trio Debut

If you can read, then yes, you did read that correctly.

Come see who now holds the Triforce at a show this Friday, April 24th in Hoboken, NJ. More specifically, it's at the Shades Lounge in the Monroe Center of the Arts. Here's more info:

4/24/09

WJ & The Sweet Sacrifice
Plowing Mud Forever (10 pm)
Nathan Carpenter
The Old Man & His Po' Buckra
KIDS
Julius.Caesar.Machine

720 Monroe St in Hoboken, NJ
(a block away from 9th St/Congress Light Rail station)
FREE PARKING.
ALL AGES, but there's a bar for those 21+ too.

$10 - Doors at 7 pm
Thanks to WJ & The Sweet Sacs for getting us on the bill. Buy them all a beer or 21+. In other news, I can't stop watching this guy's YouTube videos:

April 14, 2009

2 Live Crew

Kirk and Darth Vader hiding behind their "words."

Ryan "the Drummer" Walrusface.

April 10, 2009

PMF NEWS UPDATE

The first piece of news to share is that our Delancey show on April 29 has been canceled. Unmark that on your calendars, or mark that on your uncalendars. The choice is yours.

While you've got the pen out, scribble a tornado with a happy face trapped inside it on Saturday, May 30. We'll be playing a show with some friends of ours either in Brooklyn or the Lower East Side. Not sure where or what time yet. Obviously, you'll find that info out here first. This is prime time television here, folks.

Ok, on to the noise. We recorded a couple of our new songs last night. Here is "Mesmerado":

Mesmerado04-09 by Plowing Mud Forever
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Oh that quality is just unacceptable. I'm sorry. Let's get a stage manager in here. I don't care where you find one. Get one out of another studio. Roll the next clip.

Salesman04-09 by Plowing Mud Forever
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That was "Salesman" and yes, we know it's a distorted mess. Unfortunately, Kirk's really good stereo digital recorder is cursed with poor battery life, and my infinitely charged mp3 player has a horribly oversaturated microphone signal. We should change our name to Plowing the Magi Forever.

That's all for now. I'll try to post some pictures over the weekend whether Jessica Savitch likes it or not.

April 4, 2009

Rollie and Wally are killers!

What do big time rock stars like Rollie and Wally do when they're at a bar, ready to party?
They play Buck Hunter of course! Let's watch their killer instincts kick in, shall we?

Rollie and Wally get psyched up. Feel the adrenaline! Taste the manhood! Go Go Gadget Narcissism!
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Priority #1 is entering in your clever initials so everybody knows how awesome you are when you get top score.
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Pump those guns, boys! Pump them faster!
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Yeah! Rollie and Wally nailed the fuck out of the large land-dwelling omnivore! Uh, whatever it is. Yak? Wildebeast? Bantha?
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Look into the cold, steely, dead eyes of those killers. Did it just get colder in here?
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But perhaps these guys aren't the emotionally detached animal assasins we thought they were. You let one live??? Bah! Mercy is for the weak.
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Here's your chance to redeem yourselves, guys! Kill 'em all! Don't stop shooting until you make it all the way!
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You made it! All the way to Goat Ham City!
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Good job, Rollie and Wally. Now you can kill goats and hams to your hearts' content. Well done, you killing machines. Now go write some new songs.

April 1, 2009

Working Hard Forever

We've got a new show booked for the end of the month. There may be some surprises.

Wednesday, April 29th @ The Delancey
21+ / $7 / 7:30pm
10pm Plowing Mud Forever
9pm The Last Broadcast
8pm Exemption

To prep for this show, we's be's working real hard lately on getting y'all's some new's ong's. I recorded some of them at practice last night but I found out this morning that the quality blows, so I won't be posting them. Instead, I will describe them with WORDZ.

"Mesmerado" - A Krazy Kirk tune that covers a lot of ground in just a few minutes. It hits 11 out of 12 major chords (sorry, E), but still manages to sound cohesive. There's a pretty chorus too. It's Bunglesque, Kiss-y, and Queens of the Stone Age-like, with a dash of Electric Sports Bra.



"Especially Heinous" - Think of it as the next saga in the "Cop Killer" story. The song is from the perspective of Ice-T, but at a different stage in his life. Is that good or bad? I'm not sure yet. Find out during the Dillinger Escape Plan breakdown.



"Salesman" - Ryan and I wrote the skeleton of this forever ago when he was playing with his cousin's V-Drums and I was dicking around on guitar. Who knew that we'd eventually be in a band that would allow us to replicate this configuration? Anyway, the song is 6 years better now, and has some exciting time changes. Wally claims it sounds like Saigon Kick meets Hum. The title may change to "Sales, Man" or possibly "Hum, Yes! Saigon Kick, No!"



Also, this may be up our sleeves (or as it were, behind our mustaches):

March 30, 2009

Who's Harry Crumb?

March 29, 2009

We Built This City

March 27, 2009

Gio and Alan

Hey, remember when that one guy, Gio, interviewed us and that other guy, Alan, took pictures? (If you don't remember, just scroll down this page to read the interview.) Well here are a couple pics of those guys from when we were all hanging out at Duff's.

Here's Gio!
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And here's Alan!
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Thanks, guys! Everybody make sure to check out their websites as well. There is much cool stuff to be seen.
themastergio.blogspot.com
negativepop.com

Have fun!

March 13, 2009

Affirming PMF's committment to metal

PMF will be giving away a used 3mm allen wrench to the first 12 people that come to see them at Automata Chino on Saturday night. The rest of you will have to settle for the metal on stage.

Don't say we never did anything for ya'.

The IROC returns to Jersey City



February 19, 2009

Master Gio's PMF Interview

Holy shit, this interview is awesome.

Questions by Master Gio, Photos by Alan Camuto.

