3 Years running I booked a Show to celebrate myself. Mostly due to a fear of getting old, a lot to do with the idea that if you put a title on something then it’s more likely for people to come as opposed to “Another Shitty Graboids Show!”, though that’s not a bad idea. 

This one accidentally spans the weekend. There’s a bunch of Cover bands playing the Friday night including The Black Flag Cover Band which I sing for.

The Saturday show is the one I actually booked and features a bunch of bands I really like.

I just joined The Odd Socks, they haven’t played since half the band moved to Montreal. I offered to join the band because I really liked seeing them. Raspy Dead Milkmen style punk with clever lyrics. 

Sleight is a new Power Violence band, heavy as balls and they opened for DOOM when they played here. 

TV Freaks are from Hamilton, remind me a lot of The Brutal Knights, seem like a bunch of fun!

Bad Vibrations have been playing for a while. It’s KC from The Hold/Dog Day/Husband & Knife. They’re really good!

Anyway, sorry I keep putting my face on posters, Hope you can make it out to one or both of these shows. 

The Graboids had a blast at the Maritime Tattoo Festival. Thanks so much for having us and to Stoo Metz for grabbing some decent shots. See ya June 1st. 

New review from Exclaim!

Halifax pumps out idiosyncratic punk bands at a ridiculously quick clip. Coming hot on the heels of Cold Warps and the Long Weekends, the Graboids deliver a healthy dose of pop-culture and Ramones obsessions neatly wrapped in lightning fast hooks on this four-track seven-inch, the band’s third. “Zombies Don’t Have Girlfriends” is a clever riff on everybody’s favourite walking undead, while “Your Mom’s New Boyfriend,” sympathizes with the children of single parents in the refrain, “It sucks your mom’s new boyfriend’s moving in.” Poetry this isn’t, but then anything more complex would miss the point. The band’s self-aware streak continues to the final track, “Bad Ramones,” where the quintet poke fun of themselves and the legion of similarly minded groups that’ve nicked the punk rock O.G.s for a far lesser payoff.
(Independent)

http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/PopAndRock/graboids-back_to_perfection

Hey! We were asked to play the Maritime Tattoo Festival main stage. Kinda weird, we’ll see how we do. 

It’s on Saturday May 18th at The Forum.

https://www.facebook.com/events/138985012955594/?fref=ts

http://thegraboids.bandcamp.com

I’m going to start Tweeting at Kevin Bacon every day until he responds.

@GrapplinGraboid

Decent and honest review from www.diyhalifax.ca

“the graboids are ridiculous.
they for sure have one of the most energetic live shows in our city, but unfortunately they are kind of a bar band, which sucks because I’m sure that middle school weirdo geeks would dig the shit out of them.
they’ve definitely built a neat little world around themselves that involves a lot of wild drunken antics & ongoing live wrestling feuds with gus’ pub bartenders & other locals.

this 7” is pretty standard for them. the songs are hella immature, sometimes maybe too much. I still dig their first 7” inch the best but this one fits in well with their growing catalog. perhaps I just enjoy self deprecating songs about being a lazy drunk over tunes about mom’s dating greasy dudes? regardless anyone who is into this band already will agree that it’s a pretty solid 7” & you really have to applaud any local band who takes the time & effort to put out their own vinyl. 
recommended for fans of all that totally great garage punk ramones worship stuff you hear on monday nights at reflections.”

http://thegraboids.bandcamp.com

If you were to title a Goosebumps book featuring a Graboid what would you call it?

Back to Perfection i now available at Taz Records and Obsolete Records. 

Go get it!

We’re #4 on CKDU. Cool!

“Back to Perfection” is an apt descriptor for the Graboid’s latest album – there’s no complication here, just 4 straight ahead punk rock songs. Having perfected their formula on previous albums, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel here. The first three songs on the record all clock in at under 2 minutes and feature guitar riffs, drums, and just the right amount of vocal harmonies.

Bad Ramones’ just breaks the two minute mark and starts off with a slightly more garage rock sound, which as probably as close to breaking the mold as these guys will come. With lyrics about zombie girlfriends (or lack there of), longing, drinking, UFOs, and being in a band, it’s classic Graboids through and through. There’s no way to analyze or breakdown a 7 minute long record, so don’t over think it - just put on this record and bang your head, and if you’re taking your time, listen to it twice

Better yet, do yourself a favour and check out the band live for the full experience – they’re at Gus’ pub on Saturday, so you can hear all this and more in person, with the additional bonus of maybe wrestling with vocalist, Adrian Bruhm.

Written by Dan Nightingale

http://noisographyreviews.blogspot.ca/2013/04/reviewed-graboids-back-to-perfection.html

http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/graboids-and-go/Content?oid=3839515

If you want to know what to expect from this Saturday’s Graboids album release show, don’t ask—-just listen.

When the question is put to singer Adrian Bruhm and drummer Michel Ungurain, it’s met with a long silence. When Bruhm eventually offers “Well, I might have a cape.” Ungurain exclaims “Finally!” and they start laughing. It’s that irreverence, that unmistakable energy you find when friends get together and do something they love, that you can expect this weekend.

And of course the cape, the wrestling mask and a ton of other antics that earned the Graboids Best Hijinks this year in The Coast’s Best of Music poll. A veteran show-goer in Halifax, Bruhm’s wild frontperson antics come from a desire to create for his audience the thing that stoked his love of local music in the first place. “I do what I do because of the bands I saw when I was younger. The Dean Malenkos, Dead Red and Blackout ‘77, the guys who were older than me and put on a good show,” he says. “I see a lack of that these days.”

Antics aside, the band has spent the better part of two years, since the release of its last EP, honing sounds and crafting the elements that make it stand out. This third album, Back to Perfection follows theTremors-inspired naming scheme of the first two, as does the album art (designed by Bruhm).

At first unintentional, this cohesion is now something that the band aspires to, because “it makes you want to collect them, you want to find out what happens next.” Even Ungurain, who doesn’t own a record player, can’t help but get excited about the vinyl release. “You go to a show, you pay five bucks,” he says, “you get something you can hold onto.”

With Dartmouth darlings The Scoop Outs rounding out the bill, along with The Holy Snappers and Moncton’s Rock’n Rebels, the release show promises to deliver what Ungurain calls “goofy kid punk rock” with that classic Graboids formula: “We just put some thought into it, then add alcohol to that thought.”

Here’s the cover’s to all the singles put together. It was a fun little project to make a new one each week. Keeps me on my toes. 

You can download the full EP at http://thegraboids.bandcamp.com

‘Bad Ramones’ is up there for FREE so you have no excuse not to go grab at least one track. 

The final track from the new 7” is up! It’s called ‘Bad Ramones’ and it’s about how I can’t really write a song without ripping someone off.

Go download it for FREE! 

http://thegraboids.bandcamp.com/track/bad-ramones-2

Here’s the Holy Snappers new video. We’ll be playing with them Saturday. Check it!

Tonight we host $Rockin 4 Dollar$

Tomorrow we debut the last song on the new EP titled ‘Bad Ramones’ on Halifax Is Burning at 6:30pm on CKDU 88.1 FM. A couple of us will be dropping in to the studio for a quick chat.

http://thegraboids.bandcamp.com