2015 IN REVIEW

Posted on by July 8, 2016

 2015 is coming to a close and we wanted to take a minute to thank everyone for picking up our new album, coming to see us on tour, the daily deliveries of nude fan art we receive, the countless copies of original Misfits records you’ve sent us, and all the bad iPhone photos you’ve posted of us on Instagram. It’s cliche, but we really feel fortunate to be able to do what we love and have anyone give a damn, so thanks for that.

We’ve just spent 8 of the last 12 weekends (while working our day jobs of construction, customer service, screen printing, and electrical engineering in between) on the road hustling our new album, “MUTINY AT MUSCLE BEACH”, and it’s been a hoot. No sign of letting up either, ready to rip into the new year.

In the past couple of months we released videos for the title track to the new album (see that video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RpKPBPasNw ) …

as well as a video for the album’s opening track, “(I’M) WIRED” (see that one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-855SaViI )…

While we were out in Vancouver we had a chance to sit down with one of our all time favorite interviewers (and then he had a stroke the very next day! We assume NO responsibility for that, but wish our new friend a speedy recovery) and you can check that out here: (link removed)

While in Toronto Brian and Fucked Up frontman, Damian Abraham, sat down in our filthy van to discuss turning out a punk, and you can listen to that here: https://audioboom.com/boos/3955527-episode-58-brian-gorsegner-night-birds-splitting-headache-forward-to-death

Our pal Dave Brown just put out a rad new photo book called “ADULT CRASH 2″ and it comes with a 7” compilation featuring VIOLENT REACTION, GOVERNMENT WARNING, BARGE, & NIGHT BIRDS (we cover an Effigies song). You can purchase that here: http://vcrecs.bigcartel.com/product/adult-crash-2-book-7-red-vinyl-early-bird-pre-order

Lastly, If you want to buy our new record, or tee shirts, or whatever, you can do so here: http://dorkrockcorkrod.com/NB_merch.html

2016 (so far) will see a 3 week “MUTINY AT MUSCLE BEACH” European tour, a chunk of dates with one of the first punk bands I ever heard, some insane festivals, and the inaugural hot gluing of the Tesco Vee bobble-head (a gift from Nardwuar) to our van’s dashboard.

Drink more coffee, spray paint a Night Birds dagger on a cop car, and have a happy new year y’all.

NEW ALBUM RELEASE DATE AND RECORD RELEASE SHOWS

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Holy shit! Here’s our first batch of record release shows for our new record “Mutiny At Muscle Beach” out Oct. 2nd on Fat Wreck Chords and they’re with the almighty Dillinger Four! Let’s fucking do this…

 

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Fri. 10/2: Chicago, IL @ Double Door
Sat. 10/3: St. Louis, MO @ Firebird
Sun. 10/4: Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
Fri. 10/9: Philly, PA @ First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia
Sat. 10/10: Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Sun. 10/11: Brooklyn, NY @ St. Vitus

 

*All shows on sale Fri. Aug. 14th. www.google.com for further instruction*

(Flyer by Perry Shall)

 

And after those shows with D4, here are the rest we have planned:

Sat. 10/17: Warren, NJ @ Warren American Legion
Sat. 10/24: Toronto, ON (Not Dead Yet Fest)
Fri. 10/30: Gainesville, FL @ The Fest 14
Sat. 10/31: Gainesville, FL @ The Fest 14
Fri. 11/20: Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar w/ Ravagers, Advlts, Flying Faders
Sat. 11/21: Richmond, VA @ En Su Boca w/Iron Reagan, Red Death
Fri. 11/27: Brattleboro, VT @ The Stone Church w/Negative Approach, Drop Dead, Last World
Sat. 11/28: Boston, MA @ Middle East w/ Negative Approach, Casanovas in Heat, Conmen
Sun. 11/29: Brooklyn, NY @ The Acheron w/Negative Approach
Thu. 12/3: Seattle, WA @ Black Lodge w/ Angry Snowmans, VHS
Fri. 12/4: Vancouver, BC @ The Media Club w/ The Jolts, Angry Snowmans
Sat. 12/5: Portland, OR @ Black Water

