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Posted by Banderas on 3/23/2009 |
Split EP to be release March 27th and 28th! |
 Hired Guns is the name of the upcoming split Extended Player from Banderas and Oxford's Look Afraid. the record will feature 2 previous unreleased songs from each band and a cover of each other band's song respectively. 1. Bring in the Tide (Look Afraid) 2. Curse (Look Afraid) 3. Ground Out Heel (Look Afraid covering Banderas) 4. Factory Sharp (Banderas) 5. The Holy Grail of Singapore (Banderas) 6. I Love the Night Life (Banderas covering Look Afraid) The Ep will be a limited run of copies so act on it fast. Hired Guns will be first be made available at back to back CD release parties March 27th at the Balcony in Oxford and March 28th in Cincinnati at the Play By Play Cafe and then eventually will be made available through mailorder on this website. Huzzah!, Banderas |
Posted by Banderas on 3/04/2009 |
2009: A Sleaze Odyssey |
| 2009 is upon us and everyone's year end list is in. Here's a list of our personal favs of '08 : 1.Barack Obama taking it back. 2.Phratry Records and working with all of the awesome bands on that label. 3.Our very own Cu Silvio making it successfully through probation. 4.The rise and fall of Sarah Palin lasting long enough to produce at least one porno. 5.Murph and Patrick from Lost Hands Found Fingers' year-long commitment to beard growing and shaving them on NYE. 6.Our former bassist Dave McElfresh moving onto to reunite Lethal and play to thousands in Germany and backing Hank III on violin for shows in Nashville. 7.Nick Cave stopping with the old lady music and finally laying it down again. 8.The Shammwow guy. 9.The Dark Knight living up to all of the hype. 10.Our bad assed new record and the inclusion of Kevin (Juice) in our band. Our sexcellent sounds have managed to make the best of lists for Cinweekly's Rich Shivener and Mike Breen's of Citybeat's list for the year. check it out here: Cinweekly Citybeat Happy 2009!, Banderas |
Posted by Banderas on 1/03/2009 |
Holidays Update |
Hope everyone's holidays were nice, your favourite ambassadors to sleazeville have had a wondrous time. Starting with the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards ceremony. We had the honor to be nominated this for Best Hard Rock and Album of the Year. This year we lost (we won Best Hard Rock in '07) to some very awesome bands but that didn't stop us and our entourage from sweeping the Fashion Trashie Awards (the prestigious Jackie Ono, Get Lucky Girl, and the WTF awards), including Donkey who snagged the WTF? award. Below are some photos from the night.    We've also had our hands full playing high profile shows in the region with the likes of The Dwarves, Thistle (who asked us to play their 15th anniversary as well as their Cd release show), Chico Fellini, Red Light Driver, Look Afraid, Black Saints Cartel (who singed us onto their CD release show), and Foxy Shazam; who invited us to play their first annual Snow Show (pictured below).    Keep your eyes peeled for more events and surprises including Jeremy's show diary and some touring with Rumble Club in support of their new record in the spring. Cheers!, Banderas |
Posted by Banderas on 12/30/2008 |
New Banderas Video!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| You were probably wondering what the hell we were talking about on our 8/31 post, that is if you aren't always wondering what the hell we're talking about. Well You can also go to http://www.duneboogie.com/50dps.html and see it in hi-fi or download to your iPod! Cheers!, Banderas |
Posted by Banderas on 11/07/2008 |
Obama and Banderas!?!?! |
 The 2008 Cea (Cincinnati Entertainment Awards) nominees have just been announced and your favorite shack shimmiers are up for Best Hard Rock and Album of the Year! This means we get to gussy ourselves up in our finest polyester and pleather and rub elbows (maybe bump uglies) with many of the bands that are making it happen in Cincy. Obama isn't the only person that needs of your vote in November: go to http://cea.citybeat.com click on the ballot link and vote for Banderas and the rest of your almost as favorite bands. Also, there are some great shows on our schedule coming up with a lot of great bands you do not want to miss. Ciao!, Jeremy |
Posted by Banderas on 10/17/2008 |
Big in the Netherlands |
