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In the middle of some busy times for the CBs--just played a show at Tammany Hall on the Lower East Side on Monday night. It was a fun venue and we had a blast playing with some other great acts: Mike Hamel, who sang a song about how a porn movie used one of his songs (check it out on his website); Grace Kelly, a solid singer-songwriter from Atlanta (give her a listen here); and Eric Hunker, who has that folky Jack Johnson/Dave Matthews jam-band thing down pat. Thanks again to everyone who made it out on a Monday night!

Up next is our latest installment of Empire Vista Social Club (last Friday of every month at Otto's Shrunken Head), and then on September 13th is our show at Play-Diem! This one is going to be even more epic than usual. Why, you ask? Because it's the first Crier Brothers show that will be outside! That's right, we're going Amphitheatre-style at the East River Bandshell.

We're gonna be talking about this one a lot for the next few weeks, so why don't you go ahead and RSVP on the FB event page already??? (Also, don't ask us who the surprise special guest is; it's such a big secret, even we don't know!)

And now, what you've all been waiting for... CRIER BROTHERS' PLAYLIST!!!!

Metric: Help, I'm Alive
tUnE-yArDs: Gangsta
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?
A Place to Bury Strangers: You Are the One

And for no reason at all other than it's the freakin' Melvins giving away free ice cream to a bunch of kids in Chicago while covering the Butthole Surfers...


The Melvins cover Butthole Surfers

Watch this space for more upcoming shows, and if you haven't already, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @crierbrothers!

Yours in rock,

- Jerry Lee Crier

Harry Nilsson

One night last year, after a Crier Brothers' show or practice or something, I came home pretty late, flopped on the couch, and flipped on the tv. I was planning to just doze while watching something random... but it turned out there was an awesome old biography about Harry Nilsson on PBS. I ended up staying up way too late and watched the whole thing.

Too many memories of this guy to share. Some of the songs I most associate with being a little kid, listening to weird random music--this is one of the few artists I enjoyed when I was six years old, and still love today (Beatles, Stones, Fleetwood Mac, and MJ might be the only other ones).

Anyway, I've been listening to him a lot this week because of a new biography out, "Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter." Grantland did a great piece about him this week, too. Worth a look.