Buncha random pictures of my old band The Agenda.

The Agenda (2002-2012) aka the first 10 years

10 Fucking Years Of The Agenda (2002-2012)
Start The Panic!

1. Crash! Crash!
2. I Want The Panic!
3. Out With The Old In With The New!
4. Last Chance For Action!
5. Hit The Wall!
6. Hard Friends!
7. 50,000 Watts Of Love!
8. Shake! Shake! Scream!
9. No More Dancing
10. You Give Me Hot Pants!
11. Burn It Again!

Viper EP

1. This Ain't No Fashion Show
2. Strike Like A Viper
3. Youth Against Fascism (Sonic Youth cover)
4. Teenage Kicks (Undertones cover)

Only The Young Die Young (demos)

1. Only The Young Die Young
2. I Just Wanna Know Your Name
3. Black Knees
4. Danger, Danger Love
5. Suicide City

10 years ago this month my band recorded our debut album Start The Panic at Chase Park in Athens, GA with David Barbe. now we are grown ups who never play shows. we are sorta a band in the fact that we all still like each other and we won’t break up cuz, well, who would care? but our days of recording and going on tour and all that stuff are done. weren't a very prolific band...but we were in fact a band for 10 years.
get it
and for the hell of it...or video for Crash Crash

SATURDAY @ GO BAR!

a night of garage rock mayhem from
THE AGENDA!
&
THE MATT KURZ ONE

Self Promotion of the Shameless Kind

The Agenda and our friends Turf War will be rocking the Soul Bar in Augusta, GA on Saturday May 8th. it's our first time back to the Garden City since August. looking forward to this one.

Radio Birdman "New Race" 1977

listening to Radio Birdman reminds of this time i was playing a show in Cincinnati and this kid in the crowd was really pissed off at us because my band were wearing arm bands and he kept saying we were ripping off Radio Birdman (who obviously invented the concept of armbands) and i refused to respond to him. then later in the show i had my back turned to the crowd and someone ran up on stage and dropped a trashcan over my head, knocking me to the ground. i threw the trash can off of me and turned around to see who did it and i made eye contact with the Radio Birdman kid and so i jumped off the stage and grabbed a plastic folding chair and hit him across the back with it. then i got back on stage and finished our set. after the show was over i found out that he wasn’t even the one who had dumped the trash can on me and instead that it had been a member of the opening band, who was pissed off that noone had bothered to watch them play. so i felt like an asshole and went and apologized to the Radio Birdman kid, but he told me he was super stoked about me smashing him with a chair and told me that had turned him into a fan of us instantly. so i gave him a free t-shirt and bought him a beer. the lesson of this story is that you should hit people with chairs if they don’t like you and then afterwards you will be friends.

The Agenda and Turf War, next Saturday @ The Soul Bar

Los Agendas will in Augusta next Saturday night doing battle with our friends Turf War. it's gonna be a whole lot of boys trying to pretend they are either in the Stooges or the Replacements. which should be a drunken good time for everyone there. if it were Masters Week then Tiger Woods would show up, but it's not...so instead hopefully the city of Augusta will come out and say hello.

Agenda pics from Hootfest 09

all pictures by mike white @ DeadlyDesigns.com, more awesome pics from all the bands that night at this link.

THE AGENDA vs TITUS ANDRONICUS 2MORROW NIGHT

show starts around 10:30 tomorrow night at the Caledonia. we're the 2nd of 3 bands. faces will be melted off by our rocking and rolling. come out, get drunk, have fun.

ONLY THE YOUNG DIE YOUNG

some possible Agenda future 7 inch/album artwork/posters/promo art that Ryan made. at least our next record already has a name even if we've only got 5 songs written...

Hey, We Are On The Cover Of The Flagpole

Hey look mom, they put me on the cover of a magazine.


the FLAGPOLE wrote a nice article about the Kindercore Records/ Owl Scooters music festival this weekend. (Thurs-Sat for all the kids keeping score at home.) tons of awesome local Athens/Atlanta bands plus you might win a scooter. this is mostly gonna result in me being drunk for 4 days straight instead of just 2. such is life.

WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING THIS WEEKEND IN THE CITY OF ATHENS

Hey Athens/Atlanta/People Who Ain't Got Shit To Do This Weekend:

Kindercore Records and the new Owl Scooters are putting on a 3 day festival this weekend in Athens, GA at the Caledonia Lounge and 40 Watt from Thursday September 17th through Saturday September 19th. it'll be a 3 day party and Owl Scooters is going to be giving away 2 scooters for free to some lucky person. my band The Agenda! is playing the Thursday night show at the Caledonia. come out and get drunk and enjoy some great local music.

the lineups for each night

Thursday Sept 17th has been dubbed the ROCK NIGHT @ The Caledonia

Turf War (sloppy powerpop/punk from Augusta, GA)
GG King (Atlanta garage punkers. former members of the Carbonas)
The Matt Kurz One (one man rock and roll band of awesome)
The Agenda! (some band of assholes)
Je Suis France (Athens/Atlanta lo-fi masters of party rock)


Friday Sept 18th has been dubbed the POP NIGHT @ The Caledonia

Werewolves (Athens new indie pop young guns)
Mark Mallman
The Gold Party (Athens Brit-pop inspired Glamrockers)
Grape Soda (Athens psychedelic organ and drums pop duo)
Masters Of the Hemisphere (Athens Indie Pop legends reunited)

Saturday Sept 19th is the BIG NIGHT @ The 40 Watt

Allison Weis (Athens based singer songwriter)
Venice Is Sinking (Athens indie rockers)
Ruby Isle (dance rock trio)
The Young Sinclairs (Viriginia based 60's inspired jangle rockers)
Still Flyin' (San Fran ska/reggae tinged popsters)
Maserati (instrumental titans of rock)

Agenda Show in 2 weeks in Augusta

reminder

shameless plug for my show tonight. come out tonight if you can. fun times.

Agenda footage from Athfest

stole this pic from abandoned couches. thanx for posting the video btw.

ah, the internet...instant access to things that just happened....instantly.

a nice review from the flagpole.

Mat ruled. i jumped on his drumset and knocked everything over but he kept screaming and playing. it was my favorite moment of the night.


plus some video.

i have no idea how this sounds cuz i deleted the soundcard from my computer on accident. listen at your own risk.

This Ain't No Fashion Show


You Give Me Hot Pants


Strike Like A Viper


watching one's self on video perfectly puts into context how fat i have gotten in 5 years.

thanks again to everyone who came out Saturday night though, it meant a lot. i'm hoping someone filmed me doing "Party Hard" with the Buddy System. it you've got a link, send if my way.

Hey Athens, Come Out To CINE' on Saturday Night

so it's come to this. 5 years ago i was caught up in my silly dreams to become a rockstar...or at least be in a moderately successful band that toured the country, put out albums, and got to be on Letterman and SNL at least once. things went pretty well for a while...we toured the country, released an album, toured the UK a couple of times where we had some good press and a couple of minor hits on the British rock charts...but like all things that i am involved with it eventually fell apart and so i began my 5 year journey into the blah-ness of adulthood...which wasn't really that bad. i mean i had a lot more time to devote to college football (which is always a good thing) and i didn't have to deal with being hungover in Lincoln, Nebraska at 7 AM and then drive to Salt Lake City all day to play in front of a bunch of Mormon punk rock kids. but yeah, i still pretty much missed playing music and getting crazy and acting like a teenager in front of a room full of drunks...

...and so that leads us to this weekend as my old band THE AGENDA! is about to play our first live show together in five years during the KINDERCORE records showcase (our old record label) on Saturday Night as part of Athfest 2009. we're the opening act of a 5 band bill...which is def for the best as the longer we waited to play the more wasted we'd all be. there are few things i have ever enjoyed more in my life than playing live music in front of humans and i fully intend to lose my fucking shit and possibly break a bone (i've got broken ribs from my old antics) or throw out my back (BEING OLD IS STUPID). and let's be honest, who doesn't like a little blood on the dancefloor at a rockshow? if you don't know, my band is pretty much just loud, energetic, ridiculous garage punk, heavily influenced by bands like Black Flag, The Ramones, and the Kinks all mashed into one big dumb ball of punk noise....but trying to describe it is kinda pointless when you can just listen for yourself.

