February 2012
18 posts
advice:
If you’re not living the dream daily, creating art as often as you can, you should. be everything you ever wanted to be and fuck how people say you should live your life. I live the dream. my dream. daily.
CRH
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Best album to come out of Alabama in 2009
is Barnstormers’ Graveyard Town, download it for free here: http://www.mediafire.com/?3hy0kyzzjmm
I beg of you give it a try.
thetroubledstateside asked: What kind of amps and guitars do you guys use?
appreciation post, love from LFT to you
When we started almost seven years ago, everyone hated us. We weren’t that good and half the time we played shows just to piss people off. We thought that was our niche, an inside joke that no one wanted to get and our own noodling on our instruments. Over time though we became more and more serious as we threw in more of our resources, became more serious about ourselves, and as we became...
The Alabama Shakes are on Conan tonight.
ronstormer:
Watch it.
LFT needs a fill in drummer NOW
We need a fill in drummer for our upcoming tour with Boys No Good and the tour that meets at the end of that run with The Sheds. This tour is a little over a week away and I understand that is extremely short notice but if you live in the Southeast, preferably Alabama, have a month of free time, can play our material competently. Hit us up on Facebook or at bloom_lotus_@hotmail.com or...
I need a little help...
we’re working on something really cool right now. If it happens, if everything goes through as planned, then my dreams will come true. soooo, what I need from our followers is simply keep us in your thoughts. Maybe if we create enough positive vibes, everything will unfold. Be good to people, be good to yourself, and keep us in your thoughts, maybe PMA will pull through. love y’all,
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January 2012
18 posts
Revival of Dissent
To the digital world, To the faux webbing I have traveled the U.S. and heard the future. The future sounds like a rehash of nothing worth writing or recording, east of intent and tolerance is where most of us live. The best part about the realization is we now have a true north, any direction we decide to move that is away from this low point in sub-culture is a worthwhile move. we’ve...
armedwithacrayon asked: Yo! Latin for Truth?! I love you guys! Captain Hardcore Comes Crashing In is one of my favorite songs. :) Keep it up!
story time
the story goes something like this: LFT had just finished a set at New Brookland Tavern in West Columbia, SC. I felt fine, exhausted and hungry as usual, but not any different from any other night. So I went out back to the smoking area to talk to some friends from the area, one of which bought me a beer. Before I finish my beer I feel my insides cave in, knowing my physical exhaustion limitations...
alwaysmovingneverstopping asked: The character limit in that last ask prevented me from adding in the important detail that would be the fact that I've been sleeping all day from the Benadryl. Haha, but word up. Hope there was more than like 10 kids there and I really hope the next time you guys are in the area I'll be able to catch your set. Take care dudez.
alwaysmovingneverstopping asked: Hey guys, I'm the one who just got the Paul Malls tattoo, and oddly enough it was an allergic reaction to a LFT tattoo that prevented me from getting to go see LFT, haha. This morning I woke up and had terrible hives all up my arm, turns out I'm having a shitty reaction to the red ink. I know that you guys don't have a huge fanbase over here so it killed me not being able to make...
sometimes I wonder...
If there was a machine that made artists and musicians’ intent wildly apparent if kids would still enjoy said band or artist. thoughts?
CRH
tour update: minus so many ways: (
The tour is going well. Lots of punk shit is happening. I’ve thrown up on everyone’s stuff except Corey’s, but don’t worry, I got his stuff last tour in Mesa, AZ.
Don’t be afraid to smell how you feel,
Charles H.
statistics on new ep:
mostly acoustic guitars 5 songs 11 minutes cello viola timpanis first female guest vocalist ever first song to ever include the word “van” in our lyrics(my pop punk pet peeve) first guest vocal performance by our long time friend, Timmi Sterritt “choir” piano lots of punk rock lyrics, my favorite line being, “fuck your friends unless you see them around in five...
New interview and song stream at AMP magazine: →
xelectricyouth asked: and im still waiting on my pre-order ;P hahah
May the bag of dicks you eat be expired.
xelectricyouth asked: charles, do you have a personal blog?
update #294567431
Just listened to a rough mix, without certain strings and harmonies, of There’s a Castle and a Crown for Every Cockroach in Every Town. 5 songs, 11 minutes. I think we perfected the punk rock acoustic ep. Our friend Hannah and Timmi did guest vocals on two songs and various #teamshithead members are on the record as well. So proud of it. tracklisting:
1. And All The Innocent Went to...
December 2011
29 posts
littlefeather1 asked: When are you doing a summer tour?
Better Days: "What is Youth Crew Blues?" →
stache-nation:
“A lot of people ask me, ya know, ‘What is, what is youth crew blues?’ and…it’s pretty simple! It’s just wantin positive things, wantin good things and…the world just won’t give you a break. Ya get to this point, where you just don’t know. Ya don’t know which way is up and you…
LFT and So Many Ways East Coast Tour
JAN 05 - Whitesburg, KY @ Letcher County Tourism (No So Many Ways) JAN 06 - Covington, KY @ Bangarangs JAN 07 - Columbus, OH @ Boner Mansion House JAN 08 - Indianapolis, IN @ The Dojo JAN 09 - Chicago, IL @ TBA JAN 10 - Kalamazoo, MI @ The Fat Guy House JAN 11 - Flint, MI @ Woobies JAN 12 - Kent, OH @ Euro Gyro JAN 13 - Natrona, PA @ Scumbags JAN 14 - Altoona, PA @ The Altoona Music Temple JAN 15...
five songs that started this band:
desaparecidos - manana fugazi - waiting room weezer - pink triangle notorious b.i.g. - suicidal thoughts lifetime - daneurysm
take it for what it’s worth. in the summer of 2005, this is what we were aiming for and not until recently have we ever got close to these tracks. CRH
Lyrics for the new schtuff.
Lyrics from There’s a Castle and a Crown For Every Cockroach in Every Town. Enjoi.
“KINGDOM OF THE BEDROOM(HUBERT, THE LONER)”
I’d never write about friends and vans a decade from now it’ll all be different believe most of this is an heir to growth suburban bums inheriting mistakes they’ve sown new words from new heads, ideas harbering hocked hell literary scapes of Alabama...
after buttloads of plans...
upon plans upon plans we are currently tracking an acoustic ep with new material and YCB stuff. It’s going to be called There’s a Castle and a Crown for Every Cockroach in Every Town. We’re recording with our good friend and new blood punk rock producer, Aries, who did the When I’m Older record. Shit’s sounding pretty silly, in a great way. What all songs do you guys...
Better Days: Top 10 of 2011 →
betterdaysrec:
This is the list I put together which reflects what I listened to the most this year
01. Fireworks - Gospel 02. Latin For Truth - Youth Crew Blues 03. I Am The Avalanche - Avalanche United 04. The Story So Far - Under Soil And Dirt 05. The American Scene - By Way Of Introduction 06. Stickup…
good to be on a label that enjoys our tunage.
end of the year lists: music
my top five records of the year, in no specific order: Tom Waits - Bad As Me Saves The Day - Daybreak Animals As Leaders - Weightless Wugazi - 13 Chambers Ryan Adams - Ashes and Fire Charles H.
WatchCharles on trains, childhood, and not giving a shit. YCB