The Thrash-key Kids, LIVE from Arugula Acres!  (17 August 2013)
(Featuring a live recording from The Thrash-key Kids home and practice space, with an interview interspersed between the songs.)

On the 17th of August I was invited to spend the afternoon with The Thrash-key Kids.  I was totally smitten with their music when I saw them at Duckett’s in April, and wrote about it extensively in the ‘zine I just recently put out.  They completely embody punk rock in nearly every aspect of their lives and music, and I wanted to get a good, close-up experience of their band.

What I got was an amazing afternoon full of loud music, lots of beer, and great conversations about makes three friends form a band and make and wonderful racket like this.  Fortunately for you, this is your chance to relive that afternoon.

Their music is loud, vulgar, hilarious, chronic-infused, drunk, and spectacular, and you will instantly either love them the way I do, or want to have nothing to do with this kind of noise.  And that’s fine.  But these guys are my cup of tea, and I get into the details as to why during the interview.  I also get to present an unflinching, warts-and-all presentation of what life is like for these gents.  They are not presenting anything that isn’t there in the songs they write.  They are direct.  They are honest.  They are critical.  They are ridiculous.  And they are drunk, all at once.  This is the real deal, and I was really happy to be allowed in to see what they are all about.

This show contains their entire live set from that day, and interviews intermixed between the songs.  Yes, there is video of this performance.  No, I haven’t yet finished editing it.  Hopefully we can have this available soon.  In the meantime, you should check out their Bandcamp Page: Free Abortions is now available for a $2.00 download, and The Past Is Beautiful is also avaiable, also for $2.00.  You can also bug them in person for physical CDs that they hand-make, which I quite enjoy and make excellent additions to any record collection.

Join me for The Thrash-key Kids, Live from Arugula Acres!  This one is pretty magical.

Setlist:

Part I:
01.) Homebrew
02.) Ryan Doss Has A Camera Watch
03.) One Of My Friends Is A Chicken Fucker (Your Girlfriend Sucks Bro)
04.) Shitty Beer Is Like Shitty Pizza: It’s Fuckin’ Awesome

Part II:05.) Juan’s Dad Got Drunk And Pissed In The Fridge
06.) Weed: It’s Just Like Jesus But Better Because It’s Real
07.) Running Water
08.) Fired

Part III:
09:) I Did Drugs Once And They Were White
10.) Seth Putman is Dead And That’s Real Gay
11.) Girls Don’t Poop
12.) Go To Church Because Christianity Is Stupid And So Are You
13.) Boyfriend
14.) Ass & Titties (DJ Assault Cover)
15.) Every Time A Cop Gets Shot A Unicorn Gets It’s Horn
16.) Get Some Real Sock

Part IV:

17.) William Pierce Is Dead, Ha Ha! We Want To Piss On His Grave.
18.) People Didn’t Live With Dinosaurs And They Can’t Live Inside Of Whales