Start The Panic - Agenda!

anyways if you are planning on attending Athfest this year and you're in the mood for some dumb as hell garage rock then come out to CINE' and see us play. we're scheduled to start at 10:15 and our set will be over in less than 30 minutes. and hey the FLAGPOLE has us listed as one of their bands "Not to Miss" during Athfest 09...and when has the Flagpole ever steared you wrong. but i must warn you, the link features a picture of a 24 year old JR Suicide with a terrible haircut that makes me look like the lost Hanson Brother.

once the Agenda has destroyed our equipment and left a trail of chaos in our wake you should stick around and catch a few of the other bands as well. Grape Soda will be playing their spacey dub-rock, The Young Sinclairs (who fucking rule) will become your new favorite band with their 60's/Byrds influenced pop, and then cartoon rockers the Buddy System will close out the night with their completely fun mix of animation and pop...

plus i'm performing a super-secret song with them at the end of the night that should turn Cine' into a riot. the words: Party, Hard, & Andrew WK are my hints for you.

so anyways Athens, GA...i wanna see you there on Saturday Night.

Shameless Reunion Show plug

my old band THE AGENDA! is playing our first show in 5 years in a few weeks. we're the opening band of the Kindercore Records Showcase @ CINE' (that's the arthouse theater downtown) during Athfest 09 on June 23rd. the show is supposed to start at 10.

i think all of that info is correct.

anyways if you love things that are dumb/simple/drunk then come out an enjoy some old dudes trying to recapture their youth and playing loud obnoxious garage rock like it's still the year 2002. if anything the potential train wreck is worth it...also you get to see me roll around on the floor and jump off shit like a maniac and possibly hurt myself, all for the love of rock n' roll.

AGENDA 2: The ReAgenda-ing

The Agenda...now older, fatter, balder, and with beards.

so after 5 years of inactivity, my old band THE AGENDA is calling it a comeback...or at least an attempt at a comeback and entering into the whole rock n roll circus, again. we had our first band practice together in over 5 years and i suddenly remember that singing is actually kinda difficult, especially when you haven't done it in a long ass time. right now my voice is somewhere between sorority girl and throat cancer survivor after two hours of doing my best Iggy Pop and Mark Arm impressions. also trying to remember lyrics to songs you wrote when you were 23 and 24 is like way hard when you are 30 and havent heard any of them in half a decade. and they only have like 12 wors per song...short term memory loss is a motherfucker! regardless it's good to be back with a band again as i've definitely gotten bored and old in the last several years.

anyways we are playing Athfest at the end of this month and then possibly an out of town show or two before another show here in September.

thankfully we wrote a bunch of the stupidest easiest garage punk songs of all time, or else i might be worried about less than 3 weeks of practice until our first show.

Start The Panic - Agenda!

i have a new band name...

KILLED BY ESKIMOS. it was inspired by tonight's Final Jeopardy question. It was the fate that befell some of the Hudson Mutineers. Who ever heard of violent Eskimos?

It sounds both aggressive and also ridiculous...so it could be used for a punk band or an indie pop group.

Now I just need an actual new band.

Another Reminder About This Friday

and now there's me...

Hey Internets!

My good friend / one-time-nemesis / good-friend-once-again Justin asked me to be a contributor to this here blog and I am happy to accept. Who knows how often I will be contributing as I am involved in about a million different projects, but I will do my best to bring offerings of garage/psyche/weirdo/magic as often as possible.

In case you are interested you can find out more about my various projects by clicking these links:

Kindercore
The Buddy System
Grape Soda
The Action 5

There's more coming but those things don't have websites yet so I'll wait to spill the beans on those. Follow me on Twitter HERE

And now I leave you with one of my all time favorite songs by the great short lived garage/punk pioneers The Monks!!