Workin' the tools of the trade, wood and wires and tubs you hit with sticks. Still looking for our shtick, let us bash you in the head with rawk and unleash some sonic demons when we really get cooking. Let us work on yer ear next time we invade yer turf.

Blurred out rockin' That's usually the way it feels to play onstage - everything goes out of focus and it becomes a blur. An exercise in vaporizing one's own molecules until they disperse, powered by the solar wind coming out of the amplifiers and drums. This summer has been a blur, too. We've all made some time to go to the swimming hole, fishing hole and the dump, which is kind of a hole as well. Our booking schedule has looked like a BLACK HOLE, but that's about to change. The Underlings are playing a secret party in Eugene this weekend, located somewhere near Willamette st and &th ave, so if you hear us blasting, poke your head in. I think the rocking will take place around 7-9 pm, so just wander around listening and I'm sure you'll find us - there are only so many blocks in Eugene. ENJOY what's left of the summer, we hope to see you at a venue in Eugene or Portland sometime during the months of September and Rocktober. Ta-ta for now,
-the 'lings

P.S. here's a band we played with a few weeks back, they were really cool - the Tom Price Desert Classic, from Seattle:

We've been looking forward to this show for awhile. Sans is Dan Mclure from Fasters, Eric Jensen from Pellet Gun and Humper Dave from Los Mex Pistols Del Norte, tearin' it up with an open, chimey rock-band sound. The last time I saw them, I thought they had the same sonic quality as the Who. Homemakers is Tina's band, and she'll be celebrating a birthday that night. The embody a raw, poppy, Neil-Young-meets-Dinosaur Jr.-sound. And of course, the Soothesayers need no introduction, but here's a cool video I took of them at a Salon party at Don Baby's a few years back:

ROCK! Come down for a little of our Rock Deductions

The wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'

Heck, we had such a good time in Longview a few weeks back. We went up with our friends the Decliners to play a show at the Chinese garden with some cool bands - the Muddy River Nightmare Band and Minty Rosa, both rockin' punk bands. MRNB was a real denim-garage-punk act and their songs and playing were spot-on. Minty Rosa had kind of an 80's punk gnarl, with a great vocalist and a pummeling band. Kinda pop, kinda butt-rock punk. Can't wait to see them again sometime. Coming up May 25th, we are scheduled to blow the roof off of Katie O' Brien's with our friends, the Connies, from NorCal, and the Ransom and a band I'm stoked to see and hear, the Small Arms. Music starts right around 9. I hope to see some faces down there. Katie's is one of our favorite places to play and we hope to rock it, but we need your help. Offer your presence and we will rock all the harder. WOCKA WOCKA WOCKA!!

And Cash Only!!! Saturday, March 30 at Sam Bond's Garage. Our only Eugene appearance between now and August, so come get rocked. Full Lush are rad! Total Power Riff Rawk. Check them out here:

reverbnation.com/fulllush

We are totally stoked to be playing with our friends the Soothesayers and the true Rock n Roll heroes of the Northwest, Pierced Arrows. We rocked this same line-up last year at Sam Bond's and it was a magic night. Look forward to kickin' out the jams to some true-grit rock and garage bands. We intend to bring the hammer down that night in honor and homage to all the Rock and Roll gods that have paved the way before us - Phil Lynott, Bonn Scott and Peter Laughner among them. Yours in rock -Underlings

the Road Ahead

Check...check...one, two - is this thing on? Holy smokes! Another year, rolling out ahead of us. We have sat back, assessed our accomplishments thus far, counted the vast sums of money laid at our feet by the hands of others and decided...that it is time to book some more shows. Our good friends the Soothesayers went ahead and added us onto a couple of great ones - Pierced Arrows, Soothesayers and us at Luckeys, March 16th and then again we appear with the mighty Soothesayers at Sam Bond's Garage March 30th. We are bustin' out our rolodexes and phone books, trying our darnedest to break into some more clubs in Portland and beyond, so stay tuned for more Underlings action in 2013. In the meantime, if you want to support our brand of RAWK, do yourself and us a favor and buy our freakin' CD, EDGY, HERE. Thanks and happy end-of-January to ya'll.

