2.3.08
Time warp
Do people still read this thing? I admit, drcr.com has fallen by the wayside. Seems like kids these days mostly like the myspace. Back up on this site however, is our webstore on the records page. You can get a deal on our six available seven inch titles as well as get a pretty swank Ergs tee in the size of your choice. All shirts are American Apparel - which means we supports perverts drunk on power over sweatshop labor!
We'll be doing a short stint with The Loved Ones and Gaslight Anthem at the end of the month. Come check it out.
7.27.07
Yeah, I'm lazy.
Tour was great. Lemuria is way more punk than you will ever know. We learned that while we were on tour, only some of us were "on tour". I threw up in the parking lot of the Triple Rock, shirtless. Anyways, the big news is that The Ergs will be playing four shows with The Bouncing Souls, Lifetime, and Static Radio in August. If you're in the tri-state area, come check it out. We still understand how we got on them either.
Oh yeah, this thing came out:
Go over to No Idea Records and get one.
5.6.07
Whoa, what happened
Sorry about that folks, been having some technical difficulties overe here at dorkrockcorkrod.com lately. I couldn't upload any changes. Well, it's been fixed and boy, have their been some things to actually update you all on. First of all, our tour dates with Lemuria are up on the shows page. We leave in a week. Wish us luck.
Also, we've release some records. And by some I mean 4 or 5 depeding on how you count.
First and foremost of these is "upstairs/downstairs" our new 15 song full length record. You can order that from our label Dirtnap Records. Here's a review of the record by Josh Rutledge of Nowwave.
Next up is our Blue single on Toxic Pop Records. We recorded the songs for this 2 song jobber over five(!!) years ago. It's super poppy. Again, Go to the label page and order one, or two or three.
In support of our tour, we've put out a split 7" with Lemuria. It's on 3 labels, but we of course will point the business for this one towards our old label Rex at Whoa Oh Records. We cover "Hey Jealousy" by the Gin Blossoms and drop a lot of names in the new faboo original. It's really good. Oh yeah, Lemuria's side is amazing.
We should be adding all of these records to our own online store when we return from tour. Oh that reminds me, while we're on the road, you can still order items from our website, but please bear in mind that it might take a month or so for you to receive your items since we will be on the road. Our split with the Grabass Charlestons is about to come out on No Idea Records. Go there and you can pre-order a copy.
2.18.07
Another February fuckit
Just got done playing a trio of really great shows with Loved Ones and Zolof the Rock n Roll Destroyer. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us and thanks to the two awesome bands who asked us to play.
Jersey's Best Prancers is now available on 12" vinyl with a snazzy glossy jacket. Hit the merch page and buy one now! You can also pick one up from Don Giovanni Records.
The release date for upstairs/downstairs, our new album, is set for May 1st. We'll be doing a full US tour with Lemuria shortly thereafter. Should have preliminary dates for that up soon.
In 7" news, the Blue EP should be out in a month. The Books About Miles Davis single will be out on Whoa Oh Records shortly after that. No Idea is finishing up the artwork for our split with the Grabass Charlestons - hopefully have some word about the release of that soon. Whoa Oh will also be releasing an Ergs/Lemuria split 7" to coincide with our tour.
1.21.07
Midnight special
Jeez, it's been a while since an update. We're still staying the course on a few fronts: The artwork and mastering are both just about done for upstairs/downstairs. The "Blue EP" should be out in about a month on Wallride Records. It features two songs that we recorded 5(!) years ago.
Jersey's Best Prancers will be back out on vinyl in a few weeks on Don Giovanni Records. This time, more than 100 were pressed so everyone who wants one should be able to get it. We're set to play a trio of shows with Loved Ones in the Jersey tri-state area. Do go to the shows page and check one of those out if you can.
Next week, we'll be hitting the studio to record a couple of tracks for our side of the Ergs/Lemuria split we'd like to have out in time for out cross country tour.
12.18.06
Don't despair because it's Christmas
Here's the cover to our upcoming 2nd album, upstairs/downstairs:
It'll be out on Dirtnap Records in March 2007 on compact disc AND vinyl. We'll be touring around March to support it. Expect some more 7" singles and splits in the first half of 2007 as well.
We're playng some shows with Loved Ones in February and we're playing a weekend in Puerto Rico the first weekend of March. The next year looks to be shaping up!