 Hans Werksman, blogger extraordinaire at Here Comes the Flood has posted his musings and mp3's from our new record. Pay a visit to his little musical piece of internet real estate discover something new. http://blogger.xs4all.nl/werksman/archive/2008/09/26/414730.aspx ciao!, Jeremy |
Posted by Banderas on 9/26/2008 |
XO Jenny Lewis. XO, Indeed. |
 As you may have already noticed, Jenny Lewis is sprawled out all over the front page of myspace today like Thanksgiving dinner. I just wanna let you know that her twangy vocals, fire red hair, and soccer star thighs give me hope for the future as well as a semi. Here's to you Ms. Lewis. I've had it out for you since you screamed "Ahh! He touched my breast!" at that guy during your award winning performance in The Wizard. We stumbled a bit when you did those tracks with Cursive. Those prudes should have stayed on hiatus. We both knew it but you went ahead and did it against my wishes. It took me a long time to forgive you for that. I had to take you back when you released Rabbit Fur Coat. I understand what you meant with the lyrics. Your sincere apology was gladly accepted. But I'll tell you this... I see you've been slumming around with Connor Oberst again and I'll tell you, he's bad news bears. Don't let those sissy pants fool you. I'll never break your heart like he will. XOXOXO T.R. |
Posted by Banderas on 9/11/2008 |
A Taste of things to come. |
consider yourself broke off. <3 Banderas |
Posted by Banderas on 8/31/2008 |
Retail Assault! |
| You can now pick up Beast Sounds and Parlour Tricks at Shake It Records in Cincinnati, OH and Everybody's Records in Pleasant Ridge, OH for the low low retail price of $9.99. Support those stores if you're in the area. We're in the process of working out some further distribution deals to get these beautiful silver beauties closer to your town. Stay sleazy and stay tuned for updates. <3 Uncle T.R. |
Posted by Banderas on 8/04/2008 |
In case you didn't feel like showing up. |
Take note of Ringo (of Mad Anthony) and his sweet pelvic action on top of the piano. More surprises to come, -Jeremy |
Posted by Banderas on 7/28/2008 |
The Male Sack. |
 Time to take a peek inside the Banderas Mailbag...... "Oddly enough got that Cd tho, which is odd because every time I send sometime out of this shit hole it takes a good month to get back to Ohio. Cd turned out to be a pleasant surprise, hadn't seen you guys in forever so I wasn't entirely sure of what to expect. For some reason I just feel like you could film a porn in the basement of a southern shopping mall to this CD, except for Ground Out Heel, which is total road head music. But now that you guys have that new fangled van you should drop a couple grand on the gas and drive out here. If the Melvins can play Missoula, you guys can too (and you both can lose money). Come stay at the haunted looking rundown ass furry house we're all living it up in, we'll cook you pancakes (fecal omelet? I dunno, Japanese people love their anal syringes) and shit. Nothing like whiskey and pancakes." -The Masked Man Well, MM we're glad you approve of the Cd and that it arrived expediently. Thanks for the offer for the place to stay with you and your furry friends. Missoula isn't on the itinerary as of yet and after this letter i can't say it will be anytime soon. -Jeremy "Hey shitbags. How is the album doing? I haven't been out of Dayton for a while due to various warrants out for my arrest." -Angry Ryan (The Lethargy Machine/Angry Ryan and the Nosebreakers) Fanfuckingtastic. I was wondering why i haven't seen you sitting on the couch, sipping a tall boy when I walk downstairs at 9 am to check the mail. Don't let the man hold you down. -Jeremy "Dear Banderas, Previously you announced that T.R. would eat a cicada for every 50 people that came to your last Southgate House performance. I was there and there were at least 50 people at the show. You guys are liars. Sincerely," -Disappointed in Cincy Disappointed, don't get your panties all in a bunch. As Jack Burton says: The check is in the mail. Oh,wait...Hold on...here it is... -Jeremy Send all of your mail to: banderasmusic@gmail or hit us up on MySpace. |
Posted by Banderas on 6/29/2008 |
WIN BIG! NAME OUR NEW VAN! |
