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Armalite

We like to play our music, but we don't very often

About Me

Hi. My name is Atom, and I play in a band called Armalite. We’ve been practicing together for about three years now, and played at least as many shows (at most, eight). Armalite is composed of four busy-ish, older-ish(?) folks. Most of us play in other, full-on bands, and all of us have stuff that makes it near impossible for Armalite to play outside of the Philadelphia metropolitan area on a regular, or even occasional basis. So far, this is quite a sales pitch, no? Dan Yemin currently screams, writes songs, and plays guitar occasionally for Paint It Black, and has been in a bunch of bands that people liked, and continue to like, such as Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, and even briefly played guitar for the pile of shit Ressurection. Mike McKee currently also plays guitar, and sings in Amateur Party (which has a way better name than Armalite… come to think of it, few bands don’t…. maybe the punksters Total Society don’t), screamed for Philly hardcore doods and doodette Kill the Man Who Questions, and is the editor of a decidedly non pile-of-shit magazine from Philadelphia called Rockpile. Jeff Ziga currently plays drums for True If Destroyed, Affirmative Action Jackson, and a rock n’ roll band camp during the summer. Me? I’m a dad of a twenty month old, who is nicknamed ‘The Potato’, and I teach high school physics and chemistry. I used to do a one person band-ish thing called Atom and His Package, but missed playing loud guitar with humans.We’re four friends who play music together in Armalite purely because it’s fun. We like writing songs, and playing them together in Mike’s basement. We recorded a bunch of them and godamnit, we WILL play some shows. What does it sound like? Hmmm… Mike likes Ignition a LOT, and I am a sucker for pop… Dan & Jeff know the difference between coming in on the ‘1’ and the ‘and’, and Mike and I fake it. Hope you like it. Thanks.Mike McKee: singer, guitar-er Dan Yemin: bass-er Jeff Ziga: drummer, background singer Atom Goren: singer, guitar-er

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Member Since: 1/28/2006
Band Website: atomandhispackage.com/armalite.html
Band Members: Dan Yemin Jeff Ziga Mike McKee Atom Goren
Influences: None. We live in orbs.
Sounds Like: the audio version of video version of us playing.
Record Label: No Idea Records www.noidearecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

we are playing at best friends day 2008, richmond, va

with these other bands! sun, fun, watersports and all kinds of fun shit! municipal wastepaint it blackthis bike is a pipe bombultra dolphinsbrainwormsquadiliachacaustic christdirect controlcloak/dagge...
Posted by Armalite on Fri, 30 May 2008 10:31:00 PST

ARMALITE COOKBOOK in the NEWS!

Hello all,quick update about our award-winning, best-selling cookbook! the Official Armalite Cookbook has been getting lots of attention from some of the city's more discerning media outlets... Mike j...
Posted by Armalite on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:18:00 PST

august 10th - reschedulement of our philadelphia show!!!

let's see if we can get it right this time [aka how about jeff doesn't break hisself again before show time.   the details!!!!!!!Friday August 10th 7:30pmARMALITE (First Hometown Show In 1.5 Year...
Posted by Armalite on Wed, 23 May 2007 10:40:00 PST

March 10th Show Cancelled/Postponed until Jeff's hand heals

armalite drummer jeffrey has two fractured bones in his left hand. these bones will heal in about six weeks, so the show will have to be rescheduled. sorrry :(
Posted by Armalite on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:46:00 PST

phila -- ARMALITE / THE ERGS / THE RATCHETS / STATIC RADIO -- sat 3/10

at the first unitarian church. 3 pm. $8. pizza party. come one come all!!!www.r5productions.com/shows
Posted by Armalite on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:14:00 PST

ARMALITE s/t LP -- last twenty ever taking a ride to THE FEST V

for the nerds, no idea is currently selling the second press [on white, regular sleeve]. we'll be selling the last twenty first pressing [weird marbly, gatefold sleeve] at the fest. they are left over...
Posted by Armalite on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:27:00 PST

we are playing THE FEST V in gainesville, fl, oct 27 - 29

no joke. check out the official fest website for details. stick around as philadelphia takes over gainesville for the weekend with performances by current and former philadelphia residents in such ban...
Posted by Armalite on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:49:00 PST

all the t-shirts are spoken for

but if you want a cd, then we can still work that out for you. not that you need to get it through us, as i'm sure your fine local record seller already has it.
Posted by Armalite on Wed, 31 May 2006 09:32:00 PST

extra large t-shirts for sale

i didn't realize that we have three extra large t-shirts left over from our record release show. they are black and have a two color [blue and white] print of the album's cover on the front. i repeat,...
Posted by Armalite on Fri, 26 May 2006 07:24:00 PST

You have 666 friends.

we're done. thanks for stopping by.
Posted by Armalite on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 06:58:00 PST