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The Austerity Program

Our Motto - Too Big to Fail

About Me

Hi. If you'd like to know more about us or contact us, please visit www.austerityprogram.com We will try and manage this site but for God's sake, we got other things going on in our lives.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/24/2007
Band Website: austerityprogram.com
Band Members: Thad Calabrese - Bass
Justin Foley - Vocals, Guitar
Drum Machine - Percussion
Record Label: Hydra Head
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Recent Shows

If you cared to notice, we have played more shows in this calendar year than we probably have in our prior 10 years combined. We just got done playing a great show with the wonderful Dianogah and Made...
Posted by The Austerity Program on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:27:00 PST

A Charmed Life

For those of you fortunate enough to check out Pelican as they rolled through NYC at the beginning of May (without their van blowing up), you know as well as we do that they are one of the best bands ...
Posted by The Austerity Program on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:10:00 PST

Back in the New York Groove

Just about one month as passed since we returned from our European sojourn with Isis and Jakob. It would be impossible to describe how much fun it was. Isis was ridiculously gracious for inviting us a...
Posted by The Austerity Program on Sun, 25 May 2008 10:56:00 PST

Upcoming

A couple of weeks have passed since we played 4 shows with Genghis Tron and Steve Moore. The Tron was incredible - both in terms of music and support to us. These guys deserve every good thing that co...
Posted by The Austerity Program on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:43:00 PST

Press

As some sort of proof of our existence as a band, we are linking some press on the band. These include interviews, record reviews, and general condemnations of our existence.It should be noted that th...
Posted by The Austerity Program on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:17:00 PST

...Most Importantly

We want to thank Young Widows for inviting us along last week. Perhaps more importantly, thanks to Tomb, Black Horse, Disappearer, and Black Tail who also played. They were all incredible.Check them o...
Posted by The Austerity Program on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:48:00 PST

Lots of Touring Going On

For a band dedicated to not touring, we sure got lots of upcoming shows scheduled. We just got done playing two shows with Young Widows (who were awesome, as expected), we have four upcoming dates wit...
Posted by The Austerity Program on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:45:00 PST

What the Heck?

Does anyone else find it odd that our buddy John Miller, who is making a documentary about our recoding of Black Madonna and has a myspace site devoted to it, has more myspace friends than us?Basicall...
Posted by The Austerity Program on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:35:00 PST

Has the Whole World Gone Mad?

After surviving our crazy "NYC to Chicago and back in 3 days" drive, the AP was looking forward to some downtime. But then the world almost went off its axis. Check this out:www.plugawards.com and the...
Posted by The Austerity Program on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:10:00 PST

Amazing

What we have failed to accomplish in real life, the Austerity Program has achieved in our virtual life. Today we hit 100 friends. We don't even know 100 people in the real world. But thanks to all for...
Posted by The Austerity Program on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:24:00 PST