-us 

December 15 Rock Show!!

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15TH AT KATIE O' BRIENS / 28TH and SANDY blvd, PORTLAND, PORTLAND, PORTLAND



We, the Underlings, are stoked to be included on this great bill with our good friends the Decliners and Avenue Victor Hugo. Mormon Trannys, as I understand it, took their name from a transmission repair shop in Salt Lake City. Looking forward to seeing them, too! COME DOWN AND GET YOUR END-OF-THE-WORLD SOCKS ROCKED OFF!! Peace out! -Ed

November 17th / Slabtown PDX

!!! We are stoked to be playing with our bro bands FASTERS and Hot For Chocolate this Saturday at Slabtown in Portland. Here is the poster, made by Erik from Fasters, mangled in Snagit by your truly. Do yourselves a favor and COME DOWN AND ROCK YO' ASS with us. The world can't last forever, so you'd better party like it's 1979 while the gettin' is good.

Check out Cheap Time, a band we really dig. Super-enjoyed their set last Saturday at Luckeys in Eugene. Next Underlings Show: Luckeys Club in Eugene November 10th with Lovesores and Hot For Chocolate.

Ewegene Smell-abrasion

I gotta say, we rocked pretty hard at Luckeys the other night, during the Eugene Celebration. We played with our good friends, the Homemakers, who strummed a mean chord or two, squelched some sick guitar leads and had some awesome songs to boot. We took the stage soon after and had a fun time, bangin' heads and rocking with all of our Eugene firends and fans that came out. My buddy Sebastiane posted this on facebook (thank you, Sebastiane!):

Next Underlings rock attack: October 19th at Luckeys with Star's End and TBA

Summer 2012 update

We, the Underlings have been enjoying the summer for what it's worth. Too much work, not enough time off, but when we get to bust out some rock in a shady parking lot on a sunny day, you can bet your asses that we will be there. NEXT UNDERLINGS APPEARANCE: Saturday, August 25th at Luckeys in Eugene. We play at 7:15 p.m. as part of the Eugene Celebration ancillary stage program. Our friends, the Homemakers, are playing right before we do, so get your EC wristband and come down and witness some rock in the cool confines of Eugene's oldest bar. See you later, -E

Tiny Tavern parking Lot gig - TONIGHT!!

7:30 pm

Luckey's Club Cigar / Eugene / pic by Ian Gray

 

We, the Underlings, don't do a whole of of benefits, but we will always play this one when asked. Ian Gray is a friend of ours who puts on this show yearly to fund-raise for Womenspace and he's done this most of the past 10 years or so sine a close friend of his was brutally killed. From his event description, " In honor of Amy Hamlin who was murdered by her estranged husband June 10th 2000. Come and enjoy great live music while supporting a great local cause." I remember vividly how this incident shocked the community back in 2000; I was delivering produce to L & L Marketplace in Eugene and heard about it from one of the employees there who was friends with Amy. Maybe playing a benefit contributes just a little bit to alleviate violence against women and families - I really hope it does, because with humanity in such a stressed-out state, we need all the help we can get. Take a pause for the cause! Come down, celebrate some good music and raise some dough for a worthy charity.

SLABTOWN JUNE 16!!

 

We are super-stoked to be playing Slabtown with our good friends the Decliners and the Anxieties. I saw the Decliners at a house party last week and they killed it, trio-style. This will be a show not to miss - come help us leave a stain on the shiny white porcelain ass of the Pearl District. Drink a beer and eat pizza but don't throw any food at us because we are hungry and will probably eat it if any pizza lands near us. PEACE!

****UPDATE*****

DJ Quidity will be spinning music before and in-between band sets. DJ starts at 9, bands at 10!!!!