 "Not that you afflicted son of a bitches know anything about this, but you're sitting in a Ford E350 Super Duty van. In some circles... this is considered a piece of automotive art." Thanks to the runaway success of our debut album, Beast Sounds and Parlour Tricks, we have purchased a brand new (to us) van. This brings our long term logistics plan full circle, and we'll be heading into your town soon.   The front comfortably seats six, the A/C works, it has low miles, and the back was converted into a mobile workshop by a racing team. This bodes well for us seeing as how we now have a place to work on our dune buggies somewhere other than the front yard. All that's left to do is get an airbrushed painting of Dimebag Darrell on the side and give it a name that strikes fear in the hearts of Smokies everywhere. That's where you come in.  Send us your ideas on what to name this beast of steel and oil. If we use your idea maybe I can swing something with our airbrush guy and get you painted on the other side of the van. Of course you'd be dressed as a wizard and fighting a dragon, but it would most def be you. If I can't swing that, maybe a free t-shirt would suffice. <3 T.R. |
Posted by Banderas on 6/25/2008 |
Bugs and Beats. |
 The East side of Cincy is singing that old familiar song. It's Cicada season, and they're driving me fucking crazy. I'd like to do my part of eliminating this vile species by offering to eat one live Cicada for every 50 people that show up to our show Friday night. It's gonna be a banger. Banderas + Voyageur + The Host.  In other news things have been relatively calm here in the Banderas camp since the CD release. We've just been hanging out with our dudes from Foxy Shazam while they're in town, hot off of the Fall of Troy tour. They'll be heading back out in a few weeks with Finch. They're full of new tricks we taught 'em, so be sure to catch em if they come by your burg. The store is up and fully functional. We've been selling the hell out of these discs online now for about a week with no hiccups. If you haven't had a chance to pick up a disc at a show yet, you can hit up the store link and make magic happen. Plus, if you use a credit card that's almost like getting a cd for free! BUY TWO! I'm gonna go now and try to catch some of these little buggers in a mayonaise jar with some leaves and a stick to simulate his natural environment. Poke a hole in the lid, because they're darn sure used to air. T.R. <3 |
Posted by Banderas on 6/11/2008 |
Sunday Morning Coming Down |
 We've had some time to collect our thoughts and to catch up on all of the episodes of Wifeswap and Walker, Texas Ranger that we've missed while making the record and it feels good to just sit down and scratch myself without wondering why the art proofs are green instead of red or who in the hell put Todd in charge of anything other than making the pot of coffee. The cd release was a huge success and if you missed it, then you definitely missed one of the best Banderas shows to date. Kevin "Juice" Mcnair from Lost Hands Found Fingers conjured our Bass wizardry for the evening and backed us in a hour plus set of songs from our new record as well as a few covers which to our surprise, still left people in demand for more.  The Upset Victory came in on short notice and certainly set the tone for the night, which may or may have not been brown, seeing how everyone in attendance collectively dropped a payday in their pants when all was said and done. Following promptly (and i do mean promptly, because these bands are perforated invoice style professional)Arms Exploding who blazed through a few songs from their soon to be released album. While I tried to figure out how Donkey managed to always have a free drink ticket in hand when i was wandering aimlessly about in the chicken shack parking lot across the street looking for quarters for draft. Angles of Meth blew up the stage and gave everyone a lesson on how it should be done in Ohio's downunder and "Diamond" Joe Caruso managed to pencil us into his hectic schedule of golfing and gun sporting to run the sound board for our set not before making us put his toucher mustache on the guest list.  We want to thank all the bands that played as well as all of the other bands and people that came out to see us in action for the evening and a big smooch goes out to everyone that bought a cd, a t-shirt, or a poster. For all of the people that missed their chance at Banderas merch that night; put down the knife and don't cut yourself just yet. We'll be offering our goods online through this website and through iTunes in a matter of days, not to mention at all the shows (check the calender) we have coming up. stay tuned. Ciao! -Jeremy |
Posted by Banderas on 6/04/2008 |
What the brown did for me. |
