Don’t Cry in Your Beer This Christmas
Posted on 22. Dec, 2008 by H. Anne Lightly in Blog
Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap) can feel your holiday pain. Plastic Misteltoe
Xmas 2008: The Perfect Gift
Posted on 15. Dec, 2008 by Dallas VonKillbot in Environment, How's Business, Idiocy, Internet
With the holidays quickly approaching, everyone is out scrambling to find the perfect gift. The true question, however, is what do you get that special someone in your life that you’ve just lost touch with over the years? The Onion investigates…
Aunts And Stepdads Line Up For This Year’s Hottest Gift: The Electric Tea Kettle
The Yule Logs, Quite Possibly The World’s Greatest Christmas Rock Band, Rocking Sauconys
Posted on 20. Nov, 2008 by spencer in Chico
Oh look, it’s the Yule Logs.
That’s a pretty decent Christmas rock jump there.
Wait, what’s the guitar player rocking?
Those look like…wait, can’t quite make it out.
Fuck yeah. Too bad Saucony isnt’ making Xmas themed shoes.
Hey Saucony, you just going to let Converse clown you like that?
Christmas Hath Departed. Only 359 Shopping Days Left Until Christmas
Posted on 31. Dec, 2007 by spencer in Lifestyle
2008 being a leap year, we will have one more shopping day before Christmas. If you’re not spending that day spending, I suggest educating yourself a bit on the origins of Christmas: you know, baby Jesus, three wise me, Pagan Rituals that early Christians adopted to make Christianity seem more appealing to would-be converts. Oh, and powerful hallucinogenic drugs and human sacrifice.
God Bless Tradition.
Xmas Music: Old Yeller, “12 Days of Christmas”
Posted on 20. Dec, 2007 by spencer in Idiocy, Lifestyle, Music
[disclosure: I am not actually in this band, but P Brown works for Synthesis.]
Quaint as it may be, I sincerely hope that Chico’s notoriety as a party school that canceled Halloween will one day be supplanted by its true nature. No, not as the 10th best Small Art Town in America, but as Christmas Rock Town USA. In anticipation of the 3rd installment of Gorgeous Armada’s Christmas Musical, Sleigh: Sleigh II Again (Midnight, Friday and Saturday at the Chico Cabaret) Gorgeous Armada presents: Old Yeller and the 12 Days of [...]
Xmas Music: The Yule Logs
Posted on 19. Dec, 2007 by spencer in Music
[disclosure: I am in this band. I am totally self-promoting. Deal.]
In anticipation of the premiere of soon-to-be Christmas Classic, Sleigh: Sleigh II Again, The Gorgeous Armada invited a few Chico Christmas bands into their Handsome Devils Yacht Club Recording Studio to put down a few tracks. Enjoy this live video of The Yule Logs doing their rendition of “Hey Jake, It’s Christmas.”
Sleigh: Sleight II Again, live at the Chico Cabaret, Friday and Saturday, December 21st and 22nd at Midnight! Advance tickets on sale at Diamond W and Underground.
Pros and Cons of Holiday Rock
Posted on 28. Nov, 2007 by spencer in Chico, Music
Pro: Getting to play fun music for 2nd and 3rd graders.
Con: Feeling like I am failing life by showing up to an elementary school stoned
Con: having to get up at 4 AM to play a morning news gig
Pro: getting your band photo taken with local news celebrity Rob Blair and crew
The Yule Logs are here. Hide your Egg Nog.