SPRING EAST COAST TOUR WITH N0 PROBLEM

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We are hitting the road next month with one of Canada’s finest, N0 PROBLEM. Check below for dates, help us spread the word, and come hang out!
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Fri. 3/27 – East Setauket, NY @ East Setauket VFW w/ N0 PROBLEM, SPRAYNARD
Sat. 3/28 (early) – Boston, MA @ Middle East w/ N0 PROBLEM, CONMEN, LIFE PROBLEM
Sat 3/28 (late) – Providence, RI @ Funky Jungle w/N0 PROBLEM, BEAR TRAP, WOKLING
Sun. 3/29 – Brooklyn, NY @ Acheron w/ N0 PROBLEM, SONIC POISON, NUCLEAR SANTA CLAUST
Mon. 3/30 – New Brunswick, NJ @ Cooler Ranch w/ N0 PROBLEM, FUTURE DAMAGE
Tues. 3/31 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes w/ N0 PROBLEM, MENTAL ABUSE, STAG PARTY
Wed. 4/1 – Philadelphia, PA @ Ortliebs w/ N0 PROBLEM
Thu. 4/2 – Pittsburgh, PA @ The Shop w/ N0 PROBLEM, THE S/CKS
Fri. 4/3 – Richmond, VA @ House Show w/ N0 PROBLEM, ORGASM, REACTOR 4
Sat. 4/4 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery w/ N0 PROBLEM, PURE JUNK, WIDOWS WATCH

FEAST ON THE SOUTH EAST TOUR

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We’re pleased as punch to be headed out on the road with Municipal Waste and Torche this January. We’ll be hitting some familiar spots and some places we’ve never been to before.  Come check it out if you are able.

We are still working on our next LP – we’re about halfway through writing it.  You may even get a sneak peak of some of the songs if you see us on this upcoming tour.

Thursday         1/15/2015        Baltimore, MD @ Soundstage (No Torche)
Friday              1/16/2015        Winston-Salem, NC @ Ziggy’s  
Saturday         1/17/2015        Wilmington, NC @ Ziggy’s By The Sea
Sunday            1/18/2015        Tallahassee, FL @ Pug’s Live
Monday           1/19/2015        Gainesville, FL @ The Atlantic
Tuesday          1/20/2015        Tampa, FL @ Crowbar
Wednesday     1/21/2015        Miami, FL @ Grand Central
We’ll also be playing the following shows solo (no Municipal Waste or Torche) on the way back up to Jersey:
Thur 1/22/2015 – East Atlanta, GA @ 529 w/DINO’S BOYS, GH
Fri 1/23/2015 – Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter w/SLAPSHOT
Sat 1/24/2015 – Lancaster, PA @ ABAG

New Shirt Featuring Chris Shary Art

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Just posted a new shirt for sale in our webstore.  The artwork is by none other than Mr. Chris Shary who has done a ton of artwork for Descendents, All, and loads of other cool bands over the years.  We originally printed these bad boys in blue, but this latest batch is in red.  We also re-stocked all of our other shirt designs and sizes.  Finally, if you check out our bandcamp website (now linked at the top of this page), you’ll find a few shirt bandcamp-exclusive (read: old designs we don’t sell anymore on this site) shirts in the merch section there.

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FALL UPDATE

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Been a while since we updated this, whoops. Let’s get down to it.

We did a good chunk of touring and traveling this Spring / Summer. Thanks to anyone who came out to the shows or helped in anyway. We got to make it up to Canada, out to the West Coast, and over to Europe for our 2nd go around there, and we had a really great time.
Our all surf instrumental EP, MONSTER SURF, has since been released (and sold out) on Wallride Records, and we are currently hard at work on our 3rd full length album, set for release sometime in 2015 on Fat Wreck Chords. We are currently laying fairly low on the show front, because frankly we are sucky multi-taskers and wanted to really spend some quality time writing and demoing for the new album. We are, however, playing 3 shows at the Gainesville Fest this year, as long as we don’t have more babies or get struck with another hurricane (you know, like the last 2 years we’ve had to cancel)!
We also just restocked many shirt sizes in our webstore and will be adding a new design in the next few days.
That’s about it for now. We’ll see you soon.

 

SPRING UPDATE

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OK, first off, really excited to have TANKCRIMES releasing our first two albums, “THE OTHER SIDE OF DARKNESS”, and “BORN TO DIE IN SUBURBIA” on cassette tape. They will be out April 15th.
After that will be the “MONSTER SURF” EP… Our records normally have 1 or 2 surf instrumental tunes on them… We’ve had the idea of doing a 4 song 7″ of all surf instrumentals for years now, and finally found some time this Winter to bust it out. Our long time pals WALLRIDE RECORDS will release a limited, one time pressing of 700 copies or “MONSTER SURF” on May 13th, just in time for a bunch of tour dates which you can find below…
Lastly, we are once again busy writing. We have completed our first couple new full band tunes for the first time in over a year (since the end of writing “BORN TO DIE IN SUBURBIA”)! We are slow writers, but we THINK we have an idea as to what we are writing towards and we are really excited. More info on that when we know more…
For now, come see us on tour this year! It’s been a while since we’ve been to a lot of these places so we are very eager to hit the road. Thanks for reading, we love you all…
*TOUR DATES (Including POUZZA FEST (Montreal), PUNK ROCK BOWLING (Vegas), THE FEST (Tampa / Gainesville), PUNK ROCK HOLIDAY (Slovenia), and IEPER FEST (Belgium)…
Tue. 4/15 – New Brunswick, NJ @ Cooler Ranch w/ Government Flu, Real Cops, Executors

