Wednesday, November 11, 2009

A Message From Johnny Castle

Johnny C. here.  Fresh out of rock n roll rehab and ready to fall off the wagon one more time.   

It's been a year and a half since the b&e boys and I have played together and we're bringing it all together on Saturday night just for you!  

We have a whole wheelbarrow of rock ready to be delivered, dumped on the floor, and covered in beer.  We'll be breaking out some classics and hopefully, if you are lucky, Brendan will do a striptease for all the ladies! So bring those dollar bills for B's britches and a lighter for that slow song.

Cause we're playing the Way Out Club on Saturday November 14th.  Come on by.  Buy us a beer.  Get a little crazy.  
 
Hugs n kisses,
J.C. 
 
P.S.  I'll be the one holding two sticks and hitting stuff.  

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

B&E's First Album Shows Up At Thrift Store

Only .85 at the STL Goodwill! 
This is a proud moment in B&E history. 

Saturday, September 5, 2009

B&E Needs A New Drummer

Sadly, Widey had to hang up his sticks and move on from the band. 

So we're looking for a new guy...
http://stlouis.craigslist.org/muc/1360345976.html

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009

We Have Shirts!

Blogger Takes a Liking to Our New Album

http://dakotapunk.blogspot.com/2009/06/b-take-listen.html

"Okay, on to sound. From track one, I was immediately thrown into a raging pulse of rock goodness. Too bad I was driving, as I tend to have a lead foot when listening to this kind of fast, easy and cheap rock. Most of the songs deal with soured relationships, nights of debauchery, and chaos, and the lyrics and music are a chopped-up combination that supports the meanings well.

Brendan Corcoran, the lead singer, wrings out as much treble as he can from his voice, sounding a bit like Jello Biafra might have first thing in the morning circa 1978. The rest of the band punches out a solid accompaniment of crackle and crunch minced with an almost inaudible thread of tasty underlying buzz."

Read the full entry here

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

RFT Homespun Review of 'Chords to Live By'

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2009-06-24/music/homespun-b-and-e-chords-to-live-by/

Homespun: B & E
Chords to Live By
(self-released)
Published on June 23, 2009

Chords to Live By is a clever title for B&E's first full-length, but it's a bit misleading: There's only one type of chord this quintet knows, and it's the power chord. The album delivers twelve funny, cynical rock songs full of supercharged guitars and knowing winks; in fact, the Hold Steady's Craig Finn will be pissed that B&E wrote a song called "Killer Riff" before he did. Still, the quintet's HS jones — evident on the lovably shambling 2007 EP, We Regret Everything — has turned from '70s classic rock toward '80s pop-metal.

But even with the amps turned up to eleven and the cheap stomp boxes permanently set to "shred," singer Brendan Corcoran remains the undeniable center of this band. His yelping, affected vocals allow him to hold court with the fervor of a pilled-up holiness preacher (as he does on the opener "We Are All a Mighty Fine Mess") or sputter out of control (like on "You're a Mess"). That the word "mess" is included in two song titles is no mistake — B&E is interested in the sound of things falling apart, both in the love-gone-wrong story-songs and in its sometimes-sloppy musicianship. Corcoran's full-throated strain is part of the band's charm, but his vocals reach their reedy limits on "The Day We Got the City Back," and the shredding guitars often fall out of sync with the shuffling drumbeats. But if B&E isn't quite the shit-kicking bar band it wants to be, Chords is a good start. 

Rock Candy Covers B&E

Old school band photo promoting our new school new album...

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/rock-candy/rock-candy/2009/06/local-rockers-be-celebrate-new-album-sat-at-deluxe/

06.23.2009 1:07 pm
Local rockers B&E celebrate new album Sat. at Deluxe

Local rockers B&E will release their new album, Chords to Live By, Saturday at Deluxe in Maplewood.

The band plays old school garage and punk rock with some commercial glam mixed in. Frontman Brendan Corcoran’s voice hearkens 1970s figures like John Lydon and David Bowie and he often loses it on the mic, squealin’ and squawkin’ through a typhoon of rage. The two guitar assault is grungy and lo-fi.

The album features backup vocals from Jason Potter (Left Arm), Kat Kissick (Midtown Thieves) and Sunyatta Marshall (The Helium Tapes).

All in all, not a bad listen. Bring your earplugs to the show (safety first!)

B&E CD release show with Left Arm
10 pm Sat., Deluxe
You can also buy the album on iTunes and here.
http://www.myspace.com/bandelive

More B&E shows
Thursday, Blueberry Hill
July 18, Way Out Club
July 31, Lemmons
Aug. 14, Vintage Vinyl

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

2 Big Shows This Week

Thursday, June 25 - AdStock X - Blueberry Hill on Delmar Blvd.
We take the stage at 8:30 p.m. 

And we all remember what happened the last time B&E played AdStock...















Then the BIG show is Saturday, June 27 @ Deluxe in Maplewood.
It's our CD Release Party w/ friends Left Arm opening up. 



Wednesday, June 17, 2009

CD Release Show - June 27 @ Deluxe



It's happenin'. You comin'? (Potter made this for us.) 

Thursday, June 4, 2009

'Chords To Live By' Lyrics Posted

Wondering what the hell Brendan's saying? Good news. The lyrics are up. 

They're posted in 2-parts on our MySpace blog

Just click here to hit up our page. 

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Get it.