 Monday morning......... 11:30am I wake up to hear something clatter on the roof of the Banderas mansion. I would normally jump out of my bed to see what the commotion is all about but I had a booger the size of Texas blocking my breathing rights. After I sweet talked the Gorgon-sized booger out of my nasal passage, I ran downstairs to see what was the matter. To my suprise, it was not a chubby, rosacea-faced lard ass wearing all red, but a well kept man dressed head-to-toe in brown. At first I had thought that I must have violated my probation somehow (since that is my first reaction to everything), but to my suprise 8 packages were being delivered to me. That is right kids! The CDs have arrived! So start digging in your parents couch cushions for money, cause this fucking thing is so good you might buy 2! For one night these little audaic miracles will only be $5. Also, new t-shirts will be available for purchase at the show for $10. The word on the street is begining to buzz like a cicada infestion, except it doesnt piss you off when you are trying to mow the lawn. Click here to read Willistg of Cincypunk.org's review of the album! also, Click here to read Mike Breen of Citybeat's review of the album! and... Click here to read Rich Shivener from Cin Weekly's interview with Banderas. listen.loveit.fuckme -cu.silvio |
Posted by Banderas on 5/20/2008 |
Misfits cover up for free download! |
 A free download of the Misfits cover; Hollywood Babylon is now up for your freeloading pleasure. so, point. click. hop in the Mystery Machine and try not drool on yourself from all the whammy bar/tambourine goodness. also... Our friends The Host are having a cd release party May 17th at the Madison Theater, yours truly (Jeremy Constantinople) will be the master of ceremonies. and... Don't forget May 23rd at the Madhatter is our super sweet cd relase party, And if you buy us Lexus instead of a BMW; we will hate you forever. Everyone will be there. Angels of Meth are going to be there. Arms Exploding are going to be there. Kevin McNair from Lost Hand Found Fingers will be there to teenwolf cheap beer and handle our bass duties. The Upset Victory will be there to kick things off. Feel free to go to our myspace page and check out some of the songs from our soon to be classic Beast Sounds and Parlour Tricks, so you can call us out when we forget out own lyrics. The record will be sold for $5 that night so bring your cash so you can tell everyone what deal you got. money ain't for nothin' get your chicks for free. -Jeremy |
Posted by Banderas on 5/07/2008 |
Banderas CD Release Spreadfire Spectacular-r-r! |
 Salutations fellow believers in Rock. It’s official. Our debut full length CD has a release date of May 23, 2008. We have been working hard for over a year to bring you our Rock opus now officially titled "Beast Sounds and Parlour Tricks". We’ve wrote, rewrote, and polished 12 tracks for your aural pleasures and can’t wait to get this disc in your hands. But, until then we have a few dirty tricks up our wrinkled sleeves to keep even the most gluttonous rock freaks satiated. First and foremost is the new official website now located at duneboogie. com. The site is currently featuring the first of a series of promotional commercials we plan to release in the coming weeks. Second is a great spread in Cincinnati CityBeat written by Ryan McClendon, one of the few rock journalists who "get it". It makes us sound a lot smarter than we really are. You can pick up a copy at your favorite local Speakeasy, or you can read the article online at CityBeat’s site here Third is the party of all parties to kick this thing off right. The Spectacular Dune-Boogie Gypsy Pirate Ball hosted the evening of the release @ the Mad Hatter with special guests Angels of Meth and Arms Exploding. Favorites of ours that will soon be favorites of yours as well. Full details of the show can be found in our MySpace event calendar. Those promo vids will be also hosted on MySpace TV as well as YouTube if you feel so inclined to incorporate those into your Blogs/MySpace layouts. We have lots more in store for you hogs coming up. So keep your ears to the track ’cause the trains a comin’ into the station soon. Keep it sleazy, T.R. |
Posted by Banderas on 4/03/2008 |
Sailing the High Seas of Shitty. |
 We're not dead! Though, the prescription painkillers might occasionally have us looking like a lame horse. We're very much in bed with our muses right now kicking out those raging rock n' roll gems.
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Posted by Banderas on 9/09/2007 |
