BRM Blog

Jerry Fuchs RIP

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:30:10 -0500

While we aren't known for the serious posts over here on the BRM Blog, we would like to take this space today to acknowledge the passing of a truly incredible musician and member of the BRM family.

Jerry Fuchs, drummer for both Maserati and The Juan Maclean (as well as !!!, Turing Machine, Vineland and many others) passed away in a tragic accident this weekend that has left us all pretty speechless. He was one of the few musicians that everyone in this office could agree on, and in one way or another we were all lucky enough to see, hear, and befriend this amazing guy.

Our hearts go out to his family, his friends, his bands, and all the other people that were lucky enough to have had Jerry pass through their lives at one time or another.

We'd like to remember him as the guy that left us standing in a room, mouths completely agape, laughing even, as he pummeled his way through entire sets and pulled out one handed drum fills that left a bunch of jaded rock dudes truly IMPRESSED for the first time in awhile.

Thanks Jerry, you will be missed.

Maserati - 12 16:

Juan Maclean - The Future May Come:

Everyone Loves A Parade?

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:43:55 -0500

Not sure why, but some sort of parade is going on down by my office.
A lot of folks are dressed in black and white, and since those are the official BRM colors I assume we have something to do with it? Could it be that they are celebrating our two Thursday night placements?
Yup Bachelorette on "Grey's Anatomy" and Telekinesis on "Vampire Diaries". Or was it the two placements in "Bored To Death" last Sunday (M. Ward and Explorers Club)? I do know that the new Bishop Allen video for "True or False" is also in black and white...

Black and White... its the new Color HD.

Thanks NYC,
Lyle

Count Floyd Where Are You?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:30:01 -0400

Hey, I guess I love Halloween more then the next guy, but today in the NYTIMES they wrote a piece saying that certain schools etc are banning... uh scary costumes from any Halloween related activity. Does that mean you can't dress up as Richard Nixon on President's Day? Or as a evil bunny on Easter? Or is this new rule just relegated to 10/31? Now back to the kids, those scary outfits just scare the living Jesu out of my two little girls, but banning scary outfits? Really? Well until someone re-records "The Monster Mash" the Halloween licensing market hasn't been tapped, so in the meantime here's something that might work for "Final Destination 5,6,7,8, 9, and 10 etc (really, when are they going to reach their "Final Destination"? My navigational system says "you've reached you final destination", is that all they need?).

Here's CRAZY CRAZY INSANE by APSCI

Also off of the new Califone record, here's "All My Friends Are Funeral Singers":

Scary stuff indeed!

Boo!
lyle

CMJ '09-Really?

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:58:41 -0400

I won't use this space to talk about my first CMJ experience, but I will say it was more than 5 years ago.......That the CMJ music festival still exists in 2009 is kind of a brain breaker........Who is going to these at this point? New bands? Hasn't the internet taken that away? Old people trying to get jobs? Again, the internet? The few remaining people with expense accounts? That's one thing the internet can't kill.......So huzzah to CMJ, i'm be attending at least some of the not so sleep depriving day gigs.......Who doesn't love to watch rock inside a dark club in the middle of the day?

So if you wanna see what BRM CMJ shows are happening please click here.

Enjoy,
lyle

Califone "Polish Girls":

Stricken City "Tak O Tak":

Boys In The Attic

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:45:36 -0400

Amazing how one can go to bed and wake to find the next day's topic can be so, uh yesterday... I mean, aren't we all sick of Balloon Boy, Not Balloon Boy, Box Boy, Attic Boy, Barf Boy already? Well to prepare yourself for the onslaught of late night tv jokes, here are a few BRM predictions:

LENO: "Did you hear that Sarah Palin said she could see the balloon from her house?"

LETTERMAN: "Experts were predicting the balloon would not land until after sundown... though Keith Olbermann suggested that it would come down between 3pm to 7pm as Rush Limbaugh's show is during drive time and that seems to be when giant gas bags full of hot air often vent their contents".

CONAN: "Did you hear that Jon from Kate and 8 actually went to buy the balloon... yup he was hoping Kate would jump in and he could finally get sole custody of the kids".

