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The Ants

About Me

Today's music ain't got the same soul

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Member Since: 28/06/2005
Band Website: http://www.killtheants.com
Band Members: Brad Nichols, Dave Randall, Sean McEniry, Chad Bryan
Influences: Celebrity obsession, contradictory religious beliefs, coherence, family function & disfunction, mortality, reality, physical corrosion, The Minutemen, The Band, Kinks 68-72, Sam & Dave, Hundertwasser, Little Jimi Hendrix, AM radio, Rupert Pupkin, Mad Magazine, Bill Hicks, savory, history, contra-sandinista, shia-sunni, norf-souf...
Sounds Like: A boot on the neck of arrogant power
Record Label: Sickroom Records
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Psychedelic Basement

2008 is an old man who has lived a good life.We are happy to have elected Clinton v3 and to have successfully built a recording studio in the Lawrence rehearsal space. The live shows have been sparse,...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:46:00 GMT

The Rise & Fall of the First Reich

The basements will dry. It has been a long and rainy season, but the days are getting hotter. Mold is resilient, but mold will not win. We have worked half-assedly toward a respectable goal for many f...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:06:00 GMT

Wichita City Paper is on drugs

Please take the time to visit the Wichita City Paper...a fine new addition to the world of paper news. In this issue, man on the street Jedd Beaudoin takes on the Ants June 2007 release, Ideabreaker.D...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:16:00 GMT

Ideabreaker June 5, 2007

Just wanted to pass along some specifics for all of you apathetic types who exist in a world of generalities...The Ants new LP, Ideabreaker, will be released Tue June 5 by the good people at Sickroom ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:37:00 GMT

The Banjo Player and the Jehova's Witnesses

The Jehova's Witnesses came to his door. It was rare for anyone to walk all the way down the drive and into his yard. No one besides the mailman ever stopped near his property. He saw them coming and...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:17:00 GMT

The time they put my dog in jail

The city came and took the dog away for biting a girl who was walking by. Her name was Faye and his name is Otis. I don't know Faye, but she lives up the street and doesn't have a telephone. She was w...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:04:00 GMT

The Axl Rose fanclub

I was in NYC recently. On the flight out there, I overheard a thirty-something woman talking on her cell phone about the hot rock show she saw in Kansas City the previous night. She was talking about ...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:01:00 GMT

Makin' It

Just finished a quick three day trip to Columbia, StLouis & Iowa City. Our hosts were all as nice as could be and treated us very well. The Blue Fugue in Columbia is a great venue, one of the cool...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:11:00 GMT

New recording

The Ants are smack crack in the middle of a new recording. Our good friend David Moore of 'The Hearers' fame is placing the mics and twisting the knobs. So far, so good. The basics are all complete an...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:34:00 GMT

Lawrence.com interview

Ever listen to a 'podcast'?Click on the link and get hip to the end of real journalism.This is an interview from lawrence.com about the Chinese Democracy split:http://www.lawrence.com/podcasts/th...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:33:00 GMT