Fri. 4/25 – Trenton, NJ @ Millhill Basement
Thu. 5/15 – Buffalo, NY @ Broadway Joes w/ Aaron & the Burrs, Orations
Fri. 5/16 – Toronto, ON @ S.H.I.B.G.B’s w/ Hassler, Born Wrong, Love Canal
Sat. 5/17 – Montreal, QC @ Foufounes w/ 7 Seconds, CJ Ramone, Chixdiggit
Wed. 5/21 –  Sacramento, CA @ The Blue Lamp w/ the Briefs
Thu. 5/22 – San Francisco, CA @ Fat Warehouse
Thu. 5/22 – San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside w/ the Briefs, Western Addiction
Fri. 5/23 –  Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory w/ The Adicts, Leftover Crack
Sat. 5/24 – Las Vegas, NV @ Fremont Country Club w/ ALL, The Briefs, Toy Guitar (SOLD OUT)
Sun. 5/25 –  LA, CA @ E7th w/ Neighborhood Brats, Rough Kids, Catholic Spit, Stoic Violence
Thu. 5/30 – NYC, NY @ Irving Plaza w/ Anti Nowhere League, Cro Mags

Thu. 7/31 – Amsterdam (NED) @ Winston
Fri. 8/1 – Hamburg (GER) – Hafenklang
Sun. 8/3 – Brno (CZ) @ Kabinet Muz
Mon. 8/4 – Budapest (HU) @ Klub Trafik
Tue. 8/5 – Tolmin (SL) @ PUNK ROCK HOLIDAY w/ NOFX
Sat. 8/9 – Camden (UK) @ The Black Heart
Sun. 8/10 – Ieper (BEL) @ IEPER FEST
Mon. 8/11 – Helsinki (FI) @ Kuudes Linja
Thu. 10/30 – Tampa, FL @ Pre fest
Sat. 11/1 – Gainesville, FL @ The Fest
…AND MORE TO COME!

HIBERNATION ENDS

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Night Birds will be back in action in February.  We have the following shows coming up:

THU 2/6/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Death By Audio, w/Tenement, Vacation, Groucho Marxists, and Nuclear Santa Claust, part of the Don Giovanni Records showcase
THU 2/13/14 – **AS KILLER WAVES** Brooklyn, NY @Grand Victory w/Shocked Minds, Foster Care
SAT 2/15/14 – Manhattan, NY @ Mercury Lounge, w/The Queers, The Scandals
SAT 2/22/14 – Warren, NJ @ Warren Legion Hall w/Worriers, Nuclear Santa Claust, Iron Chic

We’ll also be announcing some news regarding shows/tours in Canada, Europe, and West Coast very soon.

Additionally, we’ll be hitting the studio in early February to record our instrumental 7″ – hoping to have that out in the spring.

SKATEBOARD DECKS

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Skateboard decks are in.  We have them for sale in our webstore.  We made only 50 of these skate decks and when they are gone, they’re gone.  We’ve also restocked all shirt sizes on three of our shirt designs.

Speaking of our webstore, some folks have complained about a lack of a digital download card with the Maimed for the Masses 7″.  While you can easily purchase it on our homegrown webstore, if you purchase the physical 7″ on our bandcamp page, you get a free digital download right when you complete the purchase.

Writing is just about complete on our new instrumental EP.  Looks like it will be a five song 7″.  Hoping to announce the label for that sometime next month.

We are presently planning out our 2014.  We will have some big announcements coming soon about tours.

Thanks to everyone who supported us in 2013 – expect more racket from us next year!

NOVEMBER UPDATE

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A couple of quick announcements while Night Birds are in hiatus mode:

1.  We will have Night Birds skateboard decks for sale soon over in our webstore.  We’ll have another update when that goes up for sale.  We will also be restocking a lot of shirt designs and sizes that we’ve run out of in the last couple of months.

2.  We are working on a brand new all instrumental 7″.  It is going to be on a label we’ve wanted to work with for a long time.  More on that as time goes on.  Expect that to drop sometime in 2014.

3.  Since Brian is out of commission and the rest of us are working on these instrumental songs, we’re actually going to be playing a couple all-instrumental shows under the band alias “Killer Waves” to test out the new material.  The shows will be:

FRI 12/6 -Asbury Park, NJ @Asbury Lanes, Jay Insult’s birthday party show
SAT 12/21 – Asbury Park, NJ @Asbury Lanes, w/World Inferno Friendship Society

4. We will be making our triumphant return from our Bri-hiatus (back to Night Birds with vocals) for the Don Giovanni Records showcase.  The show will be:

THUR 2/6/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ 285 Kent, w/Tenement, Vacation, Groucho Marxists, and Nuclear Santa Claust