I guess that leads to the obligitory song about a balloon, so how about "Red Balloon Waltz" by Antietam:

Plus here is a video of Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter: "Air Is Thin"

Enjoy,
Lyle

Rainy Day

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:18:10 -0400

Here it is, the day I've been waiting for for like 10 months - it's raining in LA! Whoo-hoo! Anybody remember that Ray Bradbury short story about the classroom of schoolchildren on Venus where it rains all the time except one day the sun came out and all the kids went outside to play except for the one kid they had cruelly locked in the closet? No? Well I do, and today is like that day, only opposite. (Anyway, you should read that story if you haven't, and read it to your kids too, so it can haunt their dreams their whole lives like it clearly has mine. It's called "All Summer in a Day").

Moving on! Here are some rain-themed jams for you:

Shout Out Louds "Hard Rain"

Fiery Furnaces "Even In the Rain"

Twilight Sad "Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard"

Bishop Allen "Rain"

And some Smokey Hormel singing about the rain (we think), with "For The Rain":

Have fun in the rain tonight kids! Don't forget your Wellies!

- Sarah

Wall Street 2 - The Money Will Roll Right In

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:11:32 -0400

As you may know, the sequel to the always enjoyable "Wall Street" is
being shot right outside my office... Who says being on Wall Street
doesn't have it perks (if you ever need a really expensive, fancy watch,
come visit my hood). So far it looks like the cleverly titled "Wall
Street 2-Money Never Sleeps" will also hopefully feature the endless
construction that has been going on on Wall Street since we moved here
two years ago. Perhaps the bootleg movie guy on the corner can sell
scenes from the film as they happen!

Actually, I'm going to stand outside the rest of the day and play songs
that will hopefully get stuck in Oliver Stone's brain...

Here are a couple of suggestions for "Wall Street 2" - Wish me luck!

-Lyle

"Money Will Roll Right In"- RTX:

"Big Time" - Tom Brosseau

Look at us doing the Twitter

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:39:32 -0400

Hello?

can you hear us doing twitter?

does this work?

So yeah, Bank Robber Music is all up on the Twitter now and you should totally Follow Us! Granted we are mostly doing this so we can follow the Schnitzel Truck around our neighborhood, but we may also post some amazing BRM music and other goodness along the way.

Take our first "tweet" for instance, from office twitter correspondent Lauren, reporting from last night's FatCat Records extravaganza at the Bowery Ballroom. And while you are here why not take a listen to what she has informed us is the total jam from the evening's headliners, The Twilight Sad:

between our blog, our facebook, and now our twitter, you, the home observer can now experience the joy of the bank robber office at pretty much all times. Welcome to our lives.

Shameless promo bonus - The new Black Hollies album came out this week! - here's the first single "Gloomy Monday Morning" for your listening pleasure:

Letterman's Ipod?

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:03:56 -0400

Who am I to mock others indiscretions, but as I'm sure you all know David Lettterman is dealing with an extortion case of $2 million based on his uh, relationship with his female workers. When this happened, with how many ladies it happened, and if any of them were Jewish, let alone vegan is still tbd... in the meantime, here's a special BRM TOP 10 SONGS ON DAVID LETTERMAN'S IPOD:

10) Yesterday's Mistakes - Jimmy Jones

9) You Got Me - Elk City

8) Boys Who Love Girls -The Rosebuds

7) My Needs -Monotonix

6) Romeo- Dawn Landes

5) Click Click Click - Bishop Allen

4) I Wanna Know Girls -Portastic

3) Girls Like That - Werid War

2) Am I A Good Man -Them Two

1) Take Advantage - Lou Barlow

Here's the video for "Take Advantage" off of Lou's new solo album "Goodnight Unknown":

Enjoy,

Lyle

Another Fine Day for BRM and P'Fork

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:06:05 -0400

Well, I sure am glad that Pitchfork reviewed all the Beatles records... I was concerned they weren't going to sell! At least P'fork had its own BRMFEST with several of our new releases getting reviewed. Didn't do as well as "Sgt. Pepper" (10.0? really? "When I'm 64" ug)... Anyways we appreciate the Pitchfork props, read the headlines closely, and listen/watch to the jams below!

No Volcano Choir video, but thankfully I found on YouTube this baby playing the bongos to them:

Twilight Sad:

Music Go Music:

Monsters Of Folk:

Hallelujah the Hills:

Have a good fast!

-Lyle