A Thousand Torches (tumblelog)
this THEFAMILY3 homebase has been several years in development... now its finally coming to life! Created by Neesh- contact her for feedback, to help out, contribute ideas via neesh[at]athousandtorches[dot]com
update: thanks to Denizen donations we've been able to begin erecting the News Den and gathering logs for our Campsite!
#TerribleTuesday 06.28.11 video: Josh Eppard and Fred Mascherino playing an acoustic instrumental piece written by Josh- both on guitar!
Catch these guys live this summer on the 2011 Vans Warped Tour! Terrible Things are playing the Ernie Ball Stage all tour long. Josh Eppard is also performing earlier in the day as Weerd Science on the Skullcandy Stage with MC Lars.
MC Lars
“Twenty-Three” Remix featuring Weerd Science
Indie Rocket Science
[Horris Records, 2011]
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This track is one of 18 that make up MC Lars’ Indie Rocket Science mixtape. The songs were distributed this weekend to those who donated to MC Lars’ Kickstarter Campaign for the forthcoming release of his new album, Lars Attacks. The full mixtape will be available at the Vans Warped Tour 2011. Mazeman is also featured on the mixtape as well as KRS-One, Lars’s dad, MC Chris, Akira The Don, Sage Francis, Grieves, and a ton more underground rappers.
>Music Video & Backstory on “Twenty-Three”
>MC Lars vLog: Behind The Scenes of “Twenty-Three”
R.I.P. Corey Kotsel and R.I.P. Anthony Missasi
thefamily3 suffered two incredible losses in the past few months, but thankfully we have the gift of music to get through it. Tony was a great drummer (most recently in The Ricochet), stupendous Drum Technician (for Gartdrumm), and irreplaceable friend.
A memorial concert is being held for Anthony Missasi on Friday, June 17th at Dave’s Coffee and Wine Haus in Saugerties, NY. 3, The Ricochet, and Nightmares For A Week will be performing in celebration of our friend’s life.
#suicidesucks
Terrible Things have a new website up, www.weareterriblethings.net. Taking a hint from John The Baker who’s been hashtagging tuesdays on twitter for the past year as, #TerribleTuesday, the Terrible crew now plan on posting a new video on their website every Tuesday to celebrate #TerribleTuesdays.
Turning a new leaf without the support of Universal-Motown Records, Terrible Things appear to be filling the vocal/guitar void left by Andy Jackson by allowing more of drummer, Josh Eppard’s, talents to shine.
Terrible Things, now a three-piece (Fred Mascherino, Josh Eppard, Brian Weaver), are working on brand new material as an independent band, and are prepping for the 2011 Vans Warped Tour.
Josh Eppard will be performing twice every date on Warped. Once drumming with Terrible Things, and once rocking the mic as only Weerd Science can on the SkullCandy Stage with MC Lars.
Weerd Science’s long-awaited sophomore album, Sick Kids, was released May 17th.
Weerd Science also makes an appearance on the Warped Tour 2011 Compilation CD in the song, “Sound of My Voice,” a collaboration with tour-mate, Big Chocolate. The CD comes out June 7th.
Additionally, Weerd Science will be featured on the Horris Records mixtape, a Warped Tour exclusive. KRS-One, Grieves, Sole, MC Frontalot, Rittz, Scroobius Pip, and MC Lars also make appearances on the mixtape.
CNN: Stanford-educated rapper embraces piracy
Brooklyn rapper MC Lars has embraced piracy and gathered quite a following - thanks in large part to Twitter and Facebook.
Fred Mascherino played an acoustic show on Friday, May 13th at The Note in Westchester. Below is his tumblr post complete with the setlist! Looks like The Color Fred is battle testing some new Terrible Things tunes!
The next Fred acoustic show is Friday, June 3rd at Planet Trog in Whitehall, PA.
If you live near Folsom, PA- Fred is giving guitar lessons at the new Let There Be Rock School. Great opportunity to learn from the man, himself! Lessons are running up until Warped Tour. http://tinyurl.com/3qdcb4l
Terrible Things will be performing on the full Warped Tour, electric, as a three piece. Drummer, Josh Eppard, will also be performing a hip-hop set at the Skull Candy stage as Weerd Science.