February 16, 2009

TAP TAP TAP

I've been promising to post audio files for a while now, so here's an attempt at making good on that promise. I'll triple up on the first entry because I've been holding out for so long. This should be a good cross section of what sort of things you'll find from us here. I may try out a few different players and hosts until we figure out what works best. Let us know what you think about this audio crap. Do you just want to be able to play these tracks, or do you want to be able to download them? Do you want us to post individual tracks as they happen, or would you listen to a podcast or a radio stream if we put one together? Do you even want to listen to them at all? Well, do ya punk?

First up is some non-musical banter. Earlier this month, metal, horror, and porn master Gio interviewed Plowing Mud Forever over at Duff's Bar in Brooklyn. This is a little teaser of how things went...

Q: How did you come up with the name "Plowing Mud Forever"?
A: Kirk responds:

master gio pmf interview quest by Plowing Mud Forever
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The next piece of audio is a recording of one of our newer songs "Dog Milk." Kirk is on vocals, and Wally is absent from this rehearsal (sorry, Wally). This track showcases our Led Zeppelin influences, obviously.

Dog Milk (rehearsal space 1/17 by Plowing Mud Forever
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Finally, a little bit of found sound of guy yelling while waiting for a subway. It doesn't really have anything to Plowing Mud Forever, but I wanted to share it anyway. Who knows, we may record our next album in this style, so don't knock it, jerk face.

Subway Guy Yelling by Plowing Mud Forever
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February 10, 2009

Jersey City Date Confirmed

We've got a gig coming up on Saturday 3/14 (PI DAY!) at Automata Chino in Jersey City. This brand new music venue is located at 99 Greene Street and is adjacent to the Iron Monkey. Doors open at 8 and the fucking awesome dudes in the fucking awesome band Torrential Downpour will be joining us on the bill. Holy sheep shit!

February 4, 2009

Zac's Blog

Here's the link to Zac Clark's blog with photos and video from our show at Babyhole last week. While we're on the subject of Jersey City, we can now confirm the date for our Groove on Grove session: July 8th. This should be a hot, sweaty, long, awesome, outdoor set. Oh, also free and very easy to get to. You just walk up the stairs (or stand still on the escalator) at the Grove St. PATH station and we'll be right there making sounds at you. RIGHT AT YOUR FACE.

We're currently setting up a couple more shows for March and April and getting together a lot of new material. I finally found the adapter for my mp3 player, so I can start posting audio clips up here on the site more frequently. Look for some new noise soon, son.

BYE

January 28, 2009

Plowing Mud Forever plays Jersey City

We dipped our fingers in Melissa Surach's BabyHole last night, playing for the first time at the Lamp Post in Jersey City. We opened up the festivities, played all our asskickers amidst Norm Francoeur's flashing light show, and then got out of the way for Melissa, PMF Superfan Ralph Santiago, and a bunch of other comedianators. Thanks to ya'll Funny'uns for having us. Jeepers Creepers, we'd sure love to do it again.

And to prove that we were there, Zac Clark took some fotobuenos that look-a-like-a-this:



Kirky's in the bass-ment mixin' up the medicine
Rollie's next to the bathroom stinkin' like the government
Ryan's beside the kitchen drummin' up burritos
But where the hell is Wall-do? We don't know, yo.

January 25, 2009

Fourth Street Fest Footage Finally!

Remember when we played 4th Street Fest in Jersey City all those months ago? Well we finally have the footage to prove it. If you like shirtless boys, then you will like this (unless you hate Kirk). Listen to Wally rip up that guitar solo! He ripped that guitar a new A-hole. Also, look at Ryan and Rollie. Just look at 'em! The song is called "Teen Steam Dream Queen." Thanks to Ralph and Rachel for recording this. 



January 24, 2009

Another Tuesday, another show

The last time we played in Jersey City it made people go crazy, drink beer, paint a car, draw pictures of skulls and flowers in the street, make collages and eat hot dogs and pizza. Sure, that was at the 4th Street Festival, and we didn't necessarily cause it, but it happened.

The Lamp Post should be a good time on Tuesday. The open mic is always good, and by always I mean mostly always. Besides the featured comedians, our number one fan Ralph will be performing some stand up as well. This adorable baby will tell you the rest.

For more, visit the Babyhole on MySpace.

January 22, 2009

Serpentor's Love - live from Trash Bar

Plowing Mud Forever played at the Trash Bar on Tuesday night.
A lot of people were at the show.
The jam session was awesome.
It really whupped a llama's ass.




We're still working on linking videos and photos and whatnot from here, so for the meantime, click the links in the right hand column and see if anything happens.

January 19, 2009

PMF VIDEOS

I'm trying to outsource our video work to YouTube, but it's being a bitch.

Here's the link to stuff: HERE HERE HERE

Maybe you'll be able to do something with it. Bookmark it, subscribe, or whatever the fuck.

January 14, 2009

PMF Live 1/20/09

Plowing Mud Forever returns to the Trash Bar stage in Brooklyn for the first time since 2006. For those of you who didn't get an invitation from President Obama, party with us instead. This will be the better of the two Inaugural Balls anyway.

TWO BALLS ARE COMING AFTER YOU!

Welcome to the new PMF.COM

We set the old PMF.COM on fire and all that survived was Mudbeast and a picture of a dead squirrel. Beautiful, isn't it?

Poco a poco, things will start reappearing. Some things will be outsourced. Some things may never come back. We'll blame it on the Blog Ness Monster.

Anyway, PMF is currently working on more songs and more gigs. There is one next week at the Trash Bar in Brooklyn which we hope you can make. We've also secured a spot on Jersey City's Groove on Grove outdoor concert series over the summer. Whatever else comes along, you can be sure to hear here. Here, here.