11.2.06
The Fest...Fuck
Hey All. We once again rocked the Fest this year. If you look on that YouTube site the kids all seem to be flocking to, you can see video of us playing a song or two. Check out some video of Fleshies while you're at it. We are now gearing up for the ParaErgs tour taking place this month. We'll be slingshotting out to Green Bay/Chicago and back in the span of a week with some choice stops along the way. Do check out the shows page and pop in on us.
This time out on the road, we should have for sale the new Replacements tribute comp on 1-2-3-4 GO!!! Records. We turned in a cover of the song "I'm in Trouble" for the project which is our penance for stealing lines from the song on the very first song of our first album. The comp also features the likes of Against Me!, This is My Fist!, and a bunch of bands without exclamation points at the end of their names. Should have this lovely CD up for sale on the website soon as well.
A new song from our upcoming Dirtnap album is up in the sounds section.
8.21.06
What the fuck just happened?
Hello all. We've just returned from our "Discover America" tour with Hunchback. A new album is in the can. It will be on Dirtnap Records in early 2007. It's called "Upstairs/Downstairs". Hope you like.
Many apologies for the show information on this website being woefully incorrect while we were on the road. Out myspace page was adequately maintained during the tour, however, a lightning bolt to my apartment fried my computer (with my html editing program) the DAY before we left for tour. In the future, this kind of shit will just not be tolerated. More news after we all decompress.
7.8.06
Hitch up the wagons
Yes, it's that time of the year again to throw all of our crap into a van and live off of the 99 cent menu at Wendy's. Most (soon hopefully all) of our "Discover America" tour dates with Hunchback are up in the shows section. We leave next week. Come out and say hi if we're playing a basement near you.
While on tour, we'll still be doing internet mail-order. If you paypal us for some Ergs swag, you should receive it almost as promptly as you would normally. Related to that, it turns out Jeanine from Prison Jazz records unearthed 50 more copies of the Cotton Pickin Minute 7". That means you can once again purchas it from us.
In other news, we've been asked to play the Fest V in Gainesville at the end of October. We of course said hell yes.
The Ergs will be backing up Dave Parasite as The Parasites in the fall for a week long tour of the Midwest coinciding with the release of a Parasites best-of coming out on Go-Kart Records. The Ergs will be opening up for the Parasites (in a sense, opening up for ourselves [that sounds filthy]) on that one. Good times.
5.18.06
You know what summertime means
Just threw up our preliminary tour dates for our summer tour with Hunchback. In the middle of said tour, we will be recording our new album with none other than CONRAD UNO at Egg Studios. Touring with one of our favorite bands and doing a new quality recording shall put us all in such a pleasure overload, that karma will have no choice but to strike us all dead before we return home.
Also, a new, very limited Ergs 7" single will be coming out in the next month. The label that is doing it is Art of the Underground, a label run by Alex of the very excellent band Lemuria. We'll have 50 copies of the record, Alex will be selling 200 copies himself, and then another 250 will be part of a year end boxset featuring all the singles Alex has put out this year. Should be be boss. More on that when it gets closer to release time.
5.1.06
It's Here
After over a year of dilly-dallying and rocking back and forth on our heels, it has finally come out. That's right, The Ergs' Jersey's Best Prancers 7 song CD "mini album" is out now. For a limited time, if you mailorder it from us, we'll throw in a Jersey's Best Prancers poster for free.
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4.2.06
Bandwidth Blowout
So the site was down the last couple of days of March due to the site exceeding its monthly bandwidth limit. We'd like to think that this is because we have so many visitors on the website, but it's probably more due to the fact that we have some humongous music and video files available on the media page. Also, our myspace page has some images on it that are hosted by the server for this site and we all know much the kids love that myspace. So, we'll be rotating which huge media files are available from month to month from now on. MOST BORING UPDATE EVER!
Oh yeah, we just finished recording four new songs. Two will be on a split 7" with the Grabass Charlestons(!!!) on No Idea(!!!!) Records. Don't believe me? Go to No Idea's homepage and scroll all the way down to the coming soon section. Yup, we kinda can't believe it either. We also recorded an Apers cover for an upcoming Apers tribute compilation (sorry for the delay about that, Kevin) and a Replacements cover for, you guessed it, an upcoming Replacements compliation on 1-2-3-4-Go Records. Next week we'll be doing two more songs for one more single and after that, we'll be tight lipped and fully muted recording-wise until we record over the summer.
3.2.06
Smarch Smadness
This weekend we're playing some shows with Richmond's finest, The Pink Razors. Do go to the shows page and check that out.
