The Whiskers

War of Currents

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:05:56 -0500

Oh yeah; you’re probably looking for the four-dubs on the new record.

Well: we’re still working hard on it and you should expect an EARLY 2010 release date.

"Poland" by Ganache in The Lifted Brow 6

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:07:00 -0400

Ganache is Thom and Jim Stylinski, from The Whiskers.

They have contributed a song called “Poland” to The Lifted Brow’s sixth issue, easily gotten at theliftedbrow.com

Secret Word Contest.

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:41:53 -0400

Win a free copy of the new EP!

There is a secret word.
Just send an e-mail to whiskermageddon@gmail.com. The first e-mail to contain that secret word wins. You will be notified through e-mail.

Dear "The Sartorialist",

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:14:32 -0400

I didn’t know fashion was just a combination of any of these things:

- Wearing brown oxfords without socks
- Being a beautiful woman
- Being a skeezy dude
- Looking like a homeless time-traveller

Thanks for the update on fashion, internet!

Sincerely,
Thom from the Whiskers (who are releasing a great EP in two days.)

Two (2) New Songs

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:14:00 -0400

On October 6th, Awkwardcore records will ship out a two-song “EP” by The Whiskers called The Current & Cob and Pen. It will include those two songs. It will not be available for free; it will only be officially released as a compact disc.

Mad Men

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:53:10 -0400

PEGGY
This is good champagne.

DON
I don’t think so.

I still can’t stop laughing.

We have exciting news about a new Whiskers release, but not a peep until the specifics are settled...

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:19:22 -0400

We have exciting news about a new Whiskers release, but not a peep until the specifics are settled upon. Just a few days I promise.

If you spend some mass of time around people who work on computers a lot, the silliest part of this...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:41:03 -0400

If you spend some mass of time around people who work on computers a lot, the silliest part of this week, in early September, in the year two-thousand and nine, was the gradual realization by you and your colleagues that, no, there wasn’t some problem with their browser or zoom settings; Google got slightly bigger, and that’s just how it’s going to be now.

The Lyrics to "Marsh Blood" (found on The Lifted Brow 4)

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:54:29 -0400

This heart of gold getting stabbed by silverware is pumping iron ink on these magnetic skies and that stand up guy electrified in his chair is screaming out all the names of the traitors in disguise as he gasps for air. And the bloody bloody bird—you know she wants to chirp and you know that she always eats her words and says, “I’ll be here in this business ‘til I die and I know that I totally can survive out there alone—all alone in this bloody crooked horrible marsh.”

(coaster reverses)

C.) “I’ll be here in this business ‘til I die and I know I can survive out there alone in the marsh.”

B.) He’s in disguise as he gasps for air and the bloody bird she chirps and cries and she eats her words as she flies over floods. “I know everybody’s heard about the bird; everybody’s heard about the bird bird bird, bird bird’s the word (OH WELL-A)”

A.) This heart of gold is getting stabbed by silverware and pumping iron ink on these magnetic skies and that stand up guy electrified in that chair is screaming all the names of the traitors in disguise as he gasps for air.

TWIMC:

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:20:53 -0400

The Whiskers’ upcoming album has been in development hell for over a year. There have been songs that have come and gone; there are no sure things. In fact, the eldest tune is being re-recorded entirely. I don’t know when the record will be finished.

The good news, FWIMC, is this: Hazel Santino has created something substantially influential (at least in my eyes) in the form of the album’s cover. The fire lit under us looks something like this:

"Death Worm" by The Northwest Man

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:16:00 -0400

I was sitting in a strange diner-style booth at a bar/music venue in way-upstate New York with Brett Mattox. We had just played a show together. A man next to me was telling me my voice sounded a lot like Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull. I said I had not listened to any Jethro Tull. He feigned disappointment and told me to “educate myself” as Brett was transfixed by the television mounted above the bar’s backlit selection of alcohol. The televsion was looping a half-hour-long cryptozoological program featuring re-enactments and dramatizations of encounters and attacks; scars upon the memories of graveyard-shift park rangers and adventurous campers and hikers. The attacker was the fabled Death Worm. I had before heard of the Mongolian Death Worm, but this particular Death Worm seemed to be attacking two young overacting long-weekenders in an American desert. It was zapping them with electricity.