Underlings News May 2012

 

(pic by Dan Jones)

Thanks to everyone who came down to our CD release at Luckeys on April 27th. We had a friggin' blast - our ions have just now settled down enough that we can get back to work like normal human beings. Our CD EDGY is available at CD World in Eugene and also House of Records, also in Ewegene. Your best bet, if you'd like to purchase our CD, is, of course, to come and see us at one of our upcoming shows and just pick it up from our merch station. UPCOMING KEWL UNDERLINGS SHOWS: June 16th at Slabtown in Portland with the Decliners and the Anxieties and also June 22 at Luckeys in Eugene, which is a benefit for Womenspace set up by our friend (and favorite waiter) Ian Gray. Fewkin come see us!!

Our CD received a good write up in the Eugene Weekly
and a small bit in the Register Guard as well

If you want to download our CD it is availble here 

we hope to see you freeks and geeks down the line

chow,
the 'Lings

the Underlings CD Release is APRIL 27th!

 

We hope to see you there! We are totally stoked to bring together 2 of our favorite current bands - the Lovesores from PDX and Eugene's own Soothesayers.The Lovesores features Scott Deluxe Drake from the Humpers and also features members of  The Vice Principals, The Suicide Kings, The Fast Takers and 8 Foot Tender.They fucking rock. Combined with the Soothesayers, this is going to be a super-charged night of rock and roll hell. Oh...and not to mention it's our CD release for our long-awaited second CD, EDGY. We recorded it at Mike Lastra's Smegma Studios in North Portland and laid the tracks completely down in 3 days last June. Later we went back to mix it in 2 days and that was that. Throw in umpteen shows in Eugene and Portland and we saved up enough in our war chest to finance the release of the CD without any external or credit-oriented contributors. Rock and roll paid for this CD, so come out and buy one and support our asses, we want to celebrate the release of our new songs unto the world.

Rock and Roll Most nights / Party every other day

(Fred Cole pic by David Peterson)

Heck yeah, we had a great time taking the opening slot for Pierced Arrows last Friday night at ol' Sam Bond's. Our set was well-received; we saw lots of friends and they saw us, too. Underlings Prac has not happened with the usual frequency this month, being that I've been moving to Portland - I think I'm there now - but we rocked it nonetheless, maybe with just a few rough edges; just like our crowd, some would say. The Soothesayers took the stage after us, and they had a super-charged set, sounding totally different without their mainstay keyboard player Jenn :( we were all disappointed that she wasn't there, but hell yeah, they rocked, and Sam's vocals were as chilling as ever. Pierced Arrows are a big fave around the Underlings camp, so we were in the room and paying full attention the whole time they were up doing their thing. They sounded raw, ragged and real and hit on several Dead Moon songs that the crowd were happy to hear. Toody and Fred weer nice as always and we wished them well, collected our shit and went home for konk time. We prbably don't have to tell you that our CD release is later this month at Luckeys, but we will tell you that we will be thrilled if you come out and see us. It's taken us 5 years and a lot of sweat, blood and motivation to scrape up the loyal cadre of fans that we have, but we are always recruiting new members to our flock, so come out and congregate with us on April 27th down at the ol' Luckeys in Eugene. We'll take your money and give you an earful in return.

peace out, 

Ed/ the 'lings

Preview 2 songs from EDGY!

Things are progressing in Underlings-Land. OF COURSE, we are beyond stoked to play with Pierced Arrows April 6 at Sam Bonds with Soothesayers. See above poster and then come see us at the show!

Our 2012 CD, Edgy, is imminent to be released April 27 at Luckeys in Eugene. We're really stoked about playing with Lovesores from Portland and our good buddies the Soothesayers that night. Hopefully, we will get our asses in gear to write and submit press releases to the local papers so we can get the word out to our kin-folk out there in the hills of outer Lane county.

Here is a preview of a few tracks from Edgy courtesy of our bandcamp page. Free for a limited time!