The big news this week is that Don Giovanni Records will soon be releasing our latest 7 song sorta-too-long-to-be-an-EP-but-we-call-it-one-anyway EP, Jersey's Best Prancers on CD. Previously, Jersey's Best Prancers was only available on LP in a limited press of 100. Those went extremely fast and hopefully more will be pressed on LP in the future. Until then, everyone can enjoy Jersey's Best Prancers on Compact Disc. Expect this out by early April.
The first track from Jersey's Best Prancers, Kinda Like Smitten, is now up in the media section.
Revenge of the Nerd photos are up as well.
2.18.06
Media blitz
Looks like winter may actually start to get cold. If shivering your ass off and reduced exposure to sunlight have got you down, then do we have the cure for you. Go to our sounds page and check out the two Adult Swim bumps we were a part of almost two years ago. I guess the sounds page's name should be changed to media page, just don't hold your breath for any Ergs themed wallpaper, ok? Also posted is an mp3 of our cover of the Pranksters theme song which is from the greatest Saturday Night Live sketch ever.
Also, The Ergs and Hunchback are ready to go on the "Discover America" mini-tour the final weekend in February. Right now, we're slated for two shows in the Boston area and one show in Binghamton, NY the day after. Head on over to the shows page for news on that. Hunchback just received copies of their debut full length, "Ugly on the Outside". Do yourself a favor and pick that up when you get a chance.
If I can get my hands on photoshop, I will post some pictures from the Revenge of Nerd tour.
1.23.06
Bigger than a mining tragedy
While The Ergs do not have any formal New Year's resolutions, I would say that you can expect the following things from us this year:
1. A new full
length album recorded in late spring.
2. A month long tour sometime around the time of the recording.
3. Another larger pressing of the Jersey's Best Prancers EP on LP and possibly
CD in the first half of the year.
4. A bunch of weekend warrior-type mini-tours in the general northeast area
with other cool bands.
We're going to make good on the fourth point right away - check the shows page for a mini-tour of New England we'll be doing with Hunchback at the end of February. Also, come check out the reunion of The Ergs and Hunchback on the shittiest of shitty holidays, Valentine's Day, Tuesday, February 14th at The Rail in Bound Brook, NJ.
12.26.05
Feliz Navidad, bitches
Ok, a quick holiday update. There's a zipped wmv file of The Ergs set at the Fest 4 in Gainesville this past November ("This Past November" sounds like the name of an screamo band on Victory Records) up on the sounds page. Also available on said sounds page, is a zip file containing the entire Ben Kweller EP on mp3. Since the damn thing is out print and there are no plans to repress it, we figured it was only fair to make the tunes available to everyone. If these two hunkering zip files don't kill our bandwidth limit, perhaps we'll throw other out of print releases up there in the future.
Also, you can now purchase Ergs merch using paypal. Go the records page and check it out.
12.18.05
Howdy, folks
The Ergs returned home safely from the Revenge of the Nerd tour. Touring for over 2 months is a completely different beast! We had a great time. Do yourself a favor and pick up some MC Chris and SNMNMNM CDs this holiday (YES, I SAID HOLIDAY, BILL O'-FUCKING-REILLY!) season. The only misfortunes we experienced were a flat tire, a burnt out CD player ejection motor, and a busted heater (which, truth be told didn't matter too much when we were in the deep south.) We should have some pictures from it up, shortly.
Check the shows pages - we have a few awesome local shows coming up. Welcome the prodigal nerds back home to their... homeland. We will be setting up a big show around Valentines Day. It will be our first show with our favorite band, Hunchback, since our tour.
The Ben Kweller EP is now out of print. We'll be getting in the last 40 copies of the Modern Machines split soon. Jersey's Best Prancers, our new 7 song 12" EP, came out in a limited run of 100 for our tour. The non-tour, larger quantity pressing of that should happen soon. We have logo shirts and soon we'll be getting some more of our new Ben Snakepit designed tee.
You can now order dorkrockcorkrod on vinyl now from here.
Finally, The Ergs have a track on Fat Wreck's new benefit comp for Protect.org. We're happy to be part of this project. Please check out Protect.org and see what they're all about. Other bands featured on the comp are NOFX, Against Me, Soviettes, Anti Flag, and many more. The Ergs are of course not selling the compilation through the website (cuz it's a benefit, ya dummy), but they are of course available from Fat Wreck and probably your local record store.