It's always about the, ahem, Birds.

Ok, so Absolute Punk found me out, I was keeping this a secret just doing the back room legwork getting everything ready, well, why wait... I remember I used to have to set myself on fire to get somebody to find out about my band, either that or play with Bruce Springsteen! (wink) so I'm pumped people care enough to find out before I even told anybody outside my little circle. So thanks for caring about what I'm up to, I appreciate that a lot.

Anyway, so here's the deal... the "night time music" is myself and Mr. Ian Perkins, and what we're doing is writing songs and making demos at the very moment. We hope to put out a full length record sometime this year, before it gets cold again, I don't know with whom, or when exactly it will come out. But the point is, it's coming out. We're calling ourselves The Horrible Crowes.

The name comes from a poem called the Twa Corbies, which means, "two crows." Check it out,

it's a dark commentary on life. A knight dies, his woman runs off on him, and two crows sit by discussing how to devour his remains... pretty gross. Pretty accurate about how we struggle all our lives for gain and greed, etc, etc and in the end, to quote Tom Waits, "we're all gonna be just dirt in the ground," while the spirit moves on and can't take a bit of the material with it.

Yet I've found we all do this, and mainly in relationships, we end up the devourer or the devoured. That's what we're singing about, it's the darker side of soul music, it's slow, it slithers, and it's raw. At the same time, the melodies and pianos are a juxtaposition to the topic material because it's eerily soothing. I'm really proud of what's been coming out and we'll see how it goes, but it's in the works and it's heading for an actual record.

Now how's this going to work with Gaslight, well it's easy, see, every time I write a creepy Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Mark Laneghan type song, I get an idea for a ripper which goes straight to Gaslight. So we're writing for both now, but Gaslight isn't planning on recording until the fall, for a 2012 release. Now I can't sit still so I'm doing this for fun, nothing more. We might do a few shows with the Crowes, maybe select cities in the US, Can, and Europe/UK, but not major touring like Gaslight does. This is my "for me" record, Gaslight is my baby, no mistake.

I always said I never would do a "solo" record so that's why I found a partner in crime in Ian. So it's not going to be the acoustic Brian Fallon road show. There's organs, pianos, even (gasp) strings!!! There's drums, everything. So don't expect a folk record. Here's a good description, if Tom Waits, the National, the Afghan Whigs, Bon Iver, and Nick Cave made a band with Percy Sledge that'd be called The Horrible Crowes.

You can find us on Facebook, and we have a blog that will eek out little bits as we progress and serve as a news point, so all breaking news with come from The Horrible Crowes blog.

Now for you cynics, it's spelled "Crowes" because Ian's English, and that's fun to me because I'm American and think everything English people do or say is amazing, you do to, admit it. So put that in your pipe and smoke to the filter.

We'll put some music up closer to when we figure out when we're recording. Because you internet whiz's are amazing at stealing. I'm truly impressed, but hyper afraid of you, so let's just say we'll put out some demos when we're ready to be hacked to death.

And yes, I have the Gaslight Anthem's blessing because they know I love them more than Ian.

I just said that because it's fun to see Ian's face when reads this. (Hi Ian.)

So let's have some fun and put out some great music this year while we get ready to write the best Gaslight Anthem record yet!

We'll see ya out there on the road!

Thanks everybody,

Brian

No New Music?

So there's always somebody complaining how's there's no new music that is good to listen to coming out, well, this month, I don't think it's true... check these out if you're getting a little tired of you music collection.

1. Social Distortion - Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes.

I know your first thought, is Social D? I know what they sound like... no you don't. Buy this record, it's maybe their best record yet. It shows growth and the songs are great.

2. Dave Hause - Dave's got a new record coming out this month from Paper and Plastic. This is the best group of songs I've heard in a long long time. Treat Yourself.

3. Cold War Kids - Next week you can have your minds blown, or you can miss out. Your choice. Just buy the record.

There's some more out there as well, I love the Phoenix record, the Black Keys album Brothers is great, I heard the new Cage The Elephant single and that was awesome, also there's a great punk band called Red City Radio, that's a great band. Love it or learn to love it.

Tarred and Feathered.

Hello everyone, happy new year. So here's some quick updates, long update to come.

Gaslight's working on new songs, I'm working on other new songs, Alex Rosamilia's working

on a great band called "Something About Death Or Dying." and we're still gonna manage to play some shows for 2011. There's some special events, and a couple tours. We may even try to do a DVD! I would be super excited about that, we'll see how that works, and we'll keep you up on it. Now, I love you Punknews, but don't promise a DVD just yet, this is only pillow talk so far... you know, like Bruce Campbell.

But to all the kids who voted us #1 record for 2010 on Punknews, thanks a lot. You might not think we pay attention, but it means the world to us to know people are behind us. So thank you all!

So there's tons of music being worked on for you all, it's very exciting. We're going to get it all together and hopefully, this year and next we'll have some things for you to listen to.

I can say right now about my night time music, that Dylan Thomas described it better than I could by saying:

"If you heard those old birds in the night, you'd wake me up and say there were horses in the trees."

More to come. Goodnight Gracie.