The Ergs!

This will probably be ignored like the last music thread I started, but what the fuck.
The Ergs!, New Jersey's finest, are a fantastic band. Loosely categorized as dork rock or pop punk, they're just great fucking musicians. Check 'em out. The song in the first video, "Books About Miles Davis", is my current favorite song.



The sound on this one, from a show the other night in Asbury Park, is pretty shitty, but it's a nice display of Joe tearing it up on the bass.



One more.



Their myspace

I love you!

Ergs. Awesome. Parasites. Better.

(Dave Parasite is now in the Ergs if you didn't know)

Rather, the Ergs! were his backing band on the reunion tour. I went to the Lit Lounge show. It was great.

I like this. Hooray for new music that makes me smile!

Hey thanks for the tip; I downloaded some of their stuff and am really enjoying it.
Any tip on a good first Parasites record?

I think its absolutely tragic that tonight The Ergs and The Steinways are playing a show together in NYC and I'm not going to be there.

I'm seriously considering trying to find a last minute flight to New York...

I really wanted to go, too. It's tomorrow though, isn't it?

Steve Neurotic might be able to field this. I'm not overly versed in the Parasites.

Well, I wrote that at 12:15 am GMT on Feb 21st ... so I think it's a case of confuzzling time differences.

Some other recommendations:

The Unlovables
The Steinways
The Leftovers. They just finished recording their new full length with Ben Weasel. Ben raves about them. I liked their last one a lot, and I expect the new one to be good.

For anyone who's interested, The Pop Punk Fest, sponsored by Interpunk and put on by Knock Knock Records and Insubordination Records, will be at the Ottobar in Baltimore at the beginning of July.

The latest one they released is a compilation of their best songs, 7" singles, etc.

It's called Retro-Pop Remasters and is available on "Go Kart Records".

You can check out a few songs from it on their Myspace profile. The song "Refuge" is a good example.

Thanks for the info; I'll order up a copy...

Bah, sorry. At least the links are there for others to (hopefully) check them out.

Are you familiar with this? It's a great resource, and most of the people are very cool.

Yes we are!

This might be a bit off-topic, but SteveNeurotic's post just helped me realise that The Parasites are awesome.

These fellas are great. Start listening now, and when they dominate the world you'll feel like one of the cool kids.