B&E: Chords To Live By

And if you want to get us on iTunes - just search 'Chords to Live By' - they have us listed under a strange name/letter combo for some reason.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Fuzz Shutdown Dog's House Party

It only took 17 minutes before the local police put an end to the B&E house-party gig on Saturday night. 

It was Dog's Memorial Day cookout somewhere around Kirkwood, and after blazin' through about 5 songs and at around 9pm the flashing lights and a scent of bacon infiltrated the backyard.

After being scolded by the fuzz, Dog quickly informed the band they had to shut it down, NOW!

That was it. Night over. Hour-long setup, 17-minute set. 

But still, we had a good time and the hot dogs were great. Here are a few pics from the night taken by Big Al (Ellen): (You can cruise the full set here

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Cool Things About Our New Album

Every album's got a story - as does ours.

Here are some quick hits about what happened during the process, who's on it and what you can look forward to once this thing hits for real June 27:

- The album art was done by Tim Marrs. He's a kick-ass designer working in the UK. Check out his stuff. 

- Back-up vocal guest stars include Jason Potter (Left Arm),  Kat Kissick (Midtown Thieves) and Sunyatta Marshall (The Helium Tapes). 

- The studio we recorded at has always been called "Dogbite" - and ironically enough Brendan got bit by the dog during a mix session. 

- Three of the songs on the album are remakes from our old acoustic album. We decided to finally do them the way we always envisioned, with this full band (The Mountain Condors, Pop Rox and Killer Riff). 

- Our engineer, Rick Harmon, recorded it using Vegas. 

- All our photos were taken by Greg Rannells at The Way Out Club in St. Louis. 

- Of course, Carl Saff mastered it. He's money. 

- The guitar amps we used: Fender, old 4x10 Marshall, Big-ass Mesa amp/cab, Music Man, Line 6. 

- The guitars we used: Epiphone/Gibson, Jackson, Gibson

- The keys we used: Yamaha PSR 630

- There are two songs about being a "mess." 

- There is one song about Vegas. 

- The "Thank You" section is enormous. And if you know us, you're probably in there. 

Looking forward to getting this thing into your hands and into your ears. 

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

'Chords To Live By' Promo Video

It's a bit shoddy. A tad shaky. But it does the job.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

What the Album Looks Like

Tim Marrs designed this for us. Releases June 27 at Deluxe.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

New Album Release Date - June 27, 2009

FINALLY - Our new album, 'Chords To Live By' is Mastered, Finished and at the pressing plant right now.

Our official release date will be June 27 when we play at Deluxe (in Maplewood, MO) with Left Arm and Arkansas Chrome.

More info's coming real, real soon!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Next Show...

B&E Poster

Mike Barbour made this for us.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Lyrics to 'We Regret Everything'

We've had some recent requests to put up our lyrics. And they've always been available on our MySpace (for the first album), but people don't seem to check there much anymore. 

With our new album just a couple months away from being released, we'll be putting up lyrics to the new record up here and on our MySpace, too.

So until that all hits, here is easy access to the lyrics from our old acoustic album from '06. Just click here.  

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Debuting a New Song Saturday Night

For the first time, we've got the unheard track "Poverty" slated on our set list. 

If you wanna try n' figure it out, here's a map of the song.

See ya Saturday night at the Way Out. 

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Monday, March 23, 2009

Finally Playing a Gig w/ The Hail Marys.

Come out Saturday, April 4 at The Way Out Club and catch us along with one of our favorite St. Louis bands, The Hail Marys. We've been trying to get together with'em for too long. We'll also be joined by Under the Black Sails from KC. 

Here's the cool poster The Hail Marys made:


Monday, March 2, 2009

Vote for B&E!

B&E's in the running for a spot in Alive Magazine's upcoming outdoor concert.
If you're up for helping us out, just go to the link below, find B&E and click the "Vote for B&E" button.
It's that simple!

http://www.alivemag.com/emergingartist/index.php

Thanks!

Sunday, February 22, 2009

B&E Finally Has a Facebook Page

While our MySpace page has a lot more content like music, videos and connections with other bands, with so many people jumping the MySpace ship for Facebook, we thought it was a good time to jump with you.

Just click here and you'll find us.

Monday, February 16, 2009

B&E Does the Double Door

B&E drove up, caravan-style, to Chicago last weekend to open up the Double Door on Friday the 13th. Now we're home, and looking back, we had a blast.

Despite our ampersand being replaced with a "+" and being listed as "BE", the show was fantastic, the sound was incredible and the other bands were great.

Thinking back to when we started as just a duo playing acoustic guitars at a dark, dank J&A's -- damn, we've come a long way to make it on that stage.

The set was all killer, no filler and we sobered up to some real Chicago-style pizza on Saturday afternoon.

Ended up hanging out with the guys in A Modern Bison, and we'll hopefully bring those guys down to St. Louis for a show soon.

Thanks to the venue, all those who showed up, our friends who made the trip with us and the bands: The Webstirs, Coventry and A Modern Bison.

It was a great weekend, "worst band manager ever" Tad Trier came along and we even got to meet up and hang with former B&E bassist Johnny Castle.

Here are a few pics of the crew and show: (More photos can be seen here.)


Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Heading to Chicago to Play The Double Door

B&E Poster

Jeff Rifkin made this for us.
Check out his blog:
http://superhappyfuntimeblog.blogspot.com