Brett spoke, bluntly, eyes never not absorbing the shocks and the screams: “I am going to make an album called Death Worm.”

He did.

This woman judges dancing on a television show. Her name is Mary...

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:48:00 -0400

This woman judges dancing on a television show. Her name is Mary Murphy. I have read and seen and experienced many truly outrage-inducing comments, moments, images and such on television; most of which are political or criminal in nature.

Mary Murphy’s on-air persona is the most heinous, acrid and dispicable thing I have ever seen. There is nothing behind those eyes. It is horrid and unsettling.

(The record is sort of coming together. Cover art and release date soon.)

The lyrics to "Poland" by Ganache

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:27:00 -0400

(This song will be available soon.)

The bullet in me is tugging nerves and there’ll never be another war so we’ll go to the hot springs in the snow, and Warszowa’s never ever gonna know when I think of home I think you’ll die alone (with your) hand on the phone and your hair in the breeze and that’s a secret I’ll take to the grave you paid for with the money you had saved in those days I always went out too late like a hunter in a new golden age staying up to wait (in) iodine baths (under) lanterns in the cave (near) silhouettes scaring off the foggy ghosts and those noises they make. He dreamed she had a bun in the oven but it was burnt to a crisp and she ate it anyway because she hated it. In the echoes of the you-know-what, the king insisted the mobs had lost their way. So we’ll go to the hot springs in the snow, and Warszowa’s never ever gonna know when I think of home I think you’ll die alone (with your) hand on the phone and your hair in the breeze. You’re the bee’s knees but I’m done with these awful tepid hot tubs in the sun. I’m not having fun with much of anything. This bullet in me it’ll melt you’ll see in the hot springs.
“I was lying in a trench on the Eastern line when I caught a hot German slug in my side. Oh, won’t you shut your trap about surgery? Can’t you see we’ve got mouths to feed? I’m well within my right to curse Persephone! Don’t you know this is everything we fought for and there’ll never be another war? I knew I’d live to see my son become a doctor in the new country. I knew we’d have a ball in springs and picnic under evergreens. While lying in a trench huffing gas and writing poetry I knew sooner or later there would be another bullet in me.”

Drugs aren’t cool. School is cool.

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:48:51 -0400

Drugs aren’t cool. School is cool.

"YOU FORGOT TESLA!"

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:42:00 -0400

“YOU FORGOT TESLA!”

Hazel Santino

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:26:08 -0400

Hazel Santino:

is painting the cover for War of Currents. Like her other work, it is scorchingly megahott.

Furlongs (Sunroom Hoedown)

Sun, 31 May 2009 12:11:00 -0400

We have contributed a live recording called Furlongs (Sunroom Hoedown) to a compilation called Never Mind The Brollies coming out June 13th on Rack and Ruin Records.

We really want to say, “WAR OF CURRENTS! OCTOBER SIXTH!” but we’ll hold off for a...

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:20:34 -0400

We really want to say, “WAR OF CURRENTS! OCTOBER SIXTH!” but we’ll hold off for a bit. It’s not definite yet but it will probably be that date (Westinghouse’s birthday).

Live in Rochester, April 1st, 2009 AS MP3

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:57:07 -0400

Live in Rochester, April 1st, 2009

AS MP3

Three (3) EPs today!

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:43:46 -0400

Tonight, around 9 EST, awkwardcore.com will make available the following Whisker-related records for Free-ee-ee-ee!:

A Halter Pardon Him And Hell Gnaw His Bones! by Ganache (Thom Stylinski)
Play/Pause by The Northwest Man (Brett Mattox)
Environmental Consulting E.P. by Fewn (Dan Jircitano, Arthur Bond, April Brennan, Matt Brewster)