The cd release party for the new album by The Other Planets, "Holiday For Vacationers (Everything Awesome All The Time)," will be held at The Dragon's Den on sunday, July 27th. This is the final sunday of the three month run of weekly gigs at the Den that the band started in may of this year. Rotary Downs will be opening for The Other Planets. Both bands will be recording live that night, and the best songs of the show will be released on a split bill Rotary Downs/ The Other Planets live record which we will be pressing on vinyl. So come out and BE on the recording. $5 at the door. $1 High Life. Tark is bartending. Show starts at 10:00 PM.

The new Other Planets record is out now! It is called Holiday forVacationers (Everything Awesome All the Time). It is a dual release on Attention Spaniel Records and Ears&Eyes Records. It is available in New Orleans at The Louisiana Music Factory, Domino Sound Record Shack, Skully's Records, and The Mushroom. It will soon be on itunes and Rhapsody and will be distributed digitally by Reapandsow out of San Francisco. To purchase a copy by mail, send $13 to:

Anthony Cuccia
736 Lesseps St.
New Orleans, La 70117

Or e-mail us at amphoney@gmail.com.

Yes! It's true. Officially starting on May 11th, The Other Planets with be the resident sunday night band at The Dragon's Den on Frenchmen Street. What can you expect? Lots of music every week, and new music, too! Fresh, homemade pie! Rampant costumery! A virtual all-star cast of your favorite local improvising psychopaths! Wow! Pie? Really? Yes. Pie.

May 4th: The Green Room (Covington, La. Boston St. 11:30/ midnight)
May 5th: The Saturn Bar (New Orleans. St. Claude Ave. Rotary Downs opening. Planets around midnight)
May 6th: The Dragon's Den (New Orleans. Fingers and Toes opening)
May 7th: The Thirsty Hippo (Hattiesburg, MS.)


Dr. Jimbo Walsh: Guitar; Vocals
Tim McFatter: Tenor and Alto Saxophones; Wurlitzer
Dan Oestreicher: Baritone and Bass Saxophones; Vocals
Anthony Cuccia: Keyboards; Samplers; Percussion; Vocals
Eric Klerks: Guitar; Vocals
Quin Kirchner: Drums; Percussion; Sampler
Matt Golombisky: Electric Bass; Loop Stations; Samplers

Eightballs in Anglola and Discrete Manipulations: Two new records by The Other Planets on Attention Spaniel Records. Available now, motherfuckers.

We're hard at work for you as usual here in New Orleans. Making tracks for you, writing songs for you, thinking about you thinking about us thinking about you. We promise not to make musical decisions based on financial insecurity. We promise to make you. If Misty can hook it up, some of our music will be in an upcoming zombie short. Short zombies... that's all of us. As the great Ivan Stang once said, "Us and all our freinds are so fucked up... so lets sit back and enjoy eternity." Anyway, TV land, give me some money. That's right, pennies or hundred dollar bills, I don't give a fuck. You can buy our records at cdbaby.com, or at the Louisiana Music Factory. The new records are coming out in the coming months. We're here. We're real. We're brave enough to make our own shit, hoping that you will too. The tevolution will not be relevised. Goodbye. I guess I'll be seeing you all in a couple of years...

18,000 Urban Fully Loaders
Drinking down the Backwashed Culture of Grizzly Bears
With snake skins, clothes pins, and loosened snares.
And rare form lynch mob mental slobs.
The Grainy Face on the Corn Cob
Make the Face, Paint the Face
Losers Decide.
Swim where I just cried
and follow the light down the Slip and Slide.
Coughing up Clothes Pins for half an hour,
My fork just took a mustard shower.
The Power of the Canvas in the Grey Matter Resides.
The Blinking Urn burns the innards of Flying Web Spinners.
Night Time Divides the Instant Synapse Space.
the race to sleep in the Sheen.
the Golden Elliptical Shine.

We went to Chicago on December 7th to play some shows. First show was with the Tomorrow Music Orchestra. Ears&Eyes festival. This was a version of the band that included a 20-piece orchestra with improvisational capabilities. We also did a live radio spot on WNUR with this incarnation. Great musicians and great feelings on stage... Shared the bill with several other fantastic bands, including The Leaves, Phillip Morris, Nuclear Biologist Rocket Surgeons, James Baker, and Daydream Full Lifestyles. Large amounts of visual artists everywhere as well, some improvising, and some presenting completed pieces. Plus I got enough money to pay off a $150 dollar open container ticket that I got in Chicago earlier in the year while playing a show at Silvie's.
Then, several days of recording. In Golombisky's house and in Jimbo's hotel room. Six new tracks for our fourth record, "Holiday for Vacationers." We're working hard for you (as we speak) in Big Brown to get those and other tracks done. Titles include, "Jerry Lee Lewis the Video Game", "Vis A Vis", "The Business of Losing Sleep", and "Where This Is." Matthew has a nice Hammond Organ. We recorded it a lot. Did a coffee shop gig in there somewhere that week. Lizzie threw a surprise birthday party for Quin.
Next morning, we go and do a radio spot on WNUR. This is our second week there in a row, but this time we don't have TMO. Later that night, we have our "cd release" at the Ice Factory. This was a fucking great night. Fingers and Toes played before us and sounded excellent and had a great vibe. We played really late and really loud and got very "altered." Found a different mind, so to speak. Did an inspired version of Satan is Real. Dancing, screaming, herb smoking on stage with audience members. Laughter. Police arriving because of noise complaints (first ever at the Ice Factory after six years of hardcore bands) that we played right through. Why didn't we get arrested? I still don't know... A fast, blurry, pillar of congealing, oozing air molecules in a highly excited state as they simultaneously exist at several different points in the universe. Sweat. We came home the next day. Chicago: we love you and we will be back if you'll have us. The last time we played in that town, someone died outside of our gig at the Empty Bottle. This time we conjured love, not death. Luck of the draw. Buy the new record. Look for "The Other Planets Top Ten All Time Greatest Chart-Topping Classing ..1 Hit Singles Collection." Also look for "Holiday for Vacationers." Keep your fingers out of the blender. Don't watch the Dr. Phil show. Do something.

"It's after the end of the world! Don't you know that yet?"

- Sun Ra

Yes, it is very true. "Eightballs in Anglola" is finally complete and has been released. It will be available for purchase immediately. It won't be for a week or so until they're for sale on cd baby, but you can e-mail me at amphoney@gmail.com to buy one directly. Check out a review on www.antigravitymagazine.com or gambitweekly.com. But, don't pay attention to those professional critic motherfuckers, just have a listen and see if you think you can park on our street.

Alright, Eightballs in Anglola is getting pressed as we speak. I'll have 'em in my hands on December 15th. CD release party number 1 will be in Chicago, Illinois at the Ice Factory. Number 2 will be in New Orleans at The Republic on December 20. Sneak peak at our gig at King Bolden's on the 19th. Notice how this album was originally an EP. We only sold a few. It never became the LP "Rock And Roll Ain't Easy." That is a song from the Eightballs LP. Also, notice how cocky I was in my march blog about how it would be out in a couple of weeks. Wow. We ended up working on it through september and actually finished it in November.

Zack Smith has created a new music video for a track from our new (soon to be released) record. The song is called "Walking Porno Zombies pt. 2." Here is the link to check it out on You Tube.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jlbvh9SM-qI