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Cuomo!

damn good pizza

About Me


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Cuomo! is a traveling folk/punk singer and writer based out of Brooklyn, NY. He plays folk songs like their punk songs and punk songs like their folk songs. Some say his music is political, though he would never presume to tell anyone anything, and tries at all times to know absolutely nothing. He believes that every song should be both fantastically depressing and hopelessly optimistic because in the end, what in life isn't? Cuomo! plays venues across New York City, while always enjoying the intimacy of a house show, street corner, or subway platform. He is also fond of traveling coast to coast playing all the cafes, infoshops, and basements he finds along the way.
After working as a columnist, reviewer, and interviewer for indy rock fanzine, The New Scheme, for several years he founded Urban Folk, a community magazine for acoustic songwriters in New York. Having served as editor for a year he quit to focus on traveling and music and now publishes stories about his experiences online and as a personal zine. The first issue is Subway Stories and Other Folk Tales available wherever you find him playing, and very soon on line when he finally gets his shit together and makes a webpage and store.
Cuomo! has finally found his way home to Booklyn after 8 months of aimeless wandering and quixotic touring. Despite how much he is enjoying having a roof, a bed, and some money in his pocket, he swears he will not sell out to such luxuries for long and will give it all away to run west down the interstate again soon. In the meantime Cuomo! would like it known that he makes a damn good pizza and would love to make one for you if you stop by the bar where he works (Lucky Cat) most nights after 6.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/27/2005
Band Website: cuomomusic.us (coming soon!)
Band Members: Dave Cuomo - vocals/guitar
Influences: Billy Bragg, Tom Waits, The Ramones, Against Me!, Jonathan Richman, Cake, Dylan, Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, The Clash, Green Day, Merle Haggard, Swingin' Utters, Rocky Votolato, Manu Chaou, Hepcat, Avail, Elliot Smith, Garcia & Grisman, Greg Brown, Frank Sinatra, Woody Gutherie, Harry Belafonte, Fugazi, Leonard Cohen, John Prine, Cumbia, Burt Bacharach, Nirvana, Operation Ivy, The Pogues, Queen, The Beatles, Soul Asylum, Violent Femmes, The Weakerthans, Wilco, Johnny Cash
Sounds Like: acoustic punk poetry
Record Label: Ever Reviled Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Everywhere I go...

20 mph head wind, rain, cold, and mostly uphill, we biked pissed, miserable, & defeated. I heard Tom Waits in my head, "Everywhere I go, everywhere I go it rains on me," and I laughed. I stood up on m...
Posted by Cuomo! on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:56:00 PST

Minnesota Nice

It's raining and I'm holed up in a coffee shop in the friendly town of Lake City Minnesota. I think I'm living one of those buddy adventure movies, in which case this one would be written by Steinbeck...
Posted by Cuomo! on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:21:00 PST

Minnesota bike tour

Respect Yr Mama! Fall '07 Minnesota bike tour, w/ Shannon MurrayThis might just be the end of me.Can I roll cigarettes while bicycling? Guess we're going to find out. Six weeks, 26 shows, 16 towns, mo...
Posted by Cuomo! on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:41:00 PST

Bringing the War Home - Operation: First Casualty

"You should see it at night, it's just as bright as daylight," I found myself saying in full tour guide mode. Everyone in our little group kept staring blankly at the flashing lights and picture scre...
Posted by Cuomo! on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:24:00 PST

9/11 never happened

there were no box cutters, no planesno conspiracy, no government cover upno one was rewarded with forty virginsno one diedthere was no controlled detonationno brave passengers, no martyrsno one said "...
Posted by Cuomo! on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:10:00 PST

fresh cut grass

we were lying under a treeon a deserted golf course at midnightwhen she told me she'd heardI was obsessed with sex"I am too," she saidwe undressed"what should we do?" one of us askedfor lack of a bett...
Posted by Cuomo! on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:56:00 PST