Reblog via fredmascherino:
Friday night’s show was great for me… just what I needed. Here’s the setlist in case anyone who missed it was wondering. There were new TT songs and some classics that were mostly by request. Farewell Continental came to my house and hung all night afterwards. Great band! Check them out. I’ll see you guys on June 3rd in White Hall, PA-
- Kill My Name (new song)
- Revolution
- Dark Clouds
- If I Surrender
- Terrible Things
- Birds Instrumental (new song)
- I’ll Never Know
- {Album Intro}
- Lullaby
- Lover, You Should Have Come Over (Jeff Buckley cover)
- Hate To See You Go
- I Never Felt That Way (new song)
Weerd Science has shipped out the Sick Kids preorder packages!
If you missed out, you can grab the album during one of the upcoming shows or on iTunes & Amazon when it comes out on MAY 17th
When you receive your kickstarter package, post a picture on Josh Eppard’s facebook wall!
Here’s what the exclusive t-shirt, hoodie, and poster look like:
By the by, DecoyMusic was the first to review the record. Click here to see what they had to say about it
And Weerd Science was featured in his hometown newspaper, The Daily Freeman. >Back from the brink: Josh Eppard embarks on a new musical endeavor
Behind the scenes of MC Lars & Weerd Science’s performance on May 1st at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island opening for Snoop Dogg
In anticipation of Weerd Science’s May 17th release of Sick Kids, Josh Eppard is sharing a 4 song digital EP for free download! Lend an ear above and click “download” to grab the songs for your own offline listening pleasure!
Weerd Science & lil’ Mazeman
MC Lars + Weerd Science - “How to Be an Indie Rapper”
The first Weerd Science & MC Lars collaboration!!! It features Gangstroph The Baptist (intro) as well as John Glenn and Erik Flora from The City Never Sleeps (chorus). The song was mixed by Chris Bittner aka CJB, and was produced by Dave “Wavis” Parker (also of TCNS - he composed the music too).
Weerd Science - “Therapy Session”
Man, how deep is this shit?
p.s. this song is a free mp3 download! On Bandcamp just click “download” and on Soundcloud- click the downward pointing arrow in the right-hand column of the music player
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It’s the 11th Hour, literally. Right now,
there’s 11 hours remaining to back the Weerd Science campaign on Kickstarter.
Kickstarter [kik-stahrt-er] : an online project fundraising platform launched in 2009, utilized mainly for all types of creative ventures. The project organizer sets a monetary goal and time period to allocate enough pledges to reach that goal. If the predetermined goal is not reached by the conclusion of the set time period, the organizer does not receive any funding.
Weerd Science [weerd sahy-uhns] : the hip-hop pseudonym of American rock musician, Josh Eppard. Eppard is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his drumming in the genre-defining “New Prog” band, Coheed and Cambria (3 RIAA Gold certifications: 2 albums, 1 DVD). Founding drummer of 3, Mours and currently drumming in Terrible Things.
Sick Kids [sik kids] : the second full-length album from Weerd Science. Production spanned 2007-2011. Features guest musicians: Chris Bittner, Joey Eppard, Matt The Knife, Dirty Ern, Mazeman, Majestic, Gangstrophogus, Dave Parker and Michael “Clip” Payne of the Parliament Funkadelic. About an individual’s rise, fall, crippling addiction, sex life, and view on the world around him. Will be released May 17, 2011 on Horris Records.
Backer [bak-er] : a beautiful individual who aids in a Kickstarter campaign by making a pledge.
A super cool feature of Kickstarter is the different pledging tiers. Project organizers offer cool things in exchange for levels of pledge amounts.
In the case of Weerd Science’s campaign, the cool things backers will receive range from a single high-quality MP3 song download ($1) to a private concert in your home / a song recorded & produced immediately following the performance / autographed copies of the Sick Kids album for you and your friends / posters for you and your friends / limited edition t-shirt / limited edition hoodie sweatshirt / a USB pill featuring every single Weerd Science song / a special thanks in Weerd Science’s Video Blog. The latter was originally offered for $1K, but has been
cut in half to $500 in these last few hours
of this month-long fundraising crusade.
There is only one of these packages left.
Fortunately, fellow fans of Weerd Science’s heartwork believe in this cause (and want their damn copy of Sick Kids already) so much that the original goal - set for $4,000 - was reached in about 5 days. Currently, 214% of that goal has been pledged.
The money raised is going into the costs of physically producing the CD, t-shirts, hoodies, USB drives, the first music video from Sick Kids, as well as tour support while Josh is out with MC Lars in the UK in May + Warped